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CHRYSLER AND AUTO Planners had little idea one design would like a laser beam through Detroit's darkest TECHNOLOGY be so crucial when they first set pen to hour. This is another of those genuinely paper four years ago. The Omni/Horizon small cars packed with an astonishingly line was almost ready for introduction at roomy interior. SAE measurements spot the K-car OF their big-car buying habits after Energy just slightly smaller than an X-car in front, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Crisis I, encouraged by plentiful-albeit but a bit larger in both back-seat and truck more expensive-fuel supplies. The K would roominess. Outside, the K rides on a five­ Wednesday, August 27, 1980 replace the Aspen/Volare, and, for the first inch-shorter wheelbase than the X-car, is six e Mr. WALGREN. Mr. Speaker, time ever, Chrysler planners knew exactly inches shorter overall, and is just a touch American auto technology is in a cru­ what they wanted. The "blueprint" letter wider. Inside, Chrysler supplies seatbelts for cial state of transition. For a number that set development in motion was seven five or six people

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 23580 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS . August 27, 1980 wheels all the way through Chrysler's noto­ much more familiar with the ledger through the complexities of messy problems rious power assist. Actually, we heartily rec­ sheet and the stock market than with while standing aloof from the details that ommend the power rack-and-pinion in the actual technical operation of their are the lot of the line manager. K-car, because it not only feels firm and firms. This type of manager or corpo­ The primary job of the senior executive is road-related, but also speeds up the steering to oversee the complex processes involved in ratio by a significant 20 percent. rate executive may be glamorous and managing a large organization: resource al­ Our preview tests revealed two more inter­ appealing, but he or she may also be location, personnel assignment, compensa­ esting tidbits. The brakes do their share in part of the reason for declining pro­ tion and control. Specific first-hand knowl­ stopping, but the tires don't. Seventy-to­ ductivity in this country. Perhaps it is edge of an industry, of technology or of the zero braking distances were lengthy, at 227 time for American companies to competitive environment for specific prod­ feet, even though the system was quite sen­ return to the practice of having man­ ucts is less important. sitive to modulation and had excellent agers from the production side of the Quickness and decisiveness are critical to front-to-rear balance. Secondly, our coast­ company, rather than managers who success. As in managing a portfolio of stocks and bonds, the executive who can reposition down procedure showed the K-car to be an jump from position to position or who easy roller, with a low 14.0-horsepower re­ his company's assets, getting into attractive quirement at a steady 50 mph Times, en­ As appealing as these ideas may sound, Plymouth. The options make sense. You over the long term they can seriously de­ need pick from only two trim levels, cloth or titled "Management Minus Inven­ grade a company's ability to compete. A fal­ vinyl upholstery, and bucket or bench front tion." lacy underlies them all: that there is no seats. Buy the Custom Dodge or Plymouth The article follows: need to invent, build or develop anything and you get some wood-grain, buy the SE MANAGEMENT MINUS INVENTION yourself. They all assume that, given the trim for either and you get more, but not What is wrong with our economy and the capital and good financial management, much. 'S 100 biggest corporations with these back­ SECOND DISTRICT this country is at long last receiving grounds is up 50 percent from its level of 30 increasing attention from experts in years ago. As a result, correspondingly economics and business management. fewer have "hands-on" experience in the HON. CLARENCE D. LONG The attention from the latter group more competitively oriented functions such OF MARYLAND is particularly welcome, because man­ as marketing, production, engineering and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES agers of an individual enterprise can research and development. play a very important role in deter­ What kinds of philosophies and manage­ Wednesday, August 27, 1980 mining whether a given concern will ment practices has this new generation of • Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak­ managers swept in with it? These are just er, it is with particular pleasure that I be productive. That's the good news. three of the bedrock principles so often es­ The bad news concerns the actual poused by this new breed of self-styled "pro­ congratulate 28 residents of Mary­ role and performance of American fessional managers": land's Second Congressional District managers. Unfortunately, all too many The top corporate manager, first and fore­ who have chosen to become American managers and corporate executives are most, must be a skilled strategist, able to cut citizens, accepting all of the responsi- August 27, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23581 bilities that freedom and citizenship longer incumbency. At some point, is a typical one but nonetheless poign­ entail. I hope that my colleagues will reelection-and the special interests ant. Professor Kovner is married and join me in congratulating these new which seem inevitably to hover over has three children, two daughters, Americans and extending to them our political campaigns-becomes a prima- Masha and Galya, and one son, wishes for a happy and prosperous ry goal. Along the way, the public in- Leonid. Both his wife and he worked future in the land we love. terest can barely help but suffer. As as physicists in Russia for more then They are Chang Park, Young Joo, one proponent of limited congressional · 20 years until they tried to emigrate. Kil Joo, Benedicta Lizardo, Taiyin tenure ob~?rved, a lifet~.e legislator is In January of 1977, the entire Wei, Shobha Bharadwaja, Basilios no longer of the people. . Kovner family decided to apply for an Bilis, Virbala Patel, Harshad Patel, Congressmen, llke persons m other . . . Edward Shechter, Gerardo Bove, occupations, learn more as they enugrati.on P~~t. However, shortly Desire Hadiwinoto, Premnath Bhatia, become more familiar with their posi- after this deCisiOn was made, the l?ro­ Moussa Dabbali, Carmel Wogan, Soon tions. However, Congressmen have a fessor ~as warned that unless ~e w~th­ Task Yoo, Ja Yul Yoo, Myung Ja Yoo, unique mandate and responsibility drew hi_S name from the application, Francis Guerrero, Jadwiga Frazier, based on the public trust. Service in no family ~ember would be free. to Elizabeth Ciezkowski, Fei-Wen Chiao, the Congress now offers what many le~ve. In April of that year, the fam~ly, Jacqueline Grieve, Annie Grieve, Sour­ consider an attractive career. It thus Without the professor, actually applied aya Khafagy, You Coberly, and Mr. becomes dangerously easy at some for permission to relocate to Israel. and Mrs. Christopher Carter in behalf point for a lifetime Member to begin Following application for the emi­ of Andrea and Bruce Carter.e to consider public policy matters as gration permit, the professor was direct functions of considerations of abruptly dismissed from his position political expediency :md personal com- as a scientist specializing in the physics CONGRESSIONAL TENURE fort. That prospect lS an anathema to of the magnetospliere and the physics the American political tradi~ion. of plasma. In July, Anna, Masha, HON. GERRY E. STUDDS ~or t~ese reasons, I h.av~ mtroduced Galya, and Leonid finally received the OF MASSACHUSETTS legislation that woul~ llnut a Member much longed for permission to leave IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ?f Co?~ess to~ maxrm~ of 18 years Russia. Shortly thereafter, they left m office. a maxrm~ of nme terms for for Israel leaving their loved husband Wednesday, August 27, 1980 a U.S. Representative, three terms for . . e Mr. STUDDS. Mr. Speaker, during a U.S. Senator or a total of 18 years and father behind. not knowmg what our Nation's first century, few Con­ combined in the House and Senate. was to happen to hrm next. gressmen chose to serve more than Many proponents of limited congres- Professor Kovner did not give up two terms. Rotation in office was ex­ sional tenure may consider 18 years hope, and in April of 1978 he applied pected and encouraged. This was at too long a period of service to uphold for permission to join his family in least partly to free our new Republic the principle of rotation of office. I Israel. In October of that year he fi­ from the elitist, monarchial system would tend to agree. I believe the nally received an answer. However this that had hastened the American Revo­ proper limit lies somewhere between answer was more like a stunning blow. lution. The principle was based on the 12 and 18 years. Not only was permission denied but desirability of new faces-and the re­ However, by proposing an 18 year denied until 1985 for security reasons. freshing ideas that presumably accom­ limit, I hope to stimulate debate Of course, the professor could not be­ pany them-in the Congress. within the Congress and within the lieve this and tried to appeal this The next hundred years, however, American electorate on this important unfair decision. This attempt proved saw a shift away from the citizen-legis­ question, and to present the Congress to be very unwise for he was brought lator, the .Congressman drawn from with legislation politically palatable before the KGB and told that al­ private life for a temporary civic­ enough to warrant serious considera- though his work and documents that minded stint in public service. Now we tion. are more accustomed to the profes­ A limited legislative career would he handled were not secret, he could sional legislator, better known as the systematically encourage Congress- have been in contact with some people career politician. I believe this is an men to get down-and to stay at- who knew secrets. unhealthy trend which is partially re­ tuned-to legislative·business. It might This maneuver has become typical sponsible for rampant public cynicism also help restore some integrity to the of the U.S.S.R., and it has happened toward our national leaders and for ebbing public perception of our na- countless times. It is most unfair that the reluctance of many able citizens to tiona! leaders. As careerism in the families have been divided with only consider campaigning for public office. Congress has increased, especially an uncertain hope for an eventual re­ Meanwhile, career legislators suffer during the last 25 years, so has the union. Mark Kovner and his family from Potomac fever, an insidious af­ momentum for the modifications I am need our encouragement. By partici­ fliction aggravated by the prospect of suggesting. I urge my colleagues to pating in this vigil, I can bring his case chronic, insulated tenure in Washing­ consider these proposals carefully.e to the attention of those who will care. ton, the only treatment for which The Soviet Union has proven to be seems to be undergoing a biennial rite SPIRIT OF HELSINKI VIGIL FOR quite reticent in honoring the Helsinki that often conflicts with the responsi­ 1980 agreement. As long as people wishing bilities of legislating. to emigrate are subjected to official Of course, longevity in office is not HON. THOMAS A. LUKEN necessarily an evil. An experienced harassment, loss of jobs, and restric­ Congressman may well develop profes­ OF OHIO tion of personal liberty, I will continue sional expertise and practical know­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to speak out against this repression as how and become a better legislator in Wednesday, August 27, 1980 I have in the past. The right to live in the process. I am wary, however, of a e Mr. LUKEN. Mr. Speaker, today I the country of one's choice is granted disturbing trend toward a Congress of rise to participate in the Spirit of Hel­ in the Declaration of Human Rights of legal technocrats, driven as much by sinki Vigil for 1980. I am proud to be the . The Soviet Union personal career ambition as by public able to join with other Members of confirmed this right in the Helsinki interest. A Congressman, by virtue of Congress in addressing the plight of agreement of 1975. This right is even the system permitting unlimited eligi­ individuals residing in a country they specified in the Constitution of the bility for reelection, is encouraged to wish to leave but cannot because their U.S.S.R. It is our duty to remind the settle in for a long tenure in office. government will not allow them to do Soviet Government of its obligations Continued service is contingent on re­ so. to Mark Kovner and others who are election, but that prospect is enhanced The story of Mark Kovner, my restricted from rejoining their families by incumbency and nurtured by adopted Soviet prisoner of conscience, and colleagues in Israel.e 23582 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 27, 1980 U.S. AID IN THE MIDDLE EAST group acting on demand as consultants, resi­ The 200 buses in Cairo were built to Egyp­ dent experts, professionals, commodity deal­ tian specifications. They may be overworked ers, exporters, and even university profes­ and a little noisy, but the fact remains that HON. LEE H. HAMILTON sors. Only American firms can bid for con­ each day a million Egyptians travel to work OF INDIANA tracts. Many take advantage of this rule and in A.I.D.-financed buses. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES act as brokers who subcontract projects for The U.S.-financed Suez cement plant will Wednesday, August 27, 1980 tidy sums without making any real contri­ produce a million metric tons of cement butions. Further, American employees re­ starting next year, for houses and industry e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I ceive about eight times the pay of throughout Egypt. A.I.D.-financed gas tur­ would like to bring to the attention of holding the same jobs. bine electric power plants are producing 300 my colleagues an editorial on Arab A third complaint is about the criteria for megawatts of peak power in Egypt today. views of American economic aid pro­ selecting projects and establishing prior­ A.I.D. is helping install 50 new public water grams in the Middle East written by ities. These are described as haphazard and outlets in Cairo each month. He says A.I.D. has 400 people the Graduate Center of the City Uni­ signed for the rich and connected, not the working on its Egypt desk in Washington. versity of New York, and the rebuttal poor and disadvantaged. It is said that most The actual number is seven. to it prepared by Douglas J. Bennet, projects are no more than one feasibility I do not doubt that Professor Wahba Jr., Administrator of the Agency for study after another. Few of these studies found criticism of A.I.D. among Arabs he International Development. are implemented and most are outdated talked to and those criticisms need to be before their publication. considered seriously. It needs to be under­ The editorial by Mr. Wahba ap­ The contrast between American and Chi­ peared in of stood, however, that there will always be nese foreign aid was demonstrated to me in some tensions between A.I.D. and host August 23, 1980, and Mr. Bennet's Yemen. The Americans were busy setting countries as long as we are doing our job. reply in the August 27, 1980, issue. up shop by purchasing four-wheel-drive ve­ We do not simply turn on the spigot v;ith­ The editorial and reply follow: hicles to travel the unpaved roads of the out feasibility studies and careful planning. ARABs FAULTING U.S. Am capital, Saana. They were erecting a wall We want to know what a project is going to around their complex and preparing guest (By Mahmoud A. Wahba) cost, who will benefit from it and how to lists for parties to establish the "proper con­ avoid as many pitfalls in implementation as United States aid programs may be under­ nections." Meanwhile, the Chinese were a mining our objectives in the Middle East few feet away from the gate repairing the possible. Our procurement procedures take rather than helping us attain them, and it road with shovels and their bare hands. - time, but that is because we want to open may take a Congressional inquiry to deter­ A fourth complaint is about the agency's competition as broadly as possible to Ameri­ mine their value. administrative procedures. It is said that can suppliers and minimize opportunities During a recent lecture tour in nine Arab the A.I.D. bureaucracy is worse than the for corruption. countries, I discovered that although my Egyptian Government's. A project requires A Swiss-based Business International subject was Arab-American joint ventures, almost two years of groundwork to gain ap­ Group, in the report of its 1980 Roundtable people really wanted to talk about American proval. An Egyptian Cabinet minister count­ with the Egyptian Government, put it this aid programs in general and the United ed 117 steps and 28 meetings with layers way: "U.S. A.I.D. is doing Egypt an invalu­ States Agency for International Develop­ after layers of American officials to negoti­ able service by introducing its methodology. ment, also known as A.I.D., in particular. ate a project, only to have it disapproved ... If U.S. A.I.D. has ruffled feathers, it The Congress, using an instrument of for­ after 19 months. He said that the agency's has also contributed to the vital process of eign policy allocates billion of dollars annu. attitude is that of a rich uncle who knows systematizing performance." ally to many poor Arab countries such as that all you want is a handout-and treats Professor Wahba finds A.I.D.'s image Egypt, the Sudan, Jordan, Yemen and, you accordingly. somewhat battered in the Arab world. Scars lately, Oman. Despite this generosity, many Many American officials privately admit earned in the cause of sound administration Arabs, including some who are pro-Ameri­ to these problems. Some defensively note I don't regret. I also note that we continue can, are disappointed, unhappy, even dis­ that all aid programs, even those in the to receive requests for assistance regularly traught. In the Arab oil ~ountries, agency United States, have problems. They blame from poor countries in the Middle East. programs are compared unfavorably to their Arab governments for not establishing their The U.S. has made it clear that our inter­ own aid programs. They describe A.I.D. as own priorities and for inability to negotiate est is to help developing countries every­ inept, irrelevant and suspect in motives and better aid agreements. Many Arab countries where create self-sufficient, self-reliant methods. In the poor countries, there is cannot absorb what is allocated to them be­ economies which benefit the poor. We and sourness and complaints. One complaint cause of poor management and implementa­ host governments do make mistakes in the concerns the lack of visible A.I.D. achieve­ tion. Thus, they lose a good portion of their uncertain business of development, but the ments. In Yemen, for example, people point allocation every budget year. I was also re­ U.S. is trying, and we are making a contribu­ to one road built by the Russians and an­ minded that the agency is subject to strict tion of which we can be very proud. Particu­ other built by the Chinese; they are at a Congressional rulings and regulations. larly in the Middle East, the stakes are too loss to point to anything American. They Therefore, Congress has to take the initia­ high, resources too scarce and time too also refer to projects jointly completed with tive to effect any real change. short to give anything less than our best Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab The A.I.D. image in the Arab world is bat­ effort.-DouGLAS J. BENNETT Jr., Adminis­ Emirates, and even some multinational cor­ tered. Unless some action is taken by Con­ trator, Agency for International Develop­ porations. A completed American project, gress and the Administration, the program ment.• on the other hand, is either a rarity or a may be dysfunctional both for the welfare well-kept secret. of the Arab poor and the success of Ameri­ Americans can do without some projects. can foreign policy. As one favored consul­ THE 1980 LEGISLATIVE For instance, America gave the Egyptians tant declared: "What the U.S.A.I.D. really QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS 200 buses for badly needed public transpor­ needs is a feasibility study of itself." tation. These buses are a headache for HON. BILL ARCHER A.l.D.'s SCARRED IMAGE IN THE ARAB WORLD Cairo. The unbearable pollution and noise is OF TEXAS a daily reminder of A.I.D. folly. Is UNDESERVED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A second, more-damaging complaint con­ To the Editor: cerns A.I.D. beneficiaries. The Arabs deny Mahmoud A. Wahba's Aug. 23 Op-Ed arti­ Wednesday, August 27, 1980 that the program benefits them. They also cle "Arab's Faulting U.S. Aid" is wildly inac­ deny that it is useful for American foreign curate in its particulars. He mentions a road • Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, as has policy. They charge that the agency itself, built by the Russians and another built by been my custom every year that I together with a specially favored group, is the Chinese in Yemen, but somehow missed have served in the Congress, I sent out the real beneficiary. They feel that the the main -"i"oad from Sana to Taiz originally a questionnaire to all of the residences system is designed to recirculate American built by Americans. He is concerned about in the Seventh Congressional District money back to "lubricate" an ever-growing incomplete projects, but somehow missed of Texas in order to obtain my con­ aid machine. the A.I.D.-financed Taiz water works, stituents' opinions on important and There are more than 200 A.I.D. employees named for President Kennedy. in the embassy in Egypt in addition to The main irrigation canal in the Jordan timely national issues. about 400 serving the Egyptian desk in Valley was built by us. Had he traveled More than 33,500 people responded Washington. The overhead and administra­ along the canal, Professor Wahba would to this year's questionnaire and I tive cost of the program is unknown to the have seen roads, schools, clinics and housing would like at this time to share those Arabs and the American taxpayer. The built with U.S. aid and benefitting Jordan's results with my colleagues in the agency has attracted a special-interest poor. House. The results are also being sent August 27, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23583 to the President so that he may review Middlesex County, to the State of New practical politics. He had an insight as this sampling of public opinion. Jersey, and to our country. I know we to the problems of the day and how to The questionnaire follows: have lost two outstanding friends who handle them. 1980 CONGRESSIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE helped mold Middlesex County's The growth of Rutgers University­ 1. Do you support the U.S. boycott of the growth in the post-World War II era. our State university-has the finger­ summer Olympics in Moscow? 86 percent Both were stars in their own ways. prints of Don Herzberg on it. He fore­ yes. 14 percent no. It was in 1953 that the Republican saw the population growth and the 2. Should the U.S. supply weapons to the National Committee loaned Ab to the need to increase our educational facili­ Afghan people who are resisting Soviet oc­ State Republican Committee and he ties. I feel that along with Mason cupation of their country? 83 percent yes. 17 ran the gubernatorial campaign for percent no. . Gross, Don had as much influence as 3. Do you approve of the way President Paul Troast. I was the campaign man­ anyone with the State legislature to Carter has handled the American hostage ager for Bob Meyner. I could see Ab make our Rutgers University fit to situation in Iran? 18 percent yes. 82 percent Hermann's work at every turn. He grow and fit to be the great university no. kept us on our toes and was particular­ that it is today. 4. Do you favor reimposition of selective ly effective at lining up ethnic groups. service registration? 84 percent yes. 16 per­ I am indebted to Don Herzberg per­ Truthfully, we could not match his sonally, because he taught me a great cent no. handiwork. 5. If a selective service registration pro­ deal. I hope I put it to good use. I am Ab and I often exchanged thoughts indebted to Ab Hermann for the gram is reimposed, should it include during that campaign since we had our women? 61 percent yes. 39 percent no. things he taught me about partisan 6. Do you support President Carter's pro­ headquarters in the Robert Treat politics and getting along as a political posed oil import fee which would raise the Hotel in Newark. We frequently leader. price of gasoline by at least 10¢ a gallon? 19 stopped for a cup of coffee together. percent yes. 81 percent no. To nobody's surprise, Ab had a I, and those who knew or learned 7. Should there be restrictions on the winner-until October 7, when some from them, will miss them both.e number of refugees admitted to the U.S.? 89 unfavorable publicity broke that made percent yes. 11 percent no. the Troast campaign very difficult. 8. Would you favor eliminating Saturday mail deliveries to cut Postal Service costs? Bob Meyner received a tremendous ESTATE AND GIFT TAX REFORM 60 percent yes. 40 percent no. break, and went on to be the winner, 9. Would you favor mandatory wage and which was never anticipated in June. HON. TOBY ROTH price controls? 21 percent yes. 79 percent Ab's father, incidentially, was also a no. great friend. He was of North OF WISCONSIN 10. Would you favor imposing fixed prison Brunswick for 20 years. I always ad­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sentences