25320 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE SANDINISTAS: OLD pendence on Eastern-bloc aid, arms, and ad Liberation of Palestine , attempted FRIENDS OF MIDDLE EASTERN visers. It is recognized that those relations to overthrow the government of King Hus TERRORISTS are inimical to United States and hemi sein of Jordan in 1970, PLO-trained Sandi spheric interests. This report notes a differ nistas participated. ent yet related aspect of Sandinista policy: One PLO-Sandinista operation was dis HON. ~.S.BROO~ELD the relationship between the Sandinistas cussed in an interview by Sandinista spokes OF MICHIGAN and radical Middle Eastern groups and man Jorge Mandt with al-Watan, a Kuwaiti IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES states, including terrorist elements support newspaper: "A number of Sandinistas took ed by those groups and states. Their ties part in the operation to divert four aircraft Monday, September 30, 1985 with the Palestine Liberation Organization which the PFLP seized and landed at a Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, we reach back more than ten years desert airfield in Jordan. One of our com before the revolution in Nicaragua. Libya rades was also wounded in another hijack often overlook the fact that the Sandinistas has given the Sandinistas both pre- and operation in which Leila Khaled was in have old and well established ties with ter post-revolution aid, at first in conjunction volved. She was in command of the oper rorists from the Middle East. These con with or through the PLO, and eventually ation and our comrades helped her carry it tinuing links and the presence of known through its own agreements with the Sandi out.'' He continued, "Many of the units be terrorists in Nicaragua today present a real nista government. More recently, the Sandi !onging to the Sandinista movement were at threat to countries in this hemisphere. nistas have developed closer ties with Iran. Palestinian revolutionary bases in Sandinista-PLO ties were cemented in Relations between the Sandinistas and Jordan. . . . Nicaraguan and Palestinian the late 1960's when Comandante Tomas Middle Eastern radicals result from years of blood was spilled together in Amman and carefully developed contacts between radi other places during the 'Black September Borge and other Sandinistas were trained cal forces in Central America and the battles.' " Mandt's reference to a "hijack op in PLO terrorist camps in Lebanon. Sandi Middle East. This report describes how the eration" concerned the hijacking of an El Al nista guerrillas participated in the attempt relationships started, the mutual assistance airliner en route from Tel Aviv to London, ed overthrow of King Hussein of Jordan that the PLO and the Sandinista National on September 6, 1970. Sandinista Patrick and a Sandinista was killed while assisting Liberation Front have given each Arquello Ryan was killed in this hijacking in a PLO hijacking. These close ties contin other, and the Sandinistas' relationships attempt; he had been trained at one of the ue today. The PLO has an embassy in with Libya and Iran. PLO camps. Arguello is now revered by the downtown Managua, and the PLO provides THE FIRST CONTACTS: TRAINING AND ARMS Sandinistas as a hero and a large dam under arms and trainers to the Ortega regime. The PLO made its international debut in construction has been named in his honor. Libya, another terrorist-supporting coun 1966 in Havana, CUba, at the First Confer THE SANDINISTA REVOLUTION AND PLO try, has close diplomatic and trade ties with ence of the Organization of Solidarity of INVOLVEMENT IN THE LATE 1970'S Nicaragua. Libya has also given f"mancial the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin Amer The Sandinistas who trained in PLO ica . At this conference, Fidel Castro almost as valuable to them as their guerrilla Managua maintains close ties with Iran, brought together 500 delegates from radical training: contacts with sources of aid and another nation which uses terrorism as an leftist groups around the world to devise a arms. Again, Tomas Borge was the major instrument of its foreign policy. That coun strategy for what they called the global rev go-between in aid and arms negotiations. try has provided arms to the Sandinistas olutionary movement. While acting in his dual capacity as the San and has signed a large trade agreement Results of that conference soon became dinista's PLO liaison and as Castro's emis with the Comandantes. apparent. In the months following the con sary, the wide range of contacts he amassed The Sandinista government provides ference, guerrilla training camps appeared in the radical Middle East served him well in various countries, with major clusters in as he prepared for the Sandinistas' own rev passports to undesirable radicals and other Cuba, the Soviet Union, Lebanon, and olution. terrorists from the Middle East, Europe Libya. Members of the PLO were among the Borge used PLO assistance to obtain arms and Latin America. PLO operatives use first to be trained in the Cuban and Soviet from North Korea and Vietnam for the San Nicaragua as a base for their terror oper camps, thanks to the close ties developed at dinistas. Libyan money helped pay for some ations in Central America. Known terror the Tri-Continental Conference. of these arms. Reportedly, other shipments ists from the Basque terrorist group, the Training courses at these camps generally of supplies and arins came from the PLO ETA, the German Basdar-Meinhof and lasted six months and included ideological itself. In July 1979, one planeload was inter other murdering gangs make Nicaragua indoctrination as well as practical training cepted when it stopped in Tunis. This PLO their home. in the use of weapons and explosives. The chartered aircraft, ostensibly carrying medi indoctrination focused on the theories of cal supplies from Beirut for Nicaraguan ref Comandante Ortega is exporting revolu Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. Lecture topics in ugees, was found instead to hold 50 tons of tion and terrorism in this hemisphere. Ter cluded: "Russian Ties to the Third World," arins, including an anti-aircraft gun. The rorism is nothing new, however, to the San "The Struggle Against Imperialism," "The Tunisian government did not allow the ship dinistas. Soviet Contribution to Palestinian Libera ment to go through. I commend the following excerpts from a tion," "Zonist Ties to Imperialsim," and REVOLUTIONARY SOLmARITY: MILITARY AND State Department publication on Nicaragua "The Reactionary Nature of North Yemen ECONOMIC TIES and terrorism to my colleagues in the Con and Saudi Arabia." Practical training in Shortly after the Sandinistas seized gress. techniques of warfare included blowing up munitions dumps, bridges, and vehicles; power, they rewarded the PLO for its assist THE SANDINISTAS AND MIDDLE EASTERN planting personnel mines; the rudiments of ance in their revolution by granting it un RADICALS precedented "government to government" biological and chemical warfare; marksman ties. In most countries the PLO was at best TERRORISM IN THE 1970'S leges. INTRODUCTION The investment in training Nicaraguans In July 1980, Yasser Arafat made a four Foreign policy analysts and the news had some immediate dividends for the PLO. day "state visit" to Nicaragua to formalize media have noted Sandinista relations with When the PLO and its radical component full diplomatic ties between the Nicaraguan the CUbans and Soviets and Sandinista de- groups, including the Popular Front for the government and the PLO. On July 22 at a
e l"his "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 30, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25321 reception in his honor Arafat praised "the Prime Minister Musaviis believed to control rorist activity, including the planning, train strategic and military ties between the San Iran's terrorist operations. ing, financing, and implementation of ter dinista and Palestinian revolutions." Interi The Sandlntstas admit that an oil deal rorist acts. Sandlntsta ties with this network or Minister Borge responded, "We say to with Iran was discussed, but they deny that pose increasing danger of violence for the our brother Arafat that Nicaragua is his arms shipments were agreed upon. Never Western Hemisphere. land and the PLO cause is the cause of the theless there were reports that on January Sandinistas." Arafat replied: "The links be 25, 1985, two shiploads of arms were under tween us are not new. Your comrades did way from Iran, to be transferred to Nicara TRmUTE TO REPRESENTATIVE not come to our country just to train, but guan ships at some point, and that there WYCHE FOWLER also to fight. Your enemies are our en may be some Iranian funding for the inter emies." Arafat expanded on this theme in national terrorist presence in Nicaragua. HON. RICHARD RAY an interview with Radio Sandino the same A HAVEN FOR SUBVERSIVES day: "the Nicaragua people's victory is the The FSLN government has issued Nicara OF GEORGIA victory of the Palestinians. . . . The freedom IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in Nicaragua is the same in Palestine. . . . guan passports to radicals and terrorists of other nationalities, including radicals from Monday, September 30, 1985 The only way, then, is for increased struggle the Middle East, Latin America, and against imperlaltsm, colonialism, and Zion Europe, thus enabling them to travel in Mr. RAY. Mr. Speaker, recently, the At ism." He closed the broadcast by reiterating, Western countries without their true identi lanta Constitution, one of the Nation's "Together against imperialism, colonialism, ties being known. PLO agents working in finest newspapers, did a profile on a and Zionism." In a speech at the Cesar Au Central America and Panama use Nicaragua gusto Silva Convention Center . gressman is a savvy-and even charming most observers agreed that shipment of The Middle Eastern entitles Nicaragua has politician. small arms from Iran and an oil deal were chosen to deal with-the PLO, Libya, and Not infallible, though, as Fowler himself discussed. An ABC news report stated that Iran-have had known involvement in ter- admits. For a fellow who's considering a 25322 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1985 statewide race, he made a political mistake "I went on to penury and politics,'' he of life and death and the policies that bring at a "very early" age: "I was born in Atlan says, "and she went to stardom." us a.wa.y from the brink or closer to the ta." Six-feet tall, Fowler started at guard on brink are the questions that we have to Fowler's family roots, however, run deep his high school basketball team and ran dis decide." in the soil of middle Georgia. Wyche Fowler tance events for the track team. As a cross Today, Fowler leads a "relatively modest" Sr. was born in Warrenton. Emelyn Fowler, country runner, he won all-state honors. dual life, divided between Washington and the congressman's mother, hails from After flirting with the notion of attending Atlanta. Albany and grew up in Washington, a either Mercer University or Wake Forest, In Washington, he rises at 5 or 6 a.m., Wilkes County community. Both worked as Fowler settled on North Carolina's David reads the newspapers, breakfast on coffee educators in several towns before the elder son College, where he gave up varsity sports and fruit and then walks the five minutes Fowler took on better-paying jobs, selling for his studies. An English major, minoring from his Capitol Hill home to the Rayburn textbooks, then insurance, in Atlanta. in Biblical studies, he joined Phi Delta Office Building, usually to swim for a while The Fowlers lived in Decatur when their Theta fraternity, served on the student before settling into work. son was born-at Emory University Hospi council and found time to teach a Sunday "I'm just like any other middleaged Amer tal-in 1940, and for several years immedi School class, volunteer at an orphanage and ican,'' says Fowler. "I try to stay in shape ately after World War II they lived in Mari coach a teenaged black basketball team on and lose the battle.'' etta. When Wyche Jr.-five years older than the side. Generally, he's returning phone calls by his only sibling, a sister-was in the fourth Davidson made him "really examine, my 7:30 a.m. and works straight through, with a grade, the family moved to the northside faith, make it stronger and be able to back break for a hot dog at lunch, until 9 or 10 Atlanta home where they've lived ever it up,'' Fowler says. By the time he finished p.m. since. college in 1962, however, he was less certain He enjoys "an occasional medicinal drink" From his father, a stern taskmaster, about a career in the ministry and enlisted of King George IV Scotch, and he tries to Fowler learned discipline and dedication. for a two-year hitch in the Army. go to bed early. "I'm not interested in From his mother, whom many say he In 1963, while serving as a first lieutenant Georgetown cocktail parties,'' Fowler says. favors, he gained wit. "They taught me to in Army Intelligence at the Pentagon, "I'm a bit of a loner." do right, to try to do right, no matter what Fowler read a news story about Charles On vacations, he enjoys the great out the consequences," the congressman says. Longstreet Welter. A representative from doors. "I'm not political like some people Religion-as practiced at the Second Atlanta, Weltner-at the peak of the civil who have to live it and breathe it,'' he says. Ponce de Leon Baptist Church-was also a rights movement-condemned racist attacks "I like to get away from it. Fishing and profound influence on Fowler's youth. on blacks and proclaimed, "We must not hiking are my second loves to baseball. My "They couldn't have anything at the church compromise with hate." hiking and fishing are not just sports but that I wasn't there," he says. "I believed Fowler was so moved that he called the that is a way of stepping back." He has with all my heart that I was going to be a congressman, who invited him over. Now a climbed Mount Fujiyama in Japan and minister. I had this absolute determination state Supreme Court justice, Weltner re Mount Killmanjaro in Kenya. During the that that's what the Lord wanted me to do.'' calls: "I thought he was extremely bright just completed congressional recess, he went As a member of the Northside High and attractive . . . . He's a very remarkable trout fishing with several friends in the School class of 1958, Fowler helped start an person. He was brought up with a sense that Grand Tetons. interfaith fellowship group, and he often you ought to be here to help other people." In his spare time at home, Fowler reads spoke at church meetings. Wyche Fowler As a result of their meeting, Fowler start and occasionally sees a movie. "I just have Sr., now 75, recalls that his son, a great be ed working after hours for Weltner, and, to have a mental wash of fiction. I have to liever in tithing, even gave the church 10 when his Army duty ended, stayed on as the have somebody telling me a story and get percent of the money he made bagging gro representative's chief of staff. away from all the reams of facts." He likes ceries. After Weltner chose not to seek re-elec potboilers by Robert Parker, the poetry of That's not to say the future politician tion in 1966, Fowler went to the London William Butler Yeats, the novels of his fa wasn't an all-American boy. Without work School of Economics, then returned to At vorite author, Anthony Trollope. ing too hard, he made decent grades, but he lanta where he enrolled at Emory Law Most weekends, the congressman flies was capable of behaving like "a mischievous School. tourist class-to Atlanta and visits with brat." As an 11th-grader, he even ran afoul The first hint of his political ambition friends, constituents and his parents, at of the law. Although juvenile authorities de came in 1968 when he contacted Atlanta whose home he stays, though he owns a cided against booking them, Fowler and two Mayor Iran Allen and suggested someone house in Virginia-Highland. friends were suspended from school briefly should hang around City Hall at night and In his· travels around the Fifth District, he for unleasing live pigeons from the balcony on weekends to answer the phone. "That is drives a 1970 Oldsmobile CUtlass, well of the Fox Theatre. The future congress a wonderful idea. What fool can we get to broken in with 150,000 miles but a symbol of man learned his lesson. "I do not take pi sit down there?" the mayor replied. modernity compared to the '66 Buick Rivi geons to movies any more," he says. The "fool,'' of course, turned out to be era he drives in Washington. Like most teenagers, Fowler also loved Fowler himself, but there was nothing fool In addition to attending Braves games, he music and sports. "Buddy Holly was my ish about his approach to the post. Al catches three or four Falcons football hero and Chuck Berry," he says. though he had originally told the mayor games a year and likes to stop by Manuel's He can still recall the lyrics of almost he'd be a "duty officer," Fowler-"with a Tavern or the White Dot. He's occasionally every song popular between 1952 and 1960. twinkle"-soon suggested to an inquiring re seen jogging around the park near Peach And. according to a longtime friend, Joseph porter that he was "sort of a night mayor.'' tree Battle and Northside Drive. Robinson, first-chair oboist for the New The newspapers promptly picked up the Sunday mornings, he goes to church; a York Philharmonic, "He can sing from dusk title, and Fowler made the most of it in the few times a year to his own, Central Presby to dawn and never miss a line or repeat him next year's elections. Although he was still terian, more often to the churches of his self.'' a few months away from graduation from constituents. While in high school, Fowler hung out at law school, a sign proclaiming "The Night Divorced 12 years, Fowler is the father of black clubs, the Royal Peacock and the Wa Mayor Is Running for Alderman" appeared a 14-year-old daughter. Since she lives with lahaje, where he heard the Drifters and on his 1963 Corvair and a political career her mother in Dallas, he doesn't see her as Ray Charles. At the old Municipal Auditori was launched. often as he'd like, he says. um, he rocked to the sounds of Chubby At 29, Fowler won a city-wide post and He has never remarried. "That still sort of Checker and Fats Domino. was promptly dubbed the "bright young haunts me," he says. "I always thought that Even earlier, as a child of 9 and 10, he had man of Atlanta politics." In 1973, he was there'd be a calmer time when I could sung and played the guitar at friends' birth elected president of the Atlanta City Coun marry again.'' On the other hand, he says, day parties. At 11, the budding troubadour cil, and in '77 when Andrew Young went to his mother has suggested every politician went big-time. He sang "I'm Sending You a the United Nations, he won the Fifth Dis should be a bachelor-and an orphan. Big Bouquet of Roses" on Freddie Miller's trict seat he's held ever since. Fowler dates, of course, though that's an "Stars of Tomorrow,'' a popular local TV Though he never made it to seminary, the aspect of his life he prefers not to talk show that resembled Ted Mack's "Amateur congressman says there's been a consistency about. "I live in a. fishbowl," he says, "but I Hour.'' He won top prize-24 Brock candy in his life's ambition. "I'd like to think the do not like to involve any women by being bars-and was invited back later to perform essence of good politics is a moral basis," he named.'' a duet with another winner, a 7-year-old says. "What is a budget but a reflection of a "He likes the ladies but he's not a flirter," from Augusta named Brenda Lee. He sang nation's moral priorities? What is an envi says Temi Silver. "He can talk to 80-year-old high tenor and she sang bass on "The Old ronmental policy but a policy of steward ladies in the same way he talks to delicious Rugged Cross.'' ship? In a nuclear age, the moral question 30-year-olds.'' September 30, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25323 The Atlanta Braves are batting late in the will dun you intensively for payment of [From the Washington Times, Sept. 26, game, but their owner, sitting next to your account. Little patience is shown 19851 Wyche Fowler in the stands, is making a before the threat of a collection agency is THE HARKIN PLAN: "FASCIST" FAR.:M POLICY? pitch: a curveball. tossed in the consumer's lap, adding to what, Ted Turner winds up and fires. Wyche ever medical trauma is present. Tom Harkin, the freshman U.S. senator Fowler, he says is, "the only-make that one Matters become compounded in the from Iowa, makes little secret of his far-left of the many-honest men in Congress." middle-income range as health care costs in ideology and associations. Fowler chuckles. He frequently enjoys a crease, health insurance premiums rise and As a congressman he regularly boosted sort of Braves Banter Night seated next to benefits are curtailed. That double whammy the programs of, and was closely associated Turner. Fast friends, he and Turner were makes you think a long time before you with, the Institute for Policy Studies drawn together, in Fowler's view, by enjoy avail yourself of the system. Washington's most radical-left think tank. ment of challenge, a willlngness to get big The economics of the system rule out pre Last spring, Mr. Harkin volunteered to try goals and take risks. ventive health care treatment for vast num to sell Washington the Sandinista's new Turner says baseball drew them together, bers of people. That, in turn, ultimately is "peace plan" in order to stop aid to the Nic though it's true that Fowler has influenced an added burden on the system and a fur araguan "contras." him in ways that have nothing to do with ther stimulant to still higher costs. This fall, however, he has dropped his so the game: "He's made me more of a moder In the past 15 years, health care costs cialist foreign-policy hat in favor of a bla ate. I just like him a lot. He's very likable, have more than doubled as a percentage of tantly fascist approach to domestic agricul honest, caring and, I think, intelligent. Ca the nation's gross national product. tural policy. Mr. Harkin is on the verge of pable, too." The situation more severely affects the getting that approach adopted by Congress, Stylishly dressed from his green velvet poor but is felt well into the middle-income using last Sunday's Farm-Aid Concert as a jacket to his shiny black loafers, Turner range. The future shows on promise of front to "sell" it to taxpayers. points to the railing where both he and relief. If he succeeds, America's agricultural pre Fowler have propped their feet. "He has The administration of President Ronald eminence will be lost forever-and we soon worse shoes than mine, too," the Braves' Reagan has changed some thinking on this could be importing most of our food. owner says. "That's another reason I like subject. Where there were once many there Mr. Harkin's proposal, most of which was him." are now few who believe that the country is recently adopted by the House Agriculture heading toward socialized medicine. Committee, involves arbitrarily reducing do We are headed in two directions. One mestic production by up to 45 percent to MORAL AND PRACTICAL movement is toward growing use of such support a 40 to 50 percent price increase for DILEMMAS OF HEALTH CARE collective operations as health maintenance all major feed and food grains, shifting the organizations. The other movement directs cost of subsidizing farmers from taxpayers HON. DOUG BEREUTER us toward the denial, by economic necessity, to consumers. of adequate health care to millions of Farmers would be forced to participate in OF NEBRASKA people. a national referendum on "an offer they IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It is this limited access to the system that couldn't refuse"-either vote for large, na Monday, September 30, 1985 presents the moral imperative of which the tionally imposed cutbacks in production in Creighton professor speaks. The more the return for a 40 percent increase in the do Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, the fol system becomes a luxury item the more of a mestic loan rate-or accept reduc lowing excellent editorial essay from the moral problem it presents. tions in that loan rate of 5 percent a year September 23, 1985 issue of the Lincoln As a society, it is immoral for us to permit for three years. (NE) Star discusses the terrible conflicts something as fundamental as decent health When they had approved this plan would fall by $12 bil Yosemite Park & Curry Co., which has made her its official archivist. She had a nomadic experience as a child, lion, killing off 130,000 jobs. Net farm living in national parks and attending two income would actually fall amother 10 per Shirley has worked hard to preserve the or three schools each year. cent, even as consumers would be hit by a colorful and unique history of Yosemite for Today she lives off the Big Oak Flat Road $20 billion increase in food prices-whose the enjoyment of park visitors for many a few turns and a few bumps beyond Big impact would be 2lfz times as great on low generations to come, and for this I would Meadow, just 200 feet outside the park's incomes as average households. like to thank her. Her excellent books western boundary. Her home occupies a It would also surely invite exactly the clearing where you can hear the wind in the kind of worldwide protectionist trader war make visits to the park even more enjoy able by explaining the stories behind all the pines and catch the arresting scent of that brought on the Great Depression. "mountain misery,'' a pungent plant with Under the Harkin-House plan, by 1989, attractions. The Los Angeles Times article planted acreage would have been cut from that I mentioned earlier discusses Shirley's medicinal aroma. The house stands on the 270 million to 205 million; 40 percent higher many contributions to Yosemite, and gives foundations of a home once owned by Theo feed costs meat and poultry consumption by dore Solomons, the man who mapped what a glimpse of the positive spirit that she is became the John Muir Trail along the crest 7 would cut meat and poultry consumption so well known for. In recognition of all her by 7 percent; raise broiler and hog prices 15- of the Sierra. The original stone fireplace accomplishments, I insert this article here from Solomons' house keeps her warm 30 percent; and cut the already marginal re in the RECORD: turns of beef operators by $75 a head, cut during the long winters of snow and solitary ting the current record-low cattle herd from [From the Los Angeles Times, Sept. 15, writing for her next book, a biography on, 110 million to 97 million. 1985] of course, Theodore Solomons. Mr. Harkin's draconian proposal was suc 'rELLING TALES FROM THE SIERRA BY A Sargent insists on downplaying one aspect cessfully "fronted" in the House by his ideo BIOGRAPHER FOR YOSEliiiTE of her life, a rare disease that has confined logical Bobbsey Twin, Rep. Tom Daschle, D Yosemite National Park, and a good friend climbed it in 1875. Wouldn't that make it published in 1966. of mine for many years, Ms. Shirley Sar more singular to you, more exciting?" Elizabeth Meyer's life "had spanned a tre gent. Sargent's books tell the Yosemite visitor mendous amount of development here,'' Shirley has lived in Yosemite since her what could have happened as well as what Sargent recalls. "She was witty and she childhood, when she arrived there with her did. Not only was the Hetch Hetchy Valley made a good subject because I knew her. parents in 1936. Her father was an engineer dammed to provide water for San Francisco She turned me on to history. I was still writ who helped to build roads allowing greater but there were plans years ago to dam the ing fiction, teen-age novels. One of my teen South Fork of the Merced River, which age novels was called 'Ranger in Skirts.' access to the high country of the park. would have flooded the area around the Guess where she was located? Yosemite." Shirley became so fascinated with Yosem present Wawona Hotel and golf course on Most kids want to be a nurse one day, a ite's unique natural magnificence and the southern edge of the park. "There have teacher the next, Sargent recalled. "I was beauty that she could not leave it, and she been tons of threats against the park," said always going to be a rich, famous writer. has lived there ever since. Sargent, citing a present-day attempt to Here I am at the age of 110," she added Shirley has dedicated her life to chron dam the Merced at E1 Portal, just west of with a laugh, "rich in environment, in icl~n.g the park's colorful social history, the park boundary. "It's all greed, greed, family and friends. And a writer." wntang books on such diverse topics as the greed." A writer whose books sell life of John Muir, the contributions of 1936. She lived with her parents in Tuo steadily. "John Muir in Yosemite,'' pub women pioneers to the park, and the histo lumne Meadows, at 8,600 feet in the high lished in 1971, is the biggest seller, and she ry of the Ahwahnee Hotel. Not content country, while her engineer father helped says her book on the Ahwahnee sells about only to write, Shirley also co-owns her own build new park sections of the Big Oak Flat 2,500 copies a year. Her newest is "Dear September 30, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25325 Papa," letters between Muir and his two cratic state, these Sandinista leaders are nine beach houses in the San Juan del Sur daughters. fattening themselves and their families by resort. Sargent is the archivist for Yosemite Park taking advantage of their prominent posi Mansions that once were Somoza's also & Curry Co., now owned by MCA, the giant are available for the Sandinista leaders' use. movie and entertainment company. She tions in that long-suffering country. While They are known as "protocol houses" in a says her relationships with the Concession they pretend to help the people, they are transparent attempt to make them look of aire are excellent. "They weren't always really only interested in their own welfare. ficial. that way." When she was younger, she says, Once again, the well-being of the Nicara This is the tragedy of the Nicaraguan rev "I was a complete rebel. . . . I used to call it guan masses is ignored by those at the top olution. A popular uprising after years of re the Yosemite Park & Robbery Co." who think only of themselves and hard cur pression and exploitation has been totally Does MCA ownership make any differ rency. Rather than trying to upgrade the corrupted. The people still live in poverty. ence? living conditions of Nicaraguans, the San Footnote: A spokeswoman for the Nicara "When MCA came in here in 1974, it came dinistas have destroyed the economy of guan Embassy denied "absolutely" that in like gangbusters and they renamed Deg Borge and the Ortega brothers owned any nan's the that country. They have essentially turned houses other than the ones they live in. She Great Yosemite Food and Beverage Co. It that poor land into a closed police state. also maintained that only one company im was really tacky, one of those city-type The church has been attacked and the op ports goods used by the government and it names. There was talk of 10-story conven position has been intimidated. At great is state-owned. All of the restaurants in tion centers, which I knew would never cost, they are exporting their failed revolu question, she added, are owned by the state. happen because the National Park Service tion to neighboring states. Again, corrup controls all that. But within a very short tion is alive and well in downtown Mana time they calmed way down." A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT With all she knows about park hotels, a gua. visitor tells Sargent, she could have been With these concerns in mind, I commend the Authur Hailey of Yosemite, writing the following Washington Post article to HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER about sordid scenes in the back country. my colleagues in the Congress. OF ILLINOIS She had, after all, wanted to call "Pioneers [From the Washington Post, Sept. 20, 1985] IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in Petticoats" by a steamier title, "Sex in SANDINISTA Now SPELLS CoRRUPTION the Sierra." Monday, September 30, 1985 Sargent now grins at the thought. "I have a friend who's bugging me to do a novel Are the revolutionary rulers of Nicaragua Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, as the No about Yosemite. There's a lot of drama. But trying to surpass the late, corrupt Anastasio vember summit between President Reagan I know too much about recent history. Somoza's record as the hemisphere's greed and Secretary General Gorbachev ap There are things of course I didn't put in iest dictatorship? The word we get from Ma proaches it is important that the issue of 'Yosemite and Its Innkeepers' that might nagua is that the Marxist Sandinistas are human rights in the Soviet Union is ad have made it a little spicier. But I didn't making a good run for Somoza's title. dressed as a high priority concern. We In fact, the Sandinista leaders and their want it to be. They'd say, 'Oh, here she must remember the individuals and their comes again, digging up all the dirt.' Sure cronies are so blatant about their pursuit of there's dirt anywhere you go. There are luxury and wealth that the long-suffering families in the Soviet Union who are the power fights wherever you go. . . . It's not Nicaraguan people know all about it, and victims of harassment and suffering. There that I avoid controversy but I don't think I some of them cynically refer to the revolu fore, I submit for the RECORD a letter that want to do the Great American Novel on tion as el engano, meaning the trick or I will be sending to President Reagan on Yosemite. hoax. behalf of Zachar and Tatiana Zunshine, "You have to add so much sex, so much From U.S. intelligence and other sources, who are longing for the day they will be al blood and gore to appeal to readers today. we've pieced together this story of a peo ple's revolution betrayed by the Marxist lowed to leave the Soviet Union. There's enough drama in the geological SEPTEMBER 27, 1985. forces in Yosemite. millionaires who stole control: The three commandantes who dominate Hon. RONALD W. REAGAN, the Sandinista junta, Daniel Ortega, Hum President of the United States, The White DANNY ORTEGA-AN IMPORTER berto Ortega and Tomas Borge, have divvied House, Washington. DC. ON THE SLY up the country's import market through DEAR MR. PREsmENT: The American two monopoly companies. What the Ortega people have long cherished and represented brothers don't control, Borge does. the value of human liberty for all people. HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD Daniel Ortega is the president of Nicara Therefore, as you prepare for your upcom OF MICHIGAN gua; Humberto is minister of defense and ing meeting with Secretary General Gorba IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES head of the army. Their key company is chev I would like to express my concern Alfa Comercial, which handles goods im that the issue of human rights remains high Monday, September 30, 1985 ported for the government. It is like the on the agenda and that the individuals in Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, who U.S. General Services Administration, the Soviet Union who are victims of human can be both a revolutionary and a smooth except that the Ortegas are allowed to skim rights abuses are addressed specifically. businessman? The answer: Commandante a percentage off the top of each transaction. I would like to bring your attention to the Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua. Believe it or Rivaling their official pillage is the empire plight of Zachar and Tatiana Zunshine, a being built by Borge, the only surviving family that has become very important to not, that outspoken Marxist-Leninist, who founder of the Sandinista movement. He is my wife, Kathryn, and I. We have had the criticizes capitalists whenever he can, is in in charge of the police and internal security. opportunity to directly correspond with Ta business and doing well for himself; he Borge walks with a pronounced limp, a tiana and learn from her firsthand of the may already be a millionaire. What, howev souvenir of torture in the same Somoza pris suffering that she and her husband have en er, has he done to improve the life of the ons where his enemies are now mistreated. dured. Zachar Zunshine has been impris average Nicaraguan? In fact, very little. Borge was liberated in 1978 during the dra oned in the Soviet Union since March 6, According to an article by Jack Ander matic takeover of government buildings in 1984. His crime is that he desires to leave Managua by Eden Pastora, now an embi the Soviet Union and to live freely in Israel. son, the commandante and his brother, tered foe of his old Sandinista comrades. The Zunshines first applied to emigrate in Humberto Ortega, have a large import busi Borge's import company, H M Corp., im 1981, but were subsequently denied that ness. The two companies, Alfa Commercial ports whatever goods the Ortegas don't. right. and H.M. Corp. handle all goods and mate Like the Ortegas, Borge has his own ele Since being imprisoned Zachar has been rials imported into that country. These gant private restaurants, off-limits to every suffering poor health and has been receiv commandantes also reportedly own numer one but the Sandinista leaders and their ing insufficient medical treatment. While ous houses in Managua along with beach guests. The government pays the tab. Borge her husband suffers in prison, Tatiana is houses. They frequent private restaurants also owns the Mau Mau, a discotheque in living a nightmare and will continue to do Managua that is the favorite of U.S. Embas so until Zachar is released. Recently, life that are closed to all but them and their sy Marine guards. has become especially difficult for Tatiana guests. Borge and the Ortegas flaunt their nou as she has been struggling with Soviet au In addition to betraying the original veau riches. Each owns more than half a thorities in an attempt to visit her husband promises of the Nicaraguan revolution dozen houses in the capital, according to in prison. These Soviet authorities are not which would have created an open demo- competent sources. The Ortega family has only overlooking the Zunshines rights as 25326 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1985 guaranteed by international human rights number of new governmental and institu column by Donald Lambro in the Washing doctrines, but they are also denying Tatiana tional buildings and the commitment of ton Times, which makes the point that her rights as a Soviet citizen. Campbell Soup to build new headquarters Mr. President, I know that you share my on the riverfront are excellent signs of President Reagan can, and should, be more concern for those whose fundamental free progress. However, these developments are aggessive in his use of the Presidential veto doms are being overlooked. Your meeting not sufficient to recapture a viable tax base. power. with Mr. Gorbachev is crucial to the free Until there is a major commitment by a res As long as the House and Senate ignore dom of people who are being persecuted in idential developer, which will in tum attract the growing public concern over Federal the Soviet Union. It is important that Mr. the movie theaters, restaurants and shops deficits, the President must use every Gorbachev recognizes that the United that make a city come alive, Camden's revi weapon he has available to whip Congress States government cares about people like talization will be a slow march forward. Zachar and Tatiana Zunshine. Atlantic City was supposed to have been into shape. I hope legislators on both sides America has long symbolized the principle turned around by the introduction of casino of the aisle will read this column. of freedom for the oppressed peoples of the gambling. But the city made a fundamental The article by Mr. Lambro follows: East. The U.S. must reaffirm its commit planning error at the very beginning by From the Washington Times, Sept. 26, ment to act upon that principle at this criti placing all of its chips on one spot-the cal juncture for U.S.-Soviet relations and for boardwalk. As a result, there was no hub 19851 the Jews of the Soviet Union. provided by casino development around BRUSHING UP ON VETOES Sincerely, which other, smaller commercial develop Memo to President Ronald Reagan: JOHN E. PORTER, ment could take place. George Washington vetoed two bills during Member of Congress. Today, Atlantic City is isolated from his presidency, neither of which was over itself. The city and the boardwalk are two ridden by Congress. different worlds. Growth, winner, loser, ECONOMIC SUCCESS HASN'T President Abraham Lincoln vetoed seven Zero-sum development. bills, and none was overridden. TRICKLED DOWN EVERYWHERE Atlantic City also is isolated from the rest of South Jersey-in fact, from the entire President Franklin D. Roosevelt vetoed Northeast Corridor, because the proposed 635 bills during his 12 years in office, and HON. JAMES J. FLORIO rail link between the city and Philadelphia only nine, or 1.2 percent, were overridden. OF NEW JERSEY edy brings attention and interest, but it is also, in this case, a tragic irony. If Mexico port for political prisoners in Ukraine and When things go badly, Mexicans com City's earthquakes of Sept. 19 and 20 mark their families, who have been targeted for mend themselves to the Virgin of Guada the beginning of a new American awareness repression on the part of Soviet Secret lupe, the country's patron saint, for help of Mexico's problems, promise and reality, and deliverance. Slow and inefficient at police and judicial organizations. they will have generated something posi Most recently, members of the Ukrainian best, she was particularly inefficient last tive-however minimal. week. Mexico was struck by the worst natu Finally, the earthquake could offer the Gold Cross participated as a nongovern ral disaster in its recorded history and re country's creditors-governments, banks mental organization in the U.N. Interna ceived the latest installment in a seemingly and international agencies-an opportunity tional Women's Conference in Nairobi, never-ending succession of economic bad to ease up on Mexico. For some time it has Kenya, this past summer. The Ukrainian news. been clear to many that Mexico would soon participants provided information on Saudi Arabia leaked to the press-and pri have to stop sacrificing its long-term eco Ukrainian culture and solicited support for vately made it known to Mexico-that it was nomic development to meet interest pay increasing its petroleum exports to around 4 the efforts of Ukrainian women who are ments on its foreign debt. If the earthquake struggling for human rights and national m1llion barrels per day, thereby ensuring a makes this fact easier to realize, live with or new drop of $2 or $3 per barrel in the price Justify, then once again the international fi self-determination. of oil. Every one-dollar reduction implies a nancial community will have done the right I congratulate the Ukrainian Gold Cross $540 m1llion drop in Mexico's yearly hard thing for the wrong reasons. the economic on the occasion of its 50th jubilee and wish currency earnings. After two price cuts costs of reconstruction will be enormous. its members continuing success in their during the past nine months, the country But the political costs of not helping to re service to the American and Ukrainian can ill afford another one. Most likely, such build the devastated areas of Mexico City communities. a move would make interest payments on its could be far greater. $96 billion foreign debt exceedingly diffi If there ever was a time when a country cult, if not impossible. needed a break, the time is now, and the BEWARE OF SPIES IN To complicate matters further, on Thurs country is Mexico. PINSTRIPES day-the day of the earthquake-the Inter national Monetary Fund tactfully an nounced that it was revoking its loan agree THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF HON. 1nW.S.BROO~ELD ment with Mexico, freezing the pending dis THE UKRAINIAN GOLD CROSS OF MICHIGAN bursement of $900 million in loans. More than the money itself, the IMF's decision IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES will affect Mexico's already battered credit HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR Monday, September 30, 1985 OF OHIO rating, making its attempt to obtain fresh Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, there IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES funds on the world market practically hope are many Soviet agents masquerading as less. Monday, September 30, 1985 Despite the ominous implications of these diplomats here in the United States. The economic and financial calamities, they are Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, large Soviet presence allows their intelli clearly dwarfed by the destruction and October 5, 1985, the members of the gence services to vacuum up valuable intel- 25328 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1985 ligence from this country. Our Government series of top-name entertainment has been programs at laboratories, such as the Oak must continue to do everything possible to assembled, featuring the finest big bands in Ridge National Laboratory. stop the outflow of sensitive intelligence in the world. Among the top names which Another corporation, Sundstrand, has formation. have performed are the Glenn Miller Or also contracted with Argonne National In spite of Mr. Gorbachev's recent com chestra, Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians, Laboratory for the pu.rpose of utilizing ments that Soviet-American relations are at and the Count Basie Orchestra. their expertise to solve specific technologi an all time low, the Soviets still maintain a On Sunday, October 6, the · Camden cal problems associated with certain prod huge presence in the United States. In their County Parks Commission will feature the uct interests of the Sundstrand Corp. Both Embassy in Washington and in their Con Maynard Ferguson Band in the final big Westinghouse and Sundstrand perceive sulate in San Francisco, there are about band concert of this special season. Clearly, these associations with the national labora 279 official Soviet diplomats and staff per Camden County provides fine recreational tories as highly cost-effective. Rather than sonnel. The United States presence in facilities and services, but this concert making extensive corporate investments in Moscow and Leningrad is smaller. series has presented residents with the developing the internal R&D capabilities Given the Soviet tendency to ignore finest musical entertainment anywhere for that already exist at the national laborato international agreements, I am amazed an incomparable admission price-free of ries, these innovative companies have that their U.N. office is so large. Their mis charge. found that they can best obtain solutions to sion in the United Nations has 147 diplo Mr. Speaker, I am certain that my col their technological problems by utilizing mats. Their staff in the U.N.'s Secretariat leagues would join me in congratulating the expertise of the national laboratories at totals 275. Fortunately, our Government re Freeholder John Radano and Commission substantially lower costs. Westinghouse, for cently imposed travel restrictions on the President David Venella for making example, notes that for a minimal invest Soviet staff there. Camden County's parks among the finest ment of some $40,000 to $50,000 at a na About 50 percent of the Soviet Secretar in the State, and assembling such a fine tional laboratory, they can obtain the re iat staff is employed by the Soviet intelli array of talent. The residents of Camden sults of research programs that, if per gence services. About 35 percent of Soviet County deserve no less. formed within the corporate structure, diplomats in this country are assumed to would cost on the order of $400,000. In ad be intelligence officers. Using this formula, INDUSTRY EXPLORES NEW dition to the costs, it would most probably there are about 300 Soviet spies working in WAYS TO BENEFIT FROM FED take a much longer time to obtain results. this country. ERALLY SUPPORTED TECHNOL I applaud the innovative approach to Soviet spies buy, steal, and ferret out sen technology transfer taken by these corpora sitive diplomatic intelligence and military OGY DEVELOPMENT PRO GRAMS tions. It is an example of how industry and secrets, and they monitor our eommunica the Government can work together in order tions. The Walker case is probably one of to maximize the benefits of Federal invest many operations that the Soviets are con HON. MARILYN LLOYD ment in research and technology programs. ducting in our open society. OF TENNESSEE Moreover, it is only through such coopera While we cannot stop Soviet espionage IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tive efforts that the United States can hope completely, upgrading our counterintelli Monday, September 30, 1985 to compete with foreign nations in which gence efforts is a step in the right direction. Mrs. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker, during the new technology developments are often Fortunately, communications security is subsidized by their national governments. also being improved. I commend the ad past year, Congress has expressed a strong ministration for its deep concern about this interest in extending the ability of the pri NATIONAL LAB TECHNOLOGY TRANSI"ER TO critical issue. vate sector to obtain technology funded NUCLEAR INDUSTRY INCREASING within the Federal research and develop An increasing number of companies in the ment programs at our national laborato nuclear industry are tapping federally CAMDEN COUNTY PARKS ries. This interest stems from our concern funded national laboratories for technology COMMISSION that the United States must reap the maxi to better compete in U.S. and foreign mar mum benefit from its investment of tax kets while saving on in-house development expenditures, said Gene Stark, the chair HON. JAMES J. FLORIO dollars in the development of new technol man of the Federal Laboratory Consortium OF NEW JERSEY ogies. A recent hearing, which was held in for Technology Transfer . As an ex IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Oak Ridge, TN, jointly by my Subcommit ample of this trend, Westinghouse helped tee on Energy Research and Production start up four new nuclear-related businesses Monday, September 30, 1985 and the Subcommittee on Science, Re in the last year as an outgrowth of research Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I would like search and Technology, chaired by Mr. projects at such laboratories. Mike Kor to bring to the attention of my colleagues WALGREN, suggested that there exists enko, who spearheaded a Westinghouse pro an example of county government provid within the private sector great interest in gram to investigate the potential for tech nology transfer, said. "It's better to put ing a valuable service to its constituents. obtaining rights to use in the commercial $50,000 into a national laboratory than to Camden County, NJ, in my congressional marketplace technology funded by the Fed reinvent the wheel for $400,000 within the district, has a long history of providing to eral Government and developed at our na corporation." its residents outstanding park facilities and tional laboratories. One powerful catalyst in the now fluid events for recreational and entertainment A recent article, which I would like to in laboratory-to-industry technology transfer purposes. clude in the record from Nucleonics Week, process was a 1982 internal policy change at Regular services offered in Camden August 22, 1985, describes how one compa DOE that instituted a class waiver of DOE County parks include lunchtime concerts, ny, Westinghouse, instituted a pilot pro rights to patents in favor of the laboratory operators for much lab research, said Stark, children's theatre, and wide variety of gram with an initial investment of $250,000 who also serves as the industry initiative of leagues and recreational activities for resi to explore the opportunities available for ficer for Los Alamos National Laboratory. dents to enjoy. Special attractions and transferring technologies from our nation Lab operators then became much freer to events include the Edward Payton Weston al laboratories to corporate interests relat issue licenses to industry and to help guar Six-Day Race; the Commissioners' Invita ed to their nuclear industry development antee company investments in the labs. "In tional Mile; and the Taste of South Jersey programs. As a result of these investiga the past there were problems with patents, Food Festival in Cooper River Park. tions, Westinghouse was able to form four and companies stayed away from research This year, it appears the Camden County separate companies that service the nuclear labs like the plague. For a long time, there was only one case of a licensing agreement Parks Commission, under the leadership of industry in various capacities. These com to industry every five years, but in the last Freeholder John Radano and Commission panies, which are subsidiaries of the parent year and a half, there have been at least President David V enella, has outdone itself. Westinghouse Corp., were formed as a ten. There has been quite an acceleration of Along with the fine array of attractions direct result of the transfer of technology inquiries from business in the past year," he and activities offered by the commission, a from nuclear research and development said. September 30, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25329 "Now a company can put research dollars year effort. This allows you to cherry pick ments in 17 States, plus Puerto Rico and into a lab and get exclusive U.S. and even the technology," he said. the Virgin Islands. foreign patent rights. In most cases the gov One way businesses can make contact It is with great pride, then, that I take ernment will simply negotiate a reasonable with researchers is through the FLC, Stark royalty agreement," Stark said. Last fall leg said. The FLC is an ad hoc organization this opportunity to salute Wayne for his islation was passed which will have further which functions as an informal information untiring and unselfish commitment to his positive impact on patent rights for lab op exchange network, he said. FLC utilizes an State, his country, and to all of us who rely erators, according to Alan Claflin, the direc electronic mail system to link some 300 fed on the labors of the American farmer for tor of the laboratory management division eral labs, which receive about 85% of the our daily sustenance. of DOE's energy research office. The Com federal government's investments in re merce Department is expected to issue regu search and development. "Westinghouse's lations soon which will require government Advanced Power Systems came to us for THE RETIREMENT OF MR. PAUL departments like DOE to grant patent help in locating a particular application, D. LAVINE rights to federally financed labs operated by and we were able to quickly forward the re small businesses and nonprofit organiza quest, notifying a great number of research tions. DOE is also working on case-by-case ers at the laboratories around the country," HON. TONY COELHO waivers for labs operated by big business, as he said. OF CALIFORNIA in the situation of Martin Marietta at Oak Westinghouse has spent about $250,000 on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ridge, Claflin said. "The net effect of the technology transfer from the national labs Monday, September 30, 1985 legislation and the waivers is that there will since setting up the pilot program, Korenko be a lot more industry activity at the labs in estimated. Westinghouse has absorbed tech Mr. COELHO. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Paul D. the next few years," h.e said. nology from the labs in areas of dosimetry LaVine will retire from his position as di Korenko summarized Westinghouse's in and nuclear waste, including elements of rector of the Stanislaus County Coopera terest in acquiring lab technology: "We packaging, handling, and transportation, tive Extension after more than 30 years of found that foreign countries and companies Korenko said. and good customers, but that they are also Other major vendors, like General Elec service to agriculture in the Modesto area. strong competitors. So we decided to utilize tric, as well as manufacturers and service Paul was born in Los Angeles. After the technology of the U.S. labs, which are companies, have also been active in the ab graduating from high school, he served in supported by U.S. tax dollars. There are a sorption of technology from the national the Navy for 4 years. He received his bach number of foreign parties terribly interested labs, Korenko said. "We went to a number elor of science degree in horticulture in in penetrating these labs, and indeed, there of other U.S. companies and explained what 1950 from New Mexico State University, have already been penetrations. It's a bit of we had managed to do at the labs. It became and his master's degree in 1952 from Okla a commercial war." something of a national effort in the foreign homa State University. For the next 2 To take advantage of federally financed technology war," he said. technology, Westinghouse executives set up One national laboratory official responsi years, Paul worked as a horticulturist with a one-year pilot program in late 1983 to es ble for technology transfer to private busi New Mexico State University. In 1954, he tablish a conduit for technology transfer ness was critical of DOE's speed in granting became a farm adviser with the Stanislaus from the labs to the company. Since the end patent rights: "DOE has been the worst County Cooperative Extension, specializing of the pilot program last August, Westing foot-dragger among the government depart in grapes, small fruits, and walnuts. In Oc house has fostered the startup and growth ments and agencies when it comes to allow tober 1981, he was appointed director of the of four small entrepreneurial businesses. ing patent rights. Two years ago, DOE came extension. The four companies provide services to the out with a big plan to promote the transfer During his career with the extension, nuclear industry or supply nuclear manufac of lab research to private industry, but it turers. Korenko said, declining to identify has not come off as smoothly as everyone Paul has worked hard to promote greater the companies for proprietary reasons. hoped, mainly due to snags in patent legisla political participation by farmers and the "These are the first fruits of the seeds sown tion. Exclusive rights waivers are in many use of advanced technology in agriculture. by the pilot program," he said. instances still very hard to get or very time He was instrumental in organizing the Westinghouse is the only major nuclear consuming," he said.-Charles Thurston, Grape Impmvement Association, which has vendor to institute a formal pilot project for New York become a significant factor in the area's technology transfer so far, Korenko be agricultural politics. The f'me work of the lieves. The company initially looked at tech association in the area of weather forecast nology available at Hanford Engineering A TRIBUTE TO WAYNE A. ing has received national attention. The 11 Development Laboratory, Los Alamos Na CAWLEY, JR. tional Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Lab computerized weather stations operated by oratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Bat the association provide area farmers with telle-Northwest, Battelle-Columbus and sev HON. ROY DYSON reliable weather forecasts. Paul has also eral university laboratories. There are some OF MARYLAND testified twice before congressional com 730 federally supported labs in the U.S. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mittees in support of the National Weather Korenko said. "The primary difficulty was Service. not with the labs. Finding the technology Monday, September 30, 1985 Paul's efforts have been widely recog was easy. The lab folks virtually laid the technology at our feet." he said. Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to nized by the agricultural community. He "The obstacle to the technology transfer pay tribute to Wayne A. Cawley, Jr., on his has been named honorary chapter farmer process generally occurs within the corpora recent election to the presidency of the by the Future Farmers of America, re tions. Companies have their own research Southern Association of the State Depart ceived a certificate of appreciation from projects, and it takes a certain effort to look ments of Agriculture. the Grape Growers of California, and was beyond your in-house lab to see what's Mr. Cawley, who has served the State of recognized by the Viticulture Department available. Typically, it takes six months just Maryland as Secretary of Agriculture for of California State University, Fresno, to to work up to a good level of cross talk," the past decade, is highly noted for his name but a few. Korenko said, describing the evolution of a also transfer process. "Within 8 to 18 months, work with Federal officials in designing a Paul has been very active in local small contracts are in place to nurture and national model project for Federal crop in community service organizations. He desired application. Then, within one to surance in Caroline County, MD. In 1974, founded three Toastmasters Clubs in Stan three years, a small business can emerge as in recognition of his 25 years of dedicated islaus County, and is presently a member a result of the research," he said. and distinguished service to Caroline Coun of the Free and Accepted Masons and the "In a typical transfer process, the business ty's farm community, Wayne received the Rotary Club. In 1983, he was the recipient wants the technology for free. Indeed, 50% accolade, "Outstanding Farmer." of the Good Egg Award, the most prestigi to 80% of the information a business might So for those of us in Maryland's First ous award for community service in Stanis want is available for free. But a small con tract worth anywhere from $20,000 to Congressional District who work hard to laus County. $200,000 will plug a company into the flow address the concerns of the American The agricultural industry will certainly of development. Most small contracts with farmer, it comes as no surprise that Wayne miss Paul's leadership at the Cooperative the labs are probably only worth $40,000 tO now assumes the leadership of an organiza Extension. He leaves behind him a legacy $50,000, which buys about a one-half man- tion that oversees agricultural develop- of service and innovation that will certain- 25330 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1985 ly be hard to replace. I would like to com A TRIBUTE TO MISS KRISTIE In addition to his impressive business mend Paul for all his help in making the WOOD and professional achievements, Mr. Stanislaus County agricultural industry McManigal is also active in his community one of the most successful and productive HON. PAT SWINDALL in Solano County, CA. A past president of in the Nation, and I wish him continued OF GEORGIA the Green Valley Country Club, YMCA and health and happiness in his retirement. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES school board, he is also a director of the Suisun Valley Bank and is active with Monday, September 30, 1985 girls' softball, having taken several teams MINORITY ENTERPRISE Mr. SWINDALL. Mr. Speaker, I would on international trips and served as host DEVELOPMENT WEEK like to take this opportunity to congratu for many foreign teams. late Miss Kristie Wood, the 17-year-old I have every confidence that Mac daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Wood, Jr., of McManigal will be a hard-working, enthusi HON. MARTIN FROST Covington, GA, who was recently named astic, and strong president and will no OF TEXAS Miss Georgia T.E.E.N. doubt accomplish all of the goals that he IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Kristie's accomplishment is particularly has set for himself and for NALU. I ask impressive because she competed against therefore, that you please join me today in Monday, September 30, 1985 girls from a State that is known for its tribute to the new president of the National Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, the f"II'St full bright and beautiful young ladies. Association of Life Underwriters. week in October has been proclaimed Mi The State of Georgia can certainly expect nority Enterprise Development Week in great things from Kristie who is presently very involved in the Beta Club, Key Club, Y THE PROMISE OF BETTER honor of our Nation's minority business RELATIONS WITH TURKEY men and women. I'm proud of the growing Club, and student council. She has also number of minority-owned businesses in been president of the Newton General Hos HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN Dallas and am pleased to have this oppor pital Candy Stripers and "Teens Against tunity to salute those successful entrepre Drugs" and she is very active in the youth OF NEW YORK group at First Baptist Church. Kristie also IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES neurs and to encourage others to join with plays the piano and flute and enjoys classi Monday, September 30, 1985 them in developing new enterprises. cal ballet and modem dance. America has long been regarded as a I hope my colleagues in the House of Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, in a few days land of opportunity-a place where any in Representatives will join me in congratulat we shall be noting the 25th anniversary of dividual can find success through talent ing Kristie Wood for her outstanding the establishment of the Republic of and hard work. For some, however, hard achievement and we all look forward to Cyprus. In all probability, that anniversary work and talent were not enough. The great things from her. will become an occasion for debate over American dream was real, but not all of the role now played by Turkey in the con our people were invited to share in it. tinued division of that island. It is not my Those minority entrepreneurs who succeed TO COMMEMORATE THE PRESI purpose to engage in such a discussion at ed did so against tremendous odds. Fortu DENCY OF MORLAND G. this time. The record of my views on the nately, their successes inspired others, and McMANIGAL OF THE NATIONAL subject are clear. However, as we consider their efforts helped to knock down barriers ASSOCIATION OF LIFE UNDER those issues, it is important not to lose WRITERS and open new opportunities to all Ameri sight of our Nation's relationship with cans. Turkey. Today, minority enterprises are an im HON. VIC FAZIO In order to appreciate both the current benefits and the possibilities in our rela portant and rapidly growing part of our OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tionship, we must understand clearly the economy. That growth can and should be vital and constructive role that Turkey encouraged by Government policy. Our Na Monday, September 30, 1985 plays in the defense of the Western alliance tion's economic vitality in the future will Mr. FAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in and in contributing to peace in the Middle largely depend upon creativity and diversi tribute to Mr. Morland G. McManigal, who East. Turkey's present and potential role in ty in our business community. To meet the has recently been elected to the presidency these areas is frequently misunderstood. It challenges facing us, we'll need a large of the National Association of Life Under is important that public debate in the measure of cooperation between the Gov writers [NALU]. United States proceed from a common, ernment and business community, and we Mac McManigal comes to this important well-reasoned understanding of the true must work to ensure that minority-owned and responsible position experienced in the nature of the Turkish Republic's actual businesses will play an active role in that insurance business and the workings of the and potential-contribution to internation partnership. Minority enterprises have National Association of Life Underwriters. al peace and stability. made an invaluable contribution to the He has experience and knowledge of local, In reviewing the importance of Turkey's Dallas community and will, I'm confident, State, and national issues and has an im role, we must not overlook our strong ties continue to do so. pressive record of civic and organizational with the other NATO power in the Eastern Recently, 12 Dallas-Fort Worth area busi involvement. Active in the insurance busi Mediterranean, Greece. Because of its stra nesses were presented with "Quest for Suc ness for more than 30 years, Mac McMani tegic location and longstanding ties with cess Awards." This award, presented by the gal is now the agency manager for the the Western alliance, Greece plays an im Dallas Morning News, the Miller Brewing State Farm Insurance Co. in Fairfield, CA, portant part in NATO's plans-a part we Co., and the Dallas Black Chamber of Com which is, I must note, State Farm's leading hope it will continue to play in the future. merce, recognizes outstanding achievement life agency in California and consistently Our strong ties to both Greece and Turkey by minority business owners. Three of the . ranked in the top 1 percent of the compa should help them bridge the gap existing ny's more than 1,000 agencies nationwide. between them. By fully appreciating the le businesses honored were located in my con Mac has also been active in insurance-re gitimate concerns of both of our allies, we gressional district: Proline Corp., Dodd, lated organizations, having served as presi will demonstrate that we deserve the trust Frazier & Associates, and Pettis Norman, dent of the Solano-Napa Association of that they place in our efforts in the region. Inc. I'm proud of these firms and congratu Life Underwriters, as well as in numerous Turkey occupies a unique geographic and late them on this much-deserved award. I leadership posts for the California associa social position. It straddles Asia and look forward to their continued success tion. At the national level, he has been a Europe; it has an overwhelmingly Muslim and to more outstanding contributions by member of nine NALU national commit population and at the same time a political minority enterprises. tees, an NALU trustee, secretary, president orientation that is unmistakably Western. elect, and now president. Strikingly, while it is one of only two Euro- September 30, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25331 pean members of NATO bordering the 100 percent per year-that was ruining its er as the first private citizen to be launched Soviet Union, it also borders both parties to economy in the later 1970's. into space aboard the space shuttle. As a the Iran-Iraq war. During the late 1970's Turkey was result of this decision, more than 10,000 NATO has assigned Turkey an awesome wracked with political instability, giving teachers from every discipline in America's responsibility-guarding NATO's southeast rise to virulent terrorism which threatened elementary and secondary schools compet em flank from attack by the vast f(}rces in the very fabric of Turkish society. The ed for the honor of being designated as the the southwestern portion of the Soviet armed forces intervened in a move which f"rrst teacher in space. On the basis of crite Union. Turkey must deter, and if necessary while evidently supported by a majority of ria such as originality and creativity, dedi repel, any attack which might be launched Turks nevertheless resulted in a severe cation to the teaching profession, a high in coordination with a Soviet thrust in the abridgement of personal and political liber degree of community involvement, and central theater of Europe. At the same ties and in the inevitable excesses associat time, Turkey must be able to act to bottle ability to communicate the space flight ex ed with any military regime. The imposi perience, 10 finalists were ultimately select up the Soviet Black Sea fleet by closing the tion of military rule resulted in the politi Dardanelles in the event that an attempt is cal isolation of Turkey in the Western alli ed. The finalists were further subjected to made to use that fleet in opposition to ance and in a slowdown in the military rigorous medical evaluations snd space NATO interests. modernization plans. For better or for flight suitability testing at NASA's Johnson Turkish soldiers and sailors, while will worse, few NATO countries were willing to Space Center and other installations. At a ing to exert every effort to carry out their help modernize a military-whatever its formal ceremony at the While House re duties, are hampered by obsolete equip role in the overall defense of the West cently, Vice President BUSH announced the ment. Turkey and the United States have which was not subordinate to civilian con winner as well as backup candidate, Bar been engaged in a long-term effort to up trol. bara R. Morgan, a constituent of mine grade the armaments available to the Turk Turkey is on the road back to democra from McCall, ID, where she teaches second ish Armed Forces. Although Turkey is the cy. While its constitution provides that grade at McCall-Donnelly Elementary third largest recipient of American aid, it General Evren will continue as President School. still has not achieved the needed modern until 1988, the military acquiesced in Prime Over the next several months, Barbara ization. Minister Ozal's assumption of power after will receive approximately 120 hours of Turkey has provided the United States the 1983 elections, even though it had training in flight operations and mission with access to many bases from which we backed an opposing candidate. In 1984, procedures, identical to that experienced by gather vital intelligence on the Soviet Prime Minister Ozal's party won a signifi the designated candidate and other mission Union. Continued access to that informa cant victory in local elections over all par tion is important to our ability to detect specialists. In the event the designated can ties. Those elections were open to several didate is unable to continue training or to Soviet military action. Moreover, Turkey political parties which has not been permit plays an important role in our ability to fulf"ill the many requirements for space ted to participate in 1983 elections, and travel, Barbara will become the actual verify the strategic arms control agree whose absence had rendered the 1983 re ments, on which our national security de space flight participant on a mission sched sults suspect in some circles in Europe. uled for next January. In addition to her pends. With the loss of important intelli With the political legitimacy of the Turk gence collection centers in Iran following ish Government more widely recognized, training, Barbara will assist NASA by shar the fall of the Shah, its role has become Turkey will no doubt be able to find more ing her experiences and perceptions with even more important. willing partners in economic, military, and the educational community for the purpose Turkey's role in the Middle East is of political endeavors-particularly in of inspiring student interest in the space course of great importance. It has re Europe-than had previously been the case. age and in the career opportunities it mained neutral in. most regional issues but The United States should actively encour offers. is respected by and has cordial ties with age such cooperation. Turkey's historically NASA also intends to make use of the most countries in the area, including, for close links with the United States should special abilities of the other eight f"malists, instance, both Iran and Iraq. Thus, while it also lead to much closer bilateral ties as including those of David Marquart, a com is capable of exerting military force to the source of tension within the Turkish puter science teacher from Boise High maintain the regional stability it seeks, it body political subside. The United States School, by requesting their assistance in has not aligned itself with any force out should also do its part. While never forget designing the lessons and actual demon side the Middle East with respect to purely ting the close ties that bind us to Greece, strations to be conducted aboard the flight regional issues. Given its special position in and despite the irritation to our relations next January. They will be broadcast live the area, the United States would do well to still caused by the Turkish presence on via satellite to thousands of classrooms pay attention to Turkey's views on regional Cyprus, we must not ignore the importance throughout the Nation. issues. of overall bilateral relationship. Such rec The United States is grateful for Turkey's Besides its interest in generating enthusi ognition on our part may result in allaying asm for the space age and the wonders of cooperation in another arena that in my Turkish concerns about our reliability as a view is vital to our national security-our its technology, NASA also hopes to help re partner in the security and economic store prestige to the noble profession of war against drugs. In 1968, about 80 per realms, and in increased Turkish flexibility cent of the heroin coming into the United teaching, something which it has sadly in those areas which still remain problem lacked in recent years. Barbara Morgan States originated in Turkey. Many Turkish atic from our point of view, and which un farmers were economically dependent on has brought pride not only the students, necessarily complicate the relationship teachers, and citizens of McCall, ID, but to opium cultivation. Yet the Turkish Govern with its other NATO partners. ment's courageous leadership, which has the entire teaching profession. On behalf of been sustained through all of their political my colleagues, the citizens of Idaho's First changes, has gradually led to the elimina A TRIBUTE TO BARBARA R. District, and the Nation, I extend warm tion of illicit opium cultivation in Turkey. MORGAN congratulations and best wishes to her. We We have repeatedly pointed to the Turkish all look forward to receiving her thoughts initiative as a model for other nations to HON. LARRY E. CRAIG and impressions of this unique and exciting follow. OF IDAHO educational opportunity from the space No discussion of Turkey's potential con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES age. tribution to the Western alliance would be complete without an examination on the Monday, September 30, 1985 progress made in the economic and politi Mr. CRAIG. Mr. Speaker, about this time cal spheres in recent years. Turkey has last year, President Reagan announced that made giant strides in controlling the eco he had directed the National Aeronautics nomic stagnation and inflation-formerly and Space Administration to select a teach- 25332 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1985 CONSECRATION OF DAYTON'S but we also prepare to perpetuate our program. Encouraged by chemical and oil GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH ideals far into the future. industry lobbyists, the subcommittee struck On October 27, Rev. James P. Eckrich down a strong Superfund bill by a vote of 13 and his parishioners will mark the centen to 5. After repudiating its own chair's draft HON. TONY P. HALL bill, the subcommittee substituted a diluted OF OHIO nial anniversary of the founding of Saint measure crafted by Reps. John Dingell and James Broyhill . respec with a Mass celebrated by Bishop Robert E. tively the chair and ranking Republican on Monday, September 30, 1985 Mulvee, Diocese of Wilmington. As this the Energy and Commerce Committee. Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, in the special day approaches, I praise Saint Environmentalists were appalled. The Greek Orthodox community, the consecra Mary's for its spirit of community and Dingell-Broyhill bill, said subcommittee tion of a church is a very important compassion, and hope that this proud place chair James Florio Sierra Club lobbyist Blake Early's as It is a time of revitalization and renewal. SUPERFUND-THE MOST IMPOR sessment. "Polluters couldn't have written a A consecration takes place only once in the TANT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE better bill for themselves." In fact, the vote marked a stunning rever history of a church; 37 years ago, the Greek FACING THIS CONGRESS Orthodox community in Dayton construct sal. Just ten months earlier, in August of a ed a church building. However, it has never presidential election year, the full House of been consecrated, and thus remains incom HON. TOM LANTOS Representatives had adopted a much OF CALIFORNIA stronger Superfund bill by a lopsided 323-to- plete. 33 margin. Now the subcommittee had re On Sunday, October 6, the church will be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES jected a bill modeled on that earlier version consecrated during a ceremony officiated Monday, September 30, 1985 and substituted a much weaker bill in its by His Eminence Archbishop Iakovos, Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, we in the place. leader of 4 million Greek Orthodox Chris Members of the subcommittee who voted Congress will soon be facing one of the tians in North and South America, and re for the Dingell-Broyhill bill had various ex most important decisions before us this ses planations and excuses for adopting a bill so cipient of our Nation's highest civilian sion-the decision about the continuation award, the Medal of Honor. compatible with the desires of the chemical of the Superfund Program. Toxic wastes industry. Several suggested they had voted Also participating will be His Excellency spewn from our Nation's industries are for it because nothing stronger could possi Bishop Timotheos of Detroit, leader of the being dumped haphazardly in dangerous bly pass this timorous subcommittee-a pre diocese to which the Dayton church be sites all across our Nation. The crisis is diction made certain by their defections. longs, and Father Stratton Dorozenski, growing daily. Several talked hopefully about strengthen priest of the Dayton parish. ing the bill later, when the full committee My own congressional district is no ex Other participants will be Fathers Jerry took up the issue, a prospect Rep. Gerry Si ception. Recent revelations of hazardous Tasikas, Philemon Payiatis, and George korski likened to "putting wings waste sites on and around the San Francis Hiotis, past priests of the community; and on a sow." co Peninsula have emphasized the univer Through July the full Energy and Com Fathers Nick Tsaknides and Dean Gigicos, sality of this problem. In a recent survey, merce Committee labored over the Dingell priests who are from and were ordained in Broyhill bill, but the results were consist Dayton. which I conducted to assess the views of my constituents in the 11th Congressional ently the same. Amendments to strengthen I join the 400 families who are members the bill were defeated day after day. Ulti of the Greek Orthodox Church of Dayton, District of California, 82 percent indicated mately the committee approved the bill in special guests, and the entire Dayton com that they favored an increase in Federal about the same form they had received it munity in congratulations on this very spe Government funding for programs to clean all sow and no wings. As a result, the entire cial occasion. up hazardous toxic waste dumps. There is a House will be faced in September with the I offer my deepest hope that the church strong concern and a desire for action to most important pollution and public health remedy this growing crisis. vote of the year: It will either ratify or building continue as a house of worship, reject the Dingell-Broyhill Superfund. fulfillment, and peace for many years to Mr. Speaker, I would like to call to the attention of my colleagues in Congress a The nation's toxic waste cleanup program come. was in trouble even before this legislative recent article by Douglas P. Wheeler, exec setback. Created five years ago to finance utive director of the Sierra Club, which ap emergency cleanup of abandoned hazardous SAINT MARY, REFUGE OF SIN peared in Sierra, the national publication waste dumps, the program has only begun NERS CATHOLIC CHURCH'S of the Sierra Club. This article is one of the to tackle the effort. Hundreds of sites iden lOOTH ANNIVERSARY COM best analyses of the current status of this tified by the Environmental Protection MEMORATION issue. Agency have yet to be studied, let alone The text of the article follows: cleaned up. Hundreds more are being added to the backlog each year. There are now HON. ROY DYSON Tm: VOTE OF THE YEAR more sites classified as extr than when the law was first enacted in Sep IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of chemically diverse, highly toxic sub bring to the attention of my colleagues the The American people are deeply troubled stances in a morass of abandoned mine lOOth anniversary celebration of Saint by the dangers of toxic wastes. According to shafts, underground springs, or swamps. Mary, Refuge of Sinners Catholic Church a recent poll, 93 percent of the population is Cleanup is also expensive. But the EPA seriously concerned. The highly hazardous needs motivation and support as much as it in Cambridge, MD. effluvia of our nation's industries, dumped needs money and know-how. The agency's As we in Maryland commemorate Saint indiscriminately across landscapes urban, current administrator, Lee Thomas, lacks Mary, Refuge of Sinners Church's untiring suburban, and rural, pose a deadly threat to the political base to serve as advocate for an and unwavering commitment to faith individuals, and they know it. effective program. during the past century, I believe it is alto But in the crowded chamber of the House Congress has the opportunity to rectify gether fitting that we give thanks to the Energy and Commerce Committee on June these problems. It can mandate that the many church members who, over the gen 20, there was no evidence of the widespread EPA proceed on an aggressive schedule to erations, have brought comfort and light to public demand to clean up toxic dumps. In study the most dangerous sites and get stead it was business as all-too-usual, as the them cleaned up promptly, and ensure the people of Cambridge. On momentous Subcommittee on Commerce, Transporta enough funding to do so. It can empower occasions such as this, we not only share tion and Tourism voted on legislation to citizens whose health is theatened by aban remembrances of a rich and vibrant past, extend the five-year-old federal Superfund doned dumps to sue those responsible. It September 30, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25333 can put the EPA on an enforceable schedule years of the same kind of Superfund we THE FIRST CONTACTS: TRAINING AND ARMS to move the cleanup along, and it can have had for the past five years-a law lack The PLO made its international debut in ensure that the agency gives preference to ing an aggressive schedule, hamstrung by 1966 in Havana, Cuba, at the First Confer permanent, complete cleanup plans that in hostility from the federal budget office, and ence of the Organization of Solidarity of volve a maximum use of waste destruction bogged down in negotiations with stonewall the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin Amer and treatment technologies such as inciner ing toxic waste dumpers. ica . At this conference, Fidel Castro In each of these key respects, the Dingell little to do with funding, but they are the brought together 500 delegates from radical Broyhill bill sides with the polluters instead very guts of the Superfund law. They decide leftist groups around the world to devise a of the public. The Energy and Commerce whether the law works to protect the strategy for what they called the global rev Committee's decision to approve a bill sig public-or the polluters. olutionary movement. nificantly weaker than the one passed a Results of that conference soon became year ago is not mysterious. It reflects two apparent. In the months following the con facts: First, the membership of the commit THE SANDINISTAS AND MIDDLE ference, guerrilla training camps appeared tee does not accurately reflect the environ EASTERN RADICALS in various countries, with major clusters in mental concerns of the House as a whole. Cuba, the Soviet Union, Lebanon, and OF FLORIDA camps, thanks to the close ties developed at Second, 1984 was an election year, 1985 is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Tri-Continental Conference. not. When they voted in August 1984, mem Training courses at these camps generally bers of the House knew their votes would be Monday, September 30, 1985 lasted six months and included ideological fresh in the minds of constituents as they Mr. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I wish to indoctrination as well as practical training went to the polls in November. The 1985 in the use of weapons and explosives. The votes on the Superfund will occur more submit a copy of an August 1985 State De indoctrination focused on the theories of than a year before the next election. partment report entitled, "The Sandinistas Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. Lecture topics in The Dingell-Broyhill bill is deceptive. For and Middle Eastern Radicals" for the pur cluded: "Russian Ties to the Third World," page after page it appears to be identical to poses of having it printed in the CONGRES "The Struggle Against Imperialism," "The the stronger bill supported by environmen SIONAL RECORD. Soviet Contribution to Palestinian Libera talists. On the important subject of money, This is an unclassified report on the San tion," Zionist Ties to Imperialism.'' and it would authorize $10 billion over five "The Reactionary Nature of North Yemen years, about the same level of funding envi dinista ties to Middle Eastern Radicals for nearly the past two decades. The report and Saudi Arabia." Practical training in ronmentalists seek. techniques of warfare included blowing up But will this money be spent effectively to states that the current Nicaraguan Interior munitions dumps, bridges, and vehicles; get the most dangerous dumps cleaned up? Minister, Thomas Borge, was one of the planting personnel mines; the rudiments of This is where the Dingell-Broyhill bill original trainees of a PLO training camp biological and chemical warfare; marksman fails-and why it is supported by the chemi set up in 1969. Other members of the Nica ship and camouflage; urban and field tac cal and oil lobbyists. While the bill purports raguan Cabinet were in training in Libya tics; and the use of maintenance of Soviet to spend $10 billion over the next five years during the same period. The Sandinistas equipment such as rockets and shoulder to clean up toxic dumps, in reality it would borne missile launchers. allow the EPA to drag the program out. By participated in a rash of hijackings that started the "Black September" fighting in Upon graduation, PLO guerrillas set up failing to move quickly to complete the re camps of their own for training terrorists, at quired pre-cleanup studies of each site, the Jordan in 1970; and one, Patrick Arguello first in Lebanon and later in Libya. Report EPA could readily escape the bill's cleanup Ryan, was killed during an attempted hi edly among the Nicaraguans trained in the schedule and move as slowly as it chooses. A jacking on an El AI flight from Tel Aviv to Lebanon camps in 1969 was Tomas Borge, Superfund for the public would require the London. Interior Minister and one of the nine com EPA to meet a fixed schedule to initiate The report concludes what I have been mandantes on the FSLN National Director full-scale cleanup at a minimum number of saying all along. The Sandinistas are linked ate. dumps each year. Sandinista representative Benito Escobar The Dingell-Broyhill bill allows the EPA to the most heinous and well-organized ter rorist groups in the world; the German arranged with three PLO representatives in to continue to do partial, short-term clean Mexico City, also in 1969, for joint FLO ups and then walk away announcing that Baader-Meinhof gang, the Italian Red Bri CUban training in Lebanon for a contingent the cleanup has been completed. Such cos gades, the Basque terrorists as well as Ma of 50-70 Sandinistas. Subsequently, other metic cleanups could even violate other en nagua's relations with Libya and Iran. The contingents of Sandinistas were sent to PLO vironmental laws. A Superfund for the recent facts brought to light by the defec camps in Libya. Present Vice Minister of the public would require permanent and com tion of Alvaro Baldizon Aviles, of Nicara Interior Rene Vivas, the late Telecommuni plete cleanup of toxic dumps to bring them gua's Interior Ministry serve to conf"ll'm the cations Minister Enrique Schmidt, and into compliance with the minimum standard Henry Ruiz, Minister for External Coopera of existing health, water quality, and waste true character of the Sandinistas as ruth less and devoid of any concern for human tion, also were among those trained by the disposal laws. PLO during 1969-70. The Dingell-Broyhill bill would prevent a rights. There can be no doubt now of the citizen endangered by an abandoned toxic incredible atrocities committed by the San SANDINISTA PARTICIPATION IN KIDDLE EAST waste dump from suing its owner to force dinistas. In just one instance, they were re TERRORISM IN THE 1970'S cleanup. The law that governs operating sponsible for the arrest and torture of 500 The investment in training Nicaraguans toxic dumps allows such citizen suits, but Miskito Indians, 150 of whom were later had some immediate dividends for the PLO. Dingell-Broyhill would grant immunity to When the PLO and its radical component owners of abandoned or closed dumps. A Su executed. groups, including the Popular Front for the perfund for the public would permit citizen And what do the Soviets have to say Liberation of Palestine , attempted suits as the only way to force cleanup of about the State Department report? Not to overthrow the government of King Hus dumps not included on the EPA's limited surprisingly, they called it, "libellous scrib sein of Jordan in 1970, PLO-trained Sandi National Priority List. ble" and "provocative falsehood." This just nistas participated. Unfortunately, many in Congress and the shows what side of the fence they're on. One PL0-8andinista operation was dis media have lost sight of these fundamental I urge my colleagues to read this report cussed in an interview by Sandinista spokes flaws in the Dingell-Broyhill bill. They have to ascertain exactly what type of govern man Jorge Mandl with al-Watan, a Kuwaiti accepted the argument that the EPA should newspaper: "A number of Sandinistas took be trusted with flexibility on such issues as ment is in power in Nicaragua today. part in the operation to divert four aircraft schedules, cleanup standards, and citizen THE SANDINISTAS AND MIDDLE EASTERN which the PFLP seized and landed at a suits. They have failed to take into account RADICALS desert airfield in Jordan. One of our com the continuing and unremitting hostility An unclassified report on Sandinista ties rades was also wounded in another hijack toward toxic waste cleanup at higher levels to Middle Eastern radicals, including Sandi operation in which Leila Khaled was in of the Reagan administration and in the nista participation in Middle East aircraft volved. She was in command of the oper chemical industry. In calling for EPA flexi hijacking and terrorism in 1970, and their ation and our comrades helped her carry it bility and efficiency, these legislators and continuing relations with these groups and out." He continued, "Many of the units be editorial writers are calling for five more states in the 1980's. longing to the Sandinista movement were at 25334 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1985 Palestinian revolutionary bases in Jordon. stantial assist from Libya. In 1979, Qadhafi SEAT BELTS IN ALHAMBRA SAVE ... Nicaraguan and Palestinian blood was invited the leaders of Central American LIVES spilled together in Amman and other places guerrilla groups, including the Sandinistas, during the 'Black September battles.' " to a meeting in Benghazi during which he Mandl's reference to a "hijack operation" pledged financial and political support for HON. MAITHEW G. MARTINEZ concerned the hijacking of an El AI airliner their movement. en route from Tel Aviv to London, on Sep OP CALIFORNIA tember 6, 1970. Sandinista Patrick Arguello REVOLUTIONARY SOLIDARITY: MILITARY AND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ryan was killed in this hijacking attempt; ECONOMIC TIES he had been trained at one of the PLO Shortly after the Sandinistas seized Monday, September 30, 1985 camps. Arguello is now revered by the San power, they rewarded the PLO for its assist Mr. MARTINEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise dinistas as a hero and a large dam under ance in their revolution by granting it un construction has been named in his honor. today to commend the Alhambra City precedented "government to government" Council for the adoption of a resolution de During that same period, Tomas Borge, ties. In most countries the PLO was at best one of the founders of the FSLN, reportedly permitted to open an "office"; in Managua claring September 1985 as "Seat Belts was the major contact between the Sandi Work Month" in Alhambra. Mayor Michael nistas and the PLO. Borge became a famil it was permitted to open an "embassy," with iar figure in both Damascus and Beirut, not the ranking representative holding the title Blanco, along with city council members only because of his trips there on behalf of of "ambassador." The PLO ambassador and Mary Bunker, Talmage Burke, Michael the Sandinistas, but also on behalf of Fidel his staff were accorded full diplomatic privi Messina, and J. Parker Williams, should be Castro. Borge appeared to be functioning as leges. recognized as leaders in promoting the ben Castro's envoy in the Middle East during In July 1980, Yasser Arafat made a four efits of seat belts as a means of improving the early 1970's because of his good rela day "state visit" to Nicaragua to formalize public safety in our communities. In con tionship with the PLO and his earlier guer full diplomatic ties between the Nicaraguan rilla training in the area. government and the PLO. On July 22 at a junction with this resolution, the Alhambra Thus began the symbiotic relationship be reception in his honor Arafat praised "the City Council, with the help of the Alham tween the Sandinistas and the PLO. From strategic and military ties between the San bra Chamber of Commerce, the Alhambra the PLO, the Sandinistas got training in dinista and Palestinian revolutions.'' Interi Police Department, and the Automobile guerrilla warfare and an opportunity to or Minister Borge responded, "We say to Club of Southern California, are conduct practice their skills by aiding the PLO in our brother Arafat that Nicaragua is his ing a citywide campaign this month to both terrorist acts such as airline hijackings and land and the PLO cause is the cause of the a campaign against King Hussein in Jordan. improve community awareness and in The PLO got help from the Sandinistas in Sandinistas.'' Arafat replied: "The links be crease the usage of seat belts in automo operations that brought the PLO to world tween us are not new. Your comrades did not come to our country just to train, but biles. attention and served as an example for In my home State, California, 3,000 are countless other terrorists. also to fight. Your enemies are our en emies.'' Arafat expanded on this theme in killed and over 240,000 are injured as a THE SANDINISTA REVOLUTION AND PLO result of automobile accidents. It is in our DIVOLVEIII!NT IN THE LATE 1970'S an interview with Radio Sandino the same day: "the Nicaraguan people's victory is the neighborhood streets where many of these The Sandinistas who trained in PLO camps in the Middle East gained an asset victory of the Palestinians. . . . The freedom accidents take place as result of everyday almost as valuable to them as their guerrilla in Nicaragua is the same in Palestine. . . . driving; 75 percent of these accidents occur training: contacts with sources of aid and The only way, then, is for increased struggle within 25 miles of home, with more than 50 arms. Again, Tomas Borge was the major against imperialism, colonialism, and Zion percent of all injury-producing accidents ism." He closed the broadcast by reiterating, go-between in aid and arms negotiations. occurring at speeds lower than 40 mph; 20 While acting in his dual capacity as the San "Together against imperialism, colonialism, dinista's PLO liaison and as Castro's emis and Zionism." In a speech at the Cesar Au percent of all serious injuries suffered in sary, the wide range of contacts he amassed gusto Silva Convention Center (also on July accidents result from nonbelted occupants in the radical Middle East served him well 22), standing with Borge and several other being thrown into each other. The most as he prepared for the Sandinistas' own rev of the nine comandantes, Arafat said, frightening statistic is that traffic accidents olution. "Anyone who threatens Nicaragua will have are now the leading cause of death among Borge used PLO assistance to obtain arms to face Palestininan combatants.'' people under the age of 45. from North Korea and Vietnam for the San Arafat's talk about "strategic and military The benefits of seat belts are well docu dinistas. Libyan money helped pay for some ties" was not mere diplomatic pleasantry. of these arms. Reportedly, other shipments Shortly after his Nicaraguan visit, he sent mented. Seat belts worn properly cut fatali of supplies and arms came from the PLO Colonel Mutlag Ramadan to the PLO, at ties by 45 percent and reduce the probabili itself. In July 1979, one planeload was inter the head of a contingent of 25 military tech ty of suffering a moderate to serious injury cepted when it stopped in Tunis. This FLO nicians, to instruct the Sandinistas in the by 50 percent. Seat belts also help drivers chartered aircraft, ostensibly carrying medi cal supplies from Beirut for Nicaraguan ref use of Eastern-bloc weapons. In November in emergency situations maintain vehicle ugees, was found instead to hold 50 tons of 1980, the PLO provided the Sandinistas control as well as avoid being thrown from arms, including an anti-aircraft gun. The with a $12 million loan. In January 1981, a their vehicles. Seat belts are now designed Tunisian government did not allow the ship group of PLO pilots were sent to Nicaragua to allow riders to move freely in their cars, ment to go through. to assist the Sandinistas in fiying helicop but are also designed to lock in place when ters and transport aircraft. By May 1981, At the same time, the Sandinistas were cars come to a sudden halt. Most alarming formalizing their ties with the most radical the PLO was deeply involved in military and PLO elements. Benito Escobar, who had guerrilla training activities in Nicaragua. is the fact that, though nearly all cars now earlier made arrangements with the PLO to Reports in mid-1982 indicated that PLOof have seat belts, less than 20 percent of all train Sandinistas in PLO camps, met in ficers were involved in special guerrilla Americans buckle up when they operate Mexico City in February 1978 with Issam training in Nicaragua. Although the break their cars. Ali, Latin American liaison of the PLO, and up of the PLO power base in Lebanon in Mr. Speaker, actions such as these to en members of the Democratic Front for the 1982 reduced the PLO's ability to project courage the use of seat belts should be Liberation of Palestine . The PLO itself aggressively and to finance radical re commended. It is my hope that other local and the Sandinistas issued a joint communi gimes and movements around the world, the que on February 5, 1978, affirming "the PLO presence, training, and other activities governments will follow Alhambra's lead, bonds of solidarity which exist between the in Nicaragua have continued. and remind their communities that seat two revolutionary organizations." This com The Sandinistas' anti-Zionist rhetoric, belts work and save lives. munique was followed by a DFLP-FSLN close relations with radical Arab groups, and joint declaration from Havana on March 6, efforts to organize Nicaragua's society and 1978, which expressed a mutual declaration economy according to Marxist-Leninist pre of war against "Yankee imperialism, the racist regime of Israel," and the Nicaraguan cepts all contributed to the departure from government. Nicaragua by 1981 of nearly all of Nicara PL0-8andinista relations intensified in gua's Jewish community. 1978 and the beginning of 1979, with a sub- September 30, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25335 A TRIBUTE TO MISS HEATHER Congress' attention to statutory amend video surveillance which are equally if not GUNN ments. The urgent need for this inquiry is more intrusive and indiscriminate. I wel highlighted by Judge Posner in United come receiving further information about HON. PAT SWINDALL States v. Torres (7th Cir., Dec. 19, 1984): the nature and extent of this type of sur OF GEORGIA Electronic interception, being by nature a veillance in the private sector. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES continuing rather than one-shot invasion, is As my former colleague, Senator Tunney, even less discriminating than a physical pointed out 10 years ago: Monday, September 30, 1985 search, because it picks up private conversa Control over the technology of surveil Mr. SWINDALL. Mr. Speaker, I would tions over a lance conveys effective control over our pri like to invite my colleagues in the House to long period of time . . . electronic intercep vacy, our freedom and our dignity-in short, join with me in congratulating 17-year-old tion is thought to pose a greater potential control over the most meaningful aspects of Miss Heather Gunn of Lakeside High threat to personal privacy than physical our lives as free human beings. School in De Kalb County, GA, for achiev searches . . . Television surveillance is iden It is my hope that my colleagues will ing a perfect score of 1600 on her scholas tical in its indiscriminate character to wire tum their attention to this issue. 2 Interest tic aptitude test. tapping and bugging 1 The Torres court applies only part of the Feder er, apply any llmtt on the predicate crimes which al wiretapping law to video survelllance through can Justify such surveillance, nor did the court in 2 AB commentator Gary Marx pointed out, we the application of the fourth amendment may be a reality. See Marx mization requirements>. The court did not, howev- persons. "I'll Be Watching You," winter 1985 Dissent 26. 25336 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1985 beepers that police attach to cars, parabolic Uviller, a former prosecutor, says of the new Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, estimat microphones-all of this enables the Gov high-tech snooping, "When there is no al ed such equipment was used 6 to 10 times in ernment to invade privacy in ways far more ternative, when the crime is terror, there is the last few years. extreme than one could possibly have imag a strong law-enforcement need for this." All three reports emphasized, however, ined when the Fourth Amendment was writ But he adds that "its uses should be re that the figures were only for instances in ten." served for only the most serious circum which hidden television cameras were in The Kansas Supreme Court was the first stances: kidnapping, murder, espionage and stalled in private homes or offices. They do state high court to rule on the cordless terrorism." not include the far more frequent occasions phone issue, holding last March that those To clarify the legal muddle, several feder when law enforcement agencies install who use such phones are broadcasting over al statutes have been proposed, including hidden cameras in public places. Nor do the public air waves and have "no reasona one by Wisconsin Congressman Robert Kas they include the kind of investigation, such ble expectation of privacy,'' a finding that tenmeier that would force police to satisfy a as the Federal Bureau of Investigation's may surprise the 7 mill1on or so owners of series of strict requirements in order to get Abscam inquiry, in which undercover agents the popular instruments. But to rule other a warrant for video prying. Though the have agreed to the presence of the equip wise, Rhode Island's attorneys argued Kastenmeier bill died in the last Congress, ment and therefore no warrant is required. before that state's supreme court, could it will be reintroduced in this session. The appeals court decision was written by mean that the woman who inadvertently Judges, legislators and civil libertarians Judge Richard A. Posner, frequently men overheard DeLaurier's conversation might agree that the privacy problems presented tioned as a leading candidate to the Su be held criminally liable for violating the by technological changes make necessary a preme Court because of his generally con federal wiretapping law. DeLaurier's lawyer, new assessment of existing statutes and servative and closely reasoned opinions. He however, asserted that this 1968 legislation, court rules. Warns John Shattuck, a former upheld the legality of the F.B.I.'s warrants which forbids wiretapping without court au American Civil Liberties Union officials: "In in the F.A.L.N. case. "We do not think the thorization, does apply to cordless phones, many ways, technology is now outstripping Fourth Amendment prevents the Govern since the statute defines a "wire communi the law." ment from coping with the menace of this cation" as any conversation this is carried organization by installing and operating "in whole or in part" by wire. Even cordless WHEN TELEviSION WATCHES PEOPLE secret television cameras in this organiza instruments must utilize regular phone lines with audio drug investigation and other well-publicized terrorists. The F.B.I. had secretly broken in surveillance, inherently indiscriminate, and "sting" operations have made it seem that and installed the hidden lenses because the that it could be grossly abused-to eliminate police have broad authority to videotape agents believed the targets of their surveil personal privacy as understood in modem criminal activity. In fact, cameras have usu lance, wise to ways of hidden microphones, Western nations." · ally been employed to record only those might try playing the radio loudly when Defense lawyers challenging the Govern meetings where an undercover agent or in they spoke or working in silence as they as ment's action argued that the warrants had former with prior knowledge of the fUming sembled their bombs. been granted even though the 1968 law gov is also in the room. This was not the situa The agents' strategy worked. Shortly after erning electronic surveillance does not men tion in the Chicago FALN case, in which the the cameras were installed two suspects, al tion television. FBI had authorization for both audio and leged members of a secret Puerto Rican ter The appeals court decision said: "We video surveillance from a federal judge. The rorist organization, were televised as they would think it a very good thing if Congress agency resorted to the video surveillance of built their bombs. The two, tailed as they responded to the issues discussed in this two "safe house" apartments after two of left their informal bombs factory, led Feder opinion" by amending the 1968 law "to the four suspects successfully thwarted al agents to a second "safe house," where bring television surveillance within its wiretaps and bugs. Once the cameras had additional secret cameras, as well as micro scope." Legislation to achieve this goal was been installed, agents say, they observed phones, were installed. introduced in Congress last fall by Repre some of the defendants constructing time Five years ago, on the basis of this and sentative Robert W. Kastenmeier, chairman bombs. The four were arrested in June 1983 other evidence, 10 members of the F.A.L.N., o~ the House Judiciary Subcommittee on on seditious-conspiracy and weapons the Armed Forces of National Liberation. Constitutional Rights, and was given quali charges when the FBI learned that they al were arrested, and later convicted and sen fied support by the Justice Department. But legedly planned to mark the July 4 holiday tenced to long terms in Federal prison on the Wisconsin Democrat, who plans to re by blowing up mWtary installations. charges of bombing and conspiring to bomb introduce the bill in the next few Lweeks, U.S. District Judge George Leighton 28 buildings in the Chicago area. Although also hopes to close a far broader, looJmole in threw out the FBI's 130 hours of videotape the physical tremors from those explosions the nation's surveillance law. evidence in 1984, saying that "no one, not have subsided. the legal echoes from the tel A big problem with the 1968 law, accord even in the name of ferreting out crime, has evision surveillance continue to reverberate ing to Mr. Kastenmeier and experts such as the right to invade the privacy of a home" through the courts and Congress, where a W. J. William Caming, former legal adviser without proper legal authority. He ruled bill dealing with some of the more trouble to the American Telephone and Telegraph that the 1968 wiretap law provided no such some issues will be reintroduced shortly. Company on privacy matters, is that it is so authority because it says nothing about They were raised late last year in a Feder narrowly worded that it applies only to tele video surveillance. The Seventh Circuit al court considering an appeal from the Chi· phone wiretaps and electronic bugs that panel, in an opinion written by Supreme cago convictions. Secret television surveil pick up conversations that, actually can be Court Hopeful Richard Posner, held that lance, the United States Court of Appeals heard by the human ear. the wiretap law did not apply but found for the Seventh Circuit warned, was exceed One result is that the rapidly growing that video surveillance is permitted under ingly intrusive and unless controlled could volume of information transmitted all over the Constitution without specific legislative "eliminate privacy as understood in modem the United States in computerized or digital approval. Paraphrasing a famous dissent by Western nations." The court coupled its form is largely unprotected. Unethical cor Justice Louis Brandeis, Posner wrote, warning with a recommendation that Con porations, organized crime, organizations, "There is no right to be let alone while as gress pass legislation setting down specific foreign espionage agents and state and local sembling bombs in safe houses." The ac criteria for police use of television surveil law enforcement agencies are violating no cused FALN members plan to appeal the lance. Federal law when they intercept and record ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. Only recently have television cameras computerized banking data, computerized Many legal observers are frightened by become sufficiently inexpensive, compact stock transactions and electronic mail serv the prospect of widespread video surveil and light sensitive to permit surveillance in ices offered by such companies as MCI. lance. Raising the specter of Nineteen many different situations. AB a result, their The failure of the law to keep up with Eighty-Four and Big Brother, Herman use in law enforcement has begun to in technology has caught bipartisan interest Schwartz, a law professor at American Uni crease. Six weeks ago, for example, the Jus on Capitol Hill. It also has prompted the versity, denounces it as "very dangerous" to tice Department reported that Federal American Civil Liberties Union, in conjunc everyone's civil liberties. Harvard Law Pro agents installed secret television surveil tion with the Public Interest Computer AB· fessor Laurence Tribe cautions that techno lance cameras in 16 cases last year: A sociation, to sponsor conferences designed logical innovations like video cameras may spokesman for Manhattan District Attorney to develop a consensus among business and be rendering the traditional protections of Robert M. Morgenthau said secret cameras civil liberties groups on possible legislative the Fourth Amendment "irrelevant." Co were used six or seven times in 1984. Ml· solutions. "Government-operated television lumbia University Law Professor Richard chael Bozza, assistant director of the New cameras in the home raise the spectre of September 30, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25337 George Orwell's telescreen," Representative Taiwan's democratic friends about the ca Select on Intelligence Kastenmeier said. "Any use of such a pricious nature of martial law. Thus, at the To resume closed hearings on the devel opment of a national intelligence method of survelliance should be strictly same time we in Congress take positive controlled and limited to the most urgent strategy. circumstance." note of the release of Ms. Lee, the larger SH-219 issue that led to her arrest remains as a 10:00 a.m. sore point in United States-Taiwan rela Energy and Natural Resources TRIBUTE TO LUCIE BRUNS tions. Business meeting, to consider pending It is my hope that the good judgment and calendar business. HON. BOB McEWEN reason which has prevailed in the release SD-366 Governmental Affairs OF OHIO of Ms. Lee will likewise prevail in the even Civil Service, Post Office, and General IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tual democratizing of political institutions Services Subcommittee Monday, September 30, 1985 on the island. To continue hearings on S. 1440, the Non-Smokers Rights Act. Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, I would like SD-342 to take this opportunity to recognize the SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Judiciary heroism of a constituent of mine, Miss To hold hearings on the nominations of Lucie Bruns. Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, Michael K. Block, of Arizona, Dene H. During her summer off from Wilmington agreed to by the Senate on February Nagel, of Indiana, and Paul H. Robin College, Miss Bruns was working as a life 4, 1977, calls for establishxnent of a son, of New Jersey, each to be a guard at the Cowan Lake State Park. On system for a computerized schedule of member of the U.S. Sentencing Com June 30, 1985, Lucie saved the life of a 2- all meetings and hearings of Senate mission. SR-301 year-old boy. Jonathan Kohorst was pulled committees, subcommittees, joint com Judiciary from the water, where he was found uncon mittees, and committees of conference. Security and Terrorism Subcommittee scious with no apparent pulse or breathing. This title requires all such committees To hold hearings on mercenary counter Miss Brun ran to the boy and immediately to notify the Office of the Senate terrorism training camps. began to administer cardiopulmonary re Dally Digest-designated by the Rules SD-106 suscitation to revive him. Committee-of the time, place, and Select on Indian Affairs After giving CPR for 3 minutes, Miss purpose of the meetings, when sched To hold hearings on S. 1558, to settle Bruns was successful in bringing Jonathan uled, and any cancellations or changes certain claims affecting the Pyramid back to consciousness. The boy was kept in Lake Paiute Indian Tribe of Nevada. in the meetings as they occur. SR-485 the hospital overnight for observation As an additional procedure along where he was released the next day in good 1:00 p.m. with the computerization of this infor Select on Indian Affairs health. mation, the Office of the Senate Daily To continue hearings on S. 1558, to Again, I would like to commend to my Digest will prepare this information settle certain claims affecting the Pyr colleagues Miss Bruns for her alertness and for printing in the Extensions of Re amid Lake Paiute Indian tribe of ability to stay under control in the face of Nevada. a potential tragedy. It is always gratifying marks section of the CONGRESSIONAL SR-428 to be able to give praise to young people RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of 1:30 p.m. like Lucie Bruns. each week. Governmental Affairs Any changes in committee schedul Business meeting, to consider pending ing will be indicated by placement of calendar business. AMERICAN EDITOR RELEASED an asterisk to the left of the name of SD-342 the unit conducting such meetings. 2:00p.m. Judiciary HON. JIM LEACH Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, Oc To hold hearings on pending nomina OF IOWA tober 1, 1985, may be found in the tions. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Daily Digest of today's RECORD. SD-226 Monday, September 30, 1985 Rules and Administration MEETINGS SCHEDULED Business meeting, to considerS. 581, S. Mr. LEACH of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, last 582, and S. 583, bills authorizing funds week I took to the floor to point out that · OCTOBER2 for activities of the Smithsonian Insti now and then a small event occurs that un tution, proposed amendment to the derscores a profound problem for United 9:30a.m. mass mail regulations to provide for Armed Services printing pictures of missing children States foreign policy, such as the recent To hold hearings on nuclear winter and arrest in Taiwan of Lee Ya-ping, an editor on Senate mail, and other legislative its implications. and administrative business. of a United States-based newspaper. SR-222 The Taiwan Government announced 8-128, Capitol Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 3:00p.m. Thursday, September 26, 1985, that Ms. Lee To hold hearings on the nominations of Judiciary has been released on bail and assigned to Roger W. Jepsen, of Iowa, to be a To hold hearings on S. 412, to clarify reformatory education. Member of the National Credit Union the circumstances under which territo Although the idea of reeducation is anti Administration, Joseph A. Grundfest, rial provisions in licenses to distribute thetical to the democratic principle of plu of the District of Columbia, to be a and sell trademarked malt beverage ralism, conjuring up cultural revolution Member of the Securities and Ex products are lawful under the anti images, the release of Ms. Lee must be con change Commission, and Paul Free trust laws. sidered, from a congressional setting, a denberg, of Maryland, to be an Assist SD-226 positive step which effectively negates the ant Secretary of Commerce. urgency of bringing to the floor a resolu SD-538 OCTOBER3 tion of concern. On the other hand, con Finance 9:00a.m. To continue hearings on the President's Office of Technology Assessment cern remains that a chilling message has tax reform proposal. The Board, to hold a general business been sent to aU Americans of Taiwanese SD-215 meeting. descent that if they publicly criticize the Labor and Human Resources EF-100, Capitol Taiwan Government, they may be arrested To hold hearings on the nomination of 9:30 a.m. upon returning to the island. Edward A. Curran, of Maryland, to be Finance Therefore, as positive as the release of Chairman of the National Endowment To continue hearings on the President's Ms. Lee is, the fact she was incarcerated in for the Humanities. tax reform proposal. the first place underlines the concerns of SD-430 SD-215 25338 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1985 Veterans' Affairs OCTOBER4 OCTOBER9 To hold hearings on proposed legislation 9:30a.m. 9:00a.m. to provide a cost-of-living increase for Finance Labor and Human Resources fiscal year 1986 in the rates of veter To continue hearings on the President's Business meeting, to consider pending ans disability compensation and de tax reform proposal. calendar business. pendency and indemnity compensa SD-215 SD-430 tion for surviving spouses and chil Joint Economic 9:30a.m. dren. To hold hearings on the employment Commerce, Science, and Transportation SR-418 unemployment situation for Septem To hold hearings on Robert Elsner, of 9:45a.m. ber. Alaska, and Karen Pryor, or Washing Commerce, Science, and Transportation 2359 Rayburn Building ton, each to be a Member of the Marine Mammal Commission. To hold hearings on the nomination of 10:00 a.m. William R. Graham, of California, to SR-253 Energy and Natural Resources Finance be Deputy Administrator of the Na Public Lands, Reserved Water and Re tional Aeronautics and Space Adminis To resume hearings on the President's source Conservation Subcommittee tax reform proposal. tration. To hold hearings on certain land con SD-215 SR-253 veyance measures, including S. 304, S. Select on Intelligence 10:00 a.m. 360, s. 446, s. 565, s. 567, s. 829, s. To resume closed hearings on the devel Energy and Natural Resources 1503, S. 1625, and S. 1690. opment of a national intelligence To hold hearings on the nominations of SD-366 strategy . Mary L. Walker, of Maryland, to be Governmental Affairs SH-219 Assistant Secretary of Energy . 10:00 a.m. calendar business. SD-366 Labor and Human Resources SD-366 Foreign Relations To hold hearings on alternative pro Labor and Human Resources European Affairs Subcommittee grams for troubled youth. To hold hearings to examine certain To resume hearings to review the North SD-430 barriers to health care. Atlantic Treaty Alliance. SD-430 SD-419 OCTOBERS OCTOBER10 Judiciary 9:3o a.m. Business meeting, to consider pending Commerce, Science, and Transportation 9:30a.m. calendar business. To resume hearings on S. 1310, the Energy and Natural Resources SD-226 Clean Campaign Act. Public Lands, Reserved Water and Re source Conservation Subcommittee Labor and Human Resources SR-253 Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom To hold hearings on S.J. Res. 187, to Energy and Natural Resources designate Patrick Henry's last home mittee Energy Research and Development Sub To resume joint hearings with the and burial place, in Virginia, as aNa House Committee on Education and committee tional Memorial to Patrick Henry, S. To hold joint hearings with the Commit 1596, to direct the Secretary of the In Labor's Subcommittee on Elementary, tee on Environment and Public Works' Secondary, and Vocational Education terior to convey title to the Robert F. Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation Kennedy Memorial Stadium to the on the problem of illiteracy in the on S. 1517, to provide continued finan United States. District of Columbia, and S. 1116, to cial and technical assistance of the De authorize funds for financial assist 2175 Rayburn Building partment of Energy to the regional ance and grants to the Bethune Joint Economic low-level waste compact regions, and Museum and Archives in the District Agriculture and Transportation Subcom to revise the guidelines and procedures of Columbia. mittee for the establishment and use of re SD-366 To hold hearings on livestock and retail gional disposal facilities for low-level •Finance meat prices. radioactive waste, and S. 1578, to im To continue hearings on the President's SD-342 prove procedures for the implementa tax reform proposal. 10:30 a.m. tion of compacts providing for the es SD-215 Commerce, Science, and Transportation tablishment and operation of regional 10:00 a.m. Science, Technology, and Space Subcom disposal facilities for low-level radioac Commerce, Science, and Transportation mittee tive waste. Merchant Marine Subcommittee To hold hearings to evaluate the United SD-366 To hold hearings on fishing vessel safety States earthquake hazard reduction Environment and Public Works and insurance. and preparedness program. Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee SD-562 SR-253 To hold joint hearings with the Commit Labor and Human Resources 1:30 p.m. To hold hearings on mandatory nutri tee on Energy and Natural Resources' tional labeling. Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Energy Research SD-430 European Affairs Subcommittee and Development on 8. 1517, to pro Labor and Human Resources To continue hearings to review the vide continued financial and technical Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom North Atlantic Treaty Alliance. assistance of the Department of mittee SD-419 Energy to the regional low-level waste To resume hearings on proposed legisla 3:00p.m. compact regions, and to revise the tion authorizing funds for programs of • Armed Services guidelines and procedures for the es the Higher Education Act. To continue hearings on nuclear winter tablishment and use of regional dis SR-385 and its implications. posal facilities for low-level radioactive 10:30 a.m. SD-562 waste, and S. 1578, to improve proce Commerce, Science, and Transportation 4:00p.m. dures for the implementation of com Business, Trade, and Tourism Subcommit • Select on Intelligence pacts providing for the establishment tee Closed briefing on chemical, biological and operation of regional disposal fa To hold hearings on the promotion of and radiological terrorism. cilities for low-level radioactive waste. domestic tourism. SH-219 SD-366 SR-253 September 30, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25339 4:00p.m. Governmental Affairs 10:00 a.m. Select on Intelligence Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga Governmental Affairs Closed briefing on worldwide intelli tions Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga gence matters. To resume hearings on espionage activi tions SH-219 ties in the United States. To hold hearings on the Federal en 4:30p.m. SD-342 forcement of the Bank Secrecy Act Select on Intelligence Labor and Human Resources . Closed briefing on the Philippines. Employment and Productivity Subcom SD-342 SH-219 mittee To hold hearings on the impact of trade OCTOBER30 OCTOBER16 on employment and productivity. 9:30a.m. 9:30a.m. SD-430 Labor and Human Resources Labor and Human Resources To resume hearings to examine certain Business meeting, to consider pending OCTOBER23 barriers to health care. calendar business. 9:30a.m. SD-430 SD-430 Environment and Public Works 10:00 a.m. Select on Intelligence Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee Energy and Natural Resources To resume closed hearings on the devel To continue hearings on S. 445 and S. Business meeting, to consider pending opment of a national intelligence 1225, bills to revise certain provisions calendar business. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 re SD-366 strategy . Labor and Human Resources SH-219 garding liability for nuclear incidents. Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism SD-406 10:00 a.m. Subcommittee Energy and Natural Resources Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on the effects of do Business meeting, to consider pending Business meeting, to consider pending mestic violence. calendar business. calendar business. SD-628 SD-366 SD-430 Select on Indian Affairs 10:00 a.m. OCTOBER31 To hold hearings on the nomination of Energy and Natural Resources Business meeting, to consider pending 10:00 a.m. Ross 0. Swimmer, of Oklahoma, to be Governmental Affairs an Assistant Secretary of the Interior. calendar business. Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit SD-366 SR-325 tee To hold hearings on S. 1209, to establish OCTOBER17 OCTOBER24 the National Commission to Prevent 9:30a.m. 10:00 a.m. Infant Mortality. Governmental Affairs Governmental Affairs SD-342 Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga Labor and Human Resources tions tions Employment and Productivity Subcom To hold hearings on espionage activities To hold hearings on the role of the en mittee in the United States. tertainment industry in deglamorizing To resume hearings on the impact of SD-342 drug use. trade on employment and productivi .10:00 a.m. SD-342 ty. Labor and Human Resources Labor and Human Resources SD-430 Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom 4:00p.m. mittee mittee Select on Intelligence To hold hearings to examine measures To resume hearings on proposed legisla Closed briefing on intelllgence matters. to discourage students from dropping tion authorizing funds for programs of SH-219 out of high school. the Higher Education Act. SD-430 SD-430 NOVEMBERS Labor and Human Resources 4:00p.m. 9:30a.m. Aging Subcommittee Select on Intelligence Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on pension accrual and Closed briefing on worldwide intelli To hold hearings on nutrition and fit the older worker. gence matters. ness in public health. SD-628 SH-219 SD-430 4:00p.m. 4:30p.m. Select on Intelligence Select on Intelligence NOVEMBER7 Closed briefing on intelligence matters. Closed briefing on intelligence matters. 9:30a.m. SH-219 SH-219 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Science, Technology, and Space Subcom OCTOBER21 OCTOBER28 mittee 9:30a.m. 9:30a.m. To hold hearings on insurance and space Commerce, Science, and Transportation Finance commercialization. Surface Transportation Subcommittee Health Subcommittee SR-253 To hold oversight hearings on the im To hold hearings on S. 1551, to provide plementation of the Household Goods for administrative appeals and judicial NOVEMBER 12 Transportation Act . appeals provisions under Parts A and Employment and Productivity Subcom SR-253 B of the Medicare program. mittee SD-215 To resume hearings on the impact of OCTOBER22 trade on employment and productivi OCTOBER29 ty. 9:30a.m. 9:30a.m. SD-430 Environment and Public Works Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee Handicapped Subcommittee Governmental Affairs To hold hearings on S. 445 and S. 1225, To hold hearings on the Tenth Anniver Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit bills to revise certain provisions of the sary of the Education for All Handi tee Atomic Energy Act of 1954 regarding capped Children Act