Surgeon General KOOP: Has any thought been given to making available to the public, and especially to educational institutions, the actual transcripts rather than the written testimony? It’s much more dramatic, much more telling.
Dr. MACE: This can certainly be done once we have transcripts. These can be published at the discretion of the Commission as an addendum to its report or as separate publications. That’s a question for the Commission to consider.
Surgeon General KOOP: I was thinking of tapes.
Dr. MACE: That can certainly be done. However, many of these tapes are in the Ukrainian language.
Ms. VOLKER: I have a question. Based on the fact that the witnesses are passing on, how fast are we going to latch onto this?
Mr. MARCHISHIN: That’s why we are discussing it here today, and if we agree to this, we’ll begin on June 1 at the latest.
Congressman HERTEL: I support this very strongly. That is one of the reasons that we argued in the House for the necessity of doing this as quickly as possible, and I make on suggestion.
We talk about oral transcripts like this. Has there been consideration regarding the video?
Dr. MACE: It hasn’t been considered as of this time. It may be possible. I know that videotapes have been made.
Congressman HERTEL: Well, you know, it’s getting so much cheaper now. A lot of us have talked about what we’re going to do with our information, how we’re going to reach the public, not only through publications, but even the idea that maybe some public broadcastings would be done, and, of course, this would be key to that, and with the problem of advancing age, I’d hate to ask the people to do it twice or to bring other cameras in and so forth. If we could do it in a relaxed atmosphere initially and have that information available, it might help us get wider use out of it because ul¬timately we really want to reach the largest number of American people to know what happened, and we’re going to need TV.
Dr. MACE: That can certainly be done.
Congressman GILMAN: Mr. Chairman, I would like to note that Bob Maynes is here, who is the Administrative Aide and Press Secretary to Senator DeConcini.
Mr. Maynes.
Mr. MAYNES: The Senator sends his apologies for not being able to be here this morning. His schedule has him in approximately two places most of the day, and he could not figure out how to make a third, but we will be involved. He will be involved in the Commission and is certainly very interested in its work.
Congressman HERTEL: Could I say something about that? All of us, as you know are going to have those problems. I had a classified briefing on the Libyan attack, and we want the Commission members to know that they can contact the Senators and Representatives at any time about any concerns or ideas that they have, and we’ll all have staff here. But certainly any time any of you want to talk to us directly, please please do, and we’ll make the time no matter what the schedule is.
Dr. KUROPAS: I’d like to ask will various congressmen be available, do you think, to come to open community functions to speak about the famine?