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• Fire Management (Vol.37 No.1)

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  This is the Winter 1976 edition (Volume 37, No.1) of Fire Management, a quarterly periodical devoted to the technique of forest fire control, produced by the U.S. Forest Service.

  United States. Forest Service

  1976
• Electronic Surveillance Within the United States for Foreign Intelligence Purposes, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Intelligence and the Rights of Americans of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session on S. 3197, The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1976, June 29, July 1, August 6, 10 and 24, 1976

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  From the opening statement of Birch Bayh: "This morning marks the first meeting of the Subcommittee on Rights of Americans of the Select Committee on Intelligence. With this meeting we are beginning what I am sure will be a long, difficult and ultimately a very important task. In the months ahead, it will be this subcommittee's particular responsibility to see that the needs of our Government for intelligence information are met efficiently and effectively and in a manner that is consistent with the fundamental rights of American citizens. In my opinion, the weight of our responsibility cannot be overstated. Allegations of widespread abuse of rights by the intelligence community led to the previous select committee's 15-month investigation of intelligence activities. The committee's finding that abuses had been even more serious and more frequent than most of us had imagined led to the bipartisan call for a permanent congressional committee on intelligence oversight. This subcommittee has now been charged by the Intelligence Committee's distinguished chairman, Senator Inouye, with accomplishing a large part of what so many have advocated. All of us are aware of the important role of the intelligence community in protecting the safety and welfare of our country and all of our citizens, but it is our duty as members of this Committee to keep a vigilant watch on the intelligence community and to insure that Americans are protected from the invasion of their rights while the intelligence community is fulfilling its responsibility." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Edward M. Kennedy, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Walter F. Mondale, John V. Tunney, Edward H. Levi, Doug Marvin, Robert F. Drinan, Aryeh Neier, Hope Eastman, Philip Heymann, Herman Schwartz, Birch Bayh, Gaylord Nelson, Daniel K. Inouye, Women's Strike for Peace, Philip A. Lacovara, Charles Scheiner, Dorothy R. Steffens, Raymond S. Calamaro, National Council of Jewish Women, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and David Cohen.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1976
• LLL Comments on the Ultimate Catastrophe

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  "This correspondence provides a discussion of purported hazards of nuclear energy production and weapons research. The possibility of atmospheric burn and oceanic burn are discounted, and the cross sections of Nitrogen are investigated and the concentration of D[sub 2]O in the oceans are considered. In conclusion, extremely conservative calculations demonstrated that it is completely impossible for either the earth`s atmosphere or sea to sustain fusion reactions of either thermonuclear nuclear chain reaction type. And, in particular, such reactions cannot be triggered by the explosion of nuclear weapons, even those having unrealistically high yield and impractical high yield-to-weight."

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Batzel, R. E.

  1975-12-23
• Church Report: Covert Action in Chile 1963-1973

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  Covert United States involvement in Chile in the decade between 1963 and 1973 was extensive and continuous. This report of a congressional committee chaired by Senator Frank Church of Idaho investigates U.S. intelligence operations in Chile during this time. This study is primarily concerned with what is labeled "covert action" by the United States government and its purpose is to evaluate the intent and effect of clandestine American activities in Chile. The report preliminarily concludes that covert action has been a key element of U.S. foreign policy toward Chile and was obvious throughout the decade between 1964 and 1974. "In 1964, the United States commitment to democratic reform via the Alliance for Progress and overt foreign aid was buttressed via covert support for the election of the candidate of the Christian Democratic party, a candidate and a party for which the Alliance seemed tailor made. During 1970 the U.S. Government tried, covertly, to prevent Allende from becoming President of Chile. When that failed, covert support to his opposition formed one of a triad of official actions: covert aid to opposition forces, "cool but correct" diplomatic posture, and economic pressure. From support of what the United States considered to be democratic and progressive forces in Chile we had moved finally to advocating and encouraging the overthrow of a democratically elected government."

  United States. Congress

  1975-12-18
• Tactical Nuclear Studies: A More Comprehensive Approach

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  This document "Proposes a matrix scheme for evaluating complex tactical nuclear systems is proposed. Advantages resulting from consideration of system characteristics in peace and crisis as well as war include avoidance of scenario-dependent conclusions, ease of maintaining awareness of relationships between immediate concerns and the complex whole, and highlighting of areas or concerns that have been overlooked or neglected."

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Blumenthal, Donald; Kooshian, C.; Reinhardt, G.

  1975-12-18
• Executive Order 11880: Designation of officers of the Department of Commerce to act as Secretary of Commerce

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  "During any period when, by reason of absence, disability or vacancy in office, both the Secretary of Commerce and the Deputy Secretary of Commerce are not available to exercise the powers or perform the duties of the Office of Secretary, an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, the General Counsel of the Department of Commerce, or an officer of the Department of Commerce appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, in such order as the Secretary of Commerce may from time to time prescribe, shall act as Secretary. If no such order of succession is in effect at that time, an Assistant Secretary or the General Counsel shall act as Secretary in the order in which they shall have taken office as Assistant Secretaries or General Counsel."

  United States. Office of the Federal Register

  Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

  1975-10-02
• Communication Plan for Tsunami Warning System, Eighth Edition

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  "A tsunami or seismic sea wave is a series of waves of extremely long wavelength and period caused by an underwater disturbance. Although most tsunamis are associated with large earthquakes in which the epicenters underlie or border the ocean floor, the generating mechanism is not positively known. Vertical displacement of the ocean floor during an earthquake may be responsible, or possible submarine avalanches on the slope of oceanic trenches, or generation of resonant oscillations of trench water by long-period earthquake waves. Submarine volcanic eruptions also have been known to generate tsunamis. All submarine earthquakes do not produce tsunamis, and all tsunamis are not large enough to cause damage; however, occasional large waves have caused great destruction and loss of life in coastal areas. At present, there is no way. to determine if an earthquake has generated a tsunami, except to note the occurrence and epicenter of the earthquake and then detect the arrival of the characteristic waves at a network of tide stations. The waves, although often called tidal waves, have nothing to do with the tides."

  United States. National Weather Service; United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  Spaeth, M. G. (Mark G.)

  1975-09
• Evaluation of Smokeproof Stair Towers and Smoke Detector Performance

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  "Smoke as a critical factor in the safety of persons in a fire situation in a high-rise building has received considerable attention in recent years. In case of fire in such a structure, the initial buoyancy forces due to heat may be augmented by a stack effect resulting from weather conditions to cause air and smoke to travel more rapidly upwards in stairways and elevator and utility shafts. This vertical movement of smoke not only speeds smoke infiltration into the upper levels of a building, but can also leave travel paths clogged with smoke, thus hindering or preventing evacuations and obstructing the efforts of firefighters. Recent research abroad and in the United States has indicated the feasibility of smoke control by means of ventilation make-up, air input, and pressurization or venting of the stair-wells. [...] Current smoke control activities at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) are aimed at evaluating the techniques quantitatively. With this in mind two approaches have been taken: first, to conduct high-rise smoke simulation experiments that can quantitatively measure the smoke movement under controlled and uncontrolled conditions; and second, to model the smoke simulation experiments analytically: to establish a smoke movement prediction program which will form the basis for optimizing smoke control design standards."

  United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and Research

  Fung, Francis C. W.; Zile, Richard H.

  1975-09
• Introduction to Civil Preparedness

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  "Since the beginning of time, man has sought protection from the dangers of a hostile environment. The cave, the forest, even hollow logs provided refuge for many of our forebears. Where the shelter and the actions taken were suitable to meet the emergency conditions, man survived. History contains countless references to individual, group, and community actions for protection from famine, flood, fire, and the effects of war. It was not, however, until the onset of World War II, with the threat of large-scale aerial attacks on cities and industrial centers, that civil defense planning gained impetus. Added impetus resulted from the advent of atomic and thermonuclear weapons and advanced delivery systems. […] The origin of civil defense preparedness in the United States may be traced to August 1916, when Congress established the Council of National Defense to coordinate 'industries and resources for the national security and welfare, and to create relations which will render possible, in time of need, the immediate concentration and utilization of the resources of the Nation'. The Council consisted of the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor. In December 1918, this Council was dissolved, and from that time until 1940, civil defense in a formal sense did not exist in the United States. On May 28, 1940, President Roosevelt established the National Defense Advisory Commission, which included the Division of State and Local Cooperation. In May 1941, a Presidential Executive Order replaced the Division of State and Local Cooperation with the Office of Civilian Defense."

  United States. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency

  1975-07
• FBI Report to Chilean Military on Detainee, 6 June 1975

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  This letter, one of a number sent by FBI attache Robert Scherrer to Chilean General Ernesto Baeza, provides intelligence obtained through the interrogation of a captured Chilean leftist, Jorge Isaac Fuentes. The document records US collaboration with Chile's security forces, including the promise of surveillance of subjects inside the United States. Fuentes was detained through Operation Condor - a network of Chilean, Argentinian and Paraguayan secret police agency which coordinated tracking, capturing and killing opponents. According to the Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, he was tortured in Paraguay, turned over to the Chilean secret police, and disappeared.

  United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

  Scherrer, Robert W.

  1975-06-06
• Military Contingency Operations: The Lessons of Political-Military Coordination

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  From the thesis abstract: "This thesis investigates the utility of conventional military intervention by Western powers in achieving their short-term foreign policy aims. Through a survey of the literature of political-military coordination, case studies of contingency force interventions, and comparative analysis of the interventions, factors fundamental to successful contingency operations are developed."

  U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

  Clark, Wesley K.

  1975-06-06
• Federal Plan for Natural Disaster Warning and Preparedness: First Supplement (FY1976-1980)

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  From the foreword: "Natural hazards, such as the massive outbreak of killer tornadoes which struck 13 states early in April 1974, remain an ever-present threat to our Nation's welfare. Disaster surveys have indicated that the Nation's warning and preparedness system has reduced the toll in deaths, injuries, and economic losses from such hazards. However, unmet needs still exist in our monitoring, warning preparation, warning dissemination, and preparedness capabilities. The 'Federal Plan for Natural Disaster Warning and Preparedness' was published in June 1973. That Plan presented a comprehensive picture of the coordinated plans of 10 Federal agencies to bring about needed improvements to the warning system and preparedness programs. In the months since the Plan was prepared, much progress has been made to improve the system, and applications of recent technological advances promise even greater future improvements."

  United States. Office of Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research

  1975-06
• Strategic Intelligence from ERTS? An Analysis of Digital Data on Soviet ICBM Sites

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  "The Earth Resources Technology Satellite, ERTS-1 (recently renamed LANDSAT-1), and its successor, LANDSAT-2, are providing the world with a revolutionary form of electro-optical overhead imagery at very low cost to the consumer. ERTS products are freely available for purchase from the United States, and a growing number of countries are building their own ground receiving stations. ERTS data could be a source of strategic intelligence for countries that do not have access to overhead reconnaissance systems but do have strategic missile-targeting and other military requirements. Because of the growing usage of ERTS data and de-centralization of dissemination centers, the difficult of detecting foreign military intelligence use of that data is increasing rapidly. This study reveals little evidence that foreign countries are exploiting the military and strategic intelligence potential of purchased ERTS data; but the Peoples Republic of China, which has shown interest in ERTS data and has made a considerable effort to obtain geodetic information and maps covering the Soviet Union and other areas, appears to be a possible user of ERTS data for such applications. An assessment of standard ERTS multi-spectral film coverage of selected Soviet areas indicates that the Chinese could now use it to identify and target large cities, airports, port facilities and transportation routes. ERTS digital images and data, supplemented by collateral information, could be used to map and target even smaller features, such as the larger Soviet SAM [surface-to-air missile] sites and soft ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] sites."

  United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  1975-06
• Executive Order 11858: Foreign Investment in the United States

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  "There is hereby established the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (hereinafter referred to as the Committee). The Committee shall have primary continuing responsibility within the Executive Branch, both direct and portfolio, and for coordinating the implementation of United States policy on such investment."

  United States. Office of the Federal Register

  Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

  1975-05-07
• Some Climatological Characteristics of Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, Gulf and East Coasts of the United States

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  "A climatology of hurricane factors important to storm surges is presented for the U. S. gulf and east coasts. A smoothed frequency of tropical storms and hurricanes entering and exiting the coast and storms passing within 150 n .mi. [nautical miles] of the coast during the period 1871-1973 is given. The central pressure for hurricanes and tropical storms and the radius of maximum winds and speed of forward motion for hurricanes were obtained from data analysis . Directions of landfalling hurricanes and tropical storms at the time they crossed the coast at selected points were also analyzed. The probability distribution of each factor was plotted and analyzed for each 50-n.mi. interval along the coast . Selected probability levels of each distribution were then summarized, and smoothed variations along the coast were obtained by analysis . The speeds of motion for two classes of hurricanes (those that entered the coast and those that passed within 150 n .mi. of the coast) were studied separately and a smooth speed analysis determined for each. The question of joint probability among the various factors and with latitude is discussed qualitatively."

  United States. National Weather Service

  Ho, Francis P.; Schwerdt, Richard W.; Goodyear, Hugo V.

  1975-05
• Address by the Honorable Edward H. Levi Attorney General of the United States Before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York

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  "I would like to speak to you this evening about confidentiality and democratic government. The subject is an important one. It is complicated and has many facets. I do not suggest there are easy answers. I do suggest, however, that public understanding of the issues involved and the relationship among the issues is extremely important. The bar as a profession has an enormous responsibility to help clarify these issues. My belief is that understanding may be increased by putting together certain doctrines and values with which most of us would agree. The relationship among these doctrines and values may have been obscured in the recent past. If hard cases sometimes make bad law, emergency situations also have distorted our perspective. The public good requires that we try to correct that distortion. In recent years, the very concept of confidentiality in government has been increasingly challenged as contrary to our democratic ideals, to the constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression and freedom of the press, and to our structure of government. Any limitation on the disclosure of information about the conduct of government, it is said, constitutes an abridgement of the people's right to know and cannot be justified. Indeed, it is asserted that governmental secrecy serves no purpose other than to shield improper or unlawful action from public scrutiny. This perception of the relationship between confidentiality and government has been shaped in large measure by the Watergate affair. The unfortunate legacy of that affair is a pervasive distrust of public officials and a popular willingness to infer impropriety. Skepticism and distrust have their value; they are not the only values to which our society must respond."

  United States. Department of Justice

  Levi, Edward H. (Edward Hirsch), 1911-2000

  1975-04-28
• National Security Decision Memorandum 292: U.S.-Iran Nuclear Cooperation

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  This memorandum focuses on the nuclear cooperation between the United States and Iran. It outlines that the U.S. will take the following actions: "[1] Permit U.S. material to be fabricated into fuel in Iran for use in its own reactors and for pass-through to third countries with whom we have Agreements. [2] Agree to set the fuel ceiling at a level reflecting the approximate number of nuclear reactors planned for purchase from U.S. suppliers. We would, as a fallback, be prepared to increase the ceiling to cover Iran's full nuclear requirement under the proviso that the fuel represents Iran's entitlement from their proposed investment in an enrichment facility in the U.S. Any additional entitlement could be disposed of by Iran without importing the material into that country through sales from the United States to appropriate third countries with whom the U.S. has bilateral Agreements for Cooperation. [...]"

  National Security Council (U.S.)

  1975-04-22
• Atlantic Hurricane Season of 1974

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  This document provides a general overview of the 1974 hurricane season in the North Atlantic along with detailed accounts of individual storms.

  National Hurricane Center (2012- )

  Hope, John R.

  1975-04
• Federal Role in Fire Prevention and Control

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  "The fire problem in this country can be measured by some 12,000 deaths, by about a quarter of a million serious burn injuries every year, and by several billion dollars of annual property loss. The Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 recognized that the time has come to devise solutions to these problems using modern technology, education techniques and other resources that are available to us. In looking for those solutions we must recognize, as the Act does, that fire prevention and fire control are state and local responsibilities. It is a fundamental principle upon which this Act is based: that state and local government has as one of its most important missions the fire safety of our citizens. The Act recognizes the need for Federal Government help. Thus, the President and the Congress have seen that we have a serious fire problem, that this problem is a prime responsibility of state and local government, and that the Federal Government must help if solutions are to come as soon as they are needed."

  United States. Department of Commerce

  Clark, Joseph E.

  1975-03-25
• Theft and Diversion of Special Nuclear Materials and Military Nuclear Weapons

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  From the thesis abstract: "Theft and diversion of nuclear materials suitable for construction of nuclear explosives or dispersal weapons has received considerable recent attention in the public domain. A design study was undertaken to improve the security systems for nuclear materials and weaponry. In addition to an analysis of the threat, calculations are presented to quantify the amount of material necessary to produce a significant nuclear yield, as well as models to deduce a probability of diversion and hazards associated with plutonium dispersion. These methods were closely patterned after a similar analysis contained in the recently released Reactor Safety Study (WASH 1400). Several event trees were considered with different initiating events representing theft or diversion at different stages of nuclear materials processing or utilization. Unlike the Reactor Safety Report, fault trees were of limited use in assigning probabilities-- especially for the initiating event itself. Instead, probabilities were estimated based on models which were constructed from available data on similar terrorist activities such as airline hijackings, mass murders, and other equivalent antisocial acts. These techniques had only limited success and predicted only a gross upper bound for final probabilities. Relative risk levels are shown to be approximately an order of magnitude less than the risk posed by most common accidents."

  Air Force Institute of Technology (U.S.)

  Bjurstrom, Richard G.; Casady, John T.; Careway, Harold A.

  1975-03-12
• Taking Measure: U.S. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency Annual Report 1975

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  "Over the past years, the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency (DCPA) pursued various means of fulfilling joint obligations with the State and local governments in developing and maintaining nationwide civil preparedness. At State and local level the prime objective was the same-but ideas and methods for reaching the always-elusive goal sometimes didn't mesh with Federal concepts and programs. […] A few years ago, a new idea in management began to take hold; its name-participatory management. The concept wasn't really new, but as managers both in and out of government looked around, they were surprised to see how little 'participation' there was by everyone concerned in various systems. DCPA encouraged participatory management in civil preparedness-and took a good hard look at its own programming and management system. DCPA's system was functional but it was cast in the old mold; it was top heavy in superstructure, designed around national objectives; and weak at the foundations, with funds trickling down to communities in thinly sliced allotments based on those national objectives; and with little hard data and other information on which to determine total local needs. After a full year of development, DCPA now has an 'objectives oriented' system, based on a good, firm foundation of finding out local needs in relation to the overall objectives of the national program."

  United States. Department of Defense; United States. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency

  1975
• U.S. Department of Commerce National Fire Prevention and Control Administration: Second Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce

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  "This Report is submitted to the Congress and the President of the United States in accordance with the requirements of Section 16 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974. The Act directs that the Report shall include, but need not be limited to, an appraisal of human and economic losses due to fire; a survey and summary of the research and technology program undertaken pursuant to the Act; a summary of the activities of the National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control; the activities undertaken to assist the Nation's fire services; progress in public education programs; an analysis of the extent and participation in preparing and submitting fire safety effectiveness statements; a summary of outstanding problems confronting the administration of the Act in the order of their priority; recommendations for additional legislation as being necessary and appropriate; and a summary of reviews, evaluations and suggested improvements in Federal, state, local and private fire prevention and building codes and fire services. […] With the advice and consent of the United States Senate, President Gerald R. Ford appointed Howard D. Tipton of California as Administrator, and David A. Lucht of Ohio as Deputy Administrator, on August 5, 1975, and June 27, 1975, respectively. Thus, at midyear, the first operating executives were in place within the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration. During subsequent months emphasis was placed on recruiting and hiring of top management personnel and professional and support staff, consultation with the fire services and others regarding priority needs, identification of priority initiatives, and the development of a comprehensive Five-Year Plan for the National Fire Administration."

  United States. Department of Commerce

  1975
• Fire Defense and Emergency Response

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  "This Guide is about making Fire Defense and Emergency Response Plans for fire prevention and control (which add up to fire protection). It is designed to help people interested in improving local fire protection through the use of basic systematic procedures. Following the procedures should result in finding out: 1. What are the real fire problems? 2. What are the causes of the problems? 3. What are the possible solutions? 4. What are the best solutions? 5. What action will be taken? Community involvement is an important element in the fire /emergency planning process. Early citizen participation and support can do much to air concerns and avoid misunderstanding. The community as a whole needs to understand what fire /emergency planning is and what it is not. […] Planning will take a lot of work and some of the decisions will be difficult, but the results are likely to be well worth the effort. This Guide is intended to be used in a number of settings ranging from rural areas and communities without any significant groupings of people and businesses to moderate-sized cities, of say, up to 50 or 60,000, and regions containing a number of small cities and communities. This Guide should be used by any group that believes it will work for them; however, a set of companion guides and procedures addresses the more complex fire protection problems associated with large cities and highly urbanized areas containing a number of cities and communities with many common boundaries. These documents address organization and data-collection issues in various settings and provide a handbook for continuous use in the complete process of systematic fire protection planning."

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  1975
• Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War

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  This study is the result of extensive research on the worldwide, long-term effects of nuclear war. LLIS Core Capability: Emergency Management

  United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

  1975
• Status of the U.N. Law of the Sea Conference, Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Third Congress, Second Session, November 19, 1974

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  This is the November 19, 1974 hearing titled "Status of the U.N. Law of the Sea Conference," held before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives. From the opening statement of Clement J. Zablocki: "The purpose of today 's meeting is to hear a report of the status of the U.N. Law of the Sea Conference and an update on U.S. policy toward the Conference. Appearing before the committee is Hon. John R. Stevenson, Special Representative of the President for the Law of the Sea Conference. Ambassador Stevenson's statement and a statement from his Deputy, Hon. John Norton Moore, who could not be present today, is in front of the members. Ambassador Stevenson was the chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the first substantive session of the Third U.N. Law of the Sea Conference which was held at Caracas, Venezuela, from June 20 to August 29 this year. As the members will recall, the House passed a resolution last year which endorsed the President's ocean policy objectives at the current Conference and called for an early agreement on a new Law of the Sea Convention." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: John R. Stevenson and Thomas A. Clingan, Jr.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1975
• United States and the United Nations, Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session on the United States and the United Nations and the Nomination of Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Be U.S. Representative to the United Nations with the Rank of Ambassador, May 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, and 22, and June 4, 1975

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  This document contains the May 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, and 22, and June 4, 1975 hearings titled "United States and the United Nations," held before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. From the opening statement of John Sparkman: "We are meeting today to open a series of hearings on the United States and the United Nations. The purpose of these hearings is to put into perspective what our original hopes and aims were, how the UN has developed, and what our future policies and attitudes should be. I think it is fair to predict that recent world developments will focus greater attention on the United Nations. The question is whether the UN will be a constructive force in ameliorating difficult situations, such as in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, or whether it will be a destructive force in pitting the developing and third world nations against the developed, mostly Western countries, thereby further increasing the polarization evident at the U.N." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Bruno V. Bitker, Seyom Brown, William F. Buckley, Jr., William Sloane Coffin, Norman Cousins, Alexander Dallin, Richard A. Falk., Pauline Frederick, J.W. Fulbright, Buckminster Fuller, Richard N. Gardner, Arthur Goldberg, Henry Cabot Lodge, Daniel P. Moynihan, John A. Scall, Richard Scammon, Joseph Segel, Maxwell C. Stanley, Harold E. Stassen, Alvin Toffler, Abraham Yeselson, and Charles W. Yost.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1975
• Replacement of the American Falls Dam, Upper Snake River Project, Idaho, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Water Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session, April 24, 1975

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  This is the April 24, 1975 hearing on "Replacement of the American Falls Dam, Upper Snake River Project, Idaho," held before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Energy Research and Water Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. From the Opening Statement of Frank Church: "The purpose of this hearing before the Energy Research and Water Resources Subcommittee this afternoon is to take testimony on S. 1152, a bill to clarify the relationship of the provisions of the American Falls Dam Replacement Act, to provisions of section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code. Passage of 1152 will assure tax-exempt status for the bonds to be issued by the American Falls Reservoir District in financing replacement cost of the American Falls Dam." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Frank Church, James A. McClure, John A. Rosholt, and Edwin F. Sullivan.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1975
• Dissemination of Criminal Justice Information, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Third Congress, Second Session, July 26, August 2, September 26, October 11, 1973; February 26, 28, March 5, 28, and April 3, 1974

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  These are the July 26, August 2, September 26, October 11, 1973; February 26, 28, March 5, 28, and April 3, 1974 hearings on "Dissemination of Criminal Justice Information," held before the House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary. From the Opening Statement of Don Edwards: "This morning we begin hearings to amend title 28 of the United States Code to provide for the dissemination and use of criminal arrest records in a manner that insures their security and privacy. Of particular interest to us are the civil rights aspects and problems related to the collection and maintenance of raw arrest records." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Robert T. Andrews, Wason G. Campbell, David O. Cooke, O.J. Hawkins, Clarence M. Kelley, Nancy LeBlanc, Joseph J. Liebling, Anthony K. Mondello, Pierce Myers, Aryeh Neier, Bernard J. O'Donnell, John Pemberton, Arnold R. Rosenfeld, William B. Saxbe, Allen W. Sill, Fletcher D. Thompson, Richard Velde, Paul Wormeli, and Barry Zanoff.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1975
• Indian Child Welfare Program, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-Third Congress, Second Session, April 8 and 9, 1974

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  These are the April 8 and 9, 1974 hearings on the "Indian Child Welfare Program," held before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the U.S. Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. From the opening statement of James Abourezk: "We have called these hearings today to begin to define the specific problems that American Indian families face in raising their children and how these problems are affected by Federal action or inaction. Many Americans and the Congress are becoming more aware of the difficulties Indian communities face in a broad range of areas: Health, education, land and water rights, economic development, among others. But there are few who are knowledgeable about the difficulties American Indians face in a matter of vital concern to them; namely the welfare of their children and their families." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Robert Bergman, George Goldstein, Jere Brennan, William Byler, Leon F. Cook, Cheryl DeCoteau, Alex Fournier, Bertram Hirsch, Roger R. Jim, Sr., Mary Ann Lawrence, Richard Lone Dog, Carl Mindell, Alan Gurwitt, Mel Sampson, James H. Shore, Margaret Townsend, Joseph Westermeyer, William Blackwell, Thomas Peacock, Evelyn Blanchard, Raymond Butler, Mike Chosa, Victoria Gokee, Carl Hammerschlag, Betty Jack, Robert E. Lewis, Esther Mays, Ramona Osborne, Ben Rowland, Freda Moore, and Mel Tonasket.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1975
• Indian Law Enforcement Improvement Act of 1975 (Part 1), Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session, December 3 and 4, 1975

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  These are the December 3 and 4, 1975 hearings on the "Indian Law Enforcement Improvement Act of 1975," held before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the U.S. Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. From the opening statement of James Abourezk: "This is an open public hearing to receive the views of witnesses from the Indian community on general jurisdictional issues and problems and S. 2010, the Indian Law Enforcement Improvement Act of 1975. I know of no other problems in the Indian field today that are as complex and difficult to resolve as those found in the area of jurisdictional concern in Indian country. Contributing to this dilemma is the tangle of overlapping or mutually exclusive jurisdictions--Federal, State and tribal--which govern law enforcement in Indian country." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Odric Baker, Ed Cline, Lucy Covington, Joe DeLaCruz, Roger Jim, Lewis LaRose, Max Mazzetti, Mel Tonasket, Joseph Ansera, Benny Atencio, Wendell Chino, Wayne Ducheneaux, Roland Johnson, Ernest Lovato, Frank Tenorio, and Bruce Townsend.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1975