These extraordinary circumstances demand prompt and forceful response by the United States.

The absence of such controls would prove detrimental to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.

The United States has consistently opposed the Soviet Union's withholding of its assessed contributions to those programs of the United Nations which the Soviet Union has found politically unpalatable.

SUBMITTED OCTOBER 5, 1978 RICHARD A. ERICSON, JR., OF CALIFORNIA, A FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER OF CLASS ONE, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO ICELAND.

I believe it is past time for that protection to be written into the Constitution of the United States.

This bill will help to usher the United States into the modern world of diplomatic law and practice.

the resumption of full military cooperation with Turkey is in the national interest of the United States and in the interest of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Let there be no doubt in your mind about how seriously I take these pledges that have been made on my own word of honor and on behalf of the people of the United States.

I'm interested in a lot of races in this country, but there is no political campaign in the United States in which I am more deeply and personally interested than to see a victory won by Pug Ravenel in November.

I will nominate Donald K. Petterson of San Luis Obispo, Calif., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Somali Democratic Republic.

I ask all Americans to celebrate Saturday, October 7, 1978, as National Guard Day and to honor the Army and Air National Guard of the United States for service to their communities, to their States and to their Nation.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America including the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, and as President of the United States of America, in order to provide for the organization and control of United States foreign intelligence activities, it is hereby ordered as follows.

I will nominate William E. Schaufele, Jr., of Avon Lake, Ohio, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Poland.

I think they are fair to both the United States and Panama.

I believe that there's a growing sentiment, both in the United States among our people and also among the Senators who have studied this matter so carefully, that the treaties indeed should be ratified, and ratified without delay.

The United States will continue to maintain—undiminished—its firm commitment to NATO and will continue to provide the forces needed to back up that commitment.

It is indeed a great honor for me, as President of the United States, to come here to pay homage to the brave men and women of the past who have ensured our precious freedom today.

I hope and believe that in the future the ties between France and the United States of America will grow even stronger.