25204 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 26, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS H.M. DAUGHTRY, JR., ONE OF A told him the news, he was silent a moment, showing any new visitor those terribly diffi­ KIND then he looked up and said, "Well, Dad's up cult to build towers and turrets and the im­ there now and I'll bet he's already com­ possible ceiling that "his boys had built." plaining about how they built the place." And then he'd go into infinite detail about HON. GUY VANDER JAGT And he probably is. No one except a son how hard it had been and what a great job OF MICHIGAN who over and over went through the scrutiz­ his boys had done. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing inspections of a builder who demanded H.M. was one of the best friends I ever nothing less than perfection could have so had. But how do I know that? He never told Thursday, September 26, 1985 captured the essence of H.M. me. Not once did he express his friendship Mr. VANDER JAGT. Mr. Speaker, this is And I suspect that if right now H.M. is up for me, but in a way he didn't have to. He a most unique experience for me. As a there complaining to God about how they expressed that friendship in hundreds of matter of fact, this is the flrst time in my built Heaven, that God, like his sons, sees acts of kindness and deeds of friendship congressional career that I have brought to through those complaints and that grum­ over the years. He expressed his friendship bling, and sees the life he lived, the homes when my ca.r ran out of gas, or when it was the attention of my colleagues personal re­ he built, the family he raised, and I'll bet stuck in a snowbank, when there was some­ marks that I have made. But, as all will God is saying "Well done, thou good and thing in the house I couldn't fix, or some soon discover, H.M. would influence one to faithful servant." other emergency where I desperately do things a little bit differently and to do So in a way we are here to celebrate that neededH.M. them with fullest concern and effort. And, such a good man lived his life so well. I remember once when Carol and I were in of even far more importance-to do them What is the measure of a man anyWay? I Europe, a burglar in the middle of the night right. think you measure a man by what he leaves had broken the basement window and come H.M. Daughtry, Jr., my friend, passed behind. Some great men leave behind stone up the stairs and was peering in the door­ monuments. H.M. left behind living monu­ way at our then little daughter Ginny sleep­ away on Labor Day, September 2, 1985. I ments: the beautiful homes of quality into ing in her canopy bed. Fortunately the baby was honored deeply when asked by his which he poured so much pride. Even more sitter startled the burglar and he ran down family to deliver the eulogy in his memory. than for profit, H.M. built for doing a job the front steps and out the door and disap­ It was not easy-1 tried very hard. and doing it right. Of one new employee he peared into the middle of the night. Who In further honoring H.M. Daughtry now, once complained, "You know he's a good did the baby sitter call right away? H.M.! I do 80 because he so honored and cher­ worker. If now I could just teach him that Who was there immediately? H.M.! And ished his country. He was a builder by pro­ we don't cut corners when we build a H.M. wouldn't go home that night. He in­ fession and he was a "builder'' of the Daughtry home." sisted on sleeping on the couch in the den Those of us who are lucky enough to have just in case that burglar came back. Then American way of life. lived in a home that H.M. built know that he spent days after that constructing all We have all heard, at one time or an­ we live in the best. It's more than the best sorts of poles and sticks and barriers that other, "they broke the mold" when he was home that money can buy because all the never caught anybody in the middle of the born. Well, let me assure you that certainly money in the world couldn't buy the pride night except me. was the case with H.M. And, it's sad be­ and craftmanship and experience and hon­ How do I know how much he loved our cause we need more men like H.M. esty and integrity that H.M. poured into Ginny, almost like his own daughter? By Daughtry. As I mentioned in my closing re­ every job that he ever did. the lengths he went to make sure no harm befell her in any way. marks-"I am 80 proud that H.M. Daughtry Of course, whatever he did, he did it all­ out. He always gave it his best shot whether I asked Carol, "What do you most remem­ gave me the gift of his friendship." it was bringing the ball down the basketball ber about H.M.?" She instantly replied, "He EULOGY TO H.M. DAUGHTRY, JR. court as a superb high school and Army bas­ was always there when I needed him." If a We gather here together at a time of grief ketball player; or later on cheering his kids friend in need is a friend indeed, then H.M. and sorrow but in a strange way a time of in their high school games, second-guessing was a friend indeed. He didn't talk about celebration and rejoicing. Our grief and the referee so loudly that everybody in the friendship; he lived it. And his life spoke so sorrow are not for H.M. Daughtry. H.M., whole gym knew that H.M. was there; or eloquently of his love that maybe words who worked so hard all of his life, was re­ cheering on his beloved Redskins; or spon­ weren't really necessary. leased from his pain and labors at six soring his own basketball team; or playing a There's one thing about our relationship o'clock on Labor Day. Our grief and sorrow crazy wild card game that he taught me that bothered me just a little bit. H.M. was are for ourselves. For everyone of us in a called "North Carolina Pitch." Whatever it always doing things for me and it didn't different way has lost something very spe­ was, H.M. did it all-out with gusto and with seem as though I was ever doing anything cial. Our lives are emptier and poorer be­ enthusiasm. for him in return. That's because he could cause H.M. is no longer with us but we are And yet most of the time H.M. didn't say do so many things that I couldn't do, I filled with beautiful memories and we are much. He was sorta the strong silent type. always needed him. And because he could richer and better people because we knew He had a hard time expressing how he felt do so many things, he never seemed to need him. inside or putting his emotions into words. me. H.M. died like he lived, with strength and And yet in a way he didn't need to. By the Well, H.M., I think maybe I finally caught courage, and no complaints. He went out in life that he lived, he stated more eloquently up with you because there is one thing that a blaze of glory, showing the real mettle of than any words ever could how much he I can do a little bit that you never did like to man he was. He died with so much grit and loved his family and how proud he was of do. And that's make a speech. And so I'm grace that even longtime cancer ward nurses them. going to say for you, to your friends here, did something they seldom do. They broke I suspect he probably didn't tell Mike or what I think probably you would have said down and cried when H.M. died. One of Jenny they played a good game very many if you could have: them summed it up: "He must have been a times in high school basketball but he was Thank you everybody for coming, and hell of a man." And he was! a.1ways there. He never missed a game! thank you for your friendship. It meant When the end came, it came just as H.M. Probably didn't tell Keith that he was more to me than I ever told you. would have wanted it to come. His wife was proud of him very often. Yet there wasn't a I built a lot of things in my life and I've holding one hand and his daughter the visitor who came to this home that H.M. built them with pride and I'm proud of other. His sons and family were gathered didn't drag to the basement to show them those things that I have built. around him, except for one son who was off the beautiful bar that Kieth had built. But the best monuments I ever built were doing his dad's business, making sure the And I suspect that poor Danny and Mike the lives of my children. I didn't do it per­ job moved along. H.M. would have liked didn't hear to often from H.M. about the fect. I made a lot of mistakes. But I did it that. He would have understood that. And great home that they built for us. But the best that I could. Fortunately, I had the appreciated it. When Dan got back and they whenever H.M. was there, he was always help of a woman who loved them just as

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member of the Senate on the floor. Boldface type indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. September 26, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25205 much as I did. You kids are my living monu­ H.R. 3416, THE SMALL BUSINESS velopment of new and innovative technol­ ments. What you are and how you spend SUPERFUND CLEAN-UP TECH­ ogies for hazardous waste cleanups from the rest of your lives, how close you come to NOLOGIES RESEARCH ACT the Superfund is desperately needed be­ living up to the high standards I set before cause of the current cost of permanently you by example rather than words, will de­ cleaning up sites. Long-term benefits can termine how fitting my living monuments HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD are going to be. OF MICHIGAN be obtained at a low cost, just 1 percent of So, Mike, make sure you lay those founda­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Superfund. If we spend just a small percentage now, we can save billions in the tions straight and don't cut any corners Thursday, September 24, 1985 when you build a Daughtry house. future and ensure a clean environment for Danny, with your sense of reliability and Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, everyone. We need to look at the long-term responsibility, make sure those jobs get Monday I introduced legislation that would costs. I hope my colleagues will join me in done on time and always give the client greatly expand the Nation's ability to re­ support of this vital measure. honest value for his honest dollar. search and develop new and innovative Keith, make me proud of you, boy, Make technologies for use in permanently clean­ me proud of you. I know you will because ing up our Nation's hazardous waste sites. TRIBUTE TO CARDENAS AND you know how much I loved you. Don't let My bill, H.R. 3416, the Small Business MENCHACA me down. Superfund Clean-up Technologies Research Jenny, you were always the apple of my Act, would divert just 1 percent of the Su­ HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO eye. I never could say "No" to you, about perfund for the research and development OF CALIFORNIA anything, not even when you wanted to go of permanent clean-up solutions at many IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES out with older boys. So just stay as sweet of the country's hazardous waste sites. An and nice and thoughtful and living as you office within the EPA's Office of Emergen­ Thursday, September 26, 1985 are. Then even when you're an old gray­ cy and Remedial Response would be cre­ Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, I haired grandmother, you'll still be "Daddy's ated to administer this program. wish to bring to the attention of my col­ little girl" to me. And I'll be so grateful for the joy and pride you put into my life. This bill would direct the EPA to harness leagues a sp~cial recognition that will be And Carolyn, you were an awful mess the the abilities of efficient and highly techno­ bestowed by the Hispanic Achievement first time I saw you. You were a scrawny kid logical small firms within the proven and Council of Santa Barbara County, CA, on in pigtails. You wouldn't wash the dishes highly successful Small Business Innova­ two dedicated citizens of my congressional for your older sister so I could take her out tion Research [SBIR] framework. district. on a date. But then when you grew up and I News reports detail how drinking water The community achievements of Elvia saw you again on a blind date, I thought is being affected, basements are oozing Cardenas and Etelvina Menchaca will be you were the most beautiful woman I had with sludge, and property is becoming recognized and honored on October 4, and ever seen. And I still do! I never had no worthless. Unfortunately, affordable per­ I believe their records of service deserve truck with any other woman, once I saw manent solutions haven't yet been found our praise. you. I knew I had the very best. Thank you, and we, in the Congress, want to spend Elvia Cardenas has, for 13 years, served Carolyn, for being my wife! some $10 billion more on the Superfund. as director of Centro Familiar, a nonprofit To all my friends, thanks. Thanks for Are we really going to be better off after child care and parent education center in your friendship that meant so much to me another 5 years, Mr. Speaker? Santa Barbara. This year marks her 20th even though I never said so. Thanks for all There are many technological and finan­ the good times and we sure had a lot of anniversary of service to the community, good times together. cial barriers to effective cleanups and that dating back tc.; her early work with the H.M. 's life said all those things so much is why we need to spend more on basic re­ Jack and Jill Nursery School in 1965, and more eloquently than I was just now able to search. In the past, we have just avoided the Los Ninos Deadstart Program in 1967. put it into words for him. So I guess, H.M., the problem by packing up the wastes, Ms. Cardenas has helped to build and you didn't really need me-even now. where we could and moving them else­ expand the Centro Familiar into a compre­ And now H.M. will go on his way in a where, and in turn, risking even more dan­ hensive, uniquely successful agency focus­ wooden coffin, so appropriate to a man who gerous problems. What is needed are funds ing on the Hispanic community but also spent all of his life working with wood. He'll for researching new and innovative perma­ serving all local residents. Additionally, she be taking with him his Timex watch to nent solutions that are cost-effective. administers children's information and re­ make sure the jobs run on time; and a pock­ A small percentage of money from the source centers in both the north and south etknife, which was just one of the tools that Superfund, used to fund this program is county, an infant center, a Child Care Food he used with those huge hands with so very appropriate because of EPA's failure Program, and through the State of Califor­ much magic artistry to make beautiful in the past to spend adequate amounts on nia, provides child care for parents being things. trained through the Job Training Partner­ And we, who look back at his living monu­ research directly related to Superfund ments, the friends whose lives he touched, cleanup technology. This is due largely to ship Act. the homes that he built, the children that the fact that the EPA has viewed this prob­ Ms. Cardenas is a member of the South he raised, I know that we can say with God, lem as a short-term, instead of a long-term, Coast Coordinating Council, Latinos for "Well done, though good and faithful serv­ problem. Better Government, the Santa Barbara City ant! That's why today we celebrate a good According to the Office of Technology College and UCSB Advisory Committee on man who lived life so well. Assessment's recent Superfund Strategy Early Childhood Education. She also raises As I said a little earlier, H.M. never once report, EPA spends only 4 percent of its re­ funds for Buena Nueva, a Spanish-lan­ expressed to me that I was his friend. Well, search budget on Superfund R&D while 35 guage religious television and radio broad­ we're all kinda guilty of things like that in percent of its total funding comes from the casting program. Remarkably, with ail our lives. I never told him that he was my Superfund. Only a small percentage of that these community responsibilities, she admi­ friend. Not once. It's a little bit late now to 4 percent goes toward basic research appli­ rably fulfills her role as wife and mother of tell H.M. Thank God there is still time to cable for Superfund related cleanups. three. tell you, who loved him; you who are here to With such large sums of money being Etelvina Menchaca's dedicated work in honor him and to pay tribute to him, to tell considered, and the current budget con­ the community of Santa Barbara is a testi­ you, that like so many of you, I loved that ment of numerous advances on behalf of man. I am so proud that H.M. Daughtry straints we have before us, it is necessary gave me the gift of his friendship. that the money come from the Superfund. Hispanics, particularly in migrant and bi­ Finding better and cheaper ways of clean­ lingual education. Born and rasied in ing up waste sites is directly related to Santa Barbara and the mother of nine chil­ cleanups. dren, Ms. Menchaca is an advocate of posi­ While this bill is a departure from past tive change. She has worked tirelessly to uses of the Superfund, the funding of R&D make the local and statewide educational grants devoted toward the research and de- systems responsive to the needs of migrant 25206 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 26, 1985 workers and their families. As an advocate tor and I wish him health and happiness in tion, nursing care, various therapeutic for social progress, she continues a long his retirement years. treatment, if needed, stimulating activities family tradition. As a young girl, she assist­ and peer socialization for 6 to 10 hours per ed her mother in work with various local day. Further, subsidies to assist low-income Mexican-American organizations. NATIONAL ADULT DAY CARE families are available in many States such Ms. Menchaca has lobbied successfully CENTER WEEK as through the title XX social service block on behalf of Hispanic issues in education, grant. In comparison, nursing home care employment, immigration and naturaliza­ HON. OLYMPIA J. SNOWE costs run betweeen $45 and $75 per day. tion locally, in Sacramento and Washing­ OF MAINE Clearly, day care does not provide the 24- ton. She presently serves as volunteer di­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hour care that these institutions provide, rector of CINAC, a nonprofit immigration, Thursday, September 26, 1985 but it does meet the needs of many families naturalization and legal aid agency; as who without day care would ~ave to seek vice-president of the Migrant Education Ms. SNOWE. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased nursing home placement at a much greater Advisory Commission for region 18; as to take this opportunity to applaud the fact cost. vice-president of the Santa Barbara School that September 22-28 has been identified by By designating the week beginning Sep­ District's Migrant Education Advisory both the House and the Senate as "Nation­ tember 22, 1985, as "National Adult Day Board; and as treasurer for La Casa de Ia al Adult Day Care Center Week." As an Care Center Week," Congress has per­ Raza-all in a volunteer capacity. She is original cosponsor of House Joint Resolu­ formed a valuable public service. As adult also on the education committee of Latinos tion 229, my support for these centers rep­ day care centers become more available in for better government and is active in vari­ resents part of my longstanding commit­ our communities, and as their services ous programs for migrant students. ment to improving the quality of life for become better known, I am convinced that Etelvina Menchaca has distinguished her­ older persons. families will find these programs to be a self as a mother and as a dedicated commu­ To date, there are approximately 1,000 welcome, affordable alternative to the long­ nity activist. She is a valued leader in our adult day care centers nationwide, and the term, and often unnecessary institutional­ community. number is steadily growing as these centers ization of their loved ones. become more generally recognized as an important community service. In my home KEVIN WHEELER HONORED FOR State of Maine we currently have 14 adult FULL EXTENSION OF EVJT A IS OUTSTANDING CAREER AS ED­ day care programs serving more than 190 NEEDED UCATOR people. Many of these elderly individuals would be institutionalized if these pro­ HON. THOMAS A. DASCHLE HON.ROBERTE.BADHAM grams did not exist. OF SOUTH DAKOTA OF CALIFORNIA Adult day care programs typically serve IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the impaired older person who cannot live entirely independently, but who, neverthe­ Thursday, September 26, 1985 Thursday, September 26, 1985 less, is not a candidate for a nursing home. Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. Speaker, earlier Mr. BADHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today The adult day care client tends to live with today the House passed S. 1671, an action I in honor of Kevin R. Wheeler, a fine educa­ relatives or in some other form of group fully support. The interim extensions pro­ tor from my district in California who is living and attends the day care center on a vided in this bill are necessary to ensure retiring after an outstanding career, span­ daily basis. With adult day care, family that several important programs which are ning nearly 35 years as a teacher, school members can remain employed and still facing expiration are not terminated. I do principal, and district administrator. maintain responsibility for the dependent want to express, however, my disappoint­ In his most recent assignment, Mr. adult. Others receive respite while the de­ ment in the extension provided in this leg­ Wheeler has served for 17 years as assist­ pendent relative spends the day engaged in islation for the Emergency Veterans' Job ant superintendent for personnel services social and therapeutic activities among Training Act [EVJTA]. of this Newport-Mesa Unified School Dis­ peers. Trained professionals provide com­ On May 20, the House unanimously trict. During this period, nearly half his prehensive care during the day, allowing passed H.R. 1408, a bill to extend and im­ career in education, Mr. Wheeler devoted participants to return home at night and prove the program established under many hours beyond the call of duty, giving on weekends. · EVJTA. This highly successful program has of his expertise out of a personal desire to The primary purpose of such centers is placed over 36,000 long-term unemployed serve the youth of our community. As a to prevent premature institutionalization, veterans of the Vietnam era and the result of his efforts and commitment to to relieve families of the burden of full­ Korean conflict in stable, permanent jobs. quality education, the lives of thousands of time caregiving, to help families remain in In passing H.R. 1408, the House expressed students, faculty, and staff have been en­ the job market, to help individuals remain its desire to provide an extended period of riched. independent for as long as possible, and to time for veterans to be placed in approved Even before his current and final assign­ curtail health care costs. These goals are programs of job training and an opportuni­ ment, Mr. Wheeler spent many years in particularly significant for caregiving fami­ ty for additional veterans to participate in direct daily contact with students, teachers, lies of victims suffering from congenitive EVJTA. Under S. 1671, however, only the parents, and staff members, flrst as an ele­ disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. The date by which a veteran must enter employ­ mentary teacher in Arcadia, CA, and later course of this devastating brain disorder ment is extended. No provision is made to as a school principal and administrator in can last anywhere from 2 to 20 years. Adult allow new veterans to be certified for par­ Garden Grove, CA. day care centers can save institutional ticipation under EVJTA. Throughout his career, Mr. Wheeler ex­ costs by allowing families to keep victims A recent in-depth report, which evaluated tended himself well beyond the rigors of at home longer. the operation and impact of the Emergency his daily work, taking on additional re­ Long-term care for the elderly remains Veterans' Job Training Act Program, had sponsibilities with professional groups and fragmented and expensive in this country. high praise for this program, both in terms organizations and serving on numerous ad­ Adult day care centers provide a needed al­ of veteran and employer satisfaction with visory boards seeking to improve student ternative to the more expensive care pro­ EVJTA. Job service offices from around success and instructional quality. vided by nursing homes and other institu­ the country have indicated their strong Mr. Chairman, as our Nation strives for tions. Representative dollar comparisons of support for extending EVJTA but make it renewed excellence in our public schools, day care programs and other long-term clear that legislation should include an ad­ our continued success will depend upon the care costs are revealing. Adult day care vancement of the date for new entrants as strong foundation and vigorous efforts of costs range from $20 to $25 per day. For well as the date by which a certified veter­ our outstanding educators. Kevin R. Wheel­ this comparatively small amount, a partici­ an must enter training. Their reason for re­ er has proved himself to be one such educa- pant receives one or two meals, transports- questing new veterans is quite simple-the September 26, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25207 remaining number of certified veterans is mentary School, she continued as a district eign debts, agreed on a rescheduling plan not adequate to meet employer demands. administrator and the f"ll'St black to head for some of the debt it owes to foreign Additionally, they point out that there are an integrated education association. banks, Credit Lyonnais said yesterday. Credit Lyonnais, the government-owned thousands of eligible veterans who contin­ In 1968, as Volusia Education Associa­ French bank that is chairman of Cuba's ue to seek employment assistance but who tion [VEA] president, Mrs. Smith gave sup­ debt coordinating committee, said the cannot be certified because the cut-off for port and encouragement to hundreds of accord gives Cuba a six-year grace period on new entrants was February 28, 1985. educators and united them during the its medium-term debt due in 1985 and then The limited extension provided in S. 1671 statewide teachers' walkout. allows repayment over the following four is a stopgap measure which allows for the In ironing out the back-to-work agree­ years. continuance of EVJTA while the other ment, Mrs. Smith demonstrated the grace, The debt from 110 banks was equivalent body further considers its position on efficiency, and leadership that have been to $90 million in West German marks, Swiss francs, Canadian dollars and Japanese yen, EVJTA. The Senate Veterans' Affairs Com­ the hallmark of her career. She also the bank said. Cuba will have about the mittee held hearings on veterans' employ­ chaired the VEA committee that developed same amount of debt falling due to bank ment issues recently, with particular em­ the agreement leading to the f"ll'St negotiat­ creditors next year. phasis on EVJTA, and it is my hope that ed contract between an education organiza­ Also covered by the accord is about $375 the testimony presented at that hearing tion and a school board in Florida. In 1970, million of short-term credit lines to the Na­ convinced our colleagues in the other body as principal of Turie T. Small Elementary tional Bank of Cuba that will be extended that Vietnam era and Korean conflict vet­ School, her diplomacy brought black and to Sept. 30, 1986, from Sept. 30, 1985. Seven­ erans deserve the opportunity for assist­ white students, parents, and teachers to­ ty banks were involved in extending the credit lines. ance in their efforts to find meaningful and gether for the first time. Cuban President Fidel Castro has been de­ stable employment. In her role as Volusia County schools as­ voting much effort to the Third World debt sistant superintendent for personnel and issue in recent months, urging others to re­ administrative services, Mrs. Smith is cred­ pudiate the debts they owe foreign banks A TRIBUTE TO LEROSA ited with streamlining the county employee and governments. HAMPTON SMITH selection process, the targeted selection of He has said Latin America's heavy debt school principals and improved administra­ obligations prevent the creation of new jobs HON. BILL CHAPPELL, JR. tive evaluations, among other achieve­ for the more than 100 million unemployed workers in the region and prevent financial­ OF FLORIDA ments. ly strapped governments from providing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This distinguished career of community health care to the sick. Thursday, September 26, 1985 service has earned Mrs. Smith a number of Latin American leaders have ignored Mr. nicknames, but none is as appropriate or as Castro's call for debt repudiation but have Mr. CHAPPELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise telling as the title of "Mrs. Human Rela­ asked for concessions from their lenders today in the U.S. House of Representatives tions." In 1981, she was the recipient of the such as longer payback periods and lower in­ to pay tribute to LeRosa Hampton Smith­ Volusia Educators Association's Human terest rates. an outstanding leader and pioneer of social Relations Award, later renamed in her For example, an agreement to provide Ar­ change in the Volusia County educational gentina with $4.2 billion in new loans has honor. She also recieved the Florida Teach­ gone into effect. system-on the occasion of her retirement. ing Professionals' Human Relations Award, Praised widely by local educators for her one of only three made in the State that many contributions throughout her 36-year year. DR. IRWIN J. LUBBERS association with our schools, Mrs. Smith Her encouragement, competence, and has, herself, become an educational institu­ leadership will serve as a model to all who tion who will be dearly missed. HON. GUY VANDER JAGT would aspire to a career in community OF MICHIGAN This Saturday evening in Daytona Beach, service. I join countless others in wishing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I will be one of many members from the LeRosa Hampton Smith well in her retire­ community participating in "A Tribute to ment and in thanking her for having Thursday, September 26, 1985 LeRosa Hampton Smith and her Lifetime graced both our educational system and Mr. VANDER JAGT. Mr. Speaker, I of Service and Dedication." I would like to our community. would like to direct my colleagues' atten­ take this opportunity to bring to the atten­ tion to an important editorial which ap­ tion of my colleagues some of the achieve­ peared in the Holland Sentinel on Septem­ ments for which the retiring assistant su­ CUBA RESCHEDULES PAYMENTS ABROAD ber 10, 1985, paying tribute to Dr. Irwin J. perintendent for personnel and administra­ Lubbers who passed away on September 8 tive services will be honored. And I am par­ at the age of 90. These remarks serve to un­ ticularly pleased to point out that Mrs. HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO derline Dr. Lubbers' outstanding contribu­ Smith and I share the same birthplace­ OF CALIFORNIA tion to Hope College and the field of educa­ Ocala. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion. I was privileged to attend Hope Col­ The first-born daughter of Dr. Lee Thursday, September 26, 1985 lege when Dr. Lubbers was president and I Hampton, a local dentist, and Dr. Effie have counted him a good friend and teach­ Carrie Hampton, the first black female li­ Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, a great deal of attention was given to the er through the years. censed physician in Florida, she received a The editorial is a profile of an outstand­ bachelor degree from Florida A&M Univer­ recent conference hosted by Fidel Castro to urge the debtor nations of the Third World ing individual and educator. I believe it sity [FAMU] and went on to earn a mas­ captures very well Dr. Lubbers' commit­ ter's degree in personnel administration at to repudiate their foreign debts. Less atten­ ment to excellence and his commitment to tion is paid to Castro's own willingness to New York University. LeRosa Hampton Hope College and its students. He will be Smith started her career in community have Cuba repay its debts on time and to sorely missed by all those privileged to reschedule part of its foreign debt. The fol­ service as dean of students and English in­ have known him, worked with him, and lowing report appeared in the September 20 structor at her alma mater F AMU. learned from him. edition of the Washington Times article. I Mrs. Smith charted a new course in 1949, The editorial follows: when she began working in Volusia County urge my colleagues to recognize Fidel DR. IRWIN J. LUBBERS as a guidance counselor and English and Castro for the hypocrite he is and to reject social studies teacher at Campbell High any consideration that Castro may be sin­ More than any other individual, Dr. Irwin cere in seeking improved relations with the J. Lubbers was responsible for establishing School. She quickly became active in the the strong town-grown relationship between black education organization, the Volusia West. Hope College and the city of Holland. County Teachers Association, as well as CUBA RESCHEDULES PAYMENTS ABROAD In his 18 years of directing Hope College, civic and church groups, too numerous to PARis.-Cuba, which has been urging Lubbers instituted a philosophy of coopera­ mention. Once at the helm of Bonner Ele- Third World nations to repudiate their for- tive efforts between the college and the 25208 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 26, 1985 community. Because of the seeds planted "He was without peer in college adminis­ For years, the Soviet Union has denied during his tenure from 1945-1963, both par­ tration and did a lot to give other church the Sakharov family their basic rights­ ties gaines immeasurably. colleges new hope," Wichers wrote. "In 18 freedom of expression, of travel, and of Lubbers died Sunday at age 90. years, he had created a college of distinc­ communication. Rights that are guaranteed Relations started by Hope's seventh presi­ tion." dent have been enhanced by his successors, by international treaties. Rights that we in Dr. Calvin Vander Werf and Dr. Gordon the United States take for granted. Van Wylen. Lubbers' predecessor, Dr. THE SEAMIER SIDE OF THE They cannot leave the Soviet Union. They Wynand Wichers, wrote in "A Century of SOVIETS cannot communicate with their children. Hope" that Lubbers "was always ready to Dr. Bonner needs medical attention avail­ promote good relations and always willing able only in the West. And in order to gain to listen to any individual or group who had HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD his Government's sympathy for his wife's an interest in improving these relations. He OF MICHIGAN himself promoted the cause by speaking illness, Dr. Sakharov is thought to have persuasively to individuals and groups con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES begun a hunger strike. cerning the possibilities of the liberal arts Thursday, September 26, 1985 In any other country the thoughts and college in the present age, and the need of words of Dr. Sakharov, winner of the 1975 larger support." Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, all of Nobel Peace Prize, would be national treas­ It was during Lubbers' tenure that Hope us hope that real progre:Js will be made in ures. In the Soviet Union, he is forbidden College began its new look. This ever-chang­ the upcoming meeting between President from speaking out. In any other country ing campus scene included radical depar­ Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev. tures from its pre-war appearance as Lub­ this brave couple would be honored for I believe, however, that the President their contributions. The Soviets stand by bers added buildings and remodeled others. should keep a few important points in Included in some of the early transition and watch their physical deterioration. were temporary buildings and permanent mind. In November, the leaders of the United structures used for a variety of purposes When President Reagan sits down at the States and the Soviet Union will meet in from classrooms to dormitories. negotiating table with the Soviet leader, he Geneva for the first time since this coura­ About the time World War II ended in should take great care to avoid getting dust geous couple was placed in internal exile. Europe Hope College trustees approached on himself. You will recall that the KGB Lubbers, then president of Central College Their plight presents a unique opportunity uses chemical dust to track diplomats. for both President Reagan and Mikhail in Pella, Iowa. He accepted the challenge, It is possible that the Soviet Intelligence ready to fulfill his Ph.D. dissertation on Gorbachev. "College Organization and Administration." Service will spray the conference site with I urge President Reagan to protest the When the Japanese surrendered later that this powder so that the President's move­ treatment the Sakharov's have received at summer Lubbers knew Hope would receive ments in Geneva could be tracked. the hands of the Soviets. To be effective the an influx of veterans. Perhaps the President's Secret Service protest must not be sent through tradition­ Combining his talents of organization and contingent could liberally spray the meet­ al diplomatic channels, it must be stated leadership, Lubbers responded to immediate ing place with "Endust" and provide our needs and established an administrative face-to-face and in the strongest terms. President with a degree of protection from And I urge Mr. Gorachev to put aside his structure of deans, business manager, the probing Soviet sleuths. health facilities and alumni relations which public relations campaign and demonstrate has burgeoned into the present administra­ I also understand that the Soviet Intelli­ his desire to improve the relationship be­ tive staff. gence Service likes to put bugs in sensitive tween our two nations. One way to achieve Simultaneously, Lubbers realized a grow­ facilities. Perhaps our negotiating team this would be for the Soviets to restore this ing student body needed a larger teaching could carry a good supply of "Raid" or couple's basic rights, allowing them to body. His personality helped lure competent "Black Flag" to put an end to the problem instructors as he watched enrollment swell travel, receive needed medical care, and of being bugged. communicate with their family. from 400 when he arrived to 1,200 in 1947, I would also caution the President to including 533 veterans. Hope's population dipped a few years later. Lubbers responded keep his hotel windows in Geneva closed. It positively. He became the college's strongest seems that the KGB enjoys beaming micro­ A TRIBUTE TO JOE T. DESILVA personal envoy and boosted the college waves at our Embassy in Moscow. They wherever he appeared. might also try this trick in Geneva. HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON Constantly recruiting and working closely What disturbs me, however, is the fact with the Reformed Church in America and OF CALIFORNIA that microwave radiation may be injurious IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES alumni, he saw enrollments soar. When he to the health of the person who is being retired, Hope had more than 1,500 students. Thursday, September 26, 1985 Perceptive, he realized Hope should encour­ targeted. age a larger student body and never restrict Finally, the protection of endangered Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to registration. Rather, he countered with nec­ species will surely be discussed at the talks. pay tribute to Joe DeSilva, a pioneer in the essary buildings. I might suggest that the President raise free trade union movement. On May 19, Lubbers was an opportunist. After Hope the issue of Soviet Jewry with Mr. Gorba­ 1985, Joe died at the age of 81. However, was recognized in 1959 by the Chicago Trib­ chev. In the eyes of many, those innocent his accomplishments and vision will une as one of the 10 best liberal arts col­ human beings are surely an endangered leges in the nation, Lubbers questioned, remain with us for generations to come. "Are we on a pedestal or on the spot?" Sage species in today's Soviet Union. In 1937, grocery clerks worked 72 hours in his community, faculty and student asso­ I wish the President good luck on his and only made $15 a week. Joe DeSilva was ciations, Lubbers saw to it contributions and forthcoming mission to Geneva. fired from his job for trying to organize a financial grants kept Hope in the forefront. union. By the following year, Joe had orga­ An excellent fundraiser, Lubbers instituted nized local 770 of the United Food & Com­ drives to include the Holland community, IN SUPPORT OF THE SAKHAROV mercial Workers International Union and alumni, church and friends of the college. FAMILY One of his final public appearances as got the workweek reduced to 54 hours. Hope's president emeritus occurred during Joe was a man ahead of his time in many the Holland visit of Queen Beatrix of the HON. THOMAS A. DASCHLE ways. In 1947, long before the major battles Netherlands. Lubbers had escorted her OF SOUTH DAKOTA of the civil rights and women's movements, mother, Queen Juliana, 30 years before. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Joe DeSilva asked for equal pay for women Talking of ties between the two nations, and nondiscrimination of color, race, or Lubbers recalled being a farm boy "who Thursday, September 26, 1985 creed in employment. These requests, went forth with great expectations to find Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. Speaker, I am adding which now seem quite modest, resulted in a his own identity." "Now, as an 87-year-old grandfather I look back in retrospect on the my voice to those in support of Senate 2-week strike. At the end, Joe and the odyssey with deep emotion . . . and I now Concurent Resolution 62, expressing unity union emerged victorious, with nondiscrim­ say with great pride and real conviction, Ik with Dr. Andrei Sakharov, his wife Dr. ination written into the local's contract and ben een Hollander e granted authority package, which became a model for many gy. U.S. companies have made significant for three years to enter into bi-lateral or community mental health programs. commitments of resources abroad as well, multi-lateral trade agreements for open Local 770 membership had grown to in an effort to develop foreign markets. trade in telecommunications. As positive in­ 24,000 by 1973. Joe DeSilva had dedicated However, results to date are reflected in the ducements for negotiations, the President his life to negotiating full benefit coverage may reduce, eliminate or otherwise modify, growing trade deficits. Since January, the any barriers to the U.S. domestic market. for the members. After 35 years as leader United States and Japan have engaged in Any such agreement would be reviewed by of local 770, Joe retired with a legacy of extensive bilateral discussions to open the Congress. After two years, however, the accomplishments to his credit. Japanesse telecommunications market. As President must correct any trade imbalance Mter retiring from the union, Joe began a result, regulatory barriers to U.S. exports which exists with countries which have not a second career in the field of vitamins and are beginning to ease. However, sales of signed agreements by employing remedies nutrition. He was always a proponent of U.S. products have not increased. The legis­ available under existing law This current situation is the result of nu­ U.S. telecommunications industry will Are the revolutionary rulers of Nicaragua merous causes. The U.S. market which rep­ remain in a position of technological lead­ trying to surpass the late, corrupt Anastasio resents 45 percent of the world's demand ership in the world market. Somoza's record as the hemisphere's greed­ SUMMARY OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS iest dictatorship? The word we get from Ma­ for telecommunications technology is es­ nagua is that the Marxist Sandinistas are sentially wide open to all manufacturers of TRADE ACT OF 1985 making a good run for Somoza's title. telecommunications equipment. The de­ I. RATIONALE In fact, the Sandinista leaders and their regulation of our telephone system and the The purpose of the bill is to promote the cronies are so blatant about their pursuit of divestiture of AT&T have resulted in a uni­ expansion of international trade in telecom­ luxury and wealth that the long-suffering lateral, uncompensated trade cancession munications equipment and services. Nicaraguan people know all about it, and 25210 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 26, 1985 some of them cynically refer to the revolu­ Shcharansky, offers a grim reminder of which he was charged-that he was arrested tion as el engano, meaning the trick or these immutable differences. and imprisoned more than eight years ago. hoax. Even as we in the West prepare for the His fate since then is a macabre commen­ From U.S. intelligence and other sources, November summit, the Soviet Government tary on the brave words of the Helsinki ac­ we've pieced together this story of a peo­ cords. In 1977, he was sentenced to three ple's revolution betrayed by the Marxist continues to deliberately and tortuously years in prison and 10 years of hard labor. millionaires who stole control: crush the life out of this hapless individ­ After transfer to a work camp, he was The three commandantes who dominate ual-in open defiance of the West. This dis­ placed in solitary confinement for 90 days the Sandinista junta, Daniel Ortega, Hum­ dain for the life, liberty and basic human as punishment for lighting Hanukkah can­ berto Ortega and Tomas Borge, have divvied rights of Anatoly Shcharansky should not dles and reciting the Hebrew Psalms. While up the country's import market through be lost on us, particularly not at a time there, he was kept alive on a diet of bread two monopoly companies. What the Ortega when some here in the United States would and water, the bread on alternative days brothers don't control, Borge does. have us believe that the Politburo is now only. In November 1984, he was again isolat­ Daniel Ortega is the president of Nicara­ made up of reasonable people, not much ed in the camp's internal prison. gua; Humberto is minister of defense and My husband's health has deteriorated head of the army. Their key company is different than ourselves. dangerously. He suffers from severe pains in Alfa Comercial, which handles goods im­ For this reason I would like to insert in his chest and eyes. Months pass when he is ported for the government. It is like the the RECORD a statement made by Avital not heard from, when no one is allowed to U.S. General Services Administration, Shcharansky in the New York Times. This visit him. For him, as for Iosif Begun, Dan except that the Ortegas are allowed to skim sad plea by the wife of a man the Soviets Shapiro, Yuli Edelshtein, Alexander Koli­ a percentage off the top of each transaction. have in essence condemned to a slow and miansky and countless other Soviet Jews, Rivaling their official pillage is the empire tortured death is well worth reading as we this has been the meaning of the Helsinki being built by Borge, the only surviving prepare for the summit. accords. founder of the Sandinista movement. He is These are days of high hopefulness in the in charge of the police and internal security. [From the New York Times, Sept. 24, 19851 West. Talks between the superpowers are Borge walks with a pronounced limp, a SPEAK UP FOR SOVIET JEWS proceeding apace, a summit meeting is in souvenir of torture in the same Somoza pris­ the offing and the democracies, yearning ons where his enemies are now mistreated. Some 400,000 Jews, among them my hus­ for peace, bend with eager pliancy in the di­ Borge was liberated in 1978 during the dra­ band Anatoly, are being held hostage in the rection of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's smile. matic takeover of government buildings in Soviet Union. Will any of these thousands The Soviet leader, eager to derail the Stra­ Managua by Eden Pastora, now an embit­ ever taste the bright air of freedom in their tegic Defense Initiative and acquire Western tered foe of his old Sandinista comrades. ancient homeland, Israel? The American high technology, is desperately seeking ac­ Borge's import company, H M Corp., im­ public and its officials might usefully put commodation and normalization. Can it be ports whatever goods the Ortegas don't. this excruciating question to the Soviet For­ too much, in this season of expectation, to Like the Ortegas, Borge has his own ele­ eign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, suggest that one unequivocal demand be gant private restaurants, off-limits to every­ during his visit this month to the United made of those who have so systematically one but the Sandinista leaders and their States-for its answer lies entirely in the trampled on the rights and the lives of guests. The government pays the tab. Borge hands of his barbaric Government. countless human beings begging for nothing also owns the Mau Mau, a discotheque in Tyrannies of all sorts have been known on but release? Is it too much to ask that Managua that is the favorite of U.S. Embas­ earth, but until our day it has been virtually before we seek or trust its signature on sy Marine guards. unheard of for any regime, no matter how future treaties, the Soviet Government be Borge and the Ortegas flaunt their nou­ despotic, to deny that most elementary of required to honor the Helsinki accords-the veau riches. Each owns more than half a all political alternatives, the right to leave. most easily implementable of agreements? dozen houses in the capital, according to Even Naxi Germany in the years before IDtimately, the question is for Mr. She­ competent sources. The Ortega family has World War II grudgingly allowed free emi­ vardnadze's Government to answer. But it is nine beach houses in the San Juan del Sur gration-to say nothing of Russia under the up to the West, particularly the United resort. Czars or South Africa under apartheid. In States, to ask. My husband and the Jews of Mansions that once were Somoza's also places where whole classes of citizens have the Soviet Union wait upon the word. are available for the Sandinista leader's use. been denied the right to vote or the right to they are known as "protocol houses" in a a free press or to freedom of religion, they transparent attempt to make them look of­ have been given the right to emigrate. Not, OTA BMD REPORT HIGHLIGHTS ficial. however, in the Soviet Union. IMPORTANT ARMS CONTROL This is the tragedy of the Nicaraguan rev­ Yet Moscow did in fact put its signature IMPLICATIONS OF SDI olution. A popular uprising after years of re­ 10 years ago to the Final Act of the Helsinki pression and exploitation has been totally conference. It thus conceded, among other corrupted. The people still live in poverty. things, that "everyone has a right to leave HON. DANTE B. FASCELL FooTNOTE: A spokeswoman for the Nicara­ any country, including his own, and return OF FLORIDA guan Embassy denied "absolutely" that to it." It is in accordance with this provision Borge and the Ortega brothers owned any and with internal Soviet regulations that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES houses other than the ones they live in. She 400,000 Jews have asked to emigrate by re­ Thursday, September 26, 1985 also maintained that only one company im­ questing invitations from Israel. Yet last ports goods used by the government and it year only 896 were permitted to leave Section 100l of such Act is amended free to practice their religion. by inserting after the first sentence the fol­ But government actions suggest other­ loving home and individuals wishing to es­ lowing new sentence: "Such projects may tablish a family. wise. For instance, religious content in also offer adoption services.". schoolbooks-traditionally a major element We have established clearinghouses of education in any Islamic country-has through the Department of Health and FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM IN been greatly reduced, and anything Islamic Human Services to provide information on is regarded as antigovernment. arthritis, cancer, drug abuse, and smoking AFGHANISTAN Afghans have become fearful of praying and health-just to mention a few. Surely, in mosques because of surveillance by un­ finding homes for children deserves no less HON. JIM COURTER dercover government agents, Afghan refu­ attention. OF NEW JERSEY gees say. Increasing numbers now pray only President Reagan has repeatedly advocat­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in their homes. ed increased support for adopaon-both in Thursday, September 26, 1985 Under the guise of supporting Islam, the public speeches and private meetings. In Soviets are also infiltrating the ulems Title X of the Public Health why the war in Mghanistan can still be Service Act is amended by adding at the end Asia, he said, to pray alongside the Afghans won by the Mghans, who have survived so in the otherwise seldom used mosque. thereof the following new section: many other would-be conquerors before. "NATIONAL ADOPTION INFORMATION "The Soviets select the oldest and poorest CLEARINGHOUSE [From the Christian Science Monitor, Aug. mullahs from rural areas to go, to impress 6, 1985] them with the Soviet standard of living," "SEc. 1010. The Secretary shall establish, IN AFGHANISTAN, SOVIETS Fll!m REPLACING says a Peshawar University professor who either directly or by grant or contract, a Na­ studies the Afghan situation. "They don't tional Adoption Information Clearinghouse. IsLAM WITH CoMMUNISM IsN'T EAsY The Clearinghouse shall- understand that all of it is being arranged "(!) collect and synthesize data and infor­ Peshawar, Pakistan.-The devout Afghan for them." mation obtained from studies, research, and belief in Islam is proving a major obstacle to In addition to ulema groups, many other reports by public and private agencies, insti­ the Sovietization of Afghanistan. Afghan delegations are invited to the Soviet tutions, or individuals concerning all aspects Ninety-nine percent of Afghanistan's pop­ Union every year to witness firsthand the of infant adoption and adoption of children ulation is Muslim, and the Afghans practice virtues of the Soviet system. with special needs; their religion dlligently. The element of Peasants visit Soviet collective farms, la­ "(2) compile, maintain, and periodically atheism in communist doctrine has thus borers view model factories, judges and law­ revise directories of information concern­ provoked instinctive hostility, and resisting yers meet their Soviet counterparts, Afghan ing- Afghans rallied around the banner of Communist Party and youth league mem­ " emergency pregnancy services; Islam-the only belief system that unites bers meet their parent organizations, and "(B) shelters and residences for pregnant Afghanistan's diverse ethnic and linguistic sports teams play matches. One hundred women; groups. tribal elders are sent each year; according to " training programs for counselors who Even before the Soviet invasion in 1979, Abdul Tawab Hikmat, a recent defector work with pregnant women; the Afghan government had tried to pro­ from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Also, a "(D) educational programs on adoption; mote an acceptance of communist ideology few hundred of the most industrious work­ " licensed adoption agencies; among the Afghans, according to Afghan ers are rewarded each year with vacations to " State laws relating to adoption; refugees in Pakistan. The regime of Nur Soviet bloc countries. "(G) statistics on adoption; and Muhammad Taraki tried direct methods to But apparently not all the Afghan visitors " any other services relating to adop­ spread its Marxist message through the are taken in by these actions. A former tion for pregnant women, infertile couples, mosques. However, the mullahs usually refused to read the commu­ who want to adopt children, individuals who nist propaganda at prayers, and when they of the returnees said, "The ones interviewed have been adopted, birth parents who have did, the congregation would walk out. in the Kabul airport after a trip proclaim placed a child for adoption, adoption agen­ When the Soviets invaded, they switched for TV that yes, Soviet Muslims are allowed cies, social workers, counselors, or other in­ to less direct tactics. Prof. Rasul Amin, to pray. However, others secretly admitted dividuals who work in the adoption field; former dean of social sciences at Kabul Uni­ to me that they had concluded that the and versity, says that although they officially Soviet government is against Islam." "(3) disseminate the most current and support Islam, the Soviets are in reality pur­ complete information regarding adoption, suing a policy of "de-lslamization". September 26, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25213 THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF rick writes, present administration efforts could regain lost territories by doing so. The IRWIN CLOTHING CO. have taken a different path: prospect of tangible gains has not been as The catch is that a very different "peace compelling as the intangible satisfaction of HON. ROBERT T. MATSUI process" is now being proposed. Instead of denying Israel's existence. negotiations between Israel and Jordan, In the United Nations, some Arab coun­ OF CALIFORNIA there are to be negotiations between the tries will not even pronounce Israel's name, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES United States and a joint Jordanian-Pales­ calling her instead the "Zionist entity." Ob­ viously a country that does not exist cannot Thursday, September 26, 1985 tinian delegation that would include the PLO, followed by negotiations at an interna­ be a negotiating partner. Not negotiating Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today tional conference at which Israel and the with Israel became the litmus test of Arab on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Soviet Union would be present ... solidarity. Men have been murdered just for Irwin Clothing Co. in Sacramento to ac­ For the U.S. government to follow the suggesting it. When Egyptian President knowledge an exemplary business that has course now urged upon us would require Anwar Sadat broke ranks and negotiated demonstrated the true meaning of Ameri­ that we break our promise to Israel not to peace with Israel's Prime Minister Mena­ deal with the PLO unless it has accepted chem Begin . for Egypt the reward Sometimes, in the search for a healthy Resolutions 242 and 338 and renounced ter­ rorism (it has done neither}, and to do so was return of the Sinai, for Israel the profit, it is easy for a business to lose sight without any commitment that even then reward was peace, for Anwar Sadat the of some of the virtues of business enter­ Jordan would enter direct negotiations with reward was death at the hands of Moslem prise that have made this country the Israel. Accepting the proposal would also re­ fanatics. greatest free Nation on Earth. Irwin Cloth­ quire giving the Soviet Union a new role and So far Israel's other neighbors have re­ ing Co. has become an integral part of the new influence in a vital area. fused negotiations for peace, either because Sacramento community providing a sense they fear their own extremists or because Kirkpatrick also writes that the reason they have been unwilling to accept Israel's of stability and business security. Mr. Irwin Israel's neighbors hve refused to negotiate existence. The most implacable enemy of Weintraub, the owner of Irwin Clothing under Resolutions 242 and 338 is that: Israel, peace and negotiations has been the Co., has always strived to provide a warm The prospect of tangible gains has not Palestine Liberation Organization. which personal service, an exceptional quality to been as compelling as the intangible satis­ steadfastly denies that Israel has any legiti­ survive the competitive pressure of large, faction of denying Israel's existence. mate borders. impersonal chain stores. Ms. Kirkpatrick's article succinctly states The PLO National Charter makes their Most of all, it is the importance that the problems and pitfalls of present admin­ position clear. It defines all of Israel as part of Palestine. It describes "armed struggle" Irwin's has given to good, honest business istration policy with respect to Mideast practice that I would like to commend as "the only way to liberate Palestine," and peace. I hope my colleagues will read it. asserts that participation in the armed today. Such an example to the community The text follows: struggle is the first priority for Palestinians. is in true American tradition. It has shown THE "NEW" MIDEAST PEACE PROCESS It describes Israel as Zionist, racist, illegit­ over the past 25 years that it is possible to aries for all. It is to be worked out through PLO, they urge, should be put to the test. Doing so would violate both the spirit and direct negotiations of the parties. Deal with it, and it will consider dealing letter of U.S. law. I authored a successful For more than a decade this "land for with Israel . . . in the company of its Soviet amendment prohibiting negotiations with peace" formula has been the basis of a friends and patrons. members of the PLO until they recognize largely unsuccessful U.S. diplomacy. Why For the U.S. government to follow the Israel's right to exist, accept U.N. Security has so patently reasonable a solution been course now urged upon us would require Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and re­ so hard to work out? Complicated explana­ that we break our promise to Israel not to tions are offered, but the answer is discour­ deal with the PLO unless it has accepted nounce the use of terrorism. The U.N. reso­ agingly simple. The reason no start has Resolutions 242 and 338 and renounced ter­ lutions state that Israel would give up cer­ been made in implementing Resolutions 242 rorism . and to do so tain land in exchange for peace with its and 338 is that Israel's neighbors-Jordan, without any commitment that even then neighbors, to be worked out through direct Syria and Lebanon-have refused to negoti­ Jordan would enter direct negotiations with negotiations of the parties. But, as Kirkpat- ate with Israel even though they know they Israel. Accepting the proposal would also re- 25214 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 26, 1985 quire giving the Soviet Union a new role and Frank Plano, retired, Daily Herald pub­ my grandfather's dream. It was always the new influence in a vital area. lisher and the 1957 winner, said the gener­ wish of my family to give back partial pay­ So far, the only visible effects of these ous nature of the scholarship tells a lot ment for all Merrill has meant to them." proposals have been to refurbish Arafat's about the type of people the Ansons were. Granted, Leonard Anson has been hand­ reputation as a major actor, to create anxie­ "It was given to persons unknown. Most somely rewarded in the lumbering business. ty in Israel, and to speed the reintegration were not even born at the time the gift was One does not have $100,000 to give in 1927 of Egypt into the Arab world-Morocco in­ made," Plano said. The Ansons were known unless he has accumulated a substantial vited Egypt to a conference; Jordan restored as the "backbone" of the community and amount of money. That's a lot of money diplomatic relations. helped finance construction of Holy Cross now and was even more then. At the brand-new session of the U.N. Gen­ Hospital in Merrill, he said. But Anson could have taken his money eral Assembly one hopes that U.S. officials Robert Savaske, a 1946 scholarship recipi­ and run. He didn't His legacy is a future of will remember that negotiations should be ent who is now president of M&I Citizens quality higher education for some select the means and not the ends of the process, American Bank in Merrill, said the scholar­ Merrill graduates. and remember, too, that while we hope for ship trust was established with $100,000. In so doing, he guaranteed a steady supply peace, we are not parties to the conflict. "That was a lot of money then, and it's a of leaders in business, education, medicine, lot of money now," he said. If the invest­ law, and industry, all of whom will share ment had been allowed to continue with no two things-the values inherent in having RECIPIENTS HONOR THEIR withdrawals, it would now be worth more been raised in a small, caring community MERRILL BENEFACTOR than $2.75 million, he said. and a degree from one of the nation's top The scholarship covered all expenses, colleges. HON. DAVID R. OBEY from room and tuition right down to laun­ That bodes well for the future and speaks dry. In 1928 it cost about $1,250 to send a OF WISCONSIN well for Merrill. student to Notre Dame, but now it costs An aside: The Anson Scholarship pays the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $11,000. And there are four Merrill students freight, but it is the academic preparation Thursday, September 26, 1985 there every year. and the individual's ability that make the "It would take a minimum of $744,000 to whole equation work. If Merrill students Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, as life and edu­ establish such a trust today," Savaske said. were not bright, talented young men and cation have changed at Notre Dame Uni­ "We all have a lot to be thankful for." women who have had the kind of an educa­ versity over the last 58 years, one thing has Leonard Anson Donoghue, grandson of tion an exemplary school system offers, all stayed the same. Each year, four students Leonard Anson, said he wished his ancestors would be for naught. Merrill's Anson schol­ from Merrill, WI, have attended Notre were alive to see the results of their gift. ars not only have perservered, they have ex­ Dame as a result of the generosity of a "By giving the gift of education to the celled, both at Notre Dame and in later life. Merrill pioneer, the late Leonard N. Anson. young men of Merrill, they were able to give The community can be justly proud of fulfillment of my grandfather's dream. It them, and of itself. With a gift of $100,000 in 1927 Mr. Anson was always the wish of my family to give established a trust which awards an all-ex­ When some Anson scholars got together back partial payment for all Merrill has at Merrill High School earlier this week to penses-paid scholarship to Notre Dame meant to them." pay tribute to the man who had founded each year to a student from Merrill High The scholarship continues' in perpetuity, the scholarship that was the turning point School. These unique scholarships, worth thanks to a contract with the university, in some families' lives, they were doing an annual $11,000 each in today's dollars, which selects the winner from a list of eligi­ something that Anson would have under­ cover tuition, room and board, books and ble candidates from Merrill High School. stood. fees, and other living expenses. This time they were giving back partial The Leonard Anson Memorial Scholar­ GIFT Is HIS LEGACY payment for all Anson's gift had meant to ship has given 58 students from Merrill an There are two kinds of endeavors: those them. opportunity, which many of them might we do for ourselves, and those we do for May we all do the same, to our communi­ others. ties and our benefactors, some day. otherwise never have had, to reach their In the end, we will be judged for the full potential by financing study at one of latter. the best universities in the world. And in that analysis, Leonard N. Anson THE SIMULTANEOUS NUCLEAR Recently, former scholarship winners won't be found wanting. TEST BAN ACT paid tribute to the Anson family. They pre­ Anson, of lumber fame, established a sented a plaque to Leonard Anson Don­ scholarship in perpetuity with a $100,000 oghue, grandson of Leonard Anson. gift to Notre Dame University in 1928. HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER Every year since, a Merrill High School Mr. Speaker, I include an article and an OF COLORADO editorial from the Wausau-Merrill, Wiscon­ graduate has received what some students call a "free ride." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sin Daily Herald and commend them to my The Anson scholarship is the most pres­ colleagues. tigious gift given to any graduate in the Thursday, September 26, 1985 RECIPIENTS HONOR THEIR MERRILL Merrill district, which probably has among Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, in April BENEFACTOR the largest per-student payout for scholar­ I introduced the Simultaneous Nuclear (By Jim Elliott) ship of any school in the nation each Test Ban Act (H.R. 1834) that challenged MERRILL.-It's been 57 years since the awards day. Generosity befits Merrill, and Anson leads both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to declare a Leonard N. Anson Memorial Scholarship moratorium on the testing of nuclear weap­ was established. the way. And every year since 1928 a Merrill high The Leonard N. Anson Memorial Scholar­ ons beginning August 6, 1985, the 40th an­ school graduate has been selected to attend ship pays for books and tuition, worth about niversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. On the University of Notre Dame, with all four­ $11,000 a year. In any given year there are July 29, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev year expenses paid by the scholarship trust. four Merrill High School grads at Notre met that challenge and announced a 5- Monday, three of the scholarship recipi­ Dame, each benefitting from the generosity month unilateral moratorium on nuclear ents met in Merrill for a testimonial thank of Anson. tests. Fifteen minutes before the Soviets of­ Merrill people also should be grateful to you to descendants of Anson, a Merrill ficially announced their moratorium, the lumber baron, businessman and one-time Anson, even those whose sons and daugh­ mayor. ters have not received the scholarship. The Reagan administration rejected the Soviet "The purpose of this event is to take time mere existence of such a generous award in offer and instead invited the Kremlin to out of our busy schedules to reflect on the a district challenges students to do their monitor a single American nuclear weapon generosity of the Anson family," said Dr. academic best. test. George M. Krembs, West Hurley, N.Y., the Why did Anson give the $100,000 gift, the The administration says they are going 1952 winner. one that would be worth about $2.75 million the "extra mile in order to get some results Krembs, who has traveled the world as an if it had been left to earn interest over the in arms control discussions." By rejecting engineer for IBM, said he's never heard of a past 57 years? better scholarship anywhere. Leonard Anson Donoghue, grandson of the Soviet offer President Reagan surren­ "This is truly an outstanding, if not the Leonard Anson, put it this way: "By giving dered the moral high ground. The Soviets most outstanding, scholarship that I'm the gift of education to the young men of gave the mile and the President took an aware of," he said. Merrill, they were able to give fulfillment to inch. September 26, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25215 In response to the Soviet moratorium, 34 GETTING TOUGH ON NERVE far failed to institute advice by the Defense of my colleagues are joining me in intro­ GAS Science Board to remedy gaps in manpower, training and equipment. The Army has no ducing a revised Simultaneous Nuclear Test medical products in the field for care of Ban Act. The bill, in recognition of the HON. DANTE B. FASCELL chemical casualties, no proper decontamin­ Soviet moratorium, calls for the President OF FLORIDA ants of equipment and no antidote against to declare a moratorium on testing nuclear IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the standard Soviet nerve gas. Commanders ofter subvert training requirements, such as warheads by January 1, 1986. If the Presi­ Thursday, September 26, 1985 dent does not initiate a moratorium then showing troops how to eat in a contaminat­ Mr. F ASCELL. Mr. Speaker, the editorial ed environment, according to the General Congress would cut off the use of funds for Accounting Office. testing nuclear warheads for a 6-month entitled "How To Get Tough With Nerve Gas" in yesterday's New York Times cap­ Maintaining deficient chemical defenses, period as long as the Soviets continued and replacing effective weapons with tures the sound foreign policy, arms con­ unproven ones, is hardly the best way of de­ their moratorium. trol, defense, and budgetary reasons why a The people of this country recognize the terring the Soviet Union from first use of bipartisan majority in the House has op­ chemical weapons. opportunity we have to work toward a posed the production of binary nerve gas For the last three years the House has re­ peaceful coexistence. If the President will chemical munitions. fused to allow production of binary weap­ not seize the opportunity then it is the re­ In addition, persistent test failures and ons. This year, under the shadow of the hi­ sponsibility of Congress to act by using the technical deficiencies continue to plague jacked Americans taken hostage in Leba­ power of the purse strings. the binary Bigeye bomb. This fact was reaf­ non, it mistakenly changed position, but re­ quired that production not begin until firmed just last week in the General Ac­ NATO requests that binary weapons be counting Office report to Congress in stored in Europe. Since several NATO coun­ JOB CORPS WORK OFFSETS which GAO again recommended that Con­ tries are highly unlikely to allow present COSTS gress should not fund the binary produc­ stockpiles to be replaced with binaries, the tion program in fiscal year 1986. This GAO condition is highly desirable insurance. Yet HON. PAT WILUAMS report concludes that the binary funding it was surrendered in conference with the request is premature because "the Bigeye Senate. OF MONTANA bomb has not met the established minimum The House has a chance to redress its error next month as it writes the Pentagon's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES chemical requirement for chemical purity appropriations bill. Binary weapons are a Thursday, September 26, 1985 and numerous critical technical issues are bad buy, and there's no good reason for the unresolved." House to abandon its longstanding distrust Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, I rise This is sound counsel and advice which I of them. today to share an article from the Ravalli hope will be affirmed as we appropriate de­ Republic, a newspaper in the district I rep­ fense levels in fiscal year 1986. resent, on September 16, 1985. This article The New York Times editorial follows: A TRIBUTE TO DR. WILLIAM R. relates the findings of a study released by [From the New York Times, Sept. 25, 19851 CLARK the U.S. Forest Service on the civilian con­ How TO GET TouGH WITH NERVE GAs servation corps centers of the Job Corps as Nerve gas is a hideous weapon, but as long HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE they relate to the centers in my district. as Soviet troops are equipped with chemical OF MASSACHUSETTS munitions, American troops cannot be FOREST SERVICE: JOB CORPS WORK OFFSETS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COSTS denied an effective response. That's why the Defense Department's plan to build a new Thursday, September 26, 1985 The nation's Job Corps Centers have been generation of chemical arms-so-called assailed Reagan budget makers in recent "binary" weapons-is so dismaying. Never Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to months as a costly program that's not worth mind their vast extra cost, their stabilizing share with my distinguished colleagues the expense. effect on NATO or the initiation of a new some of my thoughts on one of my out­ But the U.S. Forest Service has come out race in chemical arms; the new binary weap­ standing constituents from Williamstown, with a report that defends two of the cen­ ons will be less effective. MA. It is always a pleasure for me to have ters, including Trapper Creek Job Corps Every new weapon has defects, often seri­ south of Darby and the Anaconda Job ous, which field tests may remedy. Binary an opportunity to honor a devoted and pro­ Corps Center near Anaconda. weapons surely have their share, but these fessional man such as Dr. William R. Clark The agency says that in the past year, the as-yet-unknown flaws remain undetected be­ who is retiring from the teaching profes­ two Job Corps Centers contributed more cause Congress has restricted field tests. No sion after over 36 years of strong commit­ than $2 million worth of work in the Na­ soldier should be asked to fight with untest­ ment to the education of children. Dr. tional Forests and other public properties. ed weapons. And the Bigeye bomb, one of Clark has dedicated his life to the educa­ Mission of the centers is to educate and the proposed binary weapons, is still tion of the young, and Williamstown has train young men and women. And the plagued with manifest design flaws. indeed been most fortunate to have h~ Dr. Forest Service says Job Corps enrollees at Advocates say binary weapons will be safer to handle, since the nerve gas is not Clark teach its children since 1955 when he the center last year put in 2,265 work came to Massachusetts from Virgina. months in accomplishing $2,083,600 of work generated until two chemicals are mixed, in flight, in the delivery shell. Maybe, but the We have all had in our past teachers who on public lands and facilities in the National have inspired and motivated us to excel in Forests. present shells and bombs have a long and Work included maintenance and upgrad­ excellent safety record, without a single se­ various ways, whether it is in the class­ rious accident. Why fix a non-problem? Ad· room or on the sport's field. Dr. Clark is ing the Center's facilities. Men and women vacates of binaries contend the present enrollees did welding, carpentry, concrete one of those teachers who has been the stockpile has sprung leaks. Yes, there are spark for so many of his students. His work, bricklaying, operated heavy equip­ minute leaks-in 0.0006 percent of artillery ment, and did maintenance work. shells. All other stockpiled shells are usable. flame will continue to bum brightly for The Forest Service says the Job Corps The only practical reason for moving to them for many years to come providing centers contributed work only on projects binary weapons would be evidence that the warmth, inspiration, and imagination. with inadequate funds for completion. Con­ present stockpile might later deteriomte Our childreli have learned not only im­ tributed Job Corps work, under federal beyond use. That's an answerable technical portant historical lessons and facts from rules, cannot displace workers or contrac­ question. A blue-ribbon panel appointed by this dedicated professional, but they have tors and the project, says the Forest Serv­ the Department of Defense is conducting observed firsthand Dr. Clark's high moral ice, must provide "meaningful training and aging tests. Why rush to start making character and integrity. His students have work experience." binary weapons, costing $2.3 billion over five A total of 233 men and women are en­ years, when these tests may well show the always come first and he has worked dili­ rolled at Trapper Creek while 229 men and present stockpile has a long life ahead? gently to creatively challenge and channel women are enrolled at the Anaconda Job What truly needs fixing is not chemical this vast and valuable resource. His tireless Corps Center. offense but defense. The Pentagon has so work has touched everyone in some way in 25216 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 26, 1985 the Williamstown area and we are truly the A CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO wood for personal use from National beneficiaries of his many talents. We thank FATHER PAT McPOLIN Forest System lands. him for the years he has given us and we Mr. Speaker, fuel wood cutting in the na­ wish him many, happy years of retirement. HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON tional forest continues to be very popular Mr. Speaker, I am honored today to be OF CALIFORNIA with the public. In 1983 a minimum charge able to represent such a dedicated person IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of $10 per permit was established to pro­ in Congress and am extremely pleased to Thursday, September 26, 1985 vide consistency within Forest Service fuel share with you the reasons for this well-de­ wood programs and to be in step with sale served recognition. Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, it is with practices of other public agencies and pri­ great pride and pleasure that I rise today to vate forest landowners. recognize and commend Father Pat McPo­ The initiation of a charge for personal SECONDARY SCHOOL lin on many years of outstanding service to use firewood has been recieved with mixed southern California. RECOGNITION PROGRAM emotion by different segments of the Born in Chicago's South Side, Father Pat began his studies for the priesthood, first at public. Most importantly are the 38 million HON. BOB EDGAR Quigley, and then in 1933, he continued his senior citizens and 43 million handicapped studies at St. Jude's Seminary of the Clare­ with this bill will provide and exception. OF PENNSYLVANIA I have had discussions with the Forest IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lian Fathers at Momence, IL. Finished with his studies, Father Pat's Service and their original intent when they Thursday, September 26, 1985 first assignment was to Our Lady of Gua­ began the charge program was to permit Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to com­ dalupe Church in south Chicago. That same exceptions for senior citizens and handi­ mend two schools in my district which year, he became a police chaplain for St. capped persons to insure access to Federal have received the Secondary School Recog­ Jude's League. Throughout these years, programs for these individuals. The Forest nition Program Award given by the U.S. Father Pat devoted long hours to the citi­ Service requested their Office of General zens of Chicago. Whether it was to answer Department of Education. Out of 509 nomi­ Counsel to review the various Federal laws sick calls in the middle of the night, offici­ as to the propriety of this approach. I have nations for the award this year, 2 of the ate at a wake, or organize a counseling ses­ 217 schools awarded this honor were E.T. been advised that there are no authorities sion, you could count on Father Pat being available to the Forest Service to permit Richardson Middle School and Strathhaven there. It was also during this same period this type of preferential treatment. High School in Delaware County, PA. Mter that Father Pat began his great work with This legislation does not change the defini­ sending in their respective resumes to the youths in the Mexican community. It was National Secondary Board, these schools tion of handicappeds as defined in the Re­ through his insistence that countless His­ habilitation Act of 1973 nor does it change were selected to have an onsite visitor for 2 panic youths continued their education, ob­ days to observe their programs and speak the term senior citizen as defined in the tained a good job, and became concerned Older Americans Act of 1965. with the staff. These two schools were se­ and productive members of the community. Mr. Speaker, the Forest Service manages lected to receive the award because of their By appointment from Rome in 1965, and protects 191 million acres of the Na­ obvious outstanding qualities in the areas Father Pat became the provincial of the tional Forest System land of which 87 per­ of curriculum, activities, and staff. Clarelian Fathers at their western head­ E.T. Richardson Middle School, which in­ quarters in Los Angeles. Although it would cent are in the Western United States. The guiding principle for use of these lands is cludes grades 5 through 8, should be con­ be impossible for me to name all of Father the greatest good to the greatest number in gratulated for its excellence in teacher ef­ Pat's accomplishments in my area, there is the long run. I believe that this bill which fectiveness, administrative leadership, com­ one that deserves special attention. It was provides an exemption to senior citizens munity support and its unique curriculum. through Father Pat's guidance and supervi­ and handicapped individuals from paying The team teaching program practiced there, sion that the Dominguez Rancho Adobe fees for obtaining firewood for personal where four teachers work closely together was restored. This, of course, was the use, will be the greatest good to the great­ and plan projects focused on a single family home and headquarters for Califor­ est number. theme, is superior. E.T. Richardson should nia's first Spanish land grant belonging to I am placing the bill in the RECORD as be applauded for the effective implementa­ the Dominguez family. Mr. Speaker, simply put, Father Pat is follows: tion of this innovative program. one of those unique individuals that have H.R. 3445 Strathhaven High School's achievements made America great. His spiritual and emo­ in the areas of teaching, leadership, disci­ tional guidance has inspired thousands A bill to provide an exemption for senior pline, community support, and curriculum across this great land, and for that, we are citizens and handicapped individuals from are particularly impressive since this high paying fees for obtaining firewood for per­ grateful. sonal use from National Forest System school has really only existed for 2 years. My wife, Lee, joins me in congratulating In 1983, two area high schools were rede­ lands. Father Pat McPolin on a tremendous job Be it enacted by the Senate and House of signed to form Strathhaven High School over the years. His contributions to the bet­ which incorporates the very best qualities Representatives of the United States of terment of society are many, and you can America in Congress assembled. of both of the original schools. Strathhaven be sure that his efforts have not gone un­ is very proud of its highly individualized noticed. We wish him continued success SECTION 1. EXEMPTION. The Secretary of Agriculture shall exempt program which allows students the oppor­ and happiness in all his future endeavors. senior citizens and handicapped individuals tunity to reach their educational goals and from paying fees for obtaining firewood for expand upon their talents and interests. FIREWOOD FOR SENIOR personal use from National Forest System I rmnly believe the future of our Nation CITIZENS AND HANDICAPPED lands. is dependent on the investment we make in SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. young Americans. The needs of our society HON. PAT WIWAMS For purposes of this Act- are changing rapidly; we should not remain (1) the term "handicapped individual" has OF :MONTANA passive, but instead work to meet these the same meaning given such term in sec­ needs and attempt to foresee the demands IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion 7<7> of the Rehabilitation Act of of the future. Schools like E.T. Richardson Thursday, September 26, 1985 1973 <29 U.S.C. 706<7>>; and and Strathhaven have gone a long way Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, today I am <2> the term "senior citizen" has the same toward achieving these goals. May they be meaning given the term "older individual" introducing a bill to provide an exemption in section 302(10) of the Older Americans a source of encouragement and inspiration for senior citizens and handicapped indi­ Act of 1965 <42 U.S.C. 302200)). to educators everywhere. viduals from paying fees for obtaining fire- September 26, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25217 SHOULD WE REPEAL THE TAX REFORM SHOULD NOT DE- MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE PRIVATE EXPRESS STATUTES? STROY THE DREAM OF HOME- CELEBRATES BIRTH OF ITS OWNERSHIP FOUNDER, MARY LYON HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER OF COLORADO HON. THOMAS A. DASCHLE HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF SOUTH DAKOTA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, September 26, 1985 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, September 26, 1985 Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I re­ Thursday, September 26, 1985 ceived a copy of the following letter from Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, I would like to Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. Speaker, in 1973 the take this opportunity to bring to the atten­ Postmaster Janice Yabes of Eldorado South Dakota State Legislature created the tion of my colleagues a very special woman Springs, CO, which she sent to the Daily South Dakota Housing Development Au­ who was the founder of one of the finest Camera newspaper editor. I believe my col­ thority [SDHDAJ to sell tax-exempt bonds colleges for women. Mount Holyoke Col­ leagues would appreciate hearing some of to finance low-interest housing loans. lege in South Hadley, MA, was the first the arguments against repealing the private These bonds are sold on the national school in the country devoted to the higher express statutes. market and the money is loaned at a slight­ education of women. How MANY MAILS? ly higher rate to offset the cost of adminis­ Mary Lyon was born on a farm in Buck­ EDITOR: If people think the breakup of tration. The SDHDA does not receive any land, MA, 188 years ago. It was from this AT&T is a mess, just wait and see what hap­ State or general fund tax dollars. farm that Mary Lyon became inspired to pens if the U.S. Postal Service is broken up. Using proceeds from the bonds which it channel her energy and resources into es­ Everyone and his brother will be able to has issued, the SDHDA provides below­ tablishing this outstanding educational in­ deliver mail; you won't know who will be de­ market mortgage financing for first-time stitution. livering mail to your home. You may have a Mary's dedication to this dream became a half-dozen people a day bring mail to your home buyers who otherwise would not home. qualify for conventional financing to pur­ reality in 1837 when she and 4 teachers ac­ The United States has the best Postal chase a home. Since 1974, the dream of cepted 80 students into Mount Holyoke Service in the world and the least expensive. homeownership has been transformed into College in South Hadley. These 80 students It has its faults, but what company doesn't? solid reality for thousands of South Dakota were the select few who became the pio­ Just stop and think: if a letter doesn't families as the South Dakota Housing De­ neers in the establishment of a women's show up, where will you go to complain? velopment Authority has provided mort­ college dedicated to higher education. You will have to contact the person who gage financing for more than 19,000 single Because of Mary's undaunted will and mailed the letter to find out which company faith in herself and in her dream, she at­ family homes. In addition, the SDHDA has was used. Have you ever tried to contact tained her goal. She braved unchartered UPS in Boulder? Impossible; you have to used the proceeds from tax-exempt bonds waters for future generations in order to call Denver. to provide construction and financing for Sure, they might deliver mail within the bring an educational institution to Massa­ the production of more than 2,700 new and chusetts which is now a symbol of excel­ city for 10 or 15 cents, but will they deliver rehabilitated multifamily rental develop­ the same letter across the country for 10 lence. Mount Holyoke College stands today cents? No way! ments. as a strong vehicle not only for women to What if they don't deliver to rural towns, To fully appreciate the importance of become educated citizens, but free, self-reli­ farms, ranches, mountain towns? Then this type of financing, it is relevant to note ant, and responsible members of the com­ you're back to the U.S.P.S.: they deliver ev­ that 33.5 percent of the total mortgage munity to which they belong. One needs erywhere for 22 cents. originations for single family owner occu­ only to observe its students and alumni in Will they pick up your letters everyday at pied homes in South Dakota last ye.ar was order to discover that Mount Holyoke is your home, or just when they happen to de­ continuing today to instill in its students liver them? provided by the South Dakota Housing De­ Are you going to keep stamps for each velopment Authority. Since its creation, an the search for excellence. company, so you can use each one? Will you estimated 6,084 worker-years of employ­ I congratulate Mount Holyoke today on drive all over looking for a company mail ment have been created, $63 million in con­ its celebration of the birth of its founder, drop? struction wages have been earned, and Mary Lyon, and I salute this college for the When you move, you will have to notify property tax revenue has been increased by legacy it continues in her memory. Thank each company and hope for the best. Do you for giving me this opportunity to share you think they will forward your mail free more than $19 million as a direct result of the mortgage financing provided by the with you a true pioneer in the education for 18 months, like the U.S.P.S. does? No field. way! You will be charged for forwarding. South Dakota Housing Development Au­ You bet! thority. Has your phone bill gone down since the Mr. Speaker, Members of Congress may CELEBRATING THE BICENTEN­ breakup of AT&T? No way! If business is soon have the opportunity to vote on tax NIAL OF THE U.S. CONSTITU­ taken away from U.S.P.S., the price of a reform legislation. Among the proposals in­ postal stamp will go up much faster. The TION WITH A BALANCED other companies might start out a few cents cluded in the tax plan unveiled in May by BUDGET AMENDMENT cheaper, but they will have to increase their President Reagan is a severe restriction on rates. Just like MCI, Sprint, etc. the use of proceeds from bonds sold by HON. KEN KRAMER Remember the old saying. "The check is State and local governments and public OF COLORADO in the mail?" Now you will have to say, agencies like the South Dakota Housing "which mail?" Development Authority. If this proposal is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Companies will be able to deliver pornog­ adopted, the mortgage financing program Thursday, September 26, 1985 raphy right to your door, whereas now you are protected from that by the U.S.P.S. of the SDHDA would be terminated and the Mr. KRAMER. Mr. Speaker, on Septem­ These are just a few things to consider. I use of State and local bonds as a source of ber 17, 1787, the Convention of the Consti­ could go on and on. Stop and give this some financing would be virtually eliminated. tution of the United States adjourned with real thought, and contact your Congressper­ Creating a more simplified and equitable a document ready for ratification by the son soon. tax system is a goal which few oppose. States. In 2 years we will celebrate the bi­ You can't buy a candy bar for 22 cents, However, not all changes in current tax law but you can get a letter across the U.S.A. for centennial of this event. What better way to 22 cents. Yes, we have our faults, but we are proposed under the banner of tax reform celebrate than to finally ratify a balanced still darn good. are deserving of our support. Tax reform budget amendment to the Constitution, J. YABES, should not destroy the dream of homeown­ forcing Congress to put its fiscal house in Postmaster, Eldorado Springs. ership. order.

51-059 0-86-32 (Pt. 18) 25218 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 26, 1985 That is why today, along with Senator just two shy of the number of States re­ which would render the Constitution too WILLIAM L. ARMSTRONG, I have reintro­ quired under article V of the Constitution mutable; and that extreme difficulty which duced the Balanced Budget Amendment in order for a constitutional convention to might perpetuate its discovered faults. It Constitutional Convention Convening Res­ be convened. Michigan narrowly missed be­ moreover equally enables the general and State governments to originate the amend­ olution. When Senator ARMSTRONG and I coming the 33d State earlier this year and ment of errors as they may be pointed out initially introduced this resolution last another vote there is expected this fall. In by the experience on one side or on the Congress, it marked the first time a resolu­ addition, the measure has passed one house other. tion had been introduced calling for the in several other States. Indeed, in 1787 who could have predicted convening of a constitutional convention Let me emphasize that I would prefer to for a specific purpose. see Congress act before 34 States take the $200 billion annual fiscal deficits? This resolution is designed to force Con­ matter into their own hands. In fact, the During the 60-year period between 1789 gress to approve a balanced budget amend­ chief purpose of this resolution is to force and 1849, the Federal Government ran a ment to the U.S. Constitution. In effect, it Congress to adopt a balanced budget budget surplus of $70 million. In fact, the gives Congress an ultimatum-either pass a amendment by eliminating any doubt about general rule of thumb until about 1930 had balanced budget amendment now or have a the validity of the 32 petitions already re­ always been to balance the budget except in constitutional convention automatically ceived and setting up an automatic mecha­ times of emergency, such as war. For ex­ convened for that purpose if two more nism that would expedite the convening of ample, after piling up $22.9 billion in defi­ State petitions are received calling for a a constitutional convention upon receipt of cits during World War I, the Federal Gov­ constitutional convention. petitions from two additional States. Brief­ ernment ran a budget surplus in each of In the months since the 99th Congress ly, this measure would: the next 10 yean. In 1930, the total Federal convened, we've heard a lot about the perils Declare the 32 States petitions already debt from the first 140 yean of our Na­ of deficits. Unfortunately, there is a tre­ received to be valid and contemporaneous tion's existence stood at $16.2 billion, mendous gulf between rhetoric and reality. under the terms established in article V of nearly all of which was attributable to Earlier this summer, the House waived the Constitution; World War I. In 1945, at the end of World budget requirements in order to pass ap­ Establish an automatic mechanism for War II, the total national debt had risen to propriations bills. The congressional budget determining the validity of any new peti­ $259 billion. However, it was not until the process is coming apart at the seams, and tions; Great Society programs of the 1960's, com­ we're even starting to hear rumblings of a Clearly limit the scope of the convention bined with the cost of financing the Viet­ tax increase as the only solution to our def­ so it could only deal with the subject of nam war, that the debt began to increase icit crisis. A tax increase-after 49 of the 50 drafting a balanced budget amendment; by geometric progression. The last time we States resoundingly rejected that approach Call for the balanced budget convention had a budget surplus was in 1969. at the polls last November! to be convened in Philadelphia within 180 As our former colleague from Illinois, Meanwhile, 81 percent of the constituents days after the 34th application is deter­ the late Senator Everett Dirksen, was fond who responded to the questionnaire I sent mined valid; of saying, "A few billion dollars here and a out this summer indicated they do not have Provide for selection and compensation few billion dollars there and soon we're faith that Congress will act to significantly of convention delegates and describe their talking about real money." Although this reduce deficits. This skepticism is justified duties; statement facetiously illustrates what many in light of the budget Congress adopted Limit the duration of the convention to perceive to be the prevalent attitude in August 1 which projects a deficit of $171.9 120 days; Washington, it is also true that the num­ billion-and that figure is very optimistic. Provide for ratification by State legisla­ bers have become so big that they are diffi­ When the House passed the budget resolu­ tures. cult for the average American to compre­ tion, it also voted to put the debt ceiling Mr. Speaker, as you know, we have not hend. over $2 trillion. had a constitutional convention since the Therefore, let me offer the following ex­ The message is clear: Unless we act now Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution amples which help explain the gravity of to halt this exponential growth, we will see in Philadelphia in 1787. Article V, which the problem of our national debt: a return to days of high inflation, high in­ spells out how the Constitution is to be A $2 trillion national debt represents a terest rates, and high unemployment. No amended, stipulates that an amendment 186 million mile stream of $1 bills-long matter how much we in Congress might can be proposed by either of two methods­ enough to stretch to the Sun and back; will it otherwise, huge deficits mean the a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Con­ A $2 trillion spending spree, at the rate Federal Government must either print or gress or a national constitutional conven­ of $1,900 per minute, would last 2,000 borrow money. This in turn causes infla­ tion called at the request of two-thirds of yean; tion or high interest rates, or both. the State legislatures. Yet, to date, all A debt of $2 trillion is a $8,500 liability President Reagan pointed out the seri­ amendments have been proposed by the for every man, woman, and child in the ousness of the problem in his budget mes­ first method. country; sage to Congress this year: Thus, the convening of a constitutional If a small busineu were formed at the At some point the question must be raised: convention admittedly would be a bold time Jesus was born, and spent money at "Where is the political logrolling going to step. However, I would argue that, given the rate of $1 every minute throughout his­ stop?" At some point, the collective de­ the prospects of continued out-of-control tory, the total would be approximately $1 mands upon the public Treasury of all the Federal spending and congressional paraly­ special interests combined exceed the pub­ billion, which would be enough to run our sis in dealing with the situation, bold current Federal budget less than one-half lic's ability and willingness to pay. The action is not only justified, but demanded, single most difficult word for a politician to of 1 day. utter is a simple, flat "no." The patience of particularly if Congress continues to ignore On numerous occasions the last couple the American people has been stretched as the best interest of the Nation and fails to of decades, both Congress and Presidents far as it will go. They want action; they propose an amendment on its own. have sought to restrain spending and limit have demanded it. In No. 43 of the Federal Papers, James deficit spending-each time without suc­ To solve this serious problem, the Presi­ Madison, widely regarded as the Father of cess. Most notable of these attempts were: dent reiterated his support for a balanced our Constitution, gave these reasons for ar­ First, five separate proposals to limit Fed­ budget amendment to the Constitution ticle V: eral spending which Congress approved be­ during his State of the Union Address this That useful alterations Un the Constitu­ tween 1966 and 1973; second, the impound­ year. tion] will be suggested by experience, could ment battles initiated by President Nixon; not but be foreseen. It was requisite there­ In 1983, Missouri became the 32d State fore that a mode for introducing them third, congressional adoption of the 197 4 since 1975 to petition Congress to call a na­ should be provided. The mode preferred by Budget Act, which proponents argued tional constitutional convention for the the Convention [in 17871 seems to be would give Congress the necessary tools to purpose of drafting a constitutional amend­ stamped with every mark of propriety. It put its financial house in order; fourth, the ment mandating a balanced budget. This is guards equally against that extreme facility series of spending vetoes by President September 26, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25219 Ford; and fifth, passage of the Byrd amend­ mittee, the measure was brought to the A CONGRESSIONAL TRIBUTE TO ment of 1978, which statutorily provided floor with only a couple hours notice. Even DR. EVA A. JESSYE that outlays shall not exceed receipts, be­ though a majority of the House-236 to ginning in 1981. 187-voted in favor of the amendment, it Although perhaps it can be argued that fell short of the two-thirds vote necessary HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON the first four of these examples may have to send the amendment on to the States for OF CALIFORNIA prevented the deficit problem from becom­ ratification. ing even worse, there is no doubt that Con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The combination of this congressional in­ gress blatantly ignored the Byrd amend­ Thursday, September 26, 1985 ment. Despite the statutory requirement to action and deficits that continue to soar has led many people to wonder if anyone Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to balance the budget, the deficit for 1981 was pay tribute to Dr. Eva A. Jessye, who is $57.9 billion, making it the third largest in Washington is minding the store. As a deficit at that point in our Nation's history. result, the time is fast approaching when being honored from September 14 to Octo­ Clearly, there is a spending bias inherent the American people will take the issue out ber 4 by California State University, Long in the legislative process, which has been of our hands. Beach, with a symposium on authentic accentuated by built-in increases in the Were that to happen, a number of ques­ North American music. The symposium is budget of the last couple of decades. Mem­ tions arise on what would happen upon re­ entitled "Eva Jessye's America: The Legacy bers of Congress win praise, and often ceipt of the 34th State application for a of Porgy and Bess." votes, for "bringing home the bacon" in convention since article V does not provide Eva Jessye was born in 1895 in Coffee­ terms of projects for their districts and these details. Anticipating this, the Ameri­ ville, KS. For more than 70 of her 90 years, programs which benefit their constituents. can Bar Association did a thorough analy­ she has struggled to keep authentic North Conversely, those who try to hold the line sis several years ago to resolve some of the American music alive through professional on expenditures, or attempt to cut major uncertainty surrounding a constitutional choruses, especially the Eva Jessye Choirs. spending programs, often incur the wrath convention. Although I would commend In addition to performing, Eva has also ar­ of effected voters. As author Allen Schick, the ABA's report to anyone seriously inter­ ranged and published rare folksongs, estab­ who has analyzed the Federal budget proc­ ested in this issue, space here does not lished collections of North American music ess in some detail, observed. permit me to reproduce this report in its and memorabilia at such institutions as the The process of budgeting comes to be entirety. Therefore, let me summarize the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and "whose ox is to be fattened," a much more Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS, agreeable task than deciding "whose ox is to report's most important conclusions: be gored." Citing the constitutional convention and she continues to give lectures and debate history over article V, as well as the workshops on American music. Given these facts, it becomes apparent Two great American composers have that a constitutional amendment is the Federalist Papers, the ABA concluded that a national constitutional convention can be chosen Eva to train the choruses for their only feasible way of achieving a balanced operas. In 1934, Virgil Thompson had her budget. This fact was underscored by Sena­ limited to a single subject; tor STROM THURMOND, chairman of the Congress does have the power to estab­ audition and train the chorus for his pro­ Senate Judiciary Committee, when he lish procedures governing the calling of duction of Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in stated during debate over a balanced such a convention consistent with this Three Acts." The following year, George budget amendment: single purpose, but any standards requiring Gershwin chose Eva to train the chorus for Congress has violated its own laws in that State applications be identical in the premiere performance of "Porgy and recent years in enacting Federal budgets wording would be improper; and Bess." She was the only black member of that are not balanced. • • • A constitutional Congress' duty to call a convention the directing staff for this "all-black amendment is the only way. Congress must whenever two-thirds of the State legisla­ opera," which has also been called our na­ obey the Constitution. tures have concurred on the subject matter tional opera. Without doubt, public opinion is far of the convention is mandatory. During the 1920's Eva and her Dixie Ju­ ahead of Congress on this issue. Since 1979, Thus, as former Senator Sam Ervin, who bilee Singers were regulars at the Major a number of polls have been conducted by was a widely recognized constitutional Bowes Capitol Theater, where she met her highly respected research organizations expert on this subject, stated: violin teacher, the late Eugene Ormandy. such as Gallup, the Harris survey, the On the Major Bowes Family Radio Hour, Roper organization, New York Times-CBS The fear of a runaway convention is just a nonexistent constitutional ghost conjured Eva's choir backed up such singers as Paul News, and the Associated Press-NBC News. up by people who are opposed to balancing Robeson, Rudy Vallee, and Lawrence Tib­ All have consistently shown strong support the budget, because they want to be able to bett. Conductors Leopold Stokowski, for a constitutional amendment to balance promise special groups something for noth­ Arturo Toscanini, Alexander Smallens, and the budget, with support ranging from ap­ ing out of an empty pocket. Eugene Ormandy have directed the succes­ proximately 2 to 1 better than 3 to 1, de­ Mr. Speaker, the time to enact a balanced sor to the Dixie Jubilee Singers, the Eva pending upon when the particular poll was J essye Choir. taken. budget amendment is now. I suggest it is I would also point out that 15 States, in­ very appropriate that we should celebrate Eva is also a poet and commentator on a cluding my home State of Colorado, have a the bicentennial of our great Constitution broad range of social, political, and racial balanced budget requirement written into by finally ratifying such an amendment to issues. In 1923 and 1927, Robert Kerlin their State constitutions. By and large, preserve the fiscal health of our Nation and published three of her poems in "Negro these amendments have been highly suc­ the economic welfare of all Americans. Poets and Their Poems." Eva has had more cessful in forcing legislators to set spend­ In closing, let me recall the wisdom of than 50 poems published, some of them ing priorities based on incoming revenues, Justice Joseph Story, who wrote in 1826: award winning. During the symposium, just as every American household must do. A government which • • • provides no Eva will read her own and Langston Grassroots lobbying finally forced Con­ means of change • • • will either degenerate Hughes' poetry. She has also been named gress to take up a balanced budget amend­ into a despotism or, by the pressure of its Kansas Ambassador for the Arts. ment in 1982. However, even though the inequities, bring on a revolution. In her hometown of Pittsburg, KS, Eva Senate approved a balanced budget amend­ built a yellow brick road to her house that ment on August 4, 1982, by a vote of 69 to is now a historical site. My wife, Lee, joins 31, the House Judiciary Committee success­ me in wishing Dr. Eva Jessye and her tOO­ fully kept the issue bottled up in committee year-old aunt Celie continued success on until the last day of the 97th Congress. Al­ their stroll down the yellow brick road of though supporters were successful in using life. a discharge petition to force it out of com- 25220 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 26, 1985 STUDENT FINANCIAL AID Education implement the independent stu­ power safety. This year marks the 25th an­ EQUITY ACT INTRODUCED BY dent provisions established in the 1980 edu­ niversary of the oldest operating nuclear WILLIAMS cation amendments. These provisions rec­ powerplant in the United States, the ognized that independent students with de­ Yankee Atomic Power Co. in Rowe, MA. HON. PAT WIWAMS pendents have greater financial burdens Over the last 25 years, the Yankee power­ OF MONTANA than other independent students and plant has enjoyed an excellent operating IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES should not be expected to make the same record. Credit for this record is awarded to kinds of financial contributions to their its experienced operators, five of whom will Thursday, September 26, 1985 education. These are all measures which soon be honored by the Nuclear Regulatory Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, today my help families. Commission and the American Nuclear So­ colleagues and I are introducing the Stu­ The bill directs the Secretary of Educa­ ciety, for 20 years of service at the plant. dent Financial Aid Equity Act. This bill is tion to develop and disseminate informa­ This anniversary is also celebrated by a 17 • designed to meet the needs of the older, so­ tion about student financial aid for nontra­ month performance audit of the plant, called nontraditional student who consti­ ditional students. The Department of Edu­ which shows Yankee with a perfect rating tutes an ever-increasing proportion of cation has cut back information efforts in in 7 of 10 categories. today's student body. The census reported the last 5 years by over a third-eliminat­ The birth of the plant was inexpensive that the proportion of students over 30 ing such things as a brochure targeted to and efficient. Its conception to operation years of age has doubled in the last 10 nontraditional students and a brochure for took only 5 years-compared with the min­ years and much of the growth has come Spanish speaking students-just when such imum of 6 to 14 years for other plants­ from women returning to school. Today, 40 resources would be most needed. The bill and cost 40 percent less than had been percent of our student body is over 25 and also authorizes the fund for the improve­ budgeted. Since the beginning of operation, half the students are going to school part ment of postsecondary education to fund $45 million has been spent on improving time; 82 percent of part-time students are projects which establish innovative pro­ and upgrading the plant but it has not been working for pay. These older, part-time stu­ grams of student assistance information necessary to replace any m~or compo­ dents tend disproportionately to be women and dissmenination, focusing particularly nents. As well, the plant boasts of an oper­ who enter school with fewer resources and on the needs of nontraditional students. ating efficiency far superior to that of all the responsibilities of family and work. The Secretary will also conduct a survey of oil-fired power and even other more recent­ Over two-thirds of the students over 34 are student rmancial aid recipients so we have ly constructed nuclear powerplants, like women. Women are twice as likely as men the necessary information for future pol­ Seabrook in Seabrook, NH. to be self-supporting when they enter col­ icymaking. In June, the American Nuclear Society lege. The financial pressure on these non­ Finally, many nontraditional students meeting commemorated the 25th anniversa­ traditional students and their families is are caught in a catch-22. AFDC recipients ry of the Yankee Rowe plant by featuring enormous. While only making 60 cents on and other Federal assistance recipients who speakers at the annual meeting from both the dollar, women have faced the 60-per­ want to go back to school often face the the Yankee Atomic Power Co. and the cent inflation in college costs. Currently, choice of reduced benefits if they receive fi. plant's construction company, the Stone our rmancial aid policies do not reflect the nancial assistance for tuition, books, et and Webster Engineering Group. The popu­ dramatic changes in our student body nor cetera. Clearly, this is a shortsighted policy larity of this anniversary is visible around the needs of these students. Education and has resulted in a cycle of poverty with the country, and was even mentioned by policy analysts and school administrators only 2 percent of AFDC recipients return­ Willard Scott on the NBC "Today" show. have identified the three biggest factors to ing to school. This bill would count Federal The building of the plant in 1960 was ob­ eliminate sex-related differences in rman­ assistance as income in determining eligi­ scured by the fear of nuclear bombs, and cial aid and thus access to quality educa­ bility for financial assistance but would overlooked because of ignorance of nuclear tion. They are: providing dependent care prohibit recipients from being thrown off powerplants. There were no protests of the expenses, opening up financial aid to less assistance by receiving student aid. construction, no labor disputes, and unin­ than half-time students, and increasing in­ I believe that this bill is an important terrupted construction was quickly com­ formation available about eligibility for fi. step in reducing the barriers that nontradi­ pleted in 3 years. There was no negative at­ nancial aid. tional students, particularly women, face in tention brought to the plant during that This bill deals with all three of these going back to school. I want to commend time, and it continues to represent a favor­ issues. the leadership that the AAUW and the Coa­ able model for the industry. It opens up all student financial aid to lition of Women and Girls in Education This plant is one of seven plants which less than half-time students, providing have shown in moving these issues along. I compose a "fleet" to power one-third of needy students with aid for education relat­ believe that the introduction of this bill New England's electricity. This saves the ed expenses. Currently, there are 1.3 mil­ will further the discussion of these impor­ use of millions of barrels of foreign oil. It lion students attending college less than tant changes in the reauthorization of the is because of these advantages, and the pro­ half time, yet in 1933 part-time students re­ Higher Education Act this year. Through ductivity which has helped improve our ceived less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the reauthorization hearings and our dis­ country to make it more efficient and all Federal student financial aid. Only 1,000 cussions with education groups and our clean, that I honor the anniversary of this students received assistance because most constitutents all of us are aware of the plant and its success. programs do not allow their participation changing needs for student financial assist­ and several are capped at 10 percent. The ance. I look forward to working for pas­ bill also requires that college work study sage of these provisions. AIRPLANE CRASHES-THEY ARE funds pay wages consistent with the Equal BECOMING AN EVERYDAY Pay Act of 1963 and title VII of the Civil HEADLINE Rights Act of 1964. THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF The bill allows for student rmancial aid THE YANKEE ATOMIC ELEC· to adjust current allowances for transpor­ TRIC CO. IN ROWE, MA HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK tation and for dependent care to reflect OF CALIFORNIA actual expenses. The allowance for depend­ HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ent care also for the first time includes OF KASSACHt18J:'l'TS Thursday, September 26, 1985 both child care and care of older family IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES members and covers lab, library, and field Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, almost as regu­ time as well as class time. This bill provides Thursday, September 26, 1985 lar as my morning cereal, orange juice, and for loan payment deferment for a year's Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, in the young the Washington Post are headlines of "near parental leave, if the person is in school. adulthood of our nuclear age, I would like misses," airplane crashes and the tragic The bill mandates that the Department of to commemorate a landmark in nuclear deaths that are the result. September 26, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25221 Two days ago, the crash that made the mutual and verifiable Comprehensive Test weapons system must undergo test firings, headlines of the Post was a Henson com­ Ban [CTB] Treaty. and if it cannot be tested, there is no point muter plane with 14 persons aboard. At the One of the arguments frequently used in developing or building it. time the plane was scheduled to arrive at against a CTB is that it would not be ade­ It might then become far more feasible to the airport, the peaks of surrounding quately verifiable-that the Soviets might negotiate reductions of existing arsenals, which now total more than 50,000 warheads mountains were enveloped in fog, an elec­ somehow be able to conduct clandestine on both sides. Such a cutback, leading even­ tronic beam at the field that should have nuclear tests that would escape detection tually to the abolition of all superpower nu­ guided the plane to a safe landing was mal-. and give the Soviet Union a military advan­ clear weapons is President Reagan's avowed functioning. The skies were overcast yester­ tage over the United States. If true, this goal-although the president has argued day, with a cloud cover, but most aviation would indeed be a devastating argument that his so-called Star Wars defense is the experts said that should not have been a against our entering into a Test Ban more realistic route to atomic disarmament. problem if the localizer beam were work­ Treaty. Treaties between the United States and ing. But it is not true. Scientists have met the the Soviet Union ban all nuclear weapons Yesterday the headlines read, "Pilot fundamental technical problems of verify­ tests in the atmosphere in the oceans and in space. A 1974 treaty that was signed but not Averts Collision at National." Fortunately ing a CTB, and an overwhelming majority ratified limits underground weapons tests to no one was injured during the jet's aborted agree that a CTB would be verifiable with a a yield of 150 kilotons. Both sides have takeoff, although the crowded Eastern Air high degree of confidence down to explo­ agreed to abide by the 150-kiloton limit. Lines shuttle had reached takeoff speed. sions of very small size and doubtful mili­ A 150-kiloton bomb releases as much Apparently, both the Eastern Air Lines jet tary significance. Political considerations energy as 150,000 tons of TNT-more than and a helicopter had been cleared for take­ are what stand in the way of such an agree­ 10 times the explosive force of airborne off, but their takeoff courses intersected. ment, and verification concerns are being weapons that destroyed Hiroshima and Na­ Perhaps skill, perhaps luck, enabled the used as an excuse by those who want to gasaki. pilot of the jet to slam on the brakes and continue nuclear explosive testing in order Today's intercontinental missiles-both American and Soviet-carry warheads with narrowly avert a collision with the helicop­ to develop new generations of nuclear war­ yields measured in the millions rather than ter. In any case it was too close a call. heads. the thousands of tons. Tactical atomic Last week, Secretary of Transportation Mr. Speaker, for the benefit of our col­ weapons designed for battlefield use may Elizabeth Dole stated that she will add leagues, I would like to insert in the have yields smaller than a kiloton. about 1,000 air traffic controllers and 500 RECORD at this point two articles on the Recent intelligence reports claim the Rus­ safety inspectors to the Federal Aviation verification of a Comprehensive Test Ban, sians have already cheated on the 150-kilo­ Administration to make the system safer. I one an address by Columbia University ton limit. The Livermore scientists insist commend her for this action. But, as this is Seismologist Lynn Sykes, and the other a that American ignorance about the behav­ the worst year ever in civil aviation history, San Francisco Chronicle article summariz­ ior of seismic waves inside Soviet territory would also allow the Russians to cheat on with more than 1,430 deaths worldwide ing the findings of seismic verification ex­ any new agreement to lower the testing from nearly 20 accidents, I feel that even perts at th~ U.S. Geological Survey. limit. stronger action is needed. [From the San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 9, Reports just completed by Jack F. Evem­ Legislation I introduced in January calls 1985] den, a U.S. Geological Survey research geo­ for a study that includes, but is not limited EXPERTS SAY A-TEST CHEATS WILL FAIL physicist, together with Edward Cranswick to, the need for additional radar warning

51-059 0-86-33 (Pt. 18) 25250 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 26, 1985 Just 11 years ago on Labor Day 1974, ers' program plans. Such an action is not THE INTRODUCTION OF A BILL President Ford in the Rose Garden signed only disruptive in the extreme, it makes TO NAME THE CLOSED BASIN the Employee Retirement Income Security such plans economically less attractive to PROJECT CONVEYANCE CHAN­ Act. In passing that law, the Congress de­ the employer and to employees. NEL, SAN LUIS VALLEY clared that the continued well-being and se­ To those who suggest that fringe benefits PROJECT, AS THE FRANKLIN curity of millions of employees and their would provide a good source of revenue, I EDDY CANAL dependents are directly affected by employ­ say that focusing on the revenue implica­ ee pension and welfare benefit plans; that tions alone is not enough. We must be sen­ HON. MICHAEL L. (MIKE) STRANG employee benefit plans are affected with sitive to the importance of pensions, health OF COLORADO the national public interest; and that they insurance, day care, and education pro­ have become an important factor affecting IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES grams, workers compensation, unemploy­ the stability of employment and the suc­ Thursday, September 26, 1985 cessful development of industrial relations. ment, and other such benefits which form Thus, the Congress explicitly recognized an imperative life-support system for our Mr. STRANG. Mr. Speaker, I am honored the growth, scope, size, and number of ben­ working people. today to introduce legislation to name the efit plans, their social and economic impact So far 181 Members have joined in co­ major water collection feature of the and their importance to the continued well­ sponsoring House Resolution 268. Addition­ "Closed Basin Project in Colorado the being and security of millions of employees al Members have expressed an interest in Franklin Eddy Canal." and their dependents. joining our effort and supplemental lists of The late Franklin Eddy was the driving It is now proposed by some to change cosponsors will be filed. I invite anyone in­ force behind efforts to develop the project's this longstanding and basic policy, to terested in doing so to communicate with concept and to secure authorization and impose taxes on these pension and benefit us. funding for the Bureau of Reclamation plans. project. For 30 years, Franklin Eddy was None of us cosponsoring House Resolu­ deeply involved in the important water re­ tion 268 are unsympathetic to the need for SKOWHEGAN, ME, EDUCATOR source protection issues in the San Luis additional revenues. But the relatively HONORED FOR FIGHT Valley. He died in May of 1980. Mr. Eddy small amount of new taxes that would AGAINST DRUG ABUSE was active in the original formation of the come from taxing these benefits would Rio Grande water conservation district, the hardly be worth the devastation that would primary sponsor of the project. He served be worked by their imposition. HON. JOHN R. McKERNAN, JR. on its board of directors and later as its It is quite clear that such taxes would OF MAINE manager. Mr. Eddy worked tirelessly to help secure substantially dampen employer enthusiasm IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for the employee compensation and benefit local, State and Federal support for the packages that exist today. Thursday, September 26, 1985 closed basin project. The project's purpose The imposition of taxes will result in the Mr. McKERNAN. Mr. Speaker, today is to help resolve the complicated and at erosion of health care to the particular det­ rise to pay tribute to Tom Farrell, a Skow­ times contentious local, national and inter­ riment of the elderly, the handicapped, and national water rights issues in the San Luis hegan, ME, resident, who has been a leader Valley and along the Rio Grande River. families. A recent Roper survey disclosed in the fight to reduce alcohol and drug that most employers will move to reduce When the project was first authorized in abuse among teenagers. 1972, the Congress set in motion a program health benefits. If the tax benefits for Mr. Farrell, principal of Skowhegan High health care are scaled back, the young, that, when completed in 1989, will help sta­ School, became concerned about teenage single, and most physically fit will opt out bilize water rights and water use concerns or more willingly acquiesce in a scaling drug and alcohol abuse through his experi­ in the San Luis Valley, while also helping back of benefits. Health plan costs will rise ences as a teacher, a coach and as a high Colorado meet the terms of interstate water and eventually they will prove uneconomic. school administrator. His active involve­ delivery compacts and a water treaty with The imposition of taxes may sound the ment with this problem began when he was Mexico. The project will put to beneficial death knell of health benefit plans, and as an assistant principal and found that many use groundwater now lost through evapora­ has been suggested would be "the begin­ of his discipline cases were drug and alco­ tion, and will at the same time enhance ning of a dangerous precedent to tax all hol related. Since that time, he has estab­ wildlife and recreation opportunities in at employee benefits in the long term." lished programs at Mount Blue, Dirigo, and three county area. Imposition of taxes on workers' compen­ Skowhegan High Schools that allow stu­ The people of the San Luis Valley in Col­ sation and unemployment benefits would dents to get help from support groups and orado are deeply indebted to the vision and result in the further impoverishment of in­ "dryout" programs. Mr. Farrell has been dedication of Franklin Eddy. It is my jured workers and a compounding of the instrumental in helping dozens of teen­ honor to introduce this legislation in public miseries of unemployment. agers resolve their dependency problems. commemoration of Mr. Eddy's dedication Proposals to tax pension and retirement Along with his local efforts, he has recently to his friends, his neighbors and this plans, if enacted, are certain to have a dev­ spoken throughout the country on his ex­ project, by naming the closed basin convey­ astating effect on the long-term ability of periences and on the need for teachers and ance channel the "Franklin Eddy Canal." workers and their employers to provide re­ coaches to serve as role models for teen­ tirement security. Legislative changes in agers. H.R. 3339, THE CABLE TELEVI­ the past have invariably disrupted the re­ In recognition of his efforts and accom­ tirement planning of some. Employers and SION COPYRIGHT DEREGULA­ plishments, he received the National Feder­ TION ACT OF 1985 pension plan managers have complained ation of Parents for Drug Free Youth about the costs of such changes. In the Award in 1983. This year, he has received past, such changes have resulted from a HON. BARNEY FRANK the Air Force Commander's Award for his concern for the level and security of em­ OF MASSACHUSETTS continuing contributions. ployee benefits, for minimum participation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES standards and other rules forbidding dis­ I join my colleagues in saluting his tire­ crimination in contributions and benefits. less efforts and selfless contribution. Thursday, September 26, 1985 Congress in the past has encouraged pen­ Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, I introduced sion plans through laws that made them H.R. 3339, legislation which will eliminate more fair and more effective. In view of the Government intervention in the carriage by legislative history, it is particularly diffi­ cable television of copyrighted broadcast cult to understand the continuing interest programming. The bill abolishes the com­ in taxing employer contributions to work- pulsory license for copyrighted program- September 26, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25251 ming, granted to cable television in 1976 by also prohibit regulation by any government of section 106, the secondary transmission the Congress, and places greater reliance body of cable carriage of local signals of of a primary transmission embodying a per­ upon free negotiation by the cable industry broadcast stations. formance or display of a work is not an in­ in the marketplace for the rights to pro­ Mr. Speaker, the bill accomplishes the fringement of copyright if- gramming carried by distant television sta­ "(1) the secondary transmission is not following: First, retains the cable television made by a cable system, and consists entire­ tions. I am convinced that the interests of compulsory license, contained in section ly of the relaying by the management of a the public are best served by reducing the Ill and chapter 8 of the Copyright Act of hotel, apartment house, or similar establish­ role of the Federal Government in the in­ 1976, until the orderly expiration of the 6- ment, of signals transmitted by a broadcast creasingly complex relationship between month royalty fee cycle; second, allows the station licensed by the Federal Communica­ cable television and the broadcast indus­ cable industry to negotiate in the market­ tions Commission to the private lodgings of tries. place for the rights to the programming guests or residents of such establishment, In 1976, cable television systems were in carried by distant broadcast stations; third, and no direct charge is made to see or hear their infancy, and, in an effort to nurture excludes satellite resale carriers from the the secondary transmission, and- the new medium, the Congress insulated "passive common carrier exemption in sec­ " the secondary transmission is made the cable systems from unlimited copyright within the local service area of such station; tion 1ll(a); fourth, exempts from all copy­ or liability in the Copyright Act of 1976. right liability the cable carriage of local "(B) the signals are received by such es­ Under the 1976 act, cable is not liable for signals, if the cable system chooses to carry tablishment by means of the direct recep­ the prevailing market value of copyrighted all local stations within 50 miles; f'lfth, cre­ tion of a free space radio wave emitted by programming, but receives a compulsory li­ ates copyright liability for cable retrans­ such station; or cense to retransmit copyrighted broadcast mission of local signals, where cable sys­ "(2) the secondary transmission is made programming. The Copyright Royalty Tri­ tems discriminate and carry only some of solely for the purpose and under the condi­ bunal [CRT], a new agency, has the respon­ the local signals; sixth, exempts from all tions specified by clause <2) of section 110; sibility for implementing the Federal com­ or copyright liability cable systems with 12 or "(3) the secondary transmission is made pulsory license scheme; my bill would ter­ fewer channels to carry local signals it minate its role in the distribution of royal­ by any carrier, other than a satellite resale wishes to carry; seventh, exempts from all carrier, who has no direct or indirect control ties to program producers and adjustment copyright liability small cable systems with over the content or selection of the primary of royalty rates. In place of the present fed­ 2,500 or fewer subscribers for retransmis­ transmission or over the particular recipi­ erally regulated royalty system, the cable sion of local and distant programming sig­ ents of the secondary transmission, and and broadcast industries will have the free­ nals; eighth, exempts rural cable systems whose activities with respect to the second­ dom to develop their own clearinghouse for from all copyright liability for importing ary transmission consist solely of providing copyrighted programming with market any network station not available locally; wires, cable, or other communications chan­ rates determined by private negotiation. and ninth, eliminates all of the current pa­ nels for the use of others: Provided, That Mr. Speaker, the Federal system granting the provisions of this clause extend only to perwork cable systems must file with the the activities of said carrier with respect to cable a compulsory license was based on Copyright Office and eliminates the role of three existing, complementary Federal secondary transmissions and do not exempt the Copyright Royalty Tribunal in the dis­ from liabilty the activities of others with re­ Communications Commission [FCC] rules tribution of royalties from the compulsory spect to their own primary or secondary which benefited broadcasters. The Congress license and the adjustment of compulsory transmissions; or gave cable a compulsory license to balance license royalty rates. "(4) the secondary transmission is not the interests of the two industries. Since Mr. Speaker, the cable and broadcast in­ made by a cable system but is made by the 1976, the three regulations benefiting dustries have sought numerous cha11ges in governmental body, or other nonprofit orga­ nization, without any purpose of direct or broadcasters have been eliminated. The the compulsory license regulatory scheme FCC has eliminated the distant signal rule indirect commercial advantage, and without on many occasions since 1976. The free which limited cable companies from im­ charge to the recipients of the secondary market is the best solution to these con­ porting a large number of distant signals, transmission other than assessments neces­ cerns and will promote a system which will and also, ended broadcasters' syndicated sary to defray the actual and reasonable costs of maintaining and operating the sec­ exclusivity of programs where retransmis­ encourage and foster creative programming in the public interest, which is the stated ondary transmission service. sion, is prohibited by, exclusive contract purpose of copyright law. Program produc­ "(b) SECONDARY TRANSMISSION OF PRIMARY between the program supplier-copyright TRANSMISSION TO CONTROLLED GROUP.-Not­ owner-and local broadcaster. On July 19, ers and broadcasters will be freed from the current lawful appropriation by the cable withstanding the provisions of subsections 1985, a Federal court struck down the last and (c), the secondary transmission to of these rules, eliminating the requirement industry of their property rights. The free the public of a primary transmission em­ that cable not discriminate among local market will provide a more flexible and bodying a performance or display of a work stations, but "must carry" all local signals. permanent solution which enables the par­ is, in the absence of a negotiated license, ac­ In referring to the decision in Quincy ties to resolve their copyl'ight issues pri­ tionable as an act of infringement under Cable TV versus FCC, FCC Chairman Mark vately in the free market. section 501, and is fully subject to the reme­ dies provided by sections 502 through 506 S. Fowler issued the following public state­ The text of H.R. 3339 follows: H.R. 3339 and 509, if the primary transmission is not ment: made for reception by the public at large Although this Quincy decision takes the A bill to amend the copyright law respecting but is controlled and limited to reception by first step toward a true marketplace for the the limitations on exclusive rights to sec­ particular members of the public. distribution of programming by cable sys­ ondary transmissions; to amend the Com­ "(C) CERTAIN SECONDARY TRANSMISSIONS tems, we believe that the mass media mar­ munications Act of 1934 respecting re­ transmission of programs originated by BY CABLE SYSTEMS ExEMPTED.- ketplace will not be set entirely right until "(!) Notwithstanding the provisions of cable's copyright immunity is replaced with broadcast stations; and for other purposes section 106 and subject to the provisions of a scheme of full copyright liability, allowing Be it enacted by the Senate and House of clause (2) of this subsection, the secondary unimpeded negotiations between the par­ Representatives of the United States of transmission made by a cable system to the ties. America in Congress assembled, public of a primary transmission made by a These changes within the industry add SEC. 1. LIMITATIONS ON EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS IN broadcast station licensed by the Federal CERTAIN SECONDARY TRANSMIS­ Communications Commission or by an ap­ complexity to the complusory license SIONS AND DELETION OF COMPULSO­ scheme and the role of the Federal govern­ propriate governmental authority of RY LICENSES. Canada or Mexico and embodying a per­ ment. The time has come for the Federal (a) AMENDMENT TO SECTION 111 OF TITLE Government to end its regulatory scheme formance or display of a work is not an in­ 17 .-Section 111 of title 17 of the United fringement of copyright if- and to rely on the free market. During the States Code is amended to read as follows: "(A) the cable system serves fewer than last Congress, I advocated a free market "§ 111. Limitations of exclusive rights: secondary 2,500 subscribers; or environment in my cable copyright bill, transmissions "(B) the cable system is located in whole which included the repeal of the "must " (a) CERTAIN SECONDARY TRANSMISSIONS or in part within the local service area of carry" regulations. My present bill would EXEMPTED.-Notwithstanding the provisions the primary transmitter and the cable 25252 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 26, 1985 system does not have the capacity to carry "A 'cable system' has the meaning given <3> Section 510 of title 17 of the United more than 12 channels; or such term under regulations of the Federal States Code is amended by striking out "sec­ "(C) the cable system is located in whole Communications Commission which existed tion 111 Section 510 of title 17 of t.he United " (i) the cable system is not a cable system be a cable system under such regulation as States Code is amended by striking out ", to which subclause or (B) of this clause existed on either such date. For purposes of and the remedy provided by subsection (b) applies, and determining the exemption under subsec­ of this section" both times it appears there­ " (ii) the cable system carries, as part of tion (c)O)(A), two or more cable systems in in. the basic tier of cable service regularly pro­ contiguous communities, under common <5> Section 510 of title 17 of the United vided to all subscribers at the minimum ownership or control, or operating from one States Code is amended by striking out sub­ charge, in full and in their entirety the sig­ headend, shall be considered as one system. section (b). nals of every broadcast television station "The 'local service area of a primary (C) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY OR COPY­ within whose local service area the cable transmitter', in the case of a television RIGHT ROYALTY TRIBUNAL TO ADJUST RATES system is located in whole or in part; or broadcast station, is the area within a 50- FOR RETRANSMISSIONS UNDER COMPULSORY "(0) the primary transmission is of a net­ mile radius of the reference point in the LICENSES.-0) Section 801(b) of title 17 Of work television station and- community to which that station is licensed the United States Code is amended- " (i) the cable system is not located in or authorized by the Federal Communica­ by striking out subparagraph <2> and whole or in part within the local service tions Commission, as such reference point is redesignating subparagraph <3> as subpara­ area of a station affiliated with the same defined under regulations of such Commis­ graph <2>: and network, and sion as in effect on July 1, 1985. by striking out "sections 111 and" in " (ii) the primary transmission is from the "The 'local service area of a primary such redesignated paragraph <2> and insert­ most proximate network television station transmitter', in the case of a radio broadcast ing in lieu thereof "section". affiliated with the same network. station, comprises the primary service area <2> Section 804 of title 17 of the United "(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of of such station, pursuant to the rules and States Code is amended by striking out ", clause <1) of this subsection, the secondary regulations of the Federal Communications and with respect to proceedings under sec­ transmission to the public by a cable system Commission. tion 80l''. of a primary transmission made by a broad­ "A 'network television station' is a broad­ <3> Section 804 of title 17 of the United cast station licensed by the Federal Commu­ cast station owned or operated by, or affili­ States Code is further amended- nications Commission or by an appropriate ated with one of the three national commer­ by striking out subsection and re­ governmental authority of Canada or cial television broadcast networks or the designating subsections . . and as Mexico and embodying a performance or Public Broadcasting Service." subsections . . and respectively; and display of a work otherwise exempt under (b) EFFECTIVE 0ATE.-The amendment by striking out "section 111 or" in sub­ clause <1) of this subsection is actionable as made by subsection (a) of this section shall section (c) and inserting an act of infringement under section 501, take effect on the first January 1 or July 1 in lieu thereof "section". and is fully subject to the remedies provided occurring more than 180 days after the date <4> Section 809 of title 17 of the United by sections 502 through 506 and sections 509 of enactment of this Act. States Code is amended by striking out "sec­ and 510, if the content of the particular pro­ SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE COMMUNICATIONS tions 111 or" and inserting in lieu thereof gram in which the performance or display is ACT OF 1934. "section". embodied, or any commercial advertising or (a) PROHIBITION OF MUST-CARRY OR OTHER (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.-0) The amendments station announcements transmitted by the REGULATION BY THE FCC OR STATES OF RE­ primary transmitter during, or immediately made by subsection of this section shall TRANSMISSIONS.-Section 325 Of the Commu­ take effect on the date of enactment of this before or after, the transmission of such nications Act of 1934 is amended by insert­ program, is in any way willfully altered by Act. ing after subsection the following new (2) The amendments made by subsections the cable system through changes, dele­ subsection: tions, or additions. (b) and of this section shall take effect "(3) Clause (2) does not apply to the alter­ "(d) Except as otherwise provided in sub­ on the first January 1 or July 1 occurring ation, deletion, or substitution of commer­ sections . and redesignating the temporary help services industry paid the performance or display was first trans­ subparagraphs and as subpara­ graphs and respectively. out over $5.5 billion in salaries. It is there­ mitted. fore with honor that I introduce a joint "A 'secondary transmission' is the further (2) Section 804 of title 17 of the United transmitting by any device or process of a States Code is amended by striking out the resolution to designate the week of October primary transmission simultaneously with last sentence of subsection (b). 20-26, 1985, as "National Temporary Serv­ the primary transmission, or nonsimultan­ (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO PROVI­ ices Week." eously with the primary transmission if by a SIONS RELATING TO REMEDIES FOR COPYRIGHT The temporary help industry contributes 'cable system' not located in whole or in INFRINGEMENT.-(i) Section 50l(c) of title 17 to a strong economy as a private-sector em­ part within the boundary of the forty-eight of the United States Code is amended by ployer. The industry provides business with contiguous States, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico: striking out "subsecton of section 111" the ability to react to economic changes Provided, however, That a nonsimultaneous and inserting in lieu thereof "section 106". further transmission by a cable system lo­ <2> Section 50lJOHN CONYERS, JR. military has received condemnation by OF MICHIGAN tics-bombings, strafings, shellings, and oc­ human rights monitoring groups in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES casionally, massacres against civilians." To United States and abroad; and date, there has been virtually no prosecu­ Whereas the United States has taken a Thursday, September 26, 1985 tion for these abuses despite the length of very active role in the civil strife, including Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, today along time that has elapsed since the documenta­ providing the Salvadoran government with with 13 of my colleagues, I am introducing tion. $1.7 billion in aid, including the provision of House Joint Resolution 198 condemning Just last week, Americas Watch released antipersonnel bombs and military aircraft the now widely reported and documented another report on the human rights abuses as well as continued supervision of military in El Salvador. Using figures obtained activities: Therefore be it indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets Resolved by the House of Representatives and other human rights abuses by the through the human rights monitoring agen­ fthe Senate concurring), That, to express Armed Forces of El Salvador. cies of San Salvador, press accounts and condemnation for the continuing human Today, the Salvadoran Armed Forces are other documentation, the report concluded rights abuses in El Salvador, including the supplied with 500 and 750 lb. antipersonnel that the serious and systemic rights by the indiscriminate aerial and ground attacks bombs as well as white phosphorus by the armed forces continue unabated and that against Salvadoran civilians and civilian tar­ United States. Additionally, the Catholic previous hopes that the Duarte government gets by the armed forces of that country.