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HANDGUNS KILL Our nation's streets have become battle­ willingness to work with the Congress on fields where everyone is a potential hand· this critical issue. gun victim: rich or poor, black or white; As a Democratic Committeeman and HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ young or old. In fact there is already a one member of the Board of Handgun Control, oF NEW YORK in five chance that you or someone you love Inc. I strongly urge the Democratic Plat­ will be victimized in a handgun attack. form Committee to adopt the following IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES My personal involvement in the campaign plank which realfirms the 1976 plank and Tuesday, June 24, 1980 for stronger handgun control goes back specifically calls for prompt passage of the many years. Immediately after the tragic as­ Kennedy-Rodino bill. As a Carter delegate I • Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, hand- sassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. know this plank will receive the President's guns kill. An American is shot to and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, I intra­ full support. death by a handgun every 60 minutes. duced gun control legislation in the City PROPOSAL TO THE 1980 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM According to the Justice Department, Council of Washington. It was promptly COMMITTEE one-half of all murders involve the use passed. In the same. year the Congress The Democratic Party reaffirms its 1976 of handguns. Clearly, there is an passed a new national law actively support­ commitment to strengthen the present inad­ urgent need for legislation to reduce ed by then President Lyndon Johnson. equate controls over the manufacture, dis­ the number of illegal handguns on the But since 1968 we have painfully learned tribution, and possession of handguns and streets and to. remove them from the how inadequate our present national law to ban Saturday Night Specials. We also really is. In this current Congress, Senator support mandatory sentencing for individ­ hands of criminals. Edward Kennedy and Congressman Peter uals convicted of committing a felony with a The bills introduced by Judiciary Rodino have introduced comprehensive gun. Toward this end, we specifically call Committee Chairmen Senator EnwARD handgun crime control legislation . The legislation marks the vide leadership toward enactment of the RoDINO, JR., S. 1936 and H.R. 5823, ca- first time that the chairman of the Senate Kennedy-Rodino Handgun Crime Control pably fill this need. It is imperative and House Judiciary Committee have co- Bill, which is the fulfillment of the 19'f6 sponsored such legislation. Already one­ that this legislation, which provides sixth of the Democrats in the Congress Democratic Party Platform commitment. for a comprehensive attack on hand- have joined the bill as cosponsors. ~- Chairman, I hope that the members of the Platform Committee will carefully gun crime, but does not interfere with The legislation is carefully drafted to pro­ consider our suggested language and ap­ a citizen's legitimate right to own a vide for a comprehensive attack on handgun prove it. Too many Americans have already handgun, is passed as soon as possible. crime while protecting and strengthening suffered the scourge of handgun violence. I On Friday, June 13, Handgun Con- the rights of law-abiding citizens. The Ken­ beg the Platform Committee to adopt this trol, Inc., urged the Democratic Plat- nedy-Rodino bill would: plank, so we can stop this nation's handgun form Committee to adopt a plank call- Stop the manufacture, sale, and transfer of madness. ing for the prompt passage of the "Saturday Night Specials," the favorite Kennedy-Rodino handgun crime con- weapon of the criminal. TESTIMONY OF LoiS HESS trol bill. Screen-out illegal purchasers. Anyone who wants to buy a handgun must either have a Ladies and Gentlemen: my name is Lois Mr. Speaker, I would like to valid state "license to purchase" or would Hess. I live in Baltimore County, Maryland submit two statements which were have to undergo a police check of his eligi­ and·have been a life-long Democrat. I am an made in support of this plank. The bility to purchase-from a dealer or private officer and director of Handgun Control, citizen. Inc. which is based here in Washington. first is by John Hechinger, a Carter But I am here today as a victim-a victim delegate and a Democratic committee- Require product accountability. To make of handgun violence. man. The second is a moving and first- the tracing of .misused handgilns more effi­ A little more than five years ago, my 24- hand experience statement by Lois . cient, and to curtail illicit handgun traffick­ year-old-son, my ohly son, Stuart was mur­ Hess, a victim of handgun violence ing, manufacturers would be responsible for keeping track of all handgun transactions dered-shot in the head by a handgun while whose son was killed with a handgun. throughout their channels of distribution, working on his father's construction job. We must protect the rights of all including by whom and to whom they are fi­ Stuart had just received his Master of Sci­ Americans to live in a safe country. nally sold. ence degree in Real Estate and Urban De­ velopment Planning from American Univer­ These two testimonies demonstrate Require handgun manufacturers, dealers sity. the impending need for handgun con- and owners to report thefts and losses. We watched Stuart grow both bodily and trol legislation. I urge my colleagues Enforce the law: Right now the Federal mentally with beautiful hopes. For Stuart to put aside political considerations law on handguns must be enforced by the and his father a partnership was to be the and immediately enact meaningful Department of Treasury, whose basic tunc­ fulfillment of a long-awaited dream. Their gun control legislation. tion is to collect taxes. The legislation trans- dream was shattered with one gunshot. fers the responsibility of enforcing the law to the Department of Justice where it be- Ever since I heard my husband Dick's The statements follow: voice, "It's Stuart, he's dead." My life has TEsTIMONY OF HON. JOHN HECHINGER longs. . taken on a new meaning. Being a h,andgun Mr. Chairman, during the peak years of Urge states to pass "license to carry" laws. victim has become my life-style. I grieve the Vietnam War more than 40,000 Ameri- Persons carrying handguns outside their each day for my son. I grieve each day can soldiers were killed in action. Believing home or place of business should have a li­ knowing other sons and daughters are being that bloodshed to be for no good purpose, cense to do so. Carrying a handgun without killed-needlessly by handguns. I am not our nation was moved to end our involve- a license should be punished by a manda­ alone. ment in Vietnam. But few realize that tory Jail sentence. Handgun violence stalks each and every during those very same years, over 50,000 Require swift and sure punishment for one of us: even politicians are not immune American civilians were murdered here at those who misuse handguns. The criminal from handgun attack, Robert F. Kennedy home with handguns. While the Vietnam who uses a handgun in the commission of a killed with a Saturday Night Special; Gover­ War is over, the American Handgun War Federal crime would receive a mandatory nor George Wallace paralyzed by a hand­ rages on. jail sentence. gun; Senator John Stennis severely wound­ And this handgun war is escalating. In Aid victims of handgun crime: Those who ed with a handgun; Mayor George Moscone 1979 alone more than 10,000 of our fellow suffer from handgun crime would be finan. killed by a handgun; Allard Lowenstein, Americans were murdered with handguns. cially helped in paying hospital costs. former Congressman murdered with a hand­ Another quarter of a million Americans In 1976 the Democratic Platform endorsed gun. . And every hour of the day another were wounded, threatened or robbed with stronger handgun controls. In recent American joins the list of handgun dead. handguns. It's as if a city the size of Sacra- months President Carter has reaffirmed his Here in my hands are the names of some mento, California was held up at gunpoint. support for such common-sense controls and of those Americans killed in 1979 alone. If I

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 16642 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 24, 1980 unrolled this list, it would stretch the Salute to America" to commemorate about Roll Call and its editor and pub­ length of this room. Behind each name Army Day in New York City. lisher Sid Yudain came out. As the there is a story of handgun violence like my Our .Aqned Forces and Reserve, units newspaper of Capitol Hill observes 25 own. Behind each name there is a family who has also suffered the grief caused by have a long history of dedicated serv­ years of reporting on the Capitol com­ handgun violence. ice to the Nation. That service is one munity, due recognition to the perse­ Something must be done about the uncon­ which allows us both a ready defense verance and talent of Mr. Yudain has trolled proliferation of handguns in Amer­ and a calmer mind through the knowl­ been taken. Those who have known ica. And I am talking about handguns-not edge of that readiness. But, it also in­ him longest, and best, gathered to rifles and shotguns which are hunting weap­ cludes peacetime service to the Nation assure that history will record the ac­ ons. The handgun because of its conceala­ in a manner which extends far beyond tualities of Roll Call and the exploits bility is the favorite weapon of the criminal. military preparedness. The 77th Army of its creator. I was pleased to serve as In poll after poll over the last 50 years the Reserve Command and the 36lst cochairman of this bipartisan occa­ American people including the majority of Public Affairs Detachment have, for sion, which brought luminaries from gun-owners, have stated that they want better controls over handguns. As handgun example, responded to medical emer­ politics, the media, and entertainment violence escalates the feelings of the Ameri­ gencies, helped to build recreation together with a common purpose-to can people will turn to anger at the ballot areas, become involved in projects to set the record straight on Sid Yudain. box. Anger directed at those legislators who clean up local rivers, and have devoted In the Friday Washington Post, Jac­ fail to stem this killing and maiming. countless hours working with the queline Trescott helped clarify the In fact a recent ABC News-Louis Harris youth of our city. course of Roll Call's quarter century Survey indicates that there are already far On Sunday, thousands of New of chronicling happenings on the Hill. more people in this country who would vote Yorkers will join in celebrating Army It is a most interesting account, re­ against a candidate who opposes handgun Day. Mayor Ed Koch and Borough plete with anecdotes and the chronolo­ control than there are those who would vote gy of this unique newspaper. I invite against a candidate who favors such control. President Donald Manes will be on But the Democratic Party-the people's hand to present Army Day proclama­ my colleagues to read it. The text of party-is already leading the way to solving tions in recognition of the contribu­ the Post article is as follows: this serious problem. tions of and services rendered by the [From the Washington Post, June 20, 19801 • Democratic leaders in the Congress are Reserve componen.ts and their spon­ SID YUDAIN'S 25 YEARS AS CHRONICLER OF seeking legislative action to provide for ade­ sorship ?f this important festival in CONGRESS quate controls over the manufacture and Queens. sale of these deadly weapons. Senator The festivities will include a presen­ One Wednesday night when Roll Call, the Edward Kennedy, a handgun victim, and tation of the colors, drill and firing ex­ compact and spirited newspaper of Capitol Congressman Peter Rodino have joined hibitions, a hospital and ambulance Hill, had sealed its last item in lead, its forces behind a comprehensive yet equitable display, and a special exhibit by the editor got a call from the White House. The handgun crime control bill. The Kennedy­ secretary of then-vice president Richard Rodino bill marks the first time that the Combat Support Company of the 1st Battalion, 71st Infantry, New York Nixon was on the phone. Nixon had a story, Chairmen of the Senate and House Judici­ an obituary in fact. Sid Yudain, the indomi­ ary Committees have cosponsored handgun Army National Guard. table editor, said it would have to wait until control legislation. The Kennedy-Rodino It will be a special pleasure for all of the next week. Nixon got on the phone and, bill has already won unprecedented support us to listen to the Seuffert Band, as in the Congress. One-sixth of the Democrat­ Yudain recalls, said, " 'It's my longtime ic members of Congress are already behind the Army Day festivities will include a doorkeeper, we are having these services, it. President Carter has also stated his will­ concert by this talented group as part we've got to let the people know.' And I ingness to work with the Congress on this of its continuing series of summer con­ gave in.'' vital national issue. certs in New York. Under the compe­ For the last 25 years, Yudain has been an tent direction of Dr. George Seuffert, accommodator, adviser, matchmaker, chron­ I have come here today telling my hand­ icler, discoverer Newspapers Seuffert Band, are sponsoring "A occurred in Washington. The truth are notorious for not being able to last. In June 24, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16643 155 years there has never been a newspaper I started a paper for the cancer patients. I that Common Cause will be after them. here that lasted more than three or four stayed an extra two months, in my pajamas, Now you see more general relaxation. You months." I enjoyed it so much," says Yudain. can talk to people when you walk into their Stories about Yudain abound with the His introduction to Hollywood feature offices again.'' same formula of lightheartedness and fair­ writing came while he was assigned to guard But 25 years doesn't mean Yudain is ness that he uses in Roll Call. He once had a a munitions dump in Los Angeles. Actor Ca­ giving up. This celebration is a simple mile- · suit of armor in front of a fireplace in his meron Mitchell, a friend, saw that he met stone. He will continue his Sunday soup apartment, and the high point of every the right people, but getting into the busi­ suppers, complete with Yudain on saxo­ party was to wait until a congressman start­ ness in the heyday of Louella Parsons and phone and singing such ditties as "Tie Me to ing talking to it. "When I first met him he Hedda Hopper was no cinch. The editor at Your Apron Strings," and guests like Irving had a bachelOr's apartment, and he loved to Modem Screen told him he had to get a Wallace, Sergio Franchi and Amanda Blake, cook soups but he never bothered to refrig­ scoop. Yudain went back to Connecticut, and his two youngsters, 5 and 4. erate them. One of his sauerkraut soups fer­ found out Olivia de Havilland was perform­ "My basic work hasn't changed, the basic mented and exploded. I wouldn't tell you ing nearby and requested an interview. "I philosophy of Roll Call hasn't changed," he how long it stayed on his ceiling," says Jack knew my editor wanted to know about her says. "The Congress has changed. We are Anderson, a staff assistant to Rep. John romances. So I went over, I was drinking trying to keep up with the changes."e Rhodes Lana Turner, Ava secretary. "As the years went by he became Gardner and Lizabeth Scott before coming improved civil defense for our Nation a fan, or at least accustomed to it. In 1961 or to Washington with a Connecticut congress­ is becoming understood across the somewhere, he was trying to get the East man in 1951. Bemoaning. the absence of a country. Steve Shannon of KCMO, of Front of the Capitol extended. He had a ter­ community newspaper with gossip and Kansas City, states the case for civil rible fight, the press was against him, he human-interest stories (people still talk defense quite well. .. asked if I would run a story." Vindication? about the press release he once sent out The editorials follow: No, says Yudain-just a good village story. about a dead parakeet in his boss' office), he Over the years, bylines in the Roll Call launched his effort with a $90 investment, THE CIVIL DEFENSE SECRET have included Hubert Humphrey, Jack Ken­ no business experience and one editor, pub­ This is Steve Shannon, Station Manager nedy and Lyndon Johnson. This outlet did lisher, reporter, political commentator and of KCMO Radio, with an editorial view- not stop any of them from chewing him out. delivery boy-himself. Even now the paper point. · His worst time came with dour Speaker has only two full-time reporters and four KCMO Radio says Civil Defense and its Carl Albert. For an anniversary issue, the summer interns, and the business aspects of status are closely held secrets in this coun­ Roll Call photographer had dressed up a the Hill's only weekly have not changed; try. It's not intentional. No one is suppress­ pretty woman on Albert's staff in a skimpy Roll Call doesn't have an advertising de­ ing the news of Civil Defense ... but by the costume made of copies of the Roll Call. partment. Its 7,000 subscribers United States "When I was hospitalized for a broken nose, not worried someone is going to pick it up, does not. Russian workers-students-the 16644 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 24, 1980 public have a plan and they know what they thereby frustrating both the medical com­ proved for use in the United States by the should do in case of a nuclear attack. We do munity and the pharmaceutical industry. F.D.A. not. As you are well aware, most new drugs Here are some examples: Propranolol, Under these conditions, it is easy to imag­ have come from research innovations by which provided a significant advance in ine the U.S.S.R. threatening our population U.S. drug companies. However, as you are treating hypertension when it was intro­ if we don't surrender. We will be unable to also aware, the cost for bringing a new drug duced in the United Kingdom in 1969, was give a similar threat because they are better to the market is extremely great; as a result not approved here until seven years later. able to protect a much larger portion of the many potentially beneficial drugs fall by Adriamysin, the second most widely pre­ Russian people and most of their govern­ the wayside because of the extremely high scribed cancer-therapy drug in the world, ment leaders. Again, they have civil defense cost of bringing them through the various was approved in the United Kingdom in and we don't. The significance of this is that regulatory processes. This cost involves the 1971; the F.D.A. sanctioned its use here in any American President faced with the factor of delay and request for additional 1974. choice of losing millions of people because study and 9..'1 you know there are all too When I was in Belgrade in April as part of there is no civil defense program or surren­ many instances where the FDA simply acts a delegation from the House of Representa­ dering, will choose to surrender. So you can as a deterrent and as a filter so fine that tives, I discovered that Moxalactum, an see why it is necessary to strengthen civil hardly anything gets passed. antibiotic developed by a United States defense. It improves and increases the You have also echoed one of my constant pharmaceutical firm for the treatment of number of strategic options available to our themes-namely, there is always a cost­ pneumonia, was being used to help prolong President during a nuclear confrontation. benefit or cost-risk assessment associated the life of President Tito. Although this Civil defense works! Many major studies with any drug or treatment. There is noth­ new experimental drug has not yet been ap­ show we can protect people ... but we have ing we do and no medication that we take proved by any government, clinical trials to begin the work now! Why is KCMO that will not at some time in some patient are under way in the United States and Radio concerned about civil defense? Well, result ·in adverse affects. There is no utopia Europe. It will be interesting to see if this Kansas City is one of the key enemy targets as far as drug prescription and administra­ obviously useful drug is ultimately approved in the United States. We're high on the tion is concerned. There will always be first overseas. Soviet hit list! Therefore KCMO Radio says minor as well as major side effects. The substantial, typical delay <7 to 10 without civil defense America is making In fact, it was this cost-benefit concern years) and the exorbitant cost (up to $50 itself needlessly vulnerable. Without Civil that made me appear before your Commit­ million> in getting a new drug approved in defense America is at a military strategic tee several years ago in the case of saccha­ this country have not given the American disadvantage. We aren't even trying. rin. Some of your colleagues on the Com­ consumer safer or more-effective drugs. On That's KCMO Radio's editorial viewpoint. mittee at the time, wondered whether per­ the contrary, many medical patients have What's your opinion?e haps I was beholden to a drug company or paid a high price in terms of needless suffer­ other manufacturers for making statements ing or premature death because of the una­ supporting the continued availability of sac­ vailability of the most modern advances in THE DRUG LAG PROBLEM charin. In fact, I presented my views only as drug therapy. a concerned physician. However, this brings Some patients must actually go abroad­ up another issue-namely, we have reached to England, West Germany, Switzerland-to HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL the point where anyone who speaks in sup­ obtain drugs that are denied to them in the OF NEW YORK port of a drug is considered suspect and to United States. For example: There is Al­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be somehow connected with the drug com­ prenolol, a cardiovascular drug widely used pany that has developed the drug. This con­ abroad to prevent death after heart attacks; Tuesday, June 24, 1980 cept results in advisory committees being Chenodeoxycholic Acid, a gastro-intestinal drug that can dissolve gallstones, thus obvi­ • Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, our dis­ formed where the scientific members are tinguished colleague, JIM ScHEUER, screened so carefully that the scien­ that by the time this drug gets F.D.A. ap­ who represents the 11th District in tists serving on the committees are often proval it will already be superceded abroad New York, has been an articulate and not of the highest caliber. In my opinion, by a newer, safer and more-effective one>; effective spokesman against u.Dneces­ this is also one of the reasons that the FDA Verapamil and Nifedipine, both cardiovascu­ sary delays in making available new often does not get the very best scientific lar drugs that are useful in the type of drug therapies to the general public. I advice. It is almost reminiscent of the Mc­ heart attacks caused by coronary spasms. know firsthand JIM's deep concern Carthy era, with concerns and queries It takes substantially longer to get a new and compassion for those who are ill whether "you are now or ever have been" drug approved in America because of F.D.A. and suffering, and his commitment to connected with a specific or related pharma­ administrative inefficiencies and regulatory ceutical firm in some manner at some time excesses. The F.D.A., for example, put an easing this problem. in the past. application for approval of Cimetidine, a Responding to an op-ed article, writ­ Let me conclude by indicating that the drug used for ulcer therapy, on its fast track ten by JIM for the New York Times, purpose in writing this letter is to applaud for approval in July 1976, the same time May 22, 1980, the eminent Dr. Kurt Is­ your excellent article. It is timely., impor­ that British approval was asked. The Brit­ selbacher, professor of medicine at tant, and right on the mark. Many of us ish granted approval in two months the Harvard Medical School and chief of who feel frustrated in not being able to F.D.A. in 13 months. the Gastrointestinal Unit of Massa­ obtain drugs for the treatment of our pa­ Many of the guidelines and regulations chusetts General Hospital, wrote a tients are indebted to you for your efforts to issued by the F.D.A. are arbitrary, redun­ change the slow and tortuous regulatory dant and subject to frequent change or letter to JIM expressing the frustra­ varied interpretation. The F.D.A.'s refusal tion of many medical practitioners at process of the FDA. Respectfully Yours, to accept first-rate research of some of the the drug lag problem, and commend­ finest medical institutions abroad-in Eng­ ing him for his efforts. I want to share KURT J. ISSELBACHER, M.D. land, West Germany, Scandinavia and both the article and Dr. Isselbacher's Japan-unless that research is needlessly letter with my fellow colleagues: THE F.D.A.: Too SLOW duplicated by studies in America, wastes tens of millions of dollars and many pre­ The letter and article follow: Implementation of close-out computer safety and effectiveness-yet speed, rather procedures for paid in full, compromise, than retard, the introduction of new drug collected in the history of the Federal write-off, and referrals for litigation. therapies, and nurture, rather than deter, insured loan program up through Sep­ Competitive spirit among the regional of­ therapeutic-drug innovation in the United tember 1977. During the first 6 fices via the "Regional Olympics". States.e months of fiscal year 1980, an addi­ Implementation of a performance mea­ tional $21.7 million has been collected surement system which established account­ for a total of $80 million collected ability standards for Regional Administra­ HOME-BASED FOOD PRODUC­ since September 1977. Prior to that tors. TION AND SENSIBLE PREPARA­ time only $33 million had been col­ Mr. Speaker, I would also like to ex­ TION lected. press my hope that, when H.R. 4155 As of March 30, 1980, in addition to becomes law, it be administered to pre­ HON. CLARENCE D. LONG the accounts in repayment, 359,000 ac­ clude the use of the addresses of de­ OF MARYLAND counts have been worked. Included in faulters for any purpose other than this figure are accounts that are paid IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the collection of student loans. In par­ in full, written off (including death, ticular, I would expect that the Secre­ Tuesday, June 24, 1980 disability, and bankruptcy), assigned tary of Education would , administer • Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak­ to the collection agency contractors, the provisions of this law to insure er, I rise to share with you and my dis­ referred to the U.S. attorney's office, that only bona fide holders of de­ tinguished colleagues an idea passed and accounts for which the schools in­ faulted student loans receive the ad­ along to me by a constituent, Mrs. volved are undergoing investigation. dresses of loan defaulters and to Gertrude Seward Mayer of Baltimore. From January 1977, the backlog of insure that only those employees of Mrs. Mayer, a home economist and unresolved defaulted accounts grew the holders of the loans who are di­ nutritionist, is concerned over the way from over 300,000 to slightly more rectly involved in the collection of stu­ our food is produced, distributed, and than 400,000 by March 1978. As of dent loans have access to these ad­ prepared. My constituent points out March 30, 1980, 451,000 accounts-in dresses.e that many commercially available repayment and other accounts con­ foods have little nutritional value and verted-have been worked leaving a backlog of 122,000 unresolved accounts SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE are very expensive. She notes that COMPENSATION Americans could eat and live better, in the regional offices. saving money in the bargain, if we The OE collection effort had a dra­ could grow and prepare ourselves more matic impact on the default rate. HON. JOSEPH L. FISHER of the foods we eat. Without this effort the default rate OF VIRGINIA Mr. Speaker, the victory gardens of would have been nearly 14 percent. As IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES World War II were tools in achieving of September 30, 1979, the net default Tuesday, June 24, 1980 Allied victory. Mrs. Mayer's vision, rate, which takes into account the re­ which I believe has great merit, is that sults of the collection efforts, is 8 per­ e Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, last more home-based food production, and cent. week during its consideration of the more sensible preparation, could be Vigorous actions began in January fiscal year 1980 supplemental appro­ important tools in the present war 1977 to stem and combat the default priations bill, the House agreed to · an against inflation.e problem. Following is a list of several amendment to limit pay and bonuses of these efforts: for members of the Senior Executive Service in the Federal Govern­ Operation Cross Check enabled the Feder­ THE RECORD ON STUDENT al Government to clean up its own house by ment to $52,660 rather than $60,660, LOAN DEFAULTS matching government payrolls against the as the Appropriations Committee had FISL default file. originally proposed. I think this action Phase I matched FISL default file with was a mistake. HON. WILLIAM D. FORD HEW payroll in October 1977. All the 317 The high-level civil service employ­ OF MICHIGAN HEW employees identified have repaid or ees who joined the SES gave up some IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are making payments. of the security and guarantees of the In February 1978, Phase II matched the Tuesday, June 24, 1980 civil service in exchange for the pros­ FISL default file with all Federal civilian pect of greater career challenges and e Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speak­ employees . As of June rewards for excellence. For the execu­ er, during the debate on H.R. 4155, the 1979, of the 6,600 individuals identified, 4,709 have either paid in full, begun repay­ tives willing to take risks, leadership gentleman from Illinois, Mr. MicHEL, ment, or had debts written off ~ Reform Act of 1978. It could be viewed distinguished minority whip. over 22,000 uncollectable defaulted accounts as a signal that Congress does not sup- 16646 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 24, 1980 port the SES concept. The SES was to CARTER DOCTRINE IS FLOUTED be the thrust of our foreign policy if we be the centerpiece of the effort to BY SOVIETS claim to be a great nation. reform the civil service, the spark that If we would have denied the Russians a would enliven and give added vitality HON. BOB WILSON foothold in Cuba and denied the Commu­ to the bureaucracy. I think that elimi­ nist takeover in Angola, Cambodia, Ethio­ OF CALIFORNIA pia, and Yemen there would have been no nating the performance awards will be Afghanistan. However, now there will be very damaging to this effort. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more geo-political advances by the Soviet The Washington Post had an inter­ Tuesday, June 24, 1980 Union to our detriment. If there were no Russians, there would be esting editorial on this subject on e Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, Ed no hostages either. The students at the U.S. Friday, June 20. I bring the views in Lifmann recently wrote an article ac­ Embassy are in part Russian-armed and the editorial to the attention of my centing the weakness in President trained Palestinians-not Iranians. The colleagues. Carter's foreign policy. The article fol­ problem is in Moscow, not in Tehran. The editorial follows: lows: Our disastrous foreign policy has been HosTAGE REscuE TRY . Is PRooF-CARTER unable to effectively deal with the priorities DOING WRONG BY CIVIL SERVANTS DOCTRINE Is FLOUTED BY SOVIETS as they affect our country as a whole. After years of general hand-wringing MARIO BIAGGI career executives are working right now for tation?" considerably less money than their col­ In talking to military people, it becomes OF NEW YORK leagues in the private sector, and one pur­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pose of the bonus provision was to provide very clear that we not only have a manpow­ the genuinely exceptional among them a er problem but we have a very serious equip­ Tuesday, June 24, 1980 reason· to stick with the government. For ment and even spare parts problem. The years, federal salaries have been artificially helicopters used in the rescue attempt were e Mr. BlAGG!. Mr. Speaker, yester­ restrained by a congressionally imposed ceil­ Vietnam vintage and so is much of our day, I attended the funeral of Joseph ing, which now stands at $50,112. Eighty-six other equipment. Keegan, a New York City Transit percent of the senior executives are at that The very quality of our volunteer Army is Police officer killed in the line of duty ceiling. Some 80 percent would, if paid at deplorable and our National Guard units on June 19. Officer Keegan was the the level their jobs draw in private industry, are well below full strength. third transit police officer and sixth earn more than the $52,750 the House has The factual circumstances that have al­ lowed the Russians to gain military superi­ police officer to be killed in the line of set as its limit on the combination of pay duty this year. and bonus. ority over countries that are much richer and more populous than theirs are not dic­ Officer Keegan was killed by his This issue is an easy prey for demagogues, tating to the Western world what our future own gun which was taken from him by because not many people in the country world will look like. a loiterer he sought to remove from a make $50,000. But it should be remembered The expansion period for the Soviets is subway station in Manhattan. Officer that the size of some of these jobs is stag­ now, since strategically we will get stronger gering. We are talking about some of the Keegan was only several weeks away in the late '80s. from retirement and marriage. most responsible executives in the country. As long as no U.S. ground forces are de­ In addition to keeping some of the best ployed in the Persian Gulf region, we will I came to Congress after a 23-year people from leaving, the penalty-and-reward have to face the growing possibility that career as a New York City-Police offi­ structure of the reform was also intended to this region will be lost, directly or indirectly, cer. During that career I was wounded encourage those who had not been working within the very near future. more than 10 times in the line of duty. very hard or very em:ictively to get with it. The Soviet Union has for some time em­ Yet, the incidences of police officers Actions like those of the House committee barked on a massive program for control of being murdered and maimed in this are likely to incline them, instead, only to the world's Ininerals, of which oil is just country today is shockingly increasing dig in their heels. one. and must be stopped. There is, inevitably, a tension in govern­ The creation of internal Iranian turmoil I feel at the very least the following ment between the political people-legisla­ by the well-organized, Russian-trained tive and executive-and the career civil ser­ Marxists, a spectacle that can be viewed on must be enacted if we are to truly vants. Success in running the government our morning television shows, could also be commit ourselves to protecting police requires taking positive advantage of that a means to an end. officers. tension, with career staff providing the ana­ Europe and Japan are 100 percent depend­ First, the death penalty should be lytic work, the institutional background and ent on oil from the Persian Gulf region, restored for those persons responsible continuing management capacity, and the which has to move through the Strait of for killing a law enforcement officer in political officials providing the judgment of Hormuz to reach those markets. the line of duty. how to get things done and which things to We predict Russian control of the Strait try to do. The senior career executives are of Hormuz in the near future. This action Second, those persons responsible the bridge between the political staff and would make both Europe and Japan depend­ for the commission of any crime using the vast operational apparatus. They have ent on Russia, therefore leading to a break­ a gun should be subjected to manda­ seen administrations come and go, and are up of the Atlantic Alliance, as well as the tory prison sentences. like the legendary British Civil Servants "Finlandization" of Western Europe and Third, the Department of the Treas­ who, it is said, serve all political masters Japan-perhaps even occupation by Russian ury should immediately conduct a with equal loyalty and disdain. It makes no forces in some of these areas. study to identify those bullets capable sense to tip the balance further toward dis­ It is very possible that the Russians can dain and cynicism by reneging on an agreed­ achieve these goals without firing a shot of penetrating . existing bulletproof upon change in the terms of employment and without ever engaging any of our forces vests such as the one worn by Officer after they have given up their security and anywhere in the world. Keegan. This particular proposal I am before they have had a chance to reap any Although the fate of the hostages is of giving serious consideration to offer­ benefit. The funds should be restored.e great concern to every American, it cannot ing as an amendment to the upcoming June 24, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16647 Treasury/Postal Service appropri­ alternate energy sources from economic, en­ device when the time comes for fusion to go ations legislation. vironmental and safety standpoints." commercial. "e Instead of people in public life at­ Fusion power involves the combining of light gases in such a way that they release tending police funerals and shedding temperatures that tnatch the heat of the DENISE COPLEY crocodile tears, we should commit our­ sun. The commercial development of fusion, selves to do all in our power to see to it sought for the last 30 years, would bring a that they can perform their essential swift end to at least that part o'f the energy HON. NICHOLAS MA VROULES duties without fear of murder.e crisis that involves burning oil, coal or ura­ OF MASSACHUSETTS nium to generate electricity. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The main fuels for fusion would be deu­ THE BUCHSBAUM REPORT terium and tritium, isotopes of hydrogen Tuesday, June 24, 1980 that can be extracted in abundance from e Mr. MAVROULES. Mr. Speaker, it seawater. is a rare moment when an ordinary HON. MIKE McCORMACK The review panel said it expects the feasi­ citizen, motivated by inner courage OF WASHINGTON bility of fusion to be demonstrated in 1983 and strength, takes the initiative to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by the Tokomak fusion test reactor being built at Princeton University for $284 mil­ rise to a stressful occasion, thereby Tuesday, June 24, 1980 lion. making these qualities manifest. Demonstrating fusion means creating a Today, I would like to relate to you e Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, temperature inside the fusion test reactor of the case of one such individual in my for months now, the scientific commu­ 100 million degrees and sustaining it for at constituency. nity and, particularly, researchers in least one second. A device known as the Denise Copley, a resident of Lynn, nuclear fusion have anxiously been Princeton Large Torus has reached tem­ Mass., was in her apartment when she awaiting the outcome of a study being peratures of 60 million to 80 million degrees was called to assist in the care of a 3- performed by the Energy Research for one-twentieth of a second. year-old boy who had suffered convul­ Advisory Board-ERAB-an independ­ "The last five years have been marked by notable achievements, making the U.S. the sions due to a virus. Shortly after Ms. ent panel of consultants to the De­ Copley entered the apartment, the partment of Energy. The ERAB sub­ unquestioned leader in fusion research," the report said. "There is a momentum in the victim stopped breathing. After deter­ group preparing this study was program which should continue until the mining that the boy's airway was not chaired by Dr. Solomon Buchsbaum of mid-1980s." obstructed, Ms. Copley began mouth­ Bell Telephone Laboratories. The review panel's recommendations are to-mouth resuscitation. She continued The Buchsbaum report was released likely to have a deep impact on the White for approximately 5 minutes until the yesterday, Monday, June 23, 1980, and House, the Department of Energy and the victim resumed breathing on his own. an excellent synopsis appeared in Congress, in part because the panel consists The young boy was then taken to the tQday's issue of the Washington Post. of some of the nation's most renowned sci­ entists. hospital. Without doubt, the use of The report makes it completely clear The 10-member panel includes Marvin first aid by Ms. Copley saved the vic­ that all technological signals are "go" Goldberger, president of the California In­ tim's life. on fusion, and that the program is stitute of Technology; Wolfgang Panofsky, For her courageous, selfless accom­ ready for major expansion and accel­ director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator plishment, my distinguished constitu­ eration. Center, and JohnS. Foster Jr., former head ent received something that cannot be This is the message that I have been of research for the Pentagon and now vice described in terms of reward or com­ trying to communicate for some president for science for TRW Inc. The mendation-for what greater reward is months now to the administration, panel is chaired by Sol Buchsbaum, execu­ tive vice president of Bell Laboratories. there than the saving of a human life. and I must say I am quite pleased with Once scientists demonstrate that fusion is I am extremely proud and honored to the panel's findings. possible, they must move to the next step­ represent Denise Copley, and would The Buchsbaum report also supports demonstrating that it can produce usable like to take this opportunity to praise the efforts of the Committee on Sci­ energy. That involves creating temperatures the Red Cross and other emergency ence and Technology in adding to the of 100 million degrees and sustaining them training organizations that have prop­ fusion budget, even in this year of for days and even weeks. erly equipped our now unveiled hero­ severe budgetary restraint. I commend This would be done by the $1 billion ine.e to my colleagues the Post's summary Fusion Engineering Device recommended by the panel, which said it is feasible to pro­ of this report. A copy of the Post arti­ duce a burning plasma that would sustain a cle appears below: 100-million-degree temperature virtually in­ GREECE-AN ESSENTIAL COMPO­ [From the Washington Post, June 24, 19801 definitely. NENT OF THE NATO ALLIANCE PANEL URGES UNITED STATES To SPEND The major obstacles to this are finding BILLIONS ON FuSION POWER wall materials that can withstand the terrif­ HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD ic heat created if any of the burning plasma Jimmy Carter off until after enmity which exists between Greece encourage our European allies to help · the upcoming election. and Turkey. Greece withdrew from in providing assistance to the deterio- At this time, opportunity to increase the military structure of the alliance rating southern flank. The U.S. en- solidarity among the member nations after the second Turkish invasion of couragement of West Germany to of NATO and considerably strengthen Cyprus in July of 1974. In nearly 6 help bear the Turkish burden is a posi- NATO's southeastern flank has yet to years, there has been no progress tive step toward this end. be taken to good advantage. I there- toward a resolution of the tragic situa­ ! have been very critical of the un- fore most strongly urge the Carter ad­ tion in Cyprus. evenhanded policy of the United ministration and my colleagues in the A slight improvement in Greek­ States toward Greece and Turkey. In Congress to pursue all possible chan­ Turkish relations occurred recently an effort to achieve a more equitable nels toward these ends. The United when Turkey unilaterally rescinded policy, I recently offered an amend- States and all other NATO members the 197 4 closure of adjacent Aegian ment to the International Security cannot afford to allow this opportuni­ Sea airspace in February and Greece and Development Cooperation Act of ty to pass unheeded.e June 24, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 116649 STATUE OF LIBERTY INSULTED Like mothers world over, she keeps her verted to an extended unemployment sufferings-deep. compensation program and the special HON. FRANK J. GUARINI And so it was the other day as I passed her compensatory feature of helping work­ by, ers adversely affected by our import OF NEW JERSEY There she stood majestically, her torch policies would be almost entirely elimi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES against the sky. The mist hung heavy and the tide's spray nated. Tuesday, June 24, 1980 high. By relegating import-affected work­ • Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, as you Yet, I could have sworn-there was a tear ers to a benefit level equal to unem­ know I represent the 14th Congres­ in the lady's eye. ployment compensation, the Michel sional District in Hudson County. I am Mr. Speaker, I am asking that these amendment would be imposing sub­ proud that this area is known as the remarks be placed in the CoNGRESSION­ stantial economic hardship on these Statue of Liberty District because our AL RECORD in order that our country­ people we promised to help. The aver­ first lady of all times stands majesti­ men can sense the feeling of not only age unemployed auto worker in Michi­ cally but 200 yards from the Jersey my constituents, but Americans all gan, with two dependents, receives City shore. who hold the Statue of Liberty with $119 a week; in New York, $125 a There have been several events of such reverence.e week-and these are States that pay late which have attempted to be­ relatively high unemployment bene­ smirch our symbol of freedom. There fits. In Missouri the compensation have been bombings, takeovers by TRADE ADJUSTMENT level would be only $85 a week, and in Iranian students, the climbing by pro­ ASSISTANCE IS ESSENTIAL other States it would be even less. At testers, who actually have damaged that income level, workers would the exterior of our statue with nails. HON. WILLIAM H. GRAY III barely be able to sustain their families Many in my area, and throughout the OF PENNSYLVANIA in food and shelter-and in many cases Nation, are appalled at this turn of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES they would be forced to draw upon events. Many have contacted my office other forms of public assistance such with expressions of indignation. Tuesday, June 24, 1980 as food stamps. Any cost savings to Last week a veteran newsman, Jack • Mr. GRAY. Mr. Speaker, as we the Federal Government i,s highly Hasbrouck, penned a poem, which he debate the proposal to weaken the questionable; the human impact, how­ said was the first he ever attempted, trade adjustment assistance program, ever, is very real. and he has done· so due to world condi­ I urge my colleagues to recognize that Mr. Speaker, we knew the risks tions and because of his feelings devel­ this program is an essential part of when we opened our doors to foreign oped as a reporter for several daily U.S. trade policy. · competition, and we made a commit­ newspapers in the Jersey City area This program provides financial and ment to help those workers and com­ over the last 25 years. He is now the technical aid to American workers ad­ munities that might be adversely af­ editor of several weekly papers, includ­ versely affected by competition from fected by our trade policies. We must ing the Jersey City News, Bayonne imports. Trade Adjustment Assistance now meet the commitment.e Facts, the Hoboken Pictorial, Bergen Ronald Reagan and Representative John B. lem on the Middle East peace talks. cials said, a statement by Mr. Carter in Of course, it is always an exceptional Anderson, the Republican and independent favor of tax reduction would entail some Presidential challengers, favor tax relief. risks. Politically, the danger is that he honor when a journalist is recognized In a report that gave another major indi­ would be accused of changing course again, by his fellow correspondents for out­ cation of the severity of the recession, the an accusation that goes back to his 1977 re­ standing achievements in his profes­ Commerce Department said today that versals on tax rebates. He had first proposed sion. But the honor accorded to Mr. builders began new homes last month at an a $50 tax rebate and then had withdrawn Evans is even more significant, since it annual rate of 920,000 units, the lowest level the proposal. is the first time a broadcast journalist in five years. The President's political advisers hope to has been so recognized by the presti­ The figures on housing starts were re­ head off such criticism by portraying his gious White House Correspondents As­ leased against a background of plunging tax proposals as long-run reforms to combat output in such other key economic sectors inflation, encourage investment and bolster sociation. as autos and steel, and economists now productivity. Some officials have suggested Mr. Speaker, this recognition of Clif­ expect overall production of goods and serv­ that Mr. Carter hold out the prospect of a ford Evans·· superlative journalistic ices, the gross national product, to experi­ series of tax cuts, to be legislated one at a talent comes as no surprise to anyone ence one of the biggest declines in postwar time, depending on the economy and the who knows this fine reporter. I have history in this year's second quarter. budget. They would portray that as a re­ come under the reportorial scrutiny of The big uncertainty is whether the Presi­ sponsible alternative to the Republican Clifford Evans many times, and am dent will ask Congress to pass legislation to Congressional proposal for three consecu­ cut taxes before adjourning this autumn or tive annual cuts to be authorized in a single well acquainted with. his outstanding as the first order of business in 1981. bill. abilities as a broadcast newsman. His work with the Washington Bureau of PASSAGE WOULD AID DEMOCRATS The economic risk, according to one offi­ cial, is that "a turnaround on taxes could RKO General Broadcasting in report­ White House officials agree with members conceivably awaken the hysteria about in­ ing and interpreting the complexities of Congress that passage by October would flation we had in the first three months of of our Federal Government and its help Mr. Carter and his fellow Democrats at the year." Therefore, he said, the Adminis­ foreign and domestic policies and pro­ the polls. What troubles a number of offi­ tration should consider combining with tax grams has made, and continues to cials is whether, in the few weeks between proposals a tightening up of the guidelines the Democratic National Convention in mid­ for voluntary pay and price restraint. make, a valuable contribution to a August and the planned October adjourn­ There is a considerable consensus within better understanding of our Govern­ ment, Congress would be able to write a bill the executive branch and between the Ad­ ment for the fortunate audiences to the President's liking. ministration and Congressional tax writers living in areas served by the RKO Mr. Carter's position has been that bal­ that business tax relief should take the General stations. I congratulate the ancing the budget to combat inflation was form of faster depreciation write-offs for management of RKO General upon its the top economic priority. He told the equipment and possibly for buildings to en­ good judgment in keeping Clifford nation in a speech on March 14 that he courage investment. Exactly how to do that Evans on the job in Washington, and would not consider a tax reduction until the is a technical issue that could be divisive, wish Mr. Evans many more successful budget for the 1981 fiscal year, which starts one that worries Administration officials. Oct. 1, was balanced. Later, Treasury Secre­ There is little sentiment for a general re­ years in his chosen profession.e tary G. William Miller and others switched duction in corporate tax rates for 1981, al­ the emphasis from a balanced budget, though that could come later. which now seems extremely doubtful, to As for individuals, there is widespread in­ FREE TRADE FOR bringing the growth of Federal spending terest in avoiding or offsetting the increase AUTOMOBILES under control. in Social Security payroll taxes that is Several Cabinet-rank and lesser officials scheduled to take effect next Jan. 1 for em­ HON. BARRY M. GOLDWATER, JR. interviewed in the last two days stressed ployees and employers. The payroll tax is that any Carter proposal for a tax cut would scheduled to rise to 6.65 percent from 6.13 OF CALIFORNIA be presented not as a hasty, pump-priming, percent now and the taxable wage base will IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES antirecession action but as an element in a climb to $29,700 next year from $25,900 Tuesday, June 24, 1980 long-term strategy to revitalize the Ameri­ now. can economy and stimulate investment. In However, neither Congress nor the White e Mr. GOLDWATER. Mr. Speaker, that way, White House officials hope to House wants to open the complex, political- Congress is currently considering sev- June 24, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS '16651 eral proposed solutions to the United This is what the automobile industry is government regulations, the government­ States-Japanese automobile trade defi­ calling for today. Certain industry execu­ caused energy crisis and inflation have cit problem. In 1979, the United States tives, notably at Ford and Chrysler, and cer­ taken the starch out of American business. tain congressmen, such as Rep. Charles A. None of this, however, justifies any sort of had a trade deficit of approximately Vanik tive alternatives. Having leaders of American auto firxns Phil Rampey, Post Elementary We are witnessing a new twist in imperial­ and the president of a major union whining School; Eleanor Randol, La Quinta ism. In olden times, a powerful nation would and begging with the Japanese and the U.S. High School; Charles Reynolds, Bolsa move in on a weaker one, set up local enter­ government has been a sorry spectacle. Grande High School; and Robert Ross, prises to extract raw materials with cheap Take note, however, that the supplicants La Quinta High School. labor, and sell finished goods to the indig­ aren't demanding that their Japanese affili­ enous population. ates be burdened with requirements and re­ From kindergarten through senior Nowadays the powerful nation, upset with strictions, just their competition. Instead of year, these teachers have directed and the volume of imported goods, forces the resolving to compete, they ask for special contributed to the development of our weaker exporting nation to build enterprises favors. Apparently these business people children. They have earned our grati­ in the powerful one, hire expensive local have yet to learn that a government empow­ labor and use locally produced parts. The ered to grant special privileges is a govern­ tude and our heartiest thanks. I ask purpose of the newfangled imperalism is the ment that can also act against them. my colleagues to join with me in same as the old one: to benefit certain privi­ The auto companies are suffering because paying tribute to these fine individuals leged interests. The victixns are also the they made bad decisions-produced too and to wish them fulfillment as they same: everyone else. many big cars for too long-and because reflect on their teaching careers.e 16652 EXTENSIONS OF. REMARKS June 24, 1980 OBJECTIONS TO SAUDI ARMS BROAD SUPPORT FOR 10-PER­ NRTA-AARP projects have placed SALE CENT INCREASE FOR SENIOR almost 50 percent of their older work­ COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOY­ ers in unsubsidized jobs on an annu­ MENT PROGRAM alized basis. This is truly an extraordi­ HON. RICHARD L. OTIINGER nary achievement, and permits more OF NEW YORK HON. CLAUDE PEPPER older Americans to participate in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES program. OF FLORIDA Tuesday, June 24, 1980 Moreover, the program has been IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES able to respond promptly and effec­ e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I am Tuesday, June 24, 1980 tively in disaster areas. NRTA-AARP, greatly alarmed that the Saudi Arabi­ for instance, expanded programs in an Government has demanded we • Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, as chair­ Miami because of the recent civil dis­ supply it with equipment which would man of the House Committee on turbance and in the State of Washing­ increase the offensive capability of its Aging, I strongly believe that our ton because of the eruption of Mount American-built F-15's. I urge the Nation must remove employment bar­ St. Helens. riers for older Americans. Carter administration to reject out of Mr. Speaker, I support President hand this outrageous request which The Congress took an important Carter in his objective to produce a stands in direct violation of the agree­ step in implementing that goal when it balanced budget. Congress must exer­ ment under which the planes were approved the 1978 Age Discrimination cise great restraint in acting on the purchased. in Employment Act Amendments fiscal year 1981 budget. Funding for In May 1978, in obtaining congres­ which raised, in effect, the mandatory many programs must simply be held in sional approval for the sale, the ad­ retirement age to 70 for millions of check or even reduced. However, some ministration promised not to provide workers in the private sector and State clearly deserve to be expanded, espe­ the Saudis with any equipment which and local governments and abolished cially high-priority programs with ef­ would increase the range or enhance mandatory retirement completely for fective cost-benefit ratios. The SCSEP, the ground attack capabilities of the most Federal employees. I strongly believe, meets both of these F-15's. The Saudis agreed to this con­ Our Nation must also promote em­ tests. dition. Now, a mere 2 years later, the ployment and training opportunities For these reasons, I have urged the United States apparently is consider­ for older persons, such as the senior House Labor-HEW Appropriations ing providing exactly such equipment. ·community service employment pro­ Subcommittee to consider a 10-percent This would constitute a clear breach gram. The track record of that pro­ increase in funding for title V. This of trust between the administration gram provides clear and convincing would help to provide an additional and the Congress. evidence that there are many low­ 5,225 jobs for older workers-from The sale would also serve as another income persons 55 or older who are 52,250 to 57,475. example of the inconsistency which ready, willing, and able to work in their communities if given the oppor­ Several leading national organiza­ has recently plagued U.S. foreign tions representing older Americans, I policy. The United States cannot tunity. In fact, numerous projects through­ am pleased to say, are rallying behind abandon its agreements and, at the this proposal. same time, expect to maintain world out the country have several appli­ cants for each position available. NRTA-AARP, for example, recently stature and respect or have other urged the House Labor-HEW Appro­ countries follow its lead. The Presi­ I am concerned, however, that the Federal Government may simply priations Subcommittee to adopt the dent must stand firm in denying any proposal. · Saudi requests which would breach freeze the number of jobs under title the 1978 agreement. V at the present level of 52,250. Unem­ The associations' statement provides ployment has increased substantially further compelling reasons to approve Furthermore, the proposed sale since the beginning of 1970, and it is a 10-percent funding increase for title would give the Saudis the capability to expected to rise sharply in the months v. attack any target within Israel. It ahead. Older workers have already Mr. Speaker, I commend this state­ would therefore seriously threaten been victimized by our present reces­ ment to my qolleagues and insert it in Israel. sion. Persons 55 or older frequently the RECORD for them to read: Proponents of the sale argue that in­ discover that they are among the first NRTA-AARP SUPPORT THE PEPPER AMEND­ creasing Saudi military capabilities to be fired, but the last to be hired. MENT TO INCREASE FuNDING BY 10-PERCENT will lend stability to the region. If that Title V is also a cost-effective pro­ FOR THE SCSEP be the case, then let Saudi Arabia gram' for our Nation, the elderly par­ The National Retired Teachers Associ­ demonstrate its stabilizing influence. ticipants, and the communities served. ation and the American Association of Re­ Let it provide evidence that it is using One recent study for the National Re­ tired Persons support Congressman Pep­ its wealth to support Egypt's coura­ tired Teachers Association and Ameri­ per's suggestion that the Congress consider geous agreement with Israel and to en­ can Association of Retired Persons re­ a 10-percent funding increase for the Title courage other peace efforts. V Senior Community Service Employment vealed that funding for the SCSEP Program, from $267.1 million to $293.9 mil­ That the administration feels com­ can produce a gain in output exceed­ lion. This proposal would permit 57,475 low­ pelled to permit Saudi Arabia to de­ ing five times the investment over a income unemployed persons 55 or older to fault on its commitment to us when it 58-month period. work in a wide range of useful and fulfilling purchased the planes-and itself de­ In my home community of Miami, jobs, compared with 52,250 under the Ad­ faults on its commitment to Congress, 175 SCSE participants provide a wide ministration's budget request. to the country, and to the world-is a range of valuable services. NRTA­ The Associations recognize that the Con­ tragic error. The real lesson here is AARP have 104 project sites in 33 gress and the Administration are firmly that as long as we are dependent on committed to balancing the budget. We States, the District of Columbia, and fully support this objective because we be­ imported oil for our energy needs, we Puerto Rico. lieve that inflation is the elderly's number cannot act independently of our sup­ Nearly 8,000 older Americans in one enemy. At the same time, though, we pliers. Nevertheless, through a combi­ NRTA-AARP-sponsored programs believe that Congress must consider careful­ nation of conservation and increased help themselves while helping others ly the merits of each program. Funding cut­ commitment to alternative sources, we in their localities by working as teach­ backs are clearly justified for lower priority can increase our independence and er aides, maintenance . workers, secu­ programs or those which have outlived their strengthen our foreign policy. usefulness. In a limited number of cases, rity guards, environmental workers, programs should be expanded, especially I strongly urge the President to hospital aides, day care workers, tele­ those with a high cost-benefit ratio. this is deny the Saudi request and reaffirm phone operators, and employment particularly' true for the Senior Community our support for Israel.e counselors. Service Employment Program . June 24, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16653 A recent study for the Associations point­ reduce funds appropriated for the use ulation of U.S. economic activities. He ed out, for example, that funding for the of the State Department.e stressed the need for closer coordination of SCSEP can produce a gain in output exceed­ regulatory processes. ing five times the investment over a 58- Shapiro proposes giving the president gen­ month period. The study concluded: "G\ven REGULATORY ZEAL eral authority over the regulatory process a $2,500 'investment' in the S.C.S.E.P. en­ with discretionary power to mediate con­ rollee, society is returned approximately flicting goals and eliminate duplication. The $15,350 in economic production-a gain in HON. DANIEL B. CRANE rationale for independence of regulatory output of $12,850 per enrollee placed in a OF ILLINOIS agencies was to keep them from being ma­ permanent job." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nipulated by the executive branch of the The Title V program has amply demon­ government and used as political clubs. strated that older Americans would prefer Tuesday, June 24, 1980 This is still a desirable pursuit which must to help themselves while helping others in e Mr. DANIEL B. CRANE. Mr. Speak­ not be abandoned but surely the attention their communities, rather than accepting er, one of the legislative priorities in of the media and data reporting systems public assistance. The SCSEP provides a the Congress should be the establish­ make oversight possible without such ex­ dignified way for these individuals to pensive duplication. There would still be ment of congressional control over the ample opportunity for review by congres­ become productive citizens. regulatory process. In addition, Title V can provide an effec­ sional committees if manipulation were sus­ tive and prompt means to assist economical­ It is well-known that many agencies pected. ly depressed regions or economic disaster have gone far beyond their intended As it stands, too many agencies pursue areas. The Associations, for instance, authority and issued regulations single goals that conflict with the objectives launched a program in Johnstown, Pennsyl­ having the force of law but drafted of others in inter-related areas. Too many vania to assist flood victims within three and approved by bureaucrats who are were created to serve special interests with­ days after that disaster occurred. not held accountable to the American out effort to coordinate with existing activi­ Our nation is now in a recession. Last people. ties. month's sharp jump in unemployment pro­ If they were supervised more directly by On June 13 of this year, the Dan­ the executive department, they could be vides a grim reminder of this economic fact ville, Ill., Commercial-News, my home­ of life. Older workers have already felt the made to meet the same basic tests that the harsh impact of the recession. During the town paper, editorialized on some of fundamentals of good management involve past month, unemployment jumped by the abuses of regulatory power that outside of government. Each regulatory almost 23 percent for Americans 55 or older. have taken place. I would like to share process could be reviewed ill light of the this incisive editorial with my col­ problem it is designed to solve and whether More than .5 million are already unem­ there is another way to achieve the same ployed, and this number is likely to rise pre­ leagues at this time: goal. cipitously in the months ahead. Title V can THERE's A BETTER WAY To REGULA"l'E provide an effective and dignified means to Particularly, such tests need to be applied reduce unemployment among older Ameri­ Most of the federal government's regula­ to any proposal for new regulatory activi­ cans by converting tax users into taxpayers. tory procedures have been developed out of ties. That would at least stop the growth of a sincere desire to serve the American government that is most noticeable in regu­ Over the years, it has been a well-adminis­ public. And there is no question that we latory agencies.e tered program. It has not been tainted by need protection from the many ills that fraud and abuse. Our Associations believe would beset us without the effort represent­ that increasing funding for Title V pro­ ed by the regulatory process. LEUZINGER HIGH SCHOOL grams provides a balanced approach to But it is an accepted fact that in many OLYMPIAN BASEBALL TEAM combat unemployment among older Ameri­ ways government regulations have become cans at a time of fiscal austerity in govern­ like the medical cure that is worse than the ment. for these reasons, we reaffirm our disease. HON. CHARLES H. WILSON support for Congressional action to increase And in spite of the promises of President OF CALIFORNIA the number of jobs available under the Carter and the administrations preceding IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SCSEP by 10 percent.e .him, the strangling of business by govern­ ment regulation is getting worse instead of Tuesday, June 24, 1980 better. · e Mr. CHARLES H. WILSON of Cali­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION For example, the Center for the Study of fornia. M.r. Speaker, I am proud to American Business recently listed 57 major bring to the attention of my fellow HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI federal regulatory agencies, 21 of which colleagues the achievements of the were established in the last 10 years-more Leuzinger High School baseball team. OF KENTUCKY than twice as many as in any previous 10- year period. Those 57 agencies are budgeted This team had an overall record of 18 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to spend $7 billion in Fiscal Year 1982-an and 3 for the season. As a matter of Tuesday, June 24, 1980 increase of 15 percent. fact, they won the Pion~er League Further, there were 27,661 employed by championship and went on to partici­ e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I was regulatory agencies 10 years ago but this pate in the CIF 2A southern section unavoidably absent from the House of has more than tripled to 90,825 for next finals in Anaheim, Calif. Representatives on Thursday, June 19, year's budget. The Food Safety and Quality This outstanding team of topnotch 1980, and Friday, June 20, 1980. Service of the Department of Agriculture alone will have 11,789 workers and the Envi­ athletes deserves recognition for their Had I been present, I would have ronmental Protection Agency includes accomplishments. Congratulations are voted: "Aye" on Roll No. 346, on the 11,226. The Equal Employment Opportunity also in order for their ceach, Dennis conference report on S. 2698, to pro­ Commission has expanded from 780 employ­ Bowman, and the proud parents who vide authorizations for the Small Busi­ ees and a budget of $12 million to 3,981 have contributed so much to the win­ ness Adm.iniStration; "Aye" on Roll workers and a budget of $135 million. ning spirit of the team. No. 351, approving the Journal of Certainly, we want the protection that Tonight, members of the Leuzinger Thursday, June 19; "Aye" on Roll No. comes from the Food Safety and Quality High School Olympian baseball team Service but can't help wondering how much 352, the rule providing for the consid­ duplication of its duties exists in the Food will be honored at a banquet. Parents, eration of H.R. 6711, to extend the au­ and Consumer Services branch of the same students, teachers, and community thorization of youth training and em­ department and the Food and Drug Admin­ members will be gathering to pay trib­ ployment programs; "Aye" on Roll No. istration in the Department of Health and ute to the months of hard work and 353, a rule providing for the considera­ Human Services February 1, 1980, after looking (i) COUNTRIES SUPPORTING' INTERNATIONAL into the engine licenses, Mr. BINGHAM mission and patrol boats. Furthermore, your TERRORISM.-The Secretary and the Secre­ administration has made the formal deter­ and I wrote President Carter. We ex­ tary of State shall notify the Committee on mination that Iraq has repeatedly provided pressed our deep concern about the Foreign Affairs of the House of Representa­ support for acts of international terrorism. way the license was issued in an appar­ tives and the Committee on Banking, Hous­ The frigates would give the Iraqi Navy the ent violation of the Export Adminis­ ing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate before ability to project a relatively powerful naval tration Act. We also urged that it be any license is approved for the export of presence in the Persian Gulf and Strait of revoked because of Iraq's support for goods or technology valued at more than Hormuz, areas where Saudi Arabia, Oman $7,000,000 to any country concerning which and Kuwait are seeking U.S. arms to international terrorism and the dan­ the Secretary of State has made the follow­ gers in having a hand in building up counter perceived threats from radical ele­ ing determinations: ments. Iraq's navy at a time we were trying to ( 1) Such country has repeatedly provided reassure Saudi Arabia and other na­ support for acts of international terrorism. As the members of the House Foreign Af­ tions in the region of our support for (2) Such exports would make a significant fairs Committee most closely involved in the contribution to the military potential of sponsorship of Section 6(i), we attempted to their security. be sympathetic to the concern of the Execu­ No substantive reply was received such country, including its military logistics capability, or would enhance the ability of tive Branch that it not be put in a straight for a long time, until May 14, an hour jacket regarding sales of all items to coun­ before a joint hearing on the issue by such country to support acts of internation­ al terrorism. tries which support terrorism. At the same the House Foreign Affairs Committee (j) CRIME CONTROL INSTRUMENTS.-(!) time, we made it clear that international on International Economic Policy and Crime control and detection instruments terrorism is such an abhorrent practice that the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on and equipment shall be approved for export particular care is required in scrutinizing Europe and the Middle East. During by the Secretary only pursuant to a validated proposed exports to regimes which encour­ the hearing, a State Department offi­ export license. age it. cial acknowledged that a mistake may (2) The provisions of this subsection shall Despite the clear record of Congressional have been made in the way the license not apply with respect to exports to coun­ and Executive Branch concern about inter­ was handled. tries which are members of the North At­ national terrorism, we understand that the lantic Treaty Organization or to Japan, Aus­ Commerce Department approved the Iraqi The administration's position ap­ tralia, or New Zealand, or to such other license without referring it to the proper peared to be: First, an acknowledge­ countries as the President shall designate policy-level State Department officials who ment that the matter could have been consistent with the purposes of this subse('! normally would be consulted. handled better; second, a proposal to tion and section 502B of the Foreign Assist­ It appears to us that the Commerce De­ institute new procedures which basi­ ance Act of 1961. partment's narrow interpretation of its obli­ cally would do what the executive gations not only violates the Fenwick anti­ branch should have done in the first • • • • • terrorism amendment, but also violates the place; but third, a refusal to rectify spirit of trust needed to deal with these dif­ the mistake. In effect, officials ap­ ficult issues. peared to be saying that they were CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, It is contrary to common sense, also, for caught in a mistake, they will try to do HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Commerce Department officials quickly to better the next time, but sorry, we're Washington, D.C., February 1, 1980. approve a license of military importance to going to stand by the bad decision. The PRESIDENT, a country which supports terrorism at the The White House. very time you and your high level foreign On May 21, a letter initiated by Mr. policy officials have been trying to reassure BINGHAM, Mr. FASCELL, Mr. BUCHANAN, DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: We are writing to ex­ press our deep concern about the Commerce neighboring countries of our support for and myself, and signed by a total of 72 Department's approval of an export license their future stability and security. Members, was sent to the President for gas turbine engines for four Iraqi Navy Therefore, Mr. President, we strongly urging him to revoke the license. No frigates. The license, valued at $11.2 million, urge you to: reply had been received at that time, was granted on January 23rd, the day of (a) Suspend or revoke the license for the which it .was hoped, meant that the your State of the Union Address which un­ Iraqi Navy engines, and administration might be giving the derscored the U.S. interest in the Persian (b) Order a review of the procedure used matter a thorough review, leading to a Gulf region. by the Executive Branch to consult and revocation of the license. Because of The license was approved without prior scrutinize applications for licenses to coun­ this, and in deference to the chairman notification to Congress, an apparent viola­ tries which provide support for internation­ of the Foreign Affairs Committee's tion of the Export Administration Act of al ierrorism, as outlined under Section 6(i) 1979, which requires such notification when of the Export Administration Act. It should desire that committee members help equipment of military significance is to be be possible to make sure that licenses for keep to a minimum the number of sold to a country which supports interna­ the sale of any potentially sensitive or con­ floor amendments to the foreign aid tional terrorism. Iraq, along with Syria, troversial equipment intended for such a bill, we did not offer an amendment on Libya and South Yemen, was on the list of country will . be properly considered by the engine issue when the legislation such countries which accompanied your De­ policy makers in the State Department, as was before the House early this cember 29, 1979 letter to Congress on export well as by the Congress. month. controls. With all good wishes, The Export Administration Act, Section With still no favorable response re­ 6(i), requires the Secretary of State and the Yours sincerely, ceived by the time the Senate took up Secretary of Commerce to notify Congress JONATHAN B. BINGHAM, the bill this week, two amendments re­ before any license is approved "for the Chairman House Foreign Affairs Sub­ lating to the issue were offered by export of goods or technology valued at committee on International Economic Senator STONE and passed by the more than $7 million to any country con- Policy and Trade. 16656 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 24, 1980

MILLICENT FENwiCK, the strongest local Navy on the Persian terrorism-not to take a step which would Member House Foreign Affairs Subcom­ Gulf. We suggest that civilian commodities be construed as acquiescing to it." mittee on Europe and the Middle East. rather than military-related iteiDS could be They are correct. The United States a much more appropriate way to indicate a should not give even a hint of supporting or CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, desire to improve relations. acquiescing to countries that include terror­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, We also suggest the review process for ism as an instrument of foreign policy, Iraq, Washington, D.C., May 21, 1980. cases such as this one should be tightened along with Syria, Libya and South Yemen The PRESIDENT, to close the loop-hole that allowed the Com­ have been listed by the State Department as The White House, merce Department to approve the engine li­ countries that support terrorism. Washington, D.C. cense on January 23 without the prior noti­ Yet the Commerce Department issued the DEAR MR. PREsiDENT: We are strongly op­ fication to Congress contemplated in Sec­ export license for the $11.2 million transac­ posed to the Administration's reported deci­ tion 6(1) of the Export Administration Act. tion in January without notification to Con­ sion to proceed with the sale of eight gas This type of slip-up should be prevented in gress or consultation with the State Depart­ turbine engines to power four modern mis­ the future by administratively revising the ment, although that procedure is required sile carrying frigates being built in Italy for control list to specify that the sale of all by Fenwick's amendment to the 1979 Iraq-a country which repeatedly has sup­ military end-use equipment and services to Export Administration Act. The administra­ ported international terrorism. We call countries which are identified supporters of tion counters that the sale is in the national upon you to block this sale permanently. international terrorism would automatically interest. As a matter of general policy, we believe be reviewed by the Secretary of State and We disagree. The sale is not in our nation­ the United States should prohibit the sale reported, as necessary, under Section 6(1). al interest. In addition to the implications of equipment or services specifically intend­ Tightening the procedures after the fact is of American support of international terror­ ed for military end-use to countries which necessary in our view, but not in itself suffi­ ism, the congressmen note that "such a sale have been identified as repeated supporters cient. The frigate engine sale must also be is extremely unwise in terms of the volatile of international terrorism. In individual in­ reversed. power politics of the Persian Gulf." stances, overriding American interests In conclusion, Mr. President, we urge you The transaction should be canceled.e might suggest specific exceptions to this to revoke the license for the Iraqi frigate posture, t5ut such a case has not been made engines and revise the control list for review with regard to this $11.2 million frigate of future sales in order to maintain your Ad­ OPTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN engine sale, and we doubt that it can be ministration's consistent opposition to inter­ made. national terrorism. HON. BOB WILSON The Secretary Of State, in December, pur­ Sincerely, suant to the requirements of Section 6(1) of OF CALIFORNIA Millicent Fenwick, John Buchanan, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Export Administration Act formally Jonathan Bingham, Dante B. Fascell, listed Iraq with Syria, Libya and South Robert J. Lagomarsino, Robert Garcia, Tuesday, June 24, 1980 Yemen, as countries which repeatedly have Michael D. Barnes, Stephen J. Solarz, e Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, a provided support for acts of international Charles F. Dougherty, William S. terrorism. Since that time, as you are aware, Green, William M. Brodhead, Bob Liv­ recent article in the Economist makes an Iraqi-backed faction of the PLO attacked ingston, John F. Seiberling, Eugene V. some enlightening points regarding the children's nursery at the Misgav Am Atkinson, Tony P. Hall, Patricia the options available to not only the kibbutz on April 7. Nine hours later a two Schroeder, Howard Wolpe, Vic Fazio, Soviet Union, but the West. year old child was among the three innocent Dan Glickman, Edward J. Stack, John The article follows: civilians killed and four more children, J. Cavanaugh, David E. Bonior, Mike STUCK IN AFGHANISTAN aged one to three, were among the sixteen Synar, Dale E. Kildee, William S. wounded. Broomfield, Sidney R. Yates, Joe The Russians are in widening and deepen­ With American diplomats currently being Wyatt, Jr., Norman F. Lent, John J. ing trouble in Afghanistan. Widening, as the held hostage by terrorists in Iran and, until Rhodes, John E. Porter, Harold C. rebels take their hit-and-run war against recently, in Bogota, this is the time to un­ Hollenbeck, Donald J. Albosta, Her­ the invaders from the Iranian border to the derscore U.S. opposition to international bert E. Harris II, Fortney H. Elizabeth Holtzman, Hamilton ence in Afghanistan should have forced two tion the development of even an indirect Fish, Jr., William Clay, Paul Findley, conclusions on rational Russian minds: first, military supply relationship with the radical Phillip Burton, Benjamin S. Ro­ that a clear military victory over the insur­ regime in Baghdad which, along with the senthal, Trent Lott, Edward R. Madi­ gents will be impossible with the present Soviet-backed PRDY, is regularly cited by gan, Benjamin A. Gilman, James H. level of Soviet forces in Afghanistan; the Administration as a potential de-stabi­ Scheuer, William Lehman, Lester L. second, that the Russians can no longer lizer in the Persian Gulf necessitating large Wolff, Joseph P. Addabbo, Berkley hope to establish a pro-Soviet Afghan gov­ arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Iraq now only Bedell, Robert W. Edgar, Parren J. ernment and army capable of surviving the has small missile and patrol boats, but these Mitchell, Mickey Edwards, William H. departure of Soviet troops. frigates will greatly enhance the ability of Gray, III, Stanley N. Lundine, William This week's airlift of an estimated 10,000 Iraq to project its naval power down the J. Hughes, Robert T. Matsui, Edwin B. Soviet soldiers to reinforce the cordon Gulf to include the Strait Of Hormuz, Forsythe, Timothy E. Wirth, James L. around Kabul does not prove that the Rus­ through which passes 70% of the world's oil. Oberstar, James A. Courter, Bruce F. sians have conceded the first point; they Admittedly, alternative suppliers could step Vento, Austin J. Murphy, Don Bailey, have been shuttling troops in and out of Af­ forward to provide engines so that our Ted Weiss, Don Bonker, David F. ghanistan throughout the past five months. blocking the sale may not prevent Iraq from Emery. But it does confirm that the Soviet force is getting the frigates ultimately. Neverthe­ increasingly overstretched. And while ac­ less, it would be incongruous for the United counts of the fighting are more confused States to be required to support the further [From the Courier-News, May 30, 19801 and conflicting than ever, with reports from military buildup of the moderate states in TERRORISM the rebel refuge of Pakistan sounding the Gulf in order to counteract the poten­ strangely soberer than those from Delhi, tial threat posed to the world's oil lifeline Seventy-two congressmen, including Reps. what is indisputable is that the 100,000- by Iraqi frigates powered by U.S. engines. James A. Courter, R-Dist. 13, N.J., and Milli­ strong Soviet army is further today from We are aware of the belief in some quar­ cent Fenwick, R-Dist. 5, N.J., deserve con­ imposing a Pax Sovietica on Afghanistan ters of the Administration that Iraq may be gratulations for their efforts to halt the than it was at the turn of the year. receptive to developing closer relationships shipment of American engines to Iraq. The Russians' political failure is just as to the West, thereby attenuating its over­ At first glance, it does not sound like blatant. This too was underlined this week whelming dependence on the Soviet Union. much-the United States would ship eight with news of a new round of executions, of This would clearly be in our interest and it gas turbine engines to Iraq to power four street battles between rival factions of the should be encouraged. But in view of the Italian-built frigates. communist party, and of a split between availability of alternate Western suppliers But, as the congressmen point out in a President Babrak Karmal and his number for the engines, there must be better ways letter to President Carter, "With AmePicans two. Should-be defenders of the government to send an American "signal" rather than currently being held hostage in Iran and, in the Afghan army were said to be defect­ direct involvement in contributing to the until recently, in Bogota, this is the time to ing to the guerrillas around Kabul, while construction of the frigates making Iraq's underscore U.S. opposition to international military recruiting teaiDS put out house-to- June 21,, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS '16657 house dragnets to fill the depleted ranks of embargo will persuade the Russians to He was a unanimous choice of the com­ the Afghan forces, now reckoned to be down change their strategy in Afghanistan only if mittee that met Tuesday in New York, ac­ to a third of their old strength. they first become convinced that a quick cording to Blake Cullen, National League Even if enough able-bodied Afghans are win is impossible, and that sanctions will be publicity director and spokesman of the se­ eventually drafted to reconstitute an 80,000- as prolonged as their own occupation-and lection group. man Afghan army, the job of turning are­ may spread as time goes on. A veterans' committee has yet to pick an­ luctant rabble into a adequately trained and The costs of remaining in Afghanistan, as other Hall of Fame player from among officered force might take years. Even then, the Russians calculate them today, are un­ those who have been out of the game for there is every reason to doubt that it could likely to look intolerable. But it is important more than 20 years, and Elson says he ever be developed into a politically reliable that they should be able to read the other hopes they choose Hack Wilson, whose instrument that would fight against fellow­ side of the ledger. The west, in cooperation games he aired in his early days of doing Afghans rather than turn against the Rus­ with Afghanistan's neighbours, should reaf­ both Sox and Cubs' home games as far back sians and their local stooges. And without firm its readiness to provide a face-saver in as 1930. an army to prop him up, a Babrak Karma! the form of some version of the Carrington Those were the days AI Lopez remem­ or successor Soviet· client would not last a neutrality plan, enshrined if necessary in a bered him first. "I was with the Brooklyn day. formal Austrian-type treaty. But if this plan club, and I can still remember Elson and So the Russians are left with two choices. is to be fitted in with recent Soviet-Afghan those other young fellows doing the games," One is to continue reinforcing their troops proposals, the Russians will have to accept Lopez said Thursday from his home in in Afghanistan until they can crush the in­ that nobody can deliver an end to the in­ Tampa. surgency-which may be feasible, but could surgency, which will come about only as the The other "young" fellows were Hal take half a million men-and then settle result of a political settlement; and (b) that Totten, Pat Flanagan, Jimmy Dudley and down to a permanent_occupation. The other Soviet troop withdrawals will have tc ac­ Johnny O'Hara, Elson said: "The stations is to negotiate a political settlement that company, not follow, any action to stop had to pay the Sox $10,000 a season for would allow them to withdraw. Both will in­ arms aid or restrict guerrilla sanctuaries. broadcasting rights. But old man Wrigley volve heavy sacrifices: the first, of men and The Russians and their clients are not the [William Jr.J let us do the Cub games for resources; the second, of political aspira­ only parties to the Afghan dispute unready nothing." tions. What the seven leaders of the non­ for serious negotiations. At the end of last Lopez, enshrined in Cooperstown himself communist world should be talking about in month the umpteenth quest for unity by three years ago, was to cement a long Venice a week hence is how to influence rebel leaders in Peshawar came to nothing. friendship with Elson after that. Soviet cost-accounting in favour of the The rebels too need reminding that, unless It reached its zenith during the nine years second option. they can provide a political alternative, they Lopez managed the White Sox from 1957 to will lose the war.e 1965, with Chicago winning a pennant in STICK, CARROT 1959. This means raising the costs of the Rus­ Elson had gained rek.nown as a gin rummy sians of pursuing their Afghan adventure BOB ELSON NAMED TO expert, but Lopez, a decent card player, too, and at the same time defining the terms and BASEBALL HALL OF FAME had shown no desire to play Bob until three opening the channels for negotiations. The rookie reporters coaxed him to do it during military costs for Russia can be affected a train ride on the New Haven Railroad from outside only by stepping up arms sup­ HON. HENRY J. HYDE from New York to Boston in 1958. plies to the rebels. Weapons are undoubted­ OF ILLINOIS "I told Bob I'd only play for an hour," ly getting through to them now, probably IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Lopez recalled. "Then I wanted to eat through at least two of the three unclose­ dinner. But I got a pretty good run of cards able borders-with Iran, with Pakistan and, Tuesday, June 24, 1980 and beat ·him two quick games. He didn't maybe, the barely passable one with want anybody to see him paying me off, so China-and probably from several foreign • Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, on August he slipped me the money later in the diner. sources. But for all their disinformation 6, 1979, a living legend to all Chica­ Maybe one of you boys remember how about a foreign-sponsored counter-revolu­ goans, and we suburbanites as well, much it was. I don't." Ut was $371. tion, the Russians must be well aware that was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Elson had one major broadcasting disap­ external aid has so far played only a mar­ Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y.-Bob pointment when sponsor politics denied him ginal role in the Afghan resistance; the Elson, the voice of Chicago baseball. the 1959 White Sox-Dodger World Series. In challenge is so durable precisely because it Bob Elson started broadcasting base­ that same series, a Sox pitcher was equally is spontaneous and indigenous. ball in 1930 and his voice is better disappointed at not being selected by Lopez There are dangers in increasing arms aid to start any of the six games that swept the to the rebels much beyond the present, ad­ known to baseball fans in the Mid­ Dodgers to the title. mirable, bounds of discretion. It could turn west than anyone else who ever sat He was Billy Pierce, the southpaw star Afghanistan into what has already, inaccu­ before a microphone and painted word who won 186 games in 12 seasons for the rately, been described as a proxy war be­ pictures of the heroics going on at Sox-Elson broadcasting every one. None tween the superpowers, and thus diminish Wrigley Field or Comiskey Park. stands out more than Pierce's brush with support for an anti-Soviet stand among non­ The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun­ the record books in June of 1958 when the aligned and Moslem countries. It could Times, and Chicago -Magazine have Senator's Ed Fitzgerald, a light-hitting commit the arms suppliers over-closely to told Bob's story well, and I am hon­ catcher, blooped a two-out single to ruin an Islamic fundamentalist movement that Billy's no-hit bid in the ninth inning. may yet turn out to be as inimical to west­ ored to share them with my colleagues Pierce, who is in sales and promotion with ern interests as Ayatollah Khomeini's in today: Continental Envelope in Chicago, shouted Iran. Furthermore, no amount of weapons The three articles follows: "wonderful" into the phone when he would necessarily be enough to prevent the [From the Chicago Tribune, Feb. 15, 19791 learned of Elson's honor, then called to add if Russians from crushing the insurgents ELSON NAMED TO BASEBALL HALL OF FAME his congratulations to those of LOpez and they decide to push for victory at all costs. others, including Jack Brickhouse, a long­ The aid pipeline should be open wide time Chicago colleague. enough to enable the Afghans to convince Bob Elson, whose play-by-play broadcasts Said Pierce: "I can't think of a nicer the Russians that they cannot win without of major league baseball spanned five dec­ thing." such an open-ended commitment, and per­ ades and whose dugout interviews were the Regarding their parallel disappointments haps not even then; and it should still be first of a kind, Thursday was named to base­ in the '59 Series, Pierce insisted, "I felt done quietly. ball's Hall of Fame worse for Bob than I did for myself." The other way of raising the cost to "The Commander," as friends know him, Elson had done a dozen World Series Russia of another cold winter in Afghani­ was besieged with calls of congratulations before being denied the one he most de­ stan is by squeezing the food and technol­ from all parts of the nation-from col­ served. Kenesaw Mountain Landis appoint­ ogy transfers on which the Soviet economy leagues, from proteges of his trade, and ed him repeatedly regardless of the compet­ has come to depend. Like the Olympic boy­ from those whose games he described. ing teams. Among them were the '38 Series cott, President Carter's trade sanctions have On Aug. 6, Elson will be enshrined in the in which Bob described Babe Ruth's legend­ not been very effective so far Bill Veeck brought in Ralph Kiner. Early this season. A Boston friend of mine From Chicago, Wells went to California and former columnist for The Daily News, and the late Warren Brown, first sports editor of and I are at Comiskey Park waiting to see teamed with Buddy Blattner for 12 years the White Sox play. It is a cold night. We doing Angels' games. But his friendship the Chicago Sun. A veterans' committee has yet to pick an­ are sitting a few rows below the broadcast­ with Elson has endured. ers' booth. My friend hasn't been to Chica­ "I just love him, that's all," said Don. other Hall of Fame player from · among those who have been out of the game for go in over ten years, so when he turns on his Hamilton, who served with Elson from more than 20 years, and Elson says he transistor radio he expects to hear Bob 1961 to 1965, feels much the same way. Milo hopes they select Hack Wilson, the Cubs' Elson, dean of the nation's sports broadcast­ has the ability to mimic Elson almost per­ slugger who holds the National League ers. Instead, he hears Harry Caray. fectly, and he said from Pittsburgh Thurs­ record of 56 homers and the major league Bob Elson, who has lived here all his life, day, "When people tell me I sound like him, record of 190 runs-batted-in. is a dignified broadcaster with a voice like a they couldn't give me a greater compli­ "It would be terrific if we made it togeth­ violin. Harry is anything but dignified and ment." er," said Elson. "If I had a vote, Wilson sounds like a trombone with a heavy cold. Milo, now the Pirates' broadcaster, spent would have been in a long time ago. He Even though it is Harry who is now broad­ several years doing the Atlanta Braves after really deserves it. Players like Kiner, Mays casting the White Sox, this is going to be leaving Chicago. Once he had Elson as guest and Aaron made an onslaught on his rec­ Elson's greatest year yet. announcer for an Old-Timers' game. ords and they failed.'' This month, Bob Elson will achieve what "We'd done this with others, but we were Elson, a native Chicagoan, planned on be­ millions of young, and not so young, Ameri­ swamped with letters and calls after the coming a doctor until he won a radio an­ can boys have dreamed of. And unlike most Commander's appearance-and so was he," nouncing contest in St. Louis. "I was at the of those who finally make it, this man will Milo said. "One letter containd a copy of his Chase Hotel visiting billiard star Willie be alive, very much so, when he does. On signed fan club picture from back in 1932. A Hoppe," recalled Elson. "I didn't know what August fifth, Bob Elson will enter baseball's lot of our listeners were in Florida. They it was all about. I then received a call from Hall of Fame. He will become only the third were retired Chicagoans who remembered station WGN and started broadcasting base­ broadcaster to be so honored, the other two him in his days with the Cubs and Sox. ball in 1930. Connie Mack was my first in­ being Mel Allen and Red Barber. "I remember hearing him first as a little terview. Elson retired from broadcasting Chicago kid in Iowa. It was a dream come true when "At that time, five stations were broad­ White Sox games in 1970, thus ending a I had a chance to work with him. Anyone casting the Cubs and Sox games. There play-by-play career that spanned four dec­ who'd been around him in this business is were no soap operas-nothing but baseball ades and nearly 7,500 games-more years bound to have some 'Elsonisms' in his reper­ every summer afternoon. The toughest part and games than any other broadcaster in toire. was doing the doubleheaders in the days the history of baseball. 1932 World Series when Elson's broadcasting career goes on. As an bare details over the Western Union opera­ Babe Ruth pointed to the center-field interviewer, many say there is and was none tor's shoulder as they came in ... changing bleachers just before he hit a home run to finer. Bob still chats with sports celebrities that 'OUT CF' notation into a 'great run­ that exact spot. Elson also broadcast the in a program taped for Sunday mornings in ning one-handed catch back by the flagpole first All-Star game. the lobby of Northwest Federal Savings. in deep center.'" Today, at 75, he remains active by broad­ From 1938 to 1943 he interviewed celebri­ "After seven hours of that, everything was casting a half-hour weekly interview show ties in a nightly program carried through­ a blur.'' at WAIT Radio. out the country from the 20th Century Lim­ Elson did the Cubs and Sox broadcasts Top of the third inning and the fans ited railroad train. For 15 years after World until he entered the Navy where he rose to around us are yelling in unison up at the War II, while he also broadcast Sox games, the rank of commander. Following the war booth, "Hey, Harry!" He recognizes their he brought great names into the living room he traveled exclusively with the White Sox. cheers with a wave of his hand, My Boston on his popular Pump Room show. There he Elson, who estimates he broadcasted more friend sneers, "They would never yell at had on such figures as Dr. Charles Mayo, than 5,000 baseball games for stations Bob Elson that way. And if they did, it Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Jack and WGN, WJJD, WCFL and WMAQ (plus a would be, 'Hey, Mr. Elson.'" Robert Kennedy, Charlie Chaplin, and one-year stint with Charlie Finley's Oak­ Bob Elson got into broadcasting quite by scores more. land A's), then recalled some of his broad­ accident. As a young man, visiting a friend "The only man who ever turned me down casting thrills. in St. Louis, he went to station KWK for a was architect Frank Lloyd Wright," Elson "Babe Ruth calling his shot against the tour and ended up entering a broadcasting said. "I saw him at the train station and Cubs in the 1932 World Series. Yes, he contest. He won and the incident received a told him how much I admired his work- pointed his bat toward the Wrigley Field lot of attention in Chicago. Shortly thereaf- June 24, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16659 ter, Elson was hired as a sports announcer at the singing Harry. Instead, he just jerks twinges of fear and glint about the bloated byWGN. his thumb up in Harry's direction and says, condition of the federal establishment it's Although he broadcast both the Cubs and "The White Sox's most valuable player." created. But as the appropriations process White Sox games from 1930 to 1945 Lou Boudreau, outstanding performance. Agency heads, on perature has dropped to near freezing. My rings a bell. At Comiskey Park when one's the recommendation of peer review boards, Boston friend and I sit huddled in our coats. heading for the seats in the outfield, Harry could give out bonuses up to 20 percent of a If either of us had matches, we'd set fire to Caray chants, "It could be, it might be, it is, manager's base salary; in any one year, no the other guy just to keep warm. The Sox out of here. Holy cow!" Bob Elson would more than half the top managers would be are losing by a ton of runs. A Sox player say, "It's a home run." eligible for some level of bonus. hits a bloop single and the fans, easily the Elson's national prominence began to fade Office of Personnel Management analysts most arrogant on earth, start chanting their after World War Two, for many reasons: the estimate that under the bonus program the national anthem of antagonism at the op­ introduction of television, which brought a agencies would probably end up dispensing posing team: "Na na na na, na na na na, lot of competition from younger sports 15 or 20 million dollars a year. This estimate hey, hey, hey, goooodbye." broadcasters; the death of Judge Landis; the is consistent with the behavior of the two Bill Veeck has three announcers who mediocre record of the White Sox; and, agencies, the Small Business Administration handle the play-by-play on both radio and most important, a gradual liberalization of and NASA, that have already begun hand­ television: Lorn Brown, who is almost sane; broadcasting styles, which certainly ran ing out the money. The OPM people argue Jimmy Piersall, who once wasn't; and the contrary to Elson's literate one. that it's worth it; this kind of expenditure main announcer, Harry Caray, who never The last Sox batter of the night strikes to establish an effective incentive system will be. out to end the game. My friend from Boston pays for itself, just as it does in private in­ Harry is leaning out of the booth and is and I discover, as do most of the other fans, dustry. Certainly the one vaguely compara­ waving a huge fishing net. "You know," says that we are nearly frozen to our seats. A ble program we've had for federal employes, Harry over the air, "I haven't caught a foul television camera, its red cue light off, the Federal Incentive Awards Program, has ball in a long time. I'm due, I tell ya, I'm points at Harry Caray. He stands up in the returned far more than it cost. due." Piersall replies, "You know, Harry, open broadcasting booth to give the final But what's coming up for a final vote in I've got the papers to prove I'm well.'' statistics of the game. A taped commercial is Congress now is a move to cut the size of Bob Elson's broadcasting career went well put on the air. Knowing that there are only the bonus a manager can get. Some 90 per­ beyond the realm of baseball. He broadcast a few seconds before he will be on camera, cent of the managers in the bonus program the National Hockey League's Chicago Harry moves fast. He whips off his overcoat, are making $50,000 a year; Congress is about Black Hawks games for 20 years and also sport coat and sweater vest, rolls up his to say that they can't get any more than covered the National Football League's Chi­ sleeves, unbuttons the top button of his $2,750 as their bonus. This is not peanuts, cago Cardinals games before they relocated shirt and loosens his tie. As the red cue but neither is it the kind of maximum that to St. Louis. light on the camera lights up, Harry man­ you hold out when you really want to stimu­ Elson has always been known as a superb ages to stop shivering long enough to wipe late hope and vigor in the managerial interviewer. In 1930, he conducted baseball's his brow as he shouts, "What a perfect breast. Moreover, our lawmakers are not first on-the-field interview, his guest being night this was for a ball game."e saving any money with this little slash. Connie Mack. Elson had a general interview They have not taken any budget money show on the famed Twentieth Century Lim­ away from the agencies affected by their ited, which ran between New York and Chi­ SES BONUS PROGRAM move; all they've done is to deny agency cago. But his interviewing abilities peaked heads the discretion to use enough of it to during the 1950s in his broadcasts from the run a bonus program effectively. Ambassador East's Pump Room. No VIP's HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI It is fun to disturb the comfort of federal visit to Chicago was considered complete OF ILLINOIS bureaucrats. We are rather fond of the unless it included an Elson interview at The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES practice ourselves. and they do tend to de­ Pump Room. The show was so popular that, serve it most of the time. But the point is to when it was on, drivers would avoid going on Tuesday, June 24, 1980 try and lift some of that bureaucratic Lower Wacker Drive because they would · e Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, the torpor, not to nail the corners down. The lose the reception. highly respected Wall Street Journal bonus system doesn't deserve this kind of Elson possessed a number of manenuvers strangulation at birth.e that made for an excellent interview. If a editorialized in its June 20 edition on guest gave too short an answer, for example, the wisdom of continuing the bonus Elson's distance from the microphone and system for outstanding performances A TRIBUTE TO PAUL HALL, OUT­ his demeanor would indicate to the inter­ under the Senior Executive Service STANDING AMERICAN MARI­ viewee that more was expected. Elson would program. It aptly comments that "kill­ TIMELEADER therefore often get comments that sur­ ing the plan would pretty surely do prised even the person who said them. more to hurt the cause of Government HON. LEO C. ZEFEREITI The style of Bob Elson was low on feeling efficiency than to help it." I agree. but high on enunciation. Though his words Mr. Speaker, theSES program is not OF NEW YORK carried vocal inflections, they were always IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES within a polite range. Both his words, and the place for false economies. This is the long pauses between them, were crisply one .program which needs to be prop­ Tuesday, June 24, 1980 created. Elson was never one of those ram­ erly funded if we are to hope for in­ e Mr. ZEFERETTI. Mr. Speaker, it is bling radio voices. creased productivity and accountabil­ with deep sadness and regret that I Seventh inning and Harry is leading the ity in Government. pay tribute to the memory of the late crowd in singing "Take Me Out to the Ball I commend this excellent editorial to Game.'' My friend looks around at the Paul Hall, president of the Seafarers nearly filled park and shakes his head in the attention of the Members: International Union of North America disbelief. He mumbles, "So many people out PETTY CASH is forecast to fall to $22-24 prestigious in American journalism, having down upon itself," McNamee said. billion, compared to $29.6 billion last year been presented to only 324 individuals or or­ WORDS TO STUDENTS and $26.8 billion in 1978. This figure would ganizations in 50 years. Among the better With the School's new emphasis on inves· be the lowest nominal income since $18.7 known recipients of this national and inter­ tigative reporting he urged students going billion in 1977, and the lowest in real terms national award, which is never presented in out into the world of journalism, and those since 1934. absentia, have been Walter Cronkite, David already involved, to attempt to return the Brinkley, John Chancellor, David Lawrence, nation's media to its historic role of encour· The U.S. Agriculture Department Harry Reasoner, Fairfax Cone, Howard K. has announced that net farm income aging and promoting free and open sales Smith, James Reston and Oveta Culp and price competition. in the second quarter plunged 40 per· Hobby. McNamee's publishing company is part of cent, to an annual rate of $20.2 billion AWARD CITATION a highly competitive field of U.S. farm mag. from the year earlier, $34.1 billion. In McNamee was cited for, "his development azines. His publications are Delta Farm its quarterly report on the farm econo· of the Farm Press Publications into one of Press, Southeast Farm Press, Southwest my, USDA said farm income continued the strongest voices speaking to farmers Farm Press and California-Arizona Farm to get squeezed between low crop and throughout 20 Sunbelt states; his willing­ Press. The· firm has offices in Clarksdale, livestock prices and high·production ness to take and hold editorial stands on Miss., Memphis, Tenn., Dallas, Texas, Lub­ costs. For the year, USDA expects principle, in the face of economic resistance; bock, Texas, Fresno, Calif., Atlanta, Ga., income of $21 billion to $26 billion, and, his demonstration that integrity of edi­ Raleigh, N.C., Columbia, S.C. and Chicago, torial content provides the fundamental Til. Circulation now exceeds 230,000 to farm· down from $33.3 billion in 1979. ers and agribusiness each week. He also Farmers this year have been belea· basis of publishing success." Other 1980 medalists were: Allen H. Neu­ owns Delta Mailing Service, Inc., in Mem· guered by embargo·depressed com· harth, chairman and president of Gannett phis and Delta Properties, Inc. modity prices, exorbitant credit at Co., Inc., and chairman of the American McNamee is a graduate of the University planting time, and inflation·escalated Newspaper Publishers Association; Kather­ of Missouri School of Journalism.• costs. If it is true that a depression is ine Fanning, publisher of The Anchorage usually farm led and farm fed, then ; third, the president, and through tions in which they are kept, yet they continues to assert her country's right him all members of the executive depart­ remain imprisoned-perhaps as disci­ ment, have a constitutional obligation "to to nuclear explosions. I believe more take care that the laws are faithfully exe­ plinary examples. strongly than ever that we need to cuted"; fourth, this does not give the presi­ I cannot emphasize enough the im­ control the awesome technology of nu­ dent any leeway ; fifth, the attorney gener­ tinued violation of human rights does drawing the line with India and refus­ al's statutory duty is to represent the not go unprotested in spite of the time ing shipment of uranium fuel. June 24, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16663 The articles follow: It is hardly surprising then that Congress only drive the Indians closer to the Soviet [From the Washington Post, Ju_ne 22, 19801 appears likely to override the president's de­ Union and undermine Western interests in cision. The legislators, at least, seem deter­ the area. The danger may be overstated. How MANY INDIAN BOMBS? mined to correct the mistake made in 1974 The Indians already rely heavily on Soviet President Carter's decision to send nuclear when the United States failed to make any weapons and should themselves be wary of fuel to India is running into solid-and justi­ protest to India's first nuclear explosion­ dependence. fied-opposition on Capitol Hill. India's ada­ which relied on illegal use of U.S.-supplied But the Administration also believes that mant refusal to accept any international heavy water. The administration seems will­ a rupture with India over Tarapur would safeguards and inspection of its nuclear ing to turn the other cheek. If India ex­ weaken the cause of nonproliferation. If the facilities, and Prime Minister Gandhi's fre­ plodes a second nuclear weapon, Deputy Tarapur agreement is broken, India has quent reassertions of India's right to ex­ Secretary of State Christopher told the said, it would feel free to extract plutonium plode another nuclear bomb if it wishes to, Senate the other day, why then the United from the American fuel already received. make this export case the ultimate test of States would certainly stop all nuclear ship­ That danger, too, is probably overstated. the seriousness of U.S. non-proliferation ments. Sure it would. India already possesses some plutonium not policy. subject to safeguards. And the same diver­ The central provision of this policy is a re­ sion problem would arise once the Tarapur quirement of the 1978 law that a country [From the New York Times, June 22, 19801 accord expires in 1993, and with much larger quantities of fuel if the shipments accept full safeguards on its nuclear facili­ PROLIFERATION END GAME ties to be eligible to receive U.S. nuclear ex­ continue. The cause of preventing the spread of nu­ The greatest danger seems to lie in con­ ports. With India primarily in mind, the leg­ clear weapons will almost certainly suffer islators provided a two-year grace period for tinuing the shipments. If the United States no matter how India and the United States yields on safeguards to the only nation current customers who did not meet this re­ finally resolve their almost irreconcilable quirement to give them time to get right known to have carried out an explosion with dispute over further American fuel ship­ civilian nuclear materials, it can hardly with it. Before the grace period expired last ments. The question now is how bad the March, U.S. negotiators came up with a expect other suppliers and receivers of fuel damage will be, and which country will be to give the protective stipulations a high steady stream of proposals for a mutually blamed. face-saving agreement. India rejected them priority. Congress should block the ship­ all. The immediate issue is whether the ments to India until it agrees to full-scope United States should send India an addi­ safeguards. If the Indians retaliate by using The administration is now using four ar­ tional 38 tons of enriched uranium to fuel the spent American fuel for reprocessing, guments to support its case. The first is that two American-built reactors at Tarapur. let them take responsibility for destroying this proposed export actually does fall United States has been supplying their fuel the containment effort. If that effort is still within the two-year grace period because since 1963 under a 30-year agreement that to succeed, the line has to be held. If it is India expected the shipments to be made subjects the fuel and plants to strict audits doomed to fail, let the world know why.e before the deadline expired. This is legalis­ and inspections. But after India exploded a tic gibberish that makes a mockery of the "peaceful" nuclear device in 1974-using Ca­ law's clear intent. nadian and American materials from an­ CAMBODIAN STARVATION The administration also argues that "non­ other reactor-the United States increased CONTINUES proliferation would be set back by withhold­ its effort to hring all civilian nuclear activi­ ing these exports" because they "will help ties everywhere under strict safeguards. us to maintain a dialogue with India in The wholly admirable American purpose HON. ANDREW MAGUIRE which we try to narrow our differences." is to prevent diversion of civilian materials OF NEW JERSEY This was the rationale for the several ex­ to nuclear weapons production. But the ports that were made during the now-ended policy has met stiff resistance in many na­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES negotiations, when there was still some tions, and in India most of all. The Indians Tuesday, June 24, 1980 hope-albeit slight-that agreement could refuse to renegotiate the Tarapur agree­ be reached. It is indisputable that the ef­ ment or to renounce further "peaceful" ex­ e Mr. MAGUIRE. Mr. Speaker, the fects of these exports on non-proliferation plosions that might use non-American nu­ House did itself proud during consider­ everywhere but India will be devastating. clear material. ation of the supplemental appropri­ All hope of stopping Pakistan's nuclear Legally, the Indians have a strong case. ations bill by passing the Fithian, Ma­ weapons program and of bringing others They have lived up to the terms of the Tar­ guire, Conte, Derwinski, et al. amend­ such as South Africa and Argentina under apur agreement and contend that the ment which both eliminated costly the intemationai inspection system is likely United States cannot unilaterally amend it. to disappear. GSA furniture purchasing authority Their argument for equity is also strong. By and increased Public Law 480 assist­ A potentially more serious administration what right, they ask, does the United argument is that new geopolitical consider­ States, with its vast and growing arsenal of ance. The 346-to-47 vote demonstrated ations must take precedence over those of nuclear weapons, presume to dictate to an important commitment to Govern­ non-proliferation. However, despite numer­ other countries that all civilian reactors ment efficiency and humanitarian aid. ous opportunities to do so, administration must be inspected? They see it as a case of Even the taxpayers benefited by a $58 spokesmen have been unable to develop this the nations possessing nuclear weapons million reduction in spending. justification beyond the most vague of ref­ living by one set of rules while subjecting In the event there is any question in erences to the invasion of Afghanistan. A the have-nots to another. any Member's mind about the impor­ more specific connection between these two For the United States, however, this is tance of this assistance, I would rec­ events-one that also accounts for the re­ less a matter of legality or equity than one cently announced $1.7-billion arms deal be­ of sanity. The world has managed to live in ommend that he read the following ac­ tween Russia and India-needs to be drawn uneasy stability with a limited number of count by William Shawcross of the before this can begin to be considered a nuclear-armed countries. Their number may continuing pattern of starvation in compelling case. multiply rapidly if other nations break the Cambodia. Among several disturbing State Department lawyers have also been psychological barrier. Congress in 1968 re­ facts which this noted commentator busy developing arguments in support of quired a halt in all fuel shipments to states on Southeast Asia reports, is the testi­ India's contention that if the United States that refuse to subject their nuclear power mony of Oxfam America doctor, Nick fails to approve these exports it will have programs to international safeguards, unless Maurice. According to Dr. Maurice, 26 broken the agreement between the two the President sees an overriding, extenuat­ percent of the children his organiza­ countries, leaving India legally free to seize ing security reason. The Indians insist they · and reprocess used U.S. fuel already in that have no intention of building bombs. But tion has examined are suffering from country. In fact, a stronger legal case can be the duplicity surrounding their 1974 "peace­ malnutrition and 34 percent were bor­ made that India is in violation of the agree­ ful" explosion, and the potential for a nu­ derline cases. With 60 percent of Cam­ ment and the fuel contract, which state clear arms race with Pakistan, make these bodia's children facing starvation, that India shall "comply with all applicable assurances less than binding or satisfactory. there can be no doubt that the aid we laws ... of the United States." Moreover, Inspection of all Indian reactors would lend have is critically needed. the agreement between the two nations force to the promise. In Somalia, where 25 percent of the merely obligates the United States to pro­ The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has vide the fuel necessary to keep India's Tara­ followed the law and voted to cut off the world's refugees are located-more pur reactor "operating continuously." By shipments to India. The Carter Administra­ than a million-and in Pakistan where India's own estimate, U.S.-supplied fuel suf­ tion wants to continue the shipments, Afghan refugees have fled the Soviet ficient to operate the reactor through 1982 seeing them as less dangerous than the al­ subjugation of their country-and in is already stockpiled in India. ternative. Cutting off the fuel, it fears. will East Africa where drought now threat- 16664 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 24, 1980 ens millions more, this additional Rouge. In Phnom Penh a disproportionate namese refused to allow planes to fly direct money is desperately needed. amount of the aid has been used to feed from Bangkok. They had to circle out over The article follows: government workers, and far too little has the South China Sea and then back up the been reaching ordinary peasants. As well as Mekong River, thus doubling the flight THE RETURN OF THE KHMER RouGE being one of the most expensive relief ef- time. 1The cost of the airlift is staggering­ little operating experience." seat at the United Nations. food was given to the people. Last year, in There are, according to UNICEF, about Most of the delegates made stirring the confusion and fighting following. the 1,500 trucks in Cambodia at the moment speeches in defense of the Cambodian Vietnamese invasion, almost no planting (500 from ICRC-UNICEF, 90 from Oxfam, people and in criticism of Vietnam. At the was done. The yield was only about 10 per­ 670 from various countries including those back of the hall the Khmer Rouge delega- cent of normal and it has now all been con­ in the Warsaw Pact, and 230 old trucks tion smiled and clapped effusively. It cannot sumed. patched together>. Their total load capacity be said that other delegates clustered The relief program launched last October is about 9,000 tons, but more important is around them; for the most part the Khmer was planned for only six months, and there­ what UNICEF calls their "movement capac- . Rouge representatives wandered around fore inadequate attention was given to pro­ ity"-whether they are being properly used alone soliciting handshakes and smiling in- curing seed for the 1980 season. Then the or not. They are not. gratiatingly. They invited me back to their UN Food and Agriculture Organization de­ mission. Their ambassador at large, Thioun cided to ship some 30,000 tons of seed into UNICEF is being diplomatic when it re­ Moeum, a highly intelligent graduate of the Cambodia by the end of April. This would ports that the "use of the trucks is not effi­ Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, spent almost have planted about a million acres and cient." In fact, one senior UNICEF official three hours assuring me that although cer- yielded about 200,000 tons of rice. At the told me that the trucks are carrying only tain "errors" have been committed in the same time the Vietnamese and Russians about 15,000 tons of food a month. past, their rule would be much more re- said they each would ship about 10,000 tons This is a terrifying figure. It means that strained in the future. He was as bland as of seed. each truck is making an average of about he was clever. Some Vietnamese seed has been arriving, one and a half journeys a month. The rest When I reminded him that to many although no one knows how much. But the of the time trucks are standing idle, await­ people the regime he represented was on a FAO program ran into extraordinary ing repair, stalled by broken bridges and par with Hitler's, he merely smiled, delays, many of them because of gross mis­ along smashed roads have shipped food and pressure from the US Embassy FAO bought 20,000 tons of supplies a month out of the other supplies to Phnom Penh and to Cam- seed that was intended to be carried across ports and into the country in recent weeks. bodia's main seaport, Kompong Som. So the Thai border into Cambodia along the Yet UNICEF reckons that 35,000 tons of have Oxfam and other groups. UNICEF and unofficial land routes that the Vietnamese food alone are needed. ICRC, together with voluntary agencies like have tolerated since last autumn. At the · Considerable amounts of food are now CARE and World Relief, have also been same time an airlift from Bangkok to being distributed to government workers. pushing supplies across the Thai border. Phnom Penh was organized by the Intema- Currency was reintroduced in April, and It has, however, been impossible to moni- tiona! Red Cross. they are now allowed to buy 20 kilos of food tor the distribution of supplies. At the Thai About 15,000 tons of seed have now been each a month. there are thought to be at border large quantities of supplies have transported over the border by oxcart, bicy­ least 250,000 government employees; this been stolen by corrupt officials and traders. cle, and foot; 5,000 more have been flown in. means that at least 5,000 tons of food are More have been "diverted" to the Khmer More could have come by air, but the Viet- being reserved for them every month-a June 24, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16665 large proportion of all the food available for and visas in and out of the country have meeting itself. The Russians sent observers distribution. become more difficult to obtain. UNICEF who entered by a side door and sat in the Random checks in the countryside suggest officials in Phnom Penh have even been public gallery. The American delegation, led that in many places villagers are receiving warned that perhaps only Soviet and East by Warren Christopher, was remarkable for as little as two kilos a month, UNICEF's European citizens will be allowed to work including Frances Fitzgerald, author of Fire report acknowledges that "the bulk of the for UNICEF in Cambodia in the future. in the Lake. Times have indeed changed for relief food available" has been distributed in At the same time Cambodian officials are such an influential critic of US policy in Phnom Penh and to government officials. having to spend more time on political edu­ Vietnam to represent the US at a confer­ "It appears little so far has been distributed cation. The director of Medical and Child ence much concerned with the behavior of to the ordinary consumer, especially in Health was recently required to spend seven the Vietnamese. rural areas where stocks might have been weeks on a goodwill mission to East Berlin, Christopher promised $29 million in addi­ presumed to be available." Moscow, and Hanoi. The entire staff of the tion to the $85 million the US has already The physical effects of such inequitable Ministry of Health was sent to Laos for a given or pledged. He made a hard-line anti­ distribution are predictable. An Oxfam two-week solidarity meeting. In fact the Soviet speech into which he dragged Rus­ doctor, Nick Maurice, made a survey of chil­ Ministry of Health is one of the weakest or­ sian policy in Cuba, Afghanistan, and the dren in five provinces at the beginning of ganizations in the country, and outside Horn of Africa, in case anyone needed re­ May. The results, he reported, were "ex­ Phnom Penh medical care is almost nonex­ minding of the international political con­ tremely alarming": 26 percent of the chil­ istent. siderations which haunt any discussion of dren examined were suffering from malnu­ The government has made much of its Cambodia. seriousness and the utmost urgency. It is thirty Soviet and East European medics. Most speakers formally praised the inter­ well known that chronic malnutrition in Some Cuban and Vietnamese medical national aid organizations. In the corridors children leads to disease, stunting of growth people have arrived and recently a Swedish comment was less kind. No one had a good and intellectual impairment. . . . During team was given permission. But the number word to say for the Food and Agriculture the examination of children, parents were of medical workers is still only around 200- Organization, whose incompetence seems to asked whether they had been receiving food hardly adequate for a population of five have cost the relief effort millions of scarce aid. There is a lot of evidence that people in million who have suffered ten years of terri­ dollars. Not only did its tardiness make nec­ rural areas are not receiving adequate ble deprivation. Even doctors from Eastern essary an airlift of seed, but it has been amounts of food aid. Amounts received Europe say privately they are deeply de­ paying $100 a ton more than the voluntary ranged from nil to 5 kg/month and often pressed by the restrictions that have been agencies for rice seed on the Bangkok the quality of food received makes it almost imposed. market. At the same time there is now indigestible, eg maize which requires more On Monday, May 19, a group of relief almost open warfare between American gov­ than an hour of cooking. [Emphasis in origi­ teams in Phnom Penh sent a strong letter ernment officials and James Grant, the Di­ nal.] of protest to the government in Phnom rector General of UNICEF. Mr. Grant was a This report alarmed Oxfam officials in Penh. The Red Cross and UNICEF followed senior AID official in Vietnam during the Phnom Penh and also in Oxford itself. It this on May 23 with an appeal to both West­ Sixties. At that time he was optimistic came at a time when all relief officials in ern governments and the Vietnamese and about the government in Saigon; recently Phnom Penh were increasingly frustrated · Phnom Penh authorities. It asked the West­ he has tended to be optimistic about the by the conditions imposed upon them by ern nations for more money, especially to one in Hanoi. He was anxious to cut down the Heng Samrin government. When the improve the transport system. And it asked the Thai border operations, as the Phnom relief effort began in October Oxfam .and Phnom Penh for an assurance that relief be Penh regime wants, and he spoke about the some of the other agencies were reluctant to "equitably distributed among the whole ci­ "seed saturation" of Cambodia. This was a criticize the new regime, hoping that its vilian population in need." The statement notion which the American and other dele­ young, inexperienced officials would become concluded with what seemed like an ultima­ gations firmly and convincingly dismissed. more willing to cooperate with Western tum: Border seed distribution will continue. relief agencies. That has not happened. Without such an assurance it cannot be Altogether the · conference produced expected that sufficient resources will be pledges of $116 million toward the $180 mil­ On the contrary, relief officials are now lion that is needed for the rest of 1980. It being given permission to leave Phnom entrusted to the responsible organizations. urged the Phnom Penh authorities to allow Penh much more rarely than before. The Nor in the prevailing circumstances should more aid workers and more doctors into reports of food distribution that the govern­ the organizations themselves be expected to Cambodia, to permit the use of provincial ment originally promised both Oxfam and continue their humanitarian work. airports, and to open direct supply routes ICRC-UNICEF have often not been pro­ This was the situation in which the meet­ from Vietnam and Thailand.' At the end a duced at all and have sometimes been use­ ing in Geneva took place. The impetus for it UNICEF spokesman said that the Phnom less. By the middle of April World Food came from the ASEAN countries, particular­ Penh authorities had agreed to allow direct Program officials had been told about the ly Thailand, pushed by the United States. flights from Bangkok and had asked the distribution of only about 40,000 of the Kurt Waldheim agreed reluctantly only USSR to stage internal flights to provincial 70,000 odd tons landed since October. They after an ASEAN resolution calling for a airports. He promised that more trucks were had been able to check even less. meeting was passed by the Economic and coming from UNICEF, Oxfam, Japan, and Meanwhile ideological controls have tight­ Social Council of the UN at the beginning East Germany. He announced that the ened in Phnom Penh. This has coincided of May. Waldheim was reluctant partly be­ Swedish medical team had been given per­ with the eclipse of the regime's nominal cause of his feeling, shared by Donald mission to go to Phnom Penh, that Vietnam leader, Heng Samrin, and the emergence of McHenry, the US Ambassador to the UN, had agreed to the use of the port of Vung the communist party secretary, Penn that Indochina has been getting dispropor­ Tau to receive aid. All in all, UNICEF Sovann, as the dominant figure. Penn tionate attention relative to other disasters seemed optimistic. Sovann is thought to be a more doctrinaire such as the refugee crisis in Somalia, where The president of the International Red bureaucrat than the ineffectual Heng hundreds pf thousands of people are in Cross was much less sanguine: the failures Samrin. Interpreters with whom aid offi­ danger of starvation. ; this was reported in the CoN­ capital required by any type of rescue. It reward, we can encourage, we can should be a revolving fund-profitable, one GRESSIONAL RECORD on the day follow­ hopes-stepping in where no alternatives target, we can cut. It is our responsi­ ing, headed, "Mobilization for Surviv­ are available and stepping out when the bility to provide tax equity for the al: Co-Optation of the Anti-Nuclear public interest has been served and market eighties. Movement." forces operate. SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES At that time I noted that the con­ Certain risks and objections to the RFC Individuals currently pay income tax cept for MFS had been initiated by have to be acknowledged: the risks to feder­ on their social security payroll taxes, a two veteran Communist organizers alism and to private entrepreneurial deci­ who, over the years have worked close­ sions; the contention that it might reduce highly unfair form of double taxation. incentives for efficiency and for good man­ Social security taxes amount to paying ly with the international Soviet front, agement; that it amounts to discrimination a tax on top of a tax. While our ulti­ the World Peace Council. Now, 3 years against small companies and cities that may mate goal is to eliminate this inequity, later, MFS continues to function, and not be eligible for aid; that its intervention a substantial tax credit for social secu­ is again promoting a series of activities in credit allocation will politicize competi­ rity taxes would help ease the burden that parallel the propaganda line of tive markets; that the government will be and equalize the tax reduction for all the Soviet Union under the false, and left in a conflict of roles, as lender-investor workers. classical ploy of a grassroots project. and as regulator. Each of these objections and others INCOME TAXES The current charade of the MFS is should be explored in detail. Some may be Federal income tax reforms should known as Survival Summer, and it is mitigated by the procedures for accountabil­ be initiated as incentives to fight infla­ headquartered with MFS at 3601 ity and the standards for intervention that tion and as a reward to restrain prices Locust Walk, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104, are built into the RFC legislation. Others and wage increases. Individuals who 215-386-4875. Survival Summer is are more fundamental and require a basic accept wages within the guidelines of being promoted as the first nationwide judgment about the need for some institu­ grassroots project on issues of urgent tions and a comparative analysis of the al­ a national anti-inflation program ternatives. Since part of the RFC's activities should be rewarded by favorable tax concern to the country in more than a would be for the benefit of private business, laws. Businesses which accept reduced decade, and is being consciously mod­ part of the capital should come from the profits within the guidelines should eled in the tradition of Vietnam business sector. The management, as in the also receive tax relief. Summer of 1967 and the civil rights original RFC, should be professional and SMALL BUSINESS TAXES Freedom Summer of 1964. non-political. The White House Conference on MFS disarmament activists are not On balance, I believe that the RFC is publicizing the fact that Vietnam needed and is preferred to the kind of ad Small Business listed as the first prior­ hoc legislative response that has character­ ity a progressive corporate tax struc­ Summer was organized by the Com­ ized the Lockheed, Chrysler and New York ture. The effort initiated in Public munist-dominated National Mobiliza­ City petitions. This does not lead to state Law 95-600 should be continued and tion Committee which, like its succes­ capitalism. If Chrysler ultimately fails, it expanded. There should be no tax in­ sors, New Mobe and the People's Co­ will not prove that government should not crease for any business, but truly alition for Peace and Justice front CAPITAL FORMATION AND INVESTMENT groups in the civil rights movement. Unfortunately, many current tax However, it is noted that the MFS HON. BRUCE F. VENTO policies encourage the dislocation of has utilized two veteran anti-Vietnam OF MINNESOTA industries, jobs, and communities. Our organizers for Survival Summer. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES priority should be to help use existing These are Rev. Richard "Dick" Fer­ nandez, active with Clergy and Laity Tuesday, June 24, 1980 resources in metropolitan settings where all of the public and private in­ Concerned rQ_~_g_ht MFS argument range from environ­ Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003. together at a conference convened by mental endangerment, peaceful nucle­ War Resisters League , 600 Lexington Ave., New York, nizers from 60 groups representing the aster on every hand. In this, and in NY 10022. peace, labor, black, Puerto Rican, MFS propaganda, the influence of the The reluctance of MFS to name Native American, tenants, environ­ antinational security propaganda pro­ other of the official sponsors of Sur­ mental, farm labor, women's, lesbian/ duced by Marcus Raskin and Richard vival Summer is perhaps understanda­ gay, international solidarity, rural, Barnet of the Institute for Policy ble when it is realized that documenta­ civil liberties, and left movements. Studies is very obvious. tion is available showing that three The featured event· of the People's MFS freely admits that the purpose national groups omitted from the or.., Convention will be a mass march and of Survival Summer is to insure disar­ ganizers guide have all been identified rally at Madison Square Garden, the mament and antinuclear issues are as front groups of the Communist site of the Democratic National Con­ part of the public debate during the Party, U.S.A. , Women multiracial, and multi-issue and there­ debate, and an increased awareness of for Racial and Economic Equality fore hoping to attract the largest pos- the voters on the issues of defense and . The patent dishonesty end on election day in November. For MFS ceased using its false flag and ad­ of MFS in this matter is, in no way the period of the project, MFS has mitted its connections with the Soviet­ mitigated by their unwitting admis­ suspended publication of its newslet­ controlled World Peace Council sion previously noted, that Survival ter, the Mobilizer, and replaced it with . and its many and close ties Summer is, "in the tradition of Viet­ Survival Summer News. Guest contrib­ with Marxist organizations operating nam Summer of 1967 and the civil utors to the first issue include Barbara in this country, including those domi­ rights Freedom Summer of 1964." Armentrout, Richard Barnett . to bottom with Communist cadre, and Forsberg, Meg Gage, Ted Glick, David In its official publication, Survival both serving as vehicles for Soviet Gold, Gerry Henry, Donna Hermans, Summer News, May 1980, which con­ propaganda. Randy Kelver, Joy Krementz, Judy tains an "Organizer's Guide," MFS During the first 2 weeks of May, Lamirand, Juli Loesch, Shana Margo­ states that there are 25 national Survival Summer organizers traveled lin, Rick Posmantur, Colleen Ragan, groups participating in Survival to 50 cities to help initiate local proj­ Brewster Rhoads, and Carol Jensen. Summer, but with unusual reticence ects. During the early part of this In addition to the two national re­ only lists 22 of these groups. month, 3-day training sessions for vol­ source centers in San Francisco and The pu:t>lished list is as follows: unteers were scheduled for: Boston, Philadelphia, Survival Summer lists . Agape Foundation, 944 Market Street, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Cleveland, Min­ more than 30 local and regional con­ Rm. 510, San Francisco, CA 94102. neapolis, Denver, San Francisco, and tacts, generally local offices of the American Friends Service Committee Los Angeles. AFSC, CALC, MFS, or WRL. The Los on 213-738-1041. jectors . witnesses before the House Committee Policy Mexico, which pos­ Court residential project. timely analysis to the attention of my sesses 40 billion barrels of proved reserves A recent report, prepared by the colleagues in both the House and the and enough potential reserves to make it a Council for Northeast Economic Senate. rival of Saudi Arabia, have been stymied by Action under a grant from the U.S. The article follows: the intransigence of U.S. officials. "The Department of Housing and Urban proposed Northern Tier Pipeline to trans­ OUR OWN ENERGY ENEMY port natural gas from Alberta, Canada, is Development, also focuses on Spring­ America's agonizing over how to break the threatened by the unwillingness of U.S. offi­ field's successful loan program. The OPEC stranglehold on our oil supplies fo­ cials to provide the necessary guarantees. At report, titled "Local Economic Devel­ cuses on the wrong villain, one energy every turn, our officials seem determined to opment: Public Leveraging of Private expert contends. If we are strangling, says throw roadblocks in the way of reducing our Capital" cites Springfield as a model Milton Copulos, it's because we've got our dependence on Arab imports." for other communities to follow in hands locked firmly around our own Obviously many of the policies Copulos their revitalization efforts. Two of the throats. decries are designed to protect the Ameri­ companies in the consortium, Massa­ According to Copulos, an energy policy can environment. But if Copulos is any­ chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. analyst of the Heritage Foundation, we've where close to accurate-the Department of got all the oil we need right here in Amer­ Energy has no reliable figures of its own­ and Springfield Institution for Sav­ ica. The problem is that state and feaeral · America is coming awfully close to being its ings, are praised by the report for policy keeps us from getting at it. own energy enemy. their commitment to the Springfield His reference is not only to the 27.8 billion For even assuming we will one day run out revitalization efforts. The other com­ barrels of proven U.S. reserves-enough in of oil, domestic supplies of upward of 46 panies in the consortium are the Com­ itself to put us ahead of such oil-rich na­ years would give us the time to develop al­ munity Savings Bank, Freedom Feder­ tions as Libya, Venezuela and Nigeria, ternatives to fossil fuels.e which is our second biggest source of im­ al Savings and Loan Association, ported oil behind Saudi Arabia. His own Hampden Savings Bank, Old Colony studies indicate potential U.S. reserves of SPRINGFIELD, MASS.-A CITY ON Bank of Hampden County, N.A., Secu­ between 276 billion and 444 billion barrels­ THE MOVE rity National Bank, Shawmut First "enough to support current levels of con­ Bank and Trust Co., Third National sumption for the next 46 to 74 years with­ Bank of Hampden County, Union Fed­ out importing a single drop." HON. EDWARD P. BOLAND eral Savings, United Cooperative Then why all the talk about an energy OF MASSACHUSETTS Bank, Bay Bank Valley Trust Co., and crisis? Why did President Carter try to add IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a gasoline pump surcharge? Why did House­ the Monarch Life Insurance Co. Senate conferees this week order Carter to Tuesday, June 24, 1980 Mr. Speaker, I call to the attention go forward with building a 750-million­ e Mr. BOLAND. Mr. Speaker, Spring­ of my colleagues an article from the barrel strategic petroleum reserve? Why field, Mass., is a city on the move. The Boston Globe of June 17, 1980 which can't we simply tap our own vast supplies underscores Springfield's success and say to hell with OPEC? private sector has collaborated with story: "Put simply," says Copulos, "policies at the Federal and municipal govern­ ments in a successful urban revitaliza­ SPRINGFIELD BECOMING A MODEL OF the state and federal levels have effectively REVITALIZATION hamstrung attempts to develop domestic re­ tion effort. At the forefront of this serves, and in doing so have helped tighten effort is Springfield Central, Inc., a (By ~ames E. Roper> the OPEC noose around our necks." private, nonprofit, economic develop­ WASHINGTON.-A pool of private capital of­ He is ready with impressive examples: ment organization. fering cut-rate loans in Springfield is being A half-billion barrels of oil lie in Santa Springfield Central, Inc. has studied cited in Washington as an ideal way of revi­ Ynez off the coast of California. But while various urban designs, helped prepare talizing decayed central cities. we could be getting 80,000 barrels a day The comptroller of the currency, John G. from that source (discovered fully a dozen a master plan for the revitalization of Heimann, has invited 200 bankers, govern­ years ago), we have yet to pump a single downtown, led a strong publicity ment officials and others to a conference drop. The reason? "Inability to obtain the effort to emphasize the importance of here June 22-24 to examine imaginative necessary permits from the state and feder­ -a healthy downtown, and just recently methods of rebuilding downtown areas. The al governments." assumed the role of developer in turn­ Springfield story will be a center of discus­ There are an estimated 76 billion barrels ing rundown commercial and industri­ sion. of recoverable oil in Alaska-perhaps as al buildings, within the business dis­ Organizers of the conference say Spring­ much as 113 billion. Alaskan production trict into market-rate housing. Since it field, a city of 170,000, might become a today is only about 1.6 million barrels a day, model for some other cities to follow. about 13 percent of total U.S. production. became active in the redevelopment of All 13 of Springfield's financial institu­ In all of Alaska-with potential reserves downtown Springfield in 1976, over 70 tions-insurance companies, banks, and sav­ greater than the proven reserves of Vene­ businesses and organizations in the ings and loan associations-made $32 mil­ zuela, Abu Dhabi, Mexico and the Soviet city have contributed to Springfield lion available for cut-rate loans to develop­ Union-only seven oil rigs are presently op­ Central, Inc. ers who would rehabilitate the downtown erating, compared with 366 in Louisiana and Yesterday three leaders of Spring­ area according to a new master plan. 807 in Texas. "Why? Lack, of access. More field Central, Inc., former Springfield The federal government chipped in some than 120 million acres of the state, includ­ Mayor Charles Ryan, president of Bay seed money, the city offered tax breaks, and ing many of the areas that hold the greatest the public provided political support to promise for the discovery of oil and gas, Bank Valley Trust Co., Gordon Oakes, make the program go. The result, city plan­ have been foreclosed to exploration by Jr., and publisher of Springfield's ners say, is $100 million worth of projects Carter administration executive fiat." three newspapers, David Starr, gave a for a 2000 foot stretch of Main street in The Georges Bank and Baltimore Canyon presentation on Springfield's revital­ downtown Springfield, a city that started as offshore fields-each of which is estimated ization efforts to a conference on in­ a trading post in 1636, blossomed into a to be the equal of the North Sea discovery­ vesting in America. The presentation thriving manufacturing center and then col­ are being held up by court challenges and was part of a panel discussion on the lapsed after World War II. the restrictive leasing policies of the Depart­ consortium of banks as a vehicle for By 1977 Main street had crumbled into a ment of the Interior. urban economic development. The barren strip of deteriorating buildings, some Occidental Petroleum, which could be pro­ of them abandoned. The city's biggest de­ ducing an additional 231 barrels a day in presentation focused on an informal partment store closed. Loft buildings stood California, has been unable to obtain the re­ loan pool established by Springfield's vacant. Many people were afraid to live in quired permission from the state. 11 banks and 2 locally based insurance the area or even visit it at night. "In a sort of perverse application of 'Mur­ companies. These 13 companies have Real estate developers looked at Main phy's Law'," Copulos charges, "anything the pledged $16 million to the revitaliza- street and walked away. They could not 16672 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 24, 1980 figure out how they could buy a building, are bringing so much change to the historic [From the Preston News & Farmer, June rehabilitate it and rent it out at a profit. city. 12, 19801 Taxes and other costs were too high and the In 1776, George Washington selected a LETTER FRoM MAX CHAMBERS potential rent in such a neighborhood was Springfield site for an arsenal that grew too low. The change of the season has brought ·a into an armory that manufactured muskets complete change here too in our business. A handful of civic leaders formed a group for the fledgling Continental Army. Spring­ called Springfield Central to plan the city's I've relinquished my reins of the owner­ field rifles for doughboys of World War I, ship and editorship of the News & Farmer salvation. Charles Ryan, a lawyer and and M-1 rifles for the Gls of World War II. former mayor, is credited with coming up to a fine young gentleman, Mr. Scott Ware­ The city's ·manufacturers made the first hime. with the idea of forming a mortgage pool "safety" bicycles with wheels of equal size, that could make loans to developers at Yes, it is with mixed emotions that I write and from that turned to the manufacture of this. But the time has come for a change. I below-market rates. In effect, the lending the first American automobile, the Duryea institutions would subsidize the revival of have been publishing the News & Farmer in 1893, and the first gasoline-powered mo­ for 44 years . . . good years. Thanks to you downtown Springfield, but could benefit in torcycle in 1902. By 1900, Springfield had the long run from the additional prosperity fine folks. 500 manufacturing plants of all kinds. I will continue to be active in our commu­ that this could bring to all the city. Some of these in the downtown area are At first, the lenders were skeptical be­ nity and with the many fine organizations being replaced in the present cleanup, with that I have come to know over the years. cause Springfield would require a mortgage some old loft buildings turned into apart­ pool larger and more complex than any Words cannot express to you my many ments, some turned into office complexes thanks and appreciation to each and every such arrangement that had been tried previ­ and some floors converted to retail shops. ously. one fo your cooperation and kindness. Cleared areas are being turned into malls or Being the wonderful folks you are, I'm sure Months passed and not much happened, parking facilities. recalls Gordon Oakes, Jr., president of the you'll continue to share these same feelings BayBank Valley Trust Co. Philip Comeau, as senior development di­ and gestures with our new owner, Mr. Scott "Then Dave Starr convinced Jim Martin rector for the Urban Development Action Warehime. to commit money and his personal attention Grants, watclies closely as Springfield's re­ My hope of continued success to him, The to the program," says Oakes. habilitation program unfolds. News & Farmer, and you for many years in Starr had just arrived in Springfield as "The economic development group and the future.e the publisher of the city's newspapers, the the insurance companies and banks are Daily News, the Union and the Sunday Re­ doing an excellent job and have the com­ publican. Martin is chairman of the Massa­ plete support of the mayor and the business AN ALTERNATIVE TO NATIONAL chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., which community," says Comeau. "They have HEALTH INSURANCE established its headquarters on Springfield's demonstrated to us that they can perform Main street in 1851 and, with 2700 em­ that once they get the ball they can run HON.HENRYJ.HYDE ployers, is now the second largest employer with it. in the city. Arabs-but the ing and Urban Development. Farmer. After nearly a half century of ones before we had OPEC. What they ex­ Typically, a developer who wanted to un­ service to the residents of Caroline ported back then was not oil but stories and dertake a rehabilitation project but couldn't parables, and I have one that I feel will figure out how to make a profit would place County, Mr. Chambers has sold his serve as a preface to our meeting today. the problem before the mortgage lenders. If newspaper for a much-deserved rest There once, long ago, was a Shiek who de­ a cut rate on mortgage interest would make from the fourth estate. termined to become wise, so he summoned the project economically feasible then the Mr. Chambers always discharged his all his counselors together and said "I wish pool would offer the loans at, say, 7 percent, responsibility to that fourth estate to know everything about the nature of or whatever it took to make the deal, and with small-town charm and large­ man, wherever he lives on Earth, and I will the borrower didn't have to pay back any of give half my wealth to find it out." the principal for perhaps three years. When paper savvy. His homespun aphorisms The counselors set out to fulfill his re­ the project starts giving the borrower an 8.5 mixed on the pages of the News & quest, and dispatched caravans to the percent return on his investment, he is Farmer with crop reports and political known comers of the world. Every year for pledged to start paying higher interest. assessments. The News & Farmer was seven years the camels came back laden "Because of rates and terms," says Martin, and still is a most unique newspaper, with writings from the most renowned and "we are getting downtown rehabilitation and Mr. Chambers' supervision in­ wisest authors. At the end of the seventh that otherwise would not occur. sured its special nature. year, the books were assembled and this "Of course, it's not all philanthropic on filled an enormous tower. Shown this, the our part. We can't afford to see Springfield For his unstinting service to the resi­ Shiek was impressed but not pleased. "If I dry up and die, because we get our employ­ dents of Caroline County and Mary­ lived three life-times," he said, "I could ees from the city." land, Max Chambers is to be remem­ never read half of this. I will give the re­ The commercial banks and S & L's figure bered and honored. I join with many maining half of my wealth to have all this to benefit from the quickened business pace. of my constituents in wishing him as learning distilled so that a man can under­ The outlook is bright enough so that a fruitful and enjoyable a retirement as stand it." Boston bank is looking for a downtown site his 44 years at the News & Farmer And for seven more years the scholars and in Springfield to open an affiliated bank in were for his readers. wise men labored to reduce all the works to competition with the local firms. one statement. And at the end of the sev­ "That smarts a little," chuckles Carlo At this printing, I include a letter enth year the chief scholar came before the Marchetti, executive director of Springfield published in the June 12, 1980, issue of Shiek and said "We have finished. All that Center. But he is proud of the projects that the Preston News & Farmer: is known about man's nature can be put June 24, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16673 thus: "Man lives but a short time and is un­ the coming era of reduced expectations, of What's caused our crisis? If health care suf­ happy. And as long as he holds the Earth fewer private homes, smaller savings, and so fers from anything today, it suffers from he forever wants more than he can have." forth, we have to judge medical costs as cratogenic problems. Most economists agree I don't know whether that will make you part, at least, of our problem. that the sky-rocketing costs in the health pass a gas station in a better frame of mind, Because the tremendous increases in cost care field are attributable to the two Feder­ but I hope it will sort of colorfully establish occur nationwide, and because everyone- al programs begun in the late '60's-medi­ one of the themes that I want to develop in from the farmer in Nebraska to the resident care and medicaid. The regulations spawned speaking of local government and health of mid-town Manhattan-feels the burden- by these-and other Federal programs carry care as in the Shiek's quest, I think we can the delivery of health care is being seen as a their own costs. A study by the New York distill the "crisis in health care" we hear so national problem-and one which demands State Hospital Association revealed that the much about to one formulation. "There is solution by the Federal Government. And so effort to comply with regulations cost the an unlimited demand for services-but only on one side, we hear the need for a univer- State's hospitals $4 billion annually. More limited resources to supply them." This pre­ sal, mandatory national health system: and Federal initiatives can only result in greater dicament is what brings us here together just as loudly from another direction we costs and more and more regulations, writ­ today, because our professions-as physi­ hear that we must impose stringent regula- ten by more and more bureaucrats whose cians and as public officials-deal with the tions on hospital costs, laboratory charges, salaries we must also pay. two ends of health care, with providing serv­ and fees for physicians services-but in We cannot, of course, turn the clock back ices themselves and with providing-or allo­ either or both cases it would be the Federal and I don't think anyone could rationally cating-the human, physical, and financial Government that would be paying the piper suggest abolishing those programs which resources for them. and calling the tunes. have, despite their glaring flaws, extended I don't think I have to defend, especially I'm convinced further dependence on the care to many individuals who previously to you physicians, the unlimited demand for Federal Government is the wrong direction, could not obtain it. health care. The environment, the way we and one of the points I want to stress this But should we give Washington and its live our lives, and the flaws of human morning is that the local scene-the State, bureaucracy more authority over the deliv­ nature itself continually subject us to dis­ the county, and the city-is the only proper ery of health care? What should we expect ease; and when we become ill, we will seek place for dealing with the problems within from a Government that has given us anti­ the best help possible to make us well. our health system. I think we can find sev- inflation programs that produced a 13% But the concept of limited resources eral reasons for this: rate of inflation: A war on energy shortages needs, I think, some expansion because it's First, there isn't such a thing as a national that produces gasoline lines: An educational one which, particularly in the United crisis in health care-there are only local program that insists on moving 140,000 States, we are not used to, and it's not even problems going on throughout the country. school children from their neighborhoods to one that's readily apparent. There's certain­ The gasoline shortage and the debate over somewhere else, and that runs the Post ly no shortage of doctors-in fact, some spe­ nuclear and alternative energy sources- Office. cialties, seem over-supplied, and each year these are national problems. They cross Yet the drift is plainly toward Washing­ far more young men and women apply to local boundaries and are effected by a liter- ton. The 1980 Presidential campaign will medical school than can possibly be ad­ ally world-wide network of needs, demands, crystalize the issue of National Health Care, mitted. We possess the most sophisticated negotiations and agreements. Our State can and writers who take up the subject tell us technology in the world, and there are few do precious little about the shortage of nat- that the question is not whether we shall locations in the country that cannot benefit ural gas, and even a mighty city like Chica- have universal coverage, but only when this from it. And, during the past fifteen years, go is virtually powerless to influence the shall be done. The current watchwords in through Federal and local programs, we cost or ease the allocation of motor fuel. health are cost-containment, continuity, have made enormous strides in providing Only an entity as encompassing as our Fed- and quality of care for all citizens. If these medical care to all segments of society, to eral Government can and should make the cannot be supplied locally, through the ini­ the aged and the poor and those otherwise major policy decisions regarding these tiatives of local government and the private left out of the system. issues. sector-if there is a vacuum in activity and How can we talk of limits and lack of re­ But health care is nothing like this: Our leadership-then the Federal Government sources? If we had no other business but to physical surroundings and our local econo- will step in, as far as it can go. If this hap­ provide health care to everyone who sought my give us an environment that can either pens, we should all be the losers. The initial it, and could devote all our resources to this, contribute to our health or help foster dis- costs of any national program would be we wouldn't now face a crisis. But, privately ease. When people become ill, they go, on enormous and, judging from the experience and publicly, we have other needs and the main, to physicians in their own neigh- not only of our own medicare and medicaid wants, and only so much can go to answer borhoods and hospitals close to their own systems but that of Britain's Health Serv­ all of them. homes. ice-the subsequent cost would grow astra- It was only eighty some years ago that a It's primarily the local governmental nomically. But worse, we would inevitably U.S. Geographic Survey reported that the structure-not the Federal-that monitors lose large measures of independence-as pa­ frontier was closed and that the physical the kinds of care they receive. State depart- tients· or as physicians-and this would de­ limits of our country had been reached. ments register and license physicians and tract from both the quality of medical care From most reports we have today, it seems certify hospitals. Local building and fire and the quality of our lives. that the new frontier is closed, and we have safety codes apply to various facilities, and It is, therefore, imperative that the best reached our economic limits, especially in reflect local needs and conditions. possible use be made of our local resources, the field of health care. And while local government affects those and I don't think we're doing this now. We Until just recently, this wasn't the case. In who provide medical care, it also influences have all the pieces-a myriad of State agen­ 1960, we spent 27 billion for health, about 5 those who receive it. The State determines cies and departments, separate units of local percent of our gross national product. Last who is eligible to receive public assistance, government charged with planning and de­ year, health expenditures had reached the and pays-together with matching Federal livering health care, revenues raised from a staggering sum of 192 billion, almost 10 per­ funds-for the care they have received. And variety of general taxes and the property cent of our economy. No nation on earth other units of local government-counties, tax, and one of the most extensive networks spends more, or spends a higher percentage townships, and municipalities-extend care of private hospitals and public health cen­ of its gross national product than we do for to more of the poor through programs ters in the world. Its size is truly amazing. health. aiding the medically indigent. Chicago and its suburbs contain more than Our bill for health works out to $800 a Virtually every aspect of health and a hundred private hospitals-six renowned year for every man, woman and child in the health care is local in nature, and it appeals medical schools, over a dozen public clinics U.S. The costs are spread out so that they to reason that whatever problems arise in a funded by the county or the city-and sever­ influence almost every sector of our econo­ health care system can be identified and al thousand physicians engaged in private my. General Motors, for example, spends treated best from the local level. or group practice or in a number of rapidly more for the health insurance of its workers The second reason I'm convinced that na- growing health maintenance organizations. than it does for the steel in its automobiles. tionalizing medical care-or allowing more · When I mentioned, a moment ago, that The impact has become great enough to Federal intervention in the existing we weren't making the best possible use of effect our whole framework of life. The system-would be wrong is based on the ex- our resources, I meant exactly that, and I enormous increase in government spending perience of Washington's involvment over by no means want to be included in the means higher taxes for individuals and busi­ the past 15 years. As physicians, you're fa- small but vocal groups of critics who main­ nesses. Increases in insurance rates, which miliar with the concept of hiatrogenic ill- tain that our system is a failure. Clearly, it's follow costs in health care, result in either ness-complications that arise from the not. It's working, and working extremely lower wages for a company's workers, or course of treatment itself. Joan Beck, a col- well. Yet we see on the news, and read in higher prices for the company's goods and umnist for the Tribune, has suggested the the paper almost daily of the crisis at services. All of this means less for the other useful term "cratogenic"-or complications County Hospital. We hear that the poor are areas of our lives. And so, when we look at that arise from government intervention. not being served anywhere else, and that 16674 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 24, 1980 millions of dollars will be needed to keep county's taxpayers would be saved the sub­ Given this-how can the primary care their one hope of medical care open. · stantial costs of constant repairs to a 70 needs of the people be met? Large publicly I'd like to focus on the problems at year old building: or the enormous costs of funded clinics seem the best approach, and County now because I think it can serve as a constructing a brand new one. there are already a substantial number in graphic example of the local health care The city of Philadelphia developed such a operation. The city of Chicago operates system-both public and private-it can il­ system over 2 years ago. The city negotiated seven while Cook County, through the lustrate what its deficiencies are, and indi­ contracts with 12 private hospitals through­ Health and Hospital Governing Commis­ cate, too, directions that we can take to out the city, encompassing both out patient sion, has an equal number. make the best use of our resources. care and inpatient treatment. To control But again, we need more co-ordinated First, we should make some important costs, it established maximum payments for effort. The governing commission clinics act clarifications. County Hospital is not the any hospital within a given year. With· this as conduits for County Hospital-the city's only place the poor go for treatment. In system in place, Philadelphia closed its gen­ clinics have affiliations with private hospi­ Chicago, 85 percent of the money that the eral hospital-the equivalent of our County. tals. Moreover, certain neighborhoods lie in State's Department of Public Aid spends for To this date there is no record of any the service areas of both organizations, hospital care goes to private hospitals. Look­ person being denied treatment at one of the while other areas are underserved. ing at this figure from a different perspec­ participating hospitals. I see no reason the If we look to the long-term future and rec­ tive, fifteen years ago, County Hospital Philadelphia plan couldn't work here. ognize that we have to develop a compre­ ranked as the largest general hospital in the The second major reason patients come to hensive and rational system, we can see the world, treating 3,000 people daily. Today, its County is that they lack the means of refer­ need for centralizing control of our public average in-patient load varies between 700 ral to private hospitals. It's not that they clinics. The Philadelphia experience can to 800; and the rate of decline continues don't have doctors. The poorer sections of serve as a useful guide in this. steadily. Many of its patients are choosing our city have been plagued by "medicaid We must also innovate and expand. Pre­ to go to private hospitals. mills," assembly-line centers for primary vention and health maintenance can elimi­ County Hospital hasn't been victimized by care where physicians process incredibly nate or postpone the need for other vastly restraints in spending, either. Expenditures large numbers of patients and bill the State more expensive kinds of treatment: and this at the hospital total almost $200 million­ for their services. Many of these doctors is especially true with children. Yet we have county real estate taxpayers make up about have no affiliations with private hospitals. large numbers of school children who lack $60 million of that amount, or a $12.00 as­ Consequently, when one of their patients access to regular physicians, but whose sessment for every man, woman and child develops a condition needing hospitaliza­ health needs are great. One suburban mu­ living in Chicago and its suburbs. We have tion, they dump him or her on County. nicipality has tried to fill this lack by hiring reached the legal limit on property taxes for When the patient is released, he returns to a doctor-full time-for its school. He has a the hospital-the Governor, the legislature the original doctor. converted school room as his office, and, and the president of the county board have The deficiencies in this practice are obvi­ with their parents consent, sees the children become actively involved in the search for ous-the patient loses continuity of care; on a regular basis. A program like this cer­ new sources of money-and we're still faced the taxpayer is assessed twice for service tainly answers the criteria of cost, continu­ with the popular perception that we're not that should have been rendered once. ity, and quality of care and it's one which doing enough. Well, how much money To correct this, the Department of Public could easily be expanded and adopted to would be enough? How many new hospitals Aid could develop regulations requiring af­ meet the needs of a large urban area. should we build, or clinics could we open to filiation with a hospital as a condition for If we can extend primary care through provide a level of care that everyone might reimbursement through medicaid. This new uses of our existing and familiar re­ consider adequate? would have a variety of benefits. Most im­ sources, we can also extend it by greater use The answer is we need nothing more. No portantly, it would improve the quality of of untapped resources. At the primary level, new beds-no massive additional public ex­ care by ensuring and monitoring the capa­ a great many encounters are absolutely rou­ penditures. The only thing that we need do bility of the physician. It would ensure con­ tine-Johnny needs a check-up, Billy a vac­ is utilize what we have now, organize all the tinuity of care for the patient, making his cination, Mrs. Smith has the flu and Ed separate maldistributed pieces together into journey through diagnosis to treatment to Jones has to have the stitches removed from a truly functioning health system. So let's discharge a steady and smooth process. And, his cut: look at our present situation, and see what it would be a vastly more economical and ef­ For the past decade or so, a new kind of can be done to make it work effectively. ficient use of our resources. medical worker, the para-professional, has I think the mere existence of a "poor per­ County hospital, the point of our discus­ been receiving training to deal with situa­ sons' hospital"-county hospital-is de­ sion, reflects the problems affecting the de­ tions like these. Under the supervision of a meaning-a relic from the age of Charles livery of care in a large metropolitan area. physician, such personnel can do much to Dickens and the work house. . an impact on County and on the other city The other and obvious advantage of para­ Yet it exists because some of the residents hospitals-the most visible and most costly professionals is economical. They work for of Chicago don't have ready access to pri­ component of the health care delivery salaries much lower than physicians and vate hospitals. There are two major reasons system. But the hospital system-for all its consequently can restrain costs while actu­ for this: and eliminating both would do importance-is only one side of the coin. ally extending the amount of care provided. much to develop a meaningful health The other side is primary care-and for a My own field of law has started to take system. large urban area this holds special prob­ advantage of the services of para-legals, The first reason is that many of County's lems. whose training qualifies them to handle patients have no means to pay for treat­ By far, the largest problem is supply. much of the routine work that comes ment in the private sector. Most public aid Older urban areas suffer a severe shortage through a law office. Over-all, I think they patients, as I said, choose to go to private of doctors. As a neighborhood deteriorates, can be an enormous help; and as practices­ hospitals. Their green cards are their insur­ older physicians move away, retire, or die­ whether medical or legal-become more ance, and the hospital accepting them is young doctors set up their practices in more complex and demanding, trained helpers are guaranteed payment. Many who come to amenable neighborhoods: and the residents, going to become more and more necessary County earn more than the eligibility limits consequently, are hard pressed to find the to deal with the routine chores that can ex­ for medicaid, yet do not carry private insur­ most basic and elementary forms of care haust so much time and energy. ance, and haven't the resources to foot the and treatment. Because para-professionals are so new, whole hospital bill themselves. There's not an easy solution for this. Doc­ their status under laws and regulations isn't Cook County pays for the cost of their tors are scarce in some areas for the same clearly defined. During the coming years if care. Cook County also pays the whole cost reason that architects, symphony conduc­ they are to assume a meaningful role in the of the building that houses them, and buys tors, or major league ball players are. delivery of health care, we will have to de­ the equipment that aids in their treatment. Simply, they don't want to live or work termine standards for education and licen­ This seems to me to be duplicative and there. sure, rules of practice to state what acts wasteful. If guaranteed payment is one of Practical reasons weigh as heavily as pref­ para-professionals may or may not perform, the problems that prevents access to the erence. For the individual doctor in the and so forth. And the rules that are set up system, the solution is apparent. Cook inner-city, security is an enormous concern. will be a major factor in determining the County can make contractual agreements Twenty years ago, his black bag might have future of health care and medical practice. with hospitals located in the neighborhoods offered him protection and respect: today, I've spoken thus far about health care at that produce the bulk of these patients. A it's an invitation to a mugging. Insurance­ the local level, about some flaws I perceive fixed amount could be negotiated, standards for his office, his car, or his practice is exor­ and some solutions I think might help. Ev­ of treatment determined, and incentives bitantly expensive or impossible to obtain. erything I've talked about necessitates built in to encourage cost-effectiveness. Pa­ Skilled staff-from nurses to receptionists­ action by some level of government. Some tients would be given free choice, and the are equally hard to come by. solutions could be generated by an execu- June 24, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS '16675 tive order-from the Governor, the presi­ to ourselves and everyone else, allow them enforcement measures which have dent of the county board, or the mayor. to continue unchecked. Our problems, we've been taken. Others might require legislative action, and learned over the last decade and more, that would come from the general assembly, won't vanish when we throw money at The earlier outcry against treating the county's board of commissioners, the them. If they can be dealt with at all, they the Haitian arrivals differently from city council, or the board of trustees of a vil­ have to be faced with the resources we have those persons arriving illegally from lage. Other activity could only come about on hand now. Cuba appears now to have resulted in through regulations written by a certain de­ Second, I've tried to emphasize that the a desire to join Cuban and Haitian en­ partment of State, county, or city govern­ local level is the appropriate sector for trants as a part of the same special ment. action in health care. Lack of access, obso­ I think you can see the difficulty. Local lete methods of funding, shortage of goods category. It is possible that sympathy government is complex and fragmented. If and service don't come to us across State for the Haitian entrants may have in­ you've ever tried to solve a relatively simple lines. They're home grown problems and re­ duced the administration to include personal problem-like obtaining a record or quire home remedies. them as a means for gaining public correcting a mistake on your property I've taken the liberty of suggesting some support for the resettlement programs taxes-you know how frustrating and ex­ actions that might be taken in addressing developed for accommodating the mas­ hausting the government process can be. local conditions. But whatever the merits of sive inflow of Cubans, almost all of How then, if we want, can we make changes these proposals, if you're concerned about whom were selected by Castro for in a whole system or, from the other side, the direction that health care and health how can we stop changes that we don't want care legislation is taking, if you believe that entry into our country and not by the from happening? some changes for the better can be made in Immigration and Naturalization Serv­ Any kind of political action involves three the existing system, and if you're convinced ice, as required by our laws. steps. First, the individual or the group has that a serious investment of time, energy, The demand that the Congress to define a position stating what's to be money, and talent could bear greater re­ should enact legislation to make legal done. That might sound overly simple and wards through a higher quality of care for that which the administration has obvious, but far too many people-singly or all, then I think you should organize to pro­ as organizations-expect good laws to be en­ mote the necessary changes in health care done without legal authority is some acted and bad laws repealed as a matter of at the local level. kind of commentary on the misman­ course. No special providence tells those I want to commend your organization, and agement of this whole confused and who make our laws what should be done. particularly its leadership for initiating this outrageously expensive affair. They have to have some suggestions, an program and I wish you the best of luck, Mr. Speaker, it appears from the ad­ agenda to follow. and the best of results in your very worthy ministration's proposal that Cuban Secondly, you must get support for the endeavors.e and Haitian entrants may qualify for position~from your own organization and other interested parties, from the general substantial Federal benefits beyond public, and from law makers. This is an edu­ PRESIDENT CARTER CONTINUES those which many U.S. citizens and cational role, teaching and persuading as AD HOC POLICY ON CUBANS lawful entrants into our country could many as possible that what you're suggest­ receive. It is encouraging, however, to ing will make a positive improvement in note that "criminals" will be subject to things. HON. ROBERT McCLORY detention and exclusion or deportation Finally, you have to get your program OF ILLINOIS from the United States. before the person or the governmental body IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that can act effectively on it. This means Finally, notwithstanding the failure knowing what branch of government or Tuesday, June 24, 1980 to enforce the law up to and including what agency has the ability to act on the e Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Speaker, I can June 19, the administration asserts proposal, and knowing also which person in appreciate the dilemma of the Carter that "enforcement will be maintained that branch has the authority to do some­ administration and the Coordinator to prevent future illegal arrivals • • • ." thing. for Refugee Affairs in trying to deal This is a clear acknowledgement that This takes a concerted effort and a consid­ the arrivals prior to June 19, were il­ erable amount of expertise. Many groups, with the problem of Cuban and Hai­ be ·they labor unions, trade associations, tian nationals who have entered this legal. Still, the administration appears taxpayers organizations or what have you, country in the last 8 weeks. anxious to keep virtually all who ar­ present issues they feel to be important I can only observe, however, that the rived illegally prior to June 19, and through their own political action commit­ dilemma is of the President's own cre­ that only those who arrived after June tees, P AC's. Establishing a PAC requires ation and evidences a disregard of the 19 "will not be eligible for the program going out and hiring a qualified staff to re­ Refugee and Immigration Act of 1980. and will be subject to exclusion or de­ search and develop issues, to review legisla­ I note in the statement issued by the portation in accordance with U.S. im­ tion of interest to your group, and to repre­ migration laws." sent you before lawmakers. PAC's serve as President's Coordinator for Refugee middlemen between any organization and Affairs that the Cuban nationals who Mr. Speaker, in my view, that is not the governmental process, and they can be have arrived on our shores in recent enough. If future illegal entrants can one of the most effective tools for dealing weeks are described as Cuban "en­ be excluded or deported, why could with local issues at a State, county, or city trants." This, of course, is a new de­ not others who arrived prior to the level. scription not found in the existing law cutoff date of June 19, be excluded or A PAC is just as valuable, just as neces­ and is, in effect, in response to my ear­ deported? How about having those sary for protecting your private interests as who do not qualify as refugees or im­ physicians. Several years ago the Illinois lier charges that these Cuban nation­ Legislature passed a law requiring doctors als do not fit any existing category of migrants repatriated? Repatriation is to upgrade their professional skills through immigrant or refugee. · a valid and important element of all continuing medical education. Keeping cur­ Mr. Speaker, what seems unbeliev­ immigration and refugee policy-not rent with what other physicians are doing is able in the statement is the claim that: mentioned in any of the administra­ 'vital, of course, to your career's develop­ Throughout this emergency, our objec­ tion's recent statements about Cuban ment. Can I suggest, though, that keeping tives have been to uphold our international and Haitian "entrants".e current with what the legislature might be obligation and protect the integrity of our doing to the profession is just as vital. For immigration and refugee laws. example, this past Wednesday the courts permitted physicians to advertise-under In almost the next breath, the hope YOUTH'S INTERPRETATION OF certain guidelines. Where are those guide­ is expressed that: MEMORIAL DAY SIGNIFICANCE lines going to come from except some legis­ Our enforcement measures will discourage lative body or agency? And how can you in­ others from undertaking the long and dan­ fluence how those guidelines are written gerous journey by boat in violation of our HON. DAN MICA and how they will effect medical practice laws. OF FLORIDA and ethics? A PAC is the answer. This, it seems to me, is an acknowl- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES To sum things up, I've tried to develop two principle themes this morning. First, edgement ·that the boat flotilla has Tuesday, June 24, 1980 spending levels for health care have reached indeed been in violation of our laws, e Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, last Memo­ such proportions that we cannot, in justice and it has been retarded by the recent rial Day, I had an opportunity to hear 16676 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 24, 1980 young people speak about the impact Secondly, I am thankful for the material C. MARVIN BREWER HONORED and significance of the veterans' sacra­ things I'm able to enjoy and possess-this fices for our great Nation. country's beautiful landscape, my home and so many others. We have .so many luxuries HON.GLENNM.ANDERSON At this time, I wish to share with my and they are so common to us that we often OF CALIFORNIA colleagues some of these remarks, mistake them for necessities. We really IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which I found to be very gratifying to don't realize how rich we are until we've been elsewhere. "I can see our country be­ Tuesday, June 24, 1980 hear from our future leaders. coming richer and more powerful. But to make her prosperity more than superficial, e Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. How MY LIFE Is TODAY AS A RESULT oF her moral and intellectual development Speaker, on June 27, 1980, the mem­ VETERANS' SACRIFICES IN THE PAST must keep pace with her material wealth." bers and friends of the Torrance The third area of how my life is today is Chamber of Commerce will gather to taught me to love my country join in the spirit of this occasion by sa­ would speak on. One of them was "How My by their own example. I was taught the luting outgoing President C. Marvin Life Would be Different Today Without Pledge of Allegiance before I even knew Brewer, an individual who has contrib­ The Sacrifices of Veterans In the Past." what the words meant. At the age of five, I uted greatly toward making this past As I pondered that topic, I realized that I was already standing in front of post offices year an especially successful one for could hardly imagine how my life would be and grocery stores with a money can in one the Torrance Chamber of Commerce. I now, if sacrifices hadn't been made. The few hand and a bundle of Buddy Poppies in the thoughts I did have weren't very pleasant other. I collected donations as I explained now wish to share with my colleagUes ones. You see, if Americans hadn't defended · to people that the flowers were made by some of Marve's achievements in civic our country in the years past, I don't think -sick veterans in the hospital and asked them affairs and in his own professional my life would be half as valuable as it is to donate to help these men. career. now. But all of this is just supposed; I really I was proud of my country, but I don't can't say for sure how my life would have suppose it was until I was in high school With Marvin Brewer as president, been under those circumstances. However, that I gained a greater appreciation for her. the chamber of commerce has com­ there is one thing I do know, and that is For me it took living in South America for a piled an impressive list of new initia­ "How My Life is Today as a Result of Veter- summer and seeing communism slowly tives during the past year. His last an's Sacrifices in the Past"; how my life is in taking grasp of a country, before I could re­ report to the chamber's membership relation to the privileges I enjoy, the tangi- alize just how good I have it here in the listed the following three significant ble material things I possess, and the values United States. I hold. Another important idea that I value very projects started during his year-long First, take for instance, the privileges I much, is how I use my freedom. The prob­ term: establishing the Private Indus­ enjoy. Right now I'm a college student in lem with many of us is that we've forgotten try Council, a group of local business­ the process of studying for the career of my or never learned the true meaning of FREE­ men and community leaders to super­ choice . I am an athlete whatever we want with no strings attached. who competes by choice, when and where I ·•our present and future danger may lie in under the Federal CETA program; cre­ choose. our failure to recognize that if we were to ating a commuter bus pooling plan by All this sounds very commonplace to most achieve freedom from responsibility, all our the Traffic and Transportation Com­ of us, but in come countries your talents freedoms would be lost. All the freedom mittee which calls for institution of a would be decided for you at a very young mankind has achieved to date has been private sector commuter bus system age; and they may even do you the favor of achieved only because individuals accepted that would be shared by South Bay in- . picking your career, whether you like it or responsibility." not. Athletes and people of the arts are Yes, those veterans have a lot to do with dustries; and forming the Paul Revere often exploited for the sake of the country the way my life is today, such as the privi­ Committee, a grassroots political only. leges I have. They have a lot to do with the awareness effort which encourages Another privilege I hold dear is that of tangible-material things we now enjoy as a members to write letters to legislators being able to practice my Christian faith nation. And they have a lot to do with the on crucial business issues. In addition, freely. From that experience I've learned values I've developed for my country. he also reported progress on creating a that true freedom lies within a person, but Thomas Paine once wrote, "These are how much more lovely it is when the most times that try men's souls. The summer sol­ Small Business Council which offers important things in your life don't have to dier and the sunshine patriot will, in the improved and expanded services to be hidden because of the fear of persecu- crises, shrink from the service of their coun­ small business members of the cham­ tion. I don't know what I would do if I were try, but he that stands it now, deserves the ber, plus the formulation of a plan by in a country where the authorities said love and thanks of man and woman." These the Future Quarters Committee to "You can't worship your God, and you can't veterans whom we honor today deserve our expand office sp3:-ce. have your Bible, without the risk of losing love and thanks. From them we must learn your life"-I am afraid I would not live long. to sacrifice, whether it be giving up some of This man has demonstrated a genu­ One other privilege I was not able to expe- our pleasures in order to conserve our coun­ ine devotion to the welfare of the Tor­ rience until this past year was that of try's natural resources, or whether it be rance community by his work with the voting. I suppose for many it's just a regular giving up our lives in order to preserve free­ chamber. But in addition, he has also duty, unfortunately for others, voting is not dom for those who follow us. even worth their time. For me it is a special I would like to close by taking the liberty demonstrated individual talents by the feeling knowing that I have a part in the de- to paraphrase a few words once spoken by success of his personal career in finan­ cisions of my country-a feeling of self Abraham Lincoln: cial and administrative management. worth. There are many people who never "We have met on a great battlefield of His promotion to chairman of the experience that feeling, because they know war. We have come to dedicate a portion of board of the Long Beach based Do­ their opinions do not matter to the leaders that field as a final resting place for those minguez Water Corp., last year indi­ of their country. I'm grateful that mine who gave their lives that the nation might cates his company's recognition of his does. The choices I have in relation to my live. It is altogether fitting and proper that career, athletic competition, Christian faith, we should do this. But in a larger sense, we ample talents. and voting are truly important privileges to cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we Mr. Speaker, in private and public me. cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, . endeavors, this man has proven his ca­ Thomas Jefferson was so right when he living and dead, who struggled here have wrote, "My God! how little do my country- consecrated it far above our poor power to pabilities and illustrated a selfless gen­ men know what precious blessings they are add or detract. The world will little note, erosity that has won him wide respect. in possession of, and which no other people nor long remember what we say here, but it My wife, Lee, joins me as we proudly on earth enjoy." can never forget what they did."e congratulate him on his most recent June 24, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16677 success, the completion of his impres­ by a United Nations international the PLO. It is my hope and expecta­ sive term as chamber of commerce forum which argues against the legiti­ tion that the United States will do all president. We now also offer to macy of the Israeli State. The report it can to contain the debate within the Marvin Brewer; his wife, Stella; and does not address the needs of Palestin­ scope of the Conference and to activ ~­ their two sons, Kirk and Craig, our ian women which are unique to women ly work with other delegations in de­ best wishes for many more years of in Arab culture nor does it analyze in feating any anti-Israel resolutions.e good fortune, continued success, and any credible way the socioeconomic happiness in the future.e conditions of Palestinian women. Indeed, the 1979 State Department IN TRIBUTE TO MRS. P. C. Report on Human Rights Practices, ROBINSON based on an impartial study, com­ UNITED STATES MUST PREVENT ments on the position of Palestinian ATI'ACK ON ISRAEL'S EXIST­ women in the occupied territories: HON. WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY ENCE AT U.N. MID-DECADE CON­ The status of women in the occupied terri­ OF MISSOURI FERENCE ON WOMEN tories reflects traditional Palestinian values and practices. Laws governing marriage, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES family, and personal status discriminate Tuesday, June 24, 1980 HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN against women. Changes are taking place, OF FLORIDA however. Since 1967, the proportion of e Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, I would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES women in school has steadily increased so like to take this opportunity to share a that now they comprise roughly half the beautiful poem with my colleagues in Tuesday, June 24, 1980 school population. Exposure to education, • Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Speaker, as and to a basically egalitarian attitude to- the U.S. House of Representatives. plans unfold for the United Nations wards women by Israelis, is changing the This poem was written by one of the World Conference in Copenhagen this traditional status of women. Traditionally St. Louis community's outstanding July to mark the fifth year of the U.N. unenfranchised, women are permitted to citizens, Ms. Elaine Moore. Ms. Moore Decade for Women, I have become in­ vote in municipal elections. The younger is not only a talented writer, but a generation of women is growing up with dif- highly respected real estate entrepre­ creasingly disturbed that the Confer­ ferent expectations about its status • • •. ence is turning into another vehicle Women who work in Israel proper or for Is- neur who has my highest regard, as for political abuse against Israel. raeli firms receive the benefits of Israeli she has consistently demonstrated a The agenda item entitled "The Ef­ labor laws and practices. sincere and unselfish commitment to fects of Israeli Occupation on Palestin­ I have voiced my concern to the U.N. improving the quality of life in our ian Women Inside and Outside the Oc­ Decade for Women office at the De- city. cupied Territories" is slated for discus­ partment of State and was informed Elaine's poem was written to honor sion in two separate committees that the Conference will only become Mr. and Mrs. P. c. Robinson, and pre­ during three separate sessions of the a problem if Israel decides to respond. sented on the occasion of a tribute Conference. Since this agenda item Disregarding this as a serious reply, I given by the National Association of overlaps the session on women as refu­ sought clarification during House Ap- Real Estate Brokers in honor of her gees, domination of the Conference by propriation Foreign Operation Sub- husband, P. C. Robinson. I have this topic is virtually assured. Any dis­ committee hearings on what the U.S. cussion of Palestinian women should role would be on this issue. I learned known and admired P. C. Rob.inson for be properly placed within the session that while the United States opposed many years .. and I ~ave the h1ghes~ :e­ on women and refugees. singling out Palestinian women for spect fo~ h1~ special blend of ability Five years ago, in Mexico City, a special consideration at the Copenha- • and dediCatiOn. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. similar subversion of an international gen Conference discussion in the U.N. Robinson make an outstanding combi­ conference on women took place. The General Assembly last year, and voted nation, and I am proud to boast of adoption of a resolution equating Zi­ with Israel against including the item their fine contributions to our commu­ onism with racism and condemning on the agenda, its inclusion was sup- nity. It is indeed my pleasure to share Israel by the U.N. Conference on the ported by 118 other U.N. member na- Elaine Moore's beautiful and inspiring International Women's Year caused tions. poem: divisiveness which robbed attention Last week, Assistant Secretary for from the pressing needs and problems To walk the road is one thing. International Organizational Affairs To have paved it is another. of women around the world. A repeat Richard McCall, at the most recent As new travelers on your road, we ask but performance at the July 1980 Mid­ preparatory meeting on the Confer­ two things of you, now. Decade Conference in Copenhagen ence, objected strongly to. using a doc­ Share with us your wisdom, that we may would again steal attention from the ument which challenges the legitima­ pave the road yet another mile and lend us important problems of women. cy of a member state of the United your strength that we not falter in our task. The agenda item on Palestinian Nations. The open attack on the sover­ We at Elaine Moore Real Estate, humbly eignty of a member nation is a perver­ offer you, P. C. and Mrs. Robinson, the women will focus on a report prepared highest awards in our company. by the U.N. Economic Commission for sion of the concept of such an interna­ P. C. this butterfly-emerging from the Western Asia, a group which includes tional conference whose purpose is to cocoon-symbolizes our struggle for free­ in its membership Arab States and the improve the status and opportunities dom: spreading its wings-it has achieved its Palestine Liberation Organization. Its for women worldwide and to achieve freedom, to display its uniqueness to the exclusion of Israel, a member state of greater participation by women in the world: which validates, that as God has pur­ the U.N. and geographically part of processes of economic and social devel­ pose in the short life of a butterfly, then the region, is in violation of the U.N. opment. Mr. McCall assured me that certainly there is purpose in our lives. Charter principle of universality and the United States will fight any kind You P. C. have more than exemplified sovereign equality of members. The of resolution that would be anti-Israel this to_be factual. in any way. And to you Mrs. Robinson this single rose document, drafted by this fanatically delicate and beautiful-yet strong. A mas­ anti-Israel coalition, is another distort­ Promoting the views of the Palestine terpiece in itself: symbolizing the concern ed account of the history of the Arab­ Liberation Organization at American and support you have given the man and Israeli conflict. Israel is referred to as taxpayers's expense violates congres­ the cause. "1948 occupied Palestine." The report sional prohibition of U.N. programs For the butterfly cannot survive without is the first official document accepted which seek to further the interests of the nectar of the rose.e