A PLEA FOR PATIENCE AND COURAGE IN THE SEARCH FOR PEACE IN VIETNAM

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• Publication Date: January 20, 1966
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -- SENATE January 20, 1966
U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION,
Washington, D.C., October 29, 1965.
The PRESIDENT,
The White House.
DEAR Ma. PRESIDENT: In accordance with.
section 123(a) of the Atomic Energy Act of
1954, as amended, the Atomic Energy Com-
mission recommends that you approve the
enclosed proposed "Agreement for Coopera-
tion Between the Government of the United
-States of America and the Government of
Switzerland Concerning Civil Uses of Atomic
Energy," determine that its performance will
promote and will not constitute an unreason-
able risk to the common defense and secu-
rity, and authorize its execution. The De-
partment of State supports the Commission's
recommendation.
The proposed agreement, which has been
negotiated by the Atomic Energy Commission
and the Department of State pursuant to the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended,
would supersede the "Agreement for Coop.
oration Concerning Civil Uses of Atomic En-
ery Between the Government of the United
States of America and the Government of
Switzerland," signed at Washington on June
21, 1988, as amended. The Agreement for
Cooperation signed in 1955 covering a limited
program of research was allowed to expire on
July 17, 1965, inasmuch as the cooperative
activities initiated under that agreement had
been brought under the provisions of the
existing power agreement.
The primary reasons for entering into a
new agreement are (a) to provide the frame=
work for assuring the long-term supply of
enriched fuel required for the projected
Swiss nuclear power program'and (b) to Im-
plement provisions of the Atomic Energy Act
of 1954, which were added )3y recent amend-
ments, permitting the performance of uran-
ium enrichment services by the Commission
and the private ownership of special nuclear
material.
The proposed agreement, which would
have a term of 30 years, would provide for
the conduct of activities on an unclassified
basis, in contrast to the existing agreement
which permits the exchange of classified
information.
Article VI of the new agreement would
reflect the recent changes in the Atomic
Energy Act of 1054 permitting private own-
ership of special nuclear material by en-
abling private parties In the United States
and Switzerland to be parties to arrange-
ments for the transfer, of special nuclear
material. Previously, such transactions
were confined to governments.' Arrange-
meats made directly between private parties
under the proposed article VI would be un-
dertaken pursuant to applicable laws, reg-
ulations, policies, and license requirements
of the United States and Swiss Govern-
meats.
Article VII of the proposed agreement
would permit the sale of enriched uranium
required for the long-term Swiss power re-
actor program described in the appendix to
the agreement and would Increase the max-
imum quantity of U' 'e that could be trans-
ferred to Switzerland from the present limit
of 500 kilograms to 30,000 kilograms.
Article VII would also permit the Com-
mission to perform uranium enrichment
services after December 31, 1968, for the ac-
count of the Government of Switzerland
under terms and conditions which the Com-
mission may establish. In addition, the
Commission would be able, at its discretion,
to make available to the Government of
Switzerland uranium enriched to more than
20 percent in the Isoptope U's when there is
an economic or technical justification for
such a transfer,
In keeping with stated Commission policy,
article VII also includes language which as-
sures the comparability of domestic and for-
eign prices for enriched uranium and serv-
ices performed, as well as of the Advance no-
tice required for delivery.
Article IX would continue in effect the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
U.S, guarantee that no equipment or device- objection it is so ordered,
transferred to the Government of the United
States will be used for military purposes. -
The U.S. guarantee would also extend to A PLEA FOR PATIENCE AND COUR-
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In keeping with U.S. policy to arrive at
explicit understandings with countries with
which we have cooperative agreements as to
the transfer of safeguards to the Interna-
tional Atomic Energy Agency, article XI of
the proposed agreement provides that the
-Agency will be promptly requested to assume
responsibility for applying safeguards to ma-
terials and facilities subject to safeguards
under the agreement.
Following your determination, approval,
and authorization, the proposed agreement
will be formally executed by appropriate au-
thorities of the Governments of the United
States and Switzerland. In compliance with
section 123(c) of the Atomic Energy Act of
1964, as amended, the proposed agreement
will then be placed before the Joint Com-
mittee on Atomic Energy.
Respectfully yours,
_ GLENN T. SEABoaG,
Chairman.
(Enclosure: Agreement for Cooperation
Between the Government of the United States
of America and the Government of Switzer-
land.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, D.C., December 2, 1965.
Hon. GLENN T. gzanono,
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, . -
Washington, D.C.
DEAR- MR. SEABORO:- In accordance with
section 123(a) of the Atomic Energy Act of
1984, as amended, the Atomic Energy Com-
mission has submitted to me by a letter of
October 29, 1965, a proposed "Agreement for
Cooperation Between the Government of the
United States of America and the Govern-
ment of Switzerland Concerning Civil Uses
of Atomic Energy," and has recommended
that I approve the proposed agreement, de-
termine that its performance will promote
and will not constitute an unreasonable risk
to the common defense and security, and
authorize its execution.
Pursuant to the provisions of section 123
(b) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended, and upon the recommendation of
the Atomic Energy Commission, I hereby (a)
approve the proposed agreement and deter-
mine that its performance will promote and
will not constitute an unreasonable risk to
the common defense and security of the
United States of America; and (b) authorize
the execution of the proposed agreement on
behalf of the Government of the United
States of America by appropriate authorities
of the Department of State and' the Atomic
Energy Commission.
Sincerely,
LYNDON B. JOHNSON.
Mr. GORE. I am also scheduling a
public hearing by the Subcommittee on
Agreements for Cooperation concerning
these amendments, beginning on Janu-
ary 27,
ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT UNTIL
MONDAY
Mr. GORE. Mr. President, I ask unan-
imous consent tha when the Senate con-
cludes its business today, it stand in ad-
journment until 12 o'clock noon on Mon-
day next
most fateful decision-making period of -
our lives. The war in Vietnam will either
begin to move this year toward a peace-
ful resolution-however slow and uncer-
tain the road-or it will degenerate into
a- deepening morass that may claim the
lives of our sons and the sons of Asia for
years to come. A major war on the Asian
mainland could exhaust America's blood
and treasure for all our days and in the
end create conditions of bitterness and
despair that would curse us for a gen-
eration. I believe that preventing that
war taking place Is the most urgent task
of statesmanship of the next 10 of more
years.
The sober report of Senator MANSFIELD,
the distinguished majority leader, and
our colleagues who traveled with him in
Asia this fall, concludes:
The situation, as it now appears, offers
only the very slim prospect of a just settle-
ment by negotiations or the alternative pros-
pect of a continuance of the conflict in the
direction of a general war on the Asian
mainland.
Those observations state my own Im-
pressions better than I could after a
visit to Vietnam in late November and
early December. The Mansfield report Is
a document which every American policy
planner, every Member of Congress, and
every concerned American citizen should
read and ponder carefully. The Senator
from Montana, who has no peer in the
Senate as an authority on southeast Asia,
and his distinguished colleagues includ-
ing the highly respected senior Repub-
lican of the Senate, Senator AIKEN, of
Vermont, have performed a great service
to the Nation and to the peace of the
world. Their report may prove to be one
of the most significant documents in re-
cent years in that It has given our coun-
try a clearer view of the hard and dan-
gerous realities that now face us in Viet-
nam.
I am deeply grateful to President
Johnson, who carries the heaviest bur-
den of us all, that he has stopped the
bombing of North Vietnam in spite of
the objections of some of his advisers.
The more we can reduce the scope of
this struggle and confine it to the local
trouble in Saigon, where it began, the
less danger there will be of losing our
'young men In an inconclusive and
I am deeply gratful, too, for the
President's vigorous efforts in recent
days to find a diplomatic breakthrough
to an honorable settlement of the war.
We need-now to exercise great patience
and courage during the President's cur-
rent efforts for peace. We have been
patient for five years with those- who
offered a military solution to the prob-
lem. Now let us be equally persistent
and equally patient in the effort to find a
peaceful solution. Each time our Viet-
nam polieymakers have offered a new
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