June 16, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16295 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS NORTH DAKOTA'S "VOICE OF tions, but we are challenged to do our part inspectors and qualified air traffic control­ DEMOCRACY" WINNER to promote justice and insure that justice is lers, has not met the challenge of skyrocket­ done to others. In some instances, one way ing growth in the volume of air traffic fol­ we can do our part is by reporting crimes lowing deregulation of the industry. HON. BYRON L. DORGAN and identifying criminals, if we are in any A primary reason for that failing has been OF NORTH DAKOTA way involved. the Reagan administration's effort to get IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES As Americans, we do have many advan­ the job done on the cheap. It has chosen to tages. Our nation offers us numerous liber­ go slow with the development of a new gen­ Tuesday, June 16, 1987 ties and opportunities. It secures justice for eration of air-traffic control and safety-en­ Mr. DORGAN of North Dakota. Mr. Speaker, every individual. We must strive to broaden hancing equipment. It has held back on I'd like to share with my colleagues the the benefits of these virtues, and challenge spending for airport expansions and con­ thoughts of Susan Ann Roehrich of Bismarck, ourselves to take action. Our American Citi­ struction, and it has dragged its feet in zenship includes a lifelong challenge to building up the air-traffic controller ranks, NO. Susan is this year's State winner of the uphold the deep rooted convictions of our decimated when President Reagan fired annual "Voice of Democracy" contest. The nation to the best of our abilities. This is, in striking controllers in 1981. contest is sponsored by the Veterans of For­ fact, the Challenge of American Citizenship. The administration has been stingy at a eign Wars of the United States and its ladies time when billions of dollars were ear­ auxiliary. marked for upgrading the air-safety system She makes important points on the chal­ BALANCING THE NEED TO CURB and were just waiting to be spent. The Air­ lenge of American citizenship. FLIGHT DELAYS WHILE KEEP­ port and Airways Trust Fund, supported by ING THE SKIES SAFE taxes on airline passengers, currently has a THE CHALLENGE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP $6 billion surplus. That surplus is expected

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 16296 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT THE BRANDEN· country or doctrine, but against hunger, change and openness. For we believe free­ BURG GATE, WEST BERLIN, JUNE 12, 1987 poverty, desperation, and chaos." The German leaders reduced tar­ ern Alliance responded by committing itself America. I understand that it is being seen iffs, expanded free trade, lowered taxes. to a counterdeployment unless the Soviets and heard as well in the East. To those lis­ From 1950 to 1960 alone, the standard of agreed to negotiate a better solution­ tening throughout Eastern Europe, I extend living in West Germany and Berlin doubled. namely, the elimination of such weapons on my warmest greetings and the goodwill of Where four decades ago there was rubble, both sides. For many months, the Soviets the American people. To those listening in today in West Berlin there is the greatest refused to bargain in earnestness. As the Al­ East Berlin, a special word. Although I industrial output of any city in Germany­ liance in turn prepared to go forward with cannot be with you, I address my remarks to busy office blocks, fine homes and apart­ its counterdeployment, there were difficult you just as surely as to those standing here ments, proud avenues and the spreading days-days of protests like those during my before me. For I join you as I join your lawns of parkland. Where a city's culture 1982 visit to this city-and the Soviets later fellow countrymen in the West in this firm, seemed to have been destroyed, today there this unalterable belief: Es gibt nur ein are two great universities, orchestras and an walked away from the table. Berlin.

91-059 0-89-29 (Pt. 12) 16302 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 HON. STENY H. HOYER-THE POLITICAL IM­ more western and urbane. They now speak tion. The push for an ill-conceived moratorium PLICATIONS OF GLASNOST, NORTH ATLANTIC of partnership and cooperation with the on certain regulatory efforts to expand the ASSEMBLY, QUEBEC, CANADA West. In our meetings they were neither range of permissible banking activities is, in confrontational nor defensive-except, that Winston Churchill once said that the my view, rooted in false assumptions about Soviet Union is "a riddle wrapped in a mys­ is, when the issue of human rights was ad­ tery inside an enigma." But if we hope to dressed. the collapse of the banking system in the understand the impact of Glasnost, we With glasnost, with the new style of 1930's. It wasn't the securities activities of better try to figure out what's going on Soviet leadership, the psychological barriers banks that caused that collapse; it was the there. We need to move beyond the head­ between leaders of East and West have been system's structural defects. The establishment lines-especially the headlines the Soviets lowered. Witness the statement of Prime of Federal deposit insurance and a strength­ want us to read. Minister Thatcher, that Gorbachev is a man ened Federal Reserve-not the Gtass-Stea­ Last month I had a special opportunity to she could do business with. The results gall Act-resolved that problem. Also, a wide gain some insight into the Soviet Union of could be stunning: fewer tensions in the Mikhail Gorbachev. I was a member of the world, and perhaps a mutual and verifiable variety of laws and regulations which exist highest ranking congressional delegation arms agreement. This would be a major step today to limit conflicts of interest were not ever to visit the Soviet Union. Led by Speak­ forward. available when Glass-Steagall was enacted. er Jim Wright, our delegation included But for all the good that can come with The attached article by a respected finan­ Democrats and Republicans, chairmen and glasnost, we must beware of a trap. It is a cial consultant provides a more detailed ranking members of major congressional lurking trap, perhaps, in our own thinking. glimpse of the primary causes of the banking committees. We met with Gorbachev, Liga­ We must be careful not to read too much collapse in the 1930's. It illustrates why a mor­ chev, Shevardnadze, Gromyko, Dobrynin, into glasnost and perestroika. We must atorium on bank powers would actually Scherbitsky and other top leaders-5 of the avoid projecting our own hopes and expecta­ 11 members of the Politburo. tions into it. We must not mistake a West­ weaken the safety and soundness of the What became clear to me and my col­ ernized Soviet leadership with a Western­ banking system by delaying necessary re­ leagues is that the Soviet leadership is seri­ ized Soviet democracy. We must not create forms to strengthen and modernize our Na­ ous about reform. But they do not seek to any illusions that could unjustifiably distort tion's banking taws. realize Western values or economics. our policies. THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE 1930's Over and over the top Kremlin officials This is particularly true with the way we BANKING COLLAPSE told us not to mistake the purpose of glas­ view our alliance. Our alliance is about nost and perestroika. They don't want West­ shared values. No amount of glasnost can (By Bert Ely) ern democracy. No, they are determined to erase that. If glasnost presents us with any American banking has been handicapped strengthen Soviet-style socialism. To turn challenge as an alliance, it is to make sure for 53 years by regulations rooted in myths the Soviet Union into a leaner and more ef­ we communicate better among ourselves so about the causes of the 1930-33 banking col­ ficient state. As Mr. Ligachev made clear, we can more effectively counter and antici­ lapse. Common to these politically motivat­ what they want is more and better Soviet pate Soviet propaganda offensives. ed myths is the notion that bank misman­ socialism. We must also be grateful not to let glas­ agement caused the collapse. That notion is Thus the reforms proposed are internally nost divert attention from significant and false. Yet the myths this notion has engen­ directed-towards efficiency. The goal is not continuing human rights concerns. Indeed, dered are still driving public policy, while to address human and political rights. If the this should be our litmus test on the merits the real causes of the banking collapse are human rights situation changes at all, it ap­ of glasnost. largely ignored. pears it will be only a tangential result. While in the Soviet Union, I took the op­ The underlying cause of the banking col­ It seems clear that reducing censorship in portunity to meet with political dissidents, lapse was the branch-banking restrictions the press is not designed to promote free refuseniks and divided spouses. It was in that Congress and State legislatures im­ speech, but rather to stimulate criticism of these meetings that the grape of glasnost posed over many decades. In 1930 only three inefficient institutions. Elections will not be turned sour, as I heard story after frustrat­ percent of the country's 23,700 banks had a choice of ideas, but of who can best ing story of the way the Soviet Union con­ any branches at all. Thus, almost every manage the system. And the release of an tinues to deny and exploit human rights. bank held a small, geographically undiverse Andrei Sakharov comes not from a desire to If not to assert control over its people, portfolio of loans. With only three or four end arbitrary imprisonment-but instead to why else does the Kremlin keep cancer pa­ employees, the average bank also was an energize intellectuals for the coming mod­ tients from getting treatment in the West? easy target for fraud and embezzlement. ernization drive. Why else prevent Jews, Germans or others The banking collapse, which cost bank de­ In other words, reform in the Soviet from emigrating? Why else divide spouses positors $1.3 billion, was a pre-ordained dis­ Union is from the top down. and families? Why else abuse psychiatry for aster because branching restrictions kept Because of this top-down quality of glas­ political purposes? banks unnaturally small. nost, policy-makers in the West will be faced So we must be sure, my colleagues, that The medium-size bank in 1930 had depos­ with a number of opportunities-as well as glasnost does not distract us from the values its of $400,000, just $3 million in today's dol­ traps. and goals that bind us together. My col­ lars. Today's has deposits of $35 million. Probably the most significant opportunity leagues, glasnost confronts us with not al­ During the generally prosperous 1920s, comes from the fact that Soviet leaders are ternatives of challenge or opportunity, but banks below the medium size were less prof­ energized for change. They are impatient. with both. itable than larger banks and thus more They want an arms control accord that We are challenged to respond to its appar­ likely to fail. This is why bank failures in would enable them to focus attention on do­ ent flexibility and its appeal in the West of that decade were 3.4 times higher than mestic reforms. They want to clean out cor­ its promise. during the previous three decades. ruption from an entrenched bureaucracy. We have an opportunity to seize the open­ The typical failed bank, invariably a rural They want more criticism of inefficient in­ ing created by glasnost to decrease tensions, one, was even tinier than the medium-size stitutions and immediate results to follow. advance the cause of human rights, and re­ bank. Usually it failed because of fraud or a From Gorbachev to Ligachev to Shevard­ alize more fully the objectives of the univer­ local economic catastrophe. These failures nadze on down, it appeared to us that there sal declaration of human rights, the inter­ often deprived area farmers and merchants is a sense of mission in the Soviet leader­ national covenants on human rights, and of their only source of business credit, thus ship. They seem to be testing the limits of the Helsinki accords. worsening economic conditions in their what is possible. And while it is true that locale. The independent bank, far from Soviet initiatives are inspired by domestic being the strength of smalltown America, needs, it would be naive to think that Soviet THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE was its Achilles' heel. Yet despite these leaders are not keeping an eye on how glas­ 1930'S BANKING COLLAPSE shortcomings, nationwide branching restric­ nost plays in the West. tions remain in place today even with the That is why we must and will follow glas­ HON. DAVID DREIER recent spread of limited interstate banking. nost keenly, welcome all the positives and The parochial attitudes of the Federal Re­ point out when promises fail to match reali­ OF CALIFORNIA serve System at that time enhanced the po­ ties. Perhaps, just perhaps, this may have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tential for a banking disaster. The Fed, dif­ an impact on tilting future reforms in the Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 fident about controlling the nation's money direction of greater human rights, and supply and disdainful of the two banks out greater international stability and security. Mr. DREIER of California. Mr. Speaker, the of three that were not Fed members, was To accomplish their goals, and to appeal House and Senate are currently at odds over unwilling to act as lender of last resort to to the West, Soviet leaders have become the scope of comprehensive banking legisla- the entire banking system. June 16, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16303 Although the stock market crash occurred from 1930 to 1936 equaled just one-third of and are not paying much attention to the in October 1929, the banking collapse did the price deflation percentage during that hearings. However, in that somewhat barren not begin until November 1930. By then, time. Had prices rebounded quickly after context, most say they are getting a positive wholesale prices had declined by 16 percent 1930, extraordinary loan losses would have impression of the American policy regarding from their peak in the summer of 1929. been negligible. In other words, the high aid to the Contras. Mr. Manderstam reports Price deflation of this magnitude drove loan losses of the 1930s were caused by de­ that people have said that the hearings help many banks into insolvency because they flation, not by bad lending practices during them understand the policy better, and were highly leveraged and held assets that the 1920s. when they understand it, they believe there lost value during the deflation. Small banks Myth Three: Investment banking activities is more justification for the policy than are particularly susceptible to such defla­ of commercial banks caused bank failures, tion since they have fewer alternatives for thus justifying the Glass-Steagall Act's sep­ they had believed earlier. diversifying their risks. The Fed accelerated aration of commercial from investment In one sense, this is remarkable. After all, this vicious downward spiral by permitting banking. the focus of the hearings is on all the things the money supply to decline 33 percent be­ Fact: The data simply does not support the Reagan administration may have done tween November 1930 and March 1933, the this, since almost all of the 4,800 banks that that were illegal. In another way, however, end of the banking collapse. failed during the banking collapse were it adds up. Many witnesses, and some mem­ The average number of banks that failed much too small to conduct investment-bank­ bers of Congress have been insistent on ex­ each month during the collapse was more ing activities. plaining the reasons for the administra­ than triple the monthly failure rate of the Myth Four: Big city banks bled funds out tion's actions. They say the Soviets are at­ 1920s, while the monthly average of depos­ of rural banks during the 1920s for re-lend­ tempting to set up the first communist na­ its in failed banks increased by a factor of ing in the stock market, thus depriving tional base on the mainland of North Amer­ seven. In all, 4,800 banks failed during the farmers and merchants of badly needed ica. A newsweek story says this: "As witness 28-month span of the collapse. loans. after witness testified in favor of continued By March 1932, one year before the na­ Fact: Country bank deposits in city banks, support, letters to Congress have been sur­ tional Bank Holiday, the worst of the col­ as a percentage of all banking deposits, were prisingly sympathetic to the insurgency." A lapse was over. Later that year, a feeble eco­ lower during the 1920s than immediately New York Times report echoes that view. nomic recovery began, only to be crippled before or after. The entire 1927-29 increase Some of the recent public opinion polls on by a final banking crisis sparked by three in lending to stockbrokers came from out­ the matter also show a shift-small, but public policy blunders. side the banking industry. measurable-toward a more pro-Contra po­ The first of these blunders was Franklin The new Congress must base today's sition. While opinion is still heavily against Roosevelt's public deliberations, beginning banking legislation on the facts, not myths in December 1932, about devaluing the about what caused the banking collapse of providing military aid to the Contras, the dollar against gold. Increasing speculations the 1930s, if it is going to strengthen U.S. margin between "anti" and "pro" has nar­ about a devaluation triggered a run to gold banking at home and in the international fi­ rowed somewhat since the hearings began­ that drained reserves from the banking nancial marketplace. by 10 percent in the Washington Post/ABC system. This in turn encouraged many bank poll and by 76 percent in the Wall Street depositors to run to currency. Journal/NBC poll. The second blunder occurred when Con­ SUBTLE BOOST FOR CONTRAS? This pattern, if indeed it proves to be a gress, in January 1933, directed the Recon­ pattern, would make some sense. In polls, struction Finance Corporation to publish HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO the support for the Contras has been high­ the names of banks it previously had assist­ est among people who were informed about ed. Runs soon started on these banks. OF CALIFORNIA the situation. Then the Iran-Contra scandal Finally, the Fed, now paralyzed by a bank­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was revealed. The support level dropped, re­ ing system crippled by these runs, abdicated Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 flecting the issue of the scandal, which its responsibility as lender of last resort. As deals with legalities concerning U.S. govern­ a result, numerous states were forced to de­ Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, a recent ment behavior. As these facts are digested, clare banking holidays during February and commentary in the Washington Times by Ben however, there is more room to look at the early March, culminating in the national Wattenberg describes the effect of the Iran­ geopolitical essence of the situation. And as Bank Holiday that started on March 6, 1933. Contra hearings on the general public. From the hearings bring out more of the essence The final banking crisis probably would his perspective, Mr. Wattenberg believes to more people, it makes some sense to posit not have occurred had Mr. Roosevelt been those who are following the hearings are be­ inaugurated on January 20, 1933, instead of that the polls may be moving in the Contra six weeks later, on March 4. Had he taken coming better informed about the national se­ direction. Approval rates have climbed back office on the earlier date, he would have curity interests of the United States. and, to pre-scandal levels and may go higher as been able to act sooner to avert this crisis. therefore, are becoming more supportive of still more is said about the substance of the However, the Constitutional amendment to U.S. policy to aid the Contras. It's an interest­ matter. change the inauguration date from March 4 ing analysis, and I urge my colleagues give it The substance of the case has always had did not become effective until October 15, their thoughtful attention. a good deal of merit to it. Assistant Secre­ 1933. [From the Washington Times, June 11, tary Elliott Abrams summed it up well in his Canada provides an instructive contrast 1987] closing statements to the congressional with America's tragic experience. During panel: "The challenge we face is grave-a the Great Depression, just ten banks oper­ SUBTLE BOOST FOR CONTRAS? Soviet effort to achieve domination of ... ated almost 4,000 branches across Canada. ­ The PRESIDENT. Thank you very much. plause.> that the advance of human liberty can only Chancellor Kohl, Governing Mayor Diep­ In the Reichstag, a few moments ago, I strengthen the cause of world peace. There gen, ladies and gentlemen, twenty-four saw a display commemorating this 40th an­ is one sign the Soviets can make that would years ago President John F. Kennedy vis­ niversary of the Marshall Plan. I was struck be unmistakable, that would advance dra­ ited Berlin, speaking to the people of this by the sign on a burnt-out, gutter structure matically the cause of freedom and peace. city and the world at the City Hall. Well, that was being rebuilt. I understand that General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek since then two other presidents have come, Berliners of my own generation can remem­ peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet each in his turn, to Berlin. And today I, ber seeing signs like it dotted throughout Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liber­ myself, make my second visit to your city. the western sectors of the city. The sign alization: Come here, to this gate. friends, I'm certain, will do the same. And to do what they're doing again. the United States is pursuing the Strategic in East Berlin to sponsor visits from young Thank you and God bless you all. Defense Initiative-research to base deter­ people of the Western sectors. rence not on the threat of offensive retalia­ One final proposal-one close to my heart. tion, but on defenses that truly defend; on Sport represents a source of enjoyment and systems, in short, that will not target popu­ ennoblement, and you may have noted that A TRIBUTE TO REV. THOMAS F. lations, but shield them. the Republic of Korea-South Korea-has KELLY By these means we seek to increase the offered to permit certain events of the 1988 safety of Europe and all the world. But we Olympics to take place in the North. Inter­ must remember a crucial fact: East and national sports competitions of all kinds HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. West do not mistrust each other because we could take place in both parts of this city. OF OHIO are armed. We are armed because we mis­ And what better way to demonstrate to the trust each other. And our differ­ world the openness of this city than to offer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ences are not about weapons but about lib­ in some future year to hold the Olympic Tuesday, June 16, 1987 erty. When President Kennedy spoke at the Games here in Berlin, East and West? City Hall those 24 years ago, freedom was Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, today I rise encircled, Berlin was under siege. And In these four decades, as I have said, you in order to pay tribute to the Reverend today, despite all the pressures upon this Berliners have rebuilt a great city. You've Thomas F. Kelly, a very special resident of my city, Berlin stands secure in its liberty. And done so in spite of threats-the Soviet at­ 17th Congressional District. A mass of thanks­ freedom itself is transforming the globe. tempts to impose the East-mark, the block­ giving in honor of the fortieth anniversary of In the Philippines, in South and Central ade. Today the city thrives in spite of the America, democracy has been given a re­ challenges implicit in the very presence of Father Kelly's ordination to the priesthood birth. Throughout the Pacific, free markets this wall. What keeps you here? was held at St. Christine Church in Youngs­ are working miracle after miracle of eco­ Certainly there's a great deal to be said town, OH on June 14, 1987. Father Kelly has nomic growth. In the industrialized nations, for your fortitude, for your defiant courage. admirably served as pastor of St. Christine for a technological revolution is taking place-a But I believe there's something deeper, the past 14 years. revolution marked by rapid, dramatic ad­ something that involves Berlin's whole look vances in computers and telecommunica­ and feel and way of life. Not mere senti­ Father Kelly was born and raised in Galway tions. ment-no one could live long in Berlin with­ County, Ireland. His burning desire to enter In Europe, only one nation and those it out being completely disabused of illu­ the priesthood was evident as he went controls refuse to join the community of sions-something instead that has seen the through the Franciscan Brothers Grade freedom. Yet in this age of redoubled eco­ difficulties of life in Berlin but chose to School, the Jarlath Boys Boarding High nomic growth, of information and innova­ accept them, that continues to build this School in Taum of Galway County, and the All tion, the Soviet Union faces a choice. It good and proud city in contrast to a sur­ must make fundamental changes, or it will rounding totalitarian presence that refuses Hallows Seminary in Dublin, Ireland. He was become obsolete. matter, to the most fundamental distinction Church in Garretsville. After serving as pastor Free people of Berlin: Today, as in the of all between East and West. The totalitar­ of both Mother of Sorrows in Ashtabula and past, the United States stands for the strict ian world produces backwardness because it St. Brendan's in Youngstown, he was now observance and full implementation of all does such violence to the spirit, thwarting ready to assume the crowning position of his parts of the Four-Power Agreement of 1971. the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to Let us use this occasion, the 750th anniver­ worship. career in 1973-pastor of St. Christine sary of this city, to usher in a new era-to The totalitarian world finds even symbols Church. seek a still fuller, richer life for the Berlin of love and of worship an affront. Years, At St. Christine, Father Kelly has worked of the future. Together, let us maintain and ago, before the East Germans began re­ diligently and tirelessly to improve the spiritual develop the ties between the Federal Re­ building their churches, they erected a secu­ life of his parishioners. His efforts have paid public and the Western sectors of Berlin, lar structure-the television tower at Alex­ off handsomely, as hundreds of St. Christine which is permitted by the 1971 Agreement. ander Platz. Virtually ever since, the au­ And I invite Mr. Gorbachev: Let us work thorities have been working to correct what members have become closer to God as a to bring the Eastern and Western parts of they view as the tower's one major flaw, result of Father Kelly's leadership. He has in­ the city closer together--so that treating the glass sphere at the top with stituted countless programs at St. Christine all the inhabitants of all Berlin can enjoy paints and chemicals of every kind. Yet since taking over the helm. One of the most the benefits that come with life in one of even today when the sun strikes that successful has been the "Renewal" and the great cities of the world. (Applause.) sphere-that sphere that towers over all "Renew" programs, which have brought about To open Berlin still further to all Europe, Berlin-the light makes the sign of the East and West, let us expand the vital air cross. There in Berlin, like the a truly amazing spiritual awakening and access to this city, finding ways of making city itself, symbols of love, symbols of wor­ breathless increase in members' participation commercial air service to Berlin more con­ ship, cannot be suppressed. in parish activities at St. Christine. Father Kelly venient, more comfortable, and more eco­ As I looked out a moment ago from the has also overseen and pushed to completion nomical. We look to the day when West Reichstag, that embodiment of German major renovations in the school, hall, rectory, Berlin can become one of the chief aviation unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted and church, and has been extremely active in hubs in all Central Europe. (Applause.) upon the wall-perhaps by a young Berlin­ With our French and British partners, the er-"This wall will fall. Beliefs become reali­ the church's bowling and golf leagues. United States is prepared to help bring ty." Yes, across Europe, this Father Kelly has the love and devotion of international meetings to Berlin. It would wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith. every member of St. Christine, and I believe be only fitting for Berlin to serve as the site It cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot that every priest in the Mahoning Valley of United Nations meetings, or world confer­ withstand freedom. should look to him as a role model. Thus, it is ences on human rights and arms control, or And I would like before I close to say one with thanks and special pleasure that I join other issues that call for international coop­ word. I have read, and I have been ques­ eration. O> Any person who is convicted of a Ms. Joann Geiger, Mark Sheridan Academy; ity to deny a license to any criminal. It specifi­ violation of this section, secton 39, or any Ms. Angeline Janek, Sacred Heart of Jesus; cally bans the granting of a license to crimi­ criminal offense under any Federal, State, or local law, or under the laws of any other Ms. Margery Kepka, Kennedy High School; nals who have violated laws involving the country, which involves- Ms. Sandra Kulak, Wilkins Jr. High School; Mr. shipment of weapons and to violent felons­ " the use of a gun or other weapon, Ralph Toritz, Conrady Jr. High School; Mr. those convicted of an offense involving involv­ "(B) an act of terrorism or torture, Daniel Meier, Curie Metro High School; Ms. ing lethal weapons, terrorism, torture, and " the shipment or transfer of weapons, Nancy Rockwood, Wilkins Jr. High School; physical injury or death. Members of illegal or and Ms. Pamela Samulis, Maria Saucedo "(D> physical injury to or death of any in­ and terrorist organizations also are prohibited Magnet School. from obtaining a license. dividual, may not be issued a license under On May 23, I sponsored an awards break­ As the Iran-Contra arms hearings reveal, this section and may not be approved for fast to honor these 16 outstanding teachers in the potential for egregious abuse in the busi­ participation in any export transaction with respect to which a license is issued under honor of their instrumental importance in pro­ ness of arms trading is immense. An unbridled this section, and any license issued under international network of private profiteers moting academic excellence in their respec­ this section which is held by such a person tive schools and their special enthusiasm for working with middlemen who operate for out­ shall be revoked. rageous fees can easily subvert the goals of "(2) Any person who is convicted of a vio­ the teaching profession. I'm sure my fellow Government policy. Clandestine agreements, lation of any criminal offense under any Members of Congress join me in congratulat­ secret Swiss banks accounts, and phony doc­ Federal, State, or local law, or under the ing these award winners and in thanking them uments are the tools of the trade. In regulat­ laws of any other country, other than a for their dedicated service to our community. criminal offense described in paragraph (1), ing the commercial export of U.S. munitions, may be denied a license under this section we must know with whom we are dealing, or denied approval for participation in any TRIBUTE TO RAYMOND where we are allowing weapons to be trans­ export transaction with respect to which a ported, and for what reason. license is issued under this section, and any SALATIEL NEVEL Twenty-one of my colleagues representing license issued under this section which is both parties have joined me in sponsoring this held by such a person may be revoked. HON. RONALD V. DELLUMS legislation, including the following members of "(3) Any person who- the Foreign Affairs Committee: Mr. ACKERMAN, " is a member of or supports the crimi­ OF CALIFORNIA nal activities of any terrorist organization, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. LEVINE, Mr. WOLPE, Mr. or UDALL, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. STUDDS, Mr. DVM­ "(B) is engaged in, has an interest in, or is Tuesday, June 16, 1987 ALLY, Mr. GILMAN, Mr. SMITH of Florida, Mr. an enterprise that derives significant FEIGHAN, and Mr. ATKINS. I am pleased that income from a pattern of racketeering activ­ Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, I take the well they agree on the urgent need for these vital ity, in order to share wtih my colleagues the great reforms in our export policy. may not be issued a license under this sec­ sense of loss we of the Eighth Congressional The text of my bill follows: tion and may not be approved for participa­ District feel at the death of a distinguished H.R. 2694 tion in any export transaction with respect artist, Raymond Salatiel Nevel. Raymond to which a license is issued under this sec­ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Nevel, who as a painter became better known tion, and any license issued under this sec­ by the name of Zala, a contraction of his Representatives of the United States of tion which is held by such a person shall be America in Congress assembled, revoked. As used in subparagraph (B), the middle name, was born in Vera Cruz, Mexico SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. terms 'enterprise' and 'racketeering activity' and raised in Mexico City. Although he was a This Act may be cited as the "Arms have the meanings given those terms in sec­ resident of Oakland, CA for nearly 40 years, Export Control Amendments Act of 1987". tion 1961 of title 18, United States Code.". the early inspiration for his art sprung from his SEC. 2. PROCEDURES AND RESTRICTIONS. native Mexico, and his work was a celebration (a) PROCEDURES.-Section 38(b) of the THE 1987 TEACHER'S BONUS of his Hispanic past and a glorious expression Arms Export Control Act <22 U.S.C. AWARD WINNERS of hope for the future and dignity of Hispanic 2778(b)) is amended by adding at the end peoples both in this country and in Mexico. the following: "(3) In exercising the authorities con­ HON. WILLIAM 0. LIPINSKI In the cities of Oakland and Berkeley we ferred by this section, the President shall OF ILLINOIS were particularly blessed to have his striking and provocative murals painted in bold relief ensme that a standard operating manual is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES developed and maintained which sets forth in many areas of the cities. He often involved the procedures that shall be followed by of­ Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 his students and residents of the communities ficers and employees of the Government Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, in order for our in his art, both as subjects and as collabora­ with respect to the issuance of licenses under this section. Such procedures shall in­ educational institutions to progress and face tors. He was a noted teacher, and generally clude the following: the demands of tomorrow, it is necessary to an inspiration to all who either had personal " Background checks on all applicants focus on the work of our teachers. Our teach­ contact with him, or who had the distinct for an export license, before the license is ers, who are our educators and essential com­ pleasure of viewing his work. approved. ponents of our educational system, need to A chronicler of Zala's life once noted that "(B) End-use checks on all applications be recognized. To assist in this effort, I have Camus once said that "an artist's life is a for an export license, before the license is initiated the Fifth Congressional District search for a way back to a few simple truths approved. Teacher Bonus Award Program. In the past, "(C) Verification of delivery of the export­ he knew in the beginning". Such was Zala's ed items to the person and place indicated this program has attracted many distinguished life, and in searching for a rediscovery of on the license application. participants from throughout my congressional those simple truths, he strengthened the district. In addition, the President shall ensure that bonds between Mexico and the Hispanic com­ I am pleased to announce that the following an updated list of all persons ineligible to be munity, and immeasurably enriched the capac­ teachers have been selected as the 1987 issued export licenses under this section is ity of all members of our community for a maintained. Any person applying for an Teacher Bonus Award winners and have re­ export license under this section shall be re­ ceived commemorative plaques and $50 sav­ greater brotherhood and understanding of the quired to report with the application all ings bonds in honor of their selection: Sister common threads of our fragile humanity. commissions and fees being charged, direct­ Helen Therese Salus, St. Joseph Elementary While the community will sorely miss the pres­ ly of indirectly, by any person in connection School; Sister Francis Menarik, St. Odilo Ele­ ence and inspiration of Zala, we are thankful with the export transaction, including any mentary School; Sister Kathleen Ryan, Bridge­ that his works will continue to inspire us into intermediary.". the indefinite future. (b) PERSONS INELIGIBLE FOR LICENSES.­ port Catholic Academy; Ms. Janet Ahern, Section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act Mark Twain Elementary; Mr. Keith A. Bucher, is amended by inserting after subsection Industrial Skill Center; Ms. Mary Ann Bor­ the following: oczky, Five Holy Martyrs Elementary School; 16312 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 THE EXILE OF BISHOP local, republic, and union authorities, but The California almond industry has lost mil­ STEPANOVICIUS these appeals have not been acted upon. lions of dollars annually in unrealized sales to At this time, when all areas of life are ex­ the Indian market and will continue to do so periencing a fundamental restructuring, the HON. STENY H. HOYER political expression of which is the release until open general licensing is restored and duties are reduced to fair and reasonable OF MARYLAND of many persons who had been previously sentenced to various terms of incarceration, levels. We in Congress applaud the adminis­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and the granting of permission to Academic tration for challenging these practices under Tuesday, June 16, 1987 A.D. Sakharov to return to Moscow, from section 301. The Indian Government should where he had been banished without trial, be on notice that Congress will not permit a Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, all of us in this in the same manner as our Bishop, we, the body and throughout the free world were protracted GATT process in ths case. If a believers of Lithuania, appeal to you, and timely resolution is not achieved, Congress heartened by the news in December 1986 that relying on your good will, believe that the Dr. Andrei Sakharov and his wife Dr. Elena injustice accorded to Bishop Stepanovicius will insist that the President exercise his retali­ Bonner had been allowed to return to Moscow will also be corrected, and he will be able to atory rights. We are already looking at cash­ from their exile in the Soviet city of Gorky. return unhindered to his duties as adminis­ ews as an ideal candidate for retaliation. The Such news tends to overshadow the fact that trator of the Vilnius Diocese entrusted to Indian Government can best ensure continued thousands of others have suffered and contin­ him. free access to the U.S. market for cashews if A collection of signatures on this issue is ue to suffer today similar fates that Drs. Sak­ reciprocal treatment is extended to U.S. al­ presently being conducted in Lithuania. monds in the Indian market. harov and Bonner suffered in exile. For in­ We also request you, Comrade General stance, there is a bishop of the Lithuanian Procuror, to examine this issue as part of a Catholic Church who was forcibly removed review of observation of legality and con­ FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND from his diocese of Vilnius in 1961, and, like formity with the Constitution of the Dr. Sakharov, was exiled to the Lithuanian U.S.S.R. FOREIGN POLICY town of Zagare without a pretense of legal Our address: Lithuanian SSR, 234316 procedure. He remains in Zagare to this day. Kaunas Raion, Village of Garlyava, 11 Paz­ hangos Street, Kyalpshas, Saulyus, HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO In 1961, Bishop Julionas Stepanovicius was Yuozas Kazalupskas, Saulyus Kyalpshas, OF CALIFORNIA the apostolic administrator of the Vilnius and Laimute Truskauskaite, Aldona Raizhite, Panevezys Dioceses of Lithuania, when, by a Gintas Sakavichyus, Alfonsas Bumbulis, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES decision of the Lithuanian SSR Council of Pyatras Grazhulis, Vitas Rinkyavichus, Tuesday, June 16, 1987 Ministers, he was removed from his diocesan Arunas Rekashyus, Domininkas Chyapas, Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, my col­ post in Vilnius and exiled to the town of Salomeya Menkyavichyute, Tsidzikas Pya­ league and good friend from Oklahoma, Mr. Zagare. Bishop Stepanovicius had been re­ tras. EDWARDS, who is a member of the Appropria­ sisting efforts by local authorities to interfere tions Committee, recently spoke at the Herit­ in the internal affairs of the church. He re­ IF INDIAN TRADE LIBERALIZA­ age Foundation's Center for International Eco­ fused to carry out authorities' demands that TION ON ALMONDS IS NOT nomic Growth. His topic was "Foreign Assist­ he prohibit priests from teaching religion to FORTHCOMING, RETALIATION ance and Foreign Policy." children. Nor would he submit to governmen­ WILL BE NECESSARY Congressman EDWARDS analyzes the types tal interference in the selection of seminary of foreign assistance going to more than 100 students and consecration of new priests, or HON. ROBERT T. MATSUI nations around the world, not all of whom attempts to direct the appointment and trans­ OF CALIFORNIA could be considered friends and allies of the fer of priests within his diocese. Bishop Ste­ United States. His perspective on the reasons panovicius resisted those who were attempt­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for giving foreign aid and, more importantly, ing to subvert the Roman Catholic Church in Tuesday, June 16, 1987 his suggestions for improving our foreign as­ Lithuania for political purposes. Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, in 1981, the sistance program merit the attention of every Although the legal code of the Lithuanian Indian Government revoked its policy of open Member of the House. SSR provides that terms of internal exile may general licensing on almond imports and re­ I urge my colleagues to consider carefully not exceed 5 years, Bishop Stepanovicius' turned to a system of severely restrictive Congressman EDWARDs' thought-provoking exile has lasted over 25 years. The Commis­ import quotas and tariffs. Since that time, the analysis. sion continues to decry religious presecution. California almond industry and the U.S. Gov­ It speaks for those of all faiths and for all ernment have made an endless number of un­ FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND FOREIGN POLICY whose voice has been rendered quiet by successful attempts to gain fair access to the (By Representative Mickey Edwards) years of imprisonment, torture, and isolation. Indian market. With no other avenues avail­ Neither Fiji nor Botswana faces a serious The Commission calls upon the Soviet Gov­ able, the almond industry along with the U.S. military threat, either from internal opposi­ ernment to allow Bishop Stepanovicius his Government were compelled to launch a sec­ tion or from superior external forces. Nei­ freedom of movement, freedom of thought, re­ ther is central to our defense planning. Yet tion 301 investigation against India's prohibi­ both received military aid from the United ligious belief and association. tive and illegal licensing and tariff barriers. In March of this year, 12 Lithuanian Catho­ States last year. And so did 100 other coun­ India's tariffs on almonds are the highest in tries. lics petitioned General Secretary Gorbachev the world and continue to become progres­ Countries that repress and murder their to allow Bishop Stepanovicius to return from sively more restrictive. The tariff on shelled al­ citizens get U.S. aid to help keep their re­ exile to his diocese in Vilnius. At this time, I monds has an ad valorem equivalent of ap­ pressive governments in power. would like to submit for the RECORD the text proximately 216 percent. lnshell almonds are Countries that oppose U.S. foreign policy of this petition, which has been received and assessed at the equivalent of 128 percent. At consistently and vocally receive U.S. foreign translated by the Commission on Security and aid. these levels, the tariffs act as a virtual ban on Countries that cannot meet their debt Cooperation, of which I am pleased to serve market access. as chairman: payments and refuse to meet the terins of To ensure a closed market, the Indians loans they have already been given receive, STATEMENT have complemented their tariff structure with a through third parties, still more U.S. money Dear Comrade General Secretary! It is 25 licensing scheme, under which importers are in the form of still more loans. years now since the Bishop of Vilnius, Ju­ entitled to buy only a specified fraction of his­ In the southwestern United States, feder­ lionas Stepanovicius, has not been permit­ torical purchases. The practice cannot be jus­ al regulators are closing dozens of banks ted to administer the Vilnius Diocese en­ tified under GATT law. The Indian Govern­ which make loans that contain any degree trusted to him. In violation of all the exist­ of risk, but the United States continues to ing statutes of the Soviet Union, he was ment also allows small importers to sell their pump billions of dollars into international banished without trial from his diocese to licensing permits to larger importers for a pre­ banks which then loan that money to for­ the town of Zagare. mium price-a practice that violates India's eign governments which are in such bad fi­ Lithuanian priests and believers have fre­ own domestic law and intensifies the price­ nancial shape that, if a loan were offered to quently raised this issue with a number of distortive effects of the licensing system. an American citizen in the same kind of fi- June 16, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16313 nancial shape, the loan officer would be tions of places such as India. . and whether you Working against U.S. Interests. There is our foreign aid program last year which consider it blackmail or merely the advan­ an interesting argument that goes like this: either did not benefit the United States or tage held by the seller in a seller's market, the United States ought to contribute heavi­ benefited nations hostile to our interests. As the United States at times provides substan­ ly to international organizations such as the a member of both the Appropriations and tially more than the rental price to "reas­ World Bank, rather than concentrating ex­ Budget Committees in the House of Repre­ sure" these host nations that we are clusively on its own foreign aid agencies, be­ sentatives-one of only four members to "friends" with whom they will want to con­ cause there is a multiplier effect: in other serve on both committees-! am acutely tinue doing business at the expiration of the words, for every dollar it puts in, 10, or 20, aware of the difficulties we are having in current agreements. or 60 additional dollars are spent, because of trying to deal with a federal deficit that Third, there are countries which neither the pooling of the resources from various threatens to drown the American economy provide basing nor play an important role in countries around the world. That is all very and of the severity with which federal pro­ our defense calculations but which in the true, but it is absurd logic. If a nation is hos­ grams in health care, education, and hous­ hands of forces friendly to the Soviet tile to the interests of the United States and ing are being affected by the frantic scram­ Union, could provide a fairly substantial we would not, or should not, want to give a ble to find places to cut federal spending. threat to our security and which, therefore, nation even a single dollar of the taxpayer's And if we assume we wasted $4 billion on must be supported against either aggression money, why should we be pleased to learn foreign aid, think how much education or or armed overthrow by forces supportive of that instead of getting one dollar they will defense we could have bought with that which are most the PL-480 program, which sends U.S. grain something like $1 into these international critical. Proposed expenditures should be overseas to help feed the starving popula- or multilateral agencies in order to get $.30 held up to this measurement not only in 16314 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 terms of how much each proposed benefici­ ALPINE TOWNSHIP CELEBRATES ance between urban and rural and maintain a ary shall receive, but whether the benefici­ FOUNDING quality of life that is appropriate and desired ary shall receive anything at all. (2) We should limit military assistance, for all. and we should particularly limit military as­ HON. PAUL B. HENRY Please join me, Mr. Speaker, in offering sistance to nondemocratic nations. We often OF MICHIGAN congratulations and best wishes to the resi­ hear arguments that security assistance is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dents of Alpine Township as the community needed to demonstrate American support Tuesday, June 16, 1987 steps back in history to observe the town­ for countries with which we want military ship's first settlers making their way into the Mr. HENRY. Mr. Speaker, Alpine Charter cooperation, usually in terms of access to township 140 years ago, while at the same military bases. But our security needs are Township, located in the rolling hills just north time gathering together to celebrate their not always fulfilled when it is necessary to of Grand Rapids, Ml, will celebrate its 140th purchase the cooperation of strategically birthday on the weekend of July 17 to 19, hopes and dreams for the future. important nations. I do not believe we have 1987. The celebration will include a reenact­ the obligation to treat U.S. aid devoted to ment of the first settlers, Solomon Wright, his STRENGTHENING U.S. EMBASSY any security objective as compensation on wife, and five sons, coming to the future an indefinite basis. One of the problems SECURITY when we do is that, when locally supported Alpine Township. Attracted by the large insurgencies develop, we often view the stands of pine trees in the area, the Wrights threat to our "allies" as a requirement to came to Michigan from New York in 1837. HON. RICHARD H. BAKER The family first lived in a log house until the provide them with more arms-when those OF LOUISIANA are used against their own citizens resisting present fine colonial home was erected. At government policies which we ourselves con­ that time, the area was known as North IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES demn. If we want to look at our long-term Walker Township and was renamed Alpine Tuesday, June 16, 1987 interests, supporting nonsupportable gov­ Township in 1847. Now, 140 years later, the ernments is not a reasonable foreign policy track which Solomon Wright's covered wagon Mr. BAKER. Mr. Speaker, in last Thursday's response. cut through the wilderness country is a heavily RECORD, I included an amendment to H.R. (3) It should be a standard rule-of-thumb traveled road, the pine forest is a golf course 1777, the State Department authorization bill that U.S. foreign assistance participation which would limit the tour of duty for Marines will be exclusively in the form of bilateral owned by an ancestor of the Wright/Wilson aid unless changes can be made in the inter­ family, and the gracious colonial is still used serving Embassy guard duty in Communist nal structures of multilateral organizations by descendants of Solomon Wright. countries to 6 months, except for the com­ to permit effective use of U.S. vetoes or In 1840, two more settlers came to the mander of the guard. If this amendment had other means of ensuring that the money township from Ohio and settled in the western been policy, the recent Marine guard incident contributed by American taxpayers does not edge of the township. Their farms were con­ at the Moscow Embassy would not have oc­ go to work against our own national inter­ sidered "the jumping off place" to the wilder­ curred. ests. ness to the north, since in 1840 there was re­ Sergeant Lonetree did not meet the KGB (4) No-interest or low-interest loans should go only to the neediest of nations portedly no other settlements between their agent Violetta Sauna until his 11th month on that fit these criteria for U.S. assistance. houses and the Straits of Mackinac. station in Moscow. At present, the Marines IDA loans now go to credit worthy and un­ By 1847, Mr. Speaker, there were enough serving embassy duty in Communist countries friendly nations. Almost 40 percent of IDA settlers in the area that they decided to form are put into a position where they are far from VII credits will go to India and China. An­ their own township. At the first meeting, the family and friends for a year and are not al­ other third goes to African nations, many of name "Alpine" was selected. This was a lowed to fraternize with the locals. which vote with us from 5 to 15 percent of shortened version of "All Pine" in reference to The State Department and the Marine the time in the U.N. and receive substantial the large stands of pine trees that existed in Corps, while they have taken steps to prevent Soviet bloc assistance. that day. Edward Wheeler was elected the When it first began receiving zero-interest this situation from reoccurring, have not gone IDA loans, The PRC was among the world's first supervisor. far enough. Their plan reduces the tour of top seven foreign currency holders. It Today, those pine trees have been replaced duty from 15 to 12 months. Thus, Sergeant bought large amounts of foreign bonds and by apple trees planted on the rolling hills and Lonetree, under their program, would still have invested heavily in foreign development slopes of the farmland that makes up the been in Moscow opening doors for the Sovi­ projects. The PRC was a net creditor, lend­ greater part of Alpine Township. Alpine Town­ ets. Despite the previous policy limiting duty to ing more to the world than it borrowed. It ship farmland is unique, Mr. Speaker, because 15 months, Sergeant Lonetree was allowed to makes no sense to have IDA grant zero-in­ of the slopes and its proximity to Lake Michi­ terest loan to the PRC, which turns around serve 19 months in Moscow. gan making it a center for the apple industry My office has discussed this legislation with and provides credit to other countries at in Michigan. The largest concentration of pri­ market interest rates. State Department Security Officers and Ma­ India also has ready access to commercial vately owned storages in the world are in rines who have served embassy guard duty. credit. It has the tenth largest GNP in the Alpine and its neighboring northwest town­ From this, I have concluded that limiting the world and a low debt-service ratio. Part of ships. The first on farm air-cooled storage was tour to 6 months is a needed step in improv­ the reason India has a good credit rating is built by Henry Kraft in 1914 and was the fore­ ing embassy security. that it has shunned borrowing in private runner for the controlled atmosphere storage It takes time for the KGB to recruit and train capital markets in favor of concessional used today. Dairy and vegetable farming also an individual. This legislation will cut down multilateral aid. What is more, India has comprise a major portion of the agricultural in­ substantially the time with which the KGB has been a leader in the Third World of distinct­ dustry in the area. ly anti-American policies. Chartered in 1979, Alpine Township, in to work. In addition, if a recruitment is made, it <5> Foreign governments should not find 1987, has an approximate population of 9,500 will reduce the amount of time that the Marine our own government more generous than can jeopardize embassy security. Americans do. Disaster relief for people in and its State equalization valuation has risen to $100 million. The Westgate residential area To expect the young Marines to not frater­ San Salvador should not be more compre­ nize is foolhardy. We can not base the securi­ hensive than that offered to people in Okla­ of 750 homes was developed in the early homa or New Jersey, and we should not for­ 1960's and is unique because of the curving ty of our intelligence operations on this hope­ give contractual obligations incurred by the streets and trees left by the developer. The ful assumption. Peruvian government if we are not willing residential, M-37 commercial area and the I urge my colleagues to support this amend­ to do the same for a businessman in Phila­ gradually growing industrial areas of Alpine, in ment which will improve the security of our delphia. addition to the agricultural industry, are all im­ embassies. The text of the amendment fol­ Given these starting points, it is possible lows: to develop a new foreign assistance ap­ portant segments of the township. proach that will both meet our national Today, Alpine Township is committed to AN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 1777, AS REPORTED, needs and win increased public support. But preserving the agricultural industry and natural OFFERED BY MR. BAKER OF LoUISIANA without such changes, that support will be greenbelt it provides to the more populated Page 27, after line 13, insert the following neither forthcoming nor deserved. areas. It seeks to preserve the delicate bal- section: June 16, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16315 SEC. 137. LIMITATION ON CERTAIN SERVICE IN THE COACH EDWARD TATARIAN ON round of the P.S.A.L. playoffs Tuesday in UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS SECU­ THE OCCASION OF HIS RE­ Bayside, are favorites to win the city title. RITY GUARD PROGRAM. TIREMENT Tatarian, 51 years old, has also announced (a) LIMITATION.-Except as provided in that this will be his last season as Cardozo's paragraph (b), no individual may perform coach. guard functions at United States diplomatic HON. JAMES H. SCHEUER "It's been a season I'll never forget," he or consular posts in any Communist country OF NEW YORK said before Tuesday's game. "We've had for an aggregate period of more than 180 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES scouts at all our games. It could've caused days. Tuesday, June 16, 1987 problems but it hasn't. Once a scout wanted (b) ExcEPTION.-The limitation under sub­ to get a look at Dean playing third. What section shall not apply to any command­ Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, during a time was I going to do, sit a star third baseman to er of a Marine Corps security detachment at in our Nation's history in which our youth showcase my boy? No way. We're out here any United States diplomatic or consular wander through a growing-up process ladened to win the city championship." post in a Communist country. with more mines than ever before, we should No one can accuse the coach of nepotism. (C) DEFINITION.-As used in this section, recognize those men and women who provide When Dean was a freshman, Tatarian called the term "Communist country" means a models of leadership to this troubled genera­ a team vote before starting him at shortstop country listed in section 620(f) of the For­ tion. Such a model is Coach Edward Tatarian in the first game of the season. He did the eign Assistance Act of 1961. of Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in the same before inserting him in the lead-off (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.-This section shall Oakland Gardens section of the Borough of spot in the batting order. take effect 180 days after the date of enact­ Queens in New York City. "I would never take such precautions for ment of this Act. Coach Tatarian has had a long, distin­ another player," the coach said, "but you guished, and successful career of bringing out know every father thinks his own son is the the best in New York's young people through best on the team. So in the beginning I had NITTANY KNIGHTS to double-check." BARBERSHOP CHORUS baseball. His teams have won 17 division titles, advancing to the city championship SCHOLARSHIP IS OFFERED round 5 times. He was named Coach of the Dean, a senior, has been offered a scholar­ HON. WILUAM F. CLINGER, JR. Year in 1987 by Newsday in recognition of his ship to play baseball at the University of Miami, but he is waiting to see what next OF PENNSYLVANIA admirable record of over 25 years at Cardozo and Franklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn. week's major league draft has to offer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Those whose lives were touched by Coach before deciding whether college will be his next step. Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 T atarian will tell you his effect on them is measured by more than wins and losses, balls "Everybody's got a different idea about Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, throughout the what I should do next year," said the and strikes, or 60 feet 6 inches. He stressed history of this Nation, music has been a spe­ youngest Tatarian, who has hit over .400 in not only success for the team on the field, but cial part of our culture, serving both to enter­ each of his four seasons as a varsity starter. also success for the individual off the field. "I say that no matter what happens it tain our people and to define our character. Fundamentals were essential parts of the T a­ The development of great musical forms such should be great." tarian tutorial; the best educated, the best pre­ A free college education and baseball in as jazz and the blues have told the world that pared, the best disciplined was the team on Miami or professional baseball and a big we are unique and that our heritage is a rich the top. check is not a bad choice for an 18-year-old one. I wish to present a recent article from the to have. While many types of American music have New York Times on Coach Edward T atarian. "I just want him to get what he wants," become internationally renowned, others I'm sure my colleagues will take note of this the father said. "He's smart. He won't end remain in the United States and are treasured extraordinary man and his career. up a baseball bum. He'll do what's right. by our people. Barbershop quartets and cho­ FATHER AND SON AIM AT TITLE He's worked very hard to be a baseball ruses produce just that type of music: wholly player, so if college has to wait, it will." "There was a man on second, and the ball Of course, the roles of father and coach American, entertaining, and sure to bring a was hit up the middle. It bounced funny off often intersect. Tatarian has always worked the mound, and by the time Dean fielded it, smile to a child's or an adult's face. his son hard and has never hesitated to In my congressional district, we are privi­ there's no play at first," Ed Tatarian ex­ plained; "So I say to the guy next to me show disappointment. The two used to have leged to have a group of dedicated musicians 'watch third.' Boom, Dean spins and nails a problem with bringing the afternoon's who have been delighting the young and old the guy at third, who'd taken too big a turn. game or practice home to the dinner table. for the past 25 years. The Nittany Knights "I always taught him to watch the aggres­ But a deal was struck a couple of years Barbershop Chorus brings out the best in the sive runner because sometimes he may get ago: They would not talk about baseball for audiences they entertain and they deserve a too aggressive." one whole hour after getting home. Dinners sincere congratulations on their silver anniver­ Tatarian, who was describing a play made have become a lot more relaxing at the Ta­ by his son last week, had waited a long time tarian home. sary. for this. "It's a much better situation now," Dean Recently the Nittany Knights held an Old Tatarian, who once was good enough to said. Timers Night that brought together old and have a tryout with the Mets, always wanted Dean wants the championship, but he new members of the chorus along with their a son he could help become a better ball­ can't want if half as badly as his father, spouses and friends. Included in this group player than he had been. After Tatarian who has been trying for 20 years. The were six members who helped found the and his wife, Stella, first had two daughters P.S.A.L. championship that can look so big and then a son, Drew, who lost interest in to a 51-year-old coach, or say, a 17-year-old group in 1962; Elton Atwater, Bob Avey, Ken playing baseball as a high school sopho­ Reagle, Fred Thompson, Clarence Trotter, junior, might suddenly lose magnitude in more, Dean Tatarian became his father's the eyes of an 18-year-old senior who is de­ and Ray Williams deserve special accolades last hope. bating whether or not to accept a Miami for their devotion to preserving our musical COACH SINCE 19 6 7 scholarship or begin a professional career. heritage and for helping to create such a fine Ed Tatarian has been the only baseball But the 6-foot-2-inch, 186 pound shortshop chorus. coach at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School insists Cardozo is all he is concerned with I applaud the Nittany Knights Barbershop since the school opened in Bayside, Queens, now. Chorus and would like to tender best wishes in 1967. Although he has guided the Judges "I've always wanted to do well for myself, to 17 division titles and to the Public School but now I really want to do well for my to them for continued success through the Athletic League championship game four next 25 years. father," said Dean. "He's taught me so times, he has never won a city title. much-my sisters know more baseball than Now, all at once, Tatarian is in the midst most guys I know-I'd like to give some­ of realizing two dreams. Dean, a shortstop thing back." at Cardozo, is one of the best players in the city, and the Judges, with a 23-2 record after beating Aviation, 20-6, in the first 16316 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 THE CHARADE OF GLASNOST: grams from two other U.S. overseas broad­ ables, cash receipts, payroll data, and employ­ SOVIETS INCREASE JAMMING casting services. ee records. OF RADIO FREE EUROPE AND English-language broadcasts by VOA, the Ms. Hill has been an outstanding employee British Broadcasting Corp. and other for­ RADIO LIBERTY eign information services have generally and a role model for all of her fellow workers been let alone. For years, however, the at WYTV. Her hard work and long hours have HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD Soviet government has carried on a massive, helped to make WYTV one of the best televi­ OF MICHIGAN off-and-on effort to blot out foreign broad­ sion stations in the Youngstown area. Thus, it casts in the major languages spoken by the is with pleasure and special thanks that I join IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Soviet Union's diverse ethnic groups. This the people of the 17th Congressional District Tuesday, June 16, 1987 despite the Soviet Union's signature on the in recognizing the outstanding accomplish­ 1975 Helsinki accord which banned such in­ ments and very admirable character of Ms. Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I want to terference. share with my colleagues both good and bad British experts estimate that jamming Dorothy M. Hill. news about the Soviet Union. The good news costs Moscow $1.2 billion a year-more than is that the broadcasts of the Voice of America all Western governments combined spend to beamed into the Soviet Union are no longer broadcast the programs in the first place. AVOIDING THE NEXT being jammed. The bad news is that the When jamming eases in one direction, it is INSURANCE CRISIS Soviet jammers previously directed at Voice of usually intensified in another. For example, when jamming of the BBC stopped last Jan­ America transmissions have been redirected uary, the transmitters previously used for HON. JAMES J. FLORIO against Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that purpose were redirected at Deutsche OF NEW JERSEY Broadcasts to that country. This is yet another Welle, the West German version of VOA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES example of the charade of glasnost, the new and the U.S.-run Radio Liberty. Soviet openness. Why did Mr. Gorbachev fail That pattern is being repeated. Two jam­ Tuesday, June 16, 1987 to provide the world with a demonstration of ming transmitters previously targeted on Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I am inserting in glasnost by ceasing all jamming of foreign the Voice were quickly put to work intensi­ the RECORD a perceptive article from Busi­ broadcasts? Regardless of what Mr. Gorba­ fying the jamming of Radio Liberty and ness Week on the lessons from the recent li­ Radio Free Europe, which specialize in chev may say about remaking Soviet society, broadcasting news of developments within ability insurance crisis. The article points out the Kremlin still fears uncensored news from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the role in the crisis of industry financial prac­ outside that police state. For all intents and competition with the controlled Soviet tices and observes that the crisis has abated purposes, business goes on as usual in that media. without help from an overhaul of the Nation's closed and paranoid society. There is no question that under Gorba­ civil justice system. The article suggests that a Why did the Soviets decide to increase their chev's policy of glasnost, or greater open­ recurrence of the crisis may be less likely be­ jamming of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty? ness, the Soviet people are being allowed cause State insurance commissioners and Unlike the Voice of America and the British greater though still limited access to infor­ Congress are considering stronger industry mation that is at odds with the party line. Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Free Maybe, in time, jamming of RL and RFE regulation to prevent another wild cycle. Europe/Radio Liberty concentrate on internal will be halted, too. As of now, however, the Mr. Speaker, on July 1, the Subcommittee news within the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe. definition of news that can be entrusted to on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Soviet leaders have never accepted Radio Soviet citizens will continue to be made Competitiveness will hold a hearing at which Free Europe/Radio Liberty's unique mission solely by the Kremlin. State insurance commissioners will testify on as a surrogate radio station which provides this very question-whether the States have Soviet citizens and Eastern Europeans with taken adequate steps to prevent further crisis balanced news about events in their own A TRIBUTE TO MS. DOROTHY M. or whether congressional action is necessary. countries. HILL The article follows: Soviet jamming of Radio Free Europe/ [From Business Week, May 25, 19871 Radio Liberty is in direct contravention of sev­ HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. THE CRISIS IS OVER-BUT INSURANCE WILL eral treaties to which the U.S.S.R. is a signa­ OF OHIO NEVER BE THE SAME tory and a violation of international law. Those IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Films, "vestiges," says California Insurance Com­ JAMMING ELSEWHERE she joined what was then WKST-TV as a traf­ missioner Roxani M. Gillespie. Except for a For the first time since 1980, the Soviet fic manager and executive secretary. She then few high-risk sectors such as ski lifts and Union has stopped jamming Voice of Amer­ diligently clawed her way up to becoming medical malpractice, few would-be buyers of ica broadcasts in Russian and eight other office manager and bookkeeper. When the coverage are having to "go naked," and pre­ Soviet languages. It's a welcome move. Un­ station became WYTV in 1965, she began a mium prices are starting to come back fortunately, however, what the Kremlin of­ down. fered with one hand it took away with the long career as accounting/office manager. For This doesn't mean that "the crisis" can be other. Two jamming transmitters previously over 20 years, Ms. Hill has admirably super­ forgotten. On the surface it would appear to used against the Voice are now being em­ vised all accounting functions, including such be merely part of a "normal" insurance ployed in intensified efforts to jam pro- diverse areas as A/C payables, A/C receiv- cycle: When premiums and profits are high, June 16, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16317 the business attracts more entrants, who prevention." To help cut accidents, he says, of premium income, have failed already. crowd in by slashing rates-until the finan­ Warwick is having police cars stick to regu­ And more of the smaller, poorly capitalized cially weaker ones drop out, coverage be­ lar speed limits unless they're rushing to a ones are expected to go under in the next comes scarce, and premiums climb again. life-threatening emergency. few years as claims pile up. When that hap­ But calling the recent travail a "normal" in­ PRICE BATTLES pens, the original insurers get stuck, so surance cycle is like calling the Great De­ As more erstwhile clients are learning to they'll want to go slow on premium cuts. pression an ordinary business cycle. live without them, insurers are trying to Also, state insurance commissioners and LOSS PREVENTION woo them back. With the industry enjoying Congress are considering stronger industry As the decade began, insurers were under­ record profits in 1986, competition is heat­ regulation to prevent another wild cycle. pricing their products to collect premiums ing up . Sighs Michael G. Fitt, presi­ HORROR STORIES to invest at then-high interest rates. But dent of Employers Reinsurance Corp., a Nevertheless, there's certain to be another rates fell just as losses from carelessly writ­ General Electric Co. unit: "We have two insurance shortage. And next time around, ten policies hit home, and huge asbestos problems in our business: short memory and insurers are likely to be hard-pressed for ex­ cases loomed. By late 1984, insurers started we can't stand prosperity." cuses when they play the Blame Game. a panicky retreat from their ruinous price Insurance companies are offering custom­ During the 1986 crisis, the industry em­ war. When insurance is scarce, "the system ers better policy terms. And after last year's barked on a splashy public relations cam­ can make all kinds of demands" on insur­ huge rate increases, prices have not only paign proclaiming that the "insurance ance customers, observes one broker. It did. leveled off but are definitely heading lower, crisis" was really a "lawsuit crisis." Some Insurers jacked prices sharply higher. That says Michael P. Dinstein, vice-president at three dozen states did make minor changes began attracting more capital, the seed insurance broker Fred. S. James & Co. Says in the law. But the insurance crisis has needed to increase the basic insurance crop. Fitt of Employers Reinsurance: "There are abated without help from an overhaul of "When capacity is there, it will find a a number of major companies out there the nation's civil justice system. home," adds the broker. So plain vanilla starting to cut rates." Cool analysis is discrediting last year's supply-and-demand largely explains the rise The price battles are fiercest over proper­ horror stories about an epidemic of multi­ and fall of the insurance crisis. ty insurance, mainly because insurers got million-dollar jury awards for relatively 1986 Still, it's becoming clear that last year's through without paying for any mas­ little cause. In a sample of 359 cases in the crunch is altering the insurance world-per­ sive natural disasters. Casualty competition 1982-85 period, mostly involving product li­ haps permanently. More customers are is getting strong in most lines of business. ability, punitive damages were "insignifi­ taking matters into their own hands. Before Global Marine Inc., partly because it is doing less offshore drilling, saw its liability cant," according to a study published by the the crisis, such "self-insurance" totaled no American Enterprise Institute. "The civil more than 25% of the market. Now, it's rates drop 15% to 20% when it renewed its litigation system is stable," says Mark Peter­ about 33% and growing. "We've learned our policy in February, says insurance manager lesson," declares Norman B. Chanzis, risk­ James R. Frazier. son of the Rand Institute for Civil Justice. management director at American Standard Nonetheless, "problem areas still exist," Only in mass toxic tort cases, notably those Inc. Insurers are "smug in their assumption says Robert Clements, president of insur­ involving asbestos, is potentialy enormous cost a real concern. that we'll all come back. I don't intend to." ance broker Marsh & McLennan Inc. Few Many risk managers are emulating the ap­ insurers are willing to do business with ski Even insurance executives are finding it proach of Hardee's Food Systems Inc. The areas. Hidden Valley Resort Community & harder to pass on the blame. "If we were an chain pays for losses of up to $2 million Conference Center in the mountains of electric company delivering voltage and itself "and just buys insurance against ca­ western Pennsylvania expects to pay an ad­ went from 110 to 220 to 400 to 0, we'd have tastrophe," says risk manager Susan M. ditional 20% premium increase this year­ blown all our customers' applicances," ex­ Werner. The key: "We have a good loss-pre­ after last year's liability premium jumped claims McCormick of Fireman's Fund. vention program." Helping make the big de­ from $50,000 to $165,000. For some high-risk "They'd go to another electric company or ductible practical are measures such as in­ lines of insurance, such as pollution policies get their own generators." That's happening stalling nonskid floors to minimize falls. for chemical companies and malpractice in­ now. The legacy of the insurance crisis is Other companies took more elaborate surance for doctors, finding coverage is still that insurance is becoming everybody's busi­ steps. Du Pont Co. invested $20 million to tough. ness. help create two companies that now insure Yet even some of these markets could im­ it and some 550 others against catastrophic prove. St. Paul Cos., the biggest underwriter losses. Not all the clients will buy all their of medical malpractice insurance in the TRIBUTE TO JUNE H. GABLE coverge from the two, ACE Insurance Co. country, still has a moratorium on new mal­ and XL Insurance Co. But they serve as a practice policies. However, because physi­ HON. ROBERT T. MATSUI source of stable capacity in the high-risk cian claims and paid-out losses rose only end of the business. slightly in 1986, Timothy R. Morse, a senior OF CALIFORNIA Control Data Corp., one of many compa­ officer in St. Paul's medical services unit, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nies to have lost liability coverage for its of­ says there's "some cause for optimism." ficers and directors, joined last year with 50 Pollution, toxic waste, and chemical expo­ Tuesday, June 16, 1987 other companies to form Corporate Officers sures will take longer. Insurers still worry Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, it is with great & Directors Assurance. Partly in response, that "there is the potential for catastrophic pleasure that I rise today to offer my congratu­ at least 10 regular insurance companies are loss," says Du Pont's insurance manager, lations to a distinguished public servant, Ms. actively competing again to sell such poli­ James A. Mitchell, Jr. Insurers recoiled June H. Gable, upon her retirment from the cies. from the potential liability from asbestosis To the alarm of local officials, countless claims, and they aren't about to step back Sacramento City Unified School District. cities were forced to find insurance alterna­ in. The potential losses in such cases may be Ms. Gable's career has been an extremely tives. Warwick, R.I., for instance, started so huge as to be uninsurable-or only partly distinguished one. Following her graduation pooling funds with other cities in the state insurable. Most of Corporate America is from the University of Minnesota in 1942, for to create an insurance "trust" offering li­ willing to take the risk. Du Pont, for exam­ which she was honored with a summa cum ability coverage for municipal services. ple, insists that last year's "crisis" didn't laude degree, Ms. Gable continued on to earn Dallas is considering a similar arrangement cause it to stop any product launches. her master's degree in 1945. After she com­ in Texas. "We know with a 100% certainty With more customers bearing their own pleted her degree, Ms. Gable continued in the that we'll have to go through another risks, through pooling or other arrange­ cycle," says Mark Ferraro, the city's risk ments, the industry's market has shrunk. field of education, teaching in Iowa, and later, manager. "We want a guarantee that there That spells trouble. In a fight for slices of a in Sacramento, CA. Throughout her career, will be some capacity." smaller pie, insurers may well slash prices Ms. Gable has been a strong advocate of sex Ferraro's attitude is typical of a new credo too low, setting off another severe cycle. As equity in education. As project manager for among corporate chieftains and political Chairman William McCormick of Fireman's title IX compliance in the Sacramento City leaders: Protection against many risks is too Fund Insurance Co. Says, property /casualty Unified School District, as a leader of numer­ important to be left to traditional insurance insurance is "like aluminum. Every time ous seminars and projects related to the role companies. Those that do return to them supply and demand shifts, the prices go way will be armed with a greater sensitivity to up or down." of women in education, and as a consultant to risk. In a widely echoed observation, War­ Insurers' ability to engage in suicidal price the State of California Department of Educa­ wick Mayor Francis X. Flaherty notes: behavior will be slightly tempered, though. tion, to name just a few of her accomplish­ "Now that we are dealing with our own A number of reinsurance companies, which ments, Ms. Gable has worked diligently to in­ money, [we realize] the key to success is loss backstop insurers in exchange for a portion crease our understanding of the educational 16318 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 process, and has been a champion of the in­ proposal that the Security Council take "ef­ THE CENTRAL AMERICAN creasing stature of women in the field of edu­ fective measures" against either of the two NEGOTIATIONS COMMISSION cation. I know that Ms. Gable has a great deal warring nations that failed to comply with to be proud of, and I am confident that she the U.N. demand. will be sorely missed by her many friends and Among the "effective measures" Secretary HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL Shultz has in mind is a mandatory arms em­ OF ILLINOIS colleagues in the school district. bargo against either nation that persists in Mr. Speaker, it is not possible to adequately fighting. If the ban is vetoed in the Security IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thank Ms. June Gable for all that she has Council, but "effective measures" remain in Tuesday, June 16, 1987 done for the Sacramento community, but I be­ an adopted resolution, it would give the U.S. lieve that I speak for all the people of this and other allies a free hand to impose a ban Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, I have received a community when I offer my sincere thanks, of their own. letter from Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and my best wishes for a well-deserved and In response to President Reagan's appeal and Dr. Ira Gallaway dated June 4, 1987, con­ enjoyable retirement to this distinguished for stronger action to deter terrorism, it was cerning the Central American Negotiations public servant. unanimously agreed that if a country re­ Commission set up by legislation providing fuses to extradite or prosecute a captured military aid to the democratic resistance in terrorist, all seven governments will bar Nicaragua. REAGAN AND THATCHER: A flights to and from that country. WEEK OF STUNNING SUCCESS In the economic discussions, President I want to insert this letter into the RECORD Reagan rejected appeals from some of the because I believe our colleagues should know HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO other leaders that he increase taxes to that Ambassador Kirkpatrick and Dr. Gallaway, OF CALIFORNIA reduce the U.S. deficit. He obtained a pledge the Commission designees of Minority Leader that all seven nations refrain from accumu­ Boe DOLE and myself, have worked diligently IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lating further farm surpluses. to make this commission a success. Their ef­ Tuesday, June 16, 1987 Following the Venice summit, the NATO forts to choose a chairman for the Commis­ Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, I have allies approved the president's decision to sion were frustrated time and again and they recently noticed many editorials and commen­ conclude an agreement with the Soviets for have reached certain conclusions as to the re­ taries that attack President Reagan and his removal of shorter-range nuclear missiles from Europe. alistic hopes of ever getting the Commission policies. Conveniently using the Iran-Contra So President Reagan wasn't the weak, started. affair, these critics claim the President no lame-duck leader his critics predicted he At this point I wish to insert in the RECORD longer has the ability to lead our Nation effec­ would be in Venice. the letter Ambassador Kirkpatrick and Dr. tively. How wrong they are. The editorial by In Britain, the 61-year-old "Iron Lady's" Gallaway sent to me and to Minority Leader William Randolph Hearst, Jr., which appeared election victory was a triumph for the good DOLE. in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner on sense of the British people. They gave the AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Sunday, June 14, 1987, clearly shows that leftist-dominated Labor Party one of its FOR PuBLIC POLICY RESEARCH, President Reagan continues to be a strong, worst defeats in 50 years. Labor analysts at­ Washington, DC, June 4, 1987. active leader. Furthermore, this editorial elabo­ tributed the political debacle to the party's Hon. ROBERT H. MICHEL, rates on Mrs. Thatcher's historic victory in the policy of unilateral disarmament and expul­ Minority Leader, House of Representatives, British general elections. It is important to re­ sion of America's nuclear forces from Brit­ Washington, DC. member that Mrs. Thatcher's policies and po­ ain. DEAR CONGRESSMAN MICHEL: We, the Re­ litical philosophies are very similar to Presi­ However, the major reason the people re­ publican appointees to the Central Ameri­ can Negotiations Commission, believe that dent Reagan's. Rather than listening to "mis­ turned Mrs. Thatcher to an unprecedented third term with a majority of at least 112 the Commission, having failed since Novem­ leading media opinions," I urge my colleagues seats in the House of Commons was because ber to elect a chairman, is unable to fulfill to acknowledge the facts: the results of the of her capitalist economic policy, curbing of its responsibility as mandated by existing Venice summit and the British elections show tyrannical union power, maintenance of a legislation for monitoring progress toward a that leaders and policies like those of Mr. nuclear deterrent and tough stand against diplomatic settlement of the conflicts in Reagan and Mrs. Thatcher are popular, alive, Soviet imperialism. Central America. and well. Her economic policy of de-nationalizing We made repeated, serious efforts over REAGAN AND THATCHER: A WEEK OF STUNNING socialized industry, cutting government the last six months to comply with the SUCCESS spending, reversing a century of ever-ex­ intent and requirements of the authorizing ; Mr. John T. term as prime minister. took office in 1979. One million of them are Despite the media tendency to depict former public-housing tenants who received Joyce, President of the Bricklayers and President Reagan as an impotent leader government aid to help buy the units they Allied Craftsmen Union ning statute could have disastrous effects on HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO artists can make high quality tapes of their maritime labor and the maritime industry, al­ OF CALIFORNIA music while traveling on the road or simply ready beset with monstrous problems. at any location outside of the home base Citizenship manning laws for U.S. vessels IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES studio; and (3) struggling new artists with Tuesday, June 16, 1987 low production budgets can make high qual­ were first enunciated in 1792; all the officers ity demonstration tapes for presentation to of U.S. vessels were required to be U.S. citi­ Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, it is my record companies. zens. The provision allowing foreign seamen pleasure to rise today to honor my constitu­ Like many consumers when I tape prere­ to replace U.S. citizen crewmembers below ent, Robert M. Seavers. corded music I select songs off of albums I the grade of master was first permitted by the Bob is retiring as long-time executive direc­ already own. These tapes are for my person­ act on June 26, 1884. That provision was re­ al use only and not for resale or any com­ tor of the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of mercial purpose. In addition, I frequently stated when the manning laws were codified Commerce. Bob will be concluding 35 years of purchase prerecorded audio cassette tapes. in 1985. The 1884 act included this provision service with the chamber on June 30, 1987. It As with the conventional tape recorder, I to make U.S. laws more flexible and to im­ is believed to be one of the longest tenures in would like to make tapes for my personal prove the competitiveness of U.S. shipping. I the Nation by a chamber executive director use with the DAT machine. suspect that this replacement provision was serving one chamber. Many of the arguments made against the also necessitated-at least in part-by the It has been my pleasure to have known Bob use of the DAT were used in an attempt to state of world travel in 1884. Today, we can during my 25 years in public service. During ban the VCR. However, those arguments have proved to be unfounded. Today the transport replacement by air within a day. In that time we have worked together on a prerecorded video market is a viable and 1884, slow communications and slower trans­ number of issues that have affected the Santa substantial industry. I submit to you that portation methods presented quite another sit­ Maria Valley and Santa Barbara County. He the DAT will flourish like the video cassette uation. has spoken out on behalf of the residents of market. Moreover, the advent of the DAT The requirement that 75 percent of the the area in an attempt to improve the quality will further stimulate the interest of the crew be U.S. citizens upon departure from a of life in the area. Bob's career has been American people to the music industry. dedicated to serving others and to helping Finally the copy code scanner system sup­ U.S. port was added in the 1936 act. The ported by S. 506 will unnecessarily limit the overall purpose was to improve "the person­ others. usefulness of the DAT. More importantly nel on our ships and maintain discipline and Bob became affiliated with the Santa Maria the encoding process has the effect of dis­ control over them". My bill would require that Valley Chamber of Commerce in 1952, at that torting the music. Consequently, I like all officers and 75 percent of the unlicensed time the chamber had 125 members; it now other artists are opposed to the efforts of seamen on U.S.-flag vessels must be U.S. citi­ numbers more than 1,300, which is believed those who want to encode our music. I take zens-whatever the port of departure. The to be among the largest memberships in the great pride in trying to provide quality Nation on a per capita basis. music to the public and I am distressed to amendment does not affect the status of a learn that the integrity of my music will be fishing vessel or whaling vessel or yacht The Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Com­ compromised by the encoding process. under existing law. H.R. 2661 also gives the merce in 1952 shared a small office in city In summation I oppose S. 506 and I re­ Secretary of Transportation the authority to hall. Growth of the membership necessitated spectfully request that you keep my views in modify the U.S. citizen complement of an off­ moving to a new facility under the direction of mind. shore supply vessel when it is operating from Bob Seavers. The chamber has also grown through various activities to be a major force a foreign port. in the community. H.R. 2661, MERCHANT SEAMEN Finally, the bill makes it quite clear that a I know that Bob Seavers will not fade into CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS foreign seaman may replace a U.S. seaman retirement, but will remain an active member FOR U.S.-FLAG VESSELS on the foreign voyage when the vessel is de­ of our community, as well as traveling prived of the services of an individual. Howev­ throughout the United States. HON. MARIO BIAGGI er, the bill provides that this replacement au­ I ask that you please join me in wishing Bob OF NEW YORK thority is temporary. A U.S. citizen replace­ and his family a happy, healthy, and produc­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment is mandated as soon as the vessel re­ tive retirement. Tuesday, June 16, 1987 turns to a port at which, in the most expedi­ tious manner, a U.S. citizen can be obtained. Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, on June 11, I in­ Simply put, whenever a vacancy occurs on a A SENSELESS LOSS troduced H.R. 2661, a. bill to clarify merchant U.S. ship on a foreign voyage because of ill­ seamen citizenship requirements for U.S.-flag ness, death, dismissal, or other similar emer­ vessels. The need for this bill was precipitated HON. FRANK HORTON by efforts to document 11 Kuwaiti tankers gency, a foreign seaman can fill that vacan­ cy-temporarily. This should eliminate any OF NEW YORK under the U.S. flag in order to secure U.S. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES military protection for them in the Persian misconception that U.S. citizen crews can be Gulf. supplanted by foreign crews because it's Tuesday, June 16, 1987 In 1985, the Coast Guard ruled that only the cheaper or because the owner wishes it. Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, recently a trag­ master of a U.S.-flag vessel must be a U.S. The Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com­ edy struck Upstate New York. It was a tragedy citizen when a vessel is on a foreign voyage mittee will hold a hearing this Thursday on the that has struck all of our districts far too fre­ and does not call at a U.S. port. My bill would broader implications of U.S. maritime laws and quently. But that doesn't make it any easier to eliminate this so-called "foreign voyage ex­ policies resulting from recent events in the accept or any easier to justify. Four people in ception" for certain U.S. vessels in all but lim­ Persian Gulf. My bill would eliminate the au­ the Rochester area-three high school stu­ ited circumstances. thority that permits foreign vessels to be docu­ dents and a high school instructor-were While the Kuwaiti tanker situation is the cat­ mented as U.S. vessels and carry foreign na­ killed when another car crossed the center alyst for review of the foreign voyage excep­ tional crews in the future. Should similar na­ line and collided with the car the four were in. tion, I have introduced this bill without passing tional security needs arise, the President has The driver of the other car had a part-empty judgment, at this point, on the general policy at his disposal constitutional power and the fifth of whiskey by his side and had been seen of reflagging foreign vessels so they may have statutory authority to respond as he deems weaving all over the road prior to the acci­ U.S. military protection. My concern is strictly necessary. For now, I am content to correct dent. U.S. maritime policy. this loophole in our laws to assure that, under The three students, Kathlena "Mindy" The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 mandates ordinary circumstances and as far as practica­ Beals, Rhonda Reeves, and Eric Hamm-John­ that we foster the growth and development of ble, U.S. citizens man U.S. ships. son, and their driving instructor, Patrick Col- June 16, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16321 lins, are a part of a statistic that is far too THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING . But most of the textile factories have also large-people who have needlessly died at shut down, and so have the clothing facto­ the hands of drunk drivers. ries. They are all, to use the current euphe­ HON.DONALDJ.PEASE mism, off-shore. So our troops will go Though the media and other outlets have OF OHIO continued to bring home the message that through basic training in civvies. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES But after a few weeks in basic training, drinking and driving don't mix, grim stories like Tuesday, June 16, 1987 the civvies are worn out-even blue jeans this one continue to haunt us. The pain and have a limited life. anguish caused by this senseless act will not Mr. PEASE. Mr. Speaker, I bring to your at­ Soon our troops are reduced to walking soon be forgotten. tention the following tongue-in-cheek article in around barefoot in their underwear. Mr. Speaker, a newspaper in my district, the Ohio Business on our country's defense that But remember, this is almost the 1990s Rochester Times-Union, recently published an was written by one of my valued constituents and we have unisex troops; men and women editorial about this situation, which I have from Oberlin, OH. Note that the article illus­ fighting side by side. I see nothing wrong added below. These four young people will be trates well the danger to our country of allow­ with that-but in their underwear? missed. Our community continues to grieve, ing foreign imports of goods ranging from Once the underwear wears out, our troops but I hope that we will also learn from this shoes to textiles to weapons to vehicles to are barefoot and naked. The admonition of tragedy to prevent even more senseless invade our domestic industries. Personally, I the flower children of the '60s will finally death on our highways. found it quite insightful, and I hope that my come true: MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR. Ah, colleagues will read it carefully and take note for want of a pair of trousers or slacks and a [From the Times-Union, Rochester, NY, shirt or a blouse, the war is lost. June 12, 19871 of the important points that it makes. The article follows: Hurry up, you third-world countries, with FOUR MORE REASONS your supplies of shoes and clothing; other­ [From Ohio Business, June 19871 "A thousand skeptic hands won't keep us wise the leader of the first world is going to from the things we've planned," Mindy THE RussiANS ARE CoMING ... disappear and you'll move up to second Beals wrote in her high school yearbook. someday. I would launch a conventional war-and Bullets! Bullets need brass, and brass Rhonda Reeves. Once overweight and defeat the U.S. before it could mobilize its needs copper. But the copper mines have withdrawn, she lost weight and turned her resources. closed down. life around-and no doubt the lives of the The U.S. was the arsenal of democracy After the mines are opened, the refineries classmates she persuaded to stay in school. when it entered World War II in December, and smelters have to be reactivated. Eric Hamm-Johnson. Outgoing, an above­ 1941. What has happened to the arsenal of Of course, we'll need machinery to make average student, whose jokes would lighten democracy in just the past ten years? the bullets. That brings up our machine tool a classroom. He was looking forward to a What would happen to us as a nation if a industry. trip to Europe next year with the German conventional war came to our shores-or if Better call Japan or Germany if we really Club. we had to go overseas to fight one? need a good supply of machine tools fast. Patrick Collins, their driving instructor, First, we would have to mobilize our Many of our machine tool companies have new to Pembroke High School, but already people. disappeared. making a mark as a skilled and personable The government would mail out letters Of course we need tanks and guns. And teacher. telling our young citizens to report for serv­ these essentials require steel. All dead. The driver who crashed into ice. Almost half the steel we use comes from their car apparently had been drinking­ How long would it take for the letters to foreign sources. So we have to step up our had the smell of alcohol on him at the arrive? own steel production-LTV, don't give up. scene, had a part-empty fifth of whiskey be­ Then we would need to move vast num­ We need you! neath the seat, had been seen weaving all bers of people to military bases. We would In the Rust Belt, headquartered in Ohio, over the road just minutes before. load up a troop train, and then what? The train would derail. We couldn't move a dozens of steel mills have shut down. Only four weeks before, Mindy Beals had The furnaces and rolling mills are no warned her fellow students at an assembly troop train from one part of the country to another without a derailment. longer usable. Anyone have any idea how about the dangers of drinking and driving. long it takes to build and equip a rolling There is more than a terrible irony here. So we won't use trains. We'll move our troops via buses. The only question is mill? Years! There should be a growing sense of outrage. Of course, with the reduction of U.S.-pro­ How can this continue to happen? whether our highways and bridges will be Mindy was among the many who have able to stand up to the heavy traffic. duced steel, iron mines have shut down. spoken about the dangers of drinking and Shall we fly the troops from one place to But what about the companies that driving. another? produce mining equipment, furnaces, and Groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driv­ Civilian traffic has clogged the airlanes rolling mills? They certainly haven't been ing have spoken out. Individual victims and and congested the airports. How would it be expanding over the past ten years. survivors have spoken out. Convicted drunk in wartime? There's the picture, Mr. Gorbachev is drivers have spoken out. That means we'll have to resort to what making a big mistake fussing so much about Their stories have been told in countless the infantry has always done-walk. Sol­ Star Wars. It's a program made to meet his newspaper articles, on countless TV pro­ diers, bring your jogging shoes with you objectives. grams. when you report for service! How is this nation, the arsenal of democ­ The drinking age has been raised. DWI We mobilize our citizens. They report to racy in previous days, expected to survive if penalties have been made tougher. Road­ boot camp, and so we need boots. We call we are ever asked to defend our shores? the supply depots. blocks have been placed. As we close our factories, our mines, our Bartenders have been warned. Hosts have LIKE VALLEY FORGE smelters, our foundries, our textile plants, been made liable. Lawsuits have been filed. We call Korea and Taiwan; we call Brazil our farms, and our shipyards, and as we In short, society has been saturated with and Italy. We call every place shoes come allow our roads, bridges, and railroads to rot the message: Don't Drink and Drive. from-except the shoe factories in the U.S., away, we lay bare our shores and become But people still do. because most of them have closed. So, like vulnerable to any enemy. So now our state has four more reasons to the troops in Valley Forge, ours sit around Mr. Gorbachev, you don't have to draw up wonder what more can be done. Four more barefoot. elaborate plans to defeat the United States. reasons to mourn, four more reasons to be I could live with the idea of our troops sit­ We are doing it to ourselves! angry. Enough has been said and written ting around barefoot. But the problem is about the dangers of drinking and driving. more than just shoes. We have to put these When people persist, it is easier and easier troops in uniform. to demand punishment, harder and harder So back to the supply depot to order uni­ to forgive. forms. 16322 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 DISABLED AMERICANS WORK and paying taxes and there will be a dramatic mutual friend at a surprise birthday party for INCENTIVE BILL change in behavior in regard to the amount of Tommy Daly. After sending Grace's date out medical attention that will be required. Studies for more "liquid refreshment," Eddy made his HON. J. ALEX McMILLAN have shown that when a disabled individual move to the piano bench to sit next to Grace. OF NORTH CAROLINA goes back to work, a positive mental attitude They started "keeping company" immediately IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES results and contributes to a healthier person, and for the next 5 years disproved the notion with less doctor and hospital visits and re­ Tuesday, June 16, 1987 that the Bronx and Brooklyn are imcompatible. duced costs to the Medicare trust funds. No Grace and Eddy were married at St. Mary's Mr. McMILLAN of North Carolina. Mr. longer will they need to receive disability pay­ Star of the Sea on June 12, 1937. Grace's Speaker, recently, I introduced the disabled ments. In short, this program should save the sister, Marge, and brother-in law, John Mac­ Americans work incentive bill. This legislation Government money. Donald, were their matron of honor and best will give handicapped individuals, who have By adopting this legislation, we will restore man. They had a whirlwind weekend honey­ relied on Social Security disability income and incentives for the disabled to return to the Medicare health benefits, the chance to again work force. It is time to recognize that handi­ moon at the Waldorf Astoria followed by a trip become productive, working members of our capped Americans can, and should, be useful, to Keansburg and Manasquan, NJ. society. productive members of our society. The chronicle of their years together has Two years ago, I was fortunate to meet Mr. Speaker, I introduced the disabled had many highlights both positive and nega­ Deborah McKeithan, president of Handi­ Americans work incentive bill with 35 original tive, happy and sad. They were united in their capped Organized Women, from Charlotte. cosponsors, both Democrat and Republican, desire for a big family, Grace because of her She told me, "Our Government is paying from both ends of the political spectrum and fond memories of a large, warm household people to be sick. Without the barriers, thou­ everywhere in between. and Eddy because as an only child he was sands of disabled persons will go back to This legislation is badly needed and I urge very often lonely. God was good to them and work and once again become productive the Ways and Means and the Energy and blessed them with five healthy and unique members of society." Commerce Committees to act swiftly so thou­ children: Carol Ann, Patricia, Linda, Diane, and Deborah is legally blind, partially paralyzed sands of disabled American will again be able Edward. from a stroke, epileptic and has cerebral multi­ to realize their dream of returning to a produc­ There have been the difficult times, espe­ ple sclerosis. She is working now as part of a tive job. cially the war years. Eddy enlisted in the U.S. 2-year trial work period established under Army in 1943 and was sent to the European Public Law 96-265. theatre. Grace held down the fort at home Because of this law, thousands of disabled A TRIBUTE TO GRACE AND Americans, just like Deborah, have been able EDWARD SEIFERT and ran the Bar and Grill business. Eddy was to enter the work force for 2 years without the severely wounded in Luxembourg on Decem­ fear of losing their Medicare health benefits. HON. GEORGE J. ber 16, 1944, and received a Purple Heart. They continue to receive SSDI checks for 9 HOCHBRUECKNER There were the lean years when Eddy worked months and pay a quarterly premium for their three jobs to provide for his family. There OF NEW YORK were the extended family years when Eddy's Medicare health benefits during the 2-year IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES period. parents and Aunt Tilly joined the young family There is one major flaw, however. The pro­ Tuesday, June 16, 1987 at their home in Hicksville. It was during this gram is only temporary. After 2 years, the par­ Mr. HOCHBRUECKNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise time that Grace's mettle was put to the test. ticipant is either declared able to work and is today to pay tribute to Grace and Edward Sie­ She worked very hard to keep peace and har­ then ineligible for Medicare health benefits, or fert, two very special residents of my First mony among three generations of characters. the person is forced to return to SSDI and Congressional District. This wonderful couple There were the Florida years and the period leave the work force. Many choose the latter will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of of adjustment to retirement. course because most private group insurance their wedding day at a special liturgy and And now come the very best years of all! plans declare the disabled uninsurable. family reunion party on June 20, 1987. Five The present few years have been among the The disabled Americans work incentive bill decades ago, they were joined in matrimony in happiest in both their lives. Their health is ex­ will change this. No American should be a simple ceremony on June 12, 1937. cellent and their love of one another is at its forced to sit at home, dependent on the Fed­ Grace Joan McBride is the youngest of nine peak. They rejoice in their time together and eral Government, if they want to work. children born to Mary Anastasia White and their time with their family. They are grateful to Many social programs feed on themselves, William McBride on November 26, 1913, in God for the fine people their children married forcing more and more people to become Brooklyn, NY. In 1932 Grace graduated from and their 12 grandchildren growing straight caught in a web of dependency. We now have St. Brendan's High School and was voted and strong. a chance to allow some handicapped citizens "the student with the most pleasant disposi­ to escape this web. tion and friendliest smile." As a matter of fact, The gala gathering on Saturday, June 20, Our bill will accomplish two things: those who know her feel she deserves the will give testimony to the love and regard felt First, the 2-year trial work period would lifetime title of Mrs. Congeniality. Grace has by all those who have come as well as those become permanent, allowing the disabled to been a loving daughter, a caring sister, a shar­ unable to be physically present. This event purchase Medicare health benefits at a premi­ ing friend, a sensitive mother, an energetic takes on an even greater significance as the um for as long as they work; and grandmother, and a devoted wife. She is celebration will include the 25th anniversary of Second, it would eliminate the 5-year rule, much loved and admired by all who have had their daughter, Carol Ann, and myself. Please which forces a disabled individual to go the privilege to share a part of her life. join with me and all those who love them in through another 2-year waiting period if they Edward John Siefert was the only child born wishing them a long and happy life together. are again unable to work after 5 years of to Gertrude Josephine Schoppe and Edward These are truly the golden years of Grace being off of SSDI. John Seifert, Sr., on September 30, 1912, in McBride Seifert and Edward Seifert, Jr. The economic strength of our country was Manhattan, NY. He graduated in 1933 from I am proud to be a part of their family. created by the desire of individuals to suc­ Evander Childs High School after a 3 %-year ceed. Why should we deny anyone the free­ "time out." Eddy has been something of a dom to pursue their goals? And what kind of character his entire life. He received much Government do we have when our laws make fanfare at his graduation as the student "most it easier for the disabled not to work, even if improved in both athletic and academic pur­ they are willing to try? We should encourage suits." His skills in the area of swimming and participation in society, rather than to deny it. particularly diving, earned him 31 medals, 3 The disabled Americans work incentive bill loving cups, and 1 statuette. will be positive in economic terms too. The re­ On April 1o, 1932, the paths of these two employed workers will be generating income unlikely lovers crossed at the home of a June 16, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16323 CATHERINE CAREY RETIRES him as publisher after his death in 197 4. Two SUCCESSFUL LEADERS FROM VISITING NURSE SERV­ Under her leadership, and that of her husband There was both good and great news from ICE OF NORTHERN SANTA before her, the Sentinel has rendered distin­ Europe last week. BARBARA COUNTY guished service to the black community in Los President Reagan did much better at the Angeles and across the Nation for over 40 Venice allied summit meeting than media years. reports would have us believe. HON.ROBERTJ.LAGO~INO Margaret Thatcher, the most successful Mrs. Washington's leadership in the com­ OF CALIFORNIA woman leader in modern history, won a munity extends beyond her leadership of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES landslide victory to give her an historic paper to include numerous area youth groups third consecutive term as prime minister. Tuesday, June 16, 1987 and community organizations. Acting on her Despite the media tendency to depict Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, it is my conviction that the youth of today are the President Reagan as an impotent leader pleasure to rise today to honor a fine and leaders of tomorrow, Mrs. Washington has since the Iran-contra affair and the Venice dedicated community leader from my district, long been associated with the 28th Street and summit as a "bust" and "a stalemate," the Mrs. Catherine Carey. Crenshaw YMCA's. factual reports show an impressive list of ac­ Catherine is retiring on June 30, 1987 after To further a broader, community-minded complishments for the President at the meeting with the leaders of six other major serving as executive director of the Visiting agenda, Mrs. Washington founded the Los industrialized free world nations. Nurse Service of Santa Barbara County for Angeles Black Women's Forum with As­ Among issues on which the President the past 20 years. semblywoman Maxine Waters and Mrs. Ethel achieved unity were: Catherine, a longtime civic leader, served Bradley. Unanimous support for the U.S. position on the original steering committee that orga­ She and her husband were among Los An­ that freedom of navigation in the Persian nized the nonprofit Visiting Nurse Service of geles' earliest leaders in the fight for civil Gulf must be upheld. Santa Maria. Catherine states, "It has been rights, and in 1933 organized a local boycott Unanimous support for his proposal that the biggest challenge in my life." Prior to be­ against Zerg's Furniture Store on the theme, the UN Security Council adopt a resolution coming the executive director of Visiting Nurse "Don't spend where you can't work." Now, calling on Iran and Iraq to cease fire and immediately start negotiating an end to the Service she served as a public health nurse near that same site on the corner of 43d war. Secretary of State George Shultz said and administrator. Street and Central Avenue stands a Post this was the principal commitment the U.S. Catherine has served as a grand marshal of Office named after Leon H. Washington, Jr., wanted from the European allies and Japan the Elks Rodeo, a former Santa Maria "Citizen just two blocks from the Leon H. Washington, on the Persian Gulf crisis. The other of the Year" and is quite active in the Republi­ Jr., branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. summit leaders also accepted the U.S. pro­ can Party as well as in her name-sake the To every enterprise Mrs. Washington has posal that the Security Council take "effec­ Katherine K Children's Home Society of Santa brought her expertise and inspiration, and, in tive measures" against either of the two Maria. keeping with the title of her well-regarded warring nations that failed to comply with Catherine, through her own efforts, saved column in the Sentinel, a great deal of the UN demand. The "effective measures" Secretary the Visiting Nurse Service from a precarious fi­ ''Common Sense.'' Shultz has in mind is a mandatory arms em­ nancial situation because Medicare failed to Mrs. Washington will be honored at a dinner bargo against either nation that persists in process claims and make prompt payments. hosted by her friends at the Crenshaw Cham­ fighting. If the ban is vetoed in the Security Catherine and I worked together to get the ber of Commerce on June 20, 1987. I join Council, but "effective measures" remain in problem resolved and reimbursements were them in thanking her for nearly 40 years of an adopted resolution, it would give the U.S. resumed. If it had not been for Catherine the pioneering efforts and tireless service to the and other allies a free hand to impose a ban Visiting Nurse Service would no longer be black community, and wish her well in future of their own. serving the Santa Maria area. undertakings. In response to President Reagan's appeal Catherine states that retirement will give her for stronger action to deter terrorism, it was unanimously agreed that if a country re­ more time to work in other areas of communi­ HEARST EDITORIAL PRAISES fuses to extradite or prosecute a captured ty service. She'll also have time for such avo­ terrorist, all seven governments will bar cations as bridge, gardening, cooking and REAGAN AND THATCHER flights to and from that country. making jams, jellies and pickles. In the economic discussions, President I ask that you please join me in wishing HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON Reagan rejected appeals from some of the Catherine and her husband Jim a happy, other leaders that he increase taxes to healthy, and productive retirement. OF NEW YORK reduce the U.S. deficit. He obtained a pledge IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that all seven nations refrain from accumu­ lating further farm surpluses. TRIBUTE TO MRS. RUTH Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 Following the Venice summit, the NATO WASHINGTON Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, the press allies approved the President's decision to corps accompanying President Reagan to the conclude an agreement with the Soviets for removal of short range nuclear weapons HON. JULIAN C. DIXON Venice Summit had made up its mind in ad­ from Europe. OF CALIFORNIA vance: The image of Ronald Reagan as a So President Reagan wasn't the weak, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lame duck President must be enhanced. lame-duck leader his critics predicted he Had it not been for such editorials as that of would be in Venice. Tuesday, June 16, 1987 William Randolph Hearst, Jr., which appeared In Britain, the 61-year-old lovely "iron Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to in the Albany Times-Union, we might never lady's" election victory was a triumph for bring to the attention of my colleagues a life­ have read the truth. That truth is that the the good sense of the British people They time of achievement and community service President was able to secure unanimous sup­ gave the radical-leftist dominated Labor by Mrs. Ruth Washington, publisher of the Los port in such areas as freedom of navigation in Party one of its worst defeats in 50 years. Labor analysts attributed the political deba­ Angeles Sentinel. the Persian Gulf, terrorism, arms reductions, cle to the party's policy of unilateral disar­ Mrs. Washington has long served the com­ and the world economy. mament and expulsion of America's nuclear munity through her stewardship of the Senti­ Hearst also reminded us that British Prime forces from Britain. nel. Founded in 1933 by her beloved hus­ Minister Margaret Thatcher was reelected to However, the major reason the people band, the late Leon H. Washington, Jr., the an unprecedented third term. Mrs. Thatcher turned Mrs. Thatcher to an unprecedented Sentinel blazed a new path in black journalism was able to do that, confounding her critics third term with a majority of at least 112 and has long been the largest black-owned once again, by pursuing policies almost exact­ seats in the House of Commons was because newspaper in the Western United States. of her conservatively capitalist economic ly like those of President Reagan's. President policy, curbing of tyrannical union power, Mrs. Washington became a pioneer of black Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher have maintenance of a nuclear deterrent and journalism when she assumed the position of both given their nations periods of prosperity. tough stand against Soviet imperialism. business manager of the Sentinel in 1948 Mr. Hearst is correct in saying we should con­ Her economic policy of de-nationalizing after her husband's illness, and succeeded tinue those policies that made it possible. industry, cutting government spending, re- 16324 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 versing a century of ever-expanding state ministration that have hurt higher educa­ and electronic and engineering equipment bureaucracy and cutting taxes to enable tion. Over the past several months, Bennett that supplement classroom or laboratory in­ more middle class workers to own their own and his critics have traded charges in an es­ struction. homes led to seven consecutive years of eco­ calating minuet of point-counterpoint. College officials cite another reason for nomic growth with low inflation. When the Secretary of Education used higher tuitions: the fall-off of Federal stu­ There are 2.5 million more home-owning the occasion of Harvard's 350th birthday dent financial aid, which has forced institu­ families in Britain today than when she last fall to take that university and its sister tions to fill the gap with their own re­ took office in 1979. One million of them are institutions to task for flabby curricula, sources. Bennett puts the opposite spin on former public housing tenants who received lapsed attention to moral issues, and preoc­ this, claiming that "increases in financial government aid to help buy the units they cupation with money, Harvard president aid in recent years have enabled colleges occupied. The number of individual stock­ Derek Bok followed with a stinging rebuttal and universities blithely to raise their tui­ holders has tripled. Many of the new cap­ to Bennett's charges. Bok defended Har­ tions, confident that Federal loan subsidies italists were employees of former national­ vard's "core curriculum," which many col­ would help cushion the increase." However, ized industries returned under her leader­ leges use as a model, pointed to a resurgence statistics show that tuition hikes were ship to private ownership. of courses in moral and ethical reasoning on rather modest when student aid was grow­ Calling her reformed system "Popular campuses across the nation, and admon­ ing most rapidly from 1970 to 1980, while Capitalism," she campaigned on the slogan: ished the Secretary for dealing with compli­ during the current period of slow growth in "Britain is on the March." cated financial issues such as appropriate student aid, tuitions have climbed. It obviously is and therein lies a lesson for levels of student aid "by rhetorical state­ Underlying the debate over cost is the us. President Reagan's policy of cutting gov­ ments about divesting students of their larger question of value: what is a college ernment spending, opposing tax increases stereos and their vacations at the breach." education worth, and how is it measured? and encouraging free market enterprise is . Boland's office is a veritable Kenne­ younger and liberal members argued that Boland. "He has absolute integrity and no dy shrine, containing a small bust of him the administration's policy was deceitful. personal interest, only the interest of his and three framed pictures, one showing Boland, however, kept them at a distance. district and his country • • • The office is Boland shaking JFK's hand as Lyndon "He thought we were young, irascible, his vocation. There is none other." Johnson looks on. pretty far to the left," says George Miller. "A lifetime," say Boland on what he has Over the years, Boland quietly accumulat­ "He essentially didn't believe me for a long contributed to politics. "I've been here a ed seniority, quietly promoted O'Neill period of time." long period of time-hell, 18th term." within the leadership and quietly helped "He is instinctively cautious, has great re­ His parents were immigrants from County transform ailing Springfield into a thriving spect for the institution of the presidency, Kerry, Ireland. And his father was a rail­ postindustrial center through the adroit use and believes the president should have real road worker. He grew up in the Irish ethnic of federal programs. authority over foreign policy. He didn't neighborhood of Hungry Hill, where politics In 1973, he quietly married 35-year-old have the built-in-questioning that the was as natural as breathing. In Springfield, Mary Egan, a bright lawyer who had been younger Democrats have," says James Boland came to know other young politicos; president of the Springfield city council. "A Shannon. "He would never have moved if Lawrence O'Brien, who would become John surprise," says O'Neill. It was whimsically the administration had been honest. But F. Kennedy's crackerjack campaign opera- remarked in Springfield that Egan was the they lied." June 16, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16331 In the spring of 1983, Boland was travel­ to strain to reach that conclusion," says Mr. Speaker, I again salute my colleague ing in China with O'Neill. Every day the Sen. William Cohen

91-059 0-89-30 (Pt. 12) 16334 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 CONTINUING HAPPINESS TO perity and self-sufficiency. He argued that nated the idea of dedicating the new station THE O'GEEN FAMILY OF withdrawing American business interests to their fallen comrade. They took up a collec­ LEROY, NY would prove contrary to the desired goal of tion of their hard-earned money for a memori­ creating a free South Africa. Apartheid, he al to honor Ward. When the District Director HON. LOUISE M. SLAUGHTER stated, would be abolished through quiet ne­ heard about this, she got behind their efforts, OF NEW YORK gotiations. At the time, I commented that if and Customs paid for a brass plaque which is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES South Africa is a train, then apartheid repre­ now on the building. sents the tracks on which it rides. It maintains H.R. 2100 will not bring back Gerry Ward's Tuesday, June 16, 1987 a straight and unswerving path. It ensures that life, but it will serve as a constant reminder of Ms. SLAUGHTER of New York. Mr. Speak­ the train will remain on course, moves in one the risk that Gerry and his fellow officers, er, I rise today in recognition of the O'Geen direction, and prohibits a majority of citizens whether they work for Customs, Immigration, family of LeRoy, NY. On June 3, 1937, Louis from enjoying the ride. or another branch of the Federal Government, J. O'Geen and Anna Ruth Bataglia were mar­ Citicorp is our Nation's largest bank and its face every day to protect our borders. Since ried at St. Joseph's Church in LeRoy. I ask my actions are monitored closely by competitors, Gerry Ward's death, three more Customs em­ colleagues to join me in congratulating them investors, and governments. The decision to ployees have died serving their country. as they celebrate the 50th anniversary of their withdraw from South Africa was not an easy These jobs have, over the last decade, wedding. one. However, it comes at an appropriate time changed from one of a mostly clerical nature, The O'Geens are both first generation and sends a vital message to Pretoria. Eleven to one of mostly a law enforcement nature. American citizens whose parents immigrated years ago today, thousands of people lost During fiscal year 1985, Customs inspectors to New York from Sicily. Mr. O'Geen was born their lives in the riots in the black township of made 17,324 arrests, including 1,832 from the in LeRoy and has lived there all his life. He Soweto. Just 1 week ago, the Rev. Leon Sulli­ FBI's National Crime Information Center worked with the New York Central Railroad van, the creator of the Sullivan Principles on [NCIC] network. In fiscal year 1986 total ar­ until 1936 when he and his brother started the corporate guidelines in South Africa, wisely re­ rests increased by 28 percent and the NCIC O'Geen Press. This job printing company was versed his position. He no longer saw a con­ arrests increased by 38 percent to 2,537. Cus­ the first to publish a local advertising paper, tructive role for U.S. business in the fight toms inspectors make more NCIC arrests than The LeRoy Advertiser. Mr. O'Geen worked at against governmental racism. His plea now all other Federal agencies combined, and all the press for 42 years until he sold the com­ calls for all U.S. industry to leave the country of these arrests are felony arrest. I hope that pany in 1978 and retired. and allow "every American moral, economic, Congress will recognize this change soon, and Mrs. O'Geen also grew up in LeRoy and and political force" to be brought to bear treat these dedicated Federal employees who has worked the majority of her life in the area. against apartheid. put their lives on the line to protect our bor­ In the late 1970's, she retired from her posi­ Citicorp has taken the first difficult step ders in the same fashion we treat other Fed­ toward realizing this objective. The measure is tion at Bausch & Lomb. Mrs. O'Geen is a eral workers with law enforcement responsibil­ harsh and the losses significant. But the dis­ curio collector who boasts of a large collec­ ities. tion of Hummel figurines. Mr. O'Geen is an comfort inflicted upon U.S. interests pales in That would be an even better way to re­ comparison to the humiliation of racist oppres­ avid stamp collector. member Kenneth G. Ward. The O'Geens, in their retirement, have re­ sion and the grief of friends and families as mained active in the LeRoy community. Mr. more people perish in the turmoil of South O'Geen is a charter member of the LeRoy Africa. MADONNA COLLEGE CELE- Chamber of Commerce and helped organize Citicorp has shown that big business can BRATES ITS 40TH ANNIVERSA­ the little league there. Mrs. O'Geen is active in and does have a moral conscience and I com­ RY the LeRoy St. Joseph's Church Rosary and mend Citicorp's officers and directors for their Altar Society. action. Fifty years of sharing their lives has given HON. CARL D. PURSELL the O'Geens three children: Josephine, John OF MICHIGAN Louis, and Anthony Paul. They have been ad­ A BETTER WAY TO REMEMBER ditionally blessed with six grandchildren: Terri, KENNETH G. WARD IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES John, Daniel, Ann Marie, Beth Anne, and Mary HON. AL SWIFr Tuesday, June 16, 1987 Margaret. The entire O'Geen family will gather Mr. PURSELL. Mr. Speaker, I have the privi­ OF WASHINGTON on June 19, 1987, for a special celebration of lege today of commending Madonna College their parents' everlasting strength, faith, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of Livonia, Ml, in celebration of its 40th anni­ love. Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 versary of distinguished service to its commu­ The O'Geen family stands proudly as a fine Mr. SWIFT. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2100, which nity and the State of Michigan. example of the American family tradition. Their Madonna College is a Catholic coeducation­ bond has survived the test of time and the House passed yesterday, names the new al institution sponsored by the Felician Sisters. strenghened. It is fitting that we join the border station at Lynden, WA, for Kenneth G. Within the framework of a strong liberal arts O'Geen family in celebrating the enduring love Ward. Mr. Ward was a U.S. Customs inspector curriculum, it offers pre-service and inservice of their parents, Louis and Anna Ruth. I wish who was slain while performing a routine career-oriented programs, and awards associ­ them continuing happiness. check on a vehicle entering the United States from British Columbia, Canada, on May 24, ate, bachelor, and master degrees. 1979. Mr. Ward was the 31st Customs officer Founded by the Felician Sisters as Presen­ CITICORP WITHDRAWS FROM to be killed in the line of duty. tation Junior College in 1937, it was renamed SOUTH AFRICA Kenneth Ward was hardworking and dedi­ Madonna College in 194 7 and incorporated as cated, exemplifying the best qualities of Fed­ a baccalaureate institution. It became coedu­ HON.GARYL.ACKERMAN eral service. Mr. Ward, known to his fellow of­ cational in 1972 and initiated its first graduate OF·NEWYORK ficers as Gerry, was described by them as programs in 1982. Since its origination, Madonna has contin­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES top-notch and top of the line. Previous to serving 8 years with the Customs Service, ued to serve the needs of its students and Tuesday, June 16, 1987 Ward was with the Border Patrol of the Immi­ community. Its special dimension of caring Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today gration and Naturalization Service. He also has met the educational demands of an indus­ to express my extreme pleasure with Citi­ served his country in the U.S. Army. trialized urban area with a warm, personal corp's decision to withdraw its assets from This bill has the support of both the U.S. quality. South Africa. Customs Service and the General Services I ask my colleagues in the U.S. House of Several months ago, President Beagan de­ Administration which owns the building. The Representatives to join me as I extend my scribed South Africa as the economic locomo­ local Customs Service officers who serve on warmest congratulations to Madonna College tive that would drive the region toward pros- the border in my congressional district origi- on this, its 40th anniversary. June 16, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16335 GASOLINE PRICES RISE: WHAT abuse among our children by emphasizing and TuALATIN, OR, WILL OUR REACTION BE? ecouraging physical fitness. May 14, 1987. The program, "Say 'Yes' to Fitness, 'No' to Hon. G.V. MONTGOMERY, Chairman, House Veterans' Affairs Commit­ HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK Drugs," is geared so that the students com­ tee, Rayburn House Office Building, OF CALIFORNIA pete against themselves to improve their Washington, DC. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES physcial fitness. Unlike other fitness programs DEAR MR. MONTGOMERY: 1 wish to express where the youngsters must compete against my thoughts concerning the VA's Decen­ Tuesday, June 16, 1987 others or attain group goals, in this program trailized Hospital Computer Program [DHCPl. I am Chief of the Laboratory Serv­ Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, for months we they are encouraged to show personal im­ heard of plummeting gasoline prices and ice at the Portland VA Medical Center, provement over an extended period of time. It Chairman of the VA Medical Center's Com­ people around the country again enjoyed is hoped that participants will be instilled with puter Committee and a member of the VA Sunday afternoon drives, switched from com­ a sense of personal motivation and self-im­ Laboratory Special Interest Users Group muting on public transportation back to cars, provement. When students realize that they [SlUG]. The SlUG is appointed by the Di­ and the administration itself relaxed fuel econ­ can control their lives, the attraction to drugs rector of Pathology Service, VA Central omy standards. Office and is responsible for setting the will diminish. Some who were more cautious reminded us functional requirements of the Laboratory that we would not enjoy these prices forever, The lack of physical fitness of many of our Module, testing it for compliance with these and that we should plan for a future time schoolchildren is well documented-and the requirements, and planning and initiating results are alarming. Numerous studies have educational programs to implement the when gasoline prices would not be so low. I computer system and keep it operating. am inclined to agree with this group. It takes demonstrated that youngsters are generally fatter today than their counterparts in the mid- Our Medical Center, which had no previ­ looking at only one simple fact to make this ous computer experience, has successfully point-oil is a finite resource. 1960's. It has been estimated that the propor­ implemented all of the current modules of For the past 7 weeks gasoline prices have tion of children who are obese has risen by DHCP system. We are convinced that it pro­ consistently risen by over an average of 0.6 more than 40 percent in the past 15 years. It vides us with more accurate patient care in­ cent per gallon for a total of 4.2 cents thus is ironic that while a growing percentage of formation in a more timely manner than far. Across the country gasoline prices are at those over 21 years of age go to the health our previous manual system. The DHCP system has benefits that are their highest point in over a year and this club, take aerobics classes or participate in not found in comparable commercial sys­ trend is expected to continue through the some regular physical activity, our children do tems. I wish to discuss these in the follow­ summer. Low gasoline prices may be nearing less and less. This latter situation must be re­ ing paragraphs. their end. Before we get to a crisis situation versed. The DHCP system was developed by users we need to scale down our dependency on The sponsors of the program, Our Lady of representing a cross section of VA Medical gasoline. Mercy Hospital, McDonald's Corp. and Omni Centers. The method of development was unique in that members of the developing To this end I introduced H.R. 1816, a bill to 41 Sports Complex, as well as the teachers repeal the administration's authority to lower SlUG had an opportunity to work directly and students in the participating schools are with the software developer by communicat­ the Corporate Auto Fuel Economy [CAFE] to be commended. They are trying to deal ing from their Medical Centers with a cen­ standard and to return it to 27.5 mpg as it was with a situation before it becomes a problem. tral computer as it took shape. This allowed required by the Motor Vehicle and Cost Sav­ Their efforts deserve our recognition and ad­ very fast development which was responsive ings Act. The CAFE standard was enacted by miration. to the users. Congress during the 1970's energy crisis to I enclosed a copy of a paper from one of promote energy conservation and to ease our the scientific journals describing this method of development. We are convinced dependence on foreign oil. Between 1975 and VA EMPLOYEES VOICE STRONG 1985 this law saved consumers $50 billion that using this method, the VA is able to de­ SUPPORT FOR THEIR MEDICAL velop software that is more responsive to and dramatically reduced U.S. foreign oil de­ COMPUTER SYSTEM the users needs in a shorter period of time pendency. and at less cost than can be done by com­ In the 1970's the country was caught off­ mercial developer. guard in terms of conservation measures. HON. G.V. (SONNY) A single set of computer software was de­ From the experience we now know the tell­ veloped for VA Medical Centers of all levels tale signs to look for-such as rising gasoline MONTGOMERY of complexity and size. This was possible be­ prices and increased oil imports. These two OF MISSISSIPPI cause a large amount of flexibility in occurrences are staring us in the face. Now is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES choices of computer operation were written the time for government and the concerned into the programs. This was known as Site Tuesday, June 16, 1987 Configurability. It was planned to allow the public to develop, without panic, policies that computer staff and users at the individual will resolve future energy needs fairly and Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, a contro­ Medical Centers to set up the software in a practically. The CAFE standards are a proven versy over the effectiveness and cost of the manner that was most appropriate for the tool in this regard. Veterans' Administration's medical computer individual location. Comparable commercial I urge Members to take a look at the in­ system, known as the Decentralized Hospital systems frequently do not allow the users to creasing cost of gasoline and to support my Computer Program [DHCP] system, has arisen make the changes that are required to bill, H.R. 1816, which will begin to reduce our in the Congress. As chairman of the Commit­ adapt the software to the local needs. The user is thus held captive to the vendor and dependency on this precious resource, and to tee on Veterans' Affairs, I have scheduled must pay fees to the vendor's programmer promote the conservation of it for future gen­ many oversight hearings on this important to make these changes. This seriously limits erations. medical computer system over the past sever­ the flexibility of the system and does not al years and the reports on its effectiveness allow it to change as local conditions SAY "YES" TO FITNESS, "NO" TO and costs have been uniformly very positive. change. Since our hearing of April 8, 1987 on this In a similar way the software that has al­ DRUGS ready been developed is continuing to important subject, I have received many let­ evolve. Through electronic mail and other HON. PETER J. VISCLOSKY ters from veterans and Veterans' Administra­ means users of our systems are continually tion employees in support of the DHCP. OF INDIANA making suggestions for improvement. I would like to share with my colleagues a Through the SlUG we have a mechanism to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES copy of a letter which I received from Dr. incorporate improvements into the soft­ Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 Daniel M. Baer, chief of the laboratory service ware. Many of the improvements have been developed by users in the field who are able Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today at the Portland, OR, VA Medical Center, that by simple utility programs to develop new to salute a group of dedicated and imaginative demonstrates how the VA employees feel and improved applications of the computer individuals and organizations in northwest Indi­ about "their" medical computer system. The software. Commercial systems discourage ana who have joined forces to combat drug letter follows: this kind of broad based user development, 16336 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 insisting that only their programers make THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE bians and South Africans about the state of changes in the software. Moreover, many AUTHORIZATION BILL AND war that now exists in South Africa. While commercial software developers have failed THE ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY Jonas Savimbi is feted in Washington and Jo­ to provide improvements for their system, OF SOWETO over the years. hannesburg, it is proposed that representa­ In addition to the CORE software devel­ tives of the South West Africa Peoples' Orga­ oped at the VA computer development site, HON.THOMASJ.DOWNEY nization and the African National Congress be talented computer amateurs at many of the OF NEW YORK barred from freely traveling in the United VA Medical Centers have written additional IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES States. Should this amendment pass, we will programs that have a high clinical or man­ Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 be marching in lock step with the apartheid agement utility. For instance at the Port­ regime in its attempt to remove the public land VA Medical Center we have developed Mr. DOWNEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, today we commemmorate the tragic events spotlight from its deadly policies. programs to assist scheduling of operating Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote rooms and to notify services throughout the that began in Soweto 11 years ago. On this Medical Center of the current operating day in 1976, the South African police mur­ against these amendments. We have taken a room schedule, on inventory control and dered a 13-year-old student, Hector Peterson, stand against apartheid with our votes for supply ordering system, and an inventory and sparked weeks of rioting in the black sanctions. We must not allow those votes to system for control of hazardous and toxic townships. This morning's news reports in­ be undermined. We must not now give to the chemical throughout the Medical Center. forms us that over 1 million Africans are ob­ South African regime the support we took Implementation of the DHCP system has serving this day by staying away from work. away last year. I would hope that my col­ not been without problems, however, I be­ Across the United States, local communities leagues would remember the courage and de­ lieve that most of the problems have been will observe this day with rallies and memorial termination of those African students who related to insufficient computing capacity services. began their school boycott 11 years ago and of the computer hardware that was original­ Today here in Congress we have our own ly supplied, insufficient numbers of appro­ stamped the evil of apartheid firmly into the opportunity to pause and reflect on the events international conscience. We should not priately trained computer center personnel that transpired in Soweto, and, perhaps more and the resistance of some individuals who betray their vision today. were required to implement the computer importantly, we have an opportunity to do system without having first understood its something. We have before us on the floor of benefits. In spite of these problems there the House H.R. 1777, the Department of State STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS has been wide spread implementation authorization for fiscal year 1988. Today, we within a time frame that compares favor­ will have to vote on a number of amendments ably with implementation of other compara­ to the bill which seek to give aid and comfort HON. CARDISS COLLINS ble large computer systems. to South Africa in its war against its neighbors. OF ILLINOIS Development and implementation of the Since the Reagan administration came to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES V A/DHCP system has in my opinion been town in 1981 it has been single minded in its highly successful and because of the high support for a two track approach to southern Tuesday, June 16, 1987 level of involvement of its users it is likely Africa. One track-best known as constructive Mrs. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, as the 1OOth to evolve at a rapid pace providing capabili­ engagement-involves increased support for ties which will be envied and copied by the Congress continues its important legislative the apratheid regime in its war against its own work, Congressman MILLER and I are honored private sector. I urge your continuing and population. The other track-less well known, vigorous support for this system. to be the 1987 cochairs of the Congressional but every bit as critical to the survival of apart­ Sincerely, Call to Conscience for Soviet Jewry. As we heid-involves increased support for South DANIEL M. BAER, M.D. work on reducing the trade and budget defi­ Africa in its military agression against its neighbors and in its military occupation of Na­ cits, welfare reform, housing, and other issues facing this Congress, we must not forget the PERSONAL EXPLANATION mibia. Mr. Speaker, as you know, Congress has most fundamental of issues-the abuse of repudiated the administration's policy of sup­ human rights that takes place in the Soviet HON. ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES port for apartheid. Unfortunately, we have not Union and too many other parts of the world. OF CALIFORNIA been quite as clear in our opposition to South As the era of glasnost raises our hopes for a more open Soviet society, now, more than IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Africa's policy of carrying its war against Afri­ cans beyond its borders. ever, is the time to push the struggle for the Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 The South African regime can only be en­ basic rights Soviet Jews are denied. As we Mr. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoid­ couraged by continued administration support credit the Soviets for allowing the Anatoly ably absent on official business during rollcall for Jonas Savimbi in his war against Angola. Shcharanskys to emigrate, we must not forget votes No. 174 through No. 179 on Thursday, Today, we may have the opportunity to vote the Vladimir and Maria Slepaks, the Valery June 11. Had I been present on the House on an amendment to H.R. 1777 which would and Svaione Federovs, and the thousands of have the effect of legitimizing Jonas Savimbi's floor, I would have cast my votes in the fol­ others still denied their basic rights. As Mem­ insurrection under international law. Should lowing manner: bers of Congress we hold a special responsi­ this amendment pass, it will be a major victory Rollcall No. 174, "no," Hefley amendment bility to press for human rights, and we in for South Africa, which has up until now been to H.R. 4. Congress are indebted to groups such as the the mainstay of Savimbi. Rollcall No. 175, "no," Hiler amendment to Union of Councils for Soviet Jews that have The South African regime can only be en­ worked tirelessly for these rights. H.R. 4. couraged by continued efforts to bring down Rollcall No. 176, "aye," Gonzalez amend­ The Congressional Call to Conscience is an the Government of Mozambique. Today, we important tool in the continuing struggle for ment to Hiler amendment. may have the opportunity to vote on another human rights. We urge our colleagues to use Rollcall No. 177, "no," motion to recommit. amendment which would prohibit the United this forum so that a week does not go by Rollcall No. 178, "aye," final passage of States Government from providing foreign as­ H.R. 4. sistance to Mozambique which faces a seri­ without a plea-a call to conscience-to the Rollcall No. 179, "aye," approval of House ous South African inspired and supported in­ Soviets to allow religious liberty, cultural free­ Resolution 190. surrection. Should this amendment pass, the dom, the right to emigrate and other freedoms people of Mozambique will be at the mercy of for Jewish as well as all peoples. Congress­ the scorched Earth policy of South Africa's man JEFFORDS will make the first statement hired guns. this week. The South African regime can only be en­ couraged by the attempts to prevent American citziens from hearing first hand from Nami- June 16, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16337 TRIBUTE TO KENNETH GIBSON, health of our country, and Ken Gibson's 16 nism, we have not only solved problems, but FORMER MAYOR OF NEWARK, years of leadership and service to the people we have also created new jobs and new busi­ NJ of Newark remind us of the greatness cities nesses to make and sell the products so con­ can achieve. ceived. The first New Product and Process HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. Fair was held in 1983 and drew 41 entries. OF NEW JERSEY TRIBUTE TO VIRGINIA DE ST. Last month, the fourth New Product and Proc­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PAER ess Fair had 257 entries and 2,500 people Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 came and saw what was new and innovative. There are several categories so as to encour­ Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I take great per­ HON. HENRY J. HYDE age adults and youngsters; students and sonal pleasure in joining my fellow New Jer­ OF ILLINOIS seyans in a tribute to Kenneth Gibson, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES others, to think and then enter the competition with the results of their thinking. former mayor of my hometown, Newark. Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 For many of us, Ken Gibson epitomizes the This concept, originated in southeast Okla­ Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, every once in American dream and devotion to public serv­ homa. has made my district a leader in this awhile, someone very special is accorded rec­ ice. The son of a butcher and a seamstress, new concept which is now being adopted by ognition by her neighbors and friends. Such a Ken grew up in Newark and worked his way other regions of Oklahoma as well as other person is Virginia de St. Paer, who on Sunday, through the New Jersey Institute of Technolo­ States. June 21, will be honored by the Republicans gy-then known as the Newark College of En­ In this connection, it is with particular pride of Du Page County as one of their most distin­ gineering-graduating with a degree in engi­ that I point to an accomplishment of a fifth guished members. neering in the 1950's. He worked as an engi­ grader in my district. Allison M. Goeden, a fifth neer for the New Jersey Department of Trans­ A resident of Wheaton for 30 years, Virginia has been a leading and energetic force grader in the Stillwater, OK, school system, portation, the Newark Redevelopment and has been declared a regional winner in the Housing Authority, and, later, the Newark among party members, who are celebrating her 11 years of outstanding service as Du Invent America Program. The daughter of Mr. Bureau of Buildings. Like many Americans of and Mrs. Galen Goeden conceived a battery­ conscience and vision, Ken helped lead the Page County Republican Chairwoman. Her valuable contributions to the community are operated spoon which, when attached to a civil rights movement to make our Nation cooking utensil will electrically stir the cooking more compassionate and fair-for all its citi­ well known and appreciated by all of us who contents without being operated by hand. Alli­ zens. know her as a good and loyal friend. son chose the name of "Spoon Magic" for In 1970, Ken directed his commitment to In 1975, Virginia was named "Woman of the civil rights and to his community toward city Year" by the Du Page County Federation of her device which was impressive enough to hall-and he made history as the first black Women for her selfless contribution to good take a regional prize. From the list of regional mayor of newark and the first black mayor of government. Virginia also served as president winners, 45 were selected to enter the nation­ a large eastern city. In an era of despair, up­ of the Wheaton Women's Republican Club al competition, which I assisted in judging. All heaval, and racial tension-one of the most from 1967 through 1970, and has dedicated 45 winners, their parents teachers, and con­ divisive in the history of Newark and our 30 years of service to the party and the coun­ gressional representatives have been invited Nation-Ken Gibson's leadership as mayor of ty's Republican central committee. In 1983, to attend an ice cream social June 24 to fur­ Newark helped restore public confidence in Virginia was honored for her volunteer service ther recognize these young thinkers. government and helped launch sorely needed effort in the community during the "Yea! Invent America is a program which teaches economic revitalization. For the first time in Wheaton Celebration." kindergarten through the eighth grade how to their lives, black children living in Newark In addition, Virginia has been a vital source think creatively and innovatively. One of the could look at their mayor and see not a de­ of service in clubs such as the Women's De­ stated purposes of Invent America is to pro­ partment Club of Wheaton, P.E.O. Chapter tached outsider, but a reflection of their possi­ mote excellence in education through the in­ J.O., the Home Garden Club of Wheaton and bilities, their hopes and dreams for a better vention process. A young organization formed the Wheaton A.M. Homemakers. future. They saw a mayor who cared about only a year, Invent America has been em­ equal opportunity for all Americans, a mayor So today, I join with her husband Claude, her children Sue and Jerry, and her many braced by schools in 15 States including Okla­ who helped bring millions of dollars in aid to homa. Newark for housing, health care, and econom­ dear friends in honoring this special person who has given so much of herself to others. It is my judgment that, for the United States ic recovery. During Mayor Gibson's term, to reclaim its place as a world leader in inno­ Newark saw the establishment of the Gate­ vation and technology, we should perhaps way complex, which has become a spring­ INNOVATION AMONG THE consider ways to meld the concepts of Invest board for reviving downtown business areas. YOUNG AND AMERICA'S America, the elementary and secondary Under Mayor Gibson's leadership, the Newark STANDARD OF LIVING school system, the vocational technical Airport grew and Newark's universities-Rut­ gers University, the University of Medicine and HON. WES WATKINS schools, as well as higher educational institu­ Dentistry of New Jersey, and the New Jersey tions; and programs such as my New Prod­ OF OKLAHOMA ucts and Processes Fair, along with program Institute of Technology and Essex County Col­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lege-thrived. long espoused by industry leaders such as Mayors from all over the United States, im­ Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 Westinghouse Electric Co., just to name one, pressed with Ken's innovation and skill, se­ Mr. WATKINS. Mr. Speaker, as some of my and scientific organizations, as a means to lected him as president of the U.S. Confer­ colleagues know, for the past 4 years, on my further create interest in creative and analyti­ ence of Mayors in 1976-a leading voice for initiative, we in southeast Oklahoma have cal thinking and in the sciences and scientific urban reform. been encouraging innovative and creative engineering. Among Ken's many honors are the Con­ thinking as a means to try to solve some of To further call attention to this need, I have gressional Black Associates Award, the Fior­ our economic problems. We are teaching in introduced a joint resolution designating the ello H. LaGuardia Award, Time magazine's the vocational-technical school system prob­ week of June 21-26 as "Invent America Outstanding Young Man Award, and the Jef­ lem solving as a part of the curriculum. One of Week," and I call on my colleagues to join in ferson Award. the results of that curriculum is the New Prod­ cosponsorship. Ken once eloquently spoke of his urban phi­ ucts and Processes Fair. We must think and we must work to com­ losophy when he said that American cities are The challenge is to define a problem which pete in a global economy. "The heart of our Nation, pumping blood of needs to be solved by a new product or a Thank you, Mr. Speaker. survival into the towns, townships, hamlets, new process which not only solves the imme­ and rural areas of our Nation." This commen­ diate problems but also could possibly result tary serves as a warning to those who ignore in a factory or manufacturing plant to actually the role that urban areas play in the collective manufacture the product. Through this mecha- 16338 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 A TRIBUTE TO CONCERNED According to the Principal Marie Thornton, a partisan of the Endowment. Among the let­ CITIZENS OF WESTCHESTER the school's underlying philosophy is that stu­ ters of thanks to Chairman FASCELL on that COUNTY dents can achieve and they can succeed. occasion were messages from the heads of With encouragement and positive reenforce­ democracies around the world. Their praise of HON. JOSEPH J. DioGUARDI ment such as this, it is no wonder that the stu­ the NED deserves our notice. One came from OF NEW YORK dents have achieved and they have succeed­ the President of Argentina, a new democracy. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ed in winning the National Science Olympiad Margaret Thatcher wrote to wish NED "every for junior high school students, and placing success." The President of Costa Rica was Tuesday, June 16, 1987 second at the high school level. thankful for the "opportunity to offer (the) En­ Mr. DioGUARDI. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay I would like to congratulate these students dowment, and all those involved in its lofty tribute to an effort by my Westchester County, for their diligence and hard work in establish­ purposes, all of my support and solidarity." NY, constituents to help raise private funds for ing themselves as the top science students in But the most striking cable by far came the homeless of our county. the country. They raised the money they from Corazon Aquino, President of the newly Concerned citizens of Westchester County, needed for themselves with the support of democratized Philippines. Let me cite from involved in the WFAS AM/FM Bikeathon for their community and their teachers. what she wrote: the Homeless, will be cycling to Washington, I commend the students, staff, and commu­ We shall always remember in gratitude DC, on June 25 to increase public awareness nity for their drive, dedication, and their willing­ and appreciation the Endowment's impor­ of the plight of the homeless and to help raise ness to strive for the best in themselves. tant assistance to the democratic struggle of funds for the Coalition for the Homeless, the our country. Such contributions and com­ mitment to the hopes and ideals of democ­ Coalition of Westchester Food Pantries and VOTE "NO" ON THE AMEND­ Food Kitchens, and the Have a Heart for the racy is the Endowment's greatest legacy, not MENT TO KILL THE NATIONAL only to the Filipino people, but to the rest Homeless Committee. ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRA­ of humanity. While the Federal Government has a pivotal CY role to play in assisting the homeless of our I can not do better than that. I'll end my re­ Nation, those taking part in the WFAS bike­ marks with that assessment by President athon are important to the effort to promote HON. JIM COURTER Aquino about the hope that NED has offered. private sector voluntarism. OF NEW JERSEY She knows. The participation of the Federal Govern­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment in the effort to ameliorate the pains of Tuesday, June 16, 1987 homelessness can be augmented by those in ARLINGTON HEIGHTS FIRST 100 the private sector who, through their kind Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, I was not sur­ YEARS: A CAUSE TO CELEBRATE help, involve themselves and their businesses prised to see that an amendment will be of­ in the effort to help their fellow man. fered tomorrow, June 17, to the State Depart­ HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER In addition, Mr. Speaker, those who are ment bill to abolish the National Endowment OF ILLINOIS taking the time and effort to bike their way to for Democracy. There is a small-very small­ Washington to lobby on behalf of the home­ minority in this House which continues to rep­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES resent the Endowment as the epitome of evil less deserve special praise for their efforts Tuesday, June 16, 1987 and I want to pay tribute to Ross Pollack of interventionism. I can not imagine a more Hartsdale, Margot Brown of New Rochelle, baseless charge against this bipartisan Ameri­ Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I have the honor Hon. Paul Feiner of Hastings, Christopher can effort to promote democracy. And yet the of representing a large portion of the fine vil­ Guglielmo of Yonkers, Adam Klotz of Rye charges persist. It was in 1984, when the En­ lage of Arlington Heights, I L. It is with great Brook, Michael Molinelli of White Plains, Larry dowment was barely a fe\\! months old, that pride that I congratulate Mayor James T. Ryan Paquette of White Plains, Berth Weil of Yon­ George Will wrote a column on attempts, as and the village board of trustees, the Arlington kers, Winston Gonzalez of Yonkers, Hilary he put it, "to slay the butterfly of democracy." Heights Centennial Commission and the Kao of Pound Ridge, Susan Lauer of Harts­ Every year since, the same angry minority has 70,000 residents of this great community on dale, Martin Zagari of Larchmont, Russell appeared wielding its cleaver. And so while I celebrating the 150th anniversary of its found­ Roman of Yonkers, Raphael Riverso of Harts­ am not surprised that the effort to kill NED ing and the 1OOth anniversary of its incorpora­ dale, Les Mahon of Greenburgh, James has arisen again, I am indeed very troubled by tion as a village. Halsey of Mount Vernon, and Richard DiGia­ it. Arlington Heights was originally known as como of Eastchester. The Endowment has a very small budget Dunton, named after the man who first settled Norman Weil Ill, the news director of WFAS and does with it a great deal of good. The the area in 1836, Asa Dunton. The town Mr. AM/FM, deserves special thanks for his effort New Republic, for example, has given regular Dunton founded 150 years ago soon became on behalf of the homeless and I lend my full and thoughtful praise to NED. As one staff home to hundreds of Americans and German support to the bikeathon's goal of helping editorial written just before Mrs. Aquino came immigrants moving westward in search of rich those less fortunate than ourselves. to power declared in January, 1986: farmland. The Klehm Nursery, the Arlington Thank you, Mr. Speaker. NED supports democratic developments in Elevator Co. and the Sigwalt Sewing Machine countries whose governments . . . would Co. were just some of the local industries that prefer not to see democracy developing at provided jobs for the growing population of GOMPERS SECONDARY SCHOOL all . . . This is the case now in the Philip­ the area in the late 19th century. TOPS IN NATION pines, where fully ten percent of NED's The post-World War II boom brought rapid money is going. It is also the case in Para­ guay, Chile, South Africa, and other coun­ commercial and residential growth as thou­ HON. JIM BATES tries where it takes bravery to want social sands of young families moved to Arlington OF CALIFORNIA and political change . . . In Guatemala, Heights from nearby Chicago and from around IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NED aid was critical in mobilizing the popu­ the country. The community evolved into a lation for the recent election, which has bustling bedroom suburb without losing the Tuesday, June 16, 198 7 given that country its first hope in decades appeal of the small town atmosphere that had Mr. BATES. Mr. Speaker, it is with great ad­ of ending the reign of terror. initially drawn the new residents to it. Current­ miration that I rise today to pay tribute to What problem does the sponsor of the ly, Arlington Heights is home to 275 corpora­ Gompers Secondary School in San Diego, CA, amendment to kill NED have with such work? tions and small businesses including Honey­ which has recently established itself as the Mr. Speaker, the recent National Endow­ well Computers and Arlington Park racetrack, top scholastic science school in the Nation. ment for Democracy conference held here in where each summer the finest thoroughbreds Students at Gompers have one of the lowest Washington witnessed the presentation of a and jockeys in the world compete in the Ar­ dropout rates in the school district and are re­ special award to the honorable gentleman lington Million horse race. Also, an ambitious garded as the top science, math, and comput­ from Florida, the chairman of the House For­ development project is now being undertaken er students in the State of California. eign Affairs Committee, [Mr. DANTE FASCELL] in the downtown area that will combine eco- June 16, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16339 nomic growth with careful planning and aes­ called for strengthening the teaching of demo­ tivities, scientific research, and business and thetic beauty. cratic values stating that education for democ­ commerce; A strong commitment to education is a long racy must extend to education in moral issues. (4) statistics show alarming increases in time Arlington Heights tradition. What started My bill requires the Commission to identify the incidence of teenage pregnancy, drug and substance abuse, and suicide among out in 1849 as a one-room, bare-walled values which are essential to our well-being, both young people and adults; school house is now Elementary School Dis­ including, honesty, integrity, tolerance, self­ (5) polls reflect that Americans over­ trict 25, a system recognized throughout the discipline, self-respect, civility, importance of whelmingly prize values such as honesty, State for its excellence. Wheeling Township family, justice, and equality, the rule of law, in­ but believe that people are less honest today High School District 214 students are consist­ dividual rights, the common good, love of than in the past; ently among the top average scorers nation­ country, love of knowledge, responsibility and (6) this national moral recession has im­ wide on college entrance exams. The Arling­ accountability, and protection of oneself and paired the proper functioning of our system ton Heights Memorial Library is the largest others from degradation and abuse. of democratic government; single library system under one roof in the My bill also requires a report to Congress <7> leaders across a wide spectrum of polit­ State of Illinois. ical, social, and religious beliefs believe that within a year with recommendations on what education for democracy must extend to The Arlington Heights Park District, a recent Congress and the executive branch can do to education in moral issues, and have called recipient of the National Gold Medal for Excel­ promote the teaching of values in American for strengthening the teaching of democrat­ lence in Parks and Recreation Management, schools. ic values; and maintains 49 parks on 502 acres of land and This Commission should not be made up of (8) while education remains the responsi­ provides recreational activities for young and so-called experts. I have included language bility of local and State government, the old alike. Organized instructional programs specificially stating that appointments be Congress and Federal Government may ap­ and competitive leagues are available for made from groups including parents, students, propriately provide assistance to education­ those young people who wish to participate in al agencies and institutions attempting to educators, philosophers, theologians, and reli­ include values education in their curricu­ baseball, football, basketball, soccer and gious leaders, sports figures, social service lums. swimming. This community has produced workers and the general public. many outstanding college and professional SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT. Mr. Speaker, I hope that bill can be expedi­ There is hereby established a Commission athletes throughout the years who began their tiously passed. A renewal of basic values is careers on the playing fields of Arlington on Values Education, hereafter in this Act critical to our future moral health. referred to as the "Commission". Heights schools and parks. For the benefit of my colleagues, I submit SEC. 5. DUTIES. Mr. Speaker, the village of Arlington Heights the following bill: has been successful in achieving economic The Commission shall- H.R. 2667 <1) consider the widest range of values for growth while maintaining a proud sense of inclusion in the consensus of values that community and history. The accomplishments Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of should be taught, including traditional of this community and the individuals that America in Congress assembled, Judea-Christian values, honesty, integrity, have built it over the last 150 years serve as SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. tolerance, self-discipline, self-respect, civil­ an inspiration to us all. This Act may be cited as the "Commission ity, importance of family, justice, equality, on Values Education Act of 1987". the rule of law, individual rights, the common good, love of country, love of VALUES EDUCATION SEC. 2. PURPOSE. knowledge, responsibility and accountabil­ The purposes of this Act are- ity, protection of oneself and others from <1) to establish a commission to examine degradation and abuse; HON. TONY P. HALL the issues associated with the teaching of OF OHIO (2) conduct interviews, meetings, hearings, values in elementary, secondary, and post­ and conferences in various regions and lo­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES secondary schools, and in institutions of calities in the United States to gather the Tuesday, June 16, 1987 higher learning; opinions of a wide variety of individuals, in­ (2) to recommend to the President and to Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, on June 11 cluding educators and educational adminis­ Congress how the Federal Government, trators, students, parents, philosophers and I introduced H.R. 2667, legislation to create a through executive action and legislation, theologians, civic, religious, and professional Commission on Values Education. The pur­ can promote the teaching of values in Amer­ leaders, social service professionals, political pose of this bill is to find out how we can ican schools, including report its findings and recommenda­ <3> to explore and assess a variety of ap­ Our Nation is in the grips of a moral reces­ tions to Congress and the President not proaches to teaching values; later than one year after the enactment of sion. Our country has witnessed Watergate, (4) to identify those values supported by a Abscam, and lrangate. We pick up the papers this Act; consensus of Americans as essential to a <4> include in such report its recommenda­ and read about insider trading scandals, fraud complete education and preparation for be­ tions for specific legislation or executive ac­ in scientific research, bribery, kickbacks and coming productive members of society, and tions, as well as broad policy goals and ob­ corruption. which may be appropriately endorsed and jectives: Cheating in the schools is out of control. promoted by the Federal Government; and <5) include in such report a recommenda­ Teen pregnancy, teen suicide and drug abuse <5> to identify the ways in which judg­ tion as to the establishment within the Fed­ are on the rise. ments of values and of right and wrong are eral Government of a clearinghouse for cur­ implicated in matters of public and private rent programs and ideas on values educa­ We are raising a generation of children who concern. cannot distinguish between right and wrong. tion; SEC. 3. FINDINGS. They are not prepared to make tough choices <6> include in such report a recommenda­ The Congress finds that- tion to Congress as the appropriateness of when there are gray areas, or when values ( 1) many Americans no longer make deter­ institutional changes in the House of Repre­ seem to conflict. minations of right and wrong as to their sentatives and the Senate, including the es­ Mr. Speaker, I am not arguing that this is own actions or the actions of others, and tablishment of a Select Committee on the fault of our schools. But schools can play this phenomenon crosses economic, social, Values Education; a role in helping to instill values in individuals. religious, and age lines, and is evident in (7) seek the cooperation, advice, and as­ The 1960's and 1970's saw a move toward matters of both public and private concern: sistance of the Department of Education "values free" teaching in which students were (2) institutions of education, which have and such other Federal, State, and local given the options, but no guidance towards traditionally played a role in assisting stu­ agencies, and private and religious organiza­ dents to make such determinations, have ab­ tions, institutions, and associations, as may answers. Now, many educators agree that dicated this responsibility; be helpful in carrying out its purposes and schools should teach civic virtue and take (3) this abdication is evident in a national duties; clear positions on right or wrong behavior. epidemic of incidents in which people have (8) recognize those individuals and institu­ Leaders from a wide range of political and failed to consider the ethics governing their tions which have demonstrated outstanding social arenas and religious backgrounds have behavior, in governmental and political ac- success in teaching values; and 16340 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1987 (9) identify the potential of values educa­ leader of the Senate shall each designate mission's deliberations, rather than to the tion for reducing the incidence of such prob­ one of their appointees as co-chair of the payment of professional staff. lems as those mentioned in section 3<4> of Commission. (f) GIFTS AND BEQUESTs.-The Commission this Act. SEC. 7. COMPENSATION. is authorized to accept, use, solicit, and dis­ SEC. 6. MEMBERSHIP AND APPOINTMENT OF COM­ PLAY.-Members of the Commission pose of donations of money, property, or MISSION. shall serve without compensation. personal services to perform the duties (a) MEMBERSHIP.-The Commission shall (b) TRAVEL EXPENSES.-Members of the hereinbefore described. No donation may be be composed of 17 members as follows: Commission shall be allowed reasonable accepted which prescribes or limits the pur­ pose for which it may be used, or which ex­ (1) Seven members each appointed by the travel expenses, including a per diem allow­ Speaker of the House of Representatives ance, in accordance with section 5703 of ceeds $25,000 in the case of an individual and the majority leader of the Senate, in title 5, United States Code, when perform­ donor, or $100,000 in the case of a corpora­ ing duties of the Commission. tion, partnership, association, or other orga­ consultation with the respective minority nization or business association. leaders, from among individuals who are SEC. 8. POWERS. (g) USE OF SERVICES AND FACILITIES.-Upon broadly representative of, but not restricted (a) MEETINGS.-The Commission shall first the request of the Commission, the head of to, the folowing groups- meet not more than 30 days after the date any Federal agency may make available to professional educators and educational on which members are appointed, and the the Commission any of the facilities and administrators; Commission shall meet thereafter upon the services of such agency. (B) parents of students at elementary, sec­ call of the chair or a majority of the mem­ (h) PERSONNEL FROM OTHER AGENCIES.­ ondary, and postsecondary levels; bers. Upon the request of the Commission, the students at secondary and post-second­ (b) HEARINGS AND SESSIONS.-The Commis­ head of any Federal agency may detail any ary levels; sion may hold such hearings, sit and act at of the personnel of such agency to assist the philosophers, theologians, and reli­ such times and places, take such testimony. Commission in carrying out its duties. gious leaders; and receive such evidence as the Commis­ State and local elected and appointed sion considers appropriate. The Commission SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. government officials, including members of may administer oaths or affirmations to wit­ There are authorized to be appropriated State and local boards of educations; nesses appearing before it. to carry out this title $300,000 for fiscal year persons prominent in sports, the arts, (C) ACCESS TO INFORMATION.-The Commis­ 1987, and such sum as may be necessary for and entertainment; sion may secure directly from any Federal fiscal year 1988. Amounts appropriated pur­ persons active in business, the profes- agency information necessary to enable it to suant to this section are authorized to sions, or civic activities; carry out this title. Upon the request of co­ remain available until expended. social service professionals; and chair of the Commission, the head of such SEC. 10. TERMINATION. STAFF.-The executive director shall House of Representatives and the Commit­ sion shall be filled in the manner in which appoint such staff members as may be nec­ tee on Labor and Human Resources of the the original appointment was made. essary to perform the work of the Commis­ Senate shall conduct hearings on such TERMs.-Members of the Commission sion. In allocating authorized, appropriated, report and the recommendations contained shall be appointed for the life of the Com­ and contributed funds, priority shall be therein and shall report to their respective mission. given to those activities, such as hearings houses on the results of those hearings (d) Co-CHAIRS OF COMMISSION.-The and conferences, designed to elicit the within 30 days after the completion of the Speaker of the House and the majority broadest public participation in the Com- hearing.