ZABLOCKI FACED WITH HECTIC SCHEDULE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000707370003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 21, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/07: CIA-RDP90-00552R000707370003-6
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL
21 January 1980
By RICHARD BRADEE
Sentinel Washington Bureau
Washington, D.C. - Because of
events in Afghanistan,. Iran and Paki-
stan, Rep. Clement J. Zablocki (D-
Wis.), chairman of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, is facing one of
the most hectic schedules of his 30
years.in-Congress when the new ses-
sion begins this week.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance,
who has briefed Zablocki and other
committee chairmen and congres-
sional leaders regularly and some-
times daily in recent weeks, is sched-
uled to appear before the committee
to outline an urgent request for aid to,
Pakistan.
Zablocki also has received secret
briefings from the Central. Intelli-
gence Agency on intelligence activi-
ties in southwest Asia and will con-
duct hearings- on legislation to re
move some restrictions on the, CIA.
He also will be asked to move a
resolution, which he supports, urging
that the 1980 Olympics be moved
from Moscow. If the games are not
moved, Americans should not com-
pete, according to the resolution.
On Friday, the vice president of
Egypt and the- Italian ambassador
attended receptions with Zablocki.
Friday afternoon, he left for Mil-
waukee, leaving word ,with John J..
Brady, * the chief of his committee
staff, on where he could be reached
at anytime.
Monday. Zablocki will be honored
at 11 a.m..:at, St. Francis Hospital by.
labor, business and civic leaders with
the establishment of the-Zablocki
Memorial Fund. The fund, estab-
lished in tribute to Zablocki's 30
years in Congress and in memory of
his late wife, Blanche, now has more
than $50,000 and will be divided
between St. Francis Hospital's Dia-
betes Center and cancer research at
Johns Hopkins Medical School in Bal-
timore, Md. -
Brady, who has worked with Za-
blocki long enough to think like him,
was handing Zablocki letters to sign
during an interview in,,Zablocki's of-
fice.
Zablocki said Pr esident Carter
should not be fault';d for not acting
sooner to move a; ainst Soviet ag-
gression.
"We were still hoping that SALT
could be seriously considered. Thel
president wouldn't want to causel
domestic political problems here by
being too harsh. But now that the
Soviet Union is putting troops in
Afghanistan, it's an entirely new ball
game," he said.
As Brady gave Zablocki cryptic
two- or three-word summaries of the
letters he was signing, Zablocki said
public opinion has gone from one
extreme, which he. called "Fortress
America,"- to the other, "start a
war."
"The president is trying to correct
'the . situation without a confronta-
tion," he said. "Can he do it? Alone,
no. With the unity of our people and
the support of our allies, he can."
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/07: CIA-RDP90-00552R000707370003-6