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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 30,1975
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Gimmickry
good for all?
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The games that members of
Congress play.
Shortly after 2 a.m. last Thursday, after 15 hours of so
called House debate on a measure to provide evacuation
and refugee aid to South Vietnam, a weary and worn
congressman from Louisiana, Gillis Long, sought
recognition to propound a “parliamentary inquiry.”
Would it be in order, he asked, to announce that in view
of the lateness of the hour, the UDC breakfast scheduled
for 8:30 that morning had been indefinitely postponed?
The chair replied in the negative. It would not be in
order, he said, whether UDC stood for United Daughters
of the Democracy or United Democrats of Congress.
Sleepy members got the point, nevertheless.
The “parliamentary inquiry” gimmick was the only
way Long could get the message to members who had
planned to attend the breakfast.
The gimmickry became a necessity because of the way
the House had gagged itself on the evacuation aid
measure.
The bill contained a provision allowing President Ford
to use U.S. forces to protect the evacuation of Americans
and friends of America from Vietnam, if necessary.
Some members feared the power could get the United
States back into the war.
Outnumbered, they tried to prevent the bill from
coming to a vote. Long after debate ran out, they kept the
House in session by introducing amendments which were
Commentary
voted on— some even adopted—without any explanation.
At one point, Rep. Bella Abzug, D-N.Y., read a news
report—later proved false—that some Marines already
had landed in Saigon. There were some cheers in the
House, and the congresswoman asked unanimous consent
to have those who applauded join the Marines.
At another point, Republicans booed a suggestion by
Rep. Mendel Davis, D-S.C., that evacuation of Americans
may have been delayed to get Congress to act on the bill.
A few hours earlier, Ford had urged, in a major speech,
a period of reconciliation without recrimination for the
nation. If the lawmakers heard, they certainly weren’t
listening.
The doves weren’t the only ones playing parliamentary
games with end-of-war Vietnam legislation.
A few days earlier, Senate hawks had used another
device to try to avoid a defeat for Ford on his request for
military funds.
Faced with almost certain defeat in a Senate
committee, the hawks merely walked out, paralyzing the
committee into inaction for lack of a quorum.
That is a favorite device in Congress for those faced
with defeat—stall in the hope that the worst will happen.
The greatest stalling gimmick, of course, is the
filibuster where endurance rather than support is the
measure of a bill’s chances.
Sometimes it seems that democracy in Congress
depends more on gimmickry than on the greatest good for
the greatest number.
U. S. probable
loser on Cyprus
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
On the neutral territory of Vienna, Greeks and Turks
are attempting again to settle the thorny problem of
Cyprus with success only a distant hope and the United
States a probable major loser.
The difficulty lies not only in the future of Cyprus and
the eventual disposition of some 180,000 Greek Cypriot
refugees but also in the complex politics of the two major
outside contenders, Greece and Turkey themselves.
No matter how the controversy eventually is settled
there seems no way the United States can resume its
former close relations with either Greece or Turkey.
The Greeks blame the United States for Turkey’s
intransigence on Cyprus and have expressed their feeling
in violent anti-U.S. demonstrations both in Athens and (Hi
Cyprus.
The U.S. action in cutting off military aid and sales to
Turkey until progress is shown in reaching a Cyprus
settlement only has stiffened the Turkish stand and could
result in an early Turkish decision to start cutting down on
the number of U.S. bases in Turkey.
The Turks have said a decision on the bases would be
reached by the end of April but since are reported to have
agreed to delay a decision until late May when Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger is scheduled to be in Ankara
for a meeting of the Central Treaty Organization.
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The Greeks also have been considering a move to close
U.S. bases in Greece but are being asked to hold up a
decision pending a summit meeting of NATO nations in
Brussels also toward the end of May.
Loss of bases in either country could mean the serious
weakening of NATO defenses in the eastern
Mediterranean. Until the Cyprus issue is settled, an
important British listening post on Cyprus covering Soviet
activities also is endangered.
A sad fact of the situation is that both sides would like to
have a settlement of the Cyprus problem so they could
move (Hi to other pressing issues including economics and
social unrest.
But on both sides the Cyprus issue is a particularly
emotional one and any appearance of weakness could
result in the fall of the Greek government of Constantine
Caramanlis or of the new and weak coalition government
of Turkish Premier Suleiman Demirel.
A previous attempt at a settlement collapsed last
February after the Greeks and Cyprus President
Archbishop Makarios refused to accept Turkish demands
that Cyprus be reorganized into a federation with
separate and virtually independent Greek and Turkish
zones.
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