27842 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 17, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SOCIAL SERVICE DIRECTOR what it's like to be a Social Services director As an example: A man called the other SUPPORTS REAGAN EFFORTS in a time when social services is not a day complaining about some young girls growth commodity. He said he would who were getting assistance. These girls, he answer to the best of his ability and he said, were having young men into their HON. JAMES T. BROYHILL wouldn't pull his shots. homes for ulterior purposes. On the other OF NORTH CAROLINA So, the following is the result of that hand, the man knew of an old lady who IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES question-and-answer period. couldn't get assistance because her son was Q.: What's it like sitting in the hot seat of living with her and she simply did not meet Tuesday, November 17, 1981 Social Services director now? the standards of eligibility. We have to con e Mr. BROYHILL. Mr. Speaker, A.: It's kind of frustrating. We are going sider his income with hers. during recent days we have heard pri through a period of uncertainty and there Q.: What one change would you make in marily from the people who are very are going to be some cutbacks. We know the system if you had your way? much opposed to the President's ef that. It is frustrating to me to have to let A.: Well, aside from reducing the amount forts to reduce Federal spending. people off. I have never had to do that of paperwork, I would make it possible for before. It's unpleasant. I have had to let five my staff to have some discretion in making Today I would like to call to my col service workers go, and that will get me decisions on whether to help or turn down leagues attention the comments from through July, and then we will have to have help. We need more authority in emergency Mr. Ben Carpenter, the very efficient, some other reduction in force, and then situations. I have a $25 million budget, but I effective, and respected director of the more after that. After awhile, it becomes can't apply any of that in real emergency Department of Social Services in difficult to organize an agency with what situations. Gaston County, the largest county in you have left. There are caseloads that are Q.: Is there going to be a significant my congressional district. not being covered and the staff is pushing number of people hurt seriously because of Mr. Carpenter indicates that the for some kind of resolution. I could give a budgetary cutbacks? news media has exaggerated the ef better resolution if I knew what the bottom A.: There will be a significant number who line was going to be. think they are hurt. We have a $4 million fects and the size of the Federal Q.: What, in your opinion, is the thrust of AFDC e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. November 17, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27843 of one part of county government with an zens enjoy a smalltown atmosphere BILL TO IMPROVE FISHERY other. Part of this is because we rely so within a modern urban setting. CONSERVATION AND MANAGE much on the dollars that come down to us Early in the 19th century, the area MENT from elsewhere.• which we now know as Stanton was part of Rancho Los Alamitos. In 1834, HON. EDWIN B. FORSYTHE ARTHUR SHULTZ-A TRIBUTE Rancho Los Alamitos was purchased by California Governor, Jose Figueroa, OF NEW .JERSEY HON.RAYMONDJ.McGRATH from Juan J'ose Nieto. Figueroa later IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sold the property to Dan Able Sterns, Tuesday, November 17, 1981 OF NEW YORK in 1842. Cattle were bred on Rancho IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Los Alamitos until 1861, a year in •Mr. FORSYTHE. Mr. Speaker, Tuesday, November 17, 1981 which the beef market suffered from a today Mr. BREAUX and I are introduc e Mr. McGRATH. Mr. Speaker, I read sharp decline in demand. That same ing a bill which will amend the Fish with sadness about the death of year, a disastrous flood followed by a ery Conservation and Management Arthur Shultz, who passed away on period of severe drought paralyzed the Act of 1976 TEXAS to determine whether a fishery man entry system, to establish fees at levels IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES agement plan is needed. This legisla exceeding administrative costs; sixth, Tuesday, November 17, 1981 tion provides that if a council deter requires that any fishery management mines that the statistics and other plan prepared by a council include e Mr. GONZALEZ. Mr. Speaker, data available to it are insufficient or today I am reintroducing a resolution unreliable for the purposes of deter draft regulations for implementing the which would authorize the President mining whether a plan is needed or for plan. The Secretary must publish the of the United States to proclaim the preparing a plan, the council may pre regulations proposed by the council, as second week in May starting in 1982 as pare and submit to the Secretary a well as any suggested revisions and an "National Municipal Clerk's Week." data collection program for the fish explanation of why such revisions are The purpose of this resolution is to ery which sets forth the types of sta necessary. The Secretary is· given a recognize and honor on a nationwide tistics which the council considers nec specified period of time in which to basis those who bear the title of mu essary and a justification for the need promulgate final regulations once the nicipal clerk. The International Insti for such data. The Secretary is to management plan is approved. If the tute of Municipal Clerks, representing review and approve or disapprove each Secretary does not publish final regu thousands of our Nation's most estab proposed data collection program lations within the specified number of lished professional public servants, has within 60 days after the date on which days, the regulations proposed by the endorsed such recognition and has set it is submitted to him. council will automatically go into aside this special week in honor of this Another amendment to the FCMA effect. Indentical procedures will group. contained in this legislation provides apply with regard to amendments to a As a matter of historical perspective, that if the Secretary of Commerce plan; seventh, clarifies that U.S. ob the municipal clerk goes back to pre 1 makes a certification under paragraph servers aboard foreign vessels are re Biblical times. The ancient cities of (1) of section 8(a) of the Fisherman's sponsible for carrying out enforce Greece had their own city secretary Protective Act of 1967, regardless of ment as well as scientific and other who's primary duty was to read aloud whether the President directs any official documents. The office of clerk action to be taken under paragraph (4) functions necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of the act. In can be traced back to the Middle Ages, of such section (8)(a) as a result of where initially, a clerk was any such certification, then the reduction, addition they will be expected to coop erate in carrying out such other scien member of a religious order. This was or termination, of allocations to a for derived from the word "cleric" or eign nation are to proceed in accord tific programs relating to the conser vation of living resources as the Secre "clergyman." Our early American ance with section 20lNEWT GINGRICH tinuing basis the full utilization of op agement program involves, an~ is re OF GEORGIA timum yield by the U.S. fishing indus sponsive to the needs of, interested IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES try; second, clarify that guidelines es and affected states and citizens; pro tablished by the Secretary to assist in motion of efficiency; full use of Feder Tuesday, November 17, 1981 the development of fishery manage al, State, and academic capabilities in e Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, to ment plans do not have the effect of carrying out research, administration, hear the liberal elements in the Demo law; third, relieve the Secretary of management, and enforcement; and cratic Party and the news media tell it, Commerce of the burden of submit the establishment of workable and ef President Reagan's budget cuts are ting certain reports on the implemen fective - procedures which meet the right out of the dark ages. Actually, tation of the FCMA; fourth, specify needs of all concerned.• President Reagan's economic recovery that the Federal Advisory Committee program is more "liberal" than the Act does not apply to the re late President John F. Kennedy's eco gional councils, the councils' scientific nomic policies. And I do not know of and statistical committees, or the anyone who considers JFK to have councils' advisory panels. The legisla been a coldhearted reactionary. Presi tion amends the FCMA to establish dent Reagan's budget cuts are not procedures to insure adequate public near as drastic as critics of his pro- November 17, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27845 gram would have the American people social welfare spending. Since they believe [From the Wall Street Journal, Nov. 4, believe. . in a radical reduction in all government pro 1981] Robert Akerman recently made this grams, they accuse him of being "too mod THE MANAGUA FOUR erate." Nonetheless, it is a refreshing way to point in a column which appeared in look at it after all the screaming from the Central American sources tell us that the Atlanta Journal of November 9, liberals about Reagan's "brutal cuts." those four Nicaraguan business leaders the 1981. Akerman writes: Sandinista police routed out of bed and ar I made the same point myself some time rested two weeks ago have been sentenced On balance, the Reagan budget is m~re back with regard to one specific example, to seven months in prison. Their crime: liberal than that of the supposed great lib aid to college students. As much as the cuts eral, John F. Kennedy. Just 20 years ago signing a letter to the ruling junta protest may hurt individual families under current ing a speech by junta strongman Humberto Kennedy devoted approximately 30 percent conditions, the truth is that what Reagan is of the federal budget to social programs, Ortega threatening to hang dissenters trying to cut is a form of aid to middle- a~d against the government's Marxist-Leninist but Reagan is a "reckless reactionary" be upper-income families that did not exist cause he is trying to cut back to 52 percent. policies "along the streets and highways of prior to 1978. the country." In short, Akerman's column gives I do not necessarily endorse all of Rea So far as we can tell, word of the sentenc historical perspective to the Reagan gan's cuts-I have commented on individual ing hasn't filtered out officially. But even if budget cuts. issues in previous columns. But what occurs our sources are premature, the human The article follows: to me after considering the criticisms from rights of the four, Enrique Dreyfus, Benja the libertarian perspective is how quickly REAGAN A JFK LIBERAL? min Lanzas, Gilbert Cuadra and Enrique we become addicted to federal programs, Bolanos, had already been damaged by their Sometimes . it takes something from way with entitlements enacted in fairly recent out in left field to give us a jolt and put Gestapo-style arrest. And they are by no legislation becoming accepted as eternal means the only ones feeling the pressure as things in better perspective. . . rights within a matter of a few years-and the Sandinistas move toward the repressive Not that the Libertarian Review m par how quickly we lose perspective as a result ticular or libertarianism in general is "left" stage of Marxist-Leninist development. Yet of superficial reporting that forgets what we have heard no outcry whatsoever from in the Marxist sense; indeed, the socialist happened yesterday. welfare state is the very thing that libertari the "human rights" lobby in the U.S. On balance, the Reagan budget is more We wonder why this is. Is it because busi anism is fighting. But, as you will see fro~ liberal than that of the supposed great lib what follows, libertarianism is way out. i!l ness leaders have no human rights? It eral, John F. Kennedy. Just 20 years ago should be kept in mind that these particular one field or another compared to the politi Kennedy devoted approximately 30 percent cal perspective most folks have. business leaders actually participated in the of the federal budget to social programs, revolution against Anastasio Somoza two And I think it's good for us to learn how but Reagan is a "reckless reactionary" be things look from that perspective even if we years ago. Alfonso Robelo, who also signed cause he is trying to cut back to 52 percent. the letter but who has not yet been arrest don't choose to stay that far out in the field Doesn't that thought shake you up a bit, for the whole ball game. So I want to share ed, was in the triumphant junta that was and at least raise the question of why so formed after the Somoza forces were a point made in the farewell issue of Liber many people need so much more govern tarian Review, which is more or less being routed. ment help than they did in · Kennedy's Mr. Robelo has not escaped trouble, how merged with another publication called In- day?e quiry. , ever. After his four colleagues were arrested The point is that President Reagans cuts a mob of 400 Sandinistas attacked his home, in social welfare spending are not nearly so throwing rocks through the windows, drastic a reversal as most people think. Lib THE MANAGUA FOUR scrawling obscenities on the walls and ertarian Review provides some figures that splashing his car with red and black paint. are at least useful as an antidote for the His current whereabouts are unknown. overreaction coming from the liberals at the HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO Mr. Robelo and the four jailed men are other extreme of the political spectrum. OF CALIFORNIA members of a private-sector umbrella orga For one thing, the publication confi~ed nization called COSEP, which in the U.S. the point which I have made, and which IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would be equivalent to the Business Round Reagan himself has made, that he has not Tuesday, November 17, 1981 table, NAM, Chamber of Commerce and a cut the size of the federal government, he variety of trade associations all rolled into has only slowed its rate of increase. It's easy e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, one. If you can imagine Ronald Reagan to lose sight of that in all the talk about at the time this body was debating the sending Irving Shapiro, Reginald Jones, spending "cuts." wisdom of sending foreign aid to Nica David Rockefeller and Lee Iacocca to the chain gang you have an idea of what's in True because defense spending is being ragua, those who argued in favor ~f increas'ed (a fact which Libertarian Review that aid repeatedly pointed to the pri volved. As we have mentioned before, the deplores), some social programs a:e actu~lly junta also is cracking down on the church being reduced. But what Libertarian Review vate sector's existence in Nicaragua as and the press. The country's one independ makes clear is that even these cuts are not evidence of the Sandinista regime's ent newspaper, La Prensa, also once a as severe as the liberals make out, and commitment to pluralism, that it was Somoza foe, has been threatened with per really seem to believe. not committed to establishing a Marx manent closing if it continues to insist on The fact is that "even after the cuts, ist regime in that Central American reporting the junta's activities honestly. Reagan will be devoting a greater portion of nation. The policies the business leaders criticized the federal budget to social spending than are no mystery. In addition to threatening did the Kennedy administration." In 1961, It must be apparent by now to all to hang opponents, Mr. Ortega has issued a the total federal budget was $97.8 billion. Of those advocates for aid to Nicaragua statement saying, "Our revolution has a that, $46.6 billion or roughly 48 pe~c~nt was that any hope for pluralism has been profoundly anti-imperialist character, devoted to defense. About $29 billion, or abandoned with the arrest of the four deeply revolutionary and rooted in class; we 29.8 percent, was devoted to social spending. Nicaraguan businessmen who protest are anti-Yankee; we are opposed to the These percentages remained stable from ed the policies of the Government. bourgeoisie; we are guided by scientific doc 1961 through 1963. Both a Wall Street Journal commen trine, by Marxism-Leninism." And if that is But whereas Kennedy devoted 48 percent tary and a Washington Post editorial not enough to get the message across, there of the budget to defense, Reagan's 1982 is the steady buildup of the Nicaraguan budget would allocate only 27.2 percent to put into very clear perspective the sit army under the guidance of 1,000 Cubans defense-and even after what Libertarian uation in Nicaragua, and I urge my and the constant inflow of heavy weapons Review calls "his massive military spending colleagues to give careful consider from Communist countries. spree," the defense portion will reach only ation to those thoughts. Yet while all this was going on, the Sandi 37.6 percent by 1986. I would like to raise only one other nistas had the effrontery to send an emis In contrast, social spending will take more point. What does it take to convince sary to Washington to tell Congress and the than 52 percent of the 1982 Reagan budget skeptics there is a Marxist regime in Washington press that nothing interesting compared with that 29.8 percent of the was happening. The emissary, Sandinista Kennedy era. . Nicaragua and· the threat of its hap international relations secretary Julio The libertarian publication isn't makmg pening again in El Salvador, Guatema Lopez, explained that the arrested business these points to praise Reagan; on the con la, or even Mexico, is a very real possi men would have to prove their charges or go to jail. Biggest joke of all, he to move against these businessmen can only DR. HENRY THOMAS YOST, JR. insisted there were no Cuban troops in Nica be taken as an assault on Nicaragua's Amer ragua. ican tie, frail as it is. Of course, there is plenty of precedent for The junta's violation of its citizens' rights HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE the Sandinistas to believe that Washington has now developed to the point where even OF MASSACHUSETTS will swallow any kind of nonsense. After all, those Americans who are otherwise sharply IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES didn't Jimmy Carter sign a statement that the Sandinistas were not fomenting revolu critical of administration policy are increas Tuesday, November 17, 1981 tion elsewhere-a condition of the aid pro ingly disenchanted with the Sandinistas and increasingly open in their critiques of the e Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, this gram voted by Congress-even though there Sunday, a very distinguished scholar were repbrts from the field even then that junta's domestic policies. As this happens, they were aiding guerrillas in El Salvador? moreover, signs multiply that Reagan ad and constituent of mine passed away Haven't American "human rights" advo ministration officials are getting ever more in Northampton, Mass. A distin cates always had a double standard, attack frustrated at what some of them take to be guished biologist, educator, and ing alleged violations by regimes friendly Nicaragua's important role in funneling author, Henry T. Yost, Jr., the presi toward the United States and ignoring any arms and perhaps also troops from Cuba to dent of the American Association of mayhem committed by "anti-Yankee" El Salvador. Strictly from its own point of University Professors and Rufus Tyler people like Mr. Ortega? And haven't Ameri view, this is a strange time for the junta to Lincoln professor of biology at Am can banks funneled refinancing to the San be reminding Americans that it seems to be dinistas on the basis of phony promises that herst College, died at the age of 56. becoming a Communist-controlled police A resident of Amherst, Dr. Yost was the private sector in Nicaragua would be state.e protected? born in Baltimore, served in the U.S. Among the questions the jailed business Army from 1943 to 1946, and was grad men asked in their letter were: "What use IRISH NATIONAL CAUCUS uated from the Johns Hopkins Univer does it serve to proclaim a mixed economy if sity with a bachelor's degree in 1947. you continue to confiscate firms illegally? After receiving his doctorate in 1951 What use does it serve to proclaim to guar antee a free press if you continue to close HON.RAYMONDJ.McGRATH from Johns Hopkins, Dr. Yost was ap the communications media? What use does OF NEW YORK pointed instructor of biology at Am it serve to proclaim pluralism if you impede herst College. In 1951, Dr. Yost also political parties from carrying out their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES began his career as an active volunteer meetings, attack them with 'divine' mobs, as Tuesday, November 17, 1981 with the American Association of Uni you characterize them, in order to seize,the versity Professors would provide for the designation of staff, in carrying out its duties, and in Section 9: Authorizes the suspension of li the Burns Paiute Indian Tribe as the reducing the amount of unnecessary censes of persons who aid and abet viola paperwork. My bill incorporates most tions of the Communications Act. beneficiary of a public domain allot Section 10: Brings the Communications ment in Harney County, Oreg. of the Track I proposals. The following is a section-by-section Act into compliance with international This legislation is needed to resolve agreements concerning the licensing of cer a matter which occurred when Jesse summary of each provision. tain aircraft radio stations and operators. T. James, a Burns Paiute Indian and SECTION-BY-SECTION SUMMARY Section 11: Authorizes the Commission to sole owner of a 160-acre public domain Section 1: Specifies the short title of the intercept radio communications and to dis allotment, died intestate and without bill to be the "Communications Technical close information thereby obtained to feder legal heirs. Amendments Act of 1981." al agencies in an emergency which endan Section 2: Modifies overly restrictive pro gers human life, or to an agency which is According to Federal law, public hibitions on FCC Commissioners' and Com charged solely with carrying out a special domain allotments valued in excess of mission employees' financial interests in ized law enforcement function if that $2,000 are to escheat to the United companies with communications-related in agency is already authorized under federal States and held in trust for such Indi terests. of unlicensed radio operations by drug the services rendered.) Section 21: Deletes section 325 of the Act, smugglers and others. This proposal would Section 12: Authorizes the Commission to which requires a Commission permit in afford greater employee protection to the require the temporary cessation of any reg order to export programming for use on a Commission's investigators and inspec ulated radio frequency transmission if such foreign station whose signal can be received tors.>• transmission causes electromagnetic inter in the United States. CThis section was en ference to any radio communications or acted in 1934 to control two problems then electronic equipment and if such interfer existing: the broadcast of certain objection VETERANS DAY ence causes imminent danger to the safety able programs into the United States from of human life; specifies that the cessation Mexican stations and persistant electronic will continue for no more than 60 days with interference from the same source. These HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING out Commission proceedings. CThis proposal problems are no longer of serious concern OF OHIO gives the Commission authority to shut and, to the extent that they still exist, there IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES down radio transmission in an emergency a,re treaties with Mexico, Canada, and other endangering human life-e.g., Space Shuttle nearby foreign nations which can form the Thursday, November 12, 1981 radio communications interference. If after basis for international cooperation. In addi a 60 day period the interference still has not tion, the section raises serious First Amend e Mr. SEIBERLING. Mr. Speaker, ceased, the Commission must conduct pro ment concerns of prior restraint.> last March the House unanimously ap ceedings before it can continue to require Section 22: Authorizes the Commission to proved House Joint Resolution 182, the cessation of the radio transmission.) receive assistance from private sector fre designating April 26, 1981, as "Nation Section 13: Increases license terms from 5 quency coordinators in the private land al Day of Recognition for Veterans of to 10 years for non-broadcast licenses; mobile and fixed services. CThis proposal the Vietnam Era." I was a cosponsor makes the license terms of auxiliary broad would provide a statutory basis for present of House Joint Resolution 182, and I cast station licenses-such as remote pick Commission practice.) joined with my colleagues in com ups, studio-transmitter links, and intercity Section 23: Shifts the burden of notifica relay transmitters-run concurrently with tion of interested parties in licensing cases mending the contribution and sacrifice the main station license terms. (Since auxil from the Commission to the appellant; re made by the men and women who iary licenses are contingent upon possession quires the Commission to file the records served with our Armed Forces in Viet of the main license, they should run concur upon which the order complained of was en nam. rently.) tered within 40 days, in accordance with the I also noted at the time that if there Section 14: Authorizes the Commission to Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (Rule was to be any real meaning behind allow the operation of citizens band radio 17). CThis proposal shifts the burden of no Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day, servke and radio control service without li tification to those who have the easier censes, if the Commission finds that oper access to the information of who are the in Congress would have to take concrete ation of such services without licenses terested parties.) action to address the special problems would serve the public interest, convenience, Section 24: Establishes the time from faced to this day by our Vietnam vet and necessity. CAt present, the Commis which certain petitions for review must be erans. Suicide, alcoholism, unemploy sion's licensing in the CB band is basically a filed as the release date of the text of the ment, and drug abuse are all problems rubber-stamp procedure, albeit at consider order, decision, action, or report complained associated with Vietnam veterans. In able cost to the Commission. Permitting the of. (This proposal provides a clear starting 1979, Congress recognized the need for Commission to de-license this service would time for when an appeal of a Commission counseling programs tailored to the remove unnecessary burdens upon the mil order must be filed. It also insures that po lions of applicants for CB and radio control tential appellants have the benefit of re particular needs associated with serv service licenses and the Commission.> viewing the official text of the order, deci ice in Vietnam, and authorized the cre Section 15: Permits the Commission to sion, or report before the deadline for filing ation of a Vietnam veterans' outreach limit the grounds for a petition to deny an a notice of intent to appeal.) counseling program. Despite the suc application for authorization of a nonbroad Section 25: Specifies the effective date of cess of the program, the Reagan ad cast radio station to allegations of electro Commission orders to be thirty days from ministration attempted to terminate magnetic interference, except that an alle the release of the public notice of the order, it. gation of antitrust violation must be consid unless the Commission designates a differ I am pleased to note that the 97th ered where there is no other means by ent effective date. which to make such an allegation. Section 26: Clarifies that cable systems Congress has demonstrated its willing Section 16: Permits the Commission to are subject to the Commission's forfeiture ness to translate the sentiments ex grant temporary radio operation authoriza authority. CThis proposal would remove any pressed in House Joint Resolution 182 tions for renewable periods of 180 days if ambiguity regarding the Commission's for into meaningful programs. Last extraordinary circumstances require tempo feiture authority over cable operators. The month, Congress cleared legislation rary operations in the public interest. amendment would also ratify current Com which specifically address some of the Section 17: Makes consistent the Act's mission practice.) problems faced by Vietnam veterans. provisions regarding agreements to with Section 27: Directs the courts to retain il That legislation, H.R. 3499 turned away from other VA facilities, said !SMET DELETIOGLU-A TRUE he hoped the country would be reminded on AMERICAN GIVES THANKS Wearing the medals of four wars, three Veterans Day of the need for such pro generations of veterans gathered before the grams. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Connolly, who carries shrapnel in his legs, HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ National Cemetery yesterday to hear Secre said he had grown increasingly paranoid OF NEW YORK tary of Defense Caspar Weinberger pledge and violent in recent years, slowly stockpil that "never again will we ask young men ing an arsenal at his Northern California IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and women to serve in a war we do not home and eventually accumulating four Tuesday, November 17, 1981 intend to win." automatic rifles, a machine gun, a mortar, "To keep peace with freedom, we must be 200 pounds of explosives and 20,000 rounds e Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, as so strong both in military force and in na of M16 rifle ammunition. Thanksgiving approaches, I would like tional will and resolve that no aggressor will A few months ago, he said, he tried to run to pay tribute to a remarkable and choose to strike us or our allies," Weinberg down his wife with a truck and then tried to generous Turkish American, Ismet De er told a crowd of 3,000 flag-waving veterans kill himself, he said. His gun misfired. letioglu, who each year opens his res who gathered under sunny skies on Veter "I have still been fighting [the war] and I taurants in Chicago to thousands of ans Day and the 60th anniversary of the am finally letting it go," Connolly said. "I people who otherwise would spend dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown am trying to become a normal loving Ameri Soldier. can male.... I want people to know that." this holiday alone and hungry. In downtown Washington, also at the 11th With the planned construction of the new This Thanksgiving will be the sixth hour of the 11th day of the 11th month Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the war and its that Mr. Deletioglu has hosted the commemorating the moment of the Armi veterans are moving more firmly into Amer poor, the elderly, and the forgotten of stice that ended World War I-there was a ica's official memory. While Vietnam veter the Chicago area to a complete tradi different kind of Veterans Day gathering. ans were in a small minority at Arlington tional turkey dinner in his restau The scars and shattered limbs didn't show yesterday, several veterans leaders said rants. He and his family and friends beneath their brown choir robes as 54 Viet their organizations are seeing a gradual nam veterans stood in a courtyard off New influx of these younger ex-servicemen. will work to prepare and serve the York Avenue. Neither did their emotional "They're coming out of the so-called Viet meal to all who respond to his invita wounds as they began to sing. nam syndrome," said A. Leo Anderson, chief tion. The Young Veterans Choir, the members of Veterans Affairs for the District of Co For Ismet Deletioglu knows all too of which all are currently under treatment lumbia. "They're settling down, getting well the problems of loneliness, pover for post-traumatic stress syndrome at the married, going into debt. They're coming ty, and hunger. One of seven children, Veterans Administration hospital in Menlo back to reality." Park, Calif., came to Washington carrying Most of the Vietnam veterans who turned he was orphaned at the age of 10, and messages in song and poetry and in reminis up at Arlington wore civilian garb, avoiding went to work to support himself at cences of a war that they continue reliving the conscious statement of the veterans or any jobs he could find in his poor and continue escaping. ganizations. "There are a lot of us around," Turkish fishing village. Most of the nation's 2.7 million Vietnam said Jim Imparato, a 30-year-old Vietnam Matt was able to reach the United veterans came home years ago to schools, veteran from Philadelphia who drove here States 14 years ago, penniless and jobs and families. But these 54 are among for the ceremonies. "Maybe we just don't alone. Like many immigrants, he those who are still making that journey want people to know it." struggled to learn the language and home. Their message yesterday was that Imparato came to Washington with Max they don't want to carry forever the badge Inglett, 30, who is now in a wheelchair be customs of his adopted country. Work of Vietnam, that they want finally to be cause of spine injuries received in Cambo ing as many as three jobs at a time, he considered just as veterans, American sons, dia. Inglett, a Californian, decided last scrimped and saved, but finally he was brothers and fathers. month to trek across the country, gathering able to open his own restaurant, the "Finally, this is my veterans parade," said support for a legislative program to prevent French Port. His business prospered, Fernando Valdez, 32, a Mexican-born future Vietnams. and he opened another restaurant. former Army helicopter crew chief from "He's got a lot of guts," said an admiring But he wanted to share his good for San Diego. "It has been a very long time Imparato who decided to join Inglett's cause coming." when he saw his fellow veteran on TV. But tune with others, particularly at the On Oct. 3, 1970, Valdez's helicopter was Imparato said he had always wanted to holidays. He remembered the ancient shot down over the central highlands of attend the Arlington ceremonies. "Veterans Turkish custom where the wealthy Vietnam. The crash severed his right arm, are veterans," he said. "I don't care which open their homes to feed the poor 1 shattered his legs and blinded his left eye. war they were in." day a year and decided to open his 27852 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 17, 1981 Chicagd restaurant to feed the poor County. After quickly exceeding the I am especially concerned about the cuts on Thanksgiving. capabilities of the machinery at his in social spending. They have gone too far, high school, nearby Webber College too fast. And too few of us understand their Explaining why he has continued impact. this tradition and why he chooses to extended the use of their computer Most of us probably have found comfort spend his holiday feeding the lonely equipment, as well as the advice and in the notion that the cuts were marginal and hungry, Matt replies: counsel of Dr. Al Strictland. A local and that the cuts fall equally on everyone. I think people should care • • • What we doctor learned of Daniel's talent and The cuts are anything but evenhanded, and do, we do from the heart. Not for publicity limited resources for computer equip the effects are far from marginal as the or money. Just from the heart• • • ment, and offered a loan to enable him numbers show. About 70 percent of the 1982 to purchase necessary supplies to com cuts now in place come from programs af This year, in tribute to the compas plete his research. fecting the poor. sion, commitment, and warmhearted You can go down the line-education at Dr. Fred Lenfesty, president of Polk all levels, jobs and training programs, Med generosity of this "new" American, Community College is looking forward the Daughters of the American Revo icaid, housing aid, food stamps, school nutri to having Daniel pursue his college tion, support for poor families with chil lution awarded Matt the DAR Ameri career there, and has provided much dren, energy assistance, unemployment in canism Medal. This award, which sym encouragement to him for his future surance, and numerous other social services. bolizes the best of our American tradi studies in this exciting field. Every one of these received major spending tions, is a fitting tribute for this ener The display of support and enthusi cuts, adding up to $25 billion of the $35 bil getic and active man. asm for Daniel and his project is re lion total cut from the budget this summer. Matt Deletioglu is a credit to our markable, and, I think, one of the That doesn't include $13 billion in more Nation, an authentic patriot who has cuts just proposed, and the $100 billion in prospered through hard work and nicest aspects of his victory. cuts projected for 1984. Although those cuts dedication while enriching our society His talent and the helping hands of are mostly unspecified, programs for the his community provided Daniel John poor will again be on the chopping block. with the best of his old culture and ston with the opportunity to be a mir Combined with tax cuts that benefit traditions. acle worker in his own right.e mostly higher-income people, this program I am proud to count Matt Deletioglu adds up to a major redistribution of money among my friends and to have the op in our society, from the lower end to the portunity today to recognize his con EXECUTIVE DISSENT-AGAINST upper end of the scale. tributions to our great country and THE BUDGET CUTS Despite Administration assurances, the pay tribute here in the Congress to his truly needy will have to cut back family efforts to help thousands of our less HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. budgets that simply can't be stretched any fortunate citizens experience a warm more. and memorable Thanksgiving.• OF NEW JERSEY The truly needy include the elderly and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES disabled poor. But the group that concerns me most is children, in families headed by a Tuesday, November 17, 1981 MIRACLE WORKER woman. e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, last One out of 6 of all American children, week, J. Richard Munro, president of about 10 million, lives in poverty today. One HON. ANDY IRELAND out of 4 of all children will need welfare Time, Inc., addressed the Union support at some time before growing up. OF FLORIDA League Club of New York about the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES About one out of 6 of all children has no folly, the unfairness and the short regular source of medical care. One out of 3 Tuesday, November 17, 1981 sightedness of the Reagan administra has never seen a dentist. Among black chil e Mr. IRELAND. Mr. Speaker, Frost tion's actual and planned cuts in social dren, 2 out of 5 are poor. proof, Fla., has produced its own ver spending, while the Reagan tax cuts Under the new budget, they are losing a sion of the miracle worker recently, benefit mostly higher income people. little here and a little there, not too much In excerpts from that speech printed taken one by one. But when the losses total and I had the pleasure of spending several hundred dollars this year per family some time with him in Washington last Sunday in the New York Times, with even greater losses next year and the last week. Mr. Munro also criticized the adminis next, that will have a great impact. Daniel Johnston, a 17-year-old tration's retreat from civil rights en We should also be concerned about the Frostproof student was in Washington forcement and from safety, health, many social services, Government and pri to receive an award for his achieve consumer, and environmental protec vately run, being cut severely under this ment in developing a computer pro tions. budget. In Fairfield County, my wife and I gram designed to teach sign language It is clear from Mr. Munro's remarks are active in the Juvenile Diabetes Founda that at least one corporate executive is tion. It is just been hit by Federal budget to the hearing impaired, or teachers of cuts that sharply reduce its research pro the hearing impaired. deeply concerned about the effects of gram. Actually, I think we can probably I had heard about Daniel from sev the Reagan economic program on the raise money locally to replace some of the eral proud members of his community, future of not only the truly needy but loss. But what about similar organizations as they tracked his success story all members of our society. with no access to corporate contributions or through the regional competition in The Times article follows: well funded local governments? Atlanta for inventors of aids for the [From the New York Times, Nov. 15, 19811 Let me sum up. The budget cuts are leav handicapped, and on to Washington as ing serious and immediate human needs EXECUTIVE DISSENT-AGAINST THE BUDGET unmet. And if the budget cuts continue as one of the Nation's leading finalists in CUTS scheduled, the problems of the poor will competition sponsored by the National George Will wrote in a recent column that omy of Portland and Oregon; and advance that he would need a personal programs like Social Security spring from Whereas, Portland is the leading export Americans' acceptance of "the ethic of port on the United States West Coast and White House staff chief on interna common provision." He went on to say that thus contributes substantially to the United tional affairs, could not have designed President Reagan "must convince Ameri States' balance of trade; and a range of experience more germane cans that his conservatism is compatible Whereas, the Portland area has long been than the one W. Averell Harriman has with that ethic." the sponsor of the annual navigation chan completed in his career. No other Let's consider the economic effects. Re nel dredging by the Corps of Engineers; and American has, over the years, been so member that in a few years, the children of Whereas, the costs of this dredging have been more than offset by the consequent intimately and continuously involved today will be our employees, adding, we in so many major decisions and mile hope, to our bottom line. Because of the end revenues generated to the regional and na of the baby boom, there will be far fewer of tional economies; and stones in American foreign policy. No them available. And we can already read Whereas, the Columbia/Snake River other has participated in so many of projections of labor shortages later in this system has benefited not only the econo the first history-making conferences. decade, especially in skilled labor. Budget mies of communities in both states border Very few men possess W. Averell cuts in training and education will worsen ing the Columbia River, Oregon and Wash ington, but also a number of landlocked hin Harriman's wealth of experience and that problem. breadth of knowledge. His vitality and Consider also Social Security: There are terland states; and three workers today for every beneficiary. Whereas, the imposition of the segmented vigor are a source of amazement to his In 30 years, there will be two, when the chil waterway user fees proposed by the Admin contemporaries. He is a unique man in dren of today should be in their prime work istration would severely jeopardize the com American history and is one of the ing years. petitiveness of Portland as a seaport; and truly great men of our times. He has Out of economic necessity, we can't afford Whereas, the imposition of segmented brought to his multitudinous responsi to let the productive potential of any of user fees will inhibit the full development bilities above all else a quality of today's children languish because of our ne and utilization of the Columbia-Snake River slack water lock and dam system: Therefore Yankee shrewdness and realism-an glect. invaluable astringent. Perhaps more More than ever, they are vital to our be it Resolved, By the City Council of the future, and we should help them get the City of Portland, Oregon: clearly than anyone else, he recog best possible start in life. That means good One, that Congress reject legislation nized the character and conditions of schools, good nutrition, health care, hous having the port-specific user charges; the cold war with the Russians under Two, that Congress not adopt any type of Stalin. ing, stable homes. user charge legislation pending completion Yet, we're moving in the opposite direc of the Section 205 study as well as addition The experience of W. Averell Harri tion now and in the foreseeable future. al studies on the impact of proposed legisla man now add up to establish him as That disturbs me, and I think it should dis tion on the port system in the United the leading "Kremlinologist" of our turb you.e States; time. He has spent more time in direct Three, that, if user charge legislation is consultation with Stalin, Khrushchev, RESOLUTION NO. 33028 · adopted it assess charges on a uniform basis, Molotov, Dobrynin, Brezhnev, and as contained in the legislation introduced by Senator Mark 0. Hatfield of Oregon; and other leaders of Communist Russia, HON. LES AuCOIN Four, that a copy of this memorial be sent living or dead, than any other Ameri OF OREGON to the President of the United States, the can official. He was U.S. Ambassador IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Secretary of Transportation, the Director of to the Soviet Union from 1943 to 1946, OMB, and each member of the Oregon Con a period that bridged the end of World Tuesday, November 17, 1981 gressional delegation to emphasize our War II and the outset of the cold war. e Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, I am belief that budget balancing at the cost of He accompanied President Roosevelt this Nation's transportation system would to the conferences with Churchill and today presenting, for inclusion in the be a grave danger to local economies and to RECORD, a copy of a resolution passed the economy of the United States as a Stalin at Teheran and Yalta, and went by the Portland City Council concern whole. with Truman to Potsdam. He also ing waterway user fees. Adopted by the Council November 12, served as the European field manager The action taken by the Portland 1981. for the Marshall plan, the most suc City Council represents a viewpoint GEORGE YERHOVICH, cessful roadblock ever erected against that nearly every Oregonian under Auditor of the City of Portland.• Communist imperialism. stands. The administration's plan to W. Averell Harriman, who turned 90 impose fees on users of the inland wa W. AVERELL HARRIMAN: A last week, is proving to be one of the terway system was proposed without MONUMENT TO DEMOCRACY most remarkable monuments to consideration of the impact of the fee democracy this Nation has produced, on competing modes of transportation. HON. LEO C. ZEFERETTI far more durable and unchanging than The effect of this action on America's OF NEW YORK most other national landmarks. While inland ports would be devastating. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES he has been serving this Government, To impose this tax on Oregon would even the U.S. Capitol, the veritable be particularly destructive since it al Tuesday, November 17, 1981 symbol of the Republic, has been ready is suffering from one of the e Mr. ZEFERETTI. Mr. Speaker, I am pushed forward 32112 feet and given a highest unemployment rates in the proud to have this opportunity to join new face. W. Averell Harriman is more 27854 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 17, 1981 than a national monument. He is a Michael may be cut from the same bolt, become loud and mean-and to have embar living symbol of the relative constancy but the weave and pattern of the fabric rassing, out-of-court contacts with law en of American foreign policy over the don't always go in the same directions. forcement agents. "I've never tried to imitate my father," Last summer he sideswiped a Westlake last five decades. said Michael in an interview. "I emulate my In paying tribute to this fine ge:p.tle police car because, he said, he was distract father to a certain extent. I don't intend on ed by his overheated engine indicator light. man, I merely want to add my person 'attempting to fill his shoes. I think I am my He said he did not contest a ticket for fail al best wishes for continued health own person. ing to keep an assured clear distance. and happiness in the years ahead.• "I think we're substantially different. My father was raised in a time era where you Two years before he joined the prosecu could become an adult and still be idealistic. tor's office in 1974, he was pinched on THE CRUSADING CORRIGANS, I'm raised in a time era when it's very diffi Public Square while sitting in his pickup FATHER AND SON cult to become an idealist, so you become a truck, wearing a pirate's mask outside a realist very quickly." bank. Court-watchers soon will be treated to Police were called-ironically by his girl HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR three novel events. One is that John T. him friend, a bank employe, for whom he was OF OHIO self will try a case, the first in 11 years. waiting. She had been told of a suspicious IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Second, Michael will try it with him. person outside. He was released after police Third, father and son, both strongly in Tuesday, November 17, 1981 established his identity as someone other favor of the death penalty as punishment than a bank heist artist. • Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, cities and deterrent, will be trying the first capital The mask may not have charmed his girl have institutions and most institutions punishment case here under Ohio's new and untested death penalty. It is against two friend-as he intended-as much as the live have traditions. John T. Corrigan, men accused of shooting Cleveland Patrol turkey he leashed to the door of her par prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga man Anthony J. Johnson to death following ents' Bay Village home. Michael had a date County for the past quarter of a cen a bank robbery Oct. 21. with another girl, he explained, and needed tury is, indeed, one of those institu "I look forward to trying this case with somewhere to drop off the bird. tions. And it appears as if his son, Mi my father, there's no question about that," Three years ago, Michael was married. He chael Corrigan, may one day carry out said Michael. "But this case is more impor and his wife, Cathe (he would not say what what has become a tradition in our tant to me, probably not because of my jokes he has played on her> have a son, 2, county. father, but because it involves the killing of and are expecting another child. a police officer. All this is not to say that John T. is a John T. Corrigan's intellectual hon "I've been blessed with a lot of good cases, esty and professional integrity are super-straight, humorless, uninteresting de and there's no question, many of them I've fender of society's rights. beyond reproach. He has maintained gotten as a result of my relationship with an order recognized in our community the boss." True, he appeared for years in navy blue and one that ideally should be emulat John T. (he is routinely referred to by his suits, tailored at the place policemen have ed across our Nation. middle initial, to distinguish him from the their uniforms made, and white starched shirts. In recent years he's given in to pastel [From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nov. 16, other John Corrigans in public office) is 1981] almost a living legend as the long-time shirts and lighter suits. reigning prosecutor. It is taken for granted But he always has beamed a charming THE CRUSADING CORRIGANS, FATHER AND SON that the reign is becoming a dynasty, and smile, sometimes looking like a husky, 6- chemistry. liefs about justice-is slowly attaching itself John T. nor Michael says Michael will be Michael has four sisters. One, Margaret, is to the son. the successor. John T. says it is up to Mi on maternity leave from her job as an assist Michael was graduated with honors from chael if he cares to pursue a political career; ant district attorney in Boston. Boston College after a four-year football Michael says simply that he always will scholarship. He worked several years as a want to remain a prosecutor. John T. said one family event would thrill construction laborer. The combination left Unlike his father, he is sometimes rowdy him more than trying a case with his son. him educated and able to deal with people and a prankster compared to the image of That would be deputizing his daughter as on several social levels, much like his father. the dignified, strait-laced John T. Michael an assistant county prosecutor, and watch a World War II infantry sergeant and the has a propensity to get into an occasional ing her and Michael try one together.• son of a Cleveland policeman. beef with a defense lawyer that might November 17, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27855 PRESERVING VOTING RIGHTS OUR FUTURE-AND THE the well-understood "greenhouse effect". It ENERGY WE NEED: DR. HANS is, therefore, essential to convert coal into OSBORG SPEAKS OUT products more suitable for energy genera HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. tion. Stationary power plants, as well as motive OF NEW JERSEY HON. JOHN LeBOUTILLIER energy, can be adequately supplied through IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NEW YORK. the use of Methanol, made from coal or nat IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ural gas. Methanol can be burned in station Tuesday, November 17, 1981 ary power plants. This will automatically e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, those of Tuesday, November 17, 1981 minimize the formation of carbon dioxide. us who have fought over the years for e Mr. LEBOUTILLIER. Mr. Speaker, I For automotive use, the application of believe that the greatest aspect of the Methanol as a fuel is well enough under the preservation of the Voting Rights stood to prove that it can become one of Act can be encouraged that President energy crisis over the years has been the, if not the, dominant fuels of the future. Reagan has announced that he is now the crisis of stagnation. We have However, use of 100 percent Methanol is firmly committed to protect what he weathered oil shortages, gas lines, possible only if automobile engines are aptly termed "The crown jewel of price chaos, and lagging productivity; modified drastically. With 150 million New York City, and a past president of the Scotty Rhodarmer, WWNC's 5:30 a.m. to New England region of the division. 10 a.m. announcer, was rated the number HON. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR An accomplished interior decorator, Mrs. one announcer in the country for the third OF MASSACHUSETTS Rotenberg decorated three student lounges straight year. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES at the University and most recently decorat The ratings were done by Arbitron, a na ed a lounge in the Yeshiva University High tional firm that measures radio and televi Tuesday, November 17, 1981 School for Boys, Manhattan. For her ef sion audiences. No radio station has been e Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, I am forts, she was honored with the university's rated number one three years in a row. In sorry to report the recent death of my distinguished service award two years ago at fact, WWNC was the first radio station to friend Fay Rotenberg of Brookline, a luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria in New get the top rating for two years running. York. Mrs Rotenberg also received several "This is not a glamour award,'' said Shel Mass. national and regional awards for her interi don Summerlin, station general manager Fay was an active worker on behalf or design works. and vice president. "We've come in first and of both charitable and political causes. Mrs. Rotenberg was a graduate of Lasell there are close to 9,000 licensed radio sta She will be sorely missed by all who Junior College in Newton and Beth Israel tions in the country." had the good fortune to know her. School of Nursing and attended graduate The number-one rating is based on the My wife Millie joins me in extending school at Boston University. In the 1930s share of a listening audience that a radio our heartfelt condolences to her she worked as an evening supervisor of station obtains. According to Summerlin, family. nurses at Beth Israel Hospital and had re there are 14 stations competing for the big At this point I would like to insert ceived the Kaufman Award which is given gest share of the audience within WWNC's the Boston Globe obituary on Fay and to an outstanding nurse. broadcast area. Born in Worcester, Mrs. Rotenberg had "Think of the shares as a piece of pie," the eulogies delivered at her funeral lived in Brookline before moving to Chest Summerlin said. "We have 39.3 percent of by Norman Lamm, the president of nut Hill 20 years ago. the pie, which is the largest share of any Yeshiva University, and by Rabbi Besides her son, she leaves two daughters, radio station in the nation. Abraham Klausner. Judi Ross of Newton and Jane Moss of November 17, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27857 Chestnut Hill; a brother, Milton Amgott of those wondrous things happened. A rare source of courage and ·confidence in all her New York City; and two grandchildren, Abi friendship developed between Fay and days and all her efforts. gail and Alison Ross of Newton. myself. I shall tell you about it. A tradition has developed, calling for a Fay as you well know, spent the fullness brief eulogy. Though sensitive to that tradi IN TRIBUTE TO FAY ROTENBERG BY NORMAN of her life amid beautiful things. She tion, I continue to speak. But you will un LAMM sensed, I believe, the relationship between derstand. I have come a long way across Along with all other members of the Ye the sacred and the beautiful, as expressed in sometimes the desert and sometimes the shiva University family who knew and cher the poetic line: Ivdu Et Adonoy B'hadrat oasis of many years. I have the feeling that ished Fay Rotenberg, my wife and I were Kodesh-Serve the Lord in the beauty of if I continue to speak, she is with us. When dismayed to learn of her untimely death. holiness. One of the last of the communica I finish, she will be gone. I am reminded of Indeed, the word death seems so incongru tions I received from her was a notice that David, King of Israel, who knew that he ous with the picture of this vital, vigorous, she was to be honored by Stern College, a would die upon a Sabbath. He then sat, lively lady. The very use of the past tense division of the Yeshiva University, for her each Sabbath, and composed his psalms, rings so false and seems so awkward when devotion to that institution, which took the knowing full well that the angel of death u5ed of a woman whose humor, human con form of creating a beautiful environment would not take him while he sang the cern and sanguine outlook made her so for student and faculty as they pursued praises of the Lord. As long as we speak, and much part of the present and so promising their studies. Closer to home, here in tell of her concerns and devotions to her of the future. Boston, the city of her concerns, with the faith, we feel she is with us. Fay was both a conceiver and executor of Newberry League, she sought, again, to In our religious ways, we are given to ideas in the realm of philanthropy. She per invest in the ordinary, the extraordinary, forms and coloration. For Fay Judaism was formed both functions for Yeshiva Universi and make beautiful the secular. pervasive. Like a spring of living waters, it ty with elan. She perceived the need for an There are three forms of beauty. There is refreshed her soul, and thus she was able to aesthetic dimension to student life, and so the beauty of nature revealed in the grace lend herself to the totality of Jewish life, devoted herself to the enhancement of the ful symmetry of a tree, the fragrance of a dramatized by the Sabbath Eve Dinner to "quality of life" of our undergraduate stu flower, the sparkling star pinned against the which her family and friends were regularly dents, both men and women. She initiated black velvet of night-and in this connec gathered to celebrate not merely the day, and carried out the renovation and refur tion I think of Fay's smile-this beauty re but the very spirit which tries to make us a bishing of student lounges at Yeshiva Col sults from the action and interaction of the little less than the angels of heaven. lege, at Stern College and at the boy's High forces of nature upon the substances of the Perhaps that was her goal in life. To make School. All this she did in a spirit of love, earth. us more than we are, to encourage us to warmth, and friendship, with no thought of The second type is the beauty of the wards the fulfillment of the promise that is the recognition it would bring her. artist, the creative soul. A Michelangelo chi within each of us. Nevertheless, the University did recognize sels stone, and a living David leaps forth. Come then, and let us give thanks to God her splendid volunteer work by designating Bialik fashions words and phrases, and our for the years she served as our conscience, her as Guest of Honor twice within one people's experience are forever imprisoned years in which she brought joy and comfort year-1980-at the New England Heritage in the memory of humankind. A Beethoven into the hearts of so many of us. We ask of Dinner and at Yeshiva University Women's organizes sound, and the impressive sym God to teach us of His ways, that we may Organization National .Luncheon at the phony breaks forth. Such is the beauty of learn from this sadness to be evermore re Waldorf Astoria. the creative artist, which results from the sponsive to each other. We ask that her But our real feelings for Fay went beyond reaction of the soul of people and the skill spirit, now and forever, permeate the lives the formal acknowledgements of her benefi of their hands upon the substances of the of her children, Jane, Judi and Richard, cence. She not only gave generously, but earth. Jon, her brother Milton, and the greatest of she was a model and inspiration for others Now, my friends, the highest type of her blessings, her grandchildren, Abigail to do likewise. And even more than what beauty is that which results from the reac and Alison, and all of us so privileged to she gave and what she raised, was what she tion of soul upon soul. It is the beauty of move in the orbit of her love and her atten was-a warm and responsive human being nations at peace, a society that is just and tion.• who combined universal concerns for all responsive, a beauty that is brought to its people with special dedication to her own highest expression in a friendship that is folk; a sparkling sense of humor with a well true and loyal, supportive and understand VETERANS DAY: NOT JUST developed artistic flair; intellectual curiosity ing. It was a wondrous and a beautiful thing ANOTHER DAY OFF with a penetrating directness: pride in her that happened, as I tell it now, so many own children with concern for all children; years ago, when first we met and a friend an exterior of handsome toughness with an ship was urged upon us, one that has sus HON. WILLIAM J. COYNE tained us through all these years, even to inner core of beautiful goodness and gener OF PENNSYLVANIA osity of spirit. this hour of death, as we shared our respec Fay was a lovable human being, and we tive hopes, aspirations and accomplish IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments. shall not soon meet the likes of her. Togeth Tuesday, November 17, 1981 er with her mourning family, we feel be We are, all of us, giving people. It is one of reaved and an aching sense of emptiness. the attributes that makes us human. Giving e Mr. WILLIAM J. COYNE. Mr. Our consolation is that the nobility of her takes many forms. Giving can be obligatory Speaker, Veterans Day is too often deeds, the singularity of her personality, or dutiful, it can also be gracious. With Fay seen by many as just another day off and the integrity of her loyalties will prove giving was an art in which she sought to ex press her feelings for others and her grati from work. I am happy to say that imperishable and be her everlasting memo this is not the case with David Min rial. tude for life itself. Birthdays, festivals, and In the concluding works of King Solo celebrations generally were occasions for re sterman of Pittsburgh. His recognition mon's immortal tribute to Jewish Woman membering and sharing, for reaching out of this solemn day of remembrance is hood in the concluding chapter of the Book and saying, with gift and form, the things especially worthy of note in view of of Proverbs: we hardly ever, but should always want to the fact that, at 14 years of age, he is say. "Give her of the fruit of her hands, too young to know firsthand the hor In a film story, the name of which I do rors of war. And let her works praise her in the gates." not remember, there is a scene that im May her soul be bound up in the bond of pressed me deeply. A child speaks to his David brought the meaning of Vet immortal life. parent, asking him what he thought he had erans Day to a personal level in an done with his life, what have you accom essay competition sponsored by the IN TRIBUTE TO FAY ROTENBERG BY RABBI plished? What have you made or provided Disabled American Veterans, Greater ABRAHAM KLAUSNER for the future? The Parent stares at his Pittsburgh Chapter 8. His essay, It is not usual for a Rabbi, presiding at a child, hesitates a moment, and that says, I which describes the loss of his great Memorial Service, to introduce himself to thought you might be my contribution for uncle in a submarine attack on the the assembled. I do so. In a significant all our tomorrows. For Fay-her children, sense, I am part of the eulogy I offer in re the three Js, as she always referred to them U.S.S. Turner in 1944, was chosen the membrance and in praise of Fay Rotenberg. in her writings to me, were her offerings to winner of that competition over 91 en I am Rabbi Abraham Klausner. I served the future, they were her beauty, her per tries. briefly in this Temple and this community, fection. Oh, what pride she took in them. I would like to share what David had many years ago. In that brief period, one of They in turn were for her an extraordinary to say with my colleagues-an example 27858 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 17, 1981 of someone who sees Veterans Day as 1981. The editorial examines what is, The pre-clearance procedure is simple and more than just another day off: to many, the most troubling aspect of reasonable; to date, more than 800 request the President's statement-his en ed changes in local laws have been routinely WHAT VETERANS DAY Is ALL ABOUT approved. Hardly burdensome, as its foes (By David Minsterman) dorsement of language which would argue, it does not warrant a bailout amend Veterans Day is the one day we bring to ·require a finding that the framers of a ment. The Justice Department and the mind all the men and women who helped voting law intended their law to dis courts are not likely to come down on local save our country. We remember all the criminate before such a law could be officials unless there is blatant violation of people whose lives were interrupted and invalidated. As the editorial points voting rights, such as the one that moved a most of all, those whose lives were lost in out: · Federal court to suspend City Council elec the service of their country. tions in New York City because they dis On January 3, 1944, my great uncle was To prove intent by fathoming the minds of legislators . . . is an impossible task. And criminated against minority-group voters. killed. He was serving aboard the destroyer, Perhaps more serious is the President's the U .S.S. Turner. His ship was returning that is what opponents of the Voting Rights Act intend it to be. support for using intent-to-discriminate as from three successful battles over a period the test of whether the Goverment should of many months. Ten miles off New York The articles follow: act to protect voting rights. The House bill Harbor, the destroyer was anchored for the [From the New York Times, Nov. 16, 19811 uses the "effects" standard: Changes in elec night. At 6 a.m. the U.S.S. Turner was torpe DILUTING VOTING RIGHTS tion laws and procedures can be challenged doed and sunk. My uncle and all the men if they have a discriminatory, negative aboard were lost at sea. Harry Randall was (By Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.) effect on minorities. only 20 years old when he died, only six When is an endorsement not an endorse Intent to discriminate is impossible to years older than I am today. I think it's ment? The answer is: when President prove. Local officials don't wallpaper their good for us to think about men and women Reagan backs extension of the Voting offices with memos about how to restrict like my uncle, because if it wasn't for them Rights Act of 1965. minority-group members; access to the poll the United States of America wouldn't be The President's "endorsement" of extend ing booth. the great country it is today. ing the act, which expires in 1982, was quali Discriminatory effects, however, are clear A lot of children think of Veterans Day as fied with backing for amendments that to all. They can be measured, and judged. A just a day off from school. I think teachers would weaken the act. redistricting plan that wipes out black rep should take time out to explain just what In the process, the President missed an resentation in a state legislature could be Veterans Day really means. Maybe they opportunity to strengthen his image among spotted and dealt with for what it is-a dis could ask each student to write a paragraph blacks. criminatory change in election laws that de about a person in their family who served Minority-group members' anger at the prives minorities of their voting rights. their country in the military service. Every Reagan Administration's disastrous econom But if the standard is intent to discrimi family has its own heroes, and when chil ic program could have been countered, at nate, the onus would be on the people dren realize that Veterans Day is for their least to some small degree, by a strong, whose rights were violated to try to prove family too, it would become an important forthright statement endorsing the version that the change was deliberately made to day for everyone. of the Voting Rights Act extension that has deprive black voters of representation. The Veterans Day only comes once a year, so I already been passed by the House of Repre evidence would be virtually impossible to as think we should do everything we can to sentatives. semble. honor all the people who died fighting for The President's move was not only a polit So the President's endorsement of the their country, and for all the people who ical mistake that will make it even harder Voting Rights Act is a sham. It observes the came back but whose lives were changed by for his party to attract minority-group letter but not the spirit of voting-rights pro these dreadful wars. We honor all the voters, but also it was a disservice to the tection. And it will make the coming battle people who served in times of peace, and the conservatism he symbolizes. True conserv over the voting-rights extension in the men and women in the service now, who atism seeks to "conserve" the best of the Senate much harder to win. keep our country strong and ready to fight past. It venerates constitutional rights, indi if that terrible time would ever come.e vidual freedom, and protection of civil [From the Los Angeles Times, Nov. 16, rights from Government abuse. Therefore, 1981] the Voting Rights Act, with strong enforce WHEN IS AN ENDORSEMENT ment provisions that do not permit local INTENTIONS THAT ARE NOT HONORABLE NOT AN ENDORSEMENT? governments to escape their responsibilities, Lawyers have been struggling for centu is in essence a deeply conservative law. It ries over the issue of "intent," a legal con HON. DON EDWARDS has the support of many citizens and legisla . cept that calls for knowledge of the motives OF CALIFORNIA tors who proudly label themselves "conserv of a criminal-or of a legislature-whose ac ative." tions lead to a wrongful result. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Superficially, the President's endorsement Should it be necessary to prove an intent Tuesday, November 17, 1981 of extending the act for 10 years fits that to do wrong in order to punish an offender e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. tradition. He spoke of voting as a "sacred more severely or to invalidate a statute? right" and of reaffirming his commitment That question is now plaguing Congress in Speaker, President Reagan's recent re to voting-rights protection. the dispute over extension of the Voting marks regarding extension of the However, the President then went on to Rights Act of 1965, and the debate could Voting Rights Act have caused deep say that he supports two changes in the bill have a major effect on government policy concern not only among minority passed by the House. Far from being minor not only on civil rights but also in many group members but among all Ameri amendments, those changes would seriously other important areas. cans who care about civil rights. undermine the effectiveness of the Voting Under existing law, the government must While ostensibly endorsing full ex Rights Act. prove intent, as well as illegal effect, in its tension of this most important of our The first change would be to further liber prosecutions of state or local governments civil rights statutes, the President alize the "bailout provisions" through for violations of the Voting Rights Act. But, which states and local government covered by an overwhelming vote, the House of Rep gave his tentative support to two by the law could escape Justice Department resentatives wants to exclude proof of amendments which would greatly oversight of their electoral operations. Such intent from legislation extending the act harm the effectiveness of the Voting governments now need "pre-clearance" by beyond its expiration next August. RightsAct. the Justice Department for any proposed Just as adamantly, the Reagan Adminis In a guest editorial by Vernon E. changes in their election laws or procedures. tration and Senate conservatives want to Jordan, Jr., which appeared in the Many people agree with the President retain intent, and a 1980 decision of the U.S. New York Times on November 16, that a bailout for jurisdictions that have Supreme Court supports their position. The 1981, the implications of the Presi not violated voting rights for a period of Court held, 5 to 4, that there has been no time is "a matter of fairness." But to me, it violation of the rights of black voters in dent's mixed message are explored. I is an escape hatch that virtually invites Mobile, Ala., even though the effect of an commend the article to the attention local power elites to lie low for long enough ordinance mandating at-large elections has of my colleagues. to get out from under Federal coverage. been to prevent blacks from winning elec My colleagues will also be interested Even with the law as it stands, abuses occur. tion to the City Commission. in an editorial which appeared in the Introducing a "reasonable bailout" feature In the view of the majority, there was no Los Angeles Times on November 16, just asks for trouble. proof of intentional discrimination and, for November 17, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27859 that reason, the ordinance must stand. But Brooklyn, N.Y., when his father was serious cover job, done through a conduit known as some record. ly ill in the hospital and he wasn't sure he the Federal Financing Bank. This bank bor Bryant attended the University of could attend college at all. Medical school rows money from the Treasury and it bor Alabama and played on the 1934 Crim seemed unattainable. Appointment to West rows largely on the basis of "entitlements" son Tide team that defeated Stanford Point by Congressman Stephen Solarz was without effective oversight. Not surprising, in the Rose Bowl. He began his coach the answer to a lot of hopes and dreams. then, that since its creation in 1974 the amount of off-budget credit extended has ing career as a Crimson Tide assistant Admitting that it was tough, the slight, zoomed. Indeed, off-budget credit is the in 1936. Before returning to his alma dark-haired intense young man winces a fastest growing form of credit in the domes mater as head coach in 1958, Bryant little when he recalls plebe year. "The tic credit market. built successful programs at Maryland, Jewish Chapel services and the food at the This credit activity-no matter how Kentucky, and Texas A. & M. He has Oneg Shabbats afterward gave us some sneaky its procurement-has exactly the thing to look forward to, especially in plebe led Alabama to 12 Southeastern Con same impact as on-budget demands for ference championships and 6 national year," he recalls. credit: It crowds out private borrowers. Another extracurricular activity that Thus, hoping to bring down interest rates crowns during his 24 years there. He makes his eyes light up when he discusses it by limiting on-budget borrowing is like was named National Coach of the is flying. He is working on his pilot's license hoping to tackle Earl Campbell with only Year in 1961, 1971, and 1973. The Ala and hopes to continue that in Maryland. At one arm. bama Crimson Tide has played in 22 graduation, however, his spirits were flying Aside from its contribution to federal ac consecutive bowl games under Coach on sheer happiness.e tivity in the credit markets, this kind of Bryant's leadership. This, too, is a na-
79-059 0-85-22 (Pt. 21) 27862 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 17, 1981 tional record, and no other team is a grams especially for women. I feel having admitted to the Maryland Bar that close second. special programs for women is discriminat same year. While history often judges men by ing," Mr. Cardenas says women do not need He was elected to the Maryland programs tailored for them b~cause they their victories, and Coach Bryant can find management assistance and busi House of Delegates in 1939 and served clearly has a place in history because ness training in SBA's other programs. there until 1955. Judge Sklar's career of his, those who know Coach Bryant Rather than special programs, the SBA as a public servant extended beyond know him as a special man who cares should inform women how the agency can his responsibilities as a Delegate. He about his players and is more con help them, he says. "My philosophy is to in served as counsel to the Junior Asso cerned about teaching "good living" crease our outreach to them, to have them ciation of Commerce from 1935 to have more access." He adds: "With few ex than he is in setting records. Coach ceptions women have accepted it." 1946, was a member of the Tax Revi Bryant is an inspiration to all Alabam One who does not accept it is Marlene sion Commission of Maryland from ians, indeed to all Americans. People Johnson, president of the National Associa 1939 to 1941, and was a member of the have tremendous respect and admira tion of Women Business Owners. "This ad Postwar Redevelopment Commission tion for him. Among those who have ministration believes that if you leave every from 1941 to 1945. played for Coach Bryant are such one alone, everyone will be O.K.," Miss He later served as the chairman of greats as Joe Namath, George Blanda, Johnson says. "But historically that is not true. The strong prey on the weak." the Commission to Revise the Public Steve Sloan, Richard Todd, and Ken Many women run their businesses success Service Laws of Maryland and with Stabler. Those are just the quarter fully without special help, says Miss John the expertise he developed went on to backs; 44 of Coach Bryant's former son, owner of a St. Paul advertising agency. become a member and chairman of players or assistant coaches have But many others benefit from programs the Public Service Commission from become head coaches for collegiate or that help them overcome the "cultural dif 1958 to 1964. professional teams. ferences" that make business ownership In addition to his public career, Coach Bryant is an excellent motiva tougher for some women than for men. Judge Sklar has been active in reli tor and an extremely popular figure Nearly a casualty of the SBA retrench ment was the American Woman's Economic gious and social groups. He was presi throughout the State of Alabama. Ala Development Corp. in New York. AWED is dent of the University of Baltimore bama political·figures are pleased that considered one of the best private, nonprofit Alumni Association from 1965 to 1972, Coach Bryant has decided not to run training and man~gement assistance pro was president of the Menorah Lodge for their jobs, for Alabamians would grams for women entrepreneurs that the of the B'nai B'rith and the Histadrut undoubtedly elect him President. SBA has funded. But last February the SBA Council, and was a board member of I. join thousands of other Alabam said it would end the funding in April. Bea the Chizuk Amuno Congregation. He ians in congratulating the greatest trice A. Fitzpatrick, A WED's chief execu also served on the board of the Jewish football coach of all time, Coach Paul tive, rallied support from many corners, in cluding conservative Republicans like Sena Children Family Services of Associat William "Bear" Bryant, and in wishing tor Paul Laxalt of Nevada, a pal of Presi ed Jewish Charities, and was a him many more victories.e dent Reagan. member of the Amicable Lodge and The SBA didn't cut off A WED's funds en Scottish Rite. tirely, though it threatened to several times In recognition of his years of out REAGAN'S UNDECLARED WAR during the year. But the agency let months ON WOMEN, CONTINUED pass without sending any money, so AWED standing service, he has received the couldn't pay suppliers or employes. Women Menorah Lodge's Man-of-the-Year HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER helped by the program chipped in $56,000; Award, the Dr. Herman Seidel Hu OF COLORADO corporations provided $122,000 more. manitarian Award, and the Alumnus Federal money covered practically the of the Year Award from the Universi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES entire AWED budget when the cutoff notice ty of Baltimore. Tuesday, November 17, 1981 came. Miss Fitzpatrick has obtained com His dedicated service has touched mitments from corporate and individual e Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, donors to cover more than half her budget the lives of many people, and his con the Small Business Administration is for the 12 months ending next Sept. 30. tributions will be truly missed. I am designed to give special assistance, in Still, AWED is asking the SBA for nearly privileged to ask my colleagues to rise the form of loans, management con $600,000 for the period and lesser amounts with me in commending an outstand sulting, guaranteed loans, Government for the next two years. "That is pretty ing public servant-Judge Sklar, we contracts, and so forth, to small busi steep," Mr. Cardenas says, though he says thank you.e nesses. no decision on the funding request has been Comes now President Reagan's new made. Miss Fitzpatrick has asked for $389,000 in VETERANS' NEWS BRIEFS SBA chief, Michael Cardenas, arguing fiscal 1983 and $184,000 in fiscal 1984. "We that "having special programs for can't just go from all federal money to none women is discriminating." overnight," she says. "I don't think we HON. JIM SANTINI If special programs are discriminato should be punished because we are helping OF NEVADA ry, why does Mr. Cardenas stay on as women."• the head of the SBA? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, November 17, 1981 The full flavor of Mr. Cardenas' dis HON. ALBERT L. SKLAR engenuous comments can be obtained e Mr. SANTINI. Mr. Speaker, I would by reading the November 16, 1981, like to share with my colleagues an ar Wall Street Journal, "Special Pro HON. CLARENCE D. LONG OF MARYLAND ticle which appeared in the October 25 grams for Women Dying Away at Rea edition of the Las Vegas Sun. This ar gan's SBA." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ticle, written by Bill Morris who is the SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR WOMEN DYING AWAY Tuesday, November 17, 1981 commander of a Disabled Veterans AT REAGAN'S SBA • Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak chapter, correctly summarizes some of ' November 17, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27865 curement method coding, inadequate or vention package, now in preparation, comes agency. An individual almost never receives nonexistent technical specification data, up for congressional debate. a permit for a handgun.e and restrictive procurement specifications. To provide a basis for comparison, we The net effect of these procurement prac asked our correspondents around the world tices is an increase in sole-source and/ or how other countries deal with gun sales. CUTS IN PUBLIC HOUSING noncompetitive contract awards. Their reports: FUNDING The military services are paying signifi Ottawa. In Canada, all guns must be regis cantly different and sometimes higher tered. To buy a handgun, you must get a prices to procure the same items. The Army five-year certificate from the local police, HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER currently has two contracts for the same who will check your mental stability and supply item, one of which is administered in general conduct and ask why you need a OF NEW YORK Philadelphia and the other in Dallas. The firearm. You take the certificate to a dealer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cost of the item is $29.42 under the Phila and pick out the gun you want. You de Tuesday, November 17, 1981 delphia contract but $55.00 under the Dallas scribe it to the police and if they approve, contract. they give you a certificate to buy it. The e Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, the The Naval Sea System Command dealer checks the permit and makes a Reagan administration's desire to end Paris. For a handgun under 35 centime Notwithstanding the administra neering, maintenance, technical, and logistic ters (about 13 3/4 inches> in length, you need tion's hook or crook accounting meth support services because of continuous reli a permit authorized by the government rep ods, cuts in the operating subsidies ance on contractors rather than DOD per resentative in the locality, who checks your and modernization programs, com sonnel. A series of negotiated contract ex reasons and record. The only people allowed bined with increases in tenant rent tensions that resulted in the Government to carry handguns are police officers or, payments, will cause very real harm. paying about $1.2 million more than the sometimes, persons who transport large Tenants who are already stretched going competitive rate for repair services sums of money. The penalty for illegal pos thin will be paying more but getting that totaled about $8.6 million. session is one to three years for the first of Neither DOD nor the military services are fense, two to five for the second. less. Housing authorities will be cognizant of the numbers of persons or costs Bonn. Prolonged examination is necessary unable to provide even their current involved in contractor-supplies technical to get a hunting license, which permits ac level of maintenance, repairs, and services or the total effect such services quisition of a rifle or shotgun. A handgun services. Those authorities which are have on the present state of readiness. In then is permitted also, to give wounded ani not yet in desperate financial condi 1980, the Logistics Management Institute, mals the coup de gra.ce. The only other tion will be so soon others will face an outside study agency, reported approxi ground for buying a handgun is special need bankruptcy and the closing of units. mately 4,500 in-house and contractor civil such as regular transport of large sums or ians provide technical assistance to U.S. being a target for terrorists. Weapons must On Sunday, November 15, the New forces in CONUS, overseas, and aboard be registered. York Times printed a story describing Navy ships. DOD was unable to obtain these Rome. Any Italian without a criminal the administration's plans concerning figures from internal management systems. record can legally buy a gun. Italians buying public, housing and the drastic impact Processes for material obligation valida weapons afe automatically registered with that these plans will have. I submit tion are inadequate, ineffective, and time the police. To carry a firearm away from that article to be printed in the consuming. Requisitions for material no home, a second permit is required. A propos RECORD and hope that my colleagues longer required have not been cancelled al to let only police officers carry guns out will take the time to read it. and, conversely, valid requisitions have been side the home was heavily defeated four erroneously cancelled-seriously delaying days after the attempted assassination of The article follows: the receipt of needed supplies by combat Pope John Paul II. NEW YORK ASSAILS REAGAN PROPOSAL ON units.e Geneva. Nearly every Swiss home has a PuBLIC HOUSING rifle or revolver, because servicemen are re SOUTH DAKOTA (3) were to be judged by the extent to MISSOURI ( 2 5) Brian Mathis, LaDonna Mathis, Patrick which they would contribute to its re Michael Bishop, W. Blumenberg, James Mathis. alization. Buckley, Donnell Buford, William Choch TENNESSEE ( 16) ran, William Davis, Carl Harvey, Police Sgt. Edna Baker, Richard Carrington, Robert In stark contrast to this tradition is Henderson, Scott Humphries, Richard Jack Flowers, Richard Johnsey, Warzell Johnson, that system of terror given birth in son, Kim Labbee, Stephen Mayhew, Darrell Booker Ligon, Reginald Phipps, William the Soviet Union which seeks to de Mccafferty, Medice Joseph, Darrell Sand Pipkin, Raymond Ross, Judy Sanders, Tony stroy the very soul of man. November ers, Alvin Smith, Rickey Starks, Gordon Snyder, Taylor Waldrun Sheryl Wilbur, 7, 64 years ago, marks the birth of the Stillie, William Strong, Charles Taylor, Tammy Woods, Unidentified male, Uniden "Great October Socialist Revolution." Larry Thomas, Robert Thomas, Glen tified male. Thus began a metamorphosis so com Tobais, Rodney Walker, Sherve Williams. TEXAS (81) plete and so sinister as to enslave an NEBRASKA ( 6) Louis Acosta, Jack Barner, John Boriskie, entire people. With 60 million inno Ronald Bisping, Gregory Combs, Rhea Harold Boy, Wardell Braziel, Arzo Buckley, cent victims in its wake, this revolu Grabow, Gina Lawrence, Bert Schriner, Jr., Jr., Alexander Bugg, Leslie Busby, Pamela Cabiness, Justo Castillo, Ruben Castillo, Jr., tion swiftly emerged as the most mor Marilyn Waege. ally abhorrent and repressive system NEVADA(2) Floyd Crump, Adline Dearman, Brian Do herty, Charles Dugger, Charles Dunn, Dr. ever to darken and stain the pages of Charlie Brown, Timothy Calton. Berlie Fallon, Jesse Fernandez, Gregory human history. NEW HAMPSHIRE (2) Flores, Gene Gamble, Jose Gutierrez, Earl Today, the Soviet Union is not Carole Perriello, Lorraine White. Hart, John Hays, Thomas Hedrick, Carroll simply a state. It is a "prison of peo NEW JERSEY ( 5) Hudson, Robert Huff, Kenneth Jackson, Deborah Jenkins, Steven Johnson, Gulshan ples," dedicated to the final eradica Robert Craig, Henry Goodson, Brenda Karmali, Estelle Kimble, Alvin King, Luis tion of the Judeo-Christian way of life Lynch, Larry Schultz, Wayne Williams. Lobos.e and the sacred values on which it NEW MEXICO (9 > rests. It is the enemy of all people and Helen Chavez, Ramon Chavez, Millard the captor of each who would be so Deck, Helen Deck, Doris Johnson, James MOBILIZING THE AIRWAVES unfortunate as to come under its sway. Johnson, Pedro Morel, Gabe Nava, Theo FREEDOM'S CHALLENGE TO It is, in short, the enemy of the eter dore Vanbastian. TOTALITARIANISM nal basis of the spirit-freedom. NEW YORK (20) Throughout the world, the Soviet Felix Aquino, Clinton Barnes, James HON. JOHN LeBOUTILLIER Union is conducting one of the most Boyson, Dr. Jacob Brickman, John Gioia, OF NEW YORK sophisticated disinformation efforts Carroll Kelley, Freddy Lackerman, Robert IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Lehan, Taylor Majors, Vincent Minichiello, the world has ever known. It makes Sharon Reese, Solomon Robinson, Peter Tuesday, November 17, 1981 use of pamphlets and reviews of Sawicki, Cruz Silva, David Supple, Bienven e Mr. LEBOUTILLIER. Mr. Speaker, cinema, theater, and radio, of schools ito Taberas, David Werner, unidentified America, alone among all nations of and universities. Little by little, it pen male, unidentified male, unidentified male. the world, has established freedom as etrates all classes of people and even NORTH CAROLINA ( 14) a fundamental right bequeathed to all reaches the more intellectually ad Jesse Andrews, Frank Daniel, James Day, men by their Creator. "We hold these vanced of the community with the Jr., Ralph Felder, Michael Finazzo, Tyler truths to be self-evident, that all men result that few are aware of the poison Frndak, Edward Harkless, Leroy Hemphill, are created equal, that they are en which increasingly pervades their Scott Humphries, Maxcey Lights, Jay Lock minds and hearts. Aware of the uni hart, Nathaniel McClarin, Walter Puter dowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these versal desire for peace, Soviet propa baugh, Lewis Williams. gandists pretend to be the most zeal OHIO (22) are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Even before independ ous promoters in the movement for Mark Bennett, George Billias, Scott wc;>rld peace. At the same time, they Brady, Teresa Coonrod, Rhonda Dickson, ence, freedom was on John Adams' Yvonne Foster, Anthony Griffith, Freddy mind when he wrote in 1765 that the stir up class warfare in small villages Miller, Robert Mullikin, Richard Obliski, settlement of America constituted and towns throughout the underdevel Michael Pfeiffer, Wayne Rader, Crystal "the opening of a grand design in oped world, causing suffering and Riser, Kevin Robinson, Peter Sawicki, Providence for illumination of the ig death. Knowing their system offers no Ralph Steinle, Robert Stout, James Turner, norant, and the emancipation of the internal guarantee of peace, they have Ronald Wehrs, Calvin White, Daniel Wielo slavish part of mankind all over the recourse to unlimited armaments. gorski, Unidentified male. Earth." Under various deceptive names, they OKLAHOMA ( 6) The very essence of the American establish organizations and periodicals Mr. Brewer, Sanford Dudley, Ty Hiatt, Revolution was the founding of free with the sole purpose of carrying their George Marzett, Andres Salazar, Joan dom and the establishment of lasting ideals into quarters otherwise inacces Wohl. institutions to guarantee the rights of sible. They worm their way into free OREGON (1) freedom and citizenship. The depth of dom-1.oving organizations and, without Melvin Rayner. this commitment lies in the fact that, recedmg from their subversive princi PENNSYLVANIA (34) if a government becomes destructive ples, they invite free men to collabo Carolyn Adams, Richard Breves, Joseph of freedom, one of the rights of the rate with them in the realm of so Costa, Linde Cousins, Kelley Davis, Curtis people is to abolish such a government called humanitarianism and charity. Gormley, Georgie Gormley, Renee Green and replace it with a new government America's most powerful weapon wood, Bailey Groseclose, Lucille Groseclose, against the Soviet system is the power Paul Hamilton, Andrew Harcun, James most likely to ·effect the safety and Hart, Richard Humphreville, Allen John happiness of the people. of the truth. With an improved Voice son, Helen Johnson, Cynthia Jones, Kevin Thus, freedom was not viewed as a of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Lewis, Carl Long, Mary Lou Marks, Dorothy right pertaining to Americans alone, a Liberty, and most recently, Radio 27870 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 17, 1981 Marti, America would have the means below. Parts II and III will follow on Radio Liberty began broadcasts to the to transmit the truth, unhindered by consecutive days: Soviet Union as Radio Liberation in Janu totalitarian instruments of f e['.r and MOBILIZING THE AIRWAVES: THE CHALLENGE ary 1951. It was then a part of the "Ameri TO THE VOICE OF AMERICA AND RFE/RL can Committee for Freedom of the Peoples repression, to all the enslaved peoples of the U.S.S.R., Incorporated." The Com of the world. The remarkable success INTRODUCTION mittee's main activity was sponsoring short Radio Free Europe has had in unify For tens of millions of East Europeans, wave broadcasts by recent emigres. Like ing the Polish people serves as a vivid the most reliable information about their Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberation's reminder of this power. own country comes from outside. Each day policy evolved from broadcasting quasi-war The power of truth could, over time, they listen-often secretly-to the radio time propaganda to providing a "home serv create "Polands" throughout the broadcasts beamed from the West. No ice" station that filled the Soviet people's Soviet orbit, including the Soviet sources of information are more important need for information. This gradual shift in to them, or to U.S. interests, than the Voice emphasis led to changing the name of the Union itself. It could unravel the of America and Radio Free Europe/ Soviet Empire without a single Ameri station to Radio Liberty in 1963. Radio Liberty . The radios broad Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty are can boy going off to war. cast around the clock in some forty lan unique in international broadcasting. They In an interview which I recently con guages and their signals reach significant operate in much the same manner as the ducted with Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, he portions of the western Soviet Union and its broadcast media in the United States, pro complained that Voice of America European satellites. Without these pro viding international news and commentary; broadcasts were deliberately toned grams, Poles certainly would not have been informed of the momentum of the Solidari but they supplement this by reporting and down so as not to be damaging to the ty workers' movement, nor would other East interpreting events in a manner understand Soviet leadership. He said: Europeans have known of its existence. able to Soviet or East European citizens. Your radio broadcasting does not provide It is clearly in the national interest of the Correcting misinformation or expanding on the need spiritual help for people. This is United States that these stations continue the partial information given by the official one aspect. The other one-you sell your to operate. As the peoples under Communist Communist media are also integral parts of selves on a lower level than you really are. domination are informed about the realities their programming. You-you do harm to yourselves. Thirdly, of their governments and the nations of the When covert funding of Radio Free you limit even very ordinary information on West, they are less likely to be misled by Europe and Radio Liberty by the Central current events. In foreign policy, you deal Party propaganda. The Soviet Union pays Intelligence Agency was revealed in 1970, with sources very gingerly, and in a very cir tribute to the power of these programs in its President Nixon was pressured to shift ap cumspect manner, like Afghanistan. own way by spending a tremendous sum to propriation authority to Congress. In 1972, In Frankfurt, Germany there is an emigre jam them. he established the "Presidential Study Com publication ("Pasev"> being published, and Yet the radios are in danger at home. mission on International Broadcasting" to it-it teems with very valuable data on Af During the detente era, they were seriously examine whether Radio Liberty and Radio ghanistan, because its staff members go to underfunded and needed technical improve Free Europe should continue to receive U.S. Afghanistan and meet with Afghanistan ments were not made. In view of the poten funding and support, and what form such partisans. tial these stations hold for American securi funding should take, or whether the sta But the Voice of America will never lower ty policy, it is important that this trend be tions should be shut down. The Chairman itself and use their sources. In fact, instead reversed. This study examines the current of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of giving us news items, they help us toward status of the radios and how to increase J. William Fulbright, led the attack against ignorance-toward disinformation-and this their effectiveness. the radios and branded them "relics of the is one of the basic mistakes and shortcom THE DECLINE OF THE BROADCASTS Cold War." ings of the Voice of America, because they The last ten years have taken their toll on The Commission, chaired by Milton S. Ei are affliliated with the State Department, senhower, published a report to the Presi and they have acted in a way, as to never RFE/RL and VOA. With the pursuit of "de tente" and the proclamation that America dent in 1973 titled "The Right To Know" In violate State Department policy. Therefore which it concluded that: they give us stones instead of bread. must get over its "inordinate fear of commu nism," the radios have been seriously uder "* • • the Commission feels that the use In a study entitled "Mobilizing the funded and allowed to lapse into technical of United States Government funds for Airwaves: The Challenge to the Voice obsolescence. Efforts to make VOA pro Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty of America and RFE/RL" published gramming as bland as possible have eroded should be put into proper perspective. It is by the Heritage Foundation, the cur employee morale. While the Voice of Amer our conviction that the special contributions rent status of the radios and how to ica, an agency of the U.S. government, and of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty to increase their effectiveness is exam Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a private a better understanding by citizens of the ined. The author, Mr. Paul Olkovsky, corporation funded by the U.S. government, Iron Curtain countries of what is happening have differing missions, the inherent diffi in the wider world and their own countries research assistant for the Heritage culties of broadcasting to the Eastern Bloc have an indirect but very appreciable long Foundation, correctly underscores the are similar. term effect. Hence, the cost of the radios fact that the last 10 years have taken Increased funding is urgently needed to cannot be considered separately from our their toll on RFE/RL and VOA. With modernize equipment, particularly to nation's total cost of working for peace and the pursuit of detente and the procla combat jamming by the Soviets and to deterring agression. Over a long period of mation that America must get over its extend the broadcast signal to regions not years, the contribution can obviate military inordinate fear of communism, the now reached. Programming must be more expenditures many times greater than the radios have been seriously underfund flexible to adapt to audience circumstances broadcasting costs. Contrariwise, elimina ed and allowed to lapse into technical and interest. Staffs need to be increased, tion of the radios could lead over time to in while security must be provided when per creased military costs."• obsolescence. sonnel occupy vulnerable posts abroad. Moreover, Mr. Olkovsky points out The Eisenhower Commission suggested that well-deserved criticism has been HISTORY AND CURRENT OPERATIONS OF RFE/RL that a "Board for International Broadcast Until 1976, Radio Free Europe/Radio Lib ing" be created. In 1973, Public Law 93-129, directed particularly against the Voice erty functioned as two completely separate later amended after the merger of the two of America because of the nature and organizations. Radio Free Europe began radios in 1976, established the Board for quality of its programing. Quoting broadcasting in July 1950 in the wake of the International Broadcasting "to review and Ludmilla Alexeyeva, a noted Soviet Berlin Blockade and the Communist seizure evaluate the mission and operation of RFE/ dissident who was a VOA listener for of power in Czechoslovakia. After the Hun RL, Incorporated, and to assess the quality, over 20 years, Mr. Olkovsky states: garian Revolution in 1956, accusations arose effectiveness and professional integrity of "VOA's broadcasts are frequently that inflammatory broadcasts by Radio its broadcasting within the context of the boring ... politically acute topics, Free Europe might have misled the people broad foreign policy objectives of the of Hungary into believing that the United United States." 2 The BIB is composed of which other radio stations are discuss States was ready to intervene on their ing, are avoided. Very often facts, un behalf. Although these allegations were un pleasant for the Soviet authorities, are 1 "The Right to Know," report of the Presidential founded, Radio Free Europe modified its Study Commission on International Broadcasting, either hushed up or smoothed over." broadcasting policy; it became a surrogate 1973, p. 56. I commend this study to my col free press for the countries of Eastern 2 The Board for International Broadcasting, sixth leagues, part I of which is printed Europe. annual report, 1980, p. 1. November 17, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27871 five voting members appointed by the Presi AMENDMENT good with voters at home and with the eli dent to fixed three-year terms and two ex Amendment to H.R. 4995, as reported of ents who hire them to influence govern officio members (the chief operating execu fered by Mr. WEBER of Ohio: Strike out sec ment decisions. Import restrictions on tive of the radios and the Chairman of the tion 778. Redesignate succeeding sections casein would not measurably improve any Board of RFE/RL>. It handles the funding accordingly .e dairy farmer's standard of living, but the for RFE/RL and acts as a coordinator be lobbyists and some members of Congress tween the radio and the executive and legis have been working for such restrictions as lative branches of the U.S. government. "CASEIN LOBBY" though they were crucial to the farmers' Today, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, survival. Incorporated, broadcasts over 1,017 hours Among casein's many unusual qualities is weekly in six major languages of Eastern HON. BILL FRENZEL this: None of the stuff is "Made in U.S.A.'' Europe and fifteen languages of the Soviet OF MINNESOTA This country is by far the world's leading Union. Most of RFE/RL program oper IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES producer of milk, but the government's ations are based in Munich, West Germany, Tuesday, November 17, 1981 dairy price support program does not cover but transmitters broadcast from Spain and casein. Therefore producers would lose Portugal; and correspondents report from e Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, on No money if they manufactured casein, a prod several capitals of Europe. RFE/RL has stu vember 8 the Washington Post printed uct that comes from the same milk curds dios, administrative offices, and program an excellent article regarding lobbying that go into cottage cheese. So all the casein ming facilities in New York City and Wash efforts in behalf of legislation to curb used here must be imported. ington, D.C. Its staff numbers 1,662 world casein imports. The article very aptly That's the rub. America is a free-trading wide. Its FY 1981 revised budget is points out the folly of pursuing a pro nation in principle, but not in agricultural $97,495,000 at the exchange rate of 1.74 products. Few agricultural commodities and Deutsche Marks to the dollar, including tectionist avenue which would likely no dairy products can come into this coun $3,000,000 in emergency funds should the have no positive impact on the dairy try freely, but casein is officially categorized exchange rate fall below DM 1. 7 4. farmers it is meant to assist. as an industrial, not an agricultural, prod Besides broadcasts to the Eastern Bloc, There appears to be no indication uct. There is no limit and no duty on its im RFE/RL operates the largest private re whatsoever that lower casein imports portation, and it comes in at a cheap price search facility in the West concentrating on would encourage casein users to use compared to other forms of milk protein. Soviet, East European and communist af nonfat dry milk as a substitute. More On the basis of these facts, the American fairs. RFE/RL estimates that it reaches an dairy industry, and particularly its repre audience of 32 million East Europeans and likely, rather than pay premium prices sentatives in Washington, have decided to 14 million Soviet citizens. Constant Soviet for this sort of substitute, users would make a big-yea, an enormous-deal out of jamming prevents millions more from re turn to less costly alternatives. casein. ceiving the broadcasts.• Further, limiting casein imports The principal figure in this effort is Pat would have a disastrous effect on our rick B. Healy, secretary of the National efforts to encourage the European Milk Producers Federation. Healy contends AMENDMENT FOR DEFENSE Community to make some less protec that imports of casein "must be controlled" APPROPRIATIONS tionist changes in its own central agri to preserve markets for U.S. dairy products culture policy. It is petty hard to con and to reduce the cost of the government's dairy price support program. Healy has HON. ED WEBER vince our trading partners to lower been fighting for restrictions on casein im OF OHIO their trade barriers when groups like ports since Earl Butz was secretary of agri IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES these are trying to raise ours. I urge culture. Tuesday, November 17, 1981 my colleagues to examine the article The dairy industry's friends in Congress as an example of an interesting, un have been echoing Healy's certainty about e Mr. WEBER of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I usual, and apparently painless, lobby the ill effects of dairy imports as if they had am submitting for the CONGRESSIONAL ing effort. read the message on a new stone tablet, RECORD an amendment I intend to "Look at casein," shouted Rep. James M. offer to H.R. 4995, the defense appro How A LOBBY MILKS A NONISSUE TO STAY Jeffords CR-Vt.) in a recent House debate, ALIVE "If we just eliminate casein imports, we do priations bill. Section 778 of this bill 1980, consumption of real cheese in this A 50 percent import duty would result in country grew from 2.3 billion to 4 billion mission by the National Heart, Lung, "no increase in the use of domestically pro pounds. This is the only segment of the and Blood Institute that; a drug called duced skim milk solids, the report said. dairy industry that is booming. propranolol-which would have saved Either move. it said, would add tens of mil The dairy lobby and its friends in Con tens of thousands of American lives lions of dollars to the retail costs of prod gress seem to realize that they cannot make had it been available-has been and is ucts based on casein. too strong a case for a significant cut in still being banned for no reason by the Despite the real conclusion that no legal casein imports, so they have recently taken FDA. The effectiveness of propranolol quota or duty could significantly affect the a different tack. consumption of powdered milk, the lobby Originally the industry and its supporters has been demonstrated beyond any preferred this sentence in the report: sought a "zero quota" in casein imports, as doubt, it has been in use in Europe for "If no casein had been imported in 1980, Healy noted in a recent interview. ." lion pounds a year, the average level of im Health Resources Administration tells Kenneth Clayton, author of the report, ports over the past five years. The Senate hospitals what equipment and services admitted in an interview that this hypothet- actually endorsed this proposal in a non- they may offer, thus denying local November 17, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27873 physicians and administrators the In the last two years, the number of Brit tee, and several of these activities are set chance to serve the communities they ons covered by one of the 12 private health forth as follows: insurance plans rose by one-third, to three Authored or co-authored numerous texts know. million people, or 6 percent of the popula in chemistry, including "Principles of Medical research has also been co tion. The rate of growth in the number of Chemistry," "Reference Book of Inorganic opted by Government, and the effect private hospital beds has accelerated to 20 Chemistry," "Regular and Related Solu has been a narrowing of the scope of percent a year. Public hospital beds, mean tions," and "Introduction to Molecular Ki the research. Increasing Federal as while, have fallen by 15 percent over the netic Theory." sumption of medical costs has allowed last decade. Later this year, the first of a Authored or co-authored about 300 scien prices to skyrocket, bringing yet an chain of private family doctors' offices is tific papers. The latest, "A History of other call for Federal cost contain scheduled to open. Theory of Solutions," will appear in Annual Much of this growth in private care has Review of Physical Chemistry on or about ment. resulted from doubts about the ability of his lOOth birthday. Often we physicians fall prey to the the National Health Service to fulfill its Was elected to the National Academy of kind of thinking that perpetuates mission. At the moment, recent improve Sciences in 1929. these problems: Namely, that we can ment notwithstanding, 630,000 people are Served as president of the American somehow get Federal money while on waiting lists to undergo surgery, which Chemical Society in 1955, and chairman of avoiding Federal interference. But the can mean delays of two years for nonemer its California Section in 1917. truth is that Federal financing inevita gency operations. Served as president of the Sierra Club bly spawns stifling Government con HEALTH BECOMES POLITICAL ISSUE <1937-1940). trol. The growth in private care and the con Was manager of the U.S. Olympic ski The Wall Street Journal, in a recent tinuing uncertainties about the quality of team in 1936. editorial, suggested that perhaps we National Health Service care has made Has co-authored books on ski mountain health a hot political issue in Britain. For eering, back-packing, and camp cooking. do not need an FDA. I would go fur Was a leader in the successful campaign ther. I would say we need to get Gov the last decade, Government restrictions on the development of private care have wa to establish Kings Canyon National Park in ernment out of medicine completely. vered as political power has shifted. Under California's High Sierra. Missed opportunities, needless suf Barbara Castle, Health Secretary under Is well known for his discovery of the fering, and loss of life are the tragic Prime Minister Harold Wilson, private care oxygen-helium mixture to minimize "bends" but inevitable consequences of Gov was threatened. Now all that has changed. in deep-sea divers, his having taught fresh ernment meddling in medicine. The "The N.H.S. would find it extremely diffi man chemistry to 40,000 students, his excel truth is plain: The Government has cult to have to cope with the additional load lent photography, his editorships of jour done nothing whatsoever to improve if the private sector no longer existed," said nals, contributions to methods of science Patrick Jenkin, the current Health Secre and general education. the quality of medical care in the Awards, including the Remsen Award, United States. In fact, the opposite is tary. "It is quite wrong to see private hospi tals and the N.H.S. as somehow vying with 1949; King's Medal, Government Great Brit true; Government-mandated obstruc each other." ain; Gibbs Medal; Proctor Prize; Madison tionist policies have led only to suffer For its part, the Labor Party has opposed Marshall Award; William H. Nichols Medal; ing and death. any move toward private health care. Norris Award, and Priestly Gold Medal, The sorry state of national health Labor Party activists notwithstanding, pri American Chemical Society; S. C. Lind care in Britain-an article about which vate health enjoys wide support in Britain, Award, American Chemical Society, 1972. I am reprinting below-serves as a according to a variety of public-opinion Resolved, That the clerk take the appro clear and frightening guide of where polls. A recent survey found that 60 percent priate steps to print this resolution and to of Britons favored private medicine and 20 transmit a copy of it to Joel Henry Hilder our own future may lie. Medical care is brand. far too important to be left to the con percent opposed it. At least one major trade union has won private health insurance as DoNFuQUA, trol of Government planners and regu part of its workers' benefits package. Chairman, Committee on Science and lators, no matter how well intentioned. A variety of studies have failed to provide Technology, U.S. House of Representa The American people are being sav any substantial evidence that the British tives.• aged by Government blundering in health service, which has been accompanied medicine; lives are being destroyed. by a vast bureaucracy, provides better care We simply must put a stop to this in than the American nonnationalized THE INSANITY DEFENSE defensible outrage. system.e The article follows: HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK [From the New York Times, Nov. 2, 1981] RESOLUTION IN RESPECT OF OF OHIO PRIVATE HEALTH CARE MAKING NEW INROADS JOEL HENRY HILDEBRAND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN BRITAIN Tuesday, November 17, 1981 DON FUQUA e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, Clinic, on Weymouth Street, is privately OF FLORIDA many observers of the judicial process owned. So are the Wellington Private Hospi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have become increasingly frustrated as tal near Regents Park and, over in Chelsea, Tuesday, November 17, 1981 a result of the frequent use of the so the Charter Clinic and the Cromwell Hospi called insanity defense in criminal tal. •Mr. FUQUA. Mr. Speaker, in recog cases. Violent crime has become a All told, a rash of recent openings has left nition of the achievements of the dis major problem in the United States London boasting more than a dozen private tinguished chemist, Joel Henry Hilde and a number of legal scholars, public ly-owned hospitals, institutions that in tum brand, and as a tribute to him on his are just one segment of a system of private officials and not surprisingly, victims lOOth birthday, the Committee on Sci of crime, have begun to raise serious health care that is burgeoning across Brit ence and Technology has prepared the ain. questions about the routine release of Nearly 35 years after Britain's National following resolution, which I am admitted felons following a period of Health Service was established and became pleased to share with the Members: alleged psychiatric rehabilitation. a model for the world, the idea of identical [Committee on Science and Technology, Carol Gallo, a Washington, D.C., health care provided for everyone free of U.S. House of Representatives] freelance writer, has written an excel charge by the Government is being increas Resolution in respect of Joel Henry Hilde lent article concerning the insanity de ingly challenged by the development of par brand, November 16, 1981. allel private services. fense. This scholarly piece first ap Resolved, That the Committee wishes to peared in the September 26 issue of TWO-TIER HEALTH SYSTEM pay its tribute to the accomplishments of "Their perception is that the National the distinguished chemist, Joel Henry Hil the national conservative weekly, Health Service is falling down," said Hugh debrand, on his lOOth birthday. Human Events, and more recently was Elwell, a health-care consultant, referring Resolved, That the many and multifacet excerpted in the October 1981 edition to the users of private care. ed contributions are noted by the Commit- of Criminal Justice Report, a publica- ~7874 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 17, 1981 tion of the National Association of At not guilty, because he did not intend to kill. tient, essentially spiritual being who makes torneys General. Thus he would be distinguished from a man choices in life? Or is he a material object, Miss Gallo presents a reasoned anal who saw his enemy on the street and delib acted upon by genes and past experiences, erately ran him down. whose choices are predetermined-an object ysis of this issue based on the legal Criminal intent (mens rea) is also impor that can neither be praised nor blamed? history of the insanity defense. I tant in distinguishing the severity of the The evolution of the definitions of insanity would commend it to my colleagues crime. For example, two men have a sudden, reflect the latter, determinist approach. for reading. heated brawl and during its course one is The M'Naughten rule, adopted in England The Gallo article follows: knocked down and killed. If brought to trial, some 43 years after the Hadfield case, used NATIQNAL ASSOCIATION OF ATTORNEYS and the survivor showed he did not kill with a "cognitive" test for insanity. In order for GENERAL-CRIMINAL JUSTICE REPORT malice aforethought, he would be found the accused to be found insane under THE INSANITY DEFENSE guilty of manslaughter. M'Naughten, "*••it must be clearly proved TED WEISS went on to question whether psychiatry can are counter-survival to a person himself, his determine a defendant's intent at the time family, his country, or to the many un OF NEW YORK the crime was committed, and concluded it known individuals we commonly called IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES could not. "mankind." Tuesday, November 17, 1981 "Whether or not there should be criminal Phonying up scientific names to describe responsibility is essentially a moral issue. It morally and ethically aberrant behavior is • Mr. WEISS. Mr. Speaker, last week is just, in light of the ethics and standards anathema to. justice. Questions of right and the Society of Professional Journal of our society, to hold a person who is wrong are not irrelevant, they are para ists, Sigma Delta Chi, held its national insane accountable for what he has done." mount. They are not unknowable and com convention in Washington. One of the The Court quoted University of Wisconsin plex; they can be reasoned and based on issues hotly discussed at that conven Professor of Criminal Law Frank A. Rem common sense. Our laws should reflect ington: "In general, it is not at all apparent these simple truths.• tion was the Freedom of Information that psychiatrists know any more than does Act and the legislative proposals that the layman about whether the defendant are now before the Congress. Kather had an intent to kill when the act causing POLISH INDEPENDENCE DAY ine Graham, chairman of the Wash death was committed." ington Post Co., and chairman and Even the hopes that psychiatry would HON. JAMES L. NELLIGAN president of the American Newspaper help law enforcement officials spot habitual OF PENNSYLVANIA Publishers Association, spoke to the murderers have been dashed. Targeted by convention on the importance of the numerous malpractice lawsuits, the Ameri IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES can Psychiatric Association has been forced Tuesday, November 17, 1981 Freedom of Information Act to a free to argue the case for psychiatric incompe press. tence in the courts, and has done so most e Mr. NELLIGAN. Mr. Speaker, No I include Katherine Graham's re convincingly. In Tarassoff v. the Regents of vember 11 marked the 63d anniversary marks to the Society of Professional the University of California, via an amicus of Polish Independence. Since the in Journalists in the RECORD: curiae brief, the APA, citing massive profes vasion by Sweden in 1655, Poland and Good morning, and welcome to Washing sional literature, disclaimed any special psy its people have been invaded, occu ton. We are pleased that the annual meet chiatric ability to protect society from po pied, suppressed, and dominated, with ing of the Society of Professional Journal tentially harmful citizens. In an even more the exception of the period between ists, Sigma Delta Chi, is being held in our compelling brief argued before the Supreme World War I and World War II. nation's capital this year. Court
