15794 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1979 ( 4) In section 1611 (b) , proposing an ducted !rom the amount that would other members will not be nominated or selected amendment to subsection (9) of section wise be appropriated by the Congress under by the governing body.". 212(d) o! the Immigration and Nationality this subsection !or the first fiscal year begin -Page 27, strike out line 24 and all that fol Act, strike out "(E), (F), or (G)" and insert ning after the report of the Secretary of the lows through line 7 on page 28 and insert "(E)"; and Treasury is received pursuant to this para in lieu thereof the following: (5) strike out subsection (c) o! the graph. (b) The second sentence of section 1&12 amendment, and renumber subsection (d) (b) (3) (A) is amended to read as follows: accordingly. H.R. 3917 "Any other health systems age~cy shall have -Page 187, strike out line 19 and all that By Mr. LIVINGSTON: a governing body composed, in accordance follows through page 189, line 20, and on -Page 21, add after line 3 the following: with subparagraph (C), of not less than ten page 192, lines 18 and 19, strike out "1601, SEc. 108. (a) Section 1512(b) (1) (A) is members and not more than thirty mem and 1611" and insert "and 1601". amended to read as follows: bers.". ByMr.RUDD: "(A) a public agency which is established -Page 148, line 1, insert "(1)" after "(c)". in that portion of the State in which the H.R. 4440 Page 148, after line 5, insert the following: largest part o! the population of the health By Mr. DINGELL: (2) No funds may be appropriated to or service area resides and which agency only -Page 33, after line 21, insert the following !or the use of the Panama Canal Commission e .1ga.ges in health planning and development new section: !or any fiscal year in excess o! the amount of functions;". SEc. 317. (a) None of the funds provided revenues deposited in the Panama Canal -Page 26, line 18, strike out "Each" and in in this Act may be used to implement or en Commission Fund during such fiscal year, as sert in lieu thereof "Except as otherwise force any standard or regulation which re such amount is estimated by the Secretary provided in this subparagraph, each". quires any motor vehicle to be equipped with o! Defense and certified by the Comptroller Page 27, insert before the close quotation an occupant restraint system (other than a General at the time the budget request for marks in line 4 the following: "In the case belt system). the Commission !or such fiscal year is sub of a health systems agency which is a public (b) Nothing in this section shall be con mitted to the Congress. Not later than thirty agency described in subsection (b) (1) (A), strued to prohibit the use of funds provided days after the end of such fl..so:il year, the 25 percent of the members of the governing in this Act for any research and development· S.:cretary of the Treasury shall report to the body shall be selected by the Governor of the activity relating to occupant restraint sys Congress the actual amount of revenues de State in which the agency is established, 30 tems. posited in the Panama Canal Commission percent of the members shall be selected by (c) For purposes of this section, the terms Fund during such fiscal year. Any amount o! t:Pe chief governing authority of each polit "belt system" and "occupant restraint sys funds appropriated to or !or the use of the ical subdivision within the health service tem" have the meanings given them in sec Paname. Canal Commission for such fiscal area for which the agency is designated. The tion 125 (f) of the National Trame and Motor year in excess o! the actual amount of reve remaining members shall be selected under Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 (15 u.s.c. 1410b nues so deposited in the Fund shall be de- a process which assures that such remaining (f)).
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS WAKING UP TO THE HORRORS "People are used as human mine detec your country for more than a century con OF COMMUNISM tors, clearing live mine fields with their tinue today under the present regime. Thousands o! innocent Vietnamese, many hands and feet." whose only "crimes" are those of conscience, HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK That is the reality of communism. Op nre being arrested, detained and tortured in pression, slave labor, executions for po prisons and re-education camps. Instead of OF OHIO litical "crimes." All Communist regimes bringing hope and reconciliation to war-torn IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are alike in this regard. The "moderate" Vietnam, your government has created a Tuesday, June 19, 1979 Communist government of '!'ito's Yugo painful nightmare that overshadows signif icant progress achieved in many areas of e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, I call slavia is different only in degree from the Vietnamese society. my colleagues attention to the ad on "extremist" Communist government of Your government stated in February 1977 page A17 of the Washington Post for Pol Pot's Cambodia. In this context that some 50,000 people were then incarcer May 30, 1979. Joan Baez led a whole "moderate" and "extremist" and differ ated. Journalists, independent observers list of people, most of them entertainers ences in the quantity not the quality of and refugees estimate the current number the repression. of political prisoners between 150,000 and and others of the "chic" crowd in an 200,000. open letter to the Communist regime While millions of Cambodians were Whatever the exact figure, the facts form in Vietnam condemning their human murdered by Pol Pot, the Tito dictator a grim mosaic. Verifed reports have appeared rights violations. ship jails dissidents and uses its secret in the press around the globe, from Le Monde Most of the signers were active in police to murder political opponents out and The Observer to the Washington Post the anti-Vietnam war movement. I side of Yugoslavia. The slave labor camps and Newsweek. We have heard the horror remember in June of 1972 when Miss of the Soviet Union, Red China, and stories !rom the people of Vietnam-from Cuba make those regimes less oppres workers and peasants, Catholic nuns and Baez led a group of 2,000 women who Buddhist priests, from the boat people, the marched around the capitol to protest sive than Pol Pot and more repressive artists and professionals and those who American involvement in Vietnam. She than Tito-at this time. The apparatus fought alongside the NLF. even withheld part of her income tax of mass murder remains in place in every The jails are overflowing with thousands during the 1960's, because the money Communist state. upon thousands o! "detainees." was used for military purposes. In 1967, It is late for Miss Baez and her friends People disappear and never return. to wake up. Too late for the Vietnamese People are shipped to re-education centers, she filed suit seeking the refund money fed a starvation diet of st:lle rice, forced to seized from her bank account by ms. victim'>. But, perhaps it i 3 not too late squat bound wrist to ankle, suffocated in Staughton Lind, another signer of the for other potential victims. The next "connex" boxes. Post letter, had also withheld part of his time the radical chic opinion molders People are used as human mine detectors, taxes. assure us of Communist benevolence we clearing live mine fields with their hands and During the heyday of the anti-Viet should remind them of the late awaken feet. nam demonstrations we were continually For many, life is hell and death is prayed ing of Joan Baez and her fellow travelers. for. assured that the North Vietnamese The text of the open letter and list of Many victims are men, women and chil Communists would not persecute the the signers follow: dren who supported and fought for the South Vietnamese after conquest. Now WAXING UP TO THE HORRORS OF COMMUNISM causes o! reunification and self-determina Miss Baez and company admit that tion; those who as pacifists, members of re Four years ago, the United States ended its ligious groups, or on moral and philosophic "thousands of innocent Vietnamese, 20-year presence in Vietnam. An snniversary many whose only crimes are those of grounds opposed the authoritarian policies that should be cause for celebration is, in of Thieu and Ky; artists -and intellectuals conscience, are being arrested, detained, stead, a time for grieving. whose commitment to creative expression is and tortured in prisons and reeducation With tragic irony, the cruelty, violence, and anathema to the totalitarian policies of your camps." According to the open letter, oppression practiced by foreign powers in government.
• This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or inserti ons which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. June 20, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15795 Requests ·by Amnesty International and John T. Hitchcock, Professor of Anthro views of placement are inadequate or others for impartial investigations of prison pology, University of Wisconsin. nonexistent. conditions remain unanswered. Families who Art Hoppe, Journalist. A substantial number of children inquire about husbands, wives, daughters or Dr. Irving L. Horowitz, President, Transac maintained at taxpayer expense in foster sons are ignored. tion/Society. Henry S. Kaplan, M.D., Stanford Medical care, the report concludes, could and It was an abiding commitment to funda should be adopted. Even were these chil mental principles of human dignity, free Center. dom and self-determination that motivated R. Scott Kennedy, Resource Center for dren adopted with a subsidy, a number of so many Americans to oppose the govern Nonviolence. State experiments have found, the over ment of South Vietnam and our country's Roy C. Kepler, Member, War Resisters all cost to the public is far less than long participation in the war. It is that same com League. term foster care. mitment that compels us to speak out against Seymour S. Kety, Professor of Psychiatry, There is a certain dizzying sense of your brutal disregard of human right&. As Harvard University. deja vu in reviewing this illinois report. in the 60s, we raise our voices now so that Peter Klotz-Cha.mberlin, Resource Center for Nonviolence. Nearly 4 years ago, when I first opened your people may live. the investigation into problems in the We appeal to you to end the imprison Jeri Laber, Executive Director, Fund for ment and torture-to allow an international Free Expression. foster care system in the United States, team of neutral observers to inspect your Norman Lear, Producer. a good deal of my education came from prisons and re-education centers. Ph111p R. Lee, M.D., Profeasor of Social several reports and lawsuits in the State Medicine, University of Calif. at San Fran of illinois. Since that time, the problems We urge you to follow the tenets of the cisco. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Alice Lynd. which were first identified have been the International Covenant for Civil and Sta.ughton Lynd. associated with the foster care programs Polltical Rights which, as a member of the Bradford Lyttle. in every State which has been studied. United Nati?ns, your country is pledged to Frank Mankiewicz. And there have been so many studies! uphold. Bob T. Martin, News Editor, The Country In this year alone, the Children's Defense We urge you to reaffi.rm your stated com Ala.ma.nac. Fund, the National Commission on Chil mitment to the basic principles of freedom James A. Michener, Writer. dren in Need of Parents, and several and human dignity ... to establish real Marc Miller, Director, Fund for Free Ex- peace in Vietnam. other independent organizations have pression. issued studies of the foster care system COSIGNERS Edward A. Morris, Attorney. Mike Nichols, Producer. which have come to virtually identical Ansel Adams, Photographer. conclusions and policy recommendations. Edward Asner, Actor. Peter Orlovsky, Poet. Albert V. Baez, Ph. D. Michael R. Peevey, President, California. In recent years, the list of studies with Joan C. Baez. Council for Environmental and Economic similar results is exhaustive: the Gen PeterS. Beagle, Writer. Balance. eral Accounting Office, the Department Hugo Adam Bedau, Professor of Philosophy, Geoffrey Cobb Ryan, Director, Fund for of HEW, the New York City Comptrol Tufts University. Free Expression. Ginetta Sagan, Director, Huma.nitas/ ler's Office, the Regional Institute of So Barton J. Bernstein, Professor of History, cial Welfare Research, and many more Stanford University. I.H.R.C. Daniel Berrigan. Leonard Sagan, M.D., F.A.C.P. have all studied this system and found it Robert Bly, Poet. Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist. universally wanting. Ernest L. Scott, Publisher. Building on these studies, several Ken Botto, Artist/Photographer. Jack Sheinkma.n, secretary-Treasurer, Kay Boyle, Professor, San Francisco State States have begun to reform their State University. A.C.T.W.U. laws along the lines unanimously en Jerome J. Shesta.ck, President, Interns.~ John Brodie, Broadcaster. tiona.l League for Human Rights. dorsed: Better preventive and reunifica Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Former Governor Gary Snyder, Poet. tion services; improved accountability of California. I. F. Stone. and procedural requirements; mandates Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, Former u.s. Rose Styron, Writer. for appropriate placement; and subsi Congresswoman. William Styron, Writer. Henry B. Burnett, Jr., EdLtorial Chairman, dized adoption for children who would Lily Tomlin, Actress/Comedienne. otherwise remain indefinitely in foster Politics Today. Peter H. Voulkos, Professor of Art, Uni- Herb Caen, Journalist. versity of Calif. at Berkeley. care. David Carliner, General Counsel, American Grace Kennan Warnecke, Photographer. In almost all cases, these alternatives Civil Liberties Union. Lina Wertmuller, Film Director. have not only worked, but have saved Cesar Chavez. Union Leader. Morris L. West, Writer. significant amounts of money over the Richard Pierre Claude, Editor, Universal Dr. Jerome P. Wiesner, President, Maasa.- traditional system. Little wonder that Human Rights. chusetts Institute of Technology. child welfare professionals, lawyers, Bert Coffey, Immediate Past Chairman, Jamie Wyeth, Artist. California Democrati~ Party. children's advocates, program adminis Peter Yarrow, Entertainer. trators, foster parents, and judicial orga Norman Cousins. Charles W. Yost, Special Advisor, Aspen E. L. Doctorow, Writer. Institute. nizations, and many, many others have Benjamin Dreyfus, Attorney. (Titles and/or amliations listed for identi joined forces in demanding that the Ecumenical Peace Institute Staff. fication purposes only. No organizational Congress reform the antiquated, waste Mimi Farina, Entertainer, Executive Direc endorsements implied.) e ful, expensive, and destructive Federal tor, Bread and Roses. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet. foster care program. Douglas A. Fraser, International President, There is legislation to do this. H.R. United Auto Workers Union. 3434 will soon be before the House of Dr. Lawrence Zelie Freedman, Foundations CONTINUING CRISIS IN FOSTER Representatives. It deserves, and has won Fund Research Professor in Psychiatry, Uni CARE the bipartisan support of the Ways and versity of Chicago. Means Committee and the Appropria Joe Fury, Producer. Allen Ginsberg, Poet. HON. GEORGE MILLER tions Committee. Two years ago, similar Herbert Gold, Writer. OF CALIFORNIA legislation passed tllis House by a 5-to-1 David B. Goodstein, Publisher. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES margin: H.R. 3434 deserves at least such Sanford Gottlieb. a vote of support. I urge my colleagues Richard J. Gouggenhime. Tuesday, June 19, 1979 to join in supporting this overdue legis Denis Goulet, Sr., Fellow Overseas Develop- • Mr. Mn...r..ER of California. Mr. Speak lation when it comes before the House, ment Council. er, once again the foster care system and in doing so, communicate the BUl Graham, Producer. has been heavily criticized as the result urgency of this reform plan to the Lee Grant. Actress. of an indepth investigation by child wel Senate. Peter Grosslight. The importance of this legislation can Thomas J. Gumbleton, Bishop, Archdiocese fare professionals. A recent study by the of Detroit. illinois Department of Children and be judged bv the broad support it has Terence Hallinan, Attorney. Family Services has found that too many already received, including the endorse Francis Heiseler, Attorney. children are in foster care, that too few ments of: The American Federation of Nat Hentoff, Writer. services are oft'ered both before place State, Countv and Municipal Emplovees; Rev. T. M. Hesburgh, C. J. C., President, ment and afterward in order to minimize American Home Economics Association; Notre Dame University. removals or their duration, and that re- Association of Junior Leagues (on title 15796 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1979 II); Child and Family Justice Project, report also charged caseworkers make no High-level officials appeared to give "no National Council of Churches of Christ plans for either the rehab111tation of natural consideration ... to rewarding excellent parents or adoption of the children. work or of taking a disciplmary or correc in the USA; Children's Defense Fund; Although the reviewers found that only tive action in instances where policy or ad D.C. omce of the County of Los Angeles; 215 of the 1,399 children should remain in ministratl ve directives had been ignored." Family Service Association of America; foster care rather than return to their nat Foster caseloads are infiated with inactive National Association tor Retarded Citi ural home or be adopted, case files showed cases. The report noted th&~c caselo... ider the va.st re dies occurring around the globe. The scription. pression of human rights. During your de devastating loss of human life in South This reviva.l movement is sparked, in part, liberations here you will hear about viola east Asia is unconscionable. While the blf fears of the quality and quantity of the tions of human rights in Chile, Indonesia, United States has tried to do our part to AN Volunteer Army, AVA, and by !ear the Rumania, South Africa and elsewhere. You help these victims of repressive govern United States is losing its credib111ty in for will probe the depths o! the theological, eign dealings. Biblical and mystical roots which link us ments whom we call "refugees," it is in The draft is seen as a response to the So· together as Jews and Christians. cumbent upon us to do still more. We viet mmtary presence in the world. Currently You wUl bear the thoughts of horror which must assume the responsibility, and must there are 2.1 milllon active duty personnel a few days ago Pope John Paul n had as he put pressure on other countries to as and 1.1 million reservists, but this 1s not prayed in the dungeon cells of Auschwitz. sume their responsibilities as members considered an adequate !otce. You will rejoice that a Pope for the first of the world community. We simply can To renew the draft would be an infringe time in 35 years has visited the place where not allow these people to die. NOr can ment upon personal and democratic freedom. 2.5 million Jews perished. we ignore the people of Eastern Europe Conscription is contrary to our country's I dream of wonderful things that wUl be principles; it 1s totalitarian, not democratic. forthcoming from this conference. I dream who cry out for help in emigrating from The draft is leading to increased government of a strong and vigorous international or totalitarian states. regimentation and control over citizen's ganization of Christians and Jews that will Mr. Speaker, Pope John Paul ll's visit lives. proclaim humanity's duty to bring bread to took a tremendous amount of courage The House Armed Services subcommittee the hungry, to grant refuge to the refugees and faith. It is my hope that the rest on military personnel is currently consider and to proclaim the rights of Zionists and of mankind, inspired by the Pope's visit, ing seven draft b1lls, one of which the full the people of Israel. can find the spiritual strength and cour House Armed Services Committee is expected On April 24, 1979 at an unprecedented age needed to meet the pressing demands to bring to the floor of the House. ceremony on the Holocaust in the Ro .unda One of these bills, or a combination, wlll of the Capitol in Washington, Elie Weise: of our belief in human rights.• most likely be recommended and passed by gave a message which epitomizes everything the House. that the ICCJ stands for. These are hi> Rep. Charles Bennett of Florida is propos words: ing a bill, HR-23, which would require the "We have learned not to be neutral in THE DRAFT: TEENS IX>N'T WANT president to order the Selective Service Sys times of crisis, for neutrallty always helps IT tem to commence registration of young men the aggressor, never the victim. We have this year. learned that silence is never the answer. We It also calls !or opening private and public have learned that the opposite of love is no ~ HON. GEORGE MILLER school records to Selective Service. They hatred, but indifference ... OF CALIFORNIA would have access to tax information, social "So let us remember, let us remember the security records, drivers' license appllcations heroes of Warsaw, the martyrs of Trebllnka, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and such. the children of Auschwitz. They fought alone, Tuesday, June 19, 1979 It would amend the Privacy Act to permit they suffered alone, they lived alone, but they the Selective Service to have access to infor did not die alone, for something in all o! U3 • Mr. Mn..LER of California. Mr. Speak mation in the records of any agency !or the died with them." e er, the passage by the Senate Armed purposes of conducting registration. Services Committee of a proposal to The blll, HR--2404, calls for the registration resume registration for the draft o! 18-year-old men and women, and the in prompts me to once again express my duction of up to 200,000 men only into the POPE JOHN PAUL ll'S VISIT TO opposition to such a proposal. It is un individual Ready Reserve each year. POLAND Congressman Paul McCloskey of California necessary at this time, and it is certainly is proposing a bill which would give the 17- wrong to consider such a drastic step year-old registrant a year to conside.r four HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. as a mere amendment to the defense au options: two years of active m111tary service, OF NEW JERSEY thorization bill. If we are to reinstitute with educational benefits; six months of ac this system of supplying manpower to tive duty followed by five and one half years IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES our Armed Forces, then let it begin only of Reserve obligations; one year of civ111an Thursday, June 14, 1979 after a full, open, and public debate. service; or placement in a pool of potential draftees for six years. e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I want to My colleagues who are supporting this The option c! signing up for civ111an serv commend my good friend and colleague registration proposal believe that this is ice has a certain appeal, but it contains some from Wisconsin, the distinguished chair not the first step toward a resumption problems. man of the Foreign Relations Committee, of the draft. This belief is well-intended Refusing to be in active military service, CLEM ZABLOCKI, for taking this special but totally incorrect. Even the highly many young adults wm gladly volunteer for order to recognize Pope John Paul's visit respected National Journal, in an article a national service. These national service to Poland. on this subject, admits that "registration workers could create cutbacks in other social service programs and displace employed Mr. Speaker, I believe the Pope's visit would be a meaningless process unless workers. will be recorded in history as one of the at some point the draft itself were re A good question has risen in an· article most significant events of our time. For vised." "Greetings You're About to be Drafted," the former archbishop of a large indus So if we are to have a full public dis "How many $10,000 per year. church custo trial city inside an officially atheistic cussion about the draft, I want to be dians will find themselves replaced with country to become the head of the Ro sure that those young men and women $3,000 national service workers?" man Catholic Church is indeed inspiring. who might be drafted are included in the People who support the draft say you His triumphant return to his homeland debate. In this regard, I am inserting should love your country enough to defend served to point out not only the tremen it, and the United States must have some in the RECORD a letter that appeared in thing to defend itself if no one else 1s dous faith of the Polish people-of whom the Contra Costa Times, a newspaper in listening. 90 percent are Catholic-but also their my district. It is from a local high school For youth it doesn't seem to be a question unyielding struggle for self-expression. student, and expresses well the feelings of fighting !or one's country, it is more a !act 15804 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1979 that the youth do not want to serve the gov It was a stormy afternoon near the Ken he might be guilty, recalling statements he'd ernment. tucky-Tennessee border, where Welby's made while drinking that he'd killed a man A recent Harris poll shows 47 percent of father lived. in Tennessee. those between the ages of 18 and 29 opposing His "pappy," bS Welby called him, had l.u. early 1962, Welby Lee traveled to In registration. crossed the highway to fiX a barndoor latch. dianapolis and met the man named Jones Particularly for high school students it is Mildred Casteel, Welby's 16-year-old niece, face to face. presenting a disruption of their lives and was working in the kitchen when she heard "Considering how many years it had been, future plans. a car hit something, and, thinking it was the he looked a.Iruost as I had expected," said Many young people feel we should have dog, looked out the window. Lee. learned from Vietnam. One teenager feels Two men were getting out of a black He and Jones shook hands, he recalls, "and since we are no longer in any active warfare, coupe, talking excitedly. One was tall, slim, I told him I was Welby Lee, whose father the increase in the army will be creating a a bit stoop-shouldered, with black hair that had been killed by a hit-and-run driver in facility for its use. lay smooth and was combed straight back. 1944. His color seemed to change two or three If a war would break out, an 18-year-old The other had lighter hair, was not as times in the few seconds we stared at each sees that nuclear weapons will be used. slim, but about the same height, and wore other .... Tears welled up in his eyes." "Hand to hand combat would be virtually e. gray, medium-length jacket. "After all the many years of searching," impossible. Wlhy build up a large army?" When Mildred stepped out the door, the said Welby, "I felt sorry for him at this mo Many teenagers seem to feel that no one men jumped into their car and sped off to ment, even though he had killed my father." has a right to fool around with a life, which ward Tompkinsville. Ironically, Joues would never admit that is presently what the government is trying In the ditch lay Welby's father, Newt Lee, he was driving the car that struck Newt Lee, to do. "I personally cannot klll anyone. I bruised, broken and barely alive. He died a even though Welby promised him he would don't feel I have a right to take a life." short time later, before they could get him not push for an indictment if he would be The budget which President carter sub to a hospital. The impact had thrown him honest about what he had done. mitted to Congress Jan. 22 would increase 65 feet, and the car appeared to have swerved The man alleged to have been Jones• com military spending more than $10 billion. The off the shoulder before hitting him. panion when Newt Lee was kllled also de proposed budget places military spending at Even before the funeral, Welby, who was nied it all; denied knowing Jones, denied $138.8 billion as opposed to expenditures of then 31 years old, began trying to find who being in Tennessee . . . everything. all public schools at $116.9 billion. had struck his father and left him in the Jones threatened Welby Lee with lawsuits, One of the problems the pro-draft people ditch to die. and there were even threats of physical vio complain about concerning the All Volun A year went by, and another. Welby sold lence against him in the months that fol teer Army is that only the poor and minori his partnership in what promised to be a lowed. But Welby, after so many years, ties are volunteering, an estimated 42 per prosperous lumber business to devote more wasn't about to stop now. cent. time to finding his father's killer. In August 1965, after a lengthy extradi They feeL the draft will create a cross-sec Up every holler, down every road, into tion from Indiana and a mistrial in Ten tion of people represented in the army. How every general store, he was asking questions nessee, a jury finally gave Jones a year and ever, with compulsory enlistment the upper about that day: Did anybody remember two a day in prison for the involuntary man class, wealthy and educated wlll be able to strangers in a black '38 or '39 model coupe? slaughter of Newt Lee. Welby had amassed resist. It will still be the poor who have no Several said they'd seen them; a store opera such an overwhelming stack of evidence in choice. tor said they'd been drinking. the form of personal testimony from those Perhaps the millions of dollars used for Welby's only shred of tangible evidence who had seen Jones and another man drink implementing the draft could be used to was a chrome bumper guard, which he be ing together, and overheard talk from the eliminate unemployment and poverty which lieved came off the death car. It had been two men about what they had done, that the pushes the minority into the army for a de jury could draw no other conclusion. cent life. found near his father's body. A woman at a parts house in Tompkins Welby had devoted night and day to track Money should be used to improve the ing down his father's klller, and now it was quality of life available to persons who vol ville had remembered selling it to a slim, over. unteer for the armed services. Young people dark-haired man, but she didn't know his "I don't have any desire to prosecute the would be volunteering if it had something name and did not remember seeing him passenger in the hit-and-run car at this to offer. before or after the sale. time," said Welby. "He has a job, and a Editor's note: Alison Dettmer is a junior Another year went by. Welby tried to family." at Pleasant Hill High School. She has been enjoy himself playing baseball, one of his Since the case was closed, hundreds of peo participating in the OCT-2 program which is favorite pastimes. But constantly while on ple have asked Welby Lee how he managed a joint project sponsored by the Contra Cos the pitcher's mound or in the field, he found to stick with it so long. ta Times and County Regional Occupational himself gazing at the bleachers for a slim, A few of the answers are contained 1n a Programs. Its purpose is to give high school stoop-shouldered man who combed his black 240-page book, Welby's first-person account students realistic job insight and training.e hair straight back. of the case from start to finish. It's titled: His days and many of his nights were "It Took A Worried Mlnd."e spent asking questions, checking out leads JUSTICE FOR WELBY LEE dispelling rumors about who might have done it, leaving no stone unturned in a 50- to 75-mile radius of Celina, Tenn., near where THE DECONTROL OF OIL HON. TIM LEE CARTER his father was killed. Welby never stopped asking questions, 81Ild OF KENTUCKY many sleepless nights were spent wondering HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN . IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES how to proceed. OF CALD'ORNIA Tuesday, Jtcne 19, 1979 In 1958, 14 years after it happened, he got IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the first good clue: A California woman • Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, the area who once had lived in Tennessee told him Tuesday, Jtcne 19, 1979 of Kentucky in which I grew up has long that she believed her brother-in-law, a man • Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, Ivery well been noted for the tenacity of its peo named Jones, had done it. understand the strong sentiment favor ple. That persistent pursuit of purpose He'd lived in Ohio then, she told him, and was living in Indianapolis now, divorced ing the retention of price controls on is a characteristic in which we take oil. It is an essential commodity. It is pride, for often it is the one quality from her sister. On that night 14 years earlier he and often argued that if oil is left to the free which produces results. a friend, who also lived in Ohio, but was play of market forces, the price will rise. A recent article in the Louisville Cou back in Tennessee visiting kinfolks, had The price will then be too high, and only rier-Journal chronicled the special te been out together in Jones' '38 black Ford the rich will be able to afford oil or pe nacity of a man from my hometown, Mr. coupe, drinking quite heavily. Jones had troleum products such as gasoline. In ef Welby Lee, in seeking justice. come to his relative's home, she remembered, fect, the less fortunate will be at a dis This article shows how one man can and ordered the family to get ready to re do the impossible, so long as he has right turn to Ohio that night, even though they'd advantage in the marketplace. on his side, and I offer it for the REcORD: planned to be in Tennessee Eeveral more It is sometimes argued that the main ONE MAN'S SEARCH FOR JUSTICE BECAME A days. tenance of price controls will keep the JOURNEY OF 20 YEARS He'd gotten real upset, the woman said, cost of living from rising and wUl ease and told his wife he was in serious trouble. the burden on conc:umers in an infia (By Byron Crawford) She'd noticed he'd taken the license plate off ToMPKINSVILLF, KY.-At 3:55p.m. on New the car. tionary economy. The tacit assumption Year's Eve, 1944, time may as well have Welby spent a long time looking into the underlying the two related arguments is, stopped !or Welby Lee of Tompkinsville. For Jones family; relatives, in-laws, Jones' fel of course, that there is something inher never, since that moment, have things been low workers and neighbors in Ohio. Some ently sacred about the market price of the same for him or his wife, Lina. reluctantly confessed their suspicions that on at the time that the Nixon admints- June 20, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15805 trol, who argues that the decontrol of oil "(i) who is certified by the designated tration froze American crude prices in local agency as- 1971. will not result in an increase of oil sup "(I) meeting the age requirements or sub- While I sympathize with the senti plies. The question is simply how much paragraph (B), and ments of those opposed to decontrol and we will in.:rease those supplies. The "(II) being ·a member o! an economically concede the emotional appeal of their ar President says that by 1985, we will. disadvantaged family (as determined under guments, I cannot honestly accept them. under decontrol, be producing an extra paragraph (9)); and Virtually every argument advanced 740,000 barrels per day. A Chase Man " ( 11) who is certified by a prime sponsor hattan Bank econometric study puts the under section 113 of the Comprehensive Em against the decontrol of American oil ployment and Training Act as- neglects the vast changes taking place in figure at 900,000 barrels per day. Private "(I) meeting the age requirements of sub the conditions of production and the rate industry estimates 1.3 million barrels per paragraph (C), of demand. By artificially holding down day, an optimistic projection. The most "(II) being in regular attendance at a the price of oil well below the market conservative assessment is that of the publlc or private elementary or secondary level, we will bring about results directly Congressional Budget omce which pre school, and opposite of what we all wish to achieve. dicts an increase of 405,000 extra barrels "(III) being a member o! an economically a day by 1985. It is reliably estimated disadvantaged !amlly (as determined under First, we will artificially stimulate the paragraph ( 9) ) . demand for crude oil, petroleum prod that we could cut the cost of imported "(B) GENERAL AGE REQUIREMENTS.-An in ucts, and gasoline. Consumers can, and oil in 1985 by as much as $10.2 billion. dividual meets the requirements o! this sub will, continue to buy more oil products We must reduce our imports of foreign paragraph 1! such individual has attained age than they would otherwise. In other oil, which are fixed by the OPEC cartel 18 but not age 25 on the hiring date. words, we will discourage the conserva leaders at artifi:ially high prices. "(C) IN-St.HOOL YOUTH AGE REQUIRE• tion that virtually everyone, in both par Importing as much as 50 percent of our :MENTs.-An individual meets the require ties, agrees that we desperately need. We oil requirements, the United States, now ments o! this subparagraph 1! such individ more vulnerable than ever, is the world's ual has attained age 16 but not age 19 on have had a taste of the hardship of long the hiring date.". gasoline lines in California. We do not greatest oil importing Nation. As the (b) The amendment made by subsection need to aggravate the problem on ana President said in his November 8, 1977, (a) o! this section shall apply to amounts tional scale. I have yet to hear one econ address to the Nation, excessive impor paid or incurred a!ter September 30, 1979, omist deny that price controls encour- tation of foreign crude is a drain on our 1n taxable years ending a!ter such date with age consumption. . economy, injuring our balance of pay respect to individuals who are first hired ments, weakening the value of our dollar, a!ter such date. There is a second and related problem. SEC. 2. (a) Section 103(a) o! the Compre Price controls create and aggravate dampening investment and c~ntributing to domestic unemployment. This outflow hensive Employment and Training Act is shortages. We will decrease the relative amended- supply of available, domestic crude oil of dollars_, now approaching a staggering (1) by redesignating paragraphs (20) and and petroleum products, that is, rela $50 billion, is expected to grow. We must (21) as paragraphs (21) and (22), respec tive to what we would have otherwise curtail that outflow of dollars. By the tively; and enjoyed. Why? Because by holding down administration's calculations, every $5 (2) by inserting a!ter paragraph (19) the the prices to an artificially low level, a billion increase in oil imports costs the following new paragraph: level dictated by Richard Nixon in 1971, United States 200,000 American jobs. Our "(20) include a description o! the ar investors will hesitate or refuse to in failure to increase our domestic supplies, rangements entered into under section 113 crease their investments in the domestic along with alternative forms of energy, for the certification or in-school youth !or is, in effect, a subsidy of the OPEC cartel. jobs under the targeted jobs tax credit pro oil industry. A lower rate of return on I have been an outspoken opponent of visions o! section 51 o! the Internal Revenue investment will discourage new invest most of President Carter's domestic and Code of 1954; ". ments in accelerated exploration and de foreign policies, but on this issue of oll (b) (1) Part A o! Title I o! the Compre velopment of crude oil here in the United deregulation he is right on target. Free hensive Employment and Training Act is States. enterprise is still the best economic sys amended by adding a!ter section 112 the Total oil research and production will tem devised by mankind.e !allowing new section: require an estimated $1.4 trillion between "CERTII'ICATION OF IN-SCHOOL YOUTH now and 1985. The big oil companies, in "Szc. 113. (a) Each prime sponsor, upon ternational operations such as Exxon. YOUTH EMPLOYMENT the appllcation o! any individual w1lo meets Mobil, Texaco, or Standard of Califor the requirement o! section 51 (b) (3) (A) (11) nia, are not greatly hurt by the price or the Internal Revenue Code o! 1954, shall regulations. It is the small, independent, HON. TED WEISS provide to such individual certification o! 01' NEW TORX such ellgib111ty and shall refer such individ wildcat drillers who are most adversely ual to employers who have notified the prime a1fected. These independents drill about IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sponsor of their willlngness to participate 90 percent of all exploratory wells in the Tuesday, Jtene 19, 1979 in programs o! employment which would United States. An on-shore well may cost quall!y such employer !or tax credits pur as much as $6 million to drill. an o1f • Mr. WEISS. Mr. Speaker, following suant to the provisions o! section 44B o! shore well $60 million. The capital in are the copies of two bills which I intro such Code. Any such certlflcation shall be duced today dealing with the subject of withdrawn, and the employer so notlfled, vestment in oil exploration and produc youth employment, a matter of critical upon receipt by the prime sponsor o! notice tion is tremendous, as are the risks. concern for our Nation. under subsection (b) that such individual Five out of six exploratory wells are has !ailed to continue to be enrolled in and The material follows: to regularly attend the classes conducted. "dry" and only one in 50 is now reckoned H.R.- a commercial success. It is worth noting by a publlc or private elementary or second that half of all the crude oil produced in A blll to amend the Internal Revenue Code ary school. or 1954 and the Comprehensive Employ "(b) Each prime sponsor shall enter into California is produced by independent ment and Training Act to provide for the In arrangements with publlc and private ele oil operations. their anger at the ellgib111ty or certain in-school youth !or, mentary and secondary schools in the area international oil companies and OPEC, I and !or the certlflcation and re!erral o! served by that prime sponsor (or with the find it remarkable that some public om such youth to, jobs under the targeted local educational agencies administering cials want to take punitive action against jobs tax credit program such schools) under which the prime sponsor our own, independent, domestic produc Be it enacted by the Senate and Home will be notified o! the !allure o! any youth ers. With price controls, marginal pro of Representatives of the United States of who has been certlfled under subsection (a) ducers are often driven out of the mar America in Congress assembled, to continue to be enrolled in and to regularly ket. As a result, we will end up limiting SECTION 1. (a) Section 51 (d) (3) o! the attend the classes conducted by such the essential supply of our oil. I cannot Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to school.". believe that thiS is what opponents of the amount o! credit for employment of (2) The table of contents of the Compre certain new employees) is amended to read hensive Employment and Training Act is decontrol have in mind. Not after the as !ollows: amended by inserting immediately a!ter the experience in California. "(3) EcONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED item pertaining to section 112 the !allowing We must increase our oil supplies until YOUTH.- new item: we achieve breakthroughs in alternative "(A) IN GENERAL.-The term 'economically "Sec. 113. Certlflcatlon o! in-school youth.". forms of energy. I have met no one in disadvantaged youth' means any individ (c) The amendments made by this section public life, including opponents of decon- ual- shall be effective October 1, 1979. 15806 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1979 H.R.-· Guarantee Office, the Secretary shall, under any judicial review of such determination is regulations established by the Secretary- pending. A blll to establish a program of full employ (b) ( 1) Any agreement entered into under ment, vocational training, and employ ( 1) insure that among projecta planned adequate consideration is given to such subsection (a) (2) shall provide for reim ment placement for all young America~s bursement by the Secretary of the additional willing and able to work, and for other individuals and groups a.s may f·ace special obstacles (as defined in section 11 (6) of cost to the agency or organization described purposes this Act) in finding and holding useful and in section 3(a) of the public service or pri Be it enacted by the Senate and House of rewarding employment and shall provide vate employment project 1i.dministered by .Representatives of the Uni ted States of or have provided through the coordination such agency or organlza.tion. America in Congress assemoled, That this of existing programs special assistance, in (2) Any individual referred to a program Act may be cited as the " Youth Employment cluding counseling, training, and, where under this Act shall be deemed to meet the Act of 19 79". - necessary, transportation and migration as eligiblllty requirements for such program. SEC. 2. The Congress finds that- sistance; SEc. 6. {a) All laborers and mechanics em (1) the national rate of unemployment (2) enter into agreements with any agen ployed by contractors or subcontractors in among youths is excessively high; cy or organization described in section 3(a.) any construction, alteration, or repair (in (2) the number of youths who have ceased for public services and private employment cluding painting and decorating) on projects to seek employment because of insufficient projecta to be administered by such agen which are assisted under this Act, shall be job opportunities is unprecedented; and cy or organization, and such agreements paid wages at rates not less than those pre (3) employment prootems faced by youth shall provide for assurances that (A) an vailing on similar construction in the local have not been adequately addressed by the annual independent audit of the project ity as determined by the Secretary in ac Federal Government. wlll be submitted to the Secretary, through cordance with the Davis-Bacon Act (40 SEc. 3. (a) The Secretary shall establish a the Youth Job Guarantee Office, (B) books U.S.C. 276--276a-5), or those of trade union program to ( 1) provide financial assistance to and records of such agency or organization standards, whichever is higher. The Secre States, political subdivisions of the States, relating to the project shall be available for tary of Labor shall have, with respect to and private for profit or nonprofit organiza reasonable review by the Secretary through such labor standards, the authority and tions established under section 109 of the such Office, (C) no eligible individual em functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Comprehensive Employment and Training ployed or applying for employment on the Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176; 64 Stat. Act, through the Youth Job Guarantee Of project shall be discriminated against be 1267) and section 2 of the Act of June 1, flee established under sectio:::1. 4 of this Act, cause of that individual's sex, race, color, 1934 (40 u.s.c. 276(c); 48 Stat. 948). in each labor market area of the country, for religion, national origin, political affiliation, (b) The Secretary, through the Youth Job programs of training and employment in or belief, (D) applicable provisions of chap Guarantee Office, shall not enter into an jobs on public service and private employ ter 15 (relating to political activity of cer agreement under section 5 unless the Secre ment projects, for eligible individuals, and tain State and local employees) of .title 5, tary, through such Office, determines that- (2) provide special assistance to those eligi United States Oode, will be met, (E) a.n ( 1) preva111ng or trade union standards, ble individuals who apply for such assistance, annual report describing and evaluating in whichEWer is higher, for the health, safety, in accordance with the provisions of this detail the project wlll be submitted to the and other conditions applicable to the per Act. Secretary through such Office, and (F) the formance of work and training on the proj (b) There is hereby established in the De provisions of section 6 wlll be complied with; ect to be assisted are established and wlll be partment of Labor a National Youth FUll ( 3) in the case of any application from maintained; Employment Board, to be composed of mem any State or any political subdivision of a (2) appropriate workmen's compensation bers appointed by the Secretary who shall in State to enter into an agreement under para protection wlll be provided for employees on clude a majority of representatives from graph (2), require that the application con this project; labor, civil rights, youth, and women's orga tain- (3) the project wlll not result in the dis nizations, chosen from among nominees sub (A) assurances that such fiscal control placement of employed workers or impair mitted by these organizations, which shall and fund accounting procedures will be existing contracts for services or result in the advise the Secretary with respect to the pro adopted .as may be necessary to assure prop substitution of Federal for other funds in gram under subsection (a). er disbursement of, and accounting for, connection with work that would otherwise (c) In carrying out the program under funds received under this Act, be performed; subsection (a) in any labor market area, the (B) assurances that any woman employee (4) no employee shall be paid less than the Secretary shall consult with the Board, and on such a project shall be entitled to a ma prevailing or union wage, whichever is with the prime sponsor's planning councils ternity benefit of not less than six months' higher, in effect in the area; and established under section 109 of the Com leave without loss of pay or other employ (5) all employees shall receive compensa prehensive Employment and Training Act ment benefits, and tion (A) that bears a positive relationship which are located in that labor market area. (C) such other information as the Secre to their qualifications, experience, and train (d) {1) The Secretary, in carrying out his tary deems necessary, ing, and (B) that will effectively encourage functions under this Act shall seek to reduce and approve any such application which them (from an economic standpoint) to ad differentials in employment rates among meets the requirements of subparagraphs vance to other employment. various population segments. (A) through (C); SEc. 7. No person shall, on the ground ot (2) The Secretary shall carry out his func (4) refer any eligible individual who ap race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, tions under this Act in such a way that, plies in person for assistance under this Act, political affiliation or belief, be excluded within one year of the date of enactment of as appropriate (A) to private and public em from participation in, be denied the benefits ployment placement faclllties, (B) for place of, or be subjected to discrimination under this Act, the rate of unemployment among any program or activity receiving financial youths aged sixteen to twenty-four, inclu ment in jobs on public service and private employment projects conducted under any assistance under this Act. sive, in any political subdivision of any SEc. 8. The district courts of the United State s':lall not exceed 10 per centum of the other Act and assisted under section 23 of of this Act, or (C) in the event that, after States shall have jurisdiction over any ILC total labor force in such subdivision within tion brought seeking relief, including in two years of the date of enactment of this attempting placement under clauses (A) and (B) for a period of five days after the date junctive, declaratory, and other appropriate Act, the rate of unemployment among youths forms of relief as well as damages, by any aged sixteen to twenty-four, inclusive, in any of the individual's application for assistance, there is not a high probablllty that success person or by any class of persons deprived political subdivision of any State shall not of rights created by or under this Act, which exceed 3 per centum of the total labor force ful placement for the individual wlll occur, then placement wm be made in a program rights shall include, but not be limited to in such subdivision and within three years the right to useful paid employment at the 4 under section 3; and of the date of enactment of th s Act, jobs rate of compensation provided by this Act. should be suoplled for all youths aged six (5) in cases where the Secretary, through and any person or class of persons who has teen to twenty-four, inclusive, within a rea the Youth Job Guarantee Office, determines been so deprived by the United States shall sona'lle period. on the basis of evidence obtained with re be entitled in an action brought against the SEc. 4. There is hereby ~abllshed in the spect to any otherwise eligible individual, United States to recover damages, together Department of Labor a Youth Job Guarantee that the individual is not in fact able or will with costs and reasonable attorney's fees. Office, to be headed by a Director to be ap ing to work {and no such determination SEc. 9. There are authorized to be ap pointed by the Board, through which the shall be based upon an individual's failure prooriated !or each of fiscal years 1981, 1982, Secretary '!'hall e11.rry out the program under to work under any circumstances where and 1983, such sums as may be necessary to section 3(a) , in order to insure that any such failure results from an unlawful em carry out the provisions of this Act. eligible individual who applies for assist ployment practice prohibited by section 703 ance under this Act shall be placed in of the Civil Rights Act of 1964), declare that SEc. 10. Section 109 of the Comprehensive uo:;eful and rewarding employment in a job individual to be ineligible for assistance un Employment and Training Act is amended on a project a.sst.c:ted under this Act or in der this Act, and provide !or appropriate by adding at the end thereof the following other private or public employment. The administrative appeal procedures to review new subsection: Secretary shall establish a local office of such determination if any appeal is sought "(g) In addition to its functions and re the Youth Job Guarantee Office in each within thirty days thereafter, which shall sponsibllttles under subsection (a), each State. include procedures for the enrollment of planning council shall- SEc. 5 . (a) In carrving out the program that individual in the Job Corps, as provided .. ( 1) identity local needs for additional under section 3(a) through the Youth Job in paragraph (3) (B), whUe such appeal or youth employment opportunities, and, under June 20, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15807 guidelines established by the Secretary un heard in the senate debate on the Rho changed the situation," Muzorewa said in der the provisions o! the Youth Employ desian sanctions issue. an interview, "but I can assure you we can ment Acto! 1979, shall select and plan proj The June 18, 1979, WBShington Star expect a very different (security) situation ects for assistance under such Act which in several weeks. How long they (the people) shall provide public service and private em article reprinted below, "Rhodesia's New will be patient, 1s a matter of anybody's ployment (as such term 1s defl.ned in sec Black Rulers in Trouble on Peace calculation." tion 11(2) o! such Act) for young Americans; Pledge,'' describes the diminishing sup Many persons believe, however, that if the and port for the new Zimbabwe-Rhodesia bishop does not quickly take flrm action, he "(2) under standards, criteria, and guide Government, as the promise of peace will fall. lines established by the Secretary under the continues to elude that country. "He has no time," says black businessma~ Youth Employmt:::nt Acto! 1979, monitor and Blacks, especially those in the rural Ephriam Chamba. "The people say, 'There s evaluate projects assisted under such areas, are impatient for the war to end. independence, do something.' They know Act.". things have changed in other African coun SEC. 11. For purposes or this Act-- For the new Government to win the war tries when independence was achieved and ( 1) the term "Secretary" means the it must have the help of the rural Afri they want the same thing to happen here." Secretary o! Labor; cans, and, at the same time, it must con There also is evidence that Muzorewa's (2) the term "public service and private vince them that the new authorities in intention to continue raids against guerr1lla employment", when used with respect to Salisbury are capable of causing defec bases in neighboring countries also may eat a project, means any project providing new tions in the ranks of the Patriotic Front into his support. or expanded goods or services to the public, "The people were crying when they heard guerrillas. he had attacked into Mozambique, even which reflects the needs and desires o! the In Zimbabwe-Rhodesia today neither local oommunt·ty served by the project, and those who did not have sons there," said a may include any project providing social blacks nor whites will long support a Salisbury house servant. services, community health services, day care government which seems incapable of "They want to know why he is kllllng fac111ties, legal aid, public transportation, ending the present war. For its part, the them if he promised peace. He said there housing, recreation, cultural activities, sani United States should not be in any would be no more war, then out he just goes tation, environmental improvement; hurry to lift sanctions against a govern and kllls them. (3) the term "Board" means the National ment which does not have the support or Other blacks are dislllusioned with the Youth Full Employment Board established loyalty of its people. continued presence of whites in important under section 3(b); positions in the new government. I commend the following article to "People are getting surprised at how Mr. (4) the term "eligible individual" means your attention: any individual aged sixteen to twenty-four, Walls (Lt. Gen. Peter Walls, chief of the inclusive, who 1s able and willing to work but RHODESIA'S NEW BLACK RULERS IN 'I'aOUBLZ country's security forces) is st111 on instead who is not employed and who is unable ON PEACE PLEDGE of Muzorewa putting in his own person," to obtain employment other than by as (By Lawrence E. Pintak) said one, who insisted that Muzorewa's deci sistance under this Act; sion to appoint himself minister of defense SALISBURY, ZIMBABWE-RHODESIA.-Prime did not change the fact that whites were st111 (5) the term "able and w1lling to work", Minister Abel Muzorewa•s new government when used with respect to an individual, running the army. faces real danger that it could lose its base White confl.dence, too, could be an impor means any individual who, by application in of support if it does not soon deliver the person at a Youth Job Guarantee Oftlce tant factor in whether Muzorewa's govern peace that was promised before the election ment survives. Whites continue to leave the established under section 4, or at any that put it in power. regional oftlce thereof, seeks assistance un country in large numbers-1,628 "took the Many blacks, particularly those in the gap," as leaving is called, in April-and many der ·this Act in obtaining a job, regardless rural areas, are growing impatient waiting of those who remain are simply growing of any visual, motor, or hearing impa.trment, for an end to their suffering. Many are tired of flghting. mental retardation, or other handicap; wondering why the flghting is continuing "This is my country, and I'm going to flght (6) the term "special obstacle", when and why the guerrillas are not laying down for it," said one young "troopie." "But 1! the used with respect to an eligible individual's their weapons as Muzorewa predicted. war is st111 going on in Decmber like it 1s efforts to flnd or hold usefUl and re Black civilians, innocents and those now, I'm 'gapping' it.'' warding employment, includes past or pres labeled by the government as "terrorist And without experienced white officers to ent discrimination or bias on the basis of collaborators" continue to die &t the rate of run his army, Muzorewa's chances of ending sex, color, religion, or national origin, phys 15 to 20 a day, according to government the war-and reta1n1ng the support of the ical or mental handicap, past or present fl.gures. Africans returning from trib&l areas black masses--would be reduced to almost receipt of public assistance, residence in a tell of the deaths of large numbers of rela nil.e depressed urban or rural geographical area, tives, k1lled not only by the guerrUlas but past or present status as a member of the also by security forces. Armed Forces of the United States, un "I was a Muzorewa supporter, but now 1 employment resulting from relocation, clos am wondering why the war 1s not ending," CALIFORNIA AND THE GAS ing, or reduced operations of industrial or said one black in Salisbury's Harare town SHORTAGE mil1tary facilities, and such other special ship. "He promised to bring peace." obstacles as the President or the Congress In order to win the war, Muzorewa must may from time to time designate for such have the. backing of rural Africans. Without HON. GEORGE MILLER purpose; intelllgence they provide, security forces 01' CALIFORNIA (7) the term "political subdivision" have little chance of effectively routing out IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES means any city, county, town, parish, v1llage, the guerrillas. or other general purpose political subdivi However, unless the government can pro Tuesday, Ju:ne 19, 1979 sion of a State; and vide evidence th&t it is winning the battle • Mr. MILLER of california. Mr. (8) the term "State" means the several in the bush, the mass of Africans might Speaker, nine of my colleagues and I States, the District of Columbia, the Com easily shift their support back to the monwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, Ameri guerrillas." have recently introduced the Emergency can Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the "There is going to be tremendous d1s- Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Conservation Trust Territory of the Paciflc Islands.e · 1llusionment among the blacks," predicts Act of 1979, H.R. 4283, to fill a void left Ahern Pallay, a former white member of by the defeat of the President's standby Parliament. "They thought the election it gas rationing plan. We believe that it PROMISE OF PEACE IN RHODESIA self would be an end to the war. is a responsible alternative that will DELAYED "When the blacks learn the bishop cannot end the war, they will tum to the externals cut gas consumption, leave room for (guerrlllas), who they think can," Pallay maximum individual freedom, and pre HON. WILLIAM H. GRAY Ill says. vent the creation of another Federal Most blacks were voting for peace, and bureaucracy. OF PENNSYLVANIA Muzorewa-with his cultivated image as the We in Ca.lifomia have experienced IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "man of peace"-appeared the person best shortages, and have had to cope with Tuesday, Ju:ne 19, 1979 able to bring it about. But African societies, like most others. long lines and short tempers at the • Mr. GRAY. Mr. Speaker, as cochair traditionally support the strong man, and gas pumps. But we have coped. Gasoline man of the MCPL Rhodesia Task Force, if they perceive it is the guerr1llas and not consumption has dropped dramatically, I would like to insert in the RECORD an Muzorewa's forces that pose the greatest mass transit ridership is way up, and article describing tne current percep- threat to them-and, conversely, can best the initial panic has subsided. As we protect them-they w111 not hesitate to re tions of Rhodesians in regard to the align their loyalties. continue to examine the reasons behind Muzorewa government. This article pre "I can't tell you how long it is going to the shortage, I think it would be wise sents a. new viewpoint which was not take us to convince the people that we have to remember tha.t California is not 15808 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1979 much different than the rest of the be down from 50 to 75 percent of what it was does the pool-maintenance man have Nation in our gas consumption. A recent in April. enough gas to get to you?" article by Richard Reeves, Esquire's In April, before this began, California had Deja vu. I keep waiting for the New York about 10 percent of the nation's ·population, Daily News headline: ··carter to California: national editor, discusses the reasons 10 percent of the nation's drivers, ana 10 par Drop Dead." (The Los Angeles Herald, Ex behind the shortage and California's cent of the nation's automoblles-and was ammer has already used "Carter to LA: Take situation in a highly informative and using 9.5 percent of the nation's gasoline. a Walk.") The treatment and the rhetoric enlightening way. I commend the mate The average monthly gas consumption per are a replay of the New York City fiscal crisis rial in the piece to all of my colleagues. California vehicle was b:J.7 gallons, ~.;ompared in 1975: Greedy, self-indulgent libertines £From Esquire Magazine, June 19, 1979] with 73 gallons in Virginia and Georgia and deserve what they get. Why should we help a national average of 64 gallons. Californians them? (By Richard Reeves) may wash and love their cars more than the Because them is us. It has become worse ARE CALIFORNIANS CRAzy? rest of us do, but most of them are not than a cliche to say that there is no leader On May 18, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the guzzling gas. One reason is that the owner ship in Washington. But things are worse senator from New York, traveled to Buffalo, ship of small cars is much higher in Cali when the substitute for some kind of na in the far reaches of his representative fornia than anywhere else in the United tional unity during a national crisis is an domain to explain the ways of the world to States. unthinking policy of divide and scapegoat. anyone who would listen. Nine reporters There was, undoubtedly, some panic on New York did foul up and was self-lndulg~nt showed up 8lt a news conference, sitting May 3 and a couple of days after. Gas sta for years, but that was not the city's real politely as Moynih.a.n spoke, as one does to tions were suddenly closed (or open for only ·problem, which was that it was old and that children, of many things. He spoke of SALT two or three hours a day), and there was, in in many ways it had outlived its usefulness and the Russians, of looniness and the Schlesinger's pet phrase, "topping off." We11 to the new places, to the West. So, a lot of Califor nlans. all be panicked the first time we drive thirty those westerners thought, let the Big Apple "Yes, there is a gasoline shortage," he said. miles or so and see the "Closed" or "No Gas" rot in its own juices-Jerry Brown said it "And New Yorkers ha.ve been acting intelli signs on every pump along the way. That's was decadent. God knows, California is gently and capably. But there's something all there was to it, Washington said, claim self-indulgent-God and the California about the state of California. They're a ing that the California gasoline shortfall was · Coastal Commission forbid that oil wells funny bunch. They've panicked. It's the only 3 or 5 percent. should interfere with any Pacific views! equivalent of a run on the bank. That was not true. The real shortfall was but its gasoline problems this spring had "I was talkdng to Secretary Sohlesinger at apparently close to 15 percent of 1978 allo nothing to do with mellow wacklness. The a receptJ.on yesterday; he told me the aver cations. There were, as it turned out, very "mellow" probably prevented big trouble. age sale of gasoline in California has gone real reasons that there was less gas around Gas shortages may be like blackouts: The down from eig'ht gallons to three gallons. the freeways. "Panic" was a minor factor. first one is an adventure; the looting begins People are just topping off their almost full The main reasons, as ferreted out by Cali with the second one; then come the riots. tanks." fornia newspapers, particularly the Los An Politics, after all, is about dividing up the Recalling some of James Scthlesinger's geles Times, were these: resources of a society. The President and earlier mathematics-body counts in Viet Production cutbacks of crude oil in Iran Congress can take the risks of doing that or nam-! offered Moynihan the hyperbolic and Saudi Arabia. Inadequate West Coast refinery capacity, they can let states, cities, and individuals opinion that Secretary of Energy Schlesinger fight it out themselves. California could,-tor was edther a fool or a Uar. "Does he really especially of fac111t1es handling heavy crude from places like Alaska, caused partly by instance, try to cut a separate oil deal with think," I said, "that people out there are Mexico-it might not work, but it would waiting on llne for two and a half hours to California's protectionist environmental laws and partly by the oil companies' anticipa make people such as Pat Moynihan prophets. put three gallons in their tanks?" They could be prophets of sunny funniness The stupidity of politicians in the coming tion of reduced gasollne usage in the future. No refinery has been built in California for and prophets in their own country, which od.l crisis is ma.tched only by their oowardice. at the moment they define as not including It's bad enough that people like Moynihan seven years. The switch to early heating oil production California. and Schlesinger and many of tlheir peer The fact that Americans believe they are group don't know what they're talking for next winter, intelligently encouraged by President Carter. being screwed by Arabs and oil companies about. They also seem to feel compelled to does not mean that they are not capable make sure that the country will be torn Allocations based on past usage, which discriminated against areas with growing enough or intelligent enough to know that apart by resentment and manipulations over there is a real and long-range energy prob who gets the perfumes of Araby. population. A spectacularly ill-timed new distribution lem. Americans who happen to live in Cali So Senator Charles Percy of Illinois says fornia dealt with the new reality; they seem that as far as he's concerned, frenzied Cali system that on May 1 ended gas deliveries to stations on demand and substituted regu less the problem than doctors Moynihan and fornians are creating their own problems, Schlesinger do.e and Congressman Carlos Moorhead of Los larly scheduled deliveries, which rarely came Angeles says he doesn't give a damn about off as scheduled. "Hoarding" by business and industry. Be heating oil for the Northeast but he wants LIVES OF THOUSANDS OF REFU gas for bis Angelenos. tween January and April, companies like I do care, very much, about heating oil, Hertz Rent-A-Car and Pacific Telephone & GEES ARE IN PERIL and production of it obviously has to be the Telegraph, anticipating shortages, increased country's first priority; there is a dltrerence their gas orders by 74 percent over last year. between Californians swearing at one another Increases in "priority" gasoline deliveries HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ in two-mile lines and little old ladles freezing to agricultural areas, mllitary installations, OF NEW YORK to death next February in Vermont. But hospitals, fire departments, and pollee sta IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES having waited in some of those lines before tions. Every gallon that goes to those Moynihan informed me of what was really places-and by law, they get every gallon Tuesday, Jtcne 19, 1979 going on, I had the distinct impression that, they ask for-is a gallon less at gas stations. e Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker. yPsterday all things considered, Californians were be So there was and is a real California short having very well-indeed, capably. age. Californians may be crazy, but they're the National Coalition for Refugee Re It's true that a guy named Dlton Williams not as dumb or as irresponsible as some of settlement meeting on Capitol Hill ex pulled a gun at a service station in West the folks attacking them, from Jimmy Car pre<5sed strong support for the need for Hollywood and held off a crowd while he filled ter and Schlesinger and The Washington a concerted effort to meet the needs of his tank. And that Johnny Rodgers, a wide Post-"a good thin~." the Post editorialized, thousands of refugees who are :fleeing receiver for the San Diego Chargers football to curb Callfornla's "hedonistic life-style" from war and persecution but can find team, got so annoyed waiting in line to fill up down to Mike Royko of the Chicago Sun no refuge in Southeast Asia. his Rolls-Royce that he bought the gas sta Times, who was at least very funny when he The coalition, composed of more than tion. But it's also true that all the people I wrote: saw after the shortage hit La La Land last "A column that I wrote, expressing tl"te sen 1~0 members representing National, month were pumping $10 worth and more sible view that Gov. Brown is a polltical State, and local public and voluntary into empty tanks. And that Fred Hartley, moonbeam, and that California is the agencies whtch plan for and administer president of Union Oil, says that the average world's largest outdoor mental asylum. ap programs serving refugees, strongly en sale at Union stations is between thirteen and peared in five California newspapers. Since dorsed the passage of new comprehen fourteen gallons. then, thousands of Californians have been sive refugee lPgislation introduced by Los Angeles, in fact, looks a bit like a taking: time out from munching their Congressman Ron:rNo and Congress ghost town on weekends. People simply aren't granola and riding their surf-boards to write woman HOLTZMAN and Senator KENNEDY going anywhere unle~s they have to. That's me shr1ll letters. . . . So think of that. the part of the reason President Carter only saw next time you write me about the superior CXXV----995-Part 12 15816 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1979 upon the Nazis or their medical henchmen together with his answer to Prof. Kalk, who knowledge, including the disease • • • of two simply as maddened sadists are on the wrong was on the staff of the Chief of the Air Force hepatitis viruses. "Krugman's series of stud track. "Most kllling is not done out of sad Medical Service: ies at Wlllowbrook laid the groundwork for ism, not even most Nazi kllling," says LiftOJ:l. our current understanding of hepatitis,' The reality of medical participation in the (From Newsday, Feb. 19, 1978] said Dr. Franklin Tyeryar, hepatitis program Holocaust, as he sees it, is even more chllling: U.S. ADVISER DRAWS FIRE BY SUGGESTING TESTS officer for the National Institute of Allergy "The murders are done around a perverted FOR VACCINE ON RETARDED CHILDREN and Infectious Diseases. But Krugman's vision of life enhancement." methods left a bad taste in the mouths of WASHINGToN.-Qne of the government's many scientists. DOCTORS OF INFAMY chief health advisers has touched off an angry debate within the medical community by One of his notable critics is Dr. J. A. The Reich Leader SS suggesting that retarded children be used Morris, a virus expert who was the only !ed Journal No. 1652/43 as subjects for testing an experimental vac er .11 ofl'lcial to raise his voice against Presi RF/ Bn cine made !rom the diseased blood of hepa- dent Ford's emergency measures in 1976 to Subject: Research into the Cause of Infec titis victims. · inoculate Americans against the feared tious Jaundice (Hepatitis Epidemica) The hepatitis vaccine has not been llcensed swine-flu epidemic that never materialized. Reference Yours of June 1, 1943-Flle No. by the Food and Drug Administration. A Morris was fired !rom his job as director of 420/IV/43--Journal No. 6.43, top secret spokesman for its manufacturer, Merck, the so-called "slow-latent" virus branch of the FDA's Bureau of Biologics, but the firing Top Secret! Sharp & Dohme, said testing is in the early To Reich Physician SS and Pollee, Berlin stages and the vaccine has not been proven was overruled by Civil Service Appeals Re I acknowledge receipt of your letter of safe or effective. view Board last week. June 1, 1943. Although no researcher has yet accepted Commenting on the Krugman proposal, 1. I grant authorization ·for use in the ex the proposal to test the vaccine on retarded Morris said: "I think it's absolutely outra periments of eight criminals under sentence children, there 1s no FDA rule against such geous. . . . I say 1! it's worthy of experiment of death at Auschwitz (eight Jews of the Po experiments, according to agency spokes ing on kids, then why not do it with healthy lish resistance movement sentenced to woman Faye Peterson. Whlle the agency has kidS? And I would suggest we start with the death). promulgated detailed guidelines to safeguard children of the executives of Merck Sharp & 2. I am in agreement that Dr. Dohmen prisoners in medical experiments, !or exam Dohme."e · should conduct these experiments at Sach ple, no s1milar rules have been issued that senhausen. speclfi~ally cover retarded children. 3. I share your view that an effective cam The proposal to use retarded chUdren as CLARENCE J. VIPOND THE PATRIOT, paign against infectious Jaundice would be test subjects of the vaccine !or the some CHURCHMAN, THE FAMll..Y MAN of immense value. times-fatal disease was made by a New York (signed) H. HIMMLER. pediatrician, Saul Krugman, during a work Carbon copy to SS Lieutenant General shop on the experimental vaccine held two Pohl, Berlin, for information. months ago at the National Institutes of HON. DON H. CLAUSEN SS Lieutenant Colonel. Health near here. A distinguished hepatitis OF CALIFORNIA In connection with a "Common Research researcher, Krugman also 1s chairman of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Program on the Question of the Virus of vaccine board of the FDA's bureau of biolo Hepatitis," the consulting internist to the gies, the chief federal advisory board !or Monday, June 18, 1979 Army Medical Inspector, Prof. Gutzeit of reviewing safety and effectiveness of new • Mr. CLAUSEN. Mr. Speaker, on June Breslau, wrote to Prof. Haagen In Strassburg vaccines to determine whether they should on June 24, 1944 (Doc. No. 124) . Among other 13, 1979, the funeral was held in Mo be llcensed. desto, Calif. as a memorial tribute to things he stated that he was trying "to create Krugman, when asked at the Jan. 19 NIH a the poss1b111ty of carrying out the crucial ex workshop to summarize the material pre man for whom I had a profound measure periment of transmission to man ... How sented there, addressed the difl'lculty of find of genuine admiration and respect-- ever, certain precautions which I cannot ing suitable groups upon which to test the C. J. Vipond. mention in writing must be observed." 1 experimental vaccine. He said: "I would like Here was a man who possessed the This letter from Gutzeit, Haagen answered to suggest that there are children throughout on June 27, 1944, with the following passage: qualities we should all nurture: Courage, the United States who are on a waiting list integrity, humility, compassion, con For the time being I cannot yet conclusive to be admitted to various institutions !or the ly answer your Inquiry about the human ex retarded. . . . It would seem to me that this cem,.sincerity, selflessness, warmth, and periments. As you know, I am working with particular group at home, not in the institu patriotism. Messrs. Kalk, B\1chner,2 and Zuckschwerdt. I tion, would be a logical group in whom to His love for God and Country was have agreed especially with Mr. Kalk, of consider trials with hepatitis B vaccine." only matched by his love for his wife and course, that we are to conduct such experi Krugman said he felt such tests would be ments with our material. family-Vera Vipond; Lois Vipond Case; "highly ethical," because the chances of a Del, Tonya and Lori Case; Robert L. In this same letter Prof. Ha.:a.gen mentions chlld's becoming infected with hepatitis after that the above-mentioned Dr. Dohmen was entering an institution !or the retarded are and Lucy Vipond-who proudly referred expected in Strassburg on July 15. On the very high. Crowded and unsanitary condi to him as C. J., and Dad and Grandpa. same day he passed on Prof. Gutzelt's letter tions and poor personal hygiene aid in My wife, Ollie and I have many fond spreading the disease. memories of get togethers with Clarence 1 AUTHOR'S NOTE: The fact that the "crucial Other medical authorlites and government and his family. experiment" on human beings was actually ofl'l.cials vehemently disagree with the pro Wherever C. J. Vipond lived and carried out in Prof. Gutzelt's Breslau clinic is posal. confirmed by a contribution from this clinic Carleen Bridgeman, executive director of worked, his presence left its mark. As a In the Munich Medical Weekly, 1942, p. 76ft'. the Institute for the Study of Medic:il Ethics farmer, carpenter, businessman and It was written by Dr. H. Voegt, resident phy in California, called Krugman's proposal churchman, he demonstrated a special sician at the clinic, and was entitled: "On "scary" and said, "It's using a captive sub quality and excellence in his production the Etiology of Hepatitis Epidemica." The ject ... a child ... unable to give informed and performance. No task was too large paper, by the way, is a very clear example of consent." or difficult for this very extraordinary the tactics of obscuration as to whether the Dr. John Cooledge said, "Dr. Krugman's man. The church and school facilities experiments were voluntary or not. In the idea is unconscionable . . . until safety is in ~Cre.scent City and Modesto will stand case of a first test series voluntary participa established. His suggestion is completely un tion is expressly emphasized; in a second, ethical." Cooledge, director of health serv as living monuments to the skill and embracing six persons, this is not mentioned. ices at the Georgia Retardation Center, is commitment of this dedicated and de Among the latter was a "thirty-year-old also a special consultant in the court-or voted christian. woman afl'l.icted with a not very extensive dered cleanup of W111owbrook State School His popularity, his genuineness and tubercular infection of the lymph glands on for the retarded in.New York. his down to earth personality were all the left side of the throat." She "drank, in Part of the reason for the angry reactions a cup of soup, 100 cc of urine from patient B. from Cooledge and others is Krugman's con traits that endeared him to all of his and ... (a little later) again about 25 cc from troversial role in operating a research pro personal and business friends. patient Sch." Even after the first dosage "the gram at Wlllowbrook throughout the 1960s Many a farmer in California's central tubercular lymph-gland involvement began that involved infecting he:ilth retarded chil valley can thank "C. J." for their earned to flare up." dren tetween the ages of 3 and 10 with live 2 profit and productivity-due to the PuBLISHER' NoTE: Pro!. BUchner, of Fret hepatitis. realtor C. J. Vipond and his great burg, later stated emphatically that he had Krugman's early experiments, in which be no part whatever in the planning and con measured among other things the amol,nt of credibility. duct of Prof. Haagen's experiments on hu antibodies-natural defenses-the children You cannot build character and cour man beings, having solely examined a series developed after he infected them with the age by taking away a person's initiative of mouse-Uvers for him. disease, provided great gains in scientific and independence. June 20, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ·15817 Through his many initiatives, "C.J.~' years to come, and presents great chal United States are limited primarily to Amer brought joy, happiness, and independ lenges to the Congress in planning for icans between the ages of 18 and 22, and in our future. At present, while the de stitutions of higher education rarely have ence to many families of California. the capacity to meet the special needs of in As he might say, ''keep your nose clean mands on our colleges and universities dividuals who do not !all within the tra so you can smell a phony." are quickly swinging toward nontradi ditional student population; His life was hard and challenging. tional students, ~ ederal poJ.icies in high .. " ( 4) with declining population growth He was a graduate of the "College of er education are still tocused on the rates, the future of education in the United Hard Knocks," learning his lessons well youthiul student populations of years States lies in its abillty to respond to the from his everyday experience5-Jbeliev ago. The time for a new emphasis in challenges of lifelong learning, holding the ing that hardships teach fortitude. higher education has clearly arrived. promise of education and training which break the cycle of dependence !or the disad He was true to his principles, the The Lifelong Learning Act is a care vantaged; Golden Rule and the Ten Command fully dra!ted. response to these emerging "(5) the educational system of the United ments. national needs. Drafted as a compromise States holds vast potential for service in the In his everday living, he recognized initiative in lifelong learning, this legis realm of lifelong learning, but progress wlli that it is not the leap at the start but lation refiects a delicate balance of State, be achieved only through an increased em the steady going that gets you there. institutional, and noninstitutional needs phasis on planning, research, and coordina Here was a man who cared and shar-ed which will draw all available resources tion which more e.rfectively utmzes existing in a way beneficial to all of mankind. resources at all levels of government; and into the lifelong learning process. The "(6) a successful national program of life We all know, "It is right living which bill also provides new opportunities for long learning must marshal resources !rom a prepares us for safe and even joyous participation by industry, busmess, and diverse range of higher education institu death." labor, and hopefully will serve as the tions, business, industry, labor, and other His was a life of giving. basis for consensus on a new direction public and private organizations and insti His was a life which was good. for Federal initiatives in community tutions in order to meet the unique educa His was a life of beauty. service and adult education. tional problems and needs of disadvantaged adults. God governs in the affairs of men. Mr. bpeaker, in this time of difficult Our brother, "C.J.'' Vipond, is now "(b) The Congress hereby declares it to budgetary restraint, I should stress that be the policy of the United States that to safely and peacefullY-in the hands of the Lifelong Learning Act requires no make education and training opportunities the Lord.e , expansion of Federal expenditures in the available to all citizens throughout life, and realm of lifelong learning. The legisla to remove any barriers to such opportunities tion simply redirects the present t1tle I posed by previous education or training, age, THE LIFELONG LEARNING ACT OF appropriation, $16 million tor fiscal year sex, race, handicap, national origin, or eco 1979 1979, and targets that 1<-ederal aid to pro nomic circumstances. mote access for nontraditional students. "COMPREHENSIVE STATE PLANNING AND The revision of title I is essential if -we IMPLEMENTATION HON. WILLIAM R. RATCHFORD are to use Federal resources etlectively to "SEc. 102. (a) (1) (A) From 35 per centum OF CONNECl'IC'OT reach adult populations through insti of the sums appropriated pursuant to sec IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion 111, the Secertary shall allot to each tutions of higher education. State an amount which bears the same ratio Tuesday, June 19, 1979 Looking ahead to the 1~80's, one of our to such sums as the ad~lt population of such e Mr. RATCHFORD. Mr. Speaker, to highest eaucational priorities must be to State bears to the population of all the day I am introducing the Lifelong Learn improve access for these neglected "stu States, except that for each fiscal year no dents" who so greatly need the benefits State shall receive !rom such sums less than ing Act of 1979, which is designed to of lifelong learning: The elderly, poor, $50,000 !or that year. improve access to higher education for "(B) If the sums appropriated !or any nontraditional students of all ages. handicapped, displaced homemakers, fiscal year are not su1fic1ent to make pay This legislation is a revision of title I minorities, the unemployed, and under ments of $50,000 to each State then the of the Higher Education Act, which now employed. In_reased access for these dis amount of each State's allotment shall be encompasses a broad range of community advantaged persons is the major goal of ratably reduced. If additional sums become service and adult education programs this legislation, and the proposal has available for any fiscal year !or which allot already drawn broad support from the ments have been so reduced, then such al administered by the States. Unfortunate education community. lotments shall be increased on the same ly, the existin.g title I lacks any clear basis as they were reduced, except that 1! focus or relationship to national needs, I now urge my colleagues in the House to join me in this new attempt to focus the sums so available exceed the amount re and has consistently failed to generate quired to allot $50,000 to each State such enthusiasm and adequate appropriations on the emerging needs of lifelong learn sums shall be allotted on the basis of popu within the Congress. ing. Following is the text of the Lifelong lation as required by paragraph (1). It is in response to these inadequacies Learning Act of 1979, which hopefully "(2) If any State does not enter into an that I am sponsoring the Lifelong Learn will serve to elevate the discussion on the agreement satisfactory to the Secretary, or 1! future of higher education in America in any fiscal year, any State does not have an ing Act of 1979. This revised title I pro during the coming weeks: agreement satisfactory to the Secretary pur gram would target Federal funds to suant to section 106, the Secretary shall re State and institutional programs for Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of allot the funds that would have been al nontraditional students facing barriers America in Congress assembled, That this lotted to such State to all other States with to participation in higher education. In Act may be cited as the "Lifelong Learning satisfactory agreements. Such reallotments so doing, the Lifelong Learning Act es Act of 1979". to other States shall be made in proportion to tablishes a national policy of making SEc. 2. Title I of the Higher Education Act their allotments pursuant to paragraph (1). training and education opportunities of 1965 is amended to read as follows: Any amount reallotted to a State under thts subsection during a year !rom funds appro available to all Americans, and directs "TITLE I-LIFELONG LEARNING priated shall be deemed part of its allot federal resources to meet the challenges "FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY ment under paragraph (1) !or such year. of declining student populations and "SEc. 101. (a) The Congress finds that- "(3) (A) In accordance with regulations changing educational needs. " ( 1) the rapid pace of social, economic, prescribed by the Secretary, any State may The average college student today is and technological change has created press file with the Secretary a request that a spe hardly the 20-year-old male of two dec ing needs for education programs which fo cified portion of its allotment under this ades ago. Each year, our institutions are cus on the retraining and continuing educa title be added to the allotment of another filled with increasing numbers of older tion of nontraditional students in all stages State under this title !or the purpose of Americans, men and women beyond the of life; meeting a portion of the Federal share of traditional age of the student who want "(2) in a changing society, many disad the cost of providing programs under this or need additional education and train vantaged adults are restricted from advance part. ing to cope with a rapidly changing ment or self-su1ficiency by lack of education "(B) If the Secretary finds that the pro during youth, while still others are restricted grams with respect to which the request Js world. because of barriers such as age, sex, race, made would meet the needs of the State This growing trend of part-time, non handicap, national origin, or economic cir making the request and that use or the spe traditional students will profoundly al cumstance; cified portion of such State's allotment. as ter the shape of higher education in the "(3) educational opportunities in the requested by it, would assist in carrying out 15818 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1979 the purposes of this part, such portion o! " ( 3) developing strategies !or optaining learning programs which are or may be car such State's allotment shall be added to the long-term public and private support to as ried out and supported by any department allotment of the other State under this sure that continuing education and com or agency o! the Federal Government or part to be used !or the purpose referred to munity service programs wlll continue to the private sector; 1n subparagraph (A). be available to adults and community groups "(3) review present-and proposed methods "(b) (1) From the amounts allotted under who would otherwise face programmatic o! financing lifelong learning from publlc subsection (a)- and financial barriers to participation; and private sources, including the adminis "(A) each State, in the case o! a State "(4) establishing policies and procedures trative features o! each, to determine the receiving an allotment o! less than $100,000, for creating or expanding a labor education, extent to which each promotes lifelong shall expend not less than 40 nor more than training, and technical assistance program learning for the general public and the ex 50 per centum o! such allotment, and · in one or more institutions o! higher educa tent to which each serves to encourage par "(B) each State, in the case o! a State re tion, including the procedures to be used ticipation in lifelong learning by those seg ceiving an allotment o! more than $100,000, to develop cooperative arrangements for ments o! the adult population not now shall expend not less than 30 nor more than working with State level labor organiza enjoying equal opportunities !or learning; 40 per centum of such allotment, tions-- "(4) submit to the President and the Con to carry out a program of comprehensive " (A) to determine the specific nature and gress not later than October 1, 1982, an statewide planning for lifelong learning to extent of the need !or such services, and evaluation of the several hundred existing insure effective and efficient use o! all avail "(B) to assess the interest and relative Federal programs supporting lifelong able resources !rom whatever source for life capacity o! institutions o! higher education learning to determine the degree to which long learning in the State to improve access in the State to apply their resources to existing statutory authorities and funding to persons within the State to lifelong learn meet the research, training, and develop levels encourage or discourage broad access of ing opportunities. Such planning shall give mental needs of workers and of officers and students and potential students to lifelong particular consideration to the needs o! dis members o! labor organizations. learning opportunities; advantaged persons for lifelong learning "SPECIAL PURPOSE GRANTS " ( 5) report to the President and the Con gress on the progress o! activities under this opportunities. "SEC. 104. (a) From 30 per centum of the (2) The remainder of the funds allotted to section by January 1 of each year through sums appropriated pursuant to section 111, 1985; and a State which is not used pursuant to para the Secretary shall make grants and enter graph ( 1) may be expended by such State on "(6) convene a Lifelong Learning Confer into contracts with public and private agen ence in 1983 for the purposes of assessing activities to implement comprehensive state cies, institutions and organizations, busi wide planning through grants to, or con the progress of these activities, continuing ness, labor, and with individuals. the development o! Federal lifelong learning tracts with, appropriate institutions or agen "(b) Grants and contracts under this sec cies, or combinations thereof, within the policy and developing any necessary legis tion shall be !or- lative recommendations for the improvement State for the purposes of (A) improving ac .. ( 1) assessing, evaluating the need !or, cess of persons (particularly of disadvan o! this title, before the reauthorization of demonstrating, developing, and disseminat this title by the Congress in 1985. taged persons) in such State to lifelong ing alternative methods to improve the ac learning opportunities and (B) encouraging cess o! disadvantaged persons to life-long "STATE AGREEMENTS better statewide coordination o! various learning opportunities; "SEc. 106. Any State desiring to receive its lifelong learning opportunities avallable and "(2) supporting activities and providing allotment of funds under sections 102(a) and planned within the State, including those technical assistance, where necessary, de 103(a) shall enter into an agreement with the activities receiving Federal support under Secretary containing such information and other statutes. signed to eliminate inequities with regard to age in the operation and policies of the ed assurances as the Secretary may reasonably (3) Not more than 5 per centum o! the require to insure proper and efficient ex funds allotted under this section may be ucational system; "(3) identifying and disseminating in penditure of Federal funds allocated to the used for purposes o! the administration of State anct under this title. Such agreement programs under section 103. Such funds may formation about innovative education and training practices which offer promise of shall- be appropriately deducted from the amounts .. ( 1) designate as the State agency to re available under either paragraph (1) or (2) providing models !or Federal, State, local, and institutional policies that would en ceive, and to be responsible !or expenditure of this section, or under both such of the State's allotment, the State agency paragraphs. hance the availability and effectiveness of lifelong learning opportunities; and responsible under State law !or compre "GRANTS TO INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER "(4) a~sisting schools !or education and hensive statewide planning !or postsecondary EDUCATION other institutions which provide for teacher education, except that such State agency may "SEc. 103. (a) Thirty per centum of the education to retrain faculty, teachers, coun delegate to another State agency or institu sums appropriated pursuant to section 111 selors and others so that they become effec tion responsib111ty !or specific implementa shall be available to States with agreements tive educators o! the new clientele o! stu tion activities to be carried out in accord under section 106, for grants to institutions dents, especially disadvantaged adults who ance with the comprehensive statewide plan o! higher education including, but not lim wish and need to learn throughout their ning conducted to pursuant to section ited to, community colleges. lifetime. 102(b); "(b) From the sums reserved under sub "(c) No grant or contract may be awarded "(2) set forth policies and procedures to section (a) , the Secretary shall allot to each under this section to any applicant unless . coordinate any activities l,}ndertaken pursu State an amount which bears the same ratio the Secretary has provided the State agency ant to section 102(b) with State programs to such sums as the adult population o! designated pursuant to paragraph ( 1) o! under the Comprehensive Employment and such State bears to the adult population of section 106(a) an opportunity to comment Training Act, the Older Americans Act, the all the States. on the relevance of the proposed grant or Vocational Rehab111tation Act, the Voca "(c) In order to receive funds under this contract to the comprehensive statewide tional Education Act, the Career Education section, States shall have carried out or be in planning undertaken pursuant to section Incentive Act, and with all other state level the process of carrying out the requirements 102(b) (1) !or at least 30 days. The Secretary activities assisted by the Higher Education of section 102(b) (1) of this title and shall shall make an explicit determination in Act of 1965 (including Educational Infor demonstrate the relationship between grants writing prior to the award o! any grant or mation Centers) and other Federal laws in made under this section and the State plan contract regarding the extent to which the tended to provide outreach, guidance, coun ning required under section 102(b) (1). grant or contract relates to or is consistent seling, and educational and occupational in "(d) Grants under this section shall be !or with such comprehensive statewide plan formation to persons within the State; the purpose o!- · ning. "(3) set !orth the means to be used, con " ( 1) expanding and improving postsec sistent with State law, by the State agency ondary continuing education programs and "FEDERAL LrFELONG LEARNING ACTIVITIES designated pursuant to paragraph (1) to educational information and counseling "SEc. 105. (a) From 5 centum of the sums achieve active participation and involvement services to help adults develop their poten appropriated pursuant to section 111, the in the comprehensive statewide planning tial, improve the well-being of their families Secretary shall carry out a program of plan process of students and potential students and communities, and increase their ability rung, research, coordination and informa (particularly disadvantaged persons) and to participate in civic, economic, and cul tion dissemination related to lifelong learn existing and potential providers of lifelong · tural activities; ing. In carrying out the provisions of this learning opportunities and services within "(2) making the instructional, research, section, the Secretary sha.ll- the State, including business, labor, educa and technical resources of postsecondary in "(1) foster improved coordination of Fed tional institutions, State and local govern stitutions available for diagnosing problems, eral support !or lifelong learning programs ments, community and voluntary agencies identifying the knowledge, technical skUls, across Federal agencies; a.nd other programs (including federally and products appropriate to their solution, "(2) Establish a. clearinghouse for infor funded programs) ser,vtng adult learners, a Communist heroes in contemporary litera It 1s common in Soviet schools for children years old are in day nurseries, and about 30 ture who could act as models for Soviet to judge their peers as they think their teach percent of a.ll preschoolers are in nurseries youth. Many Russians think it 1s the ab ers want them to-class leaders are usually or kindergartens. sence of heroes in rea.l life that has dimin what American students used to call "ad There is considerable evidence that al ished idealism and turned people inward. ministration finks." And this sets the pattern though collectivism has reduced political The heroic portrayal of workers, soldiers !or adulthood, when collectives of factory deviance, it has not worked well in other and revolutionaries persists on stage and workers and Communist Party members act areas. screen, especially in epics on the Soviet vic at omcial meetings as their superiors expect. Since the collective is a basic unit in in tory in World War II. But the most popular Sometimes such formal collectivism goes dustrial organization, with factory brigades recent film is not on that theme. Called no deeper than the surface; some youngsters and teams paid bonuses on the basis of "Strange Woman," it 1s the story of a woman have reported that in schools it is all per group performance, the ideal has held that who possesses all the tangible ingredients of formed cynically, with laughter as soon as people would throw themselves into their happiness and who abandons her husband the teacher leaves the room. jobs for the common good, respect joint in search of love. EXCESSES ARE CONDEMNED property and shun pers6na1 gain. "To hell with love," the husband exclaims. THE GOALS ARE NOT MET "People are busy with work, work-under Furthermore, from teacher to teacher and stand? Everybody goes crazy about this love school to school, emphasis on the collective But some workers say that the real ethic as if nothing more important existed!" varies. Some pursue the theme with alacrity, on the job is to work slowly so you do not When Yurt Trlfonov's "The Exchange" is some with indifference, some use it as a stern make others look bad, to regard the society's playing at the Taganka Theater, scores of instrument of discipline, some recognize the property as dispensable because it belongs to people hover outside hoping to buy extra danger of excess. no one and to make as much individual tickets as the audience arrives. But when a Occasionally, excesses are condemned. A profit as possible, often lllegally. Beneath patriotic pageant of war and heroism based film dramatizing the overzealous and de the surface, collectives are also frequently on Leonid I. Brezhnev's wartime memoir struct!ve use of peer pressure against a the settings for gossipy rivalries and back "Malaya Zemlya" was performed recently at schoolboy was shown recently on Moscow tel stabbing, Russians say. another central Moscow theater, people stood evision. A play for young people about juve Nor does the collectivist ethic seem to outside trying in vain to sell tickets they did nile crime 1llustrates the harmful effects of a have bred a strong social conscience. A not want; inside, there were many empty hostlle collective on a boy who needs help group of teen-age activists in Moscow's seats. and support. Komsomol, the Young Communist League, There need be no dichotomy between col "We are more concerned with what the met several months ago with an American lectivism and private life. It is a matter of collective thinks of us than what our par correspondent who asked what they saw shading and emphasis, a question of what ents think," said a law student as his com wrong in the world that they wanted to set depth collectivist values can have when other panion, a history major, nodded in agree right. All their answers were aimed at what curren.ts run through a society. ment. they perceived as American ills: crime, The collective is sttll a sacrosanct idea of 'Ihe same thing might be said of young racism, the rise of fascism, the arms race. Soviet Communism, one that springs out people everywhere, except that Soviet society Asked to say something about their coun of the Russian culture and finds reinforce works hard to insure that peer pressure try, they were silent. With the question re ment in modern ideology. The notion that a pushes in the rlght directions. One result 1s phrased to allow positive statements about person should work hard not for his own hypocrisy-the tendency to speak and vote what they hoped to do for their own country, gain but for the good of the society is a at meetings as is expected but to think other there was again silence. Finally a boy an strong ideal here, and perhaps as unattain wise. swered mechanically, "We want to build able as any ideal anywhere. A U.S.-SOVIET COMPARISON Communism." Westerners who live in Moscow for a time FITriNG IN IS IMPORTANT A telllng piece of research in the mid-1960's begin to see that Russians have a deep love Much importance is attached to a per compared the willingness of Soviet and Amer of their country but not necessarily for their son's getting along with the group; loners ican children to misbehave in the face of countrymen. They can be blindly patriotic are rarely admired, no matter how brilllant. their peers. As reported by Urie Bron!enbren and frequently uncharitable. Conformity is valued, individuallsm and ner in his book "Two Worlds of Childhood," A Muscovite standing in a meat line re solitude are not. Russians talk to strangers the Americans' behavior was good when they cently watched as a young man, obviously on trains, sit in the front seats of taxis, ac thought that only their parents would be aware but worsened when they thought their from a village where there was no meat at cept being scolded in public by passers-by all, bought 10 kilograms (22 pounds), prob for fa111ng to bundle their chlldren ade classmates would know. ably to take home to his family. Because of quately against the cold, for wearing shabby "Soviet youngsters were just the opposite," favoritism and poor distribution, Moscow clothes, for driving dirty cars. Mr. Bronfenbrenner wrote. "In fact, their has better supplies than the countryside, The school is the main crucible of collec classmates were about as effective as par and many peasants shop in the capital. tivism. Teachers' manuals mandate efforts ents and teachers in decreasing misbehavior." "The old woman behind me started to to instlll a collective consciousness in chU The trouble with such studies is that they grumble," the Muscovite recalled. " 'Why so dren by making much of their behavior and often tap only the formal, contrived dimen much?' she said. 'They should give only one academic performance subject to approval sion of Soviet life and rarely the more spon kilo each. Why don't they work better on by other chlldren as well as the teacher. taneous, natural impulses. The collective has their own farms so they have enough meat? One method is to divide a class into rows its omcial aspect, as in a classroom of chil Why do they have to come to Moscow?' " or small groups of five or six who compete dren doing the teacher's bidding in denounc as teams in schoolwork, obedience, neatness ing misbehavior, and also its street-wise facets, as in a gang of teen-agers vandalizing RUSSIANS COVET AFFLUENCE OF U.S. BUT and the like. The fate of one 1s thereby ARE WARY OF ITS POLITICAL SETUP bound up with the fate of a.ll: Any excel automobiles. lent student pulls the whole team up, and Juvenile crime, high divorce rates and (By David K. Shipler) any laggard pulls it down,. The children are other 1lls of modern urbanization have Moscow.-sovlet society has been exposed encouraged to help the slow pupil and scold prompted sociologists and educators to look to mere American influence during this dec the lazy one. "It works quite well," a teacher again at the famlly as a key social institu ade of detente than in other period since said. tion, to stress the need for its health and the Bolshevik Revolution, deepening the am The entire class's scorn nnd pressure are stab111ty and to move far away from the no bivalence that Russians have historically felt sometimes used against wrong-headed tion preva.lent in the first decade after the toward the West. youngsters. A Moscow teen-ager recalled once revolution, based on Marx and Engels, that Many Russians have become well-read in having an "incorrect" reaction to a moralls the family would disappear, that communal American literature, and millions get their tic, patriotic tale of a Young Pioneer during life would replace the individual household. news from Voice of America broadcasts. the war who refused the orders of German So-called communal apartments in which Painters, dancers and writers sometimes look soldiers to take off his red neckerchief and each family has its room and shares a kitch to the West for inspiration. And a great in was shot for it. en and bath with others are seen today as fatuation has developed for the material anachronisms and signs of poverty. The re goods and popular styles of the United GIRL SAID WHAT TEACHER WANTED sult of an acute housing shortage and not States. a craving for jeans, rock, chewing "I said in my composition that the boy ideology, they are rapidly being replaced gum and the like. was foolish," the teen-ager said. "What did throughout the country with high-rise, But all this contact has not generated he accompllsh? I didn't understand what was separate fiats. heroic about him. much pressure !or change inside the Soviet Similarly, childrearing has not been Union. For reasons of Russian cult'Ql"e that "The teacher read the composition in class turned over to the state. Even though vir go back before the Revolution, Western ideas didn't say who wrote it and asked the class·~ tually all able-bodied women have jobs, of democracy remain alien, incomprehensi opinion. Somebody said that what I wrote most take full advantage of long maternity ble and unattractive to broad masses of Rus was right, somebody said it wasn't right. You leaves. then deposit the children with grand sians. much as the Russian ethic of collectiv could feel she wanted the class to say it was mothers during working hours. Soviet sta ism is hard for an American to understand wrong, so a girl stood up and said it was all tistics are imprecise, but it appears that and admire. wrong." only about 17 percent of children under 3 Deeply rooted values that have prevalled 15822 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1979 since czarist times foster a mystical respect precisely because they are freer to use their asked whether he might ha.ve a few a! the for central authority, a yearning for order critical faculties to probe and analyze and precious calendars. and unanimity, a distaste for disagreement question tha.n if they were examining their Travel is the great prize, however. Only and diversity, a dread of any turmoil of ideas. own society. 8,750 Russians visited the United States last From this perspective, America.n. society Many also privately acknowledge their year, according to the State Department, and looks chaotic and frightening. fondness for the United States, though it is only 3,500 of them were tourists. By contrast, Democra.tic ideas are also repelled by a usually an admiration for the abundance 100,000 Americans came to the Soviet Union. smothering blanket of propaganda that au and ambiance, rarely the ideals. Those who all tourists except 5,000 to 6,000 on exchanges thorities use to denigrate the American sys find the West too attractive are isolated and or on government or private business. tem and by Russians' cynicism about all rejected by the Soviet system as refiexively Many dancers, musicians, actors and writ high-sounding platitudes, including their as a living organism combats a piece of for ers feel trips to the West are vital to their own. But the deeper values are the most de eign matter. art, keeping them in touch with creative cisive, and they are not merely imposed from In fact, omclaldom has deftly twisted con developments in the outside world. But those above; they grow from within the society tacts with the West into a new form of social selected to make tours are chosen as much and help produce the kind of political struc control, more humane than labor camps but on the basis of political reliabllity and per ture that exists. equally effective. The coveted trip to Western sonal favoritism as for their talents. The result is a society highly resistant to Europe or to the United States, and the ac A violinist with the Bolshoi Opera and infection by the principles of individualism cess to American records and films, are now Ballet, for instance, scrupulously attends and personal freedom. This is no longer a rewards for good behavior e.t home, and the political lectures twice a month and w1l1 take place of pervasive terror, as under Stalin, denial of the privlliges can be a devastating an examination in political subjects, not yet in the 21 years since cultural and sci punishment that keeps people in line. because she is interested-she knits through the droning sessions-but because she wants entUlc exchanges with the United States be The results are sometimes bizarre. A stu gan, the thousands of Russians and Ameri to make a tour to the West and needs a dent at Moscow University began to avoid near-perfect attendance record to be selected. cans who have worked in each other's coun American exchange students after she learned tries have had only superficial impact. The She will have to leave her musician-husbanc1 that she had a chance to study in the behind as insurance that she will return. old dream that contact with open societies United States the following year; she did not would open the Soviet Union has faded. want to risk losing her trip by seeming pro NECESSITIES ARE BOUGHT ABROAD The Moscow teen-agers who sport dunga American. A surgeon was denied trips abroad Some musicians say frankly that they go ree jackets with American fiags sewn on the for years after having once complained mild abroad less for the culture than for the sleeves are rarely enchanted with American ly to a reporter in New York about short chance to buy things. Of the $19 to •25 each style free elections. The millions who listen ages of Soviet medicines and equipment. receives dally in the United States to pay for to the Voice of America seldom see virtue JOIN THE PARTY AND TRAVEL ABROAD lunch and dinner, they save enough by vir in a free press. Many more risk imprison tually starving themselves and Uving off ment for Ulegal dealings in American goods A young Estonian was told that he could cans of fish and hunks of cheese carried from than are w1lling to face jail for advocating not travel to Britain unless he joined the Moscow to stock up on ha.rd-to-get item.a free speech. Few belleve that free elections, party, so he did. A young Muscovite was re such as violin strings, clarinet reeds and a free press and free speech exist anywhere. fused party membership because years before mouthpieces, as well as clothes, records and "We need to fight for freedom," a young he had befriended an American boy studying hi-fi equipment 1! they can afford lt. Russian remarked, "but basically we fight at his high school. Back home, they parcel these out to for comfort." But knowing an American also has ad friends, relatives or inftuential omcials, or Even many people in a position to be vantages, for the most ordinary props of they can sell them on the black market for drawn toward democratic principles are gov American life have become valuable cur enormous profits. erned by the ancient impulses of unanimity rency in the Soviet Union. A pack of Win The amuence in American llfe undoubt and order. Dissidents who take heavy risks stons or Marlboros moves the most omcious edly makes the most dramatic impression on in struggling for human rights, and who bureaucrat. Packages of chewing gum are Russians who see the United States first count on publicity and support in the West, often used by relatives of imprisoned dissi hand and who come from a society of long rarely turn out to be civil llbertarians. Many dents to bribe labor-camp omcials into ex lines, a scarce meat, shoddy goods--a life of are as likely as Communist Party members tending visiting times. constant struggle to live well, and one of to resent differences of opinion within their An American diplomat once offered a copy little luxury. own ranks, and some who have emigrated are of Playboy magazine, outlawed in the Soviet A Russian woman visiting the New York truly bothered by the babble of voices in the Union as pornography, to a policeman guard area several years ago maintained a stole West, seeing public argument as a sign of ing the American's apartment house. The "ours is better" attitude through a tour of weakness. omcer accepted it with delight. Later, the Lincoln Center, the Empire State Building EVEN EXPERTS HAVE DIFFICULTY American was spotted by another omcer who and a cruise a.round Manhattan, until her had just come on duty and was asked hostess took her into a supermarket. There, Soviet experts on American affairs also find whether he had another copy. The diplomat the veneer of smugneSB cracked as the Rus it hard to grasp American values despite said no. si-an woman stood amid seemingly endless their frequent visits to the United States and aisles of fresh vegetables, red meat and their privilege of reading American publlca "Well," said the policeman, "do you have frozen foo~d wept. tions banned to ordinary Russians. Partly be a gin and tonic?" The American got him cause they must be ideologically rellable to one. SOME :riND I'BEEDOM ATTRACTIVE hold such posts, they often fall to appreciate WALL CALENDARS ARE HELD PRECIOUS Those who find American freedom attrac certain features of American life important Detente has even introduced a. new ritual tive are mostly intellectuals and artistic to their analyses, such as the role of indi into some Russians' preparations for New performers, a tiny elite whose polttioal im vidualism or pluralism in politics. Year's Day, their most festive holdiday. Those pact at home is minimal, especially since In odd ways, however, the West in general with access !<> Westerners begin maneuvering the party assiduously weigbs its upper and the United States in particular are fac weeks in advance to get their hands on wall ranks with unlntellectual, industry-oriented tors in the Soviet Union's intellectual envi calendars emblazoned with the names of technicians. ronment. Because the Voice of America is no American or European companies. For many in the cultural world, the expo sure to creativity unfettered by governmen longer jammed, the censored Soviet press Swissair calendars are routinely stolen must report and comment on events it used tal edict is a. heady and painfully eXIhllarat from the airline's omce at Moscow's Shere ing experience that feeds frustration. to ignore. Because Soviet writers can find metyevo Airport. Pan American calendars publishers in the West for works rejected In his book "To Dance," the ballet sta.r are used in complex schemes of favoritism Valery Panov writes tha.t what drove him to here, the censor has assumed some fiexib111ty. and bribery that only a bazaar merchant The West is stlll a safe haven for Russians fight for emigration, a battle finally won, could unravel. One linguist gave a Pan Am was the bureaucra.ts' unexplained decision who think differently, a place from which calendar this year as a "thank you" to his they can expound views that filter back into to deprive him of foreign travel and to curb wife's boss, who had used his inftuence to his attempts to push beyond the accepted the rarifted atmosphere of the Soviet intel get the linguist's daughter transferred to a llgentsia. Although there is no emigre or · norms of dance on stage. better kindergarten by promising the factory Mikhail Ba.ryshnikov, who defected, once exile today who can be compared to Alek that ran the kindergarten some unspecified sandr Herzen, the 19th-century liberal who said: "If I had the opportunity to leave lived in London, or to Lenin, who spent favor. Russia for one month, two months at a. ·time, years in Western Europe writing and orga Shortly before last New Year's Day, David to work with d11ferent choreographers and nizing before the Revolution, the works of L. Buckman, the former Moscow representa return home to the KirOv, I would never those now living abroad are smuggled in and tive of Chase Manhattan Bank, was talking have left. My homeland, my theater, my avidly read. on his omce intercom with his secretary friends mean more to me than anything. But about a shipment of bank calendars. Mo the time came for a choice: my a.rt or my STUDY OF U .S. OFFERS SOME FREEDOM ments later, the secretary asked him to step peacefUl contentment." Furthermore, many Soviet scholars and into the corridor, where she explained that It is probably in culture that the strong journalists enter the field of American atraira the man who monltora conversations bad est Western infiue~e haa been felt, and even June 20, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15823 that has been slow and muftled, a. reluctant world. You are like Martians to us. And I Jackson presents a gift of $4,000 to a self penetration by abstract painting, thea.trica.l suppose we are llke Martians to you."e proclaimed Rhodesian murderer, a man symbolism, rock and jazz, modern dance, who has repeatedly said that violence is truthful literature-a. gradual erosion of the the only answer, then the Carter admin heroically optlmlstic socialist realism of istration sweeps it under the rug. More Sta.lln's time, which nonetheless remains the NKOMO ONLY RHODESIAN WHEN most acceptable form, and the safest. than that they bow and scrape to curry Overall, American Ute looks chaotic, in SHOOTING AT CIVILIANS AND favor with this madman while snubbing secure, crime-ridden and frighteningly dis C!VllJIAN PLANES a decent leader, Bishop Muzorewa. orderly to ordinary Russians whose percep I do not intend to drop my call for an tions are dimmed by a. veil of Marxist HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK investigation and will advise the At upbringing and oftlcial propaganda. The This multiplicity of American voices is contusing OF OHIO torney General of that intention. nonsense has gone on long enough. I and disturbing to a society hungry for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES strong lea.dership and eager for a. single com have been advised that later this week, prehensive political truth. Tuesday, June 19, 1979 the House of Representatives will have A Soviet historian r~ntly made a tell1ng e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, a the opportunity to go on record as either remark after having heard a West COast pro couple of weeks ago I called for a Federal for or against the continuation of the fessor describe American politics. "That's investigation of Atlanta Mayor Maynard Rhodesian sanctions. I hope that my col very undisciplined," the historian said. leagues will join me in ending the liberal Then, asked to describe his own image of Jackson as a result of his $4,000 gift to America., he declared: "You don't have an visiting Rhodesian terrorist Joshua double-standard. idea.. Russians have an idea.. Russians need Nkomo. At that time I asked Secretary The State Department letter follows: an idea. to believe ln." This highly educated Blumenthal to clarify his Department's DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, man did not understand that the essence of position on what appeared to be a direct Washington, D.C., June 13, 1979. the American idea. is in the din of ideas. Hon. JoHN M. AsHBROOK, Many Russians tend to project their own violation of Federal law. House of Representatives. polltlca.l experience onto American society. Section 530.101 CXXV--996-Part 12 15832 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1979 Also participating in the service was continued for many years as a Scouter and $2.37/MM Btu (in a new installation today, Mrs. Elizabeth Benson Wolf, president earned many SCouting honors, wrote a quar the gas costs would run about $2.50/MM ter-century after Mr. Boyce left us: Btu), as compared with a natural gas pri.ce of the Allegheny County League of "His contribution to the material, cultural, of $3.00/ MM Btu in many parts of Penn Women Voters and a daughter of the and spiritual growth of America through sylvania. The plant's gas price breakdown former director of the Boy Scouts' Lone Scouting is beyond measure." looks like this: Scout Division, the late Oscar H. Ben We here today can add little to the luster MMBtu son. Mrs. Wolf placed a wreath beneath of the name William D. Boyce, for it already Anthracite coal cost (at $45 per a portrait of the founding father of graces many memorials, including this cam ton) ------$1.861 scouting in America. pus, and is a direct part ,of the heritage of 63 Equipment cost (depreciation)------. 159 milllon who have borne the title Scout or Operational costs______. 248 Other dignitaries taking part in the Scouter. We can and do join in continuing to Maintenance costs______.067 memorial ceremony included Dr. Richard help his dream come true: Exemplification of W. McDowell, vice president and execu scouting principles in our lives and service Another Glen-Gery brick plant, located in tive dean of Boyce Campus; James J. to the youth of our generations.e the Borough of watsontown in my district, Bruce, his assistant; Ralph L. Margolis, switched back to anthracite gas, a process the plant had abandoned when "cheap" nat the campus librarian who read a tribute ural gas became available. Their new mix of to Mr. Boyce written by Ernest L. Gam 15 percent natural gas (at $3.25/mcf) and bell of Silver Spring, Md., chairman of IMPACT OF SYNTHETIC FUELS 85 percent anthracite gas (at a comparable the advisory committee for the Lone $2.25/ lmcf) results in a savings to the plant Scout program and a member at large HON. ALLEN E. ERTEL of $20,000 per month. of the national council for BSA, and Like the DoE-sponsored system, the Wat Matthew McClung, an Eagle Scout from OF PENNSYLVANIA sontown plant achieves a 90 percent hot gas IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES conversion efficiency, i.e., 90 percent of the Troop 141 who has become a leading au Btu content in the anthracite (at 12,700 thority on the life of the man who left Wednesday, June 20, 1979 Btu/lb.) is contained in the hot gas at 700 so much to so many. • Mr. ERTEL. Mr. Speaker, I would like degrees F. The high-q.uallty, low-sulphur Mr. Speaker, I would like to insert to submit for publication in the RECORD anthracite fuel affords such high conversion into the RECORD at this time the prayer my testimony which I have just prepared efilciencies because no tars or oils are pro written by Reverend Elson and the trib duced in the process. For other coals, clean for the Subcommittee on Elementary, ing tars and oils from producer gas is costly ute by Mr. Gambell commemorating Wil Secondary and Vocational Education, liam D. Boyce, whose life's work lives on due to the equipment required-its purchase, and on Employment Opportunities, operation and maintenance. The simplicity of in every Boy Scout in America. which have conducted hearings on the anthracite gasification plants results in sub PRAYER subject of the impact of the synthetic stantial savings. God of our fathers and our God, before fuels industry on labor and manpower The third plant, Howmet Aluminum Cor whom the generations rise and pass away, training. poration of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has, we thank Thee for leaders of lofty vision, My testimony deals with a cost com within the last year, installed an anthracite noble purpose and sacri.ficial service in every petitive, environmentally safe but little gasifier, the hot gas from which wlll be used g~neration. We thank Thee for the sacred for aluminum melting. memories which cluster a.bout Wllliam Dick appreciated synfuel: anthracite gas, I have enclosed for the subcommittees' son Boyce, Founder of Scouting in the which has been used successfully in three information e. graph which depicts the po United States. industrial -plants in Pennsylvania. The tential fuel costs savings over natural gas Grateful for his vision and his idealism unique opportunities presented by this or oil of one gasifier converting one ton/ in our youth we pray that some measure of technology warrants consideration and hour of anthracite into industrial fuel gas his spirit may fall on us again that we may attention from every Member of Con or boiler fuel. This graph was prepared by be wise as he was wise, true as he was true, gress, particularly my colleagues from Gas Generation Associates, a. division of Acu loyal a.s he was loyal. rex Corporation, of Reading, Pennsylvania, May we be steadfast in our love of life, the Northeast. and a group that has been promoting the use our devotion to freedom, our intolerance The testimony follows: of anthracite gasification. of evil, our dedication to justice and our TESTIMONY BY MR. ERTEL Even this limited experience with anthra pursuit of peace throughout the world. Mr. CHAIRMAN: I appreciate your affording cite gasification that I have cited demon And may goodness and mercy follow us me an opportunity to present testimony re strates both the viab111ty and economics of e.ll our days that we may abide with Thee lated to your investigation into the synthetic this technology. However DOE }las shown forever. Amen. fuels industry. While I am going to stray very little interest in pursuing more wide somewhat from the theme of the synfuels spread ut111zation of low and medium BTU TRIBUTE TO Wn.LIAM DICKSON BOYCE industry's impact on labor and manpower gas, maintaining that gas derived from coal Fifty years ago today, on June 11, 1929, the training, I think in the long run my com cannot successfully compete with traditional Founder of SCouting in the United States (the ments w111 touch on this issue. fossil fuels. I think the experience of these Boy scouts of America and the Lone Scouts My district is part of the vast anthracite plants shows the fallacy of that argument. of America) left "his boys" to "pass beyond mining region in Pennsylvania, a region with This is a disturbing attitude to have to the sunset." At this 50th anniversary, it is approximately 18.8 bUlion tons in identified wards a demonstrated and proven, cost-com most fitting !or those who have been the resources, representing about 96 percent of petitive, and environmentally clean (anthra beneficiaries of the great thing he started to the total domestic supply of this coal. The cite gasification produces no emissions to remember the vision and the faith implicit reserve base, I.e., the inplace deposits tl-Jat pose any environmental dangers) technology in his message of 55 years ago on the occasion are relatively thick and near enough to the that utilizes an abundant rather than a of the union of the two great organizations land surface to allow mining by conventional scarce resource. DOE's assessment is that that he initiated: surface and underground methods, has been there is no market for this technology on "I have given fifteen years-the best years pegged at 7.1 billion tons in Pennsylvania. a large scale (such as one gasifier serving of my Ufe-to this· work !or the American Despite the enormous potential contribu more than one industrial plant). To the boy, and w111 remain his faithful friend until tion anthracite ut111zation could make in our department's credit, the Office of Ut111ty and I am called to another world, where I hope campaign to achieve energy independence, Industrial Applications has developed a to meet when they arrive, hundreds of thou this resource has gone virtually unnoticed "Low/Medium Gasification Assessment Pro sands of friendly boys who will remember by the Administration's so-called coal policy. gram for Potential Users." Nonetheless, while that I tried to do something !or them on Receiving even less attention than the issue continuing to fund small-scale demonstra earth. With Love to All Boys, Truly, w. D. of direct burning of this low-sulphur coal, tion projects, its pursuit of furthering this Boyce" however, are the possibilities associated with technology has been somewhat lackluster. deriving syntlietic fuels from anthracite. Anthracite gasification presents a unique On the occasion of his demise, associates Anthracite gasification presents a partic opportunity to pursue a regional solution of Mr. Boyce spoke glowing tributes. Presi ularly attractive energy option for the North to our energy problems, and the regional dent Walter W. Head and Chief Scout Execu east region of the country. Three plants In economy could only benefit from the availa tive James E. West of the Boy Scouts or bility or a. low-cost, clean-burning industrial America Jointly said: Pennsylvania, one of which is located in my district, have been utlllzing anthracite gasi fuel and the revitalization of the anthracite "The entire American Nation owes Mr. fication for some time, with results that industry that would accompany increased use Boyce a. debt or gratitude, and the citizens could persuade even the most dour critic of or this resource. All or this would have no of the future wm be better prepared to serve the worth of this technology. The process at small impact on the issue of most immedi their country because of · his outstanding one plant, the Glen-Gery brick plant in ate concern to the subject of your inquiry: Good Turn." York, was a DoE sponsored project which the impact of the synfuels industry on em The Reverend Edward Lathrop, who had terminated in June or this year. The cost or ployment and manpower training. been one of the early Lone Scouts and who the low-Btu anthracite-derived gas was First, a vigorous application of anthracite June 20, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15833 gasification technology to industries operation of our farmers, and with Fed blow to American prestige and authority; it throughout the Northeast would stimulate eral cost sharing, serves as the basis for would weaken and embalrra.ss our friends and growth of a components manufacturing and our ongoing efforts to maximize our food give aid and comfort to the most vicious servicing industry; though this may only be anti-American elements. I cannot belleve a small, regionally-based business, it would and fiber production while preserving the that the United States Congress would be nonetheless create jobs and a dema.nd for productivity of our prime farmlands for guilty of such mischievous and irresponsible skllled laborers and technicians. future generations. action. Secondly, depending on the presently used I fully support the action of the Ap Sincerely yours, fuel, low-cost energy supply could reduce propriations Committee in restoring GEORGE W. BALL .• an industry's production costs, perhaps en much .needed funding for the ACP. Past couraging production expansion and the Congresses have seen the wisdom of this hiring of new employees. Even if anthra program, and have supported restora cite gas were no less expensive than the fuel THE ADVANTAGES OF SALT ll currently consumed by the plant's opera tion of ACP funds. With the support tions (i.e., even if the company did not shown yesterday by the House, this pro experience a net financial savings by con gram will continue to benefit all Amer HON. LEE H. HAMILTON verting), there could be other advantages icans through the cooperative conserva OF INDIANA that could effectuate an economic savings tion and management of our agricultural IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES regionally that would result in economic resources.• growth and increased employment. Such Wednesday, June 20, 1979 advantages include a reduction in oil im ports (a. pa.rtioular concern in the North e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I east); stimulation of investments into new would like to insert my Washington re or marginal operations, thereby enhancing GEORGE BALL SUPPORTS PANAMA port for Wednesday, June 20, 1979, into competition, not to mention the benefits CANAL LEGISLATION the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: associated with a revitalized anthracite in The United States and the Soviet Union dustry: dema.nd for labor to mine the coal; HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM have reached basic agreement on a second better transportation faclllties; enhance strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT II) to ment of the economy of the anthracite re OF NEW YORK restrain the nuclear arms race. Although the gion and its attendant benefits, etc. As a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES treaty wlll not co,me before the House of matter of fact, preliminary, job-creating Wednesday, June 20, 1979 Representatives for approval, I support lt steps would have to be taken-manufacture and hope that the Senate will ratify it. of more coal-hauling railroad cars; perhaps e Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, the dis In g-eneral, I regard SALT II as an essen construction of new delivery terminals; the tinguished lawyer, financier, and former tial step toward a safer world. Its major development of better mining techniques accomplishments are that (1) it establishes and equipment and the training of miners Under Secretary of State, George W. Ball, has written to the House leadership equal celllngs on U.S. and Soviet strategic before a widespread demand for anthracite forces, (2) it begins an actual reduction in could be satisfied. There is a vicious circle that failure of the House of Represent the level of nuclear arms, and (3) it places that could develop here; the demand may atives to approve the implementing leg the first limits on the qualitative race in not appear without an assurance of supply, islation for the Panama Canal Treaty nuclear weaponry (that is, the race to build but the many preparations for a.ssuring such would be highly damaging to our coun new weapons systems and to improve exist supply may not be taken unless there is a ing ones). Moreover, SALT II has several sure market. In order to further some very try. The text of Mr. Ball's letter is as worthwhile employment- and energy-related follows: specific advantages. The most compelling are goals, Congress and the Admlnistra.tion JUNE 7, 1979. these: 1. SALT II will reduce the risk of nuclear must act decisively to promote anthracite Hon. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr., gasification.• U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C. war. It establishes for the first time the prin DEAR MR. SPEAKER: As a former United ciple that the two sides should have equal States Under Secretary of State and Am numbers of missile launchers and heavy bassador to the United Nations, I am con bombers (2,250). The Soviet Union wlll have vinced that the failure of the House of Rep to dismantle 250 strategic delivery systems SUPPORT FOR THE ACP resentatives to approve the implementing to reach that level, so the momentum of the legislation for the Panama Canal Treaty current Soviet build-up of weapons wllt be would be highly damaging to our country. broken. The treaty places equal limits on HON. WILLIAM C. WAMPLER The American people have settled the is missiles equipped with several warheads OF VIRGINIA sues involved in the Panama Canal Treaties which can be aimed independently to hit more than one target (the "MIRV" missile). IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES after lengthy debate and in accordance with the procedures laid down by the United It places limits on the race to build new and Wednesday, June 20, 1979 States Constitution. more sophisticated weapons systems and to improve existing strategic weapons. How o Mr. WAMPLER. Mr. Speaker, conser During the course of that substantive de bate great emphasis was placed on the si~ ever, the treaty does not interfere with any vation and the simultaneous planned nificance of the Treatiec; to our relations of our defense programs. It wlll slow the usage of our resources is the one reason with other Latin American statec::. I am con growth of Soviet arms and limit strategic we are able to maintain our place in the cerned with an even more important issue- competition. By helping to define the threats world agricultural community. Amer our ablUty to sustain confidence in Ameri we might face, the treaty will make our de icans are better fed at cheaper costs, and ca%?- leadership amonl! our Western allies fense planning more effective. It will mean export more food and flber items than and. indeed, in the whole non-Communist greater stability and predictablllty in the world. strategic challenge we face. any other nation on Earth. This in 2. SALT II is the next phase in a process creased production of quality food items I have just returned from Eurorye, de which may eventually bring nuclear arms is no accidental occurrence. Only presc;ed at perva-sive doubts as to the effec under complete control. That process has through proper management and con tiveness of American Jeadershln. An ac been favored bv five Presidents ove-r tbe past cuc::ation widely heard is that the United 15 years, and it has produced significant re stant attention to our farm lands can we States constitutional svstem is no lonf!'er hope to continue our history of protect sults (the limited test ban treaty, the anti adequate for the reauirements of the nresent ballistic missile treaty, and SALT I, which ing and preserving our fertile lands to comnlex world. It is widely contended that froze overall numbers of strategic wea.pons). gain ever increasing yields of food and governments can no lo-rger safely rely on the The accord must be seen as groundwork for fiber. word of the United States Prec::ident, because a more endtlring political relationship be The agricultural conservation program he cannot oar:ry Con~P"ec;s with him, and. even tween antagonistic nations with awesome is a longstanding program which pro if he si~s a treaty. it may not be ratified. power. Everv co11ntry on earth has a stake ThouJ?h that de,el~pinl! a-ttitude ic; a m~t motes and exemplifies this ideal. By con ter of concern, the uncertaintv involved in in that relationshiTl. and our allies count on serving and improving water resource us to mana!!"e it well. Tt is worth noting that ratification is implicit in ot1r 'constitution, · the leaders of Great Britain. West Germany, quality, controlling animal wasted pollu and defe~stble in those terms. Bnt on~e t.he tion, controlling erosion, conserving United States peonle have settled a nroblem ann France all have expressed support for S.4LT II. wildlife, improving our forests and en through their own con~tltutiona.l procec:ses, 3. We can determine for ourselves whether couraging cooperation toward common a.nd p, treatv ha-s been ratified. and hA.s thus become the law of the land. I would find the Soviet Union t~ Uvincz un to ol)llqations goals the ACP has gained the acceptance it indefencibJe th11-t the Con!!Tess sho••Jd under SAL'T' TJ. We have insisted that com- and support of both the Congress and the prevent our eood-fait.h cql'l'V1ne 01lt or that pliance with tl'e a.~cord be verifiable since American farmer. This longstanding pro treatv by a. refusal to -oass imnlementing lee:- the rislcs are too high to rely on trust alone. gram, benefiting from the personal co- 1-slation. Such an action would be a lethal We have a variety of tntelllgence collection 15834 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1979 systems with which we can observe Soviet of an era during which an important cul at the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish military activity. Any cheating on a scale tural change occurred: the transformation Center in my Fourth Congressional Dis that would upset the strategic balance could of a nation of technological strength to a trict which deserves the attention of all be detected in time !or us to make a vigorous nation of technological drunkenness. response. After World War II, our nation was at ·the Members of Congress and all U.S. ofHcials 4. I! SALT II is rejected, the consequences acme of its strength and esteem. National involved in dealings with the Soviet could be grave. Without SALT II, tensions production was increasing, and the most Union, because it shows most clearly that with the Soviet Union would heighten. The advanced technology in the world was giv the Soviet regime is continuing a calcu arms race would grow more dangerous and ing America the highest standard o! living. lated campaign of harassment and perse more eJq>ensive. The Soviets would probably At about the same time that our class began cution against Soviet Jews. begin an enormous build-up, and more weap elementary school, the change was beginning On June 2, the Congregation Etz ons would be developed on both sides at to take !orm. Our country was a social battle Chaim of the Hewlett-East Rockaway enormous cost (an estimated extra cost of $30 ground in those days. You all remember the billion to the United States over the next 1960's. Riots, campus takeovers, drug abuse, Jewish Center celebrated a Bat Mitzva decade) . The slow process of arms control and general dis~nchantment with the estab for its adopted daughter, Dorina Parit would be dealt a crippling blow, and the lished social system were widespread among sky, 13, in absentia. Dorina could not at world would decide that the two superpowers the younger generation. Those were the tend. Neither could her father and moth had chosen confrontation rather than co symptoms of a new "ME" Generation which er, nor her younger sister. The Paritsky operation. believed that individual welfare was more family lives in Kharkov, Russia, under SALT II is no substitute !or a strong de important than the welfare of the whole the close scrutiny of the dreaded Soviet fense. We must have the unquestioned ca nation. Our elder brothers protested Amer secret police, the KGB, and is subjected pacity to convince any potential adversary ica's involvement in Vietnam because the to the cruelest sort of public harassment that an attack on us or our allles would mean war was a thre&~t to their secure lifestyle. equal or greater destruction !or the attacker. And so the screaming continued, but it did and persecution. To maintain such a capacity in the years not stop the war. We are paying for that The Partiskys, in fact, have become ahead, I support the extensive moderniza mistake today. What we should have learned the focal point for anti-Jewish sentiment tion of our strategic forces. We must equip in these past twelve years 1s that such a de in Kharkov because in 1976 they sought our heavy bombers with cruise missiles, put termination to avoid responsibility and are permission to emigrate to Israel. Al long-range Trident I mlsslles on our sub fusal to !ace the reality of sacrlfl.ce are detri though the target of vicious newspaper marines, deploy our Trident submarines mental to each individual in a generation. articles and denunciations at ofHciallY tully, improve our land-based Minuteman We would be wise not to forget this lesson. sponsored public meetings, the Paritskys misslles, and go forward with development The United States we expect to inherit is of a mobile misslle. Such modernization is but a technicolor dream composed o! a va have held courageously to their insistence possible under provisions of SALT II. riety of so-called "necessities" which are for the freedom to practice the religion I do not have exaggerated expectations for nothing but creature comforts. Because we of their choice in the land of their SALT II. It w111 not sharply reduce defense are dangerously attached to these luxuries, choice--Israel. spending or remove all threats against us. we suffer from an incredible myopia which Because of the omcial persecution, the Nor will it suddenly usher in a new era o! prevents us from seeing a genuine emergency Paritskys could not celebrate their u.s.-soviet cooperation. Our military and when it stares us in the face. Such is the daughter's Bat Mitzva. But they knew political rivalry with the Soviet Union spans case today with the energy risis. of the ceremony being held on her behalf the globe, and it wlll not be so easlly con We are raised in this country amid un heard-of abundance e.nd an indignant sense in the United States, thousands of miles tained. The hopes may be legitimate, but away. Abraham and Helen Neufeld of ~he given the nature of the U.S.-Soviet relation o! self-preservation. When our lifestyle is ship they are not likely to be realized in the threatened, we resist. We do not want our Congregation Etz Chaim had bee~ m near future. lives disrupted. We do not want our wealth formed of the plight of the Par1tsky taken from us. But we must realize that to The fundamental question posed by SALT family by the Long Island Committee for avoid sacrifice and responsibiUty is to face soviet Jewry, which, under the leader II is clear: do we move ahead with strategic destruction. Our destiny is our choice. Amer arms control, or do we resume an unchecked ica's senseless habit of sce.pegoating its prob ship of its President, Lynn Singer, has and relentless arms race? Our real choice is lems is a consequent o! the actions o! its done so much for the human rights cause. an acceptable agreement which preserves and younger generation in the late 1960's. As they The Congregation Etz Chaim enthu enhances our national security, or no agree blamed the government !or the Vietnam war, siastically endorsed the Neufeld's idea ment at all. SALT II represents a measurable so we blame the government, big oil com for a Bat Mitzva. in absentia, for Dorina advance in improving our nation's defense. panies, even our parents !or the energy short as a way to direct American attention It holds strategic forces in verifiable equiva age when the blame rests squarely on us, the lence while it slows the arms race. My view to the plight of the Paritskys. The most wasteful people on earth. Paritskys were delighted when they were is that the world would become a far more If you remember nothing else o! whe.t I'm dangerous place than it 1s without SALT saying, remember this: Feel free to maintain informed of the plan and wrote the Neu II.e your lifestyle if you wish; but don't be fooled relds: "We hope it will bring the most into thinking that the amuence we have desirable result--we will receive visas at known since chlldhood will last forever. We last." ENERGY CRISIS AND have a clear choice: sacrifice and save, or The knowledge of the persecution be CONSERVATION maintain and perish. ing experienced by the Paritsky family I really don't think the.t the United States will join Rome, Atlantis, and Carthage in the in Kharkov made Dorina's Bat Mitzva graveyard of civilizations, because I have most moving and poignant for all of us HON. WILLIAM F. GOODLING great !e.ith in American ingenuity and de who took part. As Dorina's proxY, Susan OF PENNSYLVANIA termination. We have the ab111ty to rise to Berch of East Ro:kaway responded in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the occasion when properly motivated. But the age-old ceremony marking the learn to sacrifice. Realize that the greatness Wednesday, June 20, 1979 transition from girlhood to womanhood. of America is derived from selflessness and, During the moving religious ceremony, e Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, James yes, pain. Educate yourself. Know a limit to there were tears in the eyes of many Waltersdorf, a resident of the 19th Con your indulgences. And realize your responsi congregants, thinking of Dorina and her gressional District in Pennsylvania re blllty !or our destiny. Do these e.nd we can control the course o! history. The future is family, denied the freedom to properly cently delivered the following speech at our choice !e celebrate this meaningful milestone in his graduation from Southwestern High their daughter's life. School. Although this message concen Mr. Speaker, that service in the Hew trates on the energy crisis, it more im A BAT MITZVA "IN ABSENTIA" IN lett-East Rockaway Jewish Center portantly reveals a willingness among EAST ROCKAWAY, N.Y., TELLS A brought home with stunning force the young Americans to assume the respon FAMILY IN KHARKOV, RUSSIA: realization of the great deprivation ex sibilities of conservation essential to the WE ARE WITH YOU perienced by the Soviet Jews who are maintenance of America's greatness. I call this young gentleman's remarks to denied the full expression of their re the attention of my colleagues: HON. NORMAN F. LENT ligion. The Paritsky family is only one OF NEW YORK of tr.ousands being held hostage to the REMARKS OF JAMES WALTERSDORF heartless and cruel policies of oppres It is sometimes the habit o! classes gradu IN THE.HOUSE OF REPRESE.NTATIVES sion and persecution. ating in the last year o! a decade to retlect Wednesday, June 20, 1979 on peculiar distinctions of that decade and I cite this account, Mr. Speaker, to ex their influence on the progress of the class' • Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, on June 2, plain why I am dispatching a letter to education. The ClasS cf 1979 is the product 1979, I had the honor to attend an event Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, en- June 2'0, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15835 closing a copy of this statement, and partment of Justice. Yesterday, Secre- there is no independent market value for demanding that he end the long perse tary of Treasury Blumenthal appeared the oil and the new system is virtually cution of the Paritsky family by allow before the Ways and Means Committee identical to posted pricing. The result ing them to realize their fondest dream: to argue that no change was needed and focuses on form rather than substance. freedom in Israel. In denying this that, essentially, IRS and Treasury con- It is fundamental that IRS will not family-and the many other Soviet Jews tinue to rule and administer the foreign recognize "tax avoidance schemes" which who seek to emigrate to Israel-Leonid tax credits based on past practice. He · are attempts to place form over sub Brezhnev and his regime are knowingly did advocate a few changes that would stance for the purpose of evading taxes. violating the letter and the spirit of the not allow foreign tax credits accumu- Taxpayers with lesser political clout Helsinki accords which Mr. Brezhnev lated by one foreign oil subsidiary to would not be permitted to engage in such himself signed with such dramatic be used to offset taxes on profits of a sham arrangement. Nevertheless, we fiourishes in 1975. Such blatant viola operating shipping or refining sub- find it incredulous that Treasury and tions of this solemn internation pact sidiaries in tax haven jurisdictions. Last IRS have failed to effectively administer should serve to make all of us very week's newly announced Treasury /IRS the tax code. can we continue to allow skeptical of Soviet promises to limit regulations relating to foreign tax cred- Treasury /IRS to conduct business as strategic weapons in the SALT n Treaty. its claimed by U.S. petroleum companies . usual in the foreign oil tax credit area at Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to are not as stringent as the guidelines in a minimum loss to the u.s. Treasury of join me in this appeal on behalf of the present IRS rulings such as the 1976 In- $1.5 billion per year? Paritsky family. I am confident our donesian ruling. The basic problem is , The washington Star, on June 18, messages will be of assistance. Recently, that Treasury/IRS allows its interpre- 1979, published an excellent article based the Soviets have released a number of tation of the law to be infiuenced by spe- on Mr. Hambrick's complaint, entitled Soviet Jews adopted as "prisoners of cial interest lobbyists, as disclosed in the "Aramco's Oil Tax Credits Provoke Pro conscience'' by Americans. One of those Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Af- fessor to sue." I commend this article to freed from prison and permitted to go fairs Subcommittee hearings and report the attention of my colleagues: to Israel was Hillel Butman, who has On the foreign Oil tax Credit iSSUe. I par- AltAMCO'S OIL TAX "CREDITS" PROVOKE been my Fourth District's "prisoner of ticulary draw your attention to the sub- PRoFEssoR To SUE cons:ience" for nearly 4 years. To me. committee's hearing on March 13, 1979, (By Robert Pear, Washington star statr the release of these Soviet Jews demon entitled "Interrelationshio Between U.S, wrHer) strates that the Russian Government Tax Policy and U.S. Tax Energy Policy." A George Washington University law pro does respond-however reluctantly or Also, in 1976 the Secretary of State and fessor has filed a criminal complaint charging belatedly-to public appeals on behalf the Office of International Affairs of the that the Treasury lllegally gave away $6 bil of Soviet Jews. Therefore, now that we Treasury urged that Treasury/IRS con lion in tax credits to multinational oil com have made some progress, we must not tinue to consider State's foreign policy panies. goal of furthering U.S. multinational oil The biggest beneficiary was the Arabian slacken our efforts. American Oil Co. ( Aramco) , which is re To the contrary, we must redouble our company production in OPEC countries sponsible !or virtually all the oil production demands for full human rights under and block issuance of a new tax ruling in Saudi Arabia. the Helsinki accords for all Soviet Jews disallowing the foreign tax credits Professor J. Reid Hambrick wrote to At attempting to leave the oppressive at claimed by U.S. petroleum companies op torney General Griffin Bell last week asking mosphere of the Soviet Union for the perating in Indonesia. for a grand jury investigation to determine freedom of Israel. We must come to the On the surface this was not complied who was responsible for what Hambrick de scribed as a "scandalous act ... a. gigantic assistance of courageous families like with. The ruling was made that the ear fraud on the U.S. government." the Paritskys who are fighting for their lier Indonesian oil tax credit ruling was Specifically, he said the Internal Revenue beliefs against a most brutal campaign erroneous but the Secretary of Treasury Service had failed to enforce -the applicable of social pressure and official harass ordered the effects of the ruling be made income tax laws for 1974-78 and had allowed ment and denial. prospective and delayed. The Tax Re Aramco to claim foreign tax credits to which I urge my colleagues to join with me form Act of 1976 granted another 1-year it was not entitled !or excise taxes paid to in demanding that the Paritsky family delay prior to the effective date of the the Saudi government. Excise taxes, imposed on each barrel o! oil, be allowed to emigrate to Israel.e Indonesian ruling. In the meantime, cannot be credi-ted age.inst income taxes Business Week reported that an eminent owed to the U.S. government, Hambrick said. U.S. law firm, at the direction of Indo Hambrick, 61, worked in the IRS chief nesia, the oil companies and "in con counsel's office from 1949 to 1957. FOREIGN TAX CREDITS junction with IRS came up with a re Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal, D-N.Y., chair jiggering of the terminology-and some man o! a House subcommittee that investi of the mechanics-of the agreements." gated the issue, said the foreign tax credits were clearly "impermissible." HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL On May 9, 1978, a new IRS tax ruling was In a recent letter to the White House, announced which allows tax credits for OF NEW YORK Rosenthal said the Treasury was losing more the U.S. oil companies operating in than $1 blllion a year because of lllegitimate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Indonesia. tax credits allowed to Aramco e.nd other oil Wednesday, June 20, 1979 In the 1976 Indonesia ruling, the IRS companies operating overseas. The companies all do business in states belonging to the • Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, last ruled that "taxes" paid in connection with production sharing contracts were Organization of Petroleum Exporting Coun- week George Washington University law tries. . professor J. Reid Hambrick filed a crimi ineligible for a foreign tax credit unless "Taxpayers with lesser political clout would nal complaint concerning foreign tax they met the tests set.forth in the ruling. not be permitted to engage in such a sham credits claimed by Arabian American Oil The May 1978 ruling is significant for its arrangement," Rosenthal said in a. letter to Co.-Aramco-charging that the Trea conclusions about arm's-length bargain President Carter. sury illegally gave away $6 billion in tax ing. The IRS had ruled earlier that pay The letter was signed by Rosenthal and five credits to Aramco--jointly owned by ments to a foreign government would not other Democrats on the commerce, consumer qualify as creditable foreign taxes unless and monetary affairs subcommittee of the Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, and Socal. Pro House Government Operations Committee. fessor Hambrick specifically alleges in the tax is imposed on income determined A subcommittee spokesman said the White his complaint that the Internal Revenue on the basis of arm's-length amounts House had not answered or acknowledged the Service failed to enforce the applicable actually realized in a manner consistent six-page letter, sent more than a month ago. income tax laws for 1974-78 and allowed with u.s. income taxation principles. Aramco, an oil company operating in Saudi Aramco to claim foreign tax credits to The contract that was considered in the Arabia, is owned by four U.S. companies which it was not entitled. new ruling and that was held to satisfy S~andard Oil of California, Exxon, Texaco and Mobil. The Committee on Government Oper this test however, continues to give the Hambrick said he had expressed his con ations in House Report No. 95-1240, en Indonesian Government de facto control cerns in 1975 to Robert J. Patrick, then inter titled "Foreign Tax Credits Claimed by over price by permitting it "to reserve national tax counsel at the Treasury, but U.S. Petroleum Companies," dated June the right to insure that amounts reported failed to win support for any additional as 1, 1978, unanimously took this position. as gross income by contractors do in fact sessments on the oil companies. Mr. Hambrick deserves a prompt and reflect tne market value of production Patrick 1s now senior tax counsel !or Exxon expedited answer to his letter to the De- sold by them." Because OPEC sets price Corp. He remember~d tbe meeting with Ham- 15836 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS .June 20, 1979 brick, but said he worked mainly on legisla credit for the $85 foreign tax would fully off economy as it does on trade policy. Even tion and was not in a position to influence set the U.S. ta.x. leaving excess credit to America's trading future is uncertain. IRS rulings. spare. Growing competition in international "That is nonsense," said Hambrick, who If, however. the $85 were treated as a de markets may limit _our abtlity to take has been following the issue since the days duction, the company would st111 have net of President Harry S. Truman. "Treasury pol income of $15 subject to a 46 percent U.S. full advantage of the potential gains icymakers prevented IRS from doing any tax. The company would ha.ve to pay U.S. from trade. The proliferating manufac thing about credits for the OPEC taxes." tax of slightly less than $7. compared with turers of the developing countries prom The IRS in January 1978 finally ruled that no tax at all when it enjoyed the benefits of ise a range of inexpensive goods for the oil company payments to Saudi Arabia. could a tax credit. American consumer and the potential not be taken as credits against U.S. tax lia Rosenthal said the foreign tax credits con of growing markets for U.S. manufac b111ty because they were not actually income fl.icted with U.S. energy policy goals because turers. But the competition for those they gave oil companies "income and incen taxes. They were based on the "posted prices" markets is likely to be severe. Japan and set artificially by OPEC-substantially above tive to explore and produce abroad at the the price that such oil would command in expense of domestic production." Western Europe are already moving into the market, IRS said. Even with the decontrol of prices for oil the high technology areas where Amer The IRS said its 1978 decision revoked a produced in this country, Rosenthal said, ica has long held a competitive edge. 1955 ruling, which treated payments to Saudi foreign tax credits will still create an incen Unless matched by exports, the rising Arabia as income taxes that could be used to tive for American companies to import oil import bill for oil and other raw mate offset income taxes owed in this country. from OPEC. • rials will pose a constant threat to the But Hambrick and Rosenthal contend that President Carter proposed to close loop hoLes in foreign ta.x credit rules as part of stability of world financial markets. the facts changed dramatically in 1974, when The Education for Exporting Act oil prices shot up. and that petroleum com the energy program that he announced in panies had ·no justification !or relying on the April. takes one, admittedly small step toward 1955 ruling a.!ter January 1974. In its ruling last year, the IRS said a. for putting the United States in a better The 1978 ruling, Hambrick said, is "a cun eign levy would not qualify as an income tax competitive position. BY assuring that ning expedient designed to please the major under U.S. standards if it was intentionally one-third of the directors of the new oil companies with atftliates in OPEC coun structured to tax artificial or fictitious in board are representatives of small- and tries a.nd their political ames in the admin come, as is the case with mechanisms such medium-size business, the act will help istration and Congress." as the "posted price." Tax increases resulting from retroactive to tap the potential of some 50,000 The result, he said, using data. obtained American businesses that currently do from the Treasury by Rosenthal's subcom revocation of the 1955 ruling could be ab mittee. is "a. wholly unauthorized and unlaw sorbed by the oil companies or by the pro no exporting. By mixing public funds ful abatement of about $6 b1llion ... in ac ducing countries, or passed on to consumers with grants and the ability to charge crued federal income ta.x lia.b111ties." through higher prices.e fees, the new board can provide subsid In his letter to the Justice Department. ized services that sttll cost enough to Hambrick said "the responsible line-omcers test the seriousness of the client. Most of the IRS were prepared to implement a new important, the Education for Exporting position on OPEC oil taxes" four years ago. EDUCATION FOR EXPORTING ACT Act is built around a long-term American "but were restrained by the policymakers at commitment to increased exports. Ana the Treasury Department." A JUSTICE Department spokesman said HON. GILLIS W. LONG tional trade policy has begun to open up the department would respond to Hambrick's markets for the United States in Japan, letter. but he declined to discuss the merits OF LOUISIANA China, and many other parts of the of the issue. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES world. To walk through those newly As the basis for his complaint. Hambrick Wednesday, June 20, 1979 opened doors. we need a growing legion cited a law that makes it a. felony for any of businessmen trained in the language federal employee to act in such a way as to • Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, and trading customs of many lands. enable others to defraud the government of I join my colleagues in introducing the Mr. Speaker, the simple fact is that revenue. Education for Exporting Act of 1979. The In a recent report. Rosenthal's subcommit we must export more. A stronger U.S. act will establish a board to develop and trade performance will reduce pressure tee said the oil companies were "put on fund educational programs designed to notice as early as 1973 that the (IRS) ques on Federal budgets, bolster the domestic tioned the continued validity of foreign tax promote U.S. exports and will create a economy by allowing us to reap the gains credits." In that year, IRS held certain oil separate foundation to facilitate fi of future trade and strengthen ADler company audits in abeyance because of ques nancing of the board. Rather than butld lea's position around the world. Mr. tions about foreign tax credits. strictly on Government. the Education Speaker, coming from Louisiana we do In 1976, the IRS even issued a press release for Exporting Act establishes a semi not usually talk about the "Yankee saying foreign "tax" payments had to meet private corporation that will draw on Trader," but when it comes to trade, we specific standards if a company wanted credit the strengths of private business and against U.S. taxes. have the same spirit. I am convinced of existing academic institutions while pre the economic potential for a steady Thus. the report said, "any petroleum com serving some governmental ties to as pany continuing to claim foreign tax credits growth in American exports. The Educa after 1973 did so at its own risk." Rosenthal sure coordination with overall export strategy. tion for Exporting Act will help put us and most of his subcommittee colleagues on that path.e said the IRS' 1978 ruling should ha.ve been The focus of the act is on supplying retroactive, a.t least to 1976. future American traders with the skills But five GOP congressmen disagreed. They of language and culture to master grow said oil companies. like other taxpayers, ing markets abroad. Export related pro should be able to rely on IRS rulings until grams may range from academic study HANDGUN TRAGEDY OF THE they are revoked. MONTH Hambrick insists that "revocation was su to overseas internships with trade re perfluous because the 1955 rullng was ob lated organizations. The Education for solete and a new position was imperative." Exporting Act may well be our first step HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK A Treasury omcial said foreign ta.x credits to building a more effective foreign OF CALIFORNIA were "a gray area of the law. and to clarify it commercial service. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES retroactively would have been a harsh thing The current American interest in ex to do." ports has been forced on us by the hard Wednesday, June 20, 1979 In computing income subject to U.S. tax. oil companies can st111 deduct their Saudi facts of international trade and the e Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, I would like Arabian payments as business expenses, but changing international economy. In to call upon my colleagues to read the a deduction is worth only about hal! as much 1971, we suffered our first trade deficit following bizarre-yet tragic--account of as a credit. in this century. Our trade fortunes have four handgun deaths in 1 day in the Credits provided a dollar-for-dollar reduc varied since 1971, but the trend has small town of Bedford Hills, N.Y. What tion in taxes that the oil companies owed to hardly been encouraging. By 1977, the is uncanny is that the deaths were caused the United States. Deductions reduce the by a single handgun used by robbers in income on which the tax is calculated. trade deficit had swelled to over $31 bil A Treasury omcial gave this example: As lion-last year it was $34 billion. two separate robberies. sume that a company earns $100 of income, There should be some strengthening Since January 1, 2,475 Americans have subject to both a U.S. tax of $46 and a. ta.x of in our trade position this year, but the died violent deaths by handguns. The $85 payable to the Saudi government. A improvement rests as much on a weak four individuals who lost their lives in a June 20, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15837 quiet town in New York were no more ment and among the voting public, who ible advance was based on a one-shot ex immune from the deadly handgun than believe that this crisis is merely a ploitation of cheap and seemingly unlimit are people in our most crime-ridden temporary inconvenience, pointing the ed energy. cities. As recently as 1973, our national energy finger of blame at Government inter policy involved import quotas to keep out HISTORIC TOWN ERUPTS WITH HANDGUN f~rence or bungling or at oil company cheap oll. But between 1968 and 1978, the VIOLENCE plots. It is at times such as these when working family's income, real income, hard On May 10, 1979, the quiet town of America is truly fortunate to have among ly improved. Productivity gains--a key to Bedford HUls, N.Y., was shocked out of its leaders men like the distinguished our economic miracle--are absent. its tranquility by the vicious slaying of chairman of the Interior Committee, I believe the story of our llves these years four of its residents. Representative MoRRIS UDALL. The gen just ahead will be how we adapt to oil and tleman from Arizona, in an article pub resource shortages and the accompanying The bodies of Dr. Charles Frankel, 62, economic dislocations and infiation, whose Assistant Secretary of State under Presi lished in the June 17 edition of the New effects will dominate this next national dent Lyndon B. Johnson, and his 61- York Times, has put our energy problems chapter. year-old wife, Helen, were found in their in their proper perspective, as a "crisis The country is seemingly embroiled in a home in the late afternoon. Just 8 hours of national character." great hunt to fix blame, yet is refusing at earlier, Christopher Sperry, 21, son of a Indicating his belief that our Nation's nearly every level to come to grips with the prominent Wall Street broker, and Nettie economic decline is tied in great part basic elemental truth: we are using more McCormack, an employee of the Sperry to the stark fact that "we are using fuel than we can ever produce and we are family for over 50 years, were found slain more fuel than we can ever produce," apparently willing to pay the OPEC cartel and the energy conglomerates whatever they in the Sperry home. Congressman UDALL compares our pres will charge. Both the Frankel and Sperry homes, sent diftlculties to other periods of Two central, unescapable facts are that less than a quarter of a mile apart, were "wrenching transition" in America's while consumption keeps going up, United ransacked. All the victims were shot in history. Since most of the proposed solu States oil production peaked in 1971, and the head. A .32-caliber pistol, recovered tions to our energy problems, such as wlll never exceed that level whether oil from robbers who terrorized a Brooklyn solar, geothermal, nuclear or other alter prices go to $16 or $116; and we will be forced party 2 weeks after the murders, proved native sources of power, involve long pe one way or another in the next couple of to be the weapon used in all four of the riods of development or present environ years to reduce our total oil consumption. deaths. mental dangers, he sees conservation as Through conservation and tough meas ures, between the Arab oil embargo of 1973- Thomas A. Facelle~ acting district at the only answer for the short term. Con 74 and 1978, nearly all the major industrial torney of Westchester County in which gressman UDALL expresses the hope that countries reduced total oil consumption. Bedford Hills is located, called the execu we will overcome our "national paralysis" Japan, with its booming economy, burned tion-style murders "the most bizarre I've on the energy issue, based on self-in less oll in 1978 than in 1973. We are the big ever witnessed." These senseless klllings terest and regional rivalries. Recalling exception, but events will force us to reduce were all made possible because of a single President Carter's characterization of our oil consumption as well. handgun. our continuing energy crisis as "the A big segment of our people cannot or will Dr. moml equivalent of war," he looks to our not accept these realities, and we spend our Frankel, Helen Frankel, Christo time looking for scapegoats while each group pher Sperry, and Nettie McCormack wlll Nation's leaders to make the difficult and region simultaneously fights to preserve be counted among the handgun dead in decisions to move us toward increased its historic consumption levels despite a May's handgun bodycount. The national conservation and thereby "win the war." declining total base of energy resources. handgun bodycount for April was 601- Mr. Speaker, this article by the In All of this is reflected in a kind of na dead because of handguns. Since Janu terior Committee's distinguished chair tional paralysis that prevents the President, ary 1 of this year, 2,475 Americans have man is a brilliant analysis of the historic the COngress and all of us together from been killed with handguns. implications of our present energy situa making the bard, tough decisions that soon Twenty-four Americans are murdered tion and should serve as a guide and an er or later will have to be made. inspiration to all of us in seeking the Suppose a country had a new supply of oil every day with handguns, the favorite in a place called Alaska. It builds a pipeline weapon of the criminal. No one is im answers to our energy problems. and a set of tankers to take it to a place mune. The resident of the peaceful tree The text of the article follows: called California. But there the oil was in lined town is just as likely to become a AMERICA AT THE EDGE dF A WRENCHING surplus while at the same time, badly needed victim of handgun violence as the resi TRANSITION in the Midwest. Suppose this country had a dent of the congested city. These victims (By Morris K. Udall) fairy godmother who offered it one wish. die simply because, like the Bedford Hills WAsmNGTON.-A country's life, like that The wish would probably be to create an victims, they are at the wrong end of a of a person, is written in chapters. Eras be empty pipeline ready to be used. handgun-and it goes oft'. They will die gin, take sudden twists, turn and end, some Well, our fairy godmother did exactly because we have yet to take steps to place times unexpectedly. Each has a mix of prob this for us five years ago. There 1s an old intelligent controls on these deadly lems and advantages. pipeline that used to carry gas from Texas to Our country's chapters have a rich varie California lying empty and ready to take weapons. the badly needed oil to the Midwest. Yet, for ty: eras of ~ood feeling and optimism when Now, because of the easy availability of unbounded prosperity was at hand; shatter five years we have delayed the use of this handguns, the once-peaceful hamlet of ing times like the Depression; times of war, resource, and now the Sohio Company has Bedford must adjust to a new sense of when excitement, grief and hope brought us backed off. vulnerability. How many more individu together. Similar stories could be told about nuclear als, how many more towns and cities will And we have seen times of drift like the waste disposal, the alternative means of have to "adjust" to handgun violence 1950's, when the nation slept while the moving badly needed coal by slurry pipellne, before something is done to curb the toll problems of our cities festered, civil rights solar power and the rest of a long list. of death and suft'ering?e were ignored, and the seeds of our present President Carter has tried to get the economic troubles were sown. country to face up to the need to conserve But, I am inclined to believe that the oil. Yet, every initiative is opposed by enough toughest chapters for our country and our groups and enough regions that it cannot people to endure and master were those survive. MO UDALL WRITES IN NEW YORK times like today-when we were confronted He tried the wellhead tax for oil, a sensi TIMES ON OUR ENERGY CRISIS with a .maJor and fundamental transition ble proposition that was rejected by the on in a peacetime setting: The 1870's, when producing states. slavery had ended, but new black-white re He offered a 5-cent-a-gallon gas tax as an BON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING lationships were yet to evolve comes to mind incentive for conservation. and it was laughed out of the House of Representatives. OF OHIO as a similar era. My thesis is that our troubled country Now, he is trying decontrol of oil to see 1! IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is in the early stages of a wrenching tran higher prices will bring conservation and Wednesday, June 20, 1979 sition. From 1948 to 1968, the real income new supplies, but this is attacked by the of the average working famlly after infla Democrats. Even a standby rationing pro e Mr. SEmERLING. Mr. Speaker, de tion and after taxes, doubled-an unprece posal was shot down by regional squabbles. spite the apparent severity of our Na- dented growth. We thought it was all tech Finally, Mr. Carter's suggestion of a volun tion's latest energy shortage, there are nology and innovations and they did play a tary cut of 15 miles a week for American still many Americans, both in Govern- part. But 1n retrospect, much of this incred- motorists has been responded to with yawns. 15838 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1979 This inab111ty to reach a consensus with ber, he continued to make the organiza MAN pointed out so well in today's Wash· out crisis may be the predictable hallmark tion an effective promoter of the city, ington Post and in a Republican task of this era of transition. This national paral benefiting both large and small business force report: ysis may be the crisis that wlll some day soon bind the nation so that it may address concerns of the area. Foremost among the factors magnifying the massive change from an era of surplus Dan Westigard's work with the cham the effects of the world crude shortage are to an era of conservation. ber throughout the years has produced the Department of Energy's gasoline price There wm be no quick fix. The one-time results. The South Bay Economic Educa and allocation regulations, which have sup panacea of cheap, unlimited nuclear elec tion Foundation is now in existence due planted the normal rapid adjustment process tricity lies in a shadow and is now jeopar of the marketplace with a cumbersome ad to his dedicated efforts. The foundation, ministrative structure. dized as much by economics as by its _ardent an organization sponsored by the 13 foes. chambers of commerce in the South Bay The blame, Mr. Speaker, rests squarely Solar energy someday wlll give us great with the Department of Energy, Secre assistance, as wm geothermal energy and area, works, in cooperation with area some of the more exotic alternatives now educators, to upgrade the understanding tary Schlesinger, and the President. in the research stage. of economics by youth in the area.. All of us have heard dozens of com But it is the transition from the fat to In addition, Dan's :financial reorga plaints about DOE from frustrated con the lean, from waste to conservation, from nization of the chamber has created a stituents who are suffering under the un bickering and self-interest to sacrifice that more equitable and fiscally sound struc realistic, unduly complex, suffocating must mark the change. ture. and often illogical rules and regulations Many chuckled at President Carter's Greater opportunities are taking Dan of DOE. "moral equivalent of war" call to the Amer if Mr. ican people. That reaction gave us a warn iel Westigard from California. Just re I daresay that Schlesinger ing of what kind of crisis was at hand cently he was promoted and transferred would spend a few hours in a gas line, crisis of national character. by Shell to its Houston operations. As or ·walk home at night because all the Perhaps we only lost that battle. a prominent business leader and a stations were closed, perhaps then he Perhaps we can win the war.e friend, he will surely be missed. would realize what the American people My wife, Lee, joins me in offering our are going through as a result of his in very best wishes to him as he moves eptitude. along life's pathways. We feel certain Mr. Speaker, the people want action, A TRIBUTE TO DANIEL N. that he will have great success in an from the administration and from Con WESTIGARD his future endeavors.• gress.• HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON A SALUTE TO OZZIE OLSON OF CALIFORNIA UNREALISTIC GASOLINE PRICE AND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ALLOCATION REGULATIONS HON. LUCfEN N. NEDZI Wednesday, June 20, 1979 OF MICHIGAN e Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. HON. TOBY ROTH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Speaker, a. healthy local economy, based OF WISCONSIN Wednesday, June 20, 1979 upon stable income-producing jobs, does IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not come about automatically. It takes • Mr. NEDZI. Mr. Speaker, on the eve enterprising work and much individual Wednesday, June 20, 1979 ning of June 21 at Detroit's breathtak creativity to produce an inviting climate o Mr. ROTH. Mr. Speaker, a.t this very ing Renaissance Center, friends of in for commercial and industrial develop moment, thousands of my constituents dustrialist-sportsman Oscar L.