STABLE AND DURABLE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

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June 28, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE
the vessels which transport fish from the
fishing grounds to the processing plants.
The present regulations, particularly those
covering load lines, freight for hire, dis-
pensing fuel and manning schedules, present
serious problems in the operation of these
vessels which are unique in the type of serv-
ice they perform.
We have discussed these problems with
members of your staff. They are well in-
formed on the details of this situation.
We request that you introduce legislation
which will update the Coast Guard Regula-
tions as they pertain to these tenders. This
procedure seems to us to be the logical so-
lution to these problems.
Sincerely yours,
W. V. YONKER,
Executive Vice President.
STABLE AND DURABLE PEACE IN
THE MIDDLE BAST
Mr. SYMINGTON. Mr. President, on
behalf of the senior Senator from New
York [Mr. JAVITS] and myself, I send to
the desk a resolution and ask that it be
referred to the appropriate committee.
There are at the present time 62 co-
sponsors of the resolution. Its purpose is
to express the sense of the Senate as to
the desirability of a stable and durable
peace in the Middle East.
I ask unanimous consent that the
resolution be read, along with the names
of the cosponsors..
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The reso-
lution will be received and appropriately
referred; and, without objection, the
resolution, together with the cosponsors,
will be read.
The assistant legislative clerk read as
follows:
S. RES. 143
Mr. SYMINGTON (for himself and Mr.
JAvrrs, Mr. BAKER, Mr. BAYH, Mr. BENNETT,
Mr. BIBLE, Mr. BREWSTER, Mr. BROOKE, Mr.
BURDICK, Mr. CANNON, Mr. CASE, Mr. CHURCH,
Mr. CLARK, Mr. COOPER, Mr. DOMINICK, Mr.
ERVIN, Mr. FONG, Mr. GRIFFIN, Mr. HANSEN,
Mr. HARRIS, Mr. HART, Mr. INOUYE, Mr. JACK-
SON, Mr. LAUSCHE, Mr. LONG of Missouri, Mr.
MCCARTHY, Mr. MCCLELLAN, Mr. MCGEE, Mr.
MCGOVERN, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. MONDALE, Mr.
MONRONEY, Mr. MORSE, Mr. MORTON, At.. Moss,
Mr. MURPHY, Mr. MUSKIE, Mr. NELSON, Mr.
PASTORE, Mr. PEARSON, Mr. PELL, Mr. PRox-
MIRE, Mr. RANDOLPH, Mr. RIBICOFF, Mr. SCOTT,
Mr. SMATHERS, Mrs. SMITH, Mr. STENNIS, Mr.
TALMADGE, Mr. TYDINGS, Mr. YARBOROUGH,
Mr. YOUNG Of Ohio, Mr. COTTON, Mr. FANNIN,
Mr. SPONG, Mr. KENNEDY of Massachusetts,
Mr. KENNEDY of New York, Mr. BYRD of West
Virginia, Mr. KUCHEL, Mr. JORDAN of Idaho,
and Mr. ALtOTT), submitted the following
resolution:
Whereas the United States has a vital and
historic national interest in a stable and dur-
able peace in the Middle East; and
Whereas the President of the United States
has stated the principles upon which our
Nation is committed to peace in the area
and that every nation in the area has a
fundamental right to live and to have this
right respected by its neighbors; and
Whereas the peace and security of the
nations of the Middle East have been en-
dangered by a wasteful and destructive arms
race, threatened by belligerency and have
just been shattered by hostilities endanger-
ing the peace of the entire world: Therefore,
be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Sen-
ate that-
1. The security and national interests of
the United States require that there be a
stable and durable peace in the Middle East;
and
2. Such a peace calls for discussions among
the parties concerned, using such third party
or United Nations assistance as they may
wish, looking toward-
(a) recognized boundaries and other ar-
rangements that will give security against
terror, destruction and war, and the conse-
quent withdrawal and disengagement of
armed personnel;
(b) a just and equitable solution to the
refugee problem;
(c) free maritime passage through inter-
national waterways, including the Suez Canal
and the Gulf of Aqaba, and
(d) limits on a wasteful and destructive
arms race; and
3; In a climate of peace, the United States
will do its full share to-
(a) help with a solution for the refugees;
(b) support regional cooperation; and
(c) see that the peaceful promise of nu-
clear energy is applied for the critical prob-
lem of desalting water: And be it further
Resolved, That the President is requested
to pursue these objectives, as reflecting the
sense of the Senate, within and outside the
United Nations anai with all nations similarly
minded, as being in the highest national in-
terest of the United States.
Mr. SYMINGTON, Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that the resolu-
tion be held at the desk for possible addi-
tional cosponsors until the close of the
session tomorrow afternoon.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there
objection?
Mr. AIKEN. Mr. President, I have been
asked to object to the holding of the
resolution for the addition of cosponsors.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection
is heard.
Mr. AIKEN. I do not know what the
resolution is. This is no reflection on the
Senator from Missouri in any way.
It is a procedure which has been ob-
jected to before, and I have been asked
to object to it at this time.
Will the resolution be referred to
committee?
Mr. SYMINGTON. It was requested
that it be referred to the proper com-
mittee, which I believe would be the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
Mr. AIKEN. I have no objection to the
committee considering it. However, I
have been asked to object to this pro-
cedure.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The reso-
lution will be referred to the Committee
on Foreign Relations.
ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS OF
BILLS
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Pres-
ident, at the request of Mr. TYDINGS, I
ask unanimous consent that, at the next
printing of S. 1981 and S. 1982, bills to
improve the judicial machinery for the
courts of the District of Columbia, the
name of the Senator from Nevada [Mr.
BIBLE] be added as a cosponsor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. TYDINGS. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that at the next
printing, the following Senators be add-
ed as cosponsors of legislation I have
introduced: S. 824, Senator MCGEE; S.
1366, Senator YARBOROUGH; S. 1360 and
S. 1361, Senator GRUENING; S. 1503, Sen-
ator JAVITS; S. 1565, Senator KENNEDY
of New York; S. 1765, Senator CLARK;
S 9039
and S. 1941, Senator KENNEDY of New
York.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
NOTICE OF HEARINGS ON DISTRICT
REORGANIZATION PLAN
Mr. McCLELLAN. Mr. President, the
Committee on Government Operations
has scheduled public hearings on Reor-
ganization Plan No. 3, to reorganize the
government of the District of Columbia,
for July 25, 26, and 27 in room 3302, New
Senate Office Building.
In view of the interest in this proposal,
the hearings will be held before the full
committee. I have designated the junior
Senator from Connecticut [Mr. RIEI-
coFF], chairman of the Subcommittee on
Executive Reorganization, to serve as co-
chairman of the committee for the pur-
pose of processing this plan and con-
ducting the proposed hearings.
Inquiries should be directed to room
162, Old Senate Office Building, Wash-
ington, D.C., telephone No. 225-2308.
CORRECTIONS OF THE RECORD
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr.
President, on page S8918 of yesterday's
RECORD, in the third column, line 6 of
the poem which I quoted, the word "his"
should be "our."
I ask that the word be corrected in
the permanent RECORD.
In the June 26 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD,
on page 58831, column 1, in the lower
one-third of the page, in the second line
of my speech, the word "enlightened"
should be "enlightening."
I ask that the permanent RECORD be
corrected to show that the word was "en-
lightening."
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. The corrections will be made.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, on
page 59001 of yesterday's RECORD, in
the second column, fourth line down
from the top, it has Mr. DIRasEN saying:
Would there be any chance of its being
carried over until we return after the In-
dependence Day recess?
That statement was made by me and
I ask that the correction be made in the
permanent RECORD.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. The correction will be made.
Mr. RIBICOFF. Mr. President, on June
8, 1967, when I introduced S. 1929, the
title of the bill was incorrectly stated
at three places in the RECORD. On pages
S7876, S7879 and S7880 the bill was in-
correctly titled as a bill for an Office of
Legislative Evaluation in the General Ac-
counting Office. The bill should have been
designated as a bill to establis' . a Com-
mission on Legislative Evaluation. I ask
unanimous consent that the permanent
RECORD be corrected accordingly.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. The correction will be made.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, one
of the characteristics of the summit
meeting between President Johnson and
Prime Minister Kosygin was the warm
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and sympathetic reception by the peo-
ple-not only of Glassboro, N.J., but
throughout the country.
I believe this demonstrates popular ap-
proval for President Johnson's summit
peace efforts.
The American people are not so gul-
lible as to think that immediate agree-
ments on explosive world issues would
emerge from the summit meeting.
Yet they were encouraged-and justi-
fiably-to believe that such a meeting
would make a solid contribution to
greater understanding between two na-
tions which have differed on many issues
in the past.
The meeting did produce a lessening
of tensions. It did produce an atmosphere
of understanding. It did make "acci-
dents" less likely. It did bring the par-
ticipants closer together on missile con-
trol and nonproliferation of nuclear
weapons.
There is a definite history of. agree-
ments for peace between the Soviet
Union and the United States, agree-
ments which preceded the summit meet-
ing: the Outer Space Treaty, the open-
ing of a new United States-Soviet direct
air link, increased East-West trade.
The summit is another large step in
the work of building bridges between
East and West. We shall not regret it.
The President is to be applauded for his
tireless efforts. The people know the
value of those efforts.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous con-
sent to have printed in the RECORD the
following comments on the popular and
positive reaction to President Johnson's
peace initiatives:
An editorial entitled "The Summit,"
published in Newsday for June 24, 1967;
an article entitled "'Spirit of Glassboro'
Really One of People," written by
Isabelle Shelton, and published in the
Washington Star of June 26, 1967; an
editorial entitled "Glassboro," published
in the Washington Post of June 27, 1967;
an article entitled "Washington: A
Steadier Administration," written by
James Reston, and published in the New
York Times of June 28, 1967; and an
article entitled "Johnson-Kosygin Talks:
Possibly A Step Forward," written by
Joseph Kraft, and published in the Los
Angeles Times of June 28, 1967.
There being no objection, the edi-
torials and articles were ordered to be
printed in the RECORD, as follows:
[From Newsday, June 24, 1967]
THE SUMMIT
"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and
Never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at
God's great Judgment Seat.
But there is neither East nor West,
Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
though they come from the ends of the
earth!"
-RUDYARD KIPLING, "The Ballad of East
and West,"
Kipling's rhythmic view of the East-West
split in the year 1889 still holds true today.
Two strong men, President Johnson and So-
viet Premier Kosygin, met yesterday at the
Glassboro summit and perhaps their meet-
ing could yet cause the twain to meet.
President Johnson has made the better-
ment of East-West relations a leading ele-
ment of his foreign policy. He has sought
to broaden trade with Russia and the satel-
lite nations. He has asked Congress to ex-
tend credits to allow the Russians to buy
machine tools for their new Fiat automobile
plant. He has tried to head off an anti-
missile race and has sought agreement on
a nonproliferation treaty. During the cur-
rent crisis in the Middle East, he has called
for a reasonable settlement of the long-
standing Arab-Israeli grievances that could
one day produce an East-West confronta-
tion.
Unfortunately, Russia has not followed a
reasonable course. The war in Vietnam is a
potential threat to the peace of the entire
world, but the Russians have done nothing
to move Hanoi to the peace table. Instead,
they have poured supplies and arms into
North Vietnam, encouraging Hanoi to con-
tinue the war.
In this hemisphere, Russian aid has en-
abled Fidel Castro to survive despite whole-
sale mismanagement. It was with Russian
help that Castro first turned his Island into
a base of subversion that still threatens all
of Latin America.
Yesterday's Johnson-Kosygin meeting
probably would not have taken place if Rus-
sian efforts to gain power in the Mideast had
not backfired, Yet Russia has persisted in its
folly of encouraging Arab belligerence. In
his UN speech, Kosygin offered only propa-
ganda, invective and a "peace proposal" that
would guarantee continuing hostilities be-
tween Israel and her Arab neighbors.
There were several hopeful signs at yes-
terday's summit meeting. There was a hint
in President Johnson's remarks of Russian
Interest in a nuclear nonproliferation treaty.
The fact that the world leaders are to meet
again tomorrow is, in itself, a good omen.
But why must the quest for peace be so bit-
terly slow? There could be peace today if
the Russians wanted it and it could be a
peace that would be fair to all. But there is
no peace, and Russian policies in the Mideast,
in Vietnam and in Latin America have shown
little promise of peace.
In the final analysis, the major concern of
both the U.S. and Russia must be to prevent
the outbreak of World War III. Both powers
must make new efforts to head off a new mis-
sile race and spread of nuclear weapons. In-
deed, the possession of a hydrogen bomb by
Red China presents new dangers to world
peace and especially to Russia and to China's
neighbors in Asia.
The fact remains, in assessing yesterdays
summit meeting, that peace depends more
upon the Russians than it does upon the
U.S. Hopefully, in his talks with the Presi-
dent, Kosygin will indicate a willingness on
the part of the Russians to modify their
policies in the Mideast, Vietnam and Latin
America. Until Kosygin does so, the U.S.
must look to its allies to continue our world-
wide holding actions against Russian ex-
pansionism. Cooperation with Russia is pos-
sible, but until it comes, the U.S. must stand
fast.
[From the Washington (D.C.) Star,
June 26, 1967]
THE CROWD OUTSIDE: "SPIRIT OF GLASS-
BORO" REALLY ONE OF PEOPLE
(By Isabelle Shelton)
GLASSBORO. N.J.-A "Spirit of Glassboro"
was reflected in the hearts and faces of the
crowds that waited for the leaders of the
world's two strongest powers to finish their
discussion even if it was not reflected in the
results of the summit meeting.
There had been a carnival atmosphere
yesterday-balloons, ice cream trucks, front
yard hot dog stands. While families turned
out with children, dogs and picnic lunches.
When the bulk of the crown of several
thousand stood its ground late in the day in
a pelting rain, shouting "We Want Alec" and
"We Want Johnson," a yearning for peace
seemed tangible enough to touch.
For one brief moment, it was possible to
believe, as New Jersey Gov. Richard J.
Hughes said, that "there must be lots of
Glassboros in the world-in China and
Europe and Vietnam and Russia-filled with
people who are working and praying and
trusting that their children and their chil-
dren's children will be able to grow up in a
peaceful world."
Soviet Premier Kosygin apparently got the
crowd's message as ;yesterday's session was
ending, just as he and President Johnson
were about to enter a limousine that was to
take them to waiting helicopters and back
into their separate worlds.
Johnson, usually supersensitive to crowds,
was ignoring them, no doubt out of courtesy
to Kosygin.
It was the Russian who wheeled, just as
Johnson was about to enter the oar that
would take them to their helicopters, and
walked across the lawn of the meeting house
to wave and speak fondly to the soaked,
steaming crowd massed below.
For a man, not used to American-style
politics, Kosygin learned fast. He raised his
arms above his head? clasped his hands and
grinned broadly, in the best prize fighter
style. You would have thought he'd been
winning ward and county elections all his
life.
ANTI-RUSSIAN SIGNS GONE
The few anti-Russian signs (carried by pro-
testing Ukranians) that had been there ear-
lier were gone. The only sign visible at the
moment was in Russian, and it said, accord-
ing to a Russian reporter, "something good
about peace."
The President followed Kosygin in brief
waves and words to the crowd. And then they
were gone.
None of the dire things that state and
local police had suddenly begun to worry
Saturday afternoon and evening came to
pass.
The crowd, not much if at all bigger than
the 5,000 or so Friday, continued its love af-
fair with Kosygin to the end.
Hostile pickets such as met President
Johnson Friday night in Los Angeles didn't
show up. Police and state officials knew after
Friday's summit meeting that the people of
Glassboro and vicinity didn't feel that way.
But after reading the reports from Cali-
fornia Saturday, they began to worry that
organized groups of "peaceniks" or other dis-
senters of the right of left might come mass-
ing In from nearby large cities, if only for
the television exposure.
FENCING UNNEEDED
The long lines of snow fencing, on which
New Jersey state highway department crews
worked all night Saturday, weren't needed.
The more than doubled state and local po-
lice force (from Friday's 700 to 2,000) prob-
ably wasn't either--although it no doubt
contributed order to the traffic situation.
The giant cleanup effort was launched at
dawn today to remove tons of paper cups,
soda bottles and escorted trash left by the
spectators.
Seven state troopers were stationed in
"Hollybush" during the night to guard
against souvenir hunters, and workmen today
began converting hollybush back into a home
for college President and Mrs. Thomas E.
Robinson.
Glassboro-where the biggest event in the
past was a two-state baseball tournament-
probably will never be quite the same again.
[From the Washington (D.C.) Post, June 27,
1967[
GLASSBORO
Meetings of heads of state arouse great
hopes and involve great risks. The meetings
which President Johnson and Premier Ko-
sygin held at Glassboro are no exception.
They inspired the hope that some great,
dramatic and spectacular resolution of
Soviet-American tensions might emerge; and
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vehicle propulsion, sulfur dioxide pollution
and low-sulfur or sulfur-free substitutes.
This program would raise authorized re-
search funds from $12 million in fiscal 1967
to $18 million proposed for fiscal 1968. It
proposes the program include direct activi-
ties by the federal government and contracts
or grants-in-aid to private industry, univer-
sities and other groups.
7. The total financial resources proposed
in the Muskie bill calls for an increase from
the presently authorized $74 million in fiscal
1968 to $80 million for that year and such
sums as may be determined by Congress
for the following four fiscal years.
The AFL-CIO Executive Council last Feb-
ruary called for stronger enforcement of
the Clean Air Act. The AFL-CIO agreed with
the President's proposal to establish federal
air-shed commissions and empower the Sec-
retary of HEW "to set air quality criteria
over all sources of industrial pollutants re-
leased into the atmosphere, not merely those
by automobile as provided by the present
act."
By these means, It is possible to move in
with federal, state and local programs to
control poisoned air emitted from stationary
sources, factories, power stations, oil refin-
eries and the like.
The AFL-CIO policy statement had this
to say on the problem of automobile com-
bustion and air pollution:
"Expanded use of electric-powered ve-
hicles would sharply reduce the largest and
most rapidly-growing source of air pollu-
tion. Any federal program to develop an
economically feasible electric-powered ve-
hicle should provide public domain owner-
ship of all federal patents and a searching
assessment by a national commission, with
labor representation, of the social and ec-
onomic impact of a largescale changeover
to the electric automobile."
In a recent statement to a special Senate
joint committee considering legislation to
authorize a federal research and develop-
ment program for electric-powered vehicles,
AFL-CIO Legislative Director Andrew J. Die-
miller said:
" present control technology and that
likely in the near future is not adequate to
reduce the continually mounting load of
contaminants emitted to the atmosphere
from the automobile In its various forms.
The sheer increase in numbers of cars, trucks
and buses, even if equipped with all control
devices required under the Clean Air Act,
will inexorably add to the aggregate environ-
mental burden of carbon monoxide, hydro-
carbons and other harmful chemicals re-
leased into the air."
The electric car is not new. It. was used
years ago and some probably are operating
in the form of commercial vehicles in most
large cities.
The problem is to find an energy source,
either a battery or fuel cell which operates
on chemicals, which will enable faster pick-
up and higher speeds and allow the driver
to cover 100 miles or more before recharging
the battery at a station or exchanging it.
While Industry is grudgingly accepting the
disagreeable inevitability that there will be
some kind of control over air pollution, it
wants a major voice in setting the terms.
Industry wants federal activities restricted
to research and development, and it seeks
federal tax writeoffs as well as state and local
financial incentives for air pollution con-
trol equipment. Such tax breaks and Incen-
tives are strongly - opposed by organized
labor.,
Recently, the chairman of the board of
Humble Oil Refining Company said to a
meeting in Houston, Texas, that if industry
did not voluntarily clean up its own mess
.. in the near future our actions in this
area will be spelled out by congressional leg-
islation."
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Uniform federal standards, equitably ap-
plied, would enable Industries to become so-
cially responsible and also to maintain their
respective positions In the marketplace. This
is what Is provided for in the proposed Clean
Air Act of 1967 now before Congress. With-
out such standards, industries would be en-
ticed to relocate in a more lenient regulatory
climate where, among other incentives, a
relaxed attitude toward air pollution could
be maintained by the state or local enforce-
ment agency.
The battle lines are now being manned in
the halls of Congress. But where the fight
will be finally won or lost is in the cities,
towns and villages of this nation, when the
citizens have decided that they have had
enough and, as President Johnson has said,
. through their elected representatives,
demand the right to air that they and their
children can breathe without fear."
PERSECUTION OF ISLAM IN THE
SOVIET UNION
Mr. DODD. Mr. President, in the after-
math of the recent Mideast war, Nasser
and the other Arab leaders have thrown
themselves completely on the mercy of
continued Soviet assistance. Their de-
pendency on the Soviet Union, according-
ly, is even greater today than it was be-
fore the recent crisis broke.
Yet only one result seems certain for
the United Arab Republic and those who
follow its lead. That result is domina-
tion by the Soviet Union, and the de-
struction of the Arab culture and the
faith of Islam.
Nor is the word "destruction" an exag-
geration employed for literary effect.
In 1920, there were an estimated 40
million Moslems in the Soviet Union.
Several years ago the number was esti-
mated to have fallen off to 8 million. At
the present rate of decline, it will not be
too long before the Muslim religion is
only a memory in the Soviet Union.
The persecution of the Muslim reli-
gion in the Soviet Union was the subject
of a study put out in mimeographed form
a few years ago by the American Com-
mittee for Liberation. This study is so
pertinent to the Mideast crisis and Arab
dependency on Soviet aid that I wish to
comment on it briefly before placing it in-
to the RECORD.
All religion has suffered untold per-
secution under communism, Islam has
been no exception. Moslems have been
persecuted for their faith in the same
manner as Christians, Jews, Buddhists,
and others. In some respects, indeed, the
fate of Islam has been worse than that of
other religions..
In Tashkent, for example, there were
341 mosques in 1911 and today there are
16. In Bukhara there were 360 mosques
in 1906, today there are four. There is
only one theological seminary for the
whole of central Asia.
In a study of the Soviet regime's treat-
ment "f Islamic institutions and its poli-
cies with respect to the Islamic peoples
of the U.S.S.R., the American Committee
for Liberation pointed out the following:
All government media are employed in
anti-religious propaganda-the press, the
radio, the official "Society for the Diffusion
of Scientific and Political Knowledge" with
its lectures, movies, conferences, and dis-
cussion groups ... As in all other parts of
the Soviet Union, the daily press carries
frequent anti-Islamic articles. Religious cus-
toms such as prayer and fasting are derided
and denounced as reactionary . . . Islamic
clergy appears to be under more severe limi-
tations than the Christian clergy. Its mem-
bers may not solemnize marriages; they are
constantly under the surveillance of the
secret police.
In the matter of religious education,
the situation clearly points out the hard-
ship suffered by the followers of Islam.
Before the revolution of 1917, besides
the thousands of primary schools, there
were more than 1,000 Islamic secondary
theological schools in the Russian Em-
pire. These all disappeared in the early
years of the revolution. A handful have
been reopened in the 50 years since, but
these have been for show purposes pri-
marily. Unlike the Soviet Christians, who
are permitted a very limited publication
program, Moslems have no publications
of their own. Only one printing of the
Koran has taken place since 1917, and
the review entitled "Moslem Religion,"
which was announced by Radio Moscow
in 1957 has yet to appear.
The Arab leaders must not forget, and
we must not forget, that religion has
been the traditional enemy of all modern
tyrannies. Mussolini stated that "Re-
ligion is a species of mental disease."
Karl Marx called it the "Opium of the
people" and Hitler denounced Christi-
anity not only because Jesus was a Jew,
but because it was cowardly to speak of
giving love for hate.
The Arab leaders who propose an al-
liance with Communism are engaged in
a betrayal of their faith and of the mil-
lions of Moslems behind the Iron Curtain
who have suffered for so long in an ef-
fort to practice their religion.
It is important that they weigh the
dangers of the step they seem about to
take. It is a step from which there is no
turning back.
I wish to share with Senators this im-
portant report about the state of Islam
in the Soviet Union. I therefore ask
unanimous consent that it be printed in
the RECORD.
There being no objection, the report
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
RED STAR OVER ISLAM
(A study of the Soviet regime's treatment
of Islamic institutions and its policies
with respect to adherence to their tradi-
tional faith by the Islamic peoples of the
U.S.S.R., by the American Committee for
Liberation, New York, N.Y.)
BACKGROUND
Bearing in itself most of the stigmata of
a religion, Communism is opposed to every
other religion; it is a principle of the Marxist
faith that every other religion must be elimi-
nated. One might quote Marx and all the
latter-day Communist prophets to prove this
basic statement, but a few statements will
suffice here.
Lenin said, "Every socialist must be an
atheist ., in the. face of the ignorance
and darkness which religion is, the Party
cannot remain indifferent. The fight against
it (religion) is not a private matter. It is the
business of the whole Party." -
As recently as in 1950, Jakovenko, writing
specially for readers in Central Asia, asserted:
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wind, or rain comes to the rescue, the cool take necessary action to abate Interstate air that of Los Angeles County--$3.7 million.
upper air stays put and prevents the dirty pollution situations. Control agencies in California made up 38
air at ground level from circulating up and The Clean Air Act also expanded research, percent of total 1965 local air pollution con-
out. Los Angeles is the prime example of a technical assistance and training activities trol budgets in the nation. The seven largest
metropolis with a chronic inversion situa- of the U.S. Public Health Service. It directed agencies made up 58 percent of the total
tion. But they can take place anywhere. the Service to do research and development local air pollution control budget for the
When they happen suddenly and remain for on motor vehicle and sulfur oxide pollution nation.
several days where there is a great deal of from coal and oil burning in power genera- While the towns and cities are now doing
emission of pollutants, people who are well tion and other industries, and to develop more about the problem than a decade ago,
get sick, the sick get sicker and some of the criteria on air pollution effects on human much of the larger urban areas still lack
sick and some of the older people die. health and property. programs. There are manpower problems,
The burden of principal pollutants is ex- The 1965 amendments to the Clean Air both in funds available to hire personnel at
pected to double by the year 2000. Over the Act authorized the Secretary of HEW to adequate salaries and trained manpower. The
great metropolitan areas of the West Coast, establish standards to control emissions into U.S. Public Health Service estimates that at
the Great Lakes and other regions, inversions the air from new motor vehicles and to in- least a fourfold expansion of programs is
are expected to become more and more vestigate and develop methods of controlling required to do a reasonably good job in terms
lethal, together with the kind of 'ordinary" new air pollution problem -of n3orreK end taff
air humans breathe between inversions, In 1966, furthc mints enlarged the Moreover, i