2358 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS LEGISLATION INTRODUCED TO It is important to note that the than one year after the date of enactment STUDY FEASIBILITY OF RAIL right-of-way down the median strip of of this section."·• TRANSIT LINK TO DULLES the Dulles Access Highway has been INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT reserved by the FAA for possible future use for a mass transit rail system. Also, the road was graded with H.R. 1176 HON. FRANK R. WOLF this prospect in mind, and enough OF VIRGINIA space was provided under the over HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO passes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA Wednesday, February 8, 1984 The legislation will call upon DOT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to review various rail systems. Each •Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, today I am Wednesday, February 8, 1984 introducing legislation to direct the must be examined for capital and Secretary of Transportation to study operational costs, efficiency, conven e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, the feasibility of constructing a rapid ience, capacity, and demand. One ex today I am introducing legislation to rail transit line between the Metrorail ample of a system with a potential for repeal the sunset date on the mort station terminal in West Falls Church success in this area is light rail transit gage revenue bond program. and Dulles International Airport. My . Such a system is in use in San As you know, Congress failed to Virginia colleague, Senator PAUL Diego, where the LRT was completed extend this essential program last year TRIBLE, is introducing a companion on time and under budget, with 75 per in spite of overwhelming congressional measure in the U.S. Senate and Con cent of its operating costs recovered at support for mortgage revenue bonds. gressman STAN PARRIS and Senator the farebox. The legislation to repeal the Decem JOHN WARNER are joining us in our ef Throughout the past decade, Con ber 31, 1983 sunset date, H.R. 1176, forts. gress has considered several bills call garnered the support of 334 House The study will examine various rail ing for extension of the Washington Members. However, the bill was not modes, including but not limited to Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's considered on its own merits but was, heavy rail, light rail, monorail and Metrorail system to Dulles. While unfortunately, included in H.R. 4170, magnetic levitation systems. some of those bills have been approved the Tax Reform Act, which failed to by one House of the Congress, none receive a rule in the House due to con I believe that this legislation is an has passed both the House and troversial provisions unrelated to the important step in laying the ground Senate. Numerous studies of extend mortgage revenue bond program. work to accommodate increased ing Metrorail or establishing alternate Mr. Speaker, it is critical that Con demand for adequate and responsive gress address the extension of this ground transportation to and from rail modes to Dulles also have been conducted by several different groups, vital program immediately. As we all Dulles Airport-the Washington met well know, affordability is the major ropolitan area's airport of the future. including WMATA, highlighting the interest and support for some type of obstacle to the dream of homeowner Many recent developments have fo rail service to the airport. ship for millions of Americans. For ex cused Federal commitment on encour ample, in my home State of California, aging use of Dulles. The 1981 Metro I believe it is time to update past ef you must earn at least $31,000 to pur politan Washington Airports Policy forts and look to the future with one chase an average-priced home. Only 25 set limits on growth at National Air study that can then be the basis for percent of Californians earn that port. Refinements of the policy are action to make rapid rail to Dulles a amount. Thanks to mortgage revenue now being considered and will likely reality if proved feasible. I look for bonds, many Californians with in speed the transfer of future growth to ward to working with my colleagues to comes below $31,000 have been able to Dulles. The master plan for Dulles is speed passage of this legislation. finance homes. In fact, in 1982 the currently being updated and is expect The introduced legislation follows: median income of State mortgage rev ed to include plans for expanding the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of enue bond program beneficiaries was airport's facilities to accommodate the Representatives of the United States of $23,511, and approximately 200,000 of anticipated growth. Even today we are America in Congress assembled, That the these middle-income earners were able witnessing significant growth at National Capital Transportation Act of 1969 to purchase a home because of single Dulles. New airline service has been is amended by adding at the end thereof the family mortgage revenue bonds. added and passenger use of Dulles is following new section: In addition to increasing the afford increasing on an average of 16 percent "STUDY OF RAPID TRANSIT LINE TO DULLES ability of homes, mortgage revenue monthly. AIRPORT bonds also provide jobs-nearly These developments, coupled with "SEc. 17. The Secretary of Transporta 100,000 in 1983-and taxes to Federal, the fact that 80 percent of the region's tion shall study the feasibility of construct State and local governments-approxi growth is occurring outside the belt ing a rail rapid transit line between the mately $800 million in 1983-generat way in the Dulles corridor, underscore West Falls Church, Virginia, station of the ed by the construction of new housing the need to begin planning now for a Washington, D.C. metrorail system and units. The minimal revenue loss to the rail line to accommodate passenger Dulles International Airport in Virginia. Federal Government as a result of the The study shall include, but need not be growth and accessibility at Dulles. We limited to, a study of the feasibility of heavy tax-exempt status of the bonds is, I be have unique opportunity also in this rail, light rail, monorail, and magnetic levi lieve, a small price to pay for the nu study to examine whether such a rail tation systems. The Secretary shall study merous benefits reaped by millions of system could also help alleviate the the feasibility of each such system with and Americans through the single family growing traffic problems in western without intermediate stops. mortgage revenue bond program. Now Fairfax Country, Va., by providing "(b) The Secretary shall complete the that economic recovery is well under commuter stops at several locations study required by subsection and trans way and unemployment is nearly along the route. mit the results thereof to Congress not later under control, we must not stifle fur-
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2359 ther economic growth in our Nation again shown that private sector initia BICENTENNIAL OF TREATIES OF by failing to extend this important tives can work and should be encour PARIS AND VERSAILLES program. aged. I encourage all of my colleagues to I commend Zoe Laurence for a job HON. DON SUNDQUIST join me in supporting and urging con well done. Her dedication and sense of gressional action on legislation to civic duty in volunteering to organize OF TENNESSEE repeal the sunset date on the single such a large-scale project for no mone IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES family mortgage revenue bond pro Wednesday, February 8, 1984 gram.e tary gain are rare. I thank Zoe Lau rence and I am sure the parents of e Mr. SUNDQUIST. Mr. Speaker, last Houston thank Zoe Laurence. If her fall more than 200 members of the HOUSTON MISSING CHILDREN efforts help even one missing child, Daughters of the American Revolu PROGRAM A GREAT SUCCESS they will have been worthwhile.• tion and several other distinguished Americans including Senator JOHN HON. JACK FIELDS WARNER, Mrs. Charles Robb and Mrs. OF TEXAS NATIONAL CREDIT UNION AD Douglass MacArthur made an historic MINISTRATION REDUCES FEES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES trip to Paris to participate in the com memoration of the bicentennial of the Wednesday, February 8, 1984 signing of the Treaties of Paris and •Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, the na HON. CHALMERS P. WYLIE Versailles. Also attending the events tional incidence of missing children is OF OHIO was Mrs. Walter Hughey King, presi a stunning and frightening problem. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dent general of the National Society Each year some 1.5 to 1.8 million chil Daughters of the American Revolu dren are missing from their homes. Wednesday, February 8, 1984 tion. Although the bicentennial year Approximately 50,000 of those missing •Mr. WYLIE. Mr. Speaker, I am has passed, I felt that my colleagues children are the victims of serious ac pleased to note that the National might still benefit from the important cidents or foul play. Credit Union Administration has historical background and timely com Responding to the tragedy of miss slashed by 30 percent the operating ments in portions of this speech Mrs. ing children, Congress passed the fees it will require in 1984 from Feder King delivered on this grand occasion Missing Children Act in September of al credit unions. This brings to 40 per last year at the American Church in 1982. The act was designed to encour cent the total fee reductions credit Paris. age the Federal Bureau of Investiga unions have received from NCUA over The speech follows: tion to utilize specific information the past 2 years. TREATIES OF PARIS AND VERSAILLES such as fingerprints, blood types and Thanks to streamlined operations, We feel this Treaty of Paris was, and is, so other identifying characteristics which NCUA will need less to finance its ac important to the United States, and hence are essential in the identification of tivities next year. As a result, $6 mil worthy of this splendid outflow of emotion, missing children. pageanty, international attention and good lion, which NCUA would have collect will, plus the time and effort of countless Enlarging the FBI Crime Informa ed under the old fee plan, will not be tion Center's vital statistics file is only citizens of several Nations. half the battle. Parents must possess needed by the agency and will remain Historians properly describe it as the 3rd in credit unions. The 1983 and 1984 fee most important paper of American history, their children's fingerprints and other the other two being the Declaration of Inde vital statistics to benefit from that cuts are the first since NCUA began an operating-fee method of assessment 5 pendence, and the Constitution itself. With change. out the Treaty of Paris, one could say that As a part of the President's private years ago. Previously, fees had risen the Declaration of Independence was only a sector initiative, the Federal ACTION every year-9 percent in 1980, 8 per piece of "Campaign rhetoric" that never Agency initiated six private sector cent in 1981, and 7.5 percent in 1982. became reality, and without the Treaty the pilot projects to lay the groundwork Continued cost-cutting efforts at Constitution would not have been written at for a nationwide missing children pro NCUA, coupled with a projection for all. Thus you see its claim to big 3 status is indeed well founded. gram push. Houston was selected as robust <20.5 percent) asset growth in The 1783 Treaty of Paris provided a solu one of those pilot projects. Zoe Lau 1983, increased earnings on NCUA in tion and a final answer to the questions of rence, the current director of commu vestments, and a high level of produc American political independence and terri nity education for the Sheldon Inde tivity by NCUA staff are key elements torial integrity. It is not only the first and pendent School District, was selected that made a second consecutive oper most important treaty of the United States to serve as the coordinator for the ating-fee cut possible. ever signed, but it is probably the most suc Houston missing children program. The impact of the 30-percent cut cessful and permanent treaty any nation Zoe organized what I believe will ever signed. Dozens of other treaties have will be substantial. To illustrate, the been solemnly signed in Paris by many na become a model program across the House credit union, Wright Patman tions. Most of those other treaties have Nation to provide parents with records Congressional Federal Credit Union, been cosigned to the dustbins of history, of their children's fingerprints and would have paid an estimated 1984 op and even their empires have passed away. other identifying characterics. With erating fee of approximately $10,845 But this Treaty of Paris has remained the assistance of Houston area law en based on midyear assets of $35.9 mil intact, in force, relevant, and permanent. forcement agencies, various CIVIC This Treaty's two-century lifespan perpet groups and the financial support of lion. With the 30-percent cut, our uates not only its no-compromise, hardline credit union will pay an estimated Tennaco, Exxon, and Brown & Root provisions, but the friendship of the warring Corps., the Houston missing children $7,623, a reduction of $3,222. The 1984 nations that signed it. program fingerprinted over 15,000 fee will be based on assets at yearend. In 1780-83, America was fortunate to have Mr. Speaker, my congratulations to men who were equal to their mighty mis Houston children. In addition, Zoe sion. Their task was to persuade England to provided information, materials and the National Credit Union Administra accept our independence, to recognize our technical assistance to establish ongo tion and its Chairman, Edgar F. Calla Thirteen Colonies as a sovereign nation, and ing fingerprinting programs in Hous han, for a job well done in reducing to accede to our mastery over a mass of ter ton area schools and libraries. this burden for our Nation's Federal ritory twice as large as the Thirteen Colo Under the capable leadership of Zoe credit unions.e nies themselves, and to make sure that those who died to make America a free and Laurence, the Houston missing chil independent nation did not die in Vain. dren pilot program was a great suc The Founding Fathers in Paris on behalf cess. I believe this program has once of American goals, John Adams, Benjamin 2360 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 Franklin, and John Jay, were elected by can generally be directed at Syria, "a Zionist-American hegemonistic plan Congress to serve as Peace Commissioners. which has 50,000 troops in Lebanon, worse than the Camp David accords." In 1783, Franklin was 77 years old, and for a occupies more than half the country, The Arizona Republic recently carried a time in 1782, he was the sole negotiator; he frontpage story headlined "Syria, Israel OK was famous for getting along well with and has strong back-up forces behind Plan to Separate Lebanese Factions." How French; his friendship with Foreign Minis its own lines which include Soviet ever, the basis of the Israeli-Syrian agree ter Vergennes was legendary. troops and the latest in Soviet tech ment is to establish disengagement zones in In devising the strategy for victory-with nology and weaponry. the battered southern suburbs of the capital out-compromise, Franklin listed four "nec Syria has also been behind much of and in the nearby Shouf Mountains with essary" points, as well as four "advisable" the terror and assassination in the the eventual help of 800 observers from ones, which could also be described as "talk region. It provided refuge and exper Italy and Greece. ing points" or "throwaways." Franklin even tise to the Iranian extremist group Lebanese officials stressed that the plan is proposed that the British cede Canada to not seen as a basis for any reduction in the us. However, the American Commissioners which claimed responsibility for kill multinational force but that this might considered their "necessary" goals as non ing 241 U.S. Marine peacekeepers in come later at their request. They said, in negotiable, and every one was included in Beirut, and also maintains ties with fact, that President Amin Gemayel will seek the Definitive Treaty of Peace. the Palestine Liberation Organization assurances from the United States, France, England recognized the United States as and other terrorist groups. Italy and Britain that they will keep their "free, sovereign and independent states,"; The possible demise of the Gemeyal forces in Lebanon as an expression of faith the King relinquished forever all claims to government, the redeployment of our in the plan. American property. The treaty ordained "A troops offshore, and the more active "The Syrians were very positive," one offi firm and perpetual Peace" between England cial close to the negotiations said. and the United States. involvement of U.S. naval and air fire The following is from the Jan. 16 News The Treaty established truly generous power in the region, have marked a week: "The latest best hope to calm the vio boundaries for the new nation: Canada on change in direction for the United lence lies with an initiative drafted by the north, the middle of the Mississippi States, Lebanon, and Syria. One thing Donald Rumsfeld, Reagan's Mideast trou River on the west, and Florida on the south. is for certain, the United States and its ble-shooter.... This territory gave us more than 500 million allies must not relinquish to Syria and "The plan's design is relatively modest. It new acres of lands, and about double the its Soviet patron any greater or more acknowledges that, for the prese t, Israeli size of the Thirteen Colonies which had threatening role in the Middle East and Syrian occupiers will remain in Leba fought the Revolution. non. It aims merely to extend the Lebanese The treaty established the right of Ameri than they have already achieved. army's authority outward from Beirut into cans to fish off of Newfoundland and Nova Mr. Speaker, I would like to share parts of the country now carved into the Scotia; it agreed that creditors on either with my colleagues an insightful arti turf of warring Lebanese factions. side should not be interfered with in the re cle published in the Arizona Republic "The plan implicitly recognizes Syria's oc covery of all bona fide debts; prohibited last Sunday, which addresses the prob cupation of eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Balley future confiscations; required the cessation lem and offers some ideas to check the at a time when Assad's· Israeli enemies to of all hostilities, the speedy withdrawal of expanionist policies of Syrian Presi the south, racked by the enormous econom all British troops, and the release of all pris dent Hafez Assad in the Middle East. ic and human costs of their occupation, are oners; and agreed that the Mississippi River considering a near-total, unilateral with would always remain free and open to both Mr. Darrow Tully, the author of this drawal from Lebanon. The Syrians calculate England and the United States. piece, is also the publisher of this that a pullout of U.S. Marines and other Truly, the terms were a magnificant ac daily newspaper, which is the largest multinational peacekeepers might eventual complishment for our peacemakers. Yet in the State of Arizona. He originally ly fuel the Lebanese civil war to greater in their vision continued; they stated their presented these ideas in a speech tensity-but they are banking on their own belief that if America were to fulfill its goal before the Jewish Federation of forces to stabilize the country much as they of becoming a great new nation, it would Greater Phoenix. have in the past.... have to begin by acting like one, even when The article fallows: "No Western leader would pick Syria for a it was new, small, and weak. Their words negotiating partner by choice. Assad's have meaning and advice for us even today; [From the Arizona Republic, Feb. 5, 1984.J ruling clique has shown itself to be both fa they stated: HOLDING ASSAD IN CHECK: JORDAN MAY BE natical and profoundly cruel. And it relies "Since we have assumed a place in the po KEY TO CURBING SYRIA'S EXPANSIONIST more heavily than ever on Soviet arms. But, litical system, let us move like a primary AMBITIONS along with Israel, Syria exercises the only and not a secondary planet." How right real power in the region. It has a clear aim: they were! And today I wish we'd stop being As Time magazine pointed out in the Dec. state like Syria, it prefers persuasion to formed a confederation to revolt against ex 19, 1983 issue: threats of withholding funds-not unlike ternal authority. It may be that the Israeli "The two countries share more than a mil America's attitude toward Israel. Its increas settlements on the West Bank may be in a lenium of history ... Both Lebanon and ingly active diplomacy has been apprehen position to form such an alliance. The Arab Syria achieved independence in the 1940s sive over Syria's close involvement with the villages and towns could at least consider but cultural and family ties still bind their Soviet Union but has attempted to deal with the same idea. It is not a perfect solution, populations, the Sunnis and the Druse ..." Syria on a case-by-case basis, not as an ad but it might provide relief from martial law American Marines were originally dis versary.... " and supply King Hussein the face-saving patched to Lebanon to give protection to Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia device he desires to get the Jordanians to the evacuation of PLO forces and bolster has given Syria an estimated $6 billion over the table without totally alienating the rest the potential for Lebanese unity under the the past five years. This dramatic shift of of the Arab world. Gamayel government. power to Syria has made a Jordanian peace A recent wire service story stated: "In a But as the winter 1983-1984 issue of For initiative more difficult. King Hussein has move that could lead to a breakthrough in eign .Affairs points out: taken steps toward improving relations with Middle east peace negotiations, Jordan's "America has slid incrementally into a both Syria and Moscow. parliament approved constitutional amend most awkward predicament. The more it be On the positive side, Hussein has ments that permit the election of represent comes identified with the Phalange and acknowledged that if the PLO comes com atives for the occupied West Bank. takes military action against the Druze and pletely under Syrian control, he would no "Meeting for the first time in nearly a Shi'ites, the more it becomes a partisan and longer feel obligated to abide by the 1974 decade, the upper and lower houses voted the more Assad's leadership is strengthened. Rabat summit resolution which declared unanimously to amend the constitution to The more America views the Lebanese con the PLO the sole legitimate representative allow election of a new parliament with flict and Syria's position there in a primari of the Palestinian people. Although Hussein West Bank representation. ly East-West context, the more Assad and is in no position to negotiate for the Pales "Western diplomats said the move could his Lebanese allies need a close relationship tinians, I personally believe West Bank foreshadow an attempt by King Hussein to with Moscow, thus making America's con Arabs would welcome him as their negotia represent the West Bank's 1 million Pales ception a self-fulfilling prophecy. tor, if they are convinced Arafat is a goner. tinians in a new peace initiative-with or "In U.S. government circles, some argue Foreign .Affairs suggests: without the badly divided Palestine Libera for greater American-Israeli coordination in "Another approach could be the long-ru tion Organization.... " order to achieve a balance of power with mored Jordanian return to a parliamentary It is imperative for long-term peace pros Damascus and Moscow. As of mid-November form of government, in which West Bank pects that at least one other Arab nation 1983, it appears that the United States has Palestinians would obtain sizable represen sign a peace treaty with Israel. Jordan moved down this road at least to a limited tation. Both these alternatives would re seems the most logical candidate. Syria's extent, seeking to strengthen the Israeli po quire Israeli acquiescence, of which there is power would be measurably weakened and sition and role with the sweetening of signif no evidence . . ." some accommodation might be worked out icant new forms of U.S. aid. If this view pre El Hassan Bin Talal, crown prince of on Lebanon's future. vails, the result would most likely be the Jordan, has said: "We believe it is in Ameri After the signing of the Camp David ac very opposite of what its proponents desire. ca's best interest, as we know it is in ours, to cords, the rest of the Arab world solemnly Temporarily and militarily, the Syrians and move toward a settlement. . . . cast Egypt into outer darkness, in effect de their Soviet backers may become more cau "Over the past few years, the United claring it, like Israel, a non-nation. tious. But politically, they would gain not States, Israel and frankly, many Arab coun That was five years ago. Today, Egypt is only in Lebanon but throughout the Middle tries, have tended to overlook or take for emerging from the shadows. East, as even moderate Arab states would granted our country. Yet, Jordan is critical All this has brought a glim.mer of life back feel obliged to move closer to Syria, because to a settlement, to our settlement, of the to Reagan's plan for peace in the Middle their internal stability would be undercut if Middle East problem." East. they appear ready to cooperate with a per The inescapable fact is that with the Assad may very well find himself in the ceived U.S.-Israeli combination. demise of the PLO, the Jordanians are, for position of a modern Saladin. However, the "Consequently it has to be accepted that, all intents and purposes, now one people. Russian bear will want to manipulate the for the foreseeable future, Assad will Virtually all Palestinians now residing in empire more than Assad himself. History in remain a dominant force in Lebanon.... " Jordan have taken up Jordanian citizenship. the Middle East has a way of repeating Some Israelis feel the northern border Residents of the West Bank cannot and itself.• might be safer if Syria dominated. They should not be looked upon as enemy aliens point out Syria has scrupulously observed because of the technicality of a state of war. the armistice on its own borders and by firm Crown Prince Talal points out that Jordan SISTER CELESTE BONINA OF ST. control over the PLO has demonstrated its pays the salaries and pensions of West Bank LUCY'S CHURCH HONORED ability to dominate the area bordering officials and bears development costs of Israel. some of the territory. There is a growing minority which feels it The U.S. and Israel certainly don't agree HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. would be better strategy to cut a deal with a about the ultimate autonomy of the area, OF NEW JERSEY strong Syria than a weak Jordan. with the U.S. asserting the Palestinians IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES There is no such thing as a cheap war or a should have full autonomy "giving the in cheap occupation. Israel has suffered tre habitants real authority over themselves, Wednesday, February 8, 1984 mendously as a result of its disproportion the land and its resources subject to fair e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, last De ate but necessary commitment of national safeguards on water." The Israeli position is cember I had the honor of attending a resources to national defense. " ... autonomy does not concern territory solemn mass of thanksgiving com However, Syria is feeling the pinch, also. but inhabitants." memorating the 50th anniversary of According to Time: Ruth Lapidoth, David Ben-Gurion visiting "Plummeting oil revenues and bad har professor of law at the University of South the religious reception of Sister Ce vests have drained foreign reserves. Accord ern California, articulates the schism as fol leste Bonina of St. Lucy's Church in ing to an international monetary fund lows: Newark. report, Syria's total reserves I submit for the record just one, that OF FLORIDA A PROCLAMATION which appeared in the San Jose Mer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 8, 1984, marks the one hundredth an niversary of the birth of Harry S. Truman, cury on December 26, 1983. It contains Wednesday, February 8, 1984 the information we all need to consid the thirty-third President of the United e Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, I would States and one of this Nation's most re er when contemplating the proposed spected statesmen. joint venture. The editorial follows: like to bring to the attention of our colleagues an annual event celebrated First elected to the United States Senate [From the San Jose Mercury-News, Dec. 25, from Missouri in 1934, Mr. Truman gained 1983) by Finnish Americans across the coun national recognition during World War II, try commemorating St. Urho. Accord when his investigating committee saved the GET THE FREMONT LINE ROLLING ing to legend, St. Urho preserved the taxpayers large amounts of money by ex The Federal Trade Commission has all Finnish wine harvest when he drove posing waste and extravagance in the pro but approved the joint General Motors all the grasshoppers from Finland, curement process. In November 1944, the Toyota agreement to reopen the Fremont saving the grape crop. voters elected Mr. Truman Vice President. plant, but the one-vote decision is an open Every year, on March 16, Finnish He served only 83 days in that office and invitation to Chrysler and Ford to challenge succeeded to the Presidency in April 1945, the plan in court. Americans come together to honor the upon the death of President Roosevelt. We hope the invitation is refused. The re great feat of St. Urho. The de:;cend In his first months in office, President opened plant will provide jobs in East Bay ants of our Finnish immigrants have Truman guided the country through the and South Bay communities. More impor adopted St. Urho as the patron saint end of World War II and made the difficult tant, it could open a new era in U.S. auto of the Finnish people in commemora decisions that ushered in the nuclear age. In manufacturing, one that benefits consumers tion of his achievement. They cele the postwar years, he oversaw America's transition from a wartime to a peacetime and the U.S. economy alike. brate this event by dressing in royal economy and began an era of growth and It's difficult to understand what Chrysler purple and nile green, representative stability. In foreign affairs, President chairman Lee Iacocca meant when he said of wild grapes and grasshoppers. Ban Truman established the cornerstones of the that the pact would limit competition. How quets and parades are two of the f es policy of containment in dealing with the will 250,000 cars deflate competition in a tivities involved with the St. Urho communist threat to Europe. Through the market approaching 10 million sales a year? celebration. Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan he Another model should broaden consumers' The legend of St. Urho, which first stalwartly assisted free peoples in their ef choices and hold down prices. emerged more than a quarter of a cen forts to stem the tide of totalitarian subver Availability of small cars of the sort that sion. In applying the principles of collective will be built in Fremont is, in fact, down. It tury ago in Virginia, Minn., has security, President Truman assisted in the began to fall when Japanese auto makers evolved into an annual festival among formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Or shifted their exports to larger, more expen Finnish Americans. The legend has ganization to help European nations re sive models in order to protect their balance continued to spread and today St. spond to this threat. sheets under the self-imposed limits on ex Urho's Day is widely recognized. Many In 1948, Mr. Truman was elected to the ports. States, including Florida, have issued Presidency, battling from behind to over Should GM and Toyota desert the small proclamations officially declaring take Governor Thomas Dewey. President car market to their hybrid firm, Chrysler March 16 as St. Urho Day. Several Truman responded to the invasion of South and Ford can march in and capture a bigger Korea by utilizing United Nations as well as years ago the city of Menahga, Minn., American forces in dealing with that crisis. share on the strength of their established erected a statue in tribute to St. Urho. products. If GM and Toyota try to manipu Although confronted with a series of major challenges throughout his tenure, late the market or fix prices, the FI'C can What started out as a tale in 1956 has grown to be a proud holiday for President Truman responded with courage, enforce the provisions of the consent humanity, decisiveness, and a wit which decree. Finnish Americans in this country as they remember their heritage-a holi have secured his place in the Nation's histo lacocca hammers at the fact that the pact ry as one of our most respected Presidents. unites the world's largest and third largest day not only commemorating St. Now, therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, Presi auto manufacturers. It's a lame complaint. Urho, but the combined legacy of the dent of the United States of America, do Ford, second in U.S. sales in 1982, owns 25 United States and Finland.• hereby proclaim May 8, 1984 to be the "Cen percent of the ninth-ranked firm that tennial of the Birth of Harry S. Truman." I makes Mazdas. Sixth-ranking Renault, call upon the people of the United States to which is owned by the French government, CENTENNIAL OF THE BIRTH OF observe that day with appropriate ceremo holds 46 percent of American Motors. And HARRY S. TRUMAN nies and activities in remembrance of his GM, whose projected share of U.S.-sales has many accomplishments and dedication to actually fallen, has owned a third of Isuzu freedom and democracy. for years. HON. IKE SKELTON In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of January, in the Closer to home, Iacocca's 12th-ranked OF MISSOURI Chrysler owns 15 percent of 11th-ranked year of our Lord nineteen hundred and Mitsubishi Motors. Yet that doesn't seem to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES eighty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred have quashed competition between Chrys Wednesday, February 8, 1984 ler's Mitsubishi-made import and Mitsubi and eighth. shi's own logo. Moreover, there was talk in e Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, on RONALD REAGAN.e the auto industry earlier this year of Chrys January 25, President Reagan issued a ler and 5th-ranked Volkswagen jointly proclamation declaring May 8, 1984, to building cars in Pennsylvania. be the "Centennial of the Birth of THE HIGHER EDUCATION SAV The number that may have disturbed Ia Harry S. Truman." President Truman INGS INCENTIVE ACT OF 1984 cocca most were the the headlines-grabbing set high standards for all who fol sales report from the first 10 days of De lowed him into the Oval Office, and HON. JACK FIELDS cember. Sales of U.S.-made autos were up 21 his numerous accomplishments as percent over the same period a year before. OF TEXAS Ford captured 29 percent of the rise, GM President merit the many honors IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which are now being bestowed upon grabed 19 percent, and Chrysler got 6 per- Wednesday, February 8, 1984 cent. . him in this, the centennial year of his Iacocca is running on empty. It's time to birth. I would like to share the Presi • Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, concern drop the green flag on the Fremont line. dent's proclamation on the Truman for the education of our Nation's chil Gentlemen, start your engines.e centennial with my colleagues. dren has become an issue of growing EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 concern across the United States. And, is achieved by deeming any principal ment to the health and well-being of well it should be. The future of our used to pay qualified educational ex America's veterans. Mr. Speaker and Nation rests upon a well-educated citi penses as taxable income only to the fell ow Members of Congress, join with zenry, Not only does our ability to student beneficiary. The student bene me now in pledging support for re compete technologically in the world ficiary would be required to add 10 sponsible health care for our veterans. market depend upon excellent educa percent of the total principal expend PROCLAMATION tion, but our existence as a democratic ed for educational purposes to his tax Whereas, many thousands of veterans of Republic depends upon an educated able income for each of 10 succeeding America's armed forces have served this electorate. years. The student beneficiary may nation in times of both peace and war, and Unfortunately, the rising cost of elect to begin the tax repayment as in doing so have thereby assured the safety higher education over the past two early as age 25 or as late as age 30. and prosperity of all her people as this decades placed a tremendous economic Similar to provisions governing an nation enters its third century of independ ence: and burden upon our Nation's families. individual retirement account, there Whereas, more than a million veterans While the Federal Government re would be a 10-percent penalty for enter Veterans Administration medical fa sponded with ever-inc.reasing student early withdrawal of these educational cilities nationwide for medical attention an aid programs, recognition is wide funds. nually: and spread in Congress that middle- and Mr. Speaker, I believe both individ Whereas, the Veterans Administration, upper middle-income students have ual students and families are better for the eleventh consecutive year, has orga come to rely too heavily on student served by creating an environment fa nized a national day of tribute honoring all loans and assistance to finance their vorable to educational savings than by hospitalized veterans, with the purpose of higher education. · urging all Americans to remember these continued reliance on direct Govern men and women especially on this day and In fact, the Federal Government's ment assistance or indirect Govern throughout the year: and role in higher education has increased ment loan subsidization. Whereas, we wish to express to the pa from $40 million in 1960 for direct stu Although the primary purpose of tients in the West Haven Veterans Adminis dent aid to $7.3 billion in 1983 for edu the Higher Education Savings Incen tration Medical Center our concern and sin cation grants, guaranteed student tive Act is to promote savings for cere appreciation, Now, therefore, I, Bruce ·loans, college work study, and related higher education, the corresponding A. Morrison, do hereby proclaim February assistance programs. While Govern benefit to the economic strength of 14, 1984, for the "National Salute to Hospi ment student assistance has grown, talized Veterans" and do therefore call upon our Nation is substantial. To sustain all our citizens to observe the occasion in fit family contributions to higher educa the economic recovery which our ting ways and to pay tribute to hospitalized tion have decreased. · For instance, Nation is experiencing, we must do all veterans on this day and each day of the total family income increased by 30 that we can to increase the amount of. year. percent between 1978 and 1981 while available capital. Capital is the life family contributions to their chil blood of our economy, and, without it, dren's higher educations actually de we are destined to return to high in MEDICARE COPAYMENT clined by more than 6 percent. terest rates, high unemployment, as PROPOSAL Mr. Speaker, I believe the time has tronomical trade imbalances, and sag come for the Federal Government to ging levels of productivity. I HON. MAJOR R. OWENS shift its emphasis from increasing gov I believe that, if enacted, this legisla OF NEW YORK ernmental assistance for higher educa tion will greatly increase savings for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion to increasing the incentive for higher education, will unlock impor Wednesday, February 8, 1984 families to resume primary responsi tant sources of capital which will allow bility for financing the education of American industries to expand their • Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, it has their children. For this reason, I am facilities, to create thousands of jobs, long been obvious to many of us that introducing, today, legislation to pro to more effectively compete abroad, the administration's proposal to vide those financial incentives to en and to more efficiently produce those impose additional copayments on med courage long-term family savings for products we depend upon in our daily icare beneficiaries is just one more the education of their children. This lives. way to shift costs to those who are legislation would provide tax benefits I urge my colleagues to join me in least able to pay. This has been well for educational savings while, at the strengthening opportunities for expressed by Prof. Anne Somers in a same time, increasing the savings rate higher education and increasing our letter to the New York Times on Feb of our Nation which is now 4.7 per Nation's savings rate by cosponsoring ruary 6, 1984. cent, the lowest of any industrialized the Higher Education Savings Incen CFrom the New York Times, Feb. 6, 1984] nation in the world. tive Act of 1984. Education is truly the MEDICARE: THE NEW 60-DAY PROPOSAL'S With the average cost of higher edu key to a free and prosperous society·•· INEQUITY cation projected to exceed $25,000 by PISCATAWAY, N.J., January 24, 1984. 1990, and with Government subsidiza To· the Editor: tion of middle- and upper middle NATIONAL SALUTE TO The Administration's proposal to require income students' higher educations HOSPITALIZED VETERANS Medicare patients to make significant co likely to decrease, the enactment of payments for the second through the 60th day of hospital care in return for "unlimited educational savings incentives is not HON. BRUCE A. MORRISON coverage" after 60 days INDIANA The list of things left undone is longer al costs could be an unreasonable burden. At IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES yet. Action on social and educational issues the proposed copayment rates-8 percent of Wednesday, February 8, 1984 may encompass reform of social security dis the deductible (now $356> for days 2 ability, attention to nutrition programs, and through 15, and 5 percent for days 16 e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I enactment of health insurance for the job through 60-the average patient with a 10- would like to insert my Washington less, incentives for states to enforce court day stay would have to pay $245 in addition report for Wednesday, February 8, ordered child support, and expanded financ to $356, or a total of about $600. 1984 into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: ing for mathematics and science in schools. This may not seem disastrous until one re The report follows: A big fight is expected when the required calls that the median annual income of the CONGRESS 1984 AGENDA debt ceiling increase comes up. Important over-65 population is about $6,600. So the As legislators come back for the second economic initiatives include a move for average patient would have to pay nearly 10 session of the 98th Congress, the two most lower telephone rates, a plan to create tax percent of an entire year's income just for contentious issues on the legislative calen free enterprise zones in inner cities, an the hospital stay (this does not include doc dar are the presence of U.S. Marines in Leb effort to make the Federal Reserve more ac tors' bills and other associated costs>. anon and a budget deficit that may exceed countable to political authority, and a reor For the very poor, many of these costs $200 billion next year. Congress also faces a ganization of the nation's bankruptcy would be transferred to Medicaid, the Veter long and growing agenda of other important courts. General deregulation of banks and ans Administration or other public pro but unfinished business. There is a perva other financial institutions could begin. De grams which, unlike Medicare, are financed sive attitude among my colleagues that hard bates on defense will center on the size of entirely through general revenues. The work needs to be done, but that we will not the military budget, and more clashes on Medicare program would save some money get to it. While I deplore such an attitude, I chemical weapons and the MX missile are but only at the expense of other portions of find it difficult to counter. likely. The breakdown of the nuclear arms the Federal budget. The presence of our Marines in Lebanon control dialogue, the unchecked flow of ille Also, those who could afford to do so is bound to be one of the first orders of leg gal aliens across our borders, and the mili would simply buy additional supplemental islative business. Pressure for disengage tary aid being granted to repressive anti private insurance to cover the new co-pay ment from Lebanon has been building communist forces in Central America Cthe steadily in Congress and across the nation latter is as controversial as ever despite the ment. Hospitals would be tempted to give for many weeks. Heavy casualties among preference to such fully insured patients, pro-aid tone of the Kissinger Commission's our Marines and official reports criticizing recent report> will round out the interna thus exacerbating the trend toward two-tier our involvement in Lebanon have added health care. tional relations agenda. weight to the arguments of those who want The prospect of a meaningful advance on The emphasis placed on increased cover the troops to come home. Consequently, age for long-stay hospital patients is also in this formidable agenda is made even more early in the session there will be a vote on remote by the session's bad start. Irritabil compatible with current Administration ef whether to keep the troops in Beirut until forts to further reduce the Medicare length ity and intemperance have marked the first March of 1985. week. Hot words have been exchanged on of stay through the D.R.G. method of hos The situation with regard to the budget pital reimbursement. Under this system hos deficit is similar, though the outcome is a Lebanon, and parliamentary "guerrilla war pitals are paid a fixed predetermined rate bit harder to predict. Almost everyone ac fare" has all but broken out. Members' frus for a given diagnosis or procedure regardless knowledges that the deficit is dangerous, tration is high. and that something must be done about it. There are compelling reasons for Congress of length of stay. The whole point is to en to make significant progress on these and courage early discharge. People worry that the deficit soon may drive interest rates up and bring on another other matters, but I doubt that it will do so. For short-stay patients, the proposed co I often wonder why Congress is not more ef payment will perhaps reinforce the D.R.G. recession. They want to know what the fed eral government is doing to get its fiscal af fective in dealing with its agenda. Is it the push to get them out of the hospital as fast quality of the membership or the leader as possible. But for those who require fairs in order. Because of this concern, Con gress should produce the deficit-reduction ship? Is it the way Congress is set up? Is it longer stays, there is incentive to try to the intractable, uncompromising nature of make it to the 60th day, after which they plan that most observers think it will not produce. Congress's hope seems to be that the issues which legislative proposals ad will be eligible for unlimited hospital care people do not fear the deficit enough to pro dress? Is it the extreme difficulty of build a particularly valuable benefit in the ab test inaction. ing a consensus in support of these propos sence of long-term nursing home or home The volume of uncompleted and urgent als? Is it election-year politics? I suspect care benefits. The strain on hospital admin work should push Congress to act on many that these factors, and probably others, too, istrators and doctors, caught in the 'middle measures. Pending environment and energy are part of the problem. In any case, I have of these conflicting incentives, would be in legislation would tighten controls on the the strong Cand depressing) feeling that tense. disposal of toxic wastes, reauthorize clean Congress is not dealing effectively with the Without question, Medicare is faced with air and clean water statutes, start new water matters of greatest concern to most Ameri a financial crisis. Lack of meainingful finan projects, extend regulation of pesticides, cans. cial controls is one, but only one, cause of slow leasing of offshore oil and natural gas The optimists say that this session will be that crisis. The aging of the population, the properties, lift controls on natural gas remembered for its helpful focus on a few absence of cost-effective programs for the prices, and address the worst aspects of the carefully chosen issues. I hope that they are care of long-term patients and the expensive problem of acid rain. In the area of trade, right. I expect the session to be short and pro-technology bias in the Medicare pro there are bills reauthorizing export con unproductive, one dominated by image an gram today are all parts of the problem and trols, compelling the use of domestic con tent in foreign automobiles, giving the rhetoric. Avoiding legislative mistakes, not must be considered in the solution. The seeking the grand consensus, will be the crisis will not be solved by ill-considered uni President greater power to respond to order of the day. I expect much debate, but dimensional approaches. unfair trade practices, and providing more credit to foreign customers so that they can not much action, on Lebanon, a small step ANNE R. SOMERS, toward deficit-reduction, and some action on Professor of Community and Family purchase more of our farm goods. Civil rights advocates are pressing hard for pas a few other major issues. However, Congress Medicine, Rutgers Medical School. sage of the Equal Rights Amendment, reor is not in the mood to tackle its long agenda Professor Somers' view of this addi ganization of the President's Civil Rights aggressively, nor will it do much of anything tional burden proposed for the elderly Commission, and legislation to end sex far-reaching. In the end, we probably will should be considered carefully before based discrimination in insurance and pen settle for one or two pieces of substantive legislation, plus several appropriations bills. we contemplate imposing additional sions. Those interested in law enforcement await a sweeping revision of the federal I am not optimistic about the chances of hardships on our senior citizens.e criminal code, including rewrites of provi reaching an accord on the entire budget, but sions on bail, sentencing, penalties for drug of this I am sure: the more Congress marks trafficking, and the insanity defense. Con time in 1984, the more it sets the stage for gress may try to figure out what to do about major moves in 1985.e 2366 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 AUTO THEFTS REACH EPIDEMIC and repair shops like Mr. Aponte's, most of lac, and collected on his insurance claim, PROPORTIONS which are engaged in legitimate business. with most of the payment going to the fi Among large cities, New York's rate of car nance company. But that Cadillac, like a theft is surpassed by Detroit, Houston and Buick a relative of Mr. Koliskor had report HON. JAMES H. SCHEUER Los Angeles, on a per capita basis. But the ed stolen, was found in the shop. OF NEW YORK number of cars reported stolen here-per Stealing to order is another aspect of car IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES haps a third of which really are failed theft theft, sometimes resulting from requests for attempts or are false reports by owners to parts over the "teletype," or open telephone Wednesday, February 8, 1984 collect insurance-is more than twice as line that links some junkyards. e Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, there high as in Los Angeles, which last year had "Someone on the line will say 'I need an is little doubt that professional auto the country's second highest total, 48,000. '82 Cadillac front and someone else will Many of the cars are stripped for parts, answer, 'Call me tomorrow,'" said Sgt. Mi theft constitutes one of the most seri which can be worth three times the value of chael Bosak of the auto division. "That ous and costly criminal problems the car intact. Some are "torched"-burned night, an '82 Cadillac will be stolen." facing our Nation today. apart at the bolts-welded onto the better Getting in: 10 seconds and a "Slim Jim" The American Automobile Associa half of a wreck bought at salvage, and sold tion, with more than 23 million mem under the title and identification number of Ordinarily, a thief will insert a "slim bers nationwide, states that auto theft the wreck. jim"-a long, flat piece of steel about 60 Others are "tagged" with new or counter l,OOOths of an inch thick-between the exte in the United States "has reached epi rior of a car window and a door, reaching demic proportions." This is not mere feit titles and identification numbers and sold locally. Still others are exported, downward to disengage the lock. The thief, hyperbole: When 25 cents of every through ruses, to Latin America, the Middle often inside a car within 10 seconds, will auto insurance dollar goes to cover the East and elsewhere, and sold for two or then pull out the ignition lock with a "slap costs of auto theft, all carowners share three times their domestic value. hammer" and use a screwdriver to start the the $4 billion price tag for theft In one week, Maryland Port Administra engine. through higher insurance premiums. tion police found nine cars on the docks in The deterrent value of car alarms and spe When our Nation spends an estimated Dundalk, Md., being prepared for shipment cial locking devices has been much debated. to different receivers in Ecuador and Colom But, according to Deputy Inspector Joseph $1 billion each year in law enforce R. Harding, commander of the police de ment costs related to auto theft, all bia. All had been stolen in the New York area and driven to Maryland by couriers for partment's auto crime division: "Anything American taxpayers share the burden. $500 apiece. you can do to slow down a thief, and make When a car is stolen every 32 seconds Other cars, including BMW's and Merce him wonder whether this car is worth the somewhere in the United States, we des-Benzes, were being spirited through trouble, is helpful. He may well go on to the have a problem of epidemic propor Elizbeth, N.J., and Miami. So quickly were next car." tions indeed. they being disposed of that some of the Car thieves are paid as much as $300 or A recent article in the New York owners did now know they were gone. even more for a late-model automobile. Equally brazen was the theft of cars this They are often thought to be in their teens Times highlights the problem of auto and addicted to drugs, and some are. theft in New York City. I commend year from the parking lot adjacent to the Queens Criminal Court. At least 20 of the But a State Department of Correctional this article to the attention of my col cars were dumped in Forest Park, stripped Services profile of those in prison for grand leagues and urge them to give careful of such generally untraceable parts as larceny, automobile, in 1981 and 1982 shows consideration to supporting H.R. 3999, doors, front ends and trunk lids. that only 10 of the 61 were 20 years old or younger. Sixteen were between the ages of the Motor Vehicle Theft Law Enforce THE TRAIL OVERSEAS AND "STEALING TO ORDER" ment Act. 21 and 24, and the largest number, 19, were The Federal Bureau of Investigation and 25 to 29 years old. The article follows: the police are now investigating the export [From the New York Times, Dec. 13, 1983] of dozens of stolen cars from the metropoli The addict as a business liability NEW YORK CAR THEFT: NOT FOR AMATEURS tan area to the Caribbean and to an Arab Moreover, said Sgt. Tom Pepe of the auto (By M.A. Farber) country. Proof of ownership is not required division, fences do not "want to deal with a to export a car. junkie." On the afternoon of Oct. 18, police offi Another investigation centers on stolen "A junkie takes cheap," he said, "maybe cers on a routine inspection of automobile trucks that are dismantled here, shipped $50 to $80 for a car, but if he's arrested the body shops dropped by Juan Aponte's busi abroad and reassembled. first thing he does is give you up." ness in the Crotona Park section of the In the Maryland case, the police were There are other risks, too, in the world of Bronx. unable to recover two Datsuns and a BMW stolen cars-not from the police or the In the shop, as it turned out, were 13 late that were already en route to Ecuador. The courts but from the nature of an illicit busi model cars that had recently been stolen, a cars, according to a subsequent examination ness that Alfred P. Vigorito, a Bronx pros 1976 automobile stolen in 1977 and covered of their shipping documents, bore VIN ecutor, described as "second only to narcot by dust in the shop's basement, and the rear plates stolen in New York from cars of the ics and right up there with gambling." ends or engines of four other cars that had same model and year. A routine police check One of those risks is fatal. A dozen mur been stolen and then dismantled. One of the of these plates, which the owners had not ders of auto thieves or fences are now under whole cars, a 1982 Pontiac, had been report noticed were missing, would not have shown investigation, authorities said, and the ed stolen only two weeks earlier, in Chicago. that the cars en route to Ecuador had been prime suspects are competitors of the vic Four men, including Mr. Aponte, and the stolen. tims. van had been re-registered under the new The machinations of car theft are further MANY ARE ARRESTED, BUT FEW GO TO PRISON number to a Bronx woman. illustrated by the case of Michail Koliskor, Every year, tens of thousands of cars are About 9,000 people are arrested each year who operated an auto repair in the Flatbush in connection with automobile theft in the stolen off New York City's streets, and per section of Brooklyn. haps half of the cars are taken or received city. Many of them are the same people, and by people connected to an organized crime Making one car from two only a tiny percentage of them go to prison enterprise, according to police. In 1982 When police raided the shop on May 19, and fewer still for long terms. alone, the value of the 104,056 cars reported they found at least half a dozen stolen cars, "We arrest virtually every professional car stolen in the city was $427 million, nearly including the rear half of a 1978 Volks thief, and many amateurs, each year," said half the value of all stolen property. wagen Scirocco that had been stolen from Inspector Harding. "For the most part, In the last decade the picture of auto Kelvin Salzman in Bensonhurst two days they're right back on the street. Let's face crime in New York has changed dramatical earlier. At that moment, the rear part of it. Who does time for auto crime?" ly. Before 1970, most of the cars stolen were Mr. Salzman's car was being welded to the Detective Bruce Milau of the auto unit for "joy rides," and of the 80 percent nor front half of a Scirocco that, according to said some stolen car fences seemed unable mally recovered a relatively high percentage the police, had a good title and had prob to stop, whatever the penalty. "They have were in good shape. · ably been bought at salvage. Police speculat transmission fluid in their veins," he said. Now, however, the cars stolen in New ed that the front of Mr. Salzman's car, "They can't give it up." York, most often from middle-income resi whose "VIN number was hot," had been In the Bronx, Stephen Callinan is regard dential sections of Brooklyn and Queens, "crunched into scrap metal." ed by detectives with a mixture of scorn and usually pass through several hands and The police said that last January Mr. Ko awe. At the age of 43, Mr. Callinan has been wind up in parks and on piers, or in garages liskor reported the theft of his own Cadil- arrested 20 times, at least 12 of them for February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2367 auto crime offenses. On three occasions, the During an inspection of the junk yard on said. "Not for the thieves, and not for the last in 1974, he was convicted of felonies. He March l, 1982, the police saw an employee chop shops." is under indictment on three counts of dismantling a 1980 Chevrolet engine and FROM JOY RIDES TO SYSTEMATIC THEFT criminal possession of stolen cars, one count transmission. The body of the car, which of criminal possession of a mobile telephone had been reported stolen the previous fall, In significant measure, the story of auto stolen from a 1979 Lincoln, and 12 counts of was found crushed under a stack of other mobile theft in New York has become a story of organized crime. illegal possession of stolen VIN plates. vehicles. "Organized crime people spanning all A freshly stolen coupe de ville The police also found a 42 Cadillac, BMW, Mazda, Audi and other make engines or ethnic groups have come to recognize the Two of several stolen cars found last May transmissions whose serial numbers had tremendous profits to be realized from 13 behind his home in the well-to-do Coun been altered or ground off, as well as an stolen cars, and have become deeply in try Club section of the Bronx were Cadil electric grinder and grinding stones. Mr. volved," Inspector Harding said. "Often we lacs-one a 1983 Coupe de Ville that had Schiavo was quoted by the police as saying can't prove that in court, but that's what been stolen earlier that day from La Guar that the auto parts without numbers had our intelligence tells us." dia Airport. "come with the place" when he bought it. In 1980, the uniformed auto crime unit On Oct. 13, five months later, Mr. Cal During a second inspection of the yard six was replaced by a plainclothes division and linan was re-arrested and charged with pos 138 put under the command of the Police De session of parts from a 1983 Cadillac stolen weeks later, the police found transmis sions, 25 engines and 71 doors whose serial partment's Organized Crime Control Oct. 5 in Hackensack, N.J. numbers had been removed. Bureau. Of the 30,500 inmates now serving more The inspector said the recovery rate of than a year's sentence in the state's prison Defendant charged with 2 felonies stolen cars now was about 64 percent, with system, 55 were imprisoned on the top Mr. Schiavo was charged with and convict cars found in 1982 valued at a total of $76.5 felony charge of grand larceny, automobile, ed of criminal possession of the Chevrolet million. But he was unable to generalize according to Louis J. Ganim, a correction engine and transmission and with failing to about the conditions of those cars. Some of department spokesman. Thirty-four of the register as a dismantler. Both charges are ficers said the chance a stolen car would be 55 were convicted in New York City, Mr. felonies punishable by maximum sentences recovered in good shape was no better than Ganim's statistics, however, do not match of four years. even.e the figures provided by various district at At Mr. Schiavo's sentencing, Douglas torneys. Kallen, an assistant district attorney in For example, Robert M. Morgenthau, the Brooklyn, strongly recommended a prison UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY Manhattan District Attorney, said prison of term of one to three years. ficials may have classified defendants differ "Chop shops like the defendant's are large ently than he had. In 1982 in Manhattan producers and they make a lot of money HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO alone, Mr. Morgenthau said, 44 defendants and without them, perhaps more important OF CALIFORNIA were convicted of grand larceny, automo ly, the street thieves wouldn't have a source IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bile, and sentenced to state prison. to sell their cars," Mr. Kallen said. "If the Breaking downs the State's count court were to fine the defendant, that would Wednesday, February 8, 1984 be merely a cost of his doing business as a Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, By Mr. Ganim's count, the prison system corporation, such as an attorney's fee or as e received, in 1982, six such defendants from an insurance fee." It is a great honor and pleasure for me Manhattan, as well as four from Queens, Robert Sgarlatto, Mr. Schiavo's attorney, to join in commemorating the 66th an three from Brooklyn, and one from the argued that his client had no knowledge of niversary of Ukrainian Independence Bronx. Day. The occasion is both a joyful and "I can only tell you what we've got," Mr. any stolen parts at his yard, was not respon Ganim said. "Some defendants might have sible for any illegal dismantling and had a solemn one. Joyful because it marks had their sentences adjusted or be free on been convicted on "innuendo and insinu the first recognition of the fully sover appeal." ation." eign state of the Ukraine. Solemn be The lawyer described Mr. Schiavo as "a cause that independence proved to be Mr. Ganim said that of the 61 inmates family man, a businessman" and said that to who were committed in 1981 and 1982 for imprison him "would be a waste of the Peo short-lived as invading forces swept in car theft-including 35 from the city-only ple's money." to battle for control of the territory. 16 were sentenced to maximum terms Joseph J. Lombardo, the State Supreme The United Ukrainian Republic longer than three years. fought against the Russian armies The city jail system, where prisoners gen Court Justice presiding, noted that the de erally serve sentences of up to a year, does fendant had served six months in jail a who attacked them from the east and not classify its inmates by type of crime. decade earlier and had been arrested a the Polish forces who attacked them dozen times, mostly for possession of stolen from the west. The battle dragged on In general, little or no time property in cases that were dismissed. He for 3 years and ended with Soviet "In the overwhelming majority of cases," sentenced Mr. Schiavo to five years proba Inspector Harding said, "the defendants do tion and levied a $10,000 fine. domination of the Ukraine in 1921. little time, if they do time at all." "Now, it's easy enough to perhaps get the Though conquered militarily, the In general, Mr. Morgenthau challenged impression that this is a victimless crime in Soviets have not been able to conquer Inspector Harding bleak view of car theft the sense that no one was assaulted, no one the spirit of the Ukrainian people. The prosecutions. was raped," the judge said. "But actually it Ukrainians are a proud race who have In 1982, according to Mr. Morgenthau, is a crime which strikes at every person who continued to struggle against Soviet there were 1,941 arrests in Manhattan in owns an automobile and who has it stolen." oppression to maintain their identify which the top charge was grand larceny, Justice Lombardo said he agreed with the and preserve their rich heritage. automobile. But he stressed that only 198 prosecutor "that the purpose of these stat defendants had been indicted on felony utes is to cut down-impossible to eliminate Theirs is a heritage which dates back charges of car theft in 1982, in cases where thievery-but at least cut down on it and to over 1,000 years to a time when Kiev the evidence was strongest. make those who make thievery possible re Rus, as the Ukraine was then known, By the end of the year, he said, 134 had sponsible to the community and responsible was a major power in Europe and a been convicted, 110 sentenced and 89 had re to the criminal justice system." rich commercial center. Their determi ceived a year or more imprisonment. Probation recommendation accepted nation and drive to sustain their dis "That's not bad," he said. "Is it enough? No. But he said he would go along with the tinct culture, language, and traditions But it shows there are sanctions out there." sentencing recommendation of the Proba serve as an inspiration to all the peo Inspector Harding was unimpressed. "You tion Department. have to look at what happened to all ar ples of the world who seek escape rests," he said. "That's what counts." The decision not to imprison Mr. Schiavo from domination and persecution so still rankles Elizabeth Holtzman, the Brook that they might have power over their THE "CHOP SHOPS" AND THEIR OPERATORS lyn District Attorney, who has made a con own destiny. Paul Schiavo defended himself the way certed effort to punish auto criminals. So many others do when accused of possessing far this year, she said, 47 car thieves have Ukrainian Independence Day is also stolen cars or parts. been sent to prison, compared with 7 in the time to commemorate another Mr. Schiavo, who is 42 years old, ran the 1982. solemn occasion-the Ukraine famine Discount Auto Corporation at 56-01 Foster "No longer will there be a free ride in of 1932-33. This famine which was de Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, Brooklyn for stealing a car," Miss Holtzman liberately engineered by the Commu-
31--059 0-87-31 (Pt. 2) 2368 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 nist Party in Moscow resulted in the Heart Association sponsors cardiopul our small businessmen and farmers, death of 7 million Ukrainians, 20 per monary resuscitation training our homebuilders and buyers. cent of the population of that Repub sessions almost daily, health fairs, re Bloated defense budgets, finally, lic. I have cosponsored H.R. 3993 to es ferral services, and hypertention clin compel us in Congress to look over our tablish a commission to study this ics-people can actually walk into City shoulders back home to gage how our famine so that the full extent of Hall and have their blood pressure districts and States can benefit eco Soviet inhumanity can be exposed. checked. nomically from the Pentagon's lar There is no doubt in my mind that the I urge the public to take advantage gesse, and not at our legitimate na Soviet Union has a long record of of these programs because the life you tional security needs. How can we pro human rights violations and the save may be your own.e mote a sane, sensible defense policy Ukraine famine of 1932-33 is a prime when we are compelled to choose be example. tween peace and jobs, between a solid Let me close with the hope that sup THE ECONOMIC CONVERSION ACT arms control agreement with the Sovi port will grow so that the Ukrainian ets whereby the entire world benefits people may once again be fully sover and a fancy, new state-of-the-art nu eign and independent.e HON. NICHOLAS MA VROULES clear weapons system that will put our OF MASSACHUSETTS people to work? AMERICAN HEART MONTH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Reagan administration's $1.9 Wednesday, February 8, 1984 trillion rearmament program, and its HON. WILLIAM 0. LIPINSKI e Mr. MAVROULES. Mr. Speaker, fiscal 1985 request for $313.4 billion in virtually every Member of this body budget authority, up 18 percent in cur OF ILLINOIS rent dollars from last year, certainly IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has at least one community that de pends on defense contract dollars for qualifies as bloated. The indications in Wednesday, February 8, 1984 • its economic well-being. Thanks to the this and the other body are that the e Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, heart largest arms buildup in the Nation's administration will have to settle for disease is our Nation's No. 1 health history, these communities are enjoy much less. enemy. One in six Americans suffer ing the view from the top of a histori We would therefore be foolhardy, to from heart disease or 750,000 people cally up-and-down, rollercoaster, de put it mildly, not to prepare for a die annually. Heart disease, the vul fense-spending ride. future of lower defense spending levels ture that kills more people than acci When defense spending is up, these and lost contract work. Moreover, such dents, chronic obstructive pulmonary communities enjoy job opportunities, preparation would be salutory, freeing disease, pneumonia, influenza, and all an expanded tax base, and the ability us as voting Members in the Nation's other cases combined. to offer their citizens a wide· range of Legislature from the onus of viewing As February is American Heart services. Their children are properly the defense budget as one big jobs bill. Month, I would like to take this oppor educated, the elderly are cared for, Today, I am introducing, along with tunity to discuss some of the factors public safety requirements are met, 13 of my colleagues, the Economic that contribute to heart disease and the streets are cleaned, and the gar Conversion Act, which would lay the what is being done to reverse the bage is collected. In short, these com groundwork to prevent the severe eco trend. munities are not bad places in which nomic dislocation some of our commu According to the American Heart As to live. nities would suffer when they lose de sociation, extensive clinical and statis But when defense spending is down, fense dollars. We must take care not tical studies have identified several such communities stand an excellent to imperil those communities that rely factors as contributing to an increased chance of suffering severe economic on defense work as we strive to cut the risk of heart attack and stroke. The dislocation. We have only to recall deficit and meet our legitimate de more risk factors present, the greater recent history, when we cut defense fense needs, and it is this problem that the risk. Some of these factors can be spending at the tail-end of the Viet the Economic Conversion Act address changed under the direction of a nam war. In New England, where I es. doctor. Still, other risk factors can be reside, 44 percent of the region's aero The bill also has the laudatory pur controlled by the individual. The un space work force either ended up in pose of giving heretofore defense-de controllable factors include heredity, unemployment lines, or moved out in pendent communities viable and pro sex, age, race. The controllable factors search of new jobs. I am sure that ductive economic ways to keep their risk factors include smoking, high every one of my colleagues has a simi plants open and people employed in blood pressure, elevated blood choles lar horror story. the civilian sector. It is a widely ac toral, diabetes, and lack of exercise. On the surface, things appear rosy cepted fact that dollars spent in the ci Major advances in finding the today. But there are a number of rea vilian sector are economically more causes, cures, and prevention for heart sons why we can expect this trend not valuable than if they were spent in the disease are occurring on a daily basis. to continue. Paramount among these defense sector, and they employ many Just last month a study was completed are economic, budgetary, and national more people than defense dollar do. tying high cholesterol intake to heart security considerations. Thus, this bill promises more than to disease. Also, published in January Bloated defense budgets drain save jobs; it promises a boost to na was the 1984 Surgeon General report, money and brains away from the civil tional economic growth. And no new "The Consequences of Smoking, Car ian sector-away from the critical Federal spending would be required. diovascular Diseases," is a volume of need to bring America's industry into What is the Economic Conversion information addressing the adverse ef the modern age so it can compete on Act? fects of smoking on heart disease. The equal footing with its international The bill, which would sound an eco National Heart Lung and Blood Insti sparring partners. nomic declaration of independence for tute has ongoing research taking place Bloated defense budgets are a signif communities uncomfortably tied to de on stroke, heart attacks, and high icant and noticeably harmful addition fense dollars, has three major provi blood pressure. to the Federal deficit problem. The sions: While the national campaign against bigger the deficit, of course, the less First, it calls for the Secretary of De- heart disease is moving full speed money around to invest in the private fense to give an advance warning to ahead, the States are intensifying pro sector and new jobs, and the higher communities and workers affected by graming and fundraising. In Chicago, the interest rates, which themselves any defense spending rollback. When the local affiliate of the American cause so much economic havoc among ever possible, they will be given 1-year February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2369 advance notification of any defense vote on the various and sundry items New York and subsequently went into contract reduction or cancellation. in the defense budget strictly on their a partnership on a luncheonette at Communities would thus have time to merits. 59th and Madison Avenue called the prepare for and avoid the loss of busi The choice need not be between "Alps." After a year he bought out his ness, higher unemployment, and the peace and jobs. Economic conversion partner and for the first time since reduced tax revenues arising from lost means jobs and peace. 1914 Nick owned his own business. In defense work. For myself and the other cospon 1927, Nick returned to Chicago, where Second, communities affected by a sors, I ask for your support of this he met his future wife, Anna Allu contract reduction or cancellation of bill.• shuski, a coal miners daughter from $10 million or more would be eligible Girardville, Pa. They married in 1930 for an alternative production and job and had a son, Nickolas, Jr., in 1932. retraining planning grant. The grant TRIBUTE TO NICHOLAS JOHN LOUNTZIS In 1934, Nick and his family came to would not exceed $250,000, and is Reading, Pa., where they made their aimed at encouraging workers who lost permanent home. their jobs to stay rooted in the com HON. GUS YATRON Nick's first job in Reading was at the munity and retrain themselves. It OF PENNSYLVANIA historic Crystal Restaurant, which was would also help finance the planning IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the starting place for many Greeks for finding new uses for idle plant and Wednesday, February 8, 1984 who branched off into their own busi equipment, caused by the defense con nesses. To this day, many of the finest tract rollback. e Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, it is my honor today to recognize the accom restaurants in Berks County are oper The $10 million contract threshold ated by those who had their original assures that the program covers solely plishments of my good friend, Nicho las John Lountzis, who will celebrate training by the owner of the Crystal, instances of severe economic disloca Mr. Mantis, or by Nick himself. In tion. his 90th birthday on February 17, Third, the Economic Conversion Act 1984. Mr. Lountzis has distinguished 1935, Nick and Anna had another son, would provide a temporary income himself through the years as an out William J. His proficiency in the res guarantee for the unemployed defense standing restauranteur. His achieve taurant business grew and he was in worker-also designed to insure that ments are truly remarkable and I wel strumental in establishing many inno the worker does not abandon his com come this opportunity to bring Nicho vations in the Crystal restaurant that munity in search of greener pastures, las J. Lountzis to the attention of my increased business. He worked there and that he has time to find new local colleagues in the U.S. Congress. for 12 years and became known as a work and remain a productive member Mr. Lountzis was born in Vousdre, famous mixmaster. He saved, invested, of his community. Greece. He has 1 brother and 4 sisters and also helped to manage the Mount Each eligible worker would receive and he spent his early years as a shep Penn Tavern. By 1947, he was ready to benefits totaling 90 percent of the first herd, tending a flock of 350 sheep and begin his own restaurant. He pur $20,000 earned under the canceled 150 goats. When he was 17, with $25 in chased the "Chat-a-While Inn," open contract, and 50 percent of the next his pocket and knowing only one Eng ing it on his wedding anniversary on $5,000, for a period as long as he lish word, "Boston," Nick sailed for February 19, 2 days following his 53d worked on the contract up to a maxi the United States. Arriving at Ellis birthday. He had accomplished his mum of 2 years. Other forms of Island, he traveled directly to Boston dream. In future years he expanded income assistance, including any out where, with the help of friends, he ob the restaurant, remodeled it and es side income, would first be deducted tained employment as a dishwasher. tablished it as one of the finest eating from these benefits. In 1911, he was earning $5 a week. places in the area. He also arranged The Economic Conversion Act, After 3 months he began to shine passage for more than a half-dozen mindful of the deficit problem, re shoes. family members and friends to come quires no new Federal spending, no In 1912, Nick moved to Maine where from Greece. In later years, he owned new appropriations, no new additions he later opened his own shoeshine-hat two other restaurants, the Valley Inn to the Federal deficit, no more red ink. cleaning shop. In 1915 he moved to and the Riveredge which he later sold. The money saved from the canceled Detroit with intentions of working In 1970 he began a 5-year term as defense contract would be funneled with Henry Ford. However, when he president of St. Matthews Greek Or back into the economic conversion arrived he changed his mind and put thodox Church. The year 1977 was a program. his efforts instead into a hot dog stand sad time, as he lost his beloved wife. According to the CBO, the cost of directly across from the automobile Today, Nick still greets his guests at the program for one lost contract plant. He then worked at a soda foun Nick's Chat-a-While Inn with warm would be about $1 million, planning tain, where he served without pay for congeniality, making certain every grant and income aid included. Com 3 months and earned the trust and re thing is more than satisfactory. His pared to the compensation Rockwell spect of the owner. He stayed at this two sons and his one grandson work at received in 1977 for the lost B-1 job for 2 years. Moving to Chicago in the restaurant. Nick has also been in bomber contract <$750 million), $1 mil 1917, Nick began working for a Mr. volved with the Blue Lodge, the lion is not much at all to ask for the Demetes who operated the finest soda Shriners, the American Legion, the defense worker and his community. fountain-luncheonette in the city. In National Restaurant Association, the The $9 million excess, saved from the 1918, Nick was to join the U.S. Infan Greek Democratic Club and was the canceled contract and not used by the try, nearly arriving for the armistice treasurer of AHEPA. economic conversion program, could in France. The war ended in Novem This detailed account of Nick's life, I be used to trim the deficit or in other ber, however, and he was stationed in feel, serves to underline the experi economically productive programs. Texas. He earned the rank of corporal ence of many immigrants who have The Economic Conversion Act repre and returned to Chicago for another come to our great Nation in search of sents good, hardnosed economics, of year. a better life for themselves and their the kind practiced in the private The year 1920 was a year of hard families. Nick Lountzis has made a sig sector. It also represents a cost-con ship. Nick lost his savings to a con nificant contribution to our country scious approach to solving a chronic artist in a faulty business venture and through his years of hard work and and difficult problem caused by de after working 3 months in a concession perseverance. He has shown what can fense cutbacks. stand at one of the most extravagant be accomplished through determina Perhaps most important, it shows us, theaters in Hammond, Ind., the stand tion in a free society. I know that my as Members of Congress, the way to was bombed. In 1923, Nick returned to colleagues will join me in wishing Nick 2370 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 a very happy 90th birthday and will ment officials to measure trends in ehouse School of Medicine, which is wish him continued success in the such crimes, to develop enforcement located in my district in Atlanta and is years to come.e strategies, and to allocate personnel in the first predominantly black medical areas of greatest need. The lack of school to be established in the United data impairs the ability of policymak UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS States in this century. Dr. Sullivan is a ers to assess the extent of the problem distinguished physician and medical and develop adequate measures of pre educator and an acknowledged author HON. BARBARA B. KENNELLY vention. Such data is also needed to ity on black health conditions. OF CONNECTICUT highlight and determine national, In his report, Dr. Sullivan docu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES local, and regional trends in this type ments the shortage of black doctors in Wednesday, February 8, 1984 of crime, and to evaluate the effective the United States and presents some ness of particular efforts employed to •Mrs. KENNELLY. Mr. Speaker, the combat it. In addtion, such statistics of the tragic evidence of the health bill I am introducing today requires would insure that Federal, State, and disparity among black Americans. the Attorney General to include in the local governments are aware of the di Among other sources, Dr. Sullivan FBI's Uniform Crime Reports infor mension of this threat. It would help cites a far-reaching study conducted mation concerning the incidence of reinforce the fact that the problem by the Association of Minority Health crimes where it appears that to crimes does exist across the Nation and that Professions Schools under a grant were committed to express racial, reli must be addressed. from the Robert Wood Johnson Foun gious, or ethnic prejudice. The idea of Finally, on a symbolic but nonethe dation entitled: "Blacks and the developing a nationwide system of re less important level, the systematic Health Professions in the 80's: A Na porting to produce an accurate meas gathering of information about these tional Crisis and a Time for Action." urement of this type of crime was first crimes would represent society's state The study was released last June and advanced by the U.S. Commission on ment that it is important to know the is itself required reading for anyone Civil Rights in July of 1983, and it is dimension of the problem, and that we concerned about black health prob my hope that this bill will turn that as a people are willing to commit time lems and the status of black health recommendation into a reality. and resources to eradicating bigotry, professions in this country. A series of arsons of synagogues in racism, and its violent byproducts.e my congressional district last fall drew Mr. Speaker, I commend Dr. Sulli my attention to this problem. Each van's perceptive report to the Mem year, hundreds of acts of violence and THE STATUS OF BLACKS IN bers of the House and include it in the intimidation are committed against MEDICINE RECORD at this point in my remarks: specific groups in every region of the THE STATUS OF BLACKS IN MEDICINE-PHIL country because of their race, religion, HON. WYCHE FOWLER, JR. OSOPHICAL AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS FOR THE or ethnic background. Every time they OF GEORGIA 1980's occur, they threaten the basic pre IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cepts of a peaceful and pluralistic soci Wednesday, February 8, 1984 Of interest to those in medicine and the ety. Cross burnings, swastikas sprayed other health professions is a study recently across the walls of a temple or school, • Mr. FOWLER. Mr. Speaker, recent completed by the Association of Minority desecrations, arson, or intimidation of ly there have been a number of arti Health Professions Schools. 1 The members people because of their skin color, reli cles in the national news media con of this association are from eight predomi gion, or ethnic heritage, is a threat to cerning what some authorities per nantly black health-professions schools: us all. ceive to be a looming surplus of doc Morehouse School of Medicine , Tuskegee Insti or type of crime that is motivated by However, forcasts of an oversupply tute School of Veterinary Medicine , the College of Pharmacy at Texas do not know if it is on the rise or on the overall doctor force-certainly do Southern University and that the infant mortality collected and published by the Federal ty has been confirmed by the Depart rate for black Americans is twice as high as Bureau of Investigation in the Uni ment of Health and Human Services' that for white Americans <21.8 vs. 11.4 form Crime Reports, the slaying of a Health Report for 1983 released last deaths per 1000 live births). spouse in a domestic quarrel and the month. The report showed that black However, these averages obscure some ap murder of a black person because of Americans have an average life expect palling figures in some rural areas and inner his color are both recorded as homo ancy 6 years less than white Ameri cities of our country. For example, in Geor cans, are almost twice as likely to gia today the average life expectancy of cide. blacks is 8.4 years shorter than that for There is a clear and demonstrable suffer from• high blood pressure, and whites. In six rural counties in Georgia, the need for reliable statistical informa have an infant mortality rate twice life expectancy for black males is only 49.6 tion on the subject of crime motivated that for white infants. to 51.5 years, whereas the average life ex by racial, religious, or ethnic hatred. Mr. Speaker, the status of blacks in pectancy for white males in the same coun- Communities presently cannot re medicine is the subject of a special spond to the problem because there is report published recently in the pres tigious New England Journal of Medi 1 Hanft RS, Fishman LE, Evans WJ. Blacks and not enough information on criminal the health professions in the 80's: a national crisis violence motivated by bigotry. This cine. It was written by Louis W. Sulli and a time for action. Washington, D.C.: Associa makes it very difficult for law enforce- van, M.D., president and dean of Mor- tion of Minority Health Professions Schools, 1983. February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2371 ties is from 59.5 to 69.5 years. 2 In Kenya, of the U.S. population. These figures reflect research agencies should work with these one of the less-developed and poorer coun a need for predominantly black medical schools to strengthen their research capa tries of the world, the average life expectan schools in the United States. In addition, bilities, drawing on their unique perspec cy of the male population is 51.3 years, ex other studies have shown that more than 60 tives and their ability to focus on the health ceeding that in some rural counties in Geor percent of the graduates of Meharry and problems of blacks and other minority gia. 3 In 1980, in 50 rural counties among Howard medical schools practice in medical groups. Georgia's 159 counties, the infant mortality ly underserved inner cities and rural areas 5 Adequate scholarships, work-study rate for blacks was higher than 30 per 1000 (and Elam L: person communication). funds, and low-interest loans should be live births, and in 16 counties the rate was The predominantly black medical schools made available to medical students from higher than 43 per 1000. Similar rates are adhere to the same high standards of medi low-income and minority groups, so that the found in many rural areas and inner cities cal education, and are measured by the best candidates available can become our all over the United States. same yardsticks for accreditation of their future physicians and the possibility of be The Association's study documents the programs, as are applied to all other medical coming a physician will not be foreclosed to continuing shortages of black physicians schools. However, black medical schools bright young people who happen to be from and other black health professionals. In have operated with inadequate financial re minority and low-income families. In asso 1950, only 2.1 per cent of all the physicians sources and without access to the clinical fa ciation with the dramatic curtailment of in the United States were black. Despite the cilities available to other medical schools. federal programs for student financial aid, efforts of the past two decades, in 1980 These problems and a number of others during the past two years at the Morehouse black physicians represented only 2.6 per described in the Association's study have served to deter our black young people from School of Medicine we have observed a de cent of all physicians in the United States. crease in the number of entering freshman In 1981, less than 2 per cent of the faculties pursuing medicine as a career. Predominant ly black health-professions schools have students from families with annual incomes of our medical schools were black. below $20,000 and a concomitant increase in In 1983, the scarcity of black role models also been rendered financially vulnerable because of severe retrenchment in federal the number from families with incomes of among practicing physicians and medical $30,000 or more. school faculties in the United States sug support for medical education and research, gests to black young people that it is not re as well as the ravages of inflation and reces All medical schools should expand and re alistic to aspire to be a physician. This nega sion in our nation's economy. inforce their commitment to recruiting and tive message to black youngsters is rein Because black physicians and predomi educating more black students. In 1978, forced by poor counseling in high school nantly black medical schools are needed to there were only 793 black students among and college, where black students are often address the severe unmet health-care needs 14,393 medical-school graduates (5.5 per of our poor and minority citizens, our cent>; by 1982, the number of blacks had de steered into vocational courses and less rig nation and our profession face a philosphi orous academic subjects, leaving many of creased to 763 <4.8 per cent> among 15,985 cal and ethical dilemma: Either we provide medical-school graduates. them poorly prepared for the study of medi the financial and other resources needed to cine. implement our country's creed of equal op Governors, state legislatures, boards of re Compounding this longstanding problem portunity, or we abandon a large segment of gents, and other leaders should urge the in medicine is the recent advent of a severe our population to a high infant mortality, a publicly supported medical schools in their shortage of funds for student financial aid, shortened life expectancy, debilitating pov states to increase the number of black stu which was documented a few months ago in erty, a crushing burden of illness and dis dents enrolled. A recent report from the the Journal.4 Because most black medical ability, and increasing disillusionment, frus Southern Regional Education Board, a 14- students come from families with annual in tration, and loss of hope. As the most afflu state cooperative educational agency, has comes of below $20,000, the Association's ent of nations and the leader of the free urged the training of more black physicians, study suggests that unless more funds are world, we should not allow this to happen. noting that whereas blacks comprise 19 per made available for scholarships and low-in Education has always provided the chance cent of the population of the South, less terest loans for low-income students, there for upward mobility in our society, and it than 3 per cent of the physicians in the is a very real possibility that the number of still can today-for blacks and other minori South are black. 6 This report, like the 1980 blacks enrolling in medical schools in the ties as well as for poor whites. Medical edu future will drop precipitously. Furthermore, report of the Graduate Medical Education cation is an important part of this opportu National Advisory Committee, 7 pointed out the medical students who do graduate in nity for self-improvement, and the existence future years will be less likely to practice as the need for more black physicians, even of this opportunity is a symbol of hope for while recommending reductions in the over primary-care physicians in poorer communi minorities and an affirmation of the Ameri ties, since they will need to earn high in all production of physicians in the United can dream. States.6 1 comes as specialists in affluent communi The contribution of black institutions to ties, so that they can repay their large Many factors other than the availability the vitality and the advancement of the of physicians affect the health status of debts. Because millions of Americans still United States has never been fully appreci reside in rural areas and inner cities without ated. For example, more than half the black blacks, but it is necessary to have an ade physicians, this projected distribution of physicians practicing in the United States quate number of physicians. It is helpful to new physicians would be just the opposite today are graduates of Meharry or Howard have black physicians who understand and of what is needed. medical schools, each more than 100 years respect the culture, history, and social Also addressed in the study is the contri old. Our current deficits in the number of status of their black patients. It is also help bution of the predominantly black medical black physicians would be much greater if ful to have physicians who live in the com schools to the education of black physicians. these two schools not exist. munities they serve and who contribute to Despite considerable expansion in medical The Association's report suggests that solving community problems. education in the United States during the black health-professions schools should be A coordinated effort is needed to respond past 25 years, in 1981-1982, the four pre strengthened by increased financial support to the crisis described in the Association's dominantly black medical schools the Center would have no intelligence ganization of specialists who use surgi SOVIET RELATIONS MANDATES gathering capabilities of its own and would cal techniques to remedy foot prob CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS not be used for the purposes of espionage; lems without overnight hospitaliza <3> the Center would be located in a third country agreed upon by the United States tion. This honor is just one of many HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) ST ARK and the Soviet Union, with the costs of op that has been bestowed upon Dr. 01' CALIFORNIA erating the Center to be shared equally by Rosen during his highly successful the United States and the Soviet Union; and practice of podiatric medicine. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (4) the Center would be staffed by an In 1962 he graduated from Geneva Wednesday, February 8, 1984 equal number of personnel (including all College in Beaver Falls, Pa. He re technical, military, and diplomatic person e Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, arms con nel) from each country, with the head of ceived his D.P.M. degree in Cleveland trol and national security issues have each country's delegation being an individ at the Ohio College of Podiatric Medi assumed a high political profile. Much ual with the rank of ambassador. cine in 1966. of the congressional debate has fo SEc. 2. the agreement negotiated pursuant After graduation he was a private cused on the merits, or lack thereof, of to this Act shall be either a treaty or an ex practitioner in Columbus, Ohio, for 5 various technical arms control propos ecutive agreement which will enter into years. From 1972 to 1974 he worked at als and weapons systems. This debate force only upon its approval by both Houses the University of Alabama in Birming has been constructive, and will un of the Congress. ham, as chief of podiatry for the Dia doubtedly continue throughout the ADDITIONAL CONSPONSORS 01' H.R. 408 betes Hospital and served as an assist current session. Mike Lowry, John Porter, Steny Hoyer, ant professor of podiatry in medicine Discussion of these technical issues, Ed Feighan, Ted Weiss, Bill Frenzel, Ed at the U.A.B. School of Medicine. however, has obscured perhaps the Markey, Gus Yatron, John Seiberling, From 1974 to 1981 Dr. Rosen was di most important factor in our efforts to Howard Wolpe, Robert Lagomarsino, rector of the Podiatry Center in Vesta avoid nuclear war. I refer to the ability Norman Mineta, Bill Hughes, Mike Barnes, via, Ala. He came to his present prac of the superpowers to manage crises Stan Lundine, Bob Edgar, Walter Fauntroy, ticing position at the Foot Health which could unintentionally escalate Larry Smith, Edwin Forsythe, Bruce Vento. Harry Reid, George Crockett, Robert Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in May of to a nuclear exchange. Mrazek, Berkley Bedell, Vic Fazio, Bob 1982. Various imaginable force structures Whittaker, John Kasich, James Jeffords, Dr. Rosen's leadership capabilities in on both sides can affect the stability Don Edwards, Richard Ottinger, Norman his field have earned many honors and of the nuclear balance in any given hy Dicks, Dan Coats, Chris Smith, Paul Simon, appointments. He was selected as a pothetical situation. But it will be our James Weaver, Arlan Stangeland, William member of the Govenor's staff for "in-place" crisis management capabil Ratchford, George Wortley, Gary Acker 1973-79 and 1980-84. He has served as ity that determines whether the weap man. vice president and board member of ons deployed become the weapons Bob Matsui, Howard Berman, Al Swift, Claudine Schneider, Al McCandless, Charlie the Birmingham Lay Diabetes Society; fired. Wilson, Charlie Rangel, Bill Patman, Tom public health chairman and president My colleague, Mr. DREIER, and I Vandergriff, Hal Daub, Rod Chandler, of the Alabama Podiatry Association; have introduced a bill, H.R. 408, which George Gekas, Connie Mack, Tom Tauke, board of directors of the Birmingham addresses this question. I am inserting Bill McCollum, Robert Torricelli, Bill Regional Health Systems Agency; and the text of this bill in the RECORD, Lowry, Henry Hyde, Gene Chappie, Dan along with a list of the current cospon Marriott. was listed in "Who's Who in America." sors, which I feel demonstrate the bi Norm Shumway, Newt Gingrich, William Dr. Rosen has continued his fine partisan nature of our support. Broomfield, Doug Barnard, Sid Morrison, spirit of helping others, not only in his George Brown, Bob Wise, Ron Marlenee, professional field, but in his communi H.R. 408 Dan Schaefer, James Howard, Mo Udall, ty as well. During his residency in Tus Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Parren Mitchell, Bill Lehman, Mel Levine, caloosa he has served as vice president Representatives of the United States of Bill Gray, Barbara Boxer, Bruce Morrison, America in Congress assembled, That (a) Marty Russo, John Conyers, Duncan of the Tuscalossa Quarterback Club; the Congress finds that- Hunter. taken an active membership in the <1 > the threat of nuclear war is of increas Raymond McGrath, Ray Kogovsek, Marty Tuscaloosa Tip-Off Club; and served ing concern to the citizenry of both the Martinez, Michael Bilirakis, Geraldine Fer on the University of Alabama Scholar United States and the Soviet Union; raro, Barbara Mikulski, John Spratt, Don ship Committee. (2) the need has long been recognized for Pease. Dr. Rosen is a widely published assuring quick and reliable communications Richard Shelby, Antonio Won Pat, .Elliott author in many professional journals. directly between the leaders of the United Leritas, Anthony Beilenson, Austin States and the Soviet Union in order to Murphy, Tom Downey, Les Aucoin, Gerry Some of his outstanding articles in reduce the danger of nuclear war arising Studds, Bill Green, Martin Frost, Alan Mol clude "Podiatry and its Role in Diabet from accident or miscalculation; lohan, Rich Durbin, Sander Levin, Joe ic Medicine," Alabama Journal of (3) the "hot line" established in 1963 is Minish, Frank Harrison, Olympia Snowe, Medicine, 1972; "The Foot-The For currently the only such means for direct Mervyn Dymally. gotten Part," Alabama Journal of and immediate communications between the Medicine, 197 4; "What Diabetes leaders of the United States and the Soviet Means to the Podiatrist," Current Po Union; and TRIBUTE TO DR. STANFORD <4> increased communications and consul ROSEN diatry, May 1977; "Restless Leg Syn tation between the Governments of these drome," Alabama Journal of Medicine, two countries may substantially decrease 1981; and "Wilson Bunionectory," the threat of war. HON. RICHARD C. SHELBY Academy of Ambulatory Foot Surgery Therefore, the President shall seek to OF ALABAMA Journal, 1983. negotiate an agreement with the Soviet IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, Dr. Stanford Rosen is a Union for the establishment of a permanent Wednesday, February 8, 1984 joint United States-Soviet Communications fine example of an individual who has Center to provide an additional channel for e Mr. SHELBY. Mr. Speaker, I would made many outstanding contributions communications between the United States like to pay tribute to and recognize Dr. to his profession. He is an asset to his and the Soviet Union in order to reduce the Stanford Rosen, an outstanding citi community whose praiseworthy ef threat of an accidental nuclear war. The zen and fine podiatric surgeon who forts serve as an inspiration to all of agreement negotiated pursuant to this Act lives in my hometown of Tuscaloosa, us. should provide that- He has given so much of himself to <1> the function of the Communications Ala. Center would be to serve as a direct and Dr. Rosen has recently been elected others and I believe this tribute is cer secure means of communications between president of the academy of Ambula tainly deserving to this outstanding in the United States and the Soviet Union; tory Foot Surgery, an international or- dividual. The podiatry profession is February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2373 fortunate to have a man like Dr. Specialist in American Public Law and clients, he was greatly admired and Rosen on their team. a recognized expert in the areas of universally liked by his CRS col I want to also take this opportunity ethics in Government and congression leagues. For them, as for us, his ency to express to Joan, his lovely wife, and al procedures. clopedic knowledge and institutional their seven children, what an honor it As an adviser to the House Commit memory opened the door to solutions is for me to recognize a man like Dr. tee on Standards of Official Conduct, to many problems. Notwithstanding Rosen. I am proud to have a gentle Mr. Tienken provided our committee his own crowded docket, he always man of this caliber in my district and with invaluable counsel on a wide found time to provide invaluable as in my hometown of Tuscaloosa. I range of matters that come within its sistance to one and all. When consult know he will be successful in whatever jurisdiction. Despite the thorny and ed-and his counsel was widely task he undertakes, and I wish him frequently unprecedented nature of sought-the matter at hand became the very best in all future endeavors.e many of the problems brought to him the focus of attention while he him by committee members and staff, he self, with amiability and unaffected unfailingly provided illuminating and modesty, receded to the background. TRIBUTE TO PITTSTON SAN helpful advice and counsel. Robert L. Tienken has been CATALDO SOCIETY Two stars guided Robert Tienken's throughout his life the essence of ci professional life, the Constitution and vility, courtliness, kindness, and ami HON. FRANK HARRISON the Congress of the United States. He ability. Those of us who have benefit OF PENNSYLVANIA revered both-a reverence evident in ed from his long labors on behalf of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES all his work for the Congress and in Congress and the American people will the performance of his assignments. miss him. I join his wide circle of ap Wednesday, February 8, 1984 For him, the Constitution and the preciative clients and friends in wish e Mr. HARRISON. Mr. Speaker, I rise rules and precedents of the House and ing him a deservedly long, healthy, today to pay tribute to the San Ca Senate are the result of reason and of and happy retirement.• taldo Society of Pittston. This non reasonable men and women and insure profit organization was established in a workable legislative process. the year 1903, which makes the San Robert Tienken brought distinction THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE Cataldo Society the oldest in the Wyo to everything he undertook-at CONTINUES ming Valley. Its membership today Princeton, where he earned a bache totals 265 regular members plus an ad lor's degree summa cum laude, as a HON. SALA BURTON ditional 142 social members, of which I graduate of the Yale University Law OF CALIFORNIA am honored to be one. School, and as a member of the New IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The purpose of the society is to pro York State Bar. vide good citizenship, to get involved Following several years of practice Wednesday, February 8, 1984 in civic affairs, encourage the exercise in an insurance law office in New York e Mrs. BURTON of California. Mr. of the right to vote, and to provide for City and several more years in private Speaker, on February 18, 1984, the the welfare of all of its members, both legal practice in Princeton-where he Bay Area Day of Remembrance Com regular and social. simultaneously pursued graduate stud mittee will be sponsoring an event en The officers of the society this year ies in political science-Robert Tien titled, "The Struggle for Justice Con are Salvatore Anzalone, president; ken came to Washington in 1957. For a tinues." This special day will com Joseph Leonardi, vice president; number of years thereafter, he served memorate an event which I would like Joseph Falzone, treasurer; Raimondo as legislative assistant first on the to bring to the attention of my col Leonardi, treasurer; Carmen M. Sapor staff of Senator H. Alexander Smith leagues. ito, recording secretary and Frank of New Jersey and, after the Senator's Forty-two years ago, on February 19, Scarantino, assistant treasurer. retirement, with Representative Sey 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt This is the kind of charitable organi mour Halpern of New York. signed into law Executive Order 9066 zation, Mr. Speaker, which is at the In 1961, Tienken joined the Congres which authorized the evacuation of bedrock of our community values. It sional Research Services' American 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry seeks to deal with community prob Law Division where his many talents from the west coast, two-thirds of lems, it helps its members and it works became available to the entire Con whom were American citizens. to build a better place in which to live. gress, not simply one office. In 1973, Executive Order 9066 gave military It is a pleasure for me to salute its of he became Senior Specialist in Ameri officials the authority to remove these ficers and members in this 81st year of can Public Law, a position for which individuals from their homes to assem its existence and to wish for my by training, ability, and disposition he bly centers-temporary living quarters friends in the San Cataldo Society was preeminently qualified. at racetracks and fairgrounds-and many, many more years of social Tienken played a significant re then to 10 relocation centers, dis friendship and successful service to search and advisory role in many persed throughout isolated parts of the community.e issues that affected Congress through the United States for the remainder of out the 1960's and 1970's including World War II. Although many of the issues of ethics in Government, con people interned were allowed to leave TRIBUTE TO ROBERT L. gressional procedures, contested elec the relocation centers to attend TIENKEN tions controversies, reapportionment schools or seek employment, the ma and redistricting, and Congress and jority of the Japanese Issei and Nisei, HON. LOUIS STOKES the courts. His work in these areas was first and second generation Japanese OF OHIO distinguished by its comprehensive Americans, made their tar-papered IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ness, scholarly detachment, and un barrack rooms their homes behind the questionable good sense. In all of his guarded barbed wire fence during the Wednesday, February 8, 1984 endeavors for Congress, Robert Tien war years. e Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, the ken strove to provide a product that As we reflect upon this terrible in Congress recently lost the valued and was useful and meaningful to the leg justice imposed on loyal Americans trusted services of an acknowledged islative process, not something to who were denied their basic constitu congressional scholar and outstanding grace congressional office shelves, tional rights and civil liberties, it is my public servant with the retirement of much admired and little read. fervent hope that this kind of tragedy Robert L. Tienken of the Congression Robert not only earned the respect will never occur again in the course of al Research Service. He was Senior and admiration of his congressional our Nation's history. 2374 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 The loss of personal liberty and the swearing-in ceremonies they left for forcement process. Sadly, many do not prejudices which were inflicted upon boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. want "to become involved." Gregory Americans of Japanese descent will Major James P. Walsh, commanding Mackrides became involved in a most forever remain as scars and painful officer of the Pittsburgh station, said serious way. He is an example of the memories among these former intern the three young men "are a positive best kind of citizen-someone who ees. reflection on the patriotism shown by cares about his fell ow man. It would seem that some 40 years the men and women of today." He Mr. Mackrides has received a Presi later, we would have a better under added the corps was extremely proud dential commendation for his heroism, standing of other ethnic groups. Yet, to welcome the DeLancey's into its as well as recognition from State and the struggle for justice must continue, ranks. local government and civic organiza for it was just a year ago that an inno As the representative from the 20th tions. Gregory Mackrides' citizenship cent American of Chinese descent was Congressional District of Pennsylva beaten to death because his racial nia, where the DeLancey family re extends beyond his actions on behalf identity was mistaken by two men an sides, I, too, am proud of these young of Warren Parks. Through his work in gered by the effect of Japanese car men. They have demonstrated a love the Sports Clinic, he has contributed sales on our economy. Perhaps the of country and a willingness to serve toward the physical and moral devel most shocking aspect of this case were in its defense which seems to be grow opment of young people in Philadel the judge's statements that these men, ing more prevalent among the Na phia. He is the past president of the under ordinary circumstances, would tion's young adults. Optimist Club in Torresdale. He is also not harm others. The two men were And, these 20-year-old triplets are founder of the Northeast Victims of ordered to pay a fine of $3,000 and carrying on a family tradition by their Crime, an organization devoted to as were placed on probation. This exam enlistment. They are following in the sisting victims of crime through its ef ple of the denial of civil rights for mi footsteps of their father, Robert Sr., forts in cooperation with law enforce nority groups makes it essential for all an employee of West Leechburg ment agencies and counseling groups. Americans to be vigilant in protecting Works of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Gregory Mackrides' heroism and the rights of their fell ow Americans. Corp. Mr. DeLancey enlisted in the Air continuing citizenship is an example In the House of Representatives, we Force during World War II and served for all to follow.e have followed the recommendations of with the 482d Bomb Group in Europe. the Commission on Wartime Reloca Mr. Speaker, I am sure my col tion and Internment of Civilians and leagues in the Congress of the United TRIBUTE TO LEFTY introduced legislation to compensate States join me in applauding Robert, TRUSZOWSKI the victims of this injustice. I will Mark, and Edwin DeLancey and wish work with my colleagues to pass this ing them well in their new careers.e legislation. HON. FRANK HARRISON This year, the Bay Area Day of Re OF PENNSYLVANIA GREGORY MACKRIDES membrance Committee will be ad IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dressing and emphasizing the theme entitled, "The Struggle for Justice HON. ROBERT A. BORSKI Wednesday, February 8, 1984 Continues." I would like to take this OF PENNSYLVANIA e Mr. HARRISON. Mr. Speaker, on opportunity to join this group and rec IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sunday, March 4, Alex "Lefty" Trusz ognize February 19 as a day of remem Wednesday, February 8, 1984 kowski better known as "Lefty and His brance to reflect upon the goals of •Mr. BORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise to Singing Accordion," will be honored at freedom and justice which we all a testimonial dinner-dance. strive to achieve.• bring to the attention of my col leagues an outstanding example of For the last 55 years, Lefty has dedi citizenship and bravery in the heroism cated his life to music and, in particu WEST LEECHBURG TRIPLETS displayed by Mr. Gregory Mackrides lar, to polka music. He is famous JOIN MARINE CORPS of Philadelphia. throughout the Wyoming valley for On the evening of April 4, 1982 in bringing that music, with everlasting HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS Philadelphia, Mr. Mackrides inter good cheer, a smile and a friendly OF PENNSYLVANIA vened in an attempted assault by two remark far and wide to almost every IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES men on Warren Parks, a 14-year-old conceivable type of public and private youth. While attempting to protect event. He has performed for weddings, Wednesday, February 8, 1984 the youth, Mr. Mackrides sustained se clubs, social affairs and "Polish Day" e Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, earlier rious injuries from blows and stab programs throughout the State of this year the U.S. Marine Corps scored wounds. Pennsylvania. He has also given self another first in its illustrious career. Mr. Mackrides has long been active lessly of his time to entertain patients On January 6, 1984, Robert, Mark, in sports in the city of Philadelphia. in hospitals and all of us at numerous and Edwin DeLancey, triplet sons of He presently is the director of the charitable events. Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Sarah De Sports Clinic of Philadelphia. His And so, Mr. Speaker, Sunday, March Lancey of 112 Jantosik Street, West skills in weight-lifting led many to be 4, his family, friends, and neighbors Leechburg, Pa., raised their right lieve he would be a strong contender will return to Lefty some of the joy hands and were sworn into military for the 1984 Olympic games. Tragical that he has given to others. It is my service as marines. ly, the injuries sustained in the attack pleasure to join in that tribute here It was the first time in the recorded will prevent him from realizing this history of the corps' recruiting station dream. today and to recognize not only my in Pittsburgh, Pa., that a set of triplets Gregory Mackrides deserves the full friend "Lefty" but to his wife, Stella, had enlisted together. And, it is my est recognition and appreciation of the whose strength and support has made understanding that although such American people. Serious crime is a possible so much that he has done.e records are not kept at Marine Corps scourge on life in America today. Ef Headquarters such an event is looked forts are underway to improve the ef- upon as a rare occurrence, indeed. fectiveness and efficiency of our law The DeLancey triplets were recruit enforcement and judicial systems. The ed by Sgt. William Neilson of the individual can and should contribute Pittsburgh station and after their in many important ways to the law en- February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2375 LITHUANIAN INDEPENDENCE Diaz Arrivallaga. Most Hondurans are In prison, the sister, a church secretary afraid to speak out because anything other now freed, was beaten until she couldn't than unquestioned support draws the label speak, tortured with electric shock, and HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI ''communist." forced to sign documents with her blindfold OF MARYLAND Congressman Diaz told four visiting ex still on. The father and brother also still are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ecutives of the Christian Church that many Hondurans believe the Mariona Prison lies along a refuse-strewn United States has no interest in this poor road at the north of San Salvador where e Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I join country's problems but is using Honduras to the so called "death squads" have dumped in noting with Lithuanians around the deal with its own military objectives in Nica hundreds of bodies, some with the label world the 66th anniversary of the dec ragua and El Salvador. "communist" sticking from their mouths. laration of Lithuanian independence Diaz says he does not believe that Nicara Spokespersons for the Committee of the which took place on February 16, 1918. gua is trying to destablize Honduras and Mothers and Families of Disappeared, Im that nobody believes the Honduran govern prisoned and Assassinated Political Victims Lithuania is home to a proud people ment line that there are no Nicaraguan told the visiting Disciples of Christ leaders who are subjected unwillingly to counter-revolutionaries operating from that 40,000 civilians have been killed in the Soviet oppression. Their independ Honduran soil. political violence and 5,000 have simply dis ence, established in 1918, was sadly cut The young economist told the visitors appeared out of a population about equal to short after a heroic struggle against that Americans hear more about what is one of the larger cities in the U.S.e the numerically superior forces of going on than Hondurans and that his own views are not published in the capital. Communist Russia. Diaz said the Honduran Congress never The Lithuanian people, however, has debated the American military pres TRIBUTE TO JUDGE LYLE continue to demonstrate tremendous ence. The government has made modifica EDSON courage when faced with constant tions to an existing treaty to allow for the Soviet attempts to eradicate all forms building of two radar stations supporting re of their culture and tradition. Despite cognizance flights, five military air-fields, a HON. TOM LANTOS the most severe forms of repression military science center for training Salva OF CALIFORNIA doran troops, the Pine One, Two and Three and religious persecution, Lithuanian war games and a proposed permanent naval IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES culture and tradition still thrive. All base similar to Guantanamo in Cuba. Wednesday, February 8, 1984 Lithuanians retain a strong desire for Pine Three, he said, is planned for June freedom, and it is this desire from along the frontier with El Salvador and •Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, tomor which they get their strength. Guatemala. row the San Mateo County Bar Asso The Lithuanians are a symbol to the Diaz said Honduras has no border dispute ciation will host a farewell dinner to world of a people determined to main with Nicaragua as it has had with El Salva honor San Mateo County Superior tain their culture, traditions, lan dor. Further, there is favorable economic Court Judge Lyle R. Edson for 20 balance. He feels Honduras is being pushed years of judicial and civic accomplish guage, and religion even though the into a conflict with Nicaragua for the Soviet Union controls their society. deaths will be Honduran and the objectives ments. Those who will attend are his Through their determination, the someone else's. peers in the legal profession and the Lithuanians have succeeded in main Diaz said that as a Christian he believes many jurists for whom he has served taining their nationalistic spirit, and Honduras has had too much incursion by re as a model of excellence. that spirit remains alive today. ligious groups which "distort the Christian Judge Edson began his distinguished It is this spirit of freedom that we message" by supporting the status quo career with studies at the University whe the church should be a force for social of San Francisco, which were inter honor today. Let the Lithuanian change. people know that we, in the United rupted by meritorious service as a States, recognize and respect their SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR .-Four naval officer in the South Pacific right to freedom and self-determina United States church officials were refused during World War II. He completed tion. We honor and encourage their admittance to the Mariona Prison where po his law degree at the University of San perseverance. Their struggle is not, litical prisoners are detained, in their at Francisco, graduating cum laude in and will not, be forgotten.• tempt to see a church worker held more 1948. He was admitted to the Califor than two months without charge. nia' Bar on January 11, 1949. Guards at the prison, after checking with Judge Edson began his service to the KISSINGER COMMISSION superiors, turned the Americans away, ex citizens of San Mateo County when he CRITICIZED plaining that church groups sometimes are a cover for journalists who write negative was appointed deputy district attorney reports on the prison. and then chief deputy district attor HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR. A delegation led by the Rev. David A. ney in 1955. In 1964, he was appointed OF INDIANA Vargas, executive secretary for Latin Amer as a judge of the Municipal Court for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ica and the Caribbean of the Christian the Southern Judicial District of San Church ter, food and medicine to refugees by the then Gov. Ronald Reagan, who ap of Indianapolis, Ind. churches as assistance to guerrillas engaged pointed him a judge of the Superior Before Congress throws one more in a war of independence. Court of San Mateo County. It is espe saddle on U.S. taxpayers, I think we American missionaries visit Grande cially his sensitivity and commitment should all reflect on these criticisms of weekly but members of his church are afraid to because of danger to Salvadorans. which will be sorely missed with the the Kissinger Commission which, as retirement of Judge Edson. President Reagan has said in essence, In addition to the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero here, dozens of clergy have A native of Ogden, Utah, Judge have rubber stamped the administra been killed and more than 400 lay workers Edson has also distinguished himself tion's military-look-the-other-way-on have disappeared in recent years. as an involved resident of the commu human-rights policy in Latin America. Grande, in his middle 20's and a church nity of Redwood City where he and TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS .-The lone relief supplies worker, was arrested in a mid his wife, Josephine, raised their 5 chil Christian Democrat in Honduras' Congress night raid in November along with his says the Kissinger Commission on Central father, sister, 21-year-old brother and small dren. He has contributed greatly to America was not interested in hearing views er children. Government troops sacked the many public service groups such as the opposing the American military presence. house of the sister, stealing furniture, cloth Redwood City Public Library Board, The commission did not interview opposi ing and leading all but the small children the Rotary Club of Redwood City, and tion leaders in Honduras, says Efrain A. away blindfolded. the California Judges Association. In 2376 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 these. as in all ventures he undertook, gins. The rabbi's interests and efforts While in Vietnam, our soldiers faced he exhibited valuable leadership. are truly ecumenical. While in the Wy all of the dangers of war, knowing it Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to have oming Valley. he has been a lecturer was possible to be injured or killed. this opportunity to acknowledge the in the department of theology at Our Government also recognized these accomplishments of Judge Lyle R. King's College. an independent liberal dangers and the potentially disabling Edson and to wish him and his family arts college operated by the Fathers of environment in which our men and a very enjoyable and productive the Congregation of the Holy Cross. women served. The United States as future.e He has served as Jewish chaplain at sumed responsibility for those soldiers the Retreat State Hospital and at the who did, in fact, suffer physically and Chase Correctional Institution in mentally from the ravages of war. RABBI ARNOLD M. SHEVLIN RE Dallas. He has been chairman of the However, all of the damaging effects CEIVES B'NAI B'RITH COMMU Nesbitt Hospital Institutional Review of the war were not known to those NITY SERVICE AWARD FROM Committee. vice chairman of the serving in Vietnam nor to the Ameri S. J. STRAUSS LODGE NO. 139 Wilkes-Barre General Hospital Pasto can public. Several years of herbicide ral Care Advisory Committee, first spraying passed before the National HON. FRANK HARRISON vice president of the Board of Direc Cancer Institute released results of OF PENNSYLVANIA tors of Home Care Management of Lu studies examining the effects of agent IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES zerne County. He has served on the orange on laboratory animals. The Wednesday, February 8, 1984 advisory boards of both the Wyoming chemical compound for agent orange Valley Clinic and the Heinz Rehabili contains high levels of the contami e Mr. HARRISON. Mr. Speaker, on tation Center. His interests and activi nant dioxin. It was shown to cause Sunday evening, February 12, the Sel ties extend as well to the Wilkes-Barre birth defects in mice, generating great igman J. Strauss Lodge of B'nai B'rith Rotary Club, the Luzerne County His concern about similar effects in will hold its annual Lincoln Day torical Society, the Martin Luther humans. At the same time, newspapers Dinner. King Committee of Luzerne County. in Vietnam began to report the pres This is a significant event for our the Century Club of King's College entire community. It symbolizes the ence of health problems. including and the Planned Parenthood Associa birth defects, in rural populations brotherhood which should exist be tion of Luzerne County. tween all peoples and all races and which had been exposed to herbicides. His past memberships and affili The American response to this news which, indeed, must exist if we are ul ations are too numerous to mention. timately to live in a world free of strife was first, to restrict the use of agent Mr. Speaker, but special note must be orange to remote areas of Vietnam; and the horrors of war. taken that he has given of his time as But this event is significant for an then later, to stop all spraying of a lecturer at many of our institutions agent orange. other reason, as well, Mr. Speaker. It of higher learning: Wilkes College, affords the S. J . Strauss Lodge the op But thousands of veterans were ex College Misericordia, Keystone Junior posed to agent orange before the ban portunity to pay tribute, each year, to College, and the Penn State University an outstanding individual through the in 1971. Many have developed serious campus. illnesses, including skin conditions, presentation of their Community And so, Mr. Speaker, on the evening Service Award. This year's most de cancer, liver ailments. numbness in the of February 12, the entire Wyoming extremities, vision and hearing impair serving recipient of that tribute is Valley community will pause to pay Rabbi Arnold M. Shevlin, spiritual ments, and birth defects in their chil tribute to a unique human being. to a dren. They have urged the Veterans leader of Congregation B'nai B'rith of man who symbolizes the brotherhood Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Administration to provide medical which the Lincoln Day Dinner was in treatment for their disorders and Rabbi Shevlin was born in Philadel stituted to honor and to a man whose many t~ave filed for disability compen phia and is a graduate of Gratz Col service, in so many different ways, has lege, Temple University, the Hebrew made our community a better place. sation. Most of these attempts to Union College-Institute of Religion It is a pleasure for me, Mr. Speaker, secure relief have not been successful and the Hebrew Union College. He to join with his congregation, his as the Veterans Administration has holds the degrees both of doctor of di family, and his many friends in paying hesitated to assume responsibility for vinity and of master of Hebrew litera special tribute to Rabbi Arnold M. the agent orange exposure. ture. Shevlin on this occasion and, as well, Mr. Speaker. the Veterans Adminis In 1947, as a student rabbi, Arnold to bring his achievements to the atten tration has refused to permit disability M. Shevlin founded Temple Israel in tion of my friends and colleagues here and death benefits for those veterans Fairfield, Conn. After 4 years service in the House.e suffering the results of exposure to there, he entered the U.S. Army and dioxin, claiming there is not conclusive served in the Korean Campaign. Upon evidence linking various medical ail his release from active duty, he served HELP FOR AGENT ORANGE ments with exposure to agent orange. as rabbi in Temple Beth Sholom, Dan VICTIMS However, the Veterans Administration ville, Va., and Congregation Rodeph was responsible for conducting such Shalom, Philadelphia. During this HON. ROBERT A. BORSKI medical studies. Through foot-drag latter service, he was also vice presi OF PENNSYLVANIA ging and delay tactics, it avoided un dent of the board of rabbis in Phila IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dertaking any substantive research for delphia and cochairman of the Gover several years. nor's Committee on Mental Health for Wednesday, February 8, 1984 Finally, in 1979, Congress ordered Philadelphia. e Mr. BORSKI. Mr. Speaker, the pas the Veterans Administration to docu Fourteen years ago, Rabbi Shevlin sage in the House of Representatives ment the health effects of agent came to Wilkes-Barre as the spiritual of H.R. 1961, the Vietnam Veterans' orange. But the Administration was leader of Congregation B'nai B'rith. Agent Orange Relief Act of 1983, is an unable to determine how best to pro Its temple is presently located at 408 important first step which may, at ceed with the study and, in October Wyoming Avenue, across the bridge in least in some small way, compensate 1982, turned responsibility for the Kingston. That fact is symbolic; for those who were exposed to the harm study over to the Centers for Disease Rabbi Shevlin's influence in the com ful effects of agent orange. Agent Control, which is still conducting re munity spans not only the Susquehan orange, a toxic herbicide mixture, was search. na River but men, women and organi used during the Vietnam war to defoli During all of this time, Vietnam vet zations of all faiths and national ori- ate jungle growth. erans continued to manifest illnesses February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2377 and were unable to secure help from Statistics show that books and litera and Lincoln, who wrote in his compari the country they served so valiantly. ture concerning Abraham Lincoln are son: These veterans have certainly waited only exceeded by the Bible. It is diffi long enough. They need our help now. cult to project new information on the JESUS AND LINCOLN H.R. 1961 is one way in which we can greatness of Abraham Lincoln. There is a striking similarity between the Man of Galilee and the man from Illi help redress the physical suffering Homer Hock wrote: nois. they have experienced. LINCOLN Both had obscure beginnings. While this legislation will not com There is no new thing to be said of Lin Each came to his own and they received him pensate veterans for all illnesses they coln. There is no new thing to be said of the not. developed after their return from Viet mountains, or of the sea, or of the stars. Neither allowed difficulty to turn him from nam, it will provide disability and The years may go their way, but the same his central purpose. death benefits to victims of those con old mountains lift their granite shoulders Both prepared for responsibility through ditions most likely to be caused by above the drifting clouds, the same mysteri self-sacrifice and self-denial. agent orange. Veterans will be permit ous seas beat upon the shore, and the same Both loved little children. ted to recover for chloracne, a skin dis silent stars keep holy vigil above a tired Both befriended the weak. world. But to mountains and seas and stars The common people heard each of them order; cancerous tumors of soft tis men turn forever in unwearied homage. And gladly. ' sues; and, porphyria cutanea tarda, a thus with Lincoln. For he was mountain in Neither condescended, yet both loved all rare liver disease. grandeur of soul; he was sea in deep under men as children of God. I am proud to lend my support to voice of mystic loneliness; he was star in Both hated the things which enslaved men. this legislation. We asked much of our steadfast purity of purpose and of service. Each had a passion for justice and truth. young men and women who served our And he abides. Each took the pains of humanity as his own country in Vietnam. We asked them to In the compilation by William E. so that he was a "man of sorrows . . . ac fight, suffer, and die. Now, they are Barton entitled "Abraham Lincoln's quainted with grief." asking for our help. H.R. 1961 is but Creed" it is written: Neither made room for bitterness. one small way to alleviate the long Each of them knew the loneliness of follow I believe in God, the Almighty Ruler of ing the course of the heart rather than lasting effects of that war on these nations, our great and good and merciful the dictates of men. brave Americans.e Maker, our Father in heaven, who notes the Both marched resolutely toward death for fall of a sparrow and numbers the hairs on humanity. our heads. I recognize the sublime truth an Each of them died to set men free. A TRIBUTE TO THE 175TH nounced in the Holy Scriptures and proved BIRTHDAY OF ABRAHAM LIN by all history that those nations are blessed On Sunday, February 12, there will COLN whose God is the Lord. I believe that the be a traditional laying of the wreath will of God prevails. Without him, all at the beautiful Lincoln statue at Lin HON. FRANK J. GUARINI human reliance is vain. With that assistance coln Park, in Jersey City. I look for I cannot fail. I have a solemn vow registered ward later to being at the annual OF NEW JERSEY in heaven to finish the work I am in, in full IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dinner at the casino in the park, where view of my responsibility to my God, with Albert Angrisani, former Assistant Wednesday, February 8, 1984 malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives me Secretary of Labor, to Bayonne's own e Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, Febru to see the right. U.S. Secretary of Labor Raymond J. ary 12, 1984, will mark the l 75th anni Abraham Lincoln, with the trials Donovan, will be the guest speaker. versary of the birth of Abraham Lin Ceremonies at the dinner will in coln, the immortal 16th President of and tribulations of his personal and political life, is epitomized in the late clude the installation of retired Supe the United States of America. rior Court Judge Henry B. McFarland It is my pleasure to have been invit John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Cour age": as the 1984-85 president of the Jersey ed once again to functions being con City Lincoln Association. ducted commemorating this great To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special During the ceremonies it will be my President's birthday as conducted by distinct pleasure to present a bust of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City. combination of time, place, and circum stance. It is an opportunity that sooner or Abraham Lincoln to the 1983-84 out This association, composed of many later is presented to us all. Politics merely going president, my dear friend, Judge of New Jersey's outstanding citizens, is furnish one arena which imposes special J. Leonard Hornstein, of the Superior the oldest continuous organization in tests of courage. In whatever arena of life Court of New Jersey. I am pleased to the entire United States dedicated to one may meet the challenge of courage, continue this tradition, which I com the memory of Abraham Lincoln. whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if Their annual events have been con he follows his conscience-the loss of his menced in 1982 when I presented the ducted continuously and without friends, his fortune, his contentment, even first bust to outgoing president, Joan interruption since 1866, dedicated to the esteem of his fellow men-each man Quigley, vice president of St. Francis the ideals and principals of this great must decide for himself the course he will Hospital, and last year to Mark Sulli follow. The stories of past courage can van, Jr., attorney at law, who served man, who was principally responsible define that ingredient-they can teach, they for the reservation of the United last year. can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. Officers and trustees to be installed States of America from political disin But they cannot supply courage itself. For tegration in perhaps the most troubled this each man must look into his own soul. at the association's 119th annual time in our Nation's history. dinner on February 12 will be Dorothy In addition to paying tribute to the WHAT PEOPLE SAID McGrath, first vice president, Dr. Great Emancipator, it is my desire to The great poet Carl Sandburg said: Reginald Farrar, second vice presi congratulate and compliment the Lin When people talked about Lincoln, it was dent; Edwin Bogart, third vice presi coln Association for its continued re nearly always about one or more of these dent, Lorraine 0. Smith, secretary, membrance, perpetuating itself to the five things: (1) how long, tall, quick, strong, Nicholas Boshko, treasurer, and J. or awkward in looks he was; <2> how he told Owen Grundy, historian. high ideals and principles of Abraham stories and jokes, how he was comical or Lincoln. pleasant or kindly; (3) how he could be Trustees are John J. Quigley, Jr., The litany of Lincoln's difficult road silent, melancholy, sad; <4> how he was Peter T. D. Murphy, the Reverend to the White House is outlined as fol ready to learn and looking for chances to Edward Glynn, S.J., Gustav Onorato, lows. A study thereof indicates the learn; (5) how he was ready to help a friend, Mrs. J. Randolph Jones, Kevin Ward, many disappointments and failures a stranger, or even a dumb animal in dis and Edward J. Davin. I am pleased Abraham Lincoln encountered and en tress. that Assemblyman Paul Cuprowski dured and overcame before his elec It was K. Morgan Edwards who has introduced a resolution in the New tion to the Presidency in 1860. made the comparison of Jesus Christ Jersey Assembly commemorating this 2378 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 175th anniversary, and praising the as That way, if anything went wrong, A.T.&T. Representation at the retirement sociation. would feel some loyalty and help me. dinner will be from the following orga Lincoln's life indeed echoes the Wrong. There is no such thing as loyalty in nizations: Boy Scouts; Catholic Com the telephone business now. This is what words of the late Robert F. Kennedy happened when I reported a dead telephone mittee on Scouting; NCCJ; NAACP; who said: to American Telephone and Telegraph United Way of Hudson County; Ameri But I know of no American who would not Company: can Red Cross; USO Motby; Bayonne rather be a servant in the imperfect house A.T.&T. "What exactly is the problem?" Housing Authority; South Shore Vil of freedom, than be a master of all the em Me. "I don't know. The telephone doesn't lage not for Profit Corp.; South Shore pires of tyranny. work." Village Leased Housing Corp.; New I feel certain that Martin Luther A.T.&T. "Is the problem with the equip ment or the line?" Jersey Association of Housing Au King, Jr., as he expressed in his Me. "How should I know?" thorities; National Association of famous message, had Abraham Lin A.T.&T. "If your problem is with the line, Housing Officials; National Housing coln in mind when he said: New York Telephone will have to service Conference; Tiro A. Segno of New It is no longer a choice between violence you. If it is the equipment, American Bell is York, Inc. On Saturday, February 18, 1984, renewal program, which revitalized A funny thing happened on the way to Thomas W. Zito will be honored by the economic life of the central core of the A.T.&T. divestiture. Everyone forgot to the United Service Organization, in co the city of Bayonne, and 65 employ service the customer. A lot of material has operation with other community serv ees. In connection with the urban re been published on the divestiture, but none ice organizations, for 42 years of newal program and with the backing of it explained how frustrating it would be to get your telephone fixed. public service to his community. Mr. and support of the former mayor, I thought I had it figured out. I would buy Zito retired as director of the Bayonne Francis Fitzpatrick, and city of Ba my phone from American Bell, the part of Housing Authority on November 30, yonne received the first letter of credit A.T.&T. that sells and repairs equipment. 1983. from the Urban Renewal Administra- February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2379 tion for the· $1 million credit toward adjunct instructor. During this period, and James T. O'Halloran, the guest the cost of a new city hall. the Dumbarton Oaks Agreement re speaker, according to Dominick Cione, In 1960, the State of New Jersey sulted in the free float of gold which, chairman of the event. mandated that all veterans' projects in prior to the agreement, was pegged at I am certain that my colleagues here the State be sold. Mr. Zito organized $32 per ounce. Mr. Zito accurately pre in the House of Representatives wish the support of the political and corpo dicted and recommended to his stu to join me in this salute to Thomas rate leaders in the city of Bayonne dents that gold shares be purchased as Zito, for indeed he has made our great and arranged for the purchase of the a hedge against the inflation which Nation even greater.e 260-unit garden apartment through was to follow. Many of his students the sale of renewal bonds to Allstate benefited from the increase in value of Insurance Co. Today, this apartment gold shares. UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIA complex has the lowest rent in the In addition to his duties as an acade TION CELEBRATES 90TH ANNI city without the benefit of any Feder mician and as executive director of the VERSARY al subsidies. authority, Mr. Zito devoted time to During the Nixon years, no direct community endeavors. He served the HON. WILLIAM 0. LIPINSKI Federal funds were available as out Boy Scouts, the United Way, the Se OF ILLINOIS right grants for construction funds for lective Service System, the National IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES housing for low-income families. Mr. Conference of Christians and Jews, Zito recommended to all New Jersey the USO, the NAACP, and National Wednesday, February 8, 1984 public housing authorities that they and State housing organizations. e Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, on create nonprofit corporations to For the Boy Scouts, he was instru February 22, 1984, the Ukrainian Na comply with the provisions of the mental, as president, in the develop tional Association celebrates the 90th housing laws making funds available ment of a lake at Camp Lewis; for the anniversary of its founding. The UNA for the private sector. Catholic Committee on Scouting, as is the oldest and largest Ukrainian or In this manner, a nonprofit corpora chairman, he supported the annual ganization in America, and has provid tion, South Shore Village II, was nuns' day at Camp Lewis; for the ed valuable leadership and services to formed as an instrumentality of the United Way, as president, he was a the Ukrainian community. authority to construct and purchase factor in the first million-dollar cam Since its founding by Ukrainian im housing units for occupancy by low paign; for the NCCJ, he served as migrants on February 22, 1894, the income families. As a result of this en chairman of the brotherhood annual Ukrainian National Association has deavor, our 600 units of housing award dinner; for the NAACP, he helped Ukrainians succeed in the New became a reality. spearheaded the program of home World while maintaining contact with The format of the organization of ownership housing for minorities; for their cultural heritage. UNA members tenants into a unity council was de national housing groups he served as established cultural, religious, patriot vised by Mr. Zito. Each apartment an officer and board member. ic, and social activities to foster a complex elected a president, and all It is no surprise, therefore, that for sense of community in their neighbor the presidents collectively were orga his endeavors on behalf of others, hoods. The UNA fraternal and insur nized as the unity council. The council Tom Zito was honored by the Boy ance benefit functions provided recent has a staff of five paid employees Scouts with the Silver Beaver; the immigrants with important financial whose function is to assist the tenants Catholic Committee on Scouting with assistance. in all aspects of their social and cultur the Pelican and St. George Award; the There are over 80,000 UNA members al well-being. This uniqueness of the NAACP with the Man of the Year in 450 local branches located across unity council is that although the Award; the NAACP as the Catholic the United States and Canada. The staff is employed by the authority, honoree; the Catholic War Veterans as members meet regularly to discuss or their basic obligation is to the needs of the recipient of the God and Country ganization and community issues, plan all tenants. Mr. Zito always main Award, and by the New Jersey Associa religious and patriotic ceremonies, and tained that the unity council should tion of Housing Officials as the organize social and athletic events. In operate independently-free from po Second Achievement Awardee. addition, many branches participate in litical interference. One significant phase of his housing community fund drives, parent-teach In other community endeavors, Mr. experience was being selected by the er associations, and other civic activi Zito was appointed a trustee of the Agency for International Development ties. board of education because of his edu to visit Costa Rica and report to the The local branches of the UNA con cational background as a teacher and agency on the progress of American tinue to provide financial assistance to administrator. housing aid. Another major achieve Ukrainians across the country. Annual In 1956, Esso, the largest single tax ment was the development and ap scholarships to needy students, low-in payer, requested that the city of Ba proval by HUD of an authority oper terest loans and an emergency fund yonne and the board of education ation which resulted in setting up a re for victims of natural disasters are just reduce expenditures 10 percent so that serve to support the obligations of a a few of he many services provided by taxes could be reduced in 1956 and to not-for-profit corporation. the Ukramian National Association. hold the line in 1957, with no increases Tom Zito has provided the inspira The UNA publishes newspapers and in taxes or expenditures. Under Mr. tion and perspiration to get the job periodicals, both in English and in Zito's leadership as president of the done. He believes that with every Ukrainian, that keep readers informed board of education, the economies problem there is an opportunity to win of the progress of the UNA and link were achieved. Esso officials showed the grace of strength and progress, Ukrainians around the world. their appreciation by providing a lake and believes that a person's life work The Ukrainian National Association for Scouters at Camp Lewis and the must not only be simply good, it must is a shining example of the initiative engineering data and plans to con be good for something. taken by immigrants to this country. struct a bridge between the high Taking part in the program are the We can all be proud that this organi school and technical school. This following, which indicates the commu zation, set up nearly a century ago by bridge made it possible to achieve nitywide love and admiration for newcomers in a strange land, contin economies from the common use of Tom's work: Mayor Dennis Collins, ues to serve its people. The guidance, the auditorium for study classes in honorary chairman; Councilman Neil leadership, and solidarity provided by stead of individual homeroom classes. De Sena, Michael Sheehan, cochair the UNA still enrich the lives of thou From 1953 to 1976, Mr. Zito taught man; Assemblyman Joseph Doria, who sands of Ukrainian-Americans. I con economics at Rutgers University as an will be joined by Anthony Cortalessa; gratulate the Ukrainian National As- 2380 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 sociation on its 90th anniversary, and I is an honest man. He has never lied. He is UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCTION wish the UNA and its members many under arrest only because we are Jewish and AND RETRAINING ACT more years of success in serving the want to leave for Israel ... Already four Ukrainian-American community.e years we have waited for permission to leave. Now Papa is arrested and we don't HON. HANK BROWN know what will happen to us. I beg you to OF COLORADO BEAGLE CHANNEL release my Papa and let us leave for Israel. Despite this urgent plea, Mr. Tarno IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO polsky was tried, without legal repre Wednesday, February 8, 1984 OF CALIFORNIA sentation and sentenced to 3 years of e Mr. BROWN of Colorado. Mr. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES imprisonment in a Siberian labor Speaker, today, I am introducing the Wednesday, February 8, 1984 camp. Unemployment Reduction and Re e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, In November, Olga embarked on a 6- training Act, which proposes a jobs it is welcome news to read that the day journey to visit her husband. Prior tax credit for those who hire the long Foreign Ministers of Argentina and to her trip, she was informed by prison term unemployed. Chile have signed a Declaration of authorities that she would be allowed Although the United States has Peace and Friendship and have to visit her husband three times a year made great strides in recovering from pledged to settle the dispute over the and bring him one small package, the 1981-82 recession, we are not out Beagle Channel. weighing 1 kilogram, during each visit. of the woods with respect to unem As you will recall, those two nations Olga packed up a small amount of ployment. We still have 8 percent of almost went to war in 1978, with each warm clothing for her husband and our labor force out of work. What is claiming territorial jurisdiction over traveled over 3,500 miles by train from needed is an incentive for the private the waterway at the southern tip of Kharkov to Chita. At the end of her sector to increase the size of its work South America. difficult journey, she was told by force. Special recognition should be given prison authorities that she would not This bill is directed at small busi to Pope John Paul II who engaged in a be allowed to see her husband. Al nesses, which account for about one 5-year mediation effort trying to find though at first the prison authorities half of the Nation's total employment. a formula that would resolve the con refused to tell her why she had been It limits the tax credit to a maximum flicting claims. denied permission to visit Yuri, she Although there have been no details of $100,000 per taxable year and to the was finally told that her husband had unemployment insurance wages paid released yet on the exact terms for the broken a prison rule by placing his settlement of the dispute, apparently on a qualified employee during the small notebook on his pillow instead of first year of employment. both nations will be working together keeping it on his nightstand. And as a to draw up the final treaty. Qualified workers are defined in the I am pleased that the Governments result of this small infraction, Olga's bill as employees who have been invol of Argentina and Chile have acted in a long trip was for naught. untarily unemployed and were eligible responsible, constructive manner to re I am sure that my colleagues can to receive or received unemployment solve a conflict that for so long served sympathize with the Tarnopolsky compensation during the 12 consecu to block cooperative relations between family and the persecution they have tive weeks immediately preceding the two.e been forced to su~fer. It is an outrage their hiring. that this innocent family, who simply The tax credit is refundable, allow desire to practice their religion and ing an employer to take immediate ad THE 1984 CONGRESSIONAL CALL live in Israel, have become victims of TO CONSCIENCE VIGIL vantage of its benefits, even if he the tyranny of Soviet authorities. Un doesn't have any tax liability for the fortunately, the Tarnopolsky family is current year. For new employers, espe HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER only one of thousands who are denied cially, this can help in meeting cash OF ILLINOIS permission to emigrate, are not al flow problems and may be the decid IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lowed to practice their religion and are ing factor in hiring additional employ Wednesday, February 8, 1984 subject to great harassment. During ees. e Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, as a 1983 Soviet emigration reached an all Currently, the Tax Code provides a participant in the 1984 Congressional time low of 1,314 and the prospects for jobs tax credit for a targeted group of Call to Conscience Vigil for Soviet 1984 are not much better. workers. This group includes handi Jews, I would like to call my col We must not forget the plight of the capped people undergoing vocational leagues' attention to the plight of the Tarnopolsky family and the injustice rehabilitation and economically disad Tarnopolsky family of Kharkov. suffered by other Soviet refuseniks. vantaged Vietnam-era veterans. The Tarnopolsky family, Yuri, Olga, Their situation emphasizes the need My proposal is written to coexist and their 12-year-old daugllter Irina, for congressional activity, such as the with the targeted jobs tax credit pro originally applied to emigrate to Israel Congressional Human Rights Caucus gram. An employer could choose to in June 1979. They have been refused and the International Parliamentary file for a credit under either provision, permission for an exit visa several Group for Human Rights in the Soviet if he meets the qualifying criteria. times and have been subject to great Union, to focus attention on the However, he would not be eligible for hardship and harassment. Yuri, an or abuses practiced by the Soviet Govern both credits on the same employee in ganic chemist, lost his professional ment. We must do all that we can to the same year. standing in the scientific community help Irina Tarnopolsky realize her and last March Yuri was arrested and I believe we need to encourage con dream of living in Israel and practicing tinued investment and job creation in charged with anti-Soviet slander. her religion. There is no more vital Following the arrest of her father, the United States, and the jobs tax young Irina corresponded with Yuri task than to help innocent victims credit is one means of doing just that. Andropov, General Secretary CPSU, whose only crime is their desire for I urge my colleagues to join me in this requesting justice for her father. She human liberty·• initiative. Please contact my office if wrote, you would like to cosponsor this jobs My father, Yuri Tarnopolsky is in prison proposal.• now. He is accused of slandering the Soviet system and soon will be tried. But my Papa February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2381 HON. JAMES E. VAN ZANDT spirit of his example as a public serv because steel is a national industry, as ant will remain. We understand that shown in a recent report of the Con HON. RICHARDT. SCHULZE there is more still that Jimmie wishes gressional Research Service. It is, Mr. OF PENNSYLVANIA to do, including the writing of his Speaker, an opportunity for Govern IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES memoirs. So I will simply say thank ment to give steel and those who you, Jimmie, and join with my col derive their livelihoods from it a new Tuesday, January 31, 1984 leagues in wishing you well.e beginning in the international market e Mr. SCHULZE. Mr. Speaker, the place.• State of Pennsylvania has long had a tradition of sending to Washington STEEL MODERNIZATION ACT OF men who have made significant and 1984 CERTIFICATION OF HUMAN lasting contributions to our Nation. RIGHTS PROGRESS IN EL SAL Since the earliest days of our Repub HON. BOB McEWEN VADOR lic, Pennsylvanians have served this OF OHIO country in great and various ways. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. BOB EDGAR Often these individuals have possessed Wednesday, February 8, 1984 OF PENNSYLVANIA talents in numerous fields, and became IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES known not only as national, but world •Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise leaders. Ben Franklin and Gen. today to introduce the Steel Modern Wednesday, February 8, 1984 George C. Marshall are representative ization Act of 1984-legislation to pro • Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, I want to of such men. vide investment tax credits for the commend the House for its action yes Jimmie Van Zandt follows in this modernization of America's steel in terday in again passing legislation to line of distinguished Pennsylvanians. dustry. require the President to certify Never content to be accomplished in Mr. Speaker, this bill is not a bailout progress on ending human rights vio only one area, Jimmie served where of a dying industry, because the indus lations in El Salvador as a condition to the need was greatest. Hailing from try is not dying. We see evidence of continued military aid to that troubled the town of Altoona in the center of the vitality of the steel industry as it country. the Keystone State, and the hub of attempts to meet head on the pressure As an original sponsor of this meas the railroad industry, Jimmie began of foreign competition. f;;teel compa ure, it has always been my chief con the first of his several careers with the nies throughout the country are in cern that the United States has a railroad. After serving 20 years in that vesting in new technology: Armco, moral and practical responsibility to capacity, Jimmie Van Zandt won a headquartered in my own congression refuse to condone repression and offi seat in the U.S. Congress. In 1943, de al district, is installing state-of-the-art cial terrorism. The evidence which I ciding that he could better serve his continuous casters at some of its have gathered shows that the Govern country in the war against the Axis plants. Bethlehem Steel has commit ment of El Salvador has not exercised powers, he enlisted in the Navy. As ted a half-billion dollars for continu adequate control over the Salvadoran with all things he has done, he ex ous casters just now coming on line. military and the so-called death celled in this role, rising to the rank of And the list goes on. squads with regard to violations of captain by 1946. Yet, because of the poor perform fundamental human rights. Tens of Returning to the House of Repre ance of the industry in the last 2 thousands of Savladoran civilians and sentatives after this period of naval years, it is hard pressed to generate in a number of American citizens have service, he served on the Armed Serv ternal funds for investment and to been victims of political violence, ices Committee, and as the ranking present a favorable outlook to the fi while the Salvadoran authorities con member of the Joint Committee on nancial community. Thus, its ambi tinue to refuse to curb the institutions Atomic Energy. tious plans to invest over $5 billion in and individuals which clearly are re For the past 20 years Jimmie has 1981 had to be scaled back by more sponsible for the terror. served selflessly as the secretary of than half. I should emphasize that the need for the Pennsylvania congressional dele This means that foreign steel pro the House to act on this legislation gation. He has done so in the best bi ducers who have modernized sooner was created by President Reagan when partisan spirit, serving with equal en will continue to stay ahead of us. In he pocket vetoed identical certification thusiasm both Republican and Demo Europe and Japan, the cost of capital legislation at the end of 1983. I have cratic members. His wealth of experi embodied in 1 ton of steel is 25 percent joined several other Members of Con ence about the ways and means of less than in the United States. And gress in a lawsuit challenging the va Congress and Washington, coupled the result is that their steel industries, lidity of the use of the pocket veto in with his intimate knowledge of Penn and those in countries like Brazil and this case. I viewed the President's veto sylvania's resources and needs, have Korea, produce more steel, about twice of certification as a signal that with enabled him to serve in this capacity as much as we do, using continuous the President's blessing, recommended as no one else possibly could. His past casters and other new technologies. that military aid to El Salvador be accomplishments never prevented him This bill provides only an incentive conditioned on human rights progress from attending to whatever details to our steel industry to modernize, so and that such conditions be formally were necessary to attain results that that it can achieve a truly competitive codified in law. were in the best interest of his home place in the world steel market. It does The simple fact is that there will State and the country. not take over the industry. The choice never be any progress toward long Among the many citations that he to modernize is theirs. term stability in El Salvador until has received are those from veterans But, the incentives provided in this both official terrorism and civil war organizations, including the Veterans bill mean that the industry can can be wound down. The Kissinger of Foreign Wars Distinguished Service present to investors a more favorable Commission's recommendations for Medal. Fittingly, the James E. Van financial plan, which means lower vastly increased military and economic Zandt Veterans' Administration costs of capital, and ultimately lower aid to El Salvador and other Central Center will be dedicated later this year costs of producing steel. It enhances American countries can serve no pur in Jimmie's hometown of Altoona. security for the jobs of nearly 300,000 pose unless political and social stabili This is truly a worthy tribute to him. workers employed in the industry ty can form the foundation for a While the delegation will surely miss itself, and of another 800,000 or so worthwhile investment of this type. the benefit of Jimmie's experience, as people in industries dependent on The administration has yet to propose well as his commitment to service, the steel. It benefits the whole country, a viable policy for winding down the 2382 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 violence, and in fact has created an at ter currently has a membership of leadership spanning more than half a mosphere in which it appears that the 250,000, with chapters in 57 countries. century at the Jewish Community United States is not essentially con Their long-held ideal has been to pro Center of Wyoming Valley. And, I am cerned with continued, widespread, po vide programs that foster communica certain, dear to his heart, Lou re litically motivated violence. tion between individuals, in turn ena ceived, in 1973, the community service One major flaw of the Kissinger bling people to better experience the award of the Seligman J. Strauss Commission report, which is now sacrament of marriage. Lodge 139 of B'nai B'rith. That covet being touted as a blueprint for U.S. Many believe the value of the family ed award is given each year to a com policy in Central America, is that it has diminished in the present era of munity leader, who by his example fails to consider new, creative ap rapid sociological and technological and his efforts, has done most to pro proaches to diplomacy and negotiation change. We must not let this happen. which might help defuse the escalat A healthy marriage, with its sacrifices mote the cause of brotherhood and ing cycle of violence which now traps and joys, contributes to the develop make a better community for all of us El Salvador and its people. My own ment of trust and communication be to share. view, after visting Central America tween individuals, and thus to the per Particular note must be made, also, and studying this situation, is that the sonal growth of our people. of Lou's outstanding efforts following role of the Catholic Church and clergy The observance of World Marriage the 1972 Agnes flood. He brought the could be a key to the search for peace Day can remind us of the important entire Jewish Community Center to and negotiation. For example, the con influence marriage can and should gether in one effort to overcome the servative and liberal clergy within have on our society. trauma of the loss and to rebuild that Central America could mitigate the I call on my colleagues to consider which had been destroyed. At the conflict by using social and moral in the message of World Marriage Day same time, he worked tirelessly with fluence with leftist and rightist politi and the fine work of Worldwide Mar the United Way of Wyoming Valley cal factions. An American policy riage Encounter.e and its various member agencies to firmly and visibly. identified with the bring relief beyond his own communi quest for a peaceful settlement could TRIBUTE TO LOUIS SMITH, ty to all the tens of thousands who foster the types of needed negotiations FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE were afflicted by the Agnes disaster. between the various factions in El Sal JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER Over the years, Mr. Smith was a vador. I believe that there are institu member of the general board of direc tions and groups within Central Amer tors of the Ecumenical Council of Wy ica committed to ending the violence, HON. FRANK HARRISON oming Valley and of the board of but that these parties are not receiv OF PENNSYLVANIA trustees of the Luzerne County Com ing adequate support from our Gov IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES munity College. He was a devoted and ernment officials and diplomats. Wednesday, February 8, 1984 very active member of Temple Israel. Within this year it is my hope to e Mr. HARRISON. Mr. Speaker, my Beyond the titles and the awards again visit Central America, as I did in and, yes, even beyond his daily work, 1981, in order to seek out ways that native Wyoming Valley and the American policy could be used con Jewish community in particular, suf most of all we remember Lou Smith as structively for peace in the region. As fered a grievous loss with the death of a gentle, caring, dedicated human one who views the crisis in Central Louis Smith, the former executive di being. He could not see human suffer America as a continuing threat to rector of the Jewish Community ing without wanting to do something peace and stability in our hemisphere, Center, who passed away this past about it. He could not see ignorance and as one who has serious disagree Sunday in Lauderhill, Fla., after an ill without wanting to enlighten it. He ments with current American policy ness. could not see hatred without wanting toward the region, I feel a responsibil Born in Lithuania, the son of the to end it. He was one of those rare ity to use my own position to advance late Jenny and Elick Smith, Lou was people whose counsel and guidance the search for peace. brought to Pennsylvania at the age of were sought by men and women of all The conditioning of military aid on 3. He was raised in Pittston and grad creeds and ethnic backgrounds, of all human rights progress is a step in the uated with the class of 1918. After fur professions and stations in life. He was direction of a peaceful and construc ther training in engineering, he began a friend to the Wyoming Valley and tive solution, but we must continue a long and exemplary career. all of its people. the journey toward a long-term solu Lou organized Camp Ahmy, and for 2 years was the YMCA's athletic direc In the last years of his life, Lou and tion to a crisis which could drain our his beloved wife, Julia, retired to Flori moral credibility and damage U.S. in tor. At the same time, he was a profes sional basketball player with the Celt da and there in the sunshine, he had terests on the international scene for the opportunity to reminisce, relax years to come.e ics. From 1925-76 Lou Smith performed and simply to enjoy his family and the real work of his life as executive many friends. On occasion, he came WORLD MARRIAGE DAY 1984 director of the Jewish Community back to Wilkes-Barre and visited with Center. For 31 of those years, he was, us and we always welcomed his return HON. ROBERT A. BORSKI as well, the executive director of the and were sorry to see him go. In a far OF PENNSYLVANIA Wyoming Valley Jewish Committee, more profound sense, Mr. Speaker, we which is responsible for the annual are sorry that he has left us this final IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES United Jewish Appeal campaign. time. Wednesday, February 8, 1984 It would take far too long, Mr. I rise, Mr. Speaker, to extend my e Mr. BORSKI. Mr. Speakett-I rise to Speaker, to catalog here the many deep sorrow to Julia Lieberman Smith, call the attention of my colleagues to awards and tributes which Lou Smith and to Lou's son, Robert, as well as his the celebration of World Marriage received in his life. It should be suffi grandchildren, his sisters, Dorothy Day, honoring the institution of mar cient to note that the State of Israel Kaplan and Rose Levin, and his broth riage as the basic unit of our society. bonds board of governors saluted him er, Ben Smith. To them I can offer World Marriage Day is sponsored by for his many years of service to the only the solace that, in the words of Worldwide Marriage Encounter, an or support of the States of Israel and his own people, "his memory shall be a ganization primarily devoted to help Israel bonds. From the Council of blessing" to us an.• ing couples improve their lives togeth Jewish Federations, he received an er. Founded in 1962, Marriage Encoun- award for his outstanding community February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2383 BELL LIBRARY not only evil itself, but also it is a fertile Congress says no. Let construction wages re COMMEMORATED source for further evils. . . . flect supply and demand? No way, say the I hope my colleagues will reflect on wonderful folks in Congress. Mr. Simon's comments and find the No wonder Mr. Grace says, "Government HON. MATTHEW G. MARTINEZ spending is getting so bad that things are OF CALIFORNIA courage to begin the painful, yet nec gonna happen that never happened before. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES essary, task of reducing the tremen I can't tell you when, but it's gonna happen. dous burden of government. Wednesday, February 8, 1984 At some point the taxpayers are gonna say [From the Wall Street Journal, Feb. 2, NO!" e Mr. MARTINEZ. Mr. Speaker, I 19841 Listen to what some of the more candid would like to take a few moments THE POLITICAL COWARDICE OF CONGRESS members of Congress say about their own today to recognize and commend the COURTS REVOLUTION performances. Take Rep. Dan Rostenkowski Bell Library in Bell, Calif. The Bell Li CD., ill.): "We have put special interests on notice that we can be pushed around. We brary was established in 1913 and was I recall an old Grade Z movie in which An have confessed to an already doubting the 29th branch library in the Los someone is poking about in the ruins of a nation that we are ruled by political fear, geles County system. This year marks burned mill. Lo and behold, he unearths the rather than economic courage." He ought to the 70th anniversary of the Bell Li body of a large humanoid monster beneath know. He's chairman of the House Ways brary and it is with great pride that I the blackened rubble. It is the monster cre ated by the misguided Dr. Frankenstein, and Means Committee. have the opportunity to recognize the and apparently it was not destroyed when Or listen to Rep. James Jones CD., Okla.>: library's many achievements on the the mill burned down in the previous movie. "The leadership, starting with the presi floor of the U.S. House of Representa The rest of the plot is easily imagined. dent, avoided all the tough problems and tives. The monster is reanimated. It gets loose and basically took the political safe approach." Throughout the 70 years of service, crashes about the landscape, terrorizing the Rep. Jones is chairman of the House Budget simple burghers. Finally a posse of citizens, Committee. Bell Library has diligently served and Lest anyone think I am citing only Demo accommodated the community. It has with torches and muskets, traps the mon ster and destroys it. Or so we are given to crats, here's an offering from Sen. Rudy provided residents with information believe. You can bet that another curious Boschwitz CR., Minn.>. Why won't Congress and materials offering a wealth of adventurer, years later, will stumble across get serious about the deficit? a constituent knowledge, skills, and culture. Often the remarkably preserved corpse of the asks him on the campaign trail. Sen. Bosch times, we tend to take libraries for monster in the cave in which it was thought witz draws a deep breath. "Lack of political granted and overlook the many serv to have perished. Then yet another Grade Z courage," he candidly replies. Shortly there ices provided free of charge. The Bell plot will unfold, something like "Return of after, we see the good senator claiming Library was begun in 1913 in a small the Son of Frankenstein." credit for the costly Payment-in-Kind pro What brings all this to mind was the gram for subsidizing feed grains, the new classroom with a handful of books. return of Congress to the scene of its relent dairy bill that pays farmers not to milk Today, it has grown to contain over less destruction of tomorrow's prosperity, a their cows, and retention of special tax ben 21,000 volumes and is housed in its destruction interrupted only by occasional efits for moderate income housing. Sen. own building. With much personal sat recesses in which the perpetrators return Boschwitz is a member of the Senate isfaction, I commend the Bell Library home either to lie about their exploits or to Budget Committee. and its many dedicated employees for blame the coming calamities on someone Not long ago, I was invited once again to the exemplary service to our commu else. testify before a congressional committee on nity The damage wrought by this hydraheaded "the problem of the deficit." Now I ask you: .e aggregation of pusillanimity, irresponsibil Do the hypocritical, pandering, gutless won ity, venality and ignorance staggers the ders in Congress intend to do anything after FINDING THE COURAGE TO CUT imagination. Congress has utterly defeated taking more testimony, from me or anybody the president's efforts to put the brakes on else? Of course not. This is yet another federal spending, defeated them so conclu absurd ritual to give the illusion of motion, HON. RON PAUL sively that no less a person than David while Congress goes right on squandering OF TEXAS Stockman, director of the Office of Manage the national substance, inviting resurgent IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment and Budget, now admits that anyone inflation, ducking the tough questions, re hoping for any additional budget cuts is a ceiving awards from every special-interest Wednesday, February 8, 1984 "dreamer." group that ever wheedled a subsidy or tax •Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, in case you Less than two years ago, Congress prom break in return for a campaign contribution, or any of my colleagues missed it, ised the president that it would produce or and, of course, railing about "the problem former Secretary of the Treasury, Wil allow budget cuts three times the size of of the deficit" at every campaign stop from proposed tax increases. So the president put East Overshoe to Hog Haven. liam E. Simon, offered some notewor his name to a five-year, $228 billion tax bill. As one editorial writer recently put it, thy observations about Congress and That was supposed to reduce the fiscal 1983 "How can Congress show its face in Wash the budget in a recent Wall Street deficit to $115 billion. Well, what happened? ington again? One would need the vocabu Journal article. Without arguing Federal revenues dipped in the face of the lary of Shakespeare to adequately describe about the merits of Mr. Simon's higher taxes, Congress welshed on its part this craven, abject, lily-livered body of lap tongue-lashing, I confess I have always of the deal and the fiscal 1983 deficit turned dogs, these lickspittles, these toadies, these found it remarkable that even though out to be $195 billion. And now we are being footmen." In my opinion, he lets 'em off we already confiscate more than one told to expect deficits of that magnitude in easy. It's time for the American people to definitely into the future, as if the Ameri crucify these no-count, posturing, blood third of personal income it does not can economy can sustain such a spending sucking, thimble-witted hypocritical Kalli satiate our appetites for spending spree without collapse or revolution. kaks. Anything less is far too good for money. We borrow literally trillions of Last month the Grace Commission an them.e dollars from our children and grand nounced its findings on improving govern children. ment management. It is a magnificent docu I suggest that my colleagues consid ment chock-full of plans for saving the tax VOCATIONAL EDUCATION er the simple test that has guided me payers billions of dollars every year. But CONSOLIDATION ACT OF 1984 during my few years in this body. It turn to the section called "Cost of Congres sional Encroachment" and see what the comes from the noted French legisla Gang of 535 is doing to keep spending up. tor and author of a century ago: HON. JOHN N. ERLENBORN Close useless military bases? Congress OF ILLINOIS See if the law takes from some persons says no. Stop subsidies to military commis what belongs to them, and gives it to other saries surrounded by competing private su IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES persons to whom it does not belong. See if permarkets? Congress says no. Let the vet Wednesday, February 8, 1984 the law benefits one Citizen at the expense erans administrator try to make sense of of another by doing what the citizen him that sprawling and inefficient empire? Con e Mr. ERLENBORN. Mr. Speaker, self cannot do without commiting a crime. gress says no. Pay government printers no today, along with several of my col Then abolish this law without delay, for it is more than the private sector counterparts? leagues, I am introducing the adminis- 2384 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 tration's bill to consolidate and simpli A section-by-section analysis of the Section 106 provides for State audit of ac fy the existing Federal vocational edu bill follows: tivities funded under Part B. cation program. While modeled on last Section 107 requires that the Secretary VOCATIONAL EDUCATION CONSOLIDATION ACT submit an annual report to Congress on the year's bill CH.R. 2940) which I intro SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS duced, this bill has a number of major Status of vocational and adult education in PART A-GENERAL PURPOSES the Nation. changes: Section 108 establishes a National Adviso The Adult Education Act is not in Section 101 establishes the purpose of the Act as the authorization of State and na ry Council on Vocational Education, with cluded in this legislative proposal; tional programs which will promote eco members appointed by the President. The provisions for a set-aside of nomic development by addressing the needs Section 109 makes certain sections of the funds for the handicapped and disad of youth and adults in all communities for General Education Provisions Act applica vantaged is applied to the entire State vocational educatio,n, strenthening State ble to programs conducted under this Act. grant program; and local systems of vocational education, PART B-STATE PROGRAMS A hold-harmless provision-with a 3- enhancing equal opportunities in vocational Section 120 states that the Secretary shall year phaseout-for the small State education for all students overcoming sex make grants to the States . In million-compared to this year's figure Section 102 authorizes $731,314,000 for addition, States must use at least 10 percent of $838 million. this Act for fiscal year 1985 and such sums of their total Subpart 1 and Subpart 2 funds As our colleagues know, the current as are necessary for fiscal years 1986 to meet the special needs of handicapped vocational education law and regula through 1989. It further provides for ex persons and at least 20 percent of their total penditure of funds appropriated under the Subpart and Subpart 2 funds to met the tions have been characterized as ex Smith-Hughes Act. tremely complicated, intrusive, and special needs of educationally disadvantaged Section 103 authorizes the Secretary to persons. Funds under this part may be used burdensome to many State and local set aside, for National Programs, up to 5 to pay for up to half of the administrative officials. The bill I am introducing percent of the funds appropriated under the expenses at the local level. Funds also may today would vastly simplify the cur Act. be used to pay for State or local advisory rent law while sharpening the Federal Section 104 prescribes a method for allot councils, but not for stipends or construc focus on such priorities as economic ting funds to the States. Funds are to be al tion. development and adult retraining. lotted on the basis of population and Section 121 provides that States may use Furthermore, these provisions are in number of unemployed persons in three age funds under this part directly or to make keeping with the needs and trends of cohorts and inverse per capita income. Sec grants or enter into contracts with other eli tion 104 also provides for a declining mini gible recipients for the purpose of carrying the 1980's and are designed, I feel, to mum States allotment during Section 122 states the purpose of Subpart istration-supported Job Training Part fiscal years 1985 through 1987. In fiscal 1 as supporting Economic Development and nership Act. years 1988 and 1989 no State may receive Skilled Work Force Training programs and It is also important to emphasize less than $100,000. for homemakers and single heads equal access to vocational educational proper administration, fiscal control, fund of households; programs designed to reduce accounting, submission of reports, and the sex stereotyping and sex bias in vocational programs. participation of private school students. Fi education; cooperative and work-study pro I urge my colleagues to give this leg nally, the report will contain an assessment grams; programs for persons with limited islation careful attention as the Edu of programs and projects supported during English proficiency; remedial instruction in cation and Labor Committee begins its the most recently completed program year. basic skills; acquisition or replacement of deliberations on the reauthorization of Prior to submission, the report will be made equipment; consumer and homemaking edu the Vocational Education Act. public in the State. cation; and student organizations. February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2385 PART C-NATIONAL PROGRAMS issues in such diverse areas as legisla two sons, Robert W. of Riverside, and Section 130 requires the Secretary to use tion governing military personnel and Carl of Hemet; and eight grandchil funds reserved under Section 103 to sup compensation, and public policy relat dren and six great-grandchildren.e port any or all activities authorized by sec ed to the development and procure tions 131, 132, 133, and 134. ment of the variety of complex Section 131 authorizes the Secretary to GONE TO THE MONTANA Vocational Education. dependents, John Ford's efforts con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Section 132 authorizes the Secretary to tributed materially to the enactment Wednesday, February 8, 1984 make contracts, grants and cooperative of permanent legislation establishing agreements with Indian tribes and organiza e Mr. MARLENEE. Mr. Speaker, I tions for vocational education programs and the basic military health program would like to call the attention of my projects consistent with tribal economic de known today as CHAMPUS. colleagues to an editorial written by velopment plans. While a staff member to several spe Gladys Silk, editor of the Glasgow Section 133 authorizes support of the Na cial and standing subcommittees, his Courier, the weekly newspaper of tional Occupational Information Coordinat innovative counsel resulted in im ing Committee established under the Job proved enlisted promotion policy, en Glasgow, Mont. Training Partnership Act. hanced medical and dental care for The editorial, entitled "Gone to the Section 134 authorizes activities of Pro military personnel and dependents, Dogs" explains the problems we west gram Inprovement for Meeting National erners encounter with certain public Skilled Work Force Needs. These may in standardization of the law governing lands policies. Some of these policies, clude exemplary job training programs for appointments, promotion, separation, as Mrs. Silk points out, are "utter persons who have lost their jobs or whose and retirement of military officers, madness." I offer the following editori jobs are jeopardized by technological or eco and the enactment of the survivor nomic change; demonstration programs de benefit plan among other progressive al for the edification of my colleagues. signed to reduce sex stereotyping and sex personnel initiatives that bear his im CFrom the Glasgow Courier, Jan. 19, 19841 bias in vocational education; model or dem print. GONE TO THE DOGS onstration training programs; collaborative As staff director of the Armed Serv programs, including employment and train ing programs, with business, industry, and ices Committee, John Ford handled Every now and then, we pounce in the labor and with other agencies of the Federal that responsibility with a highly com middle of the prairie dog fracas because we government; programs designed to expand mendable sense of evenness and fair firmly believe we have one of the largest the use of volunteers in providing vocational ness so necessary in congressional concentrations of the rodents in the coun education; activities in the areas of rural vo staffs today. His intellect, sincerity, try. cational education and rural family educa sense of humor, and good fellowship Located mostly on the Charles M. Russell tion; and special training programs and has earned the respect and affection Game Refuge , the big rodents in the projects designed to address critical short of all the committee members and UL Bend have spread over 20,000 acres, ac ages of skilled workers which the Nation re cording to research done by Marilyn Ora quires. staff colleagues. hood of Malta who concentrated on prairie The chairman, members, and the PART D-DEFINITIONS dogs in her testimony at a hearing on the staff of the Committee on Armed CMR Environmental Impact Statement Section 140 provides definitions for a Services are extremely grateful to in October, 1980. And the UL Bend number of terms used in the Act. John Ford for his contributions to the count was not included in the EIS. PART E-CONFORMING AMENDMENTS; REPEALS; committee, the Congress, and the na The goal of CMR, according to its EIS, is EFFECTIVE DATE tional security of the United States.e to "maintain viable prairie dog towns be Section 150 would make a number of con tween 5,000 and 20,000 acres of suitable size with signs and Partnership Act and other Acts. THE DEATH OF JOHN PHILLIPS patterns desirable for black-footed ferrets." Section 151 repeals the Vocational Educa No black-footed ferrets have ever been tion Act. The effective date of this Act is found on the CMR, yet a proposal in the July 1, 1985. HON. ALFRED A. (AL) McCANDLESS EIS was to introduce them and other endan OF CALIFORNIA gered species as they become available. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Courier added its bit at the hearing RETIREMENT OF JOHN J. FORD about prairie dogs and their link to bubonic Wednesday, February 8, 1984 plague. We knew that animals with plague e Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Speaker, it were collected in 1974 and 1975 in Garfield HON. MEL VIN PRICE County on the south side of Fort Peck Lake. OF ILLINOIS is with great sadness that I announce On Jan. 4 of this year, a report came back IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the death of a former colleague, John from the Center for Disease Control labora Phillips, of Riverside County, Calif. Wednesday, February 8, 1984 tory in Fort Collins, Colo., that a dead cot Former Congressman Phillips died at tontail rabbit found in a prarie dog town on •Mr. PRICE. Mr. Speaker, I would the age of 96 in Palm Springs shortly BLM land near Miles City in Custer County like to pay tribute to an individual before Christmas. He served this body was carrying fleas with the plague. The who, with the highest distinction, with distinction from 1942 until his re prairie dogs had disappeared. According to served the Committee on Armed Serv tirement in 1956. reports, they had been dying. ices, U.S. House of Representatives, as He began his career in politics in Although health officials say that there has never been a death from the plague in a professional staff member and as 1930, when he was elected to the City Montana, a total of 27 persons in New staff director, Mr. John J. Ford. Council of Banning, Calif. He later Mexico had plague in 1983 and three of Retiring recently after 19 years of went on to serve in the California them died. We heard reports of plague in outstanding service to the Committee State Assembly and State senate. humans in Oregon and other states. on Armed Services, John Ford came to A longtime resident of the area, he Ken Quickenden, a medical epidemiologist the committee from the staff of the moved to Palm Desert and Rancho for the state Department of Health and En Army Times publication as its Capitol Mirage until 1970, when he moved to vironmental Sciences said fleas are the most Hill correspondent. During these past Hemet for 9 years. common carrier of the disease. He said a vast majority of human victims contact the 19 years, he successfully climbed the He was married to the late Dorothy disease by being bitten by fleas and "you ladder of experience and responsibility Phillips for 53 years, until she died in can also contact the disease if you are a in the committee, participating in 1966. He is survived by a daughter, hunter, trapper or other person who comes countless investigations and mastering Margaret McWhirter of Palm Springs, in direct contact with an infected animal." 2386 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 To expend acreage for ballooning prairie DESIGNATING 1984 AS THE rely to manage the new systems most dog populations to feed back-footed ferrets YEAR OF THE SECRETARY effectively and efficiently. that do not exist here is utter madness. Although we have recognized the We spend millions of dollars to protect HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH last week in April as secretaries' week, people from diseases on the one hand, and since 1952, I think it is time that we millions to proliferate disease carriers on OF NEW JERSEY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES acknowledge and keep in step with the the other. expansion of this profession and the Is any endangered species or overgrown Wednesday, February 8, 1984 rodent dangerous to human health worth ever increasing role secretaries are as the risk?• •Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. suming in American business. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to be introduc Speaker, today I recognize this pro ing legislation which appropriately gression and I introduce a timely reso THE DAMASCUS HIGH SCHOOL recognizes and honors the largest seg lution to designate 1984 as "The Year BAND AND ''OPERATION ment of the white collar work force: of the Secretary." I encourage my col FRIENDLY INVASION" the American secretaries. leagues to support this legislation as a I think the Members of this House fitting tribute to the secretarial pro are all aware of the outstanding con fession upon whose skills, loyalty, and HON. BEVERLY B. BYRON tributions that the men and women of efficiency the functions of American the secretarial profession have OF MARYLAND business and government are predicat brought to the private and public sec ed.• IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tors of out society. In every office, sec Wednesday, February 8, 1984 retaries serve as the focal point-the linch pin-of information and produc RO~MA CONGRATULATES e Mrs. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, our best tivity. In a day, a secretary will process EAGLE SCOUTS ambassadors of good will toward other mail, complete order forms, contact countries are not usually appointed by clients, answer the phones, take dicta the President; they are Americans tion, edit drafts, type letters, schedule HON. ~GE ROUKEMA themselves. In my district, there is an appointments, reschedule appoint OF NEW JERSEY outstanding group of young men and ments, pay the bills, develop reports, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES women that truly exemplifies this. update the ledger, and balance their The Damascus High School Band budget. This last task, as we know, Mr. Wednesday, February 8, 1984 first participated in "Operation Speaker, can prove to be most chal e Mrs. ROUKEMA. Mr. Speaker, it is Friendly Invasion" in 1979 as part a lenging! with great pleasure that I call my col celebration commemorating the 35th Performing some of the most valua leagues' attention to the accomplish anniversary of D-day. The 1979 trip ble work of an administrative staff, ments of James W. Hillas and Steven took them through parts of England secretaries compliment and complete M. Friedman. Both of these fine and France, where they took part in the work of the office executive. My young men recently achieved the rank many ceremonies honoring veterans of secretary/office manager, Joan Alex of Eagle Scout in Boy Scout Troop 126 the Normandy invasion. In addition to ander, typed this very speech and has of Montvale, N.J. Both James and making many friends overseas and re worked on hundreds of other critical Steven have worked long and hard to assignments. Put simply, Mr. Speaker, reach this goal, the highest rank that living the historic event, the Damascus our Nation's businesses could not oper can be attained as a Scout. group earned the name "Young Am ate, could not function, could not suc James W. Hillas is a lifelong resident bassadors" from the Europeans who ceed without these technically trained of Bergen County, N.J. He was born in welcomed them. Indeed, Lt. Col. Hal and talented people, the secretaries. Westwood in 1964, resided in Park Ryder, who has helped organize the Mr. Speaker, good secretaries are in Ridge, and at the age of 5, moved to event and is writing a book about "Op constant demand to help run our busi Montvale. James attended public eration Friendly Invasion," said, "As nesses; our hospitals; our schools; and schools in the Montvale School representatives of the spirit and char our Government. There are currently System. He was treasurer of the Pas acter of our country, the Damascus 3.6 million secretaries in the United cack Hills Senior Class and now at High School Band and its community States and the Bureau of Labor Statis tends Green Mountain College in Ver are unequaled." The band became the tics has projected that the secretarial mont. James joined the Boy Scouts at only foreign band to perform under profession will expand, burst forth, the age of 11, was elected to the Order the Arc de Triomphe at the Tomb of throughout the 1980's and into the of the Arrow and currently holds the the Unknown Soldier. next century. position of assistant scout master. He Because of their outstanding per As the number of secretaries contin was an instructor for winter survival formance in 1979, the band and par ues to grow, so too does the vital role courses and is merit badge counselor ents were eagerly invited back for this these professionals play in office oper for several merit badges. James resides year's 40th commemoration celebra ations. Mr. Speaker, as America has with this parents and sister in Mont tion. Students and parents are cur moved swiftly into office automation vale. rently organizing fund-raising activi and computer technology, our Na Steven M. Friedman was born in the ties to pay for the costs and the band tion's secretaries have adapted rapidly Bronx, N.Y., in 1965, lived in and have fostered business operations. Matawan, N.J., and Maryland, and is having extra rehearsals to prepare. The 1980's promise to be the age of moved to Woodcliff Lake in 1982. He They will be gone for 12 days, includ computer advancement possibly ren graduated from Pascack Hills High ing ceremonies on the beaches at Nor dering many traditional office proce School in 1983 and currently attends mandy. dures worthless and expendible. Al Syracuse University. Steven also I am sure that this year's trip will be ready, our secretaries have shown a joined the Scouts at the age of 11 and every bit as successful as the one in willingness, an eagerness, and an abili since that time, has been very active. 1979. In an important way, the Damas ty to excel in computer literacy and He has been a patrol leader, senior cus Band and Band Front represent electronic mail communications. As we patrol leader, and was elected to the the best of America. Along with the move closer to the 21st century, it will Order of the Arrow. He has also served other Members of this body, I salute be these new office systems that as a river guide on the Delaware River them and wish them the best for their American businesses need to utilize. and has been a water safety instructor. trip.• Furthermore, it will be the office sec Steven resides in Woodcliff Lake with retary on whom these businesses must his parents, a brother and a sister. February 8, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2387 Mr. Speaker, these two young men been acted upon favorably by both THE EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS DE have shown maturity and responsibil Chambers of the Congress, was signed VELOPMENT IN EDUCATION ity and have proven their leadership into law on August 11 as Public Law ACT OF 1984 to their peers. I commend them and 98-71. I would like to take this oppor wish them continued success.e tunity to thank my colleagues for HON.AUGUSTUSF.HAWKINS their support of this highly worth OF CALIFORNIA TRIBUTE TO JOHN J. FORD while commemorative resolution. Federal credit union officials from IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. WIWAM L. DICKINSON around the country are planning to Wednesday, February 8, 1984 OF ALABAMA gather in Salem, Mass. tomorrow, Feb •Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ruary 10, for the U.S. Postal Service's February 2, 1984, I introduced H.R. Wednesday, February 8, 1984 ceremony to inaugurate the new 20- 4731, the Effective Schools Develop cent commemorative stamp recogniz ment in Education Act of 1984. The e Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, I ing the important role credit unions purpose of this bill is to assist and en rise today to pay tribute to Mr. John play in the American financial market courage State and local education J. Ford, who has retired as staff direc place. The stamp honors the 50th an agencies in broadening and improving tor, House Committee on Armed Serv niversary of the signing of the Federal effective school programs that they ices. For the past 19 years, John Ford Credit Union Act, which allows credit have developed and implemented. performed his duties as a professional unions to organize under the supervi The effective schools movement, staff member and later as the staff di based on effective schools research rector in an outstanding and distin sion and insurance protection of the Federal Government. and models of school effectiveness, guished manner, truly a professional acts on this research that shows that among professionals. The ceremony will be held at the Hawthorne Inn with Postmaster Gen instructionally effective schools have As a staff member of the Investiga five characteristics that differentiate tions Subcommittee, he recommended eral William A. Bolger speaking. Mrs. Catherine Filene Shouse will also be effective schools from ineffective actions related to a number of irregu schools: First, strong leadership at the larities resulting in remedial actions in on the program. She is the niece of Edward A. Filene of Boston who school level; second, high expectations the Department of Defense signifi that no child will fall below minimum cantly benefiting the United States. played a key role in the establishment levels of achievement; third, an order John Ford's depth of knowledge and of credit unions in the 1920's and ly school atmosphere conducive to unique ability not only to understand, 1930's. National Credit Union Adminis learning and teaching; fourth, student but to explain the implications of the tration Board Chairman Edgar Calla acquiring of basic and higher order enormous decisions facing the commit han, Vice Chairman P. A. Mack and skills takes precedence over all other tee have resulted in informed judg Board Member Elizabeth Burkhart school activity; and fifth, frequent and ments and a better national defense will also be in attendance. They pre consistent evaluation of student policy. side over the Federal agency that reg progress. In the unique position as director of ulates Federal credit unions. The research into what makes a a nonpartisan staff in a nonpartisan John Hutchinson, president of the school an effective institution primari committee, he handled that responsi National Association of Federal Credit ly began in the inner cities of this bility with a highly commendable Unions MARY ROSE OAKAR credit unions receive the recognition background was a more important OF OHIO they deserve for diligently serving the teacher than a child's school experi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES financial needs of their more than 26 ence, and that therefore "schools million members. I extend my own don't make a difference." Edmonds at Wednesday, February 8, 1984 personal congratulations not only to Harvard, at Michigan State University, e Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, 1984 Federal credit unions but to all our and as a New York City school admin promises to be a banner year for Fed Nation's credit unions on this happy istrator put his research to practical eral credit unions. On June 26, we will occasion. It is reassuring to once again application and concluded that a observe the 50th anniversary of the witness the great things that can be school can make a difference when it signing of the Federal Credit Union accomplished when Americans reach controls the quality of those things it Act. During the last session, many of out in an cooperative way to achieve a does best: leadership; expectations; our colleagues joined in cosponsoring common good.e and school climate. Edmonds noted House Joint Resolution 139, designat that in research on pupil performance, ing the week of June 24, 1984, as "Fed in which he participated in the 20 ele eral Credit Union Week." I am happy mentary schools in Detroit's Model to report that the resolution, having Cities neighborhood-in 1974-that 2388 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 8, 1984 "pupil family background neither from the effective school research : the "5 factors" of improved formulation of Federal, the levels of schooling, so that they the effective schools literature ; teaching behavior; cur needs of educationally deprived chil school districts with effective schools riculum change; and positive organizational changes . ation Board, OSHA Review Commis sion, Army cemeterial expenses, Office SD-215 sion, Prospective Payment Assessment of Consumer Affairs, and the Con 1:30 p.m. Commission, and Federal Mediation sumer Information Center. Finance and Conciliation Service. SD-124 Health Subcommittee SD-116 Appropriations To hold hearings on S. 2053, to provide 9:30 a.m. Transportation and Related Agencies Sub for the placement of severely disabled Labor and Human Resources committee individuals in community or family To continue oversight hearings on al To hold hearings on proposed budget es living facilities. leged corruption by officials of local timates for fiscal year 1985 for the De SD-215 chapters of the Operating Engineer's partment of Transportation. Union. SD-138 FEBRUARY 28 SD-430 Environment and Public Works 9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee Appropriations Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget re Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu Transportation and Related Agencies Sub quest for the Nuclear Regulatory cation, and Related Agencies Subcom committee Commission. mittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es SD-406 timates for fiscal year 1985 for the Na To hold hearings on proposed budget es tional Highway Traffic Safety Admin Labor and Human Resources timates for fiscal year 1984 for the Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom istration, Department of Transporta Mine Safety and Health Review Com tion. mittee mission, ACTION, Corporation for Business meeting, to mark up proposed Public Broadcasting, National Com SD-138 legislation authorizing funds for the Environment and Public Works mission on Libraries and Information Transportation Subcommittee Vocational Education Act. Science, and the Soldiers' and Air SD-430 To hold oversight hearings on the im men's Home. plementation of the Surface Transpor SD-116 FEBRUARY 24 tation Assistance Act . 9:30 a.m. SD-406 9:30 a.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Veterans' Affairs Finance To continue hearings on S. 2181 and S. To hold oversight hearings on the Veter Savings, Pensions and Investment Policy 2134, bills to authorize and define the ans' Administration readjustment Subcommittee scope of powers for depository institu counseling program and the VA loan Taxation and Debt Management Subcom tions and their holding companies and guaranty program. mittee to revise certain Federal bank regula SR-418 To hold joint hearings on S. 1857, to tions. 10:30 a.m. revise certain tax rules relating to pri SD-538 Joint Economic vate foundations, and S. 2165, to make Commerce, Science, and Transportation To resume hearings in preparation of its permanent the income tax credit for Science, Technology, and Space Subcom forthcoming annual report, focusing research and development expendi mittee on the economic outlook for 1984 and tures. To hold hearings on proposed legislation Federal economic policy. SD-215 authorizing funds for fiscal year 1985 SR-325 Labor and Human Resources for National Aeronautics and Space 2:00 p.m. Aging Subcommittee Appropriations To resume oversight hearings on the im Administration. SR-253 Energy and Water Development Subcom plementation of the Older Americans mittee Act (Pub. L. 89-73), focusing on title Labor and Human Resources To hold oversight hearings on alleged To hold hearings on proposed budget es III, long-term care provisions. timates for fiscal year 1985 for energy SD-430 corruption by officials of local chap ters of the Operating Engineer's and water development programs. 10:00 a.m. SD-192 Labor and Human Resources Union. Family and Human Services Subcommit SD-430 Labor and Human Resources MARCHI tee 9:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed legislation Aging Subcommittee To hold oversight hearings on the im Appropriations to express the sense of the Senate that Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu parents of adolescent children should plementation of the Older Americans Act , and other pending calen Appropriations Transportation and Related Agencies Sub HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit committee dar business. tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es SD-406 To hold hearings on proposed budget es timates for fiscal year 1985 for the 2:00 p.m. timates for fiscal year 1985 for the Panama Canal Commission, and the Appropriations Office of Science and Technology St. Lawrence Seaway Development Foreign Operations Subcommittee Policy, Selective Service System, and Commission, Department of Transpor To hold hearings on proposed budget es the Consumer Product Safety Com tation. timates for fiscal year 1985 for the mission. SD-138 Office of Inspector General, Agency SD-124 Environment and Public Works for International Development, Gen Energy and Natural Resources Business meeting, to resume mark up of eral Accounting Office, the Peace Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom S. 768, to authorize funds through Corps, and the Inter-American Foun mittee fiscal year 1987 for, and extend certain dation. To hold hearings on H.R. 3169, to facili programs of, the Clean Air Act . Appropriations SD-430 Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu SD-192 cation, and Related Agencies Subcom Appropriations MARCH27 mittee Transportation and Related Agencies Sub To hold hearings on proposed budget es committee 9:00 a.m. timates for fiscal year 1985 for pro To hold hearings on proposed budget es Appropriations grams of the Department of Educa timates for fiscal year 1985 for the Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu tion, including student financial assist Federal Highway Administration, and cation, and Related Agencies Subcom ance, student loan insurance, higher the Office of the Secretary of Trans mittee and continuing education, higher edu portation. To hold hearings on proposed budget es cation facilities loan and insurance, SD-138 timates for fiscal year 1985 for the De and educational research and training Appropriations partment of Health and Human Serv activities overseas. Treasury, Postal Service, and General ices, including the Health Resources SD-116 Government Subcommittee and Services Administration, and the 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es Office of the Assistant Secretary for Labor and Human Resources timates for fiscal year 1985 for the Health. Aging Subcommittee Office of Federal Procurement, Office SR-428A To hold oversight hearings on the im of Management and Budget, and the plementation of the Older Americans U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Secret 9:30 a.m. Act . To hold hearings on proposed budget es SD-430 timates for fiscal year 1985 for certain APRIL 12 programs of the Department of Hous Appropriations MAYl ing and Urban Development and relat Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu 9:00 a.m. ed agencies. cation, and Related Agencies Subcom Appropriations SD-124 mittee Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on proposed budget es cation, and Related Agencies Subcom Family and Human Services Subcommit timates for fiscal year 1985 for the De mittee tee partments of Labor, Health and To hold hearings on proposed budget es Business meeting, to consider proposed Human Services, Education, and cer timates for fiscal year 1985 for the De legislation authorizing funds for pro tain related agencies. partments of Labor, Health and grams of the Public Health Service SD-116 Human Services, Education, and cer Act, including title X