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July 20, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20131 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS RECOGNITION OF DR. HECTOR others to see the unselfish role he has Member American Medical Association; P. GARCIA played in his lifetime. Texas Medical Association; Nueces County His Leadership has evoked aspiration and Medical Society; Member LULAC; Roman hope to the Hispanic of this Nation specifi­ Catholic; Knights of Columbus; Parish, St. HON. BILL RICHARDSON cally the Mexican American once described Patrick's Catholic Church, Corpus Christi, OF NEW MEXICO as the invisible minority. Texas. 1960, Outstanding citizenship award IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Through militant years of the 60's, the or­ by United Married Couples. Wednesday, July 20, 1983 ganization stayed on course and did not fall 1961, Representative of President John F. prey to the Inilitant tactics because of the Kennedy and member delegation signing e Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, , Doctor's belief that our objectives can be treaty concerning Mutual Defense Area the members of the Hispanic Caucus best accomplished through intelligent, fac­ Agreement between the and strongly feel that Dr. Hector P. Garcia tual and systematic manner within our form of democracy. the Federation of West Indies. should receive the Presidential Medal As Civil Rights Cominissioner he handled March 9, 1964. Appointed by. President of Freedom. Dr. Garcia's list of accom­ the most serious and delicate issues facing Lyndon B. Johnson as presidential repre­ plishments and contributions to our the Hispanic population averting confronta­ sentative with the rank of Special Ambassa­ country and to the Hispanic communi­ tions of a serious nature. dor to the inauguration of Dr. Raul Leoni, ty are unending. His exemplary leadership and efforts in President of Venezuela. Dr. Garcia was the founder and first the pursuit of equal rights for all people is a October 18, 1965. Presented by the Presi­ national chairman of the American GI continuous task in his daily life to this day. dent of the Republic of Panama with "Con­ Forum. This outstanding veterans As Ambassador to the United Nations he decoracion. Orden Vasco Nunez de Balboa" spent extended periods of time working full with the rank of "Commander." group is composed of Americans of time although it was not a requisite. For the March 4, 1967. Appointed by President Mexican origin from 24 States across first time in the United Nations a United Lyndon B. Johnson as member of the Na­ the Nation. In addition, Dr. Garcia States representative addressed the Latin tional Advisory Council on Econoinic Op­ was appointed as Commissioner of the American Countries in Spanish against the portunity of the United States. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in proliferation of nuclear arms in the West­ September 1967. Appointed by President 1968 where he handled some of the ern Hemisphere. He was also able to com­ Lyndon B. Johnson as delegate to the most serious and delicate issues facing municate to the French and Italian delega­ United Nations from the United States with the Hispanic community. His strong tions in their own language. Wherever he the rank of Ambassador. represented the United States, he was March 30, 1968. Accompanied Vice Presi­ leadership encouraged cooperation in­ highly received. stead of confrontation. Dr. Garcia has dent Hubert H. Humphrey and the U.S. Del­ The experience of meeting and recogniz­ egation for the signing of Treaty of Tlalte­ been recognized as a leading figure in ing this "living legend" of the Southwest is lolco in Mexico City. the fight for equal rights for all Amer­ a pleasure that should be shared and be­ November 1968. Sworn in as a "Cominis­ icans. stowed by the United States and the whole sioner" of the United States Commission on He served our country in wartime as world. Civil Rights. an officer in the Infantry, Engineer, Dr. Garcia's list of accomplishments and November 1968. Humanitarian Award pre­ and Medical Corps in Europe during generousity is unending. His life commit­ sented by Corpus Christi Chapter on Civil ment has been for preservation of freedom Rights. World War II. And he served there as and the c!ignity of basic human rights. he has at home, head and shoulders Dr. Hector P. Garcia is a living monument May 1969. Humanitarian Award presented above the rest. He was awarded a to receive and is well deserving of the Presi­ by Corpus Christi Chapter of the NAACP. Bronze Star medal and six battle stars. dential Medal of Freedom Award. We pray January 24, 1977, Appreciation award by Dr. Garcia has committed his life to for a favorable response. Corpus Christi Ch~ber of Commerce for Respectfully yours, exceptional investment of time and energy the preservation and protection of in behalf of citizens of Corpus Christi in in­ freedom and basic human rights for LoUIS P. TELLEz, National Executive Secretary/Treasurer. terest of preserving the Naval Air Station all. We have written to President and Corpus Christi Army Depot. Reagan urging him to award Dr. DR. HECTOR P. GARCIA, FOUNDER, AMERICAN May 1977, Appointed by President Jimmy Garcia the Presidential Medal of Free­ Gl FORUM OF THE UNITED STATES Carter member of the U.S. Circuit Judge dom. We think our colleagues will Dr. Hector P. Garcia, physician, Founder, Nominating Cominission for the Western agree that Dr. Garcia is worthy of this American GI Forum of 'the U.S. Born in Fifth Circuit Panel. recognition after reading the following Mexico, January 17, 1914. Son of Mr. Jose January 20, 1978, Member Garcia and Mrs. Faustina Perez Garcia. Conference on Balanced National Growth letter written by the American GI and Economic Development. (January 29- Forum which clearly outlines Dr. Gar­ Graduate, University of Texas, Bachelor of Arts Degree, 1936. Graduate of the Uni­ February 2, 1978>. Appointed by Governor cia's numerous and noteworthy contri­ versity of Texas School of Medicine, Doctor Dolph Brisco of Texas and President Jimmy butions to our Nation. of Medicine, 1940. Married Wanda Fusillo, Carter. The letter follows: June 23, 1945. Children: Daisy Wanda, February 21, 1978, Delegate. Meeting. AMERICAN Gl FORUM Adriana Cecilia and Susana Patricia. High Level Briefing on the President's Tax OF THE UNITED STATES, 1940-41; General internship St. Joseph's & Econoinic Program, the White House, Albuquerque, N.Mex., April30, 1983. Hospital, Creighton University, Omaha, Ne­ Washington, D.C. The PRESIDENT, braska. 1941-1942. Surgical internship. February 25, 1978, Plaque presented by The White House, 1942-1946, served World War II as officer the Corpus Christi U.S.O. Council for lead­ Washington, D. C. in Infantry; Engineer and Medical Corps. ership in representing the Corpus Christi DEAR MR. PREsiDENT: It is with great pride Major Medical Corps European Theater of Community in support of the Inilitary in­ that the American GI Forum of the United Operation. Awarded Bronze Star Medal stallations in the Coastal Bend Area. States subinits for your consideration the with 6 Battle Stars. May 4, 1978, Liberty Bell Award. Law Day name of Dr. Hector P. Garcia for the Presi­ First national chairman and Founder of U.S.A., by Nueces County Young Lawyers dential Medal of Freedom Award. the American GI Forum on the U.S., a vet­ Association, Corpus Christi, Texas. Dr. Garcia's contributions to our country erans group composed of Americans of June 29, 1978, Texas State Liberty Bell in War and Peace have been outstanding. Mexican origin in 24 states. 1953, Vice presi­ Award by Texas Young Lawyers Associa­ His distinguished service has been recog­ dent Catholic Council for Spanish speaking tion, Fort Worth, Texas. nized nationally and internationally. people in the Southwest. 1955. Awarded August 17, 1978, Member, U.S. Attorney The Opportunity for the United States to Bronze Plaque "Democracy Forward" by General Benjamin Civiletti's Hispanic Advi­ honor Dr. Garcia would set a precedent for Texas Council Negro Organization. sory Cominittee on Civil Rights.

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 20132 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 20, 1983 January 9, 1980, At President Jimmy ing", on Iran, Afghanistan"; 1980, Named is that a party can go so far in campaigning Carter's request, attended a High Level "Mr. International" by Laredo, LULAC against nuclear weapons, and no farther. Briefing at the White House in reference to Council # 12, February 22; 1981, Meritorious When it strays beyond the limit, it goes over Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Crisis. Award National Council of La Raza, Febru­ the edge of credibility cliff. January 20, 1980, Distinguished Service ary; and Award, National Office of Civil Rights, San Whereas, Dr. Garcia has been a tireless The Heritage Foundation, on June Jose, California. worker for freedom and a courageous leader 13, in its own analysis of the "Lessons February 21, 1980, Recipient of the in eradicating racial bigotry and discrimina­ of the Tory Triumph," made these ob­ "Senior International 1980" Award, repre­ tion against Hispanic Citizentry; and servations: senting the United States. Awarded by Whereas, Dr. Garcia has given hope and Most critical of all to the election success, LULAC Council 12, Laredo, Texas. aspiration to thousands of Hispanics in the Thatcher was able to defuse the issue of un­ November 18, 1980, Reappointed to the pursuit of Equality; and employment-now running at nearly 13 per­ U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Texas Whereas, He has under unjust, adverse cent. Pre-election polls showed that about State Advisory Committee. conditions and attitudes, this most humble 50 percent of the population rated unem­ March 31, 1981, Brotherhood Award by and honorable man has changed the course ployment as the election's most serious the C. C. Chapter of the National Confer­ of history and made life more prudent and issue. Yet the Conservatives picked up well ence of Christians and Jews, Corpus Christi, just; and over a quarter of the votes of the unem­ Texas. Whereas, After 35 years of continuous ployed-almost half the number going to work with the Forum, this humble man con­ Labor. The Thatcher government did this RESOLUTION TO THE NATIONAL MIDYEAR CoN­ tinues to persevere in the quest for freedom by convincing the electorate that real, last­ FERENCE IN SAN JOSE, CALIF., MARCH 26, of man; and therefore be it 1983 ing jobs could only come with a healthy and Resolved, That the American G.I. Forum growing economy. The government stood Believing in the nomination of Dr. Hector of the United States petition President steadfast against "jobs" bills, and refused P. Garcia as recipient of the Presidential Ronald Reagan that this richly deserved even to predict the unemployment rates Medal of Freedom Award; and honor be bestowed upon Dr. Hector P. Garcia and · that his name be included would fall. By maintaining this firm stand, Whereas, Dr. Hector P. Garcia, physician, Conservatives could argue that they stood Founder, American G.I. Forum of the U.S., amongst those Americans that have distin­ guished themselves in service to their coun­ for policies aimed at permanent job cre­ born on January 17, 1914, son of Mr. Jose ation, and denounce the other parties as fa­ Garcia and Mrs. Faustina Perex Garcia; and try by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award. voring vote-buying short-term relief while Whereas, he graduated from the Universi­ endangering long-term growth. ty of Texas, Bachelor of Arts Degree, 1936, Motion made by the Union City Chapter Grauduate of the University of Texas and seconded by the San Francisco Chapter Regarding the second, or nuclear School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, & Unanimously adopted by Region IX at weapons message, of which Mr. Broder 1940. Married to Wanda Fusillo, June 23, the meeting of February 19, 1983 in the City spoke, numerous statements made by 1945, Children: Daisy Wanda, Adriana Ceci­ of San Francisco, State of California.e Michael Foot of the Labour Party, lia and Susana Patricia; and during the campaign in Britain, advo­ Whereas, during the years, 1940-41, his general internship was at St. Joseph's Hos­ LESSONS OF THE BRITISH cating unilateral disarmament, dis­ pital, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebras­ ELECTION-AN OBSERVATION banding NATO, and proposing in gen­ ka, and completed surgical internship be- eral an isolationist foreign policy, tween 1941-42; and . HON. PHIUP M. CRANE caused a highly unfavorable reaction Whereas, during his military years 1942- OF ILLINOIS among the voters and even within the 46, served his country during World War II IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leadership of his own party. One 18- as an officer in Infantry; Engineer and Med­ year member of the Labour Party di­ ical Corps, Major Medical Corps European Wednesday, July 20, 1983 Theater of Operation and awarded the cided not to vote Labour saying, "It's bronze star medal with 6 battle stars; and e Mr. PHILIP M. CRANE. Mr. Speak­ like a leftwing • • • has taken over my Whereas, in recognition for his outstand­ er, in his column in the Washington party." Indeed it had. ing contributions to his country was award­ Post on June 15, 1983, David S. Broder In an interview with the London cor­ ed the following, 1955, Bronze Plaque "De­ wrote of the relevance of the recent respondent of the Washington Post, mocracy Forward" Texas Council Negro Or­ election in the United Kingdom to the Foot had said, "I believe that we in ganization; 1961, Representative of Presi­ election scheduled for the United Britain should not proceed with the­ dent John F. Kennedy and Member of dele­ States next year. He cited "two mes­ deployment of-cruise or Pershing gation signing treaty concerning mutual de­ sages" to American Democrats from fense area agreement between the United missiles. I am also opposed to proceed­ States and the Federation of East Indies; the British election. One concerned a ing with the-purchase of-Trident. 1964, March 9, appointed by President domestic problem, unemployment, We want to move toward a nonnuclear Lyndon B. Johnson as Presidential repre­ possibly the overriding domestic issue defense program." In a statement sentative with the rank of special Ambassa­ in 1984; the other related to the nucle­ evocative of those by leaders of the dor to the Inauguration of Dr. Raul Leoni, ar freeze question which may be the left in our own country, Foot added, "I President of Venezuela; 1965, October 18, paramount foreign affairs issue in the think that over the past 2 or 3 years, presented by the President of the Republic United States next year unless the less the American attitude has contributed· of Panama with "Condecoracion, Orden fanatical advocates of the freeze pull Vasco Nunez de Balboa" with rank of Com­ more fiercely to the arms race than mander"; 1967, September, appointed by back. the Soviet Union." President Lyndon B. Johnson as member of Said Mr. Broder: In another statement Foot pro­ the National Advisory Council on Economic Parallels are never perfect in politics," but claimed that Britain's presently owned Opportunity of the United States: 1967, there are two messages from the British Polaris missiles should be destroyed, September, appointed by President Johnson election that have special importance for which brough the comment from as delegate to the United Nations from the the Democrats. One is that in a modem wel­ fare state. Labour leader Denis Healey, "* • • we United States with the rank of Ambassador; should not give them up unilaterally." 1968, November, sworn in as a "Commission­ He went on- er" of the United States Commission on Foot also made a repeated campaign even double-digit unemployment is not nec­ pledge that if Labour were elected, Civil Rights; 1977, January 24, Appreciation essarily fatal to a conservative regime. The Award by Corpus Christi Chamber of Com­ cushioning of jobless benefits defuses the Britain would be a "nonnuclear merce for exceptional investment of time anger and reduces the visibility of the un­ nation" in 5 years. and energy in behalf of citizens of Corpus employed.· And the reduction of inflation, What were the results of Labour's Christi in interest of preserving the Naval the other side of recessionary economics, policy? A landslide defeat. Labour now Air Station and C.C. Army Depot: 1977, May, Appointed by President Jimmy Carter, brings big political benefits among the vast holds only 209 seats, 144 under the Member of U.S. Circuit Judge Nominating majority of voters who are either employed majority. It received only 28 percent comxnission for the Western Circuit Panel; or retired. of the vote. Its leaders, such as Tony 1980, January, named by President Jimmy "The second message," Mr. Broder Benn, have either lost their seats in Carter to White House "High Level Brief- concluded, Parliament or, as Foot himself, July 20, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20133 stepped down. The party is in a sham­ A REBUTTAL OF THE TIME MAGAZINE ESSAY The Facts: The Department of Education bles. These messages to Democrats, "AGAINST A CONFUSION OF TONGUES" this past year awarded a five milllon dollar that Mr. Broder sees in the British teaching limited English speaking children. election outcome, can be instructive to This study will not be completed for an­ Republicans as well.e The National Association of Latino Elect­ other three years. Until then statements on ed and Appointed Officials is dis­ what works best for whom are clearly un­ mayed over the many misstatements and substantiated." BILINGUAL EDUCATION: ITS unsubstantiated allegations found in this Time's Essay Alleges: "The dubious value ROLE IN THE NATION'S week's essay feature in Time Magazine. En­ of bilingualism to students is only part of SCHOOLS titled "Against a Confusion of Tongues," America's valid concern about how to this two page article presents a biased and absorb the Hispanic minority. • • • The rise inaccurate description of bilingual educa­ of a large group, detached from the main HON.AUGUSTUSF.HA~NS tion. Since bilingual education hearings are population by language and custom, could commencing this week in Congress, NALEO affect stability of this country." OF CALIFORNIA offers the following facts and corrections The Facts: The author's concern with ab­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that more properly should have been done sorption of Hispanics demonstrates his lack by the Time editorial staff. of knowledge of the Hispanic community. Wednesday, July 20, 1983 Time's Essay alleges: "A new bilingualism Hispanics have been part of this country Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, the and biculturalism is being promulgated that since its inception. Florida, the Southwest e would deliberately fragment the nation into and Puerto Rico have added a richness to Subcommittee on Elementary, Second­ separate, unassimilated groups." this country's history and culture. The His­ ary, and Vocational Education is pres­ The Facts: When Title VII of the Elemen­ panic community's participation in the de­ ently holding hearings on the Bilin­ tary and Secondary Education Act was fense of this country during WWII, gual Education Improvement Act of passed in 1968, the purpose of bilingual edu­ and Vietnam is well known. Unfortunately 1983 ONALD tarded" and placed with children with learn­ magazine article suggests that a new OF GEORGIA kind of bilingualism/biculturalism, re­ ing disabilities. Those who presently assail bilingual education and hold up immersion IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lated to the dramatic increase in Span­ programs as their ideal do not realize the ish-speaking populations in the United massive failures associated with the immer­ Wednesday, July 20, 1983 States, is capable of separating the sion methods of learn­ • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the country into distinct, unassimilated ing another language. number of so-called public interest groups. This potential for separation, Time's Essay Alleges: "About half of the students from Spanish speaking homes drop groups and other organizations pur­ says Time, is most portentious in the out before the end of high school; of the porting to represent this or that group public school classrooms of this ones who remain, 30 percent eventually has proliferated in quantum jumps Nation. score two or more years below their age since the days of the Great Society. This was Time magazine's view of group on standardized tests." Most groups are financed by some course. But not everyone was pleased The Facts: These figures are correct. Yet form of taxpayer support, either Fed­ with what Time magazine had to say. rather than being attributable to bilingual eral, State or local. It has been discov­ Among those not pleased, and in fact education, the article does not point out that at the height of the bilingual program ered that these people have a very quite critical of Time magazine's anal­ in 1980 only 12 percent of the total young­ definite point of view. Jeffrey Hart, a ysis, is the National Association of sters eligible to receive services were being columnist for the Washington Times, Latino Elected and Appointed Offi­ served. Obviously, bilingual education is not discussed these findings in a column cials . promoted by the United marginally related to profits and losses. its moral views. And it has a soft spot in its States and accepted by most of the nations In the United States, as in England, the heart for foreign communist dictators. of the free world. temper of this constituency is pacifist and Just my kind of folks, in short.e The Free Trade coalition which fashioned socialist, and it will be powerfully represent­ the GATT remained in the ascendancy in ed at the 1984 Democratic convention. the United States until the end of the 1970s. There comes at hand via Public Opinion DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Since then, protectionsim, sustained by magazine a fascinating bit of documentation AWARD IN THE CAUSE OF years of falling productivity, insufficient in­ regarding part of this "caring constituency," FREE TRADE vestment incentive, and massive unemploy- the so-called public-interest organizations . ment, has dominated the Congress and the that have been established in Washington country. and elsewhere to promote various ostensibly HON. BARBER B. CONABLE, JR. Protectionism flowers in an environment virtuous causes. OF NEW YORK of unemployment. Non-competitive indus­ This constituency is also inclined toward IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tries blame imports to justify their requests socialism. Fifty-one percent favor socialism, for protectionist relief. Labor organizations, and by a lop-sided 16-1 they think that the Wednesday, July 20, 1983 particularly those with extravagant wage federal government should redistribute the rates, seek to insulate their members from national income. • Mr. CONABLE. Mr. Speaker, re­ external competition. In recent presidential elections, no Repub­ cently, our esteemed colleague from Even though free trade is a popular con­ lican candidate received more than 4 per­ Minnesota, Mr. FRENzEL, received the cept in the United States, the idea of pro­ cent of their vote, and George McGovern­ Consumers for World Trade Annual tecting U.S. jobs is even more popular. perhaps the most left-wing candidate ever Award for distinguished service in the Therefore, protectionism restrictions have nominated by a major party-was favored cause of open and competitive world proliferated in the last 3 years. by 96 percent. trade. It is a great pleasure for me to We have forced Japan to restrict auto Not surprisingly, the public figures they call this honor to your attention. shipments "voluntarily". We have forced most admire are, in order, Ralph Nader, Europe to do the same with steel imports. Edward M. Kennedy, John Kenneth Gal­ We all know Mr. FRENZEL as an un­ We have always had among the highest tex­ braith, Gloria Steinem and Andrew Young. wavering advocate of free and open tile tariffs in the world, and most agricultur­ parts. Our statute books, state and federal, S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman, final cost of protectionism. are studded with "Buy Amercia" laws which social scientists, interviewed the leaders and In receiving this award, Mr. FRENZEL restrict imports of everything from highway chief staff members of 74 organizations, in­ joins the ranks of several other distin­ construction materials to flatware. And cluding the American Civil Liberties Union, guished recipients of this honor who that's not all. We've imposed increased Common Cause, Congress Watch, the Chil­ similarly were recognized for their duties on imported motorcycles; introduced dren's Defense Fund, Women's Legal De­ contributions in supporting open cargo preference legislation; imposed health fense and Consumer's Union; and, on the international trade. The first recipient and safety requirements on imported goods basis of these interviews, produced a profile and are conducting up to now unsuccessful of the sort of person who leads these organi­ of the annual award was Mr. SAM GIB- · negotiations with the PRC to force them to zations. BONS, the distinguished chairman of accept tighter textile quotas. Almost invariably, the leaders are well the Ways and Means Trade Subcom­ And what is so awful about protecting educated and often have graduated from mittee. Last year, Senator CHARLES American jobs, or demanding fair treatment prestigious colleges and universities, and PERcY and former Senator Jacob in the international marketplace

11-059 Q-87-10 (Pt. 15) 20136 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 20, 1983 tic commerce prohibited to foreign flag ves­ type of operation. We urge that you over­ KILLING THE TRUTH sels under the Jones Act. turn your previous ruling and grant a tem­ I strongly disagree with that interpreta­ porary waiver allowing any firm wishing to tion of what constitutes "domestic com­ offer this topping off service to use foreign HON. NANCY L JOHNSON merce." It is clear that the topping-off serv­ flag vessels until such time as U.S. vessels OF CONNECTICUT ice is designed exclusively for the facilita­ are available on a competitive basis. tion of foreign commerce, i.e., the transpor­ The economies of scale available from the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tation of coal from the United States to for­ use of large vessels in the coal trade are well Wednesday, July 20, 1983 eign purchasers. Moreover, since there are documented. Unfortunately, these large ves­ no American firms prepared to conduct a sels cannot now be fully loaded due to insuf­ • Mrs. JOHNSON. Mr. Speaker, once topping-off service with American flag ves­ ficient water depths at United States East again, the Turkish Government, sels, it is clear that an interpretation by the and Gulf coast ports. Although legislation through its embassy in the United Department of the Treasury holding such a authorizing dredging of coastal ports is States, has attempted to distort histo­ service to be foreign commerce would be pending before Congress, it is unlikely to ry by its denial of the Armenian geno­ consistent with the Jones Act goal of pre­ become law this year due to continuing dis­ cide, the first genocide of the 20th serving domestic commerce to American agreements over funding of both construc­ century. companies and American flag vessels. tion for a A temporary waiver of the Jones Act to the Washington Post on May 31, 1983, ruling which would allow CSL to offer U.S. permit use of foreign flag vessels to trans­ and I think eloquently assesses the coal exporters the opportunity to complete load U.S. coal in the Delaware Bay would be moral cost of the denial of history. loading or to "top off" large coal colliers in fully in keeping with this Administration's [From the Washington Post, May 31, 19831 vessel to vessel transfer operations in the coal export policy announced in July, 1981. Delaware Bay. In part, that policy statement pledged to KlLLING TRUTH CSL was refused the opportunity to offer promote U.S. coal exports and to take every this service because its planned use of Cana­ action possible to reduce costs of U.S. coal. There is a politician up in Canada by the dian flag self-unloading ocean going vessels We urge you to reconsider your March de­ name of Stephen Stiles who, besides beign a was determined to be a violation of the cision and to allow those firms which have world class jerk, should be an object lesson Jones Act which requires that if the same already applied, as well as any other firm, a to us all. A member of the Alberta provin­ cargo is both loaded and unloaded in U.S. waiver to conduct a Delaware Bay topping cial legislature, he has said that he has waters, that it be carried on U.S. vessels. off operation utilizing foreign flag vessels. A "never seen anything in the way of docu­ The Custoins Bureau and the Treasury reversal of your decision will mean greater mentary evidence to prove ... that Jews Department now have an opportunity to exports of U.S. coal with attendent econom­ were necessarily persecuted" by Nazi Ger­ overturn this unfortunate ruling as a second ic benefits, both in the short and long term. many. Case closed. firm has applied for a temporary waiver of We would be pleased to discuss this with Considering all the evidence available, the Jones Act so that foreign flag vessels you at any time. documentary or otherwise, it seeins certain can be used to prove the technical and eco­ Sincerely, that nothing could convince Stiles that nomic, as well as political, viability of this MARK R. JOSEPH .• what happened happened. He prefers to be- July 20, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20137 lieve otherwise and I would prefer to believe be a joke to me if it was not for that lunch sion ripped it apart. Another bridge, farther that he is not only an aberration, but unim­ at the Turkish embassy. I learned some­ along, was blown up at the same time. portant as well. After all, the evidence of thing there. The last victim of any genocide So the fleeing Germans were ensconced the Holocaust is so overwhelming, it could is truth.e on the Austrian side of the river and Hit­ not possibly be denied ler's hometown was safe. But only for the That, at least, is what I thought until re­ moment. By next morning virtually the cently. But then not too long ago, I found A TINY AUSTRIAN TOWN SUR­ entire division had arrived at the north side myself sitting at one end of an enormous RENDERS AT THE 11TH HOUR of the Inn and massed enough firepower to table in the embassy of . At the blow the little town of Braunau off the other end was the ambassador himself and map. what he was telling me was that the crime I HON. JAMES H. SCHEUER Maj. Gen. John Millikin, who had re­ had always thought had happened, simply OF NEW YORK placed the seriously wounded Maj. Gen. had not. I am speaking now of the systemat­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES John B. Wogan as divisional commander, ic murder of over one million Armenians by decided to give Braunau its chance to live. the Ottoman Turks. Wednesday, July 20, 1983 He sent the mayor of Simbach across the I had mentioned this genocide in a e Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, it river in a boat carrying this ultimatum: column-mentioned it only in passing-and gives me great pleasure to submit the "Your town will be spared if you surrender mentioned it thinking that it was a given­ following article by Martin Abramson, by 12 noon. If you refuse to surrender, that no one could possibly dispute that it Braunau will be destroyed." had happened. In 1915, in the midst of the "A Tiny Austrian Town Surrenders at The mayor came back with a meaningless First World War, a beleaguered and disinte­ the 11th Hour," which recently ap­ message that Millikin interpreted as a stall. grating Ottoman Empire had turned on its peared in Long Island's Newsday. He sent word that the 12 o'clock ultimatum Armenian population, banishing them from Martin Abramson of Woodmere, was in force. what was historically Armenia to what is N.Y., is both a distinguished author The morning hours went by slowly. Ten now Syria-murdering them, starving them and a respected man of great charac­ o'clock came and went ... 10:30 ... 11 . .. and leaving them unprotected to bandits ter. During World War II, Mr. Abram­ Three armored artillery battalions were told and killers along the way. to prepare for the bombardment. Then it But the ambassador said this had not hap­ son won the Bronze Star as a corre­ was 11:30 ... 11:45 ... 11:47 ... pened. Sure, there were "incidents" and, spondent for Stars and Stripes. Suddenly, in a true-life version of a Holly­ yes, the Armenians had been banished. But I commend this article to the atten­ wood scenario, three men on the far bank what the world persisted in calling a geno­ tion of my colleagues. climbed into a boat and began to row toward cide was actually a civil war-one with atroc­ [From Newsday, May 1, 19831 Simbach. From the boat, they waved franti­ ities on both sides and one in which the cen­ cally and screamed both in German and in tral government in Constantinople lost con­ A TINY AUSTRIAN TOWN SURRENDERS AT THE 11TH HOUR English: "Don't fire! Braunau surrenders!" trol of its own troops and could not protect The artillery was ordered to hold fire. the Armenians. There never was a policy to When the rowboat arrived, the three men exterminate the Armenians, the ambassador Looking across the sparkling, blue-green told Cpl. Harry Parker, who acted as divi­ said. water at the picture-postcard hamlet with sion interpreter, that the garrison com­ And so I sat at the table unable to prove its thatched roof and gables, it was hard to mander in Braunau had accepted the ulti­ that one of the great crimes of history had grasp that this was Braunau-am-Inn, Aus­ matum, realizing that he was facing over­ actually been committed. I mentioned some tria. There should have been witches' aeries whelming force. Engineers constructed a books I had read. The ambassador smiled. everywhere, thunder cracking behind us, footbridge and an advance unit headed by Exaggerations, he said. Reports based on and black clouds scudding overhead. In­ Col. Ridgway P. Smith crossed over to heresay and given wide currency by England stead, the morning was lit by dazzling sun­ occupy the town. Shortly afterward, radio and America which were, after all, Turkey's shine and the pastoral setting seemed utter­ stations throughout the world were broad­ foes in World War I. This was true, he said, ly at variance with the fact that across the casting the news that Hitler's birthplace of the reports filed by the American Ambas­ Inn River was the birthplace of Adolf had fallen to his enemies. sador, Henry Morgenthau, and as for the ac­ Hitler. But why had Braunau first decided to counts written by Arnold Toynbee, well, he It was May 2, 1945, 38 years ago tomor­ fight to the end? And why had it given up at later revised them. row. The 13th Armored Division of the U.S. the last possible ~oment? As a young army Do not for a minute get the idea that I Third Army had crushed parts of three correspondent attached to the 13th Ar­ was being singled out for special treatments. German divisions in a headlong advance mored Division, I was determined to clear From 1915 to this day, the Turks-Ottoman through Bavaria just before the war ended. up this mystery. The burghers in town, or otherwise-have categorically denied that V-E

would make robbery attain that rank; these young men are during his elementary and high school of controlled drugs from pharmacies a fed­ eral offense. Hearings were held this year to worthy of our highest praise. years, and later received his B.A. and rally support for the problem. Pharmacists James B. Bridge, Jr., is the son of M. Ed. from St. Mary's College, his say that this legislation would encourage in­ Mr. and Mrs. James B. Bridge, Sr., and M.A. with distinction from DePaul vestigation of pharmacy crimes by federal attends Brunswick High School, where University, and his Ph.D in education­ authorities; the National District Attorneys he will be a sophomore. His interests al administration from the University Assn. rebuffs such legislation, saying that lie in the computer and science fields. of Wisconsin. July 20, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20157 Brother Glenn is presently a a situation for some time now where many Additionally, John Paul has exhorted the member of the board of trustees of of the world's great political upheavals Poles to resist violence and class conflict, Lewis University and an active partici- remain in popular memory primarily as ro- notions central to Latin America "liberation pant in educational conferences. mantic or dramatic images. theology." "Hatred is a destructive force." Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay trib- Though one cannot help but be over- said the pope, "and we must neither destroy whelmed at the spectacle of John Paul's nor be destroyed by it." ute to the 25th anniversary of Brother visit to Poland, we think it is extremely 1m­ We will not soon forget the image of as a Christian brother. He is portant to regard the details of what the Paul II standing below the high cross in considered by all who know him as a pope has been saying in his speeches there. Katowice, but we hope it is not forgotten man of vision and tireless worker Poland is indeed yet another of the great that in Poland this week "the pope re-con­ toward the goal of excellence in Chris- political movements of the past 20 years, ferred legitimacy on ideas with few active ti d ti but it is becoming evident that Poland and defenders among the world's intellectual an e uca on.e this pope represent a distinct break with the elites the past 20 years. But it should be theories of political change that have held THE POPE IN POLAND clear by now that they still awaken power.. the world's attention. ful aspirations in the hearts and minds of During the 1960s and 1970s, an entire cul­ the masses of people those elites have so ture of support grew up around the idea of often falsely claimed to represent.e HON. GUS YATRON political change based on resistance, vio­ OF PENNSYLVANIA lence and the elimination of classes of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES people defined as oppressors. These notions SUPPORT FOR H.R. 3420, THE Wednesday, July 20, 1983 became the basis for revolutionary move­ ments in Latin America, Africa and Asia, SECONDARY MORTGAGE MAR­ e Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, Pope and political writers in Europe and the U.S. KET EQUITY ACT John Paul II's epic tour of Poland last defended these movements as essentially month was a visit which gives the popular uprisings. While that definition was West several lucid lessons to ponder. often inaccurate it gave them political legiti­ HON. ROBERT T. MATSUI macy. or CALD'ORNIA Foremost, perhaps, was the Pope's Revolutions in Cuba, Vietnam, Angola and message on resistance movements. Re­ Zimbabwe, which received enormous good IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES butting current theories of political will and moral support in the West, have re­ development which applaud militant sulted in repressive, one-party political sys­ Wednesday, July 20, 1983 civic upheaval, Pope John Paul II re­ tems in which elections are not held How­ e Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I offer minded the world of the destructive ever, this has in no way called into question my strongest support to legislation re­ nature of most guerrilla revolutionary the legitimacy of the claims of succeeding cently offered by my colleague, JERRY movements in countries like Peru, Colombia efforts. Frequently, the success of or El Salvador. These guerrilla movements . PATTERSON, which would be of substan­ such movements, as in Cuba, Vietnam, are persistently described as civil wars based tial benefit to the housing industry in and apparently Nicaragua, simply on indigenous local conditions, and little se­ California and other areas with high advent repressive, one-party regimes. rious effort is made to explain the political housing costs. This bill, H.R. 3420, The following article from the Wall ideas and power seeking methods of guerril­ would raise the ceiling on mortgages Street Journal of June 22 merits at­ la leaders. The political beliefs of the Nica­ eligible for purchase by the Federal tention because it emphasizes the raguan Sandinista leaders Thomas Borge National Mortgage Association tragic course of this process; because it and the Ortegas was no secret before they took power but received scant attention. (Fannie Mae> and the Federal Home . cautions us to consider an ethic of con- Can anyone recall reading a serious discus­ Loan Mortgage Corporation . claims to moral imperatives, and above Farabundo Marti coalition? Under current law, Fannie Mae and all; because it stresses the possibility These unexamined ideas are important, Freddie Mac may purchase mortgages of peaceable political change toward because in the end the cameraman's or re­ from banks, thrift institutions, and the ideal of self-determination without porter's evocative portraits of armed strug­ other mortgage originators up to a the resort to violence or the abroga­ gle are replaced by ideas transformed into a political system. Vietnam and Nicaragua limit of $108,300. Although this ceiling tion of civil liberties. have two such political systems. may be reasonable for many areas THE POPE IN POLAND What we are seeing this week in Poland is around the country, in California and For the past week, the image of Pope a notion of political change whose philoso­ other high cost areas, it severly limits John Paul II in Poland has been every­ phy is quite different from the revolution­ access to the secondary market. This, where--on the evening news, on the front ary forms that have won the admiration of in turn, reduces the ability of lending pages, on the covers of news magazines. It so many cafe liberals year in and year out. was a most impressive emotional experience The central idea coming out of Poland is institutions to free up their funds to to see upward of a million Poles spread out self-determination-the belief that the indi­ continue originating mortgages to toward the horizon to glimpse or hear the vidual citizens of a nation ought in some serve low- and moderate-income fami­ pope as he stood beneath a towering floral manner to contribute their ideas to a na­ lies. The Office of Management and crucifix. tion's politics, free of both internal and ex­ Budget has estimated that while the It is surely correct to view the pope's trip ternal forces of repression. Poland's Solidar­ current ceiling serves 80 percent of the to Poland as giving a huge lift to that coun­ ity is a movement for which self-determina­ try's fledgling free-labor movement, Solidar­ tion is the reason for being, and Pope John market nationwide, in high cost areas ity. Nonetheless, as we watched these Paul II raised this idea repeatedly the past only 58 percent of the market is highly charged images and descriptions spill week. He has spoken of "the fullness of civic served. out of Poland, we found ourselves troubled rights and the social structures which corre­ To remedy this inequity, H.R. 3420 at the thought that the pope and Solidarity spond to its just requirements," of a state would allow the Fannie Mae and Fred­ were disappearing into the media's nether that must fulfill its role with "the consent die Mac ceilings in high cost areas to world of highly romanticized resistance of the governed" and of his hope for "full be increased by the same percent as movements. It is a world that lives more on participation in deciding common life." the power of its images than the power of What we have here, at its most basic level, provided under the FHA section 203(b) its ideas. We have been there before. is a call for the establishment of the right program. In no case would the in­ We were there in South and North Viet­ of free speech, which in tum is a prerequi­ crease exceed 33lh percent, and no nam in the 1960s and '70s, in the mountains site to the formation of political parties and Federal spending would be required. of Bolivia with Che Guevara and in the popularly elected governments. Indeed I believe this legislation provides a streets of Uruguayan towns with the Tupa­ before Poland imposed martial law, Solidari­ fair and reasonable means of insuring maro guerrillas. We fastened for months on ty was essentially an umbrella over a variety that high-cost housing areas around the image of Ayatollah Khomeini seated on of political groupings, such as the KOR the floor of his apartment in Paris, and we Group and the Labor urge my colleagues to Join me in assur­ side of Nicaragua. In short, we have been in Party. ing its pa.ssage.e 20158 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 20, 1983 NEED FOR THE SENSE ACT our economy continues to change very good friends, Stan and Dotty, live these new industries can provide jobs in Miami Shores in our 17th Congres­ HON. BILL RICHARDSON at home and contribute to a sustained sional District and have spent a life­ OF NEW MEXICO economic growth by reducing our time serving their community. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES trade imbalance. Exports of photovol­ It was with a great deal of joy that I taics rose 79 percent from 1979 to 1980 read the story of the Whitmans in the Wednesday, July 20, 1983 and exports of solar heating and cool­ July 3 issue of the Miami Herald. The e Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, ing products rose 45 percent in that Whitman family is prime proof that over the past 10 years, this country same period. private enterprise, the American has twice been brought to a near Mr. Speaker, this Nation has the family, and community commitment standstill as a result of energy crises. ability to develop a viable solar energy are alive and well in south Florida. We have vowed to never again be held industry. Let us enact the SENSE Act The article follows: hostage by the oil producing nations. to make certain that our knowledge [From the Miami Herald, July 3, 19831 The gasoline lines are gone now and and resources are used to their fullest prices have fallen largely due to our potential as we work to achieve energy DYNASTY-THE WHITMANS HAVE ALWAYS GoNE FIRST CLAss own conservation efforts. But we must independence.• not become complacent. We must reaf­ firm our commitment to becoming an Old Man Whitman would be proud. energy independent nation. If we drift FRANK REYNOLDS SET HIGH Upon a marshy site once crawling with back into a total reliance finite energy STANDARD FOR AMERICAN land crabs and thick with fierce mosquitos, sources, we will find ourselves again JOURNALISM his sons built the most elegant shopping center this side of Worth Avenue. facing crises in the coming decades. A surfer, a tennis player, a water-ski The Reagan administration simply HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD buff-Bill, Stan and Dudley Whitman own has no energy policy and ignores the OF MICHIGAN Bal Harbour Shops, a world-class collection need for long-term planning to insure IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of expensive stores and the economic our energy independence. Nonnuclear Wednesday, July 20, 1983 anchor of the small oceanfront community. energy research and development rep­ Forty-five years earlier, their father, Wil­ resented 60 percent of the total energy e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, liam Francis Whitman, used his money and technologies budget in 1981; the ad­ like millions of his viewers I was vision to change the face of Miami Beach ministration proposed to drop that to shocked and saddened at the death of with hotels and apartment houses. ABC News Anchorman, Frank Reyn­ "Bal Harbour Shops lends prestige to the a mere 16 percent in 1984. This admin­ community," Village Manager Fred Maley istration seems bent on wiping out the olds. For me, he represented the very best said. "I think the town pays its proper re­ progress that has been achieved over spect to the Whitmans." the last few years in the field of re­ in American journalism. By his de­ The shopping center accounts for 7.2 per newable energies. meanor and his responsible handling cent of the village's total tax base. Last year That is why I have cosponsored the of the news, he set a high standard for that came to $96,000. The resort tax gener­ Solar Energy National Security and television reporting. ated by the center's five restaurants gave Employment Act. SENSE is As a mark of the regard in which he the village another $93,000 last year. The was held by his colleagues in the village also gets a percentage of the sales the legislative tool through which the tax from the 80 stores in the center. Nation's conservation and solar indus­ broadcast industry, Mr. Reynolds was awarded the prestigious George Foster Stan, 64-the only brother who doesn't tries can be more fully developed, com­ live in Bal Harbour-minds the stores, mercialized, and integrated into our Peabody Award in 1979, just 1 year watching over the family business that Nation's overall energy policy. after he became chief anchorman for grossed $104 million last year. Aside from assuring energy stability, ABC's "World News Tonight." He's the visible Whitman, the one who at­ an important reason for promoting A 30-year veteran of broadcasting, tends Village Council meetings and wields the development of renewable energy Mr. Reynolds covered political cam­ the corporate clout when anyone or any­ paigns and conventions and the U.S. thing threatens the interests of the shop­ and conservation industries is their po­ ping center. His brothers are into other en­ tential for creating new employment manned space-flight program and pro­ vided commentary of Presidential deavors, although each owns a third of the opportunities for thousands of Ameri­ center. cans. In my district in New Mexico, speeches and news conferences. "I'm paid $1 a year to stay away," said the unemployment rate is still hover­ It was that depth of experience and Dudley, 63. He owns Commander Marine in ing around 10 percent. According to sound news judgment that helped Mr. Cpa-locka, a small company that manufac­ Leland Alhom, executive director of Reynolds boost ABC "World News" to tures marine engines in conjunction with the New Mexico Solar Industry Devel­ the top of the ratings. the Ford Motor Co. Thirty-five years ago, opment Corp., the solar industry in Mr. Speaker, I want to extend my he was one of the first to use fiberglass to condolences to Mr. Reynolds' wife, make boats, and in his youth he pioneered New Mexico has grown from about 200 slalom water skiing. direct solar jobs statewide early in Henrietta, and his five sons. While his "Dad always said I'd be a wharf rat," he 1980 to nearly 1,500 jobs today. An­ passing is their personal tragedy, said. Dudley lives practically next door to other 500 to 800 jobs indirectly tied to American journalism, the broadcast Bill and owns a vacation home on Eleuthera these direct solar jobs. The SENSE industry especially, and millions of tel­ in the Bahamas, where he surfs. Act will encourage continued growth evision viewers share their loss.e Bill, 69, is a noted horticulturist who in the solar energy field by extending grows rare tropical fruits a few hundred yards from Bal Harbour Shops on his own business and residential tax credits THE WHITMAN FAMILY urban agricultural station. Like his brother, until1990. he's a surfing nut and still spends every The SENSE Act directly addresses HON. WIWAM LEHMAN summer in Hawaii catching the waves. He's the unemployment problem by requir­ OF FLORIDA there now. ing the Secretary of Labor, within ex­ Stan followed in his father's footsteps and isting job training and placement pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES went into real estate after World War II. He grams, to implement policies to en­ Wednesday, July 20, 1983 bought the 15.3 acres upon which Bal Har­ bour Shops sits in 1957 for $2 a square foot hance the development of a labor • Mr. LEHMAN of Florida. Mr. when most shopping center developers were force skilled in energy conservation Speaker, in these times, families, even paying about 10 cents a square foot. and renewable energy technologies. those that are prominent and success­ "They all thought I was crazy back then," Furthermore, renewable energy ful, too often disintegrate. he said. Not today. technologies have a tremendous poten­ In south Florida, however, we have a Neiman-Marcus, Saks, Gucci, Cartier, tial as major new export industries. As special family in the Whitmans. My Bonwit Teller, Brooks Brothers, Mark Cross July 20, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20159 and dozens of other high-class merchants Espanola Way has remained seedy ever manager for 14 years. '"What he got is con­ have made Bal Harbour a mecca for wealthy since. Three years ago, a young preserva­ siderably scaled down from his original pro­ tourists and South Floridians. There is a tionist, Linda Polansky, bought some of the posals." gourmet chocolate emporium, a custom sta­ buildings on the street and began a restora­ Last year, Whitman approached the coun­ tionery store, a sweet-smelling toiletries tion effort. cil about moving the busy shopping center shop that sells soap for $6 a bar. William Whitman's biggest project was entrance to Bal Bay Dr., a residential street. The landscaped, sunlit outdoor mall is fre­ the Whitman-by-the-Sea Hotel at 34th and Residents protested and the council sided quently and favorably compared with Fifth Collins Avenue, the first major hotel to be with them. As of now, the entrance will stay Avenue in New York, Rodeo Drive in Bever­ built in Dade County during the Great De­ where it is, on Collins Avenue. ly Hills and Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. pression. It was tom down in 1945 to make "My only problems have been political "There isn't anything as fancy as this in way for high-rises. ones with the town," Stan said. "But I the whole world," Stan boasted. Designed by architect Roy France, who haven't any problems right now. Every­ He may be right. He has claimed for years also designed the Edgewater Beach, Saxony, thing's smooth." that. his stores gross more revenues per Casablanca and a half-dozen other grand The heir to the Whitman real estate dy­ square foot and pay more rent than those in Miami Beach hotels, the Whitman was the nasty is 39-year-old Randy Whitman, Stan's any other local shopping center, and no one last word in style in 1935 when it opened. son. He has been the leasing agent for the has disputed him yet. "Pleasant people, your own kind," reads Bal Harbour Shops for 10 years. Before that The center is doing well. It is in the midst an old brochure with photos of people danc­ he sold commercial real estate on Brickell of a $25-mllllon expansion that w1ll double ing and dining in the Sea Island Room. Avenue. He lives in Coconut Grove. its original size to eventually include 100 "Check your hat and your worries at the "I've always chafed at working for other stores. Right now there are 80. Whitman . . . Only the hat w1ll be re­ people," he said. "I prefer to do my work "We don't have the schlocks here," Stan turned!" where I'm on my own." said. "I like to think we sell something a At one time, William Whitman owned the "He'll take it over, there is nobody else." little more high class than toilet paper." 3100, 3200 and 3300 blocks of Collins Ave. Stan said. Other Whitman offspring fly hel­ But then, the Whitmans always did every­ plus other Beach real estate, including part icopters, own businesses and other real thing first class. William Whitman, a of Lincoln Road Mall. He gradually sold estate. wealthy businessman from Chicago who some parcels off to developers Ben Novack, But it will probably be awhile before owned one of that city's largest printing George Sax and others. Randy takes over. Stan still puts in a full companies, brought his family to boom "My father had a chauffeur, a cook, two day at the office and can often be seen town Miami in 1914 after choosing it over maids and a gardener," Stan said. "My marching through his mall, chatting with Beverly Hills as a warm place to settle. father knew how to live." his store owners and checking up on busi­ In 1917, he built a palatial family home on The boys' mother, Leona Whitman, is 97 ness. the ocean at Collins Avenue and 32nd years old now and lives in Bal Harbour. She "I stick around because I'm lazy," he said. Street. The two-story, five-bedroom house was a Miami Beach socialite in the 1920s "My son leases it, somebody else runs it and had fireplaces, sunken gardens and a dance and '30s. I get to have fun. and we make money, too." floor built into a sand dune overlooking the "Our parents never took us to the clubs," Old Man Whitman would be proud.e ocean. The Saxony Hotel stands on the site Dudley said. "We wore plain clothes to now. school. We weren't Little Lord Fauntle­ roys." A TRIBUTE TO JERRY "I remember growing up in that house, I But Stan remembers being quick with his loved that house," Stan said. "We used to fists when other boys would gang up on him KROMASH build our own surfboards and surf in the because he was a Whitman. ocean right off our back yard." Wllllam Whitman died in 1936, just a year Carl Fisher's elephant, Rosie, would make HON. STENY H. HOYER after his hotel was finished. OFKARYLAND an appearance when there were birthday In 1945, Leona Whitman sold their ocean­ parties and tow the neighborhood children front home to developer George Sax for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES around in a cart. The pachyderm once re­ $250,000, helping to usher in the era of wall­ Wednesday, July 20, 1983 lieved herself on the Whiteman's driveway, to-wall high-rises along Collins Avenue. The and Stan remembered that his father was three young Whitman boys were fresh out e Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to "furious" and told Fisher off about it. of the armed services and doing what most report the sorrowful passing of a dear Back then Indian Creek, across the street wealthy young men would go under the cir­ friend of mine and an outstanding citi­ from the Whitman home, was full of croco­ cumstances-having fun. zen of Maryland and my district, diles and alive with mosquitos. Bill and Dudley got into the motion pic­ Jerome Kromash. In my community "This was a scrubby, sandy, mangrovey ture business, making nature and adventure place in the old days," Stan said. "People of Prince Georges County, Md., there films for Warner Bros., RKO, Disney and were few people who rivaled Jerry in try and make it sound like it was paradise, Paramount. but believe me, it's a lot better now than it The two specialized in underwater photog­ his dedication, his wit and his good was then." raphy and one of their short subjects, Five will toward his family, his friends and His father was busy remaking the barren Fathoms of Fun, was a runnerup for an his colleagues. town. William Whitman built the first Academy Award. Another film they worked At the time of his death, Jerry was apartment house on Miami Beach after the on, The Sea Around Us, did win an Oscar the chief liquor inspector for Prince 1926 hurricane, the luxury Indian Creek for its writer, Rachel Carson. Georges County. He had held this po­ Apartments at 3300 Collins Ave. In the But HollyWood producers told the Whit­ sition since 1978, when he was promot­ winter of 1936, a three-bedroom, top-floor man brothers that if they wanted to contin­ apartment went for $3,300 for the season­ ue making films they needed to become a ed from his job as deputy inspector. January to May. The price included maid union shop and become better organized. He has been with the liquor board for service, lights, gas, heat and laundry. No "That just could not have worked out, so many years prior to that time in a dogs allowed. we got out of the business," Dudley said. He part-time capacity. "The wealthiest people in the United began building boats and Bill got interested Jerry was also a key element in the States rented those apartments," Stan said. in horticulture. Democratic Party in my county. He "Those people could buy and sell these Today, neither visits Bal Harbour Shops was the treasurer of the Maryland shoppers here at Bal Harbour Shops many very frequently. They let Stan handle times over." things. Democratic Party, serving from 1981 His father also developed Espanola Way, Although the shopping center for the to his death, and had worked in every which was almost named Whitman Way. most part coexists peacefully with the tiny Democratic Party campaign from 1968 lems. Prince Georges County Democratic Whitman's aim was to build a neighbor­ In 1976, a hostile council slapped a build­ Central Committee from 1977 to 1982, hood in the heart of Miami Beach where ing moratorium on the Bal Harbour Shops and coordinated several Democratic the houses and streets would have the at­ that lasted a couple of years. campaigns in his community of Laurel. mosphere of a quaint Spanish village. He When Stan unveiled plans to expand the erected Spanish-style bungalows and build­ center in the late 1970s the council again balked. he was also very active in civic activi­ when the street became a thriving hangout "He wanted more than the city would ties in his community. He served on for bookies, bootleggers and prostitutes. allow," said Maley, who has been the village the Harrison Elementary School 20160 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 20, 1983 Parent Teachers Association and on was with the U.S. Army Harbor Craft 1978 Host, Eastern Regional, Senior Little the Eisenhower Junior High School 1943-1946. League Girls Softball Tournament. PTA. He worked with the Laurel Boys When one reflects upon the fact 1979 T-Ball lristructional program for 7- and Girls Club, the Boy Scouts and that the cultural, historical, and eco­ year olds inaugurated. - was past chancellor commander of the nomic achievements-even the basic 1980 Batting cages installed. Knights of Pythias. 1980 Wayne Americans District II Cham­ health, well being and longevity of a pions. Jerry was a man who always gave State and Nation-depend in large 1982 Ten-year-old District II Champions. 100 percent to any task at hand. If you measure upon how well we educate Member, Wayne Recreation Advisory knew Jerry was handling a matter, each generation charged with the Board . you knew it was done, and done right. trust of carrying out its responsibil­ Assistant District II Administrator lion tons regulated by federal and state real risk. As our Committee on Energy agencies, as well as unknown mlllions- of and Commerce report on H.R. 2867, It was over a decade ago, But Charles tons generated by small operators exempt the 1983 amendments to the Resource Brookes still can recall the horror he felt from regulations. The office, an arm of Con­ the day he was shown aerial photographs of gress, estimates that it costs U.S. industry Conservation and Recovery Act, & W.R. Grace Co.s' Curtis Bay, Md., plant. and government together between $4 billion states: Mr. Brookes, Grace's senior vice president [T]he Committee intends to convey a for environmental policy, says the photo­ and $5 billion each year to manage and reg­ clear and unambiguous message • • • reli­ graphs-intended for office decoration-re­ ulate that waste, a sum that is expected to ance on land disposal of hazardous waste vealed a "two-square-Inile red blotch staring soar to $12 billion annually by 1990. has resulted in an unacceptable risk to at us." PERPETUAL CARE human health and the environment • • • Tbe ~lotch was producted by a chemical Not_only are landfills in short supply, but land disposal should be used as a last resort that Grace had been dumping into the their continued use poses worrisome poten­ ••• Chesapeake Bay. When Mr. Brookes or­ tial liabilities for waste producers. By law, a Clearly, the strong regulatory re­ dered a subordinate to "do something about company can be held responsible for its haz­ the pollution," he says, the man returned ardous wastes indefinitely, whether it dis­ quirements of the Resource Conserva­ with a new set of photographs, the red areas tion and Recovery Act must be supple­ poses of them itself or subcontracts the job neatly .ailburshed out. "That was his solu­ out to a third party. In a recent report, the mented by a direct and logical econom­ tion," Mr. Brookes says, adding that the em­ National Research Council suggests that ic incentive to use alternatives to land ployee later left the company. companies may be held accountable for the disposal of hazardous waste. When the dumping had begun several "perpetual care and monitoring harm is enormous. And over-use of legal bassador Young would say-in virtual medication is not only confined to seniors. rivers of blood. How easily he forgets. Survey results cited by Rep. Claude The comments from a President The bearded young man, wearing an over­ Pepper, D-Miami, chairman of the Health whose administration was synonymous sized cowboy hat and red T-shirt with and Long-Term Care Subcommittee, are with retreat, appeasement, and disar­ GARY written across the front, stood frightening: ray abroad should be taken for what before the group of 20 retarded adults, lips As many as half the elderly don't take they are: partisan nonsense.e pursed, hand in the air... medications properly. "Ready, Set ... Go!" Ten percent never fill prescriptions given The first group of relayers, each carrying them by doctors. A COMMUNITY LEARNS TO LOVE a ball, ran across the playground. Amid the Seventy-five percent don't get information cheers, Gary motioned to the far side of the on the drugs they are supposed to take. yard. "Come on back, Kent! You've got to And 74 percent are never told about side HON.RAYMONDJ.McGRATH bring the ball back." Laughing, he says, effects. OF NEW YORK "Kent always forgets to turn around.... Congressmen were told the problem was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES He'd rather keep on running." Finally, Kent exacerbated because many elderly people is coaxed back and the relays continue. are shy about asking questions of their Wednesday, July 20, 1983 When the games are over, Gary, 34, and his doctor or fail to tell one doctor they are e Mr. McGRATH. Mr. Speaker, I wife, Liz, 30, give prizes to all the partici­ taking medicine prescribed by another. would like to draw the attention of my pants. "Everybody wins here," says Liz. In an effort to reduce these drug misad­ colleagues to an article published in Fourth of July, 1982. McKeon Avenue in ventures, the Food and Drug Administra­ Valley Stream, N.Y., a suburb some 20 miles tion is sending a pamphlet to all Social Se­ the July 12, 1983, edition of Family east of New York City, looks bright and fes­ curity recipients in checks being mailed this Circle magazine. The article by Joanne tive. Crepe-paper streamers and balloons month. Morici, entitled, "A Community hang from the trees; and picnic tables and The pamphlet urges any patients taking Learns to Love," was of special inter­ chairs line the curbs. A rented jukebox pro­ drugs to ask their doctor or pharmacist the est to me because it concerns the es­ vides background music as the neighbors name of the drug, the condition it treats, tablishment of a home for mentally share food, drink and good times. Everyone when to take it and stop taking it, the re­ agrees that Gary Shaw did a good job of or­ retarded adults in my home town of ganizing this year's block party-including sults it is supposed to produce and any pos­ Valley Stream, N.Y. sible side effects. Gary. "Nine years ago, if someone had told That's good advice for anyone of any The article tells of the efforts of me I'd be doing this," Gary says, "I would age.e Father Robert Emmet Fagan, director have told them all that they were crazy!" of Catholic Charities of Rockville Nine years ago Gary was busy organizing Centre, N.Y., who initiated a proposal ... but not for a block party. Instead, he DEMOCRATS USING NATIONAL to open the first of a series of resident led a group of angry Valley Stream resi­ SECURITY AS GRIST FOR care facilities for mentally retarded dents who were determined to stop the THEIR PARTISAN MILL opening of a home for mentally retarded adults 10 years ago. The proposed site adults on their block. Harsh posters, not fes­ for the residence in Valley Stream was tive streamers, adorned the street, advising HON. JAMES G. MARTIN a vacant convent in the middle of a neighbors not to be "Overruled by your OF NORTH CAROLINA residential neighborhood. parish council. Make your voice heard!" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES As might be expected, there was im­ Newspaper ads proclaimed, "Stop Fagan's mediate and vocal opposition from Folly." Wednesday, July 20, 1983 area residents. Many of them support­ Early in 1973, Father Robert Emmet • Mr. MARTIN of North Carolina. ed the concept, as long as the home Fagan, director of Catholic Charities of Rockville Centre, N.Y., approached the Mr. Speaker, the Democrats efforts to was located outside their neighbor­ parish council of nearby Valley Stream with turn our national security problems to hood. Some were afraid of what might a plan to open a home for retarded adults in their domestic political advantage con­ happen if their children encountered its community. The proposed site for the tinued yesterday with an attack by one of the retarded residents. Others residence was a vacant convent on the former President Carter on the were simply misinformed. corner of McKeon Avenue-directly across Reagan administration's policies in But through patience, diplomacy the street from the Blessed Sacrament Central America. and determination, Father Fagan and Church and Elementary School, and right I rise to condemn the Democrats Sisters Kate McGtath and Catherine next door to the Shaws' house. Father Fagan envisioned the home as the first of reprehensible partisanship in matters O'Shea managed to open what was what he hoped would be many such care fa­ which, more than any other, should be called Christopher House for a dozen cilities-small, family-type settings where beyond partisanship. Having lost the mentally retarded men and women. retarded people could live as independently economy and social security as issues, The residents engage in productive as possible. In January 1974, the parish after frightening millions of elderly jobs and have become accepted mem- council approved the plan. 20164 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 20, 1983 "We started hee.rtng rumors that the con­ Father Fagan held another meeting, but really rooted in one basic emotion-fear. vent would be uSed to house 'mentally re­ the consensus was still "No,'' so he proposed Fear of the unknown." tarded.' " Gary explains. "No way did I want a compromise. "Give us one year in your But the residents of Christopher House those 'crazies' on my block." neighborhood,'' he pleaded. "After that one had their own doubts and fears to contend "The attitude of the neighborhood was, year, the parish council will ask each one of with. "It took a while before many of them 'It's a nice thing you're trying to do,' " adds you how you feel about the residence. If you loosened up," says Catherine. "After all, for Gladys Shaw, Gary's mother, "but just still want us to leave, we will.'' some this is the first real home they've ever don't do it here!" "Legally," Gary says, "I knew we had no had." For example, Jim Fogarty, who was 42 Hearing of the community's opposition, recourse. I didn't like it, but I knew the when he moved in, had lived in an institu­ Father Fagan held a town meeting in Feb­ compromise was the best we could do-then. tion for 22 years. He had to relearn all the ruary, hoping to change their minds. Over I was certain they'd· be out before the year aspects of home living. "At first, Jim spent 40 people showed up. He started to explain was up.'' most of his time alone, in his bedroom, that the convent would house 10 to 12 mod­ On May 1, 1974, the dedication ceremony drawing with a black pencil,'' says Kate. erately retarded adults and would be super­ was held and the residence was officially "Apparently, no one had paid much atten­ vised 24 hours a day by two live-in house­ named "Christopher House.'' "It was very tion to him in the institution.'' parents, Sisters Kate McGrath and Cather­ moving for us," says Kate, "an answer to "He even kept his wallet hidden under his ine O'Shea, both Dominican nuns who had our prayers.'' bed, 'No one will go to your room if you worked at a successful residence in Brook­ Applications of potential residents were don't want them to,' but his behavior was a lyn, New York. But before he could finish, reviewed by an admissions board, which in­ carry-over from the institution, where priva­ he was verbally assaulted by the angry cluded a doctor, lawyers, a representative cy and ownership weren't respected. There, neighbors. from the state and community. Selecting anything could be stolen.'' Gary Shaw, then 25, was one of the most Gary as the neighborhood representative "That's 'institution syndrome'," explains vocal dissenters. His voice boomed above the was part of the plan to change the commu­ Kate. "But we kept reinforcing Jim, and others as he gestured wildly toward the nity's negative attitude. eventually he felt comfortable enough to podium where Father Fagan and Sisters When all 12 residents were chosen and join in the activites.'' Kate and Catherine sat. "I have young had moved in, Kate and Catherine held an The daily "routine" at Christopher House nieces and nephews," he yelled. "These 're­ open house. Gary and Liz, who were not starts at seven in the morning. After break­ tarded people' might attack them while married at that time, came together. "I had fast, residents take the 8 o'clock bus to the they're playing in our yard." heard about Sisters Kate and Catherine," workshop in Freeport , Nassau resident. "It's just too risky." ians who wore long black habits. But when County chapter. "Certain industries subcon­ "The retarded are not drug addicts, child we got to Christopher House,'' Liz adds, "a tract with the workshop,'' explains Helen molesters, thieves or vandals," Kate an­ woman wearing a sweatshirt and jeans Kaplan, executive director of the AHRC, swered calmly. "They are gentle, loving greeted us at the door. I nudged Gary and "and employees are paid by the amount of people who are just developmentally slower said, 'Are these the nuns?' I couldn't believe piecework they accomplish. The jobs are than you or me. They have the same feel­ it!~' mainly assembly-line factory work.'' ings we do-they laugh, cry, get lonely, Sisters Kate McGrath and Catherine "There is a real sense of pride and accom­ bored. And like you, they want a place O'Shea are exceptional women, both pos­ plishment in the work these residents do," that's home." sessing what seems like liinitless energy and says Sister Nora Bottcher, "and with that Someone else shouted, "We don't want a readiness to see the humorous side of any accomplishment they are able to attain a them wandering around our streets." minor catastrophe. Sister Kate, a small, greater degree of self-confidence.'' "Every one of our residents participates in slight woman, speaks rapidly in a clipped, "Many are able to obtain regular employ­ a day program, five days a week, six ho\ll"fi a raspy voice and rarely sits still. Her eyes ment after a time," adds Helen Kaplan. day,'' explained Catherine. crinkle and disappear when she laughs, but The dinner preparations begin around 4 "And then what?" yelled· Gary. "What do when necessary, she can speak with a force p.m. "Kate and I do the actual cooking,'' they do once they get home?" and vehemence that belie her tiny stature. says Catherine, "and everyone else takes "What do you do when you get home from Sister Catherine is tall and lean, with turns setting the table or making the salad work?" asked Kate, a feisty woman with a bright blue eyes and a friendly smile that and serving.'' After dinner the table is quick Irish tongue. "Relax, watch TV, eat lights up her face when she talks. She is cleared, and while one resident sets the dinner. These people will do the same more softspoken than Kate, but she, too, table for tomorrow's breakfast, others pre­ thing." conveys a strong sense of her faith. pare the next day's lunch for everyone. When the meeting ended several hours The two nuns showed Gary, Liz and the later, Father Fagan and the Sisters left feel­ other guests around. The downstairs rooms A CHANGE OF HEART ing disheartened but not defeated. They were furnished with big, comfortable Gradually and reluctantly, Gary became a had hoped to be reassuring, but instead the couches and chairs. The recreation room part of Christopher House's routine. "I was meeting had only added fuel to an already had a pool table, pinball machine and Ping­ still on the admissions board and had to be smoldering fire. Pong table; there was a room for parties and in and out of there for meetings all the large dinners. Upstairs, there were individ­ time,'' he says. "I learned all their names, THE FIGHT CONTINUES ual rooms for seven men on the second floor and after a while I wanted to know them on Gary Shaw led the opposition. "If there and for five women on the third floor, each a more personal level. I was in the house was a way to stop that residence from room reflecting the owner's personal touch: one day," he adds, "and one of the girls coming into our neighborhood,'' he declares, posters, family photos, mementos. Back in looked up at me and said, 'I'm home now, "I was determined to find it." He and the the downstairs hall, Kate pointed to a and I want to stay here.' My heart just other opponents certainly tried-by collect­ grouping of framed photographs of each melted. I guess you could say that was a ing signatures for petitions, placing count­ resident. "Our family wall,'' she said proud­ turning point for me." less newspaper ads, staging sit-ins and even ly. In the months that followed, similar senti­ consulting lawyers. "The lawyers explained After the tour, the guests were offered a ments could be heard on McKeon Avenue. that the state and Catholic Charities were drink and introduced to the residents. Usu­ John DeRosa, who lives three doors down within their legal rights," Gary says. "They ally boisterous, Gary, like most of those from Christopher House, took the FOR SALE said, 'We'll fight this for you, but you have present, was conspicuously quiet. "I thought sign down from his front yard-"! was Just no case. It'll end up costing you a lot of any minute one of them m.ight've started mad at the time," he told his neighbors de­ money, and you're still going to lose.'" screaming or running wild.'' fensively. Meanwhile, Kate invited the neighbors to "People really have terrible misconcep­ "You could feel the change in attitude a residence in Brooklyn so they could see tions about the retarded,'' explains Sister among the neighbors when we met on the firsthand how smoothly it ran. "I was im­ Nora Bottcher, director of Community Resi­ street," says Kate. "No more cold shoulders, pressed," says Joe Gentile. "The home was dences in Nassau County, New York. "There more friendly greetings-it was working.'' well organized and cared for, but I still is a difference between the mentally ill and The residents of Christopher House could didn't believe it would work in our neighbor­ the mentally retarded. Though mental re­ also feel the change. "They became more hood." Gary, however, refused the invita­ tardation is a permanent condition and no outgoing and eager to try new things,'' tion. "Sure, everything would be nice, one is ever 'cured,' in the right environment Catherine notes. Henry Dennis, 37, stutters clean ... perfect. They knew we were and with the proper supervision, these when he speaks and would sometimes shy coming and had time to 'fix things up.' I people can learn to reach their fullest po­ away from others because of this difficulty. wasn't going to fall for that.'' tential. The neighborhood's attitude is Yet Henry, born with Down's syndrome, July 20, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20165 speaks with pride about becoming an altar they will be presented with the Ken­ and a fighter for fair wages and equi­ boy. "I help serve Mass on Sunday," he tucky Commendation Ribbon, which is table treatment for all. says. "I like to· visit my brother, but I tell unquestionably deserved. This list of his accomplishments and him, 'Not on Sunday, people are counting on me.'" I am extremely proud of these men concerns has been abbreviated out of Michele Nachmias, 23, is Jewish, but she from my district, and ask that my col­ necessity, but I trust it is clear to the participates in various church activities leagues here in the Congress salute House that he has been an important with the other residents and celebrates the the heroic efforts of Staff Sergeant factor in bettering the quality of life Jewish holidays at home with her mother. Daugherty, Sergeant Cundiff, Ser­ for people across the United States. Michele had lived at home with her mother geant Davis, and Lieutenant Shipp.e More important, I know that while and stepfather until three years ago, when Bill is retiring from one job, he will her stepfather became seriously ill. BILL MARSHALL: A MAN OF continue to channel his time and "I couldn't take care of them both," says energy into similar worthwhile en­ her mother, Annette. "It was too much for EXCELLENCE me, with my job and all.'' But Michele is deavors. As he completes a career of very happy at Christopher House. "You HON. WIWAM D. FORD service to all working men and women, have to leave home sooner or later," says it is an honor to pay him the tribute Michele. "I'm just glad I like it here so OF MICHIGAN he clearly deserves and to wish him much." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES well.e "I thank God that there is a place like Wednesday, July 20, 1983 that for Michele," says her mother. "She is more independent now, more understand­ e Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speak­ TENNESSEE'S MAYOR OF THE ing," she adds, "and when she comes home, er, it is indeed an honor to bring to the YEAR she never stops talking. She has so much attention of my colleagues the career going on in her life now."e of my friend Bill Marshall, a man who has my utmost respect and admira­ HON. JIM COOPER tion. During my years of public serv­ · OF TENNESSEE AN ACT OF HEROISM ice, I have never known a person so IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES genuinely involved in service to all citi­ Wednesday, July 20, 1983 HON. HAROLD ROGERS zens. Bill is about to retire as presi­ OF KENTUCKY e Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, today I dent of the Michigan State AFL-CIO would like to pay special tribute to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES after serving in that capacity for the Mayor John Johnson of Morristown, Wednesday, July 20, 1983 past 12 years. He became active in the labor move­ Tenn., who has recently been recog­ • Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, the day ment in 1942 while working as a bus nized as Tennessee's Mayor of the was May 24, 1982. The place was Camp driver in the South when he joined Year. This award is the highest honor Shelby, Miss. The mission was a rou­ the Amalgamated Transit Union in that is given by the Tennessee Munici­ tine exercise for the Combat Support Shreveport, La. He served as a com­ pal League, which represents 283 of Company, 1st Battalion, 149th Mecha­ mitteeman, executive board member, Tennessee's towns and cities. nized Infantry of the Kentucky Army and special organizer for the interna­ Mayor Johnson received the award National Guard, Somerset, Ky. tional union. He was first elected for his outstanding leadership in This unassuming afternoon became president of the Michigan State AFL­ human resource development and in­ quite unique as the sky filled with CIO in 1971. Although his abilities dustrial development and for his work clouds in preparation for a thunder­ have carried him far, Bill has never with city facilities and services. Per­ storm and as the 25 men of the 1st forgotten his roots. When he and I haps Mayor Johnson's most prestigi­ Battalion, 149th Mechanized Infantry served together as delegates to the ous accomplishment is his fiscal busied themselves with unloading am­ Michigan Constitutional Convention record. During Johnson's term he has munition from their vehicles. Light­ he referred to himself as the conven­ presented Morristown with seven bal­ ning struck in the immediate area, in­ tion's only true "roads" scholar. anced budgets. His fiscal austerity had juring 22 of the 25 soldiers. What had At the present time, Bill is a member resulted in an increase in the city's been a routine situation quickly trans­ of the National AFL-CIO Committee bond rating to an A rating. formed into one of chaos and emer­ on ·Political Education Steer­ Mayor Johnson has also been a gency. ing Committee and serves on the na­ strong supporter of industrial growth. The three uninjured men responded tional advisory committee to .AFL-CIO Under his guidance, the city began immediately, taking the situation into President Lane Kirkland on problems construction of the 700-acre Morris­ control and making order of the chaos. of State and local central bodies. But town Airport Industrial District. In They radioed for medical assistance, his cares and concerns extend beyond the past several years, W. R. Grace which was promised to arrive within those of his fellow union members. He Co., Standard Color Print and Electa­ 15 minutes but which, in actuality, did is currently a member of the Board of home Electronics Supply Co. have lo­ not arrive for nearly 1 hour. These Directors and on the Executive Com­ cated in this new industrial park. Re­ men are all from my district and are: mittee of the United Way of Michigan. cently, Camvac International an­ S. Sgt. Larry W. Daugherty of Strunk, Bill is president of the Michigan nounced the location of a division in Ky., and Sgt. Paul Cundiff and Sgt. League for Human Services and chair­ this same park. Homer Davis, both of Somerset, Ky. man of the Michigan Trade Union Mayor Johnson grew up in Morris­ Lt. Phillip Shipp, also of Somerset, Council for Histradrut. He is also town and attended city schools. He re­ Ky., was one of the injured men on Michigan chairman for the USO and a ceived a degree in mathematics from the scene but he was able to assist the member of the National USO Board of Davidson College. He has also played other three soldiers in rendering first Governors. an active role in the affairs of his com­ aid to the injured men. By the time And there is more. Bill is a member munity. He has served as vice presi­ the medics arrived, these four indi­ of the labor advisory committee of the dent of the Tennessee Oil Men's Asso­ viduals had given first aid to each of Michigan State University School of ciation and as president of the Morris­ the injured and had the situation com­ Labor and Industrial Relations and of town Rotary. pletely under control. the labor advisory committee to labor Mayor Johnson is married to the The performance of these four men programs at the University of Michi­ former Margie Roberts of Morristown is most admirable; it demonstrates re­ gan, Wayne State University, and and has two children, Rob and Margie. sponsiblity, quick thinking, and a con­ Northern Michigan University. I am proud to recognize John John­ cern for their fellow man. In acknowl­ Bill has been a tireless advocate of son as Tennessee's Mayor of the edgement of their outstanding efforts, health and safety in the workplace Year.e 20166 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 20, 1983 CONGRESS MUST ACT TO PRE­ more equitable scheme for setting formance of California's Pacific Telephone SERVE UNIVERSAL TELEPHONE access and bypass charges, and estab­ Co.-resulted in two rate requests totaling SERVICE lish a universal service fund to help $1.25 billion. defray some of the costs of local serv­ And many Bell watchers predict an even bigger mountain of rate requests this fall. HON. RON WYDEN ice in areas where those rates are pro­ Says Samuel A. Simon, executive director of OF OREGON hibitive. Telecommunications Research & Action IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Because we also believe we need Center, a national consumer group "You better data to help maintain such serv­ haven't even seen the beginning of this yet. Wednesday, July 20, 1983 ice for the long term, Mr. SwiFT and I "I don't know why they're even coming • Mr. WYDEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise also introduced a sense of the House out this early Separation anxiety? Hyste­ today to share with my colleagues resolution, House Resolution 231. ria?" Simon believes the request are prema­ some very alarming facts and figures Which requires the FCC to immediate­ ture because many issues that will deter­ about rising phone rates that ap­ mine phone rates are still under debate in ly conduct a study of the impact on Washington, D.C. peared in last Friday's edition of USA rates of recent regulatory and judicial But the telcos argue they couldn't wait. Today, and to urge my colleagues to changes affecting the telephone indus­ "We had to go with a lot of estimates and take action to head off potential disas­ try. This resolution also reaffirms our undecided factors, and we waited a long as ter. commitment to universal service, and we could, but we need those new rates in The cover story, in last Friday's asks the State PUC's to look closely at effect on 1-1-84, and we have to give the Money section of USA Today, details pending rate requests. House Resolu­ state 185 days to act," says Southwestern local telephone companies' requested tion 231 has more than 150 cospon­ Bell spokesman Dale Johnson. and approved rate increases for 1983. sors. It has been marked up by the When Texas and other states do act, what In Texas and New Mexico, local tele­ actually will filter into our mailboxes in Telecommunications Subcommittee those ubiquitous blue-and-white phone bill phone companies have . requested in­ and is awaiting action by the full envelopes depend on how much of the telco creases of more than 200 percent. In Energy and Commerce Committee. requests are approved-and on new tele­ Missouri and California rate increase I hope my colleagues will review our phone billing plans. requests are as high as 100 percent. bill and resolution, and resolve that it AT&T and the telcos have pledged to These increases are substantial even is time to take action to insure that all keep some form of affordable basic service; for those Americans in the middle Americans have access to affordable its form is still being decided. income level-but for those living on telephone service. Fv.pect your telco to blitz you this fall fixed incomes, these increases could The article follows: witn a fresh twist-active participation in mean having to give up their phone. choosing your phone service. CUstomers will [From USA Today, July 15, 19831 pick not only a long-distance service but one of several local that such rate increase requests are (BY KEviN ANDERSON) billing plans. being filed-and in many cases, ap­ American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s 22 Each telco has a slightly different ap­ proved-and that universal service is Bell operating companies, which routinely proach, but here's what you might have to threatened as a result, there are those ask for roughly $5 billion a year in local rate choose from, with charges typical of several who think Congress should not act. increases, already have requested $9.2 bil­ large cities. In a recent editorial in the Washing­ lion in 1983. Unlimited local calling-make and receive ton Post, July 11, 1983, the editors of It's only July. as many local calls as you like, your bill the Post said: "It's utterly, totally ridiculous," says stays the same-$20 a month. Cookie Smith, 72, of Austin, Texas, whose Message rate service-$12 a month, buying There is, as always, a growing inclination basic phone bill would almost triple from unlimited incoming calls and 60 outgoing in Congress to pass legislation. But that is a $9.05 to $28.65 a month if Southwtstern local calls. Each call above that limit: 7 temptation to be resisted, precisely because Bell Telephone has its way. cents. of the gaping uncertainties. No one can say Since January 1982, when the federal gov­ Economy-rate service-$7 .50 a month, plus with any reasonable precision how this di­ ernment agreed to drop antitrust proceed­ 7 cents per outgoing call. Often, the differ­ vestiture will actually affect rates over the ing against AT&T if it divested itself of its ence between this base rate and the other next several years. If rates begin to go hay­ operating companies, the standard answer options is enough to make a moderate wire, there will be a strong case for congres­ to questions about its immediate impact number of calls and still save. sional intervention • • • was, "Local rates will go up." We're begin­ Local measured service-the most contro­ Mr. Speaker, the USA Today story ning to find out how much. versial option, this is already in New York, demonstrates that rates have already But as the Jan. 1, 1984, breakup deadline Chicago and other large cities. You might begun to go haywire. Moreover, there draws nearer, Bell operating companies­ pay $11 a month and be billed for local calls is a growing body of evidence that telcos, as they are called-are adding the based on when you call, how many calls you they will get even more out of hand extra income they believe they will need to: make, how long you talk and how far the Operate on their own, grouped under the call travels. once the divestiture and subsequent ownership of seven independent regional Unclear is how much money state regula­ administrative decisions go into effect holding companies. tors will save phone users. Telcos seldom get in January. Meet federal requirements that they make all they ask for, and many regulators-espe­ Congress must not sit back and wait it as easy to use an independent long-dis­ cially elected ones-could agree with Cookie until disaster strikes to take action. tance service as it is to use AT&T's long-dis­ Smith and clamp down. Congress, not courts and unelected tance division-which will force many telcos But the role of regulators in assuring the agency officials, should get telecom­ to spend millions upgrading equipment. health of telcos is rising. Besides, says Larry munications policy in this country. By Cover normal operating expenses yet J. Wallace, president of the National Asso­ doing nothing, Congress will jeopard­ retain a profit-while being locked out of ciation of Regulated Utility Commissioners, the lucrative long-distance business. "Commissions are woefully undermanned." ize the principle of universal tele­ The entire $9.2 billion increase . request That could lead to big rate approvals. phone service. cannot be pinned on the breakup, which Regulators "are outgunned. They might not My colleague, Mr. SWIFT, agrees played little or no part in about one-third of have the resources to fight, and-with all with me that it is Congress duty to the total, but almost $3 billion came from this premature confusion-they might have find the means for preserving univer­ two states where breakup considerations no basis to question the request," Simon sal telephone service at affordable were stronger. says. rates. To this end, we recently joined In Texas, the expected loss of unusually Down the road, two major debates remain. with Mr. Alexander to introduce the high revenues from intrastate long-distance First, who should pay a telco's cost for "Universal Telephone Service and calls ac­ acting as a bridge between its customers and counted for much of the record-shattering the long-distance company they choose? Ratepayer Protection Act of 1983"­ $1.7 billion request. AT&T and the Federal Communications H.R. 3440. This bill would overturn In California, similar circumstances-plus Commission say the customer should pay; the Federal Communications Commis­ the fact that the cash-poor Pacific Holding Simon and others advocate charging the sion's access charge decision, set up a Co. will succeed or fail largely on the per- long-distance companies. July 20, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20167 The second issue: Who are the real "cost­ of Pacific Telephone's requested 103.6 per­ .,_ causing" telephone users? AT&T points to cent rate hike: (pmnt) residential customers. But Simon and his "(The monopoly> bothered me in princi­ supporters believe the 4 percent to 10 per­ ple. but I should have known that, when it Missouri ················································-····­ 8.22 17.68 115.1 cent of telephone users, usually businesses California .•..•...... •.....•.•.•... --·················· 7.00 14.25 103.6 all comes down to practicallties, it doesn't District of Columbia ...... •.••••• ._ ••.• ·--···· 8.83 17.39 96.9 and institutions, that account for 70 percent matter whether we're talking about a major Tennessee·····················--···-············--······· 13.55 26.20 93.3 to 80 percent of the average telcos' revenues conglomerate or a mini-conglomerate. are the cost causers; they're the ones requir­ They're still going to get what they want." ing sophisticated switching gear. But hitting up big business terrifies the 11A BELL: DIALING FOR DOu.ARS telcos. They're afraid the big customers w1ll Telephone users across the USA face big THE COST OF HAVING A PHONE simply bypass the Bell network, lnstalllng increases in their basic monthly telephone Here are the monthly rates Bell System their own communications technology-sat­ b1lls if the 22 Bell telephone companies get operating companies now charge for basic ellltes, private cables, wireless mobile what they are seeking. Here's a look at the local service, and what they w1ll charge if phones. six states in which customers face the big­ rate increase requests are granted. Basic The bypass danger, the other side be­ gest increases: local service in all states includes a private, lieves, can be dealt with by legislation. residential line with unlimited calling. Most Whatever the outcome, the mounting rate figures are for the largest city in the state Qment Proposed Increase request activity leading up to formal break­ State rate rate 1 (percent) and some states include services others do up of Ma Bell on Jan. 1 has left some con­ not, so the figures cannot be compared from sumers cynical. Cindy Green Anderson, a New Mexico ...... $11.57 $35.83 209.7 state to state. Bell companies control 90 per­ San Francisco small business woman, says Texas ·····················································--··- 10.10 30.35 200.5 cent of the USA's residential phones. RATE INCREASED REQUESTS AWAITING APPROVAL

Basic local rate Total z Success s Percent rate Bell company Qment Requested increase (=) (percent)

Arizona ...... •...... ·--···························································································································································································· $9.21 $15.40 67.2 $78.2 62 Mountain. Arkansas ...... 11.30 20.40 80.5 137.9 73 Southwestern. catifomia...... 7.00 14.25 103.6 4 1,248.0 68 Pacific. Colorado...... • 7.16 8.43 17.7 106.0 •o Mountain. 25.9 68 Diamond State. =ror~ ::::::::::::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::= : ::::=::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : ::::::::::::::: :::: :::::: : :: : : ~ l~j~ ~~ : ~ 82.0 55 C&P. Georgia ...... 12.02 17.90 48.9 158.0 63 Southern. T99 Idaho (west) ·····························································································--·············································-················-·-·-·········-·-·················-················ 5.65 8.75 54.9 10.4 Pacific Northwest. Idaho (east) ...... 9.93 17.17 72.9 34.0 68 Mountain. lldana ...... -...... 13.83 17.12 23.8 96.0 89 I!dana . Iowa...... 2J. ~ ···············75:s-· 4 138.3 n/a Northwestern. 1trs 213.7 43 Southwestern. ~ :::::::::=:::::: : :::::::: : =:~:::=:::::::: : ::: ::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::=::::::~:::::::::: ::: ::::::~: : :::::::: : ::: ::: ::::: ::::::: = : : 13.40 20.80 55.2 • 238.0 • 28 South Central . 218.0 40 C&P :=-:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::=:=::::::::::=:::== 1~:~~ ~} : ~ 1~u 254.8 53 Soutllwestem Montana...... 7.67 11.52 50.1 27.4 38 Mollrt.ain. 215.8 60 New Jersey. ==: ::::: :: ::::::::: : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : ::: :::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~~:::: : ::::::::::::::::::::::: ::~:::::: :: : :::::::::::::::: :: :: :::: ::::::::::::::::: ::::::: : :::: ::::::: ::::: ::::::::: :::::: :: :: : 1{ : ~ l~:~ 2~:~ 86.1 33 Mountain. North Canillla ...... -...... 12.05 18.80 56.0 145.0 65 Southern. <*io ·············································································-········································-····-·····································-·································································· 12.95 18.80 45.2 l79.0 76 <*io. Oklahoma...... 89". 9605 16(.') ...... 7 ..1 .·.9···· 301.0 79 Soutllwestem. l'ennsylvania ·····································································-··-······························-···-·-··-·····························-········ .. ·······························•············ .. ········•··· 50 378.9 90 Rhode Island...... 12.41 17.44 40.5 37.4 59 ~ South Dakota ··············-······· .. ··························· .. ········································.. ··· ...... -...... 139. 75°5 26(.'2) ···············g···3··.3···· 21.5 51 NorthweStem. Tennessee ...... -...... 0 279.7 34 South Central. Texas ...... 10.10 30.35 200.5 1,700.0 52 Southwestern. Utah...... 12.67 15.26 20.4 74.0 50 Mountain. Vermont ...... >...... 9.35 12.34 32.0 16.5 64 New England. Wyomilg ...... 8.62 14.03 62.8 17.1 23 brtain. Total ...... 6,518.6 ......

1 Six states cld not 11M rate increase requests as of July 13: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and North Dakota. Four states-Delaware, Kansas. Maryland and Oklahoma-approwed increases and receiYed new requests. Alaska, Hawaii and Connecticut are not served by llell companies. · z Total of aH rate increase requests pending. a Percentage of the total request actually 3pproyed in the two most recent rates cases. Indicates how Bell has fared with that state 6 public utilities regulators recently. 4 Two cases perKing. • Rate includes $30.1 million (of a $106 million request) which was added to current rates subjected to refund. : ~~based on inon1~ 7'r. case. • Not available. =~ application does not include new rate design. • Entire request was rejected; $41 million now being sought in court RATE INCREASES GRANTED IN 1983 Basic local rate Total Total Total State incnase received Bel company (percent) (mHiions) (=)

Delaware ...... $7.69 $9.70 26.1 $7.4 $18.4 Diamond State. Florida...... 12.30 1 12.30 ...... 113.0 349.0 Southern. llnois ················································----············-··········-···································································································································-················ 2 8.19 8.27 0.96 21.0 42.0 llflnois. Kansas...... 10.00 11.65 16.5 28.7 63.5 Soutllwestem. Maine ...... - ...... · --···························· 10.40 . 1 10.40 ...... 11.4 49.8 New England. 1 44.3 125.4 C&P. 182.0 451.0 Michigan. 56.5 89.9 Northwestern. 5.~Nelnska ...... :::=:::::~:::: :::::: ._...:::::::::=::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::=:::=::::=::::=:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::...... : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::...... 9~.: 60~~ 101~ :.00~~ B4.: ~2 8.0 42.7 Northwestern. Nevada.·-···-···-·············--·-.. ····-··············-····························-·················································-··-·························-······················································ 6.65 8.35 25.6 5.8 17.4 Nevada. New Yen ...... -··········-················································································-···- ·······················································································-····· a 10.85 11.19 3.1 224.0 707.0 New York. lllahoma .... ._ ...... ·---·--·-···-··-······-················-····-·········--···-···-······································-······-··············································· 5.05 6.90 26.8 43.7 138.5 Southwestern. 36.7 73.9 Pacific Northwest. 20.4 76.7 Southern. 63.8 94.1 C&P. 71.9 145.9 Pacific Northwest. 26.9 67.6 C&P. E~~~~~~f~J~f:~~I~~~~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~:~~~~~~~JJ=~~f:f:~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~=;:f~: ------:til ;1~ 1! 55.0 110.0 Northwestern. Total ...... ·-···-········-·····························-······-·····················································································································································-······························-······································· 1,020.5 2,662.8

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11-{)59 Q-87-11 CPt. 15) 20168 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 20, 1983 EMERGENCY MEDICINE WEEK THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF CERTIFICATION FOR MURDER LYNBROOK HOSE COMPANY HON. TOM VANDERGRIFF NO.1 HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK OPTEXAS HON.RAYMONDJ.McGRATH OP CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OPNEWYORK Wednesday, July 20, 1983 Wednesday, July 20, 1983 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. VANDERGRIFF. Mr. Speaker, • Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, today we today, I have introduced legislation to Wednesday, July 20, 1983 are expecting to receive from Presi­ designate the week of September 18, e Mr. McGRATH. Mr. Speaker, I wish dent Reagan his certification that E1 to take this opportunity to share with S8Jvador has significantly improved its 1983, through September 24, 1983, as human rights record, and should "Emergency Medicine Week." This the Members of this House an exam­ therefore be eligible for further U.S. resolution will recognize the chal­ ple of the selfless dedication and spirit military assistance. The truth, Mr. lenges conquered by emergency health of voluntarism, which have contribut­ Speaker, is that there have been more care providers across the Nation, and ed to the strength of our Nation since deaths in El Salvador in the last sever­ encourage all Americans to learn its inception. This weekend, Lynbrook al months, than before. This has been about the advances made in emergen­ Hose Company No. 1 will celebrate its substantiated by both independent cy medicine. 75th Anniversary of service to the resi­ human rights organizations in E1 Sal­ Seventeen years ago, the National dents of the village of Lynbrook and vador, and by the Salvadoran govern­ Academy of Sciences reported that ac­ the surrounding communities. ment itself. cidental injuries were the neglected Over the last 71h decades, Lynbrook I can come to only one conclusion epidemic of modern society and the and the entire region have grown from then, Mr. Speaker, and that is that the Nation's most important environmen­ small rural communities to one of the President intends to lie to Congress in tal health problem. They were the largest suburban areas in the United his certification report. Whether or leading cause of death in the first half States. The volunteer fire service has not El Salvador is making any of life's span. done a tremendous job in responding progress at all, the President will con­ As a result of that report, a dedicat­ to the increased demand for fire pro­ tinue to send this body certification ed group of men and women worked reports saying that they are. together to improve emergency health tection and emergency medical service. care for all Americans. In 1968, these The officers and men of Hose Compa­ This attitude is making a mockery of physicians founded the American Col­ ny No. 1 have actively participated in the progress, and, as far as I am con­ lege of Emergency Physicians, the cor­ this effort with great distinction. cerned, showing this House the true nerstone of a speciality dedicated to Today these civic minded individuals colors of our President. He intends to improving emergency health care in invest countless hours in training, do as he pleases regardless of congres­ the United States. ACEP is located in maintenance of equipment, and fire sional mandate, and law. Dallas, Tex. control, and prevention activities. This can be further seen by the Since that time, Americans have They are prepared to respond to all President's action in sending an eight­ learned they can depend on these spe­ types of emergencies and to provide ship carrier battle group to the coast cialists in emergency care to provide the highest caliber of service to the of Central America yesterday to "dem­ them with immediate life-saving care. residents of their community. One onstrate U.S. interest in the area." In 1960, 42 million Americans visited recent example of the work of the Does he really expect us to believe emergency departments. By 1981, that Lynbrook Fire Department was the re­ that? He is playing bully, and he is figure had almost doubled to more sponse to a vehicle accident involving lying to Congress. President Reagan is than 83 million visits. a tractor trailer loaded with gasoline. violating his oath of office and the Sixty-three residency programs in The men of Hose Company No. 1 C~nstitution. Viet~am. here we come.e emergency medicine have been estab­ joined with their fellow firefighters in lished to provide formal training for controlling the serious gasoline spill emergency physicians. A board certifi­ and evacuating nearby residents. cation-first administered in 1980-es­ LOUISVILLE REDBIRDS tablishes the credentials of emergency Modern technology has engendered physicians within the speciality. The many new threats to public safety, and HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOU the response of the volunteer fire serv­ training of emergency nurses and OF KENTUCKY ice to protect the public from these thousands of prehospital care provid­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ers has also improved. hazards is one of the finest examples Countless lives are being saved daily of community concern. I know every Wednesday, July 20, 1983 because of the efforts of the American Member of this body will join me in e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I College of Emergency Physicians. Vic­ congratulating the members of Lyn­ would like to commend to the atten­ tims of heart attacks, automobile acci­ brook Hose Company No. 1 as they tion of my colleagues in the House of dents, poisonings and burns can be as­ join with firefighters from the entire Representatives the following article sured that their care will be the best Metropolitan New York area in cele­ which recently appeared in Sports n­ possible. brating their 75th Anniversary. I lustrated. This resolution, which pays tribute would like to extend my best wishes to The article tells the whole Nation not just to these past efforts, but to their chief, Kevin Michaud, Captain what the residents of Louisville and future research and improvements, John Obenheim, Anniversary Commit­ Jefferson County already know: Not will salute and give the support de­ tee Chairman Walter Brooks, and the only are the Louisville Redbirds a served to these health care profession­ other officers and men of Hose Com­ minor league baseball team with als whose emergency medicine special­ pany No. 1 for their outstanding major league class, but that Louisville ity continues to mature.e is a great sports town with world class work.e fans. We have long known that Louisville and Kentucky are at the center of the basketball world. But, as Louisville's love affair with its Redbirds has dem­ onstrated. baseball holds a special spot July 20, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20169 in· the heart of my hometown. Louis­ 100 miles to see the Big Red Machine in franchise for Louisville. And Smith has or­ villlans have gone to the games by the Cincinnati. chestrated the renewal of the Little World hundreds of thousands, and the Red­ The catalyst of baseball's return was Dan Series, to be played in Louisville in Septem­ birds' players have responded enthusi­ Ulmer, president of the Citizens Fidelity ber among the champions of the three Class astically, propelling the team to first Bank and a lifelong Cardinal fan. He talked AAA leagues-American Association, Inter­ Smith into moving his Redbirds in from national League and Pacific Coast League. place in the division. Springfield, m. and led a fund-raising drive It should be another crowd pleaser, especial­ I would, therefore, like to. congratu­ that generated $4.5 million to renovate the ly if Fregosi prods the home team into it.e late the Redbirds for their sensational stadium at the Kentucky state fairgrounds. performances, A. Ray Smith and Dan The stadium has had as much to do with Ulmer for their faith, city and county the Redbirds' success as Smith's prices . Indeed. it combines the old-fash­ cially I would like to congratulate the ioned coziness of, say, Wrigley Field with HON. MARK D. SIUANDER superfans for their record-shattering such modern features as new plastic re­ attendance-they are the greatest. served seats, artificial turf, a bright con­ OF MICHIGAN course with 15 concession stands, a lively IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LoUISVILLE Is A MAJOR MINOR beer garden built around a gazebo, and a posh Stadium Club for VIPs. Wednesday, July 20, 1983 H you think Jim Fregosi feels sort of em­ Fregosi was Smith's initial choice to • Mr. SILJANDER. Mr. Speaker, the barrassed about managing in the minor manage the team in Louisville, but the offer Jewish holocaust is over. But what leagues, then you don't understand what's came too soon after California owner Gene about the Southeast Asian holocaust? been happening in Louisville. Last year the Autry had shot him out of the Angels' newly relocated Redbirds drew 868,418 and, saddle in 1981. Fregosi used the time out of The Cambodian holocaust, initiated by easily a minor league record, while finishing baseball to think, evaluate, analyze, get Pol Pot, continues under the direction second in the Class AAA American Associa­ back in touch with his family and his feel­ of its Vietnamese invaders. Cambodi­ tion Eastern Division. This summer they're ings. So, last summer the Redbirds broke ans suffer, Vietnam tries to spread its far ahead of that pace both in the stands the attendance record without much p.r. domain, and we watch-too apathet­ and the standing. At week's end the Redbird help from last year's manager, Joe Frazier, ically. In an attempt to increase were first by 6 'h games, and owner A Ray a former manager of the New York Mets awareness of the Cambodian situation, Smith's prediction of a million customers <1976-77>. He was a solid baseball man, but I urge all of our colleagues to read the looked as good as a 1-5 favorite at nearby no great communicator with either the fans or the players. following article from the Republican Churchill Downs. Study Committee Bulletin. Hopefully No wonder Fregosi, 41, the former divi­ When Frazier didn't show a lot of enthusi­ sion-winning manager and All-Star short­ asm about coming back, Smith turned to his it will bring increased awareness of the stop of the California Angels, says, "I'm original choice, Fregosi, who was ready to tragic situation in Cambodia. having one of the most enjoyable year I've get back into the game-but not so ready [From the Republican Study Bulletin, June had in baseball." Oh, sure, he would like an­ that he would jump at anything. Before 3, 19831 other crack at the majors. and chances are taking Smith's offer, he interviewed for a he'll get it. Now, though, Fregosi is delight­ couple of big league managerial jobs OF HOLOCAUSTS • • • PAST AND PREsENT ed to be managing the top farm of the <"Either they didn't want me or I didn't want them," he says> and flatly turned world-champion St. Louis Cardinals. down chances to be a big league coach. "This spring in Washington, as cherry The only thing small about the Redbirds Fregosi gives his Louisville players the trees began to blossom and rallies for survi­ is their mascot, Doyle Harris, a 4' 2" midget freedom to swing away and run almost at vors of the European Holocaust were being who endeared himself to Fregosi during a will, with the result that the Redbirds have prepared on the Mall, all hell broke loose on late-inning brawl against Oklahoma City on been a high-scoring team built around the the Thai-Kampuchean border."-Al Santoli, June 4. Asked if he had hit anybody, Harris bats of outfielders Gene Roof and Tito Lan­ The New Republic, May 30, 1983. said. "No-but if they'd had a midget, I'd drum, who both began the season in St. In late April, hundreds of survivors of the have kicked his butt." Louis, and such promising young players as Nazi Holocaust of World War II gathered in This is typical of the sassy attitude that Catcher Tom Nieto, Outfielder Jim Adduci Washington to meet or be reunited with prevails in Cardinal Stadium. It's almost as and Shortstop Jose Gonzalez. The pitching others who had survived Hitler's attempt to if the Redbirds and their fans don't really has been only adequate, but Fregosi expects exterminate the Jewish people. During the improvement from former Cardinals Eric 1939-45 period, six million ·Jews were mur­ understand that Louisville is minor league­ dered by the Nazis, while the world's recog­ and wasn't even that from 1973 until last Rasmussen and Andy Rincon . and young fireballer Todd nition of what was happening came too late. the season's top crowd is last Sunday's Worrell, who Fregosi says has the best arm The American government has sometimes 31,272 and the average is 14,589, has been he's seen since he managed Nolan Ryan. been accused of not reacting soon enough checking the box scores to compare attend­ To a man, the players seem delighted with and in a meaningful way to mounting evi­ ance figures with the big league parks. Fregosi and his firm belief in playing hard, dence of Hitler's "final solution"-the Indeed, the Redbirds are averaging more both on and off the field. When he got a planned destruction of the Jewish people in fans per game than four major league teams look at the new beer garden on the stadi­ Europe. Recently, some American Jewish this year. "To me, this isn't minor league um's lively concourse, Fregosi cracked, "I organizations have begun to study the con­ baseball," says Fregosi. "H the right big might have to arrange to get kicked out just troversial question of whether certain league opportunity caine along, I'd take it­ so I can come up here and drink beer." In­ Jewish groups in the United States, concen­ but it would have to be an awful good op­ stead, when he was first ejected, he went to trating instead on helping to establish a portunity." the Stadium Club for a nightcap, as is his Jewish State after the war, failed to pres­ wont, and got a standing ovation led by sure the U.S. Goverment to react to the The current Louisville team includes eight owner Smith. emerging evidence of the holocaust. players who have been with the Cardinals Both Fregosi and some of his players will These questions, raised in hindsight, are for at least a cup of coffee, while the 25- make the majors before Louisville will, the most troubling and most difficult to resolve. man St. Louis roster has nine who have attendance numbers notwithstanding. The Yet one lesson of the Nazi holocaust that all played in Louisville. Already this season economics at the big league level are so dif­ proclaim is that we must never stand by three Redbirds have been called up· to St. ferent as to be almost prohibitive for a city while it happens again. Vice President Bush Louis, and one-Outfielder Any Van Slyke­ of Louisville's size (just under one million in said during the holocaust memorial week in is thought to be destined for stardom. the metropolitan area>. If Smith had to Washington: "Never again in the history of Louisville was a charter member of the meet a big league payroll, he couldn't afford man will we allow human rights to be so vi­ National League in 1876 and had professional baseball the house is $3.50-that helps make the "We don't want pity, rather we want un­ off and on until 1972, when public interest Redbirds so attractive. derstanding, awareness. We want people to lapsed so badly that the Red Sox Even so, the Republican candidate for know that since this happened once, it must moved their Class AAA team, the Colonels, governor, a state legislator named Jim Bun­ not happen again to anyone. . . . Don't tO Pawtucket, R.I. The loss wasn't mourned ning of ing victim to heavy seas or the depredations against the rising flames and flying shrap­ the right in Europe four decades ago? What of pirates. nel as their fragile world collapses around parallels of apathy and ignorance apply in In April 1975, the Cambodian government them. The long tragedy of Indochina fol­ the two cases? Are some people more con­ fell to the Khmer Rouge, Cambodian com­ lows right behind." cerned over the holocaust of history than munists led by Pol Pot. From 1975 to 1979, The refugees are caught between the Viet­ the holocaust of now? What is meant by the an estimated two million people died in Pol namese invaders and the Cambodian resist­ phrase, "Never again"? To whom does it Pot's reign of terror, a horribly large pro­ ance forces which are comprised of an apply?e portion of the total population. The educat­ unholy alliance of some former Khmer ed classes, religious leaders, government em­ Rouge leaders as well as followers of the ployees, teachers and simple peasants were popular, anti-communist, Prince Norodom either killed, or tortured and led off to slave NEW YORK STATE SURVEY labor camps. These grisly events were de­ Sihanouk. The total size of the resistance SHOWS STUDENT AID STILL force is about 20,000 and they have had NOT MEETING NEED scribed in great detail by John Barron and some effect. Santoli reports that the Com­ Anthony Paul in "Murder of a Gentle bodian government survives only on the Land" in 1977 strength of Vietnamese troops. HON. MARIO BIAGGI Recently, a grim photographic exhibition Vietnamese attacks on resistance forces OF NEW YORK organized by Amnesty International, enti­ and innocent refugees have at times spilled tled "Cambodia Witness," was placed in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rotunda of the Cannon House Office Build­ over the Thai border. "The Vietnamese hoped to •teach the Thais a lesson' and push Wednesday, July 20, 1983 ing. Photographs showing mounds of them away from the border," Santoli re­ human skulls and bones exhumed from ports. ~ The Thai Air Force, reinforced with e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, I wish to mass graves in Cambodia were reminiscent American supplies, has counterattacked Vi­ note for the benefit of my colleagues of pictures of the Nazi death camps. Con­ etnamese forces that violate their borders. an excerpt from a recent speech given gressman Stephen Solarz was The Thais are concerned, however, about es­ by Dr. Dolores Cross, president of the quoted by the Washington Post as saying, calating hostilities with Vietnam resulting "It is a sad commentary on our own govern­ New York State Higher Education ment that even after the evidence is there, from the refugee crisis. As a consequence, Services Corp. regarding a survey that they may again consider forcefully repatri­ was conducted by the corporation on we still manage to ignore the Asian Ausch­ ating some Cambodian refugees. In 1980, witz that was Cambodia." the Thais drove 40,000 Khmer back into student financial aid in New York THE NEW INDOCHINA WAR Cambodia at gunpoint. Thailand's policy is State. What is perhaps an even sadder commen­ now to deny entry of any new refugees. The The highlight of this survey, as Dr. tary is that someone might believe that the Thais are also concerned about the slow Cross notes in her remarks, is that ex­ holocaust in Cambodia ended when Pol Pot pace of refugee resettlement by the U.S. Im­ isting student aid programs are still was overthrown in 1978 by invading Viet­ migration and Naturalization Service , not meeting all of student needs. In namese forces. Writing in the May 30 issue which so far is approving only about 55 per­ fact, over two-thirds of the full-time of The New Republic ("The New Indochina cent of the refugees who apply-a percent­ undergraduates surveyed did not re­ War"), journalist AI Santoli explains that age considered very low by the Thais. this simply is not the case: the Cambodian There is even greater concern in Thailand ceive adequate aid to meet their total holocaust, initiated by Pol Pot, continues and other anti-communist nations in the costs of attendance. This "gap" most under the direction of its Vietnamese invad­ region about the strategic consequences of clearly effects students at the lowest ers. Vietnam's presence in Cambodia. The Viet­ income levels disproportionately. The Vietnamese made great claims of "lib­ namese are building an airfield for Mig Jet As New York's senior member of the erating" Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge. fighters within fifty kilometers of Thailand. House Education and Labor Commit­ In reality, however, while Pol Pot himself Santoli reports that it is clear that Viet­ tee as well as an original cosponsor of fled, other Khmer Rouge leaders were nam's objective in invading Cambodia was both the 1978 Middle Income Student placed in the new Vietnamese-puppet gov­ to consume the country as part of its ernment. Santoli recounts how the Viet­ spreading domain and to have access to Assistance Act and the Education namese instituted a new and "more subtle Cambodia's seaports. These would give Viet­ Amendments of 1980, I believe that form of control" over the people-starva­ nam a greater ability to control the vital the New York findings are both timely tion. Farming was sharply restricted in the sea-lanes of Southeast Asia. In any case, the · and important as well consider reau­ country and international food supplies expansion of Vietnamese influence produces thorization of all these programs in were denied. In the first year of the Hanoi­ more death and destruction-more holo­ the coming year. I commend Dr. Cross' backed regime, an estimated 700,000 Cambo­ caust. remarks to my colleagues for their at­ dians died of starvation, a death toll equal Perhaps the central message of Santoli's tention. to the worst year of Pol Pot's regime. The report from the border is that the repercus­ holocaust in Cambodia continued sions of the communist victory of Southeast A NEED FOR RESEARCH-THE NEW YoRK For obvious reasons, thousands of Cambo­ Asia are still with us. The country of Cam­ STATE STUDENT FINANCING SURVEY dians flee toward the Thai border and what bodia, its people and culture, are fighting Given current directions, pollcymakers at they pray will be relief or even freedom. As extermination. An American ally, Thailand, all levels should make a concerted effort to a result of Vietnam's chemical warfare is beset with a refugee crisis and faces a seek out the best possible information in <"yellow rain"> attacks against the Hmong direct military threat from Soviet-backed order to fully understand the needs and re- July 20, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20171 alities of postsecondary education before that the effects of proposals requiring addi­ on black students as an example of an un­ they chart a new course for the future of tional "self-help" contributions would be derrepresented minority student group. student financial aid. The interaction of felt the most. Clearly, families and students Black postsecondary level students are multiple program changes must be exam­ are being forced to bear increasingly large more likely than other groups to be under­ ined and understood before the advantages shares of college costs. graduate students and to enroll in non­ and disadvantages of program alternatives FINANCIAL AID EVEN IN COMBINATION WITH degree programs. can be accurately gauged. THE EFC, IS NOT MEETING THE EDUCATIONAL Black postsecondary students are more The role of financial aid in educational COSTS OF MANY STUDENTS likely to have family responsibilities. For ex­ access is being carefully investigated in New For two-thirds of the full-time undergrad­ ample, 27 percent of the Black respondents York State. As part of its commitment to to the Survey had children living with serving New York students, the Higher Edu­ uates surveyed, financial aid did not cover total educational costs, even when combined them; 35 percent of these Black parents cation Services Corporation undertook a were single. Among Caucasian respondents, study which is providing information on with the family contribution. Furthermore, while students at all income levels are 15 percent had children; 2.2 percent of these how New Yorkers financed their education Caucasian parents were single. . in 1981-82. The results of the study are having trouble meeting their costs, low­ income students are being disproportionate­ Two-thirds of black students who had being used to assist policymakers in better children were also working. These factors understanding the impact that changes in ly affected. The HESC Survey indicated that family reflect the realities of life for blacks. They financial aid programs would have on differ­ are more likely to encounter situations that ent postsecondary institutions, students, contributions, when combined with finan­ cial aid, did not always cover educational could be obstacles to completion of their and . society in general. The Corporation degree and are more likely to stop at the un­ plans to continue distributing timely and ac­ costs. This "gap" affected greater proportions of stu­ dergraduate level. Those with family re­ curate information in support of postsec­ sponsibilities are working and independent ondary access and choice for all. To do less dents with low family incomes, as well as would be an abrogation of the agency's those students who are self-supporting and of their parents and are thus vulnerable to social, moral, and professional responsibil­ may have dependents of their own. Three­ proposals to change independent student ities. fourths of the Survey undergraduates with .award formulas, especially in undergraduate The combined effects of increasing educa­ family incomes under $10,000 did not re­ programs such as Pell and SEOG grants. tional costs and modifications in federal stu­ ceive enough aid to cover their costs, while Black students are older than others at dent assistance have made it increasingly 45 percent of undergraduates with family each educational level. Along with other mi­ difficult for New York students to pursue incomes over $30,000 experience the effects norities, they are also poorer and more their education at schools of their choice. of this "gap". For dependent undergradu­ likely to be using non-taxable income, such To assess how different students have been ates with unmet need from the lowest as Public Assistance and Aid to Dependent affected, the HESC Survey asked students income groups, the need gap averaged over Children. Black respondents indicated they and institutional financial aid staff to $1,700. For 71 percent of financially inde­ are less likely than any other ethnic group supply information about the financial aid pendent undergraduates, the need gap aver­ to be able to ask their parents to help meet and family resources that were used to meet aged nearly $2,680. The policy question be­ college costs. choice of a postsecondary institution. this burden affect their quality of life? These observations point out that stu­ The Survey analyses to date have focused Should more grant support be provided to dents in the self-supporting status have no on student dependence on financial aid, the close the gap? "safety-net" available to provide additional differences in the use of aid by minority vs. funds. This no doubt produces anxiety and RECENT PROPOSALS TO INCREASE "SELF-HELP" pressure and likely contributes to the nonminority students, and the differences CONTRIBUTIONS AND IMPOSE A NEED TEST ON in the perception of aid as a factor in col­ ALL GUARANTEED LOAN APPLICANTS WILL FUR­ higher drop-out rates reported for blacks in lege and program choices. A key concept other research studies. Thus, any proposals THER RESTRICT ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION to cut-back social program funds should ad­ that was examined was financial "need." The Reagan Administration's proposal to Need is usually defined as educational cost dress the fact that blacks will be dispropor­ include a 40 percent self-help component as tionately affected. This fact was recently less the expected family contribu­ a requirement for federal grant awards will tion . It is the amount upon which the confirmed by the president of the Joint have the greatest impact on financially in­ Center for Political Studies as he comment­ financial aid "package" is determined. dependent students. It would impose an ad­ While need can be met by any combination ed on the policies of the Reagan administra­ ditional employment or indebtedness tion. of grants, scholarships, tuition remissions, burden on those groups of students who are · and loans, Corporation research has found A large majority of black respondents <73 already faced with family responsibilities percent> are receiving some form of aid, well that need was not fully met for most stu­ and for whom extra work or added indebt­ dents in New York State. In fact, for under­ above the rate <57 percent> exhibited by all edness would not be economically viable al­ 1 graduates in the lowest income group <0- Survey respondents. Dependency on aid is $10,000>, an average "Need Gap" of over ternatives. especially prevalent at the undergraduate The proposal to extend the Guaranteed level; while comprising 10 percent of the $1,000 remained in 1981-82 after all aid and Student Loan need analysis require­ the family contribution were taken into ac­ full-time undergraduate respondents, blacks ment to all income levels and to impose a received 21 percent of all Pell dollars and 17 count. full need analysis would further reduce the Other Survey findings illustrate areas percent of all TAP dollars reported for current self-help component by reducing or 1 with policy implications: Survey respondents by their Financial Aid eliminating the amounts currently available Administrators. MOST STUDENTS IN NEW YORK ARE USING for loans. The proportion of recipients satis­ Blacks borrow under the Guaranteed Stu­ FINANCIAL AID TO MEET NEED fying the 40 percent self-help requirement dent Loan Program at almost the same rate The HESC Survey has found that in 1981- would fall from the 52 percent reported in as whites <38 percent vs. 45 percent>. 82, 75 percent of all full-time undergradu­ the HESC Survey to 44 percent. Fifty-six Nearly all black aid recipients reported ates and 67 percent of all full-time graduate percent of undergraduate recipients would that student financial aid was absolutely students were utilizing some form of finan­ then be required to demonstrate additional necessary to attend their present school. In cial aid to meet college costs, but this aid self-help before receiving federal grant fact, blacks were more likely than any other met only 56 percent to 65 percent of the funds. Financially independent undergradu­ ethnic group to report financial aid as a costs facing financially dependent under­ ates would continue to fall most short of the very important factor in their decision to graduates. Their families were being re­ 40 percent self-help; however, greater pro­ attend their present school. quired to contribute 35 percent to 44 per­ portions of all recipients, including those at These observations highlight the actual cent of cost figures, well above the 25 per­ higher incomes, would have to seek addi­ and perceived importance of financial aid as cent level endorsed by the U.S. Congress in tional self-help funding before receiving fed­ an integral part of the education of the 1980. This is in addition to the indebtedness eral grants. black student. The heavy dependence of they are incurring. For independent stu­ For minority students, student financial blacks on government-sponsored grant aid dents, the family resources component was aid represents a critical link between their reveals their vulnerability to proposals to even more rigorous, ranging from 50 percent economic background and their higher edu­ reduce funding . Since blacks are mony of thousands of Cubans arrived in the supernatural life>. However, any dis­ more likely to attend on a part-time basis, this country with whom I have come in con­ crepancy with the government or the they are less able to utilize new loan pro­ tact. system should be rigorously excluded. grams, such as ALAS, since repayment is re­ I would like to quote below the words of "<12> The major traditional holidays of quired to begin immediately for anyone Dr. Jos~ I. Lasaga in his address to the the Christian calendar have been abolished. below full-time attendance. Also, proposals members of the Interamerican Commission Christmas has disappeared to give place to to impose stiff academic progression re­ on Human Rights of the Organization of the celebrations of the anniversary of the quirements on aid recipients will likely dis­ American States, regarding religious free­ dom in Cuba particularly with respect to triumph of the revolution. The Week of the criminate against blacks since they are more Bay of Pigs coincides every year with the likely to be aid recipients and more likely to the Catholic Church. be forced to interrupt their studies because "In order to reach an objective judgment Holy Week so that the people, who are com­ of financial or family responsibilities. regarding religious freedom in Cuba, the fol­ pelled to attend several civic events, find it These empirical data confirm many "felt" lowing facts should be taken into consider­ very difficult to participate in the Catholic perceptions about the unique financial aid ation: liturgies. needs of low-income, independent, and mi­ "(1) In accordance with the present Cuban "<13> The number of priests has consider­ nority students. As such, the data raise im­ law, it is not possible to open a Catholic ably diminished since the present regime portant policy questions. For example: school. The only Catholic schools tolerated has been in power. At the present time What will be the short- and long-term by the government are the two seminaries-one in no objection to the entry of foreign priests, choice and justice in postsecondary educa­ Havana and the other in Santiago de Cuba. or Cuban priests who have studied abroad, tion and opportunity if government-spon­ "<2> The Church cannot have any radio or into the country. But the fact is that when sored aid programs continue to suffer dis­ television time. a priest requests to be admitted he finds so proportionate cutbacks? "(3) The Church cannot use the media to many difficulties that his possibilities of What is the "proper" mix of grant/loan/ communicate with its faithful, with the ex­ being able to work in Cuba are practically work aid for students from underrepresent­ ception of a very modest flyer, with limited zero. ed backgrounds? circulation, which is printed by some parish­ es. "<14> At the present time there is no Are adequate support services available to priest in Cuban prisons. However, any priest meet the unique needs of minority students "<4> In theory, the law gives the priests the right to freedom of expression. Howev­ who would stand out as a youth leader runs facing family, work and educational pres­ the risk of being accused of counter-revolu­ sures?e er, in practice it is well known that a priest who would dare in a sermon to express a dis­ tionary activities and attempting to compete crepancy from any point of the indoctrina­ with the leaders of official institutions, as STATUS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN tion given by the government would be ac­ has happened in the past. COMMUNIST CUBA cused of committing a crime against the rev­ "(15> The real political power does not olution. reside in the people, as in the truly demo­ "<5> There is not an open persecution cratic countries, but in the Communist HON. MARK D. SIUANDER against the people who go to church; but ev­ Party. According to principles clearly ex­ OF MICHIGAN eryone knows that when a person is publicly pressed by the regime, Catholics cannot be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES known as being religious, there will always admitted to the Party." be a member of the Committee for the De­ Wednesday, July 20, 1983 I hope that the realities expressed above fense of the Revolution or a co-worker will serve to clarify the truth of the Cuban e Mr. SILJANDER. Mr. Speaker, stressing to him or her the fact that such goverment policy with regard to freedom of much as been said about the gross vio­ conduct is endangering his/her possibilities of improving or keeping the job he/she has religion. • lation of religious and human rights in in the socialist society. Marxist Nicaragua. I intend to publish "(6) People whose religious convictions are complete information on the Nicara­ well known are accepted in some university SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS guan abuses very shortly. Not as much schools such as the Veterinary School. How­ has been said about the religious per­ ever, their admittance to other schools such Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, secution and abuse of Human Rights as philosophy, psychology, history or social agreed to by the Senate on February in Cuba. sciences is totally blocked. 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a Perhaps we have grown immune to "<7> The government tolerates the pres­ system for a computerized schedule of ence of some Catholic teachers for certain persection in Communist nations be­ non-conflictive subjects such as mathemat­ all meetings and hearings of Senate cause it is a necessary companion to ics; but it is most difficult for a practicing committees, subcommittees, joint com­ Marxist government. It is important Catholic to teach in an elementary school or mittees, and committees of conference. that we take notice of these abuses so to teach history in a secondary school. This title requires all such committees that the people of Cuba, not their "(8) The same is true with respect to jobs to notify the Office of the Senate Communist leaders, know we still as with admission to the university. Some­ Daily Digest-designated by the Rules stand with them in their desire for times exceptions are made, but very few, to the established rules in order to use them as Committee-of the time, place, and freedom and liberty. part of the propaganda for foreign visitors. purpose of the meetings, when sched­ The Most Reverend Agustin A. "(9) The teaching imparted in all the uled, and any cancellations or changes Roman, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami, schools, from the first grade of the elemen­ in the meetings as they occur. has issued a statement on the current tary school to the last year of the universi­ As an additional procedure along and historical status of human rights ty, is based on a philosophy which is explic­ itly materialistic and atheistic. In a variety with the computerization of this infor­ in Communist Cuba. I commend this mation, the Office of the Senate Daily statement to my colleagues. of ways children and young adults are taught the idea that God does not exist and Digest will prepare this information STATEMENT OF THE MOST REVEREND AGUSTIN that the human being is nothing but a piece A. RoMAN, D.D., MAY 20, 1983 for printing in the Extensions of Re­ of matter in an advanced level of evolution. marks section of the CONGRESSIONAL The House of Representatives Committee Mockery to the religious feelings of the stu­ on Foreign Affairs has just published its dents is an integral part of school life at all RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of findings on religious persecution as a viola­ levels of education. each week. tion of human rights. The report covers re­ "<10> Although in some of the parishes Any changes in committee schedul­ pression of religious believers in many parts the government permits Catholic associa­ ing will be indicated by placement of of the world. tions with a strictly local and strictly reli­ an asterisk to the left of the name of For me it is disappointing and disturbing gious character , it is impossible to organize larger the unit conducting such meetings. repression in Latin America failed to men­ associations with a more extensive outreach Meetings scheduled for Thursday. tion the sad condition of the churches and because they would immediately be labeled July 21, 1983. may be found in the religious believers in Cuba. As a priest I was and condemned as counter-revolutionary. Daily Digest of today•s RECORD. a witness of this repression when I was in "(11) Inside the churches and in parish Cuba. Now as a Bishop in the United States halls it is possible to give lectures and talks July 20, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20173

MEETINGS SCHEDULED 2:00p.m. Energy and Natural Resources Energy and Natural Resources Business meeting, to consider pending JULY 22 To hold hearings on S. 1132, to establish calendar business. a maximum ceiling on the annual SD-366 9:30a.m. charge to be fixed by the Federal Environment and Public Works •Judiciary Energy Regulatory Commission for a Business meeting, to mark upS. 757, au­ To hold hearings on the nominations of licensee's use of a Government dam or thorizing funds for fiscal years 1983 James M. Kelly, Marvin Katz, and other structures owned by the United through 1987 for programs of the Thomas N. O'Neill, each to be a U.S. States. Solid Waste Disposal Act; to be fol­ district judge for the eastern district SD-366 lowed with a business meeting by the of Pennsylvania, James F. Merow, of Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Environmental Pol­ Virginia, and Robert J. Yock, of Vir­ To hold hearings on the nomination of lution, to mark up S. 1329, to provide ginia, each to be a judge of the U.S. Thomas 0. Enders, of Connecticut, to financial assistance to States for wet­ Claims Court, and Kenneth W. Starr, be Ambassador to Spain. lands conservation. of Virginia, to be U.S. circuit judge for SD-419 SD-406 the District of Columbia Circuit. Labor and Human Resources Foreign Relations SD-226 Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ To hold hearings on the nominations of Labor and Human Resources mittee · Clair W. Bergener, of California, Mal­ To hold hearings to receive a task force To hold hearings on the proposed Alien colm Forbes, Jr., of New Jersey, report on the vaccine Pertussis. Education Assistance Act. Joseph L. Kirkland, of the District of SD-430 SD-430 Columbia, Arch L. Madsen, of Utah, 10:00 a.m. James A. Michener, of Pennsylvania, Energy and Natural Resources JULY 26 Michael Novak, of the District of Co­ Business meeting, to consider pending 9:00 a.m. lumbia, and Thomas F. Ellis, of North calendar business. Office of Technology Assessment Carolina, each to be a member of the SD-366 The Board to hold a general business Board for International Broadcasting. Foreign Relations meeting. SD-419 To hold hearings on the nominations of EF-100, Capitol Judiciary William F. Pickard, of Michigan, Patsy 9:30a.m. To resume hearings on the nominations Baker Blackshear, of Maryland, Ches­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation of Morris B. Abram, of New York, ter A. Crocker, an Assistant Secretary Surface Transportation Subcommittee John H. Bunzel, of California, and of State, and Francis S. Ruddy, an As­ To hold oversight hearings on the imple­ sistant Administrator of the Agency Robert A. Destro, of Wisconsin, each mentation of the Staggers Rail Act to be a member of the Commission on for International Development, each ; to be fol­ SD-430 lowed by a business meeting, to mark cation of congressional pages, Senate 10:00 a.m. Concurrent Resolution 33, to provide up the aforementioned measures and Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry S. 1499, to provide for the settlement for the commemoration of the lOOth To hold hearings on the nominations of anniversary of the birth of Harry S. of certain claims of the Mashantucket Paul I. Enns, of California, and Joseph Pequot Indians. Truman, Senate Resolution 150, to au­ A. Kyser, of Alabama, each to be a thorize the printing of additional SD-608 member of the Federal Farm Credit Joint Economic copies of the Joint Economic Commit­ Board, Farm Credit Administration. tee print entitled "Changing Econom­ Economic Goals and Intergovernmental SR-328A Policy Subcommittee ics of Agriculture: Challenge and Prep­ Appropriations aration for the 1980's," and other To hold joint hearings with the House Defense Subcommittee Committee on Foreign Affairs' Sub­ pending executive, legislative, and ad­ To resume hearings on proposed budget ministrative business. committee on Europe and the Middle estimates for fiscal year 1984 for cer­ East on the political economy of the SR-301 tain defense programs, focusing on 2:00p.m. Soviet Union. Navy and Air Force weapons procure­ 2200 Rayburn Building Energy and Natural Resources ment programs. To resume oversight hearings on the SD-192 2:00p.m. geopolitics of strategic and critical Appropriations Labor and Human Resources minerals. Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ SD-366 and Related Agencies Subcommittee mittee Business meeting, to mark up proposed To hold hearings on a Presidential com­ JULY25 legislation appropriating funds for mission report on excellence in educa­ 10:00 a.m. fiscal year 1984 for the Departments tion. Energy and Natural Resources of Commerce, Justice, and State, the SD-430 Business meeting, to consider pending Judiciary, and related agencies. calendar business. 8-146, Capitol JULY27 SD-366 Armed Services 9:30a.m. Joint Economic To hold hearings on the organization, Commerce, Science, and Transportation Economic Goals and Intergovernmental structure, and decisionmaking proce­ Surface Transportation Subcommittee Policy Subcommittee dures of the Department of Defense; To continue oversight hearings on the To hold hearings on foreign industrial and to consider routine military nomi­ implementation of the Staggers Rail targeting policies. nations. Act . Governmental Affairs result of a grain warehouse insolvency SD-215 Oversight of Government Management to receive payment-in-kind com­ Governmental Affairs Subcommittee modities as compensation subject to Oversight of Government Management To hold oversight hearings on the man­ certain restrictions. Subcommittee agement of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels SR-328A To resume oversight hearings on the Corporation. Environment and Public Works SD-342 Toxic Substances and Environmental management of the U.S. Synthetic Judiciary Oversight Subcommittee Fuels Corporation. Juvenile Justice Subcommittee To continue oversight hearings on the SD-628 To hold hearings on proposed Federal fi­ Environmental Protection Agency's 10:00 a.m. nancial assistance to State and local implementation of laws regulating the Judiciary law enforcement agencies. manufacture, distribution, and use of Constitution Subcommittee SD-226 toxic chemicals. To hold hearings on Senate Joint Reso­ Labor and Human Resources SD-406 lution 1, proposing an amendment to Business meeting, to consider S. 1133, to Labor and Human Resources the Constitution of the United States authorize funds for fiscal years 1984, Labor Subcommittee with respect to fixing the compensa­ 1985, and 1986 for the Legal Services To hold hearings on S. 19 and S. 918, tion of Members of Congress. Corporation, and the nomination of bills to revise current Federal pension SD-226 James B. Hyland, of Virginia, to be In­ law with respect to the rights and ben­ Judiciary spector General, Department of efits of working and nonworking Courts Subcommittee Labor. women, and related measures. To hold hearings to review the Depart­ SD-430 SD-430 ment of Justice's identification sys­ 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. tems. Appropriations Appropriations SR-385 Defense Subcommittee Defense Subcommittee To continue hearings on proposed To continue hearings on proposed AUGUST! budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 9:30a.m. for certain defense programs, focusing for certain defense programs, focusing Finance on intelligence programs. on Navy and Air Force aircraft pro­ SD-116 curement programs. Taxation and Debt Management Subcom­ Energy and Natural Resources SD-192 mittee Business meeting, to consider pending Governmental Affairs To hold hearings on miscellaneous tax calendar business. Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Gov­ bills, including S. 1600, S. 1579, S. 108, SD-366 ernment Processes Subcommittee S. 1464, and S. 1549. Judiciary To resume oversight hearings on govern­ SD-215 Administrative Practice and Procedure ment management of natural gas 10:00 a.m. Subcommittee import issues. Joint Economic To hold hearings on S. 1520, to author­ SD-342 Economic Goals and Intergovernmental ize redress payments to certain resi­ Judiciary Policy Subcommittee dents of the United States of Japa­ Business meeting, to consider pending To hold hearings on the economic situa­ nese-American, Aleut, or other ances­ calendar business. tion along the United States-Mexico try who were interned, detained, or SD-226 border. forcibly relocated by the U.S. Govern­ Select on Indian Affairs SD-562 ment during World War II. To hold oversight hearings on Indian 2:00p.m. SD-562 health issues. Finance 2:00p.m. SR-485 Taxation and Debt Management Subcom­ Judiciary 2:00p.m. mittee To hold hearings on pending nomina­ Finance To continue hearings on miscellaneous tions. Social Security and Income Maintenance tax bills, including S. 1600, S. 1579, S. SD-226 Programs Subcommittee 108, S. 1464, and S. 1549. Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on S. 960, to assist Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ women in making career choices in the SD-215 mittee home or the labor force. 3:00p.m. To hold hearings on S. 873, establishing SD-215 Finance a fund within the Department of the Select on Ethics Savings, Pensions and Investment Policy Treasury to provide assistance for re­ Closed business meeting, on pending Subcommittee search and training in Soviet and East­ committee business. To hold oversight hearings on the ex­ em European studies to certain orga­ EF-100, Capitol tended unemployment benefits pro­ nizations. gram, and S. 1113, to provide that tax­ SD-430 JULY 29 exempt interest shall not be taken JULY28 9:30a.m. into account in determining the 9:00a.m. •commerce, Science, and Transportation amount of social security benefits to Commerce, Science, and Transportation To continue joint hearings with the be taxed. To hold joint hearings with the House House Committee on Energy and Com­ SD-215 Committee on Energy and Commerce merce on the proposed Universal Tele­ on the proposed Universal Telephone phone Service Preservation Act of AUGUST2 Service Preservation Act of 1983. 1983. 8:30a.m. SR-253 2123 Rayburn Building Energy and Natural Resources Energy and Natural Resources Environment and Public Works Business meeting, to consider pending Public Lands and Reserved Water Sub­ Toxic Substances and Environmental calendar business. committee Oversight Subcommittee SD-366 To hold hearings on S. 5, to designate To continue oversight hearings on the certain public lands in the State of Environmental Protection Agency's California as wilderness, and H.R. 1437 implementation of laws regulating the July 20, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20175 9:30a.m. SEPI'EMBER 8 OCTOBER3 Judiciary 10:00 a.m. 9:30a.m. Constitution Subcommittee Labor and Human Resources •Finance To hold hearings on proposed legislation Family and Human Services Subcommit­ Economic Growth, Employment and Rev­ authorizing funds for the Civil Rights tee enue Sharing Subcommittee Commission. To resume oversight hearings on the To resume hearings on the future of SD-226 breakdown of the traditional family U.S. basic industries. Judiciary unit, focusing on the historical per­ SD-215 Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Sub­ spective and societal implications. OCTOBER18 committee SD-430 To resume hearings on S. 1306, to en­ 10:00 a.m. courage American innovation by re­ SEPTEMBER 15 Labor and Human Resources storing the patent system as it affects Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ 10:00 a.m. mittee certain products subject to premarket Labor and Human Resources testing by the Federal Government. To resume oversight hearings on voca­ Family and Human Services Subcommit­ tional education programs adminis­ SD-628 tee tered by the Department of Educa­ 10:00 a.m. To resume oversight hearings on the tion. Environment and Public Works breakdown of the traditional family SD-430 Water Resources Subcommittee unit, focusing on causes and remedies. Business meeting, to markup pending SD-430 OCTOBER 25 calendar business. 10:00 a.m. SD-406 SEPTEMBER 20 Labor and Human Resources Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ AUGUST3 10:00 a.m. Foreign Relations mittee 8:30a.m. Business meeting, to consider certain To resume oversight hearings on voca­ Energy and Natural Resources tional education programs adminis­ arms reduction proposals, including tered by the Department of Educa­ Business meeting, to consider pending cal­ Senate Resolution 57, Senate Joint endar business. tion. Resolution 2, Senate Joint Resolution SD-430 SD-366 29, Senate Resolution 159, Senate 9:30a.m. Joint Resolution 74, Senate Concur­ • Commerce, Science, and Transportation rent Resolution 46, Senate Resolution CANCELLATIONS • Surface Transportation Subcommittee 107, and Senate Resolution 83. JULY 26 To hold hearings to review the economic SD-419 state of the inland waterway industry. 2:00p.m. 11:00 a.m. Energy and Natural Resources SR-253 Veterans' Affairs 10:00 a.m. Public Lands and Reserved Water Sub­ To hold hearings to receive legislative committee Environment and Public Works recommendations for fiscal year 1984 To hold oversight hearings on the acqui­ Business meeting, to mark up pending cal­ from the American Legion. sition of land, and acquisition and ter­ endar business. SR-325 mination of grazing permits or licenses SD-406 issued by the Bureau of Land Manage­ AUGUST4 SEPI'EMBER 23 ment at the White Sands missile range 9:30a.m. in New Mexico. 8:30a.m. SD-366 Energy and Natural Resources . •Finance Economic Growth, Employment and Rev­ Business meeting, to consider pending JULY 27 calendar business. enue Sharing Subcommittee SD-366 To hold hearings on the future of U.S. 10:00 a.m. basic industries. Appropriations 10:00 a.m. District of Columbia Subcommittee Judiciary SD-215 To hold oversight hearings on the Dis­ Business meeting, to consider pending trict of Columbia court system, focus­ calendar business. ing on the prosecution of repeat of­ SD-226 fenders. SD-138