CAMEROON GERMANY , the first foreign language quired, starting in the sixth grade. At the Foreign language is required in secondary starts in the third grade and the second university level, six "units" out of 120 schools. needed for graduation must be in a foreign starts in the seventh grade, both required. MALTA Sixteen hours per week are spent on the language. first, seven hours per week on the second. It IRELAND Maltese and English are taught from first is possible to study two additional foreign It is not required but "the majority of stu grade. In secondary schools, students must languages before graduation from high dents do study a foreign language during study Arabic and one other foreign lan school. the course of their education." French is op guage. Proficiency in English and one other tional in elementary schools. foreign language is required for university FRANCE admission. Sixth grade through secondary school, ISRAEL one foreign language is required. Ninth English is required from grades four or MAURITANIA grade on, a second foreign language is re five, through twelve. Arabic is being encour Students start studying French in second quired. For entrance into college, students aged as a second foreign language. All grade. English is compulsory in secondary must pass at least one foreign language ex schools in the Arabic section learn Hebrew school. amination. from grade three. English is required in the MAURITIUS GERMANY (EAST) university unless the student passes an Eng English is compulsory at elementary, sec From grade five on, for six years, Russian lish proficiency test. . ondary, and university levels. It is the offi is required. From grades seven through ten, ITALY cial language, though the population is a second language is optional. school, optional at elementary and universi- are available as electives. 11734 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1983 MEXICO YEMEN ARMENIAN GENOCIDE Primary schools generally offer a foreign Foreign language study is required in sec language. Study is required in secondary ondary schools. Knowledge of a foreign lan schools. Student must pass a foreign lan guage is required for college or university HON.ROBERTJ.MRAZEK guage examination to get a university diplo- graduation. OF NEW YORK ma. YUGOSLAVIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NEW ZEALAND From fifth grade through high school, a Thursday, April 21, 1983 At the secondary level, those who take the foreign language is required. A language ex pre-university courses usually take two or e Mr. MRAZEK. Mr. Speaker, I am three years of a foreign language. Those amination must be passed for university graduation. deeply honored to join with my col who attend vocational schools are much less leagues in solemn remembrance of one likely to. ZAIRE of the most brutal episodes to occur in NIGER French is required in elementary and sec the 20th century. Two foreign languages are required in sec ondary schools. Other languages are option This week we commemorate the ondary school. Before entering university, al at secondary school and university 68th anniversary of an infamous and students must pass examinations showing levels.• officially sanctioned genocidal cam an ability to read and understand two for paign against the Armenian people. eign languages. During a 30-year period of terror, SOUTH AFRICA TRIBUTE TO HENRY B. nearly 2 million Armenians perished Every elementary school child is required GONZALEZ and more than 500,000 were banished to learn at least two languages. Two foreign languages are required in secondary schools, from their homeland in a systematic a third is optional. HON. WILLIAM D. FORD campaign of annihilation perpetrated by the Ottoman Government. Men, SOUTH KOREA OF MICHIGAN women, children, and the elderly were In grades seven through twelve, English is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES either gathered up and slaughtered or required; in grades ten through twelve, an other language is also required. At universi Tuesday, May 10, 1983 forced to participate in death marches ty level, English is required all four years. across the Ottoman Empire to the e Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speak Syrian Desert. Most were massacred SPAIN er, it gives me great pleasure to extend along the way; others died of starva Foreign language is required in elementa belated birthday greetings to my dis ry and secondary schools. tion and disease. tinguished colleague and good friend, The Armenian holocaust is one of SRI LANKA HENRY B. GONZALEZ. I also would like the tragic events of the 20th century. Foreign languages are required from to commend him for his 30 years of Yet, the Turkish Government contin grade one. public service; 22 of which have been ues to deny that the massacre ever oc SUDAN in the U.S. House of Representatives. curred and refuses even to teach of There is no elementary instruction, but HENRY is a Member who has served the Armenian genocide to its own English and French are required for three his party and his district well. His con people. While no one can condone the years in secondary schools. cern over social injustice and his desire acts of terrorism committed by Arme SWEDEN to eliminate it have been an intrinsic nian extremists against Turkish diplo By graduation from secondary school, stu part of his career. During his first mats and their families, neither can dents have nine years of English, and two we accept the insensitivity and intoler thirds of the students have either French of term on San Antonio's city council he German from grade seven on. sponsored the ordinance which ended ance which leads the Turkish Govern ment to perpetuate this lie. We can SWITZERLAND segregation in the city's recreational facilities. There are many other exam only hope that our actions here in re A second Swiss national language must be membrance of the Armenian martyrs started in the fifth or sixth grade. A foreign ples to prove this point. language of the Farmland statements on the issue as evidence tion to the FPPA: Protection Policy Act states: that there is no reason to be con I get livid with anger when I read this "This subtitle does not authorize the cerned with the conversion of agricul stuff. I began seriously in this whole thing Federal Government in any way to tural land to other uses. Mr. Schnid because of Exxon. I had been involved with regulate the use of private or non-Fed man and others argue that uncertain the Secretary of Agriculture and the Ad eral land, or in any way affect the ty in, and the shortcomings of, nation ministrator of EPA in trying to bring some property rights of owners of such al agricultural land base statistics rationality to their policies because the Sec retary of Agriculture in 1978 amended the land." According to a June 1, 1982, make it impossible to determine Land Use Statement of his department to draft guidance document prepared by whether there is a problem with con include a farmland preservation concern, the Department of Agriculture ex version and hence meaningful public and EPA in 1979 promulgated its own in plaining the purpose of the FPPA and policies obviously cannot, and should house policy to protect environmentally sig USDA's plans for implementing it, not, be fashioned to mitigate the im nificant farmland. In 1980, the Environmen "There is nothing in the act nor in pacts of conversion at this time. tal Impact Statement requirements under these criteria-promulgated pursuant Public policies and program expendi EPA were revised to require all federal EIS to section 154-to prevent landown tures are often advanced with far less statements to review the impact on farm ers from converting farmland to other than perfect knowledge regarding the land preservation. If you want to read ridic ulous regulations, read the August 11, 1980 uses, so long as it is done without Fed problems being addressed or the likely EIS regulations on integrating farmland eral subsidization or assistance • • •." outcome of the proposed actions. Not preservation into all federal agency deci A second, or perhaps third rule im withstanding the legitimate and well sion-making! plementing the FPPA is still under grounded concerns of some econo Over the last few years, the basic review by the administration. Dead mists, demographers, and others, our purposes of many Government pro lines imposed in the FPPA have been understanding of the extent, causes, grams have been questioned in the regularly missed, and the Department and consequences of agricultural land name of "getting government off the of Agriculture officials have candidly conversion is sufficiently refined to backs of the people," or because of admitted the administration opposes support current efforts to protect agri budgetary pressures aggravated by the both the philosophy and substance of cultural land, including the FPPA. administration's misplaced faith in the FPPA. It is clearly within the pre Even though available statistics are supply-side economics.. It appears clear rogative of the executive branch to flawed in many respects, the Congress that Mr. Schnidman and others felt move deliberately in implementing and most citizens recognize that pro that the public's role in agricultural this, or any other statute. I am con tecting agricultural land from conver land protection should be among the cerned, however, with the future con sion, soil erosion, and other natural programs targeted for elimination, and sequences of this administration's hazards is essential and prudent in that public concern on the issue would aversion to helping minimize agricul order to sustain the Nation's agricul disappear as a result of the dissemina tural land conversion. I also believe tural productivity. Most people fortu tion of new information and alterna that the administration is legally nately recognize there is little to gain tive views on the issue expected to bound to follow and enforce all the from a preoccupation with statistical emerge in 1982. In this context, Mr. laws of the land, not just the ones anomalies and uncertainties when the Schnidman said: viewed by them as morally, ethically, basic facts are relatively clear. However, by the end of this year [1982] and politically justified or expedient. Mr. Schnidman views the issue dif there will be enough published information I intend to vigorously pursue in ferently, and has advanced his views to challenge the validity of any statistic every way I can, as chairman of the widely within the administration. In whicti claims there is a conversion problem. subcommittee with oversight jurisdic Mr. Schnidman's March 9, 1982 Resources for the Future in Washington, tion on the programs and policies of speech, he stated that: D.C. is coming out with a book called "The 11736 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1983 Cropland Crisis-Myth or Reality" and Bill Niskanen will be our "point man" in The facts about agricultural land they've decided that it's a myth. Erosion trying to "contain" the implementation reg conversion, the limitations of available and water are the big problems in farmland ulations [of the EPAl and/or repeal them. I data on this diffuse national phenome in this country. The only real problem with spent an hour with Niskanen on this, and agricultural land is at a very local level Frank CSchnidmanl will make an appoint non, and prudent public policy recom "whether or not certain areas lose their pro ment to talk to him soon. mendations to help minimize the loss duction of specialty crops." Soil experts I also talked to Secretary Pierce of HUD, of agricultural production capacity to assume that we cannot feed the whole who already recognized the problems and conversion are spelled out clearly in world, and shouldn't try. worked to stop the Act. Secretary Pierce detail, and unsensationally, in the The interesting thing is that this "Re had me spend 2 hours with his special final report of the national agricultur sources for the Future" organization is project assistant, David Karnes . agricultural land a national policy. gressmen with the recommendation that I also spoke to Secretary Watt and told Congress has to act in 1981 to do something him that Secretaries Gorsuch and Pierce BENEFITS FROM RETAILING AGRICULTURAL LAND about the "crisis in conversion!" and the Council of Economic Advisers were IN FARM AND RANCH USE opposed to this Act and were going to work Conversion of agricultural land to non The executive director of the Con for repeal. I asked if we could count on his agricultural uses between now and 2000 will cerned Citizens Coalition of the Amer help. He said: "If this act is as bad as you require additional adjustments within agri ican Land Alliance, Ms. Billie Bowles, say, we certainly will be in opposition, but I culture. For whatever level of demand and also spoke at the March 9, 1982 meet don't presently know one thing about it." rate of gain in agricultural production that ing where Mr. Schnidman presented Watt asked me to see Ray Arnett, his Un materializes, the effects of conversion over the views quoted above. Ms. Bowles ex dersecretary, which I did-and he likewise time will depend both on the acreage and plained the position and activities of had known nothing about the Act. the productivity of land converted to non different officials in the administra The Nation has already paid a heavy agricultural uses each year. The public and price in human suffering and lost op private costs of conversion are cumulative tion on the FPPA and on the advis and will persist unless there are significant ability of President Reagan issuing an portunities as a result of misguided changes in the demand for U.S. agricultural Executive order directing Federal policies and misplaced priorities adopt products or in the rate of gain in average agencies to minimize the impact of ed in the last 2 years. The recent disin crop yields attained in America and around Federal projects on the conversion of tegration of the administration's eco the world. agricultural land to nonagircultural nomic and environmental initiatives A number of benefits from retaining agri are tragic examples of the price we all cultural land for agricultural uses can be an uses. The Department of Agriculture ticipated. Preserving productive cropland and certain members of the White must pay, now and into the future, for this administration's flare for applying that otherwise would be converted will help House staff who were advocating issu mitigate upward pressure on production ance of such an Executive order appar simplistic ideological interpretations costs, and indirectly, consumer food prices. ently encountered strong opposition to complex public policy issues. This Protecting high quality cropland will also within and outside Government agen penchant for ideology is particularly provide farmers and ranchers greater flexi cies. Ms. Bowles said: dangerous when combined with the bility in conserving soil fertility, strengthen administration's difficulty in recogniz the nation's economy and international Bill Niskanen, who is on the Council of ing what can and cannot be inferred standing, and provide greater stability to Economic Advisers, . . . is the person who the annual level of production in the U.S. alerted me to the federal ag bill. He is really from objective analysis of facts. Like all public officials actively in agricultural sector. Moreover, these benefits worried about it! CEA is different from the will grow as farmers and ranchers move White Hose staff who were trying to get volved in issues of importance to the closer toward full utilization of agricultural Reagan to sign an Executive Order. Bill Nis agricultural sector and rural America, resources. All things considered, agricultur kanen did an economic analysis on the pro I have encountered, and probably have al land protection can be thought of as an posed Executive order and just went made myself some technically inaccu insurance policy, one that will provide through the roof! So he, at the Cabinet rate statements regarding the rate, American farmers and ranchers-and the level, was the person who was the most in causes, and consequences of agricul nation-with broader options to respond to strumental in killing the Executive order. an uncertain future. Niskanen says it was not Block, but under tural land conversion. I do not, howev lings who have been in USDA through er, attribute misstatements on agricul Mr. Speaker, this Congress author other administrations, who are behind this tural land statistics to an orchestrated izes and appropriates billions of dol bill. However, as you just heard, Frank is campaign to create public concern lars annually for programs addressing not certain that Block is not sympathetic! over a nonexistent problem. poorly defined and inherently uncer- May 10, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11737 tain objectives. In the areas of de emergency use, and phones frequently MANHATTAN PROJECT SCIEN fense, education, research, and envi needed by persons using hearing aids. TISTS ON NUCLEAR ARMA- ronmental regulation, to name a few, This contribution to the well-being of MENTS it is often very difficult, if not impossi hearing-impaired people is enormous and ble, either to prove what will happen will be remembered with gratitude. Hearing impaired people now look to the current HON. PAT WILLIAMS in the absence of Federal activities, or Congress to continue this course and take to reliably predict what will happen as the second step toward eradicating discrimi OF MONTANA a result of a given program initiative. nation in telephone service. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We try to collectively make reasoned Hearing-impaired people, just as surely as judgments regarding our Nation's non-impaired people, need the universal Tuesday, May 10, 1983 needs and priorities, and pursue these access to telephone service that is mandated • Mr. WILLIAMS of Montana. Mr. through equitable and cost-effective by the Communications Act of 1934. The Speaker, not long ago I came across programs. Act urges it friends, and all Dewire, Richard Ehrlich, William C. impaired people. PL 97-410 directs the FCC friends of hearing-impaired people, to sup Elmore, George W. Farwell, Richard P. to assure that three categories of tele port Congressman Long's bill. Make H.R. Feynman,• Joseph Fowler, A. P. French, phones are made compatible with hearing 210 the second step on the road to equal Naomi Livesay French, and Gerhardt Fried aids: coin-operated phones, phones for access to our telecommunications network!• lander. 11738 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1983 Also, Darol Froman, Alfred Hanson, Wil essence of the directive. The articles acting assistant secretary of defense for liam Higinbotham, Robert Howes, James follow: health affairs, to Secretary of Defense Hush, Seymour Katcoff, Donald W. Kerst, [From the Washington Post, Mar. 22, 19831 Caspar Weinberger. Mr. Weinberger has L. D. P. King, Ernest Klema, Morris Kolod before him two proposals for wider use of ney, Rolf Landshoff, John Manley, Robert BLUEPRINT FOR CENSORSHIP polygraph, or lie detector, testing, one initi Marshak, Boyce McDaniel, Joseph McKib The President has issued a new directive ated by the Pentagon itself and the other ben, Ed McMillan,• John Miske!, Darragh on "safeguarding national security informa coming last month from President Reagan. Nagle, Ralph A. Nobles, John Oathout, Paul tion." The new rules purport "to reduce the What's wrong with lie detector tests? Olum, Frank Oppenheimer, and Rudolf E. frequency and seriousness of unlawful dis What's wrong, as Dr. Beary explains, is that Peier ls. closures of classified information," but the they measure stress rather than prevarica Also, Norman F. Ramsey, Frederick manner in which this objective is to be tion. So polygraph tests often misclassify Reines, Charles N. Rice, Hugh Richards, R. achieved is startling in its sweep. truth-tellers as liars, and liars as truth-tell E. Schreiber, Emilio Segre,• Robert Serber, The directive is essentially in two parts. ers. That's because some people show signs Maurice Shapiro, Lester Skaggs, Cyril S. The first applies to all the tens of thou of stress even when they're telling the Smith, Thoma Snyder, Richard H. Stark, sands of government employees who have truth, while some cool-as-a-cucumber sub Julius Tabin, James M. Taub, Robert W. security clearances that authorize them to jects can lie without skipping a heartbeat. Thompson, Earnest W. Titterton, Stan see and use classified information. Divulging That's why lie detector tests aren't admissi mam, Arthur C. Wahl, Robert Walker, such information is already a crime, but ble as evidence in court. Victor Weisskopf, Theodore Welton, Dudley prosecution is impractical, since it would Despite all this, the president on March Williams, Robert W. Williams, and Robert necessarily involve discussing the secret in 11 ordered departments to draft regulations R. Wilson. formation in open court, and no one has enabling them to require polygraph tests •Nobel Prize winners.• ever been successfully prosecuted. The ad and to punish employees who refuse to ministration now proposes to enforce the submit to them. This goes far beyond even law another way. All federal employees what the Pentagon has been considering BLUEPRINT FOR CENSORSHIP having access to classified information must since last fall; under its proposal, tests were now sign a non-disclosure agreement as a still supposed to be voluntary, and adverse HON. DON EDWARDS condition of access. In investigating unau inferences were not supposed to be drawn thorized disclosures, agencies may require against employees solely because of poly OF CALIFORNIA anyone with access to such material to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES graph evidence. The argument is made that submit to a lie detector test. Refusal to take polygraph evidence is sometimes accurate. Tuesday, May 10, 1983 a polygraph test will result in sanctions So is evidence obtained by voodoo, but that which, at a minimum, permit the agency to doesn't make it reliable enough for govern e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. deny future access to classified information Speaker, on March 11, 1983, the Presi ment to use. to the employee in question, and may also Why is the Reagan administration order dent issued a directive on safeguarding include firing him. ing such widespread use of such an unreli national security information. The di Polygraph tests are thought by legal ex able device? The aim, it is said, is to plug rective will, among other things, great perts to be so unreliable that they are not leaks. We'll stipulate that leaks are a serious ly expand the use of polygraph tests admitted as evidence in federal courts. problem, not only for an administration's by the Federal Government and in Under these new regulations, not only could political standing but occasionally for the crease the number of current and flunking the test lead to dismissal, but re national security as well. But we note that former employees compelled-for the fusing to submit to one could cost an em the government official in charge of these ployee his job. This is a significant expan matters, director Steven Garfinkel of the rest of their lives, apparently-to sion of a policy that now applies only to em submit writings or speeches to the Information Security Oversight Office, tes ployees of the CIA and NSA and some in tified that only "half a dozen" leaks had Government for prior approval; that the departments of Justice and Defense. been reported to his agency in the past is, prepublication review, even if the The second part of the directive is even three years, and that some of those did not subject matter is not classified. The more astonishing. Federal employees with result in stories in the press. And the head House Judiciary Subcommittee on the highest level of clearance-those who of the intergovernmental panel which rec Civil and Constitutional Rights, which are allowed access to "sensitive compart ommended that the president order the I chair, held two joint hearings with mented information" -will be re measures that he did testified that "we have quired to sign an agreement that includes a never suggested that it's a problem that has the House Post Office and Civil Serv provision for prepublication review of any ice Subcommittee on Civil Service, increased greatly in severity in recent books, reports, studies, articles, lecture years." So why this departure from long chaired by Congresswoman PATRICIA notes, even novels that they produce for the standing practice? Why this reliance on an SCHROEDER, on the implications of the rest of their lives. All such material will inherently faulty means of determining the directive. All of the nonadministration have to be submitted in advance for clear truth? witnesses who testified at our hearings ance by the agency of agencies involved. Congress is looking into the matter, and expressed concern regarding the scope Justice Department officials would not perhaps the White House will have second of the directive. They were equally reveal the number of people who have SCI thoughts. This is one issue on which we clearance, but they include thousands of the hope Mr. Weinberger and his colleagues will concerned about the thrust of the di highest officials of the government. The rective which taken in the context of engage in a little constructive foot-dragging, sweep of this directive and the potential for in the hope that the White House comes to other administration actions, is clearly censorship and abuse are appalling. Under its senses. aimed at stemming the free flow of in the new regulations, many political figures formation in this country. will be subjected to censorship by those who [From the Washington Post, Mar. 16, 1983] The rationale given for the broad re succeed them in office. Pre-publication quirements of the directive is the clearance of ordinary memoirs could take 0NLY SOME LEAKS BUG PRESIDENTS claim that there has been a tremen years; it covers all written material, whether (By David S. Broder) or not classified information is involved. Nothing better illustrates the surrealistic, dous increase in leaks of classified in What devastating harm to the national se formation which has damaged the na cracked-mirror character of government se curity has been done to prompt such harsh crecy edicts than a pair of actions by Presi tional security. However, the adminis proposals for controls? Why isn't Congress dent Reagan last week. tration has yet to provide evidence of yelling its head off? The president signed an executive order leaks which have caused such damage. on Friday requiring all federal employees Similarly, they have failed to demon [From the Washington Post, May 3, 19831 with security clearances-a number reach strate how the increased use of poly LIE DETECTOR MADNESS ing into the hundreds of thousands-to graphs and prepublication review will It wasn't exactly surprising to learn that submit to lie-detector tests in any investiga effectively decrease leaks of classified Dr. John F. Beary has reported that lie de tion of leaked information, or suffer "ad information. tector tests aren't a good way to determine verse consequences" for refusing. On the whether someone is telling the truth: Dr. very same day, he stonewalled a press con I would like to share with my col Beary is far from being the first eminent ference question about leaks from his own leagues two editorials by the Washing professional to make that judgment, and he senior staff that undermined the position of ton Post, followed by an op-ed piece by won't be the last. His finding is noteworthy Environmental Protection Agency head David Broder, all of which capture the because it came in a report he made, as the Anne M. Burford in the days before her res- May !0, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11739 ignation. "I don't know of anything of that there is a renewed outburst of arms neously believed to be a large-scale kind," Reagan said. expenditures elsewhere. There has Soviet ICBM deployment effort, all As an example of high comedy, you could never been a time when successful hardly improve on that script. contributed to the increased East Every reporter in town knows that arms control did not result in an in West tensions in the early 1960's. Reagan did not have to walk more than 50 crease in expenditures for arms-and Nevertheless, the troubles of the feet from the Oval Office to find people in that is suicide. 1960's also improved the climate for his employ who were leaking like crazy that The philosopher, Albert Camus, un arms control. The Cuban missile crisis Burford would have to go. "I know that you derstood this propensity toward sui in particular made both sides realize were all citing these unnamed White House cide when he said: the dangers of nuclear war and the sources that thought she would resign," he Probably every generation sees itself as difficulty of communication in such told reporters. "I still would like to find charged with remaking the world. Mine, moments. This led to a series of indi them out and identify them." however, knows it will not remake the But he has not. Instead, he has issued the world. Its task is even greater; to keep the vidual steps. There emerged such most sweeping secrecy edict in the history world from destroying itself. measures as the hot line, the. limited of the civil service. The seemingly misplaced test ban, the Nonproliferation Treaty, emphasis reveals what no government-at I am convinced that the survival of and the Outer Space Treaty. least as long as I have worked in Washing the world depends a great deal upon While some may consider selected ton-has ever wanted to acknowledge: what our ability to formulate a multilateral, negotiations to be successful, a price bugs a president is not leaks, but leaks from comprehensive approach to arms re people who may disagree with him. duction-not just control. As a result, has been paid. Multilateral, compre Time after time, in administration after today I am reintroducing my bill, the hensive disarmament talks have been administration, colleagues and I have sat in common security resolution, which is forestalled, and last summer came to a the office of some senior official who, prom based upon the joint statement of complete halt. Moreover, the individ ised anonymity, has divulged the substance agreed principles for disarmament ne ual negotiations have failed to come to of, or even read from, highly classified docu gotiations. Also known as the McCloy grips with the control of new arma ments. The purpose, in almost every case, ments as they were being built. Criti was to advance the president's policy line Zorin agreement, this statement was in Vietnam, in some international negotia initiated under President Eisenhower cal decisions, such as the H-bomb deci tion, in some domestic political fight. and negotiated successfully during the sion of 1950, the missile programs of No, it's not the leaks that infuriate them. tenure of President Kennedy and two the 1950's, and the MIRV program of It's the leaks they don't control: the logs of respected Republicans, John J. the late 1960's, were hardly discussed private meetings with interested parties in McCloy and Arther Dean. In Decem at the arms control negotiations. regulatory matters, or evaluations of weap ber 1961, the U.N. General Assembly I do not want us to face relearning ons systems that cast doubt on a multi-bil unanimously endorsed the statement. the bitter and disastrous lesson of an lion-dollar boondoggle. Those leaks, they arms race propelling us toward war say, are dangerous. This multilateral, comprehensive ap So be aware, dear reader, of what is really proach, endorsed by the United States, perhaps truly a war to end all wars. going to happen if Reagan is allowed to tie a the U.S.S.R., and the United Nations, Therefore my resolution calls for lie-detector threat to the tail of every was the outcome of over 15 long and secure disarmament and a framework candid official of any standing. It will not frustrating years of arms talks. The for the peaceful settlement of dis stop the leaks. The president or his people international climate following World putes. This resolution works in con will no more play by the rules of the execu War II was not nearly as favorable to cern with other peace initiatives and tive order than the Reagan aides obeyed his encourages a multilateral disarma supposedly serious order to stand by the em arms control as that following World battled Burford. What the executive order War I. After World War I, there was a ment agreement, binding upon all na will do is shut down your access to informa deep disillusionment with war. Most tions, and verified by an international tion that may contradict or cause you to members of the League of Nations body. Disarmament would proceed in question the policy judgments of the presi whose covenant included provisions phases, insuring that no country se dent and his aides. strongly supporting disarmament-be cures a military advantage over an It will increase substantially the risks for lieved that the maintenance of peace other. anyone-bureaucrat or journalist-who I have incorporated into my propos wants you to hear the other side of the required the reduction of national ar policy argument from the one the president maments to the lowest point consist al concepts from a May 1982 report by is peddling. And, while it lasts, it will in ent with national safety. This belief the Independent Commission on Dis crease the odds that the policy adopted will was supported by the belief that armament and Security Issues enti be worse than it would have been had the World War I was partly caused by a tled, "Common Security-a Blueprint rules of debate-or leaking-been applied prior arms race between the partici for Survival." This report looks evenhandedly to friends and foes of the pants. beyond superpower confrontations to president's policy .e Conversely, after World War II, the need to hold multilateral negotia weapons were widely regarded as nec tions on nuclear arms reductions, the COMMON SECURITY-A essary to prevent war. The proponents need to limit nonnuclear weapons of BLUEPRINT FOR SURVIVAL of this view argued that had the West mass destruction, and the need to be ern powers been strong enough to concerned about the international HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. oppose Hitler early on, he would not buildup in conventional weapons. This OF CALIFORNIA have built up his armies, and peace report proposes concrete, constructive IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would have been preserved. Force remedies, and I recommend it to would control force. This emphasis on anyone interested in what more can be Tuesday, May 10, 1983 the use of force to prevent agression done to achieve worldwide disarma • Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. was soon intensified by the cold war, ment. Speaker, periodically there have been and is again being strongly promoted. The significant contributions-in moments of optimism, energetic en Throughout the late 1940's and cluding the name of this resolution deavors, and success in our arms re 1950's, a propaganda war was waged made by the Commission should be a duction history. Last week's House while nuclear and conventional arms starting point in the process of achiev vote on the freeze was one such grew on both sides, heightening the ing true international security and moment. But more often there have danger. Proposals were bantered back genuine disarmament. The Chairman been frustration and disillusionment and forth, yet little was accomplished of the Commission, Olaf Palme, because we have only really been tin except increased tensions. The Berlin former Prime Minister of Sweden, de kering at the fringes of an insane and crisis, the Bay of Pigs adventure, and a serves much credit. Other notables in deadly situation. After almost every massive U.S. missile deployment pro clude Cyrus Vance, former Secretary successful arms control agreement gram to counterbalance what was erro- of State of the United States, George 11740 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1983 Arbatov, member of the Soviet Central continue to plague the people of done to see that others do not have to Committee and Deputy of the Su Poland. They do not have the freedom suffer as Michael did. preme Soviet, David Owen, former that we would like to see them have, Michael Hammond was born 10 days Secretary of State for Great Britain, and the tragic difficulties of the Soli before Christmas in 1970 with a severe and many other experts. darity group are a good illustration of case of epidermolysis bullosos, an in The common security resolution that. curable disease. It occurs in 1 in 50,000 would require verification of disarma The nation which has given us births. He died Feburary 14, 1981. ment, promote institutions dedicated Chopin, Paderewski, and Pope John The disease-referred to as EB to peaceful resolutions of disputes, Paul II, has contributed immensely in raises external and internal blisters and require the peaceful development other ways far too significant to be and running sores for which medical of space. Initiatives of this type are outlined in a few remarks here on the science has no known cure. Because of not utopian dreams but constructive floor of the House. But we should note the sores, the skin has no defense proposals to insure common security on this anniversary of the Polish Con against infection. and our very survival. Of course pas stitution that contribution and also Michael had one of the most severe sage of the common security resolu note with sadness of heart that free cases. The blisters and sores on his tion cannot, by itself, bring peace or dom is not now one of the possessions body were with him always, hardly an remove the threat of nuclear war. We of the Polish people.e hour of his life was spent without ex can and we must develop the means to cruciating pain. With this disease, the halt the global arms race, defuse polit sufferer suffers agony with the slight ical crises, and insure the peaceful res "THE CRISCO KID: HE'LL STEAL est bump or jolt. The blisters caused olution of conflicts. The technology of YOUR HEART" scarring, which webbed Michael's global destruction is with us and the hands and feet. alleviation of that technology can only HON. DON FUQUA This was a little boy who loved a occur through social technology OF FLORIDA great deal but who could not be learning to trust and understand each IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hugged by those who loved him the other for our mutual benefit and that most-two brothers, a sister, and his of future generations. Tuesday, May 10, 1983 mother. As Jonathan Schell explained in his • Mr. FUQUA. Mr. Speaker: Michael was so badly afflicted that book. "The Fate of the Earth": There are a few books everyone should he was thought to be mentally handi Nuclear peril threatens life, above all, not read, a few poems everyone should know by capped. He wasn't, but the early diag at the level of individuals, who already live heart, a handful of songs we all should sing. nosis did slow down his normal devel under the sway of death, but at the level of And, on rare occasions, along comes an in opment so that by the time he was 3, everything that individuals hold in common. spiring television show everyone should he had the physical and mental abili Death cuts off life; extinction cuts off birth watch. ties of a 6-month-old. . . . In extinction, a darkness falls over the Those words written by Frederick This caused him to be admitted to world not because the lights have gone out Burger of the Miami Herald in Novem but because the eyes that behold the light Sunland Training Center in Gaines ber 1981 express the thoughts of so ville, Fla., then in my district, one of have been closed. many of us who have been privileged Let us not wait for the political and the six State facilities designed to care to view the award winning 30-minute for the mentally handicapped. It was military tensions to mount beyond our documentary; "The Crisco Kid: He'll grasp. Let us begin to develop the new here that nurses and doctors discov Steal Your Heart." ered that Michael's pain could be social technologies we will need for Burger said: our, and our children's, survival. Let soothed by caking Crisco on the ban us permit future eyes to behold the It is a deceptively complex story, even dages that wrapped his tiny body. though most of us have either known or As has been reported, but is not part light-and the promise of lasting read about such courageous and delightful peace. I encourage my colleagues to children as Michael Ray Hammond, who of the show, Michael qualified for join me, along with 26 cosponsors, in was born with a rare crippling disease and State care primarily because of the in this significant first step toward lived only 10 years. correct diagnosis of his mental abili peace.e Much of the time we manage to ignore ties. their plight, just as we overlook the pain "Crisco Kid" gives us an intimate and suffering and starvation that is endured and moving look at the joy and pain of POLISH CONSTITUTION by so many helpless people . . . Michael's life and personality. We see In its way, the story of this little boy is a him being tenderly bathed, crying out dramatic unsettling reminder of these HON. PAUL SIMON shortcomings. in agony even when water is gently OF ILLINOIS passed on his ravaged body, we see IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES When I determined to bring this him cheerfully touring the hospital in marvelous film to the attention of my Tuesday, May 3, 1983 his electric wheelchair, checking in on colleagues in Congress, I wanted to say other patients. We see him listening to e Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, I am three things. records sent by his idol, Johnny Cash, pleased that our colleague, Represent The first is to pay tribute to a brave whose ballads beautifully punctuate ative BILL LIPINSKI, is calling the Na little boy who never knew much joy, the show, and we see Cash talking tion's attention to Polish Constitution suffered incredible pain, and yet his about how inspiring the little fellow al Day. It is also a good time to note indomitable spirit has and is raising was. that our new colleague, who previous the hearts and spirits of tens upon We see Dr. Charles Williams, the ly had service in the Chicago City tens of thousands of people who never hospital's medical director, discussing Council, is off to a good, solid start in knew him personally. the effect that Michael's life had on the House, and we have every reason Second, this is television at its best, millions of people, many of whom to believe that he is going to be con this powerful documentary demon wrote letters telling him so. tributing significantly, not only to the strates better than any film I have Jeanne Wolf of Pentacom Produc people of his district, but to the ever seen how much power this tions in Miami, Fla., produced this Nation. medium has to inspire and inform. program. She told us in a letter that: Polish Constitutional Day is good And, finally, I think the severity of Like thousands of others, I read in the day to remind ourselves of the great Michael's affliction will touch the newspapers about Michael's valiant attempt contribution that the Polish people hearts of millions at the plight of the to fight his rare disease. The Crisco Kid is a have made to world culture and also to afflicted and the handicapped-point program I just had to make-I felt it was remind ourselves of the problems that ing out vividly how much needs to be important to share the story of this little May 10, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11741 boy who had never really been able to be Florence Strickland said, after nursing Mi directors and producers from across hugged. Michael touched the lives of every chael and watching him confront pain, "I'll the country. one who worked on the project. never complain anymore." As the film nears its conclusion, we And when you are privileged to see The documentary was previewed in the see Michael praying: the film you know the meaning of the White House film room, where the presi dent and friends watch their favorite Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the word "love." movies, and when it ended there was silence, Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before Producing the show, like the subject, perhaps the perfect tribute. I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. God was a matter of faith and persever Bless ... The story that originally introduced ence. When Wolf began trying to raise And then we hear: money for the production, she was Michael to the outside world appeared in the Gainesville Sun and was written On Valentine's Day, Michael's mother turned down by 50 corporations which came to deliver a card from his little sister. are usually anxious to underwrite by Maryfran Johnson. It included the He seemed to be waiting for her. He was ex public broadcasting station programs. haunting photography of Hotvedt ceptionally quiet. A short while later, he The Corporation for Public Broadcast Horne. The portrait shows Michael breathed his last breaths. The doctors felt it ing ultimately gave Wolf a $15,000 staring into the camera and his body was heart failure, but Doris said, "I guess it grant. South Carolina Educational covered with blisters and sores. was finally too much for him. At least he's Television defrayed the other ex The medical staff found that the not hurting anymore." penses. pain could be relieved by the applica And Michael concludes his prayer: And it is my considered opinion that tion of bandages smothered in Crisco And God bless Brian for coming. And future generations will thank them for shortening, a home remedy suggested Roger Wilchock's sores get well, Michael's their efforts. This program will never by a person who had heard about the sores get well. And all the sick children in be a blockbuster on the screen; it is boy. His tiny body, the size of a 3- or 4- the world. Amen. too sensitive and it hurts too much to year old, was coated twice daily and Michael will live on because of this see the suffering in this little boy's wrapped in gauze. film. Because of his life, others are eyes. But, because of those efforts, The story is told in the words of going to be moved to help others. In and because of this one short life, mil people closest to Michael, particularly 10 short years, he moved thousands lions for time to come are going to be his mother, Doris Guy of Jasper. In who heard about his courage and de uplifted and inspired. moving interviews, this brave lady termination. Now that he has slipped It is fitting that the premiere should points out the long path she traveled from our midst, he still inspires and have been held at the White House. It as she refused to accept hopelessness encourages tens of thousands. was. Michael Hammond moved a or despair. It seems fitting that we remember packed house to tears in the Presi In the film opening, Johnny Cash, the words of the Wizard of Oz in an dent's private theater when it was first famed country music singer, says, "Mi other memorable film when he said, shown in October 1981. chael makes me feel better." It is not so much how much we love, but The showing was a moving public The nurses who cared for Michael how much we are loved. television contribution to the "Inter would tell him he looked like his idol, Michael, you were, and you continue national Year of the Disabled." Cash, when they combed his hair. It to be loved.e Don Meiklejohn, who reports from made him happy. Washington for a group of New York Cash had called Michael after read Times' Florida newspapers, including ing about him in the newspapers: U.S. POLICY IN CENTRAL the Lake City Reporter in my district Despite the pain, Michael, whose feet and AMERICA was there. He wrote a moving column. hands were almost club-like because of the I would like to share a bit of what he disease, maintained a remarkably cheerful HON. JAMES M. JEFFORDS said: attitude. In his last year, he drove about the OF VERMONT It is an unsettling experience, even hospital in a motorized wheelchair, pur second-hand, to gaze through a teary eye chased with donations that came pouring in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and see immortality in the sore-scarred face after his story appeared on TV and in news Tuesday, May 10, 1983 of a 10-year-old boy who is about to die. papers around the world. But that's what happened to a roomful of e Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. Speaker, the people in the White House film room Besides being honored with the spe debate over U.S. policy in Central Monday. Some had shared that experience cial preview at the White House, the America continues to be on the front first-hand as they watched a tenacious little film has won numerous honors. It was pages of our newspapers every day. I Florida boy named Michael Ray Hammond cited for merit by the Chicago Film am extremely proud of the fact that fight for life for 10 years before his heart Festival and won a gold medal in the my State of Vermont has played an gave out. Others were exposed for the first International Film and TV Festival of active role in this debate. time through a film, "The Crisco Kid: He'll New York. I am reprinting below for the benefit Steal Your Heart." On film or in person, the impact was the In every festival in which the pro of my colleagues and editorial from same: The steady uncompromising gaze of a gram has been entered, it has been in the Burlington Free Press which is in little boy, as portrayed in still pictures by the network documentary category, dicative of the level of concern in Ver Gainesville Sun photographer Carla Hot which means this simply told story mont on this issue. As the editorial vedt-Horne and in moving pictures filmed has been judged along with programs points out, our policy must take into for a South Carolina Educational TV docu created by national network news and account the domestic causes for insta mentary. It is a gaze that seemed to speak a documentary departments. bility in Central America while not ig universal truth. I am particularly proud to report noring the importance of outside in Three Gainesville nurses, who were clos est to the boy during his ordeal, were there that the film was honored at the fluences. and tried to put it into words. Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University UNITED STATES SHOULD STAY OUT OF Carolyn Steadham, chief nurse at Gaines awards program this year. Along with NICARAGUA'S AFFAIRS ville's Sunland Training Center, said, "He the George Foster Peabody Awards, U.S. diplomacy in Latin America has for gave us an appreciation for what we have in they are the most prestigious in the years been victim of the belief that coun life and often overlook . . . He is the ele field. tries in the region whose governments do phant man of our time." The film was selected among the 33 not conform to Washington's standards Ollie Morris, one of his nurses, told how should be regarded as hostile and subjected Michael liked her to smoke cigarettes so he finalists and was awarded a citation. to pressures to change. could smell the smoke. It was his way of This is a remarkable tribute when one It is a vestige of this country's colonial era being a little naughty like other 10-year-old realizes that these finalists were se in the late 19th and early 20th century boys. "He made me a better person," she lected from among the 1,100 submis when Presidents and lawmakers thought said. sions from radio and television news that nations south of the border were mere 11742 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1983 U.S. fiefdoms to be controlled and manipu President Reagan should not be allowed VFW VOICE OF DEMOCRACY lated to serve the best interests of their to decide which laws he will obey and which CONTEST WINNER large northern neighbor. Somehow the mis ones he will disregard. taken notion that Latin Americans are this More importantly, however, U.S. foreign country's children apparently still persists policy toward Latin America should be scru HON. HARLEY 0. STAGGERS, JR. among many policymakers in Washington. tinized with an eye to a shift away from the OF WEST VIRGINIA It is a dangerous policy which can antago interventionist diplomacy of the past to a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nize friends and foes in the region. hands-off approach which will allow the It is ironic too that those who zealously people of the region to map their own desti Tuesday, May 10, 1983 defend the rights of nations in other parts nies. e Mr. STAGGERS. Mr. Speaker, it is of the world to chart their destinies sudden This country should no longer play the ly develop a severe c8Se of myopia when it with a sincere feeling of pride that I role of big daddy by deciding the types of address you today. I have the pleasure comes to conceding the nations of Latin governments it wants in Latin America.e America the same right of self-determina of entering into the CONGRESSIONAL tion. RECORD the winning speech in the To prove that the failure of U.S. foreign West Virginia Veterans of Foreign policy in Latin America is not a recent phe- TO HONOR RABBI HILLEL COHN Wars Voice of Democracy Contest. nomenon, it is only necessary to recall the This speech is the work of Ms. Brenda abortive Bay of Pigs episode in Cuba over HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. Sue Curry of Neola, W. Va. two decades ago. That fiasco, orchestrated As you know, Mr. Speaker, we con with the covert support of Washington, was OF CALIFORNIA tinually strive to involve young people a classic example of muddled thinking and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES planning which could only result in a in the workings of our Government. I heightening of tensions between this coun- Tuesday, May 10, 1983 believe that Ms. Curry is a fine exam try and Cuba. And it sent an unmistakable •Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. ple of our Nation's youth and what message to other nations in the region they can and will accomplish. about U.S. intentions. Speaker, I rise to join my friends and In this light and in the proud West Now attention is focused on Nicaragua. constituents in honoring one of San Virginia spirit, I offer to you the Charges have been made that the Reagan Bernardino's most respected and civic speech of Ms. Brenda Sue Curry. administration is providing covert support minded citizens, Rabbi Hillel Cohn. for anti-Sandinista guerrillas in their at- For 20 years Rabbi Cohn has not WEST VIRGINIA WINNER tempt to overthrow the Nicaraguan govern- It seems everyone has an opinion as to ment. There are persistent reports that U.S. only ministered to the needs of his where the strength of America lies. Some military advisers are training the insurgents congregation, but has turned good would have us believe it is its military and are using U.S. weapons. words into deeds by involving himself might, others its electoral process, or its ju Sens. Patrick Moynihan, New York, vice in a wide variety of civic and social or dicial system, or its technology, or its indus chairman of the Senate Intelligence Com- ganizations. trial complex; and still others would suggest mittee, and Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont, a He has been a board member on the it is its free enterprise. But in reality the committee member, have said the Reagan San Bernardino Area Mental Health root difference between totalitarianism and administration may be violating U.S. law Association and Family Service democracy is the role of the individual. In and a 1948 pact by supporting the guerrillas the former there are no individuals; in a de in the guise of intellgence activities. Under Agency. The Inland Area Urban mocracy, there can be no substitute-and the Boland amendment, passed by Congress League-Planned Parenthood, San Ber therein lies America's strength. last September, money appropriated for in- nardino Community Hospital, and the Benjamin Franklin was just one person; telligence work may not be used "for the American Red Cross. To just name a but he gave us electricity. Alexander Bell purpose of overthrowing the government of few. was just one person; but he gave us the tele Nicaragua or provoking a military exchange The Rabbi is a noted and sought phone. Thomas Edison, just one person, between Nicaragua and Honduras." Signato- gave us light. Albert Einstein, one person, ries to the pact which established the Orga- after speaker. His sermons have been opened to the world the universe. Abraham nization of American States in 1948 agreed published and he is a frequent partici Lincoln was just one person; but he gave us not to interfere in each other's internal af- pant on local religious radio programs. an ethic. In today's youth lie the Bells, the fairs. His enthusiasm for good works is Edisons, the Einsteins, and the Lincolns of "If one is to believe the detailed accounts matched by education and dedication. tomorrow. seen in the press in recent days, the admin- While at UCLA Rabbi Cohn received If one person can change the world istration is actively supporting, and perhaps his degree in political science. He re around him, then many can be an over even guiding, a large-scale anti-Sandinista whelming force for positive growth. A force guerrilla movement now involved in open ceived not only rabbinical training at needs direction and harnessing; education combat inside Nicaragua," Leahy said. Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, gives that direction. To be educated is to un While Moynihan acknowledged that the but a master of arts and bachelor of derstand the democratic ideal, and our Sandinista regime in Nicaragua was going Hebrew letters as well. In his spare country provides unparallel opportunities th~ ~ay of other totalitar~an regim~s, he time he served his congregation as for learning. When joined with the vision said, Neverthele~, the law IS the law. . · well as the Jewish inmates at the and vitality of youth, America will make im "You may not hke the law," Leahy said. . . . . measurable strides in all fields, but this "You may not agree with the law. But it is Ma:1on Correctl~nal Inst1tut1on of the must also be the "result of a long sequence the duty of the executive to enforce it and Oh10 State Prison system. Today of shared experiences, efforts, and endeav the duty of Congress to see that it is being Hillel Cohn is a doctoral candidate at ors" 1 with adults. For as the enforced." the School of Theology at Claremont. "young ... shall see visions" 2 they must in Sen. Howard H. Baker, Jr., Tenn., Senate He has received a variety of awards turn look to the adults for guidance and majority leader, said many of his colleagues and honors in his lifetime-from out leadership, for "no man is an island ..., are deeply "".o~ried _abo~t re~orts that the standing Young Man of the Year for . May 10, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11743 increasing; college and technological school ran side of the border. In early March, these If Ronald Reagan's position on the Canal enrollments are at peak levels. A familiarity forces, known as contras, invaded Nicara treaties had prevailed, Panama might well with computers and complex equipment is gua. be added today to the list of Central Ameri becoming evident in all grades of the school The true intent of the Administration, in can nations torn by strife and insurgency, systems, and because of mass media, youth supporting the contras, may have been nei and the United States' position in the Carib are more aware of the political intricacies of ther to overthrow the Sandinists nor, as Mr. bean and Latin America would be far less fa world peoples and cultures than their coun Reagan claimed, to interdict the negligible vorable than it is. terparts of twenty years ago. trickle of arms from Nicaragua to El Salva Mr. Reagan's concern, therefore, seems to Youth have faith in America and are ex dor. Rather, I believe, the invasion was part be less for the rights of campesinos or for cited about its future. America needs their of a systematic plan to provoke the Sandin territorial integrity than for the Marxist skills and dedication to continue its tradi ists to cross the Honduran border and threat to the security of the United States tion of progress; and so, coupled together attack the counter-revolutionaries' base that he has suddenly discerned in El Salva the vision of youth and the leadership of camps. Honduran troops were poised to dor and Nicaragua. But this was not the adults-lies the impregnable bond that gives repel the invaders and enter Nicaragua in only contradiction or confusion in his America its strength.• hot pursuit-creating a border war. But speech on the subject to a joint session of even the hot-headed and inexperienced San Congress. dinists refused to fall into so obvious a trap. He suggested, for example, that "democra U.S. POLICY IN CENTRAL They ordered their troops to stay well clear cy is beginning to take root" in El Salvador, AMERICA of the Honduran border and reiterated their citing last year's elections and the beginning offer to negotiate with Honduras or the of a land reform program. But he devoted United States. N~ither country has taken up only one sentence to El Salvador's "major HON. RICHARD L. OTIINGER the offer-and instead both have continued OF NEW YORK problems regarding human rights, the to aid the contras. criminal justice system and the violence IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It is in Honduras, the poorest country in against noncombatants." Other competent Tuesday, May 10, 1983 the region, that the worst effects of the observers see these as primary reasons why Reagan policy may be seen. In the face of the government has been unable to estab e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I widespread misery and despair, many Hon lish control of the countryside. would like to take this opportunity to durans oppose their Government's militaris Ambassador Deane R. Hinton, on the day share with my colleagues two articles tic policies, demanding deep political, eco before Mr. Reagan's speech, told The Wash on U.S. policy in Central America. I nomic and social changes. These dissidents ington Post that putting an end to the strongly agree with the statements of are now treated as subversives, and, for the human rights abuses of the Salvadoran mili both Robert White, in "Perilous Latin first time in its history, the Honduran mili tary is "a question, in my view, of years," tary has begun to abduct and kill labor perhaps a decade, until "generational Policy," and Tom Wicker, in "Weigh union leaders, intellectuals and others who ing the Threat," and I encourage my change" makes over the officer corps. dissent from official policy. This is the way As for last year's elections, Mr. Hinton ac colleagues to seriously consider these revolution took hold in El Salvador-with knowledged that only the influence of the articles. popular outrage against officially sponsored military had caused the elected assembly to [From the New York Times, May 2, 19831 disappearances. The Administration accuses Nicaragua of reject the right-wing leader, Roberto D'Au PERILOUS LATIN POLICY buisson, and to choose the centrist Alvaro exporting revolution to Honduras. In fact, the exact opposite is true. In obedience to Magana as president. The military forced WASHINGTON.-President Reagan's speech our policy, Honduras has become embroiled the choice of Mr. Magana only because the to congress last Wednesday signals his de in militaristic counter-revolution-and is at United States threatened to cut off aid if termination to pursue the course-based on tempting to export it. they did not. a disastrous self-fulfilling prophecy-he has The Administration must learn that The rooting of democracy in El Salvador followed in Central America since coming to counter-revolution is precisely the wrong re does not seem, therefore quite as certain as office. Instead of trying to contrain unrest sponse to a people determined to take power Mr. Reagan pictured it; but on good author in Nicaragua and El Salvador, the Adminis and transform their countries. Our policy ity, the violence and human rights abuses tration is apparently going to continue to toward the region must take into account he barely mentioned seem likely to continue spread unpheaval throughout the region. the security interests of the United States. for some time. Nor did he have much to say, The Administration has made a definitive But where is it written that the people of or any new proposals, on the subjects of break with the diplomatic principles of re Central America must remain in bondage so poverty and injustice-without which, as spect for sovereignty, territorial integrity that the United States can remain free? Senator Dodd pointed out in the Democrats and nonintervention. Instead, it has direct Do the Reagan policy-makers truly fear response, "There would be nothing for the ed its resources toward strengthening the that Nicaragua will end up identified with Soviets to exploit" in Central America. Central American military and fighting an the Soviet Union and Cuba? Or do they fear Turning to Nicaragua, Mr. Reagan pre ill-defined "Communist threat" with huge precisely the opposite-that if we pursued a sented what sounded like nothing so much Central Intelligence Agency stations and less aggressive policy, Nicaragua might as a bill of particulars for a declaration of large numbers of military advisers. The emerge not as a Soviet lackey but as a nona war. But instead of asking for such a decla result has been to encourage precisely the ligned country? Do we reject negotiations in ration, he conceded that the United States threat that the President hoped to stop. El Salvador because our policy is based on was waging covert war against Nicaragua to To grasp why the Administration spon continued military domination of that coun "prevent the flow of arms" to El Salvador sored an invasion of Nicaragua from Hondu try? Do we perhaps reject the consistent and to stop "the export of subversion and ras, look to El Salvador. Many key foregin offers of good offices from Latin American violence." policy aides understand that the brutal and democratic leaders to help bring peace to Whatever Nicaragua's sins, such a covert corrupt Salvadoran Government is falling Central America because we seek primarily war is in violation of international law and apart and that no amount of military assist military solutions to political, economic and regional agreements-perhaps also of U.S. ance will enable it to contain the revolution social problems? law. And wherever the Salvadoran insur aries. Yet the White House firmly rejects As we examine our actions in Central gents get their arms-Drew Middleton, The any direct parleys with guerrillas. Instead, America, we should recall Florence Nightin New York Times' military correspondent, Washington is determined to create an ill gale's words: "The first responsibility of a recently wrote from El Salvador that they starred region-wide military battle-hoping hospital is not to spread disease." capture most of them from Government in the end to negotiate a region-wide solu forces-a covert war in Nicaragua is not tion on its own terms. [From the New York Times, Apr. 29, 19831 likely to put an end to a civil war in El Sal The campaign began in earnest this spring vador. when the Pentagon conducted joint military WEIGHING THE THREAT Mr. Reagan also permitted himself some exercises with Honduras along the Hondu devious polemical flourishes, to wit: ran-Nicaraguan frontier and the Honduran WASHINGTON.-The man who led the oppo "Must we accept the destabilization of an military strongman, Gen. Gustavo Alvarez sition to returning the Panama Canal Zone entire region from the Panama Canal to Martinez, announced that co-existence with to the people of Panama has now urged Mexico on our Southern border? Nicaragua was no longer possible. By that other Americans to recognize the impor "Must we sit by while independent nations time, several thousand Nicaraguan counter tance of Central America and to accept the of this hemisphere are integrated into the revolutionaries, trained, armed and funded "moral responsibility" of supporting the in most aggressive empire the modem world by the C.I.A., occupied camps on the Hondu- dependence and freedom of its peoples. has ever seen?" 11744 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1983 Of course not. But Americans who are just nia Wine Patrons. He has received two cal prisoners, and numerous private citizens, beginning to focus on Central America separate Cordon Bleu Awards for best including the families of victims. We also should be advised that these are not clear dinner from the International Wine visited four places of detention for political and present dangers; they are Mr. Reagan's prisoners, two refugee camps and the public nightmares. Increased military aid may not and Food Society, and was one of the first four chefs in the United States maternity hospital of the cult for the United States to undertake. proaches and fresh looks, as well as to industrial democracies was more than three So nuclear weapons give the Soviets clear insist that research discoveries be ap times larger than the combined GNP of the advantages. Of course the present balance plied to the development of usable re Warsaw Pact countries. and tactical-act as a great equalizer of the be balanced by the Soviets' inside the East For years, diabetologists and nutritionists military potential and actual strength of European empire, and the Soviets' inability have taught that there are two major class the competing blocs, who without them are to match their military capabilities with the es of carbohydrates: simple and complex. not equal at all. Once strategic parity has political, economic and cultural power that Simple carbohydrates, which are the sugars been achieved, it provides a degree of securi could produce practical advantages for the like glucose, sucrose, and fructose, are im ty to the Soviet Union that it never enjoyed U.S.S.R. around the world. The restoration mediately absorbed by the gut and cause a in the past. of an effective American-West European al rapid rise in blood sugar and blood insulin. And of course, nuclear weapons enhance liance could also help frustrate Soviet ambi Complex carbohydrates, such as the starch the psychological-political effectiveness of tions. es found in rice and potatoes, take longer to any threat from Soviet conventional forces In the area of strategic weapons, the be absorbed and so result in a slower and on Soviet borders or in remote corners of Soviet leadership's oft-proclaimed desire for more moderate rise in blood glucose and the globe. arms control and stability is at least as sin blood insulin. Second, the nuclear revolution led to the cere as President Reagan's repeated state Or so the dogma goes. But it turns out the once-justified but now pernicious con ments of interest in nuclear arms reduction. that the dogma is incorrect. The problems, cept of an American nuclear umbrella over But if nuclear weapons were ever abolished says Jesse Roth, a diabetes specialist at the Western Europe, and the "bigger bang for or decisively reduced in number, it is the National Institutes of Health, is that "I be the buck" military policy of the United lieved it. Everyone believed it. But no one States. The idea of an American umbrella Soviet Union that would really suffer-mili ever tested it." led to much lower levels of conventional tarily, politically and psychologically. This When Phyllis Crapo of the University of military spending by the industrial democ is an important reason why the total elimi Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver racies than at any time in their 20th-centu nation of nuclear weapons is an unattain thought to test the dogma, she was aston ry history. The idea of "more bang," and able goal, and why even their substantial re ished to find just how wrong it is. Crapo and the attendant American preoccupation with duction will be very difficult to achieve, other researchers are learning, for example, the nuclear balance, led to a deterioration though we must strive to achieve it.e that a bowl of ice cream does almost noth of conventional U.S. forces and to the dissi ing to blood glucose. Nor does a sweet pation of the American military-industrial potato. But a white potato or a slice of base. And of course, these changes occurred whole wheat or white bread sends blood glu- May 10, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11747 cose soaring. To further compound the gives a more rapid rise than a whole apple. and white potatoes might be related to the matter, the effects of carbohydrates on But the biochemistry of food digestion and prevalence of diabetes, heart disease, and blood glucose are unpredictable. The only absorption is so poorly understood, he says, some forms of cancer. He himself has begun way to learn what a particular food's effect that each food has to be analyzed separate eating pasta and beans since he discovered is is to test it on volunteers. ly. their effects on blood glucose. "It's a mar These discoveries are of major conse The most extensive list of the glucose re velous food anyway," he remarks. quence for diabetics, who must avoid large sponses of foods has been prepared by Jen Olefsky wonders whether there will be swings in blood glucose. They also may be kins and his associates in Toronto working any large-scale health effects as food manu important for nondiabetics since, at the with Thomas Wolever and his associates at facturers switch from using sucrose as a very least, large amounts of glucose in the Oxford University. sweetener to using corn syrup, which is less blood make people sleepy. Jenkins says his studies of the glucose re Other effects are more speculative, but sponse to various foods are a constant reve expensive. Corn syrup, which is mostly fruc some medical researchers now suggest that lation. "We never cease to be amazed. We tose, gives a very slow blood glucose re the reason people develop adult-onset diabe are unable to predict and we are still trying sponse whereas sucrose gives a more rapid tes may be because they eat the wrong kind to explain what we find. We thought we one. of carbohydrates, meaning those that give would find most of the foods not too dis The whole process of studying the blood rapid rises in blood sugar, rather than similar. We expected some differences but glucose response of foods has been an eye simply too many carbohydrates. In more not massive differences. A second surprise opener for nutritionists. They learned, says primitive societies, David Jenkins of the and this was quite, quite remarkable-was Crapo, that "What happens when we eat University of Toronto points out, people that the legumes had blood glucose rises food is much more complex than anyone tend to eat the carbohydrates that give slow half those of their cereal counterparts." thought." Now that researchers are starting glucose rises and tend also to have little dia Pasta products are much lower in their to look more carefully at their untested as betes and heart disease. blood glucose effects than cereals. "In the sumptions about food, Crapo predicts, "I Crapo first thought of testing the conven West, we've been getting hooked on whole think at last we will pull nutrition out of tional wisdom about the effects of simple meal products rather than white. But there the dark ages."• and complex carbohydrates when she vis is no difference in blood glucose levels with ited Stanford University several years ago. white or whole wheat pasta, white or whole She was sitting in on a physicology class wheat bread, or white or brown rice," Jen NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF when the lecturer remarked that the tradi kins remarks. He stresses, however, that tional advice to diabetics that they eat com whole wheat products still may be beneficial REAL ESTATE EXCHANGES plex rather than simple carbohydrates since they improve colonic function. really makes no sense. People have so many Jenkins and Wolever also have tested amylases-enzymes that break down starch combinations of foods. For example, they HON. HAROLD E. FORD es into sugar-in their gut that starches are gave volunteers cheese and bread. Dairy OF TENNESSEE converted to glucose almost immediately. products in general give a very slow glucose IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Crapo was skeptical. As a nutritionist, she rise but the cheese-bread combination, un had been advising diabetic patients to con expectedly, gives the rapid glucose rise char Tuesday, May 10, 1983 centrate on complex carbohydrates and she acteristic of bread. Bread and beans, in con found it hard to believe that they are no dif trast, resulted in a slow rise in blood sugar •Mr. FORD of Tennessee. Mr. Speak ferent from simple sugars as far as blood more characteristic of beans than bread. er, it is a great pleasure for me to rec glucose is concerned. So she, together with One immediate consequence of these re ognize and salute the National Asso Stanford diabetologist Gerald Reaven and sults for diabetics is that the starch ex ciation of Realtors as they celebrate her husband, diabetologist Jerrold Olefsky, change lists of their diets, which are choices the organization's 75th anniversary also of the University of Colorado, decided of equal carbohydrate portions of bread, to feed volunteers pure uncooked starch and rice, potatoes, or corn, are called into ques Diamond Jubilee. see what happened. Just as she suspected, tion. In addition, Olefsky points out, diabet Since the realtors founding in 1908 there was virtually no rise in blood glucose. ics may want to know that some foods that as the National Association of Real But, these investigators reasoned, pure they frequently avoid, such as ice cream, are Estate Exchanges, the organization uncooked starch is hardly a typical food. fine as far as blood glucose is concerned. has represented the highest standards Perhaps the result would be different if Olefsky remarks that he recently saw a new of professional ethics. Realtors have they tried cooked starches of the sort ice cream sweetened with sorbitol and la people normally eat. They then fed volun beled "not a low calorie food." The ice provided competent, unbiased service teers potatoes and rice. To their amaze cream was aimed at diabetics. But regular to both buyers and sellers over the ment, says Crapo, "We found a dramatic dif ice cream gives a very flat glucose response. past 75 years, assisting in the largest ference between the two. Rice gave a flat Marveling at the very existence of this die investment most Americans make in a glucose response and potatoes gave a rapid tetic dessert, Olefsky says, "Some major lifetime. Realtors have introduced response that was the same as you would food company developed this product on the many innovative programs to improve expect if you gave people pure glucose." assumption that ice cream is bad for diabet Olefsky adds, "Potatoes are like candy as ics. Better they should go out and find a and enhance the accessibility of the far as a diabetic is concerned." better potato." American dream of owning a home to They went on to test corn and bread be Roth says it is his impression that the everyone. cause rice, potatoes, corn, and bread are the work of Crapo and Jenkins "is not widely Realtors are known for contributing four major starches eaten in this country. known" and that "it is time for it to be con countless hours to their communities, The glucose responses, in increasing order, sidered" by diabetologists. Irving Spratt of were rice, bread, corn, potatoes. the Spratt Diabetes Medical Clinic in San dedicating time and energy to civic They tried the experiments in people with Bernadino, who is president of the Ameri betterment. For the past 75 years, re impaired glucose tolerance and with diabe can Diabetes Association, says the Diabetes altors have played an important role tes. The results were the same. They tried Association is concerned about the possibili in the growth and development of the similar experiments using simple sugars be ty that the starch exchange lists may be cities and towns across the United cause, Olefsky explains, "We always were misleading, that "we are considering chang States. For this reason, they have taught that a simple sugar is a simple sugar. ing the exchange lists and we will take ap But it turns out that simple sugars are as propriate action as all the evidence comes become one of the most important different as potatoes and rice." Lactose and in." Crapo, he adds, is a member of the pro forces in American business. fructose have little effect on blood glucose. fessional education committee of the Ameri I would like to offer the following Sucrose has a moderate effect. Glucose and can Diabetes Association. "We are in con history of the National Association of maltose give immediate and pronounced ef stant communication with Phyllis Crapo," Realtors as a tribute to the outstand fects. Spratt says. ing accomplishments of the organiza Olefsky believes that one reason for these Studies of carbohydrates and their effects differences is that there are differences in on blood glucose may help nutritionists un tion over the past 75 years, and to rec the accessibility of the starch or sugar mole derstand public health issues as well as dia ognize the integrity and dedication the cules in various foods. The more homog betes diets. Jenkins says he wonders wheth profession represents. enized the food, the more rapid the rise in er the wholesale change in industrialized so blood glucose. A rice slurry gives a more cieties from foods like pasta, beans, and rapid rise than rice grains. Apple puree sweet potatoes to foods like bread, cereals, 11748 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1983
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL straying good neighborhoods. In 1939, the apartments and prevents the renovation of ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS Urban Land Institute was formed to concen units. tion and redevelopment. Realtors suggested Realtors participate in task force teams to 1 a program of large scale redevelopment by assist localities in defeating rent control ini The National Association of Realtors, the private enterprise. In 1941, major proposals tiatives. Realtors also assisted in the cre nation's largest trade association, was on rebuilding cities were coordinated by the ation of the Rental Housing Industry Coali founded in 1908 as the "National Associa National Association. tion, consisting of national organizations tion of Real Estate Exchanges." The Realtors' "Build America Better" pro with similar concerns regarding rent control Three earlier attempts to organize a na gram was introduced in 1952 to promote and the rental housing industry. tional real estate group had met with fail neighborhood conservation. Realtors provid With the addition of 400,000 sales associ ure. The first effort in 1891, resulted in the ed expert counseling and helped cities in ates in 1972, the National Association of Re formation of the National Real Estate Asso their efforts to rid neighborhoods of slums. altors became the largest trade association ciation, which survived only 19 months. Two The program was cited in the 1954 Munici in the country. Today, membership is com subsequent efforts also were without suc pal Yearbook of the International City posed of more than 600,000 Realtors who cess. Managers Association, as a major develop are brokers or salespeople, and Realtor-As On May 12, 1908, 120 men representing 18 ment in the field of housing conservation. sociates, a membership category for sales boards from 13 states and one state associa In 1956, "Realtor Week" was introduced. people. Members belong to one or more of tion met in Chicago to try again. Their Now known as "Private Property Week," it the 1,864 local boards of Realtors located in stated objective was "to unite the real estate provides an annual reminder to the public all 50 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin men of America for the purpose of effective of their constitutionally-protected rights to Islands and the District of Columbia. ly exerting a combined influence upon mat own, use and transfer private property. The Association continues providing a fa ters affecting real estate interests." Improvement in the flow of mortgage cility for education, research and exchange The group authorized employment of an money has always been a major objective of of information among its members and to executive secretary, general counsel and the National Association. In this respect, the public and government for the purpose "such other assistance as may be necessary" Realtors provided leadership in the develop of preserving the free enterprise system and and also provided for an office for associa ment of the Home Owners Loan Corpora the right of free people to own and use real tion work. Standing committees, demon tion, the Federal Home Loan Bank System, property. strating the founders' intended fields of ac Federal Housing Administration and the According to Harley W. Snyder, 1983 tivity, were formed and included: Code of Federal National Mortgage Association. president of the National Association, Ethics, taxation, state and municipal legisla Throughout the 1950s, Realtors supported "Members of the Congress and the Execu tion, and the organization of local ex credit efforts to help additional families tive Branch of the federal government changes. afford housing. They also were involved in today recognize the National Association of In 1916, the organization's name was liberalizing FHA requirements to make FHA Realtors as a major spokesman for the vital changed to the "National Association of loans available to more people. housing industry. They acknowledge that Real Estate Boards," and in 1972 it became Realtors have supported floating FHA we not only represent our own members, the "National Association of Realtors" and and VA interest rates since the 1950s. A but that Realtors nationwide are working its present logo was adopted. floating rate would make more funds avail for America's property owners as well."• Throughout its history, the National As able for government-backed mortgages and sociation has been working for America's result in more equitable closing charges. In property owners, exerting pressure on gov 1980, a law was passed with Realtor support ernment for better housing, improved home THE RECENT MURDER OF THE requiring 10 percent of all FHA loans to TURKISH AMBASSADOR TO financing, the prevention of real estate have a floating interest rate. fraud, community revitalization, fair tax Since its founding, the National Associa YUGOSLAVIA ation and encouraging property beautifica tion has opposed excessive government tion and protection. spending and unfair taxation, and remains As the Association celebrates its 75th an heavily involved in political affairs to this HON. MARK D. SIUANDER niversary, its members can be proud of the OF MICHIGAN many key accomplishments along with day. Expansion of tax relief to the elderly in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES achievements at every level-national, state, home sales also was widely promoted by Re and local. Some of the Association's major altors. In 1962, persons 65 years and over Tuesday, May 10, 1983 achievements include: were allowed to exclude the first $30,000 of Making use of the "Golden Rule" as its the profit from the sale of their home from e Mr. SILJANDER. Mr. Speaker, Ar theme, the Realtor's adopted a strict Code capital gains taxes. This amount was in menian gunmen shot and fatally of Ethics in 1913. The National Association creased to $100,000 in 1978 and the age limit wounded the Turkish Ambassador to was only the second business group in the Yugoslavia Galip Balkar. This is the nation to follow the professions of medicine, was lowered to 55 years. In 1982, the law and engineering in the formation and amount was increased to $125,000. 26th time they succeeded in killing enforcement of a code for its members. Realtors helped defeat efforts to limit de members of the Turkish diplomatic In 1916, Charles N. Chadbourne, a Minne ductions for mortgage interest payments in corps or their families in the last 1976. They continue to lobby against this decade. apolis Realtor, devised the term "Realtor" limitation whenever it is proposed as a to identify real estate agents who are mem means of raising additional tax revenues. While we feel a deep outrage about bers of the National Association of Realtors In 1943, the Realtors Washington Com the killings of innocent diplomats of and subscribe to its strict Code of Ethics. mittee, later named the Realtors Political our NATO ally, Turkey, it must be The patent office registration of the service stated that the killings are not only a mark, "Realtor" and the Realtor emblem Action Committee CRPAC), was formed. were approved in 1949. Courts have upheld RPAC currently is the largest PAC of any Turkish concern, but an American this designation in every case brought trade association in the nation. In 1982, it one, as well. before them. raised some $2.5 million in contributions. To cite the terrorist occurrences Citizens benefit from this program by the sponsored by ASAL.A-Secret Army The principal of "exclusive agency" was election of legislators who support the prin established about 1910 and meant that cipals of private property ownership and the for the Liberation of Armenian-and every seller could make exclusive use of a free enterprise system. the Justice Commandos for the Arme single broker. This concept led to coopera The National Association's nonpartisan nian Genocide in the United States: tive selling practices and the establishment 1973: Murder of the Turkish Consul of multiple listing services. The public bene voter registration campaign in 1980 resulted fits from exclusive agency because only a in more than 4 million additional voters and Consul General in Los Angeles. single fee is due upon the sale of a property, going to the polls in the 1980 elections and October 1980: Bombing of the home regardless of the number of agents involved was the first such program by a national of the Turkish Consul General in Los trade association to be approved by the Fed Angeles. in its sale. eral Election Commission. After the Great Depression, Realtors The federal government in World War II October 1980: Car bomb explosion in worked to prevent urban blight from de- imposed rent control. Although Realtors front of the Turkish Mission in Los abided by the law, they worked for its Angeles. • Realtor is a registered collective membership repeal. Realtor research has demonstrated June 1981: Bombing of the Swiss mark of the National Association of Realtors. that rent control adds to the shortage of Bank Corp. offices in Los Angeles. May 10, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11749 November 1981: Bomb explosion at ernment facilities as well as Turkish proper in Turkey. No such terrorism occurred. Ar the Turkish Consulate in Los Angeles. ty. menians in Turkey did not launch attacks January 1982: Murder of Kemal The Justice Commandos are the radical on Turks nor did they support such attacks offshoot of the conservative national Arme by other groups. Arikan, Turkish Consul General in Los nian party in exile. Its roots are among The recent bombing and machine-gun Angeles. young Armenian immigrants from Lebanon attack by Armenian terrorists at the Ankara March 1982: Bombing of the office to the United States, Canada and Australia. airport does not negate the above conclu of the Honorary Consul General of At this writing, 23 Turkish diplomats have sions. They all possessed foreign passports Turkey in Boston. been assassinated since 1973. Four of the and came to Turkey only to create the inci May 1982: Murder of Orhan Gonduz, killings were done in the United States: dent. They were not Turkish Armenians. Turkish Consul General, Boston. three in Los Angeles (1973 and 1982), and It is ironic, but perhaps predictable that, June 1982: Arrest of three Armeni one in Boston (1982). The remainder of the the Armenian terrorists direct their assault ans after they allegedly put bombs in assassinations occurred in Western Europe, on Turkey while disregarding the very real Canada and Australia. Over 70 bombings religious persecution and limitations on na the Canadian Airlines cargo terminal have resulted in injuries to innocent by tional expression imposed upon their kins at Los Angeles. standers, the last one in Paris just 10 days men in the Soviet Union where the absence October 1982: Arrest of five Armeni ago wounded 16 people. The increased activ of human rights is manifested daily.e ans allegedly preparing to bomb the ity has produced conflicting sentiments in office of the Honorary Turkish Consul the American Armenian community on the General in Philadelphia. terrorism issue although all major organiza THE FIFTH ANNUAL BLACK Mr. Speaker, we must put a stop to tions have officially condemned them. Last year, a bombing at the Anaheim Con HERITAGE DAY PARADE the criminal activities of the Armenian vention Center led to the cancellation of terrorist groups. The 600,000 members performances of the Turkish Folklore of the American Armenian community Group as authorities could not provide secu HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. condemns strongly these acts. The rity in face of further terrorists threats. Ap OF NEW JERSEY agents of the terrorist groups are usu parently inspired by the rising tide of vio IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ally Armenians from Lebanon who lence, other Armenian militants disrupted a had arrived in this country during the cultural meeting of the American-Turkish Tuesday, May 10, 1983 1970's as legal immigrants and then Assembly in Houston and provoked cancel lations of a documentary film on Turkey at e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I ask are used as assassins and bombers. We the Los Angeles Music Center and at the my colleagues to join me in paying must also take adequate steps to University of California Berkeley campus. tribute to the Fifth Annual Black Her insure that the infiltration of ASALA Stink bombs were the weapons of choice. itage Day Parade, which will be held and Justice Commandos agents can no Recently a threat on the life of UCLA in Newark this Sunday, May 15. longer enter under the guise of refu Professor Stanford Shaw forced him to flee The parade has as its theme for this gees from Lebanon. his teaching post and go into hiding. His dis agreement with allegations that Turks mas year: "The African Family: Struggling On September 2, 1982, Dr. Z. Mi for Survival." It will be an opportunity chael Szaz, current director of the Ar sacred nearly all Armenians during World War I was the cause of the death threat. for all of us to recognize the achieve menian Foreign Policy Institute wrote The pretext for Armenian terrorism stems ments as well as the struggles of black an article in the Washington Times from the alleged 1915 massacres. The assas Americans over the years to gain full about these two terrorist organizations sination of Turkish diplomats are to force and equal participation in our society. that are operating in the United Turkey to admit that an organized slaugh The parade committee works excep States. ter occurred costing the lives of 1.5 million tionally hard all year not only on this The text follows: Armenians. The Turkish government has annual event, but on other community CFrom the Washington Times, Sept. 2, 19821 denied these charges and, to prove the inva lidity of such rhetoric, points out that there activities as well. The committee pro ARMENIAN TERRORIST IRONIES were oruy 1,240,000 Armenians in the Otto vides educational and cultural semi . and The Justice Com ans after their 1915 uprising which also re icans in their heritage. In these times mandos of Armenian Genocide. sulted in the death of many thousands of it is especially important for us to re Major American, French, Italian, Spanish, Turks. It is a sad fact, however, that Europe flect on this and to rededicate our Swiss, Portuguese, Canadian and Australian is filled with memories of massacres that oc selves to that struggle for equality. cities have been the sites of bombings and curred in most countries. If every ethnic assassinations aimed at Turkish diplomats group took revenge upon diplomats of other Mr. Speaker, there are many people often injuring scores of innocent bystand countries against whom they nurse griev involved in the parade committee who ers. ances over long-ago events, all of Europe are too numerous to name individual The ideological orientations of these would be drenched in blood. This is not to ly. However, I do wish to single out groups differ, yet their tactics are identical. say that tragedies should be forgotten, but Kurt Culbreath, the chairman of the ASALA is Marxist, Third World-oriented rather that there is a lesson to learn: never Black Heritage Day Parade Commit and pro-Soviet. It operates on the premise to allow nationalist and ethnic passions to tee, who has given so much of himself that the Soviet Union provided an Armeni get out of hand. to this effort. In addition, there are an homeland. ASALA hopes to detach vast The Ottoman Empire had a record of tol areas from eastern Turkey and unite them erance for minorities. The Empire gave three individuals being recognized at with Soviet Armenia. haven to the Jews, among others, during the parade with the honor of serving ASALA, with roots in Lebanon where a the Spanish Inquisition. Perhaps this record as grand marshals. They are the Hon sizable Armenian population resides, has of tolerance explains an especially unique orable Ambassador Paul Rupia, of the close ties with the radical PLO faction led quality of the Armenian terrorist phenome Republic of Tanzania; Mr. William by George Habash. Israeli sources report non. It has not expressed itself within o ·gden Layton, a World War I veteran that documents confiscated from PLO of Turkey despite amply opportunity between of distinguished service who is the fices in Lebanon confirm the ASALA/PLO 1976 and 1980, when Turkey was faced with connection. national disaster brought on by rampant chief grand marshal; and Mr. Leon These terrorists specialize in bombing at left- and right-wing terrorism. Moore, the principal and founder of tacks, but also claim credit for assassination Public security was sufficiently weakened the Chad School in Newark. I wish of Turkish diplomats. Their bombing cam to permit the emergence of a terrorist cam these people and all the others in paign has targeted French and Swiss gov- paign from within the Armenian community volved in Sunday's parade my best 11750 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1983 wishes and my full support and en Clearly, these vehicles, which can be quotas for the International Monetary couragement.e 75 feet long, and weigh as much as 40 Fund but because there is mounting tons when fully loaded, should not be evidence that fluctuating exchange indiscriminately allowed on our high rates among nationar currencies is a TANDEM TRUCKS-A STATE ways. Many interstate roads have barrier to the international movement DECISION interchanges every few miles, and run of capital investment. In the jargon of through hilly or congested areas, in economics, the risk of adverse move HON. STEWART B. McKINNEY creasing the possibility of mishap. The ment in exchange rates imposes trans OF CONNECTICUT individual States are best equipped to actions costs due to risk, and with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES determine whether the particular costs thereby increased, the markets Tuesday, May 10, 1983 design or construction limitations of are less efficient than they could oth their roads, combined with safety fac erwise be. • Mr. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, on tors, warrant partial or total restric In the past century, the world en April 7, I introduced H.R. 2438, a bill tions on tandem trailers. joyed an international monetary to return to the States the right to In fact, in the wake of substantial system that permitted the growth and decide whether their highways are State concerns over safety, DOT has development of Western Europe and safe for tandem-trailer trucks. Fifteen recently withdrawn many of the North America. This was the period of States have prohibited the giant routes originally designated as safe for trucks from using their highways in the international gold standard. There tandem-trailer traffic. Secretary Dole is much misunderstanding about the the past, and the fact that twin trail has indicated that, while the Depart ers are involved in twice as many fatal functioning of the international gold ment will work with State officials on standard. One of the most common accidents as single-unit trucks was the tandem-truck rules, it will go to doubtless a factor in those decisions. mistakes is the belief that there were court to ultimately force acceptance of fixed exchange rates under the gold However, the Federal Highway Admin the final regulations. It is clear that istration is now implementing regula standard, because there was a determi this safety issue, which was hastily nate ratio between the various mone tions to override any State ban of conceived and implemented, deserves these dangerous trucks. I urge you to tary units of different nations-U.S. further careful study before Federal dollars, British pounds, French francs, join me in returning to the States the mandates are laid down.e right to insure safety on their high and so forth. ways by prohibiting tandem trucks if I think it is a serious misstatement they so desire. PERSONAL EXPLANATION to refer to the international gold My legislation is direct and uncom standard as a system of fixed ex plicated: It would simply remove a HON. ROBERT A. BORSKI change rates. What all of the gold short section of the Surface Transpor OF PENNSYLVANIA standard nations had in common was tation Assistance Act of 1982 : structured following the Genoa Con In 1981, there were 12.2 fatalities per 100 HON. RON PAUL ference of 1922 according to some million miles traveled by tandem trailers, thing called the gold exchange stand compared to 5.6 fatalities for single-unit OF TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ard, in which large bars of bullion trucks; would from time to time be shipped Tandem trailers have four times as many Tuesday, May 10, 1983 accidents as regular passenger vehicles, and among central banks for settlement of over three times as many accidents as • Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, the inter adverse payments balances, but the single-trailer trucks; and national monetary system is some monetary system was to be purely one One out of every three tandem trucks is thing that concerns us today, not only of fictional currency names at fixed involved in an accident each year. because of the proposed increase in prices, subject, of course, to periodic May 10, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11751 devaluation as the politics of inflation State lotteries operating in over 15 Surgery on its centennial anniversary would dictate. States and jurisdictions. and I wish the school continued suc Let me make it very clear to my col Both of these measures address erro cess in the future.e leagues that I am opposed to any neous Federal policy in a legitimate in short-range attempts to resurrect the dustry. Bretton Woods system of an interna Mr. Speaker, at a time when individ TRIBUTE TO JERRY AND EDITH tional cartel of central banks: The ual States are assuming more responsi OBERMAN gold exchange and dollar exchange bility for providing services to their standard. This kind of cartel is just as citizens, I find it disturbing that the HON.RAYMONDJ.McGRATH unstable as the OPEC cartel, and just Federal Government continues to OF NEW YORK as dangerous. What we need is the impede such efforts by encouraging il IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES kind of monetary reform that was dis legal gambling outside the economy, cussed at the international monetary and depriving States of scarce revenue Tuesday, May 10, 1983 conferences of the 1890's-where gold dollars. The individual States author •Mr. McGRATH. Mr. Speaker, on itself, denominated by units of weight, ize and oversee legal gaming oper Saturday, May 14, Temple Emanuel in is the universally accepted form of ations in order to reduce the burden Long Beach, N.Y., will honor Dr. Jerry money.e on their taxpayers. Federal tax policy Oberman and his wife, Edith, at its in this area is regressive. 38th annual dinner-dance. I am It should be noted that all of these pleased to join with the members of PERSONAL EXPLANATION changes were urged by the Federal Temple Emanuel in paying tribute to Commission on the Review of the Na these two individuals, who have given HON. CLARENCE D. LONG tional Policy Toward Gambling in so much of theIDSelves to the Long OF MARYLAND 1976, which concluded that withhold Beach community. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing generates nominal revenues to the Jerry Oberman has been an active Federal Government, while encourag part of community life since moving to Tuesday, May 10, 1983 ing an estimated $12 to $15 billion per Long Beach in 1948. He was a founder • Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak year in illegal wagers. and first president of the Long Beach er, I was unable to be present on the In most States, gaming is a legiti Mental Health Association, and a floor of the House of Representatives mate form of revenue. This legislation founding member of Temple Emanuel. on Monday, May 9, 1983, for the vote would significantly increase State Dr. Oberman's greatest distinctions on H.R. 2174, the Federal Antitamper gambling revenues and reduce illegal have been in the education field. As a ing Act. gambling without adversely affecting teacher, principal, assistant superin Had I been present, I would have Federal tax collection. These measures tendent, and then superintendent of voted for this bill to make tampering provide a crucial step in efforts to Long Beach public schools, he has with a product, such as Tylenol, a Fed thwart illegal gaming operations and shown that innovative approaches to eral crime, punishable by up to 20 help States bolster revenue goals. education can turn our schools years in prison and a $100,000 fine.e I hope my colleagues will support around. He introduced Head Start to these efforts to rectify tax treatment Long Beach-2 years before the Feder of law-abiding citizens who patronize al Government adopted the program. GAMING LEGISLATION LONG He was the force behind the develop OVERDUE legal gaming operations, and I urge the prompt consideration of these ment of a program for gifted and tal measures.• ented children-years before most HON. BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH other communities developed similar OF NEVADA prograIDS. He was the architect of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY "Program Options for Pupils," which brings positive publicity, recognition, Tuesday, May 10, 1983 HON. CARDISS COLLINS and many admiring observers to Long e Mrs. VUCANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, OF ILLINOIS Beach schools. my distinguished colleague, Mr. REID, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Edith Oberman has been far from a and I have introduced legislation, H.R. silent partner in her husband's en 2730 and H.R. 2731, to bring equity to Tuesday, May 10, 1983 deavors. She has demonstrated the the tax treatment of patrons of the •Mrs. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, for 100 same kind of community involvement legal gaming industry. years the citizens of our State and which has helped to bring new life to The first is a measure to exclude Nation have benefited from the pro Long Beach. Together, Edith and legal gaming payouts from gross fessional dental training offered by Jerry have given of their time, money, income. The United States is the only Loyola University School of Dentist and energy to every phase of commu country which taxes payouts from ry /Chicago College of Dental Surgery. nity activity. There are few people in legal wagering as income. Foreign offi The school of dentistry has consist Long Beach whose lives have not been cials have prudently deemed such tax ently kept the good dental health and touched in a positive way by the Ober ation to be of minimal gain, particular well-being of our citizens foremost in mans.e ly considering the likelihood of stimu its planning and development by main lating illegal operations. In short, tax taining high educational standards for ation of legal winnings creates an ad its predoctoral students. WELCOME, ROY ROGERS vantage for the illegal operator, and This same concern has also been ex thus serves only as a detriment to tended to the development of ongoing HON. MICHAEL D. BARNES legal revenue efforts. post graduate educational prograIDS to OF MARYLAND H.R. 2731, an alternative reform to assist thousands of practicing dentists IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES H.R. 2730, simplifies IRS treatment of in maintaining their level of expertise certain gaming winnings and corrects and to assure the best dental care pos Tuesday, May 10, 1983 inequities regarding carryover of sible for the prevention of dental dis • Mr. BARNES. Mr. Speaker, I am losses. This legislation enjoys a broad ease. pleased to have this opportunity to base of support, reaching far beyond I, on behalf of the Congress of the welcome to Washington the "King of patrons of the legal casino establish United States, would like to recognize the Cowboys," Roy Rogers, in town to ments in my State to those of parimu Loyola University, Chicago School of help raise funds to insure that the tuel racing in 30 States, and of the Dentistry /Chicago College of Dental athletes participating in the Special 11752 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1983 Olympics will continue to have a year He traveled with a well-armed, 50-member ations, such as the temporary capture of round sports program and, especially, guerrilla band led by a commander whose small towns and segments of highways. The nom de guerre is El Corrion-The Sparrow. idea is to gain credibility for the FDN forces that they can take part in the Interna Their base camp was deep in the rugged while simultaneously demoralizing the San tional Summer Games in July. mountains of Nicargaua's Nueva Segovia dinista troops and encouraging defections. Roy Rogers is well known to all of us province, near the Honduran border. With their popular support reportedly for the great pleasure and entertain It quickly became obvious that the guer growing daily, and U.S. backing continuing, ment that he has brought to millions rillas had the support of the populace. They the guerrillas' covert operations in Nicara of children over the years, along with were fed and protected by local peasants at gua promise to develop shortly into full his wife and leading lady, Dale Evans, every step. Travelling on foot, and only at scale insurrection and civil war.e and his golden palomino Trigger. He is night, to avoid detection by government equally admired for his tremendous troops, the guerrillas spent the days hiding out in "safe houses," often within shouting PERSONAL EXPLANATION humanitarian contributions to his distance of government-held towns. If the country. peasants had wanted to betray them, it Roy Rogers and Dale Evans have would have been a simple matter to tip off HON. HAL DAUB been given the USO Liberty Bell the Sandinista militia to their hiding places. OF NEBRASKA Award, the Kiwanis Decency Award, The peasants also provided The Sparrow IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with up-to-the-minute intelligence on the the Humanitarian Award from the Na Tuesday, May 10, 1983 tional Film Society, and the National whereabouts, movement and strength of the Amvets Auxiliary Award for their Sandinista forces. • Mr. DAUB. Mr. Speaker, because of The anti-Sandinista guerrillas' military official business in Omaha on Monday, many appearances for American veter prowess is not so clear-cut. My associate dis ans of World War II, Korea, and Viet covered this to his dismay when he accom May 9, 1983, I was unable to cast votes nam. The Rogers family is well known panied The Sparrow's band on a planned on the rollcall votes taken. I would for their adoption of orphans and for pre-dawn ambush of government troop car like the record to show that, had I their more than 6,000 charitable ap riers along a country road. been present, I would have voted pearances. In addition, they are the Instead of surprising the Sandinistas, the "yea" on rollcall vote No. 90; "yea" on only show business couple to receive a guerrillas were themselves surprised by rollcall vote No. 91; "yea" on rollcall national citation from the American sniper fire from hilltop positions above vote No. 92, as I was a consponsor of them and were forced to pull out. The re similar legislation to provide Federal Legion, and in 1980 were named co treat was carried out skillfully, however, chairmen of the National Committee and two nights later the guerrillas avenged penalties for tampering with products; for Prevention of Child Abuse. their defeat with an attack on the hilltop "yea" on rollcall vote No. 93; and It is in keeping with his dedication snipers' nests. The FDN commandos treated "yea" on rollcall vote No. 94.e to such causes that Roy Rogers is ap the snipers to a half-hour barrage of rock pearing in the Washington area on ets, grenades and machine-gun fire, before behalf of our special athletes, and it is returning satisfied to their base camp. VFW SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM appropriate that we take a moment to Most of the FDN guerrillas were local peasants, not Somocista exiles. But there HON. MICHAEL G. OXLEY honor him for his long and devoted were also former National Guardsmen, and career helping children and young they tend to be in positions of command be OF OHIO people.e cause of their military experience. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Still, the core of The Sparrow's group con Tuesday, May 10, 1983 sisted of locally recruited peasants. In fact, CONTRAS BACKED BY THE on my associate's last day with the rebel • Mr. OXLEY. Mr. Speaker, "Youth, PEASANTS IN NICARAGUA? band, he witnessed the arrival of 50 new re America's Strength," was the theme cruits, all of them peasants from the neigh this year for the Veterans of Foreign HON. VIN WEBER boring province of Madriz. Wars voice of democracy scholarship OF MINNESOTA One of the new recruits was a defecting program. A young woman from Lima, Sandinista army instructor. There were IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other ex-Sandinistas in the guerrilla troop. Ohio, wrote the winning essay for our Tuesday, May 10, 1983 One was Dunia, a star graduate of the San State. Elizabeth Heath's achievement in this program is certainly deserving •Mr. WEBER. Mr. Speaker, on May dinistas' post-revolution literacy campaign begun in 1980. Dunia did so well she was re of recognition. 8, 1983, the Washington Post carried a warded with a junket to Cuba. she is now I would also commend the Veterans story on the op-ed page which I was the camp medic for The Sparrow's band. of Foreign Wars for generously sup shocked to read. It was a column writ The rebels and their noncombatant col porting students' higher education ten by Jack Anderson on the Contras laborators cited a variety of reasons for while encouraging the scholarship and fighting the Nicaragua Government. their disenchantment with the Sandinistas: patriotism of all participants. Like the I would commend this article to my enforced food rationing, expropriation of colleagues. the farmers' markets, enforced organization selfless activities of youth Elizabeth of peasant co-ops, the Sandinistas' anti-reli cites in her essay, the scholarship pro A POPULAR FORCE gious policies and harassment of the Catho gram is evidence that the VFW is will . the major next month, guerrilla leaders promised, younger generation prove and reprove the group of U.S.-supported insurgents. they will undertake more ambitious oper- clear hope that lies in them. Such an act is May 10, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11753 the incident in the spring of 1982 in Fort ment to the committee print of the least one additional district judge to Wayne, Indiana. Heavy rains flooded the foreign aid package. sit in the Akron court. Since 1979, just streets and the homes of the city, leaving This amendment sends a message of over 25 percent of all civil cases filed many stranded and helpless to the elements. support to the Cypriot people, while at Many more were threatened by the con in the eastern division have been filed stantly rising flood waters. In desperation, the same time putting the Turkish in Akron. Around 15 percent of all the city of Fort Wayne asked for assistance Government on notice as to the senti such cases have been filed in Youngs to help block the waters from the remainder ments of this Congress and the Ameri town. Yet only one judge sits in Akron of the city. The response coming from can people, wishing them to remove and none in Youngstown, while nine within the youth of the city resounded from their military forces from Cyprus. sit in Cleveland where only 60 percent school to school and from area to area. The amendment calls for the of the cases have been filed since 1979. Bonded together in body and in spirit, the amount of military assistance provided In the late 1970's, in an attempt to students-college, high school, junior high to both Turkey and Greece for the and even elementary age performed the re retain as many Akron-based cases in markable job of preparing the block of next 2 fiscal years not to exceed the Akron as possible, Akron's district sandbags that was effective in protecting amount of military assistance request judge at the time, Judge Leroy Contie, many of the remaining threatened areas of ed for 1984, so long as the military entered into exchange agreements the city. These youth demonstrated a qual forces of both countries occupying with the other judges in the eastern ity that is sometimes neglected to be recog Cyprus does not exceed the number division. As a result, in 1980, 314 of the nized in American youth today. That is, agreed to by both Greece and Turkey 621 Akron cases were retained by that every person, young or old, has a genu in the 1959 Treaty of Alliance; these ine concern for human welfare and willing Judge Contie; in 1981, 363 of the 637 troop levels being 950 and 650 respec Akron cases were retained by Judge ness to back and support one another in tively. Today Turkey has well over times of great need. There are many more 20,000 troops occupying Cyprus, and Contie. In 1982, because of delays examples of the strength of our country can would therefore be encouraged to having to do with the appointment depend on from the American youth. For in and confirmation of a new district stance, many schools are hard pressed for remove their troops from the island. While this amendment is substantially court judge, only 220 of the 966 Akron operating funds and rely on the vast cases were retained in Akron. In sum, amounts of publicity to convince the people softer in dealing with the Cypriot to support a school levy. Although not of issue than legislation I introduced ear for that 3-year period, 897 of 2,224 age to vote, many students sacrifice hours of lier this year, I feel it is a significant Akron-based cases, or 40 percent, were effort to door-to-door advertisement and step in the correct direction.• retained in Akron. campaigning for the upcoming elections by I introduced legislation identical to carrying signs and bulletins and literary this proposal in the 96th Congress in publications. Such students show a genuine CENTRAL U.S. COURT DIVISION an effort to bring about a resolution. caring for fellow man and for the welfare of FOR NORTHERN OHIO IS However, in lieu of solving the prob classmates. These students are helping, by NEEDED their contribution, to promote better educa lem legislatively, a plan was imple tion and in turn helping to make our coun mented whereby judges sitting in try the democratic place that it is to live. HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING Cleveland who were assigned Akron Yet there are examples around us every day OF OHIO filed cases would agree to try those of the strength in America's youth. The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cases in Akron unless the parties and only thing necessary is to look closely for Tuesday, May 10, 1983 counsel preferred to try the cases in the little things enacted everyday by people Cleveland. Unfortunately, however, and youth around the nation. That strength e Mr. SEIBERLING. Mr. Speaker, on this plan has not been fully put into is found in the little boy who donates a April 20, I introduced H.R. 2665, a bill penny to charity at Christmas-time, and practice. In 1981, only one trial was to establish a new central division of conducted by a Cleveland-based judge that strength is found in the child from a the U.S. District Court for the North poor family who graduates from a top uni ern District of Ohio. The new division in Akron. However, 19 Akron-filed versity. Strength is the large number of cases were tried in Cleveland. In 1982, youth that volunteer in hospitals and nurs would be comprised of 14 counties which are currently part of the east no Akron trials were conducted by ing homes to help care for the needy. And Cleveland-based judges in Akron, but strength is the young men and women who ern division. The western division proclaim their loyalty and give thanks to a would not be affected by this bill. 18 Akron-filed cases were tried in nation by helping it reach its quota in the H.R. 2665 would also require that Cleveland. Furthermore, even if the volunteer armed forces. These young adults the court for the new central division plan were working as hoped, it could still believe in the preservation of freedom be held in Akron and Youngstown, be canceled at any time. and will gladly lay down their lives for the with two active judges sitting full-time In the years 1980, 1981, and 1982, love of their country like those who have in Akron and one active judge sitting 122 trials were conducted in Akron of gone before them. At the heart, strength is full-time in Youngstown. The bill re Akron-based cases. Of those 122 cases, patriotism at its fullest. For patriotism, the 121 were tried by either Judge Contie, genuine love for one's country, is alive and tains flexibility in assigning judges, growing in the souls of American youth and however, by providing the authority in who was appointed to the sixth circuit is demonstrated not only by acts of sacrifice, the chief judge to assign judges to try in 1982, or by his successor, Judge but by the everyday things that young cases in other divisions to the end that David Dowd. Fifty-six Akron-filed American citizens do simply out of love for cases be tried and motions heard, as cases were tried in Cleveland during their country and love for mankind.• far as possible, in the court where the those same years. case originates. It was hoped that the need for addi I am happy to report that 15 other tional judges in the Akron area would ON THE YATRON AMENDMENT Members of Congress have joined in be partially filled in late 1982 when TO RESOLVE THE CYPRIOT cosponsoring this bill including LYLE Judge Sam Bell, who resides in the ISSUE WILLIAMS, EDWARD FEIGHAN, and Akron area and had designated his of RALPH REGULA, all of Ohio, as well as ficial station as Akron, joined the HON. JAMES FLORIO Judiciary Committee members PAT bench. However, a majority of the OF NEW JERSEY SCHROEDER, HAMILTON FISH, DON ED eastern division judges recently voted IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WARDS, ROMANO MAZZOLI, WILLIAM to designate Judge Bell's official sta HUGHES, JACK BROOKS, JOHN CONYERS, tion as Cleveland, despite Judge Bell's Tuesday, May 10, 1983 HENRY HYDE, MIKE SYNAR, HAROLD desire to sit in Akron. • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I would SA WYER, BARNEY FRANK, and HOWARD Akron needs the additional judge like to congratulate my colleagues on BERMAN. that would be assigned as a result of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Enactment of H.R. 2665 is necessary this legislation. The area serves as who today passed the Yatron amend- because a crucial need exists for at headquarters for four large multina- 11754 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1983 tional rubber companies-Goodyear, founded, been so important not only KHRUSHCHEV'S PROPHECY Firestone, B. F. Goodrich, and Gener to the arts in our country, but also to al-and for Mohawk Tire & Rubber, as the American labor movement, al well. though they may be a very special and HON. WILLIAM F. GOODLING The proposed central division also different segment of the work force. OF PENNSYLVANIA serves as the home for a wide variety My thoughts today have been IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of other corporate headquarters or prompted by the recent release of a re Tuesday, May 10, 1983 large industrial plants, including cording by Frank Sinatra, titled Roadway Express; Goodyear Airspace "Here's to the Band." The song is a e Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, in Corp.; the Hoover Co.; the Timken salute to all musicians everywhere and speaking of the United States, Khru Co.; Diebold Inc.; GM-Lordstown; it reflects Mr. Sinatra's high esteem shchev once said that the Soviets Chrysler-Twinsburg; the McNeil Corp.; for the musicians who have worked would bury us. Over the years, we PPG; Babcock & Wilcox; Ohio Edison, with him during his long career and have seen the truthfulness of this and Terex Corp. It is also the head statement: The Soviets are succeeding quarters of two major labor unions also for every musician who has ever in their goal of world domination, and the United Rubber Workers and the blown a horn, plucked or bowed the with exception to Afghanistan, they International Chemical Workers. Also strings, struck notes on a keyboard, or are firing very few shots. In the past located there are two large Federal en played any kind of musical instru decade, working through proxies, the claves-the Cuyahoga Valley National ment. To quote the song's lyrics: Soviets have been responsible for the Recreation Area and the Berlin Reser Many became famous, most of them go vast numbers of people who have voir. nameless, But I dedicate this song to all of become displaced throughout the Such a concentration of industry them. world, seeking refuge from tyranny at and population guarantees that there Coming from a family with an exten home. This in turn has helped to de will continue to be produced a great sive broadcasting background, I would stabilize the economic and ethnic deal of Federal litigation. But without like to extend my full congressional structures of the receiving countries. this legislation, those cases are far less recognition to the men and women of Since the fall of Indochina, some 1.5 likely to gain the attention they de the American Federation of Musicians. millions have fled Vietnam, Laos, and serve because of the time, distance and I can think of no honor that would be Kampuchea. This in addition to the extra costs involved in traveling to more fitting and proper than to salute hundreds of thousands that have Cleveland for every motion or status them through the title of this song. As sought refuge from the Soviet-backed call. The expense and inconvenience the closing lyrics say: Vietnamese along the Thai-Kampu involved are more than just a burden Here's to those ladies and gentlemen, chean border. In Africa, Somalia has to lawyers and litigants. Indeed, the Here's to the American Federation of Musi taken in over a million refugees that situation imposes a real barrier to the cians, I wouldn't have made it without have been displaced because of Soviet delivery of justice. Courts exist to them, Here's to the Band, Here's to the sponsored turmoil in Ethiopia; in serve the public, but the public in Band.e Angola, some half million people have Akron and Youngstown and many been displaced because of the Angolan other parts of northern Ohio are civil war to which the Cubans have surely being disserved by the current D'AMOURS' PETITION PROVIDES contributed not a little. Here in the arrangement. H.R. 2665 would rectify OPPORTUNITY TO REPEAL United States, we have been able to this imbalance of justice and passage WITHHOLDING OF DIVIDENDS absorb with little difficulty the 800,000 would be a positive change.e AND INTEREST Cubans who fled the Castro regime, and are currently being flooded by TRIBUTE TO THE BOYS IN THE HON. TOM LEWIS vast numbers of illegal aliens from BAND Central America, fleeing violence in El OF FLORIDA Salvador and Nicaragua. The numbers HON. NICK JOE RAHALL II IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES will surely increase tenfold or twenty ! old with each Central and Latin OF WEST VIRGINIA Tuesday, May 10, 1983 American country which falls to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES • Mr. LEWIS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, Soviet-sponsored destabilization. Imag Tuesday, May 10, 1983 as a signatory of discharge petition ine what the impact will be and re •Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, I rise No. 1, I would like to applaud the work member Khrushchev's words. today to call the attention of the Con done by my distinguished colleague Underscoring this point, is a recent gress to a group of immensely talented from New Hampshire, Mr. D'AMouRs, editorial from the Wall Street Journal and dedicated individuals who have for his leadership and tenacity. entitled "The Durenberger-Mazzoli made and continue to make significant It is imperative that we act on H.R. Act." For the edification and interest and substantial contributions to our 500, which seeks to repeal the onerous of my colleagues in the Honse, I Nation's culture and entertainment. withholding on interest and dividends, submit the May 6 editorial for inclu I refer to the artists who are the before millions of dollars are needless sion in the RECORD. members of the American Federation ly wasted by Government and com [From the Wall Street Journal, May 6, of Musicians. Regardless of one's musi mercial institutions preparing to im 1983] cal preference, ranging from the clas plement this costly and unnecessary THE DURENBERGER-MAZZOLI ACT sics to pop music, each and every one procedure to withhold the earnings of Tip Central America on its side and every of us has enjoyed the performance of American taxpayers on July 1. thing that isn't communist will roll into the mus1C1ans. Our lives have been Americans nationwide overwhelm U.S. Consider what is rolling out of El Sal touched, in one way or another by mu vador. The immigration service in 1980 ingly support the repeal of this intru caught almost 12,000 Salvadorans entering sicians, whether they are a jazz trio, a sion by Government. They have flood big band, a rock band, a 100-member the U.S. illegally, caught 16,000 in '81 and symphony orchestra, or a country ed our offices with mail to that effect. 14,000 last year. No one knows, of course, music group. It is in the best interest of the Amer how many weren't caught. ican people that we bring H.R. 500 to Central America is not yet completely up These remarks are intended as a on its side, but Congress is working on it. tribute to those men and women who the floor for full and open debate.• Earlier this week, the House Intelligence have, ever since 1896, when the Ameri Subcommittee voted 9-5 (nine Democrats, can Federation of Musicians was five Republicans) to end "covert" aid to the May 10, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11755 Nicaraguan contras fighting that country's saddles him with the blame for the eventual A TRIBUTE TO PETER J. Sandinista dictatorship. failure. Instead, he should give Congress its SWOBODA We don't want to get involved, the com way, pulling all our military advisers and aid mittee seems to be saying. Well, perhaps out of the entire region. Then he should that's an unfair characterization of the withdraw his support for the Simpson-Maz HON. GUS YATRON committee's intentions. Perhaps we should zoli bill to control illegal immigration from OF PENNSYLVANIA be involved and "concerned" with Marxist the region, and instead announce the Carib destabilization efforts throughout Central bean Boat People's Act of 1983. It's the least IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES America, but not deeply involved. Sort of in we can do. Tuesday, May 10, 1983 volved. Or something. Alternatively, of course, we could face up Many Americans tend to get upset when e Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, on May they read that tens of thousands of Salva to our inextricable involvement in the 22, the ASUR Club of Schuylkill dorans have dumped themselves illegally in future of Central America, and help the na tions there resist the attempts to turn them County will honor Peter J. Swoboda of the U.S. But what would you do if you were Frackville, Pa.; international vice a Salvadoran? You knew what had hap into places from which people flee.e pened in Cuba and Nicaragua once the com president of the Amalgamated Cloth munists took over there, and you knew that ing & Textile Workers Union and in the face of a guerrilla insurgency obvious 1983 AAA SCHOOL SAFETY manager· of the Pennsylvania Joint ly supported by the Marxist world, your PATROL LIFESAVING MEDAL Board of the Union, as ASUR Man of future depended in great part on the atti AWARD RECIPIENTS the Year. The testimonial dinner will tudes of America's congressmen, who spend be held at St. Mary's Center in Ma weeks arguing over whether to send your hanoy City, Pa. government $30 million or $60 million. It's HON. FRANK R. WOLF Pete Swoboda is a well-known and not too surprising that under these circum OF VIRGINIA widely respected figure in the Sixth stances, a lot of Salvadorans have decided to Congressional District of Pennsylva head north. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Actually it's only the Salvadorans who nia. In a recent newspaper article in think of it as the "north." According to the Tuesday, May 10, 1983 the Pottsville Republican, Pete was de immigration service nearly all the illegal • Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, this scribed by officers of the American Salvadorans enter through Texas, and they Slovak-Ukrainian-Russian Club either stay there or go to California. Just month the American Automobile Asso ciation is presenting five young people as "a man whose labor, civic, like the Mexicans. This got us to thinking and political activities have contribut that most of the senators and representa the highest award given to members of tives screaming the loudest about our "in school safety patrols throughout the ed to the enhancement of the quality volvement" in Central America don't seem of life for the people he has been priv United States, the AAA School Safety ileged to serve." to be from Texas or California or New Patrol Lifesaving Medal Award. Mexico or any of those other places that are Peter J. Swoboda was born in going to catch Central America's population The five recipients, credited with Lykens, Pa., one of seven children of if the communists get the region high having saved a life while on duty at Joseph and Domenica Swoboda. He enough up on its side. their school patrol posts, will join a has served as an advisory board Sen. Dodd is from Connecticut. Sen. Tson list of 256 youths from 28 States and member of the Department of Public gas, Rep. Boland and Rep. Studds are from Welfare of northeastern Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. Reps. Long and Barnes are been honored since the program began is a former trustee of the Locust from Maryland. And of course let us not in 1949. Mountain and Ashland State general forget Sen. Dave Durenberger, Republican AAA has sponsored school safety pa hospitals, a former director of the of Minnesota and beneficiary of a lot of trols nationwide since 1920. Today the March of Dimes Foundation, United help from the administration in a tight elec program includes more than 1 million Fund, and Schuylkill County Econom tion against a wealthy opponent, who is agi children at 50,000 schools throughout ic Opportunity Cabinet. Currently, he tating inside the Senate Intelligence Com is a trustee of the Holy Ascension Or mittee for a covert-aid cutoff, and who has the country. sent the president a letter saying he will not An award review board composed of thodox Church, a member of the exec support requests for more Salvadoran aid representatives from active national utive committee of ASUR, Frackville unless there is progress on a negotiated set organizations in the fields of educa Elks Lodge 1533, Pottsville Club, Penn tlement. tion, law enforcement and safety, se State Nittany Lion Club, and the Jerry Somehow we don't suspect this group of lects deserving medal award recipients Wolman Chapter of the Pennsylvania congressmen lies awake at night worrying so Hall of Fame. much about the destabilization of Canada. from those candidates who have been officially nominated for consideration. He began his service with the Amal And we guess we can see why they're so gamated Clothing Workers of America skeptical of the administration's argument The 1983 recipients of the AAA that if we don't put the Marxists completely in 1933 and is a charter member of School Safety Patrol Lifesaving Medal Lykens Local 317. From 1935 to 1938 out of business down there, we're eventually Award are: Barry Lynn Bingham, 14, going to have to come to terms with the tip he was a national organizer for the ping of Mexico, pop. 75 million and growing Second Street School, Frankfort, Ky.; Amalgamated Clothing Workers of fast. Scott A. Jenkins, 10, Shaw Elementa America. In 1938, he became the busi Mr. Reagan's view of Central America is ry, Tampa, Fla.; George Mershon, 10, ness agent of the Pennsylvania Joint that its future lies in an association with Public School 19, Corona Create a Basic Research Trust Fund to absent from the House during the ses become effective in 1985. • Mr. OXLEY. Mr. Speaker, I was To help reverse the real decline in basic sion of Monday, May 9. Had I been absent on official business during yes research spending, a Basic Research Trust present, I would have voted as follows terday's proceedings due to the Presi Fund, analogous to the Highway Trust on the issues considered that day. dent being in Ohio to pay tribute to Fund, should be created and funded from an Rollcall No. 90: To suspend the rules our former colleague John Ashbrook. I identifiable source of revenue. The proceeds and pass H.R. 2357, to provide for an was proud to accompany the President of this fund would be allocated by an orga increase in the number of members of on this important occasion and to wel nization like the National Science Founda come him to my district and my State. tion, which is wholly devoted to managing the Congressional Award Board. funds allocated for basic research. "Yea." Had I been present yesterday I would have voted: "yea" on rollcall 90, 3. TAXATION Rollcall No. 91: To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 2173, to amend the Con "yea" on rollcall 91, "yea" on rollcall Sound fiscal policy is a keystone to the 92, "yea" on rollcall 93, and "yea" on strength of the United States economy. tract Services for Drug Dependent Substantial deficit reduction is, therefore, Federal Offenders Act of 1978 to au rollcall 94.e necessary to reduce interest rates and stim thorize additional appropriations. ulate the forces of growth in the economy. A TRIBUTE TO THREE MAINE The New England Council supports sound "Yea." fiscal behavior by the federal government; Rollcall No. 92: To suspend the rules BOY SCOUTS to reduce sharply escalating federal deficits and pass H.R. 2174, to amend title 18 it is, therefore, necessary to substantially of the United States Code to prohibit HON. JOHN R. McKERNAN, JR. decrease expenditures. certain tampering with consumer OF MAINE If such measures are insufficient to main products. "Yea." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tain the integrity of the federal budget, ad Rollcall No. 93: To suspend the rules ditional examination of the revenue system Tuesday, May 10, 1983 will have to be undertaken. Potential meas and pass S. 653, to amend title 10, ures for examination include: United States Code, to establish a e Mr. McKERNAN. Mr. Speaker, I Value added tax, and Foundation for the Advancement of ask my colleagues to join me today in Consumption-based tax. Military Medicine. "Yea." honoring three Boy Scouts from The Council supports such measures with Rollcall No. 94: To approve House North Berwick in the First District of the provision that revenue raising and re Maine, which it is my privilege to rep ductions in expenditures be broad-based and Resolution 184, the rule making in order consideration of H.R. 2175, the resent. On May 15, these Scouts will impact upon the regions of the nation in an receive the highest award in Scouting: equitable manner. An additional import fee Justice Assistance Act. "Yea."• on oil cannot, therefore, be supported. The coveted "Eagle Scout Award." Further, the Reagan Administration's In order to attain the rank of Eagle contingency plan, with a reliance upon cor Scout, a boy must demonstrate unusu porate income surcharges, does not ade- al leadership ability, earning at least 11760 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1983 21 merit badges, and orgamzmg, fi their achievements, and in wishing outlying areas of Greater Los Angeles. nancing, and seeing through a service them success _in their future endeav During the Six-Day War, as Israel project for the community. The quali ors.e chairman of the District Grand Lodge fications for an Eagle Scout are so rig of B'nai B'rith, he spurred lodges in orous that only 1 Scout in 500 is able TRIBUTE TO HERMAN BERMAN seven Western States and British Co to attain that rank; these young men lumbia to a national record in bond are worthy of our highest praise. purchases. Throughout that time, he Andrew Merrill, 14, the son of Mr. HON. HOWARD L. BERMAN worked around the clock to obtain and Mrs. Jay Merrill, is a freshman at OF CALIFORNIA money for the Israel Emergency Fund, Noble High School. He is on the soccer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES addressing as many as 10 meetings a and track teams, is interested in histo Tuesday, May 10, 1983 day of concerned friends of Israel in ry, and has already won the Scouts' •Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise the San Fernando Valley. Simulta Arrow of Light Award. His service neously, for many years he served as project involved building habitats for today to pay tribute to Mr. Herman Berman, who has been selected by the chairman of the San Fernando Valley wood ducks in a North Berwick conser campaign of Israel bonds and presi vation area. State of Israel to receive the prestigi ous Jerusalem Award. He will be hon dent of the valley area council of the Michael Budd, 14, the son of Mr. and Jewish Federation Council. Most re Mrs. John Budd, attends Noble Junior ored at the annual Israel Dinner of State on Sunday, May 15, at Temple cently he served as Israel bond chair High School. He is a member of the man of Adat Ari El, and he continues drama club, and he plays Babe Ruth Adat Ari El in North Hollywood, at League baseball. His fell ow Scouts which the Consul General of Israel, to be one of the most sought-after have elected him senior patrol leader. Mr. Benyamin Navon, will appear as speakers in the bond speakers bureau. His service project involved updating the guest speaker. I think it is highly Herman Berman and his wife, Annie, the veterans' service plaque located in appropriate that Israel has chosen to have inspired in their daughter, Tara the North Berwick Commons to in honor Mr. Berman with the Jerusalem Kaiserman, and are inspiring in their clude Vietnam war veterans' names. Award for his tireless work on behalf three grandchildren, Dafna, Mya, and Scott Normandeau is also 14, and is of the State of Israel and his fell ow Elon, the same values that have made the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nor Jews. their lives meaningful. He personifies mandeau. His is a member of the Herman Berman has been devoting the highest level of achievement on Honor Society and the drama club, his time and efforts to the cause of behalf of his fell ow man, his fellow and plays both junior high and Babe the poor and the downtrodden since Jew, and the State of Israel. Ruth league baseball. Scott is a patrol the time of World War II, when he Mr. Speaker, I take pride in being leader, and has won the Scout's Arrow worked to raise funds to send food, able to join with all those who will of Light Award. His service project medical supplies, and clothing to the come together on May 15 to honor was to build a ramp for the handi victims of the war. In 1950, he volun Herman Berman. I congratulate him capped at the Mary Hurd Hospital in teered as a fundraiser for the United for his years of service and dedication North Berwick. Jewish Welfare Fund. Eventually, he to our community, and extend my best I join parents, friends, and Scouts in assumed greater responsibilities, be wishes to him and his family on this congratulating these young men on coming UJWF chairman for all of the very happy occasion.e