44 THE) AU DrUcB OONe (Be sia 
On* January 22°) 1973) thessu- 
preme Court rendered two long- 
awaited decisions eliminating all 
state abortion laws. A decision by 
the court not only binds the states, 
but local judges, health depart- 
ments and local prosecutors. An 
attempt is being made by Congress- 
men Frank Hogan and John Erlen- 
born to overthrow the Supreme 
Court ruling on abortion. It is 
doubtful that it will succeed since 
the vast majority of the people 
support the court decision. In des- 
peration, Mr. Hogan is seeking a 
House discharge petition of 218 
names to bypass any public hearing 
by any congressional committee 
deliberation. 
In her outstanding book, ‘World 
Population Crisis: the United States 
Response” by Dr. Phyllis Tilson 
Piotrow (published by Praeger), 
she relates the long and slow strug- 
gle to bring the population question 
before the American public, In 
1959, President Eisenhower de- 
clared that “birth control is not 
our business;’ in 1974, the U.S. 
will participate in the World Pop- 
ulation Year. There has been a 
rapid shift in public opinion in the 
last decade. The section on Birth 
Control and the Policy Process is 
especially revealing, and every 
president since Eisenhower has 
spoken in favor of some aspect of 
birth control. When the Gallup 
Poll indicated that 34 of the Cath- 
olic population of the country dis- 
agreed with their bishops on the - 
availability of contraceptive infor- 
mation, the dam was broken. As 
George Bush, U.S. representative to 
the U.N. asks: “Will we learn fast 
enough from one another and with 
another to diffuse the population 
bomb?” 
Russell Train Nominated For Top EPA Post 
In July, the White House nominated Russell E. Train as new administrator 
of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
Train has an extensive background in federal service, including work 
in all three of the branches of the government—Legislative, Judicial, and 
Executive. Early in 1970, Train became the first chairman on the Council 
on Environmental Quality. In that capacity, he has served as the chief ad- 
visor to President Nixon on the environment. 
A native of Washington, D.C., Train holds a bachelor’s degree from 
Princeton University and a law degree from Columbia University. He 
served in the army from 1941-46 and attained the rank of major. Train has 
served as an attorney for a Congressional committee on the IRS, and as an 
advisor to the House Ways and Means Committee. 
In 1957, Train was appointed to the United States Tax Court by Presi- 
dent Eisenhower and was reappointed to a full 12-year term in 1959. 
Train became active in conservation while serving on the tax court. 
He founded and became the first president of the African Wildlife Leader- 
ship Foundation, which led to his participation in the work of other con- 
servation groups. 
Train resigned from the tax court in 1965 to become president of the 
Conservation Foundation, a non-profit educational and informational insti- 
tution dealing with a broad range of environmental matters. 
More recently, Train has worked for the administration in such areas 
as controlling endangered species, ocean dumping control, international en- 
vironmental problems, and whaling preservation. 
