TERRORIST'S USE OF A-ARMS FEARED

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Terrorists' Use of A-Arms Feared
.By- Jack Anderson
and Les Whitten
:CpaiS es a
? air p,o.sstgrrorlsts
i utill -use.-.f t ' such
as.lasas., iyhg ogi-
Is radiation and nuc ear
Altholigfl "such use is not in-
evitable." according to a.,State
Aepaxtm ent sttt~y, the technal
o is available to develop scare
, and terran@ -XDe
tipsbili ty testeaL4hem.
Still, the State Department
holds out hope that "small radi-
cal groups" cannot acquire the
hideous weapons and that
"larger terrorist organizations"
will be deterred from using
them "by what would be an ex-
tremely :;evere response by the
world community."
Word opinion, however, has
not deterred terrorists from
committing small-scale out-
rages. Since 1968, terrorists
have killed 500 people and have
wounded 600 to 800. Among the
victims, 16 U.S. officials have
been murdered and 32 have
been wounded.
The terrorists have managed
to arm themselves with deadly,
sophisticated weapons] includ-
ing shoulder-fired Soviet mis-
siles capable of knocking down
airliners.
.Tjj&.C}! dy
: caAacius.?au -past-;ap"t& that
i kaeeu..._alt-..arnpnrtant
igiirre nf.:weapans.,fo ecrarist
A=ps. ? On May 25, 1974,we
called Libya's Muammar Qad-
dafi one of the world's most irre-
sponsible leaders for arming
terrorists,' without much
thought f or the consequences.
h CnviPt, hay - ~ge
arm c ch ntpnts..i,Q Qatldaf1 who
has ""applied termus roues
from Ireland tor1lip Ines.
isr~3 nup s.
Apparently, terrorist organi-
zations work together through
an international radial under.
ground. "We have seen coopera-
tion among terrorist groups in
Latin America," states the
study. "Additionally, there are
indications of increasing coop-
eration among the Baader-
Meinhof gang in West Germany,
the so-called Japanese Red
Army and Palestinian terrorist
groups, particularly the Popu-
lar Front for the Liberation of
Palestine."
Kidnaping has become a fa-
vorite terrorist tactic. The State
Department cites a Rand Corp.
study of 63 major diplomatic
kidnaping efforts. In 87 percent
of the cases, the hostages were
seized successfully. In 79 per
cent of the cases, the kidnapers
escaped punishment.
There have also been ominous
intelligence reports that the in-
ternational terrorists are plot-
ting to zero in on the United
States.
-ZuptnA1e._ZJQ , State, Depart-
mPn oeducted..the,~tudx.~3,~'e-.
e estions from the
Senate-,internal--Security.-Sub-
which will-publish
titewsultsshortly.
Soviet Grain Controversy-The
Soviets have asked Washington
for permission to purchase an-
other 11 million metric tons of
grain. This would more than
double the 10.2 million tons that
have already been sold to Rus-
sia.
The total sale, if the new re-
quest is approved, would be al-
most 2 million tons more than
the controversial 1972 wheat
deal.
Farm organizations are for
approval of the Soviet request:
The farmers contend that the
government encouraged them
to increase their planting this
spring. The American wheat
crop, therefore, is expected to
surpass 2 billion bushels this
year.
Two-thirds. of this must be
sold overseas, the farmers
claim. Otherwise, they will be
stuck with huge surplus stocks,
and the bottom will fall out of
the market.
The sale of another 11 million
tons to Russia, on the other
hand, will pushup grain prices.
One possibility, which the diplo-
mats are trying to work out, is to
exchange American grain for
Soviet oil. Our sources say the
United States might be able to,
import about 8 per cent of its oil
requirements from the Soviet
Union.
Washington Whirl-Rep. Joe
L. Evins (D-Tenn.) submitted a
bill to grant the Energy Re-
search and Development Ad-
ministration $15,000 for enter-
tainment. As if anticipating the
bill's success, ERDA threw a
luxury bash five days later.at
Washington's stylish Mayflower
hotel. Cost to the taxpayers: $2,
344.49.
? The Transportation Depart-
ment proudly announced a con-
tract awarding $570,240 to t~e
state of California to study mo-
tor cycle safety. Six days later,
the department announced it
might revoke, federal highway
safety grants to California be-
cause of its horrendous motor-
cycle safety laws.
?In previous columns, we re-
ported the disappearance of 14
experimental aluminum pen-
nies from the Senate and House
Banking committees. Since no
one has seen the valuable coins
since 1973, we concluded that
some distinguished thieves had
quietly lifted them. But the U.S.
Mint's deputy director, Frank
MacDonald, fearful of offending
the light-fingered legislators,' is
pretending the coins "remain in
the custody of the committees
and will presumably be re-
turned to the (Mint) once the
committees no longer have any
need for these sample pieces."
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A22 Frtday,,4rrgem29,1975 THE WASHINGTON POST
Beefing Up the Soviet Diet Helps Create Grain Shortage
By Peter Osnos
Washington Post Foreign davies
MOSCOW-Last month,
as Soviet cosmonauts pre-
pared to blast off for the
celebrated "handshake in
space" with American astro-
nauts, Soviet officials were
discreetly arranging another
huge purchase of grain from
the United States.
The irony of those two
items arrayed simultane-
ously across American front
pages was unmistakable:the
Soviet Union is a super-
power capable of the techno-
logical masterwork neces-
sary to lift man into apace,
but is still unable to meet
Its own food needs.
Despite massive yearly ex?
penditures of money and la-
bor to increase agricultural
output, Moscow time and
again falls short of goals for
that most basic of food sup-
plies-grain. It happened in
1972 and to a far lesser ex-
tent last year, and 1976-af-
ter a promising start-has
proved to be another fail-
ure.
Unlike victims of the
great famines that blighted
the Russian past, the mod-
ern Soviets do have all the
bread they need.
Indeed, the shortages of
today result in large part
from a determined Kremlin
effort to enable Russians to
eat less bread, potatoes and
other starchy foods and
more meat and dairy prod-
ucts. The Soviet leadership
is committed in word and
deed to raising the standard
of living and that, naturally,
means Improving the na-
tional diet.
Recent U.S. figures show
that Soviet citizens still eat
only about a third as much
meat as Americans and con-
sume about twice the
amount of grain products
and potatoes.
Where Moscow has run
into trouble is in trying to
produce enough feed for the
huge and expanding live-
stock herds while at the
same time filling the vast
grain needs of a growing
population. The only alter-
native to buying abroad is to
cut back on either meat or
bread.
And that, in the view of
Soviet specialists, is unac-
ceptable.
This year, they say, is a
particularly sensitive one
politically for the Soviet
leadership because it winds
up the current five-year
plan. At next February's
Communist Party confer-
ence, Leonid Brezhnev and
his comrades want to be
able to cite the great strides
made in the recent past on
behalf of the people.
A drop in meat supplies,
even if officially concealed,
would be an embarrassment
in a society where such mat-
ters are closely watched by
shoppers.
The projected size e
vet a conoi+ An__ Am eeri-
exerts here think the
results will not be as Da as
the sas roue crop rec tly
atino V sh' inr min
.at
uulggl
nla es the to . 1 a . l6ri m
lion metrir~ ~ylllon
tn Li, in's
nri final ectitnrtpa and even
below the exceedingly poor
cro of 1972. That year the
Sovie ss ma a the enormous,
st;111-controversial grain pur-
chases from the United
States and other countries
that set off, a worldwide
surge in prices.
While the crop this season
will unquestionably be far
below early expectations,
the Soviets have not yet sig-
naled a demand on the scale
of three years ago. Moreo-
ver, according to local spe-
cialists, the area now being
sown is larger than it was
and conditions overall are
better.
The current total of So-
viet purchases for 1975 is
about 14 million metric tons,
most from the United
States, which has put a tem-
porary embargo on further
transactions because of
widespread concern that the
inflationary pattern of 1972
will be repeated.
Regardless. of how large
the crop finally turns out to
be, the question remains
why the Soviet Union is so
consistently unable to fulfill
its stated objectives in this
crucial area.
The answer is a combina-
tion, principally, of two
factors: geography and inef-
ficiency.
Soviet agriculture is per-
manently hampered by the
extreme variability of the
country's continental cli-
mate that makes planning
from year to year difficult.
The growing season is short
and even a relatively brief
drought can cause problems.
This year, for instance, a
warm spring prompted
hopes for a bumper crop,
but a siege of dry weather
that extended into July
eliminated the possibility.
And August set records for
cold weather in some areas.
Size does not offer the
Soviets any advantages, either.
Although the country is more
than twice as big as the United
States, only about 11 per cent
of the land Is arable. A major
effort to under way to expand
the amount of land under cul-
tivation, but the process is
slow and the results often
meager.
Low productivity, is the
other great difficulty. Soviet
investment in agriculture
over the past decade has
been about four times as
large per year as in the
United States. There have
been important strides made
in mechanizations, fertiliza-
tion and wage benefits.
Nevertheless, the average
Soviet worker still puts out
only slightly more than a
tenth of what an American
farmhand does, according to
U.S. figures.
Agriculture," one Ameri-
can analyst said this week,
"is the weakest part of the
Soviet economy. Turning
that fact around is an im-
mense proposition."
The prospect is that Mos-
cow will be a buyer on the
world grain market for a
very long time.
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THE WASHINGTON POST DATE
The Washington Merry-GO- ooand
Federal Snoops Have Own Manual
By Jack Anderson CIA but has retired. He stressed to us that he swept up the loose information that had
and Les Whitten the investigative techniques suggested in been unavailable from other sources.
In seemingly innocuous but prying little his book were used by the CIA only to Murphy has also found landladies an
ways, the federal governihent is compiling check prospective employees, not to spy on excellent source of information. The
landladies of these rooming houses often
data on extinguish thenright f privacy and lead to c~tNonetheless, the CIA keeps tabs on get to know their roomers quite well," he
a regimented society in this land of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who counsels federal investigators.
have absolutely no wish to work for the Graduate reunions can be productive.
frFederal snoops, for example, can CIA. "At such gatherings," he advises, "a
consult a 452-page manual, which will tell This can best be done, apparently, photograph is inevitable, and it might be
ahem how to track down the most obscure through the government itself. According the means of obtaining an up-to-date
s personal details about almost anyone, to Murphy's handbook, the federal photograph for use in your Inquiry."
anywhere. government offers a smorgasbord of in- Murphy also recommends checking with
A Metropolitan Opera singer? Check formation about the citizenry. Selective the public utilities that serve the subject's
"Opera Biographies," published in London Service and'military records, income tax neighborhood. "The records of the gas,
by Werner Laurie. A New Jersey hog returns, Social Security files and even electric, water, telephone and sewer
farmer? The manual advises: "Hog census records can be pried open by companies are particularly helpful," he
farmers who feed garbage are required to federal snoops. confides,
obtain a license from the Department of Just about every time a citizen rubs It is clear from Murphy's handbook that
Agriculture." against the government, whether it be to reporters often come under the.federal
Or do you want to locate a divorced license a business, register a car, claim spyglass. He has found the musty, old
construction worker of Croatian descent? unemployment insurance or even pur- accreditation records from World War II
No problem. Just look up his marriage and chase savings,bonds, he must leave behind and the Korean War are loaded with in-
divorce papers. You can also check with his life history. , timate details about correspondents.
the construction union and the Croatian- Much of the information is of no prac- "The files will contain travel data and
American Association. tical value to anyone except some will include complaints about the
This exhaustive handbook on snooping is bureaucrat with a Big Brother complex. (reporter), such as leaving debts behind,
called "Where's What," with the subtitle, For page after page, Murphy also tells excessive drinking or inaccurate repor-
"Sources of Information for Federal how to dig out information from private ting," Murphy says.
Investigators." It was compiled in 1965 by sources. He relates, for example, how he Read singly, the federal files may seem
Harry J. Murphy, who was then an in, tracked down a nameless Hungarian merely another dreary example of
vestigator for the Central Intelligence airplane-parts manufacturer by using bureaucratic excess. Examined in larger
Agency. bank records. lots, they provide an intriguing study of
Perhaps significantly, the CIA gave him Another time, he checked whether a just how far the government has intruded
a year's leave at the Brookings Institution subject had ever been bonded by one of her into the lives of Americans~.rAtw i^l
?? to work on the proiect. He returned to the employers. It turned out that she had, and
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THE WASHINGTON POST DATE
T.S. Aide
Is Killed
In Greece
From News Dispatches
ATHENS, Dec. 23-Richard
S. Welch, special assistant to
the U.S. ambassador to
Greece, was shot to death
outside his suburban home
here tonight, a U.S. embassy
spokesman said.
Welch's name was among
seven on a list of alleged U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency
.agents working in Greece
published recently by the
English-language daily
Athens News.
A police spokesman said
Welch, 46, a first secretary at
I.he embassy, was shot in front
of his villa in the fashionable
suburb of Palaion Psyhiko,
about eight miles from the
Greek capital.
Three masked gunmen drew
tip in a car, one got out and
shot Welch three times. He
died soon after he was rushed
to a hospital, the police
spokesman said.
(According to intelligence
sources in Washington Welch
was CIA chief of station in
Athens at the time of his
murder. A CIA spokesman in
Washington, asked about
Welch's alleged undercover
activities, replied: "The
agency does not confirm
employment, either past or
present. It never has and
never will." A State Depar- ?
tment spokesman said he did
net know if Welch worked for
theCIA.),
Welch and his wife Kiki
were apparently returning to.
their residence from a
Christmas party given by U.S.
Ambassador Jack B. Kubisch
for hundreds of Greek and
American guests. Mrs. Welch
was reportedly, unhurt in the
shooting incident.
Welch was a career
diplomat with previous
overseas service at the U.S.
embassies in Peru,
Guatemala and Cyprus.
A 1951 graduate of Harvard,
he spent nine years as an
_. GREECE, From Al
economic analyst for the
Department of the Army
before entering the Foreign
Service in 1960. He was
assigned to the embassy here
about five months ago.
When it published the names
of alleged CIA agents, the
Athens Daily News said it had
received the list from an
organization calling itself
"The Committee of Greeks
and Greek-Americans."
The committee said in a
letter that Welch's job was "to
see that the government of
Premier Constantine
Karamanlis does not get out of
control." It did not say how
Welch did this.
A few days later another
unknown
previously ca
organization ng itself
" The Commfltee to Keep
Greece Greek" sent the
Athens News a letter naming
10 alleged agents of the Soviet
KGB, or secret police,
working in Greece.
The News refused to publish
the KGB list but foreign news
agencies received a copy of it
and published the story.
There has been some anti-
American feeling in Greece,
stemming from belief in some
quarters that the United
States supported the Turks in
their invasion of Cyprus last
year. 'Many Greeks also
believe Washington propped
up the military junta that
ruled Greece for seven years
before the Cyprus crisis.
Diplomat's Death
Laid to Publicity
While President Ford ex-
-ressed his shock and sorrow
at the murder in Athens of U.
S. diplomat Richard S. Welch,
a former CIA official said that
such tragedies become
"inevitable" because of
recent exposures of CIA
personnel.
David Phillips, president of
the Association of Retired
Intelligence Officers and a
close personal friend of Welch
said in Washington yesterday
that his organization for
several months "has ex-
pressed its concern, for a
number of American foreign
service officers abroad
because of their identification
as CIA officers by a small
group of ex-intelligence people
who have been engaged in a
program of exposing in-
telligence officers."
Phillips, who retired from
the CIA in May of this year,
identified ' Philip Agee,
another former CIA em-
ployee, . as the main
"protagonist" in the effort to
identify CIA agents abroad. In
a recent book Agee named
more than a hundred CIA
agents, both Americans and
others of foreign nationalities.
Phillips said "our
association believes that the
murder of Welch in Athens
represents the tragic kind of
occurrence which becomes
inevitable" through the
practice of identifying CIA
agents as practiced by Agee.
sident Ford. vacationing
in Vail o.
, oh d he was
shocked and horrified by the
terro ~ -or h.
131~ said
''the he.s its Of all e- merLc ^
.go out to his family in
sympa~'iFiv a~ ~8tttn le.
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PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 94th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION
Vol. 121
WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1975 No. 181
Senate
The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was
called to order by Ron. CLAIBORNE PELL, a
Senator from the State of Rhode Island.
PRAYER
The Reverend Charles J. Minifie,
rector, Trinity Church, Newport, R.I.,
offered the following prayer:
Almighty God, who has guided and
preserved these United States through
the past and has given us a position of
responsibility among the nations of the
world, grant that we may always be
worthy of Your high calling; strive for
justice, mercy, and peace among all peo-
ples; always be mindful of Your purpose
and call to serve You in faithfulness and
in righteousness; and finally be good and
responsible` stewards of Tour most geh.-
etous. bounty. This we pray through One
who came among us not to be served but
to serve, even Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen.
APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESI-
DENT PRO`TEMPORE
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk
will please read a communication to the
Senate from the President pro tempore
(Mr. EASTLAND).
The legislative clerk read the follow-
ing letter:
V.S. SENATE,
PRESIDENT,PRO TEMPORE,
Washington, D.C., December 9, 1975.
To the Senate:
'Being temporarily absent from the Senate
on official duties, I appoint Hon. CLAIBORNE
Poz, a Senator from the State of Rhode
Island, to perform the duties of the Chair
during my absence.
JAMES O. EASTLAND,
President pro ternpore.
Mr. PELL thereupon took the chair as
Acting President pro tempore.
TIM. JOURNAL
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that the reading of
the Journal of the proceedings of Mon-
day, December 8, 1975, be dispensed with.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. Without objection, it is so ordered.
COMMITTEE MEETINGS DURING
SENATE SESSION
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that all committees
may be authorized to meet during the
session of the Senate today.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. Without objection, it is so ordered.
THE GRAND FORKS PYRAMID
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, in
the December 13 issue of The Nation,
there is an article entitled "The Grand
Forks Pyramid," relative to the $5.7 bil-
lion which the Government invested in
the Safeguard program, and then de-
clared it Inoperational.
As the Senate is aware, a similar pro-
posal was made to build another instal-
lation in north-central Montana, cen-
tering around Great Falls, Conrad, and
Shelby, wi-!ch was underway at the time
agreement was reached with the Soviet
Union, and, after a sizable investment,
discontinued.
I ask unanimous consent that this arti-
cle, which indicates waste in some of the
defense installations, be printed in the
RECORD.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
THE GRAND FORKS PYRAMID
Calling its multibillion-dollar anti-ballistic
missile system "Safeguard" was one of the
more brilliant public relations coups of the
Nixon administration. When first proposed
by President Johnson in 1967, the system was pie are justifiably bitter. Their Representa-
called "Sentinel," not a bad PR name but tive in Congress, Mark Andrews, a Republi-
nothing to match the security overtones of can, had voted for the shutdown. And one
Nixon's label. Johnson suggested Sentinel as town resident, who had borrowed $100,000 to
a system to protect America's major cities open a restaurant in Langdon when the town
from a Chinese missile threat that never started growing, told Stevens if he saw An-
existed. Sentinel was opposed by critics as drews, on the street, he would punch him in
unworkable, as a spur to escalation of offen- the mouth. The plight of Langdon should, but
sive missile making in other countries, and won't, indicate the advisability of matching
as a dangerous indication that America cuts in defense-generated employment with
might be considering a first-strike nuclear additional civilian employment of compa-
strategy. rable magnitude.
Two years later Nixon changed its name Langdon won't easily forget Safeguard,
and its stated purpose. Safeguard, at a cost even if it eventually recovers from the shock
of at least $20 billion for twelve sites, was to of its withdrawal. For the installation's ma-
protect American missiles in a case of foreign jor structure, what Stevens calls "a majestic
nuclear attack. Again, reasonable technical concrete pyramid with the point sliced off,
and political objections were raised. The visible for miles," will remain, an enduring
Nixon administration switched its line: monument to what at least one facet of the
Safeguard became a bargaining chip in American way of life was like in the early
American nuclear negotiations With the So- 1970s. But it won't be the only relic of Lang-
viet Union. The Senate approved the ABM don's Safeguard experience. The town's one
system by one vote in 1969. p9fmanent change, the Mayor told Stevens,
The Russians halted deployment of their was its loss of confidence in the government
,Moscow ABM ring before it was complete, in Washington. "There ain't nothin' gonna
and the 1972 SALT agreements limited both happen that'll straighten that out," he said.
nations first to two ABM sites apiece and "That's gone."
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then, following a 1974, pact, to one. On Oc-
tober 1, six years and $5.7 billion after the
Senate vote, the Safeguard installation ' in
Grand Forks, N.D., became fully operational.
Forty-eight days later, the Senate voted to
go -along with a House decision to shut it
down.
Rep. George Mahon of Texas, chairman
of the House Appropriations committee, said
during debate on Safeguard this year that
it "has not been effective." It can be ar-
gued that it was never intended to be ef-
fective except, as Mahon observed, "perhaps
from a cosmetic standpoint." But, he added,
"If we had done nothing, it would have been
the same."
Not quite. Aside from the waste of nearly
$6 billion that could well have been spent
elsewhere, and the expenditure of energy
and resourcesof those who for years opposed
it, the instaliatioIL and closing of Safeguard
played havoc with the lives and fortunes
of the people of Langdon, N.D. The town
boomed while the site was being built. At the
time of the vote last month, 1,500 persons,
about a third of Langdon's population, were
employed in connection with the ABM. Many
others had found work and business oppor-
tunities In the influx of capital surrounding
the Safeguard's construction. Workers mi-
grated from all over the country for jobs
on the missile site. When Saefguard closes,
as it is expected to do in July, Langdon will
be hit by a depression made in Washington.
Full compensatory federal aid is not antici-
pated.
"We didn't ask them to come," Langdon
Mayor John MacFarlane told William K.
Stevens of The New York Times. Now that the
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DIEGO GARCIA
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, the
conference report on the military con-
struction bill contains the following
Amendment No, 9, General provisions: The
conferees discussed the Senate's Diego Garcia
amendment at length. House conferees ex-
pressed agreement with their. Senate count-
erparts that negotiations regarding mutual
arms restraint in the Indian ocean are highly
desirable and should proceed at the earliest
practical time; however, the Senate amend-
ment would have the undesirable effect of
prolonging completion of the Diego Garcia
project and increasing costs significantly as
a result of split procurements and escalated
prices. After much discussion, the conferees
agreed to modify the Senate amendment
with the full expectation that the Admin-
istration will report to the Committees on
Appropriations and Armed Services of the
Senate and the House of Representatives, the
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Sen-
ate, and the Committee on International Re-
lations of the House of Representatives re-
garding negotiation initiatives before April
15, 1976; however, the Navy would be per-
mitted and is expected to arrange its pro-
curement contracts to minimize cost and de-
lay in procurement of materials for the fiscal
year 1976 increment of facilities by the use
of fiscal year 1975 appropriations for con-
struction at Diego Garcia which have been
already made available. Such projects may
proceed provided that neither cumulative ob-
ligations nor cumulative expenditures by
April 15, 1976, on projects authorized for fis-
cal year 1975 and fiscal year 1976 will exceed
$18.1 million, or that amount authorized
and appropriated for fiscal year 1975, ex-
cept that funds in the Amount of $25b,000
from the fiscal year 1976 appropriations may
be used to procure, construct and install air-
craft arresting gear prior to April 15, 1976,
as authorized by law. The conferees' intent
is to prohibit construction of projects on
Diego Garcia using fiscal year 1976 funds
before April 15, 1976 but not to delay plan-
ning or the procurement of long leadtime
items.
Mr. President, in accord with the ac-
tion of the joint conference and as chair-
man of the Military Construction Sub-
committee, I sent a letter under date bf
December 3, 1975, to the President of the
United States with a copy to the Honor-
able Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of
State, asking them to initiate negotia-
tions with the Soviet Union.to see if it
would be possible for construction in any
area in that part of the Indian Ocean to
be negotiated out rather than up. We are
hopeful that by April 15 it may be possi-
ble to once again make certain that the
Indian Ocean is an "ocean of peace," a
zone of peace. This letter dated Decem-
ber 3 was delivered to the President on
yesterday. Now that he has it on his re-
turn from the Far East and the Pacific, I
ask unanimous consent that a copy of
that letter be printed at this point in the
RECORD.
There being no objection, the letter
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
The PRESIDENT,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. PRF,SISNT: Thg decision to build
a military facility on the island of Diego Gar-
cia In the Indian Ocean has been before the
Congress since 1969. Much of the discussion
has focused on the effect of such a facility on
the possibility of obtaining suitable guaran-
tees to insure that the Indian Ocean area re-
mains an "ocean of peace." Mutual restraint
in building naval installations and in other-
wise limiting the naval presence of the So-
viet Union and the United States in, the In-
dian Ocean has been considered as a most
desirable objective by many members. It is
an objective, moreover, which we believe has
not received an appropriate priority within
the Executive Branch.
The building of a naval installation on
Diego Garcia could irretrievably raise the
threshold of military activity in the area. For
this nation, moreover, this step could be the
precursor of a three-ocean navy, with conse-
quent heavy costs to the people of the United
States.
It would seem that an agreement now with
the U.S.S.R. to retain the status quo in
installations and naval operations should be
much easier to obtain than a rollback after
each side has once escalated its presence. The
Congress has expressed its deep concern in
this matter by placing in the military con-
struction bill a prohibition against construc-
tion of the Diego Garcia naval facility until
April 15, 1976, and by asking immediate dip-
lomatic initiatives with a report thereon to
both Houses of Congress prior to that date.
I would express the hope, most respectfully,
that you will undertake to have the Secretary
of State give his personal attention to this
most important undertaking. He should feel
free to call upon those members of Congress
ate will now proceed to the considera-
tion of the conference report on H.R.
3474.
ROUTINE MORNING BUSINESS
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that there be a brief
period for the conduct of routine morn-
ing business, not to exceed 15 minutes,
with a time limitation of 3 minutes at-
tached thereto.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. Without objection, it is so ordered,
with the conference report to follow.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I
suggest the absence of a quorum.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. The clerk will call the roll.
The second assistant legislative clerk
proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. PASTORE. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that the order for
the quorum call be rescinded.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. PASTORE. Is there further morn-
ing business?
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. Is there further morning business?
with a deep interest in the matter for such PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR
consultation and advice as he might feel Mr. JACKSON. Mr. President, I ask
would be helpful. unanimous consent that the following
Respectfully yours,
MIKE MANSFIELD, members of the committee staffs be giv-
Chairman, Military Construction sub- en the privilege of the floor during the
committee. debate on the conference report on H.R.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- 3474, Dan Dreyfus, Ben Yamagata, Owen
Nelson, Avis
Malone, The Senator from Pennsylvania O'Leary, Mike George Harvey, Burke Murphy, William
Palker, and Mike Adams.
DEATH OF SENATOR DOLE'S The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
FATHER pore. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. HUGH SCOTT. Mr. President, the
old maxim that in the midst of life we
are in death was never more appropriate
than to the events of the weekend. All
of us rejoiced in the happiness which had
come to our distinguished colleague and
friend, the Senator from Kansas (Mr.
DOLE) in his marriage on Saturday to
Commissioner Hanford. That marriage
was attended by Senator DOLE'S father.
We have just received word of the sad
and tragic passing of his father.
On behalf of all of us, I want to ex-
tend deep and sincere condolences to
Senator DOLE and to his family, and to
note at the same time how much joy he
must feel amidst this sadness that the
last act of his father was to enjoy the
opportunity to see his son happily mar-
ried.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Will the Senator
yield?
Mr. HUGH SCOTT. Yes.
Mr, MANSFIELD. All I want to say,
Mr. President, is that the Senator speaks
for the full Senate in that respect.
Mr. HUGH SCOTT. I thank the Sena-
tor. I yield back the remainder of my
time. -
ORDER OF BUSINESS
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem.-
.Pore. Under the previous order the Sen-
PRESIDENT FORD SHOULD VETO
THE ENERGY BILL
Mr. BARTLETT. Mr. President, the
President will soon be making his deci-
sion on whether or not to veto the confer-
ence report on the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act of 1975, which the Con-
gress will presumably pass.
The bill is nothing more than bom-
bastic claptrap. It is exactly what would
be expected from a Congress which has
repeatedly failed to come to grips with a
workable energy policy.
It is absolutely essential to the eco-
nomic well being, energy sufficiency, and
national security of the United States
that this bill not become law. President
Ford should veto it.
The bill goes in exactly the opposite
direction from where we have been going
and from what the administration has
consistently advocated in the past. It is
not a plan to phase out price controls on
crude oil. From the present situation with
40 percent of our crude oil selling at free
market prices, the bill places all this
Crude under controls, rolls the prices
back, and then institutes a pricing
scheme which would indefinitely or per-
manently perpetuate the controls.
The bill provides no mechanism by
which price controls can be eliminated.
The disparity between average U.S. prices
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