CZECHOSLOVAKIA: BATTLER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Publication Date: August 1, 1968
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August 1, 1968 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE
mail-order sales of rifles and shotguns, as
well as handguns.)
*Such a system would prevent the impulsive
purchase of weapons and would enable law-
enforcement officers to keep track of who Was
armed with what in case of a shooting. Gun
purchasers would have to show identification
and sign their names (in most states today
such proof and signature are not required)
before they can pick up their guns, after
the specified waiting period. Ammunition, it
follows, would be sold only to holders of fire-
arms permits, which would be required of
present as well as prospective gun owners.
Soon alter the assassination of his brother,
and again a year ago, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
appeared before the subcommittee on juve-
nile delinquency, chaired by Sen. Thomas J.
Dodd, and pleaded for the regulation of all
firearm sales. All citizens should ponder his
sober words of warning:
"We have a responsibility to the victims
of crime and violence, a responsibility to
think'of the tragedy of sudden death. It is a
responsibility to put away childish things-
to make the possession and use of firearms a
matter undertaken only by serious people
who will use them with the restraint and
maturity that their dangerous nature de-
serves-and demands. The time for enact-
ment of legislation is now. It would save hun-
dreds of lives in this country and spare
thousands of families the grief and heart-
break that may come from the loss of a
husband, a son, a brother or a friend.
"It is past time that we wipe out this stain
of violence from our land."
LEWIS G. ODOM, JR., STAFF DIREC-
TOR AND GENERAL COUNSEL OF
THE BANKING AND CURRENCY
COMMITTEE, RETURNS TO PRI-
VATE LAW PRACTICE
Mr. MUSKIE. Mr. President, Lewis G.
Odom, Jr., recently announced that he is
resigning his post as staff director and
general counsel of the Banking and Cur-
rency Committee to practice law in
Montgomery, Ala.
Lewis Odom has along record of out-
standing service to the Senate. He has
served as administrative assistant to the
distinguished Senator from Alabama
[Mr. SPARKMAN] and, for several years as
staff director and general counsel of the
Select Committee on Small Business prior
to his assumption of duty with the Bank-
ing and Currency Committee. During this
period of" time, his devotion to duty and
the excellent manner in which he per-
iformed his job have won him many
friends and admirers in the Senate.
I regret very much that the committee
is losing -his services. I am sure he will
be missed. However, I take this opportu-
nity to express my gratitude to him for
his long and outstanding service to the
Senate, and I wish for him every success
CZECHOSLOVA1 , : BATTLER FOR
HUM IGHTS
Mr. PROXMIRE, r. President, our
history has not bee ithout its trials
and tribulations. Our freedom was se-
cured by men of great principle deeply
committed to a just cause. Our Constitu-
tion was forged by the fires of a Revolu-
tionary War. The principles upon which
this country is founded have served as
shining examples for many an emerging
nation.
Right now, another country is fighting
for her freedom, her right to make her
own decisions. She has seen fit to brave
all odds in her struggle for the human
nights I'm afraid we have taken for
granted. The small country of Czecho-
slovakia, surrounded by seemingly in-
surmountable obstacles, has looked to the
Western world and made her decision.
It is a decision that she has been forced
to make alone.
In its resolve for freedom, Czecho-
slovakia has ratified eight out of the nine
Conventions on Human Rights. The
Czech people have realized the need for
freedom of association and protection of
the right to organize. They understand
that all women as well as men have the
right to stand up and be counted in the
political process. Czechoslovakia has not
been without its own historical racial dif-
ficulties,,but it is trying to do something
positive about it. It has agreed that the
International Convention on the Elimi-
nation of All Forms of Racial Discrimi-
nation is an ideal to which it must add
its voice and force.
Mr. President, have we forgotten the
principles of our Founding Fathers?
Have we lost sight of these in the flurry
of modern living? I hope with all my
heart that we have not.
I plead with the Senate to pledge it-
self again to our constitutional ideals-
which also have been embodied in con-
stitutions other than our own. I ask that
we realize and appreciate those princi-
ples that drive men to fight for their
freedom.
I ask that the Senate ratify the Hu-
man Rights Conventions. If once we have
shown the way, let us not permit others
to overtake and overshadow us in this
day with all its many complexities. Let
us join together with all nations and
fight for those high principles that bind
men together as a nation and a people,
man to man.
WILD ANIMALS IN DANGER OF
EXTINCTION
Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President,
the wild animals of this planet have dis-
appeared and are disappearing at an
alarming rate. In this century alone man
has succeeded in eradicating over 60
species or subspecies of mammals alone,
besides innumerable birds and fish.
Some of these animals are threatened
by expanding civilization, and all we can
do is to try to soften. its impact. The
greatest number, however, are threat-
ened by nothing more necessary than
human vanity; vanity which creates a
frantic market for exotic furs, and vanity
which rejoices in hunting for no purpose
but to kill a rare animal. The great cats
in particular are threatened by this
double demand to. gratify egos, and the
slaughter every year by hunters and
poachers is appalling.
The Christian Science Monitor on
July 19 published a very fine editorial,
endorsing my bill, S. 2984, as a means
of saving threatened species. I ask unan-
imous consent. that it be printed in the
RECORD.
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
S 9945
[From the Christian Science Monitor,
July 19, 19681
SAVE THE ENDANGERED SPECIES
Among the important bills which Congress
should certainly pass before adjournment is
the Endangered Species bill, S. 2984 in the
Senate and H.R. 11618 in the House.
For each year of this century, a species
or subspecies of mammals has vanished, as
well as a number of birds and fish. Conser-
vationists are now deeply concerned for the
large spotted cats, such as the cheetah and
the Somali leopard, for whose skins there is
what the Smithsonian's Dr. S. Dillon Ripley
calls an "almost insatiable market." World
wildlife authority Dr. Lee Talbot, also of the
Smithsonian, says that "for the price of one
Somali leopard coat we could send a trained
man into the field for a year to learn enough
to save hundreds of spotted cats from ex-
tinction." The "exotic pet" trade is stripping
the jungle of birds, and scientists denFand
hundreds of thousands of monkeys and apes
for laboratory use. The United States fur-
nishes the biggest market for these and
other creatures, many of which are in dan-
ger of extinction.
The provisions of the Endangered Species
bill, curtailing this destructive traffic, are
sound, reasonable, and crucially needed. H.R.
11618 has already been cleared for a full vote
in the House. Hearings on S. 2984 are sched-
uled for July 24. Members of Congress, and
their constituents back home, should get
behind these bills and see- that they go?
through in this session.
PROPOSED REQUIREMENT THAT
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
SEEKING FEDERAL ASSISTANCE
EXPAND FACILITIES AND TEACH-
ING STAFFS TO ACCOMMODATE
A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF "C"
STUDENTS
Mr. PASTORE. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent to have printed in
the RECORD a resolution of the General
Assembly of the State of Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations memorial-
izing Congress that colleges and univer-
sities seeking Federal assistance be re-
quired to expand their facilities and
teaching staffs to accommodate a. high
percentage of "C" students.
There being no objection, the resolu-
tion was ordered to be printed in the
'RECORD, as follows:
RESOLUTION H. 1154
Resolution memorializing Congress that col-
leges and universities seeking Federal as-
sistance be required to expand their fa-
cilities and teaching staffs to accommo-
date & high percentage of "C" students
Whereas, There is a large 'group of un-
tapped talent in America which falls with-
in the category of the "C" student; and
Whereas, Colleges and universities who
seek federal assistance under the various
titles ought to be required as a condition
of their grant that facilities and teaching
staffs will be expanded to accommodate a
high percentage of "C" students; now, there-
fore, be it
Resolved, That the state of Rhode Island,
through its assembly, now requests the con-
gress of the United ,States to give consid-
eration to this serious situation so that col-
leges and universities will be required to
expand their facilities and teaching staffs to
accommodate a higher percentage of "C"
students who desire to go to college; and
be it further
Resolved, That the senators and representa-
tives from Rhode Island in said congress be
and they are hereby earnestly requested to
use concerted effort to bring about this great-
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iv-needed assistance to "C" students de-
siring to go to college; and the secretary
of state is hereby authorized to transmit
duly certified copies of this resolution to the
senators and representatives from Rhode is-
land in said congress:
Attest:
AvcusT P. LA FRANCE,
Secretary of State.
UNIFORM AND HIGHER DISCOUNT
RATE ESSENTIAL FOR REAL
PROGRESS IN CUTTING SPENDING
Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, on
Tuesday the Joint Economic Committee
began the first of 3 days of hearings on
the question of consistent interest rate
and discounting procedures in the analy-
sis of public expenditures. These sessions
climax the series of hearings which the
committee has held dealing with ques-
tions of interest rate policy and dis-
counting procedures In the various
branches of the Federal Government.
The earlier hearings on this matter
involved both the testimony of profes-
sional economists on the appropriate in-
terest rate concept and Its current size
and a report by the Comptroller Gen-
eral's office on actual discounting and in-
terest rate policy In the agencies. Wit-
nesses at these hearings agreed on a
number of propositions about discounting
policy. Among them are the following:
First. Interest rates to be used In eval-
uating public expenditures should reflect
the opportunity cost of the funds utilized
by the project.
Second. The use of an interest rate of
31/4 percent in evaluating public invest-
ments is too low and results in serious
misallocation of. the Nation's resources,
Moreover, under current conditions, it Is
also inflationary.
Third. The appropriate Interest rate
to be used in evaluating current public
expenditures should not be less than the
current yield on long-term Government
securities.
investments, the Joint Economic Com- In an excellent series of article; pub-
mittee is conducting a comprehensive lished recently in the Minneapolis
study of planning-programing-budget- Tribune, Mark Wyman has examined in
Ing concepts and techniques. The ob- detail this "legalized con game" and has
Jectives of this study are to establish offered some imaginative suggestions
communication among agency people for State and Federal regulation that
and Congress on the progress, problems, would ;provide the public with protection.
and potential of applying economic cri- I ask umanlmous consent that the rrticles
teria to public expenditures, to focus the be printed in the RECORD.
talents and interests of economists and There being no objection, the s.rticles
other exports outside Government on were ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
the problems of measuring social bene- as follows:
fits and costs, and finally, to assist the IFrom the Minneapolis Tribune,
Congress in developing a sound response July 10, 19681
to Improved analysis In the agencies. MANY VICTIMazan BY MISLEADING Sczsoon
Tuesday, the committee heard from PrrcmEs
three witnesses who are knowledgeable (EDnoie's xoTE.-This is the first of four
In questions pertaining to interest rate articles on the effectiveness end sales prac-
and discounting policies, especially as ttces of private trade and correspondence
they apply to benefit-cost analysis in schools in Minnesota.)
the water resources agencies. Kenneth (By Mark Wyman)
Holum, Assistant Secretary -of the The :salesman's story sounded exciting that
Interior, presented the statement pre- evening to Jack Powers-a chance to become
pared by Secretary Udall as chairman a highly-paid heavy-equipment operator,
of the Water Resources Council. With with plentiful lobe, a new career.
Assistant Secretary Holum was Dr. Hen- So wetting that when sa'.esman Helmer
Myhre of Maht?3medl left an hour later, he
ry Caulfield, executive director of the had collected Power's check for $200 and his
Water Resources Council, who discussed signature on a contract for Associated School,
some of the conceptual issues of interest- Inc.
rate policy and the rationale support- The $1900 course was to include 69 corre-
Ing the Council's proposed revision of spondence lessons andd two weeks' training in
the Interest-rate regulation.
in addition, Mr. Fred Hoffman, As-
sistant Director of the Bureau of the
Budget, described for us the Bureau's
position on the interest-rate question and
advised us of the efforts of the Bureau in
assisting the agencies to adopt appro-
priate discounting procedures.
Wednesday, the committee heard the
testimony of two prominent academic
economists on the Interest-rate ques-
tion. Professors Eckstein and Harberger
provided us with the best advice of the
economics profession on the appropriate
interest-rate concept, the procedures for
Its calculation on an on-going basis, and
their best estimates of the current rate.
disparity among agencies in the applica- ``"""" ~~ ABUSES school in Staples, Minn.
tion of discounting procedures and in Powers' case Is fairly conunon, r.ccording
interest rate policy. Mr. MONDALE. Mr. President, some 5 to high school counselors, lawyers and state
Over past years, the Joint Economic 'million Americans, more than 10,000 of officia-s who seethe victims of overselling by
Committee has had a deep interest In them In my State, are signed up for oor- private trade and correspondence schools.
the establishment of sound analysis and respondence and trade courses through "One of the problems is the residents of
budgetary policies in the Federal Gov- private vocational schools. Some of these Minncwc to don't know what's going on," said
ernment. It, therefore, welcomed and schools are excellent, but a great many Mrs. Tobey Lapakko of St. Paul, president of
strongly supported the President's 1965 others are engaged in what a Minnesota the Minnesota Consumers League.
Executive order which established a high school guidance counselor has "This is the last legalized 'con game' In
planning-programing-budgeting system called the last legalized con game In America," said Dr. Gerald Thompson, a St.
within all agencies of the Federal Gov- America. Louis Park High School counselor who has
ernment. Since that time, the rapidly in- Such schools, while advertising that led a long battle against such schools through
the
creasing demands on the Federal budget their graduates receive top salaries as American school counselor AssoCiativn
(ASCA).
make It even more essential that we medical technicians, heavy equipment At the heart of the ASCA's oppisition Is
develop a meaningful set of techniques operators, computer programmers, and the fawt that victims frequently are people
by which to measure the economic worth the like, frequently are more concerned grasping for a way out of poverty: "They
of alternative Government expenditures. about profits than education and offer prey on the less-than-average, the lower-
To focus on questions of the relative their students inadequate facilities and motivated, as the way to transcend their dif-
effectiveness of alternative Federal training, Viand misinformation about job ficulties." said Lorsen Benson of Hopkins
spending programs is particularly perti- opportunities. High School.
nent in this period of congressional All too frequently, the prospective stu- But, the counselors emphasize teat there
budget-cutting. It is only through com- dent has no way to find out in advance are many excellent private vocational schools,
and they point specifically to such well-
petent benefit-cost and cost-effectiveness whether a particular correspondence or established institutions as Dunwoocly insti-
analysis that Congress can rationally trade school will give him the marketable tute. Northwestern TV and Electronics Insti-
choose among alternatives rather than skill which he seeks. Such advertising tuts, Brown institute and the t'-aditional
apply the crude and wasteful "meat-ax" phrases as "accredited" and "GI ap- business colleges located in severs.l Minne-
to the Federal budget. proved" are not necessarily reliable sota cities.
In an attempt to assist the effort of guides for students seeking such Frc.tn some other schools, howeu er, coun-
analysts to evaluate alternative public training. selors collect such "horror stories" as:
But Powers, a factory worker, began to
have second thoughts.
Encouraged by his wife-the couple live
with their two small children In a modest
suburban home-he called Associated Gen-
eral Contractors (AGC) the next day.
ADC's advice: Get out! It called the course
worthless and said equipment operator jobs
were &,arce. wages far below those suggested
by Myhre.
Powers got out-but the $300 was "nonre-
fundable.-The continued existence of such short-
term schools in Minnesota prompted the AGC
and the Operating Engineers union to issue
a joint statement warning that a graduate
"would be hired on the same basis as a
totally Inexperienced applicant."
Both groups recognize only one training
program, the 21-month heavy-equipment
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