28792 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 22, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SECOND INTERIM REPORT ON sponsored resolution calling for imme But the process is not always so well THE 36TH SESSION OF THE diate withdrawal of all foreign troops organized in the committees. Often UNITED NATIONS GENERAL AS and the restoration of sovereignty, ter representatives, having finished state SEMBLY BY THE CONGRES ritorial integrity, and nonalinement of ments on one topic will go on to an SIONAL MEMBERS OF THE U.S. Afghanistan and of the right of the other before acting on the resolution DELEGATION Afghan people to choose their own of the earlier item. The lagtime is form of government free from outside often unavoidable, particularly when HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN intervention. Speaking for the United conflict over the terms of the resolu OF NEW YORK States, Ambassador Kirkpatrick called tion is acute. A case in point is the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the invasion a "grave violation of the Special Political Committee. After U.N. charter that shook the. very foun concluding statements on the item of Sunday, November 22, 1981 dation of world order." Besides its the question on information, during • Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, on shattering effect on the prospects for which the Group of 77 introduced a behalf of the gentleman from Florida continued stability of South Asia and draft resolution, the committee moved e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. November 22, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28793 eight resolutions on which a recorded and then ran into difficulty defining Notably, the large majority of reso vote was taken, the United States the freedoms to be protected. lutions adopted by consensus related stood alone on four of the votes, on Finally, the Commission on Human to relatively noncontentious matters: the report of the Committee on the Rights during its 1978, 1979, 1980, and an international year of shelter for Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 1981 sessions persevered in its drafting the homeless; implementation in the the status of the Convention on the and adopted the draft declaration last Sudan-Sahel region of a plan of action Elimination of Apartheid, and on two spring. to combat decertification; the world resolutions on national experience in The religious freedom declaration tourism organization; world communi social and economic progress. Our del consists of 10 preambular paragraphs cations year; health for all by the year egation objected to some of the lan and 8 articles setting forth national 2000; U.N. University; and mobilization guage in these resolutions; for exam obligations respecting the individual's for personal savings. · ple, criticism of South Africa, refer freedom of religion. Article I pro The latter, sponsored by Barbados, ring to apartheid as a crime against claims that everyone shall have the Jamaica, Malaysia, and Sweden, af humanity and in the latter cases, the right to freedom of thought, con firms the need to encourage develop distasteful tone of the resolutions. We science, and religion. Articles II and ment of appropriate indigenous finan abstained on another because of refer III define religious discrimination as cial institutions and to foster govern ence to "the New International Eco any distinction, exclusion, restriction, ment and institutional exchanges of nomic Order." The United States does or preference based on religion or information on mobilizing personal not support the use of the word "the," belief that impairs the recognition, en saving; it also requests the Secretary preferring to use "a"; we did not par joyment, or excercise of human rights General to report on the Second Inter ticipate in an Algerian-sponsored reso and an affront to human dignity. Arti national Symposium on the Mobiliza lution on the implementation of the cle IV calls on states to take measures tion of Personal Savings in Developing program for the U.N. Decade to Elimi to prevent and eliminate discrimina Countries, to take place in Kuala nate Racial Discrimination because of tion on grounds of religion or belief Lumpur, March 1982, The first sympo the program's reference to "Zionism as and to enact or rescind legislation if sium took place in 1980. This resolu a form of racism." necessary to prohibit discrimination. tion reflects the conviction by U.N. While much is said of the United In other articles, religious freed om is members of the need and importance States standing alone-and the above defined as including inter alia the of personal savings in maximizing fi are representative examples-it should right to write, publish, and dissemi nancial resources available for devel be noted that there are many resolu nate relevant publications related to opment. tions that are adopted by a consensus, rites or customs of a religion or belief, Finally, the question of who will without any vote. Among those resolu to teach a religion or belief in suitable occupy the 38th floor of the U .N. Sec tions are the questions of the elderly places, to worship or assemble in retariat as Secretary General for the and the aging, the world assembly on regard to a religion or belief. next 5 years is still undecided. At this the aging, international youth year, Unlike a convention, the Religious time only two official candidates physical education and sports ex Intolerance Declaration does not re Kurt Waldheim and Salim Salim-are change of youth and channels of com quire ratification by national parlia in the running, and the balloting con munication among youth, a directive ments. It represents an excellent ex tinues because neither have been able to the U.N. Human Rights Commis ample of the General Assembly's ful to muster the required support in the sion to complete drafting a convention fillment of its responsibility to pro Security Council. The U.S. official po outlawing torture and an admonition mote the progressive development of sition has been to express admiration to government to outlaw arbitrary international law as well as fundamen for the qualifications of both Wald executions. The most significant reso tal human rights and freedoms. heim and Salim. However, due to this lution adopted so far in the Third Beyond this, the UNGA's adoption of deadlock, a number of compromise Committee was the one concerning the this declaration will henceforth enable candidates from Latin America are Declaration on the Elimination of Re the matter of religious freedom to be being informally considered. ligious Intolerance, which was adopted discussed as a legitimate concern in Mr. Speaker, we will try to keep our without a vote on November 9, and the U.N.'s human rights agenda. colleagues informed of developments now awaits final approval, expected to In the Second Committee-on eco in committee and in plenary in future be pro forma, by the General Assem nomic and financial matters-most reports.e bly. This action is a major achieve draft resolutions are still in various ment and marks the culmination of stages of being negotiated. However, almost 30 years of discussion and ne 15 resolutions have been adopted so THE UNITED STATES GOLD gotiations among U.N. members on far, 3 by recorded vote and 12 by con BOND ACT this important subject. In fact, as sensus. early as 1955, the matter of religious In recorded votes, the United States HON. DENNY SMITH rights and practices as first raised in joined a large majority, 120-0-7, in OF OREGON Subcommission on the prevention of supporting special action related to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Discrimination and Protection of Mi problems of land-locked countries; we norities, and by 1959, and Special Rap abstained on "the remnants of war," Sunday, November 22, 1981 porteur concluded a special study on 97-0-28, which calls on governments to •Mr. SMITH of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, this topic. The UNGA then agreed clear minefields and stood alone with it is with increasing concern for the that a declaration and convention Israel on "the living conditions of the survival of our Nation's long-term cap should be prepared on eliminating reli Palestinian people," 98-2-26. We op ital markets that I rise to introduce gious tolerance as called for in article posed this because it condemned Israel the United States Gold Bond Act. 18 of the Universal Declaration on for the deteriorating living conditions If our free market system is to sur Human Rights. However, in the 1960's of Palestinians in the occupied territo vive the ravages of inflation and high the General Assembly preferred to ries and for refusing to permit the interest rates, investors must be as emphasize the preparation of the Dec group of experts on the social and eco sured that the money they invest laration and Convention on the Elimi nomic impact of the Israeli occupation today will be as good as gold tomor nation of Racial Discrimination, and to visit the occupied territories and row. In recent months investors have in the U.N. Commission on Human called on the Secretary General to been reluctant to invest in long-term Rights members debated whether prepare a report in consultation with instruments, because they have seen they should first draft a convention or the PLO on the deteriorating living their return dwindle due to inflated a declaration on religious intolerance conditions for the 37th UNGA. dollars. My bill will alleviate this criti- 28794 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 22, 1981 cal problem by authorizing the Secre of the Peace Movements, which would have December 1979 to modernise its theatre nu tary of the Treasury to issue bonds Europe neutral in the East-West conflict. clear forces. The stationing of the Toma that may be redeemed for gold. The Peace Movements are particularly hawk Fidel Castro as to of that. He laid certain things on the line. this issue. Now is the time to try to anyone else. Number one was that host L6pez Portillo correct the faults and insure the pro Another reason for issuance of the had a clear choice between Ronald Reagan gram's solvency. Pointing fingers and statement last October was the immi and Fidel Castro-essentially between bucks engaging in shouting matches will not nence of the Cancun Conference, and bombast. It turned out to be no choice help, but perhaps a genuinely com which we knew to have as its objective at all. Poor L6pez Portillo had to disinvite bined effort by everyone will save this the extraction of ever more money Fidel without telling him 'directly that the leaders of 22 nations wouldn't gather at the program that means so much to so from the American taxpayers for the gates of Heaven to hear one of his famous many of us. support of Marxist mismanagement day-long speeches. Earlier this year President Reagan around the world. And, well in advance of the meeting, the had introduced a proposal which pro In any event, Cancun did not work Administration sent signals loud and clear vided one alternative in dealing with out as planned. The following com- to the effect that the days of easy handouts 28798 EXTENSION~ OF REMARKS November 22, 1981 were over, that we had plenty of problems the first time, they chirped, that "rich" na benefits of a single-party system coo about here at home, so don't kid yourselves. tions were arrayed against "poor" nations. the virtues of "joint enterprises." Private in Furthermore, said Reagan, this was going This was made ludicrous by the fact that in vestors must cut in a hand-sorted batch of to be an agreeable meeting at which people the much-touted lineup at Cancun 'the ruling-party regulars and render them sleek. were going to be polite. It was not going to "poor" 14 included the four rolling-in-oil The Mexicans have learned how much can be a Hate America Festival. The turning of money O.P.E.C. states of Algeria, Venezu be bled off without the host enterpri&e be the worm, which took the whole United Na ela, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia. Along with coming fatally anemic; they may be able to tions gang so unawares, occurred in Septem the Persian Gulf states, "poor" Saudi give lessons in this technique to the huddled ber when our United Nations Ambassador Arabia is a heavy donor of foreign aid-to mass of "Third World" governing parties stunned the place by objecting to the latest Moslems, including some not-so-nice who wonder why every productive enter bucket of abusive verbiage cooked up by the Moslem governments and the Palestine Lib prise they drain eventually develops rigor Soviets and served up by no less than 93 del eration Organization. mortis. egations. Ambassador Kirkpatrick pointed. The other three O.P.E.C. states present at The Mexican government, nonetheless, out that the statement was full of lies and Cancun feature plenty of poor people, but doesn't really appreciate Private Enterprise. they knew it. they are run by a political elite which dis For example, Sri Lanka is said to be ready to give Free En Since when had that mattered? And since rities snort coke-that is, with little re terprise a whirl, after socialism has run the when did they have to worry about losing straint. They rarely "aid" others. country into the ground. But, Mexican offi American favor by manifesting hostility? No One non-oil-producing country which cials believe, the Sri Lankans don't have the fair, they seemed to think, changing the should have served as a good example-and "infrastructure" of Private Enterprise to do rules in the middle of the game. perhaps did, with the media choosing not to the job. Apparently this means that entre Nevertheless, the tough line worked. No notice-was the Ivory Coast. This is a tropi preneurs of the proper scale and variety tably waspish nasties like Indian Prime Min cal African country which has rejected have not popped from the ruins overnight, ister Indira Gandhi and Tanzanian Presi Marxism and is in consequence going great after 20 years of flattering themselves into dent Julius Nyerere practically faded into guns economically, to the chagrin of neigh the ground under the grazing fire of a deter the palm thatch at Cancun. President boring pestholes. minedly socialist government. Reagan, in effect, was enabled to hold court America suggested that, if people were al at the Mexican President's expense, and lowed to make and keep some profits, the things did not work out at all the way that • • • word would get around. Ceylonese, like Indi the Socialist International had planned. That we will continue to disgorge foreign ans, like Chine:;e, do not lack the spirit and It is generally counted as a plus that aid, that we still feed the World Bank, that knack for Private Enterprise. But, like most President Reagan was afforded the opportu we still support and host the United Na citizens of the "Third World," they have nity to conduct one-on-one meetings with so tions-all these remain unsatisfying aspects learned the sad and destructive lesson that many Heads of State and Foreign Ministers of Reagan policy, just as they have been to produce a surplus of anything is to invite in so short a time. It has been suggested, under so many previous Presidents of both its confiscation by a voraciously parasitic since the expected vituperative row did not parties. Yet Reagan is the first to slap down political structure. In fact, having once pro occur, that this represents more points for the acid-throwers at the United Nations; the duced a surplus, you become an object of our team. Lovers of the World Bank were first who has smiled while Congress cut special attention. pleased that President Reagan supported their allowance; and, the first who has, most The problem is as old as human society, existing international finance institutions as importantly, seen to it that the mendicant but socialism simply butters this type of against the creation of new ones. Those of nations know it has entered our mind that parasitism with layers of bureaucracy and us less pleased with the World Bank's previ we just might "get the U.S. out of the ideological blather heretofore missing. ous enthusiastic support of socialism around United Nations and the U.N. out of the What is really new and progressive is the the world are not inclined to award points United States; deliberate maintenance of Free Enterprise for that one. But, in the view of Julius Let that horde of freeloaders contemplate in the teeth of the known tendency of gov Nyerere, for example, the World Bank is an the possibility that they could smart-mouth ernment to use force to grab the products of imperialist skinflint outfit, and one of the themselves clear out of the Good Life. producers. fantasies entertained by representatives of Newsweek let at least one cat out of the You are beginning to see why there was a the least productive countries was that they bag in October. Speaking of Bangladesh, it terrible temptation to entitle this piece, might be given their own fully funded devel noted that the government there is pained "Can't We Can The Cancun Cant?" The opment bank to play with. These people al by the fact that the country has had several "pitch" to be used against us hasn't changed ready have their own nationalized banks, good harvests in a row. How is this bad, you in decades. There is always the "widening but it is difficult to induce anyone to give ask? Well, when pictures of stick-limbed kid gap between rich and poor," the ill-disguised dollars for kwachas or ougiyas or their four dies can be flashed around the world, the accusation that we are guilty of prosperity, dozen other kinds of wooden nickels. free grain pours into government ware while the absolutely timeless poverty of the Instead, President Reagan offered noth houses, and the government then sells this world is one of our vicious plots. If "racism" ing but the opportunity for individual gov grain to the people, and finds itself with a can be worked into the formula, all the ernments to discuss specific problems with comforting flow of revenue. In good years, better. us "in a cooperative spirit." And he firmly government revenue must come from the te The only way for us to atone for having recommended that the delegates presiding dious process of taxation, of shaking down built our own roads and railroads, learned to over the most threadbare economies on tens of millions of farmers, one by one. grow food in abundance, allowed people to earth give Free Enterprise a try. To the so Isn't it time to say, now that we under prosper by providing for the needs of others cialists, that is making a rude sound. stand this game, we aren't going to play it in a free market, and so on, is to provide the What was so satisfying about all of this is any more? fruits of this effort, without the effort, to that the "Liberal" press nearly choked on it. And what was Mexican President Jose the governments of "the poor." To attach At enormous expense, some 2,000 journal Lopez Portillo selling at Cancun? The Mexi any conditions, or to ask for anything in ists and communications technicians had can ruling party wants Americans to regard return, is an affront to the national sover gathered to beam to a yawning world what Castro's enslavement of the Cuban people eignty of the recipient. Surely you can see they thought would be the usual "Liberal" as "an alternative development model." that. message. Lengthy but remarkably insub Mexican officials trot out the old line about In fact, that master of mendicancy, Julius stantial reports were all that came of it. The how we forced Fidel to adopt Communism, Nyerere, routinely takes the matter one problem lay in the fact that President just as we are now forcing the poor abused step further. Nyerere is a Marxist beggar of Reagan refused to walk into a well-publi Sandinistas to embrace Moscow. They will the aggressive school, the type who shoves cized ambush. The Leftist propaganda line even tell you that Mexico's offer to supply his face into yours and demands the price of was not well served by a U.S. President who Castro with his oil needs has led Fidel to his keep. When Nyerere speaks, every told the world's mendicants to shape up and gush gratitude for the prospect of liberation second word is "socialism" and every third try freedom. from Moscow. You can believe all that if word is, of all things, "self-reliance"! His Intellectuals who sniff "oversimplifica you really want to. pitch includes the notion that failure to tion" whenever an obvious explanation What else were the Mexicans selling? supply him with a continuous and generous threatens to override their sophistries, or Well, their own "development model," flow of funds is a nefarious scheme to de whenever the basic economic facts of life which is a mixed economy indeed. Mexican prive him of self-reliance. are set forth, were left to amplify the most politicans are absolutely torn between pros In astronomical terms, a "black hole" is birdbrained "Liberal" catch-phrases ever perity and socialist monopoly ~ Mexican po something so dense that light itself is drawn given space in the public prints. It was not liticos who fairly glow with the personal into it and disappears without a trace. Well, November 22, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28799 Nyerere's Tanzania is the Black Hole of sense for them to join forces in clamoring hensive that this administration risks Foreign Aid, certainly for Africa, probably for a bailout? What better solution is there alienating a very large proportion of for the world as a whole. than to have the government of a "rich" the Federal workforce, with the result In fact, so many of the "poor" countries at country plunder its taxpayers for "aid" to Cancoo were Marxist-dominated that one be sent to "poor" countries-so that they of poorer employee morale, lower em might even come away with the idea that can pay interest to the bankers? ployee productivity, and the loss of "poor" equals "Marxist." There were Yugo Could this not be the origin of Establish talented civil servants to the private slavia and India and Algeria and Tanzania ment media clamor for the transfer of sector. Does Mr. Stockman's "Trojan and Guyana and Bangladesh. Without sur money from your pocket and mine to the Horse" economic assumptions take veying the economies of each, one test coffers of America's nine largest banks? these considerations into account? I might be whether any sane person would at When we placed that question before an doubt it. tempt to go into business in any of these honest and perceptive government econo countries without official patronage in high mist, he could only say: "Well, you're about When we speak of Federal employ places. three steps ahead of the American public." ees, we are not referring to a vast gray Conspicuously absent was the Soviet Washington knows that "foreign aid" is as mass of overpaid and underworked Union. Moscow refused to come. When popular as the plague with the taxpayers. faceless bureaucrats. We are speaking Treasury Secretary Donald Regan was That is why, under "Liberal" dominance, it of those employees whose scienfitic asked by a television interviewer why the was never permitted to become a clearcut skills made possible the launch, orbit Soviets were not at the Canc(ln conference, political issue. Americans have been incred ing, and landing of the Columbia he responded: "That's easy. They have ibly generous, and too often have taken a nothing to offer." Soviet "aid" goes over thumb in the eye in exchange. Now, serious Space Shuttle that the world marveled whelmingly to its two neediest client states, ly pinched at home, Americans are less than at. We are speaking of those employ Cuba and Vietnam, so that their puppet ever disposed to make sacrifices on behalf of ees who put their lives on the front armies are in turn available for duty in ingrates with permanently deployed begging line every day in the protection of our Africa, Asia, and Latin America on behalf of bowls. President. We are speaking of count Moscow. To the Soviets, idealistic humani Those governments, those countries which less doctors, nurses, technicians, secre tarian aid is inconceivable; every kopek has have frittered away decades of American-fi its political objective. There is nobody home taries, clerks, accountants, scientists, nanced opportunity, will have to absorb the and many others who work for our in Moscow when it comes to feeding refu message that the party is coming to an end. gees. That is the message Ronald Reagan deliv Government and who deserve and ask But there was one more aspect of the ered last month at Cancun. Let us hope that for nothing more than fair pay and propaganda surrounding this show which the cowboy President dares stick by his benefits. merits very serious consideration by Ameri guns.e And, yet, what have they received in cans. I refer to Presidential support of the U.S.-backed lending agencies. True, credit return for their quiet and daily dedica moves in mysterious ways, but the notion IN PRAISE OF FEDERAL tion and dependable performance of that we should be grateful for the opportu EMPLOYEES their duties? nity to "sell" our products to those we have Just this past year, at the hands of loaned the money to, in the knowledge that an administration misguided in its zeal the "loan" will never be repaid, just defies HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR and obsessed with false budgetary sav logic. Where would a farmer be if he paid OF OHIO ings, Federal employees have had people to carry off his crop? Where would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES you be if you paid your boss to make use of their cost-of-living adjustment capped your labor? Sunday, November 22, 1981 at 4.8 percent-even though the Presi We are supposed to be grateful to the •Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, I would dent's own pay agent recommended a Soviet war machine for allowing us to feed 15.1 percent increase to keep pace with and equip its troops on credit; indeed, we like to make a few comments in praise of the dependable and dedicated work the rise in inflation and the CPI. Fed must express delight that our bankers have eral retirees-who have given the most cleared the way for us to build up Red performed by Federal employees. In a China just the way they built up the Soviet year when the Federal work force has productive years of their adult work war machine; we must thank the Commu been made the target of disproportion ing lives to our Government and who nist foreign legions in Africa for providing ate and discriminatory budget cuts by ask for no more than what was as all those millions of refugees for us to feed. the administration, I wish to commend sured them in retirement income Where do you see any sense to it? have had one of their COLA's taken No, the only people who find virtue in this Federal workers for their invaluable contribution to the Government and away, with the implied threat from argument are the people who skim off a per the administration to delay the new centage every time money changes hands to our country. I, for one, deplore the regardless of purpose, and regardless of who unjustified harassment of Federal em once-a-year COLA guaranteed them in wins and who loses. ployees and retirees and demand that March 1982. A blockbuster of sorts on this subject ap this administration refrain from fur Federal employees and retirees peared in Barron's for October 26, 1981. Try ther criticism of Federal employees some 10 million, including their de the end of the column by James Grant on and from further cuts in their pay and pendents-have seen the Office of Per Page 55: "Lending by the nine largest Amer sonnel Management recklessly and cal ican banks to the world's pith-helmet coun benefits. tries was on the rise through 1980. The ratio If we compare the Federal Govern lously attempt to dismantle their of such loans to the banks' capital last year ment to a large building, then we health benefits program, causing po exceeded two to one. That is, Third World would logically expect the building to tentially serious damage to their abili loans on the books of nine banks were more be only as strong and durable as its ty to receive adequate health care cov than twice the sum of the banks' equity, foundation. The Federal work force is erage at an affordable price. subordinated debt, and reserves for loan the foundation of our Government. It As chair of the House Subcommittee losses." There is nothing "prudent" about a loan policy which results in absurd debt makes absolutely no sense, therefore, on Compensation and Employee Bene levels. There comes a point when it is clear for the temporary occupant-owners of fits, I renew my solemn pledge to all that there is no way even the interest can the building-the administration-to Federal employees and retirees that I be paid. chip away needlessly at the founda will continue undeterred in my opposi An array of tricks may then find employ tion. tion to administration efforts to fur ment. "Rescheduling" interest payments is The Federal workforce is responsible ther reduce personnel and benefit one method, and floating loans for the pur for the day-to-day operation of our levels. Let this administration know pose of paying interest on previous loans is Government, something all of us tend as well as other administrations to another; but, a moment's thought indicates that this is no long-term solution, and the to take for granted. There is a direct come-that Federal employees and re lender can see disaster looming at the correlation between the morale and tirees are human beings with needs bottom of his bag of tricks. productivity of this workforce and the like everyone else and should not be In the case of international bankers and efficient and effective operation of the made the scapegoat for attempts to foreign- governments, does it not then make Government. I am angry and appre- solve our country's economic ills. Fed- 28800 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 22, 1981 eral employees and retirees shall not players, stopping to say a kind word to ests, including its role as majority be sacrificed on the altar of false each team member shows he recog stockholder in three banks. budgetary savings. nizes his players as people rather than Ed Junior not only is one of Ameri Finally Mr. Speaker, we live in the beef of the hoof. To have seen the ca's fastest rising young executives for greatest country in the world. We owe tears of joy after the Pittsburgh game a major corporation, but he also is the a debt of gratitude to those who oper as he hugged his dad and family then youngest owner in the 28-team Nation ate our Government-the Federal em thanked each player was proof of his al Football League. His rise began ployees of this great country·• emotional and personal feelings about upon graduation from Notre Dame in our 49'ers. The team is not a toy but 1968 when he joined the company full EDWARD J. DEBARTOLO, JR., A part of his very being; far from being a time, moving from department to de SPECIAL MAN spoiled kid with a new toy, Eddy De partment learning the many facets of Bartolo is a beautiful human being the company which, by then, had who possess the unique combination grown into a national corporation and HON. JOHN L. BURTON of his father's business acumen and had become recognized as the largest OF CALIFORNIA inner strength, the emotional warmth shopping center firm in the United IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and commonsense of his mother, States. In 1971 he was appointed a vice Sunday, November 22, 1981 Marie, as well as the street smarts of president. e Mr. JOHN L. BURTON. Mr. Speak the common person. These traits are Five years later he was named exec er, as one of San Francisco's Members what makes Edward DeBartolo, Jr., a utive vice president while taking over of the House of Representatives, I am cut above most of his NFL peers. the in-house DeBartolo staff of some pleased to join with my colleague, Nineteen eighty-one marks a signifi 300 engineers, architects, designers, LYLE WILLIAMS of Youngstown, Ohio, cant year, significant because this is financiers, leasing agents, lawyers, in offering this tribute to our friend, Edward Jr.'s fifth season as the team's management and operations teams, Edward DeBartolo, Jr., who among owner and chief executive officer. Five along with advertising, public rela other things is owner and chief execu years have passed since the National tions, and marketing personnel. He tive officer of the San Francisco Football League's San Francisco fran was appointed president and chief ad 49'ers. chise became a vital acquisition of the ministrative officer in July of 1979. At the invitation of my old buddy, nationwide DeBartolo Corp., and for Working a demanding 7-day-a-week Ken Flower, I was going to spend the the team's president, stability now has schedule that he has continued to evening with a person described by the fully arrived on his football club. De today, Ed Junior found little time for San Francisco media as "a rich young Bartolo points with pride to the set those pursuits he still lists as hob kid from Youngstown, Ohio." I was tling effect that has permeated the or bies-golf and football-or returning stunned to find instead of the rich ganization since 1979 when he hired my phone calls. Football, the domi out-of-towner with a silver spoon, a Bill Walsh, a leading football tactician nant interest in his life, would become warm outgoing person who could have and a great human being with the more than just a hobby when he hung out with me, Geoge Moscone and ability to bring individuals together as became the 49'ers president and gener the rest of the gang at Polk Gulch and a team on and off the field, as head al partner. In that capacity he con North Beach. coach and general manager. trols 90 percent of the club, with limit When I met Eddy he was in town for The 49'ers were a team in transition ed partners Jane Morabito and Frank the 49'ers-Redskin game with his close during 1977 and 1978, but that transi lin Mieuli, who each own 5 percent. friend, Carmen Policy. They were tion began to diminish with the arrival Edward Junior gives generously of watching "Boom Boom" Mancini fight of Walsh and and his staff. DeBartolo his time and influence when it comes Alex Arguello on television. Afterward says the turnaround came because "all to charitable endeavors. He is highly we talked and I was amazed that he of us have a singleness of purpose" active in the St. Jude Children's Re could keep up with the chatter of an where the 49'ers are concerned. He search Hospital, having directed the old North Beach "Lean and Tender" - adds, Youngstown effort for national chair bartender-with the same ease that The people presently guiding the team man Danny Thomas, an effort that allows him to deal in the world of cor under Bill's direction are the people who netted the greatest sum of any city its porate board rooms. will be operating the team for a long time. I size in the Nation. I knew we were kindred souls when have pledged my total support to their ef He also has for several years directc Eddy's only criteria for a restaurant forts. ed the Youngstown Cancer and Heart was that they serve good baccala and The 49'ers 35-year-old president Fund Drives, served as director of a require no neckties. By the end of the serves the DeBartolo Corp. as presi local youth center, and served as a evening I felt as if I had known him dent and chief administrative officer, member of the board of trustees at all my life. a role that demands nearly all of his Youngstown State University. When Eddy first took over the 49'ers attention and time. The corporation's His wife, Candy, was his childhood he was the victim of bum raps in the home offices are located in Youngs sweetheart, and they are the parents media, "a rich kid with a new toy," town, Ohio, the DeBartolo family of three daughters, Lisa Marie 11, Tif "he ain't even from the Bay Area," hometown. fanie Lynn 10, and Nicole Ann 6.e and "an outsider." Founded in 1948 by Edward J. De Although his family home is in Bartolo, who is the father of the 49'ers Youngstown, Ohio, I know Eddy De president, the DeBartolo Corp. has I.R.A. MURDER CAMPAIGN Bartolo loves our city and the people. become one of America's great busi CONTINUES When he became owner of the ness success stories. It is the leading 49'ers, he made pnly one promise that planner, builder, owner, and operator HON. LARRY McDONALD within 5 years they would be competi of enclosed regional shopping malls in OF GEORGIA tive in the league. This promise has the world, malls that total more than IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been more than kept and, along with 74 million square feet of retail space. coach Bill Walsh, he has given us ex In addition, the corporation owns Sunday, November 22, 1981 citing, gutsy team play every week. thoroughbred racetracks, including e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the He has provided 49'ers fans with the luxurious Louisiana Downs, hotels, in amazing amount of media sympathy finest team in the history of the fran dustrial and executive office parks, accorded to the I.R.A. hunger strikers chise. the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey fran earlier this year, a sympathy never To see Eddy in the locker room hug chise, the Pittsburgh Civic Arena, and before or since matched by any con ging, slapping hands, joking with the holds many commercial bank inter- cern for their victims, demonstrates November 22, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28801 once more the cynical manipulation of cation by some sort of mask, since gun WEEKEND OF WINS BY DeBAR public emotion. control means that non-LR.A. civilians TOLO FAMILY A FIRST IN PRO That the hunger strike failed be have difficulty in acquiring the means FESSIONAL SPORTS cause British Prime Minister Margaret to protect themselves. Thatcher would not yield to de There is developing an Ulster na HON. JOHN L. BURTON mands-Mrs. Thatcher was perhaps tionalism which sees no way out of the remembering the LR.A. murder of OF CALIFORNIA more than 1O years of LR.A. terror IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Lord Mountbatten and of her own than through independence. These friend and adviser, Airey Neave-left Sunday, November 22, 1981 the managers of this macabre affair in people will not accept absorption into the Republic of Ireland, which is for e Mr. JOHN L. BURTON. Mr. Speak a less advantageous situation than had er, three professional sports teams been planned. There was indeed a eign to them, and they are ever more suspicious of eventual British sellout. owned by the Edward J. DeBartolo propaganda windfall, yet other objec family of Youngstown, Ohio were vic tives were not achieved. In these pages we have ·frequently set forth the Communist connections torious in one weekend, in one city. All A subsequent campaign led to vio three teams have emerged from diffi lence in London, including a particu of the present-day Irish Republican cult pasts; thus, the pride that sur larly atrocious nail-bomb attack Army. It requires a great deal of cre faced in Pittsburgh the weekend of against a busload of Irish Guardsmen, dulity to imagine that Moscow has the October 31 and November 1 represent as a result of which two passersby best interests of Ireland at heart, ed several years of sweat, investment, were killed and a large number of when unleashing deliberate campaigns diligence, and grit. young men were hideously maimed by of violent destabilization-or, for that The Spirit, of the Major Indoor 6-inch nails hammered home by high matter to believe that Mu'ammar Qa Soccer League, beat the St. Louis explosives. This sort of nauseatingly dhafi is concerned about the welfare Steamers 3-2 in an exhibition game brutal and cowardly attack has of the Catholics and Protestants of October 31. The soccer team sat out become a hallmark of the LR.A. Ireland. The latest tactic has been escalating the 1980 season when its former owner attacks against leaders of the majority There are specialists in the creation suspended play due to financial diffi popu!ation in Ulster-the majority of misery and chaos who find all too culties and the realization that more which does not wish to become part of many willing employers. Their work is intense management was needed. a "united Ireland," most particularly not merely aimed at physical destruc Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr., purchased not an Ireland dominated by the likes tion of life and property, but at the the Spirit in June of this year after of the LR.A. leadership. destruction of the very fiber of the his firm assumed management of The murder of a clergyman Member targeted society, by destroying trust Pittsburgh's Civic Arena, home of the of Parliament, the Reverend Robert and friendship and replacing them Spirit and Penguins. Bradford, was carried out in a typical with suspicion and hatred. Mr. DeBartolo, Sr. also owns the ly cowardly and cold-blooded manner. Penguins, Pittsburgh's National Any people who have been subjected Hockey League team. That same The Reverend Bradford was making to more than 10 years of indiscrimi himself available to his constituents evening, October 31, the Penguins nate assassination and bombing by a beat the Buffalo Sabres in the Civic when he was approached by two men foreign-directed terrorist organization and simply shot down. Arena 3-1. The team in its first 9 years must be expected to become short suffered mismanagement and hopeless According to the New Yorks Times tempered, to say the least. The out of November 17: records. DeBartolo took control of the burst against British Administrator Penguins in 1977, and experts are now In Belfast, the I.R.A.'s publicity bureau James Prior, when he recommended issued a statement on the killing ... saying looking for a comeback. that people who whipped up anti-LR.A. sen that all remain calm following the The proving victory came the next timent "cannot expect to be immune for Bradford murder, was an entirely day as the San Francisco 49ers swept ever." human reaction. There is wide general past the Steelers 17-14. It was the first The statement was hardly out of dissatisfaction with the manner in time since 1971 that an NFC team won character for an organization which which successive British Governments a game in Pittsburgh. The 49ers left arrogates to itself the power of life have failed to end the terrorism. No the stadium with a 7-2 record, six and death over the people of all Ire people can be expected to remain calm straight wins and a two-game lead in land. This is, after all, an organization and idle under the circumstances. the National Conference West. so fond of maiming that its own mem It is time, I believe, that emotion This was a very satisfying win for bers are disciplined by blowing away give way to sense. The majority popu the DeBartolo family and their friends their kneecaps to cripple them for life. lation of Ulster has rights too. They because it came in their own backyard The notion that any people, of any have taken huge casualties, including against the area's prized and feared persuasion, would voluntarily subject the murder of thousands of people in Steelers. themselves to the governance of ter no way engaged in political games. As one of the few San Franciscans in rorists is simply absurd. The population of the Republic does the stand that day, I could feel the But examine the above account once not hunger to incorporate a hostile mi local and familial pride that for a brief more. A publicity bureau in Belfast? moment allowed a franchise switch Imagine, if you will, the American nority into its own political body. And where the San Francisco 49ers became people being required to tolerate the above all, the present Communist-di the Youngstown 49ers. As one of San existence of a publicity bureau for an rected Irish Republican Army does not Francisco's Congressmen and one of organization which assassinates Mem really care what anyone in Ireland the handful of people who saw the bers of Congress. wants. It is a terrorist organization 49ers first game in 1946, I even felt This sort of thing explains the grow which would like to govern a typical like a Youngstowner. ing cold fury of mster against the "people's republic" of the Soviet The 49ers team is owned by Edward British rule which requires toleration model.e J. DeBartolo, Jr., a person I am proud of this and much more. It requires tol to call my friend. He has diligently eration of a sieve-like border where maneuvered management since 1977 farmers must go about their chores when he took control of the team's op protected by shotgun-carrying women eration as owner, president, and chief folk-and the womenfolk must protect executive officer. In 1979 he hired Bill themselves from journalistic identifi- Walsh, one of the finest football 28802 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 22, 1981 minds as well as a great human being, and statewide girls' track competition Common law provides, in general, as head coach. The combination repre was born. that an employee may be terminated sents a turnabout, and today the 49ers A few years later, Coach Rafter de at the will of his employer. Congress are considered "the hottest team in cided it was time to topple another has, however, restricted the right of pro football." barrier in women's sports-cross coun an employer to discriminate on the I am please4 to be joined in these try. Everyone who has run cross coun grounds of race, religion, sex and so comments by our colleague LYLE WIL try knows that cross-country competi forth. LIAMs.e tion is no picnic and requires a runner We have not adequately protected to complete a long distance race over a the right of an individual to petition hilly, rugged course. I know the chal the Government for the redress of TRIBUTE TO JACK RAFTER lenge of cross-country competition grievances-a right enshrined in the personally, Mr. Speaker, having let first amendment. The fact that we HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH tered 4 years straight at St. Mary's have not protected this right has led OF NEW JERSEY High School in Perth Amboy, N.J. to instances where firms have, in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Indeed it is tough. It is physically de words of Business Week, engaged in Sunday, November 22, 1981 manding. It teaches one the rewards "browbeating employees into lobby of training and discipline. It strength ists," and, as the Wall Street Journal e Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. ens the body and sharpens the will. So put it, opened themselves to charges Speaker, I rise this afternoon to honor there were many back in 1966 who of coercion with respect to solicita my good friend Jack Rafter for his re thought Coach Rafter's idea of a girls' tions for Political Action Committee markable work and contribution to cross-country team was preposterous. contributions. high school girls' athletics over the But again, he stuck to his guns and I don't believe that my colleagues last two decades. proved them wrong. He stuck by his welcome any political contributions An outstanding track coach who can girls and they proved him right. The that have been coerced by an employ boast of nearly 300 victories at Red female dalers showed themselves to be er of by a PAC, nor receive a letter Bank Catholic High School in Red every bit as determined, able, fit, and that has been written against the will Bank, Coach Rafter was New Jersey's competitive as the boys. Girls' cross of the correspondent. We need to take pioneer-literally the man who made country in New Jersey then took off it all happen-in girls' track and cross action to protect the political process like a rocket. and the freedom of conscience of our country. Mr. Speaker, the rest is history. One Mr. Speaker, like all great men, constituents. man's dream, one man's vision, one The bill I am introducing today Coach Rafter saw things that were not man's determination, has blossomed and said "why not." He saw high amends title VII of the Civil Rights into one of the most respected state Act of 1964 by including "political school girls, blessed with abundant wide girls' track programs in the coun energy, strength, ability, agility, en preference" as an additional factor de try. Right now, over 290 New Jersey fining what employment discrimina durance, and pride, relegated to the high schools have girls' track teams. sidelines to just watch the boys play. tion would be illegal. The current pro Thousands of New Jersey girls have, cedures and protections for employer Twenty years ago, you might recall, are, or will participate in track or cross girls were excluded from participation and employee, now part of title VII, country. And they have one coach to would be continued, and the "bona in most sports. Many assumed that thank, Jack Rafter, a guy who is my girls were just not competitors. Or fide occupational qualification" escape candidate for Coach of Two Decades. hatch would still exist for individuals that they were too fragile. Or that I am pleased to inform my col they lack interest. Or that they would whose job includes the duty to com leagues that Coach Rafter's tremen municate with legislators. get hurt. Or that the rigors of athletic dous contribution to the world of competition were unladylike. Almost The time has come for Congress to sports has not gone unnoticed by his assert itself, making it clear that there alone in the crowd stood Coach peers. On December 7, he will be hon Rafter, who dared to disagree. "I be should be no discrimination against ored at the New Jersey State Inter any person because of writing, or de lieve girls can do it," he would often scholastic Athletic Association dinner, say. "And I am going to devote a great clining to write to an elected official, to be held at the Pines Manor in nor for making or failing to make a po deal of my time and effort to prove Edison.e that they can-to give them their litical contribution. shot." Mr. Speaker, I am inserting at this So against all the odds, Coach PROTECTING THE POLITICAL point in the RECORD a copy of my bill, Rafter set out to convince a skeptical RIGHTS OF WORKERS H.R. 5098, a Business Week article world. dated March 10, 1980, and an analysis Coach Rafter began by organizing a HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, of the political rights of workers by girls' track team at Red Bank Catho OF NEW YORK the Congressional Research Service. I lic. To everyone's surprise, except the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES invite my colleagues to join me in co coach, the response was overwhelm sponsoring this legislation. ing. The girls came out to run, to have Sunday, November 22, 1981 H.R. 5098 a good time and to win. It was not long e Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, it may A BILL to amend title VII of the Civil before the cynics acknowledged the surprise some of my colleagues to Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit employ success of Coach Rafter's program. know that there are serious legal im ment discrimination on the basis of politi Anxious to pit his harriers against pediments to an individual's freedom cal preference. some competition, Coach Rafter soon to contact his Congressman or to con Be it enacted by the Senate and House of discovered that none was to be tribute to his-or his opponent's-cam Representatives of the United States of found-anywhere. So he organized the paign or to decline to take such ac America in Congress assembled, That sec first invitation girls track meet in the tions. In my view, these are decisions tion 701 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 <42 State of New Jersey appropriately that should be solely matters of indi U.S.C. 2000e> is amended by adding at the called "A Sadie Hawkins Day Race." vidual choice, and we should take end thereof the following: "(1)(1) The term .'political preference', as He contacted every high school in steps to make certain that the political used with respect to an individual, means a the State. He encouraged them to or process, is not subverted by inappro political preference of such individual, as ganize a girls' track team. He pleaded priate pressures on workers to partici expressed- his cause with passion and conviction. pate, or to refrain from participating, "(A) by making, or declining to make, a Seven schools sent squads to the meet in politics. contribution of anything of value the term 'candidate' shall have the In Congress, Representative Frank 1978 and had written a letter supporting meaning given such term by section 60l Thompson Jr. the term 'political committee' shall jurisdiction over supervisory employees-ad my cool," he says. "I didn't agree with the have the meaning given such term by sec mittedly only a first step toward their pro company's position, which I thought was tion 301<4) of the Federal Election Cam tection against political arm-twisting. Super very self-serving." Instead, he offered to paign Act of 1971; and visory employees would still have to form write a letter at home and mail it privately. "(C) the term 'legislation' means any bill, unions and file grievances under NLRB-pro The result, he says, was a visit from his resolution, amendment, nomination, or tected union contracts providing for arbitra supervisor, who told him that everyone had other matter pending or proposed in, or tion, or possibly win an NLRB hearing by to write a letter on the premises. "He said, which may otherwise be the subject of approaching the board as a unit to protest 'Go up and write something. Nobody's ever action by, either House of Congress, or a such action as a mass firing for refusing to refused to do it,' " the employee says. legislative body of a State or of a political write letters. Moreover, a similar bill intro At that point the technician turned to his subdivision of a State.". duced by Thompson in the 1974-75 session local chapter of the American Civil Liberties SEC. 2. (a) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act died in committee. Union, only to be told that the company of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e and following) is But the Thompson bill-and other bills on was within its rights in using him as a lob amended- employees rights currently being considered byist. The Constitution protects an Ameri (1) by inserting "political preference," by potential sponsors-may have better luck can from political pressures by the govern after "sex," each place it appears in sections this time, in part because Congress has ment but is silent on the subject of employ 703(a), 703(b), 703(c), 703(d), 703(e), 703, become aware of the quantum increase in er pressures, the ACLU said. 704(b), and 706(g); its company-inspired mail. There is no ques Specific laws restrain companies from <2> by inserting ", political preference," tion, says a congressional aide, that more acting freely in specific areas-for instance, after "religion, sex" in section 703(h); and companies "have realized that their employ the Equal Employment Opportunity Act (3) by inserting in section 703(j)- ees represent electoral power." and the Occupational Safety & Health "political preference," after "sex," the Operating on that realization, Fluor Act-but in areas that are left uncovered by first place it appears; Corp., of Irvine, Calif., urged its 20,000 em law, "the power of a large corporation over "(or the total number or percentage of ployees to write to their congressmen in the worker is fairly unlimited," confirms Ira persons having any particular political pref support of arms sales to Saudi Arabia in Glasser, the ACLU's executive director. This erence)" after "national origin" the second 1978. Fluor holds multimillion-dollar con is particularly true if he does not belong to place it appears; and tracts to design and construct oil refineries a union, Glasser says. (C) "(or the total number or percentage of and other projects in Saudi Arabia. Rock PROTECTION persons having such a political preference)" well International Corp., of Pittsburgh, pro after "national origin" the third place it ap vided preprinted postcards to its headquar Almost all union contracts specify that pears. ters employees so that they could petition firings must be for just cause and provide (b) The section heading for section 703 of Congress in support of the B-1 bomber in grievance procedures culminating in arbitra the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 1977. Rockwell was the primary bidder for tion; an arbitrator is unlikely to find that 2000e-2) is amended by inserting "Political production of the B-1, a program whose refusing to write to a congressman is just Preference," after "Sex,". lowest estimate was $10 billion. For most of cause for dismissal. And if the union, sym SEC. 3. The amendments made by this Act the last year, the major oil companies have pathetic to the company, drags its feet on shall apply with respect to employment used company newsletters, pep talks over processing the grievance, the member can practices occurring after the 180th day fol plant intercoms, and fliers posted on depart sue it under the Landrum-Griffin Act for lowing the date of the enactment of this ment bulletin boards to persuade employees failing to represent him. But in the absence Act. to send lawmakers the message that pro of union or legislative protection, Glasser posed taxes on "windfall profits" would un says, employees must weigh the economic BROWBEATING EMPLOYEES INTO LoBBYISTS justly hurt the companies. consequences of refusing to act on the com pany's behalf. These economic consider A truism of political life is that mail LABOR'S EFFORTS moves politicians. But how does a legislator ations are "more effective political inhibi respond to 500 preprinted postcards · from Unions, too, have pitched in on occasion. tors than even the fear of arrest," he says. the employees of XYZ Corp. or to 200 let Last year the Federation of Grain Millers In the Cyclops case, the technician finally urged its 3,000 members in Battle Creek, wrote the letter. The experience left him ters written on company stationery? Mich., to write letters objecting to an anti The question is far from academic to the shaken. "I felt my constitutional right to growing number of corporations that use monopoly suit brought against the cereal in privacy had been violated," he says. "I their employees as political lobbyists. In in dustry by the Federal Trade Commission. wanted to refuse, but I didn't because I am dustries ranging from oil to aerospace, More recently, the United Auto Workers or the main support of my family." workers have been urged-and sometimes ganized a campaign to support a bid by Cyclops' Delano denies that the specialty Chrysler Corp. for federal loan guarantees. steel campaign was coercive. "We were cer marshaled into boardrooms, offices, and Senator Levin reports that he received some cafeterias-to write to their elected repre tainly very anxious that our employees sentatives, recommending action that the 7,000 letters clearly stemming from that write, so a strong 'effort was made," he says. campaign. But Delano stresses that nobody was forced. company wants. One senator, Carl Levin rotec ground of a man who might easily be me to study the question and vote accord tions to those engaged in union activities, mistaken for a German elder states ingly." and many union contracts provide addition man by now, having been assured of a Other congressmen, often with less secure al protection seat in the Bundestag from 1949 political bases, feel that even coordinated to covered employees. letter-writing has some value. When week However, there are still some gaps in cov onward. end vehicle gas restrictions were proposed erage. For example, there appears to be Herbert Wehner, now 75 years old, last year, first-term Representative Howard nothing in Federal or State law 2 to prohibit has been described as the "grey emi E. Wolpe CD-Mich.) received two dozen iden an employer from forcing an employee to nence" of the Social Democratic Party tical letters on company stationery from write, or refrain from writing, a letter to a specifi Communist and turncoat, and refer he gives two points for sending anything, cally prohibit election coercion by an em ence to this background in the mass but 10 for a personal letter," he says. ployer. 3 However, contacting a Member of media of Germany today is about as Company-inspired employee lobbying can Congress, or refusing to do so, does not likely as reference in our own mass also generate undesirable side effects. When strictly speaking come within the realm of media of the close and helpful rela Fluor Chairman J. Robert Fluor wrote to an election. . Other than through that pro His "political-economic and industrial From American Law Division. cedure, these are not readily available for research economic studies" were pursued by ab Subject: Protecting Employees' Right of Po purposes. 2 sorbing revolutionary propaganda; in litical Expression. Standard reference works, the Scorpio computer Attention: Hillel Weinberg. citation file, the Chamber of Commerce of the 1925 he joined the Syndicalist Work United States, and the National Council of State ers' Federation and embarked upon At common law, an employee could be dis Governments were consulted on this point, without missed for any reason, with or without finding any such enactments. his career as "journalist" by working cause, at the whim of his or her employer. 3 See Senate Election Law Guidebook 1980, S. on syndicalist and anarchist publica Now, however, the Federal Equal Employ- Doc. 96-45 <1980), pp. 304-305. tions. By 1927, Herbert Wehner had November 22, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28805 "graduated" to the Communist Party training, he was dispatched to Sweden For the next decade, Wehner and proper
