May 10, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11915 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS CRIMINAL JUSTICE "(2) The Attorney General may make with section 4 of the Criminal Justice Infor IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1984 available information in the interstate iden mation Improvement Act of 1984 not later tification index to any State or local depart than 3 years after first receiving assistance HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER ment or agency for criminal justice use only under this Act for any such purpose.". if- CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS OF NEW YORK "(A) such department or agency has not IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES obtained information under this subsection SEc. 4. For purposes of section at any time preceding the 3·year period 534<2> of title 28, United States Code, Thursday, May 10, 1984 ending on the date any such information and section 402 of title I of the Omnibus e Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, I am was first requested under this subsection; or Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 introducing a bill today to improve "(B) in the case of a department or agency <42 U.S.C. 3742(e)), a State or local depart State criminal justice information sys which obtained information under this sub ment or agency or an eligible jurisdiction, as section in such 3-year period, such depart the case may be, shall- tems, including criminal history ment or agency complied with section 4 of <1> comply with sections 20.3, 20.20 permit the Attorney General of the poses. SAFE STREETS ACT OF 1968 United States, or the designee of the Attor I intend this to be a study bill and SEc. 3. Section 40l of title I of the ney General, to audit the criminal justice my purpose in introducing it at this Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets and related records of such department, time is to encourage study and com Act of 1968 <42 U.S.C. 374l by striking out ance. ment on it. I ask unanimous consent "and" at the end thereof, The Attorney General of the United that the entire text of the bill be <2> in paragraph <23> by striking out the States shall conduct audits of the type de printed in the RECORD. period at the end thereof and inserting in scribed in subsection <2> on a random H.R.- lieu thereof a semicolon, and basis to ensure that State and local depart A bill to improve State criminal justice in <3> by adding at the end thereof the fol ments and agencies and eligible jurisdictions formation systems, including criminal his lowing new paragraphs: to which such subsection applies comply tory records; to establish an interstate "<24> developing capabilities necessary to with such subsection. identification index based on criminal submit information for inclusion in, and to NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION ADVISORY records and to provide assistance to States obtain information contained in, the inter POLICY BOARD to use such index; to ensure that criminal state identification index established under history records are accurate and complete; section 534(c)(2)(B) of title 28, United SEc. 5. There is hereby established in and for other purposes States Code; and the Departmemt of Justice a National Crime Information Advisory Board complying with the requirements of section 534<3> of title 28, United States after in this section referred to as the Representatives of the United States of "Board") whose purpose it shall be to rec America in Congress assembled, Code, and section 4 of the Criminal Justice Information Improvement Act of 1984.". ommend to the Attorney General general SHORT TITLE Section 40l the philosophy, concept, and oper "Criminal Justice Information Improve 1968 <42 U.S.C. 374l by striking out tion, classification, storage, and dissemina INTERSTATE IDENTIFICATION INDEX "and" at the end thereof, tion of information, and the exchange and SEC. 2. Section 534 of title 28, United <2> in subparagraph - use of records made available, by the Attor States Code, is amended- by inserting "except as provided in ney General under section 534 of title 28, (!) by redesignating subsection as sub subparagraph ," after "(B)'', and United States Code, and section (d), and by striking out the period at the end <2> the relationship of the activities of the <2> by inserting after subsection (b) the thereof and inserting in lieu thereof"; and", Attorney General under such section to following new subsection: and State and local systems relating to the col "(c)(l) For the purpose of assisting Feder <3> by adding at the end thereof the fol lection, processing, storage, dissemination, al, State, and local departments and agen lowing new subparagraph: and use of criminal history information and cies to locate, for criminal justice use, crimi " for any fiscal period beginning after records. nal identification and crime records held by the effective date of this subparagraph, The Board shall be composed of 26 such departments and agencies, the Attor- that portion of a Federal grant made under members as follows: ney General shall- · paragraph <20> for the purpose of establish <1 > Six members shall be appointed by the " establish and maintain an interstate ing a criminal justice information system or Attorney General. At least 1 of such mem identification index which shall contain under paragraph <24> or <25> shall be 100 bers shall be appointed from among each of only information- per centum of the cost of the program or the following- "(i} identifying individuals with respect to project specified in the application for such individuals representing the judiciary, whom there exists any criminal identifica grant.". attorneys who prosecute criminal de tion or crime record; Section 402 of title I of the Omnibus fendents, "(ii} with respect to each such individual, Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 attorneys who provide legal counsel to identifying the Federal, State, and local de <42 U.S.C. 3742(b)) is amended by adding at criminal defendants, partments and agencies which created and the end thereof the following new subsec individuals representing administra hold criminal identification and crime tion: tors of correctional institutions and agen records; and "(e) No eligible jurisdiction may receive fi cies, and " with respect to each such individual, nancial assistance under this part for the individuals representing civil rights or indicating whether the Attorney General purpose of establishing a criminal justice in ganizations. holds any such record; and formation system or for any purpose speci Such members shall serve for an indetermi "(B) make such information available to fied in paragraph <24) or <25> of section 401 nate period of time. such departments and agencies for criminal unless such jurisdiction agrees, as a condi <2> Twenty members shall be elected !Jy Justice use. tion of receiving such assistance, to comply entities throughout the United States which
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 11916 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1981,. obtain information under such section from auditory conceptual judgment pre tion to address health care costs is un the Attorney General. Such members shall vents individuals from detecting their likely. Still, I feel important ground serve for a term of two years beginning on reading and spelling errors, and inter January 5th of each odd numbered year. work can-and must-be laid in what <3> The Board shall be representative of feres with their ability to self-correct. is left of this congressional session to the entire criminal justice community at the It appears that this factor is so simple shore up medicare and to ease the fi State and local levels and shall include rep and basic that educators have errone nancial strains on the system. resentation from law enforcement agencies, ously assumed its general availability. I commend to the attention of my the courts, and corrections agencies and in It is very encouraging to also report colleagues the following article writ stitutions. that the Lindamoods have developed ten by Joseph Califano, former Secre The Board shall review rules and pro techniques which are consistently suc tary of Health, Education, and Wel cedures applicable to carrying out section cessful in stimulating auditory concep fare, who also recognizes and supports 534 of title 28, United States Code. (d) The Board shall consider operational tual judgment and its application in the need for a comprehensive ap needs of criminal justice departments and reading and spelling. It should be par proach instead of piecemeal reforms in agencies in light of public policies, and local ticularly noted that the research indi our efforts to strengthen and vitalize State, and Federal statutes. cates that attention to this factor can medicare. The Board shall review, on a con prevent as well as remediate reading [From the New York Times, May 6, 19841 tinuing basis, security and privacy aspects of and spelling disabilities. UNITED STATES MUST DISCIPLINE HEALTH operations carried out under section 534 of There is need to aid educators in be title 28, United States Code, and shall, as CARE MARKET coming trained to diagnose and work needed, appoint ad hoc subcommittees to with this factor, so that all of our provide information and recommendations WASHINGTON .-Controlling medical costs to the Board regarding the security and pri youth may have access to the tools has become the Great American Shell vacy aspects of such operations. they need to develop to their full po Game. Congress puts a cap on Medicare <2> The Board shall recommend standards tential in literacy skills. Aid should payments for 467 medical procedures, and for participation by criminal justice depart also be made available to adults who hospitals just pass the costs off to the ments and agencies in such operations. have this problem. The Lindamoods' states. States put their own caps on Medic (f) The Board shall report directly to the test represents a promising opportuni aid hospital payments, and hospitals just Attorney General of the United States or to ty in fostering the development of ade move the pea to private insurers and Blue the designee of the Attorney General. quate reading and spelling skills in in Cross and Blue Shield. Congress caps pay (g) The Federal Advisory Committee Act ments to physicians in hospitals, and doc shall apply with respect to the Board <5 dividuals.e tors move the pea outside the hospital to U.S.C. App.). their offices or clinics where there are no EFFECTIVE DATES INSURING THE SOLVENCY OF caps. SEc. 6. Except as provided in subsec THE MEDICARE PROGRAM The new caps on hospital costs paid by tions (b) and , this Act and the amend Medicare and many states allow politicians ments made by this Act shall take effect on to boast about cutting deficits. But they do October 1, 1984, or the date of the enact HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI little to reduce the costs of the health care ment of this Act, whichever occurs later. OF KENTUCKY system. In 1984, these costs will continue their inflationary assault on the American (b) The amendment made by section IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3(b)(2) shall take effect on the first day of economy at double or triple the rate of in the first fiscal year beginning after the date Thursday, May 10, 1984 crease in the Consumer Price Index. Hospi tals and doctors will simply shift their of the enactment of this Act. • Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I have Section 5 shall take effect on January charges to private insurers and the Blues. been contacted by Mr. Richard And Americans will spend more than $1 bil 5, 1985 .• McKnight-a leader among the many lion a day for health care. retired United Auto Workers who live The experience of the Chrysler Corpora THE LINDAMOOD in my district-and I have received let tion tells a lot about what's happening. BREAKTHROUGH ters from many other retirees in my Chrysler's 1984 health care costs will exceed area who are gravely concerned about $400 million, or $550 for each car it sells. That's down from $600 a car last year-not HON. THOMAS A. DASCHLE the solvency of the medicare program because costs have abated but because the OF SOUTH DAKOTA and about the escalating costs of company is selling more cars. This year, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES health care. Chrysler must sell about 70,000 vehicles just Mr. McKnight studies issues affect to pay health care bills. Thursday, May 10, 1984 ing retirees very carefully and writes To cut costs, the Chrysler Corporation • Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. Speaker, I wish me often about the more important of has begun a careful examination of what it to call the attention of Congress to a these issues. I appreciate his interest. has been paying for: breakthrough in the diagnosis and There are many separate steps Con Among Chrysler's South Bend Tribune, Apr. 19, Salvador and that hostilities in Nicara that this is the natural order of things. As 1984] gua will likely continue indefinitely. long as the Reagan team is in control, COSTLy AND DANGEROUS MX MISSILE SYSTEM The current situation can only get pumping up American capabilities and SHOULD BE SCRAPPED Soviet competitive instincts alike, this will worse. The Contadora group in my fate of the MX missile time to throw our lot in support of for building and being prepared to use system. this effort and I urge all my colleagues armed power, are saying these days that In a very close vote last year, Congress ap to vote in support of this resolution.• otherwise diplomacy will not work. Wein proved funds for the production of the first berger has much fainter expectations for di 21 MX missiles at a cost of $2.5 billion. This plomacy. He has done much to remove from spring, Congress is expected to take up a MX MISSILE SYSTEM SHOULD active political usage the earlier theory, Defense Department proposal to build an BE SCRAPPED which was overdone but which had a core of additional 40 MX missiles at a cost of $3.2 truth to it, that Soviet strategy and Ameri billion. HON. NICHOLAS MA VROULES can strategy often were mutually reactive The total program is estimated, at this OF lolASSACHUSE'ITS ("apes on a treadmill"). He believes Soviet time, to cost $30 billion. strategy is of spontaneous ideological origin. What do we as taxpayers receive for this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It follows that the pursuit of accommoda exorbitant cost? Herbert Scoville Jr., former Thursday, May 10, 1984 tion is dangerous and that the amassing of deputy director of the Central Intelligence force offers the only safe restraint on Soviet Agency, called MX "the most dangerous e Mr. MAVROULES. Mr. Speaker, conduct. weapons designed to date." next week the haunting specter of the Early on, this administration argued that Scoville joins a host of other critics of the MX missile will once again sweep the Soviet economy was at or near the MX when he says they "make nuclear holo through the House Chamber. The breaking point and that we could extract caust much more likely" rather than being fiscal year 1985 Department of De arms control concession, or force a Soviet a building block for arms control as claimed fense authorization bill calls for $2.9 turning-inward, by using our economic and by the Reagan administration. billion for the production of 30 mis technological advantages to force the pace MX is also opposed by negotiators of the siles. of the arms race. The theory has been given SALT treaties, Gerard Smith and Paul This multibillion dollar nuclear a test for going on four years. Hard-liners Warnke, as well as military experts such as say that is not long enough, but in our the former CIA director, Adm. Stansfield weapon is vulnerable to a Soviet democratic system four years is as long a Turner, and former chairman of the Joint attack, and, therefore, is perceived as a test as any administration is given. The re Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Maxwell Taylor. first-strike weapon. Proponents of sults are in that glossy new book, "Soviet A large variety of MX opponents, ranging MX, agreeing that its military signifi Military Power 1984." from citizen groups to arms control organi cance is negligible, claim it will coerce Weinberger will go down as the architect zations and religious leaders, is preparing the Soviets into negotiating. However, of the greatest military buildup in American for a major showdown on the MX missile. a military buildup has been going on history. No defense secretary has ever spent They share the widely held view that there for 4 years now, and the Soviets have or committed so many new tens of billions are several major problems with the MX of dollars. Some find Weinberger a fanatic. I missile: yet to be coerced. Instead, they have find him a magician: he has led a buildup, The MX hasn't helped arms control. Last increased silo hardness threefold, and one far surpassing what Jimmy Carter year, the President was able to garner sup- the arms race continues. began after Afghanistan, when nothing has port for the missile by claiming it was neces The realities of the MX missile are happened-not in Lebanon. Central Amer sary to his arms control package, a "bar camouflaged in meaningless symbols. ica, the Persian Gulf or Afghanistan-to gaining chip." Despite getting his way, arms May 10, 1981, EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11921 control negotiations have faltered and it ap grams, providing a wider range than Because the carriage of programming de pears both superpowers are continuing to the networks. Yet many families signed specifically to enhance the education escalate the arms race. cannot afford to subscribe to cable of children by commercial television licens The MX is costly. The full MX program services. I do not understand how a ees is strongly in the public interest, and be will cost at least $30 billion. Federal budget cause the record demonstrates this interest deficits threaten full recovery from the re person who is incapable of affording is not now being adequately met, the Com cession. MX and other wasteful military cable is benefited by exempting borad mission should have adopted a flexible proc spending deprive us of the ability to meet casters from the responsibility to pro essing guideline to encourage the broadcast social needs here and abroad. vide programing for children. Accord of such programming throughout the week, The MX is vulnerable to attack. MX origi ing to the FCC, two-thirds of the when most children's television viewing nated as a replacement for vulnerable Min Nation presently have cable TV serv occurs. The majority's failure to take appro utemen missile. Yet under current basing ice, and 57 percent of those homes re priate remedial action reflects a serious plans MX would be placed in the same Min ceive that service. However, it is clear error in judgment, if not also an abuse of uteman silos, the same fixed locations from the report and order and recent discretion. which make them as vulnerable and an even Ten years ago in the Children's Television more attractive target because each MX oversight hearings by the Committee Policy Statement, the Commission appreci missile has more warheads than the Minute on Energy and Commerce that the ated the rich potential of television when it man. FCC does not know how many cable instructed commercial broadcasters to in The MX escalates the arms race. As a vul households actually receive children's crease the amount of eductional and infor nerable weapons system the MX would be programing. mational programming designed for chil of questionable use as a defensive weapon I am astonished at the apparent dren. More recently, in issuing the Notice of and would more likely be perceived by the readiness of the Commission to "leave Proposed Rulemaking, the Commission con Soviets-and American generals-as a first it to the marketplace" and pursue tinued to recognize that "television pro strike weapon. As such, it would force the overall television deregulation-and gramming has an enormous potential for Soviet Union to build a first-strike system, enriching the lives _pf clilldren" which "is only further fueling the arms race between relieve licensees of their minimal re still largely unrealized." Unfortunately, de our countries. sponsibilities to children-when the spite these findings and policies, the Report Rep. John Hiler has always voted for MX. Commission has little data to justify and Order adopted by this Commission ma But if he received enough constitutent mail its change in policy. jority scarcely acknowledges the potential objecting to this wasteful, dangerous Two articles which recently ap commercial television holds for the youth of project, even he would vote to stop funding peared in re:act, the Action for Chil this country. At a time when the education it. dren's Television News Magazine, al training and fitness of children are sub • should greatly assist my colleagues in ject to increasing criticism, this indifference is unfortunate, if not outrageous. understanding the Commission's The majority has dishonored our most FCC GIVES BROADCASTERS recent action. The first article, by FCC treasured national asset-children. It has FREE RIDE ON CHILDREN'S Commissioner Henry Rivera, discusses set the notion of enforceable children's pro PROGRAMING the changes in the Federal children's gramming obligations on a flaming pyre, television policy brought about by a adrift from federal concern, in the hope HON. JOHN D. DINGELL December ruling of the FCC. Mr. that the concept will be consumed in its en Rivera, the sole dissenting Commis tirety and never return to the FCC's shores. OF MICHIGAN sioner to the FCC decision, believes I dissent. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that his colleagues- Thursday, May 10, 1984 • • • have written the epitaph of the FCC's ANOTHER CASE OF NEGLECT e Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, televi involvement in children's television. ARE WE CONDEMNING OUR "HAVE-NOT" CHIL sion's educational and cultural poten DREN TO CARTOONS AND SOAP OPERAS WHILE Marian Wright Edelman, in her arti REWARDING THE "HAVES" WITH CHALLENGING tial cannot be overestimated. Children cle, also addresses the policy of televi PROGRAMMING THAT WILL ENRICH THEIR spend an incredible amount of time sion deregulation currently promoted LIVES? before the television set, probably by the administration, and the unfor more than they spend at any other tunate effects it will have on the qual agenda.> increasing quality, educational pro I wish I had the eloquence of Mark The administration often claims it wants graming for children. Antony of this eulogy. Our federal chil to "deregulate" federal standards and make The Communications Act of 1934 dren's television policy commitment de federal programs "more flexible" for states provides that those broadcasters who serves no less at this, its interment. Make no to administer. Too often, this has meant fa mistake-this is a funeral, and my col voring large corporations and state and local are granted a Government license to leagues have written the epitaph of the government at the expense of individuals operate on the public airwaves have a FCC's involvement in children's television. and the public. In the past four years the responsibility to function in the public I dissent to the Commission's decision for administration has tried to "deregulate" interest. Children's programing is an three basic reasons. First, it changes the education for handicapped children, child essential part of that responsibility. I FCC's pre-existing children's programming welfare services, and Head Start, to name disagree vigorously with Federal Com policy without fully explaining why those just a few children's programs. In each in munications Committee Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, town Center for Strategic Studies, "not children come home from school and who S. Dak., Apr. 15, 1984] unlike the tactical advantage Moscow wields cannot afford daycare, television is the ADviCE FOR REAGAN: CHINA TIES IMPORTANT, in talks with Peking through its border babysitter. For poor children whose world is weapons and its support for Vietnam." Not filled with the constant anguish and tension BUT TAIWAN A TRUSTED, VALUABLE FRIEND , that to follow and carry out. The main criterion assist that nation's copper production Mobutu reluctantly accepted a new "con of democracy is the attitude toward man. facilities. vention" between Sozacom and G~es. Abraham Lincoln said, "As I wouldn't be a Zaire is dependent on copper. Zaire's This restricted Sozacom's role to the man slave, so I wouldn't be a master. This ex state-owned copper producer, Geca datory sale of G~camines' output. The latter presses my idea of democracy. Whatever dif mines, accounts for two-thirds of the would retain legal ownership of its output fers from this, to the extent of a difference until the moment it was delivered to the is no democracy." nation's foreign exchange. Much of customer and it had the right to control How would you control a classroom that is Zaire's copper is consumed in the each sales contract. Furthermore, "receipts full of yelling and screaming children? It United States. In 1983, Zaire account from the sale of G~camines products will be would be harsh to use a whip. Wouldn't you ed for 6 percent of U.S. copper im credited to accounts bearing the name of communicate the request of silence? You ports, or 28,545 metric tons-first 9 G~camines." could only accomplish that by talking and months of 1983. Yet much of the The importance of this new agreement be telling the children. Democracy is similar to wealth of Zaire has been channeled comes apparent when it is compared with this situation. How can you make laws and abroad by an elite which seems less in the chaos which reigned beforehand. Soza form a country without communication? com . lets the people communicate their wishes to through corruption. President Mobutu The nationalisation was carried out ineffi the government and vice versa. It is already ciently and resistance from Union Miniere, established that there are difficulties in is suspected of embezzling through the th·e former owners and part of the SG communicating with a large group of state-owned mining export organiza group, was effective. Technical management people. Of course, it's easier between two tion, Sozacom, some $1 billion. of G~camines remained entirely in the people. You are only talking about two dif Mr. Speaker, it is an insult to the hands of former Union Miniere employees. ferent ideas. With a large country, there is a American people and to the govern After two chaotic years of trying to sell part lot of different ideas. Democracy is doing ments of the Western World whose of the nationalised copper on its own, Zaire the best job, in my opinion.e contributions make possible the gener handed sales back to the SG group, this ally positive role of the IDA and the time Soci~te G~n~rale des Minerals. World Bank in the world effort There were permanent quarrels between MOBUTU SUCKS THE BLOOD the parties and clients were worried both FROM ZAIRE'S MINING GIANT against poverty for this loan to be pre about the security of their mineral supplies sented. At this time there is no world and about Zaire's ability to meet its debts market demand for more Zairean for imports and loans. So in 1974 there was HON. JAMES F. McNULTY, JR. copper and there is every reason for OF ARIZONA an agreement between the Belgian Govern American officials representing our ment, SG and Zaire. Zaire had finally to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES policies in IDA to make very clear this settle compensation for SG's nationalised Thursday, May 10, 1984 loan ought not be made. assets-at $500m the highest ever paid for a • Mr. McNULTY. Mr. Speaker, as A news account from Africa Now nationalised mining operation. It also had to follows: guarantee delivery of copper to Hoboken every Member of this body knows, for Olen-Overpelt, SG's Belgian metal refiner MOBUTU SUCKS THE BLOOD FROM ZAIRE'S eign aid is among the most difficult of ies. Zaire was free to market the rest of G~ all our national programs to explain MINING GIANT camines' production through a new state and build support for iii our districts. PRESIDENT MOBUTU USES ONE STATE COMPANY trading company-Sozacom-which would While I find a willingness among the TO SIPHON THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNINGS get initial technical assistance from Soci~te people of southeastern Arizona, who I FROM ANOTHER-HIS INTERNATIONAL BACK G~nerale des Minerals in exchange for the have the honor to represent, to sus ERS LOOK ON IN DISMAY latter still marketing 10 to 15% of produc tain emergency assistance for drought The heavyweight of Zaire's economy, the tion. nationalized copper firm G~camines, is There was at least the possibility of Soza stricken and starving peoples in Asia locked in a fight to the death with another com acquiring some commercial knowhow and Africa, foreign aid which benefits state enterprise, Sozacom. The latter has and establishing a degree of economic inde the rich and the powerful of other been the main organization for the export pendence for Zaire in minerals marketing. countries has no support and deserved of the country's raw materials-and also one However, Mobutu immediately turned the ly so. of the conduits used by President Mobutu new company to his own use. He staffed it Activities of the World Bank, its af Sese Seko and his clan to diver Zaire's for with family and clansmen and gave it a legal filiates such as IDA and IFC, and the eign exchange earnings into their own pock monopoly of export marketing of other ets. mining products-nationalised or not--like International Monetary Fund have too The latest round began in December when tin, zinc, diamonds and gold. Sozacom was often contributed to the addition of G~amines accountants discovered a $1m to do all the foreign contracting, bill the cli world mining capacity when nonfer fraud from accounts which Sozacom keeps ents and transfer receipts to the producers' rous commodities are already in sur on the mining company's behalf. So far So internal accounts. plus. A sorry record has been accumu zacom seems to be winning. Gecamines man reward for his own policies and launched an Sozacom was an ideal siphon for diverting attack on "foreign critics and subversive, I the country's foreign exchange earnings anti-Zairian agitators" who so obviously had HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI into the bank accounts of the Mobutu clan. been rebuffed by the IMF and "Zaire's OF MARYLAND There has never been an annual business friends." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES report nor any serious auditing, but Belgian This is not quite the case. The IMF stand Thursday, May 10, 1984 experts estimate that through Sozacom by is nothing more than payment for out Zaire lost more than $1 standing foreign commercial bills and thus eMs. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I bn in less than 10 years. security for Western suppliers. Already would like to pay tribute to one of the According to its annual report for 1982, legal commercial imports had been reduced which has just been released, Gecamines most professional, talented and good had to write off some $360m outstanding to a minimum considered allowable by the reporters in the newspaper world. Nick from supposed sales through Sozacom, IMF and these are covered by Zaire's for Edward Yengich, a reporter for the when the mining company took over control eign currency earnings. Since Gecamines ac Baltimore Evening Sun, died on May of its own sales again. In addition Geca counts for two-thirds of exports, develop 1, 1984. Few reporters cover the news mines claimed a further $86m from Soza ments in the company are followed with as solidly and as honestly as Mr. Yen com-though this is unlikely ever to be paid. concern. gich did. His hard work, dedication Gecamines is equally unlikely to see the So the calibre of Gecamines' top manage and amazing ability made him one of $60m listed as owing from the state-mainly ment is particularly important. Its Belgian for deliveries to Mobutu, the army or the re managing director. Robert Crem, looked like the best in his field. Nich Yengich will gional governor of Shaba, Bula Mandungu. the right man for job. He was nominated by be missed immensely. I believe that Despite the vast mineral wealth which Mobutu in May 1982 with the backing of So Carl Schoettler of the Evening Sun leaves the country illicitly, Gecamines still ciete Generale, the IMF and the World stated it best: accounts for more than two thirds of Zaire's Bank. Previously he had been on the board [From the Baltimore Evening Sun, May 2, foreign currency earnings. And, despite Mo of the Belgian mulinational Geomines, 1984] butu's lootings, the mining company has where he sat with people like former US NICK YENGICH, EVENING SUN REPORTER, DIES always been profitable. This is why the NATO ambassador Donald Rumsfeld, now AT 37 international financial community-and President Reagan's special Middle East ad Zaire's creditors-insist more than ever on viser. the need to protect Gecamines against Mo Crem had the right connections and he Nick Edward Yengich, 37, a tough, tena butu's greed. cious reporter whose stubborn integrity and Zaire's foreign debts now amount to had the skill too. Before he became manag impeccable professional standards chal nearly $6bn. Payments due and overdue this ing director he arranged a deal to provide lenged and inspired his friends and col year are roughly equivalent to Gecamines' Gecamines canteens with South African leagues, died yesterday at Johns Hopkins annual turnover of $1.5bn. Hence the impor meat imports. The price was at least 20% Hospital, of heart failure. tance to the international community of the over the odds, but the point is that he was Yengich, a bearded, stringy-haired charac September 1982 convention between Geca able to get around import restrictions and ter who sat tieless at his desk wearing a mines and Sozacom. get the foreign currency outside official worker's cap he bought near his ancestral Once the convention had been "rammed channels. The bank of another big Belgian home in Yugoslavia, had worked for the down Mobutu's throat," as one World Bank group with South African connections, Evening Sun from 1972 until his death. man put it, the international backers sat Bruxelles-Lambert, arranged the technicali- He started out covering neighborhoods back and waited. Only the EIB gave advance ti~ . and communities. He became a rewrite man credit-a $40m loan to Gecamines last June However, it became clear that Gecamines with the reputation of being able to take through the Lome Convention's mining had lost the second round of the battle, the leg work of the rawest new reporter and fund, Sysmin. "It helped us to survive," one when on February 8 it was announced in turn it into an interesting, coherent and ac top Gecamines manager told Africa Now. Kinshasa that Crem had offered his resig curate story. The World Bank was probably wise to nation ''for reasons of ill health." As the Yengich was a specialist in court coverage, wait. For months after the new convention Belgian press was quick to point out, this with a special interest and delight in report with Sozacom, Gecamines did not receive a sudden decline in Crem's well-being had ev ing on white-collar and political corruption. penny in the new accounts bearing its name erything to do with deteriorating relations He was most proud of his coverage of the at a Brussels bank, Belgolaise-yet another with Mobutu. two trials of former Gov. Marvin Mandel. branch of the SG group. Gecamines ac Even Societe Generale played its part. Don Baker, now Maryland editor of the countants found out that clients had been Washington Post, was a reporter in competi billed and had paid into the accounts, but The Belgian company was furious at Crem's tion with Yengich on the Mandel story. the sums had not been credited and were skill in renegotiating a three-year refining They became friends. transferred to other, unknown destinations. contract between Gecamines and Hoboken "He was a great, old-timey newspaper Africa Now has learned that the orders for Overpelt. By playing the card of possible man," Baker said. "He could be at once the this came from Mobutu himself. French and West German competitors, most cynical guy who ever lived and, at the In October 1983 a Gecamines official com Crem had forced the SG subsidiary to pay same time, he had a sense of fair play and plained: "We have enormous difficulty nearly 30% more for the 120 to 150,000 tons justice for the little guy." simply receiving our own statements of ac of copper which it buys from Gecamines And in a courtroom full of lawyers and de count. There are delays of four, five each year. As a result SG began to lobby fendants wearing hand-tailored, three-piece months. You can imagine what that means against Crem. suits, Yengich made no concession to judi for the treasury of a large firm like ours, for When Gecamines accountants discovered cial decorum, not even a tie. He wore what its liquidity and for its management." the connivance between Sozacom and Gel was virtually his uniform: an open-neck By the end of 1983 explosive telexes began golaise, the SG banking subsidiary, in di button-down blue oxford shirt and chino to fire back and forth between Lubumbashi, verting the mining company's funds, this pants. Kinhasa and Brussels. It is not known if only cemented the unholy alliance between But he immersed himself in the Mandel members of the Paris Club-creditor govern Societe Generale and Mobutu. case, working virtually 24 hours many, ments-or the IMF were informed at this Probably this was short-sighted of the many days during trials and appeals that time. Belgian company, since Gecamines is the stretched out over several years. On December 17 and 29 these two bodies only real security it has for its Zairean in He earned the respect and admiration not received demands from the Kinshasa gov only of fellow reporters, but of most of the ernment for a rescheduling of debts and vestments. Certainly the World Bank and lawyers, defense and prosecution alike, even urgent balance-of-payments credits. The EIB view Crem's departure with dismay. some of the defendants. Paris Club, composed of Zaire's bilateral They may be slightly consoled by the.fact Barnet D. Skolnik, the chief prosecutor in government creditors and international fi that his successor is likely to be another the Mandel case, said he felt Yengich's nance institutions like the World Bank, had Belgian, Pierre Demerre, also on the board questions were like a cross-examination. no alternative but to reschedule since all of of Gecamines. But how long will he last?e "To me as a prosecutor, he was a pain in ficial Zairean accounts are empty. Two the neck," said Skolnik, now in private prac weeks later the IMF decided to open a tice. "But he was good. $120m stanby credit, the first installment of "He'll be missed. Not just personally, but $360m to be paid over the next 15 months. also professionally. There ought to be more 11926 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 journalists like him. He was very good at were standards he tried to live up to as a today. There is no freedom; human what he did." newspaperman and as a human being. rights are nonexistent-and the qual Yengich felt deeply the responsibility of "When he told me I had written a good covering one of the most important stories column I really thought I had scored. He ity of life revolves around basic surviv in Maryland history and he took pride in was a good newspaperman. That's what he al. providing minutely detailed, accurate daily wanted to be and that's what he was." The editorial is reprinted below: coverage, coverage he revised edition by edi Yengich didn't like much fuss either. He GENERAL GIAP'S VICTORY tion, almost minute by minute. might not have liked this obituary. He once "I think Nick would always want to be re said to a friend writing another obit: "Hey, Great events are worth recalling, for their membered as a man who could dictate from when Yengich goes say: He lived. He died. lessons as well as their memories. So we the scene," said his wife, Karen, who is That's it. don't mind pointing out that today is the editor of the Laurel Leader. "He thought He worked hard and he continued working 30th anniversary of Vietnam's victory over few reporters could do that, and he was one hard during the past two years when he the French army at Olen Bien Phu. That of the few." fought the effects of a dangerous and debili victory, engineered by Gen. Vo Nguyen Yengich had an extraordinary ability to tating illness that contributed to his decline. Giap, was one of the first by communist rev develop news sources. He was still using Yengich was already an accomplished olutionaries. It marked the end of French them Monday when he called Irvin Kovens, newspaperman by the time he graduated rule in Indochina, and, arguably, led to U.S. the political boss convicted with Mandel, in from the University of Utah, but he went on involvement there and thus to Gen. Giap's a characteristic effort to help a younger re to graduate school at the Medill School of greater triumph in 1975. porter develop his story. Journalism at Northwestern University, in What can we learn from Dien Bien Phu? Karen Yengich was at her husband's bed Evanston, ill., where he earned his master's The general himself, still vigorous in his side when he died at 9 a.m. yesterday. She degree. 70s, offered his own nostalgic assessment re had taken him to Johns Hopkins Hospital at He worked for about 18 months at the cently while surveying the historic battle midnight when he complained of difficulties Hartford Times, in Hartford, Conn., before site: "The bell tolled after Dien Bien Phu in breathing. He was fully conscious and coming to The Evening Sun 12 years ago. for the sunset of colonialism and encour alert and talking to her until the end. They Yengich enjoyed traveling with his wife. aged, inspired other nations to stand up for had been married since June 16, 1970. They traveled twice to Yugoslavia and vis self-liberation." But an alternative lesson Yengich was born Dec. 6, 1946, in Murray, ited the mountain village from where his occurred to us after we read a report about Utah, where his father, Nick A. Yengich, grandparents emigrated to America. life in Vietnam since 1975. was a copper miner and a union official. He Yengich loved Yugoslavia and wrote glow The report, based on visitors' accounts grew up in Highland Boy, a Kennecott ingly of it in travel articles for The Evening and interviews with 500 emigres, is an ex Mining Corp. company town that later dis Sun and other publications. He interviewed traordinary indictment of life under Gen. appeared into a mine. the famous Yugoslavian dissenter Milovan Giap's comrades. It was complied by Gin The idea that his boyhood home was gone Djilas on his last trip. etta Sagan, an Italian-born human-rights remained important to him throughout his Yengich is survived by his wife and father; activists who was a prisoner of the Nazis in life. Yengich framed a picture of the open his mother, Erma; two sisters, Kay Jordan World War II. Mrs. Sagan, who was once a pit mine that engulfed his town and hung it of Midvale, Utah, and Linda May of Sandy, prominent opponent of President Thieu of on the kitchen wall in the townhouse he Utah; and a brother, Ronald J. Yengich of South Vietnam, first issued her report a and his wife renovated and refurbished on Salt Lake City. year ago, but has continued interviewing East Montgomery Street in Federal Hill. Funeral services and burial are private. since and concludes that "the situation Strongly involved by his father's union Mourners may send donations to the Liver hasn't changed very much." ism, Yengich himself was a dedicated union Research Fund, Johns Hopkins University That "situation" includes the familiar man, active in the Newspaper Guild until School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospi signposts of communist repression. Reli his death. He was union steward and a tal, 600 N. Wolfe St., 902 Blalock Building, gious worship is persecuted and churches member of the executive committee of the Baltimore, Md. 21205.e have become warehouses. Private shops Guild's Washington-Baltimore local. He helped negotiate several contracts between have mostly been confiscated, of course, the Baltimore unit of the Guild and the VIETNAM ANNIVERSARY MARKS with ethnic Chinese shopkeepers favorite Baltimore Sun. BIRTH OF TYRANNY victims. The report also provides grisly de It was part of Yengich's brand of integrity tails about life in the "reeducation camps," that he was a fiercely independent thinker where several hundred thousand Vietnam who has no hesitation in expressing his HON. BILL McCOLLUM ese have spent time and as many as 60,000 opinions to anyone at any time, to his fellow OF FLORIDA people remain. The lucky prisoners dig la unionists or his bosses at any level of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES trines or plant crops. The unlucky clear newspaper. minefields. Prisoners eat only a few vegeta "Nick was possessed of the single-minded Thursday, May 10, 1984 bles and a bowl of rice or two a day; they ness and open-mindedness which character e Mr. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, his rarely get protein. izes consistently superior achievement," said tory has shown us time and time again Anyone who rebels against this regimen is Tom James, a friend and newspaper col that those who promise to lift the quickly punished: Prisoners' arms and legs league who left the profession to become an yoke of poverty and oppression from a are bound into contorted positions before attorney. they're tossed into metal boxes to bake in "He was a professional journalist in the nation in the name of communism the tropical sun. One former prisoner was best sense of the term. He demanded a great always end up imposing a greater tyr thrown into an abandoned water well for deal from his associates, but never more anny on their followers than they had five days because he sang "Silent Night" on than he demanded of himself. ever experienced before. It is tragic Christmas Eve. The "reeducated" hardly "He would wish to be remembered as a that so many people have had to learn have an easier time upon release. Many are man of integrity," James said. "He has his this terrible lesson after it was too late dispatched to New Economic Zones, which wish in my mind and my heart." to save their nation from the aggres are hardscrabble areas where growing even Yengich began his newspaper career while sive forces that betrayed them. enough food to survive is difficult. a student at the University of Utah, where No wonder so many Vietnamese gamble he received a degree in journalism in 1969. This unfortunate fact is the focus of on escaping. Hanoi no longer extorts money He was a sports writer at the Deseret News, an editorial in the May 7, 1984, issue by encouraging "boat people." But accord in Salt Lake City. He worked full time while of the Wall Street Journal, which I ing to the United Nations, in 1983 alone he went to college. would like to bring to the attention of more than 28,000 Vietnamese risked cap "He was a helluva man," said John Schu my colleagues. Titled "Gen. Giap's ture, pirates and heavy seas to flee anyway. lian, a nationally syndicated sports colum Victory," the editorial points to these Some 2,000 more leave each month under nist who began by filing box scores for Yen "betrayals" on the occasion of the the U.S.-sponsored Orderly Departure Pro gich in Salt Lake City. 30th anniversary of the victory over gram. As Hoang Huu Quynh, a former Com "He was one of those rare people whom munist Party member now in France, puts you could really count on if you needed the French in Vietnam by Communist it: "today if Hanoi allowed the people to something that was really important to you. revolutionaries. Based on a report freely leave the country, even lampposts "He gave praise very stintingly," Schulian compiled from interviews with 500 Vi would apply to leave.... The party has be said. "Not because he was tough, but be etnamese who left their homeland, we trayed the people and the promises made to cause he had high standards. I think they see a vivid picture of life in Vietnam them." May 10, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11927 The lesson we draw from Dien Bien Phu, years, they clearly indicated that the shaped. Each time a person stands up for an then, is simple: Don't ever lose a war to Soviet contingent would compete. The ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or communist revolutionaries, because life Soviets even sent athletic teams to strikes out against injustice, he or she sends under their system will always be worse participate in several pre-Olympic forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing than it was under the previous regime. each other from a million different centers Always. Vietnam was no exception and events. Our Government permitted of energy and daring those ripples build a there has never been one. We think that's the Soviets to bring in a cruise ship for current which can sweep down the mighti worth recalling so long as communists else their athletes. We also gave them spe est walls of oppression and resistance. cial landing rights for the 25 flights of where portray themselves, as Gen. Giap I can think of no other plausible ex does, as nationalists or liberators or noble Soviet airline, Aeroflot. enemies of poverty and corruption.e Security was an issue that was ex planation for the ultimate triumph of tensively discussed. The Soviets said justice than these numerous acts of in that the safety of their athletes could dividual courage and belief. PERSONAL EXPLANATION not be guaranteed. I am certain that The story of two Baltimore families, our President was absolutely honest the Michaloses and the Velellis, is an HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS and forthcoming when he said that example of such action. Their story OF PENNSYLVANIA the Soviet decision was "totally un was the subject of a recent article in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES justified. ., I know for a fact that the the Baltimore Sun. I salute them and Thursday, May 10, 1984 question'of security has received much ask that the article be included in the attention by the Olympic planners and RECORD. e Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, during 1 The article follows: consideration of H.R. 5119, the foreign by our Government. Countless hours of planning and millions of dollars [From the Baltimore Sun, Apr. 29, 19841 aid authorization bill for fiscal year have already been spent. No American 1985, there occurred a vote on an GREEK FAMILY IN BALTIMORE OWES ITS wants anything to happen at the LIVES TO ANOTHER amendment by the gentleman from Olympics. Not one of us wants a visit West Virginia the use of foreign aid funds in the pro lieve that the Soviet accusation is to According to Elaine Michalos Pantelides, duction of defense articles outside the tally groundless and absurd. In es it was always the Velelli family-Emily and United States. Many Members felt this sence, I believe that the Soviet deci Emmanual and their children-who would amendment would specifically inhibit tell people what her parents, Kathryn and sion to boycott the Olympics was Elias Michalos, had done for them during the production of the Lavi fighter purely a political one. plane by our ally Israel. the war. Mr. Speaker, I would hope that the Afterwards, when both families emigrated Unfortunately, I was not aware that Soviets would reconsider their decision to America, when they found one another my vote on the Rahall amendment before the deadline so that the spirit again in Baltimore and were celebrating to was recorded as "present." I would like of the Olympics can be preserved free gether milestone events like Michalos chris the REcoRD to show that I meant to from political manipulation.• tenings and Velelli bar mitzvahs, her father have voted "no" on the Rahall amend would simply say of the Velellis: "These are ment, and apologize for any confusion our friends from Greece." the vote may have caused on the part OUT OF THE ASHES OF But when Velellis introduced Michaloses of my constituents.• HOLOCAUST they would announce: "These are the people who saved us from the Nazis." During this afternoon's Yom Hashoa THE SOVIET UNION'S DECISION HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI Day of Remembrance-ceremonies at the TO BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS OF MARYLAND Holocaust Memorial at Water and Gay IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES streets, the Baltimore Jewish Council will Thursday, May 10, 1984 present Kathryn Michalos with a plaque HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD honoring her and her late husband for their OF MICHIGAN e Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, unstinting aid to the Velellis during the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES during these days of remembrance for Nazi terror. And this time, too, according to Thursday, May 10, 1984 victims of the Nazi Holocaust, we bow Gene Burger of the council, the impetus our heads in shame to recall the deep came from a Velelli relative-from Richard e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I est wound ever inflicted upon the soul Glaser, whose wife, Rachel, is the youngest was disappointed to learn of the Soviet of man. Velelli daughter. Union's decision to boycott the All our attempts to describe this Kathryn Michalos is a modest womap.. summer Olympics. I had hoped that a horror, all our attempts to document She does not talk about bravery or heroism; successful summer Olympics would instead she concentrates on the daily strug its brutality, all our attempts to meas gle to survive during wartime, and credits help to improve United States-Soviet ure its devastating impact, are in vain. her husband, Elias, for the major decisions. relations. The games have always been Yet, remember these events we "My husband was so proud," she declares. a fine opportunity to strengthen inter must. In all humility we struggle to "He wanted to help everybody. He knew ev national friendships and understand understand the magnitude of this erything. Emmanuel asked [for help] and ings. crime in the hope that future genera my husband said, 'Yes.'" I have always believed that all na tions will always live in a safe and civ Her speech, like Emily Velelli's, still car tions should try to separate politics ilized world. ries the melodic cadence of her native land, from athletics. Athletes should not be Out of the ashes of Holocaust, the and both women sometimes describe past denied opportunities to participate in events in present-tense verbs. Elaine Pante dream of a better world did emerge. lides, a very young child at the time of the great international athletic events. Al Western Europe was freed, the United Nazi occupation of Greece, sits in on the though the United States decided to States became the leader of the free interview in her mother's Towson house; boycott the Olympics in 1980, our world, the United Nations became a Mrs. Velelli is interviewed in the Glasers' Government's decision was brought peaceful forum for reconciling inter home in Randallstown. The younger women about by the tragic Soviet invasion of national disputes and countless young have offered to help their mothers find the . Afghanistan the previous year. Let us nations were born, the most remarka precise English words. Actually, the older hope that the Soviets' decision was not ble being the reconstitution of a women express themselves quite clearly; the an attempt to take revenge for our Jewish State, called Israel. daughters fill in some gaps. Emmanuel Ve lelli has already recounted these events, in Government's earlier boycott. How did this good actually emerge an affidavit recorded by Mr. Burger and I know that Soviet sports officials from such evil? The late Senator sent to Yad Vashem, the museum and re were actively engaged in intense nego Robert F. Kennedy once said: pository of Holocaust artifacts and docu tiations with the Los Angeles Olympic It is from numberless diverse acts of cour ments in Jerusalem, so the Michalos family Organizing Committee. For the past 3 age and belief that human history is can be part of the record of "Righteous 11928 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 Gentiles" who aided Jews during the Nazi this all too well: After the war her husband tive's restaurant, at Roland avenue and 40th era. and children moved to Patras, while she, by street; eventually he bought the place. According to that document, after Greece herself, walked from the port city to the Today Mrs. Pantelides and her husband fell to the Axis powers in April 1941, "com mountain village so she could take care of are in partnership with her brother as paratively benign" Italians took control of the family vineyards. owners of the Corinthian, on Windsor Mill the southern part of the country. In Sep The house her husband gave, rent-free, to road. This present family enterprise carries tember, 1943, however, the Germans took the Velellis had been an employees' cottage, memories of days long past: Among the over, and at that point Mr. Velelli, a pros with two big rooms but no running water. wines they serve are some with the Demesti perous businessman in the Peloponnesian "We were there for four or five months," cha label; the winery at Demesticha uses port city of Patras, appealed to Mr. Micha Mrs. Velelli continues. "And then we knew grapes from the old vineyards at Micha los, owner of the winery in the mountain vil the Germans would come, and everybody lage of Michaleika, for help. Mr. Michalos had to leave." leika, Mrs. Pantelides says. agreed to provide a hiding place for the According to the women, the Nazis were In 1956, the Velellis emigrated also, choos entire Velelli family-Emily and Emmanuel looking for British agents, not Jews, when ing Baltimore because Emily Velelli had a and their two young daughters, plus Mr. Ve they invaded Michaleika; and because the niece who had come here after her release lelli's parents and three brothers. Michalos family was suspected of hiding from a concentration camp. Before the The women tell that story again, in great them the Nazis burned their home. family arrived, the niece had gotten into er detail, and in words that are strikingly Elaine Pantelides, a child at the time, re conversation one evening with a Greek gen similar, right down to a "God bless Amer members going away that night with her tleman in her English language class; he, it ica" at the end. parents and the Velellis and everyone else turned out, was Elias Michalos. And as Mrs. Michalos speaks, it becomes in Michaleika. And she also remembers So they met again. Lacking an address for clear that she was as involved in the rescue coming back "and seeing the house burning, the Michaloses when he and his family got effort as was her husband, and that she, and everyone crying.'' (In recent years, she here, Emmanuel Velelli left a letter for too, understood the terrible risks. She had has gone back to Greece, and to the village. them in a Greek grocery store near Lexing three young children; the village, in which Traces of the family home remain. "A stone ton Market. "Right away they came to see her husband was the leading citizen, was here, a corner there," she says.) us, they gave us any help they could," Mrs. populated almost entirely by his relatives, "After this happened"-Mrs. Velelli picks Velelli remembers. and the family business was its sole econom up the tale at the point of the house-burn In 1975, Elias Michalos died of cancer. ic support. ing-"they say they have to come to our The families mourned together. Emily Velelli, a young wife and mother at house, to live together. They don't say we Today, they celebrate. The Yom Hashoa the time, remembers the fear they all en should leave, no. They kept one room and ceremony downtown is scheduled for 2 p.m. dured. "Of course we knew what would gave the other to us." happen, because we knew about Salonika; "We were all together, like one family,'' Afterwards, they will all head for St. Deme the Germans had already taken the Jews of Mrs. Michalos says. "We talk together, eat trios Greek Orthodox Church in Towson, Salonika." Her husband's brother was a together, sit around the fire together. This where, at 3:30 p.m., Mrs. Pantelides's grand member of a hiking club, and had visited is a nice family, a very nice family.'' son-Mrs. Michalos' third great-grand the village of Michaleika on a climb. With "After this happened, no one could work child-will be christened.e the Nazi takeover imminent, he asked an any more," Mrs. Velelli continues. "Every other club member, who was a Michalos rel one was worried about the food, especially ative, if Elias Michalos would help the Ve us. They tried to help us as much as they U.S. FIRMS IDENTIFIED AS FOR lellis. The familes were otherwise unrelated could." EIGN AGENTS REPRESENTING and unconnected, and according to Mrs. Ve "They baked bread," Mrs. Pantelides ex NICARAGUA lelli, Elias Michalos had never even known a plains. "They had the wine and they dipped Jewish person until her family arrived. the bread in the wine, and that was their "Right away, he said, 'Yes,' and gave us a meal most of the time." HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST house," Mrs. Velelli recalls. A few months later, in April, 1944, the "He was a fervent anti-Nazi and Greek pa families learned the Germans would be re OF VIRGINIA triot," Mrs. Glaser points out. Not only was turning. Again the village was _evacuated; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES he willing to protect the unknown Jews; he again they all returned when the Nazis left. was also sheltering British intelligence But this time the village itself was de Thursday, May 10, 1984 agents. stroyed, blown up with a cache of British e Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, It is perhaps worth noting that the brav explosives the Nazis had discovered there. ery of the Michalos family was matched by The two-room cottage was gone too. on Monday, May 7, I took a special the honorable behavior of other Greeks. And so was Greek unity. World War II order for the purpose of informing my "We had very good Christian friends in was winding down; a civil war, between colleagues about the propaganda ac Patras," Mrs. Velelli states. "The day before Greek monarchists and communist guerril tivities being carried on in this country we left, I said to one friend, 'Take all my las, was beginning. The Velellis rented a by the Marxist Sandinistas, detailing jewelry. If we come back, give it back. If house in another village, named Demesti some of the expenditures made by not, try to find my relatives. If not, you can cha, but two of Mr. Velelli's brothers were keep it.' When we came back, the next day rounded up by the communists and were them for this purpose, and identifying she came to my house and gave it back. killed; a British document, received after U.S. firms which have registered as "Before we left, for a week or two, every wards, attests to the young men's brave foreign agents representing Nicaragua. afternoon we would leave our home to go service to their native land. The Michaloses At that time, I mentioned Mr. Stuart somewhere else to sleep, because we were moved into a cattle shed near their vine Eizenstat as one who had represented afraid the Germans would come in the yards; Mr. Michalos was taken by the com night. We had another very very good munists, too. Mrs. Michalos sent her chil the Sandinistas, but I have since friend who said, 'Don't worry, come to my dren off to relatives in safer villages, tended learned that he served in that capacity house, sleep here.' Before we left, we gave to the grapes, and spent her nights searching for only about 7 months, in late 1981 him the better things we had at home, like for her husband. and early 1982. I am pleased to include my sewing machine, and a trunk full of my And then it was over. A year after they at this point in the RECORD a copy of good trousseau. When we came back, he left Patras, the Velellis came back, without the letter sent to the Department of gave back everything. shoes and racked by malaria. A Greek monk "Our house we gave to a friend. We said, learned where Elias Michalos was being Justice on April 9, 1982, requesting 'You live here with your family till, if God held; Kathryn Michalos went to get him. He that Mr. Eizenstat's registration be wants, we come back.' When we came back too was sick and without shoes: he was also terminated. we found the house, the furniture; they had afraid he'd be killed if he stayed in Micha Mr. Eizenstat has informed me that given it good care. We stayed together a leika. Instead, he moved to Patras and start he has had no further dealing with week, and then they left; they had another ed a trucking business. the Sandinista regime, and I am happy house.'' Life in Greece was not what it had been The trek to Michaleika was not easy. for either family. Before the war, two of Mr. to share this correction with my col There were no paved roads, and the path Michalos' brothers had settled in Baltimore; leagues. was rocky. The Velellis' older daughter was in 1951, he and his wife and children up 6; the baby was 1. According to Kathryn Mi rooted themselves once again, and came chalos, it was a two-day hike. She knows here. Mr. Michalos went to work in a rela- May 10, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11929
PoWELL, GoLDSTEIN, FRAzER & ficial and raised the issue of Soviet Jewry. paint a different picture. The rate of Soviet MURPHY, Rolling from his lips was a slick, polished, Jewish emigration did drop upon the imple ATTORNEYS AT LAW, obviously well rehearsed and oft-stated mentation of Jackson-Vanick, but climbed Washington, D.C., April9, 1982. reply which suggested that the issue of upwards as Soviet-American relations were ReRegistration No. 3274. Soviet Jewry was "exaggerated in the west harmonized: 1974: 20,628 Jews emigrated; AsSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL. ern media" and offering to investigate spe 1975: .13,221; 1976: 14,261; 1977: 16,736; 1978: Internal Security Division, Department of cific cases of personal concern to the Con 28,864; 1979: 51,320; 1980: 21,471; 1981: 9,447; Justice, Washington, D. C. gressman. 1982: 2,688; 1983: 1,314; and 1983 229. tion of this firm under the Foreign Agents Hill the rate of Soviet Jewish emigration de As detente peaked in 1979, so did the Registration Act of 1938, I enclose a Supple clined 90%. In my last full month as a legis number of exit visas in the Soviet Union. mental Statement signed in triplicate for lative assistant, fewer Jews left the U.S.S.R. When detente was pronounced dead after the period ending March 10, 1982. than left on a single day in 1979. the invasion of Afghanistan, Soviet officials In addition, please terminate the Short Taken together, these experiences and began to clamp down on Jewish emigration. Form Registration of the following person statistics paint a confusing picture of the ef The real correlation with respect to Soviet affiliated with the registrant: Stuart E. Ei fectiveness of U.S. Congressional pressure Jewish emigration is not to the Jackson zenstat, Partner. for Soviet Jews. No one can say with cer Vanick measure, but to the tenor of Soviet Thank you for your cooperation. tainty that congressional actions have been American relations. Jackson-Vanick should Very truly yours, totally effective or ineffective. What can be not be repealed on the mistaken perception MARK R. EATON.e clearly stated is that Congress has vigorous that it is responsible for reduced emigra ly pursued this issue and may now be at a tion. Rather, its relaxation should be sec turning point by considering new and possi ondary to improving relations with Moscow CONGRESSIONAL PRESSURE bly unwise methods of gaining improved and conducting our affairs in a businesslike FOR SOVIET JEWS treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. manner. In this context, congressional Congress uses various mechanisins in pur action would be certainly enhanced. suing the issue of Soviet Jewry. All of these Leaders in the Soviet Jewry movement HON. RICHARD L. OTIINGER mechanisins-rehetorical and substantive like to speak of "an international drumbeat OF NEW YORK are designed to effect three types of "pres of outrage" to pressure the Kremlin to re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sure points." First, to raise the morale of spect the life and culttire of its Jewish popu Jews in the U.S.S.R. by assuring them that lation. Fewer political institutions than Thursday, May 10, 1984 their plight is of major concern to impor Congress have been more vigorous and dill e Mr. OTI'INGER. Mr. Speaker, I am tant political leaders in Washington. gent in beating those drums and, if nothing including in today's REcoRD an out Second, to directly pressure the Kremlin for more, sending oppressed Soviet Jews the standing speech to the New York Uni an improvement in the treatment of Jews signal that their plight is being addressed under its rule. Third, to pressure the White and their welfare is a priority. When Soviet versity School of Law by Steve Israel, House and State Department to treat the American relations are improved and the the Suffolk County, Long Island direc issue of Soviet Jewry as a major component dialogue is renewed, Congress will begin to tor of the American Jewish Congress in U.S. foreign policy and to address it at see the fruits of its efforts.e and a former legislative assistant in every suitable diplomatic opportunity. my office. These tactics are embodied in various pro Mr. Israel spoke about U.S. congres grains sponsored by Soviet Jewry groups WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN WEEK sional efforts on behalf of Soviet Jews. throughout the United States. Among the He suggests that the Jackson-Vanick most prominent is the Prisoners of Con science program administered by the Great HON. BILL GREEN amendment-passed in 1974 to impose er New York Conference on Soviet Jewry. OF NEW YORK trade restrictions on the Soviets for Members of Congress "adopt" specific re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their human rights violations-is not fuseniks and pursue their cases by making responsible for lowering the levels of speeches on the floor of the House, commu Thursday, May 10, 1984 Soviet Jewish emigration. Mr. Israel nicating with U.S. and Soviet officials, spon e Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, I am notes that there is a direct correlation soring legislation and circulating "Dear Col pleased to inform you and the rest of between the levels of emigration and league" letters. Additionally, the Union of my colleagues that a concerned group the tenor of Soviet-American rela Councils on Soviet Jewry sponsors a Con gressional Vigil which asks Members of Con of New York City residents has de tions. He points out. correctly I be gress to speak on the floor about various clared the week of June 3-9, 1984, as lieve, that until Soviet-American Soviet refuseniks. And the National Confer "We Love Our Children Week." Be dialog is resumed on the basis of ence on Soviet Jewry has organized entering cause children are our Nation's great mutual civility and d~tente is restored, freshman classes of Congress around the est resource, I am proud to have been improvement in emigration is unlikely. issue. This year's 98th Congressional Class asked to take part in this great occa I commend these remarks to the at on Soviet Jewry is co-chaired by Represent sion. tention of my colleagues: atives Mel Levine . CONGRESSIONAL PRESSURE FOR SOVIET JEWS These approaches focus on somewhat rhe dren, I am terribly concerned about trade status because It tinger that he detected a subtle improve of their human rights violations. Adopted in dealing with these problems. is sad ment in his treatment in the U.S.S.R. at 1974, it is the singular substantive mecha that the mobilization of these con about the same time congressional pressure nism to directly pressure the Kremlin to cerned parents. educators, and profes increased in his behalf. open the floodgates of emigration. Recently, sionals is necessary. Yet. we have seen In 1980 over fifty Members of Congress however, it has been the subject of careful during the past few months that a co-signed a letter to Soviet Ambassador An debate on Capitol Hill; there is a move -afoot growing number of our children are atoly Dobrynin urging his government to re to repeal Jackson-Vanick. falling victim to those who choose to lease Jewish "prisoner of conscience" Josef Proponents of the repeal have argued that exploit them. Begun. The letter was received by the the Jackson-Vanick measure is responsible For this reason, I am very happy to Soviet Embassy, unopened, marked for the plummeting levels of Soviet Jewish "RETURN TO SENDER" and mailed back emigration. They suggest that Moscow is note that both the electronic and to Capitol Hill. holding Jews hostage to the repeal of Jack print media have dealt with these Later in 1983, as an aide to Congressman son-Vanick and the restoration of favorable problems in a positive way. News Ottinger, I met with a Soviet diplomatic of- trade and tariff conditions. In fact, statistics week's recent cover story, television 11930 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1981,. movies on child pornography and are not interested in being separated In appreciation of their efforts, we decid incest, and local and national news sto from our economy but being made a ed to single out one very special person who ries have all dealt with these problems component in our economy with due has been a positive contributing force over a in a positive and educational manner. consideration given to the impact size period of many years. Someone, admired and respected by both managers and craft It is crucial that parents and educators difference makes. employees. Someone who has the under discuss these social problems with chil I am pleased that Congress is begin standing of our commitment to our Postal dren so that our kids know what to do ning to hear the voice of small busi customers in fulfilling our obligation to in case they face such serious occur ness and is responding to it. Some ex them: delivering their mail as we promised. rences. amples of the response of Congress in We were looking for a person not only ob On June 9, the "We Love Our Chil clude the Regulatory Flexibility Act, servant, but cooperative, not antagonistic dren" festival will be held in Washing which requires the Federal agencies to when bringing problems that need correct ton Square Park in New York City. tailor regulation requirements to size ing or resolving. someone willingly accept ing assignments that possibly no one else Participating in the festival will be of the firm; the Prompt Payment Act, wanted to do. singers, clowns, musicians, acting and which is intended to force the Federal Mrs. Ollie M. Hawkins is that person: dance companies, and speakers who Government to pay bills it owes within warm, dedicated and committed. I can per· will all provide educational assistance a reasonable period; the Small Busi sonally vouch for that. In my opinion one of in their own individual ways. New ness Innovation Act, which provides a the greatest things one individual can give York University, Consolidated Edison, significant breakthrough for small to another is positive attention or positive and other education and business or companies, especially high tech com stroking. When I left Rincon Annex almost ganizations will take part in this event. panies seeking access to research and 20 years ago to go to other facilities and as signments, periodically I had to return Most important, children will also development funds provided by Feder there for meetings, etc. Whenever I would have a role in the festival. I look for al agencies; the Equal Access to Jus see Ms. Hawkins, she would stop and greet ward to working with all these groups tice Act, which seeks a balance in me warmly, giving me support and recogni in an effort to rid our community, and court battles between big government tion. This totally amazed me as I was sur our Nation, of these loathsome prob and small businesses; the Paperwork prised to know she even remembered me. lems, and I urge my colleagues to take Reduction Act, which reduces the Perhaps she did not remember my name, it part in any such events in their respec costs of paperwork imposed by regula was that few minutes attention that tive communities.• tions; and the Export Trading Compa reached me and made me feel good. Other managers expressed the same good feelings ny Act, which will help small firms about this attention. Let me share some of compete in foreign markets on an the things I have learned about Ms. Haw equal basis with their competition in WHY IS SMALL BUSINESS SO kins: other countries. Worked in Kaiser Shipyard, Richmond, IMPORTANT? Congress has enacted legislation to California for three years <1940-42) as a cer help small business in other ways in tified journeyman, welder. HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD cluding capital formation and reten Entered postal services as an indefinite OF MICHIGAN tion,' government procurement, and war substitute; July 31, 1945. Worked at PCC and then Rincon Annex IN THE HOUSE OF REPRE'3ENTATIVES beneficial tax changes. after World War II. Thursday, May 10, 1984 Mr. Speaker, small business has, Became interested in problems of two indeed, made much progress in Wash groups of postal workers: blacks and women. e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, ington, especially in recent years, but Men wanted women out of the Post Office, there is no substitute in my opinion there is a need for much more to be to go home and be housewives, mothers for competition in our economy. Com done. I sincerely hope that Congress again. They wanted the old days again, to petition is the driving power in our will join me in a determined effort to be able to talk and act as they once had. economic system. It is the force which continue to act to stimulate this most Blacks and women both were not fully ac has given us an unparalleled standard productive segment in our economy.e cepted as union members. of living and made our country the During this time, there was a proposal to envy and hope of the world. cut back delivery of mail to once a day Catholic Church was rec standing contribution to the Postal Serv ognized in the international community and ice.e Thursday, May 10, 1984 by the United States Because international diplomacy has a dallstown in 1970 when he became Archbishop Laghi, Archbishop Hickey, certain inexorability about it, nations gener spiritual leader of the Ahavas Sholom President Byron, Members of the University ally respond to their respective needs in the Randallstown Synagogue Center. In Community, and Honored Guests. It is a international community in the manner his early years as rabbi at the Young great privilege for me to give the lecture on most consistent with the internal demands this occasion and to share with you some re of their political structure. When, as in the Israel Synagogue in New Rochelle, flections on the topic of America's relations case of American relations with the Vatican, N.Y., he originated a Hebrew heritage with the Vatican. The theme of this lecture neither soverign's legitimacy as a player on program to provide a course of study is "Recognition as Reality: The Policy and the international stage depends upon recog for children with no background in Legal Bases of United States Vatican Rela nition by the other, the only question for Jewish learning. tions." discussion is the utility of such relations. Rabbi Goldberg recently served as It is appropriate at the outset to reflect a From the beginning United States-Vatican president of the Rabbinical Council of moment on the notion of "Recognition as relations have been influenced by the America's Maryland region, was an ad Reality." Does recognition create reality? mutual need of both. John Adams, writing a Not really. It certainly would be inaccurate nation-by-nation diplomatic survey pre visor to the Jewish Students Associa to argue that Archbishop Laghi's close rela pared for the Confederation Congress in tion of Johns Hopkins University and tionship with the University will be created 1779, speculated erroneously that the Papal and Goucher College, a board member by the honorary degree awarded today; that States would be among the last to recognize of the Talmudical Academy of Balti relationship has had an independent exist the newly independent United States, even more and the Religious Zionists of ence over time, and the degree is merely a were it to seek such recognition. "Congress" America. formal recognition of that fact. It would he said "[would] probably never send a min He was the Jewish chaplain at Shep serve no useful purpose for the University ister to his Holiness." But his speculation pard and Enock Pratt Hospital, a to seek to keep the relationship an informal soon gave way to reality. A mere four years one, hidden from public view if recognition later, an informal diplomatic contact with member of the chaplaincy committee might be beneficial. In fact, it is only when Benjamin Franklin, then our minister to at Sinai Hospital, and chairman of the formal recognition has adverse effects that the French Court, was made by the papal Baltimore area's Kashruth Commis parties are more circumspect about their re nuncio at Versailles in order to determine sion, which certifies kosher food. lationships. the desires of the American government re He was active in adult and Jewish So too, formal recognition of the Holy See garding the nationality of the individual education programs, taught classes in by the United States merely affirms the re soon to be named as America's first Catholic Jewish history, laws and customs at ality of a cordial and cooperative diplomatic bishop. Although a committee composed of the Jewish Community Center, and relationship which stretches over 200 years Thomas Jefferson, Elbridge Gerry and of America's history. Whether recognized Hugh Williamson declined to offer the Pope previously taught Middle East history formally or not, the relationship exists and the requested advice on the grounds that at Dundalk Community College. is beneficial to both the United States and the federal government had no power to in He also initiated a scholars-in-resi the Holy See. At times when the United volve itself in religious matters, they did em dence program between the Randalls States was unable to recognize the relation phasize their respect for the Pope as a "sov town Synagogue Center and Liberty ship formally for domestic political reasons, ereign and state." The reality of the inter- 11932 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 national order and the needs of both sover impact on our domestic political scene. In result would be judicial oversight of inher eigns thus led to mutual recognition by fact, the lack of public outcry over the ex ently political decision making. This, the 1783; and by 1797, to an exchange of consuls change of ambassadors, demonstrates that Constitution does not allow, and the result to look after commercial affairs. there is no negative impact at all. It is, has been the dismissal of lawsuits challeng As our nation grew in power, stature and therefore, clearly appropriate that, for the ing such diplomatic decisions as aid to Israel commerce it was inevitable that our rela first time in 136 years, American policy re to hamper or harass the conduct cies. The New York Herald favored an am Although the Religion Clauses of the of foreign affairs. The Supreme Court has bassador "as more respectful to the Pope, First Amendment are often said to erect a yet to articulate the precise individual right and more suitable to our dignity and great high "wall of separation" between church which is protected by its current interpreta ness as a people." and state, it is more realistic to describe the tion of the Establishment Clause of the Thus, when President Polk recommended "wall" as did the Supreme Court in a recent First Amendment. As a result, American the creation and funding of a diplomatic case: "as a blurred, indistinct, and variable courts drift somewhere between the impos mission to the Vatican in his 1847 State of barrier depending on all the circumstances sible goal of absolute separation of church the Union message, he responded to the of a particular relationship." and state and the constitutional ideal of re needs of American foreign and domestic While it is clearly possible to construct a ligious freedom for the individual. It makes pressure. When that diplomatic mission number of constitutional policy arguments neither diplomatic nor constitutional sense became the locus of Union efforts to assure regarding the wisdom or political efficacy of to permit a Supreme Court which has very the non-recognition of the Confederacy by an exchange of Ambassadors with the Holy little sense of its own mission or thinking on the Holy See during the War between the See, such policy arguments should be distin church/state questions in the domestic States, the relationship played an important guished from legal arguments resting on the sphere to govern the decisions of the Presi role in the diplomatic life of the nation language and structure of the Constitution dent in matters of foreign affairs, even if during those troubled years. itself. they do arguably violate the same symbolic The suspension of official American diplo Although the main body of constitutional notion of "absolute" separation. matic contact with the Vatican in 1868 as a law governing church/state relations has It is good policy when the courts hold that result of rumors that American Protestants been announced since 1940, the historical the task of recognizing reality in the world in Rome had not been permitted to practice data leaves no doubt that the federal gov of foreign affairs is a job for the President. their religion also reflected a typical use of ernment was not to prefer one religion over Because they have yet to construct a consti diplomacy to make a point about American others, or to involve itself in religious ques tutional theory which reflects the reality of opinion. America, said Congressman Thad tions. Nonetheless, it would be difficult to the religious settlement in the United deus Stevens, had no desire to have repre argue that recognition of the Holy See by States, it would be most unfortunate for sentation "at any Court or Government exchange of ambassadors alone would vio them to attempt the task in the internation which prohibits free worship within its ju late the principles of religious freedom the al arena. Now that formal diplomatic recog risdiction of the Christian religion." Funds First Amendment was designed to protect. nition is reality, no amount of judicial dis were cut off to make a point which would Jefferson himself, whose letter to the Dan cussion can or should be permitted to have been valid had the rumors of religious bury Baptists first described the wall, was a change it. There is neither a policy nor a suppression been true. But America did member of the committee which first recog legal basis for such a change and, in my make a point which could not have been nized the international status of the Holy judgment, it is far better for all of us that demonstrated without a diplomatic mission. See "as a sovereign and a state" as distinct they decline to make the attempt.e Although formal contacts did not begin in the eyes of the American government again until the recent appointment of Am from its religious mission. President Polk bassador William Wilson, informal contacts did the same in 1848 when he cautioned our PERSECUTION OF THE BAHA'IS served the needs of both America and the representative to stay out of religious af Holy See in the interim. Whether one fo fairs. I am quite confident, therefore, that cuses on the Taft mission to Rome to deal present and future presidents will under HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER with the Philippines at the close of the stand and abide by the constitutional com OF ILLINOIS Spanish-American War; the many contacts mand while pursuing America's legitimate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES between Woodrow Wilson and Benedict XV interests at the Holy See. Thursday, May 10, 1984 during World War I; or the appointment of But to the constitutional lawyer or law Myron Taylor as Franklin Roosevelt's per professor it is not the President whose abili e Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, last sonal representative-with the rank of Am ties of discernment are at issue when a con week the Subcommittee on Human bassador-at the outbreak of World War II, stitutional challenge is raised. Rather, it is Rights and International Organiza it is clear that the United States often the willingness of the federal judiciary to tions held hearings on the persecution worked closely with the Holy See on mat steer clear of the sensitive foreign policy of the Baha'is in Iran. ters of mutual concern. That process contin issues inherent in the President's decision to ues to the present day. appoint an ambassador. Although Constitu Many of my colleagues share my The Vatican is widely recognized among tional rules bind the President in all he dismay over the violent persecution of nations as a unique diplomatic observation does, the Supreme Court has held that the the Baha'is. Since the 1979 Islamic point, and Article 24 of the Lateran Treaty judiciary has very little to say in foreign af revolution, 170 Baha'is have been exe makes it clear that the Holy See will remain fairs matters. The decision to recognize a cuted. The Iranian Government has aloof from the temporal competitions of foreign government, for example, is a non banned all organized Baha'i religious states, except as they might, by common justiciable "political question." And wisely activities as "criminal acts," establish consent, appeal to its mission of peace. At a so, for as the Court said in Baker v. Carr, ing the so-called legal grounds for time when the world is in need of peacemak foreign affairs "uniquely demand single ers who understand the temporal and spirit voiced statement[sl of the Government's mass arrests and genocide. Iran is ual dimensions of international tensions, it views," Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 211-212 presently the only place in the world is neither wise nor consistent foreign policy (1962). where people are being persecuted and to pretend that formal relations with the Because the power to appoint ambassa killed solely on account of their reli Vatican are inappropriate as a matter of dors and conduct foreign affairs is given to gious beliefs and not because of their American law. When, as now, the Holy the President in Article II of the Constitu political opposition to the regime in Father is recognized as an active, positive tion. the courts have been correct in refus power. force in the cause of world peace, human ing to extend the judicial power of the Among those presenting testimony rights, social justice and religious freedom, United States into an area reserved to the one must question the wisdom of a policy Executive Branch. The American adversar last week was Said Eshraghi, an Irani which suggests that a very real relationship ial system of justice is inherently unsuited an-born Baha'i currently living in the should be hidden from view in an attempt to for the resolution of diplomatic questions, United States. Mr. Eshraghi told the deny its reality. The positive benefits to be and when the issue is cast as one of consti subcommittee of the arrests and exe gained far outweigh the potential negative tutional dimention by a private litigant, the cutions of his father, mother, and May 10, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11933 young sister in Shiraz last June. I am about two hundred houses and businesses four chances to recant their faith. They had submitting for the RECORD Said's testi that belonged to the Baha'is. They burned a tape recorder and a piece of paper and a mony and recommend that my col some of the houses and demolished every pencil that they would take to the prison. leagues read this firsthand account of thing. They took away what everybody had They would tell my Dad first, "You must because they were Baha'is. The news kept recant your faith, and if you do, you will be the horrors of life in Iran for the coming that my family and other Baha'is released." The same was done to my Mom Baha'is. were in danger. The National Spiritual As and my sister. None of them wanted to I urge my colleagues to raise their sembly of Iran was executed. Other Baha'is recant their faith. voices in protest and to join me in co all over Iran were also being executed. I June 15, I think, was the last day my sponsoring House Concurrent Resolu never thought that such things would sister Rosita, who was seventeen years old, tion 226 which condemns the Iranian happen one day to me, that I would be went to the prison to visit my Dad. With her Government's persecution of the someone who would get hurt from the revo was her fiancee and our cousin. The purpose Baha'is. lutionary government. of the meeting was for my sister to get my The testimony follows: On November 29, 1982, my father Enaya Dad's permission to marry her fiancee. Of tollah Eshraghi; my mother, Ezzat; and my course, my Dad agreed and told them to go My name is Said Eshraghi. I am an Irani sister Roya were arrested. They were taken an Baha'i who has resided in the United ahead and get engaged. My brother-in-law to prison by the authority of the govern said to my father, "Mr. Eshraghi, we are States for the last six years. I currently live ment in Shiraz. They were arrested at 8 in Nacogdoches, Texas, where I work as di sorry that you are not going to be at the p.m. Government officials came to the ceremony." My Dad smiled and said, "Well, rector of operations of a small chain of res house and asked them to go with the offi taurants. I appear before this Subcommittee if I am not going to be there, my spirit will cials for questioning. That night, besides my be there for sure." My cousin talked to my to tell the story of the persecution of my parents and my sister, forty-five Baha'is family, three members of which have been Dad for a few minutes. My Dad told her were arrested in Shiraz. Probably thirty-five that he was waiting for the court to decide martyred for their beliefs. My story is not more Baha'is were arrested that night and unique. But it may throw some light on his case. Dad told her that he would not the next night and were put in jail. For a recant his faith. Apparently the judge was what is happening to the Baha'is in Iran. long time we didn't have any information At 5 o'clock in the morning on June 17, in the prison, because my Dad told her, "He about what went on. What were the is a nice man because he let you come in be 1983, I had a strange phone call from Aus charges? Why were eighty-five Baha'is in tralia. It was my brother. He said, "Good cause prisoners are only allowed to have prison? Nobody would tell. visits from the immediate members of the morning. How are you?" I said I was fine And even when they started to put all the and asked him why he was calling so early. family." My cousin was not considered an Baha'is on trial, nobody knew what the trial immediate member of the family. The next He said he just wanted to see how I was was all about except that my father and my doing and asked if I had heard anything day, June 16, 1983-I don't know what from home. I said no. He said, "Well, I have mother and my sister were in a trial. time-my father and six other Baha'is were congratulations." I said, "What are you Nobody else was allowed to be in the court executed. On that same day my sister talking about?" He said, "Our father was or the courtroom. Rosita got engaged, and as my Dad was tell That was the time I started calling back to martyred." I think I was still asleep when ing her, his spirit for sure was at the en he said that, and I said, "What are you talk my home and talking to my sister Rosie gagement ceremony. about the things that were happening. I ing about?" He said, "Wake up! Go put some On June 17, My sister got the news that water on your face, and wake up. Our father know a few things. A lady who was in prison six Baha'is had been executed and that has gone to God." with my mother but was later released sent their bodies were in the morgue. She went For about five or ten minutes I didn't me a letter and wrote some things in the to the morgue. The person in charge know what to do. I had two finches in a letter. During the trial my sister asked the judge wouldn't let anyone go in, but my sister cage. The first thing I remember was feeling begged for about thirty minutes, and he fi that I needed to let the finches go. I opened if she could talk to my Dad for a few min utes. She hadn't seen or touched my Dad nally said, "Okay, well, why don't you go the cage and let them go. Then I called my look." She went in and saw my Dad. later on sister in Iran. She wasn't home. But another even for a minute during the past six months. The judge said, "Well, you may go we found out that when the names of my member of my family in my parents' home Dad and Dr. Afnan were called, they raced told me, "Your Dad was executed yester and talk to your Dad." So my sister Roya, who was in a women's prison, saw my Dad each other, each wishing to be the first to day." That was on June 16, 1983. be executed. That amazed everyone because During those few days I was in a state of for the first time. They were in a room, and she hugged my Dad and told him, "Dad, it showed the authorities that the Baha'is shock. We had a small memorial service for were dying, that they were sacrificing them my Dad at our house on June 18, 1983. The don't worry about me and Mom. We are fine." Anything that a father and daughter selves for the Cause of God. next morning, June 19, 1983, I had another On June 18, the day after my sister went phone call from my brother in Australia. He would say to each other, they said. "I love said, "I would like to congratulate you one you. I miss you so much." Things like that. to the morgue and saw the body of my more time, brother." I said, "What are you The judge told my sister, "All you and father, she was to go to the women's prison talking about, brother"? He said, "Our Mom your Dad have to do is deny your faith and to see my mother and my sister. She went joined Dad." "Well," I said, "at least now he simply become Muslims. Just tell them you there and told Mom what happened to Dad. is not alone." Then he said-and he was are not Baha'i. I'll let you go. I'll let your My sister dropped a few tears, and then she crying-"Well, I am going to congratulate Mom and your Dad go. I would even let said, "Well, that's his destiny." My Mom you one more time. Our sister has gone with your Dad have his retirement money." simply said, "I wish I were in his place. I them, so they are not alone. They are all to Before he went to prison, my Dad's retire wish I could sacrifice myself for him." Then gether." ment benefit was cut because he was Baha'i. my Mom told my sister Rosie that she knew Those events added a new dimension to The judge even told my sister Roya that he that something like that would come up. my life. Now I had the three dearest mem would let her continue her education at the She said, "I think it is going to be the same bers of my family executed for the Cause of university. She had been thrown out of the thing for me and probably for Roya because God. University of Shiraz because she was a we won't recant our faith either. It will be Let me tell you a little bit about my Baha'i. Of course, my family didn't want to the same for all of us." family-what they are doing and who they deny their belief. During the time that they Shortly after the visiting hours they took are. I have a brother named Vahid, who were in prison, they were constantly asked all the ladies, including the young ladies-! lives in Australia. I have a sister named to deny their faith, and of course they think Mona Mahmudnezad was only seven Nahid. She is in Nigeria. I had two sisters in didn't. teen years old. Iran, one named Roya and the other named I don't know much about the trial and The next day my sister Rosie found out Rosita. My father was an officer of the Na what happend in the courtroom. Nobody about the executions, and so she went to tional Oil Company in Iran. My mother was was allowed to go to the court. We don't the morgue. She just wanted to know if my a housewife. know what they discussed, but as far as I mother and sister were among the people I left Iran before the revolution, as did my know the charges against my father were who had been executed. The man at the brother and my sister Nahid. But my two that he was a spy for Israel because he had morgue asked, "What do you want today?" little sisters were still in Iran. During and gone to Israel once as a Baha'i pilgrim, and She said, "I think I have some more people after the revolution I kept hearing news the charges against my mother were that in there." He said, "Didn't you have about the persecution of the Baha'is in she was my Dad's wife. My sister was a enough? Your Dad was here yesterday." He Iran. First it started in Shiraz. I don't know teacher at the Sunday school for Baha'is. probably felt sorry for my sister, and he let how long ago it was. It probably was in 1980 The charges were that she taught the her go in, and she found the bodies of the right after the revolution. A mob destroyed Baha'i Faith. The officials gave my family ten ladies all over the floor. 11934 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 The first one she found was my sister's effort to protect the sanctity of But, this is only one part of the body. She could not find my mother's body. human life. His amendment would battle to restore respect for human She looked for about five more minutes and have prohibited U.S. taxpayers money life and the dignity of the individual. I finally found it. She saw an old lady whose from funding any organization which face had almost turned black. That was my remind my colleagues that the abuse Mom. My sister cried on my Mom's body, supports or contributes to the forced of human life and human rights in the and she said, "Thank you, Mom. I am proud abortion program of the Communist People's Republic of China is only an of you. I am proud for you." The man in government of the People's Republic extreme example of the campaign charge of the morgue came and said, "Who of China. His amendment was not ac being waged worldwide by some popu is this?" and my sister said, "This is my cepted but instead was replaced by a lation control advocates. Forced abor Mom." "Come here," she told him, "I want substitute which makes no change in tion and sterilizations are simply the to show you my sister. Here is my sister. current law and allows the Fund for extension of the philosophy of limits Look, this is my sister, and this is my Dad." Population Activities and the Agency to growth and of the idea that human The man must have been shocked to see for International Development to con somebody who had lost her Mom and Dad beings are the source of poverty. We and sister in two days. He told her, "Go on tinue funding organizations which are told by those who would interfere home. Don't stay here. It is enough." contribute to practices which the in the free choice of families to deter The next day my relatives and my sister American people oppose. mine the size of their families that the went to the morgue to pick up the bodies, How is this funding possible when children of these families are a drain but they did not release the bodies. They the law contains prohibitions on abor on the economies. We are repeatedly told them that the government would bury tion and provision of abortifacient the bodies. Nobody saw how they buried told that the economic development drugs? It is very simple. The offending plans of governments are hindered by them, but one of the guards apparently said organizations simply keep one set of that they buried the bodies in the Baha'i books for the majority of their funds the people which these governments cemetery in Shiraz and that to bury all six are meant to serve. teen Baha'is didn't take them more than which they receive from the U.S. tax The fundamental error made by twenty minutes. Apparently they had a payers and another set for the small those who advocate population plan bulldozer dig a hole, and they just dropped funding which comes from other sources. The programs which they run ning and control is their belief that the bodies in the hole and covered them there exist finite resources available with dirt. from each set of books operate side by Of course, whatever happened to the side. The clinic which provides depo and that the ability of these resources bodies is not important. What is important provera is financed by AID, but the to sustain the Earth's population is in is the people in prison right now-those depo-provera is not. In the case of the dependent of human action and the people who are still suffering. They don't PRC, both UNFPA and International incentives to economic activities. have jobs. Their kids cannot get an educa Planned Parenthood Federation fi Resources do not exist in the raw tion because they are Baha'is. Those are the state of nature. Until a use is found important people. That is why I am here. I nance and promote population control; am trying to establish some kind of public they are a part of the process. Both for plants, minerals or animals, and a support for the Baha'is who live under pres groups are proabortion. Both receive means by which to put them to use is sure right now in Iran. I hope you all can funds from the American taxpayers. developed, they are not economic re help. Yet UNFPA and AID profess inno sources. Moreover, economic activity is During the past two months I have heard cence because of the legerdemain of not dependent on the physical pres more news. First, the authorities confiscat bookkeeping. ence of raw materials. It is dependent ed our house in Shiraz, and when my sister The efforts by my distinguished col on the presence of incentives for en went to them-she said, "I am seventeen trepreneurs to bring together the and one-half years old and single. You exe league from New Jersey was designed cuted my father, my mother, and my sister, to end this evasion of the intent of the agents and resources for economic ac and now you are taking my home away from law. His amendment would have pro tivity. me. What should I do? Should I die?" The hibited U.S. taxpayer funding of any The inability of people in many de government officials at first tried to cooper organization which supports or partici veloping nations to expand their ate and said, "We are sorry to hear that. We pates in the coercive population con economies faster than their popula sure didn't want to take your house away." trol and forced abortion efforts of the tion is cited as a problem of resources But apparently after a few times, when my and of resource transfers. Those who sister went to the courts and the judge, the PRC regardless of the source of the judge said, "Well, since you are Baha'i, the funding which is being used. His advocate population control rarely, if only thing we can do for you is to rent a amendment attacked the moral ques ever, consider the issue of resource room somewhere else. Not in your home. tions involved, rather than the techni creation. Lester Brown, president of You home belongs to the government now. calities. Worldwatch Institute provided a per It doesn't belong to you any more. We can Unfortunately, his effort was defeat fect example of this thinking. Writing rent a room for you until you get married. ed. Language supported by the inter for the New York Times, he said, "for Once you marry, you have to leave the many countries, the only alternative room, and you won't be able to live there national bureaucracy and AID was anymore." My sister left, and the only thing substituted. This language allows the for many countries is a rate of popula they could say was, "Well, somebody will practices which are currently being tion growth that undermines living take care of you." followed to continue. There is no conditions, an alternative that is all Rosie is eighteen, a kid, and once a week change, only new language. too visible in Africa, where population she goes to the prison to see other relatives. This is not enough. When the fiscal growth has outpaced food production It is hard on her. She has been going to the year 1985 foreign operations appro for more than a decade and where jail to see her family ever since she was six priations bill is considered by the Sub starvation is becoming common.'' Mr. teen.e committee on Foreign Operations, a Brown, along with many others, mis subcommittee on which I am the rank takes symptoms for disease. PRC ABORTION FUNDING: ing Republican member, I will offer an The issue for African nations is how LEGAL SLEIGHT OF HAND the amendment of the gentleman to achieve an accelerated rate of eco from New Jersey. We will offer an nomic growth. There is simply no HON. JACK F. KEMP amendment until we succeed in closing reason for economic expansion in sub OF NEW YORK this loophole in the current law. We Saharan Africa to fall below the popu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES will close it not only for the forced lation growth rate of even Kenya abortion program of the PRC, but also which is estimated to be 3.6 percent. Thursday, May 10, 1984 for all of those population programs The example of Central America, as e Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, yesterday which promote and fund practices pointed out by the Kissinger Commis my colleague from New Jersey under which are proscribed in directly sion report, is useful in understanding took an important initiative in the funded programs. what is possible: "The five republics May 10, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11935 had a population of less than 8 million In El Salvador, our efforts to assist MEETING THE CHALLENGE: THE in 1950, and of more than 20 million that nation in its struggle for freedom PRESIDENCY OF HARRY S. by the end of the 1970's, and yet be have been undercut by persistent re TRUMAN tween those years real per capita ports of forced sterilizations. In Iran, income doubled!' the Shah came under serious attack HON. WIWAM (BILL) CLAY The problem is not people. The for his support of U.S. sponsored pop problem is government and its system ulation control programs which in OF MISSOURI atic destruction of incentives to eco fringed on the religion and culture of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nomic growth and the higher real in comes which, as the industrialized na the Shiite majority. The actions of Tuesday, May 8, 1984 tions demonstrate, leads to smaller governments, particularly our own, in • Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, as this families and reduced population sponsoring these programs are not week marks the centennial celebration growth rates. The World Bank's condoned by large segments of the of the birth of Harry S. Truman, it is report on sub-Saharan Africa pointed populations at which they are direct fitting that we reflect upon the princi out that the goals which have led Afri ed. ples he stood for as a man, and the ac can governments to adopt redistribu Fortunately, there is growing evi complishments he made as a public tive and incentive destroying economic dence that the idea of people as an servant. policies cannot be achieved without economic problem is being rejected. Mr. Truman, who hailed from the strong private sector growth: "Howev Evidence of the fallacy of population great State of Missouri, won a Senate er, achievement of these objectives is myth is offered by the very different seat in 1935 and held that seat until heavily dependent on higher rates of circumstances of Malaysia and West being selected as Franklin D. Roose growth of output in the private sector, Germany. West Germany, a prosper velt's Vice Presidential runningmate a particularly by small farmers, who are ous and wealthy industrialized nation decade later. He rose to the Presidency the largest occupational group in trop now faces a labor and consumer short when Roosevelt died in office, taking ical Africa. age over the next 30 years because its the reins of the country in the midst The Bank's report goes on to outline rate of population increase has fallen of World War II, one of the most how the government monopolies on well below the replacement rate. The trying times in the Nation's history. A virtually every aspect of farm produc nations of Western Europe have long less courageous man would have tion has destroyed incentives for pro shrank from the challenge but Presi ducing for resale. Stimulated by the proved a thorn in the side of the neo dent Truman did not. He met it head demands of urban political elites, gov Malthusians as they prospered with on. ernments have adopted cheap-food high population density. Now to have Few Presidents were comparable to policies for urban areas which have de the West German government con Mr. Truman where matters of foreign stroyed not only production but rural cerned over underpopulation destroys policy are concerned. According to employment. These policies and not their arguments entirely. Clark Clifford, a naval aide to Truman growth of population have led to But activities in Malaysia provide before becoming his special counsel, hunger and, all too often, starvation. perhaps a more direct assault on the the 33d President "will be remembered The issue is confined in Africa. In antipeople position of population plan mainly because of the importance of India, the world's most populous de ners. Prime Minister Mahathir Moha his decision to bring the United States mocracy, government taxation and mad is concerned over under popula into the 20th century as far as its credit policies have prevented the tion. He has announced that he looks place in the world is concerned." nation from creating or attracting the forward to having a prosperous 70 mil President Truman pooh-poohed the resources necessary for increased lion people in his nation by the year arguments of advocates of American living standards. An example which I 2100. He recognizes that the energy isolationism. Relying on his own have used often in our Subcommittee and productivity of his people are well thoughtful judgment, the President on Foreign Operations is appropriate matched to increasing population and initiated bold programs that won this here. Last year, when India reduced per capita income along the lines of Nation the res.pect and admiration of the tax rate on foreign equity inves the great success of the Pacific basin its Allies. The Marshall plan led to the tors to 28 percent-from a top rate of generally. rebuilding of Europe following the 70-90+ percent previously-and ex Mr. Chairman, the problem of popu war. His Truman doctrine promised to empted these investors from capital lation growth is not people. The prob protect any American ally threatened gains taxation the response was so by Communist takeover. He followed overwhelming that the funds pouring lem is one of resources, of economic that up by organizing the North At into India exceeded the capacity of its growth and of allowing free men and lantic Treaty Organization leagues some of the highlights of this another woman had a life insurance to provide, in simple language, notices hearing to explain why this legislation policy whose cash value was within which provide the recipient with the is "urgently needed immediately." the SSI limits when she had applied information they need to properly These were the concluding words used for SSI. Over the years the cash value assess the accuracy of SSA's claim by the Save our Security coalition rose above the assets limit and as a that there has been an overpayment. which represents over 200 national result she was notified that not only Lastly, the bill requires SSA to im and local organizations with a mem was she no longer eligible for SSI but prove their notices by contracting with bership of more than 40 million that she owed $3,000 in overpayments. readability experts to assure that the people. I would like to know how many notices can be understood by the aver "Excellent" was the conclusion of people, even well-informed people, age SSI recipient. the American Federation of Govern know the cash value of their life insur Taking the meanness out of a pro ment Employees, which is the labor ance? gram that is meant to aid society's union for Social Security employees Mr. Speaker, you can imagine the poorest of the poor is a goal I am sure who administer the SSI program in terror such notices strike in the hearts all of my colleagues can support. I district offices across the country. "As of these people. Allowed only $1,500 in urge you all to join me in eliminating it is written," said Mr. Harris repre assets and a small earned income, SSI these inequities and others that SSI senting the union, "it will do much to recipients are totally unprepared to recipients now face.e alleviate many of the problems and in repay overpayments that frequently equities of the current law." have come about through no fault of The supplemental security income their own. Nor can they afford to have H.R. 5623 . if the State certifies that such native wild generally are allowed to meet during their Tribe argues that the Bonker bill not only flowers or seedlings cannot be grown satis free time, a public secondary school cannot is consistent with the First Amendment but factorily or planting areas are limited."·• "discriminate on the basis of the religious actually may be mandated by it. For public content of the speech at such meetings." school authorities to discriminate against The penalty would be loss of federal funds. speech on the basis of religious content The bill provides that the meetings would "would, in my view, constitute a violation of have to be voluntary and student-initiated; the right to free speech and free exercise of 11938 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 religion of the students involved," Tribe Milburn Stone, of California, was UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSA- said recently in congressional testimony. named Honorary Gracious Lady of TION EQUITY FOR THE JOB THE DUTY OF CONGRESS Georgia. LESS "I therefore have no doubt that Congress Each of the women who were select has the constitutional authority-and may ed have lived a life of love and service HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING even have a real, if imperfectly enforceable, and deserve our recognition. However, constitutional duty-to withhold federally OF OHIO appropriated funds from any such authori there are two women to whom I want ties or agencies that do discriminate in this to pay special tribute. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES manner." Mrs. Martha Scarborough, of Co Thursday, May 10, 1984 If it does come to a conflict between the lumbus, is a unique lady who most cer e Mr. SEIBERLING. Mr. Speaker, I U.S. and the Washington Constitutions, the tainly deserves the title, "gracious." federal-document must prevail. am today introducing legislation to It's easy to dismiss the Bonker bill as just Mrs. Scarborough is an active member correct an inequity in Federal supple a crowd-pleaser, an election-year sop for the of the Columbus community, as well mental compensation- In August 1982, Forward decided to retire The second and third levels of the unem From the shady front porch of his two and draw a $518-a-month pension. His ployment compensation system began with story frame home on Delia Avenue, Richard youngest child graduates from high school the recession of 1958, when Congress began Forward recalled 31 years of working in this year and his mortgage interest rate is a series of benefit supplements and exten Akron's rubber shops and 39 weeks of col less than half of today's going rate. sions. lecting checks at the local unemployment In those respects, he considers himself The system grew and was changed as fur office. fortunate. ther post-war recessions came and went. Ac The smokestacks at Firestone once repre But his experience with unemployment cording to an AFL-CIO analysis, some long sented security to Forward, who has lived compensation still bothers him. term jobless workers will qualify for 65 all his life a few miles from the brick facto "I got down to 28th on the recall list," weeks of benefits under all programs. ries off South Main Street. Forward said. "I kept listening to all these One of the few observers who has seen the When he was laid off from Plant 1 in May big shots on TV saying things were going to entire system develop is William Papier, di 1981, the burly 54-year-old tire builder get better. I wanted to believe them-! rector of research and statistics for the stayed on the recall list, hoping his years of wanted to get back to work." Ohio Bureau of Employment Servies since it seniority would land him one of the few re Forward's problems began when he decid was established in the 1930's. maining hourly jobs. ed to stay on the recall list. "I've been watching it and I've been very While he hoped for recovery, Forward He went through the state's basic, 26-week critical of it," said Papier, who will retire turned to the Ohio Bureau of Employment program and a 13-week extension under a Tuesday. Services, the state agency that administers combined state-federal program. "In the absence of more rational, perma unemployment compensation programs. In April 1982, his benefits ended. The nent and simpler programs, however, the There began an encounter with a jerry state said Forward was not receiving unem current extension may well be justified," built system of supplements and extensions ployment compensation as of June 1982- Papier wrote in a paper last fall, referring to further complicated by a dark maze of arbi the cutoff date set by Congress in legisla a then-current extension. "It nevertheless trary cutoff dates and obscure terminology tion authorizing more compensation for the continues a long-term pattern of temporary, such as "reachback provisions" and "trigger long-term jobless. palliative, confusing and expedient efforts formulas." About 100 other Firestone workers were in to solve a continuing and serious problem." Forward discovered that cracks were be the same position. Like the orignial Ohio progam, the addi ginning to show in the confusing, shifting But for about 800 more .t<1restone Plant 1 tional programs were designed to handle cy system of state and federal benefits-at the workers who lost their jobs when the com clical recessions, not long-term, structural very time many Ohio workers needed them pany closed its last tire production lines unemployment, according to Papier. most. here, things were different. "None of the inherent assumptions in After 39 weeks, Forward fell through a They stretched out their benefits by retir these programs has proven to be warrant crack. In April 1982, he ran out of benefits ing soon after the plant closed. Although ed," he said in his paper. and, unable to qualify for more, joined the 800 received the same lump sum For A case in point is what happened recently thousands of others who found themselves ward did, the money was paid out as a sup in Ohio-which, despite high unemploy at the end of the line at both the factory plement to their monthly pensions through ment, lost the second tier in the benefit gate and at the unemployment office. June 1982. system. In recent weeks, the cracks that caught The state said they qualified for more. Called "EB," for extended benefits, the Forward have become crevasses. Some eventually drew 63 checks, the max second tier was jointly funded by the state Earlier this month, an entire 13-week pro imum level of benefits available in Ohio. and federal governments. It normally pro gram in the unemployment compensation Forward challenged the cutoff. He wrote vided 13 weeks of benefits. system was lopped off in Ohio and the dura letters to his state and congressional repre The problem with the EB program came tion of another program was reduced, all as sentatives and pursued administrative ap when Congress changed the formula for de the state's unemployment rate remained peals. termining when a state is eligible. The "trig higher than last year's levels and near the By March, just about the time Ohio lost ger" was last modified in the fall of 1981, in top nationally. the 13-week program, Forward's appeals the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. Despite talk of recovery, wave after wave were exhausted The key change was in what's called the of Ohio's unemployed-the walking wound He was told he could pursue the situation insured unemployment rate, a number ed of the "rust belt's" economic wars-will in court. Forward could not afford legal much lower than the actual unemployment come staggering back from the front in the help and was told by the United Rubber rate. coming months, their benefits exhausted. Workers international that the union could The method of calculating the insured They will be, in the current jargon, "struc not handle individual cases. rate was changed so that only those in the turally unemployed." "Here we are, talking about this plant first level of the unemployment compensa Between June 4 and Aug. 13, an estimated right here," said URW Local 7 president Joe tion system were counted as jobless, exclud 137,500 jobless Ohioans will exhaust the Daniels, looking out his office window last ing workers on supplemental or extended last of their benefit supplements and exten week at the Firestone complex. "But how benefits. sions, according to state employment ana many other plants are we talking about?" program. lumbus . Under the leadership of humanity: Now, therefore, be it ployment rate. It is due to expire Sept. 30. Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep The program also provided extra benefits Arlene Pessar, DEBRA has strived to resentatives of the United States of America for some workers who had exhausted their educate the public and Congress on in Congress assembled, That the week of benefits or were close to exhausting them as the horrors of EB. Arlene knows the November 25 through December 1, 1984, is of April 1983. pain, for her son Eric suffers from the designated "National Epidermolysis Bullosa Washington sources, including Temple disease. Awareness Week" and the President of the man and aids to U.S. Sen. Howard Metz Two years ago the public was sensi United States is authorized and requested to enbaum , have chael Hammond. Michael was known ernment agencies and the people of the little doubt there will be another extension United States to observe the week with ap of unemployment benefits this fall. as the "Crisco Kid," because doctors propriate programs, ceremonies, and activi How the extension will be formulated isn't applied Crisco to Michael's badly blis ties.e clear, said Metzenbaum aide Roy Meyers. tered skin in an attempt to ease his But Meyers and others said it is extremely pain. Tragically, Michael died and as a unlikely that Congress will "reach back" result, public awareness of EB has di MEDAL OF MERIT FOR and cover workers such as Richard Forward. minished. Yet, for every Michael Ham OUTSTANDING YOUTH Long-term unemployment, a nagging mond, there are thousands of other problem concentrated in states such as people suffering from this debilitating Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Vir HON. WILLIAM D. FORD ginia, is losing its grip on legislators from illness. other states, Meyers said. I hope and pray that the establish OF MICHIGAN "The unemployment problem, sadly, is ment of a "National Epidermolysis IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES starting to be put on the back burner," he Bullosa Awareness Week" will increase said.e public attention given to EB as well as Thursday, May 10, 1984 in encouraging Congress to provide • Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speak adequate research grants to study EB er, last weekend I had the opportunity GILMAN INTRODUCES RESOLU in search of a cure. Since EB is classi and privilege of presenting my annual TION DESIGNATING NATIONAL fied as a skin disease rather than a ge Medal of Merit for Outstanding Youth EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA netic defect, it does not receive as to 19 young adults, a high school AWARENESS WEEK much money and attention as other group, and to the parents of a young inherited disorders. In 1982, for in man who sacrificed his own life to save HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN stance, out of a National Institute of the life of his sister. OF NEW YORK Health budget of $369.3 million, The special ceremony was held on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES only a meager $150,000 was provided May 6 at the Wayne County Exten to support scientific research grants sion and Education Center in Wayne, Thursday, May 10, 1984 onEB. Mich. The voluntarism, achievement, e Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, today I But, history has shown that in and commitment displayed by these am introducing, with my good friend creased public awareness on a disease individuals is an outstanding tribute to and colleague, the gentleman from translates into increased research their families, schools, and communi California, Mr. WAXMAN, a joint reso funding to find a cure for that disease. ties and I want to call this event to lution that would designate the week Through this joint resolution, Repre your attention. of November 25 through December 1, sentative WAXMAN and I hope to bring Special presentations were made by 1984 as "National Epidermolysis Bul to the public's attention the pain and me and Mayor James Kandrevas of losa Awareness Week." An identical suffering of these Americans and the Southgate to Barbara and David Paul joint resolution was introduced in the need for EB research grants. I urge my Kastl, Sr., parents of David Jr., who Senate where it has over 25 cospon colleagues to join us in cosponsorship was posthumously awarded for sacri sors. of this humanitarian and much ficing his own life to save the life of Epidermolysis bullosa is the needed legislation. his sister. On July 3, 1983, while vaca term applied to a group of inherited Mr. Speaker, I ask that a copy of the tioning in the Upper Peninsula near disorders whose common primary full text of the resolution be inserted Manistique, David and his mother function is the formation of severe at this point in the RECORD for review heard his two sisters cry for help after blisters subsequent to minor trauma to by my colleagues. high waves had pulled them from the the skin. However, the turmoil, pain, H.J. RES. 565 shores of Lake Michigan. David and and agaony that EB victims suffer is To provide for the designation of the week his mother entered the water, and in extensive indeed. One can virtually see of November 25 through December 1, 1984, his attempt to rescue his sisters, David the pain. The knowledge we need is as "National Epidermolysis Bullosa Aware was swept to his death by a strong un the knowledge for curing EB. ness Week". dertow. May 10, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11941 A plaque was given to Students LIVONIA American Cancer Society, the American Against Smoking, a Livonia high Kate M. Bielaczyc, 19, daughter of Adele Red Cross and as a facilitator for Fresh school group who, during the past 5% Bielaczyc, for being an outstanding student Start stop smoking clinics. Steve serves as a years has unselfishly given of their who has been awarded many honors. Kate is member of the Board of Directors for the also considered to be a sensitive and sup Gifted Youth of Michigan. He is a fine time to hold classes for over 25,000 ele portive young woman who offers her time leader for his school and his community. mentary and junior high students on tutoring and counselling other students. the hazards of smoking. In addition, YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP they have been very active in raising SOUTHGATE Paula Adams, 17, daughter of Wilbert and Karen M. Lewis, 18, daughter of James Donna Adams, for her many hours of volun funds for the American Cancer Socie Lewis, for her leadership in helping her teer work with the Corner Health Center ty. school to set a record in a Red Cross blood and the V.A. Medical Center. Paula is also a This year's winners were chosen by a drive and her activities on the school Beau member of the Explorers Club at Beyer 17 -member citizens committee which tification Committee. Karen has also been Hospital and is a Peer Educator for Planned was chaired by Mrs. Elva Ryall of very active in distributing information to Parenthood.e Garden City. The individual recipi her community regarding child abuse pro ents, residents of the 15th Congres grams. sional District are: SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP H.R. 5634-THE AMERICAN PROP ERTY RIGHTS PROTECTION CANTON TOWNSHIP Hun-Yong Jo, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Houng-Chan Jo, for his work with the ACT OF 1984 Le Anne Marie Huston, 18, daughter of Corner Health Center of which he is Stu Robert and Margaret Huston, for volunteer dent Board Member and Director. He has ing valuable time to the elderly in a nursing demonstrated leadership qualities with his HON. JOHN D. DINGELL home where she often distributes special involvement in the Engineering Industrial OF MICHIGAN treats, and for her many church activities. Support Program, the Student Union and Terri Lee Koers, 16, daughter of Robert Project Pride. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Connie Koers, for her fund raising for the Cystic Fibrosis, and her active role in TAYLOR Thursday, May 10, 1984 the Canton Chamber of Commerce projects, Amy Louise Powell, 17, daughter of e Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, today I such as; Santa Comes to Canton, where she Charles and Diane Powell, for her volunteer am introducing on behalf of myself assists the handicapped and needy and co work at her church where she instructs pre and Congressmen GoRE, SLATTERY, SI ordinates activities for approximately 300 school children and 1st and 2nd graders. children at Christmas time. She also devotes many hours tutoring com KORSKI, BATES, FLORIO, MARKEY, and Ellen Frances Seery, 17, daughter of pensatory education students, and coaches WALGREN, members of the Subcommit Frank and Peggy Seery, for her dedication cheerleading at her school. tee on Oversight and Investigations, to the Girl Scout swim program where she VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP legislation to resolve one of the most volunteers time as a life guard, and was se Anjanett M. Stoltz, 17, daughter of Steve serious and pressing problems in the lected as an elected delegate to the National and Joyce Stoltz, for her volunteer work at country. This legislation provides spe Convention of Girl Scouts. She also baby Mercy-Memorial Hospital in Monroe, Michi cific and, in our opinion, long overdue sits for members of the Plymouth Sympho gan, where she assists the elderly and inca relief from injuries suffered by Ameri ny and assists in teaching at a baby sitting pacitated patients in their everyday person can businesses, workers, and citizens, clinic. al needs. Anjanette also trains other volun whose health, safety, and economic GARDEN CITY teers and encourages young people to take welfare are being jeopardized by many Raymond F. Day, 18, son of Raymond L .. an active role in the volunteer program. of the world's developing countries' re and Carole Day, for being a member of the WAYNE peated refusals to safeguard U.S. intel Mayor's Youth Advisory Commission. He Kevin Thomas Daily, 18, son of Thomas lectual property rights. These coun also volunteers for area newspapers. This and Mary Anne Daily, for his time and de tries permit and, in some cases, en work enables him to provide young people votion to the Peer Tutoring Program, where with information on important city func for the past two years he has tutored stu courage intellectual property rights tions. dents less academically talented. He also violations. Such actions have resulted Beth Ann Ostrowski, 18, daughter of volunteered with the Special Olympics Pro in numerous deaths and injuries plus Edward and Kathleen Ostrowski, for volun gram, Wayne Goodfellow, Wayne Civitan, billions of dollars in economic losses. teering her time with autistic children. She and other community projects. This bill is not intended to obstruct also films school and community events for WESTLAND legitimate trade. Rather, it is designed cable TV, and as a member of her school choir contributes to making and maintain Lynn Marie Johnson, 17, daughter of to provide American citizens with re ing choir uniforms. Donald and Shirley Johnson, for her work dress against those nations which de Erol Selamet, 19, son of Mrs. Hidayet Se and devotion as a senior citizen aide, in liberately fail to curb the manufac lamet, for his involvement with the Mayor's volvement in Girl Scouts, Muscular Dystro ture, traffic, and sale of shoddy, sub Youth Advisory Commission. he is the first phy, UNICEF and the Peer Tutoring Pro standard counterfeits and imitations member to have served as a youth and adult gram. of trademarked, patented, and copy member. He has also contributed time in a Cheryl Ann Robinson, 17, daughter of Charles and Marylene Robinson, for devot righted products. leadership capacity to the annual Clean-Up Counterfeit and pirated products Days, and takes an active role in other com ing a great deal of her time to the Inkster munity programs. Goodfellows, United Negro College Fund, made and sold with those govern Lou Rawls Telethon, and as the Inkster ments' blessings enter third country HURON TOWNSHIP High School Teen Communicator to WCHB markets at the expense of American Kimberly A. Laurain, 18, daughter of Mr. Radio Station. She is also active in her exporters. Product pirates and coun and Mrs. Robert Laurain, for her dedicated church and is the Youth President of terfeiters, who are answerable to no service to her school, church and communi Gamma Phi Delta Sorority. one about health and safety stand ty. She is a member of Friends of the WILLIS School and volunteers at the Applefest. ~ a ards, are permitted to the endanger leader she is always encouraging others to Matthew DeJanovich, 17, son of David lives, health, and safety of citizens and Judith DeJanovich, for his activities as abroad while seriously harming U.S. become involved in quality school experi a delegate to the Ann Arbor Chamber of ences. Commerce Future Business Conference. He economic interests. U.S. businesses Renee Manny, 20, daughter of William also represents his school at the monthly have been largely unsuccessful in their and Judy Manny, for coaching HAA Basket Ypsilanti Rotary Clug meetings. He ranks in attempts to get certain foreign govern ball and currently voluntering her time as a ments to put a halt to counterfeiting life guard for conditioning high school ath the top ten of his graduating class and is letes. Prior to going on duty as a life guard, the Student Council President. within their borders; yet, these same and as she entered the pool are of a senior YPSILANTI governments unabashedly continue to citizens swimming class, through her quick Steve Gendin, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. ask for valuable preferential tariff actions she was able to save the life of a Sidney Gendin, for his volunteer work with favors under the Generalized System drowning senior. the Ozone House, the Michigan Theatre, of Preferences program.
31-059 0-87-15 (Pt. 9) 11942 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 As you know, the Subcommittee on and staff for conducting investigations by our distinguished colleague from Oversight and Investigations of the into product manufacture and sale New York, Congressman DoWNEY, and Committee on Energy and Commerce, abroad, to provide injured American others would give the President con which I chair, has conducted an exten businesses and workers a forum for siderable discretion to impose GSP sive investigation and held 7 days of filing a formal complaint and, where sanctions on recipient countries which public hearings on the problem of U.S. justified by the facts and evidence, for fail to protect foreign intellectual intellectual property rights violations achieving prompt redress. This legisla property rights. We believe that bill around the world. Many nations bene tion requires promulgation of proce and perhaps other legislation, in prin fiting from valuable GSP privileges dures which permit injured businesses ciple, will complement our proposal. have been unwilling to provide even and workers to file with the Secretary Negotiation may well succeed in the semblance of legal protection for petitions alleging intellectual property achieving our mutual goals in some our businesses and products. Further rights violations in GSP recipient na parts of the developing world. Howev more, injured American businesses and tions. The Secretary, upon determin er, we also believe that injured Ameri workers have had nowhere to turn in ing that the petition is properly draft cans must have a legal forum where the United States to seek relief. The ed, must investigate whether such vio they can invoke rules of law for pro time has come to do something mean lations have in fact occurred and tection and remedial relief without ingful about an intolerable situation. whether such violations have material being subjected to the political uncer This legislation addresses the above ly injured or are likely to cause mate tainties of Presidential discretion. All by: First, creating a public, open rial injury to petitioners, who would too often we have witnessed the reluc forum for identification of intellectual have to prove such injury with credi tance of this President and his prede property rights violations injurious to ble evidence. We believe the injury cessors to employ retaliatory means to American businesses and workers; threshold levels are sufficiently high protect the economic welfare of Amer second, establishing efficient adminis to preclude frivolous filings, but suffi ican citizens when foreign govern trative procedural mechanisms within ciently low to permit legitimately and ments resist diplomatic efforts to re the Office of the Secretary of Com seriously injured parties to obtain dress even gross injustice. merce for receiving alleged injury peti relief from gross injustice. We further believe that legal and fi tions, investigating GSP recipient gov Once petitioners meet their burden nancial rather than diplomatic consid ernmental acquiescence in these viola of proving injury or likely future erations should dominate GSP suspen tions, and assessing the evidence; injury caused by intellectual property sion decisions since we view GSP treat third, mandating expedited relief in rights violations, then those countries ment as nothing more than a readily the form of partial and, in extreme where such violations have occurred measurable economic privilege. Those cases or where beneficiary countries must make a choice. They may elect to who would invoke that privilege fail to cooperate in the investigations, lose part of their GSP privileges, since should do so only in a spirit of good total GSP suspension; fourth, mini this legislation requires revocation of faith, with a willingness to cooperate mizing exercise of remedial discretion GSP at dollar levels three times in in resolving the global problem of in once there is evidence that GSP recipi excess . of the amount of injury. Fur tellectual property rights violations. ent governments have failed to take ther, in some instances, such as where We respectfully urge that all Members steps reasonably likely to halt the vio GSP recipient countries refuse to co of Congress support us in this impor lations; fifth, imposing rules of law operate in addressing and solving the tant endeavor to save lives, protect rather than diplomacy in the decision problem, these countries would lose health and strengthen our export mar to revoke what is essentially an eco the privilege entirely. GSP recipient kets, and further encourage all to join nomic privilege; sixth, permitting GSP countries willing to work openly, ac us in cosponsoring this legislation.e recipient nations to join other coun tively, and expeditiously with us tries in promulgating laws and en toward a permanent solution to this forcement mechanisms aimed at halt problem have a second alternative U.S. POLICY IN CENTRAL ing violations on a global scale, as an which we strongly hope they will AMERICA alternative to losing valuable GSP adopt. To retain their valuable GSP benefits. benefits, the recipient countries must HON. LEE H. HAMILTON This legislation does not automati provide for adequate legal enforce OF INDIANA cally revoke GSP treatment for prod ment mechanisms reasonably likely to ucts from countries which fail to pro give American producers adequate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tect U.S. intellectual property rights. legal protection from counterfeiters Thursday, May 10, 1984 On the contrary, we propose to pro and product pirates. e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I vide a forum for American businesses By adopting this second alternative, would like to bring to the attention of and workers victimized by counterfeit they also perform a valuable service in my colleagues an excellent speech de ers and product pirates to identify spe helping us deal more effectively with a livered by our colleague, MIKE BARNEs cific instances of GSP recipient gov worldwide issue requiring global coop of Maryland on May 9, 1984, respond ernment collaboration and the equally eration for its ultimate solution. This ing on behalf of the Democrats in damaging benign neglect of intellectu legislation will then require the Secre Congress to the nationally televised al property violations abroad. Consist tary to monitor such agreements to address of President Reagan. ent with our own due process tradi assure they are complied with and The United States clearly has impor tions, we believe that those govern achieve the desired result. We do not tant interests in Central America ments which receive GSP privileges believe this is too much to ask in which it needs to preserve and pro while simultaneously permitting and return for granting GSP, particularly mote. Certainly, the United States also often encouraging the widespread when so much of this country and the has an interest in providing assistance counterfeiting of U.S. products, should world's health, safety, and economic to our friends to help them help them have every right to defend themselves welfare are at stake. selves in building stable, free, and in an objective public forum. We recognize that many Members of democratic societies. The debate Specifically, this legislation clearly Congress are concerned about and before us, however, is another issue: defines and identifies intellectual aware of the harm caused by product What is the best way to achieve the property rights violations as practices counterfeiting, but may also be uncer goals we all seek. MIKE BARNES argues which, absent their curtailment, would tain about whether to resolve these cogently that U.S. policies should be subject the nations where they occur complex problems through diplomatic, supported when they promote political to loss of GSP. We require the Secre economic, or legal means. For exam settlements, democratic reforms and tary of Commerce, who has experience ple, H.R.. 5324, introduced this month the rule of law, but they should be op- May 10, 1981, EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11943 posed when they "tend to widen the That is why we Democrats stand for poli ALFRED A. ANTENuCCI, SUBDUED HINCKLEY war, increase the tensions and Ameri cies that are overt, policies that are above Alfred A. Antenucci, the first person to canize the conflicts" in Central Amer board, policies that we can talk about move to subdue John W. Hinckley Jr. after ica. openly, policies that we are proud to defend the 1981 assassination attempt on President before the World Court and the court of Reagan, died yesterday at Marymount Hos I commend MIKE BARNEs' remarks to public opinion. We believe that we most ef the attention of our colleagues. pital. fectively advance our interests when we act Mr. Antenucci, 71, who had no prior histo CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL D. BARNES RESPOND in accordance with our nation's highest ry of heart disease, developed an irregular ING ON BEHALF OF THE DEMOCRATS IN CON principles and values. heart beat after the Washington episode, GRESS TO THE NATIONALLY TELEviSED An Let me be emphatic about one point. The which eventually resulted in his death. DRESS OF PRESIDENT REAGAN Democrats in Congress are prepared to sup port President Reagan, or any President, He had been hospitalized since May 1 Good evening. My name is Mike Barnes. after losing consciousness at his Garfield I'm a Member of Congress from the State of when the President's policies make sense and advance the interests of the United Heights home. Maryland, and I was elected by my col Reagan sent Antenucci a get-well message leagues to serve as Chairman of the West States. For example, when President Reagan proposed his Caribbean Basin Initi last Thursday, saying: "Nancy and I want em Hemisphere Affairs Subcommittee on you to know that we are pulling for you. We the House Foreign Affairs Committee. I also ative for Central America and the Caribbe an, it was the Democrats in Congress who are very sorry about your hospitalization had the privilege of serving as a Senior and we join the many who are remembering Counselor to the National Bipartisan Com provided the leadership to pass it. What Democrats have not supported have you in their thoughts and prayers. Please mission on Central America, to which Presi take care and God Bless You. Ronald dent Reagan has just referred. Tonight it is been actions of the Administration that my honor to speak with you on behalf of tend to widen the war, increase the tensions Reagan." the Democrats in Congress. and Americanize the conflicts in Central Mr. Antenucci was born in Cleveland and The Democratic Party is rightly proud of America. Certainly, we should It WASHINGTON-Sen. Everett Dirksen, my sin. is history now, but all of us candlelight tour to advertise the city's mentor and fellow Illinoisan, was once asked know what a stunning victory Presi historic district; conducting guided what is important in politics. dent Truman had in 1948. In my dis tours for school and adult groups as Ev replied: "The importance of margins trict, he lost one State-the State of well as canal buffs; providing revolving can't be ignored. So much that is good in Indiana-but carried Illinois and Wis displays of historic significance; pro politics is accomplished by small margins, consin. In 1949, Harry Truman again viding a place for local craftsmen to by extra efforts." visited the city of Chicago and I was exhibit their skills and wares; and Democracy in El Salvador-and, eventual privileged to be invited to the Presi most importantly, reconstructing the ly, Central America itself-will be saved if dent's suite at the Conrad Hilton Pivot Bridge. we give the extra margin of aid El Salvador ans need. Hotel. He was a warm, decent human The Susquehanna & Tidewater The bipartisan Commission Report on being who loved people and had great Canal opened in 1839 and provided Central America humility. I shall never forget these central Pennsylvania with two-way said this about aid to El Salvador: two meetings. trade to Philadelphia and Baltimore. "The worst possible policy for El Salvador President Truman was instrumental The canals, however, could not com is to provide just enough aid to keep the in the creation and development of pete with the rapidly expanding rail war going, but too little to wage it success the Marshall plan and NATO, and cre roads, and finally stopped operating in fully." ated the Truman doctrine to provide The commission report went on to state: the 1890's. "Even as military measures are needed to assistance to nations throughout the Mr. Speaker, these accomplishments shield economic and social programs, so too world threatened by Communist take have been possible primarily due to ef are they essential as an adjunct to diploma over. forts of volunteers, saving available cy." On the homefront, Harry S. Truman funds, from several governmental El Salvador is the sick man of Central was a man sensitive to the needs of agencies, for more important needs. America. If we impose stringent conditions the poor and disadvantaged. He was a David Witt, museum board chairman, on military and economic aid, we may bring champion of civil rights, and displayed and Johnnie Lee Witt, museum cura about a crisis rather than a recovery. For example, we are now debating a bill courage and fortitude in abolishing tor, together with Mayor Charles before the House that, among other unac segregation from the armed services. Montgomery are responsible for call ceptable features, would require that the Harry Truman's faith in America ing attention to the combined efforts democratically elected government of El never faltered. He knew our country of volunteers, professionals, and local Salvador enter into negotiations with guer had the potential to be great, and in industry and government in restora- rilla forces for actual power-sharing. May 10, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11945 I support a bipartisan amendment to that erode or subvert our democracy dangerous I learned from the hospital that a pioneer bill that would impose much more realistic ly. member of our synagogue, not only a con conditions on aid-including a requirement What I have reference to is President Rea gregant but a dear friend, had just passed that the Salvadoran government enter into gan's approval of the CIA's unlawful mining away. a dialogue with the guerrillas, but only of Nicaragua's harbors. This approval was I rushed to my car and raced to the hospi toward a peaceful solution based on demo reportedly given to the CIA over the pro tal. In the few minutes that it took me to cratic elections. tests of the U.S. State Department-which get there, the life of the departed flashed Both the bill and the amendment impose is the lawful agency for conceiving and im through my mind in swift array: her arrival conditions for aid. But our amendment plementing our Nation's foreign policy! in America; the long, hard struggle for ad would not tie the hands of President "What does it matter?" some might ask. justment in a strange, new land; the gradual Reagan or the Salvadoran government. "Isn't it just an internal squabble within the rise to security and comfort; the three de Largely due to guerrilla violence, El Salva Reagan administration?" It matters greatly, voted children; ten loving grandchildren and dor's gross national product has declined 25 because the CIA is not directly answerable eight great-grandchildren. percent in real terms in four years. How can to the American citizenry. We don't know in It was certainly a good and productive life. we expect El Salvador to correct economic advance what they propose to do; and even Regrettably, the later years were beset by and social injustices while this systematic after the fact they lie to us about what continuing illness and physical infirmity. undermining of the economy is going on? they've done and why they did it. This du Now the end had come quietly and she ex The people of El Salvador are trying to plicity even extends to their dealings with pired peacefully. build a strong democracy. The recent elec congressional oversight committees. Just as the automatic, double doors of the tion of Jose Napoleon Duarte is proof of The CIA has been called "a shadow gov hospital opened wide to let me enter, a that. This is the third election in three ernment," because it does not come into the scene of a different kind met my eyes: years in which overwhelming numbers have light for honest examination and evaluation A young mother, cuddling her new-born voted in the face of guerrilla threats. by American citizens. But if the CIA's nefar baby in her arms, was being wheeled out of I am asked if there is any analogy between ious plans are given precedence over those the hospital. She was beaming down on the the administration's Central America policy of the Congress and the State Department blanketed infant, whom I could barely see, and our nation's involvement in Vietnam. by a President who has small regard for pro while her husband, a proud smile on his Only this: The fate of the boat people and tecting our democratic system, then the CIA face, walked tall beside her holding a lovely the genocide of the Cambodians, the cur becomes the real government-without plant in one hand and several belongings in rent Soviet naval presence in Vietnam, and being subject to democratic controls on its the other. Instantly, almost reflexively, the total denial of all human rights in that use of power. I protest this as a major as those fateful words from the beginning of tragic country are a warning. sault upon American democracy! I urge you Ecclesiastes crossed my mind: DOR The specter of another Vietnam lies not in to speak out forcefully to the President and HOLECH VEDOR BOH-one generation what we do, but in what we may fail to do.e the Congress, demanding that the CIA be passes away and another one comes, but the restrained in its dealing with other nations, earth endures forever. Their alliterative ca before its recklessness lands us in a disas dence stayed with me even as I comforted FRED CLOUD, EXECUTIVE DI trous war. Further, let us urge President the grieving family upon the loss of their RECTOR OF HUMAN RELA Reagan to give priority to the counsel of the beloved mother and as we escorted her to TIONS COMMISSION, EX Congress and the Secretary of State, rather the elevator down. PRESSES CONCERN ABOUT CIA than to the dirty-tricks proposals, of the The close juxtaposition of the two scenes INVOLVEMENT IN FOREIGN CIA.e seemed almost mystical: One departure from the hospital to face the world outside POLICY DEVELOPMENT and the other to face the world no more . . . DON'T STOP THE WORLD Again I rushed to my car. This time it was HON. WILUAM HILL BONER to get home and quickly change for a wed OF TENNESSEE HON. JAMES R. JONES ding that was to take place immediately OF OKLAHOMA after the evening service in our chapel. And IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES so: a radiant bride and groom, a lovely cere Thursday, May 10, 1984 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mony, breaking of the glass, a toast of life • Mr. BONER of Tennessee. Mr. Thursday, May 10, 1984 LE'CHAYIM! I came home emotionally drained. Three Speaker, Fred Cloud, the respected ex e Mr. JONES of Oklahoma. Mr. life-cycle events had intersected with dra ecutive director of the Metro Human Speaker, I would like to bring to my matic intensity within a short while. Such a Relations Commission of Davidson colleagues' attention the very eloquent convergence of life's pivotal dimensions is County, recently expressed a widely and thoughtful remarks of Rabbi hardly unusual in the life of a rabbi but held concern about the manipulation Arthur D. Kahn of Congregation B'nai each time it happens there is added cause of U.S. foreign policy by the Central Emunah in my home district of Tulsa, for reflection. I mentally recited the Twenty Intelligence Agency. Mr. Cloud's con Okla. Rabbi Kahn recently delivered Third Psalm. The words, in any language, cerns are contained in remarks pre these remarks at the synagogue. how beautiful in their simplicity, how sub lime in their faith, how encouraging and sented at a writers' banquet sponsored I hope that my colleagues will comforting ... by the Nashville Tennessean. concur with me that these remarks do As I thought of what I had just experi In light of recent incidents involving not take a political stand or attempt to enced the words of Ecclesiastes again came CIA-sponsored activities against Nica glorify the potential annihilation of to me: LAKOL Z'MAN-for everything ragua without congressional knowl humanity; instead, Rabbi Kahn dis there is a season and a time for each thing edge or consent, I have enclosed the cusses the pure beauty of life and all under the sun. text of Mr. Cloud's speech and encour the hope and joy that await each of In my mind's eye I saw: A fleeting deer, age my colleagues to read them. us. "Don't Stop the World-! Don't the majestic lion, an eagle in flight, children at play, a bursting sunrise, an exquisite rose, CIA-MORE THAN A SHADOW GoVER.NMENT? Want to Get Off" is a tribute to man and then ... then the words of Tennyson kind. Rabbi Kahn shows us that even "sunset and evening star"... Twenty-three hundred years ago, the in the very worst moment of despair, The cup of life rarely "runneth over" with Greek philosopher Plato wrote: "Power cor there is much around us that can unlimited happiness. Instead, it holds a mix rupts, and absolute power corrupts absolute bring joy-and hope. ture of the bitter and the sweet, of joy and ly." History across the centuries is replete I found this message very inspira sorrow, of triumph and tribulation. Those with examples of the abuses of groups of tional, and I urge my colleagues to who view that half-filled cup and call it citizens-and, indeed, of entire nations read Rabbi Kahn's comments. "half-full" live with optimism and hope; when political power is unchecked. while those who say that it's "half-empty" Students of American government often DON'T STOP THE WORLD-I DON'T WANT TO will remain forever thirsty and uncontent. point to the system of checks-and-balances GET OFF The Baal Shem Tov, who founded the as the best safeguard of our democracy. rainbow, the beauty of love or and ability to comfort the troubled; of St. John the Evangelist. He attended the joys of friendship. his sense of humor was an absolute Boston College High School and then en What's it all about then, this thing called joy. Most of all, his faith and his devo tered Boston College. At B.C. he was known life? for his outstanding oratorical ability and Although the answers to life's ultimate tion were an inspiration to all of us. was elected Vice President of the prestigious questions and imponderable mysteries are We called him Father Tom and he was Fulton Debating Society. He loved Boston still beyond us, here and there we do find considered a member of our family. College and never lost his enthusiasm for some direction and directive. I want to share with my colleagues his Alma Mater. He rarely missed Alumni William Penn said: "I expect to pass the homily given by Msgr. Peter F. gatherings or B.C. sporting events and close through life but once. If, therefore, there be Hart of Somerville, Mass., at the fu ly followed the progress and growth of the any kindness I can show or any good thing I neral mass for our beloved friend. It so University and took pride in its achieve can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, beautifully expresses the character ments. In the Year Book at the time of his and not defer or neglect it as I shall not and qualities of this man who was so graduation from Boston College he was pass this way again." characterized as "Everybody's friend, always Abraham Lincoln put it somewhat differ dearly loved. given to frequent smiles." No truer words ently: "Die when I may, I want it said of me FuNERAL OF MSGR. THOKAS M. LANE could be said in describing the personality by those who knew me best, that I always NEWBURYPORT-APRIL 3, 1984 of Monsignor Lane. plucked a thistle and planted a flower where Your Excellency, most Reverend Arch In 1923, after graduating from college his I thought a flower would grow." bishop Law, my Brother Priests, devoted love of God led him to follow in the foot But it was the incomparable Emily Dickin Sisters, relatives of Monsignor Lane, es steps of his brother, Monsignor John Lane, son, one of America's great, early poets, who teemed leaders and representatives of vari in giving his life and his talents to the serv expressed it most beautifully: ous ecclesiastical communities, distin ice of God. He was ordained to the Sacred If I can stop one heart from breaking guished State and city officials, parishioners Priesthood on May 25, 1928 by His Emi I shall not live in vain; of Immaculate Conception Parish, my nence, William Cardinal O'Connell. In the If I can ease one life the aching, brothers and sisters in Christ. words of Scripture, "The Lord gave him Or cool one pain, We come together this morning to pay our wisdom and understanding exceeding much, Or help one fainting robin last tribute of love, respect and admiration and largeness of heart as the sands of the Unto his nest again, to a truly great Priest, Monsignor Thomas sea." For the past 56 years, since that day of I shall not live in vain. Michael Lane. We gather to offer the Sacri his ordination, he has been the faithful And towering above all these is the com fice of the Mass for the repose of his noble servant of Christ, a true man of God, a gen mandeering, divine imperative: UVO soul, and we offer it also in thanksgiving for uine Priest, whose heart was so big and gen CHARTO BACHAYIM! ... and thou shalt his beautiful, Priestly life on earth which erous that it embraced all people in his af choose life! Judaism votes a resounding YES brought so much joy and consolation and fections. Like Christ, he healed all who to life. Notwithstanding all of the darkness, strength of Faith to all of us, and to all to came to him by his genuine and gentle all of the adversity, all of the agony that whom he ministered in his 56 fruitful years human understanding and compassion. Like have marked its history optimism and faith in the Priesthood of Jesus Christ. We espe Christ, he gave his love to all-his whole have ruled its course. cially thank God for the gift He gave us person radiated the love of Jesus Christ. He Therefore, G-d, DON'T stop the world be when He sent Monsignor Lane to us, and was always the Priest, who did Priestly cause we DON'T want to get off! now we return him, this gift of God, who things in a Priestly way. And please, dear G-d, don't let US stop it touched and enriched the lives of each of Father Tom had a magnificent sense of either ... us, we give him back to God, a God of love, humor, and his joyful personality attracted Our world is living today with the maca who will reward him for his life of Faith many to Christ. He had the gift of joy and bre specter of nuclear holocaust. Humanity and Charity and joyful service to so many. happiness, a real mark of Sanctity. It is said is fearful for its survival. Our children have I can speak of Monsignor Lane as one, that joy is the infallible sign of the presence nightmares of the world reduced to primal who, having lived with him, knows his of God. The Christian has hope, and there burning ash and eternal stillness thereafter. Priesthood from experience. I am sure that fore happiness. There are no sad saints. With the release of atomic energy, the ad I express the sentiments that are in the Like St. Francis of Assisi, Tom was the vances in computer science, and our giant hearts and minds of every Priest who lived eternal optimist, who walked down the steps in space what an awesome choice con with Monsignor Tom Lane, when I say he road with a song in his heart. He knew that fronts us: we can either "self-destruct" this was one of the finest, most Christ like Christ was with him and there was nothing world of ours or go on to conquer worlds un Priests we have ever known. I had the good to fear. He put all his trust in God and re dreamed of before. fortune to live with him at Saint James fused to worry. He lived the words of the Now spring is here, the sun is out, and the Parish in Boston when Monsignor Donovan Scripture, "My heart rejoices in the Lord, good earth is born again. was the Pastor. Tom's magnetic personality, my Saviour." And Pesach is here-Passover with its un his tremendous sense of humor, his enthusi His style of humor was unique as all of vanquished message of freedom and deliver asm, his great love for people, his Priestly you well know. He always had a funny story ance and redemption. devotion to those in need, to the sick, the and his face always wreathed in smiles and So to all the world LE'CHAYIM and, in lonely, the dying, made him a joy to know laughter. Priests and people loved to be the "spirit" of the Seder, FOUR times le' and be associated with. with him. You never knew what he would chayim: to life, to hope, to joy, to peace!e Monsignor Lane breathed life into God's say next. Even when he went on vacation he Commandment, "Love one another as I would send a batch of funny and most un have loved you," because he did love God usual cards to his many friends. I am sure HOMILY TO MSGR. THOMAS M. with his heart, his whole mind, his whole many of you here received them. He would LANE soul, and he did love his neighbor as him usually sign them with the name of the self. For Tom there was never a human President or some other distinguished world HON. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR. being he met, that he did not touch with a leader, never his own name. I recall he once special magic, whether it be family or sent a card to my sister on her birthday. On OF KASSACHUSETI'S friend, neighbor or stranger. the outside of the card it said, "This is a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The news of his death has brought sad Adult Card." On the inside, when you Thursday, May 10, 1984 ness and sorrow to all of us, not only here in opened it, it said, "And you have been an Immaculate Conception parish in Newbury adult longer than anyone I know." The first e Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, the port, where he has served these past close to time Father Tom met our beloved Cardinal O'Neill family has lost a dear friend. thirty years, but also in Winthrop where he Medeiros, when he came to Boston as the Msgr. Thomas M. Lane died March 30 began his Priesthood at St. John's Church, new Archbishop back in 1970, Father Tom last and as we once cherished his in Our Lady of the Rosary, South Boston, said to him, "You were definitely my first friendship we now cherish his Immaculate Conception, Everett, St. James. choice for Archbishop when I heard we memory. He was a very special person. Boston, Holy Redeemer in East Boston and couldn't get an Irishman," and Cardinal Me- Saint Annes in West Newbury. Our Archdio deiros loved it. They had great admiration We shared Cambridge as birthplace cese has lost a faithful, outstanding Priest, for each other. Tom had a great zest for and home and I have known him all and we all mourn the passing of a fine gen life, he was fun to be with, a delightful com my life. As Millie and I raised our tleman and a true friend. panion, always bubbling over with joy and family, he was our neighbor, counsel Born in the city of Cambridge in Septem laughter. Children loved to see him come or-but most of all, our friend. He was ber of _902, the son of David and Elizabeth and he always has time to tell them a story May 10, 1981, EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11947 and encourage them to live up to what God on earthly pages, and the prayers of num Extensive congressional hearings on this and their parents expected of them. His berless grateful souls, light his way today to question were held last October. Surprising brilllance and quickness of mind, made him the heavenly reward promised by Our Lord ly broad based support emerged for the sought after as a speaker and he was wel to his faithful stewards. bill-along with sharp opposition. come at every gathering. I never saw him We who were blessed with his friendship The strongest argument in favor of the get angry with anyone, always compassion have lost a staunch, firm and loyal friend, proposal comes from the 1981 decision of ate, understanding, forgiving. and this parish has lost a gentle, loving the United States Supreme Court in Monsignor Lane was always wonderful to shepherd. He loved Newburyport where he Widmar v. Vicent where a ban by the Uni the sick and the dying. That was one of his spent most of his Priesthood, and even versity of Missouri on religious acitivities in great gifts. He rarely missed a day visiting when he retired from active service he asked public buildings was struck down. The Court the hospital. I have never lived with any Cardinal Medeiros if he could continue to held that if a university gives a place and a Priest who spent so much time visiting the live here as Pastor Emeritus and was grant forum to any legitimate secular group it sick at home and in hospitals, encouraging ed that wish. He always had words of praise may not deny similar facilities to religious them and lifting their spirits. He would for Father Leonard, his successor, and often groups. often drop into a home and spend an hour told me and others how gracious and kind The opponents of equal access insist, how or two with some elderly parishioner, smok and caring Father Leonard has been to him ever, that the pupils in high school, unlike ing his cigar, telling funny stories and light since coming here as Pastor. He had a spe college students, are required to attend ing up their day. He was loyal to his friends, cial affection for Father Ritchie who was school and, therefore, should not be subject visited them faithfully, made it a point to be with him here during most of his Pastorate ed to the inevitable peer group pressure with them in their time of joy and their and whom he regarded as a cherished which would be operating if several groups time of sorrow. He loved people and reached friend. of students met together before and after out to them and enjoyed being with them. As we bid our last farewell to Monsignor class for clearly religious and denomination Monsignor Lane was a man of Prayer. He Lane, we thank God for his gift to us in the al purposes. spent much time each day in meditation exemplary life and noble character of this The National Council of Churches, which and prayer, in celebrating Mass, in reciting good Priest. As we resolve to continue to represents 32 main line Protestant and East the Breviary and the Rosary, in close daily pray for the repose of his soul, let us also em Orthodox religious bodies, testified in communication with his Eucharistic Lord. pray that God may send to our Archdiocese favor of the Equal Access Act. This testimo He had a great love of, and devotion to, our more Priests like Monsignor Lane.e ny is very significant since the National Blessed Mother, and often rejoiced in the Council of Churches supports the Supreme fact that two of the parishes he served in, Court's ban on prayer and Bible reading in both here in Newburyport, and in Everett, EQUAL ACCESS ACT public schools and has opposed all attempts were dedicated to the Immaculate Concep to enact a constitutional amendment to tion. He never let a day go by without HON. JAMES M. SHANNON allow religious exercises in public schools. saying the Rosary of Our Lady, usually The National Association of Evangelicals more than once. Often in traveling along OF MASSACHUSETTS also favored the bill and insisted in its testi the road in an automobile, he would say, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mony that the Equal Access Act would "Lets say the Rosary." Thursday, May 10, 1984 permit only "student-initiated and student The Church was always his first love and run religious meetings." No official Catholic he served it loyally and with unbounded • Mr. Mr. 2732. energy and enthusiasm. He was a man of SHANNON. Speaker, next group took a position on H.R. strong faith. He stood squarely on the firm week we will be debating the Equal The American Jewish Congress, the Amer foundation of the Churches' teaching. Access Act, H.R. 5345. I cannot express ican Civil Liberties Union and the National Shifting human opinions never disturbed strongly enough my opposition to this Educational Association oppose the Equal the serenity of his faith. He never had an bill. Although its proponents claim Access Act. Educators and others are par identity crisis because he always knew what that the bill will only prevent discrimi ticularly fearful of the provision in the a Priest is supposed to be, another Christ, natiQil among various types of school Equal Access Act which would authorize the and he modeled his life on his divine federal government to withhold all federal organizations, it would actually estab aid from a school which declined to allow its Master. He was one hundred percent loyal lish discrimination. By imposing the to our Holy Father and the Magisterium of students to use a classroom in non-instruc the Church, and he rejoiced and gloried in penalty of a cutoff of Federal funds on tional times for religious purposes. These his Priesthood. schools that do not permit religious critics of the measure assert that, while it is The simple genuineness of Monsignor organizations on their premises, while seemingly innocent and simple, it could and Lane's character brought him, year by year, giving no such protection to other or would bring religious strife and denomina an ever increasing measure of devotion, ganizations, the bill clearly establishes tional rivalries back into the public school until he held a place in the hearts of his in highly undesirable ways. a preference for religious groups over Many members of Congress are apparent people that is given to few men to experi other types of groups. It is an attempt ence. Able to call each one by name, keenly ly eager to be able to cast a vote that will interested in the spiritual and temporal wel to bring organized prayer into our demonstrate that they believe in the desir fare of every one of his parishioners, he public schools, if not in classrooms ability of prayer in the school. It is not pos became the benign Father of the whole then in student meeting rooms. sible to ·obtain the two-thirds majority of Catholic population here in Newburyport. Our distinguished former colleague, both Houses required to initiate a constitu Not only among Catholics, but by the Rev. Robert F. Drinan, has written an tional amendment to permit vocal prayer in people of this town of all religious beliefs, article in the Boston Herald which ex the school. the name of Monsignor Lane has been held plains clearly and eloquently why we Consequently, the Congress is seeking to in honor as a great and good man, and this must not approve this bill. I would like enact a statute using a somewhat misleading universal esteem came to him without any suggestion that it is designed only to give striving on his part for popular favor, but by to insert this article in the REcoRD: "equal access" to the desires of students to being just his simple self. All recognized in RELIGIOUS ACCESS BILL FAILS To MEET ED pray. One can wonder whether student re him a true man of God, a genuine Priest, NEEDS quests to have a regular time to study reli whose heart was so big and generous that it If a public high school allows students to gion or to pray come from their own aspira included all people in his affections. gather before or after classes in groups de tions or from the wishes of their parents or Monsignor Lane loved life and he lived it voted to chess or music or computers, their churches. joyfully and cheerfully to the full, commu should the school be required to extend the There are three serious questions about nicating to all with whom he came in con same benefit to groups who desire to use a the wisdom of the Equal Access Act: tact, the radiant happiness of the true room in the public school to study religion 1. Is it really desirable to have one federal Christian. He had no selfish attachments to or to pray? statute applicable to every public school iP the world or to worldly goods. This life and The Congress will probably say yes to that the nation? It is easy to imagine that in var the goods of earth were to him merely a question by the expected ious sections of the country religious mi means to an end, and that end was the bea enactment of H.R. 2732, the Equal Access norities may well suffer at the hands of the tific vision, blessed union with God and the Act. This measure would require the offi religious majority. Saints. His joy was in doing for others and cials of all secondary schools to give to stu 2. There are several court cases now being in giving of himself and his substance to the dents interested in religion and prayer the litigated involving situations where official> sick, the dying, the elderly, the poor and the same opportunities that students involved of public schools have declined to authorize forgotten. Countless good deeds, unrecorded in secular topics enjoy. religious groups meeting in public schools. 11948 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 Should not Congress wait to see what law MISSOURI RIVER WATER SALE BLOCKED BY "They've lost some farmland where the res will emerge from these controversies? COURT ervoirs have been built. The flood control 3. If the Equal Access Act becomes law it . quarters at the campus since its move from rangement with the township's High School In addition, he noted that driver's educa the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant in Octo Board. Rental will increase to $303,600 in tion program soon will be under way and ber, 1983. The arsenal now is among final 1985 and 1986 and to $331,200 through 1988. the center's auto shop training program is sites being considered by the federal govern Maintenance and upkeep are the Job Corps' nationally recognized. Joliet students took ment for production of new explosives. expense, supervised with monthly inspec first- and second-place honors in the Nation Earlier this year the United States De tions by the School Board. al Job Corps Exposition in Washington, partment of Labor selected Joliet architect The Job Corps Center originally was set D.C., in 1981. Healy, Snyder, Bender & Associates Inc. to up in 1978 at the Joliet Arsenal. However, More than 100 Job Corps centers have head the Job Corps remodeling/renovation the World War II facility soon proved un been organized throughout the U.S. since effort. They emerged from four finalists suitable as a residential center, Daniels said. 1965 by the Department of Labor to equip after a lengthy search process that began U.S. Rep. George O'Brien, R-Joliet, came low-income youths, ages 16 to 22 and not in when the center relocated. to the center's rescue when an impending social, with marketable job skills. Joliet's May 10, 1981, EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11951 center, one of two in Illinois, was set up in purported aim-to further education, sci The biggest grouse, however, is against 1978. ence and culture-is increasingly hidden the alleged increase in the politicisation of Nationally, 44,000 corps member slots are behind a smokescreen of political rhetoric projects. Current Unesco operations in Af available. Illinois' two centers have a total and propaganda. ghanistan, for instance, are said to be virtu of 300 slots. The 150 here in Joliet are ex The American government and several ally Sovietised by the selection of Soviet pected to increase to 400 when a planned re other rich western countries pay for nearly staff members or Soviet sympathisers to run modeling project is complete. However, two thirds of the Unesco budget . The proposed budget French government remains on the payroll program. for 1984 and 1985 is a sturdy $433m. But the "on extraordinary leave". The United Daniels' Job Corps experience dates to vote on budgetary and other matters is States, in effect, remains their biggest single 1966 when he joined its ranks as an unem democratic, with each of the 160 members paymaster. The contract of one of them has ployed 17-year-old from North Carolina. carrying equal weight. So the eight rich just been extended in absentia.e Later, after graduating first from the Job grumblers are bound to be outgunned. Their Corps and then from Indiana State Univer only sanction is to withdraw from Unesco. sity, he returned to work for the Job Corps. The bad blood is not just between the NEED FOR REFORMATION OF There he has served in various capacities, west and the rest. The most notable recent OUR DEFENSE BUDGET most recently as the director of Mississippi's fall guys do not, in Unesco-speak, qualify as first Job Corps Center, which he helped or "imperialist". The first top-level casualty ganize. was a Mexican, Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, HON. DENNY SMITH Daniels is the only former corps member who became head of Unesco's social sciences OF OREGON to become a center director. In 1978 he was division in 1979 with a high professional IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES inducted into the Job Corps Hall of Fame. reputation. Two years later he left because "I saw that this country works for all of what he called "the atmosphere of dis Thursday, May 10, 1984 people," Daniels said. "The dream does still trust, denunciation and a sort of bureau e Mr. DENNY SMITH. Mr. Speaker, go by certain rules . . . The door is open. cratic terrorism which has led to total intel today, I am submitting for inclusion in Come, step through it," he invites his stu lectual suffocation". the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the closing dents. He was replaced by a lady from Zaire For more information about the Joliet whose rewriting of programmers led to the statements made by our colleague, Mr. center or to arrange a tour of the facility, resignation this year of the respected Swiss CouRTER of New Jersey, in a speech he contact LaJean McCullum, Community Af head of the division for human rights and recently gave concerning the need for fairs officer, 740-4366.e peace, Mr. Pierre de Senarclens. A recent a reformation of our defense budget. I poll of staff members showed that only 3% strongly recommend that my col of them thought Unesco was recruiting leagues take heed of what Representa UNESCO high-quality people and deciding promo tive CoURTER has to say in the conclu tions on the basis of professional efficiency. sion of the following speech: The latest casualty is another Unesco stal HON. JERRY LEWIS wart, Mr. Dragoljum Najman of Yugoslavia, SPEECH BY JIM COURTER OF CALIFORNIA who is considered to have been largely re Many people assume that we could save IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sponsible for the elevation of a Senegalese, enormous sums by cutting the big strategic Thursday, May 10, 1984 Mr. Amadou-Mahthar M'Bow, to be direc nuclear programs. Let's look at what would tor-general of the organisation in 197 4. happen if we were to cancel the entire stra e Mr. LEWIS of Califomia. Mr. Their differences came to the surface in tegic modernization program. That would Speaker, due to the lateness of the June when the Yugoslav returned from a mean cancellation of the B-1, the M-X, Tri hour during consideration of my year at Harvard to discover that he had dent missiles and submarines, B-52 improve UNESCO amendment to H.R. 5421- been demoted from his assistant director ments, cruise missiles and the new Midget the International Security and Devel generalship. man missile research program. These differences are symbolic as well as All these cuts would amount to a reduc opment Cooperation Act of 1984, time personal. Mr. Najman objects to the "regali tion in 1985 outlays or about $3 billion. Why did not permit further debate on the ty" of Mr. M'Bow's rule at the Paris palace. so little? The reason is because these pro gross irregularities in the management But the two also stand for different tradi grams cost large amounts over time, but and leadership of UNESCO. There tions. Mr. Najman is an experienced inter cost relatively little each year, and very fore, I would like to submit for the national civil servant and competent schol little in the early stages of development. RECORD the following article from the ar, inspired by the fierce non-alignment ad There are two approaches to obtain sav Economist. What is most appalling in vocated by Nehru and Tito. Mr. M'Bow and ings in defense procurement. The first ap my opinion, is that Soviet spies who his friends have supplanted such members proach is to fight in Congress for the can of the Unesco old guard with placemen, cellation of individual weapons programs. were expelled from France remain on many of them left-wing Africans, radical While this is a very difficult task, often in the payroll at UNESCO primarily at Arabs or overt pro-Russians. volving conflict with the Pentagon, the Con the expense of the American taxpayer. The professionals say that worthwhile gress and the defense industry, it is often This is an outrage and an affront to projects are being turned from genuine edu worthwhile, because there are programs the spirit of goodwill that should be cation into propaganda, often by incompe that the Pentagon can afford to do without. the guiding light of this organization. tent managers chosen for their political or Some of these programs are imposed on The article follows: national connections. The bloated bureauc the Pentagon by Congressional interests racy of Unesco has long been a Parisian who view the defense budget as a jobs pro [From the Economist, Aug. 27, 19831 joke. The number of assistant directors-gen gram. EvEN WORSE AT UNESCO eral has swollen from five to 13. Others are the result of rivalries and lack The worms in the Unesco can are wrig It is partly by default that the western of coordination between the services. For gling out, and the Americans are fed up governments on Unesco's executive board example, different types of weapons and air with paying to keep them in. Especially as have allowed this to happen. In the Carter craft are often developed for each military the chief occupation of many people at era and before, American administrations service, even though the Navy, Army, Air Unesco nowadays seems to be to nag the seemed to prefer a quiet life to challenging Force and Marines could get along well with United States and the west in favour of the Mr.M'Bow. standardized equipment. Congress has cut radicals of Asia, Africa and the Soviet block. Now even the most devoted liberals are some of these redundant programs and will Many of the Americans and west Europe glad that Mr. Reagan is taking a tougher continue to do so in the future. ans on the staff of the Paris headquarters line, not just by pulling apart the more The second approach is to look for re of Unesco are liberals loth to agree with the waffly programme proposals and opposing forms of the entire defense procurement Reaganites on anything. But now they do. the campaign for "news world information system. When we make effective systemic Their morale is low, trampled by a mixture order" but also by scrutinising the budget, reforms, we get more value out of the of nepotism, maladministration, reverse which the Americans say should have zero money that goes into all procurement pro racism, and an apparently incorrigible tilt growth. They reckon that the latest draft grams. towards the hardliners of the third world. provides for a real increase of 37%. The I am the Chairman in the House of a The Soviet Union is smiling. A lot of Unesco state department is now reviewing American group called the Military Reform Caucus. schemes are worthy but the organisation's membership. This is a group that studies military issues 11952 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 and considers some new solutions to defense measured. It provides us security, and it are highly questionable, and from the problems. guarantees for us the values of peace and standpoint of military capability, unneces My involvement in the Caucus has given freedom which are truly priceless.e sary. The MX is such a system." me an interest in broad reforms of defense This is pretty plain language, but one of systems. I would like to give you two exam its members, Representative Nicholas Mav ples of procurement reforms-one already AN MX REBELLION? roules of Massachusetts, a member of the accomplished, and one yet to be accom Armed Services Committee, has been even plished. HON. BERYL ANTHONY, JR. more direct in his explanation for the letter. First, we succeeded in enacting a law "The administration is fixed in the belief which will give Congress and the Secretary OF ARKANSAS that one nation can achieve nuclear superi of Defense independent reports on the qual IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ority," he says, adding: "We need to achieve ity of operational testing performed on new Thursday, May 10, 1984 an effective deterrence. But, in fact, the MX weapons systems. This is important because, does not contribute to that deterrence. The if Congress is going to do a responsible job • Mr. ANTHONY. Mr. Speaker, as the MX further drains money away from other in stopping programs that are ineffective or time nears for the House to consider military programs vital to our national de unnecessary, it needs good information to the fiscal year 1985 defense authoriza fense. It can no longer be justified on the make these decisions. tion bill and reconsider the MX issue, basis of military or arms control require We found that in the crucial area of weap I think it would be helpful if Members ments." ons testing, where new weapons are sup read an editorial that appeared in the Certainly the MX has been of question posed to be proven under tough battlefield Arkansas Gazette on April 25, 1984. able value from the beginning, but it is good conditions, there was often a lack of real to see many in Congress, having first provid ism. The difficulties, uncertainties, rigors The editorial follows: ed money for the missile, to be having and hazards of combat were not always sim AN MX REBELLION? second or additional thoughts. Many spe ulated in a realistic manner. As a result, we Momentum is building in Congress for a cialists, who are well versed in analysis of lacked information as to whether weapons decision to scrap the MX missile before it strategic nuclear weapons and intricacies of actually worked the way they were designed moves too far along toward deployment. A nuclear arms control have been convinced to work. The law we passed will provide that group of 74 House members, in any event, that the MX, once deployed in the hard information, and give a red flag to Congress says it will attempt to block production ened Minuteman silos, would have the and the Pentagon's acquisition executives money for the MX when the fiscal 1985 De effect of endangering this nation's security when it's time to decide whether to buy a fense budget comes before the House in more than it would enhance national securi new weapon that may have failed its final May. Most of the group's members have ty. Because of its 10 warheads and its accu exam. generally supported President Reagan's de racy, a land-based and therefore vulnerable Another important reform which I pro fense buildup in the past, and therein lies MX would be a tempting target for the pose is to increase the amount of defense the significance of their resistance on MX Soviet Union, in a fit of paranoia, to launch contracts performed under competitive bid. funding. a pre-emptive strike. And because the MX Only six percent of defense contract value is The group explained its position in a would be vulnerable, it would be useless awarded by competitive bidding today; I letter to President Reagan.as a sequel to the unless fired before the arrival of attacking propose legislation to increase that percent decision by the House Armed Services Com Soviet missiles. age gradually to 70 percent. mittee that has reduced production money The United States has redundant firepow The advantages of competition have been for 40 MX missiles, as requested by Mr. er in its nuclear arsenal and based on land, proven in the private sector, and in the gov Reagan, to 30 missiles. And it comes as both at sea and in the air, to wipe the Soviet soci ernment when it has been used to purchase houses of Congress prepare to take up the ety from the face of the earth without goods and services. In one study of twenty Pentag.on's budget in a few weeks. building and deploying the MX at enormous cases where sole-source defense contracts The administration wants to spend about expense. At best the MX is a foolish project were opened to competitive bid, average sav $5.2 billion on the MX next year, but only and at worst it would be the spark to Arma ings of over 50 percent were realized. Com about $3.1 billion of it would be for produc geddon.• petition will reduce unit costs-this will save tion of additional missiles. The rest of the us money and allow us to buy greater quan money would be for research and develop tities of needed equipment for our armed ment and construction, to accommodate de UNITED STATES MUST DISCI forces. Some progress has been made in the ployment of 100 missiles. But it is produc PLINE HEALTH-CARE MARKET use of competition by the Defense Depart tion money that bothers the 74 House mem ment, and I would like to see that progress bers, who propose to delete the funding and continue. take the process a step farther: "We will HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE In this speech I have tried to give you propose to deauthorize and rescind previous OF NEW YORK some facts about the defense budget, and fiscal 1984 MX procurement funding, and IN THE HOUSE OF UPRESENTATIVES some proposals for how we can save money terminate production, before additional bil in defense. lions are obligated for the program without Thursday, May 10, 1984 I have talked about ways to increase effi military justification." e Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, in 1965 ciency, but I have not advocated large cuts It may be recalled that the House ap Congress passed and President Lyndon in the defense budget, for the simple reason proved MX funds last fall by only nine votes B. Johnson signed into law the medic that we cannot afford them. and it came in the wake of the Soviet down The purpose of defense is to preserve ing of the Korean airliner, when emotions aid and medicare programs. These pro peace by deterring threats to peace and to were high. Funding also was sold on the ad grams were designed to guarantee that our freedom. The proper level of defense ministration's contention that the MX was all Americans-including the poor spending should be measured not against a necessary bargaining chip in reaching a served under medicaid and the elderly past defense budgets, but against the threat strategic arms control agreement with the served under medicare-would enjoy we now face from potential adversaries. Soviet Union. Not long after, the talks in the same high standard of medical If you watch the news, you've seen what Geneva broke off anyway, thereby wiping care previously available only to the kind of threat we face. You've seen the ease out the bargaining chip argument. affluent. Cadillac medicine for every with which the Soviets moved into Afghani Why do the 74 congressmen, some of stan, the nonchalance with which they de them strong Pentagon supporters, wish to body was the bright prospect. stroy a civilian airliner, and you've seen scrap the MX? "While many rationales have Today. Chrysler is taking a look at their formidable Navy conducting impres been offered on behalf of MX," they write this Cadillac medicine. Chrysler has sive exercises on the high seas. · to Mr. Reagan, "the actual deterrent value found that 1984 costs are a burden to There is no doubt in my mind that Amer of the system is negligible," adding, "we all. Americans spend more than $1 bil ica can continue to deter these threats and support many of the defense initiatives lion a day for health care. The Chrys preserve the peace. Our industrial strength, which have been advanced over the last ler Corp., examination is described by our scientific knowledge and, above all, our three years. A revitalized conventional Joseph A. Califano, Jr., a director of free people are the greatest security assets force, the building of a modern Navy and any nation can have. improvements in the quality of life for our the Chrysler Corp., and chairman of America will continue to provide for her military men and women are the product of its committee on health care. and defense, because while it may seem expen- Congress and the administration working former Secretary of Health, Education sive in the short run, the long-term return together. Yet • • • the burden falls upon and Welfare, in an op-ed piece in the on defense spending is so great it can't be Congress, to resist weapons systems which May 6, 1984. New York Times. May 10, 1981, EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11953 Although the Chrysler experience is Experts investigated the six Detroit hospi TRIBUTE TO ISADORE L. useful for other businesses as a guide tals with the highest number of maternity WEXLER line to help to control health costs, admissions for patients insured by Chrysler. Califano emphasizes that we cannot In more than 80 percent of the 618 cases rely upon American business alone to studied, one or more of the hospital days HON. BRUCE A. MORRISON were found to be unnecessary-a total of OF CONNECTICUT assume that responsibility. He states: more than 1,000 unnecessary days, about a "We need a national policy to restruc quarter of the time spent in the hospital. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ture financial incentives in America's Chrysler's preliminary investigation sug Thursday, May 10, 1984 health care industry:• Califano calls gests that 25 percent of its hospital costs for the establishment of a national may be due to waste and inefficiency. Elimi e Mr. MORRISON of Connecticut. commission to reform health care, nation of those costs would save some $50 Mr. Speaker, I rise in tribute to Isa- similar to the National Commission on million in 1984. There's no reason to believe __,dore L. Wexler. Wex, a pillar of the Social Security. The commission that Chrysler's experience is unique. For New Haven community, a distin should develop a health policy to the entire health care system, elimination guished educator, and very special reduce costs without reducing care. I of such costs would save more than $50 bil person, passed away on February 7, agree and believe his article is an im lion-without adversely affecting the qual 1984, at the age of 77. ity of care. Wex, a man of enormous human portant message for us all. But American business alone cannot con "United States Must Discipline commitment, devoted his life to the trol health care costs. We need a national community, always striving for new Health Care Market, .. by Joseph A. policy to restructure financial incentives in Califano, Jr. follows: America's health care industry: where possi and innovative methods of education. UNITED STATES MUST DISCIPLINE HEALTH ble, to instill some marketplace discipline; He was a man with a vision, a man CARE MARKET and where not, some controls. Sleight of with unflinching ideals. He related to WASHINGTON.-Controlling medical costs hand won't work. Costs disappearing from every segment of the New Haven com has become the Great American Shell the Federal health care budget have a re munity, Jewish and Christian, black Game. Congress puts a cap on Medicare markable ability to reappear elsewhere in and white, old and young. payments for 467 medical procedures, and this noncompetitive system, where cost Iz Wexler is best known as the hospitals just pass the costs off to the shifting is so easy. The net result is a founder of New Haven's community states. States put their own caps on Medic hidden tax on American business and citi school concept. In 1947, Wex became aid hospital payments, and hosptials just zens. principal of Dixwell's Winchester Ele move the pea to private insurers and Blue In Chrysler's case, the company provides Cross and Blue Shield. Congress caps pay for its retirees many health care services mentary School in New Haven. He was ments to physicians in hospitals, and doc not paid by Medicare. This means that, as concerned because the school was not tors move the pea outside the hospital to Medicare seeks to ease its own financial reaching many of the students. An un their offices or clinics where there are no crisis by shifting costs to the individual, orthodox educator, he believed that caps. Chrysler pays the bill.. In 1965, a Medicare the whole community, not just the The new caps on hospital costs paid by beneficiary paid the first $40 of a hospital school, teaches the child. The school, Medicare and many states allow politicians stay; today, that co-payment is $356. Simi to boast about cutting deficits. But they do Wex believed, should be the center of larly, the daily co-payment for long-term the community, a source of pride, to little to reduce the cost of the health care hospital stays ne Business Week, I want to rise and pay sits the teacher." Among HON. NORMAN D. SHUMWAY particular tribute to the more than the children of Israel, none were more ex 50,000 small businesses in my own alted than he who teaches for as it is said: OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Nebraska. "The world is sustained by knowledge and Since this time last year, we have those who teach the children are blessed Thursday, May 10, 1984 above all others." Wex was an educator par seen small business men and women excellence, a totally beautiful human being, e Mr. SHUMWAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask across this Nation respond to and with a great teacher among us. Although he has that my colleagues join with me today our economic recovery. A growing con departed, he has left us a legacy far greater in paying tribute to the city of Lin fidence on their part to invest capital than rubles. May the memory of his right coln, in Placer County, Calif., which is and take risks has resulted in the cre eousness be forever a blessing among us.e celebrating its 125th anniversary. As ation of jobs, new business starts, new May 10, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11955 expansionary efforts, more efficient not be held responsible for underaged ers to be mindful of our relations with sales to the Government, and innova drinking in their homes. The law will Taiwan and the need for firm U.S. tive research. By creating the econom not stop teenage abuse of alcohol, but support to continue. ic environment in which small busi it will give parents an incentive not to If we examine Taiwan in the context ness can prosper, America prospers. look the other way when asked to of the full scope of Chinese actions Nebraska, in particular, has a record allow minors in their home to con and pronouncements during the Presi to be proud of for small business. In sume alcoholic beverages. dent's visit, we find that Taiwan is but 1983, 61 new businesses wanted to The law is working for Glen Ellyn one issue among a number that effects expand and did expand, as compared and for the many other communities the relationship of China's attitude to 48 in 1982. This is a 27-percent in that have passed laws modeled after toward the United States. Thus, it crease for 1983. Glen Ellyn's. clearly seems possible that the United New employment opportunities in On this second anniversary of the States can achieve goals in our con Nebraska show a 262-percent increase, adoption of the parental responsibility duct with the People's Republic of going from 841 new jobs in 1982 to liquor ordinance, I have introduced a China without jeopardizing United 3,047 in 1983. Capital investment in resolution urging all local govern States-Taiwan relations. expansion hit an all time record in our ments to follow Glen Ellyn's innova Because of China's need for trade State-$114.8 million was spent in 1983 tive approach to greater involvement and technology as part of its economic for this purpose. by parents in solving what has become modernization program, because Strides must still be made to help a problem from which no congression China needs United States involve small business prosper-strides we al district is immune.e ment to deal with regional issues such must and will take.e as Korea and Vietnam, and because ELECTIONS IN PANAMA both China and the United States PARENTAL RESPONSmiLITY must review our relations with the LIQUOR ORDINANCE Soviet Union, there is no need, in my HON. MICHAEL D. BARNES view, to make any further concessions OF MARYLAND to Beijing on our security and econom HON.HENRYJ.HYDE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ic relations with Taiwan. OF ILLINOIS Thursday, May 10, 1984 The provisions of the Taiwan Rela IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES • Mr. BARNES. Mr. Speaker, Panama tions Act spell out the U.S. interest in Thursday, May 10, 1984 held its first elections last Sunday a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan e Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, we are after 16 years of military-backed gov issue and states that the United States nearing the end of another school ernments. I strongly support these will provide Taiwan with enough de year, and this is a time of youthful elections and what they stand for, the fensive arms to maintain a sufficient celebration. I am speaking of teenage return to the democratic tradition. self-defense capability. It is in the U.S. parties where parents often allow alco Unfortunately, a number of inci national interest to continue our holic beverages to be consumed by dents that have occurred since the strong support.e minors. Some of these parties will be elections might undermine this impor supervised, others will not. Teenage tant achievement of the people of drinking parties on home premises Panama. One person has been killed NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK have been going on for years because and riots have taken place. I received a some parents are reluctant to exercise report that the house of one of the HON. JOEL PRITCHARD their parental control so they take the candidates was attacked last night. OF WASHINGTON easy way out and allow beer and/or There have been allegations of fraud liquor to be served. from all sides and the tabulation of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES These parents must realize that by the ballots is a cumbersome and slow Thursday, May 10, 1984 allowing minors to have drinking par process. I have been in contact with ties at home, they may become poten e Mr. PRITCHARD. Mr. Speaker, this the Department of State on these week is National Volunteer Week, and tial accesories to teenage deaths. Most issues. parents do not realize this fact until a Peace Corps will honor those of its I believe that the United States ranks who uniquely embody the spirit tragedy strikes close to home, such as should continue to support a fair and a fatal automobile accident involving a of helping others to lead better lives just process. It is crucial that the will disabled volunteers and volunteers carload of teenage drinkers on their of the Panamanian people be respect way home from a graduation party. who work in special education pro Two years ago today Glen Ellyn, Ill., ed regardless of which candidate is grams around the world. adopted a very simple but yet very ef elected President.e "Peace Corps and the Disaoled: Let fective ordinance meant to control Me Be Part Of It" is the theme this teenage drinking parties at home. The UNITED STATES-TAIWAN year for America's legendary volunteer village president and board of trustees RELATIONS STILL STRONG organization. Since 1961, more than decided that responsibility for pre 100,000 Americans have served in more venting underaged drinking was that HON. DAN MICA than 90 developing nations around the of the parents or owners of the homes OF FLORIDA globe, sharing their skills and exper at which the parties were held. State IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tise in areas such as agriculture, laws already make underaged con health and nutrition, education, for sumption illegal, and the village decid Thursday, May 10, 1984 estry, fisheries, and community devel ed to place criminal sanctions on the • Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, in the wake opment. We are all familiar with the owner or occupant of a house or other of President Reagan's recent trip to photographs from far-off lands of ear premises who knowingly allowed the China, let us not forget our resolve to nest and dedicated men and women · use of that house or premise for un support the people of Taiwan as we workng side-by-side with the villagers deraged drinking. An exception was al construct U.S. policy in that area of of Niger, Togo, Guatemala, Paraguay, lowed for religious ceremonies and the world. Fiji, Nepal and Westen Samoa, to dig members of the immediate family. As an author of the Taiwan Rela wells, build roads and schools, help Their new law carries a maximum fine tions Act, the letter and spirit of that mothers provide a nutritious diet for of $500. law must be upheld. It is in the U.S. their children, and show farmers how Up until the enactment of the law national interest to do so, and I would to plant crops that will grow and the parents or property owners could encourage the President and his advis- thrive and feed their families. 11956 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 Now. Peace Corps will show us the WORLD FOOD PROGRAM AMENDMENT TO MEDICARE volunteers of 1984, some of whom are LAW disabled themselves; all of whom are HON. WILLIAM F. GOODUNG working in special education programs HON. WAYNE DOWDY with children and adults in the Third OF PENNSYLVANIA OF MISSISSIPPI • World. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES William Eiffler of Scio, Oreg., is a Thursday, May 10, 1984 deaf volunteer, training teachers in Thursday, May 10, 1984 e Mr. the use of sign language in Ecuador. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, I e Mr. DOWDY of Mississippi. Mr. Marsha Martin, of Fresno, Calif. is a would like to address a particular con Speaker, today I am introducing legis blind volunteer working as an educa cern of mine, the world food program, lation to amend the medicare law to tion adviser for the blind in Ecuador. for which $2 million has been recom clarify the definition of the term James B. Quinn, of Kansas City, mended by the Foreign Affairs Com "physician." Over the years Congress Mo., is a deaf volunteer serving as a mittee. Although I would in no way has expanded the coverage of medi teacher of deaf education in the Phil wish to speak against commodity and care, adding more and more services ippines. food assistance, I do have some reser provided by a variety of health practi Al Wiesel, of Plymouth, Mass., is vations about this particular program. tioners. The law now covers a variety working with mentally and physically The intent and goal of the world of services provided by dentists, medi multiple-handicapped children in Ja food program; namely, providing some cal doctors, optometrists, podiatrists, maica. of the world's poorest and neediest and chiropractors. This range of bene Carol Ann Sahm, of San Antonio, with necessary, life-supporting com fits is good because it allows the bene Tex., is serving as a teacher for deaf modities. However, I, for one, do not ficiaries a great freedom of choice in and blind children and training other feel that an organization such as their health care. teachers in special education in Hon SWAPO is deserving of such support. However, when Congress has acted duras. While it is true that U.S. pledges and to expand medicare benefits by adding It is with great pride I salute the funding for the world food program the services of new health care practi have not gone to any of the aid pro tioners, it has done so in an unusual sixth outstanding volunteer, a fellow way. For example, instead of just resident of Seattle, Wash., Lance Mat grams for SWAPO, I still find it some what distressing that this organization adding a new clause describing opto teson. Lance practiced law in Seattle metric benefits, Congress had amend for 6 years before he and his wife, a is helping a terrorist group whose ide ology contradicts everything the ed the definition of the term "physi former Peace Corps volunteer herself, cian" and added optometrists to it. accepted an assignment in the West United States stands for. Today a "physician" under medicare African nation of Mali. Since mid- All too often in world forums such as can be any one of six distinct profes 1983, Lance has served as a manage the international food conferences in sions. I think this a confusing state of ment adviser to the National Institute Rome, Third World delegations make affairs and ought to be clarified. for the Blind, helping this model facil it a point to publicly berate and de The dictionary defines a physician ity to provide needed education and nounce the United States and then as a doctor of medicine, so why should life skills services to Mali's blind popu they turn around and privately assure not the law? Clearing up the definition lation. He stands out as an exemplary our representatives that they didn't will not change anyone's benefits, it American who has dedicated his spirit really mean what they said, that they will just eliminate a source of poten and his skills to improving the lives of were just trying to save face. Mr. tial confusion. the people of Mali. Speaker, I feel that the American tax The legislation that I am sponsoring Each one of these men and women payer deserves more respect than that. would revise the definition of "physi exemplify the commitment of the The taxpayers do not hear any private cian" so it would include only medical American people to give willingly of assurances, but only public invective. doctors and doctors of osteopathy. themselves to help others less fortu Such hypocritical actions are an insult Dentists would be dentists under the nate than themselves. They work in both to the American taxpayers and bill. All the other health professionals we Members of Congress, their official would be classified as "independently villages and towns unlike the ones licensed health care practitioners." No they grew up in, and they speak lan representatives. In my view, it is time we stood up and said "Enough." We one's rights to reimbursement under guages they did not learn as children. medicare would be in any way altered They live in different types of homes, should let such organizations as the world food program know that we do by this amendment. It is a clarifying eat different types of foods, and are change only. surrounded by people who did not not find such behavior acceptable. Mr. Speaker, I believe that it makes grow up in the American culture. And There are many means of getting good sense to have our laws clear and yet, Peace Corps volunteers quickly much-needed commodities to those in understandable. Medicare should be adjust to their new surroundings and the poorest parts of the world; we do no exception. The legislation that I plunge into the work they were sent to not necessarily have to use the world am sponsoring is a small step in the di do, whether it is teaching a handi food program. In my view the money rection of clarity. I urge my colleagues capped child how to communicate, or would have been better allocated to to give it favorable and prompt consid showing a blind person how to walk help such organizations as CARE, the eration.• from one place to another unassisted. Red Cross, and Catholic Charities. I I join Peace Corps Director Loret very much dislike working with a relief organization that directs its ef COMMENDATION OF JANET Miller Ruppe and her staff in saluting KNOWLTON GOESKE these outstanding volunteers for their forts to both terrorist groups and the extraordinary service to their fellow truly needy; it is the truly needy who men and women, far from America's should be the recipients of such pro HON. JERRY LEWIS shores, but close to America's heart.e grams with a certain amount of re OF CALIFORNIA spect and good will offered to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES donors of the assistance.• Thursday, May 10, 1984 • Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, on May 18, 1984, Mayor Ab May 10, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11957 Brown of Riverside, the Riverside City Who's Who in Community Services." centers, and so forth, as well as ade Council, and the Janet Goeske Execu Mrs. Goeske has also been named "Ri quate health care and income security, tive Board will host the grand opening verside's Citizen of the Year for 1984" will continue to be issues we, in Con ceremony of the Janet Goeske Center by the Inland Empire magazine, as gress, will face. Our answers to these for Seniors/Handicapped Citizens. well as "Woman of the Year and Vol issues will show the strength of our The center has been named in honor unteer of the Year" by Pacific State commitment to aiding older Americans of Mrs. Janet Knowlton Goeske and I Hospital-now Lanterman State Hos to live independently so that they may take this opportunity to ask the Con pital. continue to contribute to our commu gress to join me, along with her many Janet Knowlton Goeske was born on nities.e friends and admirers, in expressing October 6, 1911, in Minnesota to our deep appreciation and gratitude to James and Annie Knowlton. She later this outstanding human being for her moved to California with her husband, GETTING RID OF THE many years of volunteer work with the John Goeske, in 1940. Mr. Goeske is a FOREIGNERS seniors and handicapped persons in retired Army officer and deputy mar our area. I have personally watched shal of Riverside. Janet and John Mrs. Goeske's career through the Goeske have two children; James, a HON. PHIUP M. CRANE years with growing admiration and ap police officer in Palm Springs, and OF ILLINOIS preciation. Her tireless devotion to the Jackie Fargo, an employee of Bank of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES service of senior and handicapped citi America. They also have four grand Thursday, May 10, 1984 zens has served as a model for myself children and four great-grandchildren. and many others. This type of citizen In January of this year the Califor e Mr. PHILIP M. CRANE. Mr. Speak has made America the great society nia State Legislature commended er, one of the main obstacles to a per that it is, and for this I am very grate Janet Knowlton Goeske in Joint Reso manent conclusion of the conflicts and ful. lution No. 43 for her many contribu tensions that have plagued southern Janet Knowlton Goeske has been in tions to the community, State and Africa is the continued presence of volved in numerous volunteer pro Nation on behalf of our elderly and over 30,000 Cuban troops in Angola. grams for over 36 years at local, State, handicapped citizens. Mrs. Goeske is These Cuban troops, along with Soviet and national levels. During this time truly a fine example of an active, and Soviet-bloc advisers, allowed the she has worked for the passage of leg caring, and sincere citizen. Marxist government of the Popular islation that benefited all handicapped Mr. Speaker, I take great pride in Movement for the Liberation of and aged persons. She also assisted in joining with the State of California in Angola to seize and maintain writing the advocacy and ombudsman commending to my colleagues Mrs. power since 1975 in spite of wide legislation nationally. She has been a Janet Knowlton Goeske, a truly dedi spread popular opposition. sponsor for the mentally retarded for cated woman who has, through her South Africa has maintained that over 30 years and helped form a chap selfless years of hard work, contribut the removal of all foreign troops from ter for these citizens at March Air ed to her community and country in a Angola is a precondition to any settle Force Base. most beneficial way.e ment of the question of Namibian in In 1981, California Senator Hayaka dependence. They have demanded this wa appointed Mrs. Goeske as a dele withdrawal of foreign troops because gate to the White House Conference OLDER AMERICANS MONTH there is little doubt that the Cubans on Aging. She has also served with and other Soviet surrogates in Angola various State attorney general's advi HON. LAWRENCE J. SMITH would take advantage of a weak and sory councils and commissions includ OF FLORIDA unstable Namibia in order to broaden ing those on aging, crime prevention, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the scope of their own activities in the and consumer protection for older and region. disabled persons. Thursday, May 10, 1984 Recently, there has been talk of Mrs. Goeske is currently a chairper e Mr. SMITH of Florida. Mr. Speaker, some progress in the negotiations be son of the Janet Goeske Center for May is "Older Americans Month," a tween South Africa and its neighbors Senior Handicapped Persons, the time when we can look at the valuable toward bringing a peaceful end to the mayor's commission on aging for Riv contribution older Americans make to conflict. But a disturbing fact has erside, and the Governor's advisory our communities. It is also time to re come to my attention, one that raises board and Lanterman State Hospital. flect upon the strength of our commit some doubts as to the sincerity of the She is also the director of the River ment to the elderly. Marxist government of Angola, but side City/County ombudsman pro In the last 20 years, the share of the doubts also as to the likelihood of ever gram for long-term care and advocate Federal budget devoted to the elderly resolving the problems in southern for all senior citizens, the president of has nearly doubled. The magnitude of Africa. the Foster Daughters and Sons, an ap this transfer of resources to the elder It seems that the Marxists, in a pointee to Governor Deukmejian's ly, as well as the elderly's growing simple yet cunning move, have quietly long-term care task force, and a numbers, has made them a special changed their naturalization laws. member of the National Citizens Coa focus in our communities and an im Whereas before a foreigner would lition for Nursing Home Reform, to portant policymaking force. have to reside a minimum of 10 years name but a few of her many activities. The State of Florida continues to re in Angola before being eligible for citi Janet Knowlton Goeske has received ceive an increasing number of retirees. zenship, as of February 7, 1984, any over 50 awards for her many years of This means Florida will play an even foreigner who "has rendered signifi dedicated volunteer service from the more important role as a bellwether cant service to the country" is immedi city and county of Riverside, the Cali State in terms of measuring the effec ately eligible for Angolan citizenship. fornia State senators and attorney tiveness of programs meant to assist This means that citizenship can be general, the Riverside Chamber of the elderly. It also means that those of granted to any Cuban soldier who has Commerce, the YWCA, the Soropti us from Florida see firsthand the served in Angola. It also means that mists, the Kiwanis Club, Helping needs of elderly that are not answered the 30,000-plus Cubans presently sta Hand, and the Riverside City College adequately. tioned in Angola will cease to be for Gerontology Association. In addition, As this part of our population grows, eigners, and will therefore be free to she is listed in the "Book of Outstand the program which serve them will remain as naturalized citizens in ing Distinguished Community Leaders continue to take on added importance. Angola as long as Havana and Moscow of America," and in "International Funding of nutrition programs, senior dictate. 11958 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 This new law completely undermines join me in congratulating these stu As a member of the House Small Busi any hope for a real and lasting peace dents on their outstanding achieve ness Committee, I take special pride in in southern Africa. It represents a ments in art.e America's small business owners and threat not only to the future of Africa operators, and I hope they know that but of the free world. Here in this SMALL BUSINESS WEEK they have our support, encourage country we must let it be known that ment, and sincere thanks for a job we are not about to abandon the Afri very well done.e can continent to the Soviets and their HON. DAN SCHAEFER surrogates, devious ploys notwith OF COLORADO standing. We must urge the South Af IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRIBUTE TO HAROLD BERNARD ricans to demand a withdrawal of all Thursday, May 10, 1984 MONAHAN Cubans, naturalized Angolans or oth erwise. Only by so doing can Namibia e Mr. SCHAEFER. Mr. Speaker, I am and the rest of the region be free from glad that we have set aside a week in HON. BRIAN J. DONNELLY Soviet aggression and adventurism.• which to honor the spirit and dedica tion of the most important group of OF MASSACHUSETTS individuals in our business communi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HONORING TALENTED YOUNG ty-small business owners and opera Thursday, ltjlay 10, 1984 MAINE ARTISTS tors. This is "Small Business Week" in America, a very important event be e Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. Speaker, this HON. JOHN R. MdCERNAN, JR. cause small businesses so embody true month, the Democratic Town Commit American ideals and make such a sig tee of Rockland, Mass., is paying spe OF MAINE cial tribute to Harold Bernard Mona IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nificant contribution to our Nation and its economy. han for his lifetime of service to his Thursday, May 10, 1984 Small business owners and operators party, his community, and his State. e Mr. McKERNAN. Mr. Speaker, I are the keepers of the Nation's entre Permit me to share with the House would like to take this opportunity to preneural spirit. They take chances on Bernie Monahan's outstanding record. recognize six young artists from the new ideas, often risk their savings or Bernie's service in public office State of Maine who are among the go into debt on the gamble that their began in 1936, with his appointment to winners of the fourth annual Cheese ideas, energies, and efforts will suc Rockland's Finance Committee. After borough-Pond's Inc., "National Family ceed in the marketplace. With this 5 years there, the last 2 as the commit Arts Competition." pioneering spirit, they have lead the tee's chairman, he was elected to the This competition included students Nation to new levels of economic Rockland Board of Selectmen. Bernie invited to compete from 300 high output and are giving a fresh new look served on the board without interrup schools in 13 States and Puerto Rico, to the Nation's economy. tion until 1973. For half of that time, and had the concept of family as its Small businesses are the Nation's in he was chairman of the board of se theme. novators, producing 2% times as many lectmen, the equivalent of being I am sure my colleagues will agree innovations as large firms, relative to mayor of the community. that art is a vital part of the American the number of persons employed. scene, and I am pleased that this com These innovations have planted the While a selectman, he also found petition encourages young artists, and seeds for efficiency and productivity time to spend 1963 as president of the rewards them for their fine work. gains throughout the economy that Plymouth County Selectmen's Asso I am very proud that 6 of the 29 win will allow America to compete better ciation and as president of the Massa ners from across the country are from with the Japanese, Germans, and chusetts Selectmen's Association in Maine. others. Small businesses may just give 1967 and 1968. Mr. David Covell, son of Mr. and America the edge we need to keep a He was twice appointed to the Gov Mrs. Douglas Covell, of Brunswick, step ahead of the rest of the world. ernor's Safety Committee. He was also Maine was the first place winner with Small businesses are responsible for selected by the Governor to serve on his oil painting entitled "Hanging putting America back to work. While the advisory board to the department Around in the Afternoon." accounting for about half of the Na of community affairs. A 1983 graduate of Brunswick High tion's total employment, small busi Bernie Monahan was largely respon School, David became interested in art nesses created about 2.7 million new sible for establishing the Rockland because of the encouragement of an jobs between 1980 and 1982, more than Conservation Commission. He is a older cousin, and has been working offsetting the over 1 million jobs lost longtime member of the Rockland with art since his early years in school. in larger businesses. Unemployment Chamber of Commerce, of which he is He does most of his painting in water figures have continued to decline. To a past vice president. colors; in fact his winning painting was acknowledge small businesses funda In 1967, he retired after 45 years just his fourth oil painting, and his mental contribution to this decline, with the New England Telephone & first oil painting outside a class. In ad the theme for Small Business Week is Telegraph Co. and 30 years as treasur dition to painting, David is talented in "Small Business Means Jobs." In Colo er of the International Brotherhood of drama, and has been in productions of rado, where 99 percent of all business Telephone Workers. the Young People's Theater in Bruns es are considered small, unemploy Today, at age 81, he remains an wick for the past several summers. ment is only about 5.6 percent, well This talented young man will be en below the national average. active member of the Rockland Coun tering St. Michael's College in Win Small businesses give this Nation its cil for the Aging and an honorary ooski, Vt. to study art, including economic vitality-they are supplant member of the Rockland Democratic drama and graphic design. ing heavy centralized industry and Town Committee. Also among the 29 winners were laying the foundations for a new eco I join Bernie's many friends in Daniel Parks of Bangor, Sandra Lein nomic structure and a new generation thanking him for his many years of onen of Augusta, Brian Fisher of Jay, of innovators and entrepreneurs. I am service and in hope that his selfless- Jeannine Guimond of Portland, and glad that we have this time to give ness is returned in happiness and good Kim Knox of West Peru. special attention to this outstanding health.e I am pleased that these young group of citizens. With the economy people are being recognized for their bouyed by their recent successes, 1984 talented efforts. I ask my colleagues to looks excellent for the whole Nation. May 10, 1981,. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11959 DISCLOSURE OF NET WORTH Other: as times of prosperity and joy. Teachers' Retirement State Through it all Trinity Episcopal has of Connecticut and Arling stood as a symbol of hope, love and HON. WIWAM R. RATCHFORD ton, Va., Barbara Ratch- OF CONNECTICUT ford...... 16,371.10 understanding. I am proud to pay trib IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congressional Retirement, ute to Trinity Episcopal on this mo mentous occasion and I am confident Thursday, May 10, 1984 William Ratchford...... 24,341.72 Real estate: that Trinity Episcopal will continue to e Mr. RATCHFORD. Mr. Speaker, as Summer Home, Nantucket, serve the Bronx community and con I have done every year since 1971, Mass. ...... 155,300.00 tinue to provide its parishioners with when I was a member of the Connecti spiritual and religious guidance and cut Legislature, I am today disclosing Total assets...... 223,880.93 enrichment.e a statement of my net worth and an Liabilities: accounting of income and taxes paid Mortgages: Nantucket summer for calendar .Year 1983. While I realize home, Nantucket Savings KANSANS DEMAND EQUAL this disclosure does what is required Bank...... 40,691.68 TREATMENT FROM FTC by law, I feel that such an accounting Notes payable: Wright Patman is a responsibility of public office. Federal Credit Union...... 2,181.46 HON. BOB WHITTAKER The following is a statement of Total liabilities...... 42,873.14 OF KANSAS assets, liabilities, and capital as of De IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cember 31, 1983, and a statement of Total net worth ...... 181,007.79e Thursday, May 10, 1984 income and taxes paid for tax year 1983. This statement covers myself e Mr. WHITTAKER. Mr. Speaker, and my wife Barbara J. Ratchford: TRIBUTE TO TRINITY the Federal Trade Commission is cur William R. Ratchford Financial Statement EPISCOPAL CHURCH rently reviewing two multibillion 1983 Income: dollar oil mergers-the Getty/Texaco William R. Ratchford, salary, HON. MARIO BIAGGI merger and the Socal/Gulf merger. U.S. House of Representa- OF NEW YORK In both cases, the FTC has identi tives...... $69,368.61 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fied similar antitrust difficulties and Barbara J. Ratchford, salary, entered into consent agreements with Arlington Board of Educa- Thursday, May 10, 1984 Texaco and Socal to address these tion, Arlington County, Va..... 21,552.45 e Mr. BAIGGI. Mr. Speaker, on problems. In both cases, the FTC has William and Barbara Ratch- ford, rental income, summer Sunday, May 20 Trinity Episcopal required Texaco and Socal to divest home, Nantucket, Mass...... 4,840.00 Church in my home district of the to sell-certain assets, in particular re William, Barbara and sons, in- Bronx, will be celebrating their 110th fineries and retail markets. In both terest income, savings ac- anniversary. At this time I would like cases, the FTC has stated that the counts...... 310.90 to pay tribute to Trinity Episcopal purpose of the divestitures is to insure William and Barbara Ratch Church and the fine work it has done the continuation of the assets as an ford, net income, real estate for the Bronx community. "ongoing, viable petroleum refining sale, Danbury...... 10,131.75 Trinity Episcopal Church has a long and marketing business." Total income...... 106,213.71 history of service to the Bronx com But the similarities end here, Mr. munity. For 110 years it has stood as a Speaker. In Socal/Gulf, the FTC re 1983 Federal Income Taxes, spiritual center and has worked closely quires Socal to enter into crude oil Joint Return...... 24,421.92 with its parishioners to provide them supply arrangements or crude oil re 1983 Virginia State Non-resi- dent Taxes, Barbara Ratch- the spiritual guidance and religious serve arrangements if that is necessary ford ...... 824.06 enrichment in times of sorrow and joy. to sell the divested refineries to a Assets: The history of Trinity Episcopal viable buyer. No such protection is Cash: Church has been one committed to provided in the Texaco/Getty merger. Savings account-Connecti fulfilling the religious and spiritual In Socal/Gulf, Socal must hold sepa cut Bank and Trust ...... 77.69 Savings account-Connecti- Father Wendell Roberts has been cluding its crude oil reserves-until cut Bank and Trust ...... 76.84 years. During his 34 years of service approved by the FTC for the proper Savings account-Wright Father Roberts has worked hard to ties Socal is ordered to sell. Again, no Patman Federal Credit keep up Trinity Episcopal's tradition such protection is provided in the Union ...... 134.53 Bronx community. An example of this Mr. Speaker, the FTC owes the Share Draft Account- commitment is the summer program people affected by the Texaco/Getty Wright Patman Federal Credit Union ...... 64.49 The program includes musical instruc forded those involved in the Socal/ Checking account-First tion and daily field trips to various Gulf merger. The Commission obvi American Bank, Arlington, educational and recreational facilities. ously has recognized the shortcomings Va. ...... 6.69 Money , market account tain Trinity Episcopal Church as a scionable to believe that the Commis First American Bank of fine religious institution. sion, having practiced on the people of Virginia ...... 4,544.87 Trinity Episcopal on the occasion of quire modification of the Texaco/ Automobiles; their 110th anniversary. This anniver Getty consent agreement-but all indi 1981Chrysler K/Car ...... 4,000.00 sary not only marks 110 years of serv cations lead this Member to believe 1974 Buick...... 1,000.00 ice but is also indicative of the impor they will not. Household furnishing: Danbury, Conn., and Arling- tant role Trinity Episcopal Church Mr. Speaker, the principals evi ton, Va. homes...... 8,000.00 has played in the lives of its members. denced by the hold separate agree Nantucket summer home, Those 110 years were undoubtedly ment and the crude oil language in Nantucket, Mass...... 8,000.00 marked with times of hardship as well Socal/Gulf apply with equal force to 11960 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 Texaco/Getty. The FTC must be be the matter of State caps on IDB tist Church, the late Reverend and made to recognize this simple truth issues. The House bill contains a provi Mrs. William F. Slater for the purpose and I applaud the efforts of our col sion that would limit the volume of of organizing a mother's club, with league, Congressman JIM FLORIO, IDB moneys utilized by a State to $150 Mrs. Nancy Slater as its first presi chairman of the Subcommittee on per capita based on the population of dent. The idea was a good one and sub Commerce, Transportation, and Tour the State. This limitation causes sequently Mrs. Mary Smith, mother of ism for his efforts in introducing H.R. severe hardship on the Common the late J. B. Boddie, pastor of Bethes 5452 and my fellow Kansan, Senator wealth of Pennsylvania and her sister da, and Mrs. Martha Slaughter NANCY KASSEBAUM, for introducing S. States in the Northeast and Midwest, became presidents. After 4 years as 2589 which would put the brakes on that rely heavily on these bond issues the mothers' club with its purpose of all of these massive oil company merg for both industrial and commercial de "uplifting and improving conditions ers until the future of facilities like velopment. and instilling higher ideals with great the El Dorado refinery in my district, In 1983, Pennsylvania approved $2.1 er unity of sisterhood among all and the Eagle Point refinery in Con billion in IDB issues and student loan women in the community," the name gressman FLoRio's district, are in funds. If the cap becomes law, Penn of the club was changed in 1913 to the sured. This legislation simply codifies sylvania would only be allowed to ap Colored Woman's Club, incorporated the hold separate language embodied prove $1.8 billion, a decrease of $300 the same year. in the Socal/Gulf consent agreement million. In a State which has yet to To highlight the 1940's the club negotiated by the FTC. If we allow reap the full benefits of our nation women turned their sights to purchas these mergers to proceed before we wide economic recovery and where un ing a clubhouse. Financing such a find purchasers for the refineries, employment still rages much higher project was startling, but not to Mrs. pipelines, terminals, and gas stations than the national average, we can Tarleton and her followers. They ordered sold by the Commission, the hardly afford to pull the plug on the turned their sights to 65 Rochelle jobs of thousands of our constituents engines of economic development. Place, a house that was not made may be adversely affected. How can we talk of shifting the re available to nonwhite buyers. Howev I am heartened by Chairman sponsibility of government from the er, through a representative of the FLoRio's decision to hold hearings on Federal level back to the States and, State Federation, the late Mrs. Maria H.R. 5452 next week, and I call upon at the same time deprive the States of Lawton, whose ethnicity was not easily our colleagues on the Senate Com the tools to remain economically identifiable, negotiated in the club's merce Committee and the Senate Ju viable? Certainly the deficit must be behalf. The contract was signed, diciary Committee to schedule hear cut but not at the expense of economic sealed, and delivered in the early ings on the Texaco/Getty merger and revitalization in the areas hardest hit 1940's. The fundraising events were S. 2589 as soon as possible. by unemployment and industrial many, to keep the payments on the Thank you, Mr. Speaker.e decay. $16,000 mortgage. In 1943 the gala There were many of us, Mr. Speaker, opening of the clubhouse with 400 in who voted for H.R. 4170 because it was attendance with Mayor Stanley REJECT THE VOLUME CAP ON part of a good-faith effort to reduce INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT the budget deficit. Many of us did so Church's blessing was tremendous. BONDS In the 1950's historic landmarks reluctantly, deprived of the chance to were made: The girls' club was orga HON. WILLIAM F. CUNGER, JR. vote separately on the harmful provi nized under the leadership of the late sions relating to industrial develop Mrs. Vanilla Hines. The girls identi OF PENNSYLVANIA ment bonds. I now ask my colleagues fied with the Empire State Federation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES who will serve as conferees to defer to of Girls. The girls are currently with Thursday, May 10, 1984 the wisdom of the other body. Reject the volume caps on lOB's when the Mrs. Coleman as adviser. The club e Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, in a issue comes before the conference house was remodeled to expand meet short time, the House of Representa committee and give our States a ing rooms. The name of the club was tives will go to conference with the chance at full and lasting economic re changed to the F. Willia Davis other body on the deficit reduction covery.e Women's Club, Inc. The mortgage legislation passed by each House. I burning tea in September 1958 was a want to commend my colleagues for day for rejoicing. On May 15, 1959, the having the courage to pass such legis THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF 50th anniversary was celebrated at the lation, most especially the "revenue THE F. WILLIA DAVIS Parkway Casino with plaques to two raising" or tax provisions, in the midst WOMAN'S CLUB, INC. charter members, the late Mrs. of an election year. I do, however, Martha Slaughter and the late Mrs. want to urge my colleagues who will HON. RICHARD L. OTIINGER Marie Young. Gov. Malcolm Wilson serve as conferees to support the OF NEW YORK was guest speaker, Mayor Vegara Senate language that would eliminate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES brought greetings from our city. a most dangerous provision in H.R. The club house has opened doors to 4170: the $150 per capita volume cap Thursday, May 10, 1984 accommodate young working women. on industrial development bonds e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise The facility was made available for ZIMBABWE been told that this is without prece makes them especially dangerous in dent. I introduce this legislation today crowd situations. HON. JERRY LEWIS knowing full well of the committee's According to a Federal report, soft OF CALIFORNIA doubtful attitude, but I feel strongly body armor, has been credited with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that I should proceed because of the saving the lives of an estimated 400 enormously important symbolism of police officers, since it first was used Thursday, May 10, 1984 the legislation and of what Mrs. Kasz by law enforcement personnel in the e Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. k.iewicz stood for. mid-1970's. However, unless the sale Speaker, with the current amount of New Jersey Assemblyman "Chuck" and use of so-called cop killer bullets legislative concern and attention lev Haytaian has been inst:r;umental in are eliminated-police officers will eled at El Salvador, I fear that we bringing attention to this case. I am continue to be at this unwarranted have closed our eyes to the record of proud to join with him in this effort. risk in their pursuit against crime. many other nations who receive U.S. For her family, and the citizens of I would like to commend my col aid with equal, or in many cases, worse New Jersey who were touched by league from New Jersey, Mr. HUGHES, histories of human and civil rights Mary Josephine Kaszk.iewicz's story, I who in his capacity as chairman of the abuses. 11964 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1984 Among the many nations who will dreds beaten or tortured while almost atrocities committed by Government troops be recipients of U.S. foreign aid this 2,000 have been detained. Villagers fighting rebels in southern Matabeleland. year, the Marxist state of Zimbabwe living near the abandoned Antelope The details of the atrocities the bishops gold mine located in the old military said have been committed since a curfew deserves particular attention. In the was clamped on the area Feb. 3 were in a last 4 years since the establishment of curfew zone have told journalists that report made available today here in Matabe Marxist rule, the United States has Government forces came every night leland's provincial capital. The bishops sent sent over $200 million in economic and to dump bodies down the deserted the report to the Government April 2. developmental aid to this African mine shaft. Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's Govern nation. Yet the activities of the ruling In addition to these obvious abuses ment has denied the charges. At a news con government during the same period of of human liberty and dignity, the ference here Saturday Mr. Mugabe accused time, especially in the last several Marxist government of Robert the bishops of supporting rebels and the op months, have been in direct contradic Mugabe has successfully eliminated all position leader Joshua Nkomo, and said tion to the espoused standard upon vestiges of potential opposition they should stay out of Government affairs. Last Monday, a week after Mr. Mugabe re which our foreign aid is based. through coercion and is now close to ceived the report, the Government said the Since the new year, the Government establishing a one-party rule in Zim dissident threat in the area had been of Zimbabwe has systematically com babwe, a goal which Mugabe has con checked and eased the clampdown. Shops mitted a number of abhorrent atroc sistently affirmed. were ordered to reopen and buses and other ities against its own citizens under the Freedom of the press is tightly re forms of transport were again allowed to op umbrella of attempting to control a stricted, with foreign journalists being erate there, but a curfew remains in force. local guerrilla insurgency. Centralized kept out of troubled areas. The domes RAPE, TORTURE AND KILLINGS primarily in Matabeleland, home of tic press is also censured, with the con In their report, complied from accounts by chief opposition leader Joshua Nkomo, trolling portions of all major newspa churchmen and other residents of Matabe the North Korean-trained 5th Brigade pers owned by the Government. Edito leland, the bishops said people had been of Zimbabwe's Army has been accused rial independence virtually does not killed, kidnapped, tortured, raped, beaten of murdering, raping, and terrorizing exist. and threatened by Government troops. the local inhabitants while ostensibly In the awarding of foreign aid to El The bishops said civilians in southern Ma searching for opposition forces. Salvador, we have applied a strict tabeleland, where some 500,000 people of In support of these allegations, Zim standard that requires constant im the minority Nedebele tribe live, had been beaten on suspicion of opposing the Govern babwe's Roman Catholic bishops have provements in that country's domestic ment or for denying knowledge of dissi compiled details of these Government and human rights policies which we dents' whereabouts. atrocities in the region since the insti judge to be a positive nature. Strange Many people were taken for interrogation tution of a military curfew on Febru ly, we have accepted a double standard but never came home, the bishops said. ary 3 of this year. Since that time, the which has done much to harm this Na adding, "There are reports of torture by bishops maintain eyewitness accounts tion's credibility with our allies and electric shock and other means and kill support charges that: enemies alike. For we close our eyes to ings." Government troops have killed, kid the real human suffering occuring in The report quoted a man at St. Joseph's naped, beaten, illegally detained, mission, 90 miles south of Bulawayo, as many other recipient countries, a saying troops had killed two or three civil raped, and intimidated through force number of whom are Marxist by the ians a day since Feb. 3. A Catholic priest at those living in Matabeleland. way, while hurting those countries Minda Mission, 65 miles south of here, had Most of these crimes have occurred who are making legitimate steps received names of 22 civilians reported during Government interrogations of toward a more democratic rule. killed by security forces since Feb. 3, it said. suspected opponents or those who In an attempt to bring some sem The report said soldiers had beaten people deny knowledge of guerrilla or dissi blance of fairness and order to the cur and raped an 18-year-old girl before knifing dent whereabouts. According to the rent standard we apply, I offered an her in her genitals. report, a number of those detained by "Commanders gave the impression that it amendment before the House which is the policy of the army to make all the the military have never returned would have required the President to people in the area suffer because of the dis home, adding, "There are reports of certify legitimate human and civil sidents," the report said. "A policy of starva torture by electric shock and other rights progress in Zimbabwe and the tion became clear when the commanders means." subsequent acceptance of that report told people they would first eat their chick Several priests and lay workers have by the Congress before any funds ens, then their goats, after which they either witnessed or spoken with those could be expended for that country. would eat their cattle and then their own who have witnessed murders by Gov Though I subsequently withdrew this children." ernment forces: 22 civilians murdered amendment, it remains important for The report recommended that the curfew on February 3, 65 miles south of be lifted and that the Government begin a the House to consider the importance "serious dialogue" with Mr. Nkomo's Zim Bulawayo at the Minda Mission and of standardizing this country's ap babwe African People's Union and other op some 2 to 3 killings a day taking place proach to the question of human position groups.e near St. Joseph's Mission, also near rights and foreign aid. Surely the Bulawayo. standards of conduct and improve The bishops also charge that sol ment which this body has deemed CALL TO CONSCIENCE VIGIL diers had brutally raped an 18-year-old vital to the progression of human FOR SOVIET JEWS girl before "knifing her in her geni rights in El Salvador are equally valid tals." and important to the people of Zim According to additional eyewitness babwe. I have inserted in the RECORD HON. DAN GUCKMAN accounts, the Army has adopted a an article from the New York Times OF KANSAS "policy of starvation" by restricting which paints a vivid picture of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the number of hours a day that food human rights abuses of the current stores and stands may be open. As a Marxist government of Zimbabwe. I Thursday, May 10, 1984 result, food shortages in the region are believe my colleagues would be well e Mr. GLICKMAN. Mr. Speaker, as rampant. Villagers maintain they were advised to read it. part of this year's Call to Conscience told they "would first have to eat their [From the New York Times, Apr. 16, 19841 Vigil, I rise today to express my con chickens, then their goats, then their ZIKBABWE BISHOPS DESCRIBE DETAILS OF tinuing concern for refusenik Dr. cattle, then their own children.'' ATROCITY CHARGES Viktor Brailovsky. For the past 6 years Reports have also leaked out of the BULAWAYO, ZiloiBABWE, April 15 in ance through the able and timely as Active in Jewish cultural and emi the 1960's when such activity was in sistance of our wonderful volunteer gration movements since first applying its earliest days. Through Bill May's force. to emigrate in 1972, Dr. Brailovsky hard work and couragous activism the My congressional offices both in my and his wife Irina, together with their society was able to make a significant district and in Washington, D.C., have son and daughter, have been constant contribution to public understanding benefited greatly from the dedicated ly and unjustly harassed by the Soviet and support for the protection of the efforts of a special group of volun Government. The doctor himself was civil rights of gay people. teers: the senior citizens who have par arrested several times and spent 11 Bill May is a man of integrity and ticipated in my senior citizen intern months in jail before his final arrest in conviction. His services on behalf of program. I would like to take this op 1981 and subsequent sentencing to 5 the citizens of San Francisco and the portunity to express my sincere appre years of internal exile. The charges re patients in San Francisco General will ciation to the following individuals: sulting in his exile were brought under long be remembered. And on Thurs Tom C. Beals, Louise E. Gatterdam, article 190-1 of the RSFSR Criminal day, May 17 in San Francisco, Bill Liz Kahn, Joan King, and Henriette Code dealing with "defamation of the May will be honored by his fellow M. Lane of Carlsbad; C. Louise Becker, Soviet State," a provision well known board members, community activists Frederick A. Carroll, Jean E. Krein for its broad use in prosecuting per and friends. bihl, Arthur J. Hoffman, and Frank H. sons who express opinions not to the I am proud to be a part of this Pearce of Oceanside; John A. "AI" Soviets' liking. salute.e Fostvedt, Dorothy S. Johnson, Marjo Recently, after serving 3 years of his rie A. Kearns, Frank Koch, and sentence, Dr. Brailovsky was released TRUE INTENTIONS Marden A. Netzel of San Marcos; Ruth from his exile in the central Asian Re S. Lipscomb of Vista; Helen G. Dodson public of Kazakhstan and reunited of Encinitas; C. W. Sartor of Cardiff with his family in Moscow. This news, HON. JOE KOLTER by-the-Sea; and Leo Fessenden and of course, is heartening, however, Dr. OF PENNSYLVANIA Dee Hedborg of San Clemente. Tom Brailovsky and his family still await IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Beals and Leo Fessenden have partici permission to join the doctor's brother Thursday, May 10, 1984 pated in the senior intern program in in Israel. e Mr. KOLTER. This past Sunday, we my Washington office this week, and The Soviet Union's case against Dr. all learned the Reagan administra all of the people I have mentioned Brailovsky and its denial of permission tion's true intentions regarding social have been major assets to my district to emigrate is a flagrant and deplora security benefits. Treasury Secretary offices.e ble violation of the Helsinki pact, Donald Regan announced that cutting which the Soviets have signed. I urge benefits for certain senior citizens is RECOGNIZING THE NATION'S the Soviet Union to cease its denial of the only way to manage the social se human rights to the Brailovsky SMALL BUSINESS MEN AND curity retirement. WOMEN family-and countless other Jews-and Last April, the President and the grant them their long overdue permis Congress combined their efforts to sion to emigrate to Israel.e pass legislation which all agreed would HON. LAWRENCE J. SMITH keep the retirement system solvent. OF FLORIDA TRIBUTE TO AN OUTSTANDING But now the White House has signaled IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MENTAL HEALTH ACTIVIST us that they think we should cut bene Thursday, May 10, 1984 fits. It seems that old habits are hard • Mr. SMITH of Florida. Mr. Speaker, HON. BARBARA BOXER to kick. The Reagan administration this week has been set-aside as Small has not lost its antagonism toward Business Week. It is most appropriate OF CALIFORNIA social security, despite our bipartisan IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to recognize the Nation's small busi efforts of last April. ness men and women when we consid Thursday, May 10, 1984 Every American should view Secre er the major role that small businesses e Mrs. BOXER. Mr. Speaker, I rise tary Regan's comments as a game plan play in the economic life of the United today to share with my colleagues the for a second Reagan administration, States. outstanding contributions of one of should there be one. It is clear to me Small businesses contribute to the my constituents, Mr. Bill May. that the White House postelection U.S. economy in several ways. They Bill has been an outspoken advocate strategy will include an attack on account for nearly half of the total on behalf of patients within the San social security benefits. sales generated annually in the private Francisco mental health system. As a Trusting the Reagan administration sector. They account for most of the founding member of the San Francis to protect social security is like asking new jobs that are generated and also co General Hospital Board, Bill has a fox to look after your henhouse.e for a large proportion of the Nation's taken a leadership role in educating technological innovations. The small his fellow board members on the im NATIONAL VOLUNTEER business sector is the most competitive portance of community input into RECOGNITION WEEK and dynamic business sector. mental health planning decisions. In During the past several years, how addition, Bill has offered his own po HON. RON PACKARD ever, small business firms have faced litical clout to assist in launching long OF CALIFORNIA major obstacles ranging from indefen delayed projects such as the psychiat IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sibly high interest rates to lack of ric emergency services, advising access to adequate commercial credit mental health staff on program devel Thursday, May 10, 1984 to the disadvantages built into the opment and representing a community e Mr. PACKARD. Mr. Speaker, in the Federal procurement process. perspective on the mental health advi spirit of National Volunteer Recogni To provide a healthy economic envi sory board. tion Week, I would like to commend ronment so that small business can In addition to his years of service to the thousands of dedicated volunteers continue to grow and prosper. Con the mental health community in San that work in the spirit of sharing gress, with my support, has enacted Francisco, Bill May was also a pioneer within the 43d Congressional District legislation which relieved small firms in the struggle for civil rights for gay of California. I know that many serv from unnecessary regulation and pa people in San Francisco. He was a ice and civic organizations, schools, perwork, mandated that 10 Federal 11966 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 198.4 agencies make R&D awards to small the struggling factions in Nicaragua. Directorate of Legislative Liaison. Office of firms, and required that Federal agen This letter stated: the Secretary of ·the Air Force, the Penta cies allow a longer period for responses The road though which social peace can gon, Washington, D.C., from 7 July 1979 to to bid requests. be achieved necessarily leads through 9 May 1984. Colonel Vaughan's tour as the The men and women who will are dialog. All Nicaraguans inside and outside Chief Legislative Attorney for the the country should participate in this Air Force culminates a long and distin being honored this week for their ac guished career as an Air Force Reserve offi complishments have shown a remarka dialog, regardless of ideology, class, or party position. What is more, we feel that Nicara cer. During the 96th, 97th, and 98th Con ble ability to respond to changing cir guans who have risen in arms against the gress', he was chiefly responsible for the cumstances, no matter how difficult government must participate. passage of key personnel legislation neces they may be. They deserve our respect sary to successfully implement the Air and support.e A similar appeal was issued by Pope Force mission. Working with the Commit John Paul II during his visit to Nicara tees of the Senate and House, Colonel gua last year when he called for a sin Vaughan consistently presented the DOD RESOLUTION SUPPORTING NICA cere dialog among all the contentious viewpoint on many sensitive pieces of pend RAGUAN BISHOPS' PLEA FOR parties. ing legislation in a convincing and diplomat ic manner. It was of the utmost importance NATIONAL RECONCILIATION It is my judgment that these efforts that the Congressional staffs and members to bring about a lasting peace and a understand and accept the reasoning behind HON. CONNIE MACK just society for all Nicaraguans de the DOD position. OF FLORIDA serves to be supported. For this reason Colonel Vaughan was responsible for or I am today, along with my distin chestrating Air Force participation in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES guished colleagues-Mr. HYDE from Il personnel portion of the annual DOD Au Thursday, May 10, 1984 linois and Mr. GINGRICH from Geor thorization hearings. His endeavors helped gia-introducing a sense of the Con to ensure that Air Force witnesses were • Mr. MACK. Mr. Speaker, last night, properly prepared and fully responsive to in his televised address to the Nation, gress resolution that the President ex the needs of the Committees. These effec President Reagan said quite accurate ercise whatever authority he may have tive presentations gained untold support for ly that the bottom line about Ameri to support the efforts of the Catholic Air Force programs. Likewise, his ability to ca's involvement in Central America is: Bishops of Nicaragua to bring about a foster personnel relationships with key Con "Will we support freedom in this national reconciliation between the gressional members enabled him to persua hemisphere or not?" struggling factions in order to estab sively and effectively present the Air Force If the House were true to America's lish a climate of democratic harmony. position on key issues. During his tenure, he traditions, there would be no question It is our judgment that the efforts of was a key member of the team effort which the Catholic Bishops of Nicaragua to resulted in defeating the 1983 Garcia or hesitation on this question. Amendment to the Fiscal Year 1983 DOD America, unique among all nations bring about a lasting peace and a just Authorization Bill which would have elimi of the world, was established with society for all Nicaraguans deserves to nated enlisted aides for general officers, cur freedom as a fundamental right be be supported. I urge my colleagues on tailed veterinarian services for dependents, queathed to all men. That this is true, both sides of the aisle to cosponsor limited the use of Air Force teletype equip there can be no doubt. this resolution, and to give their sup ment to priority traffic and substantially Nor can there be any doubt that this port to a process vital to both the raised the prices of meals served in Execu people of Nicaragua and the defense tive Dining rooms in the Pentagon. has served as the basis of America's Likewise, he used his manifold talents to foreign policy. The recent emphasis of freedom in this hemisphere.e limit the impact of the recently passed upon human rights is nothing but an Former Spouses Protection Act, helping to expression of the fact that America A TRIBUTE TO COL. HOWARD R. return a measure of reason to this legisla stands for freedom and those institu VAUGHAN tion. His efforts on behalf of Reserve offi tions designed to support it. Whether cers can be seen in the presently pending we speak of Wilson's 14 points, Roose Reserve Officer Personnel Management Act velt's 4 freedoms, or Truman's declara HON. RICHARD C. SHELBY which, when enacted, will tion that the United States will OF ALABAMA streamline for our Reserve forces those IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES management practices and procedures nec "defend free peoples everywhere," the essary for procurement, sustainment and message is the same: America stands Thursday, May 10, 1984 separation of Reserve officers. Working for freedom and we have a kinship • Mr. SHELBY. Mr. Speaker, a very closely with the Deputy Assistant Secretary with all who struggle in its cause. dear friend of mine is retiring from of the Air Force for Reserve Affairs, he was Thus, I applaud the President's military service to this country after instrumental in the passage of legislation speech and urge my colleagues to sup serving 30 years in the U.S. Air Force which raised the death and indemnity com port his efforts to bring peace with Reserve. I would like to take this op pensation paid to survivors of deceased Civil freedom to our friends in Central Air Patrol members. He worked on increas portunity to recognize and pay tribute ing the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance America. to Col. Howard R. Vaughan, of Mont coverage for military personnel and their And, just as importantly, I applaud gomery, Ala., for his outstanding dedi beneficiaries from $20,000 to $35,000; legis the President's support of the Catho cation and devotion to the U.S. Air lation which was enacted in October 1981. lic Bishops of Nicaragua in their effort Force. As the liaison officer for the above cited leg to bring about a national reconcilia Maj. Gen. James P. McCarthy, Di islation, Colonel Vaughan consistently de tion. In the course of his speech last rector of Legislative Liaison, will veloped procedures and techniques which night, President Reagan said: "On present to Colonel Vaughan the award ensured that favorable Congressional action Good Friday, some 100,000 Catholic resulted in each case. of the Legion of Merit, at a retirement As a result, Colonel Vaughan was well faithful staged a demonstration of de ceremony on Friday, May 11, 1984. known on Capitol Hill as "the man who got fiance." He went on to say, "You may Following is a look at Colonel things done" and in the process earned the be hearing about that demonstration Vaughan's eminent military career, respect and confidence of all the Congres for the first time. It was not widely re prepared by General McCarthy, that I sional staffers and members with whom he ported" would like to share with my colleagues came in contact. Colonel Vaughan's long, What was even less widely reported in varied, and illustrious career as an Air Force the House of Representatives: Reserve officer has resulted in his becoming was the fact that on Easter Sunday, 3 COL. HOWARD R. VAUGHAN days later, the Catholic Bishops of a recognized authority in the field of legisla Colonel Vaughan distinguished himself by tive matters. He can be expected to continue Nicaragua issued a pastoral letter on exceptionally meritorious conduct in the his support of a strong national defense and reconciliation in which they called performance of outstanding services to the should be considered a national resource for upon the Government of Nicaragua to United States as Mobilization Augmentee possible mobilization in case of any future engage in conciliation talks with all Chief, Congressional Legislation Division, national emergency. The singularly distinc- May 10, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11967 tive accomplishments of Colonel Vaughan one recorded vote, since I was at the in Indiana, Miles operates facilities in culminate a distinguished career in the serv White House, reporting to the Presi nine other States including Connecti ice of his country and reflect great credit dent as a member of the official U.S. upon himself and the United States Air cut, Washington, California, North Force. Commission to observe the election in Carolina, Kansas, Illinois, New Jersey, Colonel Vaughan is highly respected El Salvador. Ohio, and Wisconsin. About 60 facili in the civilian arena as well as in the Had I been present, I would have ties are in different countries, and military. For the past 20 years he has voted "aye" on rollcall No. 134, and I Miles products are sold in more than been associated with Liberty National ask unanimous consent that this state 140 countries. · Life Insurance Co., headquartered in ment appear in the permanent One of the first events on this Birmingham, Ala. Presently, he is now RECORD.e week's schedule of centennial activi vice president of governmental rela ties was the dedication of the Miles tions with the company, a job that TRIBUTE TO MILES Centennial Footbridge over the St. keeps him extremely busy traveling LABORATORIES, INC. Joseph River, linking Island and Pu between Washington, D.C., and his laski Parks in Elkhart. How appropri office in Montgomery. HON. JOHN HILER ate it is that this gift by Miles Labora Prior to accepting his position with tories to the people of Elkhart be this OF INDIANA bridge-a symbol of unity and partner Liberty National, Colonel Vaughan IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES served as a special agent with the Fed ship with this friendly town of 42,000. eral Bureau of Investigation from 1962 Thursday, May 10, 1984 Dr. F. J. Geks, chairman and chief to 1964. During this time he per • Mr. HILER. Mr. Speaker, today I executive officer of Miles, declared formed in an exceptional capacity and would like to pay tribute to one of our upon announcing this centennial gift was recognized for his leadership tal Nation's leading health care compa to the city: ents. nies, Miles Laboratories, Inc. Miles likes Elkhart. And Miles has proved Colonel Vaughan, a native Alabami In 1884, Dr. Franklin L. Miles, a to the world that you don't have to be in a an, was born in Birmingham, Ala. He country doctor, who had been practic metropolitan center to become a billion ing medicine for some years in Elk dollar company, but that a community of received a B.S. degree from the Uni 40,000 will do just fine. Successful business versity of Alabama and his LL.D. from hart, Ind., establised the Miles Medical operations are often a matter of building the Birmingham School of Law. Co. to give wider distribution to some bridges-bridges between countries. Bridges He is married to the lovely Elizabeth of his home remedies. Today the between cultures, and bridges between the Ann Stringfellow, and they have a son, people of Indiana are observing the company and the community. Howard R. Vaughan, Jr. 100th anniversary of this company, On this noteworthy occasion, I ask This is just a small insight into this Miles Laboratories, Inc., which has de the Members of the House to join with fascinating man. I have worked with veloped into one of our Nation's lead me to salute the Miles Laboratories Colonel Vaughan on many occasions ing health care companies. family in Indiana, throughout this throughout our long association with Tonight in South Bend, Ind., ap great land and across the world. We each other. He combines all of the proximately 900 leaders from govern congratulate all those who have qualities that a good friend, business ment, business, and education will join helped this company reach its 100th man, and military officer should have, with the Miles executive leadership anniversary. It is a tribute to the such as honesty, respect, dedication, from around the world in marking this historic occasion. Relatively few busi vision and courage of not only Dr. skill, background, knowledge, and a Franklin L. Miles, its founder, but to willingness to apply himself to the nesses survive to celebrate a 100th an many others who laid the foundation task at hand. niversary. The anniversary celebrated for its many contributions to the good Colonel Vaughan is truly an out on this date by Miles Laboratories is a health of people ever-Ywhere.e standing individual. His devotion and tribute to the men and women who service to his company, the U.S. Air have contributed so much, set by step, Force, the State of Alabama, and his to make this company a vibrant, for SMALL BUSINESS WEEK . family, are worthy of the highest ward-looking and ethical organization. praises. He is a fine example of an in Those of us from the Hoosier State HON. SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT dividual who makes his community a are especially proud that Miles Lab strong, healthy, and safe environment oratories planted its roots in Indiana OF NEW YORK in which to work and live. and Elkhart in particular-and even IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It is a real pleasure to know this in though it has evolved into $1 billion a Thursday, May 10, 1984 dividual and I wanted to share these year industry with approximately 12,000 employees worldwide, it contin e Mr. BOEHLERT. Mr. Speaker, I words of recognition with my col would like to commend the President leagues in the House of Representa ues to nourish its roots in Indiana. The quality of health care for for proclaiming this week "Small Busi tives. I wish for Colonel Vaughan all ness Week." His observation that small the very best upon his retirement people everywhere has been a continu ing concern of Miles as it has business owners are "standard bearers from the U.S. Air Force Reserve. I of economic progress and the stalwarts know his presence will be missed, but branched out through the years to de velop new products. Miles was able to of the energying forces of the free his past accomplishments and efforts develop new technologies-beginning market" is right on target. will never be forgotten. This kind of with the technology of effervescence, Most importantly, small business service exhibited by Colonel Vaughan which in 1931 led to Alka-Seltzer. means jobs and prosperity for millions should serve as an example to us all.e With the addition of Dr. Walter of Americans. Compton to its staff in 1938, as direc Now that the recovery is well on its PERSONAL EXPLANATION tor of research and medical affairs, way, we do not hear so much about Miles was on its way to becoming a re unemployment anymore. But it is still HON. ALFRED A. (AL) McCANDLESS search-oriented corporation. there, it is still unacceptably high, and OF CALIFORNIA Miles has been an innovator in the we cannot afford to attack it any less IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES health care field developing a variety diligently. of new technologies, including vita The role of small business in con Thursday, May 10, 1984 · mins, diagnostic aids, citric acid, and quering unemployment has been-and e Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Speaker, industrial enzymes. will continue to be-indispensable. during consideration of H.R. 5119 in In addition to its corporate head This Nation's recovery has been pow the Committee of the Whole, I missed quarters and manufacturing facilities ered by the small business job-creating 11968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1981, machine. Employment gains have ment. In addition to reimposing the turing and partisan issues aside and come primarily from industries domi moratorium, the Comptroller clearly retake our legislative initiative. I can nated by small business. sought to provide one final spur to think of no action more fundamental Just as important as what small congressional action on the deregula to our constituents' interests.e businesses do is the way they do it tion issue. He did this by approving 10 through the invigorating challenge of "non-bank bank" applications that competition. The risks taken by these had been pending prior to March 31, VANCE L. GILLIAM entrepreneurs make their successes all 1984-including 4 of 31 applications the more meaningful. And in these made by the Dimension Financial HON. G. V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY times of swelling budget deficits, the Corp. This limited approval serves to cost effectiveness of their accomplish further erode the prohibition of inter OF MISSISSIPPI ments is invaluable. state banking as enacted by the Con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Let us take this opportunity to re gress in 1956. Thursday, May 10, 1984 dedicate ourselves to making sure that It is perhaps the perfect ending to an otherwise absurd comedy that a e Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, entrepreneurs will continue to lead one of the most beloved and admired the way to a brighter economic future congressionally approved bureaucrat, operating in an agency with a congres members of the staff of the Commit for all of us. After all, unemployment tee on Veterans' Affairs has opted for is still our No. 1 problem, so it is fit sionally approved delegation of regula tory authority, decides to try and retirement after nearly four decades ting that we recognize our No. 1 of service to his country and its veter weapon against it-small business.e prompt the Congress to make a deci sion. an population. Mr. Speaker, the time has come for Vance L. Gilliam, one of the finest "NON-BANK BANK" LOOPHOLE action. While I, like many of my col men it has been my pleasure to know, leagues, am concerned about the leaves a legacy of good will, quality HON. WILLIAM 0. UPINSKI impact of this deregulation on the work, and fond memories as he takes a OF ILLINOIS neighborhood services provided by well-deserved breather from years of small, locally owned banks, S&L's, and concerned and tireless efforts as a gov IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ernment employee. Thursday, May 10, 1984 real estate developers, I am convinced that inaction is now our worst enemy. Vance's contributions began with e Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, when Some congressional action would be honorable service in the U.S. Army the Comptroller of the Currency an better than a complete legislative abdi during World War II. For 20 years, he nounced yesterday that he had tempo cation to the interpretations of the was an employee of the Veterans' Ad rarily reimposed a moratorium on over unelected heads of the various regulat ministration, where he served on the 200 "non-bank bank" applications, one ing agencies. staff of Administrator William J. could almost hear a collective sigh of We must work to even the regula Driver. relief throughout Congress. Indeed, tory framework throughout the finan Vance came to the Committee on this morning's headline in the Wash cial services industry. Participants in Veterans' Affairs in 1969 and, for the ington Post's business section reflects each affected industry, from securities last 15 years, he has worked under the this sentiment when it almost trium and insurance underwriters, to con leadership of Chairmen Olin E. phantly proclaims that the "non-bank sumer and commercial lenders, to se Teague, William Jennings Bryan bank" loophole has once again been curities and real estate brokers need a Dorn, Ray Roberts, and myself. "corked." framework through which to compete. Mr. Speaker, whereas Vance Gilliam The problem with this cork, Mr. This framework should not be patched has contributed so much to enhance Speaker, is that it represents a band together by various agency officials the lives of the men and women who aid approach to the financial services and aggressive lawyers operating served our Nation in its Armed Forces, deregulation issue. An issue that has through makeshift loopholes in our it is my great pleasure to extend the been thrust upon Congress without so laws. It should be decided in the Con committee's deepest appreciation for much as a single vote affirming these gress. his dedication during a most distin dramatic changes in almost 30 years of I rise then, Mr. Speaker, to urge the guished career. We wish for him, Federal regulation. members of the House and Senate Ethel, his wife, and their family, ex We in Congress should take little Banking Committees to act on deregu actly what he gave us-nothing but consolation in yesterday's announce- lation legislation. It is time to put pos- the best.e