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AMERICAN ·FISHERIES but work in the fishing industry. Some lines-some reporting as many as PROMOTION ACT will hire on elsewhere with other pro­ seven separate incidents on a single cessors. But many will be forced to claim. Foreign fishermen take a sig­ abandon their trade, their city, and nificant number of fish other than HON. LES AuCOIN their way of life. those they are licensed io catch under OF OREGON This is the kind of economic and their so-called incidental take. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES social devastation we are facing. The As a Nation we are committed to full Wednesday, May 7, 1980 problem is this kind of devastation use of our ocean resources and to does not merit national concern, as having U.S. fishermen harvest these • Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, the Mer­ the plight of Chrysler did. The truth resources. I have previously indicated chant Marine and Fisheries Commit­ is this kind of devastation should my support for a phaseout of foreign tee soon will report to the House H.R. worry us more than Chrysler. fishing and for a 100-percent observer 7039, the American Fisheries Promo­ As a member of the House Banking program until that time, and I repeat tion Act. I want to take a few moments Committee, I thought the bailout of that commitment again today. to alert my colleagues to the impor­ Chrysler set a bad precedent of prop­ Harvesting of all our offshore fisher­ tance of this comprehensive legislation ping up a company whose products ies resources by U.S. fishermen is the in reviving our drowning fishing indus­ had been rejected in the marketplace. objective of the Fishery Conservation try. This is an industry that haS been That is not the problem of the U.S. and Management Act. This goal pre­ ignored too long-ignored for what it fishing industry. sumes that sound management will de­ has been, ignored for what it is, and ig­ The fishing industry is undercapi­ termine harvesting efforts. But sound nored for what it can be. , talized, fragmented, and norunarket management is impossible without The fishing industry has always oriented. It has not been rejected in sound data. A 100-percent observer been important to America, providing the marketplace-it has never got its program is· a necessary step in the di­ valuable fooUnited States. We have got to tum H.R. 7039 can develop the markets for New England Fish Co., considered in this situation around. Americans to enjoy the fisheries prod­ our region as one of the most stable H.R. 7039 attacks this problem ucts off our shores that other nations seafood processors, has declared bank­ headon. It attacks the trade barriers now consume. If we intend to harness ruptcy and closed its doors on oper­ that foreign countries have erected by the wealth of underutilized species for ations in Oregon, Washington, and denying or cutting back on allocations the American diet-species that com­ Alaska. of our surplus fish to countries that pose 90 percent of the foreign catch in In Oregon, New England operated unduly restrict importation of U.S. our 200-mile zone-we. have got to two plants, with an annual payroll of fish and fish products. And it man­ demonstrate that intent in a strong about $1.8 million and supporting 50 dates the appointment of additional fisheries policy, one H.R. 7039 will dic­ fishing boats. Both plants were the fisheries attaches. tate. major employers in the two small Foreign fishing is another problem. I wholeheartedly endorse the con­ coastal 'Cities in which they were locat­ Foreign fishing vessels interfere with cepts contained in this bill, and I com-­ ed. The jobless rate in those two com­ U.S. boats. Foreign fishing vessels in­ mend it to my colleagues. The Ameri­ munities is grim. Difficult choices face terfere with U.S. gear. In the last year can fishing industry is in its 11th unemployed workers, many of whom Oregon black cod fishermen have filed hour. Indeed it may already be a have done nothing else in their life 33 claims for loss of pots and long- minute before midnight. We must

e This "bullet., symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 10378 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 move quickly and forcefully. The Social security, however you view its Those of us who work within the Social future of America's first industry is at appropriateness in today's economy, is Security Administration have long been stake.e one of this Nation's success stories proud of the effectiveness and efictency of our agency. It has been particularly frus­ from the administrative standpoint. trating to us that the press and the public, With a national accuracy rate of 96 in their generalized criticism of federal EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH percent and an administrative cost of MAKES ITS ANTIABORTION agencies and employees, appear to be un­ less than 2 percent, there are very few aware of the fact that the Social Security STAND CLEAR who could fault this program on its de­ Administration, which will be responsible livery to the people. The Joliet, Ill., for one-quarter of the national budget this· HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK office is to be particularly commended year, operates at less than a 2. percen~ ad­ or omo for its delivery service to the local ministrative cost margin and achieves a 96 percent payment accuracy rate in its pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES area. The Joliet Office ranked first in grams. As was pointed out in our meeting, Wednesda"'• Ma"' 7., 1980 performance out of 12 districts in the the cost efficiency and operational effective.­ H: s central IDinois area. In achieving this ness of our agency are unmatched, to my e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, ranking, ·that office demonstrated a knowledge, by any private industry or gov­ there is nothing unusual about a 99-percent-accuracy rate in processing ernment agency in the world. church disagreeing on a particular SSl claims and a 98.8-percent-accuracy Naturally, my staff was happy with your moral point with the public position of rate in processing retirement benefit acknowledgement of the efficiency of Social one.. of its members on the political claims. In addition. there are several Security Administration, nationally, and of the Joliet district office, locally, in serving scene. The whites-only membership other areas in which they achieved your constituents. We concurred fully with policy of Mr. Carter's home church, or outstanding results. At ·this point, I your observation that it is time the Ameri­ the exclusion of blacks from higher would like to include in the RECORD a can public ceases its preoccupation with the levels of the Mormons, which Mr. letter I received from Mr. james H. faults in our society and government and Romney regretted during his political Becker, district manager of the Joliet begins to recognize and take pride in our career are two recent examples. A · office, so that all may see that social strengths-one of which is our agency .. recent article in the Evangelical security employees, especially those in Prior to the close of our meeting, you Be'acon, published by the Evangelical Joliet, work to provide others with the asked that I provide you with a copy of the data used by Mr. Budney in his presentation Free Church, says it is "very clear that very best public seivice. of awards to six of my staff, so that you Representative ANDERSON does not SociAL SECURITY ADIIIIUsTRAnox. could read this information into the con­ represent the consensus of opinion in Joliet, Ill., March 25,1980. gressional record and have it placed in an the free church in regard to his pro- Hon. GEORGE O'BRIEN, article in the Joliet newspaper. Attached, choice views on abortion." The impor- Member, u.s. House of Representatives, 101 for use, is a copy of that data. tant point here is not the fact that his N. Joliet Street. Joliet, Ill. In closing, let me thank you, again for church disagrees with one of Mr. AN- DEAR MR. O'BRIEN: Thank you for taking your presentation to my staff. I will look DERSON's specific stands. The real the time from your busy schedule to partici· forward to our next meeting with pleasure. pate in our staff meeting last week. Your Sincerely, point is that it is not exclusively presentation was candid, informational and JAKES H. BECKER, Catholic proabortion legislators who much appreciated by everyone involved. District Manager. have this difference with their church. The stereotyping of prolife movement PERFORMANCE.OF SSA AND THE JOLIET DISTRICT OFFicE as Catholic is dangerous and insulting OVERAll SSA ANANCIAl PERFORMANCE-ASCAl YEAR 1978 to all of us of every faith. and it is -for this reason that the Evangelical $98,500,000,000 Beacon article should be regarded as t:b~:: =!:'SSI~-~-~.:~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::=::::::::==:::::=;:::::::::::::::::::::::=:::::=::=:::::::::::::::=:=:::::::::::::::::::: 1,990,000,000 particularly significant. Total funds spent (RSOI and SSI) ·····-··-······-··--···------··-···-······-·········-··· ...... 100,490,000,000 I was enraged some time ago when the Congressional Quarterly, in listing Pl!rtent spent for Administration ...... _...... - ...... - ...... - ...... _...... 1.99 congressional votes on abortion-relat­ ed issues, had a special marking for ADMINISTRATIVE PERFORMANCE-FEBRUARY 1980 Members who were Roman Catholic. Singling out political figures on the National performance Dlicago region Central Illinois area Joliet cistrict 1 basis of tbeir religious affiliation is something our Founding Fathers re­ ~ :l: =:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~:~ ::L:::::::: ~~:~ ::L::::::::: ~U =:t::::::::::::: ~ : ~ r:::t jected two centuries ago. When it RSI claims =processing time (application to payment) ...... _. ___ 31.9 days...... 30.6 days...... -...... 31.6 days._,.,.,...... 27.1 days. DIB claims proces$ing time (D.O. to State) ...... -...... - ...... 7.0 day's ._,,,____ ,. 6.3 days ...... -- ... 6.2 days .. _...... 3.5 days. raises its head today. then it must be SS1A claims processing time (applicatiJR to payment) , __ ,,_,,_,,, 111 days...... -·-·-· 16.9 days. .... - ... - ... 14.4 days.._:...... 10.5 days. attacked. repeatedly and single-mind­ SSI BID claims processing time (D.O. to State) .. -···---.. ---· 8.5 days ...... 7.5 days ...... __ 6.6 days ...... - •• 5.2 days. edly, until it crawls back under a rock Pbstentitlement actions processed in 30 days ...... - ...... _.,_.. ,_.. _ 93.0 percent. .... _...... 95.4 percent...... 98.0 percent.._ .... ,_.. 100 percent where it belongs.e • Note: The Joliet Disbict Office ranked 1st in performance out ~ 12 districts in the central Ulinois area. e

JOLIET, ILL., SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE COMMENDATION DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION One, I am going on the· stump around the country to elevate the consciousness of HON. GEORGE M. O'BRIEN Americans about what-classroom teachers HONi WIWAM E. DANNEMEYER do, to provide a greater sense of value for Or ILLINOIS classroom teachers. On a longer range, I am IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES or CALil"'RNIA hopeful that we can encourage regional con­ Wednesday, May.?, 1980 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ferences with various elements of the educa­ Wednesday, May 7, 1980 tion community to begin to address the • Mr. O'BRIEN. Mr. Speaker, too problems "whole." I want them to start often we Americans tend to be preoc- • Mr. DANNEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, ta.lldng to each other. In order to get hold cupied with the problems and faults of the new Department of Education. of the paperwork burden we have to know our Nation and fail to recoptize and which opens its doors today, has who's putting the burden on-which agen­ take pride in the many strengths and placed on its seal an· acorn embedded cies. good programs we have. Recently, I in an oak tree. What the designers of That last statement about looking had the opportunity to meet informal- that seal forgot is that nothing grows for culpable agencies is like a man ly with the Social Security Adminis- in Washington except bureaucracies. standing in the middle of a bam tration's district office in Joliet, m.. to Excerpts from a recent conversation ·asking where is the smell coming from. discuss its local operation as well as with ·the new Secretary of Education A change of five votes in the House the national social security program. ·reveal the truth of that statement: last July would ·have scuttled the new May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10379 agency. Now that it is in business, MR. CARTER'S FAMILY PLANS band as wage-earner, the housewife mother, what should we demand from an Ronald Reagan, contends the President has CeQter for the Study of the Family and the If 12 or 1,500 schools are to be placed "paid only lip service to the family." An ad­ State, "inflation has a devastating effect on under .one general administration, an atten­ ministration adviser. Columbia University families, especially those on fixed incomes." tion so divided will amount to a dereliction sociologist Amitai Etzioni, agrees. The Even more than the dismal data, Mr. Car­ of them to themselves. It is surely better family, he says, hasn't been "an active, ter's unkept campaign pledges bother some then to place each school at once under the strong priority" with Mr. Carter. people who expected much more than the care of those most interested in its conduct. If that's true. and an examination of the President has delivered. "His rhetoric about record suggests just that, it raises some the family hasn't been translated into im­ Every administrator in the new De­ questions. One wonders, for instance, portant legislation or potent administration partment of Education should have to whether Mr. Carter's 1976 emphasis on the initiatives," contends Alfred Kahn, a Co­ write that statement 100 times.e subject merely represented a blatant exploi­ lumbia University professor of social policy. tation of the emotional content of the issue, In speech after speech in 1976, Mr. Carter as well as a means of stilling the trouble­ outlined specific "pro-family" steps he DID CANDIDATE CARTER EX­ some abortion issue. One wonders whether would take. He proposed changing the na­ PLOIT THE AMERICAN FAMILY? Mr. Carter simply discovered that in this tion's tax system to prevent discrimination capital it's easier to make a promise than aga.irist families, but he has since abandoned keep it. And, while almost every government pursuit of a major overhaul of the tax struc­ HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL decision undoubtedly has some bearing on ture. It continues to penalize married cou­ OF ILLINOIS the family, one wonders to what extent that ples by making them pay more in taxes institution can be changed by any President than they would have paid if they remained IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES or / any government policies; ·presumably, single. Wednesday, May 7, 1980 social and cultural influences count more Two years ago Congress did erase a so­ heavily. · called "anti-grandmother" tax provision e Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, in 1976, What underlies these questions and con­ that candidate Carter decried in 1976; that candidate Jimmy Cafter went around cerns? First, consider some of the statistics provision had disallowed a child-care deduc­ the country telling Americans he was Mr. Carter frequently rattled off in 1976 tion if a family employed a relative closer going to do something about the and examine what has happened since. . than a cousin to babysit, but the President's plight of the American family. A Two of every five marriages end in di­ own Treasury Department at first opposed recent article in the Wall Stref(t Jour­ vorce, he noted then; that ratio hasn't im­ the change. nal documents in specific detail what proved. The welfare system Mr. Carter criticized One child in eight was then born out of hasn't been overhauled, although he has many of us have long suspected: far marriage; it's now one in six. sought substantial cnanges. The national from doing anything beneficial for the One child in seven was living in a single­ day-care program he called for in 1976 American fafnily, President Carter's parent household in 1976; the proportion hasn't materialized, either. And the nation­ policies have contributed to its· prob­ has now become one child in five. Children al health insurance system he advocated lems. in foster homes then numbered 350,000; now isn't likely to clear Congress any time soon. As the author of the Journal article they total 500,000. Congress has been debating most of these puts it: Only one-third of U.S. families could then issues for years, so perhaps it's not surpris­ afford to buy a home; that share has since ing that the President's proposals haven't One wonders, for instance, whether Mr. plunged to less than 5 percent. passed. But in 1976 candidate Carter noted Carter's 1976 emphasis on the subject In 1976, Mr. Carter complained that the the slowness of the lawmakers on these merely represented a blatant exploitation of price of a home had risen $16,000 and mort­ measures and maintained that he could the emotional content of the issue • • •. gage interest rates had climbed 50 percent muscle his bold plans through Congress Anyone who is still not convinced during eight years of Republican White without many changes. that Jimmy Carter blatantly· exploits House rule. However, since he's been Presi­ In any case, the President has neglected the emotional content of issues just dent, the median price of an existing home to use his own authority for action to ease has jumped by $18,400 and mortgage inter­ family strains. Candidate Carter maintained has·not been paying attention lately. est rates have nearly doubled. that transfer and assignment policies in the At this point I wish to insert in the Candidate Carter also liked to talk about armed services don't consider their impact REcORD, "Mr. Carter's Family Plans" how inflation forces many . wives to seek on the military family. But there hasn't by Timothy D. Schellhardt, in the paying jobs contributing to the disintegra­ been any major move to alter them since Wall Street Journal, May 1, 1980: tion of the "traditional" family~the hus- 1976. He also decried urban renewal pro- 10380 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 grams that uproot homes, families and establish criminal penalties for anyone to look only to the East for help, it will entire neighborhoods. Yet no discernible who acts violently toward a firefighter surely become that much easier to tum East changes have followed. during the discharge of his or her · also for ideology. The longer Congress dith­ AN OFFICE FOR FAMILIES duties. -- ers about honoring last fall's aid pledge; the more it demoralizes and~ yes, betrays, the Last October, President Carter announced I am particularly proud of the Ham- Nicaraguan democrats whose political lives that the Department of Health, Education burg volunteers because they are my and property are crucially at stake.e and Welfare was creating an office for fami­ lies. Yet six months later, that office has no neighbors and friends. Ever since I director, only one professional staffer and first came to the Buffalo area in 1962 l no funds for action this year. have lived with my wife and family in WASHINGTON AND THE NEW Mr. Carter has been three years late in Hamburg, and our fire department is ILLITERACY fulfilling one oft-repeated 1976 promise: the among the finest in the Nation. I am convening of a White House Conference on personally grateful to all the men and Families soon after becoming President. women who do so much for our com- HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK Such a conference will be held this summer­ munity.e · OF OHIO in three cities, but expectations for results aren't high. The planners can't even agree IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on a definition of "family," and delegate-se­ INCONSISTENCY ON NICARAGUA Wednesday, May 7, 1980 lection conventions in several states have become nasty confrontations between inter· e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, est groups, mainly pro- and anti-abortion HON. LEE H. HAMILTON today is Salute to Learning Day, a advocates. OF INDIANA White House media hype celebrating The White House conference, administra· IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the birth of the new Department of tion consultant Etzioni says, "isn't going ·to Education. Tonight's evening news will be successful." Acknowledges another ad­ Wednesday, May 7, 1980 undoubtedly show scenes of Preside·nt ministration official: "We wish the whole thing would go away. It's been a night· e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, Carter on the White House lawn, mare." today's issue of the New York Times boasting about how he has spent more Certainly, Mr. Carter can't be faulted for carries a succinct editorial critical of on Federal education programs than expressing concern about th'e erosion of Congress' delay in providing . aid to any previous President. family values and structure. Furthermore, war-ravaged Nicaragua. Entitled I wish Mr. Carter would stop and the question of the government's proper "Managua. Go-Round," the editorial take a look at what is really happened role in influencing family life is worth con­ points out the inconsistency of at­ to learning under these programs he is sidering. tempting to foster democracy in Nica­ But through indifference or inability to so proud of. The annual Gallup educa­ fulfill expectations he raised in 1976, Jimmy ragua by turning a deaf ear to the tion poll shows that public confidence Carter may have seriously hurt the chances pleas of that nation's private sector. I in the schools is at an all-time low, for any meaningful future dialogue on the insert the editorial into the CoNGRES­ surveys by the education community family by presidential candidates. · The SIONAL RECORD for the benefit and use show that the most talented teachers public may distrust whatever the politicians of my colleagues: and principals are quitting- their jobs say. MANAGUA GQ-ROUND out of sheer frustration, and test And that's a shame.e Congress is going round and round on leg­ scores show that the academic islation meant to help democratic forces in achievement of high school seniors THE lOOTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE Nicaragua, in a dizzy display of circular rea­ has fallen steadily ever since the mid- HAMBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE soning. 1960's.lf a private corporation had the Both the Senate and House have ap. kind of track record that the Federal DEPARTMENT proved a long-promised $75-million aid pack­ age, but· a conference committee is needed Government has in education, it. would HON. JACK F. KEMP to reconcile differences in language. What is be sued for consumer fraud. normally a routine step, the appointment of Defenders of these programs act like OF NEW YORK conferees, seems destined to provoke yet an­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Soviet Ministers of Agriculture other whirl in the House. who claim that Russia has had 63 con­ Wednesday, .May 7, 1980 When it comes to Managua, some mem­ secutive years of bad weather. They bers of Congress can see only Red. They blame everyone and everything but e Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, on the argue that a Communist takeover in Nicara­ evening of June 11 the Hamburg Vol­ gua is inevitable, because Washington re­ ·themselves-for example, television. unteer Fire Department will hold its fused to hunker down with the bankrupt The trouble with that explanation is annual inspection of firefighting and and corrupt Somoza dictatorship. Now, by that test scores were actually rising in rescue equipment. This public event deliberately stalling on aid for Nicaragua's the late 1950's and early 1960's, when commemorates the department's private sector, they are, in effect, hastening television was becoming a universal 100th year of service to the western the realization of their worst fears. Mean­ habit. But· in 1965 President Lyndon New York community. while, they shout "Aha!" and "We told you Johnson created the U.S. Office of Volunteer firefighters provide a vital sol" and almost exult at every apparent re­ Education, and the test scores have verse for Nicaragua'$ democrats. been going downhill ever since. service to our communities at consid­ The most recent such alarm was over the erable risk to their own safety and life. resignation of two leading nQn-Communists, It is hard to see how this new De­ Yet many times we do not realize the Alfonzo Robelo and Violetta Chomoro, from partment of Education will be able to major expense associated with orga­ Managua's ruling junta. But the doom· improve on this performance, since nizing and maintaining our country's sayers ignore a corollary fact-that the the only important change from the volunteer fire forces. junta has agreed to let the private sector fill old Office of Education is that the Volunteer fire departments face the vacancies. And they overlook the pri­ boss gets to attend Cabinet meetings. vate sector's campaign to commit the junta high costs in the purchase of firefight­ to free elections. There are 378 senior positions in the ing equipment. Inflation has multi­ The political direction of Nicaragua is far new Department, of which 356 will be plied their costs dramatically. Fire­ from clear. Econoinic reality, for the filled by holdovers from the previous fighters should receive an income tax moment, strengthens the private sector. An structure. In your local school it is deduction for the clothes they buy for insolvent and war-stricke~ country needs possible to flunk people who do not firefighting. Nonprofit volunteer fire­ foreign credits. The Soviet bloc is holding learn, but not in the Washington bu­ fighting organizations should receive back on aid until the revolution's direction reaucracy. an exemption from Federal excise is more to its liking. The only significant help now comes from Nicaragua's Latin If the President wants to improve taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, auto­ neighbors and Western Europe. learning instead of just saluting it, let motive parts, and communication serv­ No amount of outside help'can guarantee him judge these programs by their ices. I have supported legislative ef­ that democratic forces will prevail. But does actual results instead of their prom­ forts now in Congress to achieve these the United States not wish to try to help ises. If he uses academic excellence as ends, and I have cosponsored a bill to them? U the revolutionary regime is forced the standard of judgment, he will find May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10381 that there is very little reason to cele­ 3. Do you favor or Dppose public financing be decided on the State rather than the na­ of primary and general elections for the tional level. brate today·• House and the Senate, as Presidential pri· 9. Do you approve or disapprove of in­ maries and elections are not financed? creasing the Nation's defense budget? CONSTITUENTS FROM PENNSYL­ Favor, 42 percent; oppose~ 50 percent; no Approve, 77 percent; disapprove, 19 per­ VANIA'S FOURTH DISTRICT response, 8 percent. cent; no response, 4 percent. VOICE OPINIONS ON KEY I believe public financing for congression­ The United States must be second to none al elections would be beneficial to our elec­ when it comes to defending our national in­ ISSUES tion process because it would allow candi­ terests. As a member of the House Armed dates to act independently of pressure Services Committee, I am doing all I can to HON.CHARLESF.DOUGHERTY groups and in the best interest of the insure that the Department -of Defense made every dollar count in terms of man­ OF PENNSYLVANIA people. · 4. Do you favor or oppose the Federal power training and weapons procurement. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIV~S Government giving financial assistance to Necessary increased spending for national Wednesday, May 7, 1980 parents who send their children to nonpub- defense does not conflict with economic sta• lic schools? · bility. Our economy is dependent upon e Mr. DOUGHERTY. Mr. Speaker, in Favor, 56 percent; oppose, 43 percent; no world trade, access to both raw materials February I mailed to all households in response, 1 percent. and foreign markets, and safe, secure sea the Fourth Congressional District of School pluralism-the existence of both lanes. Pennsylvania a questionnaire seeking public and nonpublic schools-is an Ameri­ 10. · Have recent world events changed public opinion on major national can tradition which has historically offered your opinion about the defense budget? issues. More than 6,500 of my constitu­ parents alternatives in schools for their Yes, 65 percent; no, 33 percent; no re­ children and has enriched our national life sponse, 2 percent. ents took the time to respond. Many Our defense effort cannot be related to of them included thoughtful com­ and culture. Because of my belief that equal educational opportunity should be available what we would like to do but rather to what ments which ·provided .me with addi· for all of America's young people, I have in­ actions by the Soviet Union require us to do. tional insight into the concerns of the troduced legislation to extend educational Soviet aggression in recent months has in­ people I represent in Congress. grants to the families of elementary and creased the determination of Americans to Perhaps the most significant mes­ secondary age children who choose to do whatever is necessary to protect our na­ sage from the Fourth Congressional attend non-public schools. tional security. District is that people are intensely 5. Do you favor or oppose busing children 11. Should the United States continue to to achieve racial balance in the schools? honor its commitment to Israel not to recog­ concerned with the problems of nize the PLO until the PLO recognizes the energy and inflation and the state of Favor, 5 percent; oppose, 94 percent; no independence of Israel? our national defense. In addition, our response, 1 percent. Yes, '12 percent; no, 20 percent; no re­ Forced busing of school children is the citizens are troubled about what they wrong way to solve the segregation problem. sponse, 8 percent. perceive to be the inability of their na­ Busing has not worked out and has, in fact, Israel was created and recognized as an in­ tional leaders to find adequate solu­ contributed to the decay and further segre­ dependent nation by the United Nations. tions to the complex problems which gation of many school districts as well as to The United States must continue to honor face America today. This lack of confi­ our commitment to Israel and not engage in the flight of families from urban areas. any relationship with the PLO until the dence in Government is a clear chal­ Compelling a student to attend a public PLO and the Arab States formally recognize lenge to those of us who serve in Con­ school other than the one nearest his resi­ the existence of Israel as a free and inde­ gress to search more diligently for dence can only lead to the ruin of public pendent nation with guaranteed and se­ ways to meet the needs of the people education in the United States. cured borders. we represent. 6. As you know, the United States has 12. Do you think that all young men of I would like to share the results of begun diplomatic relations with Communist military age should be registered with the China. Do you generally approve or disap. federal government to be available for the my public opinion survey with my col­ prove of this step in our foreign policy? leagues. The questions I asked, the an­ draft? Approve, 84 percent; disapprove, 12 per­ Yes, '19 percent; no, 1'1 percent; no re­ swers I received, and my comments cent; no response, 4 percent. sponse, 4 percent. ·follow: I agree with 84 percent of those who re­ As a member of the House Armed Services 1. Would you favor or oppose ·changing sponded that diplomatic relations with Red Committee, I voted with my colleagues to the Constitution to have the President serve China are necessary. We must, however, amend the Defense Authorization bill to only one 6-year term instead of two 4-year take every necessary step to insure the con­ provide for the registration of all eighteen terms? tinued existence of the Republic of China year old men effective January 1, 1981. A ·Favor, 31 percent; oppose, 66 percent; no on Taiwan as a free, secure and independent strong defense posture is essential to our response, 3 percent. nation. survival as a nation. An effective stand-by Those who favor limiting the President to '1. Do you approve or disapprove of the de­ draft mechanism is a necessary guarantor of one 6-year term say that this would allow cision to ask for a boycott of the 1980 Olym- our national security under an All-Volun­ the President to serve more effectively since pics ~ Moscow? · teer Force. he would not be concerned about his reelec­ Approve, 82 percent; disapprove, 15 per­ 13. If a draft were to become necessary, tion. ,Along with 66 percent of those who an­ ..cent; no response, 3 percent. should young women be required to partici­ swered my questionnaire, I am opposed to a In view of the Soviet aggression in Af­ pate as well as young men? one-term presidency because it would ghanistan, I support the President's deci­ Yes, 57 percent; no, 39 percent; no re­ remove the President from accountability to sion to boycott the 1980 Olympics in sponse, 4 percent. the people as is now required when he Moscow. We should not feast at the table of Women should not be included in theSe­ stands for ·reelection. a known criminal. Just as there are other lective Service System at this time. Govern­ 2. Do you favor or oppose an amendment places to eat, there are other places to hold ment studies clearly ·show that there is no to the Constitution which would require the 1980 Summer Games. I have cospon­ military reason for such an ·action. In case that the Federal budget keep income and sored legislation which requests games here of a national emergency a sufficient number expenses in balance? in the United States if an alternative site is of women would enlist in the service to fill Favor, 83 percent; <>ppose, 13 percent; no not chosen by the Olympics Committee for available noncombat positions. response, 4 percent. these valuable international events. 14. Do you think the Federal Government I strongly support efforts to reduce Feder­ 8. Do you approve or disapprove of per­ should pay any of the cost of an elective al spending by cutting waste and duplica­ mitting prayer in public schools? abortion? tion. However, in our efforts to balance the Approve, 84 percent; disapprove, 13 per­ Yes, 19 percent; no, 78 percent; no re­ Federal budget, we must address long-term cent; no response, 3 percent. sponse, 3 percent. issues and not just immediate solutions. I am in favor of permitting periods of Throughout my public life, I have had a Hasty actions may have a devastating meditation in public schools with participa­ strong prolife commitment. I have cospon­ impact on our local governments, weaken tion on a voluntary basis. While Congress is sored a proposal to amend the Constitution our defense efforts, and do a great deal of prohibited by the First Amendment to the to guarantee the rlght·to life of the unborn harm to vital programs for our senior citi­ Constitution from passing laws "concerning child. zens, children with special needs, and the establishment of religion or prohibiting 15. Do you support construction of feder­ others. We should couple reduced Govern­ the free exercise thereof", I support legisla­ ally subsidized housing in your neighbor­ ment spending with a gradual movement tion which would allow the basic moral hood for those on fixed incomes-the poor toward a balanced budget. question of prayer in the public schools to and the elderly? 10382 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 Yes, 32 percent; no, 64 percent; no re­ Many different responses and thoughtful can slaves who migrated to West Africa sponse, 4 percent. comments were included in the answers to nearly 140 years ago to establish the coun­ The effects of the construction of low­ this last question. Respondents again listed try, seemed no more oppressive to me than income housing upon a stable neighbor­ problems of national defense, energy and in­ the white Rhodeslans must have seemed to hood-homes, schools, and businesses-are flation. A large number of responses indicat­ a white American visitor. The thing about profound and hannful. After careful study ed a serious lack of confidence in govern­ being a successful oppressor is that you of all aspects of section 8 housing, I am on ment and a deep concern about a lack of in· don't have to work at oppression. You go record strongly opposing section 8 housing tegrity and honesty on the part of some right on being a businessman, a government developments in Northeast Philadelphia. elected officials. Again, my own opinions are official, a shopkeeper, a family man-no 16. Should we have a national program of similar to those of my constituents who re­ better or worse than your counterpart any­ health insurance giving medical and hospi­ sponded to my questionnaire. where in the world. tal care to everyone, with the government But the Americo-Liberians certainly were paying part of the CQst? Mr. Speaker, I am indeed grateful to viewed as oppressors by the indigenous Li­ Yes, 59 percent; no, 36 percent; no re­ those of my constituents who took tlte berians-and to a degree unsuspected even sponse, 5 percent. time to share with me their opinions. . by knowledgeable Americans. Changes in the present health care system Knowing what the people in my dis­ I've talked recently to an American just are necessary to provide the best in health trict think about the key issues is returned from Monrovia. "I have to say I services at the lowest cost with the least helpful to me in my effort to serve my wasn't aware of the intensity of the amount of federal bureaucracy. My question constituents effectively in Congress. I hatred," he told me. "Even the Americas are is whether a national health insurance is trust that my colleagues will also .saying they didn't realize they were hated the answer. I am closely examining a wide benefit from the results of my 1980 so much. variety of proposals before the Congress "I worked in an office that employed both concerning a good plan for national health questionnaire.• Americas and indigenous people, and I have insurance. been amazed at the hostility. After the 17. Which do you think presents the THE PAINFUL TRUTH ABOUT coup, they started referring to the Americas greater risk to our Nation-the presence of as 'settlers' and treating them really coldly. nuclear power plants or the energy shortage LIBERIA I heard several of them say they hoped all that would result if these plants were 91 would be closed? HON.EDWARDJ.DER~NS~ executed. 'You don't 1 know what they've Nuclear plants, 36 percent; energy short­ OP ILLINOIS done to us for 137 years,' they would tell age, 59 percent; no response, 5 percent. me. The safety of nuclear energy 1$ being se­ IN ~ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "I'd see them looking at the newspaper verely scrutinized by the 96th Congress. I We4nesday, May 7, 1980 pictures of the executions, and they'd be believe that nuclear energy is necessary in smiling." the immediate future to supplement dwin­ e Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, it This unsuspected reservoir of hatred, no dling supplies of petroleum. In the long run, seems that the media and especially doubt, accounts for the post-coup excesses however, we must develop other sources of the Washington press corps are so of the present rulers. But it &.lso casts a pall energy and giadually phase out nuclear thoroughly wrapped up with the U.S. over the revolution, even for those who ac­ power production. political scene and events in Iran that knowledge the justice of the coup. 18. If the decision has to be made between little attention has been directed to Randall Robinson, executive director of somewhat dirtier air through the use of our the pro-Africa lobby Transafrica, sent a ample coal supplies and less dependence on the tragic developments in Liberia. I wish to insert a column by William cable to the provisional head of govern­ foreign oil, which would you choose-the ment, Sgt. Samuel Doe, warning of the risk use of coal or continued dependence on for- Raspberry, which appeared in the of supplanting oppression with mindless eign oil? . May 6 edition of the Chicago Tribune, brutality. Coal, 92 percent; foreign oil, 5 percent; no entitled "The Painful Truth About Li­ Robinson's message dealt less with the response, 3 percent. beria," which brings to light the mutilation of bodies and the circus atmos­ Our energy shortage is so critical that we recent events in Liberia: phere surrounding the executions than with do not have the luxury of choosing which the summary justice of the military tribu· energy source to use; we need them all. And THE PAINPUL TRUTH ABOUT LIBERIA . Of the highest tatively measure the human health tively treated with ampicillin. significance is the fact that R-plas- risks could not be realized or even ap­ Also, 85 percent of all enteropatho­ mids are found in and transferred be- proximated because of insurmountable genic E. con. one of the most common tween disease causing pathogens and technical difficulties. causes of human dysentery, have been nondisease causing The Office of Technology Assess~ shown to be completely or partially re­ bacteria. Thus drug resistant nonpath- ment has previously analyzed sistant to nine of the most common ogens serve as a virtually inexhaust- the risks and benefits of subtherapeu­ human therapeutic antibiotics. ible and ubiquitous reservoir of drug tic levels. In a July 1979 report, OTA This brief list provides but a glimpse resistance genes, which can be trans- concluded that the health riSks from at mounting · evidence which docu­ ferred to pathogens. Moreover, plas- the development of bacterial resist­ ments that once powerful antibiotics mid mediated resistance provides the ance to antibiotics in feed are of great­ have been rendered impotent. vehicle for simultaneous transfer of er concern than the risks of cancer But. what has caused this deteriora­ resistance to one or more antibiotics. from ·diethylstilbestrol , as used tion? In the broadest sense it is the This phenomenon is poignantly de- in livestock practices. Skeptical voices antibiotics themselves. An antibiotic is picted in the changing resistance pat- are further muted by evidence which a form of therapy that not only eliml­ terns of Salmonella. In 1967, less than appeared in the February 8, 1980, nates disease-causing and non-disease­ 1 percent of Salmonella strains exhib- Journal of the American Medical Asso­ causing bacteria sensitive to. it, but, at ited concurrent resistance to siX or elation . verifying the spread the same time· enhances the survival more antibiotics; yet only 8 years of a drug-resistant Salmonella lnfec­ and subsequent propagation of any later. that figure had increased to · tion in anfma.Js, whose feed contained bacteria resistant to it. Moreover, no alniost 10 percent. The figure today is antibiotics in subtherapeutic doses. to antibiotic is 100-percent effective surely higher. a hospitalized human population. against a particular organism. Hence, Human and veterinary infections, As previously noted, the paramount those bacteria that escape antibiotic which once were effectively treated by and overriding concern of those sup­ action are favored for subsequent penicillin and/or tetracycline, now re- porting the unqualified use of antibi­ dominance within the bacterial popu­ quire more aggressive therapy. with otics in animal feeds is that there is lation. All too often. what is predicted antibiotics that frequently present an not precise quantification of the risk. in theory occurs in practice. The con­ increased toxic risk. Ironically, however, OTA has noted tinuous and indiscriminate use of anti­ The growing obsolescence of crucial that once at the point when signifi­ biotics promotes the survival of drug therapeutic antibiotics has exerted in- cant effects on human and animal resistant disease-causing bacteria. In creased pressure to· develop substi- health become widely observable and recognition of these facts, respect tutes. Unfortunately, a declining rate _quantifia)lle, it may be too late to ad­ must be shown for the untoward and of discovery of new antibiotics suggest dress the problem. In short, the ef­ deleterioUs effects which inevitably that they are, like fossil fuels. an ex- fects may well be irreversible. occur wherever and whenever antibi­ haustible resource. The proliferation In the name of insurjng the future otics are not used in exacting, prudent, of bacterial resistance mechanisms not health and welfare of the American and discriminating manner. only has vastly increased the costs of people by preserving the efficacy of Despite the cautions. caveats and innovation. but has forced the use of human therapeutic antibiotics, the contraindications attendant to antibi­ succeeding waves of expensively devel- time for action is now, before we are otic usage, more than 40 percent of oped riew antibiotics, which aecount faced with a quantifiable tragedy. many antibiotics manufactured in this for most of the antibiotic dollar Toward this end we introduce and country are used in a practice that is volume in this country. urge the ready passage of the Antibi- anything but exacting and discrimi­ As with any complex scientific issue otics Preservation Act. nate. The practice to which we refer, involving human health effects, uncer- The intent of the bill is clear. basic, of course, is the continuous adminis­ tainties exist. Skeptics of restricted and speaks to the utmost level of com­ tration and consumption of subthera­ antibiotic use in animal feed are quick monsense within us-remove human peutic doses of antibiotics for the pur­ to point out that cllnical abuses of therapeutic antibiotics from animal pose of growth promotion in livestocL antibiotics contribute to the problem feed and replace them with those ap- 10384 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 proved animal feed antibiotics. This Section 501<1> of such Act <21 THE VIETNAM VET: SINCE initiative not only will permit livestock U.S.C. 35l<1» is amended by inserting VIETNAM producers to enjoy the benefits of before the period the following: "; or <7> if it antibiotics, but moreover, will reserve is an animal feed or an ingredient of an the penicillins and tetracyclines of animal feed -bearing or containing in sub­ HON. THOMAS A. DASCHLE therapeutic doses an antibiotic drug desig­ OF SOUTH DAKOTA this world for their primary mission of nated under section 507(i) and the use of saving human lives and curing disease the drug has not been authorized by an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in both man and animals. order issued under such section"·• Wednesday, May 7, 1980 We urge our colleagues to join in consponsoring this long overdue meas­ • Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. Speaker, the ure. following article, by Sandy Rovner, ex­ The text of the bill follows: LUIS MUNOZ MARIN plains the difficulties Vietnam veter­ ans are still having as a result of their H.R.- participation in the Vietnam war. The A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and HON. CARDISS COWNS hostility and bitterness they feel Cosmetic Act to limit the antibiotic drugs OF ILLINOIS which may be used in subtherapeutic toward the Veterans' Administration doses in animal feed IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE$ is one of the main reasons that myself Wednesday, May 7, 1980 and others fought unsuccessfully in Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 1979 to have the VA's outreach pro­ Representatives of the United States of e Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois. Mr. gram for victims of delayed stress con­ America in Congress assembled, That this Speaker, I would like to take this op­ Act may be cited as the "Antibiotics Preser­ tracted out to private community vation Act". portunity to express sorrow over the based mental health centers. Unfortu­ SEC. 2. The Congress finds- death of Luis Munoz Marin, the nately, there are many others out <1> those antibiotics; particularly penicil­ former Governor of Puerto Rico. there who will refuse to utilize the lins and tetracyclines, which are the drugs This man was dedicated to the well­ VA's facilities and instead are forced of choice for use in humans against numer­ being of Puerto Rico's people. Later in to pay for outside counseling or even ous infectious diseases are also the primary his life he was quoted as saying, "My go without, oftentimes with tragic con­ antibiotics for use in animal- feeds in sub- principal interest is the economic therapeutic amounts;. · sequences. status of the poor." During his four Another criticism of the new Out­ <2> the continuous use of these and other terms as· Governor, he established the antibiotics in subtherapeutic amounts has reach effort is that there is nothing resulted in the development of pathogenic Popular Democratic Party, and over­ the center offers other than counsel­ bacteria in animals that are singly and mul­ saw the writing of a constitution that ing. There is no meaningful employ­ tiply resistant to such antibiotics; gave 2.2 million Puerto Ricans U.S. ment program available to provide the <3> such pathogenic bacteria are then citizenship and financial aid, the U.S. necessary linkage the vet centers so transmitted to humans where they colonize currency and mails. badly need. This is especially impor­ and cause diseases for which there complishments was his Operation is virtually no effective antibiotic· treatment; been delimited from their GI bill edu­ Bootstrap program. This program cation allowance. <4> the Office of Technology Assessment helped transform Puerto Rico's agrar­ in its report, "Drugs in Livestock Feed", This is why members of the House .concluded that the health risk to humans ian society into an industrial one. It Veterans' AffairS Committee must from the development of pathogenic bacte­ also improved educational and electri­ pass a meaningful employment pro­ ria resistant to antibiotics is greater than cal facilities. gram,. along the lines that Mrs. HECK· the risk of cancer presented by the use of These enrichments inStigated by the LER or myself have introduced. diethylstilbestrol in animal feed; Governor's program gave reason for Though the veterans in Ms. Rovner's <5> to avoid this risk to human health sev­ many people to compare him with story are employed, the facts are that eral Western European countries have for a Franklin Roosevelt. number of years restricted the use of antibi­ unemployment is still high among otics in subtherapeutic amounts in animal One of his greatest concerns was for blacks and other minorities and that feed; and Puerto Rico to remain a Common­ underemployment is a serious problem <6 > the adoption of such a restriction in wealth. He felt that humiliation would among all Vietnam veterans. A mean­ this country will protect the public health be brought upon all Puerto Ricans if ingful employment program might do by preserving the efficacy of human antibi­ the U.S. Congress ever rejected a re­ a lot in convincing Vietnam veterans otics and will not hinder the raising of live- . quest from his island to become a that despite the tardiness of the cur­ stock because there are numerous approved State. Until the end of his life, he rent effort and the shambles of other substitutes for the human antibiotics cur­ worked against this idea of statehood. rently used in animal feeds. employment programs for veterans, SEc. 3. < 1 > Section 507 of the Federal Governor Marin was also noted for Americans do care and desire to reha­ Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act <21. U.S.C. being a poet. He was nicknamed "the bilitate Vietnam veterans to the full­ 357> is amended by adding at the end the Bard" and enjoyed being referred to as est extent imaginable. following: a poet-leader. I would like to share The article follows: "(i) To provide reasonable assurance of with· you a poem that was written SINCE VIETNAM: YEARS OF"QUIET the continued effectiveness in humans of about this man. DESPERATION antibiotic drugs, the Secretary shall desig­ THE WISEMAN nate, by regulation, antibiotic drugs which may not be used in subtherapeutic doses in animal feed Is not more pale, any different from anybody else, these­ or in ingredients of animal feed. The Secre­ Nor thin mist under an arc-light handsome young men, bent on the business tary may, upon application and by order, When the wires fail; of their lives. They are in their 30s, none authorize the use of an antibiotic drug des­ Timid love in a weak one older than 35. Most have had some college ignated under this subsection in an animal Is not more still, education. Some have postgraduate degrees. feed or in ingredients of an animal feed if Nor dead grass in a sleek sun They are mostly on fast career tracks, more the Secretary determines such use is re­ By a dried-up rill; successful than not in their chosen profes­ quired to meet a compelling need.". sions. Sure, they're loners, but then, that is <2> Not later than one· hundred and eighty The whole of the rocked sphere a matter of choice, isn't it? They themselves days after the date of the enactment of this Is not more wise- might have told you Act, the Secretary of Health, Education, Than the man who is boxed here, that indeed it is-assuming, of course, they and WeUare shall first promulgate the regu­ With his closed eyes! would have discussed it with you at all. lation prescribed by section 507(1) of the They are as different from one another as Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act desig­ In closing Mr. Speaker, I would like random individuals can be, these bright nating antibiotic drugs which may not be to commemorate "the Bard" for his young men. But there are some basic used in subtherapeutic doses in animal feed dedication to the people of Puerto common traits: They are all Vietnam veter­ or in ingredients of animal feed. Rico.e ans. And there is something else: They are May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10385 survivors. They came back without apparent "Because," says Bob, "people [in a war] Dave and Peter, are outspokenly bitter disablement. . . . get killed everyday. Just like somebody's about the VA and determined to stay as far Their lives have gone on for the past 10 there one minute and then they're gone and away as possible from an operation they years or so, and gone on rather well, an un· if you really care about them you can't feel betrayed them. In addition, the VA pro­ critical eye might judge. But some of them handle it. I had a really good friend that I'd gram is still bound in developing protocols are beginning to recognize that something is -gone through basic training with . . . and and bureaucracy, they feel. So the Jay pro­ not quite right, that. perhaps, they should you know I really spent a lot of time with gram is separate and private. the fees paid be-at very least-numbered among Thor­ him. You're out in the jungle and there's by the individuals. eau's "mass of men [who] lead lives of quiet not much to do except sit around and shoot Says Jay, a Ph.D. in psychology, "Anyone desperation.... " Others-no one is sure the breeze . . . so I got pretty close to this who was in Vietnam had a very full, rich ex­ how many-are discovering that the quiet guy and one day he got killed standing right perience including, at one extreme, experi­ desperation is building up into more explo­ next to me and ... after that I just real­ ences that were absolutely horrifying, terri­ sive channels. It is a syndrome the experts ized you can't get close to people. fying, traumatic-going through day to day are calling "delayed stress.'' "And that works pretty good. but it's hard with the continuing presence of death or "You can see it in lives that· appear suc­ to lose that. Once you've got"'that defense the possibility of being killed, through expe­ cessfut'," says Steve Chapman of the Viet­ mechanism working for. you it's very diffi­ riences that were intense uses of power, in­ nam Veterans of America. "It's a sense of cult to break it down. And I think that's tense feelings of camaraderie between having been abused and having had their pretty much a consensus. You know, we people depending on one another. But what­ beliefs trashed on." don't get close to people. And we don't let ever happened-and a lot happened­ This is a story about three of those young people touch us and we don't touch them, stopped with an abruptness that is unusual men who served in Vietnam. They are typi­ you know, psychically. Someone said when in most people's lives . . . men described cal in important ways of perhaps half a mil­ he walks into a room full of people, whether their last days as being in an airfield being lion of their fellow combat veterans in that they're relatives or anything, he always bombed and having to fight their way onto saddest of wars. Each of the three was faced feels different. And the thing about it is you a plane and then once inside, there is a unexpectedly with rage and despair they are different .. .'' stewardess serving food. had been carrying around-unknowningly­ "It's not," says Dave, a photographer, who "And before they went, there had been a for about a decade. And in each case, they is 35, "the strung-out junkie who is totally lot of public debate with people polarized were-fortuitously, they now feel-directed wasted because of his war experience, but and energized around this so when they to a young psychologist and a 12-week peration. I think the greatest majority of issue. Vietnam sort of sank out of the con­ group therapy session which they have just guys experience that more than anything sciousness of America, and all those experi­ completed. else. That stuff is lurking around in the ences were relegated to something that They have been frank with each other, back of your mind all the time and I have a went on inside. There was no way of talking with themselves and with interviewers. hunch that it influences a lot we do and about it and the veterans felt a mixture of They have asked that only their first names we're just not aware of it ..." Dave works fear and blame and real suspicion about at other jobs to support his photography feeling free to discuss·it. be used. which he refers to as his "art." He is shy Peter is cool. He stayed in the Air Force and unprepossessing. There is something of "On the other hand, people didn't ask. after his return from Vietnam and was any­ the poet in him. He broke up v.ith his wife People didn't want to know. This includes body's Hollywood image of an Air Force of­ 18 months after they were married. They families, close friends, wives, parents. So ficer/gentleman. He even spent time as a had lived together for eight years before when the veterans got 'back in the world' all White House social aide. Now he is an ad­ that. But he doesn't feel that the relation­ that experience had to be dealt with . pri­ ministrative official at a large agency and ship was affected by his Vietnam experi­ vately... .'' looks as Madison Avenue as he must have ence. This kind of thing, says Jay, "creates a looked Air Force. He is tall, and his sandy­ "I'm not married," says Bob, who says he separation, and that's one of the things we red hair and moustache bespeak his Scot­ feels older than hiS 30 years but looks con­ hear, time and time again, 'I feel different tish ancestry. siderably younger. "I haven't knov.'ll too from other people.' That's a statement you He sees himself as self-possessed, disci· many to be successful [among combat vets]. also hear in other kinds of psychiatric work plined. He never married but "came close a I don't think they do too well in marriage.'' and one of the most effective things to deal few times." He always liked to have things Peter got his first clue, he realizes in ret­ with this is just providing a way for people his own way, he says. So when his control rospect, about five years ago. "It was the to start talking and give them a forum in began to crack, it came as a considerable day President Ford announced we were pull­ which they can identify those things which shock. ing out of Vietnam and you saw the guy really are not their fault, really are not pe­ He was, he recalls. in a grocery store, cash­ come out of the embassy -and fly away and culiar to them, but are something that are ing a check. It was last November. He asked he was the last American. There was some­ shared in common. And provide an opportu­ the cashier the date. The cashier "turned to thing inside of me that just tore me to nity to own those experiences which were me and he snapped, 'If you were a veteran pieces. That's when I wanted to see the theirs and disown those which had nothing you'd know what today is. It's Veteran's brass bands and everybody saying the war is to do with them ... or were much bigger Day, the 11th day of the 11th month.' He over and, well, I was realistic and I knew than them.'' was an old man and I turned on him and I that wasn't going to happen. So I thought "You have to look at the particular expe­ said, 'You son of a bitch.' and I almost well, what I'll do is I'll go to church tomor­ rience of the Vietnam veteran," Jay says. grabbed him, and I said, 'I fought in Viet­ row. And the priest [Episcopal] will say "There's a long list of things that were spe­ nam and almost got killed 50,000 times and something. He says prayers for every s.o.b. cial about the Vietnam war. but in addition you tell me that? You know why I don't re­ in Washington, you know, he'll say one for you can add those things which are common member, because this goddamed Veteran's the people who've come back from Vietnam, to all wars. It was special, first of all, be­ Day is not for us. - It's for ·you old f---s.' or who died at least. cause of the moral ambivalence and all the When I got back to my car I was huffing "He never mentioned it. Never, never men­ polarization. One did not simply go off to and puffing and hyperventilating and I tioned it. I remember as I was walking out fight a war that was just and right. There thought, 'I could have killed that man I was the door, I turned to him and I said, 'You're are a lot of terr\ble things that happen in so mad:'" a hell of a lousy priest. You know that every war, but in addition, America didn't "The big thing," says Bob, a 30-year-old 55,000 people died and you couldn't say one come out completely with a white hat. An­ medical student, "that you have to forget damn thing about it.' " other big thing that I don't think is dealt how to do when you go to war is this: You "I didn't wait for an answer, and I knew at with directly enough is that we lost the war. have to forget how to love people.'' that moment I had a lot of anger in me that· "So with all these ambivalences and ques­ " ... Like love and affection and compro­ I'd never looked into.'' tions that the veteran had coming back mising," says Peter. ·"When you were in Jeffrey Jay is the clinical phychologist then, there were perhaps ~stions about Vietnam you couldn't do those things and who initiated the delayed stress group for Whether or not he had done well, whether come back .. .'' Vietnam veterans at the Northern Virginia he had fulfilled his obligations. Here "It is a kind of psychic numbing," says Psychotherapy Center in McLean. It is, he Johnny marching off to war was a late ado­ Ken Harbert, the physician's assistant who feels, a unique approach to a problem only lescent, as most were, so there was a lot on is co-leader of the group. "You put a shell just being identified, much less treated. For the line in terms of proving manhood, being around yourself, and for a lot of people, a host of reasons, the program is neither good enough and doing the right thing and they haven't ever torn down the wall. You sponsored nor financed in any way by the all the questions that come up: You kill and talk to friends, wives, relatives and they say, Veterans Administration, although the VA there are people who are killed all around ·well, he's changed since he's been in the is beginning an outreach program to deal you, and then for all that to have gone for war. He withdraws a lot. He's stoical, inde­ with the delayed stress syndrome. But many naught, to have resulted in some kind of pendent .. .'They use words like that." of the Vietnam veterans, including Bob, futile, vain action. in the end raises real 10386 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 questions in the mind of the veteran as to in itself-me and 2,000 other soldiers and damn thing.' He said, 'Look, I was in World ·how well he really did do. Marines for three weeks on a troopship. War II. Why are you so upset?' And I said, 'I "A lot of anger results from feeling ripped And we got 'in country' and right from then don't want to hear about your lousy World off, feeling expected to have done some­ it started, within an hour after we hit the War II and how good you guys had it and thing and not being able to have done it, place, you know, I got scared. As soon as we how bad you had it... .' ripped off for the time that was lost when started walking o:ri the soil, I thought, 'Oh "About the same.time I saw a notice about he was there. There are also a lot of ques­ boy, this is going to be a mess.'" Jeffrey's group. I thought, 'I never feel tions about self and a lot of bitterness and When we came back, he says, "I didn't feel stress.' Then I put down the articl.e and I anger that is not dealt with anyplace. But that anybody was· sympathetic to me. We thought, 'Boy, do you feel stress.'" the conflicts are still there and are dealt were regarded as somewhere between vil­ The group-.:_oave, Bob and Peter and with internally.'' lains and suckers. And I think that's pretty three others-met an hour and a half a The stress, revolving around the conflicts much the way I felt . . .. It's such a strange week for 12 weeks with Jay and Ken Har­ and the often negative self-image, builds up situation, not being able to come home a bert. Jay is now putting together a second until something triggers it or until it simply hero ... and after I got back I wasn't in­ group. has to find a way out. It can, Jay says, mani­ volved politically in any of the antiwar "At first," says Peter, "I was fearful. I fest itself in a broad range of symptoms in­ stuff. I was Just so glad to be out . . . I mean didn't know if there would be guys there cluding anxiety and -nervousness, reactions I didn't participate in the thing at the Cap­ with limbs lost and I felt guilty going to a to loud noises, 'nightmares, difficulties in itol steps where they threw their medals group because lots of people suffered a lot sleeping, problems with relationships, prob­ away because I'd already thrown my medals worse than I did and here I was being a big lems with being close to anyone. Sometimes away .•.. baby because I was scared and now I'm it can be dramatic, but the image of the "You had the feell.ng when you come angry because I was scared 10 years ago. spooked, murderous, wild-eyed veteran on a back, 'Well, that's it. Let's get on with it.' "Well, I got in there and we sat around rampage is more a figment of the cathode Only apparently you can't get on with it.'' &.-rtd I was the first one to talk and I ex­ tube than of reality. Often it is, indeed, " ... I always felt I was ashamed to be a plained why I felt angry. I said, 'I feel really years of quiet desperation. Vietnam veteran." says Bob. "Like I went P-···. especially about World War II veterans Peter was an officer in the Air Force, in the whole route, volunteer, Green Beret, because they got everything and we got administration and personnel. He'd joined airborne ..• you know, all that stuff, the nothing and I was scared and I never ex­ the Air Force after his four years at a big superkiller. because I figured if I was going pressed it and now I feel real bad about midwestern state university ·because he'd to do it I'd be the best. Vietnam. I feel like crying and I !eel like been told the Army was "real ba.d," and "I "And the thing about it is, It's been hard hitting somebody.' And we went around the got sick when I went out on boats and for me to accept that I'd made all those sac­ room and everyone said the same thing." things." rifices and nobody reaJiy appreciated it. One Says Bob, "Most Vietnam vets have a ten­ Vietnam had never been a part of his con­ day I Just realized that even though Viet­ dency to stay away from each other and I sciousness, really, much less his life, and he nam was all screwed up, it wasn't r~ally MY don't think there's anybody who can help a volunteered for Vietnam duty rather dispas­ fault, and I really didn't have anything to Vietnam veteran any more than another sionately. be ashamed of. And if it had been any other Vietnam veteran. . . . Everybody's got to "The first night was when it came home time I'd probably have been a hero. Most of work out their own solution, but it's much to me that I had ended up in a war zone," the people my age, you know, we grew up on easier if you can have contact with some­ he sayS. "I sat in a huge room all filled with World War II movies and the parades and body who's had the same problems and has beds and I was the only person in it. I re­ the hero's welcome and I still don't think I dealt with them. member all night long you could hear heli­ can accept the fact that I went over there "I would love to be able to give a remedy copters gbing up and down and artillery and did all that and I Just slipped back for Vietnam veterans," he says, "but so far going off. . .• The Air Force never had ar­ home and nobody cared.'' in our group-basically, a first-time thing­ tillery sounds. . . • I remember about 4 Bob comes trom a small town in the there's no precedent to go by and it's ex­ o'clock in the morning a woman came in to southern Midwest. He went into the service tremely difficult to say this is therapy or clean with a little broom. She was wearing as soon as he graduated from high school. It this is how you treat . . . and I don't think black pajamas and the thought went· was th,e patriotic thing to do. He was 18. the book is going to be writte~ for quite a through my mind, 'This woman's goi,ng to When he came back he was "19 going on while. We'll just keep trying.'' lob a hand grenade into my bed.' I just sat 40." The way Jeffrey Jay puts it is this: "Even there shaking. That was the beginning of The dean of his medical school sent Bob if you're doing well, you can probably do my fear in Vietnam. to Jeffrey Jay's "Back in the World" pro­ better by letting it all out and finding a way "I was the support officer for 17 forward gram when the veteran became so depressed to integrate it.'' sites . . . it meant every day I had to fly to he was unable to study. He had beaten a "I don't think there's any Vietnam veter­ four or five of these little sites . . . they drug problem and a drinking problem him­ an that doesn't have a problem,'' says Bob. were just little dirt roads we landed on and self. "But it seems like almost everyone has "And I think for probably nine years I people were constantly shooting at us, lob­ trouble after about 10 years...• I had wouldn't admit to myself I had a problem bing stuff at us. It was what I'd always pic­ never discussed Vietnam with anybody. I'd and therefore wouldn't talk to anybody tured in my mind the Marines did and I never talked to my parents about it because about it. Basically it was too painful and it never a.djusted to it. It was as scary the last basically my philosophy was that it hap­ was much better if I didn't think about it. time as the first time. But I never said a pened; it was a bad deal and [now it was Basically if you can get to the point where thing about it while I was there. Never once time] just [to] go on with your life.'' you can talk about what it has done to you, did I express fear to anybody. It hit me that Dave had himself a "nice little emotional that's one of the biggest therapeutic things the only way to make it through was to be breakdown" and a friend had scouted out you can do for yourself." • strong. It's an I cared about. I did my job. I the Jay program. didn't -drink. I didn't smoke pot. . . . My Peter says, once he had buried his hostil­ roommate cried every night, all night long, ity to the priest, his problems did not overt­ GOVERNMENT THROUGH THE and had diarrhea and ran to the bathroom ly return until last November when three all night long.... We were bombed every things happened to him within a few weeks. LOOKING GLASS, OR ALICE IN night. I was very calm and cool. . . . One "About a week after the incident in the ADMINISTRATIONLAND time my room got blown up by a rocket and grocery store, I saw some of those Vietnam there wasn't much left to it and I went over stamps that came out honoring the Vietnam HON. DANIEL B. CRANE and just pushed all the debris aside, shook veteran v.ith little medals, and I remember I out my mattress, got in my bed, took out a bought a whole sheet of them and brought OF ILLINOIS flashlight, read about two pages and went to them home and I wrote across them all, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sleep. I remember the next morning [my 'Too little and too late,' and hung it up on roommate] called me the biggest a-- he my wall. Wednesday, May 7, 1980 ever met because he said I had no feeling at "I realized then I had serious problems, a e Mr. DANIEL B. CRANE. Mr. Speak· all. And in a way, he was right. I ha.d taken lot of anger.'' er, the administration's tax on import· my feelings away.'' Then a watch repair hop lost a watch he ed oil, which will add 10 cents to the "I was part of the big 1966 cattle-call," ha.d gotten in Vietnam. "It had been stolen price of every gallon of gasoline· we Dave says. He was 20. "I don't know how out of the repair shop. The salesman came is many were drafted at the same time. So I in and he said, 'I know you bought that buy, clearly inflationary-by the ad· just went in and started being a soldier for a watch in Vietnam. It's not worth very ministration's own estimates. It will while. I drove a truck. The guys I was with much.' Well, I did grab him and I said, 'My add approximately three-fourths of a were sent down to Texas and hooked up watch has nothing to do with Vietnam ..• percentage point to our already sky­ with a transport operation, then sent over for what I went through in Vietnam I don't rocketing inflation rate. The tax will on a troopship to Vietnam. That was a thrill even want you questioning me about the add about $300 to the gaspline bills of May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10387 the average American family every in 1979. And hence fuel has been conserved without resort to an expensive Go-v­ single year. in substantial quantities. ernment program. Likewise, if the free Is the considerable damage resulting There are many people who have to drive market were permited to operate with to their jobs and in many places they have regard to prices as well as supplies, the from this new tax compensated for by to drive just to get around where public a significant reduction in gasoline use? transportation is non-existent or unsatisfac­ greatest supply at the lowest total cost No, not at all. The administration tory. would result. All Federal regulation admits that the tax will only have a And don't think this tax will go away. Mr. does is hide the true cost of energy on less than minimal impact, about a 1- Carter has already said that he will ask the the one hand while raiSing it unneces­ percent reduction in gas use. Congress to raise the present federal tax of sarily on the other. Apparently, the administration four cents per gallon to fourteen cents in While it may be of little consolation thinks that boosting inflation is all the future when the import tax is lifted. to those Ohioans who will have to pay right as long as the leadership is per! There were many other ways that the 10 cents a gallon more for gas, if this budget could have been balanced without ceived · as "doing something, any­ this tax which is garbed in the name of con­ episode points up, as it should, the thing." Unfortunately, what they have servation. counterproductive nature of entitle­ chosen to do is punish Americans Just last year. for instance, the then De­ ments programs, allocation systems, living in rural areas who have no partment of Health, Education, and Welfare price controls, and Government regu­ access to public transportation. They admitted that it has wasted or squandered lation of energy development in gener­ have punished the millions of Ameri­ $7 billion. Was its budget cut by that much? al, it may have served . a useful pur­ cans who ·are dependent upon their Don't be foolish. · pose. Instead of trying to refine Gov­ automobiles for their livelihood. They The federal government abounds with ernment regulation of energy prices waste like the masseurs who are paid to and supplies, what we need to do is have chosen to punish all of us, rtiral massage congressmen and the 57 members and citydweller alike, by talking on the staff of Mrs. Carter. eliminate such regulation altogether, against inflation and taking the one The burden has landed where it always and, the sooner we do it, the quicker road that guarantees more inflation. does-right on the back of the poor citizens we can avoid repetition of DOE's bun­ The apparent lack of direction of whose taxes always pay the way.e gling. . this administration reminds me of the Just in case my colleagues did not conversation between the Cheshire cat - see the writeup on the latter, and and Alice in Wonderland, in which ENERGY CONTROLS RAISE would like to refer to it, I insert the Alice asks, "Could you tell me please PRICES TOO May 2, 1980, article entitled "Boost which way I ought to go from here?" Pump Prices, U.S. Tells Sohio" which "That depends a g6od deal on where HON. WIWAM E. DANNEMEYER appeared in the Washington Post, in you want to go," said the cat. . OF CALIFORNIA the RECORD at this time: "I don't much care where," said IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BoosT PuMP PRICES, U.S. TELLS Somo Alice. Wednesday, May 7, 1980 "Then it doesn't matter which way Looking a little like Br'er Rabbit in his you go," said the cat. • Mr. DANNEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, battle with the tar baby, the Energy De­ The ·Mattoon called for a budget is to stop the rise in inflation which is going to perpetrate another on Ohio congressional investigation. reached more than 18 percent in January gasoline purchasers. Goldstein's order could force Sohio to add and scared the president and the Congress Two wrongs do not make a right, or the 10-cent surcharge to its pump prices for into making a genuine move to cut the so the saying goes, and particularly three months while the Energy Department budget announced in January. not in this instance. Ostensibly, the tries to untangle the regulatory conflicts. A 10-cent per gallon increase in the price purpose of the entitlements program in the short run, the order amounts to a ·of gasoline is in itself inflationary. It will is to equalize costs for refiners of $14 million federal tax on Sohio's gasoline immediately add about one-half point to the u.s .. . over May, June and July because Goldstein rate of inflation. It is being added in the crude oil. But instead of equalizing directed that proceeds from the added gaso­ holy name of conservation. But the truth is costs, it raises them; to wit, this case in line charge be paid to the Treasury. that it is being done to make possible a bal­ Ohio simply corroborates the finding He left open the possibility of a revision in anced 1981 budget. of a 1975 Presidential task force which regulations that would include the $14 mil­ And the 10-cent per gallon tax increase, indicated that the entitlements pro- lion in the pool of funds that oil companies while inflationary per se, will also have an gram costs consumers $900 million to pay each other to equalize refiners' crude inflationary impact on practically all com­ $1 billion per year. oil costs. . modities because prices will have to reflect . t · f ll th' is th t Jack Blum, representing independent gas- the additional transportation and delivery The u Itlma e Irony 0 a 18 a oline marketers, had complained that Sohio, charges. this element of Government control Exxon Corp. and Arco-the principal im­ The motoring Pl,Jblic has already reacted simply was not necessary. As the Post porters of Alaskan crude oil-had a. price to the burgeoning price of gasoline. Usage in article points out, free market forces break of between $4 and $7 a barrel thanks the first months of 1980 has been less than would have resolved any inequities to the entitlements program. 10388 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 The concession had been granted initially had not only on those who endured war experiences, to their children, in order to permit the companies with Alaskan oil to confinement and torture in concentra­ to spare them pain, bu neither did they compete with domestic oil companies that tion camps but on their offspring as talk to anyone else. It was too horrifying for didn't face the high costs of transporting most people to hear about the atrocities and t he Alaskan crude to the lower 48 states. well. in addition ma.ny people felt guilty because But the steady escalation in oil prices Ms. Nebenhaus' speech was a com­ they were spared. But the children knew of worldwide and in the United States has per­ pelling reminder to me, and to all the horrors. They saw it in their minds, mitted the Alaskan oil producers to compete others present at Brooklyn's Shore­ they felt it in their hearts and they felt it in readily with domestic refiners. front YM-YWHA for the ceremony their guts. Many children were told, but the Sohio. in a statement yesterday, said it that day, of the crucial importance of majority got it through osmosis-they felt will take the Energy Department to court.e both heightening the understanding the terror, the pain, the agony, the Joss and and perpetuating the memory of the the mourning. The children could tell what their par­ HERBICIDE EXPOSURE holocaust experience around the ents' experiences were like by how their world. Mr. Speaker, I insert the text of parents distrusted the outside world, espe­ the speech in the RECORD so that my cially the gentile figures in uniform, or how HON. LES ASPIN colleagues and other readers may, as I their parents agonized over having to make OF WISCONSIN was, be inspired by its eloquent mes­ decisions. Making a decision in the camps­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sage: choosing to go right or left-meant the dif­ ference between life and death. The chil­ Wednesday, May 7, 1980 SPEECH OF ROSIE NEBENHAUS ON THE WARSAW dren of survivors could tell what it must e Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker. I am very GHETTO UPRISING have been like because of the pervasive concerned, as I hope my colleagues It is indeed an honor and a privilege for worry and despair that filled the home, and are, about the health effects of herbi­ me to address you today to commemorate the inability of their parents. sometimes, to cide exposure ·on our Vietnam veter­ the 37th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto cope even with the smallest of changes. Uprising and to perpetuate the memory of Children sensed that ·their parents would ans. I have been contacted by veterans the Six Million Jewish men, women and never be truly happy because they lost and nonveterans alike about this issue. children who perished in Europe at the everything and everyone they loved. Most of them are quite concerned that hands of the Nazis. It is an honor for me to Every illness became a catastrophe. Every the Veterans' Administration and the speak before this audience, the majority of trip that a family member made meant the Department of Defense have displayed whom are survivors of the Holocaust, in­ possibility that that family member might an irresponsible and insensitive atti­ cluding my own parents. and aunts and never return. I can tell you that even now. tude toward veterans who feel they uncles who are with me today, and to share whenever I take leave of my parents. a deep have been afflicted with illnesses at­ with all of you, my feelings and thoughts and dark thought comes into my mind for a about the effects of the Holocaust on the split second and says "this might be the last tributable to herbicide exposure. second generation-the children of survi­ time you'll ever see them." And I can recog­ There is no question that thousands vors. And finally it is truly a great honor for nize that same thought on my mother's face of veterans· were in fact exposed to me to participate in this commemoration ever time I lea e iri a car or on a plane. herbicides while in Vietnam and there with a man who is recognized the world over That is why so many children of survivors is little question about the potential as a champion of human rights and civil live at home longer than most other chil­ health ·hazards that exposure may rights, and who has an un~ielding commit­ dren. It has even been discovered that cause. There is documentation that ment to the dignity and preservation of family members sometimes check on each life-Jewish life and non-Jewish life­ other's breathing to make sure that they dioxin causes cancer and birth defects around the world That man is, of course, animals. are alive. Loss is a .common theme for chil­ in lab And now there is docu­ Congressman Steve Solarz. dren of survivors. Children of survivors have mentation available that dioxin causes Thirty-five years has passed since the end been deprived of a heritage where family cancer in humans as well. An epide­ of World Warn and the liberation of the members die of natural deaths. To children miology study performed by Hardell death camps. It is now time for the children of survivors. love very often means loss and and Sandstrom in Sweden showed that of survivors to find out what happened to .death. I would like to tell you about this exposure to phenoxyacetic acids their parents during the war. game I played with God when I was 8 or 9 caused a six-fold increase in the risk of Many parents never told their children of years old. obtaining soft tissue sarcomas. their camp experiences because they were When I was 8 or 9, I challenged God to a The . VA has yet conunent on afraid that this information would harm game. I said to Him, "God, I'm going to to them. Children were afraid to ask questions make a list of every way and every means by these studies and appears likely to try because they didn't want to find out how which a person can die-ways like disease, and discredit them. Nevertheless. it is truly horrible it was for their parents and heart attack, cancer. getting shot, getting imperative that the VA speed up their they also didn't want to bring up painful stabbed. getting hit by a train, falling out a efforts to resolve the health questions memories for them. The majority of chil­ window." The list took me a week to com­ raised by exposure to chemical herbi­ dren who did ask questions soon found that plete. After it was finished, I summoned cides. Already, Vietnam veterans have they could not remember the answers for God and said to Him. "The only way that had to wait 10 years. It will be a na­ more than a short time anyway. you can take my parents from me is by tional tragedy if they have to wait an­ It is also time for the children to learn coming up with a way to die that I do not what effects their parents• camp experi­ have on my list." I'm happy to report that I other 10 years for the resolution of ences have had on them. There is no doubt won that game. My parents are still alive. this matter.e that the "second generation" children's psy­ The survivor parents often told their chil· ches, behavior. and values have been affect­ dren that since they lost their entire family ed by their parents• experiences during the in Europe, they only lived for their chil­ LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF THE Holocaust. Numerous studies have been dren. Children of survivors often heard. HOLOCAUST done on the effects of the camp experiences "You're all I have now." This poses an im­ on the survivor. But in recent years. psy­ mense burden on the children and an awe­ HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ chologists and psychiatrists have also been some responsibility to BE something, to re­ studying the effects of the survivors• experi­ place all their dead relatives, especially OF NEW YORK ences on their children. For the most part, their murdered half siblings. They feel that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the studies have shown that children of sur­ they must be . "Wunderkfnder"-miracle Wednesday, lrfay 7, 1980 vivors are remarkably well-adjusted and children-born out of the ashes. This re­ highly successful. Studies have also shown sponsibility, to turn into a successful, happy • Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, recently that the survivors themselves are also well­ child, is compounded by the need to shield I participated in a special ceremony adjusted and highly successful, and that their parents from pain. Many children of commemorating the 37th anniversary there exists a mutually loving and respect­ survivors never tell their parents anything of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, at ful bond between parents and children. they think might be painful for them. Many which Rosie Nebenhaus, who works in There are. however, a good many exceptions children, when they were younger never my district office, delivered a most to this rule and there are documented in­ told their parents when they got sick at stances of severe pathology in both these school or when they were taunted by other moving address. Ms. Nebenhaus, groups. children. whose parents are both survivors of As I started to say before. there has been Children of survivors often feel. "How can the holocaust, discussed several of the a "Conspiracy of Silence" for most survi­ I make my parents suffer. when they have long-term effects the holocaust has vors. Survivors didn't talk much about their suffered so much already?" And the worst May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10389 possible thing a child could hear if they did ocaust, but particularly the reasons for "In the meantime, I must uphold. my hurt their parents was, "Is this what I sur­ how and why Nazi Facism arose in Ger· ideals, for perhaps the time will come when vived Auschwitz for?" many. We must use this knowledge now to I shall be able to carry them out." Perhaps the ·most pervasfve feeHng fn' the find ways of eradicating Nazism, Fascism, Anne, you were not able to carry them children of survivors is the wish to undo the and Racism from the face of the earth. out-but there are many of us-children of Holocaust for their parents and the helpless­ The second part of the task, I believe, is survivors and other peace-loving people­ ness that comes from not being able to do so. directed toward being committed to preserv­ who will fight for justice and truth, who I know that sometimes I feel that I would ing the Jewish heritage and the love for the will not forget you, who will not forget the give anything, do anything, even give up my Jewish people and ne.ver forgetting the 6 millions who perished in the Holocaust, who life, to undo it. Million Jewish people-our grandparents, will not forget the hundreds of thousands Children of survivors have a heightened our aunts and uncles, our cousins, our half who survived the Holocaust, and Anne, we sensitivity to suffering-anyone's suffer­ brothers and sisters-who perished in the will carry them out for you.e ing-but particularly to a family member's Holocaust. They should not remain name­ suffering. One of the ways children chan­ less and faceless people. neled the feelings of helplessness at not To remember them and the entire Holo· CONGRESSMAN PETRI POINTS being able to undo the Holocaust was tQ caust experience, we must learn to dissemi· TO CUBAN REFUGEE LESSON choose careers in the helping profeSsions. nate true and accurate information about An overwhellning number of children of the Holocaust, since we were taught so in· HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK survivors are social workers, doctors, psy­ adequately about this subject in the public OF OHIO chologists, teachers and lawyers. Since chil· schools, universities and yeshivas. For ex­ dren of survivors have been cast in the help­ ample, the world knows little or nothing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing role their whole lives anyway-acting about the ot her side of the Holocaust pic­ Wednesday, May 7, 1980 not as children, but often as parents to their ture-Jewish resistance, how the Jews parents-functioning as advocates, media· struck back at their tormentors. The epic e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, in tors, arbitrators, filling out forms, negotiat· Warsaw Ghetto uprising is famous, but it is his weekly report to his constituents, ing with authorities and so on-the transi­ not widely known that in almost every my colleague, ToM PETRI, points out tion seems almost natural. ghetto and in every labor and concentration the essential lesson of the mass Cuban One of the most dramatic effects of being camp, there existed a Jewish underground escape to the Peruvian Embassy a child of survivors is that we very often organization that kept up the prisoners' grounds in Havana: the Communist cannot be silent in the face of injustice. morale, reduced their physical suffering, world is seething with people who Many children of survivors feel that the committed acts of. sabotage, organized es­ Holocaust, although for them a uniquely capes, collected arms and planned and car­ want to get out of it. This is an obvi­ Jewish tragedy, has major universal impli­ ried out revolts. It filled me with pride to ous fact, as the Berlin Wall and all the cations. Fighting against racia,l genocide in learn that in my father's ghetto of Chezo­ barbed-wired borders around every other countries, the oppression of minor­ chova, a. revolt was carried out. It also filled Communist country make clear, but ities, and other liberation struggles are ac­ me with pride to learn of the many under­ we must not let the obviousness of this tivities which many children of surVivors ground fighters who were women. The tr~ fact prevent us from pointing it out, are engaged in. The meaning of the Holo· mendous courage of the resistance fighters again and again, at every opportunity, caust has moved us out of inertia and needs to be told and passed on from genera­ apathy and energized us into action. I have tion to generation, just as every survivor's as Mr. PETRI has done. an overwhelming feeling that even though experiences need to be told and passed on Even for those who do not attack it's been 40 years since Nazi Facism ern· from generation to generation. communism for religious or moral rea­ barked on its crusade to annihilate the I will always. wonder how such crimes, sons, this simple fact should be Jewish people and other non-Aryans, little such horrors, could have been committed. I enough to discredit it: Communism is really has been done to learn or act upon will never know this or why some chose a system under which human beings, the lessons of the Holocaust. Nazism and murder ·and others martyrdom. All my ques­ given any choice at all, do not want to other forms of oppression are alive today. tions about the Holocaust only lead me to live. However much we may criticize The racist policies of Adolf Hitler are prac­ anguish-but it doesn't lead me to despair. . the popular targets of liberal rage, ticed in the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Latin The most truly heroic and astounding fact America, and other countries. Political re· South Africa, Middle Eastern monar­ about the Holocaust to me is how in the chies. or Chile, the fact is that only pression and the utter contempt for human face of these horrors, so many Jews contin­ rights, exhibited by Nazism, are destroying ued to have faith and h'ope-the resistance one system on Earth resorts to barbed freedom in many parts of the world today. fighters helped, the spiritual leaders helped, wire, mines, machineguns to keep its Any time a· human being-Jew, Vietnam­ the gallows humor helped, even the songs people in. ese, Black, American Indian-is thought to like the Vilna Partisan's Hymn-"never say I congratulate Mr. PETRI for focus­ be an untermench-less then human vermin you walk the final road," helped. ing on the important point of what, to to be stepped on and obliterated-we open the door for another Holocaust. Nothing is I want to leave you with something that far too many people, is just another more precious to me than human life. No means a great deal to me. It's a passage news·story. one can be less than human to me. No one from "The Diary of Anne Frank." Like so The complete text of Mr. PETRI's deserves less than the basic rights of free­ many children of survivors, for a very long weekly report for April 23, 1980, fol­ dom, justice, and liberty. time, I could not bear to read or watch any­ lows below: thing having to do with the Holocaust. It I also believe that there are forces in this wa8 only a few months ago that I read "The WEEKLY REPORT FRoM CONGRESSMAN ToM country even today that operate very much Diary of·Anne Frank," and I can't tell you PETRI the same way that the Nazis did. These are what an impact this young girl's writlng had The first wave of Cubans seeking asylum the new right forces that blame particular on me. I'm going to read to you Anne from Castro's Communist rule were airlifted groups of people for all the problems in the Frank's entry dated, July 15, 1944. She out of Havana last week. The remarkable world. The American Nazis, Ku Klux Klan wrote this 8 months before she and her story of this mass exodus to freedom began and other rightist groups blame Jews, family were captured and her subsequent the week of April 4 when officials at the Pe­ Blacks, women, union members. You know incarceration at Bergen-Belsen, where she ruvian embassy in Havana opened the em­ Hitler expounded that Jews were the single died of Typhus at the age of 16, two months bassy gates to admit refugees fleeing Cuba. and simplest explanation for what went before liberation. "It's really a wonder that Almost immediately, the grounds were wrong in Germany. Some of these extreme I haven't dropped all my ideals, because jammed with some ten· thousand people rightist groups go as far as to use God to they seem so absurd and impossible to carry who left everything behind for a chance to justify their reasons for hating and wanting out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of ev­ go to Peru. tQ destroy certain groups, just as Hitler did erything, I still believe that people are Some ten thousand people suddenly pre­ in Mein Kampf, when he claimed that by really good at heart. I simply can't build up sented an opportunity to flee their country. "defending himself against the Jews, he was my hopes on a foundation consisting of con­ They seized that opportunity in a flash. In fighting for the work of the Lord." That is a fusion, misery, and death. I see the world our own country and around the world, we great distortion of religion. We cannot gradually turned into a wilderness. I hear often hear people extol CUba as a great afford to permit any of this to continue in the ever-approaching thunder which will de­ model society. But let's not be deluded. the United States. stroy us too. I can feel the suffering of mil­ Those ten thousand people in Havana had I see the task for children of survivors as lions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I no illusions about the regime under which twofold. The first is being committed to the think that it will all come out all right, that they lived. They were willing to do almost lessons of the Holocaust and to strengthen this cruelty will end, and that peace and anything, go almost anywhere, just to get our understanding of all aspects of the Hol- tranquility will return again. away from it. Their courageous choice dra- CXXVI-654-Part 8 10390 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 matically exposes the true, repressive DEPARTMENT OF STATE, MARCH 18, 1980. nature of the Castro regime. Washington, D.C., Februa1'1/ 12, 1980. Hon. MARsHALL D. SHULMAN, Our own nation is far from perfect, and Hon. LEE HAMILTON, Special Adviser on Soviet Affairs to the Sec­ the other free world countries have their Chairman. Subcommittee on Europe and retary of State, Department of State, faults as well. But why has there never been the Middle East, House Foreign Affairs Washington, D.C. a flood of refugees to Cuba, to Russia, to Committee, Home of Representatives. DEAR MR. SHULMAN: I want to thank you Vietnam, to mainland China or to any com­ DEAR MR. HAMILTON: This is in response to for your letter of February '\2, 1980 in reply munist country? That question needs no your request during my appearance before to my .verbal request made during your ap­ answer. It's a testimony to the basic under­ your Subcommittee on January 30, 1980, for pearance before my Subcommittee on Janu­ lying strength of our system, regardless of further information about discussions be­ ary 30, 1980 for additional information con­ dips in prestige, foreign policy reverses or tween the U.S. and the Soviet Union prior cerning official contacts between our gov­ to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ernment and the Soviet government con­ economic troubles. cerning Afghanistan prior to the Soviet I hope that those in Latin America and As ·I mentioned to you during my testi­ invasion. elsewhere who are tempted to emulate the mony, we discussed Afghanistan with repre­ sentatives of the Soviet Union both here I must say that I was hoping for a more Cuban regime will take careful note of the substantive account of those discussions and message sent to them by the refugees in and in Moscow on five occasions in Decem­ ·ber before the invasion. In each case, the a more thorough explanation of the timing Havana. I hope that our diplomats will lose of those discussions. While appreciating the no opportunity in bringing this message level of discussion was such that there could be no mistake about the authority and offi­ fact that those December discussions with home to the peoples of the world.e Soviet officials in Washington and in cial character of the discussion. Moscow were confidential, it is my judg­ The dates on which such discussions oc- ment that you should be able to describe in curred were: considerable detail how we presented our December 8, 1979; position, what their response was, what December 11, 1979; questions we posed to them, what answers UNITED STATES-BOVIET DISCUS­ December 15, 1979; they gave, and what consequences for SALT SIONS ON AFGHANISTAN PRIOR December 17, 1979; and and overall relations we mentioned and TO THE SOVIET INTERVENTION December 27, 1979 . reaction. In addition to the foregoing confidential It seem8 to me that if you are only able to discussions, we undertook to bring the issue characterize these u.s.-soviet exchanges (is HON. LEE H. HAMILTON into the public domain on several occasions, "unsatisfactory Soviet responses to our ex­ OF INDIANA pressions of concern about ·their inten­ with the twin objectives of increasing tions", then you deny the Congress and the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES awareness of the possibility of Soviet action American public an opportunity to evaluate and signalling to the Soviet Union that the Soviet intentions and responsiveness and to Wednesday, May 7, 1980 matter was of sufftci~nt concern to volun- have any input into how to make our policy • Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, on teer information publicly. The first such oc- and intentions clearer and sharper to the casioii was December 4, when Department · Soviet Union. Therefore, I hope you will be January 30, 1980, the Subcommittee Spokesman Hodding Carter addressed t~e able to provide the Subcommittee with a on Europe and the Middle East of the question of Soviet presence in Afghanistan more complete description of those discus­ Committee on Foreign Affairs held a in the press briefing; a text of Mr•. Carter's stons. hearing with Marshall D. Shulman, s~atement is enclosed. Additional informa- 1 and members of my subcommittee were Special Adviser on Soviet Affairs to t10n was provided to the press on December also particularly interested in the timing of the Secretary of State, to review the 1.2 and 15. On December 22, a responsible of- the discussions with the Soviets when status of United States-Soviet rela­ !Ictal of the Department held a bac~ound viewed in relationship to intelligence re­ tions in light. of the Soviet invasion of sesston for the press. Coverage of this back- ports, starting in the summer of 1979, of ground session was quite extensive as can be ominous Soviet military activity toward At­ Afghanistan. Several members were seen in newspapers published on December ghanistan. You mentioned in your testimo- interested about when we first had in­ 23. ny, foi: instance, that we had intelligence re- dications of ominous Soviet activity in We also undertook during December to ports in August of Soviet military activities and near Afghanistan and what repre­ alert allied nations and a number of other which indicated aggressive intentions sentations, conversations, and warn­ countries with .whom we had been consult- toward Afghanistan. You also stated that ings our Government made to the ing for some tune about the Afghan situa- there was a high-level Soviet military visit Soviet Union about these activities. tton. This was done through approaches in to Afghanistan in October. If this is an ac­ diplomatic channels. cUrate reading of your testimony, then, why In order to try to get a more com­ ~ am not able to provide texts or detailed did our government watt until December to plete picture of our communications records of our diplomatic communications make any official presentation or protest to with the Soviet Union prior to their with the Soviet Union on this matter. How- the Soviet government. Weren't there rea­ invasion of Afghanistan additional in­ ever, with Secretary Vance's authorization I sons why we should have communicated 1m­ formation was requested for the public can characterize these exchanges as unsatis- mediately in August and repeatedly -thereat­ record. We had an exchange of letters factory Soviet responses to our expressions ter to the Soviet government concerning the of concern about their intentions. - risks involved of their deepening .their mili- which sought to clarify the substance, Only when we raised urgently with them tary involvement in Afghanistan. I hope time, and nature of United States­ the massive military airlift which occurred that you can also provide for om: hearing Soviet contacts in the period of over the Christmas weekend did the Soviets record answers to these questions regarding August to December 19'79, before the acknowledge their military action, which our intelligence reports and the timing of invasion of Afghanistan. they claimed was taken ·to meet "outside our discussions with the Soviet government. This exchange of letters proyides threats" to Afghanistan, ~egedly pursuant 1 appreciate your further assistance in to a request by the Afghan Government. clarifying these questions which certainly some useful new information but does They claimed their military action was lim- seemed to me to be the thrust of questions not explain why strong representa­ tted and that troops would be withdrawn put to you by me and the members of my tions were not made during the fall of when no longer needed. By this time, the subcommittee. 1979. One interest in probing this was takeover in Kabul was already in progress. With best regards. to determine whether the Soviet drive '!hey took the initiative in volunteering sim- Sincerely yours, into Afghanistan could have been ilar statements to DianY other governments LEE H HAKn.ToN blunted in its final stages through in the 24 hours following the invasion and Chairman, Subcommittee on E~rope coup in Kabul. and the Middle East. forceful diplomatic representations to I hope the foregoing is helpful to you and the Soviet Union. There should be im­ your Subcommittee. If I can be of further DEPARTMENT OF STATE, portant lessons which could be drawn assistance in clarifying the steps we took, I Washington. D.C., April10, 1980. from this period for the future if we would be most happy to do so. Hon. LEE HAMILTON, can ever accurately determine precise­ Sincerely, Chairman, St~bcommittee on Europe and. ly what happened in the period start­ MARsHALL D. SHULMAN, · the Middle East, House Foreign Affairs, ing August 19'79. Committee, House of Representatives Special Adviser on Soviet A/lairs DEAR MR. ILunLTON: Your letter of March The correspondence with the State to the Secreta111 o/State. 18, 1980. goes to the heart of the problem of Department· follows: Enclosure. deterring Soviet actions that adversely May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10391 affect international stability and our inter­ I appreciate the aensitivitles of discussing Our country had a world trade surplus ests. While I regret that I cannot be more certain diplomatic exchanges except in very every year from 1896 to 1970. In this sev­ explicit about the substance of our discus­ general terms but the fact of those discus­ enty-four years, we had little inflation and sions with the Soviets regarding Afghani­ sions and their timing cannot be considered interest rates were low. stan, I recognize the serious purpose of your sensitive information. The last trade surplus was in 1975. Infla­ inquiry and perhaps can contribute some I appreciate your attention to this matter. tion at that time was 4 percent in-terest was further clarification of the nature of the sit­ With best regards. 6 percent. uation in the latter part of 1979 and our re­ Sincerely yours, Today, with a projected $80 billion y.rorld sponses to it. LEE H. HAMILTON, I agree with your emphasis on the impor­ trade deficit for this year alone, inflation is Chairman, Subcommittee on Europe currently at 14 percent and interest rates tance of making our intentions and policies and the Middle East. are at 20 percent. clear to the Soviet Union, and indeed this Ia what we sought to do with respect to Af. Topping tlie list of imports which produ_ce ghanistan. However, the weight of our views DEPAR'l'IIE1ft or STATE, the deficit is oil averaging $1- billion every was diminished by the frayed state of us- Washington, D.C., May 1, 1980. four and one-half days. We would now have Soviet relations and the fact that we had al· Hon. LEE HAKILTON, · a $20 billion trade surplus if we imported no ready invoked the prospect of damage to Chairman, Subcommittee on Europe and· more oil in 1979 than we did in 19'10. Our us-soviet relations and SALT on several the Middle East, Home Foreign Affaira contin\ling demand for high-priced foreign other issues. Moreover, the brazen way in Committee, lfijuse of Representatives. oil has us literally over the barrel. which the Soviets moved to topple Amin DEAR LEE: This is in response to your Several alternatives have been -proposed: was unexpected; we believe even the Soviets letter of April 16, 1.980, asking whether the conservation; nuclear; solar; and decontrol did not expect events to develop quite as United states made representations to the of oil prices to make it possible for compa­ they did. Our approaches to- the Soviets Soviet Government about the visit of Gen­ nies to spend the additional money neces­ before the invasion were all made in the eral Ivan Pfivlovskiy to Afghanistan be­ sary to extract heavy oil. context of our concern about any increased tween August and October 1979. However, the surest and fastest way it Soviet military role in Afghanistan, and I we did not approach the Soviet Govern­ through a domestic synfuels industry-oR can assure you categorically that our com- ment about Pavlovskiy's visit, the mission of manufactured from coal, tar sands and munications with the Soviet Union were which was not clear at the time. His pres­ shale. Programs to achieve this objective such as to leave no doubt in their minds ence in Afghanistan. which was never pub­ must be expedited. We have enough oil in about the seriousness with which we llcly acknowledged by the Soviet Union, was coal to satisfy the country's current oil would regard their military intervention in one of several phenomena that prompted us needs for 700 years, enough in tar sands for Afghanistan. to state publicly during this period our 200 years, and •enough in shale for 400 The visit to Afghanistan of General Ivan strong view that there should be no inter­ years. Pavlovskiy, Chief of the Soviet Ground ference in Afghanistan's internal affairs. The surest and fastest approach is shale. Forces, for two months between August and For example, the De-partment Spokesman We have 200 times more proven reserves of October 1979 was certainly an indication of reiterated this policy at the daily press . oil in shale than in conventional crude oil. a Soviet dilemma about how to resolve the briefing on September 19, 1979, in the con­ This represents over 2,400 billion barrels of military problems of the Kabul regime, as I text of the events surroundin~ President oil-more than 4 times the conventional oil pointed out in my testimony before your Tatald's replacement by President Amin reserves of the world. Committee last October. But actual Soviet and ambiguous milttary activities in the Producing oil from shale is not new. The movement of troops and.equipment towards USSR north of the Afghan border. I simi­ process was first developed in Scotland in Afghanistan was observed only in late No- larly stated our policy in my prepared state­ 1894. China has been successfully producing vember, prompting us to make the Decem- ment to your Subcommittee on October 16. oil for its refineries from open_-pit· oil shale ber approaches to the Soviets cited in my I might add that we did consult during mines since the late 1930's. In fact, our re­ letter of February 12. . · this period with a large number of countries search and development plants were so ef­ In my view, we acted ~promptly and as having interests in the region or a stake in fective that by the early 1959's government for~fully as the evidence warran~d. The Afghanistan's continued independence and plants on government lands in Colorado SoVI~ts could have be~n under no ~appre- · nonalignment, with the object of focusing demonstrated the technology. hensiOn about our attitude. They stmply un- their attention on the Soviet military role in We know how to produce oil from shale. derestimated or chose to disregard the inter- Afghanistan Producing oil from shale has four distinct national political storm t~at wo!lid greet Sincer~ly advantages; their clumsy interference m Afghanistan, ' First, we can do it safely, effectively and just as they underestimated the difficulty of . MARs~ D. SH~, . economically. Today many companies have pacifying this fiercely inq~~~de!)~ ~!JJ!.tr_y_. Spectal .Advuer on Soviet_A!fatrs, successful research and development and 1 have once again consulted with Secre- to the Secretary of State.e det:nonstration programs. These programs tary Vance about your request for further need to be pushed to full-scale commercial details of the intelligence available to us operations. and the content of our discussions with the A SOLUTION TO OUR ECONOMIC Second, the U.S. has an abundance of Soviet Union, and I regret that I am not au- ~ AND ENERGY PRO. BLEM~ proven shale oil reserves. It can produce oil thorized to add to the infonnation previous- of low sulphur content and its use would ly supplied, owing to the sensitive nature of tend to reduce auto and power plant emis­ the sources and the diplomatic discussions sions. involved HON. DAWSON MATHIS OF GEORGIA Third, it can be produced price-competi­ Sincerely, tively. Estimates range fron;t $20 to $26 per MARsHALL D. SHULJlAN, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES barrel. Some say for less than petroleum, if Special Advisor on Soviet Affairs Wednesdal/, Mav 7, 1980 we consider exploration costs for oil, and if to the Secretary of State. we consider by-products available from • Mr. MATHIS. Mr: Speaker, our shale. We are now paying $37 per barrel on Nation must quickly recognize that in_· the spot market to OPEC. Economists tell CoMMITTEE ON FoREIGN AFFAIRS, flation and energy are closely tied. . I us when we produce 1 million barrels of oil a · HOUSE OP' REPRESENTATIVES, read with great interest an advertise­ day from shale. the price of that oil-rather Wa.Shington, D.C., April16, 1980. ment prepared by a distinguished than the price dictates of the OPEC na­ Hon. MARsHALL D. SHULMAN. automobile dealer from South Caroli­ tions-will determine the worlq price of oil. Special Adviser on Soviet Affairs to the Sec­ na that addressed the issues. Mr. Bill Fourth, 84 percent of our oil shale is -on retary of State. Department of State, Hancock, former president of the ·Na­ government land which the President can Washington, D.C. tional Automobile Dealers Association, release by executive order. Congress can DEAR MARSHALL: Thank you for your published the following message that I also pass legislation necessary for the devel· letter of April 10, 1980 in response to my ask to share with my colleagues: opmen~. letter of March 18, 1980. Here is what all citizens must do. Contact In your letter, you mentioned the two­ A SOLUTION TO OUR EcONOMIC AND ENERGY the President, your Congressman, and your month visit of General Ivan Pavlovskiy, PROBLEMS Senators. Tell them government must solve Chief of the Soviet Ground Forces, to Af­ The President, your Congressmen and the energy problems. Tell them a shale oil ghanistan between August and October Senators can solve the critical economic and -program can cut our dependence on foreign 1979. Several questions arise: Did we make energy problems fac~ the nation. · oil and stop the primary cause of inflation\ representations to the Soviet government The roots of these problems are two-fold: An oil shale industry will create Jobs. Bil­ regarding this extended visit? When did we First, spiralling inflation caused by the high lions now going tax free to OPEC will be speak to them about it, where, what did we price of imported oil; Second, our govern­ subject to U.S. taxes, allowing for funding say, and what did they say to us? ment is spending more than its income. of worthwhile U.S. programs. 10392 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 The NAACP said it best; "Give us jobs, the enduring ideals of. ·human dignity and Commission to report to Congress on this not handouts." liberty embodied in that precious document. ethnic discrimination. As a result, the Com­ Here is what Congress and the President It is supremely ironic that the Commu­ mission held a "consultation in Chicago on must do. History shows us there are two es­ nists forbid acknowledgment of the Polish December 10 and 11, 1979. To date, nothing sentials in our ability to control inflation: Constitution-as though they can efface the has been published concerning this consul­ First, we must have a trade surplus. pages of history. and supplant the celebra­ tation and you can be sure that Senator Second, we must have a balanced budget. tion of freedom on May 3rd with the mock­ Helms and I will persist in our efforts to get The only way to have a trade surplus is ery of May Da·y. the Civil Rights Commission to carry out its through self-sufficiency in energy. The only We hear so often. that t.he Soviet Union is mandate in an even and fair fashion. way other than nuclear is through synfuels. only seeking peace, and our own halting ef- This year haS been identified as the Year We have an abundance of oil in coal, tar ·forts at strengthening our military capabili­ of the Child. When one thinks of children, sands and shale. Shale is by far the most ad­ ties are a threat to that peace. But peace is the institution of the family comes instantly vanced and best way. Our best reserves are a word of many colors-the peace of the to mind. It is the family which provides the in a concentrated area-Colorado, Utah and victor is not that of the vanquished. The basic unit of society, and where the values Wyoming. In one 100 square mile area of brave Afgahnl people ·now know that too and morality that guide us all are instilled the Piceance Valley of the Green River well. There is the peace of the prison and of and take root and flourish. Basin in Colorado, in the most barren of the grave and the peace of the slave. Such The genius of the Polish people-and of lands in a remote area, there is enough oil peace is beneath the contempt of honorable the millions of East Europeans-is their par­ in shale to last this country for 100 years. men. ticular devotion to the family. It is in the The President must open government Those of us who have known war-count­ family that one's ethnic identity and cultur­ lands and adopt policies to expedite the eco­ ed its wounded and buried its dead-have al appreciation develop. It is in the family nomic mining of shale. He must insist on­ wept over its smoking cities and scorched that love of God, respect for parents and and the Congress must pass-a balanced earth, its hungry young and its homeless love of country are nurtured. If a child is budget. The Congress must adopt legislation old-do not cherish peace any less-but we fortunate enough to have Polish parents, he to insure there are no financial, environ­ must insist that if the price of this peace is soon learns that the word DUTY is as im­ mental bureaucratic or other delays in the submission to the dehumanization of Com­ portant as the word "right." efficient extraction of oil from shale. This munism, then it is a price we will not pay. , There are some 30 million Americans of they can and should do now. The outstretched hands of the boat East European heritage. They instill in our The government and the nation's energy people of Vietnam and Cuba signal to even country an abundance of those virtues that companies have, in the past ignored oil ex­ the willfully ignorant that life under Com­ are indispensable to any nation if it is to traction from shale. Individual companies or munism, no matter where, is literally Hell survive the barbarians who now stalk the joint ventures should be formed to lease se­ on earth. earth. Communism subordinates the indi­ lected areas of government land with Thomas Aquinas, in commenting upon vidual to the class as Nazism did tO the race proven amounts of shale oil. Within five Sacred Scripture tells us of the "evil peace, and Facism did to the nation. But Christian­ years, these companies should be required which our Lord came not to serid upon ity upholds the primacy of the individual­ to meet specific, but obtainable goals lead­ earth." And so we gather because each of us is made in the image and ing to U.S. energy independence. Conserva­ today to reaffirm our faith that resistance likeness of God-and the Christianity of tive estimates predict 5 million barrels of oil to tyranny is truly obedience to God. Poland lights up the darkest comers of the a day will be produced in a 100 square mile The universality of the ideas of freedom planet--the brighter and braver because it area of Colorado alone. and justice and human dignity is remark­ survives and flourishes under persecution. In the interim, in a six-month period we ably evident when you consider that in Our country needs the Polish example­ can convert stationary power plants now America our own glorious Constitution of because all around us freedom is under as­ using oil to gas. This will free 3 million bar­ 1789 embraced the same philosphy as the sault. All around us, in direct proportion to rels of oil a day and cut our dependence on Polish Constitution of 1791. So different in the attacks on human rights is a loss of foreign oil in half. We will only have to history and heritage, so many continents faith in God and the reduction of mankind import oil from Canada, Venezuela and apart, and yet these same aspirations found to units · of production, and consumption­ Mexico. imperishable expression in these two docu­ and hence disposable-expendable. We need The U.S. has an abundance of gas. It is es­ ments, one American and the other Polish­ your faith, your strength, your steadfast-· timated the additional gas u8ed until shale two nations who possessed a love of God ness. · oil is available will only reduce our known and a shared sense of human destiny. A writer with the gift of prophecy .once reserve of gas by 1 year. Our capacity for self-deception was never said that we in the West stand on the only It is up to every citizen to contact his Con­ more clear than on August 1, 1975, when we island of freedom that is left in the whole gressman and Senators and insist on these and 34 other nations signed the Helsinki Ac­ world . . . "There is no place to flee to . . . measures. If we don't, we only have our­ cords. Have not the Soviets told us inces­ no place to escape to. We defend freedom selves to blame. santly that only those acts are moral which here or it is gone. There is no piace for us to It has been said there are 10 two-letter further the class struggle? We had no right run, only to make a stand. And if we fail, I words to live by: "If it is to be-it is up to to expect them to respect the basic rights of think we face telling our children, and our me."e man set forth in these Accords. But we be­ children's children, what it was we found lieve what we .want to believe, and so once more precious than freedom. Because I am more the hopes and prayers of the people in sure that someday-if we fail in this-there POLISH CONSTITUTION DAY the Captive Nations go urifulfilled. We will be a generation that will ask." lament this-and we shall remember. God has blessed the world with a univer­ ·To return home for a moment, it would be sal leader, Pope John Paul II. He embodies HON.HENRYJ.HYDE wrong to assume that even here there is no the Polish spirit and the Polish spirituality. OF ILLINOIS discrimination against Americans of East May he live a long and fruitful life and may IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and South European origin. In our govern­ he see the restoration one day of the ideals ment's zeal to provide equal opportunity to of the Polish Constitution of 1791 in his be­ Wednesday, May 7, 1980 minority groups, the entire machinery of loved homeland, and thus will we all be • Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, on Sunday government has been mobilized to enforce blessed.e May 4, I · was invited to address the affirmative action goals which have the Washington-area division of the Polish effect of making some of our citizens more equal than others. MIDDLE RIVER JUNIOR HIGH . American Congress as they celebrated In 1957 Congress established the . Civil SCHOOL Polish Constitution Day at Catholic Rights Commission, and from that day to University. this, this Commission has done virtually My remarks follow, and I hope some nothing to study and report on discrimina­ HON. CLARENCE D. LONG of my colleagues will find them of in­ tion affecting East and South Europeans. OF MARYLAND terest: Blacks, women, Hispanics and Indians get a lot of attention, but the rest of us are not IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES POLISH CONSTITUTION DAY much noticed. Wednesday, May 7, 1980 I am honored to speak to you today in One of the strongest fighters_ for justice commemoration of the 189th anniversary of and equality in our government is Senator e Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak­ the Polish Constitution of 1791. Jesse Helms of North · Carolina. He has er, I welcome the students and their This celebration today-and in those few taken action to mandate the Civil Rights chaperones from the Middle River parts of the world where men and women Commission .to direct some of its attention Junior High School from Middle are free to assemble and speak their minds and resources to this problem. In June of River, Md.,- who are today visiting the ahd express their hearts-is"a testament to 1979, he amended the law, to authorize the Capitol. My constituents, who are May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10393 taking an art studio class, will tour the Wednesday, May 7,1980, into the CoN­ lems of the 1970's now seem relatively Library of Congress. the Supreme GRESSIONAL RECORD: easy-removing • few pollutants from a few Court, the gallery of the l:louse of stationary sources never really taxed our THE SECOND DECADE will or our technology. The problems of the Representatives. the Smithsonian, and The nation has entered the second decade 1980's are different. a fact underscored by the National Cathedral. I will meet of the environment almost without notice. the possible existence of hundreds of life­ with my friends from Middle River Earth Day was front-page news ten years threatening chemicals that may be seeping Junior High to discuss the legislative ago. With s~ts. placards, marches, rallies. into the environment. We have succeeded in process. The students• day here prom· and teach-ins, 20 million citizens called for combatting the most obvious threats to air, ises to be an interesting and informa­ action to clean up America. The National water, and land only to discover more subtle. tive one. and I am certain that they Environmental Policy Act, which requires menaces. will much enjoy Washington's art and an assessment of the environmental impact I am persuaded that the American people architectural treasures. of federal decisions, was enacted into law in want clean surroundings, and that they are 1970. The cause of all these goings-on was willing to pay for them. It is no calamity Mr. Speaker. I invite you and my dis· simple: recognition of the need to preserve that economic tinguished colleagues to join me in the quality of the air, water, and land. considerations will arise and that environ­ welcoming: The intervening ten years have given us mental issues will become more complex. The chaperones: Mrs. Schelle, Mr. and landmark legislation to protect the environ· Growing complexity and the balancing of Mrs. James Shook, Mrs. LuAnne Crizer, ment. It has indeed been a period of intense costs and benefits characteriZe almost every Mrs. Joan Loudon, Mrs. Mary Lee Hutchins, legislative activity. Congress has passed worthwhile public endeavor today. Mr. · Elmer McDorman, and Mrs. Dora more than two dozen laws concerning air Overall, I look upon the 1970's with some Moody. and water pollution, toxic chemicals, strip. satisfaction. At the beginning of the decade, The students: Mike Harbin. Bill Harris, mining, and noise. New agencies have been the nation was faced with dirty air, fouled George Phillips, Sam Sessa, Carlethia created to police the environment. These water. and littered land. It responded with Spence, Mike Kikas, Tim Tinches, Joe laws and institutions, of course. are means, imagination and creativity. My opinion is Beach, Mark Eidman, and Karen Glenn. not ends, but to a significant degree they that future generations of Americans will Valerie McRae, Sam Shea, Susan Thomp­ have begun to work. The steady deteriora· look back on the 1970's with approval, and son, Joe Wooden, James Smith, Lee Hicks, tion of our air, water, and land appears to they might even credit us with some envi­ Joyce Burgess, Lori Jacobs, Becky Cagle, have been largely halted. ronmental foresight. I think that the Laura Strickler, and Ned Greenburg. The question is not whether progress has achievements of the 1970's have embedded a Kirsten Steiner, Katie Carnes, Gary been made, but how much. There are some concern for the earth and its finite re­ Dobbs, AI Dutey, Ray Gardner, Janice considerable achievements: the air in the sources deeply into the social and political Green, Ron Hogg, Denise Jones, Chuck cities is more breathable: fish are returning policies of the country. Rayman, and Sheila Zalatimo. to rivers, harbors, and lakes that were once The challenges of the coming decade are Teresa Balochi, Jim DeBadts, Kyle Gar­ lifeless; DDT residues in human ti..o;sues are clear. At home, our goals include the control land, Stacy Golebieski. Susan Lloyd, Pam declining. One of the worst problems-over· of toxic substances, saving public lands in Lominac, Louise Martins, Annette Prentice, all water quality-has not shown a vast im· Alaska, protecting coastal areas and declin· Damon Quinn, and Dreama Reed. provement during the 1970s, but at least it ing farmland, and developing conservation Dorthy Rolf, Mickey Strider, Scott Brawn, is not getting any worse. Managers in gov· techniques and every renewable energy re­ Denny Cohenour, Pat Day, Joe Dominick, ernment and industry now take into account source. In the world at large, the problems Gene Evans, Bob Hardester, Marty Joines, the environmental consequences of their ac­ include the spreading of deserts, the disap. and Mike Kowalski. tions. Virtually all people understand that pearance of wildlife, deforestation, the over­ Joe Schilling, Jim Seling, Jim Shomper, the air, water, and land can no longer be so­ fishing and polluting of the oceans, a rapid­ Mark Smith, Ron Steele, Phil Stinebaugh, ciety's tr~h bins. Concern for these indis· ly· expanding world population, nuclear pro­ Greg Welch, Cindy Brown, Dawn Fish, and pensable natural resources has become a liferation. the build-up of carbon dioxide in Sheila Greene. major factor in our system of political the atmosphere, and the changing of the Donna Holter, Kim McCleave, Kim values. Without doubt, the national con­ earth's climate. Vigorous pursuit of these Rhodes, Carol Robertson, Rose Swift, Sue sciousness of the fragility of our planet has goals, and a vigorous response to these prob­ Trabing, Jackie Sullivan, Charles McNeal, been raised. lems, are duties we owe both to ourselves Mia Mickey, and Kim Allen. In spite of these gains, the question of and to the future.e Monica Asher, Scott Bailey, Kim Bailey, how much progress remains difficult to Rodger Boother, Joe Czawlytko, Melanie answer. The ragged groups of citizens for a Davis, Julie Delligatti, Valarie Everhart, cleaner environment have given way to dis· TRIBUTE TO OWEN L. MAHN Billie Fender, and Cindy Fisher. ciplined platoons of lawYers, bureaucrats, Lisa Fouch, Brenda Gardner, Joyce scientists, and lobbyists who wage a profes­ Garton, Deanna Hensley, Shellle Newton, sional war to protect the environment. With HON. JAMES C. CORMAN Gina Payne, Anita Rawlings, Kathy Schell, the establishment of the Council on Envi­ OF CALIFORNIA Paula Sheets, and Diane Smith. ronmental Quality and the Environmental IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Gseg Stapleton, Lori Stevens, Janice Protection Agency, the environmental Trent, Billy Whitcomb, Peggy Winiarski, movement has been institutioJ;lalized. The Wednesday, May 7, 1980 Kevin Arnold, Mike Barrett, Billy Carroll, passion for a cleaner America has been • Mr. CORMAN. Mr. Speaker, after· Darrick Clark, and Robert Lentz. translated into the fine print of the law 37 years of incessant dedicated public Joe Pollyson. Pat Slifker, Doug Sykes, books, a web of government regulations, and service, Mr. Owen L. Mahn will be Becky Belcher, Tina Costin, Lisa Franklin, a mountain of research reports. But progress Rhonda Messman, Pat Ordiway, Colleen in the field has been spotty. the costs of honored by the San Fernando, Calif.• Peyton, and Connie Robinson. cleaning up have been very high, and new Lions Club. Fellow Lions will hold the Sherry Wolfe, Sarah Schaaf, Denise Wag­ problems have kept emerging. A psychologi­ geles. Abate, Sherry Baumgarten, Bob Bently, cal change has taken place. too. We ·have Mr. Mahn has devoted his 82 years Otelia Clark, and James Dorff. lost some of the ardor we had a few years as an outstanding community servant Karen Duty, Bridget -Gerst, Scott Gold­ ago. of the San Fernando Valley. He was burn, Charles Holderby, Gary Jackson, This psycllological change is most impor­ born on March 29, 1898, in Sylmar. Towanda Jones, Robert Kahl, Sonya Porter, tant for makers of public policy. It stems in Jeff Rose, Debbie Ruth, Winona Smith, Sue part from the head-on collision of the envi­ Calif., graduated San Fernando High Warnick, and Tammy Watson.e ronmental movement with a counter-move­ School and then received his law ment worried about inflation. recession, and degree. cum laude. He will conclude energy. The counter-movement is quick to his remarkable record of 37 years of THE SECOND DECADE seize on those cases where the costs of perfect attendance at weekly club cleaning up may outweigh the benefits. I am meetings. He was secretary of his club aware that there will always be bitter dis· for 35 of these years. HON. LEE H. HAMILTON putes about costs, benefits, timetables, and OF INDiANA trade-offs-essential issues in any regula­ Besides Owen Mahn's extensive IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tory effort-but I continue to believe that Lions Club contributions, he was a vol­ unteer fireman for 20 years and re­ Wednesday, May 7, 1980 everyone generally agrees on the need for clean air, water, and land. Another reason tired as station superintendent of the e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I for the change is the increasingly complex­ San Fernando Post Office following 36 insert my Washington report for ity of the environmental debate. The prob- years of public service. He is also very 10394 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 loyal and active in civic and religious shall not apply (unless the taxpayer "(6) LIMITATIONS.-The amount allowed as organizations. For the past several elects to· apply either of those subsections a deduction under paragraph (1) shall not years he has served as secretary of the with respect to such plan> and there shall exceed the amount allowed as a deduction be allowed as a deduction that portion of without regard to this paragraph .multiplied National Association of Retired Feder­ amounts paid or accrued with respect to by a fraction, the numerator of which is the al Employees. which the requirements of paragraph <2> or payments or accruals made on behalf of I call on the Members to join me in C3> of this subsection are satisfied if- active participants who are nonresident honoring Owen L. Mahn for his many " the benefits provided by the plan are aliens, and the denominator of which is" the years of service and accomplishments either required by foreign law or set forth payments or accruals made on behalf of all to the San Fernando Valley com­ in a written document communicated to the active participants. The preceding sentence munity.e active participants; shall not apply if during the taxable year- " in the case of a defined benefit plan, " at least 95 pecent of all active partici­ the deduction is limited to amounts paid or pants are nonresident aliens, and H.R. 7263 accrued in respect of benefits that are rea­ " at least 95 percent of the contribu­ sonably capable of actuarial estimation; tions made to or benefits accruing under the " to the extent the amount taken into plan during the taxable year in respect of HON. BARBER B. CONABLE, JR. account is dependent upon acturarial deter­ active participants are in respect of active OF NEW YORK minations, the actuarial cost method and as­ participants who are nonresident aliens. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENT,\TIVES sumptions used are in the aggregate reason­ "(7) ACCOUNTING METHOD.-Any change in Wednesday, May 7, 1980 able; and the method Cbut not the actuarial assump. " the amount to be taken into account tions) used to determine the amount al­ e ¥r. CONABLE. Mr. Speaker, I, for the taxable year is determined in a lowed as a deduction under paragraph <1 > along with several other Members, manner consistent with generally accepted shall be treated as a change in accounting have introduced legislation to clarify accounting principles in the United States method under section 446." the tax treatment of contributions applicable to the charging of pension costs Cb> Section 312 o! such Code (relating to made under retirement plans that are against income. effect on earnings and profits) is amended "<2> FuNDED AMOUNT.-If an amount deter­ by adding at the end thereof the following established by U.S. businesses primar­ mined under paragraph <1> that has not new subsection: · ily to provide benefits for certain for­ been allowed previously as a deduction is "(1) EFFEcT ON PuNS MAINTAINED FOR eign employees. transferred to a separate trust or fund NoNREsmENT AI.n:Ns.-For purposes of com­ The Employee Retirement Income , the requirements of this para­ penses paid or accrued under a plan de­ ment of these contributions. This lack graph are satisfied- scribed in section 404(i) shall reduce the for­ of legislative guidance has created " if- eign corporation)s earnings and profits to "(1) in the case of a defined benefit plan­ the extent that such amounts would be de­ problems for the Internal Revenue ductible if the provisions of section 404(i) Service and the business community. " the amount transferred and any income earned thereon may not revert to were applicable to such foreign corporation The legislation would correct the the employer or to the employer's be:r;1efit for its taxable year." current uncertainty by establishing prior to the satisfaction of all liabilities with Section 964 of such Code is amend­ statutory rules concerning the kinds respect to participants and beneficiaries ed by inserting "or 312<1)," after "section of contributions that would be deduct­ under the plan; and 312(k)(3)". ible for Federal income tax purposes. ·" the transferred amount does not Cd> Section 679 of such· Code is These rules would provide certainty exceed the full funding limitation for the amended to read as follows: for the business community and allow year determined under section 412; or "(1) IN GENERAL.-A United States person it to offer employees oompetitive " in the case of .a defined contribution who directly or indirectly transfers property plan- to a foreign .trust or of section pensation packages of this type will " the amount transferred and any income earned thereon may not revert to 404) shall be treated as the owner for his enable our businesses to attract quali­ the employer or to the employer's benefit; taxable year of the· portion of such trust at­ fied employees and to more effectively and tributable to such property if for such year compete with foreign businesses. " the amount taken into account is al­ there is a United ·States beneficiary of any The bill is strongly supported by located' to individual accounts of partici­ portion of such trust."• members of both parties, the Treasury pants that will be adjusted at least annually Department and the business commu­ for the income and expenses of the fund; DETECTIVE GEORGE THOMAS nity. I would hope the bill can be and promptly considered and enacted into " if the amount taken into account is law. transferred not later than. the date de­ HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. scribed in subsection Ca><6>. The text of the bill follows: OF NEW JERSEY "(3) 0Tm:R AMOUNTS.-TO the extent an IN THE HOUSE-OF REPRESENTATIVES H.R. 7263 amount determined under paragraph C1) A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code does not satisfy the requirements of para­ Wednesday, May 1. 1980 of 1954 with respect to the treatment of graph C2> and has not been allowed previ­ retirement and similar plans maintained ously as a d~uction, the requirements of • Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, it was a for nonresident aliens. this paragraph are satisfied if such pleasure this past weekend for me to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of amount- be present at a dinner honoring Detec­ Representatives of the United States of " at the time of the payment or accru­ tive George Thomas of the Newark America in Congress assembled, That al, is paid or accrued in respect of benefits Police Department. section 404 of the Internal Revenue Code of that ·are not subject to a substantial risk of The occasion wp.s the retirement of 1954 if accrued, represents the actuarial service with the department. I was nuity plan and compensation under a de­ present value of such accrued benefits. ferred-payment plan> is amended by adding "(4) DIRECT PAYMENTS.-A payment, Which honored to Join with law enforcement at the end thereof the following new subsec­ is not subject to a substantial risk of forfeit­ and community leaders in saluting his tion: ure, to a participant or beneficiary by an work and his achievements. "(I) PLAN Mld:NTAINED FOR NONRESmENT employer, shall be allowed as a deduction to The contributions and leadership of ALIENS.- the extent not previously allowed as a de­ George Thomas have extended beyond "<1) IN GENERAL.-If the conditions of sec­ duction under this subsection. Newark and New Jersey to the Nation. tion 162 or section 212 are satisfied, in the "<5> CARRYOVERS.-For purposes of this He and I worked often together on case of a plan described in this section subsection, payments or accruals in any tax­ programs of crime prevention, and his , <2>, or. <3» which during the taxable year <5> and accrual in the next succeeding taxable year. tional Black Police Association, after May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10395 having served as that organiz~tion's tinent excerpts of the Osgood CBS HOUSING AND THE BUDGET region I chairman. radio commentary of March 11, 1980, In the Newark Police Department, in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: HON.CHmSTOPHERJ.DODD he took on greater and greater chal­ There is no more fraud. abuse and waste OF CONNECTICUT lenges from the time he began as a in the Department of Health. Education IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES foot patrolman in 1955. He became a and Welfare. Secretary Patricia Harris has detective in 1963, a license investigator seen to that. At a recent meeting of ber ex­ Wednesday, May 7, 1980 · in 1969, and police community rela· ecutive staff, Mrs. Harris eliminated fraud, waste and abuse at HEW by the simple ex­ e Mr. DODD. Mr. Speaker, I rise in tions expert in 1972. At the time of his pedient of ordering that the phrase, fraud, support of House Concurrent Resolu­ retirement, he was in the Newark com· waste and abuse be eliminated and replaced tion 307, which provides for a balanced prehensive crime prevention program. throughout the department with the words budget in fiscal year 1981. This resolu­ George Thomas is the outstanding program misuse and management inef· tion provides a necessary first step in kind of citizen who had to contribute ficiency. the fight against inflation, a fight we more to the community than his A recent Inspector General's report found must win if we are to restore our hous­ formal police work. His activities in· a lot of waste at HEW. not to mention fraud ing sector to a healthy condition. · eluded Board of Directors of the and abuse. So it's rather interesting to note that from now on there won't be any fraud, After months of controversy among Newark Branch of the NAACP; presi· abuse or waste at all. Only a little program economists and others, it is now quite dent of Bat.ons, Inc.; member of the misuse and management inefficiency. clear that the long-predicted 1980 re­ New Jersey Association of Community Now if you have to choose between fraud, cession has finally arrived. The Relations Officers; Bronze Shields; abuse and waste and program misuse and Bureau of Labor Statistics announced and the New Jersey Crime Prevention management inefficiency, I suppose_ pro­ the other day that the April unem­ Assoclation. gram misuse and management inefficiency ployment rate nationwide reached 7 His talent and knowledge were rec­ are better, the words being far longer, fuz. percent, up from 6.2 percent a month ognized by many awards, and also by zier, less pejorative and more pretentious ago and the largest monthly increase and therefore far more pleasing to bureau­ 1975. appointments to represent the Newark cratic ears. since January However, because Police · Department as a lecturer at Sure enough, at least one senior executive the monetary authorities have for Rutgers Law School and as a consult­ in HEW, Herbert Doget l?l of the Social Se· some time deemed it necessary to raise ant with the U.S. Department of Jus­ curity Administration, got up from that interest rates to record levels in the tice. meeting with Secretary Patricia Harris and name of fighting inflation, the extra­ Along with so many others in followed right up on her order to replace sensitive housing and construction in­ Newark, I salute the outstanding the phrase, fraud, abuse and waste with the dustry is on the verge of a full-blown career of George Thomas, and I am phrase program misuse and management in· depression. Unemployment in the con­ honored to be associated with him.e efficiency. struction industry for April exceeded He shot off a memo to his own people 15 percent and is estimated to reach 23 saying he agreed, quote, "that the Secre­ percent by December. tary's terminology reflects what we are measuring and working to eliminate. The Why are we suffering under these DEPARTMENT OF HEW change·is effective immediately. Please see record-high interest rates? Because NEWSPEAK that it is effected in your areas of responsi· there is too much inflationary spend­ bility," unquote. And so, at HEW, with a ing going on in the economy. What is merciful mandate of a memorandum, no the source of this spending? There are HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK more fraud, abuse and waste. many causes, both public and private, OF OHIO If fraud and abuse and waste are what but one thing is clear: until the Gov­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES trouble you, you will approve what they've ernment gets spending under control done at the old HEW. They've wiped out Wednesday, May 7, 1980 and balances Its budget, we cannot abuse, fraud and waste and the like with the expect the general public to show simi­ Mr. stroke of a pen, with a surgical strike. Now e Mr. ASHBROOK. Speaker, it is waste has been wasted, abuse got the noose lar restraint, and inflation and interest only 1980, but in the bureaucratic and no longer is fraud still abroad on the rates will not drop significantly until domain of Patricia Harris' Department loose. the economy undergoes a much more of Health and Human Resources-for­ Mrs .. Harris has made her patrician deci­ serious recession than the one we are merly the Department of Health, Edu­ sion and has wiped out those things with now experiencing. cation, and Welfare-the newspeak of amazing precision. Fraud. waste and abuse Our economy today is facing an George Orwell's "1984" is already will no longer embarrass pertinent reports to overall inflation rate of 18 percent, the taking hold. Patricia R. Harris. Fraud. waste and abuse simply do not exist. They are gone, and highest since World War II. and this is Students of Orwell will recall that in good riddance. They'll never be missed. And creating major distortions in the hous­ his fictional state, language was med the only things left to cause trouble or care ing and financial sectors. by the authorities to obfuscate any are a little program misuse and manage­ Single digit mortgages today are un­ undesirable aspects of government op­ ment inefficiency here and there. heard of, construction money is very erations the ruling bureaucratic class Although citizen taxpayers have to ap. expensive, and the extraordinary in­ did not care to have publicized-or, for plaud this daring attack on abuse, waste and creases in housing prices are only that matter-to acknowledge. fraud, HEW now is officially free of fraud, offset somewhat by the inability of A recent CBS network commentary of abuse and of waste. of all three. It's the aspiring middle-income home­ by Charles Osgood regarding Secre­ devoid now of fraud and of waste and abuse. We are much better off with some program owner to obtain financing at reason­ tary Harris' Orwellian approach to the misuse. able rates. The National Association of problems of fraud, waste, and abuse in The new words and phrases the bureau­ Homebuilders has predicted that hous­ her Department would be laughable crats live with, don't fire us up so. They're ing starts in ·1980 will fall to 965,100 were it not so disturbing in terms of things we can live with. Fraud is an ugly_ units, 47 percent below the 1979 level the .arrogant attitude taken by Carter word, waste seems so crude, abuse is offen­ and the lowest level since World War administration bureaucrats toward the sive and borders on rude. And such words in II. The hard times facing the housing public's right to know how its tax a grand departmental report are insuffi­ industry in general are affecting real­ money is being spent-or as the case ciently polysyllabic, too short. Program tors as well. may be, m~pent. misuse and management inefficiency do not suffer from this very deadly deficiency. The average annual income of bro­ I believe all Members of Congress They are loyal like long lasting, lingering kers and salespeople has fallen from should take note of what Charles names intended to bore one but not to in­ $20,000 in September of 1979 to Osgood rightly calls Secretary Harris' flame. $13,000 in April of 1980. Although the "patrician" decision to alter the lan­ You'll be happy to know, since the bill recently passed Mortgage Subsidy guage to suit her particular ideological you must foot, that from now on abuse, Bond Tax Act, which I supported, will and political mold. I am inserting per- waste and fraud are kaput.e make cheaper mortgage money availa- 10396 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 ble to the people who need it most to the 1982-84 period, according to the will become, so we must act decisively put a decent roof over their heads and Congressional Budget Office. and act now.e cheaper construction money to devel- If we are to begin restoring the opers as an incentive to build lower- housing industry to a state of high TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR LEVITT and middle-income rental housing, employment, where high-quality hous­ this act is only a temporary and par- ing can be built at reasonable cost and tial solution and will not address the sold at reasonable prices, and if we are HON. S. WIWAM GREEN long-term problems facing the indus- to bring the cost of financing housing OF NEW YORK try as a whole. It is essential that the construction and purchases down to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Government act now to stem the infla- an acceptable level, there is no ques­ Wednesday~ May 7, 1980 tionary tide that threatens to destroy tion that many reforms must be un­ • Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, the State the housing industry nationwide. dertaken. Many of these reforms will of New York yesterday lost one of its Unfortunately, until very recently be politically difficult for many Mem­ most dedicated and effective public the only Federal agency playing an bers of Congress to accept, and I do servants when Arthur Levitt died of a active role in the fight against infla- not intend to discuss all of them here. heart attack. Mr. Levitt has had a tion has been the Federal Reserve · But Congress is presently considering unique career In New York politics Board, and they have acted as one at 'least some Important pieces of legis­ and was one of the greatest vote-get­ would expect them to-by raising in- lation that will assist not only the ters in the State's history. I was proud terest rates through the roof. In the housing industry, but other industries that for the last year Arthur Levitt absence of any complementary policies as well. served as chairman of my Academy Se­ on the part of the Congress and the In the area of I"egu]ation, I have co­ lection Committee, which assists me in executive branch, the Fed really has sponsored H.R. 5858, so-called sunset making my nominations to the U.S. no choice but to continue this ex- legislation, which .would require peri­ service academies. tremely restrictive monetary policy, odic congressional review of regula­ Mr. Levitt began his public service and this poses a significant threat to tions, agencies, and programs In order career as president of ·the New York our economic health in the long run to determine if their continued exist­ City Board of Education and in 1954 by drying up needed capital for pri- ence is desirable. U Congress deter­ was elected State comptroller, a posi­ vate investment which is in tum _mines they are not, these agencies, tion he retained for a record 24 years. needed if we are to significantly im- regulations, and programs would even­ In 1966 he won reelection to that prove our productivity trends in our tually be terminated. I have also sup­ office by a plurality of 1.6 -million most important industries. ported. the concept of legislative veto, votes-a victory margin which has In fiscal year 1981, the President where Congress would have the power never been matched. He became a and both Houses of Congress are con- to override those regulations which trustee of the Lincoln Savings Bank in sidering budget resolutions that are In are determined to run contrary to the 1959 and, following his voluntary re­ balance for the first time in 12 years. public interest. While strong, inde­ tirement from the comptroller•s posi­ This is extremely important because pendent regulatory agencies are un­ tion in 1978, he became a senior invest­ we must get the Federal Government questionably in the Nation's interest ment counselor for that bank. He also out of the business of borrowing and should be kept strong, they then began to serve as a counsel to the money if we are to have any additional should also be subject to greater input firm of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, downward impact on inflation and in- from those who are directly affected Krim & Bailon, a role he maintained terest rates. It is quite clear that the by their regulations. until his death yesterday. Fed has no intention of lowering inter- We also need to expand incentives Seldom do the people of any State est rates significantly unless and until for saving that at the same. time will have the privilege to be served by a we enforce tight spending require- not divert funds from S. & L.'s and public official with the stature Arthur ments and maintain balanced budgets. other institutions that have historical- Levitt possessed. I feel honored to ! do not pretend for a moment that ly provided the bulk of new home fi­ have been associated with him, and I balancing the budget is done easily. It nancing. The phaseout of regulation Q join all New Yorkers in praising his is simple to espouse the overall goal of must be accompanied by other meas­ service.e budget balancing, but it is extremely ures, such as tax incentives for savers difficult to decide where to make the and mortgage investors, that will keep SOCIAL SECURITY-IS IT appropriate cuts. Even in the present funds available for buyers and builders REALLY OUR MONEY? situation, where the proposed fiscal alike. year 1981 budget resolutions are in To sum up, Congress needs to look balance largely because of increased at a wide range of measures involving HON. 'DANIEL B. CRANE tax revenues, the pressure from liter- tax, regulatory, and financial reform if OF ILLINOIS ally dozens of special interest groups we are to adequately address the acute IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to exempt their programs is enormous. problems of housing shortages and Wednesday~ May 7, 1980 Nor do I believe that balancing the high costs. But one thing Congress can e Mr. DANIEL B. CRANE. Mr. Speak­ budget should be undertaken at the clearly achieve now is a strong meas­ er, not long ago I . introduced H.R. expense of essential human service ure of fiscal restraint that will allevi­ 3606, the Right To Survive at 65 Act. programs designed to protect the vital ate some of the upward pressure on in­ This bill will stop punishing those who interests of the elderly, the poor, the terest rates. U we cannot achieve this, receive social security and also work. jobless, our children. We need to elimi- we will have a difficult time impress­ People work all their lives and are nate the waste and fat from bloated ing upon the Nation in general that forced to pay into the social security bureaucracies which spend relatively spending restraint is necessary. If that system; but that same system penal­ large portions of their budgets on self- turns out to be the case, prices and in­ izes them if they want to continue to administration and relatively small terest rates will stay high, the housing work and receive their full benefits. portions on the actual delivery of their sector will remain depressed, and the For every $2 earned over th~ limit, essential services. middle class will have to continue de- they lose $1m soc\al security. In order to insure that Congress is as ferring its goal of homeownership. The money that people contribute to strict on spending after this election There are no easy solutions to this the social security system is theirs; but year as it appears to be during this crisis facing our Nation, but if we are the system refuses them access to it election yea.r, I have introduced H.R. to ever begin devising solutions, we except under certain conditions. Can 6706, a bill that would tie Federal must first instill discipline in our you imagine what would happen to a budget outlays to potential GNP and budget and spending processes. The private pension fund if it tried that? It cut spending by $142 billion during longer we wait, the worse the problem would be closed down for fraud. lv.Iay 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10397 My bill permits anyone who wishes wages for each year-that's about 6.9 per­ bution in response to a cash school lunch or needs to work to do so and still re­ cent this year.e program; and ceive their full social security benefits. Whereas the Boise District pilot project was one of eight conducted nationally and The Mount Carmel Daily Re­ IDAHO LEGISLATURE CALLS FOR all demonstrated a cost savings under the publican Register, edited by Phil CASH IN LIEU OF COMMOD­ cash program; and Gower, has recently editorialized on ITIES AMENDMENT FOR THE Whereas estimated savings, nationwide, the subject of earning money while re­ NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PRO­ would exceed $160,000,000 with adoption of ceiving social security, and I commend GRAM the cash alternative to the present commod­ the November 19, 1979, editorial to my ity portion of the school lunch program: colleagues: Now, therefore, be it SOCIAL SECURITY NEWS HON. STEVEN D. SYMMS Resolved by the members of the Second Regular Session of the Forty-filth Idaho Leg­ Let's assume you're on Social Security, OPIDAHO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES iSlature, the .Senate and Home of Repre­ just like 35 million other people in the sentatives concurring therein, That we urge nation. Wednesday, _May 7, 1980 the Congress of the United States to act fa­ You may be retired. a widow, even a col­ • Mr. Mr. vorably upon adoption of amendments to lege student. In one way or another, you're SYMMS. Speaker, I would the National School Lunch Act which would dependent on that monthly check. like to call my colleagues' attention to enact the cash alternative to commOdity dis­ But the check looks pretty small these an important Joint memorial recently tribtitioll; be it further days, doesn't it? passed by the Idaho State Legislature, Resolved, That the Secretary of · the In AuJUSt of this year, for example, the urging Congress to amend the Nation­ Senate be, and she is hereby authorized and aveiage amount going to the nation's 18.7 al School Lunch Act and allow all directed to forward copies of this Memorial million retired workers on Social Security States to operate school lunch pro­ to the President of the Senate and the was $314.92. That's slim pickings in an econ­ Speaker of the House of Representatives of omy where the inflation rate is · zipping grams on a cash basis. The Boise School District was one of Congress, and the honorable congressional along at 13 percent a year. delegation representing the State of Idaho There's a way to help you survive a little eight school districts that participated in the CongresS of the United States.e better. You can work. For pay. in the USDA's cash in lieu of commod­ Some folks on Social Security can't, of Ities program. T,he result was a savings course. Some are too fragile, or ill. in 1 year of $87,000. In a year in which ENGINEERED CRASH FLATTENS But the vast majority are able to earn we are seeking ways, to balance our some extra money. Some already do. More HOUSING AND TIMBER INDUS· Federal budget and rekindle produc­ TRIES will have to. tivity at the local level, we must ad­ Congress in 1977 understood these facts. dress program modifications such as It changed the Social Security law so that HON. LES AuCOIN those dependent on the monthly checks these, which, If applied on a national OPOREGON c~d earn more, without penalty. basis, would save the American tax­ The amounts you can earn-in part-time payer $163 million. The Boise School IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES work, for example-don't seem large. But District, when left to manage its own Wednesday, May 7, 1980 they can help a lot. affairs, was ·able to provide a better So there's some good news. It is this: quality lunch at a lower cost.. e Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, last -starting Jan. 1, persons aged 65 through Any measure that will make our pro­ week when I was home in Oregon, I 71 who are on Social Security will be able to grams more cost effective is worthy of spoke to a young man.who considers earn ..$5,000 in calendar year 1980 without himself lucky to have at least part of a penalty. That's up $500 from $4,500 they support. I commend this Joint memori­ can earn without penalty this year. al to the attention of my colleagues Job. -starting Jan. 1, persons aged 62 through when this issue comes before the This young man lives in Willamina, 64 who are on Social Security will be able to House. The joint memorial reads as a small town in the Oregon Coast earn $3,720 in calendar year 1982 without follows: Range, one of the most productive penalty. That's up $240 from the $3,480 timber-growing regions in the world. · STATE OP IDAHO HOUSE JollfT MEMORIAL they can earn without penalty this year. NUKBER 2'1 He works at the sawmill. Because OP­ And that ~ applies to dependents of dis­ erations are curtailed, he works only abled persons , widows on . A joint memorial to the honorable Senate every. other week, earning $375. On Social Security, children who survive Social and House of Representatives of the Security beneficiaries and are going to col­ United States in Congress assembled. and the weeks he is not working, he col­ lege through Social Security paynients. to the honorable congressional delegation lects $125 in unemployment benefits. These new limits are still subject to representing the State of Idaho in · the This is the income with which he is income and payroll taxes, though the Congress of the United States struggling to support himself, his wife, income taxes are likely to be negligible if We, your Memorialists, the Senate and and a 2-year-oid· son. I asked him how that's the total amount of earned income. the House of Representatives of the State he manages to support a family on People who are 72 or older are exempt of Idaho assembled in the Second Regular that. He explained he had been draw­ from these limits and are permitted to earn Session of the Forty-fifth Idaho Legislature. Ing from his savings account. He said any amount they can, without penalty. do hereby respectfully represent that: hotdogs_and rice have become the Those under 72 who earn above the Whereas legislation Is now pending before annual limit lose $1 from their Social Secu­ the United States Congress to amend the mainstays of the menu in his house­ rity checks for every $2 earned. Thus, if National School Lunch Act and allow. all hold. I asked how the savings were you're in the 65-72 category and earn $6,000 states to operate school lunch on a cash holding out. or $7,000 next year you'll still get most of basis; and "They're pretty well drawn down," your Social Security check each month. If you earn $6,500, for ed a pilot proJect which demonstrated an life insurance lapse." When I inquired example, you'll lose only $750 of that from $87,000 savings for one year of operation as how long it had been since he and his your year's Social Security checks-that is, a cash basis school lunch program, resulting wife had been out to dinner, he replied you lose half ot the $1,500 above the $5,000 in 4.6 cents per lunch ·savtngs; and limit. Whereas under the pilot project, the that it had been in April, on their wed­ Altogether, there are 23 million persons Boise School District found that they had ding anniversary. Her parents had aged 65 or more receiving Social Security better planning capability, lower labor costs, treated. They had gone to MeDon· checks. Nearly 17 million are retired work­ decreased plate waste, and greater student aid's. ers; the rest are survivors and dependents. satisfaction with the school lunch program; Mr. Speaker, the grim truth is this In the 62-to-65 group are two million re­ and young man is fort~te. because tired workers and almost a million survivors Whereas the present commodity portion unlike thousands of jobless mill­ and dependents. of the school lunch program results in sig­ Congress established regular, $500-a-year nificant costs to the taxpayer as a result of workers and other workers whose live­ upward steps in earnings limits for the 65- waste in duplication in the purchase, stor­ lihoods are linked to housing and and-older group, and decreed that the earn­ age, and transportation of commodities. timber, he is still getting a paycheck. ings limit for the 62-through-64 group which costs would be greatly reduced if the In Oregon and the Northwest, there would be decided by the average increase in free enterprise system resumed food distri- is no more critical issue today than the 10398 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 engineered crash in the housing and the dream each American has of- toward returning stability to the hous- · timber industries. This crash is not owning his own piece of paracHse, a ing and timber industry. only painful; it is unnecessary. And in home. We must bring down interest And we should not stop there. We the long run, it will cause more infla­ rates now, and the first step is to bal· are facing major energy shortages in tion than it is supposed to cure. ance the Federal budget. Tight money this country, and one immediate, non­ .. Crash" is not too strong a word to policies imposed by the independent controversial step we can take is to use in describing what has happened. Federal Reserve Board are a response conserve electricity. I am the chief Look at the statistics: to deficit spending by the Congress. It sponsor of legislation that would accel­ Housing starts are down dismally because is sort of like gorging yourself one day erate energy conservation in communi­ of shortage-generated price inflation and and fasting the next. • · ties throughout the Nation. The pro- double-digit mortgage Interest rates. During I submit that the gorging must stop, gram is called the energy development the first months of 1980, as the prime rate and that Federal spending must be block grant program, and it is pat­ rose to above 20 percent, housing starts brought into balance with Federal rev- terned after the successful community were down 27 percent from last year at the enues. The only way to force down in· development block grant program.· same time. Estimates are that housing is my starts In 1980 will barely exceed 1 million. terest rates to get the Federal Gov- Under program, money would· be .This at a time when we need at least 2 mll· emment out of the borrowipg bust- earmarked for energy conservation llon starts annually to meet growing hous­ ness, because when it borrows money. plans devised at the local level on a Ing demands. But who can be surprised at you cannot, at least at iilterest rates community-by-community basis. ·Fed­ this when history shows that for every 1 you can afford. The· Federal Govern- eral guidelines would be held to a percent Increase In mortgage Interest rates, ment cail afford it because it prints minimum. Results are all that would 720,000 potential homebuyers are priced out more money• . which you wind ~P count. of the market. paying for through inflation.. · My program recognizes that the When the housing market plummets. so is does the timber Industry. In Oregon, 108 Because the work.tilg people of our major obstacle to conservation not lumber mills either closed or are operating country have already paid their share the absence of regulations, but the with curtailed production schedules, putting through high-interest rates and inflat- availability of financing and a plan to 8,964 workers out of jobS; 56 plywood plants ed tax rates, I believe we must balance follow. My measure will provide bOth In Oregon are closed or curtailed, putting the Federal budget without resorting the mea.Iis and the.direction to accom­ another 7,525 workers on the bread line. to new taxes. And, we can balance the · plish an important. goal. As a spinoff, Nationwide, more than 20,000 plywood budget and still have programs sensi· it would encourage ·grassroots innova­ workers are jobless and on the West Coast tive to the needs of the poor and dis- tion. Investing in energy conservation 44,000 lumbermen are out of work. And the advantaged. That is why. for example, on a communitywide basis is our figures are still rising, as the bottom abso­ I voted last week ·for the Obey amend- surest· short-term investment in ~utely drops out of the U.S. housing market. Tlie economic situation is compounded In ment that preserves funding for im· energy resources. Studies indicate we the Northwest because we are our own portant social programs by making can salvage as much as 40 percent of major customer for our own region's deeper cuts in areas that are wasteful. the energy we are now using-and lumber, because transportation costs are sc) But balancing the Federal budget wasting. Not a small dividend is that great our lumber isn't competitive east of will not stop inflation alone, nor Is it we are talking about labor-intensive the Rocky Mountains. So we get a double all that should be done. I support im· activity. and that, too, means jobs. shot-inflationary high Interest rates, and plementing the Brooke-Cranston pro- Let me conclude by saying that the recession caused by sharply ~ting · un­ gram that will stimulate new housing energy·. develop~ent block grant pro­ employment. and put people back to work. The gram symbolizes how I think we. can Mr. Speaker, what we are witnessing Brooke-Cranston emergency home best fight inflation and keep people is another episode in the relentless purchase assistance· program will ease working. This program begins to cure boom/bust cycle, which is ever deepen­ the current downturn in housing by ohe of the basic causes of inflation by ing. Each cycle, as it grows steeper, su­ stimulating ·commitments for up to reducing energy waste, and thus our perinflates housing prices while on the 200,QOO additional units of housing, dependence of precarious foreign upswing and knocks out more timber with interest rates middle-income sources of on. At the same time, it ere­ operations, more homebuilders, and Americans can afford. ates Jobs to keep the economy going. more carpenters on the downswfu.g. This is a ·tested program that worked We have not reached the point in our The sad reality is that tight money before during a serious housing crisis Nation's history when we have to sur­ policies, in the name .of curbing tnfia- in 1974-75. It requires a minimum of. rebder to shortages and to bleak eco­ . tion, actually perpetuate and acceler­ Federal redtape. It will work tmmedi· nomic· news. our-· tradition has been, ate it, certainly as far as housing goes. ately. The money is already there, and will continue to be, to produce our The demand for housing does not di· through repayments on mortgages way out of our fix. minish, but the ability to supply it issued earlier. U we can stimulate com- Another example of how we can does-with fewer builders and fewer mitments for 200,000 housing units- work ourselves into better shape_.. is carpenters-and that forces up prices. including a fair share in the Pacific sound manageme~t of our Federal You cannot build 2 million houses Northwest-it Will mean 350,000 Jobs. forest lands: one year. and. 1 million the next, and This will go a long way toward revers- We should keep funding for the u.s. expect the homebuilding industry to ing the recession we find ourselves in. Forest Service at adequate levels to ensure remain stable. You cannot expect the . In addition to Brooke-Cranston, timber is ready to be sold when housing housing industry to gear up to meet there are other steps we can take, markets explode once more, as they surely peak demand when it knows Just such as the Comprehensive Housing ~e should settle the wilderness issue iil around the comer it will be plunged Development Act, which I have co- Oregon once and for an. into the abySs. You cannot expect car­ sponsored in the House. This measure And. we should Invest 1n reforestation. penters to hang around and wait for would .boost construction of single- The Forest Service maintains almost 1 mil­ the good times to· return. They have family houses by modifying the sec- lion acres that have not been reforested. families to feed, and they cannot do it tion 235 low-mortgage-interest pro- Every day that passes means one less day of on an economic roller coaster. gram. It also would establish a new growth of trees, and that costs all of us I call this latest round of premedi­ program to lower interest rates on money-and will cost people in the North­ tated high interest rates an engineered rental housing projects, at a time west jobs. crash because there can be no doubt when virtually no multifamily rentals Mr: Speaker, these are investments what happeilS when this old medicine are being built anywhere. Together, that will block inflation down the road is tried. The housing and timber indUS· these two steps would stimulate and provide greater stability in the tries suffer. And their suffering has 220,000 units of single arid multifamily timber ana housing industries. reached the point of where their very housing, and create another 385,000 In the United States, we can beat in­ futures are imperiled, and with them jobs. This is another sound step flation-and we can do it without re- May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10399 . sorting to threadbare conspiracies that group in Wasbington, we were successful in SAGA OF COWBOYS AND POLISH plunge us into recession. We can have obtaining the approval of the Subcommittee . ACCENTS an economy that allows people to earn on Health and the Environment for these a decent living without seeing their · amendments. They have been added . as . amendments to H.R. 4000, a bill containmg HON. ABRAHAM KAZEN, JR. earnings sapped away through infla- a · variety of medicare/medicaid amend- tion and rising taxes. We can have mil- ments which is presently pending before OF TEXAS lions of Americans realize their dream the fttli Committee on Interstate and For­ IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES of owning a honie, without being sub- eign Commerce. Nevertheless, our work has Wednesday, May 7, 1980 jected to punitively high interest Just begun if we are serious about protecting rates. We can build America without private philanthropy. • Mr. KAZEN. Mr. Speaker, one of tearing her down first. We can rally The bill. as amended, must still obtain the the joys of my House service has been the American people to sacrifice if approval of the full Commerce Commit~~- repeated several times when I have approval which is by no means assured. been invited to events in Panna Maria. they are convince~. our le~dership is Moreover, since H.R. 4000 is under the joint Tex., the oldest Polish settlement in sound and the sacrifice is faJ.I'.e Jurisdiction of the Commerce Committee our Nation. In tribute to the heritage and of the Ways and Means Committee, the of the people now living there, I want · amendments approved by the Commerce PHILANTHROPY IN THE HEALTH Conimittee, philanthropy included, must .be to share a news report from the Chica· CARE FIELD approved by the full ·House before a final go Tribune of May 6, in which Report­ · vote on the legislation is taken. For this· er Charles Leroux chronicled how HON. TONY P. HALL reason, it is vitally important that every brave people, led by heroic priests, ¥ember of the HouSe, particularly those founded this small village in my dis­ OF omo who serve on the Commerce Committee and trict.- I suggest that the inspiration IN. THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Ways and Means Committee, are in- which this article provided to me Wednesday, May 7, 1980 formed as to why present policies inhibit should well be shared by my fellow • philanthropic support of our Nation's non- • Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, re- · profit hospitals. I hope that while you are Members of this House: cently my colleague from Kentucky, here in Washington, each of you will take PANNA MARIA, TEx.-There· is just one in­ the Honorable TIM LEE CARTER, re- the time to inform your Representatives tersection in this tiny town on either side of ceived an award from the Association about this important matter. a farm road deep in the heart of Texas, 50 miles southeast of San Antonio. for Hospital Development quring tlie I know that you will agr~ that it is 1m- annual meeting in Washington. _ perative that we protect philanthropic sup. There's one church and one school. Felix At that time Dr CARTER expressed port of our voluntary hospitals. I believe Snoga's store is a grocery, gas station, and . • . · · that passage of the philanthropic amend­ post office all in one, and also provides a hiS support of philanthropy and, spe- ment contained in H.R: 4000 will send a shaded front porch where town dogs stretch cifically, · its role in. the health care signal to the hospitals and the citizens of out for a nap. If you stopped at Snoga's for field. I believe that Dr. CARTER'S re- this country that Congress is concerned a cold pop or went to the church rectory to marks are worth noting. Therefore, I about artificial obstacles which decrease the see if there was anyone there to unlock the would like to insert them into the benefits of private philanthropy. I hope town museum, you'd probably be-talking to RECORD at this time so that all our col- · that you will help me to see that this legis­ someone who spoke English as though it was his seeond language. leagues will have the benefit of his ~tion is passed as soon as possible. views: Thank you very much.e The cross street is Pulaski Street. The church is Catholic. The accent you hear REMARKS OF THE HONORABLE TIM LEE CARTER from many of these lifelong Texans is BEFORE THE ASSOCIATION FOR HOSPITAL DE­ Polish. The reason goes back 126 years. VELOPMENT MARY HILLARD RECEIVES RED Early m December, 1854, 100 Polish fami­ I want you all to know that I share your CROSS CERTIFICATE OF MERIT lies from Upper Silesia set foot in Galves­ concerns about philanthropy. It is my belief ton. They came at the bidding of one of that private philanthropy is one . of the their own, Father Leopold Moczygemba, a great strengths of our nation. The thirty­ HON. IKE SKELTON missionary priest from Silesia, who was min­ eight billion dollars which Americans volun­ OF MISSOURI istering to tlie Germans living in central tarily gave last year is a symbol to me of the Texas. · kind of creative public spirit on the part of IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Father Leopold knew that the Poles of Si­ our citizenS which is vital to our life as a Wednesday, May 7, 19$0 lesia chaffed under the rule of Prussia and nation. had suffered some religious persecution. I assure you that I will do all that is e Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, I Their biggest problem, however, was eco­ within my power to support and enhance would like to call attention to a · note­ nomic. Since the feudal system had been private philanthropy, especially in the worthy act of mercy undertaken by abandoned in 1830, a peasant's acre no health care field. one of my constituents, Ms. Mary Hil· longer was inherited intact by one child but I know that you share Itly concern that lard of Independence, Mo. Ms. Hillard was divided among the children. High birth certain steps taken in recent years by the bas been named to receive the Red rates shattered farms. Federal Government threaten the very ex­ Cross Certificate of Merit for sustain­ Father Leopold looked over the vastness isterlce of health care philanthropy. In our of Texas and saw the fields of a promised zest for reform of the health care system. ing a life by using skills and knowledge land. He bought a parcel on a plateau over­ we have often paid too little attention to its that she learned in a volunteer train­ looking the junction of the San Antonio and strengths, because the debate has focused ing program offered by the Red Cross. Cibolo rivers-paid 'way too much for it, almost completely on the curing of weak­ On October 13, 1979, Ms. Hillard, five times what good land nearby sold for­ n.esses. However, if in the course of attempt­ trained in Red Cross cardiopulmonary and wrote home to his four brothers and mg to cure these perceived deficiencies in resuscitation . came ·upon the their neighbors the Polish equivalent of the health care system we destroy its scene of a traffic accident. Stopping to "Y'all come." strengths, we will have done the American Eight hundred men, women, and children people a serious disservice. . assist the injured, .Ms. Hillard deter­ came. They spent nine weeks packed togeth­ It is this concern that led me to introduce mined that one of the victbns had nei­ er on a ship. A few died on the journey. A the Voluntary Hospital Philanthropic Sup. ther pulse nor respiration. She super­ few more gave in to yellow fever in Galves­ port Act. This bill establishes clearly a firm vised and assisted a bystander in pro­ ton. The rest rented Mexicari carts, loaded policy that the ability of hospitals to attract viding CPR, and they continued to up their feather beds, their farm imple­ voluntary donations and all of the ancillary give CPR to the victim until the arriv­ ments, and the cross from the parish church benefits associated with donations, must be al of the ambulance personnel. With­ back in the old country, and walked for two preserved. The bill also makes substantive out a doubt, the use of CPR by Ms. weeks south along the coast to Indianola. amendments to Federal reimbursement poli­ Hillard sustained the victim's life until There they turned inland on the oxcart cies which will, in my view, correct existing road to San Antonio. More died along the deficiencies in the law ·which threaten pri­ medical help could be obtained. way and were buried beside the trail. There vate philanthropy for hospitals. This meritorious action exemplifies were births, too, and mothers wrapped their · I am pleased to report to you that with· the highest ideals of the concern of infants iii blankets against the cold and re­ the valuable assistance of my good friend, one human being for another, and it is sumed walking. When they passed through . John Grupenhoff, who ably represents your a model from which we can all learn.e the towns of Victoria and Yorktown, some 10400 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 of the p_arty dropped out and let the proces­ OF PUERTO 'RICO ankle, short for that time and place. Many The settlement was visited by drought in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of both sexes wore wooden shoes. The 1856 and flood in 1869. For three years Americans they encountered stared with during the Civil War, there was no priest, Wednesday, May 7, 1980 amusement and awe. and the dying faced eternity without the e Mr. CORRADA. Mr. Speaker, my On Christmas Eve they arrived at the pla­ sacraments. But Panna Maria kept building. office has been receiving inquiries re- teau overlooking the rivers and named the They wanted a school. A partitioned-off garding the participation of Puerto place Panna Maria, for the mother of the Christ Child. room in a bam had served as a classroom in Rican athletes in the Moscow Olym­ the early years of the settlement; but the pies and I J·ust would like to bring my Father Leopold said a midnight mass settlers wanted a real school, and in 1867 under the largest live oak in a small grove, a construction was begun. After two years of colleagues up to date on this matter. mass of thanksgiving and a petition to God hard work and repeated collections and The Puerto Rico Olympic Commit­ for the strength to carve a life out of this bickering over costs, the school ·was dedi- tee has been recognized since 1948 as a inhospitable place. Some of the Poles slept cated. separate entity by the International under the oaks the first several nights. Others dug holes, covered them with the Father Bakanowski wrote to the head- Olympic Committee and is therefore tall grass that grew everywhere, and hud­ quarters of his order in Paris about the in- not bound by the decision taken by dled in the earth with their families. Expo­ debtedness caused by the building project the U.S. Olympic Committee; however, sure took its toll; malaria swept the colony. and the devastation caused by the floods, Mr. Speaker, I believe that as Ameri­ but a subsequent letter had a far different can citizens Puerto Rican athletes There were scorpions and rattlesnakes in tone: such numbers as to constitute a Biblical "Beautiful is the scenery around . From one side, one can see the vii- .boycotting the Moscow Olympics in re­ Leopold. lagers and, beyond them, the woods; from pudiation of the Soviet invasion of Af· Then, little by ljttle, the Dziuks and Ma,nkas, the Moczygembas and Urbanczyks, the south side, one sees fields and meadows ghanistan. Both houses of the Com­ the Rzeppas and Szudas, the Kiolobassas and a wide expanse of thousands of acres. monwealth legislature and the Gover­ and other families began to build. They first First appear the well-kept fields of cotton and com, farther begins a decline lature has voted to discontinue fund­ culminating in the San Antonio River on f d · h" h after. the banks of which grow large pecan trees; ing for those sports e erat1ons w IC Together, the community built a church the foliage is thick and the stream clear as send athletes to ~oscow. UJ?fortuna~e­ with stone walls two feet thick. The floor was sand; there were no pews, no choir loft; crystal. There one comes across congregat- ly; the Puerto RICO Ol~mp1c Commit­ homespun covered the windows. Once, when ing rabbits, wild cats, and panthers." tee has approved a motiOn that allows a baptism was scheduled, two rattlesnakes The panthers are gone, but the bam that -. eac~ sports federation on the island to were found curled aiound the baptismal once housed a classroom is now Snoga's decide whether or not to .se?d athletes font. store; the Gawlik house is now a barn; the t? the Moscow O~ymp1cs, howe~er, The worst varmints that plagued the colo­ pecan trees still grow, and the live oak be- signs a.re encouragmg and the frrst nists weren't the snakes or the crocodiles or neath which that first mass was said federation to take a vote on whether the spiders. The worst were the Americans. spreads grandly next to the new <1877> Im· or not to go to Moscow. the swimming "Whether traveling or at home," Father maculate Conception church. federation, has overwhelmingly voted Adolph Bakanowski, a pastor of Panna And the Poles are still there. In the ceme- not to go. Maria's Immaculate Conception ·church in tery north of town, their names on head- I want to assure my colleagues that the late 1860s, wrote, "We had no peace. stones stare .unflinching into the sun of the both the Governor and .I will continue These cowboys en~red the church during the services with their hats on and smoking boundless sky of the Lone Star State. In to dialog with the various federations cigarets. They would come out around the front of the handful of houses in town. and in Puerto Rico urging them to boycott the fa~ouses in. the- surrounding fields the Moscow Olympics. altar during the mass and curiously exam­ stand mailboxes With the same names as me the contents of the chalice. On the road those in .the cemetery. the same as those In fact, three sports federations jn they would shoot at the Polander's feet, in who came 126 years ago. There are· about Puerto Rico have already decided not many instances wounding him. As a protec­ 100 families here now, same as in the begin­ to go-the swimming, judo, and yacht­ tion against such and against the snakes ning. that crawled everywhere, I provided myself ing federations. Other federations with a revolver. A rosary in my pocket and This is certainly not the largest Polish set­ have not yet voted on the question the revolver hanging in a scabbard on my tlement in America, but it is the oldest, and and the track and field federation, by saddle, I went along so that everyone who on a hot, lazy day with no traffic on Texas a vote of 5 to 4 voted to go but efforts did not believe the word of God would be­ Farm Road 81 and only the sound of birds are being made to have that decision lieve my revolver-the god of the and the flutter of butterflies in the air, it's reconsidered. Americans." like living surrounded by a sigh of relief An early settler recalled in his memoirs, after the struggles, the feats of endurance Mr. Speaker, I insert a copy of a res­ "When our wretchedness forced us to leave that took place here. olution adopted by the Legislative As­ our families and seek money and· food, we In Snoga's store there's a pamphlet you sembly of Puerto Rico prohibiting the were shown, by some, the practical end of a can buy that tells the history of the settle­ use of public funds of the Common­ gun and were told to dance for our pay, ment. The Rev. Edward J. Dworaczk, who wealth of Puerto Rico to sponsor send· which, eventually, we did not get. That was wrote the pamphlet. dedicated it to: ing Puerto Rican athletes to the the hardest blow of all. After weeks, even months of hard labor, we were forced to The first settlers of this historic hamlet Moscow Olympics: return home penniless where children cried Who left their native land of suffering and PuERTO RICO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for bread." oppression CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 3708 A few Americans treated the colony with To seek life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap­ kindness. Some resident of nearby Helena, piness To amend the Title and to add a Paragraph the first county seat, offered jobs San Diego Union as a portion of my likes to read it in bed, or while lounging be held in Puerto Rico in the year of 1982 remarks: around the house or pool. He has never felt and for the use of the Puerto Rico Olympic it necessary to prove he can outwork the Committee in the development and foment­ [From the San Diego Union, May 4, 19801 other fellow by hanging around the office ing of sports through its affiliated Feder· AN Ex-AIDE'S VIEW: WHAT KIND OF Until a late hour. ations." PREsiDENT WoULD REAGAN BE? Though reporters and critics have ques- "Article 6.-The Puerto Rico Olympic tioned many things about Reagan, they Committee in the assignation and use of the have never questioned one quality essential funds appropriated by this Resolution for As Ronald Reagan steadily draws nearer to the presidency-courage. And the ability the development and fomenting of sports to the Republican presidential nomination, to make a tough decision and not look back. through its affiliated Federations shall one question is asked with increasing fre­ Perhaps the toughest decision Reagan oversee that the following norms and pro­ quency: If elected what kind of president had to make as governor was the decision to ceedings be followed: will Reagan be? let the execution of the killer of a police of­ Unfortunately, the question is unanswer­ ficer go on as scheduled. He had qualins. He ...... able. One can guess or can look at the prayed and he talked with his minister. He (q) ...... record and draw conclusions. But, in fact, it studied the record and he met with his legal is impossible to say what kind of a president affairs secretary and other high level staff. 1.- ...... any man will be until he has held the office Then he made the decision to let the execu­ 5.- ...... ; ...... for a period of time. For the presidency tion go ahead. magnifies, or brings out of those who hold Several times as governor he faced down 1.- ...... it, traits, flaws, strengths and weaknesses 5.- ...... angry mobs or walked through them. Once never before apparent. it was stone-throwing, car-rocking student Providing that the funds assigned in this No one could have predicted in advance protestors at a University of California Resolution cannot be used either directly or that the haberdasher,· Harry S. Truman, Board of Regents meeting. Another time it indirectly by the Puerto Rico Olympic Com­ would have been . competent, courageous, was supporters of Cesar Chavez in the state mittee nor by its affiliated Federations nor tough; that the Southerner, Lyndon John­ Capitol. son, would have become a domestic and by any entity or any person to participate or Another quality a president must have is sponsor in any way the 1980 Olympic social liberal; or that the anti-communist, Richard Nixon, would be the one to open stamina. Reagan's health is good. His cam­ Games to be celebrated in that year in the paign pace this year should lay to rest any City of Moscow of the USSR." . the door to Communist China. So it is probably safe to say that nobody, question of ability to stand up under either The Puerto Rico Olympic Committee as. physical or mental pressures. well as all the affiliated Federations, enti-­ including Reagan, can really say what kind ties or individuals that dedde to participate In of a president he would turn out to be. When Reagan appoints members of his the 1980 Olympic Games, shall be barred Nevertheless, a close look at Reagan the cabinet, they likely are in for a shock. For from receiving public funds for any of their man, as well as Reagan· the governor, may the most part, new presidents send their activities beginning with the approval date give some sort of indication. At the same cabinet officers out to take charge of their of this law through July 1, 1981 and shall time, since he could well become president, departments "and run it as if.it were yours." reimburse the general revenue those it is probably time to straighten out some As a result, cabinet secretaries tend to wind amounts that from the funds assigned for misconceptions regarding him. up as· ambassadors from their departments Fiscal Year 1979-80 they have expended Reagan the man has been accused of to the White House, serving as emissaries and obligated as of the approval date of this being shallow, not particularly smart and from the entrenched bureaucracies and the law for the purpose of their participation in lazy. He has been called an actor, mouthing vested interests. When Reagan, as governor, said Olympic Games. lines but having little substance. He is named his cabinet, he sent the members SEc. 2. This Concurrent Resolution shall charged with being unimaginative, with no forth to carry administration policy to the become effective immediately after its ap­ ideas of his own. departments and to carry it out in them. . proval.e It is true that Reagan is not ·Einstein, and Reagan cabinet officers were Reagan's men it is equally true he doesn't pretend to be. nt the departments; they were not the de­ Nor is it likely that he is in the class of, say, partments' men in the Reagan cabinet. RONALD ·REAGAN AS PRESIDENT Jefferson as a deep thinker. But this is not There may be a second shock also for cabi· · to say he is either shallow or dumb. His net officers who have &erved other presi­ record as governor clearly indicates that he dents. Reagan keep~ in contact with his HON. BOB WILSON can tell a good idea from a bad one, that he cabinet secretaries. As governor he held reg­ OF CALIFORNIA can deal as an intellectual equal with intelli­ ular weekly cabinet meetings at which poli­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gent politicians such as Jesse Unruh, with cies proposals and problems were thrashed highly regarded university administrators out. Wednesday, May 7, 1980 such as Charles IDtch, with presidents such "Roundtabling" was the word used arid Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, as Richard Nixon. Admitted experts, deep the policy followed in the Reagan guberna· e thinkers, national leaders have not come torial office. "Roundtabling" can be expect­ one of Washington's most experienced away from Reagan accusing him of being ed in the Reagan presidential office. Reagan political pros, Lyn Nofziger, who was a unintelligent or shallow. is a man who likes to hear all sides before trusted aide and Presidential cam­ There is more, however, to the charge he makes his decision. Though he occasion­ paign adviser to Governor Reagan that Reagan is not innovative, that he did ally talks when he shouldn't, he seldom acts 10402 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 without the benefit of the best advice he He will set out to give the nation his kind Despite the forceful voice of the Na­ can find. · of conservative government, but he will be tional Rifle Association, of which I am In the wake of the Carter administration, willing to compromise for part of a loaf in pleased to be a member. there is con­ Washington insiders have ·expressed the almost any aFea where he clearly cannot get it all. · siderable editorial support for hand­ fear that Reagan as president will be hurt gun by a lack of experience in two areas: con­ He will not hesitate to make the tough de­ control. Some editorials from rep­ gressional relations and foreign policy. cisions as the need arises, but he will not act utable newspapers are attached as ex­ Two points need to be made here. First of rashly or in haste or without consultation. amples: all, any president in either of these areas is His bark will be worse than his bite. [From the Bennington Banner, Mar. highly dependent on cabinet and staff, in· If he manages to surround him.self with 20, 1980] cluding the secretary of state, the chairman good staff and a competent, supportive cabi­ THE SHADOW OF THE GUNMAN of the ~ational Security Council and the as­ net and if he is not dissuaded from attempt­ sistant to the president for congressional re­ ing to do those things that today he thinks Last Thursday, Allard Lowenstein offered lations. must be done, Reagan could tum out to be this urgent advice to Senator Kennedy's Reagan's record for. surrounding himself an effective president whose appeal to the . New York campaign aides: Don't forget gun with competent people at both cabinet and nation rivals his previous appeal to Califor­ laws; be sure that one of the senator's taped staff levels is good. ' nians. commercials includes a plea for federal con­ The second point is that dealing either On the other hand, it must be remem­ trol of handgun sales. On Friday, the with other nations or with members of Con­ bered that Reagan has failings, faults and former New York congressman was fatally gress calls for ability and experience in ne­ frailties, just like any other president has shot in his office. The man accused of the gotiating and for a willingne$ to compro­ killing had bought a pistol in a Connecticut had. gunshop, using a driver's license for identifi­ mise. Reagan views himself as a superior ne­ Fate will put these in the balance along gotiator. He likes to point out that for sever­ cation. The purchase was perfectly legal, with his assets, his ir.telligence, his courage, even though the purchaser had been com­ al years he represented the Screen Actors his convictions, his political instincts and Guild in negotiations with the heads of the mitted to a mental institution in the same his decency. state. studios, a tough, hard-nosed breed indeed. And sometime during his four-year term, As governor he prove4 he did know how to "Guns don't kill people. . People kill the good and the bad will begin to sort people." That bumper-sticker slogan of the negotiate effectively. Equally important, he themselves out as he meets the daily prob­ learned when to compromise, when ·not to gun lobby is nonsense. Many impulsive mur­ lems and crises of government. Only then ders would never occur if the attackers compromise and when to go over the head will the nation, if it chooses to elect him, see of the Legislature directly to the people. lacked easy access to handguns. America is just what kind of a president Ronald the only industrial society without effective As president, Reagan can be expected to Reagan will be.e negotiate but not to back down. And, when national controls on the sale of firearms. there is an impasse, he can be expected to The distinction would end if Congress u.Se television, at which he is a master, to FEDERAL RETffiEES passed Sen. Kennedy's handgun control bill. take his case directly to the people and to One provision would authorize the police to rally them behind him. In this regard, he block the sale of handguns to persons with a had-and has-a favorite saying: "If we HON. WILUAM LEHMAN history of mental disorder. It would have prevented the man charged with murdering can't make them see the light, we can at OF FLORIDA least make them feel the heat." Lowenstein from buying a Spanish-made Reagan, as governor, depended heavily on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES weapon with $120 and a driver's license. staff. He can be expected to do the same if Wednesday, May 7, 1980 A sound federal gun law alone would not elected president. He is not a detail man. keep felons or the deranged from acquiring Details he leaves for others. Unlike Jimmy e Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I re­ firearms. But the absence of such a law also Carter, he would never worry about sched· cently tnet in my district office with a undercuts the gun-control measures of uling the use of the White House tennis group of civil service retirees who were states like New York, whose neighbors per­ · court-or swimming pool or bowling alley. extremely concerned about the possi­ sist in lax standards. In thwarting the desire Nor would he worry about who got to eat in bility of losing their twice-a-year cost­ of a majority of Americans, as expressed in the White House mess. of-living adjustments. a multitude of polls, the firearms zealots Instead, he would 8ave himself for devel­ ignore the shadow of the gunman of Ameri­ oping the big programs and making the big The group, which consisted of repre­ can life. decisions. sentatives from NARFE. feared that There have been charges that he depends their retirement security was now [From the Binghamton Evening too heavily on staff, that he does not pay being threatened by budget cuts. Press, Mar. 19,19801 enough attention to detail, that he is not in· I strongly support efforts to balance qUNs Do KILL PEOPLE terested in the routine, day-to-day activities. our Federal budget. but I do not be­ If these are fault, the criticism is probably Many Americans seem t.o accept as truth justified. However, a job as big as the presi­ lieve that in the process we can avoid anything that fits on a bumper sticker. The dency clearly calls for a chief executive who our commitment to our retirees. slogan doesn't have to make sense as long as can be selective in the use of his time and I commend the Post Office and Civil the phrasing is catchy and the message fits. efforts. Reagan can be that. Service Committee. which has so far Thus, we are treated to this dangerous bit Another criticism, common to most execu- · resisted any attempts to reduce the. of nonsense: "Guns don't kill people. People tives, is that Reagan tends to surround him· number of ·cost-of-living adjustments kill people." self with a pB.lace guard, that as governor he for Federal retirees.e By refusing to acknowledge the vital con­ was difficult or next to impossible to see. nection between the human trigger finger The problems of the presidency and the and the gun, individuals and groups opposed to gun registration neatly remove the magnitude of the job undoubtedly mean THE SHADOW OF THE GUNMAN that he will continue to be relatively inac­ weapon from consideration in violent cessible. But all presidents are inaccessible deaths. to those they don't have time to see. Acces­ HON. PAUL N. McCLOSKEY, JR. Of course, the slogan and the point of If sibility is relative and personal. Reagan, like OF CALIFORNIA view it represents are ridiculous. the gun other·presidents, will see those he has to see lobby were committed to telling the truth. for governmental or political reasons; he IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES its bumper ·stickers would read, "Guns alone won't see many others unless someone in­ Wednesday, May 7, 1980 don't kill people. People with guns kill vents a longer day. people." The preceding is a very sketchy outline of • Mr. McCLOSKEY. Mr. Speaker, the Ask the family and friends of former New what kind of president Reagan might be, at death of our friend and former con­ York Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein, least in one observer's opinion. To sum it gressional colleague, Allard Lowen­ who was gunned down in his Manhattan law up, Reagan's approach to governing is prob­ stein, caused a number of us to pledge office last Friday afternoon. The man ac­ ably nearer to that of Dwight D. Eisenhow­ to work to end the wide and uncon­ cused of the killing used a driver's license er than to that of any other recent presi­ trolled use of concealable handguns. for identification to buy a pistol in a Con­ dent. He will have a chief of staff and he necticut gunshop. The purchase. was per­ will use the staff system effectively. Last week 43 of us asked Chairman fectly legal, even though the purchaser had Though a warm and friencij.y individual, RoDINO to push ahead with appropri­ been committed to a mental institution in he is not a politician's politician, and he can ate handgun control legislation. and Connecticut. be expected to develop few warm friend­ he has agreed to hold hearings in late Ironically, on the day before he died ships among the members of Congress. June. Lowenstein had urged Senator Edward M. May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10403 Kennedy's staff not to forget federal con­ Kennedy, but the question can be raised 1n Gun control in this nation is long overdue. trol of handgun sales as a campaign issue 1n his case as well, for he was a great man-In How many shootings and deaths do we have New York State. an untidy, hectic but unusually effective to experience before we come to the realiza· A sound federal gun law, like Senator way-In the cause of human rights, here tion that guns do kill people: and If there Kennedy's proposed handgun ·control bill, and abroad, and he was shot to death by an weren't guns distributed so freely among would not have prevented the death of apparently deranged former protege 1n the our residents, fewer people would die each Allard Lowenstein by Itself. But It would civil rights movement. year.e have stopped the man charged with murder­ The man who killed AI Lowenstein had Ing ·Lowenstein from buying a handgun with been a mental patient. Yet he had no prob· $120 and a driver's license. The Kennedy lems buying the murder weapon-a Spanish· PIKESVILLE SENIOR HIGH blll would authorize the pollee to block the made automatic pistol-In Connecticut, sale of handguns to persons with a history after showing his driver's license and under­ of mental disorders. going a waiting period while pollee checked HON. CLARENCE D. LONG In the Lowenstein case, that may have to see If he had a crlmlnal record. Now it is Ol' MARYLAND been enough to prevent a violent and fatal true that without the easily purchased IN THE HOUSE 01' REPRESENTATIVES crime. pistol, Mr. Lowenstein's killer might stlll A sound federal handgun law also would have accompliShed his objective, by club or Wednesday, May 7, 1980 help states like New York to enforce· exlst­ by ax or by brute force. The fact is, howev­ fug gun control measures. The way things er, that someone who had no business e Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak.. now stand, New York's efforts often are owning a handgun found no impediment to er,. I welcome the 12th-grade students thwarted by the willingness of neighboring obtaining one. And having obtained It, he from the . Pikesvllle Senior High states-Including Connecticut-to look the put It to the most common use for which School who, with Mr; Sidney Cher­ other way. such a weapon is designed, the shooting of a nick, are visiting the Capitol. My con­ This time, that laxness helped cost the human being. stituents will tour Congress, observe life of a crusader for civil rights and pollti· True, had he been a felon, he woufd not the House of Representatives in cal sanity. The loss of Allard Lowe~teln have been allowed to buy the pistol. But action, and visit the FBI. was too great a price to pay. even that barrier would be largely broken Mr. Speaker, distinguished col­ down If a bill sponsored by Rep. Volkmer leagues, I hope you will join me in wel· [From the Portland Telegraph, (supported, shamefully, by Sena. Eagleton Mar. 23, 19801 ·and Danforth> is approved. According to the coming: measure, which Is Intended to make it easier Lisa Chado, David Flater, Barbara Klotz. MURDER MADE EASY to obtain guns and more difficult for the man, Sherry Kronthal, Mark Lichtenberg, The shooting death of Allard Lowenstein governmeiit to take them away, persons Stewart Pearlman, Jay Renbaum, Sharon last weekend was just one more tragic argu­ convicted of more than 40 types of felonies Richmond, Troy Waidemer, Andrea Abram­ ment for sensible gun control In this coun- would be permitted to purchase or deal 1n son, Miriam Bloom, Karen Ehudin, Antho­ try. · handguns. These felonies, incredibly, In· ny Glasser, Sandra Greenberg, Linda Katz, The man accused of k1lllng the longtime elude extortion, violations of the Gun Con­ Stephen Katz, Ruth Kowarskl; liberal activist was a foriner Inmate 1n a trol Act, felonious assault and assassination Eileen Lipsitz, Dan Luxenberg, Jane Connecticut mental institution. Yet he was of members of Congress. Could this be Con­ Miller, Marilyn Murveit~ Gary Posner, able to buy the murder weapon In a Con­ gress' Idea of a memorial for AI Lowens~in? Terry Scherr, Doug Seeb, Melinda Siegel, necticut gunshop as easily as he might have Amy Silberman, Fran Silverstein, Susan bought a bag of groceries. All It took was [From the Haverstraw Times, Mar. Steinberg. Wayne Ury, Melody Waldman, $120 and the fla.Sh of a driver's license. 20, 1980] Susan Cohen, Wendy Weiner, Terry Lipsitz, A national handgun control bill sponsored JillSmeyne; GVN CONTROL NEEDED by Sen. Edward Kennedy-for whom Michelle Weisman, Scott Moses, Jill Po­ Lowenstein had been actively campaigning The tragic shooting death of former Con­ lanski, Manuel Cegla,. Lisa Cohen, Craig at the time of his death-might have pre­ gressman Allard K. Lowenstein once again Wolf, Larry Goldman, Toby Hessenauer, vented the gun from falling so easily Into points up the drastic need for stiffer gun Scott Freiman, Ellen Seamen, Debbie the killer's hands. It would have provided control Abramson, and Jeff McCall.e time for a check on the man's background Mr. Lowenstein's death last week at the and permitted authorities to block the sale hands of a man who allegedly purchased a of a pistol to a person with · his mental handgun for $120 demonstrates that the SCHOOL FOOD PROGRAMS history. · · free market in the purchase of weapons But even the mildest and most sensible should be halted · gun control proposalS Inevitably run Into It was reported that the man who shot HON. TONY P. HALL the most vigorous resistance of the gun Mr. Lowenstein had passed a pollee check OF OHIO lobby, which views such suggestions as a before he was able to purchase the weapon, plot to disarm sportsmen and other law­ suggesting that the current laws in effect IIi IN THE HOUSE 01' REPRESENTATIVES abiding citizens. most states are now inadequate. Wednesday, May 7, 1980 Here in Maine, a legislative proposal to re­ Mr. Lowenstein's murder made headlines, quire a simple three-day waiting period In· but there were thousands of men and • Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the purchase of a handgun has been repeat­ women-and yes, even children-who die earlier this year, one of my constitu­ edly rejected over the years, due to orga­ each year from wounds inflicted by guns. ents, Mrs. Betty Bender, testified nized opposition from the rod-and-gun-club Many of these die as a result of arguments. before the Elementary, Secondary, crowd. · Crimes and even accidents. But regardless and Vocational Education Subcommit­ We're not saying a national gun control of why they die, they are still dead. tee of the Education and Labor Com­ law would have prevented the ~nseless slaying of Allard Lowenstein-or of count­ The gun lobby 1n this nation haS long con­ mittee on the subject of school food less other shooting victims 1n this country tended that guns don't kill-that It is people programs. Mrs. Bender, who is supervi­ who kill each other. It is an argument that sor of food services for the Dayton, every year-but it might have. for years has failed to persuade us to The fact that this shooting might have change our minds about guns. Ohio, Public Schools, expressed her been avoided-and at no cost to anyone's views on both the current commodity constitutional liberties-makes the death of New York State has one of the toughest gun control laws 1n the nation, but still that program and the proposed letter of this bright American Idealist particularly credit program. tragic. hasn't preYented the untold homicides that occur each year. While It may be difficult to In the subcommittee last week, an legally purchase a gun here, there are amendment offered by my colleague, [From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, plenty available on the black market for a Hon. WILLIAM FoRD, failed. This Mar. 20, 19801 price. · amendment would have changed the How MANY To LosE? The only sensible way to prevent deaths existing commodities program to one At the memorial service this week for like Mr. Lowenstein's Is to halt the sale ·of of letters of credit. Since Congressman former Rep. Allard K. Lowenstein, Rep. guns to most individuals. If an individual FoRD may offer this amendment Pete McCloskey recalled that Mr. Lowen~ can't present a legitimate reason to have stein had once asked him, "How many great possession of a gun, he should not be able to before the full House, I insert Mrs. leaders do we have to lose to a deranged buy one. Bender's remarks into the REcORD at person with a concealed gun?" Mr. Lowen­ We have seen presidents, senators, mayors this time so that they can be reviewed stein was referring to the murder of Robert and others cut down senselessly. ' by all my colleagues: 10404 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 TESTIMONY ON THE SCHOOL FOOD PROGRAM tion is 87 percent. The equ!pment utilized COMMODITY PROCESSING COST ANALYSIS-GROUND PORK The Dayton Board of Education has had has allowed the production rate of 135 the opportunity to experience both com­ meals per manhour of labor to be attained In dollars modities and cash-in-lieu of commodities. and maintained since the first year of oper­ Altho~gh the report on the cash-in-lieu of ation. It is this type of efficiency that allows 5,94!1 lb. ground pork @ $0.8571 per pound...... $5,091.17 commodity pilot program from the United the food service section of the Dayton 5,940 lb. shipped @ $0.065 per pound...... 386.10 5,940 lb. handling charge @ $0.02 per pound-··················-- 118.80 States Department of Agriculture states Board of Education to maintain a self-suffi­ 5,940 lb. processed @ $0]69 per pound...... ·--·-··········~· · 2.193.05 that the data is ambiguous and inconclusive, cient budget. each of the participating school districts felt The Dayton Board of Education . also 4,217.4-111. yield (71%) ·················-···········-····h·•···· 7,789.12 the pilot program to be most successful maintains twelve on-site production kitch­ from a management viewpoint. Now a letter ens which serve the secondary schools. Pro­ of credit has been proposed a8 a possible so­ duction rate in these kitchens is 25 meals ~~ ~1~~~:::::~:::::::::::::::.:::::::::.~:::::::::::::: ~:u~ lution to commodity problems. per manhour. The menu selection is wide The National School Lunch Act of 1946 and varied, far in excess of the choice of two Since returning to the commodity pro­ clearly states its purposes to be: type a meal plans offered at elementary gram on July 1, 1979, the Dayton Board of 1. To provide improved and better nutri­ levels. I point this out as a ma~r of infor­ Education has been offered $534,079.22 tion for school children, and mation as I present the following cost analy­ value in commodities. The Dayton Board of 2. To provide an outlet for surplus com­ sis of processing commodities. Education has accepted $397,639.91. This modity foods. means that we have refused $136,439.31, or Schools throughout the nation recognize COMMODITY PROCESSING COST ANALYSIS-TURKEY 25.7 percent of the commodities offered. and accept these two premises and have ac­ The commodities refused have been butter, tively and successfuly managed the school In dollars flour, peanut butter, riee, shortening, rolled feeding program with these goals as major wheat, rolled oats and peanut granules. All key factors. It is now thirty-four years later, Coramercial: items refused were offered in amounts in and school districts such as ours are faced 24-lb. turltey @ $0.7308 per pouncL .• ~·--········-~·-- 17.59 excess of normal usag~. To date, the Dayton with the same problems as the Federal Gov­ Shipping@ $0.06518 pound ••••••••• ~-····-~--····--···-·· 1.56 Board of Education has expended: Commer­ ernment, i.e.. how to balance the budget, Handfmg charge@ $0.0225 per pound ...... ·-···--····-··· .54 cial storage, $2,572.01; distribution costs, reduce costs in an inflationary era, and pro­ 12.19-ib. processed 1urkey @ $0.43 per pound···-······-···· 5.24 $14,791.71; State handling charges, vide the support, education and service to a Crecit for lU-ll. anused product@ $0.06 per pound .•••••• --=:?_! $19,536.00; and processing charges, system burdened with a decreasing enroll­ 12.19-11. yield (50.8%), total cost $2.10 pound..·-··· 25.64 $80,035.24, for a total of $116,934.96, to uti­ ment, decreased tax base, and inflationary lize the commodities accepted. costs. School boards expect efficient man­ On-site: This total, coupled with the dollar value 24-11. turlley (! $0.7308 ~ pound·-···········-·--~········ 17.59 agement, a balanced budget, and maximum Shipping@ $0.065 per pound ...... _ 1.56 of the commodities refused, equals 10' per service for children. These expectations Handling chqe @ $0.0225 per pouncL •. ---···-··--···-· .54 meal which could have been spent on a stu­ appear to be in harmony with those of the 10.5&-11. processed 11rkey @ $0.235 per pound (¥..-hr. dent lunch or realized in savings to the child Congress and the United States Department labor).---···-·····-··-·-·--·-·--·-~ 3.61 nutrition programs. of Agriculture. The proposed letter of credit appears to 10.5&-11. yield (44%), total cost $211 ---··· 23.36 The past thirty-four years have wrought offer a reasonable solution to school dis- many changes in our country. The food Miimum bid prit! tor an wllite ~~ney ro1. pee pound--·­ 1.17 tricts with serious commodity problems, ·and service industry has experienced extreme Maximum bid price for ·an white turkey roll, per pound ..•.•.•.•.•. ~~ 1.43 to agriculture, since schools would still uti­ changes as a result of sophiscated, selective ______..;._____ 1fze commodities designated by the United customers. Sophisticated students are the States Department of Agriculture. However, child feeding program customers. Custom­ COMMODITY PROCESSING COST AflALYSI5-CHICKEN it appears to ·allow adequate flexibility to ers who demand quality, nutritious food, schools. It would increase competition for and a selective menu. This type of customer In dollars the compai:rles which are willing to process has led to menu changes and new methods commodities, and which are now limited in of preparation. The school feeding pro­ Commercial: number. grams have expanded, and central kitchens' 59,430 lb. chicken @ $0.564 per pound ...... • ~- 33,518.52 I would urge that consideration be given and commissaries have been built in an 59,430 lb. chicken shipped @ $0.065 per pound ...• ~- 3,862.95 to the following points. 59,430 lb. hancling charge @-$0.03 per pound. ••• ·-··· 1,782.90 effort to meet the commitment to feed chil­ 59,430 lb. chicken processed @ $0.54 per pound., ..... 32,092.20 1. To allow a school district to make appn­ dren. As these changes have occurred, com­ cation for the letter of credit program. It is modity products have become a misfit, or 54,675.&-11. yield (92%) ...... ·-·······--- 71,256.57 at this point untried and untested. By allow­ are inappropriate in some food service oper­ 1.30 ing scpool districts to participate by request, ations. The resulting frustrations of the Cost per pound·································--········-.. ·-·---=== it would allow Congress and the Depart­ conscientious food service operator lead to Cost per serving. .•••• ·----········--...... _ .43442 ment of Agriculture to set parameters, cor­ the following questions. Packaging charge ...... 1598 rect any unforeseen errors, and evaluate the · 1. What determines a surplus commodity? ---- program. 2. Why should commodities be purchased Cost per seMng---·-·-·-.. ···-······-··-·········-==·=59=42=2 2. I would urge that school districts be al- in forms that are not usable in the school On-site preparation: lowed to upgrade the quality of product system? 30·111. chicken @ $0.564 per pound···-···············- 16.92 specified by the Secretary of Agriculture 3. Why should the children of this nation 30-11. chicken @ $0.065 per pound ·--·····-··········- 1.95 with the local district being responsible for eat foodstuffs of poor quality? 30-11. chicken @ $0.03 per pound...... 90 any added cost. 30-h chict.en @ $7.33 per hour...... 14.66 4. Why should section 6 commodities be ---- School food aervice operators want to per­ determined by the United States Depart­ 27.6-11. yield (92%) ...... - ... ····················==31.=43= form well for the children they feed. They ment of Agriculture? also must maintain sound management Cost per pound ...... _ .. 1.247 practices. Commodity costs such as I have Until 1970, the Dayton Board of Educa­ Cost .415 tion provided food service at the secondary per servin&---·--·····-·--····-·············=== pointed out in the Dayton schools do not level only. All elementary schools were Bid price-fully cooked breast portion (3~-4 oz.) ...... 315 meet good management practices. neighborhood schools and all elementary Packaged by the Dayton Board of Education ·········-·····-···- .035 Mister Chairman and members of the ---- committee, thank you for allowing me to students were expected to eat their meals at Cost per serving ...... _ ...... _ ...... 350 home. At this point in time, the Dayton present the views of the Dayton public Board of Education, in response to pressures schools food service section.e from State and Federal levels and several COMMODITY PROCESSING COST ANALYSIS-GROUND BEEF inner-city organizations, accepted its re­ REV. BOYD B. CANTRELL sponsibilities to the community and made In dollars the decision to expand food service to all schools. The Dayton Board of Education 30,360 lb. ground beef @ $1.1872 per pound...... 36,043.39 HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. submitted plans for a central kitchen based 30,360 lb. ground beef shipped @ $0.065 per pound...... 1,973.40 OF NEW JERSEY upon prepared foods to the State Depart­ 30,360 It ground beef handling charge @ $0.02 per pound··- 607.20 ment of Education. and received approval 30,360 lb. ground beef processed @ $0.369 per pound...... 11,202.84 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for nonfood assistance monies to equip the 28,720.6-lb cooked beef patty...... ·--······ 49,826.83 Wednesday, May 7, 1980 facility, plus the sixty elementary schools in Dayton. The central kitchen has proven to Cost per pound ...... 1.763 e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, many be an extremely efficient and effective Cost per 2.4-oz. patty ...... _ .264 Newark area community leaders gath­ method of feeding the elementary students Bid(f.i!Lt~~~--~·-~--~~~ .. ~ ••~.~--~~~~ •• .205 ered last Friday evening to honor Rev. of Dayton. and the percentage of participa- Boyd B. Cantrell of the Hopewell Bap- May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10405 tist Church. I was pleased to join with sage of a balanced budget is such a NEED FOR A NATIONAL DAY OF them in saluting Reverend Cantrell on signal; defeat-no matter for what PRAYER the 19th anniversary of his' ministry at good reason-will be viewed by a skep­ that great church, and I was privileged tical public as business as usual. This HON. ELDON RUDD to offer remarks about him at the is an important start, the first target­ dinner. ed balanced budget since 1969, and the OF ARIZONA Reverend Cantrell is the spiritual first balanced budget resolution in the IN THE HOUSE 01' REPRESENTATIVES leader of a beautiful church.-He is also history of the Budget Act. A defeat Wednesday, May 7, 1980 a respected and influential leader who here could trigger a national feeling of has positively touched the lives of hopelessness and submission to infla­ e Mr. RUDD. Mr. Speaker, a distin­ many hundreds of individuals in the tion. guished Arizonan, Mr. Allan C. Mayer, community. Under his leadership, has provided me with a copy of Presi­ Hopewell Baptist Church has become Third and finally, there are impor­ dent Lincoln's 1863 proclamation for a an inspirational, stabilizing, and con­ tant political considerations. This is day of national prayer and humili­ structive force. the first time some liberals, moder­ ation. It is most appropriate that we Just 10 years ago, Hopewell was ates, and fiscal conservatives have suc­ follow the example of our Nation's housed in a small, modest structure. cessfully worked together toward a 16th President and seek a reaffirma­ As a ·result of ·Reverend Cantrell's balanced budget· resolution. To now tion of spirit in these· most trying vision and leadership, the people of abandon that coalition because the days, for never in. the history of our Hopewell Baptist . Church have ob­ budget isn't exactly as one group country have we faced such difficult tained a magnificent building for their within the coalition would like it, crises on all fronts. At this point I in­ house of worship, a structure so dis­ might well prevent the formation of a clude President Lincoln's proclama­ tinctive that it is now being considered majority for a balanced budget again tion: for a landmark designation. for some time to come., To destroy A PROCLAMATION The eloquent and inspirational voice that newfound cooperation and defeat FOR A DAY OF HUMILIATION, FASTING AND of Reverend Cantrell is also distinc­ the resolution would probably· produce PRAYER tive. He-like another Georgia preach­ a far worse resolution upon reconsid­ Whereas, the Senate of the United States, er, the late Martin Luther King, Jr.­ eration. devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authori­ ty and Just Gqvernment of Almighty God. knows how to invoke words and deeds Those three important reasons, in to translate visions into reality. in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, Through his. 19 years of committed my opinion, outweigh the valid criti­ by a resolution, requested the President to cism which I support, that essentially designate and set apart a day for National and conscientious leade~hip, all the this budget will be balanced by tax in­ prayer and humiliation: people of the community as well as And Whereas, It fs. the duty of nations, as the members of his church have held creases rather than spending cuts. I will not support those tax increases. well as of men, to owe their dependence on to the dream described by Martin upon the overruling power of God, to con­ Luther King, Jr. There will still be a balanced budget fess their sins and transgressions, in humble It was truly a pleasure to join with without them. There is $13.7 billion in sOrrow, yet with assured hope that genuine community leaders and parishioners in essentially two major tax increases in repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, honoring the 19th anniversary of Rev­ the resolution and a surplus of $12.3 and to recognize ·the sublime truth, an­ billion counting $10.3 billion ear­ nounced in the Holy Scriptures and proven erend Cantrell's leadership with Hope­ by all history. that those nations only are well Baptist Church. I pledge to him marked for a possible tax cut. I am blessed whose God fs the Lord: my continued respect, admiration, and one of the two ..original authors of And, lnab'llluch as we know that. by His cooperation.e House Joint Resolution 531 to legisla­ devine law, nations, like individuals, are sub­ tively overturn the President's oil Jected to punishments and chastisements in import fee, and am one of five congres­ this world, may we not Justly fear that the sional plaintiffs in a Federal lawsuit awful calamity of civil war, which now deso­ VOTE-ON HOUSE CONCURRENT filed Monday to block the fee on con­ lates the land, may be but a punishment in­ RESOLUTION 307 filcted upon us for our presumptuous sins. stitutional and legal grounds. This fee to the needful end of our national reforma­ is one of the three taxes and acCounts tion as a whole People? We have been the HON. W. HENSON MOORE for. $10.3 billion of the tax inCJease. recipients of the choicest bounties of OF LOUISIANA The President's new 15 percent with­ Heaven. We have been preserved these IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES holding of interest and dividend many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power Wednesday, May 7, 1980 income is a eecond tax increase of $3.4 billion. I am opposed to it and will use as no other nation has ever grown. But we e Mr. MOORE. ·Mr. Speaker, today I have forgotten God. We have forgotten the all means at my· disposal within the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, voted for final ·passage of House Con­ Committee on Ways -and Means to and multiplied and enriched and strength­ current Resolution 307, the First Con­ defeat it. ened. us; and we have vainly imagined. in current Budget Resolution for Fiscal The defeat of these two increases, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all Year 1981, although I certainly dis­ will these blessings were produced by some supe­ agree with how that budget was bal­ which I am actively involved, rior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxi­ anced. remove $13~7 billion in new taxes from cated with unbroken success, we have I believe a balanced budget is most the real budget offset by the $12.3 bil­ become too self-sufficient to feel the neces­ important fiscally, psychologically, lion surplus leaving an apparent defi­ sity of redeeming and preserving grace, too and politically. It is Important fiscally cit of $1.4 billion. I believe there will proud to pray to the God that made us! as it will reduce Federal borrowing in not be a deficit-but a surplus as the It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves windfall profit tax revenue receipt in before the offended Power, to confess our a crowded capital market next year to national sins, and to pray for clemency and just off-budget items. Such a reduc­ the budget is based on oil selling for $35 per barrel. It is selling for more forgiveness. tion is needed to make capital availa­ Now, therefore, in complianCe with t~ re­ ble to the private sector and reduce in­ than that now and the price will con­ quest, and fully concurring in the views of terest rates. .It will also in and of itself tinue to escalate in fiscal year 1981 the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, reduce inflation, although not solve it. which will more than offset this ap- designate and set apart THURSDAY, tlie Psychologically it is important as parent deficit. . 30th day of April, 1863, as a day of National the American people need a positive Therefore, I voted for the -balanced Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain on sign from Congress that we are finally budget resolution, although not total­ that day from their ordinary secular pur­ serious about stopping inflation, ly to my liking, as I believe its passage suits, and to unite, at their several places of which is in large part caused by Feder­ is of significantly more merit than its public worship and their respective homes, al ·Government deficit spending. Pas- defeat.e in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and de· CXXVI-655-Part 8 10406 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 voted to the humble discharge of the reli­ with me in participating in the cele­ New York, Mr. Albert Lamberti. busi­ gious duties proper to that solemn occasion. bration of the Asian Pacific American ness manager of the Nassau County All this being done, in sincerity and truth, Heritage Week.e District Council of Carpenters. I was a in let us then rest humbly the hope, author­ close ·friend of Mr~ Lamberti's, and I ized by the Divine teachings, · that the was shocked to hear of his tragic united cry of the Nation will be heard on TRIBUTE TO HON. FRANK B. death at the untimely age of 48. high, and answered with blessings,. no less BLUM, SR. than the pardon ot our national sms. ~d Mr. Lamberti was high_ly respected restoration of our now divided and suffermg by his colleagues, and he was chosen country to its former happy condition of HON. BILL ROYER as a leader among.them time and time unity and peace. OF CAI.IFORNIA again. He served as the business. man­ In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ager of the 2,500·member district my hand, and caused the seal of the United Wednesday, May 7, 1980 council of carpenters for 2 years. anq States to be affixed. as the business representative of the By his excellency, e Mr. ROYER. Mr. Speaker, the resi­ 500-member local 1397 of the Carpen­ ABRAHAM LINCOLN, dents of San Mateo County mourn the ters Union for 10 years. He was legisla­ President of the passing of Hon. Frank B. Blum, who United States of America.e tive director of the Nassau-Suffolk served as a San Mateo County Superi­ Building Construction Trades Council or Court judge for over 18 years. for the past 5 years. ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN Judge Blum was born in San Fr~­ In addition, Mr. Lamberti was vice HERITAGE WEEK cisco and graduated "from San FranciS­ president of the Long Island Feder­ co Law School in 1940. Upon admis­ ation of Labor. vice chairman of the HON. CECIL (CEC) HEFfEL sion to the bar of the State of Califor­ Long Island Committee for Jobs and nia he opened a general law practice Energy Independence, a member of OF HAWAII in San Francisco and Daly City, the the executive board of the first district IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES northernmost city of San Mateo of the New York State Council of C.~r· County. Wednesday, May 7, 1980 penters, a director of the Long lsl~nd He served as city attorney for Daly e Mr. HEFTEL. Mr. Speaker, today, Education and Community Services City from 1949 to .1957. He was ap­ Agency, Inc.• and a member of .the May 7, marks the first day of the ·pointed to the superior court bench m Asian Pacific American Heritage board of directors of Angel Gardians 1957. and served varied assignments in for the Elderly. Week. More than 350,000 of the na­ civil, domestic, juvenile, criminal, and tional total of over 4 million Asian and Mr. Lamberti, originally of Port presiding judge departments. He is Washington and a graduate of Port Pacific Americans reside in my island best remembered as the cofounder of State of Hawaii. I take personal pride Washington High School, resided in the court of conciliation which pro­ Westbury. He was known as a highly in being a part of this State which vides counseling in domestic relation epitomizes the American tradition of accomplished carpenter, a trade he actions. With his many judicial duties, practiced for 18 years. richness and strength through cultur­ Judge Blum was still very active in al diversity. civic and charitable affairs. Mr. Lamberti leaves three sons­ Recognition of those who have come Upon reaching 60 years of age in Joseph, Peter, and Chris, and one from Asian and Pacific countries, in­ 1975, Frank Blum retired from the daughter, Kari; two sisters, a brother. cluding China, Japan, Korea, South­ bench and returned to the general and one grandson. To his family I east Asia, the Philippines, and the Pa­ practice of law with his son, Frank, Jr. extend my most sincere sympathies. I cific islands signifies an awareness and Frank Blum had a multitude of en­ can only say that all of us should appreciation of the contribution these gaging attributes. He was a vibrant learn from this fine man's selflessness. Americans have made to our own cul­ human being, affable, sociable, and He was truly dedicated to his commu­ tural heritage and institutions. I am liked by all. He delighted in meeting nity and his CQuntry. and he will be especially pleased to note that this is people and being with them. In his sorely missed.e the second year in a row that the legal judicial, and public endeavors he President has seen fit to reco~e cont;ibuted freely of his time and re­ NATIONAL METRIC WEEK these Americans ~d their deeds sources, with a firm conviction that through his proclamatioh. the roots of true happiness grow d~ep­ In celebration of this wee~. we est in the soil of service to others. HON. TONY P. HALL should take the opportunity to re­ Frank Blum was also the epitomy of OF OHIO examine our own heritage, and in the family man. He adored his wife IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES doing so, gain insight into the needs Lois and children, Frank B. Jr.• Wil­ Wednesday, May 7, 1980 and tasks that lie. before us as we work liam, and Diane. to bring the promises of America Those who knew Frank Blum recog­ e Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, it home to everyone. We have come a nized in him. a larger sense and capac­ has been brought to my attention that long way, surmounting outrigh~ and ity for life· than most people. He loved this is National Metric Week, May 5-9, unmitigated injustice and prejudice to the law but he loved people more and 1980, and that many States, as well as reach this point where we can cele­ the whole experience of life. His organizations are participating in ac­ tivities to better inform the American brate our fellow Asian and Pacific family. fellow attorneys, and citize~ public of the metric system, as well as Americans. At the same time, we must of San Mateo County will sorely miSS remember that there are many chal­ his presence.e its voluntary use in this country. lenges that still confront us. We must More importantly, I am pleased that continue to erase false stereotypes and the u.S. Metric Board, under the able images that still linger. In greeting SORROW AT THE PASSING OF direction of their chairman, Dr. Louis new Asians and Pacific islanders ALBERT LAMBERTI F. Polk, of my district in Dayton, coming to our shores, as well as in rec­ Ohio, "is leading the way in this effort ognizing those who are s~il~ exl?erienc­ HON. LESTER L. WOLFF of providing consumers with the infor­ ing inequities and discriminatiOn, we OF NEW YORK mation necessary to make · educated must insure that everyone has the decisions in the marketplace. same opportunities to share in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In this regard, I call attention of my American dream. Wednesday, May 7, 1980 colleagues to an article on National The strength of. our Nation rests in e Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, I rise Metric Week that recently appeared in the diversity of om: backgrounds and today in deep sorrow at the passing of the Washington Post, and insert it in our ability to build together upon one of the most prominent citizens of the RECORD at this time. them, and I urge my colleagues to join the Sixth Congressional District of The article follows: May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10407 IT'S NATIONAL METRic WEEK: THINK 10 To earn this distinction has meant this committee which . provides food at The metric system gradually Is making its that sometimes Mr. Sigholtz has had Thanksgiving for needy families to help al­ way into the everyday lives of most Ameri· to give up precious time reserved for leviate hunger; and Whereas Robert Sigholtz has a long and cans, sometimes without them being aware himself and his family. While I am distinguished record of community involve­ of it. Among items that now are measured proud of the outstanding work Mr. ment; he Is a person very wllllng to serve metrically are wine and splrits, gasoline and Sigholtz has done for the people of residents of our city; and because of his un­ pharmaceuticals. People refer to the 35 mm the Nation's Capital as Executive Di­ tiring commitment to serve our residents, camera and the 100-meter dash without rector of the Starplex-giving us a giving it a second thought. special recognition Is due hlm: StUI the mere mention of liters and kllo- quality, revenue generating public Now, therefore, I, the Mayor of the Dis· meters usually brings confused looks and arena and stadium-! want to salute trict of Columbia, do hereby proclaim blank stares. As part of the continuing met- him for sacrificing his precious time Wednesday, May 14, 1980 as "Robert Sig­ holtz Day" in Washington, D.C., and call rication of America, this week has been des- on behalf of the poor people of the upon the residents of our city to Join with ignated National Metric Week. More than District of Columbia. me in honoring Robert Sigholtz for his dedi­ 30 states including Maryland, Vlrgtna and For more than 5 years, Bob Sigholtz cated concern for the welfare of our resi­ the District, are participating in programs has inconspicuously joined me and designed to familiarize the public with dents; his contributions to our city are un­ metric terms and the metric ·system. others of our community in support- paralleled by common comparison and be­ The program Is co-sponsored by the Na- lng the Shaw community food basket cause of his many contributions to our city tiona! Metric Board and the National coun- project. While its most conspicuous special recognition Is accorded him. ell of Teachers of Mathematics. Groups all undertaking revolves about the MARION BARRY, over the country wUl b" conducting semi- Thanksgiving holiday by assuring that Mayor, District of Columbia. nars on how to make the metric system poor families In the Shaw neighbor­ more understandable. hood share In the bountiful blessings A resolution in the Council of the District The move to introduce the metric system that so many of us take for granted, of Columbia to honor Robert H. Sigholtz in this country dates to 1866 when Congress its outreach is full time and deman. Mr. nedy Stadium; and from this event, all the Sigholtz has responsibility for coordi­ proceeds will go toward the Thanksgiving Wednesday, Ma_y 7, 1980 nating hundreds of successful events Day Food Project; and e Mr. McCLOSKEY~ · Mr. Speaker, in at the Starplex, Including sporting Whereas Robert Sigholtz Is a dedicated response to the report by the Presi­ contests, concerts, and international and tenacious community leader, and one dent's Commission on Foreign Lan­ who contributes much of his time and exhibits. Under his management the energy to community needs, and Is regarded guage and International Studies, 28 Starplex has gained prestige as a first~ by many as a consummate in addressing Members of Congress have formed an rate facility for holding major sport­ basic concerns of the community; and International Education Group to co­ ing events and feature attractions with Whereas Robert Sigholtz serves on the ordinate our efforts in the House in the highest standards of professional- Food Committee of the Shaw Community raising standards of international edu­ ism. · Center, and has been a great worker with cation and improving our Nation's ex- 10408 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 pertise in foreign cultures, politics, tty of new recruits for their services and in- began to act professionally in Paris. But and trade. In this time of internation­ crease their language training costs <$100 teaching was on his mind. al turmoil, the need for communica­ million in 1978>. Only eight percent of U.S. "One day I had this interesting thought­ is colleges and universities now require a for- why only teaching? Why only acting?" he tion with foreign nations becoming eign language for admission, down from 34 says. "Using actJng techniques, couldn't a more and more critical. I commend the percent in 1966. teacher improve his ability to communi- following article from this month's In 1978 the President established the cate?" Smithsonian magazine to my col­ Commission on Foreign Language and In- He returned to the University of Brtdge­ leagues attention as an inspiring ex­ ternational Studies to analyze the problem. port as an instructor, determined to create a ample of one man's efforts to improve In November 1979, the commission members new teaching system. When the Peace international communication and un­ re- Corps asked him to help improve its Ian­ derstanding: ported that our neglect of foreign language guage courses, he had his chance. The and civilization studies hobbles the country result, much refined, is today's "Dartmouth A MANIC PROFESSOR TRIES TO CLOSE UP THE in diplomacy and international trade. Intensive Language Model." In action, It LANGUAGE GAP "Americans' incompetence in foreign Ian- looks like a Gene Kelly dance number guages is nothing short of scandalous, and it speeded up. In a Dartmouth College classroom, six is becoming worse," they charged. BEHIND THE MADNESS IS ARTFUL CALCULATION New York City transit policemen recite in The commission suggested steps that unison: "iAy Dios mio!" Their instructor, a range from reinstating college language re- The scene: a Dartmouth classroom. A specially trained fellow officer, raises his quirements to creating high schools that group of undergraduates are watching their arms like a choir director and the chorus re­ specialize in languages and foreign studies. instructor, Marty Peterson, a senior from peats: "iAY Dios mio!" But the report emphasized: "The decline in Lake Forest, Illinois. She is an "apprentice Feinting, the instructor looks to the left, foreign language enrollments is tn large teacher," trained to conduct drills. then abruptly snaps his fingers at a man measure a response to poor instruction." For a moment she studies a script in her sitting to his right. The man repeats, solo: Now an increasing number of language left hand, a professor's outline of what he "iAy Dios mio!" teachers see innovative approaches to teach- wants her to teach that day. Then she Why are big-city policemen at an Ivy ing as a way to add vitality to their class- erupts into action, leading the class in League college in New Hampshire chorusing rooms. In fact, says John Rassias, his choral renditions of sentences to be learned, "Oh my God!" in Spanish? They have come method actually is a reaction to the dismal zigzagging among the desks. to learn-quickly and effectively-how to language teaching he encountered as a stu- Looking one way, she. points at someone communicate with New York's 2.6 million dent. across the room, snapping her fingers for a Spanish~speaking citizens. And, in the proc­ The son of Immigrants, he learned to recitation. If the student answers correctly, ess, they are demonstrating the potency of a speak Greek first, English second. From his she blows a kiss. If incorrectly, she stabs the high-voltage method of teaching foreign earliest days, he associated languages with offender with an imaginary stiletto, snaps languages that could help to improve inter­ "the sights, the sounds, the smells, the at another student for the answer, then national relations. warmth" of the Greek community in Man- snaps again at the student who got it wrong. Behind it all is John Rassias, a burly 54· chester, New Hampshire, where he grew up. Her finger-snapping gives the class a jivey year-old Dartmouth language professor Then he was burned in an accident that left beat as she paces the room, now standing, with a bass voice, curly black hair, a lopsid­ him bandaged like a mummy. For nine now stooping to eye level with the students. ed grin, a boxer's nose and a wild teaching months he couldn't see. "I knew people by When a girl has trouble squeezing out an style: he hurls chairs against walls, breaks their voices," he says. "From their tones I answer, Marty drops to her knees, smiliilg eggs over students' heads, rips his shirt to could discern happiness, I could discern encouragement, trying to pull out the symbolize freeing of the self, and harangues sorrow-so language early became almost answer with her hands. The girl gets It his classes in French while dressed as an mystical for me." right? She earns a tru bon! and a hug. 18th-century philosopher. His classroom In high school, his romance with Ian- Marty jumps up and, finger-snapping and style is unique. But his method is now used guages ended. For one thing, his French whirling, leads the class on to new material. in the teaching of all languages at Dart­ textbook was populated by cardboard Pari- "You could mistake the atmosphere of mouth and at more than 38 other schools. sians who chattered endlessly about the this teaching method for fun," she later While enrollments in language classes na­ weather and misplaced pens. .There were tells a visitor. tionwide have dropped steadily over the other drawbacks. One day. to force him to Actually, John Rassias has carefully cho­ past ten years, Dartmouth's language en­ pronounce the letter "r" as the French do, reographed every move and gesture in the rollments have grown substantially. And the teacher used a pencil as a tongue de- apprentice teachers' repertoires. And test at Dartmouth and at other schools pressor. "I couldn't help myself.'' he says. "I behind his own madman antics are hours of using this method show that it yields results bit her." Today he keeps the same brand of painstaking rehearsal at home. His madness far superior to those of traditional teaching pencil on his desk at all times. It reminds conceals artful calculation. methods. him of what to shun in teaching languages. His strategy is to maximize the number of Teachers from high schools and colleges Languages must be spoken, he believes. times each student speaks aloud in the new elsewhere, propelled by the country's alarm­ But in a traditional class each student can language. Thus, language classes at Dart­ ing language gap, are going to Dartmouth to speak no more than four times during the mouth are limtted to 22 students per sec­ observe the technique. period. "That's like learning mathematics tion. Every day, for 50 minutes, each sectiqn Just before World War I, 36 percent of all without examples,'' says Rassias. He also in- meets with a master teacher, a Dartmouth U.S. students at the pre-university level sists that relience on vapid textbooks actual- professor who explains the day's lesson. studied a modern foreign language. Today, ly hinders a student's progress. Further- Using the method's fast pace and dramatic only 15 percent take a foreign language, and more. the atmosphere in too many language techniques, the professors pronounce new fewer than five percent ever reach the third classes is soportfic-"Valium Valley,'' he material for the class, explain grammatical year. On~-fifth of all U.S. publlc high calls it. points and clarify the lesson. schools now offer no ·foreign language By the time he was graduated from high Next, the section breaks in half, each half courses at all. Among other lamentable re­ school, he was "completely turned off by spending 50 minutes with an apprentice sults: languages!' As a Marine stationed in teacher, an undergraduate trained in the Frenchmen had a good chuckle a few postwar Japan, he found that-unable to Rasstas method. Finally, the students go to years ago on reading claims that Pepsi-Cola speak Japanese-he wandered the country a language laboratory for further practice, threw cold water on friendship. Chagrined like a phantom, cut off from the people, monitored by another trained undergrad­ company officials-who had intended the baffled by their culture. Suddenly his fascl· uate. message to be "Pepsi is the refreshment of nation with languages rekindled. "~ut do you know how much homework friendship"-promptly yanked the ads. A civilian again, he earned a degree in they have? Virtually zilch!" says Rassias. Cars with interiors marked "Body by French at the University of .Bridgeport in "Instead of doing homework, they spend Fisher" were advertised in Belgium with Connecticut, then studied in France for two extra time in class, speaking." And one of this unintentionally ghoulish translation: years on Fulbright scholarships. At last he the keys is the intense drill sessions with ap­ "Corpse by Fisher." was a teacher himself, ready to fire others prentice teachers. Some 10,000 English-speaking Japanese with his own zest for language. The results At the beginning of each term, Rassias businessmen now operate in New York City were depressing: "In the classroom I felt · holds a three-day workshop for students in­ alone, but of some 900 American business that I really wasn't doing much, that I terested in apprentice jobs. A recent work­ people in Japan, only a handful speak even wasn't making much of a difference in peo- shop was typical-250 candidates turned out rudimentary Japanese. pie's lives." · for the approximately 30 slots open. Balanc- Government foreign-affairs agencies are Dejected, he turned to a second love, the tng precariously on chair arms and prowling worried that declining foreign-language en­ theater, and went back to France, this time bearlike among the candidates packing the rollments in our schools will lower the qual- to study drama. He earned a doctorate, and auditorium, Rassias said, "From now on May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10409 we're going to be In a fishbowl!" Observing country where the language ts spoken, third annual O'Brien youth leadership them that night were teachers from high living with a local family. conference on May 2 at Prairie State schools In Rhode Island and Massachusetts. "One of our favorite tricks is to drive College in Chicago Heights, Ill. "All rtght-let's go!" he exclaimed. And he these kinds out on a Friday and sort of After hearing Congressman McCLos­ outlined for the audience the rudiments of parachute them Into obscure villages lost in KEY outline his plan, the 122 partici­ the method. the countryside, which no one ever heard pants-high school juniors and seniors First, In all language classes, the only lan· of," says Rassias. "They have no money and from high schools throughout the guage spoken is the language being taught. they have to get by for three days by 34 To Introduce new words, the master teach­ making friends and earning their keep. 1'lth Congressional District-were ers act them out, rather than speak In Eng­ Then they have to come back with a com- polled on their reaction to the concept lish, he said. Second, to make sure that each plete oral and written report on the village's on national service choices rather student speaks 65 times per 50-minute ses­ history, economy and social pecking order." than a military-only draft. I would like sion, apprentice teachers must hustle the Most students are positive about having to share the results of this poll, along class along, snapping their fingers to main- fellow undergraduates as drill instructors. with several of their comments, with tain the rhythm. . Michael Cooper, a freshman from New York After the workshop, Rassias tells the visit­ City, says: "Students tend to be intimidated my colleagues. Ing high school teachers how they can by older people, by professors, and so when The students, of both sexes, were adapt the method. For Instance, given a 45- you have an instructor who's much closer to polled as to the options they would mlnute period, they can spend the first 25 your age I think you open up more." select, with the following results: minutes presenting the basic lesson. The re­ maining 20 minutes are for drill, perhaps Teachers in other schools increasingly are Fifty-two percent would perform 1 adapting the Dartmouth model to their own year of civilian public service-conser ~ led by an advanced high school student. clas3rpoms. The Exxon Education Founda- It's also important, he says, how teachers tion-calling the method "an educational in- vation work, community assistance, stress the five tacets of learning a language: novation of demonstrated merit"-from · Peace Corps, VISTA, church-related grammer, comprehension, vocabulary, flu­ ency, accent. Commercial schools usually 1976 to 1978 disseminated lnf()rmation activities. stress vocabulary, while many academic about Rassias' method and provided fund- Forty-four percent would volunteer lng for some colleges and universities to for years of military service provid· teachers stress accent. Rassias gives the adopt it. 2 most weight to grammar and the least to Meanwhile, Jolted by the report of the fng eligibility for education benefits. accent. "I don't mean that we allow students to President's Commission, the nation's educa- Two percent would opt for 6 months use an English pronunciation,'' he says. tion system may be poised for a renaissance of active military duty plus 5% years "But if you spend too much time harping on in language studies. Already straws are in in the Reserves y.rith some educational accent you cut people off at the pass, make the wind, and here are a few: . benefits. them afraid to speak. If, without humiliat­ In three towns along the Vermont-Quebec Ing you, I can get you to speak even the border, with federal funding, an English- Two percent would choose none of most extraordinarily wrong thing, In the be­ French bilingual educational program is of- the above which, under the McCloskey ginning I'll reward you ·with as much enthu­ fered to all children, beginning with 4-year- plan, would result in their being siasm as if you were receiving the Ugion d' olds. In Burlington, Vermont, the high placed for 6 years in a draft pool from Honneur. I tell my studen.ts, 'Have the cour­ school's seven-year-old "total immersion" which they would be called for mili­ age to be bad, to make mistakes-but program has students spend most of one se- tary service if there are not enough speak!'" mester off-campus, taking all subjects- To encourage speaking, Rassias has de­ from history and art to science-ln. French, volunteers to meet requirements. vised an arsenal of techniques, such as then spend a month in France or Quebec. The student group, which was make-believe press conferences and other skits. The New York City transit policemen VAPORIZING THE LANGUGAGE BARRIERS almost evenly male and female, of­ learning Spanish at Dartmouth found In Philadelphia, 14,000 pupils in grades fered the following comments as to themselves In an imaginary subway station. four to six, in 85 city schools, are taking why they chose a particular option: A heart attack victim lay on the platform, Latin; Los Angeles has a similar program. A two men were picking his pockets, a crowd high school In Jamaica, New York, now ". • . It is my duty to serve. I would like it watched In silence. The policemen were offers nine langugages, Including Hebrew, to be over a definite period of time without taught how to deal-In Spanish-with the Chinese, Russian and Greek. having to be on reserve, or worry about situation. Bilingual programs are springing up In being drafted.'' Dartmouth drill classes write -their own schools nationwide, In response to the "I oppose war, but feel a person should skits In the language they are studying. Influx of students who speak Spanish, Viet­ serve his country in some way . • :• They wear costumes and lug In props. Ras­ namese and other languages. "I could learn a skill in the Army that sias, who has an affinity Meanwhile, at Dartmouth, Rassias contin­ would benefit me when I go on to a college for the spotlight, once vivified a skit about ues to astonish his students, appearing one education.'' the fall of Troy with anachronistic special day as Denis Diderot, another as an ornate­ effects: the recorded whine of falling bombs, ". . . there are none of the uncertainties ly robed Chinese emperor, cold cream that related to reserve service or a draft flashing lights as they exploded, puffs of splotching his face to simulate leprosy. smoke. "What we're doing is extremely simple." pool . . . everyone would be required to To master counting, students may call off he says. "We're giving people the desire to serve In one way or another . . .'' the numbers on rapidly rolled dice. Or they communicate with others, to understand "I don't consider myself the type to may play a game called "dots": as students others, to be sensitive-we want to aim some become a soldier. I feel I should still in some call off the numerals, the teacher connects big educational ray guns at these stupid lan­ way directly take part in community serv­ a series of numbered dots on the blackboard guage barriers and vaporize them, poof!"e ices to benefit my state and country." to spell out a word. In a vocabulary drill, the Instructor gives The results of this poll and com­ students a cue sentence, such as "I haven't ments received are almost identical to eaten; therefore I am hungry.'' Then the in­ NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE PLAN structor may say, "I haven't drunk," and those received by Congressman Mc­ point to a student to complete the sequence: WELL RECEIVED BY STUDENTS CLosKEY on polls he has taken of high "Therefore I am thirsty." school seniors in California. This indi­ Into all classes, teachers inject culture. cates to me there the youth of America One technique is the micrologue," a minute­ HON. GEORGE M. O'BRIEN are willing to fulfill their duty to their long monologue on anything from French OF ILLINOIS country if given viable alternatives. cr~pes to Romanian agriculture, depending IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on the language under study. The teacher The 44 percent who would volunteer repeats the micrologue three times, while Wednesday, May 7, 1980 for 2 years of active military duty students write it down. Then students must • Mr. O'BRIEN. Mr. Speaker, as a co­ would help cure the current enlist­ repeat it for their classmates and answer sponsor of H.R. 2206, the National ment problems of the All-Volunteer questions. Army. I urge my colleagues to consider After ten weeks studying a language, Youth Service Act, I was particularly Dartmouth students can opt for the "Lan· pleased to have the bill's principal the National Youth Service Act as a guage Study Abroad" program. Better than sponsor. our colleague PETE McCLos­ potential solution to the very real half do. Students spend several months in a KEY. as- the keynote speaker at the needs of our military forces today.e 10410 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 FOOD STAMP PROGRAM In the month of April, 20 million New Rochelle citizens joined to form a Americans used food stamps to put recreation club for the boys of under­ HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL food on tables that otherwise might privileged families. The group met in have remained empty. If Congress the Washington School. Later that OF NEW YORK does not act quickly, and food stamp year the club was able to get its own IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATlVES distribution comes to a halt, there will clubhouse when the city rented a Wednesday, May 7, 1980 be millions upon millions of hungry house for it for $1. The next year, the • Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I would people in this country. club was chartered as a nonprofit cor­ like to take this opportunity to ex.; If the budget has to be balanced, poration, and its operations moved to the then-new Feeney Park. press my support of S. 1~09-formerly and cuts have to be made, they must H.R. 5907 -the Food Stamp Act be made in other areas. We simply The 50-year history of the club has Amendments of 1980. The three major cannot afford to let the people go been marked by rapid growth. It is provisions of this bill attempt to hungry. now divided into three branches, and reduce error and abuse in the pro­ In determining a list of priorities, serves some 1,800 youngsters from gram, expand eligibility for benefits to the war on hunger must surely remain New Rochelle and surrounding com­ certain households and, raise the at the top of everyone's list of prob­ munities. "Boys Club" is now a misno­ funding cap of the food stamp pro­ lems to be reckoned with. It is impossi­ mer, for the club has involved girls in gram. In short, the bill requests addi· ble to conceive of a more basic, funda­ its activities since 1932. tional funding for this program. mental right than the right to subsist, It is no surprise that last year the The cost ceilings for fiscal year 1980 the inalienable right to see one's Feeney Park Boys Club . changed its and 1981 were established in 1977 and family fed~ In a society where afflu­ name to the August E. Mascaro are proving inadequate due to higher ence abounds, we must never turn our Branch of the New Rochelle Boys food costs, higher unemployment, and backs on the most needy who should Club. Because Gus Mascaro, who was lower incomes for new participants. rightly have some piece, no matter executive director of the club for over In 1977 the Congressional Budget how small, of the resources at hand. 30 years, played a crucial role in the Office predicted·that food costs would During these times of spiraling infla­ success of the club. rise 3 to 4 percent per year. Unfortu­ tion, when there is popular sentiment Gus first joined the White Plains, nately, these prices have actually in­ to tighten the ,fiscal belt, we simply N.Y., Boys Club when he was 9. By the creased by 22 percent -between 1977 cannot force the most financially un­ age of 16 he was on the board of direc­ and 1979 and are expected to increase fortunate to bear the greatest burden tors. Two years later he was on the to 46 percent by 1981. This food cost of our new found austerity. I strongly club's staff. Gus also worked for Boys increase will amount to an approxi­ urge the passage of S. 1309. It is our Clubs in Brooklyn, Washington, and ·mately $1.4 billion increase to the most essential soeial service and it is Newton, Mass. But Gus spent most of costs of the fiscal year 1980 food absolutely necessary for the health his professional life in New Rochelle, stamp program and about a $2 billion and well-being of almost 20 million where, all of us would agree, he was increase for fiscal year 1981. CBO also Americans.e more responsible for the growth of the forecasted the fiscal year 1980 unem­ Boys Club than any other single person. ployment rate to be under 6 percent. A DEDICATION FOR GUS MAS· Again, unemployment is projected to Many public officials in New Ro­ CARO AND THE NEW ROCHELLE chelle will testify to Gus' contribu­ rise to 'r .2 percent in 1980 and 7.5 per­ BOYS CLUB cent in fiscal year 1981. For each 1 tions, not only because they have dealt percent increase in unemployment, 1.2 with him in their roles as public offi­ million people are added to the pro­ HON. RICHARD L. OTIINGER cials, but because so many were them­ gram. OF NEW YORK selves members of the Boys Club Mas­ S. 1309 increases the ceilings for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES caro headed. Just three among those fiscal year 1980 and 1981 programs in who were members of the Boys Club order to compensate for higher than Wednesday, May 7, 1980 are Mayor Leonard Paduano, former expected food costs and unemploy­ e Mr. OTI'INGER. Mr. Speaker, on mayor, Frank Garito, and City Coun­ ment. Also, given the uncertainty of May 18, I will be attending the dedica­ cilman Don Zaccagnino. economic forecasts, S. 1309 provides tion of a .new building for the New Ro­ Congratulations are in order for Gus an additional 5 percent authorization chelle, N.Y., Boys Club. This building Mascaro, for contributing so much to margin for fiscal year 1980 and 10 per­ will serve both as a center for the club the youth of New Rochelle, and for cent for 1981 should inflation esti­ and a community center for the entire the Boys Club, for its anniversary and mates prove erroneous. Compounding city. newhome.e the problem ·of inaccurate inflation es­ While the dedication of a new build­ timates ·is the fact that participants ing is not, in and of itself, remarkable, TRUE REFORM OF THE FOOD entering the program after the ~Lboli­ the history of the Boys Club in New tion of the purchase requirement, are ·Rochelle and its efforts to obtain a STAMP PROGRAM poorer than expected. Since these new new headquarters is indeed remark­ participants will continue to receive able. HON. BUD SHUSTER benefits in 1980 and 1981, the cost of Some 2 years ago, the Feeney Park OF PENNSYLVANIA the program will increase proportion­ Branch of the New Rochelle Boys IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ately. Club was the victim of a fire. The ·As you may know, food stamp bene­ Boys Club members were determined Wednesday, May 7, 1980 fits are based on a very low diet plan. to recover from this serious blow and • Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, yester­ These benefits provide families with they have done just that. 'l;'h.~y turned day, the House Republican Policy "minimally nutritious" meals. Cur­ to the New Rochelle City Council for Committee adopted a statement rently, this program provides the most help in building a new branch. The urging true reform of .our Nation's basic assistance to help low income eventual result was a combined Boys food stamp program. The program is families subsist. For example, in New Club and community center which will clearly out of control; the cost of the York City, a welfare family of four re­ open this year. I cannot praise enough program has skyrocketed from $610 ceives $12.34 to cover all expenses the effort that resulted in this cooper­ million in 1971 to an estimated $10.7 except rent and medical care. If food ative project between the club and the billion in 1981. Recognizing the wide­ stamps are eiiminated, this· same community. spread abuse, waste of taxpayer's family would be forced to live on $8.40 This all comes only shortly after the money, and maladministration of the per day. This just doesn't seem quite Boys Club celebrated its golden anni­ program by the Federal Government, possible to me. versary last year. In 1929 a group of the Republlcan Policy Committee calls May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10411 for adoption of five amendments to S. ments to be offered on the House Floor to Whereas the Food Stainp Program since 1309, the Food Stamp Act Amend­ correct these abuses. its betnnning in 1964 has become a- vital ments of 1980. Together, these:amend­ · Specifically, the Committee urges adop­ weapon in the struggle against hunger and ments could save the taxpayer over tion of amendments which would: poverty in America, so much so that the <1 > Restore the purchase requirement. Field Foundation, in its study of hunger in $2.5 billion annually and still insure The Congressional Budget Office estimates America in 1977, stated that· food stamps that those citizens truly in need re­ this amendment would save $800 million in are making a crucial d1fference in improving ceive nutritional ass1stailce. Following fiscal year .1981. the quality of the lives of many poor Ameri­ is the text of the committee's state­ <2> Institute the policy of "recoupment" cans; and ment: whereby recipient earning annually in Whereas 20.8 million citizens of the excess of 175 percent of the poverty level of United States now rely on food stamps as an REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE CALLS FOR income would be required to repay to the aid to adequate nutrition; and FooD STAMP REFoRM government a portion of the benefits re­ Whereas at least 16 percent of the house­ The House Republican Policy Committee ceived. The Congressional Budget Office es-. holds receiving food stamps are headed by strongly supports efforts to reform the na­ timates savings of $50-$300 million annual­ elderly people and approximately half of all tion's food stamp program. The Policy Com­ ly. recipients are children; and mittee believes that the minimum goals for (3) Restructure the eligibility standards Whereas the Food Stamp Program is the true reform should be that the benefits go by re-defining the income and deduction primary income support program providin_g only to thos~ who are truly in need, that eli­ formula. This could save an estimated $600 aid to the working poor; and gibility standards be redefined, that the in­ million annually. Whereas the USDA data indicates that 87 tegrity of the program be restored through <4> Reduce the overlap between the food percent of food stamp· benefits go to fami­ administrative simplification, and that the stamp program and the school lunch pro­ lies living below the poverty line, and the public confidence in the program should be gram. The Congressional Budget Office esti­ average benefit is only 36¢ per ·person per heightened by lessening the burden on the mates annual savings of $630 million. meal; and · taxpayer caused by mismanagement, error (5) Convert the food stamp program into a Whereas the Food Stamp Program was . or fraud. Unfortunately, the bill reported block grant program run by the states, funded for $6.2 billion in fiscal 1980, an our of the House Agriculture Committee, thereby eliminating the $500 million annual amount that will carry the program only to and pending Floor consideration, S. 1309, is federal cost to administer the program. the end of May; and · designed to achieve cosmetic reform, but States would have the authority under the Whereas additional funding of approxi­ not true reform. program to include both workfare and nu­ mately $2.5 billion is needed to continue the S. 1309, the Food Stamp Act Amendments tritional requirements. States wo\:lld be al­ program through the end of the fiscal year, of 1980, continues the recent trend of turn­ lowed to use excess funds from savings in which is September 30; and · ing tile food stamp program into an income the food stamp program for increasing Whereas Congress is also threatening· to maintenance program rather than a food benefits in existing public assistance pro­ make major cuts in funding for· the Food and nutrition effort. Beginning in 1977 with grams. Stamp Program in fiscal year 1981; and the "elimination of the purchase require­ Finally, the Policy Committee wishes to Whereas the proposed cuts in the Food ment" and with the attempt to uncap the go on record criticizing the Carter Adminis- - Stamp Program are in addition to numerous authorization level, food stamp apologists tration for creating a fiscal crisis in the cur­ proposed reductions in health. housing, edu­ have tried to wrest control of the program rent year's food stamp funding. First, the cation and employment programs which will from Congress by making it an entitlement crisis was created by President Carter's significantly affect poor people and reduce and giving the Secretary of Agriculture delay in forwarding his "revised" budget to their ability to provide adequately for them­ total authority. S. 1309 culni.inates these ef­ Congress. Then, the Democratic leadership selve~ and their families; and forts by raising the authorizations for fiscal delayed taking the food stamp bill to the Whereas Secretary of Agriculture, Robert years 1980 and 1981 to. maximum levels and House Floor until after the fiscal year 1980 Bergland, has stated that he will be forced then awarding the Secretary of Agriculture Third Budget Resolution and the fiscal year to stop issuing food stamps at the end of unilateral authority to increase these levels 1981 First Budget Resolution were passed May 1980 if Congress does not act by May if he feels it justified. Incredibly, the House by the House. Moreover, under sections 18 15, 1980, to appropriate the necessary funds: Agriculture Committee voted to abdicate its and of the food stanip law, the Secre­ Therefore be it Constitutional duties by delegating to the tary of Agriculture is to institute phased Resolved, That the Governing Board of Secretary a "cushion" of 5 percent in fiscal benefit reductions if he determines that the National Council of Churches: <1> Urge year 1980 and 10 percent iii 1981 by which benefit levels will exceed appropriated the Members of Congress to do everything he may increase the authorization levels. funds available. The Secretary has ignored in their power to implement the necessary This action was taken in Committee despite this mandate and has, instead, publicly indi­ legislativ.e steps to maintain the Food the fact that the cost of the food stamp pro­ cated that he will be forced to suspend all Stamp Program through this fiscal year gram has grown from $610 million in fiscal food stamp benefits, to all beneficiaries, ef­ without interruption and provide sufficient year 1971 to an estimated $10.7 billion in fective June 1 of this year unless Congress funds ·to·continue the program without cut­ fiscal year 1981! approves additional! funds by May 15. By backs through fiscal year 1981; <2> call on acting in this risky manner, the Secretary churches throughout the nation to consider The Policy Committee wishes to empha­ appears to be threatening total program the plight of people in their communities size that it supports the basic underlying shut down in order to force Congress to act should the program be interrupted during principle of the food stamp program of pro­ on S. 1309 in a legislative "crisis" atmos­ the summer or be inadequately funded in viding needed nutritional assistance to those phere. fiscal year 1981, beginning in O~tober, and of our less fortunate citizens living at or Despite the pressure of this manufactured to prepare themselves to minister to the below the poverty level. The Committee crisis, the Policy Committee urges all Mem­ great numbers·. of our sisters and brothers strongly objects, however, to the maladmin­ bers to closely inspect the long term ramifi­ who will suffer from malnutrition, taking istration of the program by ·th~ Federal gov­ cations of S. 1309 as reported out of the specal care to identify the "hidden" poor. ernment and to the waste of taxpayer Committee and .to support the floor amend­ including the elderly, who are scattered money through abuse or use of the program ments which will help make this bill true throughout our low- and middle-income by those who· do not truly need assistance. food stamp ':'eform legislation.e neighborhoo~.e The last few months have seen a burgeon­ ing of beneficiaries, with recipients growing at the rate of almost one-half million per RESOLUTION ON THE CRISIS IN CONGRESSMAN BROWN URGES month, from 15 million in October 1978 to THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM IMMEDIATE IMPLEMENTATION nearly 22 million in March 1980. Although some of this increase no doubt is a result of OF ALCOHOL WARNING LABELS increasing linemployment and high infla­ HON. THOMAS S. FOLEY tion, there is also no doubt that there is OF WASHINGTON HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. widespread · program abuse. For example, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA during the last quality control review of the program in 1977, the General Accounting Wednesday• . May 7, 1980 IN.THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Office found that there was an error rate of Wednesday, May 7, 1980 12 percent in administration of the pro­ e Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, I wish to gram. Assuming this same rate in 1980, include in the RECoRD the resolution e Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. almost $1 billion of total program expendi­ on the crisis in the food stamp pro­ Speaker, this Congress has been delib­ tures is being issued in error during the cur­ gram approved by the governing board erating on the subject of health warn­ rent fiscal year. For these reasons, the of the National Council of Churches. ing labels for alcoholic beverages for Policy Committee urges support of amend- May 7, 1980: years now with no substantive result. 10412 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 In 1977, the Food and Drug Adminis­ who watched this event did not object. They cent safe course to avoid this danger is tration sought to require health warn­ must not have known the lethal danger. never to use alcohol. ings on alcoholic. beverage labels· by It is easy to forget how many drinks are administrative rule. This proposed taken during a social event or while drink­ DURING PREGNANCY MAY HARM THE UNBORN rule was eventually withdrawn. In ing with friends. A person can become ill, Medical authorities have long admitted vomit to get rid of the alcohol, or have to be that smoking cigarets by an expectant 1978, Congress held hearings on the taken to a hosp-ital for help. need to require health warnings for mother will affect and even damage the The amount of alcohol consumed is what fetus . Until the fetal alcohol syndrome. Even is important-not whether it is beer, wine, though the evidence was overwhelm­ recently the damaging effect of alcohol has whiskey, vodka or something · else. Body not been as widely admitted. Now research­ ing to show the dangers of ethyl alco­ weight is also a factor. A 200-lb. man can ers state positively that use of alcohol in hol to an unborn fetus, no action was handle twice as much alcohol as a 100-lb. beverages is damaging to the fetus. man. A woman who weighs half as much as taken by Congress or the administra­ At first it was said only alcoholics were likely to bear babies with birth his longstanding bill requiring alcohol defects. Recent research has shown that warnings to the NIAAA authorization even moderate drinking by an expectant legislation. To nearly everyone's sur­ MAY IKPAIR DRIVING ABILITY mother may be paid for by the infant in the prise, this proposal passed the Senate Most people know the danger of driving form of growth deficiency, small brain, with a 2 to 1 majority. However, even while "drunk" but do not know that only facial distortion, mental retardation, poor -with the support of -two-thirds of the two drinks <2 beers or equivalent alcohol in coordination, and skeletal and heart defects. Senate, no health warnings yet exist wine> will cause a 25 percent impairment in Doctors who have conducted this- research on alcoholic beverage labeling or ad­ driving ability for a man of average weight. advise total abstinence by a pregnant vertising. The body "burns" alcohol slowly so the woman or one considering pregnancy. level in the body can rapidly increase. In a Dr. David Smith, Prof. of Pediatrics at the As a result of Senator THUIU40ND's special Swedish study, 37 expert drivers bill and the efforts of Senator RIEGLE's University of Washington one of were tested for speed and accuracy -while the first to identify this "fetal aicohol syn­ subcommittee, the FDA and the BATF sober. After taking only 2 beers or 2 mixed were called upon study health drome", says one in every 350 to 500 infants to drinks, a second test showed the 25 percent is born with some type of mental or physical warnings for alcoholic beverages and ti:npairment. defect caused . by the mother drinking to report to Congress by June 1, 1980. Most states have a legal blood-alcohol during pregnancy. Both alcohol and cigarets I anxiously await the findings of this level of 0.10 percent. This means .if a read­ are said to hit the fetus like a "chemical report but feel confident that warning ing is above that, one can be charged with sledgehammer." This danger has been rec­ labels will be endorsed. driving while impaired. However, actual im­ ognized and reported upon by the U.S. Gov­ pairment begins at half that amount-o;os Once we accept the concept of alco­ percent. ernment through the National Inst. on Al­ holic beverage warning labels, the cohol Abuse and Alcoholism . Two drinks (1 oz. of 86 proof alcohol or question then arises, what will the approx. 12 oz. of beer> consumed in 1 hour More recently it has been claimed that al­ labels saY.? In the past I have endorsed by a 160-lb. man will produce a bloOd-alco­ cohol can harm male sperm, so men expect­ a general health warning: "Caution: hol level of about 0.05 percent. Each addi­ ing to ·father a child should consider this Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages tional drink will add another 0.02 percent. danger, too. May Be Hazardous to Your Health." Thus, over 4 puts one above 0.10 percent. In following the deliberations of hear­ Most state public safety departments will LEGAL KGE REQUIRED FOR PURCHASE ings and articles on this subject, I now provide an estimator wheel telling levels in Until early 1970 the almost uniform legal believe a specific label would be more the case of greater or lesser body weights. age for buying alcoholic beverages over the effective without imposing an undue Alcohol often combines with other factors country was 21. Then some states lowered burden on the industry. such as fatigue, speed, or road and weather the age to 18 or 19. In these states alcohol­ ·-one proposal made by the American conditions to cause accidents-which but for related accidents involving drivers under 21 the alcohol would not occur. Alcohol affects increased. Now the trend is to raise legal Council on Alcohol Problems is a some people more than others. The safest drinking ages. Maine, Massachusetts and short, concise, · but effective labeling and recommended policy is never to drive New Hampshire have raised back to 20. alternative. I support this labeling al­ after any drinking. Michigan, by a vote of the people in 1978 ternative and share its contents, along <57 percent in favor> raised back to 21. Iowa, with accompanying explanations, with MAY CREATE DEPENDENCE OR ADDICTION Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey and Geor­ my colleagues: gia raised from 18 to 19. Other states are Frequent drinking can lead to psychologi­ proposing similar action. WARNING cal dependence and/or physical addiction. Using this product: Some think this can happen only to people Many wonder why those under 21 should Too fast may cause sickness or death, with severe mental problems-that one with be prohibited from buying alcoholic bever­ May impair driving ability, good character, health, education and gen­ ages. Over the years, society has intuitively May create dependence or addiction, eral will power can drink without danger. recognized that as the proper age without and Since addiction occurs only in a knowing the scientific reason for it. During pregnancy may harm the minority of persons who drink, there is a Dr. Jorge Valles, M.D., for many years di­ unborn: temptation to believe it will not happen to rector of alcoholism therapy at the U.S. Legal Age Required tor Purchase you. Veterans Hospital in Houston, states such a Addiction strikes people in all walks of reason. He claims addiction results from TOO FAST MAY CAUSE SICKNESS OR. DEATH sensitivity of the hypothalamus section of Alcohol can produce euphoria but it can life. Even «normal" people often wind up "hooked" on alcohol, much as most of those the brain. · Immature youth are especially also lead to some tragic results in a short who use heroin and other drugs. sensitive. He says: ". . . the younger the age period of time. Drinking too much too fast at which an individual starts to ingest alco­ can cause serious illness, even death. This There are many theories on why some fact is not generally known. have trouble and others do not. Among hol, the greater the chances that he will de­ Numerous examples of this appear in the claimed causes is a sensitivity of the hypo­ velop into a chronic alcoholic. For the press. It could happen to anyone but occurs thalamus-the section of the brain that con­ action of the alcohol is channeled directly most often with youth. In 1976 a college stu­ trols all non-conscious body functions. One toward the adolescent's imbalanced hypo­ dent in Ames, Iowa , drank many theory is that hypoglycemics-those whose _thalamus and autonomic nervous system, beers rapidly in a bar. He la.ter drank a lot bodies produce an excess of insulin-are es­ thereby obstructing his emotional matura­ of vodka, tequila and brandy at his fraterni­ pecially addictable. There is some evidence tion on both psychological and physiological ty house. He was found de.ad in bed in the of metabolic differences between alcoholics levels." morning.· _ and non-alcoholics. Some ethnic groups There are many reasons why youth In 1979 a youth in Wisconsin GUATEMALA Poor . against the POT and in some Not only the guerrillas and the Army have places bY death threats against neighbors. changed during this period but the commu­ In Santa Cruz, Quiche, the first black lists nities have begun a process of profound HON. DONALD J. PEt\SE from para-military groups appear. In one of transformation. Small groups, but each day OF OHIO these the names of the priests Luis Guir­ growing larger, unable to endure the pover­ riarlln, former pastor of Cnichicastenango, ty and military repression, have begun 'sur­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Bartolome Sanchiz, ex-pastor of the Cathe­ facing in each village. Out of these groups Wednesday, May 7, 1980 dral, Andres Ignacio Lanz, director of the have been born the first manifestations of Diocesan Radio Station, "Quiche Radio"; campesino resistance to the ~Y. The pro­ • Mr. PEASE. Mr. Speaker, what fol­ community leaders such as Mr. Rogelio tests of the Uspantan cam.pesinos before the­ lows is the first installment of a two­ Azurdia director of the radio newspaper Ouateiilalan Congress, the manifestations part report on living conditions and "The Voice of the People" of "Quiche in Chajul and Cotzal give proof of this. The human rights abuses in northern Gua­ Radio"; Mr. Emeterio Toj Medrano, expresi­ villages· in the area begin their own protests temala. It was provided to me by a dent of the Catholic Action Board of Direc­ giving the conflictive situation the first indi­ parish priest who has spent many tors of Santa Cruz parish, political leaders cations of a revolutionary process. years living and working with the such as Mr. Jorge Baca etc. August 1979 people of this region. The priest's If we could place a map of Quiche in front of us and r,olor the Ixil area red and then Rumors circulate that the guerrilla has identity can be established but he has shade in all the areas affected by violence begun to take ·root in the northern section requested anonymity out of fear for we would find that between August 1979 of the municipalities of Uspantan and Chi­ his life. · and January 1980 gradually all of Quiche caman. In the municipality of Chajul, the This report bears out the rapid po­ would be shaded red. people tired of the Army's abuses are begin­ larization that is occurring among the The Guerrilla Army of the Poor during ning to join the guerrilla. On August 17, at Guatemalans, many of whom are Indi­ this period stops being a group of outsiders 9:00 in the evening, the Army kidnaps the ans, who live in the northern part of to area farmers. It is no longer small or catachist Capulina, son of Mr. Antonio Cruz large. It becomes a popular folte and a nu­ of Santa Adelina, Cotzal hacienda. His tor­ the country. This trend is very omi­ cleus of peasant organization because of the tured cadaver appears the next day at the nous. It underscores the urgency of massacre and the military occupation en­ entrance of the hacienda Brol, Cotzal. With our gaining an understanding of the dured by the people during the past three a message of E.G.P. written on a bracelet complex forces at work within Guate­ years. During this period the E.O.P. has two cadavers brutally tortured are thrown ~lan society. Unless we recognize the taken its first steps from political .action to beside the highway in Pulay, Nebaj. It is ru­ countervailing pressures at work, our military action. The arm:ed confrontations mored that the Army kidnapped them in country will have little hope of identi­ against the Army in the communities of the Ixcan area. fying what role we might be able Chajul, Cotzal, Chicam.an. Uspantan demon­ The guerrilla begins vigorous political ac­ to tivity. They occupy the villages of Chixix, play in helping promote peac~ful, strates this. The beginning of this year shows us a Caxijay, Santa Abelina, Asich, Chipal all in democratic- change within GuatemaJ.a. militarized Quiche. The southern part has the municipality of Cotzal; the towns of The report follows: small groups of Mobile Military Police· XIX, Xolcuay, Chemal, nom of Chajul; also REPORT ON VIOLENCE IN NOR'l'HERN QUICHE, , the north is under the direct control Santa Marta, Tzumal Grande, Bicotz, Bica­ GUA'I'EMALA of the National Army. lam.a, Pulay, Acul, Tzalbal of Nebaj. In all Uspantan, Nebaj, Corzal, Chajul and sec­ these villages the guerillas are Indian farm­ tions of Ixcan contain permanent military ers from the area-'Who a few years previous­ INSURGENCY~O~NSURGENCY,AUGUST encampments more or less large which ly had fled from the Army's repression. 1979 TO .JANUARY 1980 remind all of the residents that they live in After meetings with the communities the Within the situation of violence in which a state of war not peace. No matter how jails were burned. during the past three years each person of hard government sources try to deny it and On August 18, the E.G.P. executes two the Indian communities of the Ixil zone of the communications media of the country youths from Tzalbal, Nebaj, Juan and Pedro Quiche has suffered. the period between pretend they are not aware of this fact. Terraza who were known publically as Army August 1979 ·to January 1980 is the worst. Every violent act which has taken place in spies and informers. This time period focuses in on the Ixil area the area which funnels through information September 1979 as the nerve center, the "hot" area ·of the channels and through them to public opin­ repressive state. The focus of human rights ion is immediately denied· by the govern­ The E.G.P. occupy some villages in north­ violations, militarism and violence which all ment's official sources. Defense Ministry's em Uspantan. During the night, the Army Guatemalan people suffer is here. - declarations of early January serve as an ex­ kidnaps two farmers, leaders in the agricul­ The most notable characteristic of the ample where they justify the Army's pres­ tural cooperative from the farm E1 Soch. area is change. Change in quality and exten­ ence in Quiche because "northern Quiche is Nothing has been heard of them since. At sion of the level of insurgency and counter­ full of Cubans.'' During this report more ex­ E1 Soch, the E.G.P. executed Honario insurgency. Change in the protagonists of amples will be given. Garcia, owner of the farm E1 Rosario and the events: the Ixil people, the Army of the The recent Nicaraguan war has great re­ Eliu Martinez owner of the farm la Soledad Poor , the Guatemalan Army and the percussions in the Army policy towards the for inhuman treatment of the farm workers para-military groups. Change in space and occupied communities of northern Quiche. and because along with the Army they cap. change in time. The conflicting events occur Since August, the people felt a change in tured two campesinos from the farm E1 so rapidly and with such force that in an at­ their relationship with the Army. The Army Soch. tempt to follow them one runs the risk of makes a great effort not to appear as an oc­ The E.G.P. occupied the house of the losing the total perspective and the roots cupation force apart from the people but at North American pastor in Las Pacayas, and origin of the conflict. the same time its methods of control are searched for documents and information he Within the Ixil zone, the communities of sharpened, of infiltration, of spying and cor­ was giving the U.S. government and then Cotzal and Nebaj continue to be areas of ruption of the people. As they begin to burned the building. The next day, the continual violence while the community of remake their public image as the people's North American Protestant ministers, Peace Chajul, which until now had been in a more defenders and development promoters by Corps volunteers and AID personnel left the or less lethargic state becomes the center of means of Civic Actio14.. terrible repression Uspantan area permanently. major conflict within the area. against entire communities takes place vio­ The Army along with large landowners in Armed viQlence within Quiche spreads lating all their human rights as has haP­ the area of Soch occupied the village of San from the Ixil area north to Uspantan and pened in the town of Chajul. All of the Pablo el Baldio and have the market relocated on Pulay Chavez home a soldier robbed Q208 which rived at the Jaboncillo stationed In Cunen killed two These were the soldiers who were ch.arged large group went to the military garrison to policemen and seriously wounded three with clearing out the Ixil zone, so that no demonstrate. They asked for Mr. Juan while they slept. The national police who guerrilla would be left alive, ·and for whom Sajlc. The Army denied that they had him. slept in the next room, said that he identi· no cost was spared. The radio and newspa­ Juan Sajic was taken by helicopter from the fled hlniself as a guerrilla ahd after taking pers reported that the guerrillas shot down rear of the garrison. all the arms fled out the door where some one Army helicopter and that they de­ On October 18, 1979, the E.G.P. occupied companions were awaiting him. The bar· stroyed a Kalbele patrol in the Juil Chajul for a ·few hours. The following day a racks of the PMA In Cunen is known for its mountains. The Army officially denied this group-of the E.G.P. attacked a group of sol· abuses against the people. The Army report· report. diers on the road between Chajul and Juil. ed through its information channels that a Near the end of the month, the Army They killed three soldiers and left one drunk soldier had killed some of his com· began a campaign of "civic action." The wounded, taking all the weapons. The panions. · people, fearful before the prospect of repri­ E.G.P. leader returned to ChaJul, gathered November 1979 sals and because of rumors spread by the the people and demonstrated the captured same Army to the effect that they must guns. He advised the people to organize be· In the first days of May, the center of either participate In the campaign or suffer cause the Army was sure to enter Chajul conflict moved north to Huehuetenango. On the consequences, regularly participated in and take reprisals against them. Sunday, November 4, the E.G.P. occupied the campaign. On October 20, an Army patrol occupied the village of San Juan Ixcoy ·for a morning. On November 13, the guerrillas attacked Chajul and began a systematic search, beat­ The same day, the village of Barillas demon­ the entrance to the town of Chicaman in an ing and abusing the people. When the tradi· strated against the National Army asking Army truck that Is used to carry asphalt to tiona! shout of the Chajules began, men, them to leave the municipality. On the 6, 7, repair potholes in city streets. They left women, youths, children and old people 8 and 9 of November the E.G.P. occupied three soldiers dead.e came out of their homes armed with stones, the communities San Francisco Mixlaj, San sticks and machetes and the whole town Jose las Flores, el Llano and el Campamento confronted the Army In the central plaza. all in the municipality of Chiantla. Also in Between the two groups were the bodies of November the military Zone of Santa Cruz SENATE COMMITI'EE MEETINGS the three soldiers killed by the Guerrillas. of Quiche, General Gregorio Solares Is Title IV of Senate Resolution 4. An Army helicopter began to fly over the transferred to HuehUetenango where a agreed to by the Senate on February group as they talked. The people demanded modem military barracks has been built. 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a that the Army leave and if t.hey didn't do On November 16, 1979, the E.G.P. OCCU· system for a computerized schedule of so, they were prepared to attack them. They pled for the second time Salquil Grande, meetings and hearings of Senate said that they would kill more than the Nebaj. The occupation took place all morn­ an Army could. One citizen demonstrated he ing of market day. On November 14, hell· committees, subcommittees, joint com­ had been beaten by the soldiers. The lieu­ copters buzz . the Salquil Grande area and mittees, and coll"..mittees of conference. tenant in command asked for a stick and bomb the mountainous terrain near the vii· This title requires all such committees began to beat the responsible soldier leaving lage of Vicalama, Nebaj. The results are un­ to notify the Office of the Senate him almost dead. known. Daily Digest-designated by the Rules May 7, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS· 10415 Committee-of the time, place, and Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Appropriations purpose of the meetings, when sched­ tee Transportation Subcommittee ·uled, and any cancellations or changes To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To continue hearings on proposed in the meetings as they occur. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na· budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 tional Park Service. for the Department of Transportation. As an interim procedure until the 1224 Dirksen Building computerization of this information 1224 Dirksen Building becomes operational, the Office of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 1:00 p.m. Senate Daily Digest will prepare this To conttnue oversight hearing~ to inves­ Select on Small Business information for printing in the Exten­ tigate the circumstances surrounding To receive a briefing on the final report an Export-Import Bank's of the White House Conference on sions of Remarks section of the CoN­ decision to grant a low-interest loan to Small Business. GRESSIONAL RECORD on Monday and Ansett Airlines in Australia, and to 424 Russell Building Wednesday of eacll week. review Eximbank's overall policy on Any changes in committee schedul­ aircraft financing. ing will be indicated by placement of 5302 Dirksen Building" MAY16 an asterisk to the left of the name of Select on Small Business 10:00 a.m. the unit conducting such meetings. Business meeting, to consider S. 1860, Appropriations Meetings scheduled for Thursday, ~ proposed Small Business Innovation BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ May 8, 1980, may be found in the Act; and other pending legislation. tee Daily Digest of today's REcoRD. 424 Russell Building To continue -hearings on proposed Special on Aging budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the Department of Housing and MEETINGS SCHEDULED To resume hearings to explore initia­ tives to, stimulate opportunities for Urban Development, and Independent Agencies. MAY9 continued work for older persons. 6226 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building 9:30a.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Commerce, Science, and Transportation 2:30p.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Securities Subcommittee Science, Technology and Space Subcom~ mittee To continue oversight hearings to inves­ To resume hearings on S. 1533 and 1940. To resume hearings on S. 2015, proposed tigate the circumstances surrounding bills to provide an exemption for quali­ Transportation Energy Efficiency Act, an Export-Import Bank's fied small business venture capital and on proposed amendments thereto. decision to grant" a low-interest loan to companies. 235 Russell Building Ansett Airlines in Australia and to 5302 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. review Eximbank's overall policy on Foreign Relations aircraft financing. MAY20 To hear and consider the nominations of 5302 Dirksen Building Robert V. Keeley, of Florida, to be 9:30a.m. Ambassador to Zimbabwe; Gordon R. MAY14 Coll)Illerce, Science, and Transportation Beyer, of Florida, to be Ambassador to •science, Technology and Space Subcom­ 9:30a.m. mittee Uganda; Charles E. Marthinsen, of Commerce, Science, and Transportation Virginia, to be Ambassador to the To hold hearings on industrial applica­ State of Qatar; and Dean R. Axtell, of Science, Technology and Space Subcom­ tions of recombinant DNA techniques. mittee 235 Russell Building Illinois, to be Executive Vice President To resume hearings on S. 2015, proposed of the Overseas Private Investment Transportation Energy Efficiency Act, 10:00 a.m. . Corporation. Appropriations 4221 Dirksen Building and on proposed amendments thereto. 235 Russell Building Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ 10:00 a.m. tee MAY12 Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 9:00a.m. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Energy and Natural Resources tee. Office of the Secretary and the Office To hold hearings on the nomination of To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ of the Solicitor, Department of the In­ Clyde 0. Martz, of Colorado, to be So­ timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De­ terior. licitor of the Department of the Inte­ partment of the Interior. 1223 Dirksen Building rior. 1223 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. 3110 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. Office of Technology Assessment 10:00 a.m. The Board to hold a meeting on pending Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee business items. To hold oversight hearings to investi­ EF-100, Capitol gate the circumstances surrounding an To resume hearings on proposed budget Export-Import Bank's de­ estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the cision to grant a low-interest loan to Department of Transportation. MAY21 Ansett Airlines in Australia, and to 1224 Dirksen Building 9:00a.m. review Eximbank's overall policy on •veterans' Affairs aircraft financing. MAY15 ~o resume hearings on the Federal Gov· 5302 Dirksen Building 9:15a.m. ernment's efforts to assist Vietnam-era 2:30·p.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs veterans in readjusting to society, and Appropriations the use of expected appointments for Business meeting, to resume considera­ Consumer Affairs Subcommittee To resume hearings on S. 1928, to disabled veterans. tion of H.J. Res. 521, appropriating ad­ 412 Russell Building ditional funds for fiscal year ending strengthen fair credit reporting; and September 30, 1980, for the Selective provide safeguards for citizens in the 10:00 a.m. Service System. areas of credit, banking, and insurance Energy and Natural Resources S-128, Capitol records. Business meeting, to consider pending 5302 Dirksen Building calendar business. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 3110 Dirksen Building Business meeting, to markupS. 864 and 10:00 a.m. 2379, bills to facilitate the formation Appropriations MAY22 of U.S. export trading companies to BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ 9:30a.m. expand export participation by small­ tee er U.S. companies. Labor and Human Resources To resume hearings on proposed budget Child and Human Development Subcom­ 5302 Dirksen Building estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the mittee Department of Housing and Urban To hold oversight hearings to examine MAY13 Development, and Independent Agen­ issues affecting infant mortality, and 10:00 a.m. cies. preventable birth defects. Appropriations 1318 Dirksen Building 4232 Dirksen Building 10416 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1980 10:00 a.m. MAY30 To hold oversight hearings on the im­ •select on Indian Affairs 10:00 a.m. plementation of the Tribally Con­ To hold hearings on S. 2513, to promote Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs trolled Community College Act. economic self-sufficiency among To continue hearings on proposed legis­ 5110 Dirksen Building Indian tribes by providing tax incen­ lation relating to possible effects of tives to industries who hire Indians· excessive commodities speculation on and locate on or near their reserva­ the Nation's banking system and JUNE 11 tions. credit markets, focusing on futures 9:30a.m. 1318 Dirksen Building trading in financial instruments or •veterans' Affairs their equivalents. To hold oversight hearings on the activi­ 5302 Dirksen Building ties of the Inspector General of the MAY28 Veterans' Administration. 10:00 a.m. 412 Russell Building Energy and Natural Ftesources JUNE2 To hold hearings on the impact of acid rain in the atmosphere resulting from 10:00 a.m. JUNE 19 an increased use of coal. 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