CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -- HOUSE

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• Publication Date: February 16, 1967
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE February 16, 1967
shore, and clearly in international
wary rs, in fact, the captains of the
rec boats have maintained that the
nearest shore was Peru, not Ecuador.
Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to
join with me in deploring such conduct
evidenced by the Ecuadorian Govern-
rua:nt. Surely, these boats were within
r. r rights in fishing in international
waters,
What we are witnessing Is one nation
unilaterally determining the extent of
its territorial waters. It is time, Mr.
Speaker, that an international con-
ference was convened to resolve this con-
tinually perplexing issue of what is to be
considered territorial waters, and what
will be considered international.
? I urge the State Department to vig-
orously protest the unilateral action of
the Ecuadorian Government toward
to begin Immediately setting in motion
the necessary machinery that. will lead
toward the resolution of the larger prob-
acm-the problem of the determination
of territorial waters.
WALT DISNEY-A DAY OF APPRE
CIATIOIV
(Mr. HANNA (at the request of Mr.
GONZALEZ) was granted permission to
extend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous mat-
ter.)
Mr. HANNA. Mr. Speaker, just.a few
short months ago the entire world joined
ixi mourning the passing of Walt Disney.
What Walt Disney represented, however,
has not died, nor will it ever.
I am introducing a resolution today
that asks the President of the United
S' .- tes to declare July 17 of 1967, and ev-
ery year thereafter, as Walt Disney Ap-
preciation Day.
The idea of observing such,a day orig-
inated with the City Council of Ana-
heim, Cal. July 17 was selected for that
was the day that Disneyland opened its
gates to show this rather serious world
that the values of love, humor, and joy
were still part of man's spirit.
M.`. Speaker, it will be a most refresh-
ing experience to.I day each year ob-
serve those ideas and ideals that en-
deared Walt Disney to all the peoples of
the world.
At this point in the RECORD, I place
the Anal3eirn's City Council's resolution
entitled a "Day of Appreciation to Walt
Disney."
DAY or APPRECIATION TO WALT DISNEY-
In appreciation to an artist whose genius
in all fields of the fine arts and in every
nieces of communications has inspired in all
men for all time a personal dream of self-
achievement and undying hopes for a better
world,
And in appreciation to a builder who
fashioned out of dreams and imagination a
living domain that will forever live in the
hearts of men as real evidence that all good
things remain in the realm of the possible,
And in appreciation to a world leader who
created in all a new inspiration on the values
of his country and the freedom of men every-
where; who established a permanent beacon
of world peace through his motives and
ideals, and freely exchanged his views with.
visiting kings and queens, and heads of state
of all nations, and all the people who came
to him,
And in appreciation to a man, a warm hu-
man being whose personal contributions
have made a better world for all children of
every age.
Now therefore, be it resolved, That the City
Council of the City of Anaheim invites all
people of every community, city, state and
nation of the world to join with us in ob-
serving July 17, in the year 1967, and every
year forever after as Walt Disney Apprecia-
tion Day.
FRED T. KREIN,
Mayor.
CALVIN L. PEBLET, ,
Mayor pro tempere.
JACK C. DUT?roN,
Councilman.
A. J. Scalrrrr,
Councilman.
ODRA L. CHANDLER,
Councilman
STUDENT ASSOCIATION BY THE
CIA
(Mr. ABBITT' (at the request of Mr.
GONZALEZ) was granted permission to
extend his remarks at this point In the
RECORD and to include extraneous mat-
ter.)
Mr. ABBITT. Mr. Speaker, last Tuesm-
day, February 14, the Washington Post
carried an article which disclosed that
the CIA has been, subsidizing the Na-
tional Student Association since the
early 1950's. According to the article,
the CIA payments to NSA "have In the
past exceeded $100,000" but "has de-
clined to less than $50,000 annually."
Ramparts magazine, In announcing its
expose to be published In the March
issue, claimed that "the CIA has infil-
trated and subverted the world of Amer-
ican student leaders over the past 15
years" and that "it has used students
to spy."
I wish very strongly that the CIA
could have "subverted" some of the NSA
members to work in behalf of American
interests and national policy. Although
the vast majority of NSA membership
is not Communist nor even sympathetic
to Communist positions, a significant in-
fluence by Communist-oriented students
on NSA policy is beyond question.
These students have promoted them-
selves into positions of influence, espe-
cially at the annual conventions where
the great majority of NSA members
across the country have no idea of what
takes place. The conventions have gone
on record as supporting the admission
of Red China to the United Nations and
have seemed to support the North Viet-
namese more than our own country.
Following the disgraceful riots on the
Berkeley campus-instigated and man-
aged largely by nonstudents and by ad-
mitted Communists-the NSA national
convention voted a $100 symbolic con-
tribution to the rioters who were ar-
rested. The list of irresponsible and ex-
treme left-wing positions taken by the
NSA in the past make one wonder at
what the CIA was trying to achieve or
what the American taxpayer got for his
Investment of hundreds of thousands,
perhaps millions, of dollars in this orga-
nization. NSA president W. Eugene
Groves denies that his organization
"carried out intelligence functions" or
that any information of a "sensitive na-
ture" had been furnished to our Gov-
ernment.
1. believe that the CIA can serve our
country well, but the use of the people's
money to subsidize an organization with
a record like that of the National Stu-
dent Association raises serious doubts as
to the competency and purposes of some
of the decisionmakers in the Agency.
While continuing to spend money on
an organization which has openly and re-
peatedly attacked American interests, the
CIA might have inquired as to why so
many American colleges were either re-
jecting or withdrawing from NSA. If
students on campuses of many of our
leading colleges were able to determine
the true nature of NSA and effect with-
drawal, why then could not the CIA find
out a few of the same things.
Insofar as the charge of using stu-
dents to spy is concerned, is there some
reason why students should have less in-
terest in and obligation to serve their
country than adults? Although he was a
schoolteacher rather than a student, I
have never thought of Nathan H%.le as a
villain or as having been subve ted by
the intelligence service of George Wash-
ington, I certainly am not advocating
that all students become agents of the
CIA, but I do not like the Implication
that a student is being subverted or mis-
used when he obtains information for the
benefit of his country.
I appear to be both defending and
criticizing the CIA, or at least, I hope
that I am. I defend the CIA's right and
obligation to gather information about
and from students which may promote
.the security and interests of our country.
At the same time, I criticize the year-
after-year expenditure of large sums of
tax funds on an organization such as the
National Student Association which was
so visibly a bad investment. If the CIA
wishes to maintain its relatively free
hand in spending money secretly, it must
better improve its performance, or Con-
gress will rightly demand greater scru-
tiny of where the appropriations go.
TO COMBAT THE ARAB BOYCOTT
(Mr. BINGHAM (at the request of Mr.
GONZALEZ) was granted permission to
extend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to Include extraneous mat-
ter.)
Mr. BINGHAM, Mr. Speaker, for
many years now, members of the League
of Arab States have been waging an in-
tensive campaign-political, economic,
and occasionally military-against the
state of Israel. One of the chief weapons
in their arsenal has been the use of an
international trade boycott against any
business concern or individual conduct-
ing substantial business operations in
Israel.
Naturally, this boycott has--also been
imposed against American firms since
they are a major source of trade with
Israel. Some of our largest and most
successful corporations have been pres-
sured by the Arab League to either give
up existing contacts with Israel, or aban-
don plans to invest or open plants there.
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