June 2, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12775 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS COAL SLURRY PIPELINES-A projects which will require vast amounts of present or reasonably foreseeable future re POOR USE OF LIMITED IN financing. The current cost estimate, for ex strictions on the ability of such purchasers VESTMENT CAPITAL ample, of the pipeline proposed by Energy to perform their obligations. Transportation Systems, Inc. Thomas E. Dewey, Jr., a well-known and operation has caused me to conclude number of reasons, most notably its sub investment banker, recently testified that there is no presently foreseeable stantially smaller length and its limited on the problems of coal slurry pipe method of financing these pipelines short of service to one single customer. lines, specifically including the issue of a guarantee of such financing by the U.S. There is no question in my mind that the government. private capital market, in appraising the fi capital availability. His perceptive nanceability of the ETSI project and its kin, comments follow: In general, coal slurry pipelines are thought to be desirable projects to the will not be forgetting the relationship be STATEMENT OF THOMAS E. DEWEY, JR., extent that, by creating economies of scale tween estimated cost and final cost in the BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY over long distances, they can produce a po most publicized recent case of major pipe AND NATURAL RESOURCES tentially restraining effect upon railroad line construction-the Alaska pipeline. S. 1844, TO FACILITATE THE NATIONAL charges for the shipment of coal. Except in Leaving aside the question of potential DISTRIBUTION AND UTILIZATION OF COAL cases where no rail facilities exist, the desir cost overruns, let us examine how and Mr. Chairman, my name is Thomas E. ability of slurry piplelines has generally whether a large-scale coal slurry pipeline Dewey, Jr., and my business address is 14 been thought to be fkr hauls in excess of meets the usual criteria of project financing Wall Street, New York, N.Y. 10005. I am a one thousand miles, and I will concentrate outlined above. As regards availability of graduate of Princeton University and Har here only on such large-scale projects. raw materials it is probably true at the vard Business School, and am President of In discussing the financing of a pipehine present time that sufficient coal should be Thomas E. Dewey, Jr. & Co. Incorporated, a such as this, we are in the area of financial available for such a pipeline. Such availabil financial advisory services firm founded in parlance known as "project finance". This ity, of course, is always subject to interrup December, 1975. involves single-purpose financing, generally tion in case of a strike by coal miners. The Prior to that, I was a partner of the inter of substantial magnitude, and generally re likelihood and frequency of strikes varies national investment banking firm of Kuhn quiring certain common elements in order from region to region. In any event, howev Loeb & Co. from 1965 through 1975 and as to be financeable. Such elements include: er, a coal slurry pipeline is more vulnerable sociated with that firm from 1958 to 1965. 1. Ready availability of all necessary raw to interruption of supply due to strikes than My career has covered most phases of indus materials over a period at least long enough conventional means of transportation, as trial, transportation and utility corporate fi to assure repayment of indebtedness and a the coal must enter the system at a fixed nance, both in the U.S. and abroad. I have satisfactory return on equity. The impor beginning point. Such a pipeline does not appeared as an expert witness before nu tant element here is that it be clear that have the flexibility that railroads possess in merous courts, regulatory bodies and the there be no present or potential future re being able to find alternative sources of U.S. Congress. strictions on the availability of such raw supply from regions not affected by the I am retained as financial consultant by materials. strike. Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc., 2. If an extraction, manufacturing or The subject of water availability is alto parent company of the Kansas City South transportation process is to be used, the gether different. ETSl's first water right, ern Railway Company. I am testifying in process should be proven and in use in sub grant by the State of Wyoming to take their behalf here today on the financial as stantial existing facilities of a similar water from the Madison Formation, was in pects and implications of coal slurry pipe nature. terruptable under conditions of the grant. A lines. 3. Enforceable contracts must be at hand different water source has now been negoti S. 1844 establishes the right of federal for the sale of end products over a sufficient ated with the State of South Dakota, but it eminent domain and other conditions for number of years to provide, after a reasona appears that the sale of this Oahe Reservoir the coal slurry industry. In approving this ble contingency for inflation in operating water will be challenged by downstream legislation, Congress would be taking one of costs, for repayment of indebtedeness and a States in the Missouri River Basin. Overrid the first steps toward encouraging construc substantial return on equity. Implicit herein ing the issues of State and federal law at tion of some extraordinarily expensive is the understanding that there can be no question is the Commerce Clause of the U.S.
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 12776 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 2, 1982 Constitution, pursuant to which authority of consumption and shipped by convention While there was considerable dis ETSI may or may not be able to retain its al means. While such a situation would agreement during the course of our water supply against all comers. This Com clearly be unfair to the consumer, the other mittee knows better than I that water avail side of this coin is that, if credit worthy pur debate, I believe that there was gener ability is one of the most complicated and chase contracts are to lay the foundation al concurrence on two points. First, imponderable elements of the coal slurry for the financing of a slurry pipeline, this the deficit contained in the budget debate. type of inflexible commitment is most as submitted by President Reagan in It is uncertain whether the investment suredly required. February is unacceptable; and second, community will consider the Black Mesa Another no less important issue of finan the economy is in a deplorable condi pipeline a proven project as compared to a cial prudence is the effect a contractual ob pipeline which is three or four times Black ligation of this size would have on the finan tion. I submit that these facts are re Mesa's length and designed to deliver up to cial condition of the contracting public utili lated. Both are a direct result of the 10 times as much annual tonnage to several ty. I know of no utility systems in the areas economic package-the President's terminals. We live in an age where the risks proposed to be served by coal slurry pipe package-that was put in place last and costs associated with the protection of lines whose credit would not be severely af year. That package was based on two public health and the environment sur fected by the mammoth fixed charges asso certainties and a hope. The certainties rounding these projects are as much a red ciated with an undertaking of this sort. flag to prospective investors as any other Many of these utilities currently exhibit were that revenues were going to de risk element. The Black Mesa has already only marginal coverage of fixed charges due crease, and decrease substantially, and experienced one major rupture at a point to existing heavy indebtedness. It is alto that defense spending was going to in along the route where containment of the gether possible that the addition of so large crease substantially. The hope was slurried coal was not possible. Even within a further burden might make it impossible that increased economic activity would the limited scale of the Black Mesa project, to finance other necessary capital expendi help bridge the gap between lower rev treatment and disposal of waste water has tures. At the very least, the cost of further presented serious problems. The prudent in financing would be greatly increased, and enues and increased defense spending. vestor is always fearful of environmental such increased costs would of course have to As we have seen during the course of problems which could affect the repayment be borne by the ratepayer. the past year, that hope was mis of his loans or the return on his equity in There is, of course, one solution to the fi placed. The economy has become vestment. nancing problem which both substantially mired in recession, deficits have mush Perhaps even more important is the issue lowers the cost of financing and also assures of financial prudence. These large projects completion of the project. The easy solution roomed, the unemployment rate is at a will undoubtedly be financed, if at all, for the sponsors of these projects would be post World War II high, interest rates against the credit backing of iron-clad take obtaining of government guarantees on have refused to fall, housing starts are or-pay contracts, most likely with large their financing, and it is in anticipation of down, and business failures are up. public untilities. I expect this will be true applications of this sort that S. 1844 should In light of this experience, it seems even if substantial equity capital is available be considered. from the sponsors. The effect of contracts One such application for the funding of imperative to .me that the mistakes of of this type is that the principal risk of the Northwest Integrated Coal Energy last year not be repe~ted. A budget project feasibility as well as cost overruns is System pipeline between Wyoming with a deficit well below the $132 bil shifted onto the back of the consumers of and Oregon has already been submitted to lion contained in the President's electric power. This is because financial the U.S. Synfuels Corporation. It is impor budget for fiscal year 1983, and the $.5 markets require that the contracts be so air tant to the debate, therefore, to point out trillion it contained for the years fol tight that the public utility is preparing for large scale, po equations to describe how a phono tentially violent confrontational demonstra graph needle works. tions involving civil disobedience at the U.N. With the coming of World War II, PEACE IN THE DESERT Missions of the five present nuclear Dr. Lewis took a post with Bell Tele powers-United States, Britain, France, Peo ple's Republic of China and Soviet Union phone Laboratories, inventing radar HON. MARJORIE S. HOLT and at two Western countries with nuclear systems to be used during the conflict OF MARYLAND weapons potential-Israel and South Africa. on planes, ships, submarines, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The June 14 CD Campaign Handbook, ground stations. Some of his designs Wednesday, June 2, 1982 states under the heading "sponsors," that still remain classified today. the Campaign, as of March 21, 1982, is "co Then, 20 years ago, he supervised • Mrs. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, I would ordinated by the War Resisters League in the engineering for the Apollo project remind the House that the Cannon cooperation with" the following groups: that put the first man on the Moon. Building rotunda is currently display Catholic Peace Fellowship ; Clergy This modest administrator had origi ing an exhibit entitled "Farewell to and Laity Concerned ; Fellowship of nally planned to retire in July 1980, Sinai" by the famous Israeli photogra Reconciliation ; Friends Peace Com but he felt there was still much he pher Perri Farag. mittee ; Kairos Community; Mobiliza tion for Survival ; MFS New York; could contribute to Lehigh. As a The artistic photography of desert Peacesmith House; SEA Alliance ; SHAD Alliance, Long Island and Dr. Lewis' achievements are evident are beautiful, and it demonstrates the New York City chapters; Pax Christi : Women's International international activities and the civil disobe Reagan plans to be at a NATO conference League for Peace and Freedom ; Disobedience Task Force became the Civil very distant third of the U.S. and USSR in Knolls Action Project; LEPOCO; Mobiliza Disobedience Campaign and has formed the number of nuclear weapons (perhaps 200), tion for Survival : Students Against following task forces of its own: literature, China does have the ability to destroy the Militarism ; Thomas Merton Center; Announce at the Special Session on Disar • • • has a vigorous domestic nuclear power War Resisters League : New England mament; a significant step to be taken im program and exports reactors while refusing chapter, War Tax Resistance : and mediately toward disarmament, a plan to to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty." The the Philadelphia WTR/WRL. dismantle nuclear weapons and dispose of enhanced radiation warhead of South Africa, Palestine cism of the USSR. with the status quo. The remarkably strong Liberation Organization . Soviet Union has no military edge over the Sandinista National Liberation Front U.S. but only "virtual parity with the US in Since the handbook was prepared, the of El ing, and overall military strength." Regard ing Soviet weapons development, the hand been added to the target listing by means of Salvador. Likewise, in the U.S., WRL sup flyers and posters in the New York area port has gone to members of the Weather book notes only that the USSR "was the first country to develop the intercontinental which have been distributed by the Ininis Underground Organization CWUO), Ameri cule Youth International Party CYIP) prob can Indian Movement . Black Libera ballistic missile and anti-Vietnam terrorist tic missile CABM). The USSR is second only ably without the knowledge of WRL or J-14 Karl Armstrong, who pleaded guilty to to the US in arms trade." CDC. second degree murder in the bombing of the And as for direct criticism of Soviet nucle The J-14 CDC handbook has a section ex Army Mathematics Research Center in ar weapons, its SS-20s, the cruise missiles plaining the purpose of civil disobedience Madison, WI. on submarines surrounding Europe, and the for those who sympathize or agree with the The ideological commitment of J-14 CDC tremendous "throw weight" of its multi five demands, "but do not understand why organizers to disarmament as a tactic for megaton warheads which far outstrip those laws need to be broken," and ask such ques aiding Marxist-Leninist regimes and terror of the U.S., they merely cite "Swedish tions as "Why not go to military facilities or ist forces is demonstrated in the introduc expert and stateswoman Alva Myrdal has the headquarters of the corporate bomb tion to the handbook not less than 25 per centum of the though it was not acted upon in the tablishment still act as if armaments coop funds made available under part A of this House in time to be passed along to eration was merely a rhetorical exercise. title shall be utilized with respect to dwell They seem to be blinded by the large favor the President, I am nevertheless hope able trade balance we enjoy in military sales ing units located outside of metropolitan ful that he will see fit to make such a cities <4> of title abroad, and perhaps by the belief that as I of the Housing and Community Develop proposal, if not at the Summit, then long as we are providing the real defense, ment Act of 1974>; and certainly at the earliest possible op cooperation isn't necessary. (2) not less than 25 per centum of the portunity thereafter. But the costs of modem weapons systems funds made available under part B of this In the Friday, May 21, 1982, edition and military programs have reached astro title shall be utilized with respect to of the Christian Science Monitor, nomical proportions. NATO's fragmented projects located outside of metropolitan there was a brief commentary by Sen defense industrial system is causing the cities < 4».e "structural disarmanent" of Europe in the ator RoTH outlining the reasons for face of a growing Soviet threat. Formerly the resolution, and I am pleased to significant producers of first-class military SHALOM SINAI-ROAD TO PEACE share his views with my colleagues at equipment, such as Great Britain, are pro this point in the RECORD. gressively leaving the scene. Were it not for HON. IKE SKELTON Thank you, Mr. Speaker. sales to the third world, especially OPEC [From the Christian Science Monitor, May countries, Britain and France might be vir OF MISSOURI 21, 1982) tually out of the defense equipment busi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ness. NATO's MAKE-BELIEVE WORLD The demise of Western European defense Wednesday, June 2, 1982 (By WILLIAM V. ROTH, Jr.) industries would not, as some might think, e Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, on Sens. John Glenn and Sam Nunn have lead to a commensurate increase in the sales April 25, 1982, Israel withdrew from joined me in sponsoring a Senate resolution of American military equipment to our the entire Sinai peninsula in accord calling on the President to propose that the allies. Rather it would lead to a progressive ance with the Camp David agree North Atlantic alliance finally begin in ear decline in the total allied military strength, nest to pool our vast financial, technologi as the Europeans simply procure less and ments. Accounts of this historic event cal, and human resources to provide for our less. have focused primarily on the tangible common defense at acceptable costs. The The structural disarmament process is not strategic and economic assets given up resolution expresses the sense of the Con just a European phenomenon. Eight of the by Israel in exchange for peace. gress that the President should make this 13 production lines building US Navy air "Shalom Sinai-Road to Peace", a proposal at the NATO Summit in Bonn in craft are turning out fewer than 20 planes a photo exhibit currently on display in June. year. Three of these lines will each produce the rotunda of the Cannon House The idea of combining the talents, re only six aircraft in fiscal year 1983. The "in Office Building, takes a much differ sources, and energies of the free peoples of evitable results" Cin the words of Sen. John the West is of course not new. It lay at the Tower's Armed Services Committee Report> ent approach. Taken by the famous Is heart of the original purpose for which "are exorbitant unit costs and wasted re raeli photographer, Farag Peri, these NATO itself was formed. But in practice sources." If we Americans persist in trying photos stress the beauty and charm of neither NATO as a military organization, to produce everything ourselves, we too will the region-the essence of life in the nor the defense industries supporting it finally succumb to structural disarmament. Sinai. The exhibit is a clear demon have functioned as a unified and integrated We will find ourselves spending more and stration of the love the Israelies hold system. more money producing everything in ever for this land and the sincere hope that On paper, NATO looks impressive. In smaller quantities-all by ourselves! terms of numbers of men under arms, and NATO can no longer afford to live in a the sacrifices made by Israel will total amount spent on defense, the West make-believe world of giving complacent lip insure a permanent and lasting peace. would appear to be more than adequately service to allied cooperation, while its indi This display offers tribute to the end strong to meet the threat posed by Warsaw vidual members pursue divergent and even of one era but it also signals the dawn Pact forces. But the statistics hide a grim conflicting defense policies. The realities of ing of a new age. The Sinai withdrawal reality. today · will not permit it. For as Winston June 2, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12781 Churchill put it: "You must look at the Speakers supporting the "Peace Day" and Lawn in Central park where they will plant facts, because the facts look at you." . nuclear freeze measures included Jarvis a ginko tree. Later a small group will seek to This alliance is spending more money on Tyner, chairman of CPUSXA's New York present a "peace petition" to the U.S. Mis defense than is the Warsaw Pact. Yet we District and member of the CPUSA Central sion; and members of the convocation will debate among ourselves as to how many Committee; Bella Abzug; Richard Hoyen, then maintain an overnight vigil outside the days we might be able to resist attack, with chairman of the New York Young Workers building. out resorting to nuclear war. The fact we Liberation League , the CPUSA's RALLY LOGISTICS. now must look at is this: youth arm; Balfour Brickner, senior rabbi, Do the allied legislators, and the allied Stephen Wise Free Synagogue; Rev. David The June 12 Rally Committee (J-12 RC> heads of government, have a moral right to Garcia, St. Mark's Church; actress Colleen organizers are continuing to present to New impose a $200 billion annual tax burden on Dewhurst; and Dr. Jonathan Lorch, PSR. York City officials intransigent, unreason our people to produce conventional forces A number of groups are working to ensure able, and escalating demands which appear that are collectively so weak, that the day large numbers of children participate in the designed to keep the protest crowd in the could come when we would face the choice demonstration-which could have unfortu United Nations area. It was noted that of surrender, or nuclear war? nate results should violence or panic break during negotiations between New York City The Roth-Glenn-Nunn resolution says (in out. officials and leaders of the J-12 RC, two effect>: No-we do not have a moral right to On May 16, about 1,000 supporters of a chimpanzees escaped from the Central Park continue on our present course. We must new disarmament youth group, Future Gen Zoo. One quickly returned to her cage while pool our resources for our common defense; erations met at Central Park's Dela the second climbed a tree, prompting one we must eliminate all unnecessary duplica corte Theater to listen to adult entertainers official to quip that the chimps would tion of defense industrial effort; we must including James Taylor, Richie Havens and rather go back to their cages than negotiate share, equitably and efficiently, the finan Chaka Kahn and watch and listen to young for their freedom with Cora Weiss and cial burdens and economic benefits of entertainers from the High School of Per Norma Becker. NATO defense. And we must take the first forming Arts, Bank Street School, Walden Under cover of a large crowd, militant step at the NATO summit in June.e High School and other institutions support "direct action" groups could stage violent as disarmament with poetry readings, dances, well as "non-violent" civil disobedience ac tions well in advance of the advertised PUBLIC DISORDERS LIKELY AT personal statements and the release of bal loons. Monday, June 14 civil disobedience actions. NEW YORK DISARMAMENT According to its statement of purpose, FG The possibility of such events on June 12 RALLY "sponsored by Performing Artists for Nucle must be considered strong in that there is a ar Disarmament . it may be a ny including overt capital "C" Com about what America is doing, not the target not only a target for support groups USSR.'" for the terrorist Irish Republican Army munists have a track record for setting Other groups encouraging disarmament and Irish National Liberation Army up large demonstrations in which rev activism by children and teachers include UNLA>, but also for Castroite Latin Ameri olutionary and violence-oriented Educators for Social responsibility can terrorists supporting Argentina over the groups were welcomed. The peaceful under president Roberta Snow of Brookline, Falkland Islands. Even Trotskyist groups in demonstrators became cannon fodder MA; Parents and Friends for Children's Sur cluding the Socialist Workers Party for militant revolutionary provoca vival , New York; and the Children's and ultra-militant Workers World Party teurs. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament have lined up with the USSR and The most recent edition of the news . Cuba in backing Argentina. letter, Information Digest, published On May 26, nearly a dozen disarmament Israel-stridently attacked in the pro-PLO and "nuclear freeze" meetings were held in revolutionary press, it is an announced by John Rees, has provided an excel New York City neighborhoods in one target for civil disobedience on June 14 and lent analysis of the potential for dis evening. could be a target on June 12 as well. El Al turbances at a march and rally in New Other building actions will include the ar airlines could also become a target. York on June 12. The article follows: rival at the U.N. of the "World Peace South Africa-as a potential nuclear BUILDING ACTIONS FOR JUNE 12 March" on June 7, an event which may at power and major target for Soviet-support DISARMAM!:NT RALL y tract as many as 7,000 people for a rally in ed terrorism and subversion, it is an an In New York City, local organizing in sup U.N. Plaza. nounced target for civil disobedience on port of the June 12 rally for a nuclear The World Peace March consists of some June 14. The mission and South Africa Air freeze included speakers appearing before a 30 participants who left Los Angeles on Oc ways are possible targets on June 12 as well. New York City Council Committee on tober 24, 1981, and were joined in Washing USSR-at 136 East 67th Street, could be a Public Welfare on .May 13 in support of ton on May 13 by a smaller contingent that target for members of the Jewish Defense three resolutions which were passed. These had left New Orleans on January 1. The League and a key As a token of their appreciation for committee made special mention of J-12 RC organizer; Roman Bedor, leader of his 15 years of service to the township, Father Smith's outstanding record of the Committee for a Nuclear Free Pacific, Robert Badini's family, friends, and whose recent activities include lecturing to service and activities in the field of activists at the Institute for Policy Studies colleagues will honor him at a testimo education and youth guidance. UPS>; Bella Abzug, ex-Congresswoman and nial dinner on June 25. Mr. Speaker, we congratulate Father former legislative director of Women Strike It is with great honor that I speak Smith and thank him for his lifelong for Peace now heading Women, on behalf of all those people in Rox dedication to church and society U.S.A.; Rev. Herbert Daughtry, National bury who know and love Bob Badini to which embodies the motto of his reli Black United Front ; Randall Fors say thank you for his unselfish com gious community: "All for the greater berg, Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign; mitment. We wish him the best of luck glory of God!"• Helen Caldiott, president of Physicians for and happiness in the years ahead. Social Responsibility , Johnstone Ma Thank you, Mr. Speaker.e katini of the African National Congress BILL GREEN'S EFFORTS FOR CANCl Coretta Scott King; Cleveland Rob ANIMAL WELFARE inson, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists ; Yolanda Sanchez, Hispanics for FATHER SMITH AWARDED Survival and Disarmament; and Msgr. Bruce SOURIN MEDAL HON. BILL GREEN Kent, a top leader of the London-based OF NEW YORK Committee for Nuclear Disarmament HON.CHARLESF.DOUGHERTY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . William Winpisinger, president of OF PENNSYLVANIA the International Association of Machinists Wednesday, June 2, 1982 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Aerospace Workers and UAW e Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, I feel president Douglas Fraser have been invited Tuesday, May 25, 1982 to speak. that the welfare of animals is a very J-12 RC organizers also have invited Guil e Mr. DOUGHERTY. Mr. Speaker, on important issue. Though the use of lermo Ungo, spokesman for the political May 19, the Catholic Philopatrian Lit animals is an important tool for medi front of the Castroite terrorist Farabundo erary Institute of Philadelphia pre cal and other types of research, we Marti National Liberation Front of El Salva sented their annual Sourin Award to must assure that laboratory animals dor; the American Indian Movement ; Rev. Michael J. Smith, S.J., in recogni are not used where other methods will and Carlos Zenon, militant leader of the tion of his many contributions to his suffice, and that they are spared un Vieques protest movement in Puerto Rico community, his profession, and his necessary anguish. Animals in the en against the U.S. Navy. It is emphasized that if the march crowd church. vironment must also be spared inhu is sufficiently large, the campus, religious Also celebrating his golden jubilee as mane and unnecessary encroachments and children's groups can serve as a screen a Jesuit this year, Father Smith is a by man. Below is a listing of my ac for disruptive actions by the tightly orga familiar and well-respected member of tions in this area. nized militant and revolutionary protesters. Philadelphia's Catholic community. Congressional Hearings on Laborato Furthermore, should there be problems of After studies abroad, he served as ry Animals: I testified on October 13, dispersal of the crowd from Central Park dean and taught philosophy for more 1981, during 2 days of hearings by the after the rally, due to end at 6 pm and likely taking at least two hours to disperse, mili than 30 years at Saint Joseph's Uni House Science and Technology Com tant. groups may take advantage of this for versity in Philadelphia and was also mittee on the use of animals in labora actions under cover of darkness. The fact involved in secondary education as tories. In my testimony, I called for that many of those planning to take part in president and principal of another tightened inspection of animal facili the June 14 civil disobedience actions will well-known Philadelphia institution, ties by the Department of Agricul remain in New York over the weekend could St. Joseph's Prep, for 6 years. Current ture's Animal and Plant Health In also contribute to disorders.e ly serving as special assistant to the spection Service and by the National president of St. Joseph's University, Institutes of Health. For example, the A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT BADINI Father Smith travels the country monkeys that were removed from a acting as a link between college Maryland lab after its shocking condi HON. JAMES A. COURTER alumni and their school. One other as tions were exposed would have been sigrunent which Father Smith calls a spared unnecessary agony if existing OF NEW JERSEY "special joy" for him is his chaplaincy NIH standards had been enforced. I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to a convent of cloistered visitation also called on NIH to strengthen its Wednesday, June 2, 1982 nuns for more than a quarter of a cen role in disseminating information on e Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, If I tury. Father Smith is also an author alternative methods of research, and May, I would like to take just a few ity on the history of Philadelphia and for regulatory reform so that certain moments to recognize an outstanding Jesuit activities in the area. tests involving animals are not dupli public servant, Mr. Robert Badini of The Catholic Philopatrian Literary cated in different agencies. Roxbury Township in Morris County. Institute is part of that history dating Animal Welfare Legislation: I have Mr. Badin, as administrator fo the back to 1850 when its founder, Jesuit cosponsored H.R. 220, which estab Roxbury Township government for 15 Father Edward Sourin, in whose lishes Federal funding for the study of years, supervised all townhip depart honor the award is given, first gath alternative methods. I feel this bill ad ments and over 300 employees to ered together a group of the young dresses the need to develop tests that assure the smooth and efficient oper sons of immigrant families to continue may be of greater relevance to ation of services to community citizens their education which had been cut humans, will spare animal lives, elimi From all accounts, Robert Badini is short by the economic, emotional, and nate unnecessary testing duplication, loved and respected by the township political conditions of those troubled and save money. employees. He served Roxbury Town times. Now in its 132d year, the Leg-Hold Traps: Current traps used ship well for many years as a compe "Philo" is the oldest Catholic organi for furs can cause animals great suf tent, dedicated citizen working hard zation of its kind in this country with fering and prolonged, agonizing death. for the betterment of the community. a membership of more than 500 lay Also, animals not meant for the traps June 2, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12783 often get ensnared in them. To allevi be the first time in 19 years that I will AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING ate this terrible problem, I have co have taken my entire vacation." INDUSTRY IS IN TROUBLE sponsored the Wildlife on Federal Mr. Speaker, I hold the deep convic Lands Trapping Act. This legislation tion that those like Bill Louis, who HON. JAMES J. FLORIO would require that the Interior Secre dedicate their life's work to the educa tary set minimum standards for differ OF NEW JERSEY tion of our children, are the real main IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ent types of traps for different species stays of our country. Their influence on Federal lands. Interstate commerce on the education and development of Wednesday, June 2, 1982 in furs would carry the same restric our children is of inestimable value to e Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, Secre tions under this bill as those imposed tary of Transportation Drew Lewis has on furs taken on Federal lands. The our Nation. The East Rockaway community has announced a new maritime program bill also provided $0.5 million for de which will encourage American ship velopment of more humane traps. been fortunate, indeed to have had the services of Bill Louis for nearly operators to acquire and repair ships Baby Seals: For some time, the in foreign yards. United States has banned imports of two decades. But the past 19 years as superintendent of the East Rockaway Under this proposal, shipowners products made from seals and other would be able to obtain Federal oper marine mammals. I joined over 80 of public school system represent only a ating subsidies for foreign-built vessels my colleagues in sending a telex to the part of Bill Louis' long and distin and the tariff on repairs in foreign European Parliament and the Europe guished career as an educator. shipyards would be repealed. Also, for an Economic Council urging them to His teaching career began in the eign vessels reregistering in the United adopt a similar policy. The EEC repre school year before Pearl Harbor in States would become eligible to trans sents 75 percent of the market for Schenectady, N. Y. Four years service port American food aid shipments im baby harp and hood seal skins, and I with the U.S. Air Force in World War mediately, rather than having to wait hope our telex will persuade them to II interrupted that career. But after 3 years. protect these innocent animals, which his wartime service, Bill Louis re This proposed policy is of great con are clubbed to death by the thousands turned to the Schenectady school cern to me. At a time when unemploy while their mothers watch. You may system, then became a supervisor in ment is at postwar record levels, the also be interested to know that I co the State education department and, administration has proposed a policy sponsored a measure to establish Na to encourage export of American jobs tional Seal Day, a day on which to cel later, an assistant superintendent in the Schenectady County school to foreign shipyards. At a time when ebrate the seal birthing season. this Nation is building up its national Draize Test: I have written to the system. Food and Drug Administration regard In 1963, Bill Louis began his career defense to close windows of vulnerabil in Nassau County, taking over as East ity, the administration is proposing to ing the Draize test. This is a very pain open a huge new window by increasing ful test used on rabbits to test sub Rockaway school superintendent in American reliance on foreign ship stances for eye irritation. The FDA that year. His nearly two decades of builders to supply our critical ocean now has a policy that any skin irritant service have brought many changes in vessel needs. can be assumed to be an eye irritant, educational programs and services in thereby eliminating much painful suf I am concerned that if we get into an the East Rockaway school system. Su international crisis, we will want to fering among rabbits. I have also co perintendent Louis, for example, pio insure the availability of a strong do sponsored a resolution expressing Con neered the introduction of computers mestic shipbuilding industry and a gress sense that Federal agencies as teaching tools in the East Rock skilled work force. Under the adminis should develop alternatives to the away public schools. In all of his inno tration's maritime program, however, Draize test.e vations, his goal always was to improve our domestic shipbuilding capability the quality of education for East would be jeopardized. Instead of TRIBUTE TO SUPERINTENDENT . Rockaway's children. I particularly trying to improve and build up our do WILLIAM LOUIS admire his belief that one of the most mestic ship construction capability, important goals of the teacher is to the administration is proposing to tear HON. NORMAN F. LENT raise the expectations of the students, it down. so they may achieve more than they The current desperate situation OF NEW YORK thought possible. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES facing our domestic shipbuilding in Such a philosophy of excellence has dustry was described well in a recent Wednesday, June 2, 1982 been the hallmark of Bill Louis' article in the Wall Street Journal. Ac •Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, I would career. As a longtime friend, I can also cording to the article, shipbuilders like to direct the attention of my col attest to the outstanding personal at "cry foul, and predict that the admin leagues to the retirement of a good tributes Bill brought to his profession: istration's policies will hasten the clos friend, who is one of the outstanding his outgoing personality, his tremen ing of some essential yards." As one educators in the State of New York. I dous dedication to his work, his friend shipbuilding executive put it: refer to the superintendent of schools liness, his sterling character. These For years this country has refused to in my home town of East Rockaway, are the qualities of a remarkable man. decide whether the capability to make ships N.Y., William Louis. is in the national interest. Now we're totally Bill Louis has been a tremendous The East Rockaway public schools turning our back on the subject. force for improvement in the quality will sorely miss Bill Louis' outstanding The administation's contradictory of education in the East Rockaway talents and abilities, his wisdom, and policies in this area do not go unno Union Free School District during the his excellent judgment. ticed. According to the same article: 19 years he has served as its superin I know that all of Bill Louis' friends Shipyard workers say they can't reconcile tendent of schools. Some idea of his and colleagues join me in wishing him President Reagan's commitment to a strong dedication and devotion to his profes the fullest enjoyment of his retire military with his apparent willingness to let sional duties may be gained from his ment years, and also in the wish that thousands of shipyard jobs-and perhaps letter to the East Rockaway School those years will be blessed with good the entire industry-disappear. Board stating his intention to retire as health, the richness of many friend Mr. Speaker, encouraging foreign of July 31 of this year. Superintendent ships, and the warmth of many pleas shipbuilding to supply American ship Louis said he planned to start his vaca ant memories from a lifelong career of ping needs does not make sense. It will tion as of July 1, then noted: "It will accomplishment.e hurt our Nation's efforts to combat 12784 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 2, 1982 unemployment and will harm our na Our tactic is not to avoid arrest, but to avoid factors could result in this estimate being tional defense. I urge my colleagues to being corralled, if at all possible." substantially revised.• consider this issue carefully as the NONCOOPERATION future of our maritime policy is debat Stating that "nonviolent action draws its NEW JERSEY AFL-CIO ed.• strength from open confrontation and non cooperation," the handbook for civil disobe CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION dience participants encourages as many of CONFRONTATIONAL TRAINING those arrested as possible to "continue their HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. FOR JUNE 14 resistance • • • in the jails and courts" to the point of fanaticism and possible death. OF NEW JERSEY HON. LARRY McDONALD Its chapter on "noncooperation" com IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mences: Wednesday June 2, 1982 OF GEORGIA "A refusal to cooperate with the imprison IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment of oneself or others is sensible and e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I want natural to many of us. • • • Many of us to call my colleagues' attention to a Wednesday, June 2, 1982 oppose prisons altogether, viewing the in very special event being held in my e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, as I equalities and injustices of our society as its home State this weekend-the New noted earlier, the term "civil disobedi culprits, not the victims who end up rotting Jersey State AFL-CIO's 18th Consti ence" has been co-opted by so-called in its jails. "Once we are removed from the Missions, tutional Convention. "pacifist" groups who regularly aid we'll be taken to the courts and jails. Ham Whenever I stand with my friends of and abet Soviet foreign policy goals, pering our removal and refusing to assist organized labor, I always remember albeit indirectly. On Monday, June 14, these institutions in their protection of the the first words of our Constitution. "pacifist" groups will attempt to nuclear mission is of inestimable value. Non Those words are: "We the people". blockade several missions to the cooperation impedes our removal and pro We the people now face the over United Nations. longs our ability to accomplish our goals of whelming task of getting our economy As part of this demonstration of stopping the violent business-as-usual of our back on track; and no one knows "pacifism" the organizers are undergo targets. We become burdens to the courts and jails and the status quo become more better than the men and women of the ing confrontational training with the difficult and costly to protect." labor movement that it takes a tre result being to provoke violence from Suggestions for "noncooperation" start mendous cooperative effort by govern blockade participants. with going limp to force police to carry dem ment, business, and workers. Fortu The report on these plans from the onstrators when being arrested. They con nately, the New Jersey AFL-CIO has a authoritative "Information Digest" tinue with refusal to give one's name, ad long tradition of being in the forefront follows: dress, social security number or an employ of social and economic change for the ment reference to the courts, and refusing CONFRONTATIONAL TRAINING FOR JUNE 14 to promise to return for later court appear better. The civil rights movement, the The June 14 Civil Disobedience Campaign ances if released. worker safety movement and many (J-14 CDC) handbook (produced by that or "Physical noncooperation" tactics being other social justice issues all gained ganization) demonstrates that as in the encouraged include water fasting modeled impetus from the efforts of New Jer past, participants undergoing the mandato on the 1981 hunger strike actions of jailed sey's AFL-CIO; and with leaders like ry training are being psychologically pre members of the terrorist IRA and INLA to Charlie Marciante and Ed Pulver, I am pared to confront people attempting to go the point of suicide "as did several Irish to work and to resist lawful police orders by confident that this proud tradition freedom fighters during the H-Block hunger will continue to flourish. physical means which are designed to pro strike." Other tactics include total refusal to voke violence. The handbook states: walk in jail or the courtroom; soiling oneself There is no time to lose in our strug "On encountering a police barricade ('saw by refusing to use a toilet and to clean one gle to refuel the economy and revital horses,' real horses, or police), do not hesi self so that prison officials might have to ize our cities. The time to start is tate to go around them if possible. • • • for "force-feed and diaper the inmate." now-or maybe I should say the time ward motion is encouraged. If forward Following the pattern of past events in to start was last year, when the progress is physically blocked by a line of volving civil disobedience, "affinity groups" Reagan administration took the police and no immediately obvious way to of 8 to 12 people will form the core of the Nation down an unmarked road of eco get closer is apparent, sit down and block action. Individualism, independent thinking any traffic which may be passing through and basic common sense in avoiding injury nomic chance. They called it "supply the barricades." are discouraged through highly manipula side economics." But, in fact, as The handbook demonstrates that the or tive group meetings and role-playing ses Budget Director David Stockman ad ganizers are looking carefully at their fail sions. Experienced trainers called "facilita mitted in his private moments, supply ure to shut down Wall Street on October 29, tors" and "vibes-watchers" carefully manip side economics was merely traditional 1979, where demonstrators attempted to set ulate affinity group emotions until its mem "trickle-down" economics in disguise. up their blockades before daybreak, hours bers arrive at the "correct" responses. What else can you call a policy that earlier than they had announced, but found According to J-14 CDC, such training ses provides an individual income tax cut police already deployed. sions already have been held in Westchest Organizers also admit that the New York er, Syracuse, Long Island, Rochester, and of $33 to a family earning just under City mounted unit is highly skilled at crowd Ithaca, NY; Dallas; Tucson; Columbus; $10,000 and a cut of $4,000 to a family control and dispersal, and will try to per Washington, D.C.; Boston; Chicago; Pitts making $100,000. Or one which allows suade demonstrators to sit down in front of burgh, Philadelphia, Wilkes-Barre and Al large, profitable corporations to buy police or mounted charges and accept inju lentown, PA; Newark; Atlanta; Gainesville; tax writeoffs from other not-so-profit ries. Milwaukee and in the states of New Hamp able companies, so that the wealthiest The locations of some targeted missions in shire, Vermont, and North Carolina. get away with paying no taxes. Or one multi-purpose public office buildings allow It is expected that some European and approaches from several directions. Orga Japanese groups will take part in civil dis which permits companies to deduct nizers are calling for close coordination and obedience actions. more than 100 percent of the cost of timing so that "affinity groups converge si At this time, logistics meetings are new equipment from their taxes, and multaneously from all directions on each planned for New York at 339 Lafayette which continues to give special tax Mission." Information developed from J-14 Street on June 8 and June 13. The meetings treatment to the oil industry to the CDC sources indicates that some "affinity will determine which affinity groups go to tune of some $12 billion over 5 years. groups" appearing to be office workers will which targeted mission, their time of arrival Supply-side economics is redistribut infiltrate the buildings housing the mis if other than 8 am, and the exact location of ing wealth in America-putting a sions. their "blockade point." The handbook indicates that the ap While the organizers claim that "many greater financial burden on the poor proaches may be fast running charges thouands" will be involved in civil disobedi and the middle class, and reducing the through and over police barricades, stating: ence, based on available information, it is load on corporations and wealthy citi "affinity groups should not allow wooden believed the participants will not exceed zens. Only 1 percent of our popula barricades to stop their forward motion. 5,000. However, a variety of unpredictable tion-those earning over $100,000-will June 2, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12785 have their taxes reduced in real terms I come to my friends in the labor Wright, a recent high school graduate in 1982 as a result of the administra movement with this challenge because in my district. tion tax policies. Everyone else-99 I know they have the resolve to work Miss Wright, whose parents are edu percent of the American people-will for this new economic rebuilding of cators in our public school system, has pay more in taxes this year than last. America. As for Government, we must a rare talent for combining scholastics, As for corporations, their share of the come to the realization that American athletics, and artistry and it is a coin tax burden continues to decline. In productivity relies on the men and cidence that her acrylic oil painting 1948, corporations paid 23 percent of women in our factories and research was selected No. 1 from among 38 en the Nation's taxes, but by 1980 their labs, not on tax-exempt new machin tries in the contest sponsored by the contribution dropped to 12 percent; ery, as the administration suggests. Congressional Arts Caucus. and with the Reagan tax policies in We must begin, right now, to demon It is all the more pleasing to note place, that contribution will be re strate a greater commitment to invest that Miss Wright, who is a "statesid duced to 7 percent by 1987. ing in people. This means more educa er," having come to Guam with her The administration told us that tion aid, more employment training, parents, has adapted so splendidly to these so-called incentives were needed and a program to retrain workers as our island culture and has been able to to help Americans save, invest and America's industrial needs change. achieve in so many areas. It is a trib produce. At the same time, this admin We also must pay closer attention to ute to our democratic society which istration told us that ordinary Ameri the needs of our cities, and particular has developed in a relatively short cans would have to pay for these tax ly to the needs of minority Americans period of time in America's outpost in giveaways with severe cuts in nutrition who have been deprived of the chance the Far East. I know you will all join programs, health programs, food to compete fairly in the job market be me in wishing her well as she returns stamps, housing, employment training cause they could not get a quality edu to the States to pursue her college and education programs. cation. career in North Carolina. Although some of us in Congress Government's role in helping indus ANGELA WRIGHT: AN ALL-AROUND WINNER strenuously objected to these budget try train, retrain and educate our Na tion's work force must include a com public citizen straints and pressures to reduce the Chairman, Subcommittee on HUD-Inde in announcing a suit to challenge the Reagan deficit, we must not lose sight pendent Agencies, Committee on Appro constitutionality of the two-House leg of this commitment. priations, U.S. House of Representatives, islative veto. This suit is particularly Washington, D.C. timely, given our decision last month During the 97th Congress, we in the DEAR CONGRESSMAN BOLAND: I am writing House of Representatives have taken a to urge that the Appropriations Subcommit to veto the used car rule. number of steps to keep our commit tee on HUD-Independent Agencies approve I oppose the two-House legislative ment to veterans: the Veterans Administration request for veto; and, I would suggest that the June 2, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12787 used car debacle demonstrates why Committee and agency staff alike would be We can debate whether or not Congress the veto should be struck down. It sub diverted, if not paralyzed, by such a process. will be receptive to actions by regulatory jected Congress to unseemly political And, it would have a chilling effect on agencies which offer protection to consum pressure; it prevented a rigorous wholly legitimate rulemakings. ers. There isn't a single example of a statute We can debate whether or not the crusade debate on congressional and agency authorizing legislative veto which contains against "overregulation" has entered the intent; and, it deprived consumers of standards by which Congress would judge realm of the ridiculous. essential protections. the efforts by Agencies to write rules. Not We can debate the value of the legislative The statement which I released an once, not once, during the FTC Used Car veto, particularly at a time when the Consti nouncing the suit is printed below: Debate, did any Member of Congress allege tutional basis of this concept is under chal STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN TOBY MOFFETT that the Federal Trade Commission violated lenge in cases before the Supreme Court I am delighted to be here with representa Congressional intent in drafting the rule we And finall, we can debate whether or not tives of Consumer's Union, Public Citizen, shamefully defeated last week. In a sense, we will continue to permit the wild excesses and my colleague Rep. HENRY WAXMAN to Congress is usurping the powers of the judi of Political Action Committees to distort announce our intention to file an amicus ciary to judge the actions of the Executive the legislative process. brief challenging the legal basis of the two without assuming any of the responsibility Remarkable as it may seem each of these House legislative veto. Our brief before the or accountability. issues has found their way into this Used District of Columbia Court of Appeals will Another problem legislative veto invites is Car Veto Debacle. argue that the two-House veto is unconsti needless delay. Recently, while the Office of Management and Budget was evaluating a THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF THE LEGISLATIVE tutional; and, that the action taken by Con VETO gress on May 26, 1982-which vetoed the regulation on standards for infant formula, Federal Trade Commission's proposed Used one-half million cans of baby food which Regardless of whether or not Members of Car Rule-is also unconstitutional. lacked an essential nutrient were marketed. the House support the rule, I believe that it It is important to state at the outset that A burdensome regulatory review procedure is improper for the House to be contemplat I fully support active oversight by Congress put hundreds of thousands of infants at ing veto of this regulation pending disposal Executive and Independent Agencies. As risk. To permit delay and risk-which may of the FERC and Chadha cases before the Chairman of the Government Operations involve proposed rules protecting consumers Supreme Court. We do not know, at this Subcommittee on Environment, Energy and against fraudulent securities, impure drugs, time, if the legislative veto process will be Natural Resources, I have been involved in supposedly crash-resistant bumpers, decep considered as a constitutional device by the several successful cases in which we have tive used car transactions, and the like-will U.S. Supreme Court. This is important to modified improper Agency behavior. In the not strengthen oversight of the bureaucra remember because the arguments in these legislative process, we have placed most cy, but it may further unravel confidence in cases can be directly applied to the legisla Agencies on fixed authorizations to enable Congress. tive veto under which we are operating with the appropriate Committees of Congress to Finally, after the debacle with the used respect to used cars.1 examine periodically the performance of car debate, one thing is clear: the legislative Two separate courts have found that the these Agencies. Such tools are crucial to veto invites the worst impulses among Polit legislative veto is suspect and unconstitu insure that the Executive Branch is fulfill ical Action Committees and, perhaps, Mem tional because: ing its obligations to carry out the law. bers of Congress take over the legislative (1) It violates the clause of the Constitu But legislative veto is quite different. process. The perception among the public is tion which requires that "Every Bill which I believe that, in our filing, we will show that Congress becomes something like the shall have passed the House of Representa successfully that legislative veto is unconsti auditorium at the Sotheby~Parke-Bernet tives and the Senate, shall, before it be tutional. And, if our position is sustained, Gallery, open to be sold to the highest comes a Law, be presented to the President we will enjoy improved operations by the bidder when there is an opportunity to of the United States ..." ; Friends of the Earth ; tution specifies several veto provisions: SOVIET STRATEGIC SUPERIOR Greenpeace; Martin Luther King, Jr. Center vetoes by the President which may be over ITY for Non-Violent Change; Ministerial Inter ridden by the actions of both Houses; rejec faith Association; Mobilization for Survival tion of treaties; and, rejection of Presiden ; Nuclear Weapons Freeze Cam tial appointments. The Constitution never HON. LARRY McDONALD paign-National Conference; Pax Christi; mentions the legislative veto. And, it re OF GEORGIA Progressive National Baptist Convention; serves for the Judicial Branch the right to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Operation PUSH; Riverside Church Dis interpret and vitiate the actions of the Ex armament Program CRCDP>; SANE; South ecutive. Wednesday, June 2, 1982 ern Christian Leadership Conference The Supreme Court will review these ar •Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, vet CSCLC>; U.S. Peace Council CUSPC>; War guments, carefully. I believe that it would eran disarmament organizers who pro Resisters League ; Women's Interna be a mistake for the House-as it was a mis duced protest mobilizations backing tional League for Peace and Freedom take for the Senate-to veto the Federal the Communist Vietcong terrorists CWILPF>. Trade Commission's used car rule, prior to Additional participating organizations in the time that we are in receipt of the Su and the Hanoi regime tried to sell clude the Afro-American Coordinating Com preme Court's opinion. Americans the idea that Communists mittee CAACC>; American Indian Environ With the pending legislative veto cases were the good guys in Vietnam and ment Council CAIEC>; Artists Against Nucle before the Supreme Court, if we vote to veto that Uncle Sam wore the black hat. ar Arms ; Blacks Against Nukes the rule, we may find, within a few months, The millions of boat people fleeing the ; Children's Campaign for Nuclear that the entire concept of legislative review Communist tyranny in Vietnam and Disarmament CCCND>; Christian Peace is in error. If the opponents are keen on de the 3 million Cambodians who died Conference CCPC>; Church Women United feating the rule, at that time, they can ; Citizen Soldier; Citizen's Party; Co submit a proposed amendment to the Mag under the Khmer Rouge regime proved the lie in their arguments-but alition for a People's Alternative ; nuson-Moss Act or to the Federal Trade Conscience and Military Tax Campaign Commission Act itself, in order to defeat the too late to save the liberty and lives of ; Environmental Action Foundation rule. But on the basis of the pendency of millions of innocent people in South ; The Guardian; Line of March; Na the veto issue before the Court, we should east Asia. tional Association of Social Workers not veto this Federal Trade Commission The same activists and organizations ; National Association of Women regulation. that helped sell out Southeast Asia Religious ; National Coalition for Finally, virtually every independent com are now planning a mass demonstra Economic Survival CNCES>; National Black mentator, every newspaper editorial with United Front ; North American which I am familiar, every consumer organi tion in New York City. Their intention is to apply pressure on the United Congress on Latin America ; North zation, recognizes that this is a de minimus Carolina Public Interest Research Group regulation. It is what Jonathan Swift would States to abandon plans to modernize CPIRG-NC>; Ohio PIRG; Progressive Stu call "a modest proposal." If this minimum both our strategic nuclear forces and dent Network CPSN>; Socialist Party CSP>; disclosure rule is too intrusive, too encom NATO forces at a time when the U.N. Non-Governmental Organizations passing for the membership of this body, Soviet Union has gained a dangerous then we may have seen the last days of the Committee on Disarmament; U.S. Student consumer movement. I cannot believe that edge and has completed most of its Association ; WIN magazine; Women the Members of the House will want to send ambitious armaments buildup. Strike for Peace ; and the World that awful message to their constituency.e In order to gain the illusion of wide Peace Tax Fund . spread support for this dangerous nu Large numbers are expected to participate clear freeze proposal, activists are can from New York City and the immediate CHIEF DONALD McLEAN: AN metropolitan area and six trains have been vassing college campuses and many chartered to bring demonstrators from Long SWERING THE CALL FOR 41 cities to urge participation. The most YEARS Island. Organizers indicate they expect a recent edition of the Information foreign contingent to number up to 10,000, Digest, the authoritative newsletter with the largest segment Japanese; but were HON. JOHN LeBOUTILUER examining American political and concerned that the State Department might OF NEW YORK social movements, published and deny visas to foreign demonstrators. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES edited by John Rees, has provided val In addition, special car pools, caravans of private vehicles and even bicycle contin Wednesday June 2, 1982 uable information on the organizing gents from Washington and western Massa e Mr. LEBOUTILLIER. Mr. Speaker, process for the June 12 nuclear freeze chusetts are expected to provide publicity longstanding and dedicated communi demonstration. The article fallows: for the demonstration. According to one top ty service are deserving of the highest JUNE 12 DISARMAMENT RALLY J-12 RC organizer Leslie Cagan, participa recognition. That fact holds especially As the projected numbers of participants tion in the protest is being promoted in true for Chief Donald McLean, who in disarmament demonstrations in New some 500 cities. York on June 12 and June 14 increase, mili New York City police officials agree with served as a member of the Old West tancy and intransigent demands by organiz J-12 RC's estimate that the rally crowd may bury Police Department starting on ers for both the June 12 Rally Committee number from 300,000 to 500,000 people. July 4, 1941. (J-12 RC> and June 14 Civil Disobedience In consideration of the very large num After being promoted to sergeant on Campaign (J-14 CDC> and participating rev bers expected and public safety require September 1, 1961, Chief McLean then olutionary groups has raised the potential ments, New York City officials have moved attained the rank of lieutenant on for disorder and violence at both events. the rally back onto the Great Lawn of Cen June 19, 1970. Finally, on November The "Rally for a Nuclear Freeze and Dis tral Park, despite estimated costs of repair 18, 1976 he became chief of police and armament" organized by the J-12 RC, based to park grounds of up to $2 million. at 853 Broadway, Room 2109, New York, NY Information developed from the J-12 RC served most professionally in that ca 10003 [212/460-89801 by May 25 already organizers indicates that they intend to pro pacity until his retirement on May 31, had confirmed some 1,500 buses (for an esti vide their own medical services in Central 1982. mated 75,000 people> with the largest num Park, and that they accepted only with the Forty-one years comprise a substan bers including 150 buses coming from greatest reluctance a police presence in the tial length of time, and as such, Chief Boston, 125 from Philadelphia, and large area. At this time they are considering seek McLean's record of accomplishments numbers from Washington, DC, Baltimore, ing an injunction against deployment of are considerable and most gratefully Pittsburgh, upstate New York, Chicago, De mounted police in the rally area. appreciated. troit, Cleveland, northern New Jersey. Two The present plan is for contingents to as On behalf of those Old Westbury chartered flights will bring protesters from semble on the streets north of 47th Street, residents who have benefited from Milwaukee. between First and Third Avenues. The first The initial organizational members of the march contingent, led by children's groups Chief Donald McLean's long and dedi J-12 RC were the American Friends Service and the handicapped, is to move out onto cated service, I extend best wishes for Committee ; District 65, UAW; National past the United Nations. The march turns offer my sincerest congratulations on Union of Hospital and Health Care Employ west on 42nd Street to Seventh Avenue, a job well done.e ees (District 1199>; Fellowship of Reconcilia- then proceeds north to Central Park. June 2, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12789 J-12 RC organizers are seeking a permit to who will speak at the rally ·"on behalf of DC Philippines as well as backers of the Marx construct a stage outside the U.N. and to 37 as well as his international;" Bettye Rob ist regimes in Nicaragua, Grenada, Vietnam, hold a "short prayer service" and brief rally erts, president, AFSCME Local 1707; Henry Laos, and Cambodia. before the march leaves that area. If this is Nicholas, president, 1199 Hospital Workers; The TWPPC leaflet states: not allowed, J-12 RC may seek a court order and Josephine LeBeau, president, New York "We demand unconditional U.S. disarma to force City officials to meet their de State CLUW. ment; redirect resources from the military mands. It is noted that the demands appear As a building action toward June 12th, to meet human needs especially in minority intended to keep the maximum number of 1199 sponsored a "Labor Speakout for Nu communities • • •; no U.S. intervention in demonstrators in the area of the U.N. for as clear Disarmament" on May 19th at the Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America long as possible. Martin Luther King Labor Center, 310 W. and the Caribbean." A number of "feeder" marches are being 43rd Street, to "help build union participa Among the TWPPC supporters and en planned. They include contingents led by tion for the June 12 Rally." Slated speakers dorsers are the American Indian Movement youths and children from the Upper West included Kathe Andrade, International s; and should receive priority in service deliv whereas, the demand for community-based TO REVIEW AND RECONSIDER PROVISIONS OF ery and policy development pertaining programs to meet the needs of aging Ameri THE VETERANS' AND SURVIVORS' PENSION IM to aging veterans. As the resolutions cans, such as day care, nutrition, transporta PROVEMENT ACT OF 1978 ·are quite comprehensive, I am insert tion, education, comradery, will dramatical Whereas, the Veterans' and Survivors' ing the first section of the resolutions ly increase in the 1980's: Now, therefore, be Pension Improvement Act of 1978 also suffer physical, emotional, and psychological prob HON. ANTHONY TOBY MOFFETT lems which result from social isolation; HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. OF CONNECTICUT Whereas these individuals are also denied OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the right to cultural expression, evidenced IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, June 2, 1982 by the breaking up of cultural seminars and Hebrew classes and harassment by Soviet Wednesday, June 2, 1982 • Mr. MOFFETT. Mr. Speaker, I was officials of those individuals participating in deeply disturbed to learn from the Na those forms of cultural expression; e Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. tional Conference on Soviet Jewry yes Whereas these individuals al!e subjected Speaker, as the topic of nuclear arms terday that the number of Jews al to arbitrary arrest, imprisonment, and inter control and disarmament again move lowed to emigrate from the Soviet nal exile, as is the case with the Jewish into the center stage of public debate, Union reached a 10-year low last "Prisoners of Conscience" currently serving it is useful for us to look down the month. sentences in the Soviet Union; road in the direction we are heading. According to the national confer Whereas it is the stated policy of United One of those roads is the increasing States law, including section 502BO> of ence, only 205 Jews were allowed to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and sec militarization, or, even more impor leave the Soviet Union during the tion 402 of the Trade Act of 1974, that tant, the "weaponization" of space. month of May. This is the lowest human rights considerations are a vital ele There are two major United Nations monthly emigration figure since the ment of United States foreign policy; conferences this summer. The first, to Soviet Union began allowing large Whereas the Soviet Union, by arbitrarily begin in a little more than a week in scale Jewish emigration in 1971. denying its citizens the right to emigrate New York, is the U .N. Special Session This latest setback for Soviet Jewry and the right to religious and cultural ex on Disarmament. The second to begin signals increasingly brutal disregard pression, and by harassing members of a this August in Vienna is the United for human rights by the Soviet Union. specific ethnic group, is violating interna tional agreements under which it has obli Nations Conference on the Peaceful In addition to closing the doors to gations under international law, including Uses and Exploration of Outer Space, Jewish emigration, Soviet officials the Helsinki Final Act, the Universal Decla called Unispace '82. Both conferences have also stepped up their attacks on ration of Human Rights, the International deal with the future of the human Jewish efforts to study and celebrate Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the race on this planet. Both conferences their cultural heritage. International Covenant on Econoinic, Social are overshadowed by the escalating It is becoming increasingly urgent and Cultural Rights, the International arms race between the United States that we in the Congress speak out on Labor Organization Convention Concerning and the U .S.S.R. And in both confer behalf of Soviet Jewry. Further, I urge Employment Policy, and the UNESCO Con vention Against Discrimination in Educa ences, the United States is apparently the administration to take advantage tion: Now, therefore, be it determined to avoid multilateral dis of every opportunity-including the Resolved by the House of Representatives cussions and innovative proposals for upcoming arms control negotiations in (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense global cooperation. Geneva-to express the concern of the of the Congress that- Mr. Speaker, I fear that at each of people of this country about the fate (!) the Soviet Union should comply with these conferences, the United States of Jews in the Soviet Union, and to the Helsinki Final Act, the Universal Decla will, by its public posture and by its ac urge that a more humane emigration ration of Human Rights, the International tions at home, exacerbate the fears of policy be pursued by that country. I Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and U.S. military intentions. There is fear, have introduced a concurrent resolu other international agreements relating to for example, that the United States tion, House Concurrent Resolution human rights, by pursuing a more humane einigration policy and ceasing harassment of will seek to modify or ignore already 336, which would direct the President ratified nuclear weapons treaties to take such action. I urge my col Jews and others seeking to emigrate; <2> the compliance by the Soviet Union such as the Outer Space Treaty and leagues to cosponsor this resolution, with internationally recognized emigration the ABM Treaty. There is fear, fortu which is reprinted below. rights would significantly promote improved nately somewhat allayed by President We must not be silent about the relations between the United States and the Reagan's recent remarks, that the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union. We Soviet Union; United States will disregard the SALT must let the Soviets know of our shock (3) the President or his representatives II Treaty, which has been signed but and outrage at their deplorable treat should convey to Soviet officials the con not ratified by the United States. ment of Soviet Jews. cerns of the Congress expressed in this reso There is fear, in short, of war-which H. CON. RES. 336 lution at every appropriate opportunity, in cluding- will inevitably be a nuclear war. Whereas the Soviet Union is pursuing a at such time as the grain agreement The militarization of space in the policy of virtually closing its borders to between the United States and the Soviet United States is symbolized by the de Jewish einigration, as evidenced by declin Union, which will expire on September 30, cline in the NASA budget, with mas ing einigration levels which, for 1982, have 1982, is renegotiated; averaged fewer than 300 individuals per sive increases in the military space month; at such time as other agreements be budget. New weapons systems for Whereas this policy has left tens of thou tween the United States and the Soviet space are being developed, and while sands of people seeking to emigrate from Union, relating to trade and commerce and their deployment would probably vio the Soviet Union with little hope of being to science and technology exchange, are ne late existing treaties, we are accelerat granted perinission to einigrate in the fore gotiated; and at such time as the President and the ing their development. Worldwide seeable future; opinion calls for an end to this mad Whereas there are several hundred long President of the Soviet Union meet for term "refuseniks'', including many children, suminit talks; and ness, yet the United States fails to who applied to einigrate from the Soviet (4) the President or his representatives heed it, much less use this opportunity Union between 1970 and 1975 and have been should also convey these concerns of the to press for effective arms-control waiting for perinission to einigrate since Congress to the governments of United agreements. that time; States allies and urge the cooperation of I could go on, but I will stop at this Whereas those who have been denied emi those governments in efforts to promote point. I am inserting in the CONGRES gration rights, especially the long-term "re emigration from the Soviet Union. fuseniks", are often subjected to a life as in SEC. 2. The President is requested to SIONAL RECORD two articles which de ternal refugees in the Soviet Union, result transmit a copy of this resolution to the scribe both the militarization of ing in loss of jobs, loss of membership in im Ambassador from the Soviet Union to the NASA, and the politics around the Un portant social and professional organiza United States and to the Chairman of the ispace '82 conference. I recommend tions, revocation of academic degrees, sur- Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.e each to my colleagues. 12796 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 2, 1982 CFrom the Christian Science Monitor, May sion, plans for a Venus mapping mission in 1986. ly educational rather than decision In criticizing the growing military use of WASHINGTON.-As the space program making-a forum for stock taking-to review us the space shuttle, Schmitt says, "The DOD and share information on what has worked moves through the 1980s, it will increasingly should not have to be subsidized at the ex become a military venture. and what hasn't worked. This pleases some in Congress who are pense of our country's civil aeronautics and The agenda will cover three major areas: urging the Pentagon to do even. more with space programs." (1) State of space science and technology, space lasers and other "Star Wars" weapon However, DOD support has been crucial <2> Applications of space science and tech ry. But some, including former astronaut to shuttle development all along and shuttle nology and <3> International cooperation Harrison Schmitt of Wisconsin. "It means that more and projects. Senate authorizing committee voted to more of each NASA budget will be spent on make the Pentagon pay its own way for The United States, according to the State defense-related activities and less and less Dept. spokesman, is committed to providing future military launches and payloads car will be spent on civilian science." ried into space. In the coming year, that will opportunities for international cooperation It was because of this that the Senate of space technology. And according to amount to $409 million, a sum that original voted earlier this month to stop "the free ly was included in the National Aeronautics NASA, international cooperation has always ride for the Pentagon," as Senator Schmitt been a way of life there; they claim that and Space Administration budget puts it. but now must be borne by the Defense De there hasn't been any major program at This is not likely to slow down the De NASA without it. partment. fense Department's increasing role in space From the launching of the first Soviet According to the NASA philosophy, the activities, however. In addition to antisatel United States wants to cooperate with all sputnik to the reusable Space Transporta lite programs, defense planners are working tion System, as the American shuttle is countries and to help provide the benefits on space-based communications and naviga that are derived from outer space technolo called, much of both countries' efforts in tion systems, nuclear detection devices, and space has been directed at military advance gy, with all people. enemy missile warning capabilities. One would assume from this beneficient ment. But in recent years, this has acceler The fourth flight of the space shuttle, ated just as detente has given way to great approach from the U.S., that Unispace '82 is scheduled for June 27, will include a mili a promising event. It turns out there is er superpower confrontation. tary payload. The Soviet Union, according to Pentagon much discontent. There is criticism of the U.S. to joining officials, is several years ahead of the CFrom the Stars and Stripes-the National United States in developing a space-based Tribune, May 13, 19821 the Conference late and some claim is not laser weapon that could threaten American providing the kind of exhibit it is capable of satellites and ballistic missiles. The U.S. also UNISPACE '82-PROMISES AND PROBLEMS providing. is pushing ahead with such weaponry, but The Third World countries, which are not not as fast as some would like. Unispace '82. It sounds like a sequel to monolithic, are apprehensive about the uses In a classified report last month, the Gen Star Wars or a new science fiction takeoff of space and how that will affect their sov eral Accounting Office said directed-energy into the space age. No one seems to know ereignty. technology (involving laser, particle, and much about it, perhaps because it is not a The NGO's-non-governmental organiza microwave beams> "may revolutionize mili media event. Nor is it likely to be. That's un tions-are preparing for a parallel confer tary strategy, tactics, and doctrine." It fortunate because more people should know ence at Vienna. It is called the "NGOs at urged the Pentagon to accelerate its devel about it. Unispace '82", and its theme is "peaceful de opment of laser weapons. Unispace '82 is the Second United Nations velopment through space." Many top Air Force officials are playing Conference on the Exploration and Peace The NGOs make no bones about their down space weaponry, however. Meeting ful uses of Outer Space, which will be held conference being a political one. They feel with Pentagon reporters over breakfast re in Vienna, Austria, August 9-21. Nearly 140 that Unispace itself must deal with the po cently, the Air Force's research director, Lt. nations from this planet are planning to litical issues which are not on the agenda. Gen. Kelly Burke, cited the great techno participate in the Conference which is the They point out that the Third World con logical problems presented by building, second of its kind, the first being in 1968. siders space exploration and technology de transporting, and accurately using space One cannot help but wonder why the ex velopment a new form of economic imperial lasers. He noted the antisatellite missile ploration of outerspace and its implications ism of the "have" nations against the "have that the Air Force soon will test fire from have so receded into the background of nots." high-flying jet fighters as a better system public consciousness. Among the issues that the NGOs claim for the near future. Yes, every new launching of a space vehi are on the hidden agenda of Unispace and Overall, however, the military aspects of cle gets its share of media coverage. There is which will be on the NGO agenda are: the U.S. space effort are gaining as nonmili a flurry; lots of Americans are glued to their Energy from space; Environment and Space, tary research projects account for less and TV sets and a collective sigh of relief is Geostationary Orbits, Remote Sensing; and less of NASA's spending. heard when the space craft returns safely, Transfer Technology. "Whereas NASA's scientific programs particularly when it is manned. And most important of all, the NGO's are were a full 36 percent of the research and But the gorgeous wonder of it all some concerned about the "militarization" of development budgets in 1979 and 1980, they how is muted. The awesome possibilities for space. None of these issues will be taken up constitute only 28 percent of the proposed good and evil are not a subject of much substantively by the Unispace Conference 1983 budget," Senator Schmitt complained public debate and certainly of little private itself, although they may be touched upon. recently. "Since 1980 the aeronautics budget conjecture. The NGO's probably mirror many of the of NASA has decreased by over 40 percent Maybe we are jaded, or maybe we are just concerns of the Third World countries. For in constant dollars. frightened; there is already so much to be example, the technology of remote sensing "The proposed fiscal year 1983 budget frightened about these days. The saber rat which is very sophisticated and not within contains many programs only because they tling of the Reagan Administration, and the the capability of most Third World coun are of direct interest to the Department of "small" adventure in the South Atlantic tries, raises many thorny issues. Who con Defense, while eliminating 12 major systems which is a powderkeg for the very fragile trols the data which is sensed by the satel technology programs which would support a nobelligerency state of a good part of the lite? private aeronautics industry hard hit by for world, have raised the ante of worry. While the data is theoretically open to all, eign competition." The United States is sending a high level only the most advanced nations have the Since 1979, Schmitt points out, NASA has delegation to Vienna as well as mounting an technology to extract that data. So "open canceled its obligation to supply a space exhibit. Ambassador Gerald B. Helman of ness" is quite meaningless for those who craft for the International Solar Polar Mis- the U.S. Dept. of State is coordinating the can't do anything with the data. June 2, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12797 Apprehension and fear mark the third For 37 years, Mrs. Ward practiced In the mid-1950s, she ran a series of arti world's views of the pioneering efforts into her profession with courage, resource cles scrutinizing potential conflicts of inter space. After all, they have had considerable ! ulness, and skill. est among doctors sitting on the hospital experience with the uses that mankind has board of directors. The series won the paper put to scientific discovery. The following article appeared in an Associated Press award-and a $1 million Unhappily, much of their experiences the Daily Review on Sunday, May 23, libel suit filed by the doctors. have been negative. Exploration has often the day of her retirement dinner. It's a She recalls that as one of the most nerve meant exploitation for them. They are story about a good reporter: wracking times of her life. struggling to catch up. And there are many SISTERS' ERA ENDS-LEGENDARY DAILY She threatened to resign if the paper re nations in the Third World which do have a REVIEW REPORTER LEONA WARD RETIRES tracted the articles, then left for a national variety of capabilities in the space technolo It was April 12, 1945, and Leona Ward convention of the Business and Professional gy field. watched longingly as the city room of the Womens's Association, in which she was a In terms of what space technology can do, old Oakland Post Enquirer "erupted with member of the national board of directors. the Third World nations have an incredible the news" of President Franklin Delano Sitting in her hotel room "nervous and amount to gain. The U.S.'s AID Agency has Roosevelt's death. getting more nervous by the moment," the performed minor miracles in demonstrating She turned from the insurance office fateful call came: The Daily Review would how some of that technology can assist an window where she worked and thought, not retract, but would fight the lawsuit. underdeveloped nation help itself-in rural "This is not for me." Ironically, she now notes, the lawsuit was development, in communications, in educa One month later, Leona Ward began her dropped shortly thereafter. tion, in institution building, in developing first assignment-covering police-for The Mrs. Ward was nominated for a Pulitzer power sources. Daily Review, a job that would grow and Prize in 1974 for her coverage of Judge Wil Of course, these uses of space exploration strengthen until, 37 years later, her name is liam Spruance Jr., later removed from the and technology are welcome to Third World virtually synonymous with the newPaper's. Hayward-San Leandro Municipal Court countries. But they worry about the other On May 31, Mrs. Ward, now 70, retires as bench for abusing his al).thority. possibilities which they see as threatening associate editor and reporter, leaving behind That was the most difficult time of her their sovereignty as well as their security. almost four decades as a journalist covering life. She wrote many of those stories from The uses of outer space are governed by Southern Alameda County. Her colleagues her home, where she was caring for her hus the Outer Space Treaty. The U.S. position is are honoring her with a banquet tonight. band, who died of cancer in 1973. that it is developing the peaceful uses of "I'm going to have to learn all over again But more than anything, Mrs. Ward has outer space in a fashion consistent with the how to participate . . . to be a part of the been known for her dogged thoroughness UN Charter which includes maintenance of human race," she said recently, laughing at and honesty in reporting. U.S. security. how the stringent requirements of "objec "Her great strength has been the abilities This is scary to the less developed nations, tivity" have shaped her life. she brings every day to the office," said it smacks of militaristic use of outer space. Her career had spanned post-Depression Chuck Peterson, former Daily Review man The U.S. denies this; but asserts its rights days to current county politics, starting at aging editor, who worked with Mrs. Ward under the Charter to capitalize on its tech her kitchen table in her hometown of Oel for 20 years. nology to maximize its security. wein, Iowa. "She knew more about what was going on Even if the U.S. is de jure within the There, after graduating from Coe College in San Leandro than a lot of the people who boundaries of the UN charter, Third World with a journalism degree in the Depression were running San Leandro," Peterson said nations are wary of the potential of space when "everybody was firing everybody in of her days covering that beat. technology for military uses and/or domina newsrooms," she worked as a stringer for As county government reporter for the tion. several Iowa dailies, fe"eding them stories past 25 years, she had to be resourceful. Unispace '82 will not deal with this thorny ranging from basketball games to crime sto The Board of Supervisors used to meet issue, if it can avoid it but the parallel NGO ries. behind closed doors, emerging to summarily conference will. It is useful that there be a Smiling, she confides now that she had vote to "pass all matters and whoosh, it was forum for discussions of the fears of the less some invaluable help: Her husband, Everett done," she said. technologically-advanced nations. And it is "Doc" Ward, went with her to the sporting Usually, reporters were allowed in, par important that the U.S. and the other tech games "to explain what was going on." ticularly if they were persistent. "Anytime nologically capable countries listen to those But World War II broke up that life. you come to a closed door, that's where you concerns and try to deal with them. Ward joined the Navy, working on a mine go," she said, smiling as memory took her Perhaps the wonder and optimism of sweeper in the South Pacific. Mrs. Ward back in time. space exploration and development will moved to California to wait out the war. After a career of 10- and 12-hour work return. This is the hope of the U.S. confer The wait ended, but never her stay here days, Mrs. Ward doesn't plan to slow down nor her attachment to the paper. too much in retirement. ence coordinators. "When I first arrived here in 1963 from The potential for benefitting mankind Nebraska she was already a legend," said In between remodeling her Pleasonton through the marvelous breakthroughs in Managing Editor Ernie Hines, now her boss house, writing projects and traveling, she space science is unlimited. Wouldn't it be but then a reporter who turned to Leona said she plans to take classes in literature wonderful if the political problems would go Ward for tips on news sources. and other areas she's always enjoyed. away? "She is in my mind, really the epitome of Looking behind on her career, there are But, they won't unless nations will attack a professional," he said. no regrets and only one wish: them with the same imagination and com Quietly friendly, Mrs. Ward loved the "If they write on my tombstone, 'She was mitment that they approach scientific ex community contact that came with her a good reporter,' I'll be happy."e ploration. That indeed, is the main chal work and, as a result, built up a network of lenge to Unispace '82, whether it is on the sources most reporters only dream of. official agenda or not.e "There's just no county office or employ ITALIAN NATIONAL DAY ee that she didn't know," recalled Lloyd Boles, an Oakland Tribune reporter who HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. LEONA WARD-MORE THAN A competed with her covering county govern GOOD REPORTER ment. OF NEW JERSEY "When I saw her around, I immediately IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stated checking all over because I knew Wednesday, June 2, 1982 HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) ST ARK there something I was probably missing," OF CALIFORNIA he said. Then he laughed and added, "And e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I want IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES there usually was.'' to join my friends in the Italian com During her career, Mrs. Ward covered munity and all Americans in paying Wednesday, June 2, 1982 almost every aspect of newspaper work, in tribute to one of our most treasured •Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, Leona cluding a five-year stint as city editor, a post allies on the celebration of the 36th she left because she wanted to return to Ward, a reporter for the Hayward, writing. anniversary of the founding of the Calif., Daily Review, a newspaper in One of the highlights was her work cover Italian Republic. my district, was recently honored by ing Eden Hospital, built in the 1950s when Italy can be very proud of its ad her colleagues and other friends on Hayward had only one small hospital to vancement as a democracy, as it cele the occasion of her retirement. service its growing population. brates its 36th birthday. At the end of
89-059 0 -86-3 (Pt. 10) 12798 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 2, 1982 World War II Italy emerged as a Re with the continued persistence by all Street Journal in July 1980, confirmed the public amid the spread of totalitarian sides on a counterproductive and obso awful risk of a policy of launch on warning. ism that swept Europe. Italy's devo lete nuclear arms race, raises the He said: "I think the idea of depending on tion to the principles of democratic launch under attack is a bad idea. . . . We chances of an accidental nuclear ex ought not to let computers make the deci government has been an inspiration to change to a very high level. sion as to when we go to war." democratic nations throughout the While most political leaders still do Nevertheless, in the CBS television docu world. Since the Italian people voted not seem to be aware of the serious mentary "The Defense of the United to establish a republican form of gov ness of the chances of accidental nu States," the following exchange took place ernment on June 2, 1946, Italy has clear war, this may change quickly. between Dan Rather and Secretary of De steadfastly maintained its national The special U .N. session on disarma fense Caspar W. Weinberger. Rather said: commitment to democratic institu ment, now starting in New York, may "But your basic recommendation is that we tions and individual liberties despite raise the level of awareness. The bilat must be prepared-we must at least be pre eral discussions between the U.S. and pared to do a launch under attack." Wein the threats of domestic terrorism, berger replied: "It gives undue emphasis to social unrest and a struggling econo the U.S.S.R. on reduction of nuclear single out any one particular kind of option my. arms seems to have a new sense of pri and say that is the one we're considering. Their dedication to political free ority. The opportunity for reversing We're considering them all. We aren't elimi doms has been consistent with Italy's the nuclear arms race and achieving a nating anything." history, which has provided the world new level of planetary rationality is Georgi A. Arbatov, the top Soviet expert with great advancements in art and before us, if we seize the opportunity. on the United States, says that if Soviet music, science, and law. From the legal The Cox article, which follows, weapon systems become vulnerable, "there should contribute to that goal. is always a countermeasure: launch on foundations established in ancient warning and under attack." Roman culture, to the artistic and sci [From the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, The United States intends to deploy Per entific developments spawned by the May 30, 19821 shing 2 ballistic missiles in West Germany Renaissance in the 14th century, Ital WORLD WAR 3 COULD HAPPEN BY MISTAKE early in 1984. Those missiles will be capable ian creativity has given mankind innu UNLESS ••• of destroying Soviet command, control and merable lasting contributions: From . . 4200 Dirk.sen Building 4232 Dirk.sen Building JUNE 15 11:00 a.m. Small Business 9:00 a.m. Veterans Affairs Commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold oversight hearings on activities Business meeting, to markup S. 2379, re Communications Subcommittee of small business investment compa quiring veterans to pay a funding fee nies