June 12, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14511 provided in this Act, for payments not re­ in a state which does not have an emergency SEc. 305. Of the total budget authority quired by law, five per centum shall be with­ evacuation plan approved by the Commis­ provided in this Act, for payments not re­ held from obligation and expenditure: Pro­ sion, as of the effective date of this Act. quired by law, five per centum shall be with­ vided, That of the amount provided in this By Mr. WIRTH: held from obligation and expenditure: Pro­ Act for each appropriation account, activity, -Page 3, line 15, strike out "$235,3291.000," v i ded, That of the amount provided in this and project, for payments not required by and insert in lieu thereof "$231,972,000, and Act for each appropriation account, activity, law, the amount withheld shall not exceed $5,357,000 for salaries and expenses of the and project, for payments not required by ten per centum: And provided further, That Office of Inspector General,". law, t he amount withheld shall not exceed this reduction shall not apply to title I of ten per centum. this Act. H.R. 4390 By Mr. WEAVER: By Mr. KOSTMAYER: H .R. 4394 -Add a new section 401: -Page 31, add a new section to title III as By Mr. MITCHELL of New York: No moneys appropriated in this title may follows: be expended by the Nuclear Regulatory SEc. 306. None of the funds contained in -Page 16, line 3, st rike out "$131,121,000" Commission for the issuance of an operating this Act shall be used to provide House Wall and insert in lieu thereof "$168,521 ,000". license for a nuclear powerplant located Calendars, U.S. Historical Society Calendars, By Mr. ROYBAL: in a state which does not have an emergency plants from the U.S. Botanic Garden, or -Page 4, insert after line 15 the following: evacuation plan approved by the Commis­ shipping trunks to Members of the House of CONGREGATE SERVICES PROGRAM sion. Representatives, without reimbursement for For contracts with and payment s to public -Add a new section 401: such items from Member's official Office Ex­ housing agencies and nonprofit corporations No moneys appropriated in this title may penses Allowances. for congregate services programs as au­ be expended by the Nuclear Regulatory By Mr. MILLER of Ohio: thorized by the Congregate Housing Services Commission for the issuance of an operat­ -Page 31, after line 12, insert the following Act of 1978, $10,000,000, to remain available ing license for a nuclear powerplant located section: until September 30, 1984.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE MONEY cost alternatives, since the desalting quired so that the incredibly small holes plant itself is clearly an undesirable al­ won't become clogged. ternative. Since the administration's own In actual use, the hair-sized membranes HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. technical advisory committee is recom­ are wound into "pipes" as thick as 12 to 14 OF CALIFORNIA inches. mending this same course of action, the Wha.t comes out, according to tests, is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congress should certainly be considering water with a salt content of 250 parts per Tuesday, June 12, 1979 the same alternatives. million. For comparison, the Yuma munic­ The article follows: ipal water supply averages 850 parts per • Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speak­ [From the Associated Press, May 29, 1979] million. er, we are constantly being presented " If chlorinat ed, as municipal water plants with proposals to either spend more DESALTING PLANT COSTS RISING WITHOUT A BUCKET OF WATER YET do for all water, the desalted water would money, or save money. I have been in­ be very good for drinking," Esselman says. volved with initiatives on both sides of (By James E. Walters) Plant-life can't utilize it very well how­ the spending issue, and am fully aware YUMA, ARiz.-After six years and commit­ ever-all the minerals are gone. Therefore, of the rhetoric one uses for each posi­ ment of some $68 million in federal tax the desalted water is blended with "regular" tion. One of my present efforts is to halt money there still isn't one piece of equip­ water before being returned to t he Colorado ment on the 80-acre site of what is projected River, eventually to be used for crop irriga­ construction of the largest desalting as the world's largest desalting plant. tion in Mexico. plant in the world long enough to eval­ Apticipated construction costs have esca­ Why a desalting plant at all? uate the alternatives, and develop the lated from $155.5 million to at least $333.3 Ed Hallenbach, project manager of the lowest cost option for meeting the goals million. Some congressional critics say $500 Yuma BLM office, calls it a "Cat ch 22 project, the desalting plant is supposed to meet. million is more likely, or even $1 billion. we have no other other choice" in view of this I refer, as those who read the RECORD And while the plant in theory could supply count ry's treaty obligations to Mexico and know, to the proposed 100 million gallon about half the water used in a yen by a city the water shortages in t he U.S. Southwest. per day desalting plant at Yuma, Ariz. the size of Phoenix (population about 685,- The Colorado River provides wat er for the 000 ) , the cost per 1,000 gallons is estimated stat es of Arizona, California, Wyoming, Utah, This project has undergone incredible at 61 cents vs. the 26 cents now charged in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, plus Mex­ cost overruns, even before the contracts Phoenix. ico. Estimates vary on how much water it for construction are let, and needs new Even it's supporters use terms such as can provide. But everyone agrees there's not authorization legislation before it can "least objectionable solution" in describing going to be enough useable water to meet proceed. the plant. future demands of the region's booming pop­ H.R. 2609, a bill to amend the Colo­ So what's going on? ulation without major changes. rado River Basin Salinity Control Act, Actually quite a bit. A full-scale test A treaty with Mexico requires the delivery is expected to be before the House in the facility has opented successfully for several of 1.5 million acre-feet of Colorado River years. It's produced as much as 500,000 gal­ water each year, unless there is an extraor­ near future. While I have a very clear lons of desalted water a day, compared to dinary drought (there are about 325,000 gal­ position on this legislation, I know that the 96-million gallon a day capacity antici­ lons in an acre-foot) . most Members are unaware of the issues pated for the main plant, according to Pete Various compacts, laws and court decisions behind it. For this reason, I would like Esselman, test fac111ty manager since it s allocate to the Colorado Basin states-in­ to include a recent Associated Press story beginning. cluding California-another 16 milllon-acre­ about this project in the RECORD at the Construction work on the main plant, a feet. conclusion of these remarks. I do not king-size duplicate of the pilot faci11 t y, to But the Bureau of Reclamation estimates believe the author of this article ques­ be located near the Mexican border, now is the river can provide an average of just 14.8 scheduled to start in the fall, with a com­ million acre-feet per year, an estimate GAO tioned the assertions of the administra­ pletion target for late 1983 or early 1984. calls "one of t he more optimistic pro­ tion regarding the claim that only a de­ The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is building jections." salting plant will meet our treaty obli­ the plant. Salinity adds t o the problem. Water in gations with Mexico, which I should add The desalting system is divided into two low-rainfall areas such as the Southwest is is being met today due to some of the processes. The pre-treatment process, says naturally salty. Irrigation and use of com­ expenditures made to date. I do know Esselman, is about the same as used by any mercial fertilizers increase this. Between that I was not contacted during the prep­ municipal water treatment to remove pol­ 1944 and 1961, for example, the average an­ aration of this story. lutants. In the second step, salts are removed nual salinity of water received by Mexico from this filtered w:~.ter by what is known almost doubled-from 850 parts per million However, I do believe that this story, as a reverse osmosis process. The water is to nearly 1,500 parts per million. being rather general, documents the sig­ forced through porous membranes cont ain­ While the 1944 treaty makes no mention nificance of this legislation, and under­ ing holes with an outside diameter smaller of water quality, Mexico has contended that lines the importance of developing lower than human hair. The pre-filtering is re- it is entitled to water that can be used for

• This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 14512 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 12, 1979 crop irrigation. Eventually, it filed a formal violation which can be inflicted upon a ple, and for the people, to being one of protest and the federal government agreed people, so too we are reminded of the the interests, by the contributors, and to pick up the tab for a desalinization plant strength of the spirit which has endured for ourselves. as at least a partial solution. The concept was attacked then-and now. and even flourished despite this violation. The voters of this Nation are devel­ At recent House Interior Committee hearings, On this occasion, therefore, I join with oping important special interests of their a California congressman called t he desalting the Lithuanian people in both solemn re­ own. They have a special interest in see­ project a $1 billion boondoggle. membrance of the plight of Lithuania ing representation and leadership that Guy Martin, an assistant secretary of In­ and the fervent hope that the struggle is effective and uninhibited. They have terior, attributed $64 million of the cost for Lithuanian independence will con­ a special interest in a candor and forth­ increase since 1973 to inflation and $83 mil­ tinue to be waged until it has been won. rightness in this body which will pervade lion for design changes and equipment addi­ As a nation, we have affirmed our com­ tions to the desalting plant, as well as inade­ in our debates and votes on this floor. quate contingency funds. mitment to the protection of basic hu­ They have a special interest in a political The House committee, chaired by Rep. man rights for people throughout the system which seeks to guarantee grass­ Morris Udall, D- Ariz., approved a Carter­ world. Let us today think of Lithuania roots support for political leaders who administration recommendation to increase as a valuable ally and a leader in this will combine the sense of the constituen­ the appropriation celUng to $333.3 million. effort. cy with the knowledge of leadership to A floor vote is scheduled next month. I would like to close my remarks by act in the national interest. They have Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz., has recom­ citing a paragraph from an underground a special interest in the benefits and as­ mended approval to a Senate committee, newspaper circulated in occupied Lithu­ adding that he would certainly consider any surances provided by a system of public "viable and inexpensive alternative" but ania last year : campaign financing. none has been forthcoming. Free is everyone who resists the efforts of I look forward to working with my Wesley Steiner, representing the seven the enslaver to make him godless, to de­ humanize, t o denationalize him. This rule colleagues in a continuing effort to en­ Colorado Basin states, also has urged ap­ act an effective public campaign financ­ proval, saying "the desalting fac111ties are can also be applied to entire nations. Every well underway and should now be completed nation which struggles against the oppressor ing system which will benefit our con­ as expeditiously as possible." St einer. Ari­ is free, notwithstanding the fact that its ter­ stituents and our system of representa­ zona's state water engineer, noted that the ritory may be occupied. Such a nation even tive government.• states of Nevada and New Mexico had one though it has lost its ext ernal freedom, has qualification: they oppose any reduction of preserved its internal, spiritual independ­ their electric power from BLM generating ence. The history of the Lithuanian nation plants. during the last decades (not speaking about SOME GOOD ADVICE FROM THE During the House committee hearings, the entire period from the loss of its PEOPLE OF THE FOURTH CON­ Udall repeated arguments that any move to independence) has proven this very re-examine t he desalting plant would have convincingly ·• GRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF KEN­ "drastic repercu,ssions" when the United TUCKY States is negotiating for Mexican gas and oil. Figures supplied by Ken Sidebottom, sec­ CAMPAIGN FINANCING HON. GENE SNYDER ond in command of the Yuma BLM office, OF KENTUCKY estimate the annual operation, maintenance, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES replacement and power costs at the main HON. S. WILLIAM GREEN plant at $11 .5 million. Tuesday, June 12, 1979 OF NEW YORK Expenditures so far include t he test facil­ • Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, over the ity; work in relining the Coachella Canal to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES conserve existing water; and building a river years, we have heard about or actually bypass drain to carry unuseable brine from Tuesday, June 12, 1979 experienced just about every kind of Mohawk-Wellt on through Mexico via the • Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, as a cospon­ "shortage" imaginable-job shortages, Sant a Clara Slough, some 40 miles to the sor of H.R. 1 and a supporter of public oil shortages, beef shortages, grain short­ Gulf of Callfornia.e campaign financing, I am deeply con­ ages, railroad car shortages, money cerned about the recent defeat of this shortages. However, there is one thing legislation in the House Administra­ we do not ever have to worry about run­ tion Committee. In the wake of this ning short of here on Capitol Hill, and LITHUANIAN INDEPENDENCE action, we are once again challenged to that is advice. take · the basic values of campaign fi­ We have hordes of so-called experts HON. WILLIAM M. BRODHEAD nancing and mold them into an effective, with their computer readouts. We have OF MICHIGAN workable, and acceptable proposal that specialists with their volumes of statis­ can earn the congressional mandate that tics. We have organizations and study IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this concept deserves. groups and public interest groups. We Tuesday, June 12, 1979 A campaign financing bill offers the have dozens of executive branch agen­ e Mr. BRODHEAD. Mr. Speaker, the opportunity to tip the electoral scale cies and the folks over at the White month of June marks the 38th anniver­ from its frightening lean toward "x House. And every one of them is eager sary of the deportation of thousands of number of dollars equals x amount of to give us some advice. Lithuanians to Siberia by the Soviet impact," to a position where one in­ And, of course, even Members of Con­ Union. I would like to take this opportu­ dividual has one vote with appropriate gress occasionally offer their advice to nity to remind my colleagues of this ter­ impact. Our system is heading aiong a one another as evidenced by the stacks rible event and, in so doing, to remember dangerous path away from this in­ of "dear colleagues letters" in my in­ the struggle for independence which still dividual equity among voters to a dispro­ basket every day, and the 7,081 CoNGRES­ continues in Lithuania. portionate level of influence being ex­ SIONAL RECORD pages this body has al­ In the years that have elapsed since erted by special interest groups. ready managed to fill this year with the Soviet annexation of their father­ While our political system is designed sage comments, debate, and extended land, the people have kept alive their call to benefit these groups as well as the remarks. for freedom and justice depite the op­ individual, it should not favor them. As No, Mr. Speaker, we do not need to pressive forces to which they have been representatives of specific congressional worrv much about a shortage of advice. subjected. We think with sorrow of those districts, our primary responsibility and We have it aplenty. Fortunately, much thousands who have lost their lives in duty is to our constituencies. Yet when of the advice we receive from these the cause of freedom. We must also be substantial and even excessive financial sources is sound, but in this flood of ad­ gladdened that physical oppression and backing comes from national and more vice. it is always difficult to tell the sound domination have not stilled the spirits esoteric organized groups, a strain is from the unsound; the good advice from and voices of those who have survived placed on our ability to properly rep­ the bad. and continue to bring the plight of Lith­ resent the needs and wants of the people That is why I always try to get as much uania to the attention of the world. Just back home. We face turning from bemg advice as I can from the one source that as Lithuania is an example of the worst a government of the people, by the peo- has never failed me yet--never steered June 12, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14513 me wrong-the people of the Fourth On June 8, 1979: Rollcall 197, "yes", IDCA plan because they believed it was Congressional District of Kentucky. Rollcall198, "yes" .e the only alternative to the status quo at Their advice has always served me ACTION. well. They are the real experts because Fortunately, we now have the option they live and work under the regulations developed by Peace Corps Director Rich­ and the laws dreamed up, here in NEW LEADERSHIP AND AUTONOMY ard F. Celeste and issued as an Execu­ Washington. FOR THE PEACE CORPS AT ACTION tive order by the President. Under the Earlier this year, I sent out my an­ dynamic leadership of Dick Celeste, I nual questionnaire and now I would like am confident that the Peace Corps is to share the results of that poll with my HON. TONY P. HALL about to embark on an era of renewed colleagues. Fifteen thousand of my con­ OF OHIO vitality. I hope that we in the House will stituents took the time to respond and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not undercut his initiatives by inisist­ their opinions on some of the national Tuesday, June 12, 1979 ing on the !DCA proposal, but instead, issues we will be facing should be of in­ concur with the Senate Governmental terest to any of my colleagues who share • Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the Affairs Committee that the administra­ my belief that whenever you can get reli­ Senate Governmental Affairs Committee tion's plan for autonomy for the Peace able advice, you should take it. recently submitted its report on "Orga­ Corps within ACTION should be imple­ nization of Federal Volunteer Programs mented without obstruction. Although we have no shortage of ad­ in ACTION." This report concluded that vice--and are not apt to in the near In a letter to the editor of the Wash­ the administration's proposal to provide ington Star, Dick Celeste vigorously re­ future-we cannot afford to ignore good new autonomy for the Peace Corps within advice whe:1 it comes along. sponded to a Star editorial which had ACTION should be given a chance to be criticized the administration's proposal. Questionnaire results follow: implemented, and that it would be "in­ QUESTIONNAIRE I commend his letter to the attention of appropriate" to "subject the Peace Corps my colleagues: (1) "Sunset" legislation would put an to further reorganization until the suc­ expiration date on government programs so "I AM THE Boss OF THE PEACE CORPS" cess of the new arrangements can be (By Richard Celeste) that Congress would have to renew them by measured." specific action rather than let them simply I am calling the shots for the Peace Corps, run on indefinitely. Do you favor such legis­ The Senate report also stated that the and nobody else is. I am the boss of the lation? Yes, 98.6; no, 1.3; undecided, 0.1. President's new Executive Order 12137 Peace Corps. Nobody else. That is, I know (2) Should Congress pass a law providing of May 16: what the president expects of me. itself the power to review and veto regula­ Should ensure autonomy for the Peace The Washington Star's editorial, "ACTION Corps within ACTION and control over the and the Peace Corps" (May 29), described tions written by Federal agencies; Yes, 87.3; the presidential order granting the Peace no, 9.9; undecided, 2.8. critical functions of budget and policy. Un­ der the new Executive Order the Peace Corps Corps autonomy within ACTION as "a po­ (3) There will likely be legislation in Con­ should have at least as much autonomy as it litical gesture that promises to be expensive gress this year to place restrictions on fire­ ever had before it became part of ACTION. in both money and efficiency." arm ownership. Do you favor such legislation? I shaped a plan to give the Peace Corps Yes, 24.7; no, 74.5; undecided, 0.8. As a former Peace Corps volunteer and real autonomy expeditiously, cleared it with (4) Should Congress eliminate the "double supporter of the administration's plan to ACTION Director Sam Brown, and the presi­ taxation" of stock dividends? Yes, 78.7; no, to make the Peace Corps an independent dent concurred, issuing an executive order entity within ACTION, I am pleased that giving me complete control over the Peace 14.8; undecided, 6.5. Corps budget, personnel and policy. (5) For every ten percent increase in infla­ the Senate Governmental Affairs Com­ William Josephson, who served as one of tion, income taxes increase approximately 15 mittee has decided to let this plan go the architects of the Peace Corps and an per cent. Should we index income taxes to forward, rather than to support making early general counsel, has concluded that the prevent this automatic tax increase? Yes, the Peace Corps part of the proposed new executive order gives me more direct 91.9; no, 5.9; undecided, 2.2. International Development Cooperation authority than any Peace Corps director (6) Do you support legislation requiring a Agency. With respect to putting the since the Peace Corps was created in 1961. balanced Federal budget except in times o! Peace Corps on the organiza tiona! chart The Star recommends transferring the national emergency? Yes, 91.8; no, 5.9; un­ of IDCA, the report observed: Peace Corps to !DCA to make it part of the decided, 2.3. U.S. foreign assistance program. Never has Linking the Peace Corps to the country's any president since the Peace Corps began (7) Do you favor the idea o! limiting foreign assistance program by placing it as a made its volunteers and humanitarian pro­ foreign ownership of U.S. farmland? Yes, semiautonomous unit within !DCA would grams part of the U.S. foreign aid establish­ 92.4; no, 5.8; undecided, 1.8. make it harder for the Peace Corps to keep ments. And, to my knowledge, no experi­ (8) Would you favor legislation which sufficient distance from the short-term for­ enced Peace Corps hand advocates such a allows private companies to compete with eign policy goals of the United States. Yet step today. But The Star prescribes this bit­ the Postal Service? Yes, 79.4; no, 18.1; un­ it is important to preserve this distance in ter medicine to remedy an affiiction-"a decided, 2.5. order to insure continued support !or the meddling amateur image"-which even our Peace Corps in this country and in the (9) The Administration is expected to sub­ Third World. The reorganization would raise sternest critics have not diagnosed. mit a proposal for "decontrolling" the price the possibility that the Peace Corps would Come on now. of gasoline. Do you favor "decontrol"? Yes, be seen abroad as simply another part of our The Peace Corps has an active program 35.6; no, 57.9; undecided, 6.5. foreign assistance programs. The influence of international volunteer action geared to (10) Do you favor the enactment of strict the Director of !DCA would have over the the world of the 1980s in which 6,000 com­ penalties for 1llegal aliens, those who help Peace Corps, as Chairman of the board gov­ mitted Americans work in the poorest vil­ lages of the Third World, shoulder to· shoul­ them enter the country and those -who il­ erning the program, would mean that over the years, the programs' goals of the Peace der with host country citizens to meet their legally employ t hem? YeYs, 92.0; no, 6.5; un­ own basic human needs. We are currently decided, 1.5.e Corps might become unduly influenced by the needs of our bilateral assistance pro­ struggling to muster the dollars and the grams. The uniqueness of the Peace Corps as qualified volunteers to fill the more than an expression of American idealism, and the 4,000 requests we have from 63 countries who symbolic importance of its voluntary, people­ welcome Peace Corps volunteers as partners PERSONAL EXPLANATION to-people international development activ­ in their development efforts. ities would be undermined. Finally, the reorganization of the Peace Corps as a vital and autonomous agency HON. EUZABETH HOLTZMAN When the House voted on April 10 to within ACTION is going to save the tax­ OF NEW YORK move the Peace Corps into the yet-to-be­ payers, in this time of fiscal restraint, some­ established IDCA, the President's recom­ thing on the order of $15.6 million that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mendation was not available. As one of otherwise would have to be spent in tax Tuesday, June 12, 1979 the leaders of the floor fight against the funds to duplicate administrative costs it the domestic ACTION and Peace Corps pro­ e Ms. HOLTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, I was !DCA amendment, along with another grams were split apart. unable to be present for the following former Peace Corps volunteer, Congress­ I look forward to your tough scrutiny and votes. If I had been present, I would man CHRISTOPHER Donn, I learned that constructive criticism as I move to exercise have voted as indicated: many of my colleagues voted for the leadership in the Peace Corps of the 1980s.e 14514 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 12, 1979 OIL-PRICE TIME BOMB WORRIES except that it isn't good and that it's wrapped tries have piled up huge debts. According to THE EXPERTS up in the Mideast's volatile politics, fuel the international Monetary Fund, debt is scarcities and-possibly-the use of oil as an one-third larger (in relationship to economic international bargaining chip to influence output) than in 1973. In 1978, payments for HON. RICHARD A. GEPHARDT the superpowers. debt interest and principal amounted to OF MISSOURI Though extreme in its pessimism, Conant's about 13 percent of their export earnings appraisal typifies the anxiety of world oil against only 10.6 percent in 1973. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES watchers. The more people know about oil, lf high oil prices aggravate an economic Tuesday, June 12, 1979 the more unsettled they are. What Americans slowdown in the West, developing countries' see as high gasoline prices and occasional exports also will slow. Can banks afford to e Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, I ap­ lines may be a far more threatening global lend more? Can they afford not to? Where plaud the efforts of the administration, squeeze. will surplus oil dollars go? the Congress, and the American people In the past six months, the oil-producing A final question: What happens to the role to meet the energy crisis by adopting an countries rapidly have reacquired much of of the big inter-national oil companies? energy program. As one who supports the power that seemed lost after the huge For all the abuse they take, the major in­ price increases of 1973-74. So far this year, gas rationing, decontrol of domestically ternational companies long imposed an order most producing countries have raised prices on world oil markets that probably worked produced crude oil, and the windfall 30 percent or more. Only Saudi Arabia (up to the advantage of consuming countries. profits tax, however, I am becoming in­ 14.5 per.::ent) has lagged, and the Saudis will Marketing most of the world's oil, the com­ creasingly pessimistic that this program probably close the gap when the Organiza­ panies have allocated supplies efficiently will solve the crisis because it is lacking tion of Petroleum Exporting Countries meets among countries (diverting extra to the one key element; namely, a strategy for later this month. United States during the embargo, for ex­ dealing with OPEC. And no one knows when the explosion w111 ample) and acted as a political buffer be­ abate. Conant thinks the price may double tween oil producers and consumers. On May 10, the Secretary of the De­ in 1979; a barrel of Saudi light oil, costing partment of Energy, James R. Schles­ Now, however, they're being further dis­ $1~.70 at the end of 1978 and $14.50 now, wm lodged from their positions of privilege. The inger, appeared before the House Com­ climb to $25. More optimistic analysts think biggest companies such as Exxon and British mittee on Ways and Means. I asked the increase w111 amount to only 35 percent Petroleum, which once sold excess crude to Secretary Schlesinger whether the ad­ or 40 percent. But Algeria, Libya and Nigeria smaller companies, rapidly are being forced ministration has any plans on how to at­ already have raised prices nearly 50 percent. to eliminate such third party sales. In turn, tack the OPEC problem, such as import All this has resulted from the Iranian revo­ these buyers (many of them large firms) will lution (which reduced that country's out­ licensing, developing Mexican oil, mak­ purchase directly from producing countries. put) and the Saudis' apparent decision to With tight oil supplies, this could intensify ing long-term contracts with Venezuela, limit production. The resulting scarcity may or are we just at the mercy of OPEC now bidding. Conant, for example, thinks the persist for years. Unless the industrialized spot market-which traditionally has repre­ and forever. He replied that there is no world can make large energy savings, new sented 3 percent to 5 percent of sales-may prospect of immediate relief. In other non-OPEC oil from Mexico and the North Sea expand to 10 percent to 15 percent. And it's words, we have no policy to deal with will not suffice to maintain strong economic growth. World inflation and unemployment the rapid rise in spot prices this year that OPEC price demands. will rise. has convinced OPEC members to raise their I am continuing my efforts to work in This upheaval has made questions first official prices. · a constructive manner to alleviate the asked in 1973-74-and since largely forgot­ Everything is conjecture. No one knows demand for oil. People waiting in line ten-suddenly relevant again. For example: Saudi intentions, the resiliency of western for gas, however, are not unlike Mem­ Will oil be used as a strategic weapon? economies and, therefore, the real pressure or bers of Congress who are being asked There's evidence it will. In the past month, prices. But Washington is asleep even to the Petromin, the Saudi Arabian national oil questions. If it doesn't soon wake up, we now to make sacrifies that in the near surely will end with the worst possible an­ future may prove to be irrelevant in the company, has sharply increased the amount of oil it sells directly, mostly to other govern­ swers.e face of OPEC price increases. If there is ments. Although figures aren't precise, the no prospect for immediate relief, that Saudi company soon may be taking as much debilitates against each individual's deci­ as 2 million barrels a day of total production FHA MORTGAGE INSURANCE sion to take immediate steps to conserve of 8.5 million. PROGRAMS energy. If there is no hope of moderat­ For the Saudis, this is a perfect marriage of ing OPEC price behavior in the long run, political and economic goals. Long depend­ that debilitates against each Member's ent on four major U.S. companies-Exxon HON. ROBERT A. YOUNG Corp., Mobil Corp., Texaco Inc. and Standard hope that his or her vote will ultimately Oil Co. of California-to sell their oil, the OF MISSOURI help solve the crisis itself. Saudis have wanted to increase direct sales. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES On June 26, the OPEC members will With the oil market tight, they can. Tuesday, June 12, 1979 meet again and they will probably decide At the same time, the Saudis can use their to raise prices again. If OPEC continues oil sales to build political alliances. The Mid­ • Mr. YOUNG of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, to act in an unreasonable manner with dle East Economic Survey reports that early the House of Representatives passed the respect to consumer prices, we should be potential customers include India, Greece, Housing and Community Development Thailand, Finland, Taiwan, Korea and Italy. Amendments of 1979 last week, thus ex­ ready to respond with our own policy More intriguing are the rumors-confirmed for dealing with OPEC. An economic by Conant and others-that the Saudis might tending the FHA mortgage insurance confrontation with OPEC would be a sell oil to Eastern European countries. programs for another year. A number of risky and economically dangerous game, Even in small amounts, which are likely at municipal officials in St. Louis County, but it may be a risk that would avert in the start, such sales almost certainly would Mo., have informed me that they are eventual economic collapse. be taken as a sign of Saudi displeasure with having significant problems with the the United States and, specifically, with U.S. FHA mortgage insurance programs. Such an economic collapse is not a encouragement of a separate Israeli-Egyptian figment of my imagination. As reported These Department of Housing and Ur­ peace. ban Development programs are designed by Robert J. Samuelson in The Wash­ As a practical matter, the sales also could ington Post on June 5, this is the oil­ ease pressure on the Soviet Union, whose oil to facilitate homeownership for those price time bomb that worries the experts production is expected to peak soon; that individuals who are likely to encounter too. I share a copy of this article with will make it increasingly difficult for the So­ difficulty in getting a loan from a com­ you below in the hope that the Congress viets to satisfy internal needs and maintain mercial lending institution. and the administration will soon develop exports [ 1.8 million barrels daily in 1977] to These St. Louis officals have noted the policy we now lack. Eastern Europe. that due to the liberal policies of the Or consider this question: How can devel­ FHA programs, many families are as­ OIL-PRICE TIME BOMB WORRIES THE EXPERTS oping countries swallow the price increases? suming mortgage debts which they can­ (By Robert J. Samuelson) After the 1973-74 increases, a worldwide "I feel in my bones the way I did in July financial trauma-widely forecast and ex­ not repay, resulting in foreclosure. For and August of 1939-that the world is headed pected-did not materialize because oil pro­ the family, foreclosure means the hu­ into a storm," says Melvin Conant. ducers deposited their surplus funds in inter­ miliating and frightening experience of Conant--once the top international spe­ national banks, which promptly re-lent the being evicted; for the neighborhood, it cialist for the Federal Energy Administration money to oil-importing countries, especially means vacant housing which is subject and now a Washington consultant-thinks developing nations. The same thing could to deterioration and decay, resulting in the current oil scarcity is potentially that happen again. community blight; and for the taxpayer, dangerous. He doesn't know what lies ahead, But danger signs exist. Developing coun- it means paying off the defaulted loan. June 12, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14515 Keeping in mind the many problems The United States was known, at one time, likely to last for centuries worldwide it is associated with foreclosure, it is alarm­ as the land of plenty. Almost anything we less certain that adequate supplies will be wanted would be produced and we could available to meet U.S. needs on a sust ained ing to realize that 1 year after a family get it when we wanted. The Great Depres­ basis, or that we will be able to pay the price has defaulted on a FHA loan, they are sion of the 1930's changed this. It proved for importing them." eligible to apply for another FHA loan, to all of us that the real gut problems of The syndrome was laid bare during the often resulting in another foreclosure. I the country were distribution-not produc­ International Mat erials Congress held late believe that FHA should be required to tion. last month at Rest on, Va. An assertion at tighten its eligibility requirements so Since that time administrations and con­ that meeting remained unchallenged. That that anyone who has defaulted on their gresses of both parties, reflecting our deep­ assertion was "let us set to rest the FHA mortgage insurance loan, resulting seated concerns, have been preoccupied with erroneous notion that we are going to phys­ improving distribution-for example, decent ically run out of materials in any time pe­ in foreclosure, would be disqualified from housing for all, equitable income distribu­ riod of concern to any of us and m an y gen­ getting another FHA loan for at least tion, freedom from hunger, personal trans­ erations beyond." Thus far and for a long 3 years after this foreclosure, unless portation-and great progress has been made. time to come t he problems wit h mat erials there has been a significant change in PRODUCTION VITALITY ASSUMED supplies are a result of t he ill-workings of family income. However, the continuing vitality of pro­ our instit utions and not a result of a lack of Tightening the FHA mortgage insur­ duction activities and particularly produc­ materials in the earth. ance programs would result in more tion of materials has, in great measure. been Let us look back on t he report of the Na­ stable communities, and it would also assumed. The Paley Commission of 1952, sub­ t ional Commission on Supplies and Short ages reduce wasteful Government spending.e sequent commissions. and aut hors of the published in December 1976. This commis­ almost 200 materials-related bills submitted sion was formed just as the country was in the last congress have called for an ex­ emerging from the widespread shortages of plicit materials policy: a policy that does 1973-1974. At t he time, it was the general not assume production will take care of itself: belief that the mat erials short ages of 1973- A NONFUEL MINERALS POLICY: NOT 1974 were the first signals of the growing A DE FACTO POLICY BY DEFAULT a policy that would help assure the avail­ ability of materials to those industries need­ inadequacy of t he U.S. natural resource base, ing them-including the aerospace industry. and that such short ages were harbingers of HON. JIM SANTINI Yet, enthusiasm for such a policy has been cat astrophies t o come. However, the Commis­ difficult to generate in Congress or in the ad­ sion observed that t here had been no serious OF NEVADA ministration. Rat her, our leadership has problem of supply nor could it see one in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES chosen a de facto materials policy. foreseeable future based on the inadequacy of t he resource base. The Commission listed the Tuesday, June 12, 1979 This policy is complex and implicit. It is the sum of all our domest ic and foreign following causes of the shortages: policies impinging on materials. It defies Sharp demand increases. • Mr. SANTINI. Mr. Speaker, the follow­ simple description. Limit at ions on investment in the mate­ ing article is of excerpts from a speech We can, however, see its effects. In m y rials processing indust ries in prior years. delivered by William L. Swager, manager opinion, it is: A short age ment ality. (The limits-to­ of the minerals and materials economics Destroying incentives for investment in growth-syndrome and multiple orders by programs, Battelle Memorial Institute, our materials industries. users when t be short age became apparent.) at a recent meeting of the Aerospace Dissipating the capital vigor of existing Cut backs by foreign suppliers. Technical Council. Mr. Swager, I believe, plants. Sound familiar? Al t hough the Nat ional Stifling innovation. Commission on Supplies and Shortages listed gets to the heart of our past mineral Imposing delay-causing conditions that quit e properly the causes, its list t ends to supply problems and the declining finan­ will assure future shortages. focus on individual causes obscuring the cial health of our minerals industry. He Increasing our dependence on foreign dynamic nat ure of the syst em-and how de­ lays the problem to U.S. leadership hav­ suppliers. lays cause shortages. ing chosen a de facto materials policy. Encouraging investm ent elsewhere. In­ Let's look at what happens as a result of This de facto policy, a policy by de­ deed, "The fut ure isn't Wh "l. t it used to be." having a de facto policy. More important- fault, defies any sample description. It is In this brief time I would like to : the complex, hodgepodge accumulation Explain the dynamics of m aterials supply been taken relative to materials. In this systems. brief period, we can look at only a few. of impacts brought about by numerous Show how delays in such systems cause domestic and foreign policies, each in cycles in supplies. First, t he entire supply system from mine t o finished part is increasingly vulnerable the name of some other national goa! Explain how our de facto policy increases but together raising havoc on what was t o even small interruptions. Materials and delays in the syst em. parts in ventories are now not much more once a strongly functioning mineral in­ Review the tit anium situation-showing t han what is the transportat ion pipeline. dustry. how it reflects our de facto materials policy. Recent advances in the ways inventories are Mr. Swager points out the impacts of Make a few suggestions regarding what you managed have virtually removed all "surge this de facto materials policy as: and your companies might do. tanks" from the supply system. Destroying incentives for investment First, delay in the response of the produc­ What actions have been taken by com­ in our materials industries; tion system and unanticipated surge in de­ panies or b y the government to make the Dissipating the capital vigor of exist­ mand clearly trigger shortages. Delays cause syst em less vulnerable to materials short­ ing plants; supplies to undershoot and overshoot. Sup­ ages? To my knowledge, little or no action. Stifling innovation; ply/ demand systems for metals have similar Next, materials producing industries, as Imposing delay-causing conditions behavior and similar transient conditions you know, are capit al-intensive. In these that will assure future shortages; obscuring the underlying feedback mech­ industries, the costs of goods sold today in­ anism. clude depreciation allowances amounting to Increasing our dependence on foreign Experience shows that new mines and min­ a small fraction of what is needed to re­ suppliers; and eral processing facilities require at least five place plant and equipment-with nothing Encouraging investment elsewhere. and probably 10 or more years to get into available for growth. What actions have been I recommend that my colleagues read production. However, changes in demand can taken to reduce this "draining away of the the article that was printed in the May occur much more rapidly than this. If world­ capital substance" of our materials produc­ 22, 1979, edition of Iron Age. Surely, the wide plans today for mines, beneficia­ ing industries? In actuality, further drains evidence is sufficient to bring about a tion plants and processing plants for any on capital have been mandated by environ­ U.S. nonfuel minerals policy. Surely, the commodity are based on only slightly under­ mental and health and safety regulations. United States has grown of age, to think estimated deman~ shortage in 5 to 10 years CAPITAL INVESTMENT SCHEDULES is assured. If additional delays are incurred Next, our basic materials industries can­ seriously of our longrun mineral needs, because of political or environmental rea­ and to act responsibly for an economy not now maintain capital investment sched­ sons, strikes, or whatever-the shortfall can ules in new plant and equipment to meet that is worth passing onto those ahead. be quite severe. peak demand. Uncertainties in demand and The article follows: LIMITS-TO-GROWTH SYNDROME financial pressure now force companies to DEFECTIVE MATERIALS POLICY AND HOW To It is unfortunate that the limits-to-growth take less risk in capital budgeting. What COPE WITH IT syndrome has been so deeply ingrained in would it now cost materials companies to Somebody recently said, "The problem all of us. Frank Huddle of the Library of maintain 20 percent excess capacity to meet with America is that the future isn't what Congress and dean of those concerned wit h an occasional peak year demand? Thirty it used to be." There is substance behind materials policy recently said "I wonder how years ago cost of capital was far less-per­ that fiip observation and it has a bearing to communicate with the public that al­ haps 4 percent. Private investors were better on our subject today. though minerals supplies in the ground are able to risk investment in capacities closer 14516 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 12, 1979 to anticipated peak demand. What steps in increased titanium sponge capacity or should consider a substantial development have been taken to assure t hat our materials in ingot melting facilities. program for creat ing options-- options for indust ries can more nearly meet peek de­ In 1977 there was some pickup in aero­ substituting materials in critical areas. This mand? space ordering, and a surge occurred in 1978 could be done by developing the substitution Finally, decisions for new plant and equip­ and continues today. Current demand for capability and stockpiling technology to ment in the material industries are now be­ titanium is at an all-time high. Domestic make substitutions. You may be able to in­ ing delayed because of t he inab1lity of man­ titanium sponge producers now are operat­ crease the fiexibility of your requirements to agements to estimate futur.e energy costs. As ing at capacity. Production in 1979 will prob­ some degree and be better able to live, hope­ you know, most metals are energy-intensive. ably reach 44-million pounds. Because of the fully for only a limited time, with a de facto Delays in energy availab1lity delay invest­ w'3akness of the U.S. dollar compared with materials policy that assures periodic short­ ment in new materials capacity. Sohio, for other currencies, foreign producers are limit­ ages. example, delayed its plans for a pipeline for ing titanium exports to the U.S.; imports This country need not accept a future of Alaskan petroleum from the West Coast to from Japan and the Soviet Union are "Iffy." periodic shortages and consequent disrup­ Texas. Plans for new refineries are now de­ This puts the squeeze on the raw material tions. With today's knowledge and a firm layed because of the confusion on the mix supplies of the independent ingot producers. resolve we ought to be smart enough, as a of products required in the future. As a result, the outlook for titanium and society, to create a future even better than it I have purposely chosen not to discuss an­ titanium alloys appears to be a continuing used to be.e other area of disturbing inaction. A strong period of tight supplies. case has been made by some that Soviet ac­ The history of titanium again emphasizes tions in Africa are aimed at obtaining global that shortages have been caused by surges control over several critical materials such as in demand. Prior to the surges, conditions chromium, cobalt, platinum, palladium and discouraged investment 1n new domestic MAE BELLE PENDERGAST manganese. Our strategic stockpile may pro­ sponge capacity, and downstrea~ ingot ca­ vide a cushion in time of m111tary war, but pacity was built dependent on foreign sup­ what happens when various forces in the plies. When the surge in demand was rec­ HON. ROBERT T. MATSUI world choose to wage an economic "war"? ognized, it was too late to add domestic OF CALIFORNIA Further, I have chosen not to discuss the capacity. That's the pattern. That's the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES highly publ1c1zed deterrents to private in­ anatomy of nearly all of our materials short­ vestment in domestic materials industries: ages-except those few caused by political Tuesday, June 12, 1979 environmental regulations, OSHA standards, disruptions or war. • Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, a most ex­ and foreign dumping practices. Those sub­ I could have used as examples any-or jects get the headlines while the underlying all-of the materials that concern you now. traordinary woman has enriched the problems are unrecognized and ignored. Major delays have been incurred 1n plans lives of Sacramento citizens for over 40 Those problems are embodied in delays. for new capacity in aluminum and steel; years. We commemorate the career of Timely and systematic investment regardless shortages of them are virtually assured. Mae Belle Pendergast, an outstanding of where it is in the world is an essential part It is now time to challenge the assump­ journalist, known by all the community of an explicit materials policy. Our current tion, that production will take care of itself. for her long and productive association de facto materials policy is the antithesis of It 1s time to describe clearly the results of with the Sacramento Union. that. It causes delays. our de facto materials policy. It is time to For decades Mae Belle successfully TITANIUM OUTLOOK challenge those who would do nothing. combined the roles of wife, mother, pro­ Let us now turn to the titanium situation What can you do about the situation? fessional career woman, and volunteer and how it was created by our de facto ma­ My first suggestion is for you to use your community worker. She truly is a model terials policy. understanding of how t ransport delays in for the women of today to emulate. Her Most of you experienced the shortages of feedback systems are the causes of insta­ achievements are remarkable. Her dedi­ 1973-1974. The 1979 shortfall in titanium bility to help explain why we need an explicit supplies virtually duplicates the 1973-1974 materials policy. That policy should deal with cation to the betterment of Sacramento shortfall. at least three conditions : is unparalleled. Then. In the early 1970's annual domestic (1) First, materials for which we have A few of the many highlights from her production of titanium sponge was about plenty of resources and reserves. career are: 30-mUlion pounds which, like now, was able to supply only 70-75 percent of our domestic (2) Next, materials for which our re­ She established and trained a network requirements. Imports were available at a serves--or known resources-are marginal of high school correspondents who re­ lower price than domestically produced relative to those in the world. ported on youth activities. She received sponge. This encouraged the domestic indus­ (3) And finally, materials for which we are the California Newspaper Publishers try to invest its capital to expand ingot pro­ totally dependent on others. Award for best youth coverage for this duction rather than sponge production. I give them in that order because we need effort. While discouraging investment in new sponge to understand that production will not take Through an annual tabloid, Women capacity, the situation encouraged the care of Itself. If we come to grips with a policy With a View, she brought recognition to growth of domestic ingot producers who w111- for producing adequate quantities of the ma­ ingly were dependent on low-cost foreign terials we have in the ground we are much Sacramento's women by identifying sponge sources. Assuming the prices of 1m­ more able to deal with those involving vari­ many who contributed in the fields of ported sponge remain relatively stable and ous degrees of import dependence. art, business, education, health, welfare, there are no interruptions in imports, this My second suggestion to you would be to and community service. mode of increasing output of titanium ingot know your materials supply systems. I leaned Twice Mae Belle received the Califor­ and m1ll products appeared to make sense. heavily on the experience of a titanium ex­ That is, it did prior to the 1973-74 pinch. nia Newspaper Publishers Award for best pert from Battelle to describe the titanium woman's coverage. In 1974 there was a surge in aerospace re­ situation. The technical and economic de­ quirements, and that surge resulted in a tails of supply systems are complicated, and She produced a daily television pro­ titanium shortfall. This shortfall was fur­ potential bottlenecks are difficult to antici­ gram concerning community issues and ther intensified by the large spurt in the pate. Regardless, it is essential that your events. use of titanium for industrial process equip­ ment. As this occurred, foreign sponge pro­ company be able to rely on people who have She received the Penney-Missouri ducers did two things: they quoted higher continuing intelligence pipelines regarding Award for Journalism and the National prices, and they reduced the quantities they your supply systems, your demands on it, LULU Award for excellence in reporting exported to the United States. The domestic and the demands of others. Then you way men's fashions. shortfall obviously was intensified by declin­ be able to sense the dynamics and forecast better. Numerous awards of appreciation have ing imports. Also, at the same time, spot been given to Mae Belle over the years. problems of capacity limitations were re­ My next suggestion is that you communi­ ported for specialized products. Delivery cate on a more continuing basis your needs Big Brothers of America, United Cerebral schedules escalated rapidly. for materials to all levels of your materials Palsy, American Heart Association, Red Now. We are now seeing not an "instant supply systems. It behooves each of you to Cross, Boy Scouts of America, United replay" of the 1973-1974 situation, but a maintain relationships with suppliers in good Way are examples of organizations who "five-year replay." In 1975 and 1976, follow­ times and bad. By the way, what were your have honored her. It is not possible to re­ ing the 1974 surge, the aerospace ordering materials concerns and projections during late all the many activities, interests, of titanium cooled off. The titanium short­ 1975 and 1976? What kind of signals were and honors of Mae Belle. your suppliers getting? fall evaporated. Many titanium shops were Today we pay tribute to Mae Belle operating at roughly one-half of capacity. My final suggestion is that you hedge by Lemaster Pendergast. We acknowledge The situation would have been much worse stockpiling the technologies needed to make if industrial use of titanium had not con­ selective and critical substitut ions. Until we her retirement from the Sacramento tinued at a high level. During this period, see some change toward a more rat ional, Union but we do not expect her to retire the producers saw little incentive to invest realistic and explicit materials policy, you from the vital life of our community. We June 12, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14517 look forward to her continued presence with the late President Kennedy while he tion of Intercollegiate Athletics World as we say thank you, Mae Belle, for a job was in Washington. At President Ken­ Series championship in baseball. David well done.• nedy's inauguration, Father Ted gave a Lipscomb College won this honor on blessing, and then on Sunday, Novem­ Monday night, June 4, by defeating High ber 24, 1963, he was one of three clergy­ Point, N.C. by a score of 5-2 in the men selected to escort the body of the championship game. David Lipscomb TRIBUTE TO THE VERY REVEREND late President from the White House to won this same championship in 1977 at THEODORE J. DANUSIAR the Capitol. There in the rotunda of the St. Joseph, Mo. Capitol, Father Ted, as the representa:­ This team also walked off with most tive of Ukrainian Catholics, gave h1s of the individual awards in the tourna­ HON. FRANK J. GUARINI final blessing to the beloved President. ment. Pitcher Kal Koenig won the OF NEW JERSEY In 1968, Father Ted was assigned to tournament's coveted "Most Valuable IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Pennsylvania area where he served Player Award" by coming in from the Tuesday, June 12, 1979 as pastor of St. John's Church, Maize­ bullpen and registering seven strikeouts ville, St. Mary's Church in Middleport, in only three innings of work to win the e Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, I am and St. Michael's Church in Shenan­ final game. pleased today to ask my di~tinguis~?-ed doah. While there, he organized CCD re­ Freshman second baseman Terry colleagues to join with me m markmg ligion classes in St. John's, St. Michaels, Moore was awarded the "Charlie Barry the 25th anniversary of the ordination and Our Lady of Siluva parishes. He was Hustle Award" for his outstanding ef­ of the Very Reverend Theodore J. also an instructor of religion at Cardinal forts in the series. In addition, four Danusiar. Brennan High School in Faun tain David Lipscomb players were named to Rev. Danusiar is pastor of SS. Peter Springs, Pa. Father Ted has always had the all-tournament team. They are Reg­ and Paul Church, Jersey City, N.J., and a keen interest in parish life: In virtually gie Whittemore, Steve Liddle, Jeff Guy, also pastor of Annunciation Church, every parish in which he has served, he and Kal Koenig. Lyndhurst, N.J. He is being honored at has been spiritual director of the Holy I commend coach Ken Dugan and the a banquet on June 16, 1979 at the Name Society and organized the United members of the David Lipscomb College Ukrainian Community Center, Jersey Holy Name Societies of the S~amok~n baseball team for once again achieving City, which is located in my di.strict. Deanery which included 12 panshes m an NAIA World Series victory.e Father Ted, as he is known w1th affec­ Pennsylvania. tion by all who have come in contact In 1976, the people of New Jersey were with him, is a man of great talent. He fortunate enough to have Father Ted has served God and man for the past assigned to the Garden State where he TO SAVE OIL-BACK TO WOOD­ 25 years since his ordination by Metro­ has touched the lives of thousands of BACK TO PAPER politan Constantine Bohachevsky on Ukrainian Catholics. He was pastor of June 14, 1954. St. Josaphat's Church in Trenton from HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER He was born on January 28, 1929, the 1976 to 1977 and was acting dean of the son of John Danusiar and Mary Stanczak Trenton Proto-Presbytery until his ap­ OF NEW YORK Danusiar in Cohoes, N.Y. pointment toSS. Peter and Paul Church IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES An eminent scholar, Father Ted grad­ in Jersey City. Tuesday, June 12, 1979 uated from Waterford High School, Father Danusiar has been active in Waterford, N.Y., in 1946. He received a • Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, one . every community in which he has served key to solving our energy crisis is the B.A. degree in philosophy from St. and has especially enjoyed working with Basil's College, Stamford, Conn., in elimination of tmnecessary and wasteful groups interested in the international uses of petroleum. One such wasteful 1950. He also studied at Sienna College, language of music. He directed the chil­ Loudonville, N.Y., the Licentiate of use is the excessive reliance on dispos­ dren's choir at the Cathedral of the Im­ able plastics. This is eloquently pointed Sacred Theology and the Graduate maculate Conception in Philadelphia School of Arts at the Oatholic Univer­ out by Robert C. Lohnes in an article and later was director of the children's which appeared on June 6 in the New sity of America. In 1961, he received a community junior symphony orchestra masters degree in music education from York Times. in Frackville and Maizeville, Pa. He re­ Mr. Lohnes reminds us that convenient the Graduate School of Music at the fined his considerable skills further by Catholic University. disposable plastics are derived from attending summer workshops and semi­ crude oil which could "just as easily be Rev. Danusiar first served as curate at nars in choral conducting sponsored by St. Nicholas Church, Elmira Heights, fueling our cars and trucks, or heating the well-known choral director, Fred our homes." Clearly, much of our use of N.Y., in 1954. He was assistant pastor of Waring. SS. Peter and Paul Church, Jersey City, plastics is unnecessary. We should begin N.J., in 1954-55 before moving to the I am delighted that we have this op­ to consider how to replace disposable Cathedral of the Immaculate Concep­ porunity to join with Robert S. Cheloc, plastic products with what they were tion in Philadelphia in 1955 where he general chairman of the Jubilee Com­ once made of; namely, renewable wood­ served as assistant rector. mittee, and the devoted members of the en, glass, or paper products. Ukrainian community in New Jersey in The text of the article follows: The years from 1956 to 1968 saw honoring this dedicated priest. Father Ted based in the Washington, BACK TO WOOD-BACK TO PAPER D.C., area where he served as pastor of We wish him, "Mnoraya Lita," our (By Robert C. Lohnes) St. Mary's Church, Manassas, Va. He best wishes for good health for many RIDGEFIELD, CONN .-In America t oday, an was spiritual director of St. Josaphat's years to come.e "ocean" of pet roleum byproducts is being Seminary from 1956 to 1958 and helped gulped by plants manufact uring millions of establish the Ukrainian Mission Parish disposable plastic knives, forks, plates and of St. John the Baptist in Richmond, Va. scores of other products which once were DAVID LIPSCOMB COLLEGE BASE­ made from replaceable resources such as During his years in Washington, he BALL TEAM IN NASHVILLE, TENN. wood. served also as vice proto-presbyter of Every mont h , millions of barrels of oil go the Washington Deanery, diocesan di­ into supplying the steady growing plastics rector of vocations, and was a professor HON. WILLIAM HILL BONER industry, many of whose disposable products of music at the Catholic University of OF TENNESSEE go into littering our st reet s and parks. America. In 1978, some 733,000 tons of disposable Despite this busy schedule, Father Ted IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES plastics were used and discarded. That's Tuesday, June 12, 1979 more than 1.5 billion pounds, or the equiv­ also found time to serve as council alent total weight of 10 million average hu­ chaplain for the Carroll Council of the • Mr. BONER of Tennessee. Mr. Speak­ man beings-in one year! Knights of Columbus and later was 4th er, I rise today to honor an outstanding There are some just ifiable uses of dispos­ degree council chaplain and finally State Nashville baseball team in its pursuit of able plast ics, m an y of which can be found chaplain for the Knights of Columbus in excellence and skill. I would like to pay in the field of medicine. Washington. tribute to a college in Nashville that has But most of our disposable plastics find a Father Ted had a unique association once again won the National Associa- market because they are convenient. 14518 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 12, 1979 Is it more convenient to eat off a plastic accomplishments and generosity will tists in response to a request under the Free­ plate, or to make a significant contribution always be remembered by those of us dom of Information Act, said that the find­ to ending the gasoline shortage? who were touched by her kindness.• ings identified several serious problems The airlines and dry-cleaning industries among the employees of the Office of Inspec­ use gigantic amounts of "convenient" dis­ tion and Enforcement. These problems in­ posable plastics daily. cluded the following: The vast majority of these plastics con­ Low morale--a perception that the super­ tain crude-oil derivatives that could just as WHO IS THE NRC PROTECTING? visors did not recognize and respect the abil­ easily be fueling our cars and trucks, or heat­ ity of employees. ing our homes. A belief that favoritism was shown in pro­ Packaging is another area where plastics HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER motions within the agency. have replaced wood-derived materials. OF NEW YORK A feeling among many employees that de­ Trees can be replaced, oil cannot. Every IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cisions were not being made on the basis day in our offices and factories, millions of of carefully considered data. Styrofoam cups and plastic containers are Tuesday, June 12, 1979 John Davis, the acting director of the in­ used in a cavalier manner and then thrown e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, when spection office, said that the decision to or­ away. der the study was made several years ago to What's wrong with having restaurants, it comes to a matter as crucial as the determine "what was bothering" the profes­ caterers, coffee vendors, sports arenas and safety of our nuclear powerplants, the sional, managerial and administrative em­ others return to renewable wooden, glass or credibility and competence of the Nu­ ployees of the office. paper products? clear Regulatory Commission must be When we are in an energy crisis that is be­ FEW COMPARABLE STUDIES beyond reproof. Yet 3 out of the 5 NRC Mr. Davis said one shortcoming of the coming ever more painful to millions of employees responsible for inspecting nu­ pocketbooks and to styles of life--one that, survey was that very few similar studies had conceivably, could lead to armed confiict-­ clear reactors have recently condemned been made of other Government agencies shouldn't we be considering all the alterna­ many of their supervisors as having a and that therefore there were no directly tives? "don't rock the boat" attitude. comparable findings with which the atti­ Cutbacks in the production of disposable The discontent within the Commission tudes of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission plastics isn't much of a sacrifice, especially was examined in an insightful article office could be compared. when compared with the alternatives. The survey, however, found many indi­ by David Burnham which appeared in cations of discontent within the commission Of course. we must remember that the the New York Times on June 4. Mr. office. plastics and oil industries are "partners," Burnham reveals that "decisions are According to the statement summarizing and they probably would fight hard to keep often made by people unfamiliar with the the recent survey, for example, the employ­ their plastic bags, their plastic plates, their actual situation and that decisions are ees said the best path for advancement was plastic cups. "knowing the right people and being willing As for me, I would trade a plastic cup for often made at a high level that could be better made at a lower level." Surely, to relocate." a gallon of gasoline any day. Many criticized how decisions were made this must give nuclear advocates pause within the agency. A majority in the office at the effectiveness of their allegedly said that "decisions are often made by people foolproof systems. unfamiliar with the actual situation and IN MEMORIAM-JOAN GREEN The text of the article follows: that decisions are often made at a high level FUSELIER NUCLEAR INSPECTORS UNEASY, POLL SHOWS that could be better made at a lower level."e (By David Burnham} WAsHINGTON.-Three out of five of the HON. JULIAN C. DIXON Federal employees responsible for inspecting OF CALIFORNIA nuclear reactors believe that many of their CHARLES E. WRIGHT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES supervisors practice a "don't-rock-the-boat philosophy" and that decisions are often Tuesday, June 12, 1979 made by Government officials unfam111ar HON. WILLIAM HILL BONER • Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, as the list with the actual problems. OF TENNESSEE of victims of the Ma8 25 crash of an The attitudes of the employees of the Of­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fice of Inspection and Enforcement of the American Airlines jetliner in Chicago Tuesday, June 12, 1979 was released, our hearts were saddened Nuclear Regulatory Commission were exam­ ined in an opinion survey conducted for the • Mr. BONER of Tennessee. Mr. to learn that we lost one of California's Government by a private polling group, the distinguished citizens. Joan Green Fuse­ Speaker, I rise today to honor an out­ Opinion Research Corporation, a number of standing citizen of Goodlettsville, Tenn. lier, director of the Consumer Product months before the March 28 accident at the Safety Commission's area office in Los Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania. Charles E. Wright was born in 1919 in Angeles was returning to California after Prompted by the accident, the most seri­ Hartselle, Ala. He graduated from Mor­ attending the 1979 National Workshop ous in the civilian use of nuclear power in gan County High School in 1939 and on Consumer Product Safety in Albany, the United States, the performance of the served in the U.S. Army from 1941 to N.Y. commission in enforcing safety regulations 1945 in the Alaska, Aleutian Islands, and is under comprehensive investigation by a European theaters of war. I had the honor of knowing Joan Fuse­ special Presidential panel and two Congres­ Mr. Wright attended Auburn Univer­ lier and enjoying her friendship for sional committees. sity from January 1946 to December many years. Her dedication to helping The $116,000 survey was ordered by the 1948, and received a degree in pharmacy. others is attested to by all with whom she top executives of the commission's Office He came to Tennessee in January 1949, came in contact. As a policewoman for of Inspection and Enforcement in an effort to understand the attitude of their working as a registered pharmacist in 8 years with the Los Angeles Police De­ Madison and Old Hickory. As the owner partment, prior to going to the Consumer employees. SOME OPEN CRITICISM and operator of the Goodlettsville drug­ Product Safety Commission, Joan had store from 1956 through 1968, he was a the opportunity to touch the lives of In the last three years, a number of com­ mission employees have expressed open visible and active member of his many young men and women. She had community. also served as senior deputy probation criticism of the agency's concern for safety. The critics have included Robert Pollard, Mr. Charles Wright started working in officer for the Los Angeles County Proba­ who quit and subsequently joined the Union the baseball program in 1957, and served tion Department. The city of Los Angeles of Concerned Scientists, one of the leading as manager and commissioner, and also will sorely miss her strong leadership and private organizations that have questioned chairman of the Park Board since May dedication. the credibility and competence of the com­ mission. 1967. A graduate of the University of South­ He is a charter member of the Good­ ern California, Joan spent most of her A second critic was James Conran, who lettsville Southern Methodist Church. chose to remain on the commi'>sion staff. Mr. life in Los Angeles and it was the people Conran forced the agency to revise substan­ It is fitting that the citizens of Good­ of our city for whom she sought a better tially its view of the hazard of nuclear pro­ lettsville honor his dedicated services to quality of life. liferation by writing a public letter to Presi­ the community by naming their local My deepest sympathies are extended to dent Carter. park after Charles E. Wright. I join in the Fuselier family, although we are The attitude survey, a copy of which was praising Mr. Wright's service to his comforted in the knowledge that her obtained by the Union of Concerned Scien- community.e June 12, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14519 ON SAFETY AND SERVILITY program. Rule-writing bureaucrats, particu­ a member of our Embassy in South Africa larly those formerly preoccupied with exit wm make periodic, extended visits t o Salis­ signs, resist surrendering authority. Their bury, and will cooperate wit h t he British HON. DAN QUAYLE rigidity, in fact, tends to increase in direct emissary who is making similar visit s. proportion to their distance from the actual Third, as we have previously said, we would OF INDIANA workplace. support any peace agreement which the par­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OSHA no doubt finds it incomprehensi­ ties themselves might reach-whether it is Tuesday, June 12, 1979 ble that IOSHA can educate employers to based on open, impartially supervised elec­ safety hazards at informal conferences, tions or on some other form of political • Mr. QUAYLE. Mr. Speaker, in light of without resorting to heavy-handed tactics accommodation. the fact that the Labor Department is or fining small businesses out of existence. Finally, as the President has said, we will expected to make a ruling on the Indi­ We find it entirely comperhensible. Ask keep the sanctions qu estion under const ant ana Occupational Safety and Health any parent who has a problem with his review in light of progress t oward a wider Administration's right to run the State's child's school if he would rather deal with political process and more legit imate and the local school board or the Department of genuine majority rule. program, I would like to submit this Health, Education and Welfare. Premature lifting of sanctions would have editorial for my colleagues' edification. Indiana has backed its commitment to several effects. This editorial, "On Safety and Ser­ worker safety with time and money. We First, lifting Rhodesian sanctions now vility," which appeared in the Indian­ hope Indiana's congres:;men exert suffi­ could undermine the position of t he int erna­ apolis News, June 2, 1979, indicates the cient influence to permit us to continue to tionally recognized legal authority there­ views of many Hoosiers: do so.e Great Britain. We should not pre-judge C'r undercut current British efforts. We should ON SAFETY AND SERVILITY not rush to lift sanctions or endorse the Whell; Congress passed the Occupational SANCTIONS AGAINST ZIMBABWE­ Salisbury arrangements at a t ime when Brit­ Safety and Healt h Act in 1970 and created RHODESIA: THE PRESIDENT'S ain is reviewing the sit uat ion and exploring OSHA, it provided t he option for states to DETERMINATION means by which t he prospect s for further run their own programs. progress and a settlement can be improved. It provided the option, but no promises The situation could evolve significantly in for making it easy. Consequently, it isn't. HON. DON BONKER the coming months. We should not discour­ States are permitted to run their own OF WASHINGTON age that evolution by effectively saying to programs. and receive Federal aid for 50 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Salisbury that its current arrangements have percent of their operating expenses, but only our support and need not be altered-and subject to Federal approval of their pro­ Tuesday, June 12, 1979 saying to the African nations that we no gram's effectiveness. Indiana began its own e Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, I would longer seek a fair set tlement. As the Presi­ program, !OSHA, in 1974. The program has dent has noted, no other nation has recog­ yet to earn permanent approval. like to submit for the RECORD excerpts nized the new aut horit ies in Salisbury. In fact, Indiana's program is no closer to from Secretary Vance's statement before Second, such an action would diminish autonomy than it was five years ago. Its the House Foreign Affairs Committee t he chances for a peacefu l settlement. By six-month evaluation period ends on June 30 this morning. Secretary Vance set forth giving the appearance of siding wit h Salis­ and there is a real possib111ty of a Federal a balanced and reasoned basis for the bury, our ab111t y t o work for a negotiated take-over. President's determination not to lift in­ solution would be severely limit ed. We would The American Federation of Labor­ ternationally imposed sanctions against encourage Salisbury t o expect furt her Amer­ Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL­ ican support and assistance in the military CIO) would like that. It filed suit in 1974, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia at the present time. struggle. And we would harden the view o! challenging the standards by which OSHA While the President has already made the external forces that their only option evaluates state plans. Congress said they the decision required by the Case-Javits was a military one. must be "at least as effective as" the Federal amendment, Secretary Vance stressed Third, a unilateral lifting of sanctions agency. The courts upheld the union, saying that sanctions are but one aspect of an now would undermine t he significant prog­ standards should be set to prove state pro­ ongoing process toward genuine major­ ress we have made in improving our rela­ grams "fully effective." ity rule in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, a process tions t hroughout Africa in the past two and So at this point it is not clear by what a half years. criterion the Labor Department (which has which will be under constant review. Fourth, we would be giving ot hers new op­ jurisdiction over OSHA) is to judge state The question of whether the United portunities to expand their influence in Af­ programs. The Indiana Chamber of Com­ States should act unilaterally to remove rica at our expense. Concerned African na­ merce says it is debatable how, if OSHA economic sanctions against Zimbabwe­ tions want peace and t hey have supported has no standards for approving state plans, Rhodesia may be raised on the House our negotiating effort s. But if they conclude it can have standards for disapproving fioor in the next few days. This is one of that we have abandoned t he goal of fair them. In the meantime, an AFL-CIO effort majorit y rule in Sout hern Africa, they may seeks revocation of all such state agencies­ the most important foreign policy issues currentlv before Congress. Our decision turn increasingly to others in search of ma­ including !OSHA. terial and moral support for a military solu­ It seems to us, however, there are clear will have far-reaching implications for tion to the Rhodesian conflict and for pro­ advantages to dealing with a local program our international affairs in general and tection of their territory from the expanding rather than with a Federal agency-provided, our relations with the United Nations conflict. of course, !OSHA is as effective as OSHA. and the countries of Africa in particular. Finally, to be sat isfied that the progress al­ The Labor Department is critical of ready made in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is suffi­ !OSHA. A report charges the program with I hope Secretary Vance's statement will shortcomings such as inspecting "poor be useful to my colleagues in Congress, cient would, in my judgment, represent a targets," ignoring workers' voices, poor particularly for its clarification of the retreat from the principles of racial justice ab111ty to identify hazardous conditions and reasons why it is not wise to remove eco­ which we have strived to achieve in our own a lack of preparedness by inspectors. country. To have one standard of racial jus­ nomic sanctions against Zimbabwe­ tice at home and another abroad is to deny But while !OSHA admits to the need for Rhodesia at this time. improvement, particularly in the area of our common humanity. We would tarnish health inspections, it makes a strong case The excerpts follow: our image abroad and divide ourselves at for its record on industrial hazards. Only EXCERPTS home. We need not invite these results. We three states have fewer days lost due to on­ Our challenge now is to build on the have fashioned a course which affirms our job injuries than Indiana, and those states progress to help create the conditions which own law, including the Case-Javits amend­ have larger work forces. In a 1977-78 can bring an enduring peace. ment at t he same time that it respects our monitoring period, Indiana ranked sixth How can the United States best serve the obligations as a member of the world com­ among 24 states with their own programs cause of reconc111ation and peace? munity. It is a course which is faithful to our in terms of number of inspections per­ First, we will continue to do all we can to­ principles, as well as to our national formed, serious violations cited and penal­ gether with our British colleagues in support interests. ties assessed. of efforts toward a peaceful solution. We Elections have been held in Zimbabwe­ Considering OSHA's own less-than­ have consulted closely with the new British Rhodesia. Almost every observer, of any view­ impressive national record, it strikes us as Government and will do so on a continuing point, has drawn the same overriding mes­ distinctly preferable to work on improving basis. The British Government is now en­ sage from that event. The Rhodesian people a local program than to surrender authori­ gaged in broad consultations in the region want peace. t y to a Federal agency. Locally written regu­ to explore ways of enhancing the prospects Let us respect that central result. Let us lations can take local conditions into ac- tor peace and int ernational acceptance and maintain our ability to work for reconcilia- count. will be sharing this information with us. tion. Let us pursue our national interest, in It would not surprise us, either, if there Second, we will seek to preserve our ability recognition both of new realities in Zim­ were an element or harassment in Federal to communicate, and work for peace. wit h babwe-Rhodesia and or the continuing. com­ relations with and evaluations of the !OSHA all the parties to the conflict. In this context, pelling cause of peace.e CXXV--913-Part 11 14520 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 12, 1979 CARRYOVER BASIS bulk of their inheritance. This can be termed GIVE FREE ENTERPRISE A (;fiANCE confiscatory. The federal government will­ in effect-have confiscated the property. The HON. BILL ARCHER law will also compel costly research. Sup­ HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST OF TEXAS pose a man has built up a collection of stamps or art in an attempt to keep abreast OF VIRGINIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of inflation and leave an estate to support IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, June 12, 1979 his invalid wife. Who can tell which stamp Tuesday, June 12, 1979 was worth what when it was bought? How e Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, the fol­ does a 30-year-old heir know which pasture e Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, the lowing editorials from the Houston Post father added to the farm in what year for editorial which follows appeared in the of April 24, 1979, and the Houston how much money? This rule was adopted without formal in­ June 12, 1979, edition of the Wall Street Chronicle of May 1, 1979, concern the Journal. The gasoline lines which have carryover basic rule for estate taxa­ troduction, hearings, investigation or de­ bate. It was added as a rider at the last been appearing, first in California and tion. This 1976 law will force heirs sell­ minute to a tax reform measure just clear­ now in the Washington area, make it ing inherited property to pay a capital ing a House-Senate conference committee. clear that the present "system," such as gains tax based on the increase in Congress is about to take it up for review. it is, is not working, and the editor's value of an asset from the time it was It is to be hoped that our congressmen will comments serve to reinforce my own purchased by a decedent until the time strike the carryover-basis rule from the law books. contention that the Department of it was sold. As the law taxes heirs on in­ Energy ought to be terminated by date creases in value due to inflation over an [From the Houston Chronicle, May 1, 1979] certain. I commend the editorial to the extended period of time, and as it will attention of my colleagues, and I urge be difficult-if not impossible-to de­ LET Us TALK ABOUT THIS A drastic change in the way capital gains that prompt and favorable consideration termine the original cost of the asset, the be given to my bill, H.R. 4329, to termi­ carryover basis is an unfair and confis­ taxes are computed on property inherited and then sold was slipped through Congress in nate the Department of Energy by Janu­ catory taxation of the American people. 1979 with a minimum of discussion. If any ary 15, 1982, unless the Congress acts in I would like to commend to the atten­ subject needed a thorough airing, this one the meantime to extend it. Indeed, we tion of my colleagues these expressions did. might be even better off if the Depart­ of public concern and opposition: The change, which Congress, under pres­ ment were terminated before that time. [From the Houston Post, April 24, 1979] sure, has postponed until Jan. 1, 1980, re­ quires heirs selling property to pay capital One thing seems very clear: A con­ POST/ COMMENTARY-THE CARRYOVER BASIS gains taxes based on the difference between trolled economy is not working in the By a legislative quirk, a provision was the original price of property and the selling energy market. Let us give free enter­ enact ed b y Congress t hat many members now price. In these inflationary times, the figure prise a chance. view wit h doubt: t he carryover-basis rule of can be astoundingly high. And mind you, this The editorial follows: estate t axat ion. That bland, rather vague has nothing to do with estate taxes, which GASOLINE: 88.8 CENTS, No LINES phrase could have an impact on the heirs are separate. of every sort of person from a st amp collec­ Under the old law, still in effect, a person's Back in February 1974, we printed an t or t o a farmer. The rule would greatly en­ property at death automatically was "stepped editorial entitled, "Gasoline: 59.9 Cents, No large the taxes paid on capital gains by any­ up" to current market value. Heirs who sold Lines." Doubting widespread fears of $1-a­ one who sells inherit ed property, whether property immediately at market value there­ gallon gas, and wondering what the market­ that property is an office building, a tree fore paid no capital gains tax and those who clearing price would be if controls and allo­ farm, an art collection or the family home. sold later paid taxes based on the gain during cations were lifted, we hit upon the simple The new rule will go into effect Jan. 1. the time they owned it. device of asking what gasoline sold for in 1980, unless Congress revokes it. Fortunately, actual free markets, namely, the rest of the This rankled many liberals who looked world. Adjusted for differences in measures congressmen who never knew they had upon this as one gigantic loophole-no mat­ passed t he legislation are now taking a good and taxes, we found that the market-clear­ ter that death was a prerequisite for taking ing price would have been 59.9 cents. look at it. Even some of those who at first advantage of the "loophole." thought it a good idea are having second Since we have gas lines again today, we A House bill was introduced in 1976 to set out to update that editorial. A February thoughts. The ruling would hit everybody, change the law. That bill got limited debate especially the small farmer, the heirs of small 1974 dollar is worth only about 67 cents in the House Ways and Means Committee today. So we've adjusted our price to 88.8 holdings. but never reached the House floor. The provision threatens t he historic tradi­ cents. Sure enough, that is more than gaso­ tion of handing down propert y from one The Senate, meanwhile, in considering a line sells !or today in Canada, after tax generation to the next. Say four children tax revision bill added an amendment to adjustment. inherit the family farm. The land is now liberalize estate and gift taxes. When the tax So the message is the same today as then: so valuable that they have to sell part or bUl got to conference, House supporters ot the U.S. doesn't have to suffer gasoline most of it to pay the estate t axes. As the the measure to change the way capital gains shortages under today's circumstances. The law now stands, they have to t ake a capital on inherited property are figured promised to Middle East still looks like a tinderbox and gain only on the difference bet ween the mar­ back the Senate amendment if the Senate serious shortage problems could still erupt. ket value of the land on the day they in­ would go along with the capital gains tax But the gasoline lines today are inflicted herited it and the sale price. But if the change the House liberals wanted. A deal on the U.S. consumer by federal price ceil­ carryover-basis rule 1s allowed to stand, they was struck and the change was made part of ings and allocations. If both were abolished, will have to pay a capital gain on all the the tax b1ll, which passed with little further the worst thing that would happen would be increase in the value of the land from the discussion. that the price would go up a few pennies to day it was bought by the deceased 20 or 40 It the chan~e becomes effective Jan. 1, the clear the market, and lines would disappear. years before. The heirs may be paying estate disposition of inherited property will be­ More likely, in our guess, the price would taxes, and then be taxed on capital gains come a complex, costly proposition: "an ad­ settle out below current averages, let alone on a price due in good part to inflation. ministrative nightmare," as one critic put it. the current artificial highs that make head­ The forest industry is opposing the carry­ In many instances, determining with any lines. Otherwise, how could the Canadian over-basis rule on grounds that it will drive accuracy the original cost of inherited prop­ price be lower? all t he small, private landholders out of erty, whether it be business, farm or an­ According to a preliminary estimate for tree production. Big lumber companies have tiques, and its appreciation wlll be difficult. June by the authoritative Lundberg Letter, their own forest land by the hundreds of The paper work could be overwhelming, with the U.S. weighted average price for all grades thousands of acres. Nonetheless, they buy a platoon of costly professionals required. of gasoline is now about 83 .5 cents a gallon. as much as 40 percent of their trees from Perhaps the impact of the change has been There has been a 16-cent price run-up so small private growers. As cities grow into exaggerated, but at least there is sound rea­ far this year, attributable in part to the suburbs and suburbs st retch toward the next son for more discussion than we have had crude oil supply interruption in Iran, but town, the small farms are being gobbled up thus far on the matter. The pressure that also to the federal policies we've been writ- at high land prices. Houses, as t hey spread, prompted Congress to delay implementation ing about in this space in recent weeks. The require more and more lumber in the very of the change is evidence enough of that. Department of Energy is frantically trying move of occupying land on which trees were Legislation has been introduced to repeal to update its regulations to take account of once grown. the 1976 change. Whether Congress repeals emerging reality, but so far has been able Many medium- and low-income heirs will or revises the law or delays the effective date to deliver only palliatives. sell t he land or house or st amp collection again, the subject warrants lengthy and bal­ The allocation system, in particular, will for money to pay the est at e t axes. When anced review in order for Congress to come remain. This means that supplies and prices they do, they will have t o pay so high a up with an approach that is more workable will vary from region to region, and even capital gains tax that it can wipe out the and equitable than what we got in 1976.e station to station. For some regions and June 12, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14521 some stations, the price will be pushed far We must begin to utilize as soon as This action on the part of Mike Wam­ above what would be necessary to clear the possible our domestic reserves of coal in ble was a display of coolness, decisive­ market in the absence of controls. (See order to meet our energy requirements. ness, and most importantly of all, a con­ Notable and Quotable nearby.) Today I am introducing legislation to cern for human life. On June 4, 1979, he It is doubtful, though, whether the price has been lifted enough to clear the market establish a massive program for energy was awarded the highest merit award by under the current jumbled system-al­ development by promoting full use of the American Red Cross, the Lifesaving though this problem is ameliorated some­ coal and coal conversion technologies. Award. I want to congratulate Mike, his what by the fact that dealers are widely Coal conversion processes have been family, and those involved in his efforts. ignoring the ce111ngs on the ground that and are being used in other countries to In addition, Mr. Speaker, I would also neither they nor the Feds can understand produce needed fuels, and I believe that like to insert into the RECORD the follow­ them anyway. Lundberg statistics indicate we should make more extensive use of ing news story which appeared in the tl:at some 78 percent of the dealers are exceeding the mandated 11-cent dealer mar­ this technology to meet our own require­ Memphis Press Scimitar on the occasion gin, compared with 34.5 percent a year ago. ments for energy. of Mike's award: Before anyone yells "foul," remember that I am proposing, as I have in the past, RED CROSS HELPER CITED FOR LIFESAVING in the absence of official rationing, the price the establishment of an "Energy De­ ACTIVITIES must go up to clear the market. It is current velopment and Managemet Authority" Murphy Hanley, 14, was eating lunch at a policy that dictates that the gains wlll be 1f you are the arbiter. You an era of uncertainty, technological ad­ are the judge of what must happen in Zim­ vances, and the debate on a strategic He was named director of research, de­ babwe. We do not-we have not, never, sug­ arms limitation treaty. The ballistic mis­ velopment, and engineering, U.S. Army gested a form of governxnent for the United sile defense program is supportive of a Materiel Command in 1971. He served in States. And what right has the Senator to strong U.S. position in the negotiations that position until August 1974 when he 14526 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 12, 1979 assumed command of MASSTER

the Games was the realization of both health should not be decided right now. We need the Federal Republic would be lost it and and beauty; in victory, a man fulfilled the some more years to decide that one. when my country lost its strong (sense of promise of the body and the talents given belonging) within not only the Atlantic Alll­ him at birth. Honor and fame crowned his Chancellor Schmidt gave two rea­ ance but also within the European Commu­ achievement because he had demonstrated sons for this caution: nity. One wm, at the same time, have to the utmost grace and sklll and strength of The problem involves both cost and nu­ bear in mind the geostrategic situation of which the human form is capable. Eu Nike, clear proliferation. Plants for fuel reprocess­ my country, being nearest to the territories the Greeks said, "Fair Victory," "Beautiful ing are large and expensive. Fast-breeders in which you have big Soviet armies in Victory," and, hence, they gave us your name: and the reprocessing plants produce pluto­ Europe. One will also have to bear in mind Eunice. nium that can be used in building weapons. the facts that Germany is divided and that Eunice Kennedy Shriver, you have made a West Berlin is in a particularly sensitive beautiful victory possible for countless men­ Mr. Speaker, I insert the full interview situation. Therefore, for 10 years it has been tally and physically handicapped chUdren, with Chancellor Schmidt to be included the policy and strategy of my country to not only through your program of the Spe­ in the RECORD at this time: use our strong foundations within the West­ cial Olympics, which today, in the United HELMUT ScHMIDT SETS OUT TACTICS FOR ern community as a basis from which to try, States and in several foreign countries, num­ ENERGY CRISIS and so far not unsatisfactorily, to ease the bers over halt a m1111on participants and Always sensitive of historic European mis­ situation for the people living in a divided 150,000 volunteers, but also through your nation, to ease the situation especially to­ continuing association with The Joseph P. givings about the Germans, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is careful to play ward the eastern neighbors of Germany. In Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and the National other words, not to let the East-West re­ Institute for Child Health and Human down Bonn's emerging political strength. But last week, as he ranged across a series of other laxation of tensions or detente circumvent ~ Development. the Central European situation. Every child who comes into the world, global and strategic questions in an exclu­ sive interview with Time magazine's Bonn Q: What is your assessment of Soviet m111- under whatever circumstances and in what­ tary strength? ever place, is a differing expression of one bureau chief, B. Wllliam Mader, he sounded every bit like a great-power leader. A: I have been in poll tics tor more than and the same root, a kind of paradigm of the a quarter of a century. Within that quar­ human aspiration. In every child the poten­ Question: What should the consuming nations be doing about the energy crisis? ter of a century I have repeatedly heard tiality of the human race, all the stretching voices that talked, sometimes in an even and straining toward life's limits, begins Schmidt: No. 1, we have to educate our societies and induce our economies to con­ alarmed way, about the oncoming military again. For more than twenty years, you have superiority of the East. It never has ma­ worked tirelessly so that those who are men­ serve energy to a much greater degree than we so far have been able to bring about. One terialized. I remember very clear:ly Ja.ck tally and physically handicapped might have · Kennedy's talk, before he became president, every chance to translate a possible victory of the moot important instruments in so do­ ing is to let people feel the fast-rising real about the so-called missile gap. I recall the into an actual victory. race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union In this, the International Year of the costs of energy. Second, to a growing degree we have to replace oil by other primary re­ in the fields of rocketry and satellltes. In Child, the College of the Holy Cross is proud the end, and this is the experience of a to confer upon you the degree, Doctor of sources of energy, especially coal and nuclear energy. Foreseeably, we wm within the next quarter of a century, the West has always Public Service. been strong enough to make it understood Accordingly, we the President and Trustees one or two decades get into a worldwide de­ bate about the irrevocable consequences of that we would defend ourselves very effec­ of the College of the Holy Cross, authorized tively. Therefore I don't have any inferiority to that purpose by the Supreme Authority burning hydrocarbons whether oil or coal or lignite or wood or natural gas, because the complexes right now about Eastern m111tary of the Commonwealth, confer upon Eunice power. Kennedy Shriver an honorary degree of Doc­ carbon dioxide fallout, as science more or less equivocally tells us, results in a heating Q: How would you evaluate West Ger­ tor of Public Service with all the rights and ma.ny's polltical strength internationally in privileges pertaining thereunto. In proof up of the globe as a whole. This leads to the third point, namely the necessity to put up relation to its m111tary and economic thereof, we have issued these presents under strength? the seal of the Corporation and the signa­ rather large sums of money in order to de­ velop scientifically, and from the engineer­ A: The economic strength of our country tures of the President and Dean of the is sometimes grossly overestimated. The Ger­ College.e ing side, sources of energy like nuclear, geo­ thermal, solar energy, all of which enable us man economy is strong in itself, it is solid. to avoid the C02 consequences. . . . On the other hand, it is only one-fifth or one­ WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR CALLS I have the feeUng that we have not seen quarter of the volume of the American econ­ FOR DELAY IN THE FAST­ the ultimate maturity of nuclear energy as omy. The strength of the deutsche mark is BREEDER REACTOR PROGRAM yet. I think the fast-breeder question, Unked envied something, sometimes applauded and as it is with the question of reprocessing hailed, but one must not delude oneself. It should not be decided right now. We need does not mean that the Germans can buy the HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. some more years to decide that one. In the whole world. The Americans could buy, more meantime, we have to keep that option or less the whole world .... To sum it all up: OF CALIFORNIA open. Of course, this entaUs two other ques­ Germany is not a world power. It does not IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions in the energy-polltical field that de­ wish to become a world power. But I wm not Tuesday, June 12, 1979 serve closest attention: international pre­ deny that taking all into account, Germany cautions or safeguards against proliferation politically is much stronger today than it e Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. of weapons-grade material, and processing was 10 years ago, 20 years ago. There is no Speaker, the recent visit of West German security, whether it is reactors, reprocessing, doubt about it. Fifteen years ago, a prom­ Chancellor Helmut Schmidt to the fast-breeders or the stowaway business for inent West German politician used to quip United States, and the resultant pub­ the remnants. . . . that Germany economically was a giant but licity of his remarks has helped clarify The problem involves both cost and nu­ polltically was a dwarf. I don't think that clear proUferatton. Plants for fuel reprocess­ this holds true any longer. But I am rather the position of West Germany on a num­ ing are large and expensive. Fast-breeders cautious that nobody in Bonn overplayed ber of important subjects. One of the and the reprocessing plants produce pluto­ Germany's hand. There still is the unique most important of these subjects 1s en­ nium that can be used in building weapons. vulnerability of this divided nation. There ergy, and the position of West Germany And third, I w111 point to the great danger st111 ts the sensitivity of all our neighbors in on nuclear energy 1n particular. that 1! nuclear energy is not developed fast Europe, who well remember what was done to I was especially pleased to see that enough, wars may become possible for the them in the German name under Hitler. West Germany has shifted its position on single reason of competition for on and Q: What are the greatest problems facing the need to rush ahead with the develop­ natural gas. the world economy? ment of fast-breeder reactors and Q: Do you believe that force, 1f necessary, A: There are three. The first is the gen­ should be used to secure oll supplles for the eral .notion in most countries, including the plutonium reprocessing, and has now West? Communist countries, the developing and adopted a position quite similar to Presi­ A: I hate that I have to be quite frank in industrial countries alike, to consume more dent Carter's. answering this one. I have deplored these than we produce and to fill in the gap by Since the Congress is being told by utterances. printing money. (That leads to) inflationary advocates of early commercialization of Q: What is your response to reports that monetary policies as well as inflationary fiscal the breeder reactor that we need to move West Germany is drifting away from the policies. The second factor rather suddenly ahead with the Clinch River breeder re­ Atlantic Alliance? broke upon all of us: namely, the oil price actor and even larger breeder reactors, A: That notion is being nurtured by peo­ explosion and the insight that energy would ple who for domestic reasons either fight become rather scarce much more quickly the statement by Chancellor Schmidt is my government in Bonn or fight the Carter than anybody had foreseen. It misled a :num­ quite interesting. I quote: administration in Washington . . . The malev­ ber of governments to seek refuge-because I think the fast-breeder question, linked olent intention of such rumors is obvious. they had to pay high energy prices-in print­ as it is with the question at reprocessing, It is also obvious that the raison d'et.re of ing even more money and creating even more June 12, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14529 - inftatio.n. This led to an upheaval in the fab­ Theoretically, this is not only plausible, including the current Minister of De­ ric of the world economic system. I would but attractive. It gives a special urgency fense Dimitri Ustinov. prefer not to call it a system any longer. It for both sides to engage in arms control Last week, I actually heard my col­ is more a constellation than a system. At least agreements aimed at assuring what is league, Mr. DoWNEY, of New York, de­ it is a very unsystematic system. Third, a number of developing countries today pro­ roughly-very roughly-called nuclear clare, during full debate on the supple­ duce their own steel and their own ships, not parity. Stability is the objective notion mental appropriations bill for the De­ to mention their own textiles. This has led to that two societies will be instantaneously partment of Defense, that he does not the necessity !or a rather wide-ranging rC;­ turned into radioactive infernos if either care what the Soviets think about these structuring of industrial capacities and pro­ makes a serious strategic blunder. It questions. From a Member of Congress, fessional capabilities in the developed world. suggests that only a "madman," one charged with deliberating upon life and This process is not going fast enough. thoroughly ignorant of symmetrical death issues involved in strategic ques­ Q. How important is Salt II to East-West beauties of MAD or the litany of strate­ tions, I thought that the gentleman's detente? gic corollaries that follow upon its adop­ remark was rather incredible. I am quite A: Let me ask the questio.n : How would the tion, would dare initiate a nuclear strike. sure that relieved of the pressure of world change if Salt II failed or were not rati­ fied on the American side? I have no doubt There is only one problem with this debate on these matters he is not, in that the world would lapse back not only into strategic theory. It does not accord with his deeper moments, convinced that the a full-scale arms race between the East and political reality. The Soviets, as re­ perspectives or intentions of a poten­ West but also into another cold war. vealed in political and strategic writ­ tial adversary are either irrelevant or Q: How would you assess U.S.-German ings on the subject, do not--! repeat, unimportant. But whether or not an in­ relations and your ow.n relationship with they do not--accept the proposition, the dividual Congressman actually thinks President Carter? core proposition of the madmen, that what the Soviets think is important or A: Our personal relations are good. We nuclear was is "unthinkable." They con­ unimportant, whether or not the Soviets have been able to exchange our views without cede its terrors. They agree that it must agree or disagree with our conception any mental or tactical reservations, which in be avoided at almost every cost. They of nuclear war, if the U.S.S.R. can de­ itself is a great asset and leads to close co­ accept the reasoning of many of our most operation. There have been federal chancel­ liver a credible first, counterforce strike, lors in Bonn and American presidents who ardent arms control advocates that a nu­ a strike that renders U.S. retaliatory have not been on such good terms in their clear exchange is a horrible cataclysmic capabilities impotent or severely weak­ times. But personal relations are only one as­ event, bringing about massive death and ened, then the entire doctrine of mutual pect between our two countries. Relations be­ destruction. The Soviets have not, in assured destruction is obsolete. The doc­ tween the two administrations, in the Ger­ their official pronouncements or their trine and American security and the man view, are characterized by three signifi­ doctrinal essays, displayed any cavalier liberty of our people are all gone for­ cant experiences. No. 1, we have, to a very attitude on the subject of nuclear war. ever, possibly disappearing in a radio­ great degree, adopted American ideas about But they differ radically from free world the structure of a federal democracy, Ameri­ active cloud of dust. can ideas of human rights. Second, we have disarmement advocates on the central Mr. Speaker, as difficult as it is to experienced an astonishing degree o! Ameri­ issue. The U.S.S.R. has never, repeat, wrestle with these weighty matters of can solidarity vis-a-vis a former enemy over never, officially acknowledged the legit­ strategic theory and doctrine, Soviet in­ whom you won a terrible war. There is a great imacy of the prediction that the U.S.S.R. tentions and our Nation's technological underlying appreciation in Germany for this itself would be destroyed in a nuclear capacity to deter a nuclear assault, I lesson in solidarity. Third, the Germans are war. find it far easier to address an even more convinced that their outward security has What is their operational military profound problem-the moral problem been maintained by the U.S. more than by doctrine? It is very simply this : Nuclear anybody else .... My feeling is that the Amer­ of our ugly stated goals under the reign­ ican nation, in a rather .non-dramatic way, weapons are means of war, not simply ing doctrine of mutual assured destruc­ has come to accept the Germans and the Fed­ means of deterring or avoiding war. War tion. Our clearly stated intentions, de­ eral Republic of Germany as an almost natu­ is the continuation of "politics" by other stroying the population centers of the So­ ral ally.e means, to paraphrase their favorite men­ viet Union as a matter of deliberate tor on the subject, the German theoreti­ policy, are a violation of every principle MICHAEL NOVAK ON THE THEOL­ cian Carl Von Clausewitz. War, in other of humanity, every rule of chivalry, OGY OF MADNESS words, is indeed a political option, a every canon of military necessity, and means to advance in their view the inter­ proportionality in a same conduct of de­ national class struggle. If the capitalist fensive warfare, the only type of violent HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN West is to resist, finding itself in an conflict allowed by people living ac~ord­ OF CALIFORNIA increasingly untenable geopolitical posi­ ing to the canons of Judea-Christian IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion, the "imperialists", that is, the ethics. We are, by assenting to such a West, might be tempted in desperation doctrine as the guiding strategic frame­ Tuesday, June 12, 1979 to unleash an attack against the leader work of our nuclear policy, throwing over • Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, since of the Socialist camp. There is a common our entire Judea-Christian tradition and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara Soviet tenent, if it appears that war is succumbing to a totalitarian notion of issued heady pronouncements on the inevitable, that the U.S.S.R. reserves for military confii:t. nature and scope of modern war, the cen­ itself the right and duty to launch a We are succumbing to a doctrine of tral doctrine of America's strategic preventative strike against the military "total war," war that is limitless in scope establishment has been "Mutual Assured capabilities of the West, against the and violence, war that makes no distinc­ Destruction," spawning the a!jpropriate weaoons of mass destruction allied tions between combatants and noncom­ acronymn "MAD." Among certain stra­ against the motherland. The Soviets batants, war that obliterates the distinc­ tegic theorists, madness makes eminent thus reserve for themselves the right to tion between legitimate national self­ sense. Nuclear war is held to be unthink­ "defang" the nuclear tiger by knock­ defense and murder on a mass scale. I do able. Its ferocity imperiously dictates ing out his nuclear teeth in quick, sharp not see how some of the most morally certain strategic options. The principal strikes. The operational doctrine of outraged commentators on the vicious among these is the creation of a strateg­ Soviet military authorities is to fight, violence senselesslv perpetrated by Lt. ic nuclear balance that assures that the survive, and win a nuclear war. This is William Calley at Mv Lai can, with the initiation of any attack by a nation will not a novel interpretation of Soviet same set of brain cells, condone a mili­ result in a massive, utterly devastating doctrine. Any Member of this House may tary policy that aims toward the deliber­ retaliation against that aggressor nation. examine the substance of Soviet doc­ ate destruction of millions of innocent The nuclear option becomes thus a non­ trine by reading the most authoritative civilians--as a matter of deliberate option, because any nuclear exchange republished version of it, Soviet Military policy. ,will assure the complete, or nearly com­ Doctrine, edited by Major General Are we engaging in a national death plete, destruction of the urban and in­ Sokolovskiy. The emphasis on fighting wish for our innocents? Are we adopting dustrial centers of both of the nuclear and winning also runs through numerous a more sophisticated version of the Jim contestants. Mutual suicide. The favorite published essays on the subject of nu­ Jones Guyana response to external metaphor of MAD proponents is that of clear war by officially recognized Soviet threats? Are we asking our military com­ two scorpions in a bottle. political theorists and military authors, manders, educated at West Point and 14530 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 12, 1979

Annapolis and Colorado Springs trained THE THEOLOGY OF ARMS CONTROL loss of U.S. strategic superiority tips the in the noble tradition of Robert E. Lee (By Michael Novak) overall mllltary balance decisively in the and Douglas MacArthur, to carry out a Many observers have noticed that discus­ USSR's favor. The only thing between the terror war in violation of every military United States and disaster is trust in Soviet sions of SALT II involve "the theology of rationality, as we optimistically perceive it. code of duty, honor, decency and chivalry arms control." Facts are hardly in dispute, The American people are getting used to that formed their character? Are we do­ but there are rival visions of war, power and the new perception of being the world's ing this in order to satisfy the egocen­ human motivation. Since Americans are usu­ second-ranked mllitary power. They wlll have tric demands of armchair nuclear ally reluctant to face theological questions, to get used to being given threats and com­ strategists, captivated by the pleasing it may be well to hit this issue head on. mands !rom Moscow which we dare not chal­ Defense Secretary Harold Brown said re­ lenge. symmetry of their own bloodless abstrac­ cently at Annapolis that the Soviet Union tions? During the crisis in Iran, the United States since 1962 has concentrated its capacities on did not respond as it has responded to other I raise these questions because they knocking out the U.S. land-based deterrent. crises in the Middle East for many decades. gnaw at me constantly. I raise them be­ The U.S. defense against this, according to Mr. Brezhnev ordered the United States not cause we have seen a weakening of our President Carter, is the targeting of U.S. sub­ to meddle in Iran. Mr. Vance tamely replied Triad, and a slow, if unconscious, move­ marine missiles on Soviet cities. that we had no intention of meddling. ment toward only a submarine-based nu­ Thus, Soviet arms aim primarily at mllltary 011 supplies vital to U.S. interests were clear deterrent which, as virtually every targets, ours at civlllan targets. Theologically immediately cut off, and our citizens are now speaking, the Soviet approach seems morally paying for our mllitary weakness in short­ military commander will concede, is use­ defensible, ours less so. less against hardened ICBM targets and ages and higher prices. Our weakness is Soviet threats are therefore, far more credi­ widely perceived around the world. We will appropriate only for "trashing" Soviet ble. They are more likely to use their counter­ pay !or that. So will each of our allles. cities. force on our mllltary targets than we are to Some sensitive observers do not believe I do not know of anyone in the military attack cities. This is particularly true since that mllltary superiority is the first prereq­ or political science who believes for one a Soviet second-wave attack would rain down uisite of Uberty. Their theological beliefs single moment that an attempt on Soviet on our cities. about peace are already reaping grave con­ cities-and I say "attempt" because it is Secondly, the U.S. government has made sequences. the decision not to defend American civlllans, It is sound theology to recognize, In this conceivable that their civil defense prep­ in case of nuclear war. We have now virtually arations would cut losses considerably­ real world, the moral necessity of mmtary no capacity to do so, nor is one being planned. superiority in strategic forces. Parity here is would not result instantly in a violent This ls for a theological reason: the belle! fatal weakness, since the force of oppression and devastating counter strike against that "no one can win a nuclear war." The already has superiority elsewhere.e American cities in mind-boggling unlim­ practical consequence is that U.S. cities are ited retaliation. If our submarine com­ more vulnerable than Soviet cities. manders were to unleash Polaris and One can Imagine a "demonstration tactic," ~YOR H. S. MOSS Poseidon missiles against Kiev, Mos­ whereby the Soviets would destroy a single American city-say, Minneapolis-St. Paul­ cow, Leningrad, and other large Soviet while letting It be known via the hot line HON. WILLIAM HILL BONER cities, attempting to kill anything that that any American retaliation would be breathes, an enraged Soviet elite would greeted with total destruction of the other OF TENNESSEE not refrain from counterattacking in­ 70 major U.S. metropolitan areas, on a second IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES kind, incinerating New York, Baltimore, strike. In such circumstances, U.S. leadership Tuesday, June 12, 1979 Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, and might well believe surrender morally prefer­ Los Angeles with a second and then a able to global destruction. • Mr. BONER of Tennessee. Mr. Speak­ third strike of SS 9's and SS 18's, each The present U.S. theology of arms control er, I rise today to praise a man who has carrying millions of tons of TNT. The is, therefore, theologically and strategically been the shining light and the major weak. It depends upon a thoroughly opti­ contributing factor in the rapid growth Soviets would follow repeated missile at­ mistic reading of Soviet reasoning. Indeed, tacks with and assault by Backfire of the city of Goodlettsville, Tenn. proponents of present U.S. policy-even Sec­ This month, June 1979, the Tennes­ bombers and their new long range B-1 retary Cyrus Vance and his chief adviser on type bombers for "clean-up" operations Soviet &1!airs, Marshall Shulman--end up, see Municipal League in Knoxville against middle America. despite themselves, arguing the Soviet case. named H. S. Moss as the "Typical Mayor Mr. Speaker, I am revolted by MAD. They want us to understand the Soviets. They of the Year," and I join with my fellow The brilliant writer Michael Novak in try to convince the rest of us that the Soviets Tennesseans in honoring this dedicated yesterday's Washington Star has touched wlll be gentle. public servant. upon the subject in an impressive article, In 1963, Robert McNamara, then Secretary Mr. Moss arrived in Goodlettsville in articulating the case for a strong na­ or defense, said that the United States had 1941 to serve as vocational agricultural tional defense and scoring the deliberate such a long lead ln strategic weapons that the teacher for the high school. From that Soviets would never catch up. In 1979, Sec­ evils of a drift toward countervalue tar­ point on he has either been the unofficial retary Vance has enthusiastically welcomed or the official mayor of Goodlettsville. geting. At least Mr. Novak is right on the "parity" between the United States and target-in the very best sense of that the USSR. How did that happen? Goodlettsville was incorporated in 1958, but prior to that time many of the serv­ expression. It is no wonder that Mr. No­ Moreover, Vance in Chicago on May 1 tried vak ts achieving the national prominence to make a virtue of parity, by saying (against ices enjoyed by its citizens were fur­ that he richly deserves. all historical evidence) that only parity nished through the efforts of the men's With Mr. Novak, I must take issue on makes arms control possible. But this is to club and the PTA. Street lights, a fire one critical point: His use of the word say that numbers do matter, that strategic department, and a park were all pro­ ''theology." I understand why he uses it. weaponry has political consequences. vided for the citizens of Goodlettsville Faith is involved in the current "the­ It is also to say that the United States prior to the time of actual incorpora­ ology of arms control"; it is a vain faith, must now bow to Soviet aims. In 1977, Vance tion. proposed a U.S. arms treaty, which the divorced from the lessons of history, Soviets flatly rejected. Since then, the USSR For 32 years Mr. Moss has been a Soviet perceptions, or the normal expe­ has accepted a lighter version, which Vance prime motivator in the men's club. He riences of men observing human be­ has ever since been negotiating. The Soviet has been a man the rest of the commu­ havior. I repeat, I understand why he version, modified in negotiations, is the one nity has looked to for leadership in the uses the word, even though he is a trained Vance Is now taking to the U.S. public. accomplishments of the men's club. So, theologian himself. He is trying to com­ When Secretary Vance, an honorable man, it was natural that when the city de­ municate with an increasingly secular­ proclaims the loss of U.S. nuclear superiority cided to incorporate, the citizens sug­ ized society in which expressions of faith, as a suddenly discovered virtue, however, he gested that Mr. Moss enter the race for especially of the religious sort, are viewed is underemphasizing a critical point. Strate­ commissioner. He received a majority of gic arms are only part of the military bal­ as rather quaint. My congratulations go ance. votes cast in that three-man election. It to Mr. Novak for a superb analytical In virtually every other department, Soviet was the unanimous decision of the other article. I ask that my colleagues give their superiority Is unquestionable. In the Euro­ two commissioners that he be elected as very closest attention to the gentleman's pean theater, Soviet tanks outnumber mayor, a position he has held ever since. clear and gripping message. NATO's 40,000 to 16,000, and Soviet nuclear He could not tell you, and it would be The article follows: capab111tles outnumber NATO's 4 to 1. The hard for any person to guess, the num- June 12, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14531 ber of hours H. S. Moss has spent on be­ questionnaire. This survey is of tremen­ majority indicated their belief that there half of the city. He often must attend dous assistance to me as the Congress should be no relaxing of clean air and midnight sessions and then be up early makes its decisions and I would like to water pollution standards. Taken to­ the next morning and out on the job. share the results of the survey with my gether, the responses show a strong ma­ Through 32 years of laboring for Good­ colleagues. jority of my constituents favor a con­ lettsville, he has never once said "you One of the most important issues fac­ tinued commitment to a cleaner envi­ owe me something." He has always said, ing Congress today is energy and one of ronment. "I am willing to give my time and energy the most striking divergence of opinion On the subject of foreign policy there for my fellow citizens." In addition, was expressed on an energy question. was strong support !or two of President Mayor Moss has been active in his Asked about the amount of money the Carter's recent decisions. The decision church and in such activities as scout­ Federal Government spends on energy to establish diplomatic relations with ing. Two sons, one of whom graduated research, 63 percent of the respondents mainland China was supported by 72 from the University of Tennessee this felt that more should be allocated, while percent of the respondents and the poll week, are both Eagle Scouts. They were only 9 percent want less money spent reflected a 68 percent favorable senti­ also leaders in their local Future Farm­ and 17 percent indicated that present ment on the question of negotiating a ers Chapter. spending levels are adequate. Clearly, SALT treaty. H. S. Moss is a worker and Goodletts­ there is an overwhelming consensus of Large majorities were reflected on two ville is a better place to live because of opinion that we need to step up our other issues facing the Congress. By a him.e efforts in researching alternative energy 3-to-1 margin the poll favors the enact­ sources. Just as clearly, however, there ment of a Federal law to ban the sale, is no consensus on ways to solve our manufacture and distribution of hand­ RESULTS OF lOTH CONGRESSIONAL energy problems. The issue of decontrol guns, except for the police, military, and DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS CONSTIT­ produced the smallest difference of opin­ licensed pistol clubs. I have introduced UENT QUESTIONNAIRE ion, with 43 percent indicating they favor a bill in this Congress, as I have in every decontrol of gasoline prices and 46 per­ other Congress I have been a Member, to HON. ABNER J. MIKVA cent favoring maintaining the controls. achieve that end. A similarly small margin is reflected in OF ILLINOIS By a 2-to-1 margin respondents favor response to the question of the United Federal legislation to limit the percent IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES States doing more in the international of increase in charges that hospitals Tuesday, June 12, 1979 arena to break the OPEC oil cartel. make for their services. This indicates • Mr. MIKVA. Mr. Speaker, more than Strong sentiment was expressed on two strong support for the hospital cost con­ 15,000 residents of the lOth Congres­ environmental questions. Nearly twice as tainment legislation that is presently sional District in Illinois have expressed many people would like to see more before the Congress. their views on the issues facing the coun­ money spent on the environment and The results of the entire survey fol­ try in response to my 1979 constituent natural resources than less, and a clear lows:

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6. Do you favor mandatory wage and price controls as a 1. Further efforts to reduce the Federal budget deficit will way of reducing inflation? ______involve difficult choices when Congress considers this 35 51 12 year's appropriations bills. What are your priorities 7. The Carter administration has proposed that there be a for the next bud~tet? Below is a list of items that makes voluntary 7-percent limit on wa11e increases, with tax up most of the Federal bud~tet, along with the percent- incentives for those workers who agree to such volun- a~tes of the total bud~tet now being allocated to that tary limits. Do you favor this proposal as a way of reducin~t inflation? ______----.- ______• item. For each item, please indicate whether you think 47 39 11 the item should receive more of the budget, less of 8. Currently, Presidential elections are funded in part by the budget or remain the same. Federal funds in order to limit private contributions National defense (23.2 percent) ______. ______._ 26 33 30 11 and the resulting influence of the contributors. Should Social security (20.7 percent) ______.. __ . ____ . __ • 18 30 41 11 this kind of campaign financing reform be extended to Income security and public assistance (including congressional elections? ... ______------______53 36 railroad and Federal employee retirement, supple- 9. Do you favor a Federal law to ban the manufacture, sale mental social security, school lunches, food and distribution of handguns, except for the police, stamps) (11.5 percent) ______7 55 26 12 military and licensed pistol clubs?------72 23 Health care (10 percent) ______27 26 35 12 10. Do you think the United States should negotiate a SALT Education and social services (including job train- treaty with the Soviet Union to cut back on the develop- ing, aid to handicapped and elderly) (6.2 percent)_ 30 23 36 11 ment of military weapons?------68 19 11 Veterans benefits (4.1 percent) ______11 27 51 11 11. To control hospital costs, would you favor federallegisla- Transportation (3.5 percent) ______.. ___ _.--- •. -- 26 29 34 11 tion to limit the percent of mcrease in charges that Natural resources and environment (2.3 percent). __ 34 19 34 12 hospitals make for their services? ______61 29 Revenue sharing (1.8 percent) ______14 33 40 13 12. Some people say that one way to ease inflation is by re- Energy research (1.7 percent) ______.- 63 9 17 11 laxing clean air and water pollution standards, thus International affairs (1.5 percent) ______9 38 41 12 reducing the costs to business. Others argue that Agriculture (1.3 percent) ______16 30 43 12 environmetal safeguards should be maintained to Space, science and technology (1.1 percent) ______26 26 37 11 protect both our health and natural resources. Do you Commerce and housing (0.6 percent) ______13 34 41 12 favor some relaxation of these environmental standards?. ______•. ____ •• _. ______2. Do you favor the recent decision by the Carter adminis- 34 57 tration to establish diplomatic relations with mainland 13. Which of the following do you favor regarding cigarette China? ______•. _____ • --••• - .. ------. 72 16 10 smoking: 3. (a) To keep the social security system financially sound, (a) Laws should be passed to ban smoking in public the social security payroll tax will continue to in- places such as government buildings_ •• _____ 56 31 crease in the years ahead, based on current law. (b) The Federal Government should end all subsi- There are proposals in Congress, however, to re- dies to tobacco growers_ •.. ______.... ______82 duce this tax by using general revenues from the (c) There should be a large increase in the Federal U.S. Treasury to pay for a portion of social security, tax on cigarettes to discourage smoking ______59 28 such as medicare. Would you favor this kind of 14. Do you smoke cigarettes?------18 79 proposal? ______... _____ • _____ --- 52 32 11 15. Since the OPEC oil cartel was formed several years ago, (b) Would you rather see social security benefits some people have argued that we should accept the reduced?. ______• ______..•. ---.----- 25 64 existence of the cartel but move more aggressively in 4. Currently, Federal price controls limit the amount that developing our own energy sources~ Others have said can be charged for each gallon of gasoline sold at the recently, however, that in spite of possible economic filling station. Should these controls be ended?------43 46 political risks, the United States should be doing much 5. Do you think that voluntary wa2e and price guidelines more in the international arena to break the OPEC oi I will help reduce inflation? ______18 65 14 cartel. Would you favor a major effort by the United States to break the oil cartel?------42 33 20 14532 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 12, 1979 ALCOHOL-THE NUTRITIOUS FUEL product from the other 20 bushels that had lems. The adoption of a national alcohol­ been run through an alcohol plant. Amaz­ fuels program would be a positive expression ingly enough, the cattle fed the rllltion !rom of American determination and resolve to which alcohol had been produced actually remedy its debllitatlng energy problems, and HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER gained more weight than those fed the I believe that it ls high tlme we accepted OF NEW YORK stra.lght corn! This is due to what is called the challenge.e IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the "high bypass value" of the byproduct. Clearly, in a protein-defi.cient world, there Tuesday, June 12, 1979 is no food-versus-fuel trade-off; we can hav• ANNE FRANK'S 50TH BIRTHDAY e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, as a our cake and eat it too. The argument that we should forget 8ibout strong believer in the need to develop gasohol because there is a negative net en­ HON. S. WILLIAM GREEN alcohol fuels as an alternative energy ergy balance in the production of alcohol OF NEW YORK source, I would like to call to the atten­ from grain is also outdated. First, it is im­ tion of my colleagues an excellent article portant to remember that the energy balance IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on the subject by my good friend BERK­ calculations that are now being quoted are Tuesday, June 12, 1979 LEY BEDELL of Iowa. based on the performance of alcohol plants that were designed for the production of e Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, I am Congressman BEDELL has shown real pleased to acknowledge today the 50th leadership in encouraging the develop­ beverage-grade alcohol at a time when en­ ergy was cheap. In contrast, Archer Daniels anniversary of the birth of Anne Frank, ment of a national policy for gasohol Midland in Decatur, Ill., which is the largest truly a daughter of our times and a production. In his Washington Post producer of fuel-grade alcohol in the United mother of hope, strength, and courage article of June 7, he decries the failures States, has been certified by the Department in the future. of our current energy policies and states: of Energy as having a positive net energy Hundreds of millions of people have The adoption of a natdonal aloohol-fuels balance. read Anne Frank's account of the ter­ program would be a positive expression of Engineering firms now tell us that they rifying days she spent in hiding from American determination and resolve to can construct new "grass roots" plants utlllz­ remedy its deb111tat1ng energy problems, and ing recent technologies that have positive Nazi soldiers. Her diary has been trans­ I belleve that it is high time we accepted the net energy balances of up to a ratio of 4 to 1. lated into more than 50 languages. challenge. Of course, we can use a variety of energy Anne Frank's spirit lives on not solely sources, such as coal and solar, for providing because she is Jewish or because she was The text of his important article fol­ the process heat needed in an alcohol­ a victim of the holocaust. She is a uni­ lows: production fac111ty. If we could burn 100 versal symbol of the beauty of the hu­ GASOHOL: THE NUTRrriOUS FUEL calories of our abundant coal, for example, to man soul and the wisdom of the human (By Berkley Bedell) produce 95 calories of scarce llquid fuel, it would certainly be a good exchange. Finally, spirit. The spiritual attainments of The Post's recent editorial "The Corn it should be noted that 1! assessments of the Anne Frank's 16-year lifetime serve as Belt's Favorite Fuel" reflects prevalllng mis­ net energy balance were to be the sole basis a model for each of us throughout our understandings regarding the production of for energy policy-making, there would be no lives, and in the lives of generations to alcohol fuels and current U.S. farm policy. electricity in this country, since it requires come.• As the author of the legislation you referred approximately three BTUs of coal or oil en­ to, I feel compelled to respond to your con­ ergy to produce the equivalent of one BTU of tention that the public is being asked to electricity. ANTIOCH HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL choose between food and fuel and th81t net Those who say that producing ethanol from TEAM IN NASHVILLE, TENN. energy balance considerllltions make gasohol grains wm not of itself solve the nation's en­ from gra.ln alcohol impractical. ergy problems are correct. However, the de­ Your opposition to alcohol fuel produced velopment of a national alcohol-fuels in­ HON. WILLIAM HILL BONER from grain seems to be based almost exclu­ dustry based in part on grains wlll serve as OF TENNESSEE sively on the argument that it would "divert the catalyst for the technological develop­ good grain from the food markets to make ment needed to enable us to transform the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES motor fuel." Such a statement is simply not abundant cellulose materials, including mu­ Tuesday, June 12, 1979 supported by the facts. In the alcohol pro­ nicipal and agricultural wastes, into alcohol dUJCtdon process, none of the protein in the fuel. It wlll be easy to adapt plants that use • Mr. BONER of Tennessee. Mr. Speak­ original grain is lost. On the contrary, be­ grains as feedstocks for alcohol production er, I rise today to congratulate coach cause of the action of the yeast, the amount to accommodate cellulose whenever that Ron Wilson and the members of the of protein is aotually sl'lghtly increased. Only technology becomes commercially feasible. In Antioch High School baseball team some of the starch in the grain is lost. Ob­ the meantime, the United States could bene­ in Nashville, Tenn., upon the winning of viously the world is deficient in protein, not fit from the valuable ethanol that could be the class AAA State baseball title of the starch. New technological processes produce produced from agricultural commodities. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic a high-protein food supplement that is suit­ I want to stress again that I am not con­ Association. able for human oonsumption. By putting tending that the production of alcohol fuel agricultural lands that the government now from gra.lns and other renewable resources On June 4, this fine ball club defeated pays farmers to idle back into production, would be a panacea. However, a national pro­ Knoxville South-Young, 5 to 2, in game we can actually increase our ab111ty to feed gram promoting the production of this three in the best-of-three series. The hungry people whUe helping to mitigate our needed supplement to our dwindling liquid Antioch Bears lost the first game of the problems with llquid fuel supply. fuel supplies would yield substantial benefits, series but in a never-say-die fashion this The byproduct of alcohol-fuels production both tangible and intangible. Certainly, it is team came back to win the following two is espeoially valuable for animal feeding pur­ time that U.S. energy pollcy stops reflecting games. poses, as well. In an experiment conducted "technological timidity," as Daniel Greenberg at the University of Kentuoky, researchers termed it [op-ed, May 22], and adopt some I join with their many fans in Nash­ fed a group of cattle a given quantity of hay positive attitudes to end our present reliance ville to salute the Antioch Bears for the and 100 bushels cxr corn. Another group of on imported oil. This country was built by outstanding ability and determination cMitle was fed the same quantilty of hay those who concentrated their energies on they demonstrated in winning the class and 80 bushels of oorn together with the by- finding solutions, not in glorl!ying the prob- AAA title.e