26802 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS JOSEPH McCAFFREY HAS EX Many of us have had the privilege of <1) There is general agreement that the CELLED IN CAPITOL HILL RE personal and longstanding friendship demand for electricity in the United States PORTING FOR MORE THAN with this remarkable individual. With and the world will continue to grow in the his affable manner and inquiring years to come. In the long run such continu FOUR DECADES ous growing demand can be reliably assured mind, he has been a dependable source only by significant contributions from of fine reporting. His departure will breeder-generated power. HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH leave a large hole in Capitol Hill cover (2) It is inconceivable that during this OF WEST VIRGINIA age. His friends wish Joe well in the period of gradual depletion of traditional IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES years ahead.e nonrenewable power sources, the United Friday, September 30, 1983 States would not act resolutely to tap, with the use of breeder technology, the readily • Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, on available, already mined, and stored fuel Friday, September 23, radio commen SCIENTISTS SUPPORT CLINCH RIVER whose energy equivalent is larger than all tator Joseph McCaffrey made his final the known U.S. coal reserves and many broadcast at radio station WMAL. He times greater than the power stored. in now will concentrate his reportorial earth's proven oil fields. talents on his beloved weekly newspa HON. MARILYN LLOYD Our members and the scientific communi per, the Culpeper News in Virginia. OF TENNESSEE ty at large are keenly aware of the forego McCaffrey will be missed on Capitol IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing situation and suggest that progress on Hill. He has the tremendous ability to Thursday, September 29, 1983 the breeder front be vigorously pursued. tackle complex subject matter and to This concern is further accentuated by com educate his listeners in an entertain • Mrs. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker, there prehension of the need for a secure energy has been much debate on the techni base in order to sustain the cultural and ing manner. His "Capitol Comments" cal merits of the Clinch River breeder reflected quality journalism that, economic well-being of our nation and of reactor project. Opponents have the people of the world. hopefully, will be emulated by those argued that the technology is obsolete As in other areas of social and economic who follow. and that this demonstration plant is endeavors, one finds individuals critical of For almost a half century, Joe has not needed. To support these errone the Breeder pathway, some of whom are been one of the most respected and ous contentions, they often suggest professionally trained in the nuclear field. popular radio personalities in the that the scientific community, includ In a democracy all views should be given an Washington area. In a city known for ing some individuals with supposed nu opportunity to be heard, particularly when its short-term media stars, that is a clear credentials, is against the a project or proposal is under serious scruti truly remarkable record. project. To satisfy myself that this is ny. However, the making of rational and ef The key to his reportorial success not the case, I asked Dr. Frederick fective decisions must also take into consid has been his lusty enthusiasm and his eration the weight of the professional opin Seitz, the esteemed chairman of the ion behind a particular view and act accord consistent standard of fairness in re Scientists & Engineers for Secure porting issues and commenting on per ingly. In this context, I wish to assure the Energy, to present the views of that Committee that virtually all members of sonalities. organization as to the advisability of Last week Joe told a reporter: our organization and almost 90 percent of continuing and completing the Clinch all knowledgeable professionals in our coun Probably the thing I'm proudest of over River breeder reactor project. try consider the Clinch River Breeder Reac the years is that people haven't been able to I submit his response for inclusion in tor to be an important technological step if figure out a label for me. They don't know if we are to ensure the availability of energy I'm a liberal or conservative, Democrat or the RECORD, and hope that each Republican. Sometimes I have appeared to Member will carefully read this letter. for generations to come. We believe that we be on one side of an issue and another time Special attention should be given to should not gamble our national future the other. But that's the way I wanted it. I Dr. Seitz's statement that: purely on luck or untested hopes. It is the vote no straight party lines. And former responsibility of the experts to counsel, in President Jerry Ford once said of me that I • • • virtually all members of our organi the national interest, those entrusted with was the fairest reporter he ever dealt with zation and almost 90 percent of all knowl the power of decision. We hope such counsel and I still cherish that remark. edgeable professionals in our country con will be appropriately weighed and that the sider the Clinch River Breeder Reactor to Congress will continue to support the McCaffrey started his career in jour be an important technological step if we are CRBR. nalism as a 10-cents-an-inch stringer to ensure the availability of energy for gen In conclusion, let me point out that breed for a newspaper in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. erations to come. er reactors have considerable similarities to He came to the Washington area after His response follows: hydroelectric plants, namely a high start-up military service to join CBS radio in THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY, cost which is later compensated many times 1944. That was the year he started New York, N.Y., September 12, 1983. over by low fuel and operating expendi covering the Congress. Mrs. MARILYN LLoYD, tures. Throughout the world major hydro His insightful observations on the Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy Re electric plants have been viewed as national changes in Congress over the years search and Production, Washington, assets worthy of governmental support. We would provide a valuable textbook for D.C. strongly feel that the same applies to breed aspiring political writers. DEAR MRS. LLOYD: Scientists and Engi er reactor programs and therefore urge the Mr. President, there is both sadness neers for Secure Energy greatly appreciates Congress to continue the material support and gladness with the news that Joe is the invitation to share with your Committee needed for the Clinch River Breeder-one of no longer in the Press Gallery. We will the views of our members on the Clinch the cornerstones for. American energy suffi River Breeder Reactor. ciency and independence in the future. miss him. But there is joy in the Rather than reiterate the many cogent ar Sincerely, knowledge that, at age 67, he can in guments advanced in support of this worthy FREDERICK SEITZ, dulge in the lesser labors of a weekly project, let me state at this time just two Chairman, Scientists & Engineers publisher. broad propositions: tor Secure Energy.e
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. September 30, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26803 THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF budget with more defense cuts or with A SALUTE TO DR. TERESA UKRAINIAN HOLOCAUST nickel-and-dime cuts of domestic, dis CROSS cretionary programs. As a matter of HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO fact, these programs have not caused HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY OF CALIFORNIA the current deficit problem. We have a structural deficit problem created by OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, September 28, 1983 entitlement programs that are indexed to the Consumer Price Index, which Thursday, September 29, 1983 e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, has oveFstated inflation and pushed • Mr. DYMALLY. Mr. Speaker, next a tragedy of mammoth proportions benefit increases higher than the in was begun in 1932 and ended in 1933. week, the 11th class of congressional crease in wages. Moreover, the Ameri science fellows, whose work is overseen An estimated 7 million people lost can taxpayer does not want the budget their lives in this 2-year period. Let us by the American Association for the not forget the cause of this tragedy, balanced or the deficits reduced on his Advancement of Science the Holocaust The second individual who left a strong effective treatment against fungus in Memorial. I insert his entire speech in impression on me was Abiel Ravin; Abi. He fections of the skin, scalp and nails, the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: is in charge of building the solar ponds lo Griseofulvin. An antifungal drug of cated at the northern end of the Dead Sea. great importance in serious fungus in ISRAEL: THE CHALLENGE AND THE HOPE The solar ponds are a fascinating and inno War II simple concepts. I am delighted to be here at Northmoor In an ordinary pond, the Sun's rays heat and in Vietnam. for the Country Club Day for JUF. I am the bottom and raise the temperature of the Dr. Harvey Blank treated a patient sure you had more fun today than I did. lower layer of water. Hot water is lighter so in 1958 at the Jackson Memorial Hos You were able to play golf and tennis while the warmer bottom layer rises to the sur pital who was suffering from an un I worked in vain to pare back the Presi face, and the heat is dispersed. usual athlete's foot-type fungus infec dent's somewhat excessive military budget. In this solar pond, the bottom level is tion that invaded his body, causing I know that the work of the Jewish water from the Dead Sea, much heavier several abscesses. When Dr. Blank United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago is than ordinary water. The heat is contained tried Griseofulvin, an orally adminis more urgent than ever. Your own studies in the bottom layer. The day we were there reveal that 15 percent of Chicago's Jewish the temperature of the bottom layer was tered antifungal medication that had Community are now living at or below the 210 degrees Fahrenheit. been used in Europe in agricultural poverty level. And I have been told that two The hot water is then pumped into a projects, the condition improved. Fol of the Illinois Public Aid offices have found boiler to heat freon to drive the turbines lowing the ingestion of the medication a 30-percent increase in the number of which generates electricity for the people of in pill form, the 28-year-old improved Jewish applicants over the last 10 months. Israel. September 30, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26805 Abi, just like Uri, also has a dream. Some Israeli politics are incredibly lively and this reason, it is wrong that every U.S. Ad day he would like to turn half of the Dead volatile. The Israeli people have strong ministration believes at some time that it Sea into a huge solar lake, each section di opinions and do not hesitate to voice them. has the solution and therefore it must pres vided with a curtain. And this solar lake, he The major political coalitions-Likud and sure Israel into accepting it. believes, could produce enough electricity to Labor-take widely different views on the The Reagan administration tried once supply all of Israel's needs. two major topics of the day-Lebanon and again over the past year. The President ap The third individual I met on my last day the West Bank. parently hoped that Hussein would con in Israel was Prof. Renata Reisfeld at the My assistant tells of arriving at the home clude that if the United States were willing Hebrew University in Jerusalem. This re of a friend he had not seen in 13 years. to exert pressure on Israel before peace markable woman who in 1981 was awarded However, he arrived at 9 o'clock wars peace talks. to Israel, she began her education. in 25 years, the obsession with news is not Toward this end, the administration con After learning eight languages and becom surprising. Think of it. That is incredible. sidered selling F-5's and Stinger missiles to ing a professor of inorganic chemistry, she People should not have to live in such inse Jordan Report : States are to e Mr. McKERNAN. Mr. Speaker, I am try has had a tough time finding provide EPA with certain information, based on data previously gathered under pleased to honor one of the American wastes sites. I feel this situation is true Sec. 208 and other sections of the Clean marines serving with the multination because the public is skeptical about Water Act, on stream segments with non al forces in Beirut, Lebanon, Capt. enforcement of our hazardous waste point source problems; sources of these Paul Roy of Winslow, Maine. Captain regulations. Many firms have invited problems; and description of the State's cur Roy is the marine who is pictured on public skepticism by opposing hazard rent control efforts. This information is to the September 26 issue of Newsweek ous waste regulations and by display be updated annually. magazine. ing a strong unwillingness to take re (b) and (c) Plan: States are also required Captain Roy should be honored, as to provide EPA with a 4-year implementa medial action on their own. Conse tion plan, developed in cooperation with should all the American marines in quently today, industry faces some ob local agencies and organizations, listing Lebanon, because he is courageously stacles in finding acceptable hazardous stream segments to be addressed, describing serving the United States in a danger wastes sites. The solution, however, is proposed Best Management Practices ous situation. As commander of Alpha not to turn to the Federal Govern , (f), and (g) Approval/disapproval; par that the cause for which we came was the course of cleaning up a Superfund tial approval: A State's plan is automatically for naught." His outlook, in light of site. In addition, the amendment approved unless EPA disapproves all or what he has certainly experienced, is allows the storage, disposal, or treat parts of it within 6 months of submission. admirable. ment of Federal lands for the purpose EPA may disapprove the plan if the State We can all be proud of the job that does not have adequate authority to imple Captain Roy and his compatriots are of carrying out research related to ment it, if the schedule is not sufficiently doing. I am sure that his parents, Mr. hazardous waste treatment. The Ad expeditious, or if it is otherwise inadequate and Mrs. Harold Roy of Winslow, are ministrator would only be allowed to to meet the goals of the bill. If a State re use Federal lands for these two pur fuses to submit or resubmit a plan, a local especially proud. I sincerely hope that the marines' mission in Lebanon will poses if the Administrator determined agency may, with the approval of the State, that there is no other reasonably receive technical assistance and funding to be completed early and successfully so implement a plan for its area. A State may Captain Roy and the other men will available facility. request technical assistance from EPA in de return home soon.e These two exceptions are consistent veloping portions of its plan. The State then with current practices at the EPA and must implement the plan. recognize the necessary role EPA (h) Interstate waters: Where nonpoint AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2867, BAN plays in dealing with the hazardous ' sources from one State are polluting the NING FEDERAL LANDS FOR waste problem. These exceptions in no waters of another State, the downstream HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL way compromise current EPA proce State may, if it has an approved plan, peti dures, procedures I should add which tion EPA to call an interstate conference of all States along the water body. States are HON.EDWARDJ.MARKEY are used in rare circumstances. In to work out with EPA and implement an ac OF MASSACHUSETTS stead, the intent of the ban is to pre ceptable solution to the problem. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vent our Federal lands from becoming (i) Funding: The bill authorizes $150 mil a general dump site for an industry lion per year, through 1988, in 50/50 match Thursday, September 29, 1983 which has trouble finding a site. This ing grants to States to carry out their plans. • Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, I have amendment would prevent Federal There is no formula·, but there is a 15-per printed an amendment in today's CoN lands from becoming the dump site of cent maximum cap per State. States are re GRESSIONAL RECORD Which WOUld ban last resort and instead force industry quired to maintain .their current effort while using funds under this bill for new ef the use of Federal lands for treatment, to deal with the problem in an honest forts. storage, or disposal of hazardous waste and forthright manner. (j) Reports: The Administrator of EPA is generated by private industry not pur I believe it is necessary to comment required to report annually to Congress on suant to a Federal project or program. on what the amendment does not say. the progress of the program; and to provide This amendment is offered in response The amendment does not prohibit the September 30, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26809 use of Federal lands for wastes gener one of the largest councils in the State Vietnam veteran to be elected national ated by Federal programs. To do so, of New Jersey. New Jersey also has commander of the three-quarter mil would be in my opinion, hypocritical. one of the largest K of C jurisdictions lion member veterans' service organi The amendment only deals with haz in the United States, numbering in zation. ardous wastes as defined by the Re excess of 65,000 men. Since joining St. Mr. Joyner represented the DAV's source Conservation and Recovery Thomas Council No. 4815 in 1976, Department of Pennsylvania as both Act. And the amendment only address Larry has been a man devoted to the 2d and 3d junior vice commander. He es Federal lands owned or leased by council. He has served the council in served as commander and chapter the United States and specifically ex almost every capacity, and on July 11, service officer of the DAV Chapter No. empts lands on the Outer Continental 1982, he had the honor of being in 36 in Vandergrift, Pa. He is presently Shelf and Indian or Indian tribal stalled as Grand Knight. I know that only one of two who have served in lands. In addition, the amendment Larry was honored on becoming the DAV's highest national office to only allows the Administrator to use Grand Knight, but I am sure the occa have been awarded that organization's Federal lands in the course of removal sion was made all the more important Outstanding Disabled Veteran of the action taken in accordance with the since it was during the centennial year Year Award. Superfund program. Removal action is of the Knights of Columbus. Commander Joyner served in the only taken in the most extreme cir The example seen in Larry's dedica U.S. Army, 9th Infantry Division in cumstances, and consequently the uni tion to what I believe is one of our Na Vietnam. While on patrol in June 1969 verse of affected wastes would be rela tion's finest service organizations just in the Mekong Delta he became a tively small. gives witness to the fact that during triple amputee due to a booby trap ex I encourage my colleagues to study these times when man's humanity plosion and received the bronze star as this amendment and consider it care toward his fellow man has been se well as the Purple Heart. fully. I have worked closely with the verely tested, the Knights of Colum Commander Joyner is very active in EPA in drafting this amendment so as bus have stood firm. civic and church activities and is a not to restrict their actions any more I offer Larry my heartiest congratu member of the Veterans of Foreign than necessary. I feel this amendment lations and that of my colleagues in Wars, the American Legion, AMVETS is an important statement on what our this House for his service as Grand and the Court Administrators Associa Federal lands should be used for and Knight and my best wishes for a suc tion. He received a BA degree in ac what should be the role of the Federal cessful year as Faithful Navigator.e counting in 1975 from Robert Morris Government in the area of hazardous College, Pittsburgh after having waste disposal.e earned an A.A. degree from the Com DENNIS A. JOYNER, DAV munity College of Allegheny County NATIONAL COMMANDER in 1974. He served for 4 years as ac TRIBUTE TO LARRY countant for the Westmoreland GUILLEMETTE, SR. HON. BOB EDGAR County Juvenile Service Center and OF PENNSYLVANIA fiscal manager for the Westmoreland HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES County courts, Greensburg, Pa. He OF NEW JERSEY Thursday, September 29, 1983 was appointed Westmoreland County IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES court administrator in 1979 and is re • Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, this past Thursday, September 29, 1983 sponsible for administration of the August, Dennis A. Joyner, a combat eight-judge-court-system and all court e Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. disabled Vietnam veteran, was elected related offices. Commander Joyner Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to National Commander of the Disabled lives in Apollo, Pa. with his wife an outstanding American, and distin American Veterans at their national Donna. He is the father of two sons, guished member of his community. I convention in Los Angeles, Calif. Mr. Dennis Jr. and Paul. rise to pay tribute to Larry Guille Joyner had held positions as an elect Mr. Speaker, it is a tribute to the mette, Sr. ed national vice commander in the Disabled American Veterans and to For 28 years, Larry has been a DAV since 1979. the veteran community as a whole member of the Knights of Columbus, The Disabled American Veterans that Commander Joyner, a Vietnam and on Saturday, October 8, 1983, his have established an outstanding veteran, has overcome what many family, friends, and fellow Knights record in promoting the interest of all would have considered insurmountable will be honoring him for his service to veterans, but particularly those of the disabilities to become a recognized the K of C and more importantly for Vietnam veteran. Those of us who leader in the State of Pennsylvania his recent tenure as Grand Knight of serve on the House Veterans Affairs and within his national organization. Saint Thomas the Apostle Council No. Committee are well aware of the tena As chairman of the House Veterans 4815 in Old Bridge, N.J. cious efforts of the DAV national or Affairs Subcommittee on Hospitals Ever since Larry joined the Knights ganization here in Washington and and Health Care, I would like to con of Columbus, Woodhaven Council in throughout the country in safeguard gratulate him on his election and wish Queens, N.Y. in 1955, he has willing to ing the rights of the 2.3 million Ameri him well during the coming year.e give his all for the K of C. He was in can men and women disabled in serv volved in the Woodhaven Council, and ice to their country. A considerable it was at a fourth degree K of C func percentage of those service-connected A TRIBUTE TO THE O'CONNOR tion that he met Pat, his wife of 25 disabled veterans served during the HOSPITAL '89ERS AND THE YU years. When Larry left the Woodha Vietnam war where statistics prove AI KAI ORGANIZATION ven Council, and New York for the that combat personnel sustained and suburbs in New Jersey, his involve survived far more catastrophic disabil HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA ment in the Knights went with him. ities than those who served in prior OF CALIFORNIA He joined Immaculate Conception wars. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Council No. 4907 in Spotswood, N.J. Over 96 percent of the DAV's out where his father-in-law celebrated his standing corps of service officers, who Thursday, September 29, 1983 40th year of membership. provide direct assistance to thousands • Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, I rise to In 1976, Larry transferred his mem of veterans across the country, served honor those who work for the O'Con bership to his present council. St. in the Armed Forces during the Viet nor Hospital '89ers and the Yu-Ai Kai Thomas Council No. 4815, which was nam war. For this perspective as well, organization. These two organizations chartered in the early 1960's and is Dennis Joyner became the fourth will be cosponsoring a luncheon this 26810 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 week in order to honor individuals of top, which overlooks a good portion of ed for the needs despite the grueling Japanese ancestry who pioneered our Jersey City and nearby Hoboken. This schedule. region of California. location was deliberately planned be One of the great principals of Dick The pioneers honored by the '89ers cause the city fathers wanted to im inson High School, Dr. Frank and the Yu-Ai Kai will include people press the public traveling on the trans McMackin, now age 95, will be in at who have lived in Santa Clara Valley portation systems below, at that time, tendance at the 50th anniversary since the turn of the century. These with the importance of Jersey City dinner Saturday evening. Also in at pioneers played an important role in and their municipal pride in Jersey tendance will be Theresa Mahoney, developing the Santa Clara Valley into City. the 1934 graduating class' favorite one of the most productive and pleas It was built by the last Republican English teacher. ant areas of our Nation, and they mayor Jersey City ever had, Mark The graduates will be coming from could not be honored by organizations Fagan. more than a dozen States, including finer than the O'Connor Hospital Built as the first comprehensive California, Louisiana, Delaware, and '89ers and the Yu-Ai Kai. high school in America, visitors came Virginia. From South Carolina comes In 1899, with the noble efforts of the from all over the world, from the Far Martin J. Higgins, who is a survivor of Daughters of Charity, Amanda and East, Europe, South America, and World War II's Battle of the Bulge. Myles O'Connor succeeded in estab other parts of the world to see it, be Many of Dickinson High School's lishing a health care facility for the el cause it was the first high school that finest young men served our Nation, derly and the impoverished. And the offered academic, technical, vocation O'Connor Hospital '89ers have success including AI Blozis, who was killed in al, and business training all in one action during World War II. fully perpetuated the work begun by building. the O'Connors last century by devel Many of the 1934 class showed their The site was an Army trading post in prowess on the athletic fields. Ed oping the O'Connor Hospital from a the War of 1812, the Civil War, and rural health facility into one of our Franco became a legend in his time as the First World War, and was used as an all-American lineman with Ford area's most sophisticated medical cen a munitions plant in the Second World ters. And through that medical center, ham University as one of the "Seven War. Blocks of Granite." He has been elect the O'Connors' dream of serving the Before the high school was here, aged has been realized again and ed to the prestigious College Hall of Gens. Washington and Lafayette used Fame. again. to survey the troops here during the It is also appropriate that the Yu-Ai Some of the athletes of that class Revolutionary War. It was a lookout who will be there include George Bi Kai, a community organization dedi for the British troops in the harbor. cated to providing essential human zelewicz, Peter McGovern, Sal Pisano, Dickinson High School, the oldest Ed Toohey, Ed Bresnick, and Dick services to the aged, is cosponsoring public high school in Jersey City, is a this wonderful event. Recognizing the O'Reilly. national historic landmark. A special honored guest will be their contributions and of pioneers of Japa It is a magnificant example of John nese ancestry is, of course, very impor T. Rolend's work, who also designed football coach, Charles Witkowski, an tant to me. When my father and the Jersey City Medical Center. The attorney who was elected a city com mother settled in the city of San Jose structure is beaux arts design. The missioner and a mayor of Jersey City. more than 70 years ago, they shared a first half of the school was built in The class of 1934 joins the list of vision that their children would have 1906 as an academic high school, outstanding Dickinson High School the opportunity for meaningful and which would serve as a college prepar alumni members such as Maj. Gen. productive lives, and I owe my well atory school; the second half was Leland S. Hobbs, of the U.S. Army, being to the success of that dream. opened in 1912, and was designed for movie actor Richard Conte, and out Mr. Speaker, I ask you and all other vocational education. standing men in the various profes Members of the House of Representa The finest materials were used in sions, including Dr. Earl Halligan, Dr. tives to join me, the O'Connor 89ers, the construction of this building, as we Alfonse Cinotti, Dr. Marcus Carpen and the Yu-Ai Kai in honoring all of can see by the marble and handpaint ter, and a host of men who excel in those pioneers who came to the Santa ed murals in the entranceway and clas the legal profession, such as Judge Clara Valley with little more than sical friezes which decorate the stage. Peter Artaserse, Judge Frank A. their determination and their willing It has its own powerplant with genera Verga, Judge Joseph S. E. Verga, ness to work.e tors used in the early days to supply Judge Morris Barison, Judge J. Arnold heat and light which still can be used Bressler, and Judge Edward F. Zam DICKINSON HIGH SCHOOL in emergencies. pella. An outstanding graduate now in CLASS OF 1934 CELEBRATES Its auditorium has 2,000 seats and the field of journalism is Milt Kerzner, GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY was for a long time the largest public city editor of the Jersey Journal. hall in New Jersey. Everyone of impor Dickinson High School has given the HON. FRANK J. GUARINI tance visiting the area, including world Mary Philbrook, the first Presidents of the United States, came woman lawyer in New Jersey; also New OF NEW JERSEY Jersey legislator Bayard Faulkner, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES here. In 1912, Theordore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow whose famous Faulkner Act gives New Thursday, September 29, 1983 Wilson all spoke on successive nights, Jersey communities opportunities to • Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, on Oc campaigning against each other for choose administrations best suited to tober 2, 1983, Dickinson High School, President of the United States. their needs. a most illustrious institution of learn However, the true beauty of Dickin Also high on the list of outstanding ing in Jersey City, will be spotlighted son High School is the hundreds of sons and daughters of Dickinson High on a very important occasion. On this thousands of students who have been School is Sgt. Joseph Anthony, who date, the class of 1934 will have a educated under the guidance of inter has a park named in his honor as one dinner dance at the West End Manor ested, competent, and dynamic teach of the hundreds of local young men in Long Branch, N.J., where many of ers. This facility in the pre-World War who had given their lives in World Dickinson's most august graduates will II era had more than 5,000 students in War I, World War II, Korea, and Viet be joined by contemporary personnel. attendance during some of the school nam. The school, located at Palisade and years, working on a split schedule The first public college in New Newark Avenues, Jersey City, is a from early morning to the evening. Jersey, Douglas College, which is part magnificent structure, sitting on a hill- The administrators effectively provid- of Rutgers University, was started by a September 30, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26811 Dickinson High School graduate, Each and every one never sank under I salute the National Horse Show. Mabel Smith Douglas. the burden of their days. They have The directors of the association, the Another great student was Albert lived through difficult times, through competitors and all those responsible Whiting, from the 1934 class, who the Depression and involvement in for the show should be proud of the went on to be a college president and three major military conflicts. This place it holds in the heritage of New now an educational consultant in class lived on hope-the hope which York City, New York State, the Washington. urged them on, believing that tomor United States, and the world.e We can agree that the Dickinson row will be better. High School students of 1934 have I urge each and every one of you to continued the quality work of centur never forget the reading of the Psalm THE UNITED STATES AND THE ies, building bridges of understanding by your beloved principal, Dr. UNITED NATIONS: TIME FOR and brotherhood between people from McMackin, at each auditorium exer- REAPPRAISAL the educational base they received at cise: "The Hilltop." · "Get wisdom-get understanding HON. JACK FIELDS They learned early on that the sea and in getting it OF TEXAS and air and, indeed, the Earth are the Forget it not." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES concerns of every nation. The gradu Please continue your life's work to Friday, September 30, 1983 ates of the class of 1934 have joined assure that every individual, regard others in working to show that sci less of race or class or economic status, e Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, the Her ence, technology, and education can receives an opportunity and the neces itage Foundation is celebrating its and must be the ally of all men in sary tools for the development of their lOth anniversary. Ed Feulner and com every nation of the world. individual powers of mind and spirit to pany deserve much praise and credit Indeed, they have accepted the fact the best of their ability.e for the service they render in provid that no problem of human under ing intelligent discourse and comment standing is beyond human beings; that of the affairs of state. Because of their our problems are manmade, and there NATIONAL HORSE SHOW persistence, more and more of us are fore, can and must be solved by man. ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA seeing a whole parade of emperors I am sure that they are spotlighting without clothes. their 50th anniversary-celebrating One of the most notorious of these the past-to awaken the future. HON. HAMILTON FISH, JR. pretenders to fashion is the United The class of 1934 witnessed some of OF NEW YORK Nations. Heritage's United Nations As the most critical years in world histo IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sessment Project Study has produced ry: The beginning of The Great De another provocative background paper pression, the rise and fall of Adolph Thursday, September 29, 1983 calling for a much needed reappraisal Hitler, the discoveries of neutrons by e Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, this year of the United Nations and America's Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, the during the first week of November, the role therein. famous radio talks by Father Charles National Horse Show celebrates its Among other things, the paper Coughlin; the creation of the National centennial at Madison Square Garden. points out the U.N. politicizing of the Labor Relations Board; creating our I wish to express my appreciation to merest technical matters. The key to Nation's first general strike. During the National Horse Show Association understanding why this is done is the 1934, the graduates lived through the of America for enriching and inspiring certain and self-evident truth that the S.S. Mauro Castle destroyed off equestrian competition in this Nation modern U.N. goal is the establishment Asbury Park, where 125 lives were lost, and throughout the world for the past of a world socialistic regime, as Mrs. and the FCC was created to supervise 100 years. Kirkpatrick has often reminded us. It U.S. telephone and telegraph and Through the influence of this re is the nature of socialistic states to po radio industries. markable institution, equestrian sport liticize everything. Thus Western clas It also was the year of the adven has become increasingly popular sical music is forbidden for a decade tures of Terry and the Pirates, Li'l among our youth. This year, the Na because of China's cultural revolution. Abner, Jungle Jim, and Flash Gordon. tional Horse Show, for the first time, Any type of word processing equip Shirley Temple made her first full held regional finals for junior riders in ment is strictly controlled in the length film at age 6, in the picture the ASPCA sponsored Maclay class. Soviet block to prevent the circulation wherein she sang "On the Good Ship These finals were held in California, of essays and poetry deemed counter Lollipop." Others were singing "The Georgia, Missouri, and in Westchester revolutionary. Beer Barrel Polka," "The Very County, N.Y. On September 18, 1983, I Everything the United Nations does Thought of You," "Winter Wonder was honored to present finalist rib these days puts the torch to the dis land" and were glued to the radio bons to 66 young men and women who turbed dreams of the old "world feder when prize fighter Max Baer knocked competed in my congressional district. alists" and assorted internationalists. out Primo Carnera to win the world The competition and the talent dis The United Nations is a true force for heavyweight championship. played were extraordinary. The Na world peace only in the context of the And 1934 also saw the opening of the tional Horse Show has taken an im U.N. Orwellian definition of the word: first laundromat. The infamous John portant role in expanding the base and the snuffing out of pluralism, individ Dillinger met his death at the hands popularity of equestrian sports. uality, liberty, and human self-con of the FBI, while Bruno Hauptman In this centennial year, the National sciousness. Only after accepting this was arrested in connection with the Horse Show will continue to be a definition of "peace" does one begin to Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., kidnaping showcase for the best riders and understand why the United Nations case. horses in competition anywhere. It has become an instrument for extend It also was the year Pepsi-Cola chal will be a time of excitement for New ing minor regional disputes into world lenged Coca-Cola and Carvel's first York and wherever equestrian sport is conflict, and resolvable misunder custard stand was opened. The Dione enjoyed. standings into deep hatreds. It is also quintuplets were introduced to an ex Again, as in years past, the National instructive to note that conflict and cited world on May 28. Horse Show and its foundation will hatred are the mortar and stone for I salute each and every member of also be major financing vehicles for building Marxist states, not true the Dickinson High School class of the U.S. equestrian team which will democratic republics. 1934 and their teachers-those here represent our Nation at the 1984 Mr. Speaker, early critics viewed the present and those of fond memory. Olympic Games. slogan, "Get the United States out of 26812 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30 1983 the United Nations and the United Na Universal organizations such as the East European, Cuban and other espionage tions out of the United States" as ig United Nations and those agencies associat services hostile to the West. norant tripe. However, the Heritage ed with the U.N., like UNESCO, accomplish But even this troubling litany omits what papers suggest that the slogan was, so little that the value to the U.S. of mem now is the gravest danger posed by the bership becomes very doubtful. United Nations-its role in affecting the after all, a terribly prophetic warning. On the other hand, organizations of like way in which nations and their citizens view The introduction to the back minded states with fairly specific purposes, critical global issues. Like a House Of Mir grounder follow: such as NATO, or until recently, the Inter rors at an amusement park, the U.N. dis THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED national Monetary Fund, fulfill a number of torts reality-exaggerating some things, di NATIONS: TIME FOR REAPPRAISAL their most important aiiOS. minishing others and obscuring most. The democratic dictum of one man, one Unlike a House of Mirrors, however, the INTRODUCTION vote may work within communities or na U.N.'s distortions, particularly in the Gener After two centuries of disdain for interna tions, but apparently cannot be applied to al Assembly and its Secretariat, form a pre tional organizations, the United States in organizations containing large numbers of dictable pattern. One characteristic of this the post-World War II era has become one nations which differ dramatically from each pattern is the U.N.'s politicization of issues of history's great joiners. In a short time, other. Within international organizations, that merely are technical. Certainly the be the U.S. signed on with scores of groups, the power to influence decisions should havior of Israel, Chile and South Africa are ranging from the International Monetary closely resemble the responsibility for carry not really the most urgent issues confront Fund <1945) and NATO 0949> to the Inter ing out the decisions. At the United Nations ing the General Asssembly, to say nothing American Tropical Tuna Commission General Assembly or in UNESCO, for exam of the World Health Organization, <1949), the North Pacific Fur Seal Commis ple, a majority comprised of developing na UNESCO, the International Labor Organi sion <1957) and the International Agree tions which contribute almost nothing to zation and a host of other agencies. Yet ment Regarding the Maintenance of Cer the U.N. budget and bear almost no burden these ostensibly technical bodies squander tain Lights in the Red Sea 0966). So vast for effecting U.N. programs consistently dic an enormous amount of their time and grew this nation's memberships in interna tate what those prograiOS should be and energy dealing repeatedly with a handful of tional groups, that the State Department even what they cost. It is quite a different political matters forced onto the agendas by had to create in 1954 an entire section to matter at the IMF. There the weight of a a block of nations strongly influenced by deal with international organizations. By nation's vote is determined by the extent of the Palestine Liberation Organization and early 1983, the Assistant Secretary of State the nation's financial participation. radical leftist states and groups. for International Organizations had a staff Technical organizations must limit their Another aspect of the pattern is the U.N.'s of 172 to monitor U.S. relations with 98 activities and rhetoric to technical matters. globalization of problems. Bringing a local international groups. In addition to those, This means that the World Health Organi or even regional matter or dispute to the the U.S. has ties to at least 50 other interna zation should deal with fighting disease; the General Assembly forces every nation to tional agencies or commissions. The exact International Telecommunications Union take a stand. Issues which could remain number of international bodies to which the should keep global communications orderly; local suddenly gain global importance and U.S. belongs, in fact, no one in the govern the International Atomic Energy Agency almost always, therefore, become more diffi ment seeiOS to know. should monitor the peaceful uses of the cult to resolve. Nearly 15 years ago, The To some, America's readiness to join inter atom. When their agendas and rhetoric Netherlands' chief U.N. delegate Carl W. A. national bodies seemed like a betrayal of become politicized, an organization's value Schurmann complained that the U.N. George Washington's Farewell Address wanes. The matter of South Africa's policy system "forces governments to take a stand warning that "in regard to foreign Nations of apartheid or the Israeli occupation of the (if not by making a speech, then at least by ... have with them as little Political con west bank of the Jordan River are serious voting) on a great many questions and con nection as possible." To others, U.S. postwar political matters but are not appropriate for flicts that either do not really concern them internationalization was welcomed as a the WHO, ITU, IAEA or any other techni or on which they would much have pre tardy but sensible affirmation of the Wilso cal agency. ferred to keep their opinions to them nian vision. It was, in truth, neither. U.S. It is time for the U.S. to apply these les selves." This was echoed in 1982 by U.S. participation in international organizations sons and reevaluate American membership Permanent Representative to the United simply was recognition that the civilized in international organizations. In the case Nations Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick in an ad world faced extraordinary threats which of basically sound bodies-such as NATO, dress to the Anti-Defamation League. "In could be countered only by active U.S. in IMF, Organization of American States and stead of being an effective instrument for volvement-indeed, by U.S. leadership. In World Bank-this reevaluation probably conflict resolution," she said, "[the U.N.] the years following the German and Japa would lead to minor revisions of the organi serves all too often as an arena in which nese surrenders, the globe's industrial zation's structure and the nature of U.S. pa conflict is polarized, extended and exacer economies were shattered and in need of ticipation. When it comes to the United Na bated, in which differences are made deeper repair. Europe's democracies were weary tions and its many affiliated agencies, how and more difficult to resolve than they and confronting menacing Soviet troops fur ever, a reevaluation is certain to prompt a would otherwise be." ther westward than Lenin ever could have fundamental reconsideration of U.S. mem Politicizing ·and globalizing issues are two imagined. And the world's financial institu bership. For more than a decade and one of the dangers created by the U.N.'s distort tions were reeling from the two decades of half, the U.N. increasingly has demonstrat ed pattern of behavior. Dangerous too is the turmoil caused by depression and war. ed that it is not merely costly and harmless. legitimacy conferred on the undeserving, It clearly was in American interests to Increasingly, the United Nations is becom while discrediting those entitled to respect offer the security crutch to Westen Europe ing, as Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan en as members of the community of nations. provided by the North Atlantic Treaty Or titled his 1980 description of his tour as U.S. Within the U.N. system, for example, the ganization and the machinery to encourage permanent Representative at the U.N., "a PLO and South West African People's Orga world trade provided by the International dangerous place." The United Nations, nization enjoy near official status Monetary Fund and the General Agreement indeed, is becoming a threat to U.S. national and are treated not as the terrorists that on Tariffs and Trade. Yet what was appro interests. they are but as members in good standing of priate in the years following World War II A list of the U.N.'s failures and shortcom the international community. Israel, South now may be an anachronism. With the con ings should puncture the resolve of all but Africa, Chile, and the Shah's Iran, mean temporary world so different from that of the organization's most blind boosters. The while are or have been reviled as pariah 1946 or even 1955, are there still valid rea U.N. has failed as a peacekeeper and peace states. sons for the U.S. to remain deeply involved maker and as a protector of human rights. Most dangerous, however, is the U.N.'s de in international organizations? It is undeni Its record of caring for refugees is suspi facto (and some times de jure) crusade able, for instance, that the Wilsonian ciously mixed, ignoring the legions attempt against the free enterprise system. In many dreaiOS once again seem as hollow as they ing to flee communist-ruled VietNam while respects, the U.N. has become the headquar did a half-century ago. George Washing allowing the Palestine Liberation Organiza ters, command post and strategic planning ton's admonition, meantime, appears in tion to turn refugee camps into armed garri center of an anti-free enterprise campaign. creasingly profound. Yet the United States, sons. Inefficiency, cronyism, high pay, In almost every U.N. body and almost as it approaches the 21st century, will find lavish expense accounts and even corrup always in the General Assembly, seldom is guidance on the question of international tion and illiteracy have become the all too an opportunity lost to attack the free enter involvement neither in Wilson nor Washing common characteristics of the Secretariat prise system. These assaults come as direct ton. The answers rather are in the lessons and other U.N. bureaucracies. Meantime, attacks on the Western industrial democra learned in the past four decades. Among U.N. agencies in New York, Geneva, and cies which are the main capitalist nations. them: Vienna serve as a valuable cover for Soviet, They come as attacks on individual indus- .
September 30, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26813 tries through increasing attempts to impose much more benefit from the U.N. than does valid cause to question how the PLO and international codes of economic regulation. the U.S. Even more striking is the paltry similar groups spend UNESCO's "education They come too as attacks on the most suc material support from those who control al" grants. Even by providing food, medicine cessful of the capitalistic enterprises, the the U.N. The approximately 120 developing and training for civilian cadres, the U.N. corporation which has grown beyond the nations who command a permanent U.N. allows terrorists to earmark more of their boundaries of the country in which it was majority together contribute less than 9 own funds for weaponry. founded and in which it is headquartered percent of the organization's costs. Some of As important as material aid is the politi the multinational corporation. and the U.N. those 120 nations, of course, are very poor; cal legitimacy that the U.N. confers on ter crusade attacks the very essence and philo yet others are quite rich. In fiscal 1980-81, rorist organizations. Official U.N. recogni sophical base of the free enterprise system. for instance, Saudi Arabia paid only 0.58 tion amounts to a seal of approval which It is an assault which condemns, almost percent of the U.N. budget and Kuwait only gives the Marxist-oriented PLO, SWAPO, always, without supporting evidence, the 0.20 percent, while relatively poor Britain ANC and PAC a definite advantage over notion that the dynamo of growth and eco and Spain paid 4.40 percent and 1. 70 per their non-Marxist rivals at home. They nomic expansion is individual initiative, cre cent respectively. enjoy U.N. money, aid projects, publicity ativity and the incentive provided by the op For nearly its first two decades, the and international lobbying power not avail portunity of making a profit. This kind of United Nations mainly reflected the con able to their competitors. Example: SWAPO attack even repudiates the notion of eco cerns of the world's industrial democracies. has access to the U.N. Department of Public nomic growth, substituting for it the naive As new nations were formed and admitted Information Radio Service which broadcasts and economically self-defeating concepts of. to the U.N., in the wake of the dissolution worldwide. With this, SWAPO airs special wealth redistribution and central planning. of the world's empires . the balance of power within Public Information also provides photo noring capitalism's record of success, the the U.N. inexorably shifted. From 51 mem graphic and exhibition services for special United Nations and its agencies have raised bers in 1945, the U.N. grew to 82 by 1958, to SWAPO events-such as displays which to the level of gospel the tenets of what is 115 in 1964 and now stands at 157 member become semi-permanent exhibits at U.N. called the New International Economic nations. While there is some merit to the ar headquarters in New York and offices in Order or, as it is widely known, NIEO. The gument that a global organization ought to Geneva and Vienna. The U.N. imprimatur tenacity with which the United Nations have a universal membership, this has been makes the terrorists appear to be the sole fights for NIEO at every forum, from every translated simplistically into a policy within representatives of their respective peoples. rostrum and in every possible publication the U.N. . for instance, now ity. A majority of today's U.N. members are The United Nations excuses its support deals with educational and cultural matters ill-prepared to address the issues that come for terrorists by claiming that it has a re mainly as a means for promoting the NIEO before the U.N. for these nations stand only sponsibility for helping so-called National agenda. A U.N. conference ostensibly called on the threshold of political and economic Liberation Movements battle colonialist re to combat discrimination against women, development. They have no experience in gimes. U.N. aid for these movements, howev meanwhile, was transformed into a NIEO international matters and can boast little er, is curiously selective. No backing, for in pep rally. This obsession with NIEO has knowledge of any history but that of their stance, is given to pro-Western National Lib converted the United Nations from an orga own transition from colonialism to inde eration Movements such as UNITA, now nization that might merely have been costly pendence. In almost every case, moreover, fighting what appears to be a successful and annoying into a body which threatens the majority of U.N. members have no re guerrilla war in Angola against the Soviet those nations committed to democracy. lib spect for or faith in democracy. Yet they de and Cuban-backed Marxist regime. Nor has erty and economic development. termine the policies that the U.N. adopts the U.N. been willing to recognize the non Early critics of the United Nations recog and which the United States and other de Marxist representatives of the Palestinians nized and predicted the organization's mocracies are obliged to execute and under or the democratic political parties of Na shortcomings. While their warnings then write. To make matters worse, these policies mibia. Instead, the U.N. General Assembly might have been debatable, they now seem are becoming increasingly opposed to U.S. grandly declares and treats the PLO and only too real. As a result, American public principles and national interests. SWAPO as the sole, legitimate representa support for the U.N has plummetted sharp SUPPORTING TERRORISTS tives of their respective peoples. These two ly from that heady July 28, 1945, when the Through its resolutions and, what is more terrorist groups, for example, hold coveted U.N. Charter went to the Senate floor for alarming, its agencies and funds, the United "permanent observer" status at key U.N. ratification and was approved by a lopsided Nations has been supporting terrorists agencies and bodies-including the Security 89 to 2. This reflected the broad popular groups. The Palestine Liberation Organiza Council when questions concerning their backing for the U.N. Support remained high tion, the South West Africa People's Orga areas of the world are on the agenda. And through the U.N.'s first decade and a half. A nization, the African National Congress and while the General Assembly effectively has 1959 Gallup Poll revealed that 87 percent of the Pan-African Congress have been receiv barred the sovereign state of South Africa those surveyed felt that the U.N. was doing ing material backing from the U.N. Accord from its proceedings, denying the South Af a good job. By 1971, however, Americans ing to a Heritage Foundation study, be rican delegations even the right to answer were having second thoughts and Gallup tween 1975 and 1981 the U.N. spent or budg charges against it, the General Assembly found that only 35 percent gave the U.N. eted at least $116 million to support these has asked all U.N. organs to include the passing grades. This dropped to 30 percent and similar groups. This figure was com ANC and PAC in their meetings dealing in 1980, while 53 percent thought that the piled solely from public records. The real with southern Africa. organization was doing a "poor job." And in U.N. outlay for terrorism, including items No terrorist group enjoys U.N. munifi March 1981, a Roper Poll discovered that camouflaged and hidden in innocent-ap cence more than the Palestine Liberation only a slim 10 percent of Americans viewed pearing budget items, surely exceeds by sev Organization. It has full observer status at the U.N. as "highly effective" in carrying eral fold this publicly verifiable outlay. Of UNESCO, the International Labor Organi out its functions. this sum, the U.S. taxpayer contributes at zation, the World Health Organization and Though now disillusioned with the U.N., least 25 percent. the International Civil Aviation Organiza Americans cannot be faulted for trying to U.N. support for terrorists takes a number tion. Affiliation with the aviation body per make the international body succeed. Since of forms. It ranges from gifts of food, hous mits the PLO, whose members are among the U.N.'s birth, the U.S. has been the ing and health services to providing radio the most veteran and violent airplane sky U.N.'s most enthusiastic and generous channels through which a terrorist group jackers, to attend meetings called to discuss booster. Until 1964, for instance, American can broadcast propanganda. The United Na international air travel security. In 1977, taxpayers provided nearly 40 percent of the tions Education, Scientific and Cultural Or meanwhile, the PLO was admitted to the U.N. assessed budget. Even now with its ganization has given money earmarked for U.N. Economic and Social Council's Com share reduced, as other nations have indus education to a wide range of terrorist mission for Western Asia. This was the first trialized and grown wealthier, the U.S. pays groups. Totalling at least $8 million for full-membership ever granted to a non about one-quarter of the U.N.'s bills; in 1981-1983, there is no way to account for country. Since then, the PLO has been al 1983, this probably will cost the taxpayer how the terrorists actually spent the lowed to chair the Commission's sessions. more than $1 billion, bringing to about $12 money. To be sure, the public record reveals Two U.N. committees were created for and billion the U.S. contribution to the U.N. no U.N. funds used to purchase arms. U.N. are dominated by the PLO: the Inalienable since 1945. By contrast, the Soviet Union accounting and expense monitoring proce Rights Committee and the Special Unit on pays only 13 percent of the U.N. budget dures, however, are widely ridiculed as lax, Palestinian Rights. These committees allow and gets if not deliberately permissive. There is thus the PLO to.use U.N. funds to produce a wide 26814 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 variety of publications and mount a public as a result has become t he people's Province, Nicaragua. One day last spring, relations campaign, including an annual enemy. He found that: two other American journalists and I sat vis "International Solidarity Day with the Pal The Sandinista government forces the iting with Jose and Esteban on their patio, estinian People." PLO booklets lauding farmers to sell their crops to the state at surrounded by their wives and children. The Yassir Arafat as a freedom fighter and de very low, fixed prices. The government arbi view from their cool, thick-walled adobe fending the PLO's use of terrorism are fea trarily confiscates their land, commandeers home is dominated by a long ridge of moun tured at U.N. bookstores-including those in their cars, their trucks, and their sons for tains less than 12 kilometers to the north. New York. PLO exhibitions, meanwhile, the military. Those who complain or refuse That is the Honduran border. adorn corridors of U.N. buildings. Despite are sent to La Barranca prison near Esteli, Jose and Esteban are farmers. They have protests from Israel, a PLO U.N. exhibit dis which a Sandinista "vigilante" told me a Ford truck, a large house, and about 80 played a map of the Middle East which de "probably" holds more than 350 men and acres of land, on which they grow beans and picted a state identified as "Palestine" but women. They sit, month after month, with coffee and run a few cattle. By Nicaraguan omitted Israel. out trial, accused of "anti-patriotic" senti standards they have done very well. But Through its officially sanctioned presence, ments. this day Esteban looks at us and says, "No, the PLO gains inordinate influence at the there is no other way. I will have to leave U.N. On many issues, including a good This is the same government which too. Go across, over the mountains, and number of personnel matters, the PLO so proudly told the world in 1979 that come back with a gun." Jose, looking around wields a widely recognized veto. This not the Nicaraguan people would at last at his house and family and everything else only adversely affects American and Israeli enjoy the same rights as other free he'll have to leave behind, nods sadly. He interests, but undermines the efforts of people throughout the world. The Nic will go too. There is no other way. moderate, democratic Palestinian leaders to araguan people want their stories of Jose and Esteban will join the Contras, find a peaceful solution to. the Palestinian the counter-revolutionary guerrilla force problem. By blindly supporting the PLO, repression told to the world because trying to overthrow the Sandinista govern the United Nations actually creates obsta there is no free press within Nicara ment in Managua. Like virtually all of the cles to the achievement of an Arab-Israeli gua, as promised by the Sandinistas, to farmers I spoke with in the northwestern peace.e tell this story. Their story can only be provinces, they say the Sandinistas, a popu told when those who disseminate in lar guerrilla movement themselves only four formation to the world leave the cities years ago, have failed the people. Worse of Nicaragua and the guided Sandi than that, they have become the people's THE SANDINISTAS HAVE FAILED nista tours and venture to the fields enemy. The Sandinista government forces THE PEOPLE OF NICARAGUA the farmers to sell their corps to the state, and mountains. at very low, fixed prices. The government It is there that all who look will find arbitrarily confiscates their land, comman HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG hatred and disgust for the Sandinistas deers their cars, their trucks, and their sons OF FLORIDA and a longing for the peace and free for the military. Those who complain or IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dom which the Sandinistas promised. refuse Afghanistan and the de tic Alliance. more active participation by Members of struction of the free labor movement in The Atlantic Council of the United the U.S. Congress. Poland. The special importance of the North At Finally-although this is not an issue States recently completed a 2 year lantic Assembly arises from two circum among the NATO governments-many study of the North Atlantic Assembly. stances: the complexity and urgency of the Americans are distressed t hat NATO's pro The working group which performed issues confronting the developed democra gram for modernizing theater nuclear arms the study was chaired by our distin cies and the key role legislators play at the in Europe, adopted in 1979 in response to guished permanent representative to nexus of foreign policy and public opinion. European concerns, now appears to be op- September 30, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26817 posed by significant sectors of European tunities which Congress should now consid wider and more effective interparliamentary opinion. er. dialogue that is now clearly possible. Specif These American positions, whatever may RECOMMENDATION NO. 3: LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT ically at this time, the Assembly should add be their merits, are widely held in this coun The Congressional leadership should con a full-time information officer to its Secre try. They are among many other such posi sistently seek to appoint the strongest possi tariat. tions that must be presented, clarified, ad ble bipartisan U.S. delegation, a substantial CONCLUSION NO.7: IMPROVING ASSEMBLY justed, and defended effective in the North part of which should include members oth PROCEDURES Atlantic Assembly. erwise isolated from the international scene It is a regrettable irony that, for a variety The major inherent functions of the as well as members of committees that are North Atlantic A~;isembly are to promote in of largely remediable reasons, U.S. partici directly involved in foreign policy and inter pation in the Assembly over the years has terparliamentary dialogue and the mutual national security issues, in a systematic education of legislators, on the one hand, been less than optimum in size, structure, effort both to draw in new Members of Con and prominence. While a number of emi and to influence policymaking and pubic gress and to provide resasonable continuity. opinion, on the other. To date the Assembly nent Senators and Representatives have The leadership should also assure that the taken leading roles in this work, the U.S. has achieved significant success in the delegation has sufficient staff support and former but far less than it can and should in has seldom fielded a full delegation, and too sufficient time off from their legislative often the most appropriate legislative com the latter. The practice of adopting formal duties to enable them to attend to annual resolutions and recommendations has mittees, those concerned with foreign policy meetings. and national security, have been underrep served as one useful means of promoting the resented. CONCLUSION NO.4: A PROBLEM OF PUBLIC dialogue but has had little impact on policy Certain changes in present arrangements PERCEPTION making or public opinion. and attitudes could help bring about more Members of Congress have often found RECOMMENDATION NO. 7: THE DEBATE AND THE consistently effective U.S. participation in that participation in the North Atlantic As END-PRODUCTS the North Atlantic Assembly-and provide sembly can be a political liability by unfair The Assembly should retain but de-em other gains as well. These changes are out ly exposing them at home to charges of phasize the practice of adopting resolutions, lined in the following conclusions and rec "junketeering" consist of noncontiguous, fragmented areas us. As this article shows, the richness The Reagan Administration's policy of and are unable to support economies that of experience of our older citizens is a "constructive engagement" in South Africa would make them self-sustaining. They are could very well have been designed in Preto dependent on South Africa to provide em great asset for all of us. I congratulate ria. ployment for the vast majority of their Dick White and the Boston Herald for In exchange for what the Administration "citizens." Since the sophisticated and afflu sharing the Artie Butler story with us. calls "progress" toward the elimination of ent white-controlled South African econo I ask that it be printed here. apartheid, the United States' relations with my is in need of cheap, plentiful labor, it is At 95 years old, Fall River's Artie Butler is the South African Government are more an arrangement that works to its definite older even than Carl Yastrzemski. He is, in friendly and extensive than they have been advantage. fact, the oldest living former major league for years. Even though their economies are so de baseball player. He took his place in base The ultimate folly of such a policy for the pendent on the rest of South Africa, four of ball history to do battle alongside Hanus United States is that favor is being won the homelands-Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Rogers with the wrong people. Transkei and Venda-have been declared in Hornsby, and yes ... he remembers it well. The so-called reforms applauded by the dependent. Not one country in the world, The diamond dust has long since settled Reagan Administration are merely cosmetic except South Africa, has yet recognized this for the still-spry former infielder whose pro changes in a system deeply entrenched and pseudo-independence. Late last year, howev fessional career in baseball began in 1908 in jealously guarded by "white" South Africa. er, the United States took what is perhaps a the old New England League and ended in That this is the view of the black majority, first step toward changing that when Amer which will inevitably hold power in South ican diplomats made their first official visits 1928 with the Providence Grays in the East Africa and with which we will, therefore, to the homelands. ern League. In between, he played for have to deal, is made clear by the recent ex While the anti-apartheid movement has Boston, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. plosions of violence there. not succeeded in shaping world opinion He is a man who chased a dream and Perhaps most pernicious, because it cam about racism in South Africa to the point caught it during a time when only the most ouflages a very basic aspect of apartheid, is where strong international actions have rugged survived. the latest so-called reform. The Appeals been taken, it has kept the issue before the "I wasn't a star," Butler says (his real sur Court of South Africa recently ruled that public. In the absence of an informed cadre name is Bouthitier). "I had to hit if I black migrant workers who have been con of activists to prick the conscience of the wanted to live. In 20 years, I missed only tinuously employed in one job for 10 years world and its leaders, it is doubtful that one ballgame because of a broken nose. or in various jobs for 15 years now have policy statements such as the Reagan Ad "My greatest fan was my dad," he recalls. rights of permanent residency in "white" ministration's recent condemnation of "He brought the whole fainily up to Boston South Africa even if they must return to apartheid as "morally wrong" would be for the dedication of the new Braves Field. I their "homelands" each year to renew their made. was playing for the St. Louis Cardinals in work contracts. They can no longer be de But I wonder if the vigilance of the dedi 1913." ported to the homelands if they lose their cated few will be enough to counter prag In that opening game, there was a $50 jobs. matic world opinion when the homelands prize offered for the player who got the To regard this as a reform, however, is to scheme has been fully implemented and the first hit in the spanking new park. Manager ignore the basic injustice of a system that Government of South Africa grants political Miller Huggins inserted himself into the requires a court ruling to allow an individ rights to the ineffectual number of blacks starting line-up at Butler's usual spot as ual the right to reside wherever he pleases remaining citizens of the Republic. It is lead-off hitter. in the country of his birth. more probable that they will be viewed as "He wanted that fifty bucks," laughs To then use such decisions as justification radicals standing in the way of the new, es Butler. "I was the second batter. After Hug for closer diplomatic relations is ludicrous. ta.blished order. Who will listen to their pro gins grounded out, I got the first hit and the It is also dangerous since it diverts atten test that by allowing 20 million people to be $50. Miller just shook his head. tion from the South African regime's relent evicted from the land of their birth the "The best pitchers I ever faced were the less pursuit of apartheid. world acquiesced in racial and human injus great Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland While the world applauds its magnanimity tice of monumental proportions?• Alexander and Jack Chesbro, who threw a in granting urban blacks-whose labor it nasty spitball," says Butler. "But the great needs-rights of permanent residency, est of them all was Walter Johnson over in South Africa continues to implement its THE ARTIE BUTLER STORY the American League. I batted against him homelands policy, denying blacks any citi in exhibition games and his fastball was just zenship rights in South Africa and forcibly HON. BARNEY FRANK unbelievable!" removing hundreds of thousands of them After playing in only 27 games for the from land designated "white." Euphemisti OF MASSACHUSETTS Boston Braves, Butler was purchased by the cally referred to as separate development, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Pittsburgh Pirates in 1912 to replace the the homelands policy is the fulcrum upon Friday, September 30, 1983 legendary New York City that I'll live to be 110, but I'm not kidding cipline and compassion. His adminis- and ordained the priest. Father Mi- 26820 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 chael served the parish for 4 years. By using them against the people of their laboration with imperialist antirevolution the year 1908, 30 new families joined own country and in the interest of the ary forces" are therefore staged to remind the parish, and a new priest, Father Kremlin. the population of what happens to those George Kattouf, led ably in the pur Among our colleagues who are so el who continue to oppose the authorities. Cases of outright defiance, such as that of chase of land at 132 High Street in oquent in their denunciation of Ameri Dr. Kakar, are not uncommon, but the Wilkes-Barre, and the church building can allies in Latin America, I cannot Khad can bring often-nefarious pressures to was completed at a cost of $9,000. think of one who has managed to bear on prisoners who refuse to cooperate, A rectory was also built in 1912, bring to the attention of the House including torture of prisoners and the har behind the church at 19 McCarragher the existence, let alone the human assment of their families, bribery, and Street, for $4,000. rights violations, of the Khad. So I promises of release or reduced sentences. The congregation grew steadily until want to take this opportunity to pro A far less-sophisticated version of its KGB 1914, when the First World War vide these eloquent speakers with big brother in the Soviet Union, the Khad enough information to allow them to nevertheless has developed into a formida began. A number of our young men ble security weapon for Soviet divide-and joined the Army and served well. By exercise their talent for criticism rule tactics. Its extensive activities-gather the year 1928, the old church was en where it belongs. ing intelligence, infiltrating the resistance, larged and lifted to build a large com At this point I wish to insert in the spreading false information, and processing munity hall underneath, at a cost of RECORD, "The Khad-U.S.S.R.'s Secret of political prisoners-in many cases have $13,000. The congregation, by 1940, Weapon Against Afghan Rebels," from proved even more effective against the guer was 300 families strong, and boasted the Christian Science Monitor, Sep rillas than have massive military on tember 29, 1983. slaughts. business and professional people. Over the past years, the Soviets have suc During World War II, 130 of its young THE KHAD-U.S.S.R.'s SECRET WEAPON ceeded in broadly penetrating resistance or men served in the Armed Forces and 7 AGAINST AFGHAN REBELS ganizations by means of the Khad-not only lost their lives in the European Thea National Football League's di- units controlling the narrow passes leading rector of player relations, had been attend into the mountainous outback. CLAUDE "BUDDY" YOUNG, A ing a memorial service in Louisiana at Shortly after the invasion, the Soviets FRIEND TO ALL PEOPLE, A Northwestern State University for Joe De- changed tactics and sought to pressure the MAN FOR ALL SEASONS laney, the Kansas City Chiefs' running back Hazaras into submission by imposing an eco who had drowned June 29 while trying to nomic blockade. At the same time, they ini save three youngsters from drowning. tiated a subversive campaign aimed at infil HON. JACK F. KEMP Today at 11 A.M. hundreds of Buddy trating the Hazara resistance, using Khad OF NEW YORK Young's friends will attend a memorial serv and Iranian Tudeh IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ice for him at Christ Church, 520 Park agents. Avenue at East 60th Street, which he often Often regarded as the underdogs of Friday, September 30, 1983 Afghan society, the Hazaras have tradition passed as he walked to the N.F.L. office a ally turned to Iran for religious and eco • Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, I would few blocks away. Sometimes he had walked nomic solidarity. As fellow Shiites, many like to pay tribute to my friend and all the way from his home in Hartsdale, hold Ayatollah Khomeini in high esteem professional football colleague, Claude sometimes from Van Cortlandt Park where and retain close relations with Iranian cler "Buddy" Young. His untimely death his wife, Geraldine, would drop him off. On ics. When unable to live off the land, over the Labor Day weekend shocked his arrival, in the years before a shower was Hazara men have usually headed to Iran in and saddened us all. Buddy was one of available in the N.F.L. office, he would clean search of jobs to maintain their families up in the basement with the janitors. football's finest gentlemen and great "Instead of walking all those miles," he back home. est sportsmen. He was a man far larger In late 1980, Hazaras recruited by the once was asked, "why don't you run?" Tudeh Party in conjunction with the Khad in his love of life and his love of the "I've been running all my life," he said. and KGB began to filter back to Afghani people whose lives he touched, than "I'm never going to run again." stan. So did Tudeh agents purporting to most any man I have ever known. As an all-American 172-pound halfback represent Khomeini. Within months, they Buddy faced many challenges on his with sprinter speed at Illinois, he had run succeeded-by playing on religious and tra way to success and fame, challenges for 13 touchdowns as a freshman in 1944, ditional sentiments-in disrupting the that might have defeated many a tying Red Grange's record. His touchdowns shura, thus curbing organized resistance ac lesser man. But Buddy never let these included runs of 92, 82, 74, 63 and 40 yards. tivities. He emerged as only the second black all challenges defeat him. He knew that American, half a century after Fritz Pollard Local guerrilla commanders and intellec in facing up to the challenges and tuals were gradually hounded by the spread of Brown had been the first. He then joined of false rumors. Even volunteer French doc overcoming them, he was helping to the New York Yankees of the All-America tors, who were providing basic health care prove that the American dream of a Conference, whose star was Orban (Spec> in many villages, were forced to leave the better life was available to anyone who Sanders, a white tailback from Texas. Hazara heartland by clerics persuaded that wanted to reach for it. "I'd like to room with you," Buddy Young the Europeans were "godless imperialists" From the time Buddy was NCAA suggested to Spec Sanders, "so that you can and anti-Khomeini instigators. sprint champion and All-American in get to know me and I can get to know you." Only highly respected mujahideen com the same year, at the University of Il Buddy Young didn't talk about integra manders were able to resist such tactics. tion; he integrated. He later roomed with More recently, however, awareness has linois, through his career and associa another white running back, Zollie Toth of begun to emerge among both the mujahi tion with the NFL, he worked hard to Louisiana State, after whom he named his deen and local populations in the Hazarajat improve the game of football, and to youngest son. and elsewhere of what the Soviets are up to. gain respect for all those who played "But the worst discrimination of all," This has prompted appropriate counter the game. Buddy Young once said, "is size discrimina measures. Buddy Young will be missed, but he tion." Guerrilla leaders are seeking to eliminate will never be forgotten. He was in the If so, he taught coaches not to discrimi rivalry through force, persuasion, and third truest sense, a friend to all people, a nate against him at a time when black play party reconciliation. Just as the Khad has ers were new to pro football. But in 1945, succeeded in penetrating the resistance, the man for all seasons. with the Fleet City Bluejackets, a Navy mujahideen have never lacked collaborators The following article from the New service team near San Francisco, he had run among government ranks. Tipoffs have led York Times gives a wonderful picture with and against several N.F.L. players. As a to the rooting out of informers, who are of Buddy, his character, his love of rookie with the Yankees, he rushed for 712 then tried and usually executed, while com life, his love of people, and peoples' yards, averaging 6.1 yards a carry. But per munist officials or Khad operators known to love for him. I would like to share it haps his most memorable moment occurred be specifically involved in resistance infiltra with my colleagues. in 1951 at the Polo Grounds. With the New tion are, wherever possible, assassinated. York Yanks trailing, 23-17, the late Em.len For the resistance, dealing with the Khad EVERYBODY'S BUDDY Tunnell of the Giants returned a kickoff will no doubt remain one of its stickiest pre (By Dave Anderson> 100 yards for a touchdown. On the ensuing dicaments. With substantial independent In the hours after the dessert dishes had kickoff, Buddy Young scooted 90 yards for a powers of its own, the Khad is a constantly been cleared away by the waiters at the touchdown. growing "state within a state." Ironically, football dinner in the midtown hotel ball "I don't think that ever happened in the despite close KGB management, it is also an room, too many speeches had been too long. N.F.L., before or since," says Wellington organization over which the Soviets do not Now, his head barely above the lectern, Mara, the Giants' coowner. "And on the command the control they would like. Much Buddy Young identified himself as repre next kickoff, Em.len got across midfield to the KGB's dismay, the Khad is becoming senting the N.A.A.L.P., which woke up his before the last man tackled him." 26822 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 But in recent years, Buddy Young was shot down an unarmed Korean Air the Soviets, strategic balance means always thought of as the N.F.L.'s player re Lines passenger aircraft, murdering all any level wnere they remain superior. lations director, not as a former player. In 269 people on board. two decades since being hired by Commis The Soviet President's speech is sioner Pete Rozelle, he had developed into a It is the Soviet Union, and not the nothing more than the latest piece of behind-the-scenes mover and shaker. His United States, who continues to the continuing Soviet propaganda job, as he said, was to "sell business and in occupy Afghanistan. Since its military campaign. In this case, it is propagan dustry on the untapped resoruces of ath invasion, the Soviets have ransacked da at the most obvious and highest letes beyond the playing field.'' Back during towns and villages in that nation kill level. While most Americans are aware the battle for players with the American ing and wounding thousands of inno of Yuri Andropov's exaggerations and Football League, his job also was to per cent men, women, and children. lies, many people throughout the world suade the best draft choices to sign with N.F.L. teams. It is the Soviet Union, and not the do not have access to a free press and "Markets," he told Gale Sayers in 1965, United States, which continues to · the wealth of information supplied to "the choice you make ought to do with mar deny the people of Poland their right us in the United States. To people with kets rather than the name of the football to live as free people. Soviet rule there out an understanding of the facts, his team.'' is similar to its control of other East speech may sound believable, and Gale Sayers, then a rookie running back ern European countries such as therein lies the success of the Soviet out of Kansas, signed with the Chicago Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hun propaganda campaign. Bears instead of the Kansas City Chiefs be gary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugo cause of "markets," not money. While the United States strives to Buddy Young could be as formal as a slavia. insure world peace, the Soviet Union's board room, or as informal as a bottle of It is the Soviet Union, and not the aggressive actions and growing arsenal beer in one hand and a cigar in the other, United States, which incites armed continue to contradict their rhetoric. his tie usually loosened. conflicts in Southeast Asia, Africa, the For the Soviet leaders, the world will "I think all any man deserves in life is the Middle East, and Central America. be at peace only when there exists no chance," he once said. "Nothing more, noth Yet Yuri Andropov charged later in opposition to their rule. ing less." his speech yesterday that the United I include the following articles: With his corporate and Congresional con nections, Buddy Young gave that chance to States seeks a "domineering position [From the Washington Post, Sept. 29, 19831 in the world without reckoning with dozens of former N.F.L. players, black and ANDROPOV BLASTS U.S. ' MILITARIST COURSE' white. But he never believed that an ath the interests of other states and peo lete's character had been molded by playing ples." and its taxes low in succeeding years only if other Members of Congress. accompanying user fee tax measures, a the unobligated balance of the airport I have taken two tax-paid trips to a for primary objective was to fully fund and airway trust fund exceeded $2.3 eign country during the 8 years and 9 the approved program authorizations . billion. months I have served in the U.S. Congress. contained in that legislation. In pass This approach will serve as an incen Since February 6, 1979, I have been Chair tive to fulfill the spending obligations man of the House Panama Canal/Outer ing this statute the Congress declared Continental Shelf Subcommittee. that the highest aviation priority which were intended when we passed My two tax-paid trips out of the country would be given to the safe and expedi the AAIA 1 year ago. It should also were both to Panama. After the second visit tious operation of the airport and serve as a disincentive for allowing a to Panama in March of 1982, a Washington airway system. The funding mecha surplus to build up in the trust fund, reporter for the Courier-Journal questioned nism of this legislation required a sub which could then be used by OMB to colleagues of mine in the U.S. House of Rep stantial increase in existing user fees reduce the total budget deficit. As it resentatives as to whether or not I owned an increase that was supported by this now stands, the low 1984 appropria real estate in Panama. As other Members of Congress asked me about The Courier-Jour administration as well as by most of tions for the trust fund programs will nal reporter's questions, I told them I had the various aviation user groups. create an estimated $3.4 billion unobli never even considered purchasing real Unfortunately, the fiscal year 1984 gated surplus by the end of fiscal year estate in Panama. Department of Transportation Appro 1984-a level which I believe is exces So, in 1983 I make my first trip ever across priations Act which was recently sive. either the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean and I signed into law falls considerably Several legislative options were con am naturally, automatically criticized erro short of the approved program author sidered to prevent this from occurring neously by the Bingham media empire, this izations for the airport and airway in the future and while I believe the latest attack coming in a Sept. 16 editorial best approach to pursue at this time is entitled "Safe landings with Rep. Hubbard" trust fund programs. The most glaring in The Louisville Times. example of this is the $750 million to establish a simple linkage between The Times editorial says: "Rather, the funding level adopted for the facilities the tax rates and the unobligated Congressman might consider easing up on and equipment program, which, if al trust fund balance, I certainly am not the junkets. He wouldn't have been headed lowed to continue, could seriously locked into this concept. We all have 26826 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 the same valid concerns in mind and to the United States to pursue the pos the International Brotherhood of Team will be looking forward to any sugges sibility of employing this same method sters has testified that many flourmill work tiens for improvement or alternative there. Yet, here in the United States, ers can smell the chemical, which has no odor until it reaches a concentration of 10 approaches which would better where so much time and effort have parts per million. achieve the same goal. been put into perfecting the tech Besides causing cancer and reproductive Mr. Speaker, I have found it impossi nique, we have been reluctant to make damage, high exposure to EDB can damage ble to justify to aviation taxpayers use of it in food preservation, even the kidneys, liver, spleen, respiratory tract, why the many safety related programs though it could enhance our ability to central nervous system, circulatory system, and projects were not funded during buildup our exports of fresh fruit and skin and eyes. fiscal year 1984. I believe this legisla vegetable, as well as pork. I must con EDB is so potent that OSHA once said the tion represents an appropriate re fess that I am somewhat at a loss to exposure risks "appear to be far greater sponse and urge my colleagues to give understand why the FDA has not than for any other hazard that OSHA has acted more expeditiously in approving regulated in the past." it their full support.e Yet the agency repeatedly rebuffed calls this method. by other federal agencies and the Teamsters ETHYLENE DmROMIDE: A I would hope that, in light of the to take emergency action on EDB, even RISKY CHEMICAL further evidence of the dangers of con though OSHA had two Environmental Pro tinuing to make widespread use of eth tection Agency studies in its files in 1981 ylene dibromide, long known to be car that showed the "excess cancer deaths" HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST cinogenic, we would begin to move that could be expected from exposure at the OF VIRGINIA promptly toward replacing this vicious maximum legal limit were 999 of every 1,000 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES chemical with low-level irradiation. workers. At the time, Auchter said an emergency Friday, September 30, 1983 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. standard wouldn't stand up in court because e Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, [From the Washington Post, Sept. 30, 19831 OSHA didn't know enough about how many in "The Federal Review" section of ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE: OSHA WANTS TO workers were being exposed or at what the September 30, 1983, edition of the TIGHTEN GRIP ON RISKY CHEMICAL levels. Washington Post, an article by staff 11-059 0-87-37 (Pt. 19) 26830 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 tax abatement from the city of New neighborhood uplift and community [From the Financial Times, Sept. 7, 1983] York. pride. AciD RAIN: HIGH-FLYING HUNT FOR THE I am indeed proud to have played a I hope all of those who participated CULPRIT role in bringing this much needed in making this project possible will re housing development to our communi double their efforts to see that more There was talk recently at a U.S. trade as ty. I would like to take this opportuni !acUities like Scheuer House can be sociation in Washington of a bumper sticker ty to pay tribute to the many dedicat made available for our senior citizens, no one had had the courage to issue. The ed people at JASA-among them Ber who lives and work have helped make trade body was the Atomic Industrial nard Warach, executive director; New York such an incredible place to Forum, representing makers of nuclear Morris Stutman, director of housing live. plant. The message was: "Acid rain causes May all the new residents and center nuclear power." management; and Rabbi Jerome Fish No one knows what causes acid rain. This man, Brooklyn Borough director members enjoy many years of health is the evocative term for the apparent con whose tireless energy, efforts, and and happiness in their new surround sequences of high acidity in soils and sur dedication helped bring this project to ings, and may the people at JASA con face waters in several countries, notably fruition. tinue their efforts to provide safe and Norway, Sweden, West Germany and Scheuer House-Manhattan Beach attractive housing for the many senior Canada. But it is plain-Sir Walter Mar provides safe, attractive, affordable citizens in our community.e shall, chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board, stressed the point again housing for some 250 elderly and this week-that any precipitate action handicapped residents who live in its THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF against the electricity industry to cut its sul 150 apartments. Many of the residents THE ZION UNITED METHODIST phur emissions from coal-fired stations will formerly lived in dilapidated and run CHURCH tilt the economic balance still more strongly down buildings under the most diffi in favour of nuclear plant. cult conditions, and the opportunity to Mr. Ian MacGregor, newly-appointed move to Scheuer House has provided HON. MARCY KAPTUR chairman of the National Coal Board, made them with a new lease on life. Apart OF OHIO the same point when he said there were too IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES many people "avidly looking for simplistic ment rentals are fully subsidized and answers to complex questions." There was all tenants had to meet Federal sec Friday, September 30, 1983 so much at stake for the coal industry that tion 8 income eligibility standards e Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, recent it was very important to take advantage of before they could be considered for an the highest level of research capability, he ly, Zion United Methodist Church in said. apartment in this development. my district celebrated its 125th anni An indication of the demand and The two nationalised industry chairmen need for this type of housing can be versary. The church's gala celebration were taking the unprecedented step of com commemorated a century and a quar mitting substantial funds- £5m between seen from in the fact that 6,500 applica ter of providing a place of worship for them over the next five years-to a research tions were submitted. A lottery system many of my constituents with a programme over which they would have no was devised under the close scrutiny of German-language heritage. We in control, either of the questions posed or the HUD to provide all applicants with an America are justly proud of the fact publication of results. equal opportunity for an apartment. Sir Walter had no doubt his auditors that ours is a diverse society made rich would raise their eyebrows at this-but his After exhaustive efforts by JASA, all over time by the blend of many cul the apartments were quickly occupied, worries about acid rain are much bigger. If tures. Zion United Methodist Church the British electricity industry, of which the with many thousands of New Yorkers has helped many of the German CEGB is the major component, took the remaining on the waiting list. Americans of the Toledo area to action now being urged by the EEC, to cut JASA also operates the Senior Alli strengthen their heritage and cele its sulphur emissions at source to one-third, ance Center which is housed in the brate their roots. On behalf of the it could mean the investment of more than community space of Scheuer House. House of Representatives and all the £4bn in such plant as flue gas desulphurisa The SAC provides 205 hot kosher people of the Ninth District, I offer tion equipment. And this would mean an ad meals each day to the residents of the ditional operating cost of about £700m a congratulations to the entire congre year. development and senior citizens in the gation of the Zion United Methodist The sulphur comes from the NCB coal it community. In the last year, the meal Church and wish its members the very burns, which accounted for about 80 per program at the center has proved best for the future.e cent of CEGB electricity last year. The extra popular, proven by the 99 per NCB's research concerned with sulphur has cent use rate of the meals allocated to concentrated mainly on new ways of burn SAC by the New York City Depart ACID RAIN: HIGH-FLYING HUNT ing coal, such as fluidised-bed combustion, ment for the Aging. FOR THE CULPRIT where the sulphur is retained in the com bustion system. But such practices are far The center also provides a wide from proven for large-scale electricity pro range of recreational programs and HON. ALAN B. MOLLOHAN duction. services to center members, many of OF WEST VIRGINIA The CEGB, on the other hand, has spent whom live alone. In addition to a full IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES at a more fundamental level, in its "flying time social worker on its staff, JASA chemistry" research programme. has now added the services of a part Friday, September 30, 1983 The aim of this programme, mounted by time social worker to provide much e Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Speaker, the the Central Electricity Research Laborato needed services during evening hours debate surrounding the issue of high ries at Leatherhead, is to track emissions from its tall power station stacks as they are and on Sundays-often the loneliest acidity in areas in the Northeast has blown across the North Sea. This involves time for many of our elderly. sparked a search for a scapegoat. In flying the highly instrumented aircraft of As a member of the Manhattan this country, that scapegoat is often the Meteorological Office back and forth, Beach community, I have had the op the coal-fired utilities of the Midwest. up and down in the path of the plumes. portunity to watch this project come In other countries around the world, The CEGB reckons it has spent about £5m to completion, and to see how the new however, the search continues with on the flying chemistry programme over the residents of the building have enjoyed less assurance of the ultimate out past five years. It has received some help its excellent facilities and programs. come. As the following article indi from the U.S. electricity industry through its cooperative research body, the Electric Through the hard work and determi cates, the issue may be more complex Power Research Institute to the THOUGHTS ON THE OLDER suffer most grievously if governments gave trees of the Black Forest," Dr. Mellanby AMERICANS ACT in to the current clamour of environmental says. bodies-should fund the programme jointly. The cause of the damage to the trees was This week the Royal Society announced not agreed among the scientists, he contin HON. MICHAEL BILIRAKIS that it had accepted his scheme. The Royal ued. But he says there were few supporters OF FLORIDA Society, the Norwegian Academy of Science for the view that acid rain had been proved IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Letters and the Royal Swedish Acade to be the only, or even the main, culprit. my of Sciences have jointly agreed to initi "The general consensus sugge&ted that the Friday, September 30, 1983 ate a long-term collaborative programme of most likely cause was the combination of a e Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, re research into the causes of acidification of cold winter, a dry summer. fungal disease, cently the House of Representatives surface waters in Norway and Sweden, and elevated ozone levels with, possibly, raised passed H.R. 3913, the Departments of the implications for fisheries. aluminium levels in the soil water arising The announcement was made at the start from the effects of acid precipitation." Labor, Health and Human Services, of a three-day scientific meeting on acid Dr. Mellanby also took the trouble to do and Education, and related agencies rain at the Royal Society. But it said the what few who have attacked the electricity appropriation bill-a measure which aim of the new programme was not to dupli industry have troubled to do. He toured the will appropriate funds and strengthen cate "much intensive theoretical and experi stricken areas of Germany himself. "This many of our domestic programs. Legis mental research in many countries." It was was a revealing experience," he says. "Far lation of this kind provided for the to "provide a sufficient understanding of from the widespread devastation highlight needs of millions of Americans, espe the processes at work in soils and surface ed in a recent television programme shown cially our elderly Americans, who waters to be able to predict, with confi in Britain, the ordinary tourist, or even the dence, the effect on fisheries of particular visiting scientist, could travel for days with depend on the programs authorized reductions in acid concentrations." out seeing any serious damage." under the Older Americans Act. "We could see no sense in going into this In April, Dr. Peter Chester, directar of the Knowing of the tremendous growth programme unless we had the co-operation Central Electricity Research Laboratories in the elderly population in the United of our colleagues in the Scandinavian acade and responsible for co-ordinating all the States, and especially in my district, I mies," says Sir Morris Sugden, physical sec CEGB's scientific work on the environment, strongly supported the passage of this retary of the Royal Society, who is chair gave a public address on acid rain at the bill, in hopes that the existing pro man of the management committee for the Royal Society of Arts in London. He showed grams will continue to develop and research programme. Scientists from how all fears of acid rain so far were purely Norway and Sweden will sit on his commit hypothetical, and how, each time a new that others might grow. tee, which hopes to hold its first meeting theory of devastation allegedly being caused I am pleased to see that funds will next month. by atmospheric sulphur was tested scientifi be allocated to each State according to To direct the project, the Royal Society cally, it simply faded away. the number of older persons in the has chosen a vice-president, Sir John As scientific evidence accumulates. the State and I am hopeful that Florida Mason, shortly to retire after 18 years as di Swedish case against the electricity indus will receive her fair share of the funds, rector-general of the Meteorological Office. tries of Britain and Western Europe weak as she leads the Nation in congression Sir John sees a five-year programme as ens, Dr. Chesters says. If indeed there are al districts with a high elderly popula "just a start" on a very complex problem. any reductions in crop yield caused by sul "But we've got to make a start." phur dioxide, "their cost dwindles into insig tion. Sir John recalls his close involvement nificance in relation to the cost of avoiding The programs funded by the bill will with a similar "but simpler" problem, them and the remedy is largely in national continue at an increased level of $5 namely accusations by the environmental hands." million over the 1983 funding level. ists that large fleets of Concordes flying at Sweden now finds no evidence of damage This increase is certainly needed to 70,000 feet would damage irreparably the to its forests. Sulphate levels and acidity in meet the rising costs and demands. ozone layer of the upper atmosphere which Swedish rivers have "evidently not risen Many of us are familiar with the protects us from excessive ultra-violet light. dramatically' as the Swedes were claiming well-known Meals on Wheels or con As the research progressed down through so vociferously at the UN Conference on the the 1970s, the estimated damage by super Human Environment in 1972. There has gregate meals program which were sonic emissions grew less and less, to the been no substantial trend in rain sulphate funded in this bill. This legislation, point where the scientists are now saying acid rain-in Europe or North-East America however, offers much more for our that fleets of Concordes would cause an in since at least 1965, he says. older Americans, such as funding for crease in ozone, Sir John says. Dr. Chester says there is strong circum gerontology centers research projects The scientists say the same pattern has stantial evidence that declining fisheries in and other needy areas. It is interesting been followed in the case of acid rain. One Scandinavia "may be due to acid deposi to note that funding is also included of Britain's foremost environmental scien tion." But he added that the degree of for the career preparation awards pro tists, Dr. Kenneth Mellanby, former direc damage in the most affected areas does not tor of the Nature Conservancy and since his correspond to differences in deposition. gram, which assists colleges and uni retirement editor of the journal Environ "Nor is their an adequate scientific basis for versities in expanding education pro mental Pollution, reviewed a recent scientif asserting that the problem will get worse, or grams in gerontology and geriatrics. ic conference on acid rain for Nature last spread, without urgent action, nor for pre Another section of the bill, under the month. dicting what improvement can be expected multiagency health issues, provided After pondering the results of about 50 from a given reduction in acid deposition." for our golden Americans. The Depart papers presented at the conference in West According to Dr. Chester, the Swedes are ment of Health and Human Services is Germany, Dr. Mellanby concluded that containing their acidity problems by dump directed to develop a clear plan of what he called the "simplistic" scare stories ing comparatively small quantities of lime of how German industry is destroying the stone in takes to neutralize the acid. In prin action to improve and expand training Black Forest are "neither accurate nor sup ciple, he says, it needs only 10 grams of in geriatrics and gerontology and to ported by scientific evidence." The evidence limestone per square metre of catchment to focus on the need for geriatric physi shows that sulphur dioxide levels in the counter the heaviest acid deposition in cians who are skilled in the diseases Black Forest are "very low indeed, as is Scandinavia. "A European fund for such common among the elderly. 26832 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 Research on aging is an essential re END OF FISCAL YEAR 1983 military spending increases far out sponse to the changing demography of weighs the savings achieved through the U.S. population. The number of el HON. BILL ALEXANDER cutbacks in the domestic budget, and derly people in this country is expect OF ARKANSAS therefore has forced the deficit higher ed to reach 30 million in this decade IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and higher. and to exceed 40 million by 2020. As The tax bill of 1981-which ex this segment of our population in Friday, September 30, 1983 tended enormous tax increases to creases in its relation to the total pop e Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, wealthy Americans-was rammed ulation, we must find ways to deal ef today is a very important day for through this House by President fectively with the changes that will President Reagan, the leadership of Reagan and his Republican allies. occur. The increases which have been the Republican Party, and all those That tax bill locked in a series of mas appropriated for the National Insti supply-side economists who have had sive multiyear tax reductions. By 1985, tute on Aging have been allocated for such a profound impact on shaping the cumulative revenue loss from this this reason to meet the needs of an the economic policies of this adminis tax bill will equal $374 billion. 1 aging population. tration. At the same time taxes have been A part of the funding for the Na Today-the last day of fiscal year cut, military spending has been in tional Institute on Aging is for estab 1983-today is the day Ronald Reagan creased under Mr. Reagan at a stag lishing up to five specialized research promised the American people he gering rate. Under the Reagan admin centers on Alzheimer's disease and re would deliver a balanced budget. istration by fiscal year 1985, we will be lated disorders. Hopefully, the center However, instead of financial solven spending approximately $281 billion approach will be instrumental in cy, President Reagan is giving the for military purposes-almost one building a strong base for multidisci American people a deficit in excess of third of the entire budget. Overall, the plinary research, training, and commu $200 billion. That is a world record Reagan military budget will result in a nity education on Alzheimer's disease figure. It is also quite an accomplish cumulative military spending increases and related disorders. ment for Mr. Reagan personally. Only of approximately $184 billion after ad · The above examples are only a part 3 years ago he was criticizing then justing for inflation by fiscal year of the package for older Americans, President Carter for $30-billion defi 1985. but they clearly indicate the concern cits he said were "skyhigh." A third factor contributing to the of the Congress for a special segment Well, Mr. Speaker, if Mr. Carter's deficit has been the Reagan recession. of our society, who truly deserve to deficits were "skyhigh," we must con In fiscal year 1982 for example, the have the final years be golden ones.e clude that Mr. Reagan's megadeficits deficit was increased by up to $50 bil are proceeding toward some outer lion because of increases in Federal BLUEPRINT FOR PARADISE: galactical black hole. programs providing assistance to the HOW TO LIVE ON A TROPICAL Mr. Speaker, there are those on the unemployed, coupled with a loss of tax ISLAND other side who attempt to defend revenue from the millions of Ameri these megadeficits by alleging that cans who found themselves out of HON. RON de LUGO they were caused by the failure of con work. gressional Democrats to hold down do The cost of the tax cuts along with OF VIRGIN ISLANDS mestic spending. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES increases in military spending account Mr. Speaker, I feel it is important to ed for more than half of the deficit in Friday, September 30, 1983 make clear that these record high fiscal year 1982. It is reasonable to e Mr. DE LUGO. Mr. Speaker, as the deficits do not reflect any failure on assume that the recession may ac sun passes through the autumnal equi the part of Congress to enact the count for the remainder. nox and the shadows slowly begin to spending and tax policies proposed by In fiscal year 1984 and subsequent lengthen, many of our colleagues' the President. Rather they are occur years, the projected increases in de thoughts begin to drift to what it must ring precisely because Congress has fense spending and the impact of the be like to represent a district as beau acted to pass both his spending and tax cuts can be expected to amount to tiful as my own, the U.S. Virgin Is tax policies. And I might add that more than 100 percent of the deficit lands. It is this time of year that I see both the minority leader, and his col suggesting obviously, that in the ab it in their eyes-the envy-the urge to league, the minority whip were among sence of the Reagan tax and spending run away from those frosty climes to a the crafters of the legislative strategy programs we could be facing years of green jewel set in a sapphire sea. which produced those important victo surplus in our Federal budget rather Being the sympathetic soul you all ries for the President's policies-and than the dismal future Mr. Reagan know me to be, I can now tell you how eventually produced these record high has given us. you too can find and enjoy a bit of deficits. paradise. With respect to spending cuts, Con COMPARISON OF PRESIDENTIAL BUDGET REQUESTS AND Ross Norgrove, sea captain, author, gress has cut more than that request CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATED AMOUNTS ENACTED IN ed by the President in each of the last ·and friend, has finally written the REGULAR ANNUAL, SUPPLEMENTAL, AND DEFICIENCY book to answer all your questions. His two fiscal years. For fiscal year 1982, latest work, "Blueprint for Paradise: the President proposed budget cuts to APPROPRIATIONS BILLS taling $40.3 billion, while Congress ap How To Live on a Tropical Island," Congressionally comprises a lifetime of knowledge and proved cuts in excess of $41 billion. In appropriated advice for anyone considering such a fiscal year 1983, the President pro Presidential budget Congressionally amounts less Calendar year requests appropriated (-)or more move. Information on how to choose posed additional cuts of more than amounts (+)than an island, a homesite, the problems of $41.2 billion, and Congress approved Presidential logistics, selecting a boat and much $41.4 billion. request more is presented in a lively, enter Despite these budget cuts the budget 1943 ...... $$115,041 ,366,395 $110,634,660,785 -$4,406,705,610 taining style. deficit skyrocketed. 1944 ...... 63,513,47J,D20 61,257,906,152 -2,255,564,868 1945 62,453,310,868 61,042 ,345,331 -1,410,965,537 Each of our colleagues, particularly The reason for these stunning defi 1946. 30,051,109,870 28,459,502,172 -1,591,607,698 those members of the Northeast-Mid cits can be found in the tax cuts for 194 7 33,367,507,923 30,130.762,141 - 3,236,7 45,782 1948 .... 35,409,550,523 32,699,846,731 - 2,709,703,792 west Congressional Coalition, should the wealthy and massive military 1949.... 39,545,529.108 37,825,026,214 - I, 720,502,894 pick up a copy. Who knows? If it does spending measures which have been 1950 54,316,658,423 52,427,926,629 - 1,888,731,794 not convince them to up and move pushed through Congress by Mr. right away at least it will help keep Reagan and the Republican leader ' CBO figures were used by the DSG in compiling the chill away.e ship. The cost of these tax cuts and this information. September 30, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26833 COMPARISON OF PRESIDENTIAL BUDGET REQUESTS AND calls all that he accomplished among ing funding for schools and services CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATED AMOUNTS ENACTED IN his own people. But he was more than for disadvantaged students. REGULAR ANNUAL, SUPPLEMENTAL, AND DEFICIENCY that, Mr. Speaker, he was a leader of In addition to his keen grasp of post APPROPRIATIONS BILLS-Continued us all. The Labor-Management Citi secondary education and State finance zens Committee of Wyoming Valley, issues, Al is an expert in public utili Congressionally the Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis, the Family ties, energy matters, transportation appropriated Service Association, the United Way, and seismic safety. Congressionally amounts less Presidential budget appropriated (- )or more the Red Cross and many other civic We are honored to have known AI Calendar year requests amounts ( +) than and charitable organizations claimed Alquist for more than 20 years. In ad Presidential request of his time and gained of his inspira dition to his many professional accom tion. plishments for the people of Califor 1951 ...... 96,340.781.110 91 ,059.713,307 - 5,281 ,067 ,803 Even more importantly, beyond all nia, AI is a man of deep convictions 1952 ...... 83,964,877,176 75,355,434,201 - 8,609,442,975 1953 ...... 66,568,694,353 54,539,342,491 - 12.029,351 ,862 the titles and the honors, the offices and principles, a man who believes in 1954 ...... 50,257,490,985 47 ,642,131 ,205 - 2,615,359,780 and the responsibilities, Rabbi Barras the basic human dignity of all people, 1955 ...... 55,044,333,729 53,124 ,821,215 - 1,919,512,514 1956 60,892,420,237 60,647,917,590 - 244,502,647 was a man to whom any other man or regardless of race, creed, color, or 1957 ...... 64,638,110,610 59,589.731 ,631 - 5,048,378,979 woman could turn in a time of need income. 1958 ...... 73,272,859,573 72,653 ,476,248 - 619 ,383,325 1959 ...... 74,859,472,045 72,977,957,952 - 1.881,514,093 and be assured of a listening ear, a Al Alquist is an honest, caring man 1960 ...... 73,845,974,490 73,634,335,992 - 211 ,638,498 helping hand and a word of faith and for whom we have the deepest respect. 1961 ...... 91,597,448,053 86,606,487,273 -4,990,960.780 1962 ...... 96,803,292,115 92,260,154,659 - 4,543,137 ,456 of hope. He will be deeply missed by He is much more than a representa 1963 ...... 98,904,155,136 92,432,923,132 - 6,471 ,232,004 those whose congregation he served tive of the people of the 11th senatori 1964 ...... 98,297 ,358,556 94,162,918,996 - 4,134,439 ,560 1965 ...... 109,448,074,896 107,037 ,566,896 -2,410,508,000 and all of us whose community he al district, he is an untiring worker 1966 ...... 131,164,926,586 130,281 ,568,480 - 883,358,106 shared. and compassionate voice for all Cali 1967 ...... 147,804,557,929 141,872,346,664 - 5,932,211,265 1968 ...... 147,908,612,996 133,339,868,734 - 14,568.744,262 I rise, Mr. Speaker, to share the fornians. 1969 ...... 142.701,346,215 134,431,463,135 - 8,269,883,080 news of his untimely death with my 1970 ...... 147.765,358,434 144,273,528,504 - 3,491 ,829,930 Mr. Speaker, and my fellow Mem 1971...... 167,874,624,937 165,225,661 ,865 - 2,648,963,072 friends and colleagues in the House bers, I hope you will join me and Mr. 1972 ...... 185,431 ,804,552 178,960,106,864 - 6,471 ,697,688 1973 ...... 177,959,504,255 174,901 ,434,304 - 3,058,069,951 and to extend my own deep sympathy EDWARDS in congratulating AI Alquist 1974 ...... 213,667,190,007 204 ,012 ,311 ,514 - 9,654 ,878,493 to his widow, Sylvia and to his chil on his many years of dedicated public 1975 ...... 267 ,224,774,434 259,852,322,212 - 7,372,452,222 1976 282,142,432,093 282,536,694,665 + 394,262,572 dren, David, Daniel, and Joshua. service, his wise counsel, and his 1977 ...... 364,867,240,174 354,025.780.783 - 10,841 ,459,391 In their sorrow, Mr. Speaker, I pray friendship over the years. Clearly, AI 1978 . 348,506,124.701 337 ,859,466.730 - 10,656,657,971 1979 ...... 397,653.765,836 386,822,093,291 - 10,831,672,545 his beloved family may find consola Alquist has made California a better 1980 ...... 340,339,446.763 333,695,1 64 ,197 - 6,644,282,566 tion in the memory he has left and in place in which to live.e 1981...... 440,398,234,909 442,215,1 27,541 + 1.816,892,632 1982. 507.740,133,484 514 ,832,375,371 + 7,092,241 ,887 the knowledge that his "is a name that will shine on the entablatures of Data source: Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives. • truth forever."e COLUMBUS DAY HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. TRIBUTE TO RABBI ABRAHAM TRIBUTE TO ALFRED E. D. BARRAS ALQUIST OF NEW JERSEY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. FRANK HARRISON HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA Friday, September 30, 1983 OF CALIFORNIA OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, on Oc IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tober 10 we will celebrate Columbus Friday, September 30, 1983 Friday, September 30, 1983 Day. This year's celebration is the e Mr. HARRISON. Mr. Speaker, with e Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, on 491st anniversary of the discovery of the death of Rabbi Abraham D. behalf of my colleague DoN EDWARDS America. Barras on July 20, 1983, the congrega and myself, I rise today to honor one Although Christopher Columbus tion of Temple Israel, in Wilkes-Barre, of California's premier legislators, was Italian, the day that bears his lost its spiritual leader. The Wyoming State Senator Alfred E. Alquist. Sena name has become a truly national Valley community lost one of its great tor Alquist has served the people of celebration. Although I share with my est citizens. And the community of California in Sacramento since 1966 fellow Americans of Italian heritage a man lost both a friend and an inspira where he has been a dedicated and special pride in Columbus' achieve tion. tireless champion for the rights of ment, Columbus Day is a time for Dr. Barras was a graduate of Colum workers, quality education, and care of Americans of all ethnic backgrounds bia University with continuing ad the disadvantaged. to rejoice in the diversity of our coun vanced studies at New York University It is with pleasure that we note that try and to appreciate the fact that we and the Jewish Theological Seminary AI has been presented with the Na are a "nation of immigrants." For we of America. He was ordained in 1946 tional Humanitarian Award for Com not only honor the man responsible and earned the degree of doctor of munity Service at the 84th Anniversa for the discovery that changed the Hebrew letters in 1954. In 1971, the ry Dinner of the National Jewish Hos world-we honor the land that he dis Jewish Theological Seminary of Amer pital and Research Center/National covered. America became a great coun ica conferred upon him the honorary Asthma Center, an institute whose ac try because of the millions of individ degree of doctor of divinity. complishments are internationally rec uals who followed Columbus, from all After service in Monticello, N.Y., and ognized in the area of chronic respira over the world, who sought a better Atlantic City, N.J., Dr. Barras came to tory diseases, allergic diseases, and life and were given the opportunity in Temple Israel in 1952 and served there immune system disorders. this country to achieve their full po until his death. Abraham D. Barras AI diligently served in the California tential. was truly a leader of the Jewish com State Assembly for two terms begin We celebrate the "father of immi munity, not only in the Wyoming ning in 1963, and we have long ad gration" and all of those who came Valley but in the Nation. Even a brief mired his work in the California State after him, as well as his spirit of ad recollection of his work with the Senate. Until 1981, when he became venture and willingness to risk tre Jewish Theological Seminary, the the chair of the budget-writing senate mendous odds for what he believed in. United Jewish Appeal Campaign, the finance committee, Al served continu Columbus day is a tribute to the cour Zionist Organization of America, and ously on the education committee age and persistence of the American the United Jewish Appeal Cabinet re- where he was instrumental in provid- spirit. 26834 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 We are now 9 years away from the friends and admirers of Helen Sabol Marcos denies any involvement in the year 1992, which will mark the 500th will be honoring this very special lady Aquino assassination, the Marcos gov anniversary of Columbus' voyage. I am at a testimonial dinner. Unable to ernment has a long history of arrest, especially pleased that the House of attend this gathering, I would like to torture, and execution of Philippine Representatives has already passed take this opportunity to ask the Con opposition forces. And yet the United the bill H.R. 1492, which I introduced gress to join me along with her many States continues to support this totali along with my colleague Representa admirers in expressing our deep appre tarian regime. tive GARCIA, and which Senator MA ciation and gratitude to this outstand The United States seems willing to THIAS has introduced in the Senate. It ing human being for her many years give unqualified and unconditional will establish the Christopher Colum of dedicated service. support to the Marcos government bus Quincentenary Jubilee Commis Helen is a busy wife, mother, and without regard for their abuses of sion, to plan for the events that will grandmother who still finds time to power, suspensions of human rights, commemorate this historic anniversa actively volunteer for many organiza and disregard for democratic free ry. Although each year's Columbus tions. She and her husband, Andy, just doms. And not only do we overlook Day is special, the worldwide celebra recently celebrated their 50th wedding these actions, but we allow Mr. Marcos tion is bound to be an extraordinary anniversary. to go on national television and occasion. Volunteer work has been a way of threaten us. President Marcos says On Sunday, October 9, I will be par life for Helen over the years and she that if we do not approve the $900 mil ticipating in the 13th annual Colum generously gives her time to many or lion U.S. military base agreement he bus Day parade in my home city of ganizations. She has been a member of will find friends elsewhere; namely, in Newark. The Columbus Day activities the Democratic Club, Business and the Soviet Union. Mr. Marcos says in Newark are successful each year be Professional Women, Legislative that if President Reagan cancels his cause of the dedicated service and Action Committee, Women's Club, and planned November visit to the Philip hard work of my friend Ace Alagna, Art Association, holding office in pines our relationship will be greatly publisher of the Italian Tribune. I many of these organizations. strained. continue to marval at Ace's ability to Some of Helen's current activities in Mr. Speaker, I am sick of being give the Columbus Day ceremonies a clude being involved with the Morongo threatened by a man who treats us, truly national and diverse spirit, Basin Stroke Club, arthritis swim not to mention his own people, in such making each year's celebration even therapy program, San Bernardino a childish way. I say, let him try and more festive and enjoyable than the County Health Department, Inland find another nation to befriend him. last. Counties Health Systems Agency Task He will certainly not find one that has The parade will have as its grand Force, Mentally Retarded of the Mor been as good to him as the United marshall the well-known and talented ongo Basin, and Catholic Daughters of States. I say President Reagan should actor Dom DeLuise. Also appearing America, to name a few. not visit the Philippines. It is about will be the U.S. Military Academy All who are privileged to work with time we let Mr. Marcos know that he Marching Band, the West Point Helen Sabol recognize and admire her cannot get away with murder, literal Cadets Color Corps, and the Knights dedication as an outstanding citizen ly, and still expect our unqualified of Columbus Color Guard. The parade and for her charitable contributions support. coordinator will be John A. Zimbardi. which have made her community a I believe our friendship should be A number of my colleagues from New better place to live. with the people of the Philippines. Let Jersey will also be participating, in Mr. Speaker, I take great pride in us show them that we support them, cluding Senators BILL BRADLEY and commending to my colleagues, Mrs. through our support of human rights, FRANK LAUTENBERG and Gov. Thomas Helen Sabol, for her tireless hours of that we oppose restoration of martial Kean. devotion and many years of hard work law, and we support full democratic At a dinner which will be held later to benefit the people of her communi freedoms. Mr. Marcos and his regime that Sunday, awards will be presented, ty in a most refreshing way .e will not last forever, but I believe that including Man of the Year to Cava our special friendship with the Philip liere Louis Piancone, president of pine people should. Roma Foods in South Plainfield, N.J.; THE MARCOS DICTATORSHIP: I urge my colleagues to support my Humanitarian of the Year to Gene SENSE OF THE CONGRESS RES resolution.• Mulvilhill, owner of Action Park in OLUTION Vernon, N.J.; and Woman of the Year to Felicia Salandra, a retired teacher HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK FORMER CONGRESSMAN ARM and principal of the Franklin School OF CALIFORNIA STRONG CELEBRATES 90TH in Newark. I am especially delighted IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BIRTHDAY about this last award, as I was one of Friday, September 30, 1983 Ms. Salandra's students, many years HON. GENE TAYLOR ago. e Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, Today I I know that this year's Columbus am introducing a sense of the Con OF MISSOURI Day celebration will be a special one, gress resolution stating that the U.S. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Government should suspend all securi as we pay tribute to a great man, a Friday, September 30, 1983 great historic event, and a great coun ty and economic assistance to the Phil try.e ippine Government if President Ferdi e Mr. TAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, I wish nand Marcos reimposes martial law, or to recognize the celebration of the does not make significant progress 90th birthday this weekend of former HELEN SABOL'S TESTIMONIAL toward restoring democracy and insur Congressman 0. K. Armstrong of Mis DINNER ing human rights in the Philippines. souri. 0. K. turns 90 this Sunday, Oc In recent weeks attention has been tober 2, and will celebrate his birthday HON. JERRY LEWIS refocused on the Philippines in the with a reception for friends and col OF CALIFORNIA wake of the assassination of opposi leagues Friday here on the Hill; a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion leader Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. family dinner Saturday night with 27 What many people may find surpris relatives who are coming to Washing Friday, September 30, 1983 ing is that Mr. Aquino is not the first ton from all over the country, and e Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. opposition leader the Marcos govern church services Sunday at the historic Speaker, on Sunday, October 16, the ment has "allowed to die." Although Calvary Baptist Church in Washing- September 30, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26835 ton, D.C.-the church he attended of each participant's unique potential and internationalism, sports competition, while a Member of Congress. as an individual person. volunteerism, pride in development and 0. K. Armstrong served the people Following is a speech presented by achievement; skill, courage, sharing and joy. Mrs. Eunice Shriver to a meeting of We stand for all of these values and togeth of southwest Missouri in the 82d Con er they make our movement, truly "Olympi gress and was a member of the editori the National Special Olympics direc an." al staff of the Reader's Digest for 34 tors. Furthermore, as my good friend Takis will years. I would like to commend this speech verify, the Greek word for Olympics means Congratulations to O.K. Armstrong to my colleagues attention. I would "many sports." In Special Olympics we are on his 90th birthday. also like to commend Eunice Shriver committed to providing regular opportuni 0. K. ARMSTRONG for her tireless efforts on behalf of ties for training and participation in multi event activities for all our athletes. Orland Kay Armstrong was born in Special Olympics and the mentally handicapped of our Nation. How then is Special Olympics "special?" Willow Springs, Mo., October 2, 1893; Drury The obvious way relates to the population College, Springfield, Mo., A.B., 1916; Cum Mrs. Eunice Shriver's speech follows: we serve-the mentally handicapped. People berland University Law School, Lebanon, PRESENTATION BY MRS. SHRIVER TO NATIONAL whose ability to learn has been significantly Tenn., LL.B.; 1922; University of Missouri SPECIAL 0LYMPICS DIRECTORS, JULY 17, impaired. People who, until recently, were School of Journalism at Columbia, bachelor LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, BATON never thought capable of taking part in of journalism, M.A. in journalism, 1925; was ROUGE, LA. sports with any degree of skill and grace. admitted to the bar in 1922, but did not Good morning! But there are many other ways in which practice; teacher of English and public This has been a marvelous week-for our our concept of being Olympic is special: speaking at Southwest Baptist College, Boli athletes from around the world; for Bill 1. We are all inclusive. Our mission is to var, Mo., in 1916 and 1917; during the First Bankhead and his incredible volunteers; for provide opportunities for all retarded people World War served from private to lieuten our hard working staff at the International regardless of ability level or degree of hand ant in the United States Army Air Corps Office; for me personally; and, I hope, for icap. 1917-1919; Y.M.C.A. welfare representative you. 2. Our events, even at the international in France in 1919 and 1920; established de It has not been easy. Staging these Games level, recognize individual achievement partment of journalism at University of was a monumental task. Your efforts to give within the limits of personal potential. Florida at Gainesville in 1925 and served as your athletes a chance to share the joys and Whether or not you conquer others is unim director 1925-1928; author of seven books, rewards of the 1983 International Games portant. What is important is the conquest magazine writer and newspaper correspond have been magnificent. An inspiration to all of self and the fulfillment of each person's ent; secretary of Missouri Century of of us. unique potential. Progress Commission 1930-1932; delegate to For many of you, these Games were just a 3. Our concern, then is for development of Republican State conventions 1932-1945, beginning; a qualifying event to prepare you the whole person-physically, mentally, so 1950, 1952, and 1966; delegate to Republican for the real challenge which awaits you cially, spiritually. We use the medium of National conventions in 1944 and 1952; back home. For others it was another major sport, but our goals go beyond speed, member of the State house of representa step forward in programs that have been de strength and skill. tives 1932-1936 and 1942-1944; member of veloping for several years. But none of us 4. Our mission is much more than the the staff of the United States Senate Com can be satisfied now to rest on our laurels. periodic staging of games. Since our concern mittee on Post Office and Civil Service in To feel that a goal has been reached now is personal development, we must provide 1947 and 1948; elected as a Republican to that these Games are over. Special Olym opportunities for year-round sports training the Eighty-second Congress . special education, busi The magnitude of the disparity takes on area which should receive your full atten- ness and finance. greater significance when we consider that September 30, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26837 the lowest black unemployment rate for the equal opportunities for minorities and lished adult education program, sever last decade is greater than the highest women has been won; that discrimination al of which ha,ve been recognized for white unemployment rate for the same affects only a few individuals and hence period. During that time black unemploy should, and can, be fought on a case-by-case their outstanding quality. I also be ment has consistently been in the double basis; and that they have been doing every lieve that it is important to mention digit range. In the last few months, while thing possible to end discrimination and the efforts by Congress to assist our white unemployment has declined, black make equal opportunity for all Americans a young people in seeking a post-second unemployment has remained constant at reality. ary education. A sincere effort has more than double that of whites. To assess the success of the civil-rights indeed been made to encourage Ameri Despite the Equal Pay Act's prohibitions struggle, there are no substitutes for objec ca's youth by providing programs like against different pay scales for men and tive measures such as the number of women the Pell grants, college work study women who perform "equal work," women's and minorities in professional schools, the programs, and student loans and salaries continue to lag well behind those of percentage employed in a given industry or white males. There are strong indications the number and type of loans that a lender grants. that these persistent disparities are not by is willing to make to them. If we seem fo These examples, along with the chance. cused on structural adjustments like nu many other provisions of the bill, ex A study last November by the United merically accessed goals and, in appropriate press the concern of the Congress for States Commission on Civil Rights-"Unem circumstances, quotas, it is only because ex quality education in America. I am ployment and Underemployment Among perience tells us that other, less controver pleased that the House has taken the Blacks, Hispanics and Women"-found that sial mechanisms, have failed to achieve needed measures in this area and hope "improvement in the overall health of the meaningful results in the past. They are, the Senate will agree with the House economy and in the education or skill level therefore unlikely to generate measurably of minorities and women lead in some cases different results if relied on today. version of the bill.e to the reduction of disparities, but not to Ignoring experience in formulating an en their elimination." The commission conserv forcement policy and returning to failed en atively concluded, "The suspicion, there forcement practices is illogical since all con TAX INCENTIVES SPUR GROWTH fore, remains that discrimination continues temporary effort should be based on histori to have a major effect on were signifi tor COHEN, the NCOA stated: ministration chooses to ignore the cantly worse in 1979 than in 1973 when the data were first collected. These conditions . . . the Senator displays outstanding extent of housing need among persons are not corrected by "cash allowances" to courage in supporting a strong defense pos of low or moderate income. families. Documented experience shows ture. With social judgment and the ability Since this administration took office that such allowances do very little to im to carefully weigh the issues, he shows ex in January 1981, funds for housing as prove housing conditions or stimulate ceptional skill in his support for the systems neighborhood improvement. which will insure an adequate defense. sistance have declined more dramati cally than any major budget item. In In assessing the place of community devel While serving on the Senate Armed fiscal 1981, budget authority for new opment, the Administration has sought to Services Committee, Senator CoHEN transfer federal responsibility to state and activity in assisted housing was $30.9 local government, with no acknowledgement has supported a strong national de billion. That dropped to $27.7 billion fense based on a modern, well-trained, of the federal government's impact on rap combat-ready force. Accordingly, BILL in fiscal 1982, $15.6 billion in fiscal idly changing national development pat 1983, and $12.4 billion in fiscal1984. terns. Nor does it acknowledge that the fed COHEN has been extremely active in ef The National Association of Housing eral government has a critical role in ensur forts improving the quality of life for and Redevelopment Officials, an orga ing a balanced national growth and develop our Armed Forces, and has introduced nization of those who administer our ment process. The existing housing and efforts which have helped attract and community programs developed over the retain quality military personnel. housing and community development past 50 years have been directed to the Senator CoHEN has established him programs at the local level, analyzed above concerns-but this Administration self as a dedicated, hard-working legis the administration's performance in a has different priorities. lator as evidenced by his many accom recent issue of the Journal of Housing. Since the Reagan term began, the prime plishments. Senator COHEN has been The· article, by NAHRO associate di objectives have been to cut federal costs and rector Mary Nenno, follows: to reduce federal responsibilities in domestic in the forefront of efforts reinforcing programs. Major proposals to accomplish our Nation's defense capabilities, and THE REAGAN HOUSING, CD RECORD: A these objectives for housing and community has been instrumental in securing sup NEGATIVE RATING development-transfer of community devel port in the Senate for efforts aimed at opment block grants/urban development bolstering our Armed Forces. The Sen With two-thirds of its term in office com action grants to the states, enterprise zones ator has also addressed several mili pleted, the inescapable reading of the for economic revitalization, family housing tary manpower issues. Some examples Reagan Administration's record in housing certificates, and a new method for operating and community development is that it is assistance in public housing-have not fared include his proposal to reinstate GI well. The only significant success in these bill education benefits for military per negative-many would say deliberately de structive. The Administration has used ex major initiatives has been the transfer of sonnel; his advocacy of an All-Volun the administration of the small city CDBG teer Force, and the fact that BILL has ecutive powers-in particular, the budget program to the states. In general, these continually initiated and supported process-to cut deeply the federal commit major proposals have not generated signifi ment to authorized programs; to reduce fed cant support among constituent groups or legislative proposals enhancing pay eral government involvement and responsi and benefits for enlisted personnel. in Congress child care programs. Such pro good value. The CBO analysis estimat will not need and therefore have no grams usually have diverse funding, ed a very attractive cost-to-benefit justification for continuing to collect. including self pay from clients, and are ratio of 1 to 2.3. There is no choice that has to be made able to serve clients at all income It was only 5 months after we agreed between tax reduction on the one levels. Start-up dollars for these pro to that legislation, however, that this hand and full spending in the future grams are very limited; administration began reneging on its for airport and airway improvements 26842 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 on the other; the surpluses generated In both of the bills I am introducing gated balance in the trust fund must by our underspending to date insure today, these proposed tax reductions be published in the Federal Register. that we can do both and that if we fail would take effect January 1, 1984. If that balance were $2.3 billion or to cut taxes we are collecting unneed If the proposed tax reduction were greater, the taxes in the following cal ed revenues. to remain in effect for 2 years, calen endar year would be at the reduced To demonstrate my point, the fol dar 1984 and 1985, and then revert to level. If the balance were less than lowing trust fund projection, made by the tax levels now in effect, as is speci $2.3 billion, the taxes in the following FAA at my request, assumes spending fied in the first of the two bills I am calendar year would be at the higher levels actually adopted through fiscal introducing, the following trust fund level. Thus, the taxes would never year 1984, the full spending levels con balances would result: change on less than 2v2 months notice templated when we agreed to increase or for less than 12 months at a time. the user taxes a year ago for fiscal Fiscal year- This is important because frequent tax year 1985 through fiscal year 1987, 1984 1985 1986 1987 changes or changes on short notice and the tax levels in existing law: could be a very considerable burden in Beginning unobligated balance . ········ ······ 1993.5 2911.4 1782.2 1417.6 their own right. Fiscal year- Revenues from user taxes ... 2218.3 2252.4 3030.5 3659.9 Program spending ...... 1813.0 3926.0 3911.0 3737.0 The $2.3 billion trigger level was se 1984 1985 1986 1987 Interest on surplus ...... 512.6 544.4 515.9 507.3 lected because it is the level at which Ending unobligated balance ...... 2911.4 1782.2 1417.6 1847.6 no combination of revenue losses due Beginning unobligated balance ...... 1,993.5 3,373.8 3,050.3 3,099.3 Revenues from user taxes ...... 2,657.1 2,974.7 3,310.4 3,686.1 to reduced taxes and spending deci 3,926.0 3,911.0 3,737.0 sions could drop the unobligated bal ~~'~r ors~~~s· :::::::::::::::::::::::: : :::::::::: 1.m : ~ 627 .8 649.6 655.6 As can be seen in this chart, even with the proposed .tax cut the unobli ance below $1.3 billion in the following Ending unobligated balance ...... 3,373.8 3,050.3 3,099.3 3.704.0 gated balance never drops below $1.4 year. Thus, under the second bill as billion, demonstrating that we can well as the first, an adequate cushion As the table shows, if we fail to cut have a tax cut, return to the full would be maintained in the trust fund taxes, and even if we adopt in all spending levels promised beginning at all times. future years the full spending envi with the next appropriation bill and As can be seen from the previous sioned when we agreed to the higher continuing through the life of the pro chart, the effect of the second bill taxes, the unobligated balance in the gram, and still have a fully adequate would be no different from the first; trust fund will never drop below $3 bil and prudent cushion in the trust fund. that is, the tax reduction would be in lion. Last year there was general In short, the first bill I am introduc effect for calendar 1984 and 1985, if agreement that roughly $1 billion ing reduces aviation user taxes to re the spending levels were as promised would be a prudent cushion in the flect the underspending which has oc beginning with fiscal year 1985. If, trust fund. What we have here, howev curred to date in the trust fund pro however, we continue to have substan er, is roughly $2 billion more than we grams. It assumes, however, that be tial spending shortfalls, then the re need even under the most optimistic ginning with the fiscal year 1985 duced tax levels would remain in assumption on spending available. transportation appropriation bill, this effect. In this way both the users and I should note that I have used here administration will remember and ad the Congress would be assured that one of the more conservative measures vocate the spending levels on which it aviation user taxes would not become of the trust fund surplus: Unobligated based its own tax proposals, and that that which they are now but which balance. Another commonly cited the Congress will also appropriate in the Congress would never have agreed measure of the surplus is cash balance. accord with those spending levels. I to: Taxation without purpose. I believe For comparison, it can be roughly esti certainly hope that is a valid assump that this mechanism would also act as mated that the cash balances would tion and I think this bill would be a an incentive to see that the promised run at least $3 billion higher than the very considerable improvement and spending would be permitted to occur. unobligated surpluses shown in the would go a long way to restoring fair We in Congress never again want to above chart. For example, with no tax ness to aviation taxes and credibility be in a position of having imposed reduction and given the underspend for the promises made when taxes taxes for valid purposes, only to subse ing to date, the CBO forecasts that were raised a year ago. quently discover that administration cash balances in the trust fund may be However, if that assumption does actions are decimating the programs as high as $7.3 billion by 1987. not prove correct, we would then again that were those valid purposes, while This is what we are headed for if we be either collecting taxes that were leaving the higher taxes in place. The do not adopt reductions in aviation unneeded and unwarranted, or we second bill I am introducing today is user taxes. These surpluses will cause the best way I can think of to insure justifiable outrage. They are irrefuta would have to enact further exten sions of the tax reduction. that we in Congress are not backed ble testimony to the fact that aviation into this outrageous situation again. users are continuing to pay taxes at Given the Federal Government's levels that are unneeded and unwar poor track record for being able to But I am willing to work with the ranted. stick to its own multiyear spending Ways and Means Committee on either I am therefore proposing, in two plans, I suggest it would be preferable of the bills I am introducing or on any similar bills, a proportional tax reduc to build into any tax reduction legisla aviation user tax reduction proposal tion for each of the various aviation tion an unambiguous mechanism that would accomplish these objec user taxes. The reduction is roughly which guarantees, without resort to tives. 25 percent across the board: No group the uncertainties of future legislation, In conclusion, I would remind Mem of aviation users is favored over any that we will never again be in the posi bers that all segments of aviation other. The reduced tax levels would be tion of collecting unneeded revenues. I commercial air carriers and general as follows: therefore am introducing a second bill aviation-are in very difficult circum embodying such a mechanism. It pro stances. Aviation is a highly cyclical Existing vides for exactly the same reduced tax industry: When the rest of the econo Tax law Proposed levels as in the first bill and makes the my catches a cold, aviation gets pneu reduction effective on exactly the monia. This year the general economy Passenger ticket tax (percent) 8 6 same date January 1, 1984. However, is coming out of its longest and deep Freight way bill (percent) ...... 5 4 International departure tax ...... $3 $2 the termination of the reduced-tax est recession since the Great Depres $.12 $.09 period is not specified in the second sion, and as a result, aviation has been ~~;;:: :~::: Wt~~~ .·. ::::::::::~:::::::::: $.14 $.10 bill as it was in the first. Instead, at suffering worse than pneumonia. On 1 Per gallon. the end of each fiscal year, the unobli- top of 3 years of recession, the general September 30, 1983 . EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26843 economy has given this highly fuel in tions is sponsoring in New York City a ing to this proposition, and the Soviet com tensive industry periods of astronomi grand celebration marking the 114th mentator-who was in fact nothing but a cal fuel cost increases and has given birthday anniversary of one of histo gangster public relations expert-was lying ry's greatest nationalist leaders, through his teeth. this capital-intensive industry interest Bruce Herschensohn, commenting for rates previously imagined impossible. India's Mohandas K. Gandhi. Prime ABC evening news, pointed out a great gain While general economic conditions Minister Indira Gandhi will be present for the U.S.S.R. in this incident. In demon have shown improvement this year, to lead this observance. strating their utter ruthlessness, the Soviets aviation has been so weakened that it Mahatma Gandhi has been an inspi struck fear in every country around the still has a lot of recovering to do. It is ration everywhere for leaders who world which for any reason anticipates con simply not an industry that can easily aspire to national independence. His flict with the U.S.S.R. Even more impor bear even a small increment of un determination to bring about historic tant, all those Third World countries, and needed taxation. change peacefully-and the accom even the countries of the Western Alliance, As an example, recent difficulties in plishment of that goal-gave birth to a are bound to be impressed by the ability of the airline industry remind us again the Soviets to work their will, even in the philosophy of progress through non most openly ruthless manner, with impuni that in a weakened economy available violence that has had a tremendous ty. dollars are stretched to the breaking effect worldwide, including our own The immediate reaction in Western point between airlines, their employ society through the leadership of Dr. Europe, was one of revulsion against the So ees, and the low fares often necessary Martin Luther King, Jr. viets. But that revulsion came while outrage to attract sufficient number of passen Dr. King often declared himself a in the United States was still white hot, and gers in hard times. The kind of tax re disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, and his when it was still thought the United States ductions I am proposing are not so life's work is enduring envidence of might take measures that would impose a large as to make these problems disap this. It is most fitting, therefore, that cost or penalty upon•the U.S.S.R. But as the pear, but these tax reductions do rep anger wanes, as the living go about their this celebration to honor Mahatma business, and as the dead recede into the resent something we can do that Gandhi is taking place in the Martin past, the fear engendered by the Soviet act would immediately have some positive Luther King Auditorium in New York. will continue, and will grow, for it will soon effect. Just reducing the passenger I want to add my voice here to those be followed by other acts of like import. ticket tax from 8 to 6 percent, as I who will speak in his memory tomor By now, the slaughter in Afghanistan has have proposed, would mean that this row and remind us once again of this subsided into a minor irritation. The yellow very tightly stretched situation in the great man's contributions to the doc rain in Southeast Asia touches people we airline industry would be $650 million trine of peaceful change. And I wish hardly know. A Harvard University profes a year less tight. That amount has to the Federation of Indian Associations sor assures us that the deadly residue is a be considered in the context of a $30 continued success in this celebration species of "bee dung." Any explanation is billion a year scheduled airline indus grasped like the proverbial straw, if only it and in future endeavors.e will give us a good conscience, while we try try. Nevertheless, the $650 million for to forget, and resolutely do nothing. example would have been larger than Why was 007 over Soviet air space? We do the industry's total losses in any year SOVIET WATCH not know. The secret may be in the black of its history except one. In the box, but the Soviets will see to it that it is present circumstance, that is not a HON. JACK FIELDS never recovered-at least by us. Could the consideration that should be over OF TEXAS plane have been hijacked? Could a KGB op looked, particularly given the fact that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES erative have tampered with the computer the only alternative is to have that that guided the plane, while it was on the money sit without purpose in the trust Friday, September 30, 1983 ground in Anchorage? fund surplus. • Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, I insert Clearly, if the Soviets had wanted to I also want to note that the Mem Professor Jaffa's article into the intercept what they genuinely believed to RECORD for the consideration of our be a spy mission, they would have forced bers with leadership roles in the au the plane to land on Soviet ground, and im thorization of the aviation trust fund colleagues. pounded it until any intelligence on it has programs in the House have worked [From the Washington Times, Sept. 29, been removed. Indeed they could then have with me on these tax reduction pro 1983] displayed their proof to the world as they posals and are joining me as original A METHOD IN THEIR MADNESS did when they captured an American U-2 cosponsors: JIM HowARD, chairman of missile gressional implementation of President Rea rate representation; and the general and other strategic initiatives. 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I am most 26846 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 pleased to say this tradition is continu sion; the 5,000-horsepower motor which Research and Technology held 7 days ing in this 200th anniversary year. drives it during full-power operation, and of hearings jointly with the Task This year, Rawle & Henderson is es the pony motor which provides slow-speed Force on Education and Employment capability, were both designed and manufac tablishing the "Francis Rawle Award" tured by General Electric. The Clinch River of the House Budget Committee on to be presented annually in conjunc plant will use six of the pumps. the subject of technology and employ tion with the American Bar Associa Also in June, the Energy Technology En ment. In October the same subcom tion and the American Law Institute gineering Center ran full-power tests on the mittee is marking up a bill to encour to an outstanding lawyer in the field 106-ton prototype steam generator for age joint research and development of post admission legal education. In Clinch River. It was the largest sodium-to work among private firms. addition, the firm is presenting as a water steam demonstration ever conducted Several examinations of automated public service a series of public affairs in the U.S. and "is one of the most signifi cant test accomplishments on the Clinch manufacturing and robotics have been programs on radio station WFLN enti River project to date," Fox enthused. included among the committee's stud tled "World Views' and produced by "Steam generators are traditionally a diffi ies, the largest of which were a 2-day the World Affairs Council of Philadel cult component to design. Test results indi seminar on technology and innovation phia. cate the CRBR steam generator will exceed for manufacturing which I sponsored Mr. Speaker, I want to add my own design requirements and that's very good in 1979 and 2 days of hearings on ro congratulations to the many others news." The prototype was tested at 70 botics held by our Investigations and Rawle & Henderson is now receiving megawatts (thermal>, the limit of the Santa Oversight Subcommittee chaired by in commemoration of its 200th anni Susana facility. The steam generator called a "hockey stick" design after its the Honorable AL GORE in 1982. versary.e shape-consists of an outer shell surround The country that leads the world in ing 757 tubes; sodium is isolated on the shell the technologies of manufacturing has PRIDE AND ACHIEVEMENT OF side, water and steam on the tube side. It the potential to lead the world in man EMPLOYEES AND MANAGEMENT operates at temperatures exceeding 900 de ufactured products by applying those grees F and pressures of 1,550 psi. Data technologies. Unless the United States HON. MATTHEW G. MARTINEZ from the Santa Susana test will be factored makes a major effort now, that coun into the 10 steam generators now being fab try is going to be Japan. The Manufac OF CALIFORNIA ricated for Clinch River at Westinghouse's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Pensacola, Florida, factory. The 10 steam turing Studies Board of the National generators are being manufactured under a Research Council reported in 1981 Friday, September 30, 1983 $34 million fixed-price contract. Three of that the population of robots in Japan e Mr. MARTINEZ. Mr. Speaker, I call them will be used as superheaters, six as was 6,000 while the United States had your attention to a remarkable tech evaporators and one as a spare; delivery is 3,500. In 1982 at our Investigations nological accomplishment by some of scheduled to begin early in 1985.e and Oversight Subcommittee hearings, my constituents. The Byron Jackson investment analyst Paul Aron report pump division of the Borg-Warner BILLS ON AUTOMATED MANU ed 14,246 Japanese robots versus 4,700 Corp. located in my district has manu FACTURING AND ROBOTICS in the United States. Mr. Aron's report factured a high quality main sodium which appeared this year notes 31,900 pump for the Clinch River breeder re HON. DON FUQUA in Japan and 6,301 in the United actor. This prototype sodium pump re States. In the broader field of auto cently completed rigorous perform OF FLORIDA mated manufacturing-where several ance testing at the DOE Energy Tech IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES robots or other automated machines nology Engineering Center in Santa Friday, September 30, 1983 are integrated into a system to Susana, Calif. • Mr. FUQUA. Mr. Speaker, today I produce an entire product-the United I commend the employees and man am introducing a package of three States faces an equally strong chal agement for the production of a bills to stimulate the development and lenge. Earlier this year I visited the sodium pump which exceeds all oper use of automated manufacturing sys Fanuc robot plant in Japan where the ational design requirements. I also tems and robots. These bills are the people go home at night and the plant commend the employees of this Robotics and Automated Manufactur keeps working. Vernon-based plant for having, once ing Systems Research and Education To develop the technologies of ro again, demonstrated the American em Act of 1983, the National Robot and botics and automated manufacturing, ployee's ability to manufacture some Automated Manufacturing Systems research and development is needed. of the best technologically advanced Leasing Act of 1983, and an unnamed Most of this research and development products. bill which provides a tax credit for the must be in the private sector to beef The following article from the purchase of this equipment. I am fective; it must be tied to specific reba Energy Daily chronicles this succes§ joined in introducing these bills by my tic and automated manufacturing ful technological accomplishment. colleagues, the Honorable AL GoRE of products. There is a Government role, The article follows: Tennessee, the Honorable GEORGE E. however, in developing such equip [From The Energy Daily, July 14, 19831 BROWN, Jr. of California, the Honora ment for its own specialized uses CLINCH RIVER COMPONENTS PASS ble BUDDY MACKAY of Florida, and the such as in space, defense, and radioac PERFORMANCE TESTS Honorable SHERWOOD BOEHLERT of tive materials handling-and in sup Two of the largest components destined New York. I invite all Members of the porting research and development for the 350-megawatt Clinch River breeder House to join in cosponsoring any or which is not product-specific and is reactor economical to acquire. An authorization of HON. HAL DAUB is authorized to fund centers for industrial $20 million per year for the Federal share of OF NEBRASKA technology devoted to robotics and auto interest is provided for fiscal years 1984 mated manufacturing and to fund project through 1990. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES grants in the same fields. The centers are Friday, September 30, 1983 intended to be established through coopera ADDITIONAL TAX CREDIT tive efforts between universities and indus A tax credit of 10 percent would be allowed for the like to take this opportunity to say a individual project grants should include: purchase of robots or automated manufac few words regarding Minority Enter manufacturing processes, control systems, turing systems.e prise Development Week which begins sensors, sensory data analysis, software de October 2. The words "fulfilling an velopment, kinematics and dynamics, ma chinery design, teleoperation, artificial in ON THE CONFLICT IN LEBANON American dream" embody the spirit telligence, human augmentation and pros that drives not only minority enter thesis, and human and economic factors as HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER prise but all Americans who seek to sociated with the introduction of robots and OF NEW YORK better their lives, and their neighbor's, automated manufacturing systems into soci by initiative and hard work. For mi ety. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nority Americans the message is a spe 2. A Federal Research Center on Robotics Friday, September 30, 1983 cial one because for many of them the and Automated Manufacturing is estab dream has been too long delayed. lished at the National Bureau of Standards e Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, the . This Federal Center would focus its lead article in today's Washington, I am proud to come from a commu research on measurements and standards Post states that the Reagan adminis nity where minority enterprise flour required in robotics and automated manu tration has been urging the Lebanese ishes. In the past 3 years I have had facturing systems as well as systems integra Government to give Syria a major role the opportunity to work closely with a tion, reliability and performance. in Lebanon's domestic politics. Report number of groups in Nebraska that 3. The Department of Commerce is direct edly, this shift in U.S. policy is de have formed to assist minority and dis ed to promote the formation of limited re signed to improve United States advantaged business owners achieve search and development partnerships in the their share of the American dream. area of robotics and automated manufactur Syrian relations and advance a peace ing systems. Such partnerships would re ful settlement of the conflict in Leba The diversity of these businesses as quire no Federal participation. The Depart non. Unfortunately, it will accomplish sures us that the day of full economic ment is already engaged in promoting part neither of these objectives. participation in American commerce is nerships, though not necessarily in these A few facts will explain why. First, not too far off for all Americans. areas. Syria has never recognized Lebanon's As Members of Congress we owe an B. EDUCATION AND TRAINING independence; it has always considered obligation to those who have chosen The NSF is authorized to support the edu Lebanon a part of greater Syria, and to make the system work for them. We cation and training of personnel needed in will not cease until it has effectively need to make it clear to them that if 26848 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 1983 they take the chance, do the works, "Red Letter Day"-the celebration of Columbus Society, that the first president and commit their resources to an en its 75th anniversary. was the late merchant and real estate man, terprise that it will not be frustrated The Columbus Society was founded Enrico Lordi, and that there were 67 found by high interest rates, strangling gov in 1908 as a fraternal and social orga ers of the Society. The name was a natural Christopher Co ernment regulation, or other govern nization and has since grown into an lumbus was a hero to every Italian and espe ment-created obstacles. important community and civic orga cially to Italian-Americans. Minority Americans want a chance. nization in the town of Framingham. The Christopher Columbus Society was Minority Enterprise Development In addition to its membership activi an independent organization exclusively for Week is to commemorate the efforts ties, to Columbus Society has been in men who could trace their ancestry back to of those who have taken upon them volved in a number of charitable Italy on their male parent's side. The idea selves the challenge and opportunity drives for the special childen and most of the club was mainly social and fraternal of personal economic initiative. It is recently has provided aid to victims of but it seemed like a good idea to the Found Italy's recent earthquakes and of our ers if there could be sick and death benefits. the responsibility of this body to see Getting a foothold in the New Country that the conditions for business devel own flooded Midwestern States. Yet, was not the easiest thing for an immigrant opment are ripe for minority entrepre with their active agenda, the society boy in those days. neurs. If we can assure them of unfet members have not lost sight of the The first meetings of the Society were tered opportunity and the freedom to four virtues set down by the founders: held in an upstairs hall in the old Tribune take themselves as far as their talents for country, humanity, progress, and Building in Irving Square. These first meet and ingenuity will allow them then equality. ings were highly informal. No people enjoy many of the other social and economic Mr. Speaker, following is a two part family and fraternal gatherings better than history of the Columbus Society. the sons and daughters of Italy. problems that face this body will dis The first big Red Letter Day in the young appear. "From a Little Acorn, A Great Oak" organization was July 9, 1909. It was on this Today there are 600,000 minority describes the founding of the society date that the charter was signed and grant owned enterprises in America. In the and its activities for the first 50 years ed. The Christopher Columbus Society was next year many will fail but many will while "and the oak grows stronger" is really on the move. grow. and many more will begin. a history of the society since 1958. On the Fourth of July, 1910, there was a These are the same fates that await The two-part history of the Colum baptism of the flags of the new Society. all business. Minority business is the bus Society follows: These flags are now retired and may be seen in a place of honor in a glass-enclosed, hand key to an America where every citizen FROM A LITTLE AcoRN, A GREAT OAK carved cabinet in the present quarters of feels his own worth is undisputed by the Society. others because in a society that so On the evening of December 27, 1908- By 1910, the Society was growing and, the often judges its members by what they three nights after Christmas Eve-a little temporary quarters in the Tribune Building can accomplish, success in the business group of men gathered in the basement of were hopelessly too small and cramped. A world is unassailable evidence.e small dwelling in the Coburnville section of search was initiated to find permanent quar Framingham. ters. On October 11, 1910, the Society pur They were men of Italian descent. Many chased a lot 67 feet by 150 feet on Fountain SENATOR HENRY M. "SCOOP'' of them had been born in Italy. Street. JACKSON They wore the collars of their great coats The agreement by which the land was and jackets up about their ears that night purchased and the building erected was a as they plodded toward their destination. It most unusual one. Members promised to HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOU was a clear but cold nights and the winds donate one work week in their trade or oc OF KENTUCKY that frisked off Farm Pond had a nip to cupation toward the Society. Those who IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES them. could not arrange this, for one reason or an Friday, September 30, 1983 The purpose of the meeting was to form a other agreed to give one week's salary or society or club for Italian-American men, wages. e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I where they could meet in good fellowship These first doughty members were called would like to pay tribute to a great and where those of them who had problems Share Holders. According to the musty old statesman whose example was an in might find a solution. records, there were a full 70 of them. By the spiration to us all, Senator Henry M. The year 1908 is not a particularly notable end of 1911, the building was completed. Jackson of Washington. one in American history. It was in this year Almost immediately committees fell to that William Howard Taft of Ohio, backed scheduling entertainments and other events I was not acquainted with Senator by the outgoing president, Theodore Roose to help pay off the mortgages and to raise Jackson personally, but I was well ac velt, defeated William Jennings Bryan for funds for furnishings and equipment. quainted with Scoop's reputation as a the highest office in the land. The cam When World War I came, a number of the dedicated, hard-working, effective leg paign was conducted in a flood of silver-ton Society marched off into the service of their islator. gued oratory. country. Interest slackened, naturally. But Senator Jackson's untiring efforts in Arizona was not yet a state in 1908. Nei while many clubs and organizations fell by the U.S. House and then in the ther was New Mexico. Oklahoma, which 35 the wayside during this trying period, the Senate-he worked until the very day years later was to become the inspiration Christopher Columbus Society on Fountain for one of the greatest musical comedies in Street managed to keep its head above the he died-attest to the devotion and the history of the American theatre, had troubled waters. zeal with which this distinguished gen just been granted statehood. The years immediately after World War I tleman served the people of Washing For a number of years prior to 1908, ships witnessed the first big drive for new mem ton and this country .e plying between Naples and other ports of bers. By-laws were relaxed a trifle to make call in Italy to New York and Boston had it easier to join. been bringing over an ever-increasing By 1929, a sizable portion of the mortgage THE COLUMBUS SOCIETY OF number of persons of Italian extraction to had been paid off and by 1934 the Happy FRAMINGTON, MASS., CELE the United States. Day arrived. The original mortgage was BRATES ITS 75TH ANNIVERSA Those who came to Framingham gravitat lifted. RY ed to an area on the southwest extremity of It was a joyful occasion and one calling the town known as Coburnville, so-called be for a toast. The year after saw additional cause there was a street in this area named land purchased for parking facilities. More HON. JAMES M. SHANNON Coburn Street. and more members were driving to the club OF MASSACHUSETTS The existing records of that first meeting these days as cars become more plentiful. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of December 27, 1908, are meager. Some say It was about this time that social members Friday, September 30, 1983 there were 50 men present. There are few were invited in. Previously it was necessary survivors of that first meeting to relate to be of Italian extraction on the male par e Mr. SHANNON. Mr. Speaker, On what went on. ent's side and to be under 50 to join. Now October 15, the Columbus Society of It is a matter or record, however, that out social members were asked in. It was not Framingham, Mass., will be marking a of this first meeting came the Christopher necessary to be of Italian extraction nor did September 30, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26849 a prospective member have to be under 50 who had given their lives in the service of paying tribute and esteem to the Christo to be a social member. their country. pher Columbus Society". The fame of the Christopher Columbus The clouds of war were swept away in It was a gala event in the Society's history Society of Framingham was spreading. 1945 and things brightened for the Colum at Vaughn Monroe's dine and dance restau Those with long memories can recall read bus Society. Charter members were recog rant. Mr. Monroe at the time was interna ily that the club rooms in those days .were nized formally in 1945 and given life mem tionally popular as a singer and band leader. located on the main floor. The basement berships. In Nevins Hall in downtown Fram He saw fit to fly in from New York City floor was rented to the Framingham Pat ingham on June 23, 1946, a "Welcome that morning to oversee his interests. The tern Works. It was a noisy era, indeed with Home" party was staged for all Columbus Meadows was filled to capacity. He enter the whir of the lathes during the daytime Society boys who had served with the armed tained the gathering with vocal selections. hours in the basement premises. There was forces. The hall was filled to capacity for The guest speaker was brother-member always something doing from 8 a.m. to 5:30 the occasion. Joseph R. Perini of the Perini Corporation. p.m. on Fountain Street. In 1948, the Rev. Pietro Maschi, the be He gave a brief history of the life and In 1938 the Society petitioned the town loved pastor of St. Tarcisius Church, who had served as spiritual advisor from the achievements of Christopher Columbus. and received authority from the Town Fa Seven of the eight remaining Charter thers to rename the square in front of the very beginnings of the Society, died after a long illness. A saddened and grateful Co Members attended and were proudly seated Society quarters "Columbus Square." Co in front of the head table. lumbus Society members had been promi lumbus Society sent a delegation to serve as nent for years in community parades and honorary bearers at his funeral. This Golden Jubilee was dedicated in other ceremonial events with their distinc Father Maschi will always hold a place in their honor. tive Society hats and their Columbus insig the hearts of all members of the Society. "Again a Red Letter Day". nia. There was never a funeral of a Christo In 1950 the long-planned remodeling of This Seventy-Fifth Year continues to find pher Columbus Society member without a the 40-year-old quarters was started. It took The Christopher Columbus Society and detachment of his fellows. until 1956 before the remodeling was actual Club a proud fraternity in good standing in In 1936 the first State honors came to the ly completed. the local community and state. Society. Over the years the Columbus Society has From the Fiftieth Celebration to its Dia In that year, the Massachusetts Sons of been ever in the forefront of worthwhile mond Year much has happened throughout Italy held their state convention in Far projects, both civic and charitable. Al the universe reflecting changes in the way mingham. The Columbus Society entered a though its primary concern has been the of life. float in the big parade which was the fea welfare of its own membership and their Great advancements were made in medi ture of the Convention. First prize in floats families, it has ever been ready to lend a cine and science. Distance has become went to the Club on Fountain Street. It was helping hand where needed. shorter in travel time. Men have been to the another Red Letter Day. The spacious upper hall of the Society has moon. Propelled aircraft has given way to Meanwhile, back at the clubhouse, things always had a welcome sign for weddings, re jet propulsion. The promiscuous sixties and were becoming a bit cramped. The member ceptions, and other social functions. seventies brought us the mini-skirts and ship was mushrooming and there wasn't the During the years when parades were the rock music along with many other changes. slighest doubt that more space was needed routine thing in Framingham, the tradition The next twenty-five years? Who knows and needed quickly. A committee was al Society cap was a familiar thing in those what the changes will be, but come what named to look around for the ways and memorable parades. Few projects were un may this Society and Club will continue as means of expanding things. It was decided dertaken in Framingham that the Colum strong as ever. More intense to pursue the at this time that the lower basement for bus Society did not have a hand in. comraderie social and welfare of its' mem merly occupied by the Pattern Works would It is interesting to look back upon the bers. This was the intent and interest of the be used as a club social quarters. basic precepts of the Society as conceived by founders back in 1908. So the last few years before World War II the Founders. What happened in the last twenty-five were filled with growing pains for the Chris The four virtues of the Society-to-be, as years? Obviously, as time marched on new topher Columbus Society, which by this the Founders envisioned them on that De ideas were necessary and implemented. time had been abbreviated by common con cember night in 1908 were: "For Country, For Humanity; For Progress; and For Equal The Society and Club is still domiciled at sent to the simpler Columbus Society. its' original quarters in Columbus Square, In 1938 the by-laws were amended once ity." The Founders saw the Christopher Co 11 Fountain Street. It is a land mark of the again to make it easier to join. town in the Coburnville section which is It was in 1939 that the original flags of lumbus Society as a place where men of Italian background could meet under conge still predominantly resided by decendents of the Society were sent into honorable retire Italian extraction. ment and new flags were baptized. In 1939 nial circumstances where they could band together for mutual benefits and unite for The Columbus Society and Club has there was much talk, too, of modernizing always been supportive to worthy civic the building. instruction and guidance for the ever grow ing colony of sons of Italy in Framingham causes. Most recently to the aid of Italy's But the shadows of a global war were devastated earthquake victims and to our lengthening over Europe. In 1941 these on a local, state and federal level. Down the years the Society has adhered flooded mid-western states. shadows had fallen on Pearl Harbor and the In the last twenty-five years they have en U.S. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt to these Founding principles. Times of course have changed over 50 years. More braced the Special Children as their favorite asked Congress to declare war, the members Charity and run functions including an of the Columbus Society were quick to re and more men and women of Italian extrac tion have taken over positions of impor annual dance for the cause. spond to the call to the colors. The Society still sponsors a Mass on Me In the honor roll in the main hall of the tance in the community. Society today, you will find 128 names The roster of the leaders on the civic, in morial Day in Memory of the deceased listed. Two of these did not march home dustrial and professional fronts in Framing members. again. They were Peter Stefanini, killed in ham shows an ever-increasing number of The club room is a gathering place to action in Italy, and Alexander Falconi, first Italian names. meet with the friends and relaxation. reported missing and later presumed dead in The Columbus Society can be proud that Whether it be at the bar enjoying refres action. it has played no small part in this remarka ments, or at a card game, or just plain con These were sobering days for the Colum ble transition. versation. Many a problem has been solved bus Society. Periodically a news letter was here. For here there is a cross section of sent to all members serving with the armed AND THE OAK GROWS STRONGER many trades and professions. forces with news from the home front. At Section 1903<2> of such Act is ilies up to age 1. In fiscal year 1984, relation to overall medicaid spending, amended- States could cover children in such will yield huge dividends in the health (i) by striking out "and" at the end of sub families up to age 2. Each subsequent paragraph and inserting in lieu would increase 1 year, so that by fiscal long run, this bill will result in signifi thereof ", and", and year 1988, the States could cover chil cant savings to the Federal Govern Section 1905 of such Act (42 U.S.C. gives these States a bonus in the form current law. 1396d) is further amended by adding at the of a reduction in the Federal matching Second, the bill provides maximum end the following new subsection: penalty that all States will experience flexibility to the States. It does not " (n) The term 'qualified pregnant woman in fiscal year 1984. Under current law, or child' means- mandate State participation. State "( 1 > a child under 1 year of age who is de Federal medicaid matching payments coverage remains totally optional, to the States will be reduced by 4% scribed in section 1902OO> and even though the Federal Government covered under the State plan as an individ percent during fiscal year 1984. States is willing to pay all of the costs. The ual described in section 1902(a)OO>. or can lower this penalty in a number of States may continue to use their cur "(2) a pregnant woman- ways, including the operation of quali rent income standards; no Federal "(A) whom the State has the option of fied rate-setting systems and keeping minimnm definition of poverty is im deeming to be a recipient of aid to families their medicaid expenditure growth posed. The States may offer their cur with dependent children for purposes of below a certain target rate. Under this rent medicaid benefits to this popula this title by reason of section 406(g)(2), or bill, States which already cover all of tion; the bill does not prescribe any " who is a member of a family which the specified populations-and there would be eligible for aid under section 407 if minimum benefits. Similarly, current the State plan under part A of title IV re fore could not qualify for the 100 per State policies regarding reimburse cent Federal matching-will have their quired the payment of aid with respect to ment for these services would remain dependent children deprived of parental penalty reduced from 4% percent to 4 unaffected. support or care by reason of the unemploy percent. They could, of course, contin Third, the new spending authorized ment of a parent who is the principal earner ue to qualify for the other offsets as by the bill is allowed under the budget : and well. According to an informal survey, resolution. That resolution does not who is not eligible for coverage under the the following States would receive this require that offsetting cuts be made in plan, as the plan was in effect on July 1, bonus: California, Connecticut, Iowa, existing programs or that new revenue 1983, as an individual described in section Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, sources be enacted to finance this bill. 1902OO>.". New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsyl Consequently, the bill does not pro (c) The amendments made by the preced vania, Vermont, Wisconsin, and the pose to do so. ing subsections of this section shall take District of Columbia. Finally, this bill is a statement for effect on October 1, 1983 and apply to Finally, the bill clarifies that, in amounts expended for services furnished on fairness. A bedrock principle of our de or after October 1, 1983. cases where a child is born to a woman mocracy is that all Americans have a who is covered by medicaid at the time Effective for amounts expended for fair start in life. It is beyond dispute services furnished on or after- of birth, the child is eligible for medic that children whose mothers cannot (1) October 1, 1984, section 1905(n)(l) of aid, so long as the woman remains eli afford adequate prenatal care do not the Social Security Act is amended by strik gible and the child is a member of the get a fair start. Tragically, some get no ing out " 1 year" and inserting in lieu there woman's family. According to testimo start at all. we simply cannot afford to of " 2 years", ny presented at the July 15 hearing, ignore this problem any longer. (2) October 1, 1985, such section is further some States have in these circum I urge my colleagues to support this amended by striking out " 2 years" and in stances required separate eligibility bill, the text of which is as follows: serting in lieu thereof "3 years", applications to be filed on behalf of (3) October 1, 1986, such section is further the newborns. The bill eliminates this H.R. 4059 amended by striking out "3 years" and in unnecessary procedural hurdle. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of serting in lieu thereof "4 years", and According to preliminary Congres Representatives of the United States of (4) October 1, 1987, such section is further America in Congress assembled, That (a)(l) amended by striking out "4 years" and in sional Budget Office staff estimates, Section 1905 of t he Social Security Act serting in lieu thereof " 5 years". the cost of the bill in fiscal year 1984 (42 U.S.C. 1396d(b)) is amended by adding Effective for amounts expended for would be under $200 million, in com at the end the following new sentence: services furnished on or after October 1, pliance with the budget resolution. "Notwithstanding the first sentence of this 1985, paragraph <2> of section 1905(n) of the There would be no new costs to the subsection, the Federal medical assistance Social Security Act is amended to read as States. percentage shall be 100 per centum with re follows: It is important to keep these cost es spect to amounts expended as medical as " (2) a pregnant woman who is described in timates in proper perspective. In fiscal sistance for services furnished with respect section 1902(a)(1Q)(A)(ii}(l) and covered to a qualified pregnant woman or child 00>; and". will spend an estimated $21.1 billion <2> Section 1903(s)(l)(A) of such Act SEc. 2 Section 1902 of the Social Se on medicaid; the States, an additional (42 U.S.C. 1396b(s)(l)( A)) is amended by in curity Act <42 U.S.C. 1396b(e)) is amended $18 billion. The spending authorized serting "or furnished with respect to quali by adding at the end the following new by this bill represents just one-half of fied pregnant women and children A child born to a woman eligible for for such assistance under such plan on the woman remains eligible for such assist and receiving medical assistance under a date of such birth and to remain eligible for ance.". State plan on the date of the child's birth such assistance so long as the child is a The amendment made by subsection shall be deemed to have applied for medical member of the woman's household and the shall apply to children born on or after assistance and to have been found eligible October 1, 1983.e