THE RECORD
NOVEMBER 16,1976
NO. 31
LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, THE
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
EDITOR Hoyt H. Purvis
The Pre‑session
Legislative Conference sponsored by the LBJ School and the Texas Legislature
will be held at the Thompson Conference Center November 22‑24.
The conference program
will include discussion of major issues confronting the 65th Legislature, which
will convene in January.
This will be the
fourth such conference organized by the LBJ School. Prior to the regular
legislative sessions in 1971, 1973, and 1975, the School and the Legislature
cooperated in sponsoring Pre‑Session Conferences for the purpose of
informing new members on matters of legislative organization and procedure and
to provide all members with authoritative presentations and a forum for
discussion of major substantive topics of current importance.
Those addressing the
conference will include:
Bill Clayton, Speaker
of the House of Representatives, Priorities of the 65th Legislature.
Bob Bullock,
Comptroller of Public Accounts, State of Texas Biennial Revenue Estimate,
1977‑79.
Ray Marshall,
Professor of Economics, The Texas Economy: Short and Long-Range Impacts of
National Economic Developments and Trends.
Lieutenant Governor
William P. Hobby, State Government Operations: The Work of the Joint
Advisory Committee on Government Operations. Hobby's remarks will be followed by presentations from representatives
of subcommittees of the Joint Advisory Committee:
Calvin R. Guest,
President, Bryan Building and Loan, Administrative Support and Fiscal
Management.
Senator Peyton
McKnight, Economic Development and Law Enforcement.
Senator John Wilson, Education.
Professor June Hyer,
The University of Houston (Clear Lake), Health and Welfare.
Senator Grant Jones, Natural
Resources.
Bullock's address is
scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday and he will provide his estimates of the
state's financial situation for the coming biennium.
Bullock will be followed
by Professor Marshall and a panel discussion which will include Dean Alan
Campbell of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse
University; Thomas Keel, director, Texas Legislative Budget Board; Charles
Travis, director, Governors Office of Budget and Planning; and Harry McAdams,
director, Texas Office of State‑Federal Relations.
The conference will
end at a luncheon on Wednesday, with Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong as the
featured speaker. Armstrong was a key figure in the Carter‑Mondale
campaign in Texas.
Sessions on Monday and
on Tuesday morning will be devoted to new member orientation on legislative
rules and procedures.
At 1 p.m. Tuesday the
opening general session is scheduled. Acting Dean Jurgen Schmandt will preside at
the session, with a welcome by UT‑Austin President Lorene Rogers. Speaker
Clayton will deliver the first address, followed by Lieutenant Governor Hobby.
Lieutenant Governor
Neil Hartigan of Illinois will be the speaker at a dinner for legislators on Tuesday
night. He is chairman of the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors.
Wednesday morning will
be devoted to four concurrent sessions on significant policy topics, each with
panel presentations and participant discussion.
Topics for the
sessions will be:
Professional
Malpractice Risks
Energy
Development and Regulation
Property
Taxation
Crime
and Criminal Justice.
Among the panelists
will be Attorney General John Hill, Utilities Commissioner Alan Erwin, Railroad
Commissioner‑elect Jon Newton, and a number of members of the
Legislature.
Professor Marlan
Blissett of the LBJ School will moderate the discussion on energy, and Lynn
Anderson, director of the Office of Conferences and Training, which is
coordinating the conference, will moderate the session on property taxation,
with Professor John Gronouski serving as one of the panelists.
LBJ School students Bonnie Young, Marc Jacobson, Lea Johnson, and Mary
Stack will serve as rapporteurs.
The dialogue between
ex‑Central Intelligence Agency Director William Colby and former Chilean
official Jacques Chonchol highlighted the opening day of the LBJ School's
conference on Conflict, Order, and Peace in the Americas, the first conference
organized as part of the School's Tom Slick Endowment.
An overflow crowd in
the LBJ Auditorium on November 10 heard Colby and Chonchol disucss their
respective points of view. Colby remained cool and unflappable throughout,
despite constant heckling and harassment from some members of the audience.
Chonchol opened the
discussion with a lengthy commentray on current trends in Latin America. In
particular he emphasized the "inefficacy of capitalism" for Latin
America and the rise of what he called the "national security state"
in the region.
The former Minister of
Agriculture under President Salvador Allende did not make many specific
references to the Chilean situation, instead presenting an overall view of
Latin America. He ranged far and wide to make his points, referring, for
example, to traffic problems in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as evidence of his belief
that consumer‑oriented capitalism was adding to the burden of Latin
American countries while doing nothing for the middle class and the masses. He
said capitalism was an unacceptable model for Latin American economic
development.
Chonchol dated the
growth of modern military regimes in Latin America from the enactment of the
U.S. National Security Act of 1947. He said this placed the National Security
Council outside the normal legislative and judicial procedures in the U.S.
Chonchol added that "national security" has since become the slogan
under which the military in Latin America control their societies. He cited the
training received by many Latin American military officers in U.S. training
programs.
Colby disagreed with
Chonchol's view that the "national security state" was a recent
development. "I'm not so sure that it is all that different from the
previous situations in Latin America." Colby also contended that Chonchol's
comments on the National Security Act reflected ignorance of the Act.
Colby noted that the
military in Peru is deemed "good" because of its association with
social reform, and questioned whether it was correct to make generalizations
about the role of the military.
He also said that
nationalization in Venezuela was being done with the cooperation of the U.S.
Government and corporations and that Venezuela has a democratic government. He
said "it is not necessarily a question of if there should be nationalization,
but how it should be done."
Colby insisted that
the U.S. has not limited its support to right‑wing groups and the
military in Latin America. He said the group involved in the Bay of Pigs
invasion, with CIA support, was not a right‑wing group, and not
associated with the former Batista regime. He also said the U.S. had supported
"center democrats" in Chile, although acknowledging that in the final
stages of the 1970 Chilean elections, President Nixon had ordered that an
effort be made to work with the Chilean military in preventing Allende from
taking office. But Colby strongly denied that the CIA was involved in the 1973
military coup which overthrew Allende's elected government. He said that CIA
agents were warned to stay away from a possible coup in Chile. "It would
not be our coup. It would be theirs."
Chonchol blamed U.S.
training of Latin American military officers for having instilled the notion of
the "national security state." Colby defended the military training
programs, which he said had been good and important for Latin America. He said
many Latin Americans had been concerned with the threat of subversion as
advocated by Che Guevarra and others, and that "in some cases the military
eliminated those threats." Colby said the Latin American military has its
own dynamic which has developed with Latin American social systems. The armed
forces seize power, suspend constitutional rights, and use political and
economic measures which suppress the social rights of the majority of the people.
Chonchol repeatedly
returned to the dominance of the military in Latin American societies and what
he said was a close tie between the military and "oligarchies and
multinationals." He also referred to the "institutionalized
violence" which he said works against the general good of the people.
The conference opened
on Thursday afternoon with participants being welcomed by Acting Dean Jurgen
Schmandt of the LBJ School and Professor Kenneth Boulding, the first
Distinguished Visiting Tom Slick Professor at the School.
The keynote address was delivered by Ms. Helvi
Sipila, assistant secretary-general for social development and humanitarian
affairs of the United Nations. She emphasized the growing awareness of
interdependence among the world's people as a necessary prelude to global
thinking.
She also stressed the
need for increased participation by women and youth in the decision‑making
processes of Latin America.
At the Chonchol‑Colby
dialogue eight persons were arrested by University police and charged with
"disturbing a meeting."
Earlier in the week
Chonchol spoke at an LBJ School brown‑bag luncheon. He is currently an
adjunct professor at the University of Paris.
Further reports on the
conference will be contained in the next issue of The Record.
. Acting Dean Jurgen
Schmandt has announced an administrative change concerning the Office of
Student Affairs and the Office of Placement. Both offices will become a part of
a single unit—the Office of Student Affairs. Elizabeth Hall will be
Director and Wilda Campbell Associate Director of the Office. Wilda Campbell
will continue to devote most of her time to placement matters and in this
capacity will continue to serve as Director of Placement.
. Forthcoming visitors
to the LBJ School will include:
Charls Walker,
November 15‑16.
John Macy,
November 30‑December 1.
Glen Wilson,
December 7‑8.
Details about
schedules for each of these visitors are printed elsewhere in this issue. Also
scheduled is a visit on December 15 by Fred Ikle, head of the Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency.
. The Columbia
Journalism Review for November
‑ December includes this commentary on The Presidency and the Press, published by the LBJ School and edited by Hoyt
Purvis. "In a laudable effort to strengthen the lines of communication
between the White House and the press, the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs this
spring sponsored a meeting of past and present presidential press secretaries
and White House correspondents. This is the published transcript of their discussions.
The rhetoric on such issues as responsibility for the public's current sense of
alienation is relieved by revealing self‑justification (the misleading of
the press in the Pakistan tilt episode, for example), a few sharp exchanges
(Helen Thomas, for one, insisting firmly on frankness), and earnest expressions
of professional philosophy. One point of general agreement is the desirability
of increasing the press's access to the president. Among the suggestions: a
daffy 15‑minute presidential press conference."
. Kent Talbot has
announced that, as in the past, the LBJ School Library is planning on closing
November 25‑28 for the Thanksgiving holiday period.
. State Representative
Lance Lalor of Houston would like to have an LBJ student to work on the
Elections Committee during the upcoming session. According to Representative
Lalor, the student's prime assignment would be briefing Lalor and preparing
summaries of legislation being considered by the Elections Committee. Second,
he or she would be researching legislation to be considered by the Elections
Committee. Further information may be obtained through the Office of Student
Affairs.
. Fritz Efaw, who has been conducting a nation‑wide campaign to obtain amnesty for Vietnam War resisters and deserters, spoke at a brown‑bag luncheon at the LBJ School on October 27. Efaw discussed the issue in the context of the impact of the Presidential election.
. The LBJ School had a
schoolwide "Election Night Returns Party" at Austin's Madison Square
Garden on November 2.
. Professor David
Eaton recently spoke to the Economics Department Seminar about his current
research on multiobjective and stochastic techniques for grain reserve
analysis.
. The annual LBJ
School Follies, "The Worst and the Wasted," will be presented at 8
p.m. on Saturday November 20 at the Faculty Center, 25th and Guadalupe. Tickets
are $2. Food and drinks will be served.
John Macy, who has
held a number of important government positions, will be at the LBJ School on
November 30-December 1 and is scheduled to speak at a schoolwide seminar on
Wednesday December 1.
Macy was chairman of
the United States Civil Service Commission from 1961‑1969.
Prior to heading the
Civil Service Commission, Macy had served as assistant to the under‑secretary
of the Army, as executive director of the Civil Service Commission and as
executive vice president of Wesleyan University.
From 1969 to 1972,
Macy was president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Since that time Macy
has served as president of the Council of Better Business Bureaus.
The LBJ School has
received a $34,980 contract from the Technical Assistance Bureau of the U.S.
Agency for International Development (AID) for a study on the location of rural
health outposts in the South American nation of Colombia.
The project, according
to its principal investigator, Professor David Eaton, will aid the Ministry of
Public Health of Colombia to develop a procedure to determine the sites for
nearly 1,800 health outposts to be constructed in poor rural areas of Colombia
during the next four years.
The research will be
conducted with Dr. Richard Church of the University of Tennessee and Professor
Jaime Enrique Varela of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.
Graduate students in the LBJ School and the Institute of Latin American Studies
(ILAS) will also be involved.
Professor Eaton
recently presented a guest lecture at the ILAS on the location of rural health
outposts.
Eaton in Liberia
Eaton was on a mission
to Liberia from October 6‑24 to advise the Government of Liberia and AID
on methods for the location, construction, and operation of rural health
outposts. The work involved discussions with officials of the Ministry of
Health in Monrovia and more than a week of travel 'up country,' observing areas
of Monserrado and Lofa counties in Liberia.
Dr. Charls E. Walker,
former deputy secretary of the Treasury who now heads a Washington consulting
firm, will be at the LBJ School November 15‑17 and will be meeting with
students and faculty.
On Monday he will
speak from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at a schoolwide seminar in the Student Lounge on
"Economics and the Political Process."
Tuesday he will meet
with first‑year LBJ School students from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and will have
lunch and a discussion with the LBJ School faculty.
Dr. Walker served as
deputy secretary of the Treasury in the first Nixon Administration. Prior
to joining the Treasury in 1969, he was for eight years executive vice
president of the American Bankers Association.
Walker is a Texas
native and graduate of The University of Texas (BBA, 1947; MBA, 1948). He received a Ph.D. in economics from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and later served as an
economist with the Federal Reserve Bank.
His visit to the LBJ
School is being coordinated by Dr. Jared Hazleton.
On December 3‑4,
the LBJ School will be the site of intensive instruction in gaming/simulation
techniques for urban policy planning. Internationally known experts in this
field will discuss gaming/simulation with students in Planning modules Friday
morning and then offer participation in several urban games/simulations Friday
afternoon and Saturday morning, open to students and faculty of the School, the
University community, and the general public.
Visiting the School
will be Dr. Richard Duke, chairman of the Urban Planning Department at the
University of Michigan and author of several books on gaming/simulation, and
Dr. Allan G. Feldt, professor of Urban Planning at Michigan and creator of
several policy‑oriented simulations.
Professors Duke and
Feldt will meet with Dr. Gery Williams' sections of the Planning module on
Friday morning, December 3, to discuss the role of games/simulations in urban
policy development and techniques for developing and using games and
simulations. That afternoon, Duke and Feldt will conduct two "board"
games, which will be open to anyone interested in participating. The two games
will be: "They Shoot Marbles, Don't They"—a simulation based on
social contract concepts and specifically designed for police-community
relations policy; and "HEX"—a simulation developed for UNESCO
for urban and regional planning purposes in developing nations. The Friday
afternoon session will run from 1 to 5 p.m. It is hoped that there will be an
opportunity to participate in both games.
The Saturday morning
session will feature an urban simulation focusing on municipal capital
budgeting decisions, entitled "METROPOLIS", which is motivated through computer simulation,
as opposed to boards. Participants simulated community decision‑making.
No computer expertise is required. Decisions are fed into the computer program
by computer programers and the computer output initiates the next round of
decision‑making by participants. The Saturday session will run from 8
a.m. to noon, with an opportunity to analyze the game afterwards.
These sessions are
open to the public and will be located in Rooms 3.107, 3.109, and 3.111 of Sid
Richardson Hall. Physical arrangements will be facilitated if the number of
anticipated participants is known. Please notify Anita Valles, at 471‑5758
or Room 3.226A, if you plan to attend.
Dr. R. Keith Arnold,
associate dean of the LBJ School and president of the American Society of
Foresters, has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the
University of Florida at Gainesville.
Dr. Arnold, a nationally
known natural resources scientist, received the honor during the recent
dedication of a new building for Florida's School of Forest Resources and
Conservation, where he was the principal speaker.
The UT scholar is
assistant vice president for research as well as associate dean and professor
in the LBJ School.
In his Florida
remarks, Arnold said "today man must cope collectively with nature"
at a time when "urbanizing society is rapidly separating people from the
natural environment."
"In an urbanizing
society," he continued, "man disassociates himself from natural
ecosystems" to such an extent that he no longer associates "the need
for more homes with the need to grow and cut timber at a balanced and rapid
rate. "
But material products
are not all that man is now demanding from the forest environment, Arnold said.
"Quality of
life—that elusive dimension—demands more and cleaner water and air,
more beauty, more quiet, increased nondestructive use of wildlife and fish,
more of the spiritual enrichment that comes from close ties with wildlands.
Quality of life must include man as an integral part of the some 300 ecosystems
that make up our natural resource heritage."
He said tomorrow's
managers of natural resources will have to exercise a "creative stewardship"
that will entail the "ability to manage social resources related to a
multidisciplinary work force, to a wide array of resource users and to those
who determine resource policies."
In addition to being
"professionally multilingual," natural resrouces managers must be
able to communicate with a wide range of persons—from bird‑watchers
to those using resources for productive enterprise—who demand much from
the wildlife environment, Arnold said.
Glen P. Wilson, a
senior member of the staff of the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space
Sciences, will visit the LBJ School on December 7‑8. He will speak on
"Science Policy and Congress" at a schoolwide seminar in the Student
Lounge at 4 p.m. Wednesday, December 8.
Dr. Wilson is a native
of Waco, Texas, and has a Ph.D. in psychology from UT-Austin, where he took an
undergraduate degree in aeronautical engineering.
He began his service
in the Senate as an assistant to then Senator Lyndon B. Johnson in 1955.
His involvement in the
space program began in 1957 when he became a staff member of the Preparedness
Investigating Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee under the
chairmanship of Senator Johnson. This subcommittee, shortly after Sputnik I,
undertook an extensive investigation into the status of the nation's satellite
and missile programs and pointed to the necessity of greater action on the part
of the United States.
In early 1958 it
became clear that there was an urgent need for the nation to move foreard more
rapidly in space and the Senate Special Committee on Space and Astronautics was
created for this purpose.
Dr. Wilson was
transferred to this special committee and participated in the actions that led
to the passage of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 which created
NASA. Shortly after this, the standing Senate Committee on Aeronautical and
Space Sciences was created and in January 1959, Dr. Wilson was appointed Cheif
Clerk of this Committee. In 1961, he was transferred to the professional staff.
Because of the
relatively small staff, the duties of all professional staff members have been
of a somewhat general nature; that is, all have been expected to be reasonably
familiar with all of the programs over which the Committee has jurisdiction.
Nevertheless, there have been some areas of specialization for particular staff
personnel.
In general, and
because of his background in aeronautics and research, Dr. Wilson has tended to
specialize in these areas, particularly as they relate to formulation of policy
rather than detailed hardware design.
In the area of science
policy, Dr. Wilson has followed these matters closely since the appointment in
1957 of Dr. James Killian as Science Adviser by President Eisenhower, and
particularly since the abolishment of the Office of Science and Technology in
1973. The recent passage by the Senate of the National Policy, Organization,
and Priorities for Science, Engineering, and Technology Act of 1976 was
enhanced by his active liaison with the White House, National Science
Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, other committee staffs, and the
scientific and technical community.
In another area of
concern, Dr. Wilson has followed the problem of Congressional reform,
particularly as it relates to the Senate. On behalf of the Committee, he is
maintaining close contact with the Rules Committee staff in its current
consideration of proposals or reorganization of the Senate.
LBJ School Professors
David Eaton and Stephen Spurr discussed their international trips at a brown‑bag
luncheon on November 9.
Professor Eaton
reported on his recent visit to Liberia, where he studied rural health
outposts. Citing Liberia's close ties with the United States, and the
similarities of the two countries, he noted that Liberia had only recently
begun to receive U.S. aid comparable to that received by other African
countries. Eaton described the isolation of the rural health outposts, many of
which can be reached only on foot. He said that he had proposed that equipment
purchased for the outposts be usable with existing technology, and that natives
of the villages be trained to work in their own outposts.
Professor Spurr
described being under constant surveillance during his three weeks in the
Soviet Union. Spurr traveled with a group of educators from the U.S. The group
visited a number of institutions of higher learning in the U.S.S.R. He said
that after a few days in the country he was able to decipher the truth about
such questions as the number of students in an institution by making
observations about such factors as the number of books in libraries. Spurr
plans to write a short paper on his experience.
Professor Marlan
Blissett of the LBJ School was a recent panelist on "The Next 200
Years," a weekly radio program sponsored by UT‑Austin and broadcast
nationally.
Blissett took part in
a discussion of "State Government as an Energy Consumer," along with
Homer A. Foerster, executive director of the Texas State Board of Control, and
Jerold W. Jones, associate professor of architectural engineering at UT‑Austin.
Blissett commented on
the conservation efforts that are being made, and the effect of legislation
approved by the 64th Texas Legislature.
He said, "I think
about as much is being done as we can expect without the visible presence of a
fuel crisis. Basically, what's going forward is on a voluntary basis. We have
voluntary conservation by state agencies and state‑supported colleges and
universities. This program has been going for almost three years with an
overall reduction of about two percent of the energy consumed by these
facilities… The last session of the Texas Legislature passed an energy
conservation and buildings act which took effect January 1, 1976, and the Act
authorized the development of standards for the improvement in the design,
lighting, and insulation of buildings, though really the practical output of
this effort has been the production of a manual. The anticipated savings that
could result from this may be substantial."
Blissett also
commented on proposed federal energy policies and said, "I'm not certain
that we really know what a comprehensive energy program would look like,
because it's so interlaced with other kinds of policies."
He also referred to
the planned introduction in the Texas Legislature of a refinery tax to be
placed on the crude oil refined in Texas, three‑quarters of which is
shipped out of state.