January 17, 1980 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 47 hearing will also take place in room 6202 RECOGNITION OF THE ACTING rent Resolution No. 232, I move that the of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. MAJORITY LEADER Senate stand in recess until 12 o'clock The committee will announce at a The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem meridian un Tuesday, January 22, 1980. later date its plans for the remainder of pore. The Senator from Hawaii. The motion was agreed to; and, at hearings on the first concurrent resolu tion on the Budget for fiscal year 1981. 12: 02 p.m., the Senate recessed, pursu For further information contact Karen RECESS TO JANUARY 22, 1980 ant to House Concurrent Resolution No. Randall of the Senate Budget Commit Mr. MATSUNAGA. Mr. President, pur 232, until Tuesday, January 22, 1980, at tee, at ~24-0542.e suant to the provisions of House Concar- 1~ o'clock meridian.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Thursday, January 17, 1980
The House met at 12 o'clock noon. H.J. RES. - man from Alabama (Mr. BUCHANAN) is Dr. Edward G. Latch, former Chaplain, Joint rei::olution to request that the Inter recognized for 5 minutes. ·u.s. House of Representatives, offered national Olympic Committee hold the
O This symbol represents the time of day during the House Proceedings, e.g., O 1407 is 2:07 p.m. • This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 48 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE January 17, 1980 sovereignty and self-determination of a enough to make a travelogue photographer morning and turned on a radio sports call-in people-that is more than politics; it is a weep with joy. Pittsburgh's post-World war show, and before breakfast I heard people crime, and the world should react ac II "Renaissance," effected by Mayor David calling in asking a.bout the Steelers. In July. cordingly. Lawrence and Richard Mellon, cleansed that Before breakfast. Where else do they do title. that?" It is not enough for one or two na This is not to suggest that Pittsburgh "On Monday mornings you can find a pres tions to boycott the Olympics. We do not doesn't have problems, it has slums and ident of a Fortune 500 company, a regular need to say no to the Olympics. We potholes the size of desks and insufficient salesman and a maintenance man in front should say yes to the Olympics and no mass transit. But it no longer has smoke the of the U.S. Steel building talking football, to Moscow. thickness of brick. and from the way they were talking there The whole world should cry out with Really, it is no longer even The Steel City would be no way in the world to distinguish one voice: Yes to the Olympic Games, Chicago is. You can make sure the case their stations in life."-Andy Staursky, pub but no to Moscow as the site of those certainly most pop sociological sports fea lic relations, U.S. Steel. tures do-that this is simply a tough-guy, Art Rooney, the 79-year-old owner o! the games, because holding them there, as shot-and-a-beer town, a shooter of bar Steelers and the only man in the world who was the case in 1936 with Adoph Hitler's whiskey and an Iron City chaser, that you talks exactly the same way with or without Germany, would violate everything the don't have to open an overcoat too far to a cigar in his mouth, is sitting in his office at Olympics stand for. We should begin see a blue collar underneath. Like Chica.go, Three Rivers surrounded by pictures of some forthwith to make a major effort to get hog butcher to the world, called by Carl of his favorite people: Bobby Lane, Terry the world to stand with us. Sandburg "city of the Big Shoulders." Pitts Bradshaw, Billy Conn, Byron White, Pope It is my profound hope, Mr. Speaker, burgh was settled by fleshy men of broad John Paul II. that the President will act and the Olym backs and ethnic diversity. Slavs, Poles, Irish, If this is a sports town first, it is a foot pic Committee will follow that leader Italians, Jews, Germans, Serbs, blacks, in ball town foremost, and Art Rooney is Pitts naturally isolated pockets formed by rivers burgh football. Everyone calls him Mr. ship and do what is simply right, in this and hills, a topogra,phy not unlike that of Rooney. Everyone loves him. He has gone matter. San Francisco. Because of this natural isola from running booze and ma.king book in tion there wasn't the massive suburban flight Northside to being Pittsburgh's uncanonized PITTSBURGH: CITY OF CHAMPIONS that char·acterized Eastern cities in the '60s saint. He appears at more· funerals and hos and '60s. pitals than any man in town without a (Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania It ls said that 76 percent of all Pittsburgh clerical collar. He has never lived anywhere asked and was given permission to ex ers can trace their roots here back for three else. Never will. tend his remarks at this point in the generations. People stay. Probably 60 percent "People ask me what's best a.bout Pitts RECORD and to include extraneous mat of those people in Los Angeles, Houston, and burgh," he says. "Number one it's the people. ter.) Dallas cannot trace their roots there back one It's what we have that's best of all. You ask generation; some neighborhoods in Wash someone where some street is, he won't just • Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr. ington are so transient that people can tell you-he'll take you there. I don't know, Speaker, through the achievements of hardly trace their roots back three months. maybe we're not as busy as other people; the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pitts All this gives Pittsburgh a sense of ,perma I think it's because there are so many na burgh Pirates, the city of Pittsburgh is nence and stabllity, so its vestigial image tives, and they're so friendly." receiving nationwide recognition as a is easily per,petuated. He is wearing very thick glasses, so thick city of champions. With the Pirates win Fifteen years ago, the mill workers--"the that behind them, his eyes appear only as ners of the World Series and with the hunkies"-represented 36 percent of the slits between folds as big as hunks of bread. population. Now, with industrial diversifica He leans forward. Steelers the undisputed favorites in the tion and the rise of Pittsburgh to status as "A dyed-in-the-wool Pittsburgher was al Super Bowl, the label City of Champions the · nation's third largest corporate city. ways proud of this place. You never met a is certainly Pittsburgh's due. Yet, the Headquarters of such Fortune 500 corpora guy from Pittsburgh who hesitated to tell spectacular successes of our sports teams tions as Gulf Oil, U.S . Steel, Alcoa, Westing you so. Let me tell you something. I can tell has also meant increasing national focus house Electric and Rockwell International, a Pittsburgher by his handshake. By the on the city of Pittsburgh itself. As all we the hunkies account for only 15 percent. warmth, I can do it most all the time, unless Pittsburghers know, Pittsburgh is one At core it may be a hardhat town, but he's only been here six months. Any more and Jonas Salk discovered the cure for ,polio at I can tell." terrific town. Pittsburgh is cultural, the University of Pittsburgh, Andre Previn He is asked if Pittsburghers have been win friendly, an industrial and business conducts the Pittsburgh Symphony Or center, safe, clean, and beautiful-all ning for so many years now that they a.re chestra, there ls a Civic Light Opera and an beginning to take it in stride. The question those things which so many other cities inner-city mail, Station Square, that may amuses him. strive to be and yet fall so far short. become the East's answer to Ghirardelli Square. There are a few cobblestone streets "Eight years a.go we came into this park Pittsburgh is, in its own right, a City of and they never stopped yelling all year long, Champions. downtown and a trolley, and just recently Frank Deford, writing in Sports Illuustrated, win or lose. My feeling this year was that Mr. Speaker, I include the following called Pittsburgh "a heterosexual San Fran they weren't as enthusiastic. Not in the play article from the January 13 Washington cisco." offs, mind you, but the regular season. Still, Post by Tony Kornheiser entitled "Sports But most of all what Pittsburgh is now, I admit I was surprised before the Miami Just the Icing on This Town's Cake" in the eyes of the nation and in its own game. They had a. TV crew outside and they psychic mirror, is The City of Champions. interviewed 10 or 12 people. The younger at this point in the RECORD: ones said, 'Aw, it's dull, they win all the SPORTS JUST THE ICING ON THIS TOWN'S CAKE Not since 1969 with the Mets and Jets-and never before that-has a city produced a time.' Not the older ones. The older ones (By Tony Kornheiser) World Series and a Super Bowl champion in saw us lose so long they hope we win forever." ( Other than welcoming the passengers on the same year. Pitt's Panthers won the na "The way some of these guys talk about the board and telling them the cruising altitude tional football championship in 1976 and City of Champions you'd think they were and the weather, the pilot of Northwest went 11-1 this year. Both Pitt and Duquesne the ones out there winning all the· games. I Orient's flight 311 from Washington to Pitts have fine basketball squads, and last week, hear people tell me that they a.re getting so burgh said nothing at all until the plane for the first time in their history, hockey's tired of the bragging-they wish they'd go began to circle its destination, and then he Pittsburgh Penguins went into first place in back to losing."-J'ohn DeFazio, Steelworkers said nothing about the steel mills that line their division, briefly though it was, and over Union. the banks of the Monongahela River or the Montreal no less. Sports, the glue that sup There a.re four of them sitting around a. confluence of the Monongahela and the Alle posedly holds this city together, has never table in the 2001 disco in Bridgeville, Chuck gheny where the two meet to form the Ohio. been so invigorating as it is now. Puskar, who sells insurance; Johnny Brown, No, what the pilot said was, "On your right So important is sports to the psyche of who manages shopping centers; Ray Mans ls Three Rivers Stadium, home of the unde Pittsburghers that on the day after the field, who played center on the Steelers' first featable Steelers.") Steelers beat Houston in the AFC champion Super Bowl team, and Myron Cope, Pitts PITTSBURGH.-It is no longer The Smoky ship game, The Pittsburgh Press devoted the burgh's answer to Howard Cosen, a. man in City, a city so polluted by the soot and the entire top half of its front page to the story. capable of making an "ow" sound so he pro ash that spewed from the mills that a man Articles a.bout the continuing crises in Iran nounces "downtown" as "donton," the way wearing a white shirt to work at 8 in the a.nd Afghanistan were played below the fold. a true Pittsburgher does. A true Pittsburgher morning would be wearing a. gray shirt by "Sports dominate the minds in this city so pronounces "this" a.s "dis" a.nd "Steelers" as noon. In fact, there is only one mill left much, it's almost scary," said Jim O'Brien, "Stillrz." Maybe pronounce is a bad term. A within the city boundary and downtown's a Press sports reporter who was born and true Pittsburgher doesn't pronounce words, Golden Triangle is so clean and striking that raised here and returned last spring after he bites them. A true Pittsburgher doesn't at twilight the view of it from across the spending 10 years in New York City. "All move his mouth up and down, but side to Monongahela on Mount Washington is I can tell you is that in July I woke up one side. Myron Cope's voice is a. rockslid.e. January 17, 1980 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 49 Cope does radio and TV here. He invented city, his Renaissance Two. Richard Caliguiri pions, black and gold. "We're going to jump "The Terrible Towel," an ordinary yellow is not the kind of man to put Aladdin's lamp on the bandwagon," he says. "The oppor towel that Pittsburghers believe does magical in a Cuisinart. tunity is perfect for us." terrible things to the opposition when waved "I understand the shot and the beer," Martha is a hero here still. He has styled at them. Every bar in town has a terrible he says. "The mill worker is a tough man. hair and wears banker's suits, and is equally towel. Every fan has one. The highest compli He had to be. He came here as an immigrant at home in the local millgate bars and the ment a Pittsburgher can pay you is to call and went right into the mill. In the· winter corporate boardrooms. This is what being a you terrible. he froze. In the summer he baked. If not hero In Pittsburgh can do for you. The Terrible Towel has made Cope a hero in the mill, then in the mine, if not in the He is eating cheese ravioli in clam sauce here, just as "Babushka Power" and "The mine, then in the ditch. He had to clear his at The Pleasure Bar in Bloomfield, an Italian Green Weenie" made Bob Prince, the former lungs from the dirt and dust, so he took a. section, and he is talking about his home Pirates announcer, a hero before him. Once shot and a beer. What upsets me about the town, a place he chose to live in over all a hero, always a hero in Pittsburgh. Ask Dick image is that those mill workers were un others incl udlng California, a place a man Groat, who does color on Pitt basketball fairly made synonymous with dirt and ig who looks like Paul Martha could own. games: Paul Martha, the former Pitt All norance, and that's the image we had "It wasn't for me," he is saying. "Too much America football player who is now general crude. I'm not upset with Pittsburgh being radical change. I don't like radical change. manager of the Penguins; Frank Gustine, the a great industrial town. Just the stereotype." Pittsburgh is a stable place. You go away for former Pirate who owns a big restaurant Caliguiri is sitting down, and sitting down a while, you see the same faces when you here. he seems almost swallowed by his chair. He come back. You can get hold of this city. Many Pittsburgh athletes stay here ·be is a small man, 5 feet 7 at the most, but these "Let me tell you something about Pitts cause they are so beloved here. Mansfield is are not small words and this is no small burgh. You can go downtown, get rolling one. When he first came here from the Eagles vision. smashed drunk, stagger out of the bar and he expected to find, to quote James Parton, "We've never been able to get people to walk three or four blocks to your hotel with "Hell, with the lid off." He and his wife visit Pittsburgh but the City of Champions out getting killed. It's the safest place I've once drove across Pennsylvania, and when is giving us the favorable exposure we need. ever been in. I know how Pittsburghers like he saw the highway sign for Pittsburgh he Last year I got 400 mayors to come here and to think of themselves as tough, and they're looked around "for a big black cloud." Mans they left as 400 ambassadors for Pittsburgh. right, they are tough-it took tough people field is here for keeps now. At this moment The City of Champions is a common denom to build this town, tough people to make all he is sitting around a table in a disco where inator; we're all caught up in this. It makes that steel during World War II. But these they play Frankie Valli records with three it easier for me to sell my program. We had are nice people here, kind people. It's a other men talking about image and reality. the· cake built, but the Steelers and Pirates blue-collar citizenry and sports is what they Cope: "People come here thinking they'll are the icing on the cake." care about. You've got a 15 percent interest hate it, but they love it. Thing is, Pittsburgh And now the mayor is getting to the nug rate, you've got troubles in Iran, troubles in ers have always been defensive about it. They get. Afghanistan, layoffs in the mills, a lot of have a complex. There's no need for it. To And for this he stands up. down things except for our sports teams. If me it's a nifty place." "What I am saying is that if the teams we had losing teams here it could get very Brown: "Hell in 1947 I got off a streetcar don't continue to win, and that sometimes depressing.'' and I swear, I couldn't see my hand. But happens, the city is still here. We want to Sports is the savior. Sports is it. If you that's all gone now. Now nobody asks about be a City of Champions as a city, not just don't talk sports here, you're a . fag. I can't that, they want to know about the Steelers in sports." tell you what an elated feeling being the city and Pirates. I think they've put Pittsburgh "The last two Monday Night Football of champions has given this town. on the map." games, the blimp came. The blimp never used "It's a tough town. In Northside they built Puskar: "I hope so. I've always been skepti to come here."-Bill Kessler, public relations, a park with a pond in it, and put ducks in cal. When I was a kid and Green Bay was U.S. Steel. t'he pond. A day later, no ducks. Folks caught winning I could name all . the Packers. I Short takes: In Pittsburgh's airport they them and cooked them."-Rufus Jackson, wonder if our guys are household names in sell a gold and black lollipop for 80 cents cab driver. Green Bay? I guess I'm still a little defen with the inscription, "Lick 'Em Steelers." Pittsburgh is by no means a glamorous sive. I really want to take pride in Pitts Downtown in the bakeries they sell sheet city. Fashions come late and stay long past burgh, it's my home. You know, when they cakes decorated with the Steelers' helmet their prime. Miniskirts never went out of put 'Skag' on TV, and it was set in Pitts insignia. Women in town wear tiny gold and style. Neither did argyle socks. People don't burgh. I was so proud. Hell, a series about black knit caps pinned to their overcoats make a fuss over the width of their lapels us hunkies. That's great." like corsages. In the office buildings in the because, after all, how many lapel widths Mansfield: "The town's got a new pride Golden Triangle there are letters pasted does Sears carry? Gucci? Yeah, sure, runs a since the winners. I know it. I never felt it onto the windows-they spell out signs like cannoli bakery in Bloomfield. before, but now all around me I see It. That "Kick Their Bum" and "Steelers Go In Style Homestead is by no means half as glam picture In Sports Illustrated, with all those With a Touch of Class." The building with orous as Pittsburgh. Homestead is a working mm workers, all those beautiful ethnic faces, the longer sign is the Pennsylvania State man's town in a workingman's city. Home of now that's Pittsburgh. I'll tell you what, this Office Building. In the mail Myron Cope rou the Homestead Grays, the team that Josh is still a town that represents America, where tinely receives things made in gold and black Gibson played for because Gibson's skin was men are men and women are proud of It." and pictures of dogs and cats dressed up black, and black men did not play in the Puskar: "It was great. Steelworkers. But in gold and black hats. Last week he was major leagues then-they weren't permitted. not dirty. That's us. We're all hunkies here. mailed a gold and black jockstrap by a man You talk football, baseball, broads and hunt Homestead was also the site of the 1892 who claimed to be dying of cancer. The man Carnegie Steel strike, and there, is a monu ing. What else ls there?" said only the Steelers and the jockstrap were Cope: "The only thing that gets me ls that ment dedicated to those workers who died in keeping him alive. the violence that marked that strike. Home everyone says this ls just a shot-and-a-beer "In the old days when we weren't good town. We've got culture. Me. I drink martinis. stead ls a. mill town, and sinoe 1892 a union enough to win, the only thing we wanted to town. But what they're saying ls right. There's a do was· beat up the other team."-Bob real pride here" The monument stands outside Chlodo's DePasquale, building inspector. Tavern, on the main street in Homestead, "As far as building a civic mind, I think "What our program really needs is a few it's wearing off quite rapidly. Repeat the two blocks up from the U.S. Steel mill. good hunkies from up there."-Johnny Chiodo's is clustered with sports memora stimulus, dull the response ... if you Majors, former Pitt coach, now head coach come to say that it's a myth that winning bilia, a jersey that Ernie Stautner wore, a at Tennessee. jersey that Ted Marchlbroda wore, a kicking changes things, you've come at the right Paul Martha thinks he knows this town time. It didn't change the crime rate. It shoe worn by Lou Michaels, items of signifi and knows he loves this town. He was ,born cance that make Chiodo's a cathedral to didn't produce any lasting sociological here, went to college here, made All-America change."-Jack Weisgerber, public relations, Pittsburgh athletics. Western Psychiatric Institute. here, played pro football here, got a law de gree here, married the daughter of a former They talk sports here. "It's momentary. It doesn't make it any chairman of the board of U.S. Steel and now If someone says "Well, my broker's E. F. easier to pay off a 13 percent mortgage." works as general manager of the Penguins, Hutton, and E. F. Hutton says ..." nobody Ron Hough, Pittsburgh banker. the pro team that is significantly absent turns around to listen. Richard Caliguiri, who used to set pins in from the billboard on Rte. 60 South advertis Joe Chiodo is behind the bar. He buys a bowling alley, is the No. 1 salesman in ing The City of Champions with a Steeler drinks for strangers, he's tha.t kind of guy. Pittsburgh. Then again, if the mayor isn't helmet and a Pirate cap. Most of his customers drink shooters and the city's cheerleader, who is? In the lobby He would like his team to be the third Iron, a.nd Joe Chiodo runs a clean bar, a of the City-County Building there are black champion. But if that cannot happen right friendly bar. No one is turned a.way, except and gold signs proclaiming the City of Cham away he at least wants his team to look like that one day when Karl Malden ca.me be pions, and though there are none in Cali the other two champions, and toward that cause he was shooting "Skag" down the block guiri's office, the spirit is there, especially end he is trying, as quickly as possible, to and it was before Chiodo's was open for busi when he talks about his master plan for the outfit the Penguins in the colors of cha.lll- ness and the girl at the door didn't recognize CXXVI-4-Part 1 50 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE January 17, 1980 him. If Malden were to come in tomorrow, fans helped make it good by supporting the Mr. THOMPSON, for 60 minutes, on Joe Chiodo would buy him a. drink. teams, by yelling a.nd screaming. "Maybe if January 22. There are six or seven people at the bar, we ha.d gone and screamed 16 yea.rs a.go, each wearing a. face that generations ago they'd have been winners then," he says. ca.me from Europe. Big men. Fleshy men. "You see," Sid Klein says, "people a.re in United by the mill and a love of sports. You better spirlts because of this. It helps over EXTENS'.ION OF REMARKS ask them a.bout the image of Pittsburgh come the ba.d things, Ga.s lines. Iranians. It By unanimous consent, permission to and they all but take e. swing at you with doesn't bother us as much. Sports ls our their answer. escape." extend remarks in the RECORD, or to re "What's wrong with Pittsburgh?" Joe Chiodo is a. quiet ma.n. vise and extend remarks was granted to: Homestead is the Pittsburgh of the mind. Through most of this he ha.s been listen Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania, and "I went to Ha.wail la.st year." Chiodo says. ing, trying to help out by soliciting more to include extraneous material notwith "The bellhops found out. 'Pittsburgh? Pitts people a.this bar to join in. Now he wants to standing the fact that it exceeds two burgh Steelers?' They a.11 wanted to know join in. pages of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD and about the Steelers." It is short a.nd sweet. is estimated by the Public Printer to cost Across the ba.r George Ja.nocsko is nodding. "In a way we don't want people here. We $884.25. "Didn't the ·pictures on TV tell the story? don't want a. lot of people to come. It's so That view from Mount Washington, how beautiful here, and we want it to stay that nice it is? We knew it. But the country way." didn't." He hits the bottom line. ADJOURNMENT "Sa.fest city in the world," Sid Klein says. "We're like Paris compared to Cleveland." Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I move "Friendliest too," Jim Lesko says. Someone buys Joe Chiodo a round, a.nd that the House do now adjourn. Ed Ingle is drinking his beer and listen they a.11 drink to that. ing. He ~lears his throat. The others let him The motion was agreed to; accord speak. "What it a.11 means 1s that we're the ingly (at 12 o'clock and 8 minutes p.m.), best. We a.lwa.ys knew it. Now everybody pursuant to the provisions of House knows it. I'm from Pittsburgh and damn SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED Concurrent Resolution 232, the House proud of it. Hey, when you're the best, you're By unanimous consent, permission to adjourned until Tuesday, January 22, the best. Sports in Pittsburgh is like people address the House, following the legisla 1980, at 12 o'clock meridian. in Pittsburgh. When they get their backs up tive program and any special orders against the wall, they come out and do it." heretofore entered, was granted to: Joe Chiodo buys him a round. (The following Member (at the re REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUB These men do not like Los Angeles. They LIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS do not like Houston. They sa.y tha. t places quest of Mr. ERDAHL) to revise and ex with big money produce big snobs. In fa.ct, tend his remarks and include extraneous Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of they don't like any city on Pittsburgh's material:) committees were delivered to the Clerk schedule. But most of a.11 they don't like Mr. BUCHANAN, for 5 minutes, today. for printing and reference to the proper Dallas. They do not like Dallas being thought calendar, as follows: of a.s America's Team. They did not take (The following Members (at the re maximum joy watching Da.lla.s get beat by quest of Mr. KILDEE) to revise and ex Mr. ULLMAN: Committee on Ways a.nd Los Angeles. Maximum joy would have been tend their remarks and include extrane Means. House Concurrent Resolution 204. watching Pittsburgh beat Dallas, 40-0. ous material:) Resolution approving the extension of non discriminatory treatment to the products They agree that sports is good in Pitts Mr. WEISS, for 60 minutes, on Janu of the People's Republic of China. (Rept. No. burgh now. Larry Churma. thinks that the ary 22. 96-733). And ordered to be printed.