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18016 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS HEINZ W. MAIENTHAU, A made at a certain Munich Restaurant. Like In view of the danger I was exposed to and 20TH-CENTURY HERO other young intellectuals I also worked as for other reasons I always carried an auto­ an extra in a rather famous and high brow matic pistol on my person. I considered Munich Theater, the Kammer Spiele. The myself as a marksman with both handgun HON.CARYL.ACKERMAN "extras" and certain actors and actresses and rifle. A few days before the Hitler OF NEW YORK and other theatrical personnel intermingled Putsch I travelled from Berlin to Munich. I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES also socially. stayed at my mother's by a "high­ watched idly, doing nothing. phase of my recollection. However, I have powered" automobile. Mr. Speaker, I am priviledged and honored not seen the book in decades, but, small Armed with this information and ready to to include a statement given by Heinz doubt it is available at the Library of Con­ leave I telephoned a friend of the family by Maienthau, a true hero of the 20th century, in gress. But this may explain that I had been the name of Herman Pohl, who, at that somewhat noticed by the Nazis at that time. time was a high official of the Munich the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD at this point of With Frankenburger I also became active Police. Herman Pohl was an admirer of my the proceedings. in an organization called "Kartell Republi­ widowed mother and wanted to marry her. STATEMENT BY HEINZ W. MAIENTHAU kanischer Studenten". It was a national or­ He came from a prominent Bavaria (gentile) I was born December 15, 1902, in Munich ganization with some strong political con­ family-was previously an officer of the Germany. My father's name is Max nections. German Army and as a major in the Army Maienthau, born either in Nuernberg or The word Republikan indicated that it and was one of the pioneer aviators. During Fuerth, a small city near Nuernberg. My was in favor of the democratic Weimar Re­ World War I he became commander of the mother's maiden name was Anna Kohn, also public and opposed to its foes. This organi­ Bavarian Airforce. As a student I challenged a native of Nuernberg. We are Frankonian zation was backed financially and otherwise another (gentile) student to a duel and Jews. by the Social Democratic party of Germany asked Herman Pohl to be my second-to the This narrative is written at the request of and especially by one of its prominent lead­ great embarassment of the gentile student Arther Sinai, who some years ago, when I ers, named Bernstein. Bernstein's own home and of Pohl. Nothing much came of it-the worked as an investigator in the Office of became the central office of the Kartell Re­ gentiles were not supposed to duel with Special Investigation of the State of Illinois, publickanischer Studenten. It was headed Jews. was my immediate superior. The narrative by one Wilhelm Koeberlin, an archaeolo­ Just when I was about to leave I had a deals with my personal experiences during gist, who had spent considerable time in the telephone call from Pohl. He said that there the so-called Burger Braeu Putsch involving Near East. He was a rather strange and was no need to flee to Augsburg that the Adolph Hitler and General Ludendorf. I probably very brilliant person, very secre­ putsch had been called off and that I did think that most if not all recollections put tive and involved. He and his affinity, a not need to leave Munich since von Kahr down at this time are correct and factual. young lawyer by the name of Anna Selo, was in complete control. In view of this I de­ Prior to these dates I had lived in Munich, became good friends of mine. . with Adolph Hitler and his entourage were obtain. We had some correspondence during the

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. July 29, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18017 twenties-but in later years, when I got to money was counterfeit or a "special issue" trying to wean the government away from Los Angeles, I could not locate him. of the new government to be.> Moscow. That policy is inconsistent with Milton Heilbronner and I marched side by I carefully and quickly made my way the Reagan Doctrine and has failed in its side surrounded by bayonets toward the home, mostly through the parks, along the implementation. The Marxist-Leninist Buerbraeu Keller which was a brewery with river Isar. regime continues to function as a totalitar­ large eating and drinking facilities about 2 When I got home I found that the hidden ian government, supported by a foreign in­ miles or 3 miles from the Maximilianstrasse, documents were no longer in the hiding vasion force from Zimbabwe and thousands which crossed Wiedenmayerstrasse and place. My friend, Karl Frankenburger, of Soviet-bloc advisers. Meanwhile, opposi­ across the river lsar which flows along the knowing of their importance, had made his tion forces fighting for self-determination Wiedenmayerstrass. All of a sudden I real­ way though the Nazi lines and heroically for the people of Mozambique continue to ized that I had failed to put either money or carried them to safety. win battles and public support, and move cigarettes into my pocket, when I was ar­ I was glad to leave Munich quickly after closer to victory. It is time for a new U.S. rested. While marching, Mr. Heilbronner that. policy toward Mozambique. gave me some money and cigarettes. When The American consul in Munich gave me a A MARXIST-LENINIST DICTATORSHIP we arrived at the Buerbraeu Keller we were visa to the United States and I arrived in Hoboken, , on Since winning independence from Portu­ first put on some benches in the restaurant gal in 1975, Mozambique has been run as a section of the Keller. I believe that eventu­ December 5, 1924, after a unusually stormy one-party state by Samora Machel, head of ally 18 hostages were gathered . In his eleven years of rule, Machel time of my life, I had a cigarette in my ny but met with complete disbelief. has turned Mozambique into a Marxist-Len­ mouth. All of a sudden the command crune inist dictatorship that is no friend of the to bring the hostages before Hitler and so I was taken to Hitler, cigarette in my mouth. THE RESISTANCE CAN WIN IN United States. A recent State Department MOZAMBIQUE report on votes cast in the Untied Nations When Hitler saw me smoking, he flew in a General Assembly by the 159 member na­ rage-that a Jew dared to smoke in his pres­ tions lists Mozambique fourth from the ence. One of the uniformed guards grabbed HON. MARK D. SIUANDER bottom in order of support for positions the cigarette out of my mouth and threw it OF MICHIGAN taken by the United States. Mozambique to the floor and took me away. I at that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES voted opposite the U.S. position 94.1 percent time had really no concept of Hitler's power of the time. and future and thought that he was mad. Tuesday, July 29, 1986 Machel has imposed communist doctrine, We were conducted back to the Restau­ purged his party of non-Marxists, killed rant part of the Buerbraeu Keller. One par­ Mr. SILJANDER. Mr. Speaker, I would like to call my colleagues attention to a recent thousands of political opponents, herded ticular incident that took place at that time, over 200,000 others into reeducation camps, stuck to my mind. Apparently the Hitler study by the Heritage Foundation concerning nationalized industry and agriculture, and troops also had arrested an American citi­ Mozambique. invited Soviet-bloc advisers to Mozambique. zen. The American consul in Munich who's This study gives an excellent overview of According to State Department reports on name I do not recall, but who subsequently the Mozambique Government and it's political became a prominent official of the State human rights violations, prisoners at the Department came to the Buerbrau Keller, ideology. In addition, the study provides a remote reeducation camps are brutally unique analysis of RENAMO-the Mozam­ bound, beaten and often killed. The one­ accompanied by others and carrying an party regime compels non-party members to American flag. He demanded and obtained bique National Resistance-and it's capability to force the Government to provide free and attend political indoctrination meetings, the release of the prisoner and with the and permits are required for citizens to American Flag in hand guided him to fair elections. travel outside their city of residence. safety. While stationed in the restaurant We are at a critical stage regarding our poli­ Now totally reliant on the Soviet Union portion of the Keller and in accordance cies towards Southern Africa and we should for arms and oil, Machel has ruined his with the Munich tradition, beer was offered. help those people who are advancing the prin­ I bought a stein of beer and to my great sur­ country's economy, but he receives virtually prise the waitress serving me was one of our ciples which this country stands for. no economic help from his Soviet mentors. previous house servants of some years. I do THE RESISTANCE CAN WIN IN MOZAMBIQUE His solution: turn to the West for economic not recall her name-perhaps it was One of the major foreign policy disap­ help, while maintaining the all-important "Resi"-a Bavarian abbreviation for The­ pointments of the Reagan Administration Soviet lifeline of arms and advisers that en­ rese. Since our relation with our servants has been its failure to wean Marxist regimes ables him to stay in power and fight the re­ was always a very good one although a in Africa away from Moscow and Havana. sistance. somewhat feudal one, I asked "Resi" to In Angola, after ten years of communist INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST SUPPORT please call Major Herman Pohl-and I gave rule sustained by massive military aid from There are an estimated 2,000 Cubans, her his telephone number-and to please Moscow and manpower from Cuba, the An­ 1,000 Soviets, 500 East Germans, and thou­ tell him what happened and would he golan regime has been unable to defeat the sands of other Soviet-bloc personnel in Mo­ please also notify my mother. She came army of 60,000 freedom fighters led by the zambique. Officials of Machel's government back later and told me that she had spoken charismatic Jonas Savimbi. For five years acknowledge the presence of both military to him. the United States has tried to negotiate a and civilian Soviet-bloc advisers, but refuse We noticed that there was quite a commo­ settlement in Angola, without success. Fi­ to confirm or deny the numbers. Moscow tion and that, with the exception of some nally recognizing the failure of its Angola has provided Hind helicopter gunships in guards everybody had left. We were told policy, the administration now is providing addition to some 85 MiG-17s and MiG-21s. that there was a march downtown with military assistance to Savimbi's forces. The Mozambican army of some 25,000 Hitler and Ludendorf leading. To Ethiopia, the U.S. shipped $243 million troops in equipped almost entirely with After about an hour or two everybody, in­ worth of food in 1985 alone, providing relief Soviet weapons, including A.K-47 rifles, T- cluding the remaining guards started to with American tax dollars for famine caused 55 tanks, armored personnel carriers, heli­ fade away. Something had happened-we in part by government policies: Soviet-style copters and artillery. The most recent did not know what. Eventually, when I no­ collective farming and the forced resettle­ report on international arms transfers ticed that most of my fellow prisoners had ment of over 600,000 farmers. Yet the State issued by the U.S. Arms Control and Disar­ vanished, I looked around. There was Department's hope that U.S. largesse would mament Agency shows substantial increases nobody at all where Hilter and Ludendorf lead to improved relations with the Marxist­ in Soviet-bloc shipments to Mozambique, up and other Nazi leaders previously held Leninist regime has proven false. Since last from $70 million in 1981 to $130 million in forth. Next to their somewhat stage-like year, Reagan has included Ethiopia in the 1982, to $260 million in 1983. Military aid previous quarters, was a comparatively list of five Marxist-Leninist countries that from Moscow increased still further last small room. To my astonishment it was he says are "at war with their own people." year. stacked from top to bottom with a huge The others are Afghanistan, Angola, Cam­ Mozambique's continued close relations quantity of paper money. For some mo­ bodia and Nicaragua. with Moscow were reaffirmed during a ments I had a temptation to grab some of it, The president's failure to include Mozam­ three day visit by Samora Machel to the as much as I could carry and hide on me. I bique in this list is notable. That country, Soviet Union in late March. In a joint com­ dismissed this temptation-knowing that I the People's Republic of Mozambique, is the munique issued by Machel and Mikhail Gor­ would certainly be shot, if I would be found principal Marxist-Leninist state where the bachev, the two leaders presented a detailed with such loot. by helping the Mozambi­ While the Mozambicans of RENAMO in the right direction, but they must be fol­ engage in major fighting against foreign can patriots replace their Marxist-Leninist lowed by the departure of the Soviet and rulers with a non-communist alternative. troops, the U.S. continues to support Cuban advisers, and a genuine move toward This opportunity should be seized without Samora Machel and his Marxist-Leninist political pluralism. delay. regime. The U.S. embassy in Maputo claims The prospects are not good. Thus far, it that Machel is increasing support to the pri­ has been impossible to convert any regime vate sector, abolishing bureaucratic ob~ta­ that is propped up by Soviet, Cuban or MEXICO-A NEIGHBOR IN CRISIS cles, denationalizing industry, discouragmg other Soviet-bloc troops or advisers away large scale government projects, and encour­ from the methods of Leninism, by which it aging Western investment. The embassy is retains power. Some deviation from the eco­ HON. MORRIS K. UDALL trying to encourage these economic reforms, nomic principles of Marxism may be possi­ OF ARIZONA which it complains are being hindered by ble, but never from the political control IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "the insurgency." methods of Leninism. The U.S. decision to support an oppressive Machel retains power through a one­ Tuesday, July 29, 1986 Marxist-Leninist dictatorship against a pop­ party, totalitarian political system. He has ular anti-communist rebellion is based Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, this is the ninth in flatly rejected free elections or any discus­ a series of articles that I have submitted over partly on the hope of moderating ~he sion of a political compromise with regime over time and gradually convertmg RENAMO. FRELIMO foreign minister Joa­ the course of the past several weeks to illus­ it from socialism to some form of free enter­ quim Chissano has said it clearly: The only trate the current crisis in Mexico. prise. But U.S. policy toward Mozambique possible dialogue with RENAMO is I feel it is critically important to remember also has been governed by policy toward "through the barrel of a gun." that Mexico is not some distant trouble spot, South Africa. The keystone of this ap­ THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT but rather, our friend and valued neighbor to proach is the Nkomati Agreement, signed on the South. March 16, 1984 by Prime Minister P.W. RENAMO is establishing a provisional Botha of South Africa and Samora Machel government in the large area of Mozam­ Recently the Mexican Government has of Mozambique. bique in which the resistance movement op­ been increasingly under fire in the United Under this non-aggression agreement, erates freely. Run by a National Council States; contributing to the continuing tensions Machel promised not to permit the terror­ headed by President Dhlakama, the provi­ in United States-Mexico relations. Today's arti­ ists of the African National Congress to op­ sional government considers victory in the cle suggests this could be creating a backlash military struggle a foregone conclusion and erate against South Africa from Mozambi­ in Mexico. But also observes, that President can territory, while Botha agreed to neither is now planning reconstruction and the res­ toration of basic freedoms. de la Madrid has quietly shifted to a more support RENAMO nor permit it to have conservative stance on a number of issues bases in South Africa. The U.S. has consid­ Dhlakama repeatedly has stated his will­ ered the Nkomati accord helpful to the ad­ ingness to negotiate with FRELIMO, with that concern the United States, and that the ministration's policy of constructive engage­ the following three conditions that Machel two governments still share an overriding in­ ment toward South Africa. But in this case, has categorically rejected: terest in maintaining stability on the United 1. FRELIMO must recognize RENAMO as States's Southern border. U.S. and South African interests diverge a legitimate political force concept of self-determination and freedom tions to establish a national assembly, and from totalitarian rule. to have the assembly write a democratic For more than 50 years, Washington pol­ A FAILED POLICY constitution. Revolutionaries do not always icymakers have overlooked Mexico's demo­ In the two years since the Nkomati agree­ keep such promises, but one thing is certain: cratic shortcomings-such as widespread ment was signed, RENAMO has become Soviet-bloc troops and advisers will no corruption and election-rigging-for one stronger, not weaker. As a result, the United longer be welcome in Mozambique. Also, it very compelling reason. They counted on States finds itself with a policy that seems is reasonable to assume that a government the nation's ruling political organization, calculated to undermine the efforts of an led by a Christian president who promises the Institutional Revolutionary Party anti-communist, popularly supported resist­ religious, economic and political freedom , to keep the U.S.'s southern border ance struggling to rid itself of a repressive would be considerably better than an op­ secure. But as tensions between the two Marxist-Leninist dictatorship. pressive totalitarian regime supported by countries grow over debt, narcotics, immi­ U.S. Ambassador to Mozambique Peter De Moscow and Havana. gration, trade, and investment restrictions, Vos, a Princeton-educated foreign service of­ CONCLUSION tolerance for PRI-style politics is fading in ficer who has been described as an the U.S. Of all the insurgencies against pro-Soviet Conservative backers of the Reagan Ad­ apologist for the Machel regime, is due for regimes anywhere in the world, RENAMO's reassignment this year. His planned replace­ ministration are stepping up their attacks is closest to victory. It would be a logical on the PRl's near-monopoly of power. They ment is Melissa Wells, a retired career FSO, next step for the administration, in making who during the Carter administration was oppose the Mexican government's heavy the Reagan Doctrine a reality, to change its intervention in the economy, its opposition an alternate U.S. representative to the policy toward Mozambique and bring it in United Nations under Ambassador Andrew to U.S. backing for Nicaragua's contra insur­ line with U.S. policy toward other Marxist­ gents, and the PRl's leftist and nationalistic Young. De Vos and officials of the Bureau Leninist governments that are being chal­ of African Affairs at the State Department lenged by their own people. The administra­ posturing. The Administration put some dis­ seem convinced that Marxism in Africa is tion should: tance between itself and the most outspo­ different than elsewhere and that with time Downgrade relations with the Marxist­ ken critics of Mexico when Attorney Gener­ and patience African Marxists, including Leninist regime of Samora Machel by with­ al Edwin Meese III told Mexican President Samora Machel, can be weaned away from drawing Ambassador De Vos without a re­ Miguel de la Madrid last month that such socialism and toward some new African eco­ placement. attacks do not reflect White House policy. nomic system that will tolerate private en­ Stop all U.S. aid to the Machel govern­ But that did not dissuade Senator Jesse terprise and economic ties to the West. ment and end Mozambique's most favored Helms from holding hearings on The Marxist regime in Mozambique fos­ nation trading status. A bill proposed by Mexico's problems and from warning on ters that belief. In May, Abdul Magid Senator Paul Trible would do so. June 17 that to get help from the U.S., Osman, the Mozambique Minister of Miner­ Provide moral support and· humanitarian Mexico must bring about "fundamental po­ al Resources, visited Washington and called assistance DIGNITY AND LENTILS its Soviet-bloc advisers. On his return to would provide an initial $5 million in aid to Other conservatives, such as Senator Phil Mozambique, Osman was named Minister of RENAMO. Gramm CR-Tex.>, recently lectured Mexican 18020 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1986 legislators on the need to reform their econ­ and Loan Insurance Corporation. FSLIC in­ lion annually over the next two years in omy. The public outbursts could be creating sures deposits in 3,200 thrift institutions order to minimize its eventual losses from a backlash in Mexico. In a recent TV inter­ with total assets of $1.1 trillion. Why will failing thrifts. The administration's more view, the usually bland de la Madrid reject­ Congress have to spend this money? Loom­ leisurely pace would greatly increase ed a suggestion that Mexico might alter its ing insolvencies among the most troubled FSLIC's losses due to the costs of delay. neutral stance on Central America to win third of the thrifts will bankrupt FSLIC, In evaluating the FSLIC situation, two re­ better terms from the U.S. on its debt. "Dig­ and stronger thrifts lack the resources to alities must be faced. First, general tax reve­ nity can't be changed for lentils, right?" he absorb these losses. nues almost certainly will be needed to meet remarked. The administration has proposed legisla­ the federal government's deposit insurance Critics will have another close look at tion to bail out FSLIC. However, its plan obligations toward thrift depositors. Thus, Mexico's internal politics in state elections will not work. The Congressional Budget the primary objective of the FSLIC cleanup on July 6. Chihuahua-a sprawling state on Office very wisely called it "a budgetary must be to minimize the cost to taxpayers. the Texas border and a stronghold of the gimmick.'' In effect, the plan, which will Second, thrifts are obsolete as a legally dis­ PRI's main opposition, the conservative Na­ come up for committee action in both tinct type of depository institution. This tional Action Party CPAN)-has become a Houses within a week, is nothing more than legal distinction must be phased out if most focus of international media attention. The a 30-month punt of the FSLIC mess into the thrifts are to survive as free-standing insti­ PRI is expected to win, with or without next administration. The bailout plan actu­ tutions or as part of a larger financial-serv­ ballot-stuffing, and the PAN is expected to ally would work against the long-term inter­ ices organization. cry fraud. But the PRI wants to wage a est of the healthier two-thirds of the na­ A resolution of the FSLIC crisis should be strong campaign to blunt charges by the tion's thrifts. It is an 11th-hour desperation based on three premises: one, maximize non­ PAN and foes such as Helms that it lacks measure designed to preserve the status quo tax resources to absorb potential insolvency papular support. It has picked a vote-getter in an obsolete industry. Further, delay in at­ losses in failing thrifts; two, minimize the with a conservative image to run against the tacking the FSLIC crisis will cost taxpayers cost of selling or merging failing thrifts, and PAN's charismatic candidate for governor. unnecessary billions of dollars. three, act as quickly as possible. In fact, de la Madrid has quietly shifted to FACES ENORMOUS FUTURE LOSSES This approach has three parts: a more conservative stance on a number of Although thrifts-industry profits report­ One, encourage thrifts to switch to the issues that concern the U.S. Since taking edly tripled last year, the financial condi­ Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation by office in 1982, he has wound down support tion of the nation's weakest thrifts wors­ giving thrifts a choice: either switch to for Nicaragua's Sandinistas and agreed to ened. At the end of last year, one-fifth of all FDIC or eventually be taken over by FSLIC join the General Agreement on Tariffs & thrifts were losing money at the collective for liquidation or sale. This choice will give Trade. He closed a loss-ridden steel plant rate of more than $10 million a day. the managements of nearly insolvent thrifts and is expected to sell off Compattia Mexi­ In addition, 450 thrifts, with assets of $113 the incentive to raise the capital necessary cana de Aviaci6n, a state-run airline. Such billion, were insolvent, as measured by gen­ to qualify for FDIC insurance; many lack gestures will still leave large chunks of the erally accepted accounting principles that much capital. The opportunity to economy in government hands. But a recent CGAAP>. (Insolvency means liabilities switch would draw billions of dollars of decision allowing Hewlett-Packard Co. to exceed assets.> Of these, 229 also had losses fresh capital into the hundreds of potential­ buy out its majority Mexican partners in a at a $2. 7 billion annual rate on assets of $55 ly viable thrifts that otherwise will fail. The personal computer plant effectively scuttles billion. Another 680 thrifts, with assets of administration's plan won't attract this cap­ plans to keep that industrial sector under $278 billion, were nearly insolvent with ital to weak thrifts. Mexican control. GAAP net worths of 0% to 3%. Thrifts making the switch would pay an Such ad hoc policy shifts won't of course FSLIC faces enormous future losses with exit fee to FSLIC, equal to several years of silence U.S. conservatives. As long as the grossly inadequate reserves. It would have the special deposit insurance premium they PRI bars the PAN from major political of­ losses of at least $29 billion if it sold or liqui­ now pay. They would then immediately fices and keeps its ideology of a "mixed" dated every failing thrift. To offset these start paying FDIC premiums, which would economy of private and state-run enter­ potential losses, FSLIC held reserves of just protect FDIC against additional insolvency prises, attacks will continue. But U.S. policy­ $4.6 billion at the end of 1985. These re­ losses. makers will be reluctant to stoke political serves represent assets available to absorb Thrifts that switched would have five tensions in Mexico. The two governments future losses. The reserves fall short by years to transform themselves into regular still share an overriding interest: maintain­ almost $25 billion! commercial banks. They could, however, ing stability on the U.S.'s southern border. Given the continuing deflation of asset continue to make home mortgage loans. values, particularly in Texas, Oklahoma and Two, before any thrifts are actually liqui­ Louisiana, FSLIC's prospective losses easily dated, permit anyone to buy a thrift that is FSLIC RECAPITALIZATION (H.R. could be $40 billion or $50 billion instead of unable or unwilling to switch to FDIC. 4907, AS AMENDED> $29 billion. Worse, these losses are growing Buyers could be securities firms, insurance daily in thrifts that are continuing to lose companies, other thrifts or commercial HON. WIWS D. GRADISON, JR. money. Insolvent thrifts will sink FSLIC no banks. Buyers would adequately capitalize matter how well the financially stronger the thrift and then switch it to FDIC insur­ OF OHIO thrifts perform. ance or meld the acquired thrift into their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The administration's legislation would existing operations. Depository institutions, Tuesday, July 29, 1986 bail out FSLIC in two ways. First, it would for example, could buy failing thrifts to ac­ sell $15 billion in zero coupon bonds that quire depositors and to reduce expenses Mr. GRADISON. Mr. Speaker, the House would be repaid over the next 35 years with through branch consolidation. This consoli­ may soon consider H.R. 4907, FSLIC recapi­ special deposit insurance premiums paid dation process also would enable banking talization. In this regard, I would like to share solely by thrifts. Second, it would require services to be retained in many small towns. with you and my colleagues an article by Bert the 12 federally sponsored federal home This would enable all but the sickest or Ely, which is reprinted from the July 17, 1986, loan banks to transfer $3 billion in past and worst-managed thrifts to survive in some Wall Street Journal. future earning into FSLIC. fashion. It also would save FSLIC billions I have some familiarity with the subject-as This bailout plan would not work for sev­ by selling thrifts as going concerns rather eral reasons. First, it would not raise than liquidating them, thus minimizing a former chairman of the Federal Home Loan enough money. The present value of the re­ losses to FSLIC. Recently, liquidations have Bank of Cincinnati, and as a Representative sources the plan would generate is just $12 been five times as expensive for FSLIC as of the area hit hardest by the recent savings billion, assuming no future growth in thrift subsidizf;d sales and mergers. and loan crisis in Ohio. In my view, Mr. Ely deposits. This is at least $17 billion less than Three, liquidate FSLIC and the relatively correctly analyzes the situation. the losses now facing FSLIC. few unsalable thrifts over the next five The article follows: Second, the 2,000 or so healthy thrifts years. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, [From the Wall Street Journal, July 17, would bear the full costs of this bailout. But the thrift regulator, should ~lso be dis­ 1986] their pockets are not deep enough to absorb solved, since there would be no more thrifts FSLIC's prospective losses. Further, it is a for it to regulate. This would finally end the TH:xs SAVINGS AND LoAN MEss WoN'T Go dangerous precedent to ask an industry's longstanding incestuous relationship be­ AWAY winners to bail out its losers. tween the thrift-industry trade associations CBy Bert Ely) Finally, the plan suggests that FSLIC and the Home Loan Bank Board. Congress soon may bow to Reagan adnlin­ spend Just $5 billion annually over the next Today the thrifty industry, in an attempt istration requests and write a multibillion­ five or six years to resolve its problems. to maintain its independence, can still block dollar check to bail out the Federal Savings However, FSLIC should spend up to $15 bil- any attempts to be melded into the broader July 29, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18021 banking industry. As soon as FSLIC needs Freddie Mac. It should be remembered that guarantee both are applicable to each pool of tax dollars, though, melding will suddenly getting institutional investors to invest in these mortgages, not each mortgage, and that the become more attractive to Congress. residential mortgage-backed securities was Government guarantee is not a guarantee of TECHNOLOGY PASSED THEM BY not an instant or easy thing. In fact, efforts by the securities issued by the facility. This ar­ There will be a few individual losers­ the purely private sector to establish a sec­ rangement permits several mortgages in the some thrift executives, regulators and stock­ ondary market in residential mortgage loans pool to go "sour" and yet no claim could be holders-in this process, but American tax­ were unsuccessful until the Federal Govern­ made under the guarantee unless the total of payers will benefit. Transferring surviving thrifts into FDIC, though, is not a panacea. ment lent its imprimatur to this secondary such defaulted mortgages exceeded 1 O per­ Rather, FDIC must become merely a way market through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. cent of the principal amount of the pool. station on the road to a marketplace that Based upon that residential mortgage expe­ The foregoing point is especially important relates the cost of depositor protection to rience, I, and those with whom I have been since studies done by the private sector have the risks assumed. This feature is now working, originally wanted to establish an agri­ established that less than 1O percent losses absent from all federal deposit insurance cultural loan Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. are incurred on agricultural mortgage loans programs. Unfortunately, progress toward However, we were not unmindful of the antip­ where good underwriting standards and credit­ risk-sensitive depositor protection cannot athy of this administration toward the creation occur until the FSLIC mess is cleaned up. worthiness criteria are applied. In short, prob­ The FSLIC problem is the Ohio and of any new agency or any governmental in­ ably the Secretary's guarantee will be more Maryland S&L problem on a much larger volvement in the private sector unless it was important to the perception of these securities scale. The same solution is called for: save absolutely essential. Nevertheless, and based than as actual loss protection. the healthy thrifts by shifting them to an­ upon the secondary market residential mort­ The bill permits any person or group, corpo­ other depositor insurer while disposing of gage experience, we knew some Government the basket cases at the lowest possible cost rate or otherwise, to form a secondary market participation would be necessary if a viable facility but to be approved and its pools to be to taxpayers. But that is not enough. Al­ secondary market in agricultural loans were to eligible for the Secretary's guarantee, such fa­ though the financial structure of thrifts has be established. cility must be adequately capitalized-$25 mil­ always been flawed, these institutions have We feel we have accomplished a balancing long met a widely perceived public need. lion minimum-and it must demonstrate that it of these concerns in the program we have in­ Time, technology and the rapidly evolving has had significant experience in the origina­ corporated in H.R. 4984. The bill does not es­ financial marketplace, however, now have tion of agricultural loans. passed them by. This phenomenon and a tablish a new Government agency, but utilizes flawed despositor-protection mechanism are a limited guarantee from the Federal Govern­ Under H.R. 4984, the Secretary's authority the root causes of the FSLIC crisis. The ment to provide the confidence the market will to guarantee pools of mortgages is limited to crisis wil not end, however, until these require initially if a successful secondary $4 billion and such authority to guarantee causes have been rooted out. market in agricultural loans is to be created. would expire 5 years after enactment. Of The secondary market program contemplat­ course, expiration of this authority to guaran­ FARM CREDIT ENHANCEMENT ed by H.R. 4984 calls for the creation of a fa­ tee new pools of mortgages would not affect ACT OF 1986 cility to act as the intermediary between the the Secretary's responsibility with respect to originator and investor which facility would guarantees previously issued. HON. COOPER EV ANS issue agricultural loan mortgage-backed secu­ Finally, Mr. Speaker, let me say that I do rities, fully guaranteed-100 percent-for not even suggest that enactment of H.R. 4984 OF IOWA will be a panacea for all of the ills in the Farm IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES timely payment of principal and interest by the facility. These securities would be backed by a Credit System. Rather, I contend its enact­ Tuesday, July 29, 1986 pool of mortgages which pool would be 90 ment will be a giant step toward making farm Mr. EVANS of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I have in­ percent guaranteed by the Secretary of Agri­ credit more affordable and available. We troduced H.R. 4984, the Farm Credit En­ culture. The facility issuing the securities cannot expect many of those who are pres­ hancement Act of 1986, a bill which I believe would be required to hold liquid reserves in ently bearing most of the burden for farm will help significantly in making more, and sufficient quantity to equal or exceed 10 per­ credit availability as portfolio lenders to contin­ more affordable, credit available to farmers cent of the principal balance of the outstand­ ue to do so when our financial and investment and those engaged in agri-business. ing mortgage pool. community is looking to secondary markets I don't suggest that enactment of this legis­ The facility, in establishing the pool of mort­ and the advantages they offer. With greater li­ lation will solve the existing problems in our gages to be guaranteed by the Secretary, quidity comes greater availability and with farm credit system but I am satisfied that its would be required to maintain underwriting greater availability, more affordability should enactment will help us avoid in the future, the standards acceptable to the Secretary and follow. That has been the experience with the credit crunch faced today by those engaged in would be required to exhaust its own reserves growth of the secondary residential mortgage agricultural pursuits. which are allocated to each pool before re­ market and there is no reason to believe the Today, there is no liquidity in the agricultural sorting to the Secretary's guarantee commit­ experience in agricultural credit would be any mortgage market. Attempts have been made ment. This pooled insurance concept virtually different. in the private sector by originators of agricul­ eliminates any risk to the Department of Agri­ Just as today there are those who feel tural loans to establish a secondary market in culture while at the same time it imposes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be priva­ such loans. Institutional investors have turned strong underwriting incentives for the facility. tized since the investor community has thumbs down on such attempts since they Although it is not dictated or specified in become confident with respect to residential seek the credit enhancements of a reliable in­ H.R. 4984, one alternative for the establish­ mortgage-backed securities, we feel the termediary which can guarantee timely receipt ment of its required reserves by the facility market will embrace agricultural loan mort­ of principal and interest without resort to the would call for the facility to require all mort­ gage-backed securities once their quality and underlying mortgage loans which back the in­ gage originators to leave 1O percent of the reliability have been established with the help vestment securities. proceeds from mortgages sold to the facility of the Federal guarantee contemplated by The "approved agricultural loan facility" with the facility. Earnings upon these reserves H.R. 4984. This is not a program which must contemplated by H.R. 4984 will be that sec­ would be periodically returned to the originator continue and expand. Rather, it is a program ondary market jntermediary and will be able to as would the reserves themselves as the which we realistically believe could be termi­ match those institutions capable of originating mortgages backing each issue are amortized. nated within the 5-year period set forth in the farm mortgages with investors seeking to If this alternative is used, originators would bill. Whether this is too optimistic remains to place long-term fixed income investments. Se­ have a strong incentive to underwrite only be seen, but without this Federal startup help, curities issued by these facilities will appeal to creditworthy mortgages since these reserves we know the farm credit situation will continue a broad spectrum of institutional investors be­ will have been pledged against the first losses to suffer. cause they will have the characteristics and suffered with respect to each pool of mort­ Mr. Speaker, I respectfully suggest that the quality sought by such investors much like the gages originated. probabilities of substantial benefit greatly out­ market has accepted residential mortgage­ It should be emphasized that the 10-percent weigh the limited risk our government would backed securities issued by Fannie Mae and private sector reserves and the 90 percent be taking should H.R. 4984 be enacted. I urge 18022 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1986 my colleagues to give this bill their careful With these thoughts in mind, I commend the Even before the conference this week, consideration. following New York Times article to my col­ there were signs of closer cooperation leagues in the Congress: among South American countries, with Co­ lombia carrying out joint enforcement ac­ LATIN NATIONS JOIN UNITED STATES IN tions at different times with Peru, Ecuador THE ADMINISTRATION HAS EFFORT TO COMBAT DRUGS and Brazil. KEPI' THE DRUG ISSUE ON The impetus for agreeing on a regional THE FRONT BURNER AND OUR RIO DE JANEIRO. April 26.-Amid growing strategy came from those countries most di­ LATIN ALLIES ARE NOW JOIN­ alarm at the impact of drugs on their own rectly affected by narcotics, including the ING US IN THE BATTLE societies, Latin American nations have United States. joined the United States in preparing a Colombia's Justice Minister, Enrique strategy to combat narcotics trafficking Parejo Gonnalez, said the new commission HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD throughout the Americas. should be backed by "substantial resources" OFMICWGAN The United States already works with sev­ provided by a special fund. eral governments in the region to fight the The United States, however, argued that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES drug trade, but a conference here this week unnecessary bureaucracy could be avoided Tuesday, July 29, 1986 under the auspices of the Organization of by tapping the existing United Nations American States marked the first time the Fund for Drug Abuse Control. Since the Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I com­ problem had been tackled at a hemispheric United States would be expected to provide mend the President for his unflagging efforts level. most resources for a new fund, the confer­ to do something about the drug problem. Re­ The main instrument for action will be a ence agreed to postpone a final decision on cently, Latin American nations have joined the new Inter-American Commission for Drug the commission's financing mechanism. United States in working together to fight nar­ Control, modeled after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. It will co­ cotics trafficking in this region. ordinate various aspects of the war against Last week, members of the Organization of CANCER VICTIMS FIGHT FOR narcotics, including enforcement, the judi­ RIGHTS IN THE U.S.S.R. American States [OAS] joined forces in the cial role, eradication and education. war on drug trafficking with the creation of an But no less important, according to United inter-American Drug Control Commission. States officials, the conference reflected a HON. JAMES J. FLORIO new recognition by Latin American nations Twenty-Two OAS members recently signed OF NEW JERSEY the Joint Drug-Fighting Agreement in Rio de that narcotics are no longer simply a prob­ lem for the United States, and that their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Janeiro at the close of a conference on drug own youth and institutions have also Tuesday, July 29, 1986 trafficking. become targets of powerful trafficking Since the early days of his administration, rings. Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, my recent visit to President Reagan focused his attention and Deputy Attorney General D. Lowell the Soviet Union included a number of meet­ U.S. Government resources on the war Jensen, who headed the United States dele­ ings with Soviet refuseniks that continue to against drugs. While trying to reduce the gation to the conference, said narcotics fight for the right to leave the Soviet Union demand for these illegal substances in the posed "an extraordinary dangerous threat" and join their families in circumstances where to the entire continent and added, "Just as United States, our Government has done no one nation is responsible for the scourge they can live in freedom. My meeting with a much to slow the shipment of narcotics from of narcotics, no one nation can face this tre­ group of cancer victims and their families was Latin America to this country. mendous problem alone." one of the most moving experiences of the In recent years, our Government has quietly Because drug traffickers "have no respect entire visit and I wanted to share with my col­ helped our allies in this hemisphere confront for national boundaries" and quickly relo­ leagues my impressions of this meeting with a the drug problem by providing resources and cate when they feel pressure in one country, group of very courageous individuals. training to those involved in the fight against only a multinational response can work, he Inna Kitrosskaya-Meiman, Tatjana Kheifetz­ said. narcotics. More recently, United States military "Nations have begun to understand how Bogomolnaya, and Benjamin Charny are not units were used in a joint United States-Bolivi­ important it is to band together and, in so unique in their long-term efforts to obtain visas an antidrug effort in Bolivia. doing, to share resources, intelligence and from the Soviet Government in order to emi­ While the United States has a serious drug manpower," he said. grate and join families and friends living in problem of its own, our friends to the South Until perhaps two years ago, many Latin Israel and the United States. Their tragedy, are now experiencing the same problem with American governments minimized the shared by thousands of Soviet Jews in similar their youth. Latin American countries now rec­ threat posed by narcotics, arguing that pro­ straits, is further compounded by the fact that duction of marijuana, cocaine and heroin in ognize that their own children are in danger their territories was merely a response to all three have been stricken with serious from the drug menace and that their societies uncontrolled demand for these products in forms of cancer while waiting for visas that are under political threat by the drug dealers. the United States. In some cases, they also never come. All three have some hope of fur­ Under the new accord, policies to reduce quietly welcomed the resulting foreign ex­ ther treatment in the West where there has demand for drugs, prevent drug abuse and change that entered their economies. been significant progress in successfully treat­ combat drug trafficking must be included in But attitudes began to change after Co­ ing some forms of cancer. All three have, by the social and economic development policies lombia's Justice Minister, Ricardo Lara Bon­ necessity, undergone operations and painful of the member states. The accord recom­ illa, was killed on orders of narcotics bosses treatments that have not worked and have ex­ in April 1984. Suddenly, it seemed, the Co­ mended increased exchange of information on lombian Government awoke to the econom­ acerbated other ailments. All three have re­ illegal drug marketing and trafficking, eradica­ ic and political power that drug rings had peatedly applied to the OVIR for visas to emi­ tion of illegal crops and the establishment of acquired and to the extent that the coun­ grate but have been repeatedly denied. Yet all rigid controls for the manufacture, transport, try's youth had become consumers of a three are continuing their efforts to leave the importation, exportation, and marketing of toxic coca base product known as "besuco." Soviet Union and show their courage and hu­ chemicals and other materials used in the nar­ In close collaboration with the United manitarianism by serving as models for other cotics manufacturing process. States, Colombia began a fierce anti-narcot­ refuseniks. ics offensive that in some cases prompted Thanks to the cooperation of our allies, our traffickers to move cocaine laboratories and Inna Kitrosskaya-Meiman, a 53-year-old Government will now be getting greater coop­ transshipment points to nearby countries, English teacher, is dying of cancer diagnosed eration from Latin American countries in including Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay in 1983. After four hazardous operations, United States efforts to go after the money, and Brazil. Soviet doctors have informed her that they resources, and shipments of Latin American Since then, Mexico and Peru have also cannot do anything further for her and she drug exporters. come to recognize the negative repercussion has been abandoned to her fate. It is both I commend the administration for its deter­ of narcotics trafficking on their own soci­ tragic and ironic that Inna has been accepted eties. Mexico is struggling to control a new mination to vigorously attack the drug prob­ surge in heroin production, and Peru is car­ by the Sloan-Kettering Experimental Program lem. I also congratulate our Latin American rying out a purge of corrupt elements in its in New York and invited by other oncological allies for their recent decision to join us in our police force as part of a new campaign clinics in Sweden, France, and Israel. She is war on drugs. against cocaine traffickers. being denied the right to treatment because July 29, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18023 her husband, Prof. Nahum Maiman was in­ them to take our dangerous illness into con­ the back of her neck in the fall of 1983. volved in some work for the Soviet Academy sideration when deciding our fate. Two of us After an operation that October, it was obvi­ of Sciences at the dawn of the atomic age. have written to Mr. Gorbachev and earlier ous that my wife could not find adequate This work has since lost its importance and to his predecessors but to no avail. We know treatment in the Soviet Union. She was in­ that several years ago refuseniks diagnosed vited to go for treatment to oncological clin­ Professor Maiman's knowledge is no threat to as having cancer were granted the permis­ ics in Sweden, the United States, France, the Soviet Government. sion to leave together with their families in, and Israel. Former Minister of Health of Tanya-Tatjana-Kheifetz-Bogomolnaya, a conformity with letter and spirit of Helsinki France, Mme. Simone Veil, not only sent an 47-year-old translator at the State University Final Act about the humane approach to re­ invitation, she came to Moscow herself to of Moscow, was diagnosed with breast cancer unification of families with ailing family call on my wife. Regrettably, OVIR categor­ several months ago. She first applied for a members. The fact that we are still denied ically refused to grant an exit visa. visa . 3 years ago and her husband, Benjamin exit visas is incompatible with the assertion The only treatment given my wife was re­ by M.S. Gorbachev at the XXXII Congress peated surgery. In less than two years, she Bogomolnaya, first applied 20 years ago. Several of the CPSU that reunification of families was subjected to four hazardous operations. weeks ago, they were again refused despite should be approached in humane and posi­ In the fall of 1985, when the tumor regener­ Tanya's illness and despite the fact that the tive spirit. ated, specialists feared risking another oper­ majority of their family members no longer live Two breakthroughs in cancer therapy ation. Since then, my wife has been aban­ in the Soviet Union. have recently occurred in the United States. doned to her fate, with an increasing tumor Benjamin Chamy, a 48-year-old mathemati­ One involves a substance called tumor ne­ and increasing intolerable pain. cian, was diagnosed as having melanoma in crosing factor and the second, a complex Last December, a famous physician and 1979. Since then, he has been operated on procedure in which the white blood cells of scientist, Prof. Douglas P. Zipes, wrote you the patient with cancer are removed, incu­ that there had just been two remarkable only to succumb to a number of heart ail­ bated with a cancer-killing substance, and breakthroughs in cancer therapy in the ments. His tumors are recurring but he cannot reinfused into the patient. Both of these ap­ United States, with some hope of curing my undergo further operations because of his car­ proaches are highly experimental but would wife. Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Charles diac problems. He has been refused over the offer Inna Kitrosskaya-Meiman some hope Grassley wrote Soviet Ambassador Do­ last 7 years ostensibly because of his work in curing this cancer. brynin that my wife had been accepted for with the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the We appeal for help to Heads of Govern­ the Sloan-Kettering Experimental Program Scientific Research Institute of Automation ments who signed the Helinski Accord in in New York. Last month Prof. Zipes again and Instrument-Making. Even his former em­ 1975, to the Parliaments of these countries, appealed to you by telex to allow my wife to to oncologists and physicians for whom the go for treatment to the United States before ployers acknowledge that his work was not Hippocratic oath is not an empty phrase, to it was too late. considered secret. the international medical community, to For clarity's sake, I must say a bit about All three of these refuseniks have demon­ cancer patients who are familiar with all myself. I am a mathematician 75 years old. I strated stoicism and bravery in their efforts to pain and fear, to people of good will all over had the misfortune at the dawn of the leave the Soviet Union. In an interesting de­ the world. Reunification of our families, Atomic Age to do certain quite unrealistic velopment, they held a press conference in elimination of stress, and peace of mind is a calculations for the late Academician the Soviet Union several weeks before my matter of life and death for us. Landau at the Institute of Physical Prob­ trip. The fact that they were allowed to hold Inna Kitrosskaya-Meiman, Naum lems of the Soviet Academy of Sci­ Meiman, Tatjana Kheifetz-Bogomol­ ences. My calculations have long since lost this press conference is encouraging. Howev­ naya, Veniamin Bogomolnaya, Benja­ all sensitivity and interest to everyone ev­ er, their actions were not covered by the min Charny, Yadwiga Charny, Anna erywhere. Academy President Alexandrov, Soviet press though some information was re­ Charny. who was the Director of the IPP when I ported by the Western press. I wanted to worked there, certified back in 1976 that I share with my colleagues a copy of the press An Open Letter to General Secretary M.S. possess no secret information. How can release issued by this group of courageous in­ Gorbachev anyone talk seriously about scientific, and dividuals. I also wanted to share with my col­ HONORABLE GENERAL SECRETARY GORBA­ in my case, merely calculatory, secrets more leagues letters written by Inna, Tanya, and CHEV: On March 15 Pravda published your than 30 years old? It is absolutely absurd. reply to a letter from the head of the Inter­ Yet that absurd fabrication was enough Benjamin imploring Soviet authorities to allow national Life Institute, Prof. M. Marois. not only to deny me any inalienable right to them to leave and seek treatment. The per­ That letter was sent to both you and Presi­ emigrate, to reunite with my only daughter mission given to Yelena Bonner to come to dent Reagan. abroad. It denies my wife her only chance of the United States and obtain treatment for her You highly assessed the purpose of the survival. problems was encouraging. I hope my col­ Institute. To Prof. Marois' first question, In January 1980, I was called in to a local leagues will join me in requesting the Soviet "Do you consider it the primary task of our Prosecutor's Chief of Investigation and told Government to allow these individuals to time, from the biological, philosophical, and officially that because of my former classi­ leave and extend their hope in finding cure for political point of view, to assert that life, es­ fied work, it had been decided never to let pecially human life, is the highest value?" me emigrate. I asked who had decided, and their ailments. The release and letters follow: you replied, "Yes, certainly yes," and then was told that no one had the right to tell PREss RELEASE developed your views on the question in me. It had been decided by a competent We, Inna Kitrosskaya-Meiman, Tatjana detail. body. This echoes the nightmares of Kafka Kheifetz-Bogomolnaya, Benjamin Charny, Your eloquent response cannot fail to and Orwell. It appears from the cruel, and members of our families, have joined in create a most favorable effect among many senseless treatment of my wife that my a group to make people of the world aware people the world over. But only your atti­ secret life sentence covers her too. After all, of our grave situation and to plead with tude to the fate of ordinary people, not the she married me 26 years after I had com­ them for help. controversial finesses and complexity of pletely ceased secret work. We are refuseniks, who, while waiting for international affairs, can serve as the litmus Not long ago, my wife received an invita­ many years for permission to emigrate to paper for assessing your reply. tion from Mrs. Max Kampelman to visit her Israel for reunification of our families, were I wrote you last October that the Soviet as a guest for three months. The invitation striken with cancer. Visa Office and the authorities is endorsed by U.S. Senators Gore, Pell, Ste­ All pain and suffering that we have to backing it had doomed my wife, a seriously vens, Wallop, Moynihan, Rudman, Warner, bear because of our disastrous illness is ag­ sick 53-year-old woman, to a torturous, slow Hart, and Nunn, Ambassador Zimmerman, gravated by multiple stresses of our life as death. My wife's life was being sacrificed in and Ambassador Kampelman himself. refuseniks. After applying for emigration the name of imaginary security for the The Soviet national Visa Chief Col. Kuz­ visas all of us lost our jobs; we are separated Soviet Union, which would supposedly be netsov refused to even read the invitation. from our immediate relatives living now in threatened if this piteously sick woman He said my wife would be refused permis­ Israel, USA and Canada. Some of us have were allowed to take advantage of invita­ sion to visit abroad. He knew, he said, that gone through all kinds of harassment, such tions to go abroad for treatment. the real reason for any trip would be to get as searches, house arrests, shadowing, inter­ It is in your power to prevent such a crime medical treatment. He made that sadistic rupted telephone and post communication. against humanity. This would only confirm statement right after your reply to Prof. Our health is in such a state that we have your reply to Prof. Marois. If not, what is Marois appeared in the press. been officially recognized as invalids. Each all your pathos worth? My fight for the life of my wife, totally of us has repeatedly appealed to the OVIR My wife, Inna Kitrosskaya, is a teacher of lawful and without violating a single Soviet and other Soviet organizations, requesting English. She was stricken with sarcoma on law, has produced a certain peculiar result: 18024 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1986 our phone was cut off on March 25. How months later a painful myocardial infarc­ tinuing deaths in the black South African com­ despicable to deprive such a terribly sick tion knocked me down. For a week I was in munity. woman, bedridden, requiring constant care a reanimation department with a pacemak­ and medical assistance, of her telephone. I er attached to me. After a certain recovery Congressman BILL GRAY, my friend and col­ myself, at the age of 75, have cardiac prob­ period my health got poorer again. I have to league from Philadelphia, delivered the Demo­ lems and several other ailments. The two of visit oncologists and cardiologists regularly. cratic response to the President. He stood up us live alone. Tumors have appeared on my neck and thy­ for the majority of Americans, to say that we Whose point of view on the value of roid, which the doctors would operate but do not approve of apartheid. That Americans human life is prevalent-Col. Kuznetsov's, for my cardiac problems. In 1984 I spent 4 support tough action against the South African the official who ordered our phone cut off, months in a hospital again. I have also got or yours? some other chronic deseases: hypertension, Government. That sanctions are morally right Respectfully, ishemia, stenocardia, autoimmunic thyroidi­ and politically effective in this case. Prof. NAHUM MEIMAN. tis, enderteritis obliterance. Officially, I His was the strong, forceful statement that I have been acknowledged a second-group in­ wish our President had made. Representative TANYA KHEIFETZ valid. GRAY'S eloquent indictment of apartheid is Tanya Kheifetz, 47, translator, worked In the course of these 7 years I have re­ one I hope every member of this body saw peatedly received refusals from the OVIR most of my life at the State University of last week. For those who missed it, I insert Moscow. Translated scientific publications on security grounds concerning my former in biology, chemistry, medicine into English; work. Some words about it. Representatives GRAY'S response to the worked as a simultaneous translator at nu­ Before applying I had worked at two President into the RECORD at this point: merous international meetings, including places-at the Scientific-Research Institue OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC RESPONSE TO THE two Dr. Chasov's World Congresses of Car­ of Automation and Instrument-Making, PRESIDENT'S SOUTH AFRICA ADDRESS since 1959 to 1971, and then, at the Institute diology. Have translated into Russian sto­ Today, President Reagan declared the ries by American authors, e.g. James Gould of Control Sciences of the Academy of Sci­ ences of the USSR, since 1971 to 1979. The United States and Great Britain co-guaran­ Cozzens, Bernard Malamud, Truman tors of apartheid. Capote, John Updike, Roald Dall, Cyril nature of my personal work was always Comblood; recently

71-059 0-87-6 (Pt. 13) 18028 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1986 receiving the report, deployment should Some questions had a bitter tone, and many SINGLETON SLASHES INTO DALLAS-SOUTH begin. asked about the extent of similar problems JERSEY PUBLISHER TRIES A NEW TURNAROUND While some of the more ex9tic, whiz-bang in the United States. technology will indeed require years, per­ Mr. Meese steadfastly refused to discuss haps decades, of development, much of SDI any critical comments about Mexico made In just 2112 years, New Jersey publisher could be deployed right now using existing by other United States Government offi­ William Dean Singleton has put together an technology. A point-defense system for our cials, and he agreed with the Mexicans that impressive empire of 37 small­ ICBM silos on the Great Plains would do drug trafficking was a significant problem and medium-sized daily and weekly newspa­ nicely. in this country, too. Asked if high United pers in seven states. It's time to get Star Wars off the drawing States officials were involved in drug traf­ Starting with a small group of investors boards and onto the firing line. We fear ficking, Mr. Meese said: "Yes, drug traffick­ and little else in January 1984, Singleton, that unless this happens soon, Star Wars ing brings corruption wherever it goes." 34, bought the Gloucester County Times in may be only a memory by Jan. 21, 1989. He continued: "We have agents of the Woodbury, N.J. The company then bought Drug Enforcement Administration who an average of about one paper a month, have been prosecuted. We recently had an most of them in the 9,000 to 58,000 circula­ MEXICO-A NEIGHBOR IN CRISIS assistant United States attorney who was tion range. prosecuted for being involved in drugs. And Now Singleton, and his Woodbury-based HON. MORRIS K. UDALL we have had a number of sheriffs and other company, MediaNews Group Inc .. are enter­ OF ARIZONA police officials who have been involved in ing the big leagues. This month the compa­ ny purchased the Dallas Times Herald, one IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES drug trafficking." One Mexican reporter asked Mr. Meese of the nation's largest newspapers, in a Tuesday, July 29, 1986 whether he believed Senator Jesse Helms, move analysts say puts the firm among the Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, this is the 10th in the North Carolina Republican, should hold country's top 10 newspaper companies. a series of articles I have submitted over the additional hearings on Mexico before his The move will also pull Singleton's corpo­ rate headquarters away from Woodbury to course of the past several weeks to illustrate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on West­ ern Hemisphere Affairs. Testimony on drug a new home in Dallas. the current crisis in Mexico. trafficking and Government corruption in "That move definitely puts them over the I feel it is critically important to remember Mexico during three previous hearings over threshold," said Victoria Butcher, media an­ that Mexico is not some distant trouble spot, the last six weeks caused the storm in rela­ alyst with Eberstad-Fleming securities firm but rather, our friend and valued neighbor to tions. in New York. the south. Mr. Meese said he did not think he should "They've acquired their flagship and In today's article, Attorney General Edwin comment on what the Senate should or they're up among the leaders of newspaper Meese Ill, observes that it is time for Ameri­ should not do, but added: "Whatever infor­ owners. Obviously there is a big gap be­ can officials to stop "pointing fingers" at mation that has been attempted to be pre­ tween them and the knight-Ridders, the sented, I think we have reached a point Gannetts and Mirrors. But Mexico. Recent criticisms have caused a rift in where I doubt if there is any new informa­ they're up there now." relations between the United States and tion that might be helpful." With the $110 million purchase of the Mexico. As seen in Mexico and the United He said: "I think the attention ought to be 244,629-daily circulation Times Herald, Me­ States, the major corrupter between our two devoted by all branches of Government now diaNews now has assets worth at least $500 borders is drug trafficking and as Attorney at solving the problem, not at pointing fin­ million, analysts say. General Meese commented, drug trafficking gers." The purchase not only puts MediaNews brings corruption wherever it goes and regard­ On border problems, several Mexican among the elite of print journalism but also less of how Mexico and the United States journalists asked whether the Government's puts it firmly in the middle of one of the country's most intense newspaper wars. criticize each other, our intention to solve this plan to enhance law enforcement on the border because of drug trafficking meant The Times Herald, owned by Times problem should be a joint effort, by all that illegal immigrants would face a tough­ Mirror Co. from 1970 until this month, has branches of both governments. As this article er time as well. Mr. Meese declined to re­ slowly been losing ground to the Dallas indicates, "pointing fingers" will not solve any spond, saying plans were still being drafted. Morning News, owned by the Texas-based problems. media conglomerate, Belo Corp. The article follows: According to figures furnished by the [From , July 4, 19861 DEAN SINGLETON ASSEMBLES A Audit Bureau of Circulation for the six­ month period ending March 31, the Morn­ MEESE URGES CURB ON MEXICO CRITICS NEWSPAPER EMPIRE ing News had an average daily circulation of , went into a frenzy over draft a new document which would subse­ our hearings the past two years, I have dis­ the hapless Habib and anyone, such as Sec­ quently be presented, almost as an ultima­ cussed the troublesome shortages of vac­ retary of State George Shultz, who stood tum, to Managua. cines and their rapidly rising cost with the behind him. Confusion reigned as every arm Meanwhile, poor Habib was forced to eat Secretary and other Department witnesses. of the administration seemed to flail about political crow. In a speech to the San Fran­ In recognition of the threat any shortage independently. The Department of Defense cisco World Affairs Council on June 16, in the supply of childhood vaccines would issued a report on the apocalyptic conse­ Habib denounced the Contadora Treaty pose to the health of our nation's children, quences of signing an effective security that he had so recently endorsed, and sav­ the Secretary convened in 1985 a special agreement, while the White House and aged the Nicaraguan leaders as "Leninist ad­ supply and liability. Based on the group's study. In the midst of mayhem even Reagan venturers who were able to steal a whole meetings and its report issued in April 1985, remained silent on Nicaragua. country." I have introduced H.R. 5260, the Childhood Some observers saw the entire affair as a It is hard to believe that the extraordi­ Vaccine Protection Act. This legislation in­ Shultz-Habib initiative recogmzmg the nary crudity with which the Administration corporates many of the concerns and sug­ bankruptcy of the contra policy and indicat­ has murdered Contadora...:_the open manipu­ gestions expressed by the working group ing a willingness to co-exist with the Sandi­ lation of the Central American leaders and and has been endorsed by the Secretary and nistas. Others saw it as a Machiavellian ma­ the pathetic performance of Habib under the Administration. neuver to discredit, once and for all, the "ac­ pressure-will win votes for contra aid. The The working group reported that vaccines commodationists" who believed a negotiated overall impression has been one of botch have had a very significant impact on the settlement with Nicaragua was possible. and butchery beside which Nicaragua has improvement in the health of our nation's Despite confusion and suspicion, the possi­ looked both conciliatory and principled. children. In fact, almost all children attend­ bilities apparently opened by the Habib However, the administration has at least ing pubic schools are now required by law to letter raised new hopes for Contadora and blocked, for now, the awful prospect of a receive a series of immunization vaccines. encouraged opponents of contra aid. The Central American settlement it has not dic­ A small number of children, however, Sandinista government indicated that, even tated. have suffered side effects of varying magni­ without a prior U.S. commitment to end aid tudes from these vaccines. The families of to the contras, it was prepared to meet the the children have rightfully sought dam­ June 6 signing deadline. In addition, Nicara­ CHILDHOOD VACCINE ages from the pharmaceutical firms that gua proposed not just arms reduction, but PROTECTION ACT produced the vaccines in compensation for the total elimination of "offensive" arms any illness and expense caused from these from Central America, including all military HON. C.W. BILL YOUNG unanticipated side effects. aircraft, helicopters and tanks-precisely OF FLORIDA The working group noted that the surge the items most cited by the Reagan Admin­ in liability and tort claims against virtually istration as evidence of Manaugua's aggres­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES all businesses, industries, and services in our sive intentions. Tuesday, July 29, 1986 nation has had a tremendous impact in par­ At the Esquipulas, Guatemala, summit ticular on the producers of vaccines. The meeting of Central American presidents, Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, action size and the unpredictability of claims Daniel Ortega went out of his way to avoid is urgently needed by Congress to ensure the awarded for punitive and noneconomic dam­ confrontation with his counterparts that continued supply of reasonably priced child­ ages, such as for pain and suffering, in vac­ would endanger an accord, even turning the hood vaccines. cine-related cases has dramatically driven other cheek when accused of not being As a member of the House Appropriations up the cost of liability insurance for manu­ democratically elected. The meeting ended Subcommittee on Health, this has been a facturers. For instance Lederle Laborato­ with a communique unanimously endorsing matter of particular concern to me. The size ries, which produces the DPT vaccine to Contadora. and unpredictability of liability claims against protect children against diptheria, pertussis, At this point, the Reagan administration and tetanus, estimates that $8 of the $11.40 finally shook off the blow delivered by the pharmaceutical firms that manufacture vac­ per dose of its vaccine goes to cover liability sudden reversal of its Central America strat­ cines have dramatically increased the cost of self-insurance for the company. This is the egy, and reentered the arena poised to give vaccines while threatening their supply. Pro­ single biggest factor in the dramatic rise in Contadora the knock-out punch. Abandon­ ducers are unwilling to assume the financial the cost of immunization. The cost of a dose ing all pretense, Elliott Abrams said the risks associated with producing these vac­ of DPT has increased more than six-fold in Habib letter had been "erroneous." The cines, and as a result we are dependent in the last year, and almost tripled since the President lashed out at the Sandinistas and many cases on just one firm to produce a beginning of 1986. at congressional opponents of contra aid given vaccine. The current liability situation, and the in­ who were "so naive" as to believe a Conta­ ability of some companies to find insurers dora treaty would solve anything. Visiting Legislation I have introduced, H.R. 5260, willing to cover their products, serves as a President Jose Azcona Hoya of Honduras re­ the Childhood Vaccine Protection Act, would strong disincentive to pharmaceutical firms ceived $61 million in aid for saying all the provide some stability to the vaccine market to produce vaccines and to develop new and right things about the demonic Sandinistas. by reducing the unpredictable liability burden improved vaccine formulas. On June 10, an apprehensive President on manufacturers while continuing to allow The impact on the vaccine market is al­ Reagan offered to halve his contra aid re­ those who are injured by the administration of ready apparent. There a'te currently only quest to $50 million if Congress would hurry vaccines to be justly compensated. two firms producing the DPT vaccine, and and pass it. Mr. Speaker, following my remarks, I would in the case of several other immunization The greatest triumph, though, was to fi­ vaccines, there are only single distributors nally force Washington's Central American like to include testimony I presented on this of the products. This has resulted in period­ allies to join the administration in discard­ matter July 25, during a hearing of the House ic shortages of some vaccines and raises the ing the pretense that regional security and Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on risk of widespread shortages if any of these disarmament were ever really the issue. The Health and the Environment. I urged the com­ remaining producers should find it economi­ actual provisions of the Contadora treaty, mittee, as I urge my colleagues in the House, cally unfeasible to continue production. excruciatingly worked out over the last to expedite the consideration of this legislation The increasing cost and potential short­ three years, were suddenly irrelevant, as Ni­ so that we can take immediate steps to ages of vaccines have raised serious con­ caragua's neighbors backed Reagan in effec­ ensure the continued supply of reasonably cerns among pediatricians in Florida with tively asserting that no balanced Contadora whom I've discussed this matter. They want treaty could ever be acceptable because the priced childhood vaccines. to find an answer to this problem which Sandinista's, being deceitful communists, TESTIMONY OF UNITED STATES REPRESENTA­ threatens to compromise the health of our would not comply with it in any case. TIVE C.W. BILL YOUNG BEFORE THE HOUSE children. Despite the availability of the Period. ENERGY AND COMMERCE SUBCOMMITTEE ON DPT vaccine, they cite statistics from the On June 12, the foreign ministers of both HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT Centers for Disease Control that the El Salvador and Costa Rica issued a joint Mr. Chairman, thank you for the opportu­ number of pertussis, or whooping cough, statement declaring the peace process at an nity to testify before your Committee today cases reported in 1985 was almost double end. Not enough, they said, had been de­ regarding the very serious problems that the number reported in 1982. If the supply manded of Nicaragua in the way of democ- threaten the supply of childhood vaccines. of this vaccine should become threatened or July 29, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18031 the cost becomes prohibitive, the number of Committee on July 23, 1986, and ordered pletely excluded from Federal income tax­ whooping cough cases could dramatically in­ transmitted to the Budget Committee for inclu­ ation. In contrast, however, the pensions re­ crease. The same situation could one day de­ sion in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act ceived by public employees who were not velop for any of the vaccines which immu­ of 1986. It is my hope that the availability of a covered by the Social Security Act were fully nize our children against diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, or polio. separate bill reflecting our committee's actions taxable at prevailing tax rates. It is important My legislation would lend some stability will facilitate Member and public understand­ to note that public pensions take the place of to the vaccine market by making the insur­ ing of the measure. Social Security benefits for noncovered em­ ing of manufacturers more predictible while These amendments were developed in re­ ployees. Under Public Law 98-21, Social Se­ continuing to allow those who are injured to sponse to the concurrent resolution for the curity benefits are taxed for recipients whose be compensated. budget for fiscal year 1987, Senate Concur­ taxable income-excluding Social Security­ First, H.R. 5260 places a $100,000 limit on rent Resolution 120, which provided for a re­ plus one-half of their Social Security benefits any claim for non-economic losses related to the administration of a vaccine. Second, duction in Medicare expenditures of $550 mil­ and any interest received on tax-exempt there would be no limit on the reimburse­ lion in fiscal year 1987 and $3.3 billion over bonds exceeds an established base amount. ment a family could receive for economic the next 3 fiscal years. The provisions ap­ The base amount for an individual is $25,000; loss associated with injuries related to the proved by the Energy and Commerce Commit­ the base amount for a married couple filing a vaccine. And third, my legislation would tee are designed to make improvements in joint return is $32,000. For a married couple eliminate the award of any punitive dam­ the Medicare Program, to protect elderly and filing separately, the base amount is zero. ages relating to the administration of a vac­ disabled beneficiaries against increased costs These base amounts will remain fixed and will cine. The legislation also seeks to address the or reductions in services, and to achieve suffi­ not be indexed to inflation. The new base long-term concerns about childhood vac­ cient net reductions in part B expenditures so amounts also apply to "Tier I"-the so-called cines by establishing an Advisory Commis­ that, when combined with the effect of the ac­ Social Security portion-of railroad retirement sion on Childhood Vaccines. The Commis­ tions of the Ways and Means Committee, the benefits. sion would be appointed by the Secretary reconciliation instructions for the Medicare Under this legislation, a public employee and comprised of experts in the field of chil­ Program are met. would be able to deduct that portion of their dren's health including pediatricians, repre­ The budget resolution also contained funds Government pension up to the maximum al­ sentatives of public health departments, ex­ perts in the field of vaccines, the families of for specified improvements in the Medicaid lowable Social Security retirement benefit for children who have suffered injuries due to Program and for increased services under the an individual from their gross income. vaccines, insurance firms, and tort attor­ Maternal and Child Health Services block It is fundamentally unfair to continue to tax neys. grant found in title V of the Social Security the retirement benefits of public employees The Commission would be charged with Act. The Medicaid initiatives assumed in the differently than the Social Security retirement reviewing; the compensation policies under resolution, and contained in the committee's benefits of private sector employees, especial­ current law for vaccine-related injuries, cur­ recommendations, would (1) allow poor preg­ ly in light of the fact that public employees rent systems for supplying safe and effec­ tive vaccines, the status of research into im­ nant women and infants up to age 1, and poor had no choice as to whether their employ­ proving vaccines and developing new vac­ aged and disabled persons, with incomes up ers-a Federal, State, or local unit of govern­ cines, vaccine programs in other countries, to the poverty line, to have access to Medic­ ment-participated in the Social Security and the dissemination of vaccine informa­ aid services at State option; (2) allow States System or established a public employees tion to health care professionals, recipients, to offer the low-income elderly and disabled pension plan. their families, and the general public. protection against the burdens of Medicare I hope that my colleagues will join me in Mr. Chairman, the potential for severe cost-sharing requirements; and (3) hold cer­ sponsoring this legislation in the interest of shortages of childhood vaccines increases everyday as the rising costs of liability tain States harmless in fiscal year 1987 fairness for public employees. claims against the pharmaceutical industry against the loss of funds resulting from changes in the matching formula for Medicaid challenges the manufacturers' willingness to THE CASE OF THE ZOMBIE assume the financial risk of producing vac­ which were adopted as part of the Consolidat­ cines that protect the health of our nation's ed Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of S&L'S children. Your Committee is to be com­ 1986, Public Law 99-272. mended for holding these hearings to devel­ I would urge my colleagues to support HON. WILLIS D. GRADISON, JR. op a solution to the problems that face the OF OHIO producers of vaccines. It's my hope that you these amendments as part of the Budget will favorably consider H.R. 5260, my legis­ Committee's Omnibus Reconciliation bill. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lation which the Administration has en­ Tuesday, July 29, 1986 dorsed, so that we can take immediate steps to ensure the continued supply of reason­ PUBLIC PENSION PARITY ACT Mr. GRADISON. Mr. Speaker, as we pre­ ably priced childhood vaccines. Without OF 1986 pare to debate and vote on H.R. 4907-FSLIC some move to resolve this critical situation, recapitalization-I would like to note a charac­ Congress could be faced sometime in the HON. BRUCE F. VENTO terization by Prof. Edward Kane of the Ohio near future with the need for emergency OF MINNESOTA State University, the Nation's foremost author­ action to offset major shortages in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ity on the savings and loan crisis. Dr. Kane supply of childhood vaccines. defines a zombie S&L as an "institutional Tuesday, July 29, 1986 corpse capable of locomotion and various MEDICARE AND MEDICAID AND Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, today I am re­ forms of malefic behavior." Zombie S&L's can MATERNAL AND CHILD introducing a bill which I previously introduced report neither positive capital nor positive HEALTH BUDGET RECONCILIA­ in the 98th Congress to amend the Internal income, even if enormous accounting freedom TION AMENDMENTS OF 1986, Revenue Code of 1954 to provide an exclu­ is exercised. Kane puts the number of zombie H.R. 5287 sion from gross income for that portion of a S&L's at between 250 to 500-or one-twelfth governmental pension received by an individ­ to one-sixth of the 3,250 S&L's total-GAO, HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN ual which does not exceed the maximum ben­ last year, put the number at 459. Last week, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board verified OF CALIFORNIA efits payable under title II of the Social Securi­ ty Act which could have been excluded from this number to me, while noting that it is now IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES income for the taxable year. In short, this bill higher. Tuesday, July 29, 1986 attempts to treat the pension income of public The incentives facing a zombie or near­ Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am today in­ employees in the same manner as the Social zombie lead it to operate in a go-for-broke troducing H.R. 5287, the Medicare and Medic­ Security income of retirees from employment mode, characterized by too short investment aid and Maternal and Child Health Budget in the private sector. horizons and high risk investments. Reconciliation Amendments of 1986. These Prior to the passage of the Social Security On the regulatory side, H.R. 4907 recog­ amendments were reported in the form of a Act Amendments of 1983, Public Law 98-21, nizes that FSLIC's own financial condition pre­ committee print by the Energy and Commerce Social Security retirement benefits were com- vents it from doing its intended job. Without 18032 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1986 question, FSLIC needs to be recapitalized. provide an estimate of economic net worth. Mr. Speaker, I am including these editorials Equally, FSLIC needs a new mode of oper­ Recent proposals by the Federal Home Loan into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD so that they ation. Regrettably, H.R. 4907 ignores the latter Bank Board to increase capital and liquidity too can become part of our Nation's history, requirements, to move away from RAP ac­ and inadequately addresses the former. At the counting, and to strengthen oversight of just like the man I'll always remember as "Mr. same time, it makes a sham of budget ac­ credit quality represent steps in the right di­ Garmatz." counting and thereby establishes a terrible rection. The editorials follow: precedent. CFrom the Baltimore Sun, July 23, 19861 The statement on this subject by the THE SANDINISTA REGIME IN GARMATZ IS DEAD AT 83; WAS CITY Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee fol­ CONGRESSMAN lows: NICARAGUA: A SAD SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY . For the industry as a Mr. Garmatz, for whom the federal court­ whole, the deficit aggregated $3112 billion. Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, the Sandi­ house in Baltimore is named, served in the The number of economically or market­ nistas recently celebrated the seventh anni­ House of Repres.entatives from 1947 value insolvent S&L associations is underes­ versary of their coming to power in Nicaragua. through 1972 and was chairman of the Mer­ timated by GAAP, since GAAP includes as While they marked their regime's birthday in chant Marine and Fisheries Committee assets goodwill and other intangibles carried grand style, the masses in that country had when he chose not to run for a 14th term. at "book" values. In essence, economically A native of East Baltimore and product of insolvent S&Ls are de facto nationalized; in little to celebrate. Thanks to failed socialist policies, the econ­ the city's public schools, Eddie Garmatz was practice, they are appropriately described as an electrician by trade and worked, among "zombies." omy of the country is in shambles. The store other places, for the American Brewery The zombie development has reached its shelves are bare. present stage for several reasons. Superviso­ here before getting his first reward for an Nicaragua is an armed camp with Soviet increasingly active role as a soldier in pre­ ry monitoring and information development and Cuban advisers, and billions in Soviet­ systems for S&Ls have been inadequate. cinct and ward politics-a clerkship with the The Federal Home Loan Bank System chose made equipment. In spite of massive econom­ Maryland Racing Commission. to defer oversight problems; operating and ic problems, the comandantes persist in ex­ Mr. Garmatz recalled, in a 1972 interview, valuation losses were concealed by novel porting their failed revolution to neighboring asking Democratic Party bosses to name and irregular regulatory accounting princi­ countries. him as the replacement for a police magis­ ples and the use of a liquidity crite­ "Divine mobs" attack the homes of those trate who had entered military service in rion to differentiate between the viable and who criticize the Sandinistas. Ask the Miskito World War II. zombie institutions. The availability to in­ "It was a better-paying job, $4,000 a year," Indians to talk about human rights under the he said. "Now they get $25,000 a year and solvent institutions of FSLIC guarantees of junta. deposits has enabled most of these institu­ you can't get near them with a 10-foot tions to pass the liquidity test and continue The church and its priests are under attack. pole." in operation. What happened to the last free newspaper in And he recalled how another magistrate­ The presence of S&L zombies raises three that country? in a thinly veiled reference to petty bribes­ issues of public policy. First, S&L zombies There was clearly little to celebrate in Ma­ advised him, "Eddie, don't be one of those must be kept from absorbing additional nagua in recent days as the comandantes $15 judges." FSLIC resources by the contamination of cheered on their so-called revolutionary tri­ "I never took a nickel," he said. He had no legal experience, but then, he healthy institutions and through future op­ umph. I agree with the Contras. It's time for a erating losses. This suggests the need for ex­ said, legal experience was not necessary: peditious recapitalization, public conserva­ change. "All you need is a little 2 plus 2 equals 4 torship, interindustry takeover, or closure common sense." of these entities, since existing regulations EDWARD A. GARMATZ But Mr. Garmatz had more than common have been ineffective in curbing the zombie sense-he had political savvy. He allied him­ practice of bidding up deposit rates. Healthy self with one of Baltimore's most powerful institutions are also weakened by agency­ HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI politicians, Thomas J. D'Alesandro Jr., man­ imposed, across-the-board increases in de­ OF MARYLAND aging his successful campaigns for Congress posit insurance premiums. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and then, in 1947, for mayor. The second problem is to distribute the "I used to put a quarter-barrel of beer in economic losses already imposed on FSLIC. Tuesday, July 29, 1986 the back of my car and drive around and A 1982 resolution expressed the sense of Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, on July 22, the find somebody having a birthday party or Congress that the full faith and credit of people of Baltimore lost a good friend and the something, and we'd set it up and 15 to 25 people would come in," Mr. Garmatz re­ the U.S. might be available to potential House of Representatives lost a distinguished claimants against FSLIC reserves. If these called. "Then Tommy would just drop by ac­ potential claims were now to come due, former Member. Congressman Edward A. Gar­ cidentally, you know, and say 'Hi' all around FSLIC would be unable to meet them from matz died on July 22 at his home in Baltimore. and then we'd leave and go set up another its present resources. An injection of sub­ He was 83. He lived a long and useful life. one." stantial new capital into FSLIC would be re­ Here in Congress, Congressman Garmatz Tommy D' Alesandro returned the favor, quired. Although the largest possible part of will be best remembered for his distinguished orchestrating the nomination of Mr. Gar­ this capital injection should come in some service as chairman of the Merchant Marine matz by the Democratic Central Committee way from the thrift industry, recent propos­ and Fisheries Committee. It was during his for the vacant 3rd Congressional District als for new infusions to FSLIC from ad­ watch on that important committee that the seat-a seat he won in the 1947 special elec­ vances by the Federal Home Loan Banks do tion and would keep for the next quarter­ not fully resolve the problem. House passed the Merchant Marine Act of century. The third policy requirement is to prevent 1970. A staunch friend of shipping and labor­ a repetition of this development in the This act provided a vital boost to our Na­ Mr. Garmatz proudly retained his member­ future. A central element of reform must be tion's shipping industry. It also provided a ship in the International Brotherhood of an early elimination of well-known weak­ much-needed boost to the economy of Balti­ Electrical Workers Times-Union, July Tuesday, July 29, 1986 15, 1986] all fifty states working together to form one Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, on Jun·e 14 I nation. Our country is one where freedom MAss DEATH IN ETHOIPIA rings like a bell, where every day our nation People in the West contributed close to $1 had the honor of attending the Webster-Fair­ grows stronger. Most of all, our country has billion for the starving masses in Ethiopia. port NY Annual Flag Day Ceremony. The freedom, which is as precious as life itself. Most of that money was raised during the ceremony was conducted by the Webster­ When our country is in trouble, all the Live Aid international concert. Fairport Elks, with Ralph Fawcett presiding as people unite to help. Our flag that symbol­ As reports are making ever more clear, the exalted ruler. He and his organization izes our freedom in our nation makes us however, very little of that money has been have been leaders in charities and other com­ one. used to help feed the starving. In fact, some munity service matters for a number of years, JOHN KEUZER. of it is even being used by the barbaric gov­ and each year they sponsor this patriotic ernment of Lt. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam THE FIRING OF MR. LAWRENCE to forcibly relocate hundreds of thousands event. The Flag Day ceremony was a very of people in the colonel's "death march" special occasion, and I was moved by the pro­ KORB mass resettlement program. Some of the gram the Elks coordinated. They always do an grain purchased by the Live Aid money is excellent job in paying tribute to our flag, and I HON. DENNY SMITH being used to feed the colonel's troops and applaud them for this effort. purchase Soviet trucks. OF OREGON Included in the ceremonies was the presen­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In the meantime, the Ethiopians continue tation of winning essays written by three to starve. One report by French doctors young people in a contest under the subject Tuesday, July 29, 1986 states that as many as 100,000 of the 600,000 people who have been forced to relocate of "What the American Flag and My Country Mr. DENNY SMITH. Mr. Speaker, a few died during the marches, most from starva­ Mean to Me." The three finalists, Jennifer days ago, Mr. Lawrence Korb-a former As­ tion. The resettlement program is part of Amirante, Jennifer Pardo, and John Keuzer, sistant Secretary of Defense for President Col. Mengistu's campaign against the rebels have done a wonderful job in expressing how Reagan-was forced to leave the Raytheon fighting his Marxist regime. they feel about our flag, everything it symbol- Corp. because of pressure from the U.S. July 29, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18035 Navy. The reason the Navy sought Mr. Kerb's Lehman and his deputies are not acceptable lomatic, political, and economic policies, their removal was due to his questioning of our Na­ behavior. Further tactics of this sort will harsh treatment of Soviet Jews will continue tion's defense policy. only continue to alienate Congress and the to color our perceptions of every activity that American public. Mr. Speaker this is a most serious issue. Best personal regards, they undertake. The principles of freedom of speech that are DENNY SMITH, the cornerstone of this democracy could be Member of Congress. undermined if Congress allows the Navy, or A BILL TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMI­ any part of the Government, to act against a NATION BY AIR CARRIERS private citizen because he or she speaks out CALL TO CONSCIENCE VIGIL AGAINST THE HANDICAPPED against a government policy. FOR SOVIET JEWS I've entered in the RECORD, for my col­ HON. JOHN P. HAMMERSCHMIDT leagues interest, two letters I have written to HON. LANE EV ANS OF ARKANSAS the Department of Defense on this matter. OF ILLINOIS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES [The letters follow:] IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, July 29, 1986 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Tuesday, July 29, 1986 Washington, DC, July 17, 1986. Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, on JOSEPH SHERICK, Mr. EVANS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I wel­ June 27, 1986, the Supreme Court handed Inspector General, Department of Defense, come this opportunity to again bring light on down its decision in Paralyzed Veterans of The Pentagon, Washington, DC. the issue of Soviet Jewry. To some, such re­ America versus Department of Transportation. DEAR INSPECTOR GENERAL SHERICK: This petive appeals to the Soviet Government may The Court decided that section 504 of the Re­ letter is to formally request that you under­ seem useless. However, the gradual release habilitation Act did not apply to the major U.S. take an investigation into the recent episode of refuseniks and prisoners of conscience is airlines. Section 504 forbids discrimination regarding actions by certain Defense De­ political pressure and public outcry partment officials and Mr. Lawrence Korb. proof that against the handicapped. The fact that two deputies to Navy Secre­ can be effective in pressuring the Soviet This decision cast into doubt the obligation tary Lehman would seek the punishment of Union to live up to its obligations under the of airlines to provide air service to disabled a civilian businessman because he legiti­ Helsinki human rights accord. travelers without discrimination. mately questioned public policy-and that There are two very special families in Lenin­ It is clearly wrong for handicapped individ­ Secretary Lehman would endorse their ac­ grad whom I have been corresponding with. uals, many of whom are veterans who were tions-is an outrage. These actions show a The Rokhlins and the Vassermans have both injured while serving their country, to suffer blatant and cavalier disregard and contempt been seeking the simple freedom to fulfill their any discrimination by airlines. Indeed, when of freedom of speech, and I believe they also dreams of living in Israel. Civil Aeronautics Board Sunset may be illegal. we passed the Hopefully, your investigation will result in Leonid Rokhlin was employed by the Tech­ Act 2 years ago, we did so, in part, to ensure conclusions on the legality or illegality of nological Institute of Leningrad as a chemical that the CAB's rule-14 CFR part 382-pro­ the actions of Pentagon officials; and con­ engineer from 1979 to 1981. He worked at a hibiting discrimination against the handicapped clusions as to whether or not the civil rights pharmaceutical plant, but resigned for fear of would transfer to and be administered by the of Mr. Korb were violated. being involved in one of the frequent acci­ Department of Transportation [DOT]. But sev­ I look forward to hearing from you on this dents which occurred due to the heavy drink­ eral problems remain. matter. Thank you for your prompt atten­ ing by many of the workers. Since that time, For one, the CAB/DOT rule is divided into tion and assistance. Best regards, he has been unable to secure any type of pro­ three subparts and only the first subpart, con­ DENNY SMITH, fessional work and has been a watchman taining very general language, applies to the Member of Congress. since January 1984. major airlines. The other two subparts, which In March 1984, Leonid married Golda Ak­ contain more specific requirements and proce­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, hiezer, a young chemical engineer from the dures, apply only to very small airlines that re­ Washington, DC, July 17, 1986. city of Tbilisi. In December 1984, his former ceive essential air service subsidy payments. Hon. CASPAR WEINBERGER, wife and his only child received permisson to This creates confusion about the rights of Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Wash­ emigrate to Israel in order to be reunited with handicapped air travelers on nonsubsidized ington, DC. DEAR MR. SECRETARY: I was shocked and his former in-laws. airlines. saddened by the recent episode involving Since July 1982 Leonid has been refused In addition, we continue to hear about inci­ the Navy and Larry Korb, the former an exit visa because it was "not in the interest dents of discrimination against the handi­ Raytheon Company executive and former of the state." capped despite the CAB/DOT rule. While Assistant Secretary of Defense. Grigory Vasserman was professionally most airlines no doubt do their best to accom­ The fact that two depufies to Navy Secre­ trained as an engineer, but has been unable modate the handicapped, it is clear that some tary Lehman would seek the punishment of to obatin any type of professional employment questions do remain that call for legislative a civilian businessman because he legiti­ since August 1985. From August 1985 until clarification of the obligation of the airlines mately questioned public policy-and that Navy Secretary Lehman would endorse June of this year Grigory worked as a watch­ toward disabled air travelers. their actions-is an outrage. Not only do man. Last month he was fired from this job for Therefore, I am pleased to join with Con­ these actions show a blatant and cavalier no apparent reason. In November 1976 he gressman MINETA, chairman of the Aviation disregard and contempt of the freedom of was refused an exit visa to Israel because he Subcommittee, in introducing a bill to prohibit speech, but they also may be illegal. held "secrets." Grigory has been beaten, har­ airlines from discriminating against the handi­ I have requested the Inspector General of assed, humiliated, and threatened. In Novem­ capped. This bill would not require airlines to the Defense Department to investigate this ber 1984, he was featured in an anti-Semitic make expensive structural modifications or entire episode, and to report his conclusion film, "Hirelings and Traitors," shown on Lenin­ otherwise disrupt their operations. It would as to the legality or illegality of the actions of Pentagon officials. grad television. He was shown and named, simply prohibit them from discriminating Further, I am deeply disturbed by the and he and other refuseniks were branded as against otherwise qualified handicapped air "bunker mentality" which has been evident "Zionist agents" and "black-marketeers," be­ travelers. in the actions of the Department of De­ traying their country for gain. Since Grigory The bill amends section 404 of the Federal fense. Just last year, a Pentagon official ac­ was fired from his job the Vasserman family is Aviation Act to state that no otherwise quali­ cused me of "not acting in the best interests facing an even more serious situation. fied handicapped person, as defined by the of the nation" when I urged you to cancel Mr. Speaker, the world will be a better place Secretary of Transportation, shall, solely by further production of the DIVAD. Now, for all when tensions between the superpow­ reason of that handicap, be subjected to dis­ Navy bureaucrats can apparently bring about the dismissal of a private citizen be­ ers are reduced, and when every nation sub­ crimination in air transportation by any air car­ cause that citizen does not agree with the scribes to basic principles of human rights. rier. This is patterned after the statutory lan­ Pentagon point-of-view. The Soviet Union must realize that whether guage in section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. I would urge you, Mr. Secretary, to clearly we express our concerns in terms of appeals By amending the Federal Aviation Act, howev­ state that the actions and statements of Mr. to their sense of humanity or in concrete dip- er, the obligation of all airlines with respect to 18036 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1986 qualified handicapped persons will be made DR. HARRIS NAMED WOMAN OF The availability of cheap apartheid labor clear. The Secretary already has a definition THE YEAR leads American corporations to export jobs of "qualified handicapped person" in the regu­ rather than invest in jobs here at home. Ex­ lations. HON. JAMES J. FLORIO ports from South Africa then unfairly undercut To implement this general prohibition OF NEW JERSEY American goods in the world market. It costs against discrimination, the bill directs the Sec­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES us U.S.A. jobs. It cost us U.S.A. honor. American citizens are doubly penalized by retary to change the regulations at 14 CFR Tuesday, July 29, 1986 part 392 so that all subparts of that rule apply this administration's human rights and trade to all airlines. This is a simple change to bring Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I would like to policies. First, our textile industry will be sub­ the DOT regulation into conformity with the honor Dr. Dolores Harris, director of continu­ ject to an even greater flood of imports. More jobs that once formed part of the backbone of new law and should be accomplished within ing education at Glassboro State College who has recently been named "Woman of the our economy will be lost. Second, our trade 90 days of the date of enactment. Year" by the Business and Professional policy, by turning a blind eye to human rights The bill also directs the Secretary to review Women's Club of Gloucester County, NJ. violations, leaves America too often identified existing airline policies with respect to the dis­ Dr. Harris was the first vice president of the with regimes whose policies contradict Ameri­ abled. Currently, airlines submit these policies National Association of Colored Women's can values, traditions, and morality. to the Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] Clubs, vice chairperson of the Gloucester The administration's timing is especially which reviews them only from the safety County Commission on Women, president of thoughtless. This week the Senate Foreign standpoint. The bill would require DOT to also the United Way and president of the Associa­ Relations Committee is debating economic review them from the nondiscrimination stand­ tion for Adult Education of New Jersey. sanctions against South Africa. And in less point. This will help to bring some consistency In addition to her most recent honor, Dr. than 1O days, we will vote to override the to airline policies. The lack of consistency is Harris has also been nominated to the execu­ President's veto of the Textile and Apparel one of the main complaints we have heard tive board of the National Council of the Enforcement Act of 1985 that both the House from groups representing the handicapped. Women of the United States. and Senate passed last year. In sum, this bill will help to ensure that all Since 1974, Dr. Harris has been helping Mr. Speaker, this recent decision to allow airlines are subject to Federal antidiscrimina­ women develop careers through the continu­ more South African textile exports into this tion rules. No longer will there be any excuse ing education office and is, in large measure, country is a dig to every freedom-loving, hard­ for treating handicapped Americans as responsible for the development of a dis­ working American. I strongly urge the Senate second-class citizens when it comes to air placed homemakers program at Glassboro to follow the House's lead and vote for com­ travel. I urge my colleagues to support this State College. This program assists women plete United States divestment from South legislation. who, through separation, divorce or death, Africa, and I strongly urge my colleagues in must assume the responsibility of financially the House to override the President's veto of supporting their household. the Textile and Apparel Enforcement Act of Dr. Harris recently observed that much 1985. more must be done to develop better day A HALF-HEARTED ATTEMPT TO care facilities as we are far behind other coun­ tries in this regard. NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL AS­ SOLVE THE AFGHANISTAN SESSMENT OF HEALTH CONSE­ "Indeed," said Dr. Harris, "business, indus­ PROBLEM QUENCES OF CHERNOBYL NU­ try, and government are going to have to rec­ CLEAR DISASTER ognize their responsibility in providing better HON. WM.S.BROOMFIELD day care facilities if we are going to provide OF MICHIGAN women with an equal opportunity to be suc­ HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN cessful in today's marketplace." OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, I am sure my colleagues IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, July 29, 1986 would be pleased to join me in honoring Dr. Tuesday, July 29, 1986 Harris for her outstanding achievement, as Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Gorba­ Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, today I am in­ chev has made a faint-hearted attempt to re­ well as for her dedication and commitment to the community she serves. troducing House Concurrent Resolution 373, solve the Afghanistan problem. Withdrawing expressing the sense of the Congress that an 6,000 illegal troops is barely a step on the international cooperative effort should be un­ long road to peace in that long-suffering coun­ THE ADMINISTRATION'S TEX- dertaken to monitor and evaluate the short try. TILE TRADE AGREEMENT and long term health impacts resulting from His decision is full of sound and fury signify­ WITH SOUTH AFRICA the nuclear accident last April at Chernobyl in ing very little. At this point, a meaningful effort the Soviet Union. is needed, not a symbolic one. It's time to get HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI The Chernobyl accident last April 26 was all of the illegal Soviet troops out of that coun­ OF MARYLAND one of the worst in history. More than 100,000 try. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES people who live in the Chernobyl region of the Soviet Union were potentially exposed to radi­ If the Soviets were really sincere, they Tuesday, July 29, 1986 would set a fixed withdrawal timetable. They ation levels in the range of 1,500 times normal would pull out more than a handful of soldiers Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise with background levels. In the worker's community and not just 6 percent of them. They would anger to protest the recent administration de­ of Pripyat, only 2 miles from the plant, up to send home critical combat units rather than cision to grant South Africa a 4-percent in­ 20,000 people may have been exposed to ra­ antiaircraft units. How important are antiair­ crease in textile exports to the United States. diation up to 150,000 times normal levels. This effort by the President at "constructive About 30 of the most severely exposed indi­ craft units to the Soviets? Will they be used to engagement," is an outrage. viduals have died to date, and hundreds more silence the Afghani freedom fighters' air This administration continues to disregard are now hospitalized. But the true toll of the force? There are still over 100,000 Soviet oc­ the relationship between human rights and accident will not be known for decades. Many cupation troops in that country. trade. Apartheid enslaves South Africans. And exposed individuals are expected to die or The withdrawal of a handful of illegal Soviet its consequences undermine our own eco­ become ill in the years to come from cancers occupation troops is a drop in the bucket. It is nomic security and prosperity. The competitive or other ailments directly attributable to radi­ a meaningless gesture and a half-step toward trade advantage enjoyed by authoritarian re­ ation exposure. resolving the real problem. gimes is a direct result of repression. Workers Sadly, there is little that we can do to Come on, Mr. Gorbachev, you can do better are not paid a living wage. They are denied lessen the suffering of those in pain, or whose than that. Let's be sincere and get all of the the right to organize against political and eco­ health is likely to be affected. But we can do troops out. nomic exploitation. all that we can to make this tragedy a learning July 29, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18037 experience to help mankind come to better a specific view toward the development of an By way of background, the proposed refuge understand radiation-induced illnesses, and to international followup health assessment. is part of a 23,456 acre tract of land currently make even clearer the importance of avoiding owned by South Point, Inc. Much of the land future radiation exposures from nuclear acci­ AGRICULTURAL TRADE DEFICIT in question is enclosed ·within existing levees dents or nuclear warfare. that provide hurricane protection to the city of Most of what we know today about the New Orleans. The nature of the land inside of health effects of ionizing radiation is the result HON.ARLANSTANGELAND the hurricane protection levees tends to be of thorough reviews of the extensive immedi­ OF MINNESOTA fastlands and freshwater marsh. The land IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ate and long term followup care of residents outside of the levees is typical of the unique of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who were present Tuesday, July 29, 1986 and highly productive marshes found along when atom bombs were dropped on those Mr. STANGELAND. Mr. Speaker, recently the Louisiana coast. cities. This information added a great deal to the U.S. posted its first agricultural trade defi­ Over the years there have been ongoing medical understanding of how radiation ef­ cit in almost 30 years. As a result, stocks of discussions of future use of a large portion of fects the human body, but there is much that wheat and feed grains are beginning to pile up the land within the levee. Last year the current we still do now know. Forty one years later, in many areas of our country as sales of these owner of the property, South Point, Inc., sub­ we are much better equipped to conduct re­ gains to countries such as the Soviet Union mitted an application to the U.S. Army Corps search in this area. continue to decline. Furthermore, China and of Engineers to drain and prepare some Dr. Robert Peter Gale, the eminent bone India, two countries that previously imported 13,000 acres of its land holdings within the marrow transplant specialist from the Universi­ grains, are now turning into exporters. levee systems. The area outside of the ty of California at Los Angeles who has been The facts are astounding, a $26.6 billion ag­ levees, such as the Bayou Chevee marsh assisting the Soviets in caring for the Cherno­ ricultural trade surplus in 1981 shrank to $11.4 would be dedicated as a wetlands park and byl victims, has proposed a long term study billion 4 years later. And the Commerce De­ other areas outside of the levee would be and extensive followup treatment of the thou­ partment recently reported that farm imports placed in . a wetlands management area for sands of people affected by the Chernobyl ac­ in May outdistanced exports resulting in a water dependent uses. In addition, the Blind cident. I know that I join with others the world $348. 7 million deficit. Lagoon area, which is within the hurricane over in applauding Dr. Gale, and his col­ There is something basically wrong when protection levees, would be dedicated as a leagues Dr. Champlin and Dr. Terasaki of the greatest food producer in the world is city park. This area contains Little Oak Island, UCLA and Dr. Reisner of Israel, for their hu­ buying more agricultural commodities than it is an important archeological site because of its manitarian efforts, and in supporting their pro­ selling. Epecially when we have the tools at early Indian settlements. posal for extensive followup care and scientif­ hand to increase our agricultural exports and After extensive discussions with individuals ic review. thereby bring our Nation back into a favorable from the civic, environmental and business Preliminary efforts to conduct the large trade position. For example, the 1985 farm bill communities, the owners of South Point, Inc., provides for an Export Enhancement Program. scale medical and biological followup study have indicated their willingness to convey up This program allows the use of surplus agri­ envisioned by Dr. Gale and others have al­ to 19,000 acres of its holdings in eastern New cultural commodities as export bonus pay­ ready begun. Early plans for the Chernobyl Orleans to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ments to U.S. trading partners when they buy study include collection of exposure data from for the establishment of a national wildlife U.S. agricultural products. The purpose of this up to 130,000 potentially exposed persons refuge. The area in quesiton contains a wide and provision of periodic, documented medical program is to expand markets and meet unfair foreign competition. These bonus payments diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat and is examinations over a 30 year period. Several the best remaining waterfowl habitat in south­ U.S. Government agencies, including the Na­ reduce the price of our commodities to our east Louisiana. Tens of thousands of birds tional Academy of Sciences, the National In­ trade partners and enable the American and other waterfowl inhabit the area or use it stitutes of Health and the Department of farmer to become competitive in an area during their seasonal migrations. The tidal Energy, have expressed a desire to participate where the competition is highly subsidized. marsh outside of the existing levees is a valu­ in the effort. We need to make the export enhancement able estaurine nursery for the fin fish and shell I urge my colleagues to support me in this program workable and effective. This can be fish produced in the Lake Pontchartrain basin. proposal to see that the research effort is an done by allowing all traditional foreign pur­ In addition to this opportunity to preserve a international one that is neither Soviet nor chasers to become eligible for the bonus pro­ vast stretch of coastal wetlands, this refuge U.S. based. This is an international issue. gram. By doing this we treat each trading part­ concept holds the promise of providing new Many nations, including Poland, Sweden, Aus­ ner fairly and equally. We also add consis­ tria, East Germany, West Germany, Holland, tancy and reliability to the bonus program and recreation, tourist and educational opportun­ Greece, Yugoslavia and Luxemburg, were suf­ thereby insure its future success. ties for the residents and visitors to the New ficiently threatened by the accident at Cherno­ Orleans area. The setting for this refuge is byl to institute special public health safety particularly unique because it is immediately BAYOU SAUVAGE URBAN adjacent to a highly urbanized area that draws measures. Elevated radiation levels have NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE been detected over a much broader geo­ visitors from throughout the country and the graphic scale, including nations as far away as HON.LINDY(MRS.HALE)BOGGS world, and because it is easily accessible to the United States, although the levels here those residents and visitors because of exist­ OF LOUISIANA ing highways and roadways. were, fortunately, not high enough to consti­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tute a health concern. A portion of the South Point, Inc., holdings Chernobyl has come to symbolize the inter­ Tuesday, July 29, 1986 are not suitable for incorporation into the na­ national nature of nuclear safety concerns. All Mrs. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to tional wildlife refuge system. Because of the nations are at risk from the possibility of nu­ join with my colleague from Louisiana, JOHN importance of these particular tracts to the clear catastrophe. All can learn from the les­ BREAUX, in sponsoring H.R. 5262, legislation future of the city of New Orleans, I fully sons of Chernobyl. to authorize the establishment of the Bayou expect all parties involved to cooperate in I urge my colleagues to join with me as co­ Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge in Or­ planning for appropriate development that will sponsors of this resolution. It expresses the leans Parish, LA. The refuge, which would be in harmony with the Bayou Sauvage Urban sense of the Congress that there is a unique consist of approximately 19,000 acres of land Wildlife Refuge. opportunity for an international team of scien­ in the eastern part of the city of New Orleans, Unfortunately, there is not much time re­ tists to conduct cooperative research of the offers a unique opportunity to preserve a large maining in this session of Congress. I urge the human health impacts of the Chernobyl trage­ segment of coastal marshlands within a large Merchant Marine Committee to give H.R. 5262 dy, and calls on the President to continue joint and growing urban area by making it a part of the high priority it deserves. We have before United States, Soviet efforts at the next the national wildlife refuge system that is ad­ us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to preserve summit meeting between the heads of State ministered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv­ and protect an essential part of our coastal of the United States and the Soviet Union with ice. environment. We must not let this opportunity 18038 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1986 to establish the Bayou Sauvage Urban Nation­ friend, Dr. Owen L. Knox, on the occasion of W. AVERELL HARRIMAN al Wildlife Refuge slip through our fingers. his retirement from the Los Angeles Unified Finally, I would like to thank my friend from School District. HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI Louisiana for introducing H.R. 5262. As usual, he is in the forefront of efforts to protect the Dr. Knox's work over the past 34 years as a OF MARYLAND wetlands of Louisiana and to preserve the Na­ teacher, administrator, and civil rights activist IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has touched innumerable lives, and especially tion's environmental jewels for posterity. Tuesday, July 29, 1986 the lives of young people. In the classroom, GRANT HIGH SCHOOL TEAM Dr. Knox was known as a sensitive and in­ Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to WINS KNOWLEDGE BOWL sightful teacher, inspiring his students to hard mourn the passing of W. Averell Harriman. work and excellent achievement. As an ad­ The son of a railroad entrepreneur, Averell HON. VIC FAZIO ministrator, he not only managed the day-to­ Harriman dedicated himself to a public career day activities of schools; he insisted that edu­ that spanned five decades and the administra­ OF CALIFORNIA tions of five Democratic Presidents. In that cation adapt itself to serve the needs of a di­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES time, he played a vital role in shaping the verse student body, and produced innovations Tuesday, July 29, 1986 world we live in today. in school curriculums, staff development, and Mr. Harriman first emerged as a national Mr. FAZIO. Mr. Speaker, when most people educational structures to meet those needs. think of Grant High School in Sacramento, public figure under the administration of Presi­ His thoughtfulness and creativity in this pursuit dent Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great CA, they automatically think of sports. Grant are evident, in his design and direction of the has long been recognized as the home of ex­ Depression. During World War II, Mr. Harriman Reading Task Force, which created a plan to ran the Lend-Lease Program and served as tremely talented athletic teams. Yet a closer teach reading from kindergarten through high look at the students of Grant High reveals that Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Nearly 40 school; in his study of school administration, they possess many more and varied skills. years later, he advised President Carter which created a plan to evaluate and develop Last spring Grant's team won the Knowledge before the Salt II talks. In the years between, the skills of administrators; and in his design Bowl. A districtwide competition based on he served President Truman, first as the ad­ TV's College Bowl, the Knowledge Bowl pits and oversight of the Jordan Educational Com­ ministrator of the Marshall Plan which rebuilt students from separate schools against each plex, an educational subsystem that provides Europe after the war, and then as Truman's other on a variety of subjects. people with the educational resources for a Secretary of Commerce. For President Kenne­ Grant's victory in the Knowledge -Bowl is lifetime of learning, a model of community in­ dy, he was Ambassador-at-large and negotiat­ noteworthy for several reasons. Primarily be­ volvement in schools and a model of urban ed the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He also cause it is a small example of the overall aca­ school decentralization. served one term as Governor of New York. Averell Harriman brought to each of the demic achievement and success emerging at As an active participant in civil rights work, Grant. A new program entitled mathematics, varied tasks he faced a talent and drive which Dr. Knox helped organize marches on the enabled him to be a shaper of events, not engineering, and science achievement board of education to demonstrate the need [MESA] has greatly increased the number of merely a participant in them. As Ambassador, for equal educational opportunity for black stu­ minority students setting their sights on col­ Cabinet member, and Governor, his commit­ dents. In the 20 years since that time, Dr. lege and beyond. ment to the service of his country never fal­ Prior to MESA, many of these students knox's work has brought that goal closer to tered. That dedication made him one of the were directed toward vocational classes. being a reality. At the request of the California greatest Americans of this century. I mourn MESA coordinator James Arnold, who has Board of Education, Dr. Knox helped the State his loss. formulate and implement its guidelines on done much to improve the academic stand­ A TRIBUTE TO HASTINGS, MI ards at Grant, points out that many of these multicultural education and proficiency in students are now qualified to enter the Univer­ standard English for black students. His work sity of California system. I applaud Grant High has made him a national resource in the field, HON. PAUL 8. HENRY for this dramatic turnaround. serving this year, for example, as cochair of OF MICHIGAN A second example of Grant's remarkable the National Conference on Educating Black IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES success is the rise in scores on the California Children. Assessment Program [CAP]. Through the in­ Tuesday, July 29, 1986 spiration and leadership of district supervisor This gentleman's good work has been felt Mr. HENRY. Mr. Speaker, on July 26, 1836, Hazel Mahone, Grant principal Lawrence by many, and I must count myself among the community of Hastings, Ml, was estab­ Brown, and countless others, student scores those whose lives have been changed by him. lished; 150 years later on August 16, 1986, on CAP have risen for the first time in many Years ago, when he and the late Milton Wood more than 6,000 residents will begin celebrat­ years. Both Mahone and Brown have not only were stewards of the New Frontier Democrat­ ing the first of many activities planned to com­ led efforts to improve the test scores of Grant ic Club and I was a new and young member, memorate this momentous occasion. students, but have also served as excellent the three of us walked precincts together. Hastings became a community on July 26, role models doing much to boost students' Their inspiration and wise counsel are largely 1836, when the land upon which the city now self images and esteem. responsible for my presence in the world of stands was sold by Eurotas P. Hastings, a De­ In conclusion, I again offer my congratula­ politics. To this day I rely on Owen's sound troit banker, to a firm known as the Hastings tions to Grant High School with its superb fac­ judgment and sage advice. Town Site Co. Under company sponsorship, water-powered grist and saw mills were con­ ulty and students. All too often schools and Dr. Knox's achievements are many, and the individuals which comprise them make structed along Fall Creek. The land was plot­ binding them all together is a vision that edu­ great strides without notice. It is time now for ted and inducements made to attract settlers Grant High School to be noticed. cation can affect the lives of children, com­ to this newly opened wilderness area. bined with a commitment to make education The new community's isolation partially TRIBUTE TO DR. OWEN L. KNOX work in the service of all children. These ended in 1848 when a stagecoach service achievements have been noted by the mayor connected Hastings with Battle Creek and HON. JULIAN C. DIXON of Los Angeles and the California State Legis­ Grand Rapids. On February 13, 1855, Hast­ OF CALIFORNIA lature; today I commend him before the Con­ ings was incorporated as a village. Railroad IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gress of the United States. Though Dr. Knox service was established in 1869, and 2 years is retiring, the impact of his work will long be later, Hastings became a city. Tuesday, July 29, 1986 felt. Here is a man who has made his mark, Located in picturesque southwest lower Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, today I would like and left his imprint, and the lives of the chil­ Michigan, Hastings is the center of a lovely to bring to the attention of my colleagues the dren of Los Angeles and the Nation are better resort area surrounded by thousands of acres attributes and achievements of my longtime for it. of recreational land, rolling hills, spring-fed July 29, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18039 lakes, excellent hunting, fishing, swimming, ices for this noteworthy accomplishment and that is now used as a model by other institu­ boating and camp facilities. The Thornapple for their continued commitment to the people tions in the State. River which runs through the city proper, was of Trumbull County. The $10,000 KOOL Achiever Award contri­ once the main traveled route for Indian tribes The Avalon Inn is a major conference and bution Ms. Donald will receive will be donated to and from their hunting grounds. convention center/resort that is nationally rec­ in her name to the United Negro College Although a rural community, Hastings is lo­ ognized for its amenities-including the Fund. The donation will be used to establish cated within close proximity to four Michigan Avalon Lakes Golf Course, which is rated in special scholarships for disadvantaged stu­ metropolitan cities-Grand Rapids, Lansing, the top 50 of all public golf courses in Amer­ dents from the Birmingham area. Battle Creek and Kalamazoo making it possi­ ica. The newly completed 54-room addition Our continued prosperity and security rests ble for many of its citizens to enjoy the bene­ will bring the total number of rooms at the with the young people of our Nation. Ms. fits of living in a small town while still living Avalon Inn to 144. This excellent facility Donald is showing our youth, by example, the close enough to work or enjoy the cultural life serves local, regional, and national guests. vital link between a strong, solid education of a metropolitan city. At a total cost of $2.2 million in construc­ and future personal and economic success. A busy, active community, the citizens of tion, land, buildings, and amenities, this new Her actions in our community are helping Hastings take great pride in their city and ac­ addition to the Avalon Inn will create approxi­ open economic opportunities for young adults, tively participate in numerous service and vol­ mately 24 new jobs in Trumbull County and vital to continued growth in Jefferson County unteer organizations. Many community spon­ will attract thousands of new guests to Trum­ and across America. I am certain my col­ sored activities have become annual events. bull County each year as a result of this ex­ leagues in the House join me in congratulating The annual SummerFest Festival and the pansion. Ms. Donald on being selected to receive this Barry County Fair attract thousands of visitors So many good, hardworking people deserve outstanding honor, and commend her for her while each year the popular Santa Claus credit for the success of this ambitious efforts on behalf of our young people. Parade brings participants from all over south­ project. I would like to single out the following western Michigan. five individuals for their exceptional work, A number of locally owned and operated in­ vision, and commitment to their community. TRIBUTE TO THURSTON "BUD" dustries are spinoffs of some of the first major They are: Robert Heath, president of Avalon MERRELL, JR. industries established in the 1800's, most of Inn Services; Robert O'Malley, vice president whom distribute their products nationally and of Avalon Inn Services; Tom Keegan, vice HON. BOB McEWEN worldwide. These diversified industries, along president in charge of property acquisitions; OF OHIO with the agriculture and recreation industries Dan Seitz, general manager; and Marsha IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES provide approximately 3,000 jobs in Hastings Seitz, head chef and food and beverage man­ Tuesday, July 29, 1986 alone, creating a strong economic base for ager. this fast growing community . . Mr. Speaker, I am confident that the talent­ Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in Boasting of its fine educational system, ed professionals at the Avalon Inn will contin­ honor of Thurston "Bud" Merrell, Jr., a well Hastings serves a population of approximately ue to make the Avalon Inn one of the finest known community and business leader in Cin­ 20,000 who live within the boundaries of the facilities of its kind in the country and will con­ cinnati, OH. On August 1, 1986, many of 180 square-mile district. With an outstanding tinue to serve my constituents in the Mahon­ Bud's friends and associates will gather at the K-12 program, the system offers a compre­ ing Valley. I am both pleased and honored to Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Hotel to pay spe­ hensive community education program, voca­ have this opportunity to offer my congratula­ cial thanks to him on the occasion of his re­ tional training and sponsors programs for the tions and pay tribute to a great group of tirement from Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals. I mentally and physically handicapped. Eleven people. want to extend my warmest congratulations to institutions of higher learning are located Bud and his wife, Ginny, on this special occa­ within 60 minutes of Hastings including Michi­ sion. gan State University and Western Michigan BIRMINGHAM NATIVE RECIPI- Bud Merrell is the last of the founding Mer­ University. ENT OF KOOL ACHIEVER rell family to be associated with this company. A warm friendly community, many people AWARD Through his kindly manner and generous find Hastings highly desirable as the place to spirit, Bud has distinguished himself within live and raise a family. Its peaceful rural set­ HON. BEN ERDREICH Merrell Dow and in his community. He has en­ ting also attracts a large number of retirees OF ALABAMA deared himself to literally all of the employees who have returned to live in the community IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of his company, not because it was his job, but because he genuinely cares for other where they were raised. With its tree-lined Tuesday, July 29, 1986 streets, church steeples, county courthouse, people. and quaint downtown Hastings, the county Mr. ERDREICH. Mr. Speaker, for the first time Mr. Speaker, Bud's service to the Cincinnati seat of rural Barry County, is truly the essence this year, the Brown and Williamson Tobacco community has also been outstanding. As of small town America. Please join with me, Corp. established the KOOL Achiever Awards chairman of the Presidents Club of the Cincin­ Mr. Speaker and colleagues, in offering con­ to recognize those who are working to create nati Chamber of Commerce, he brought rec­ gratulations and best wishes to the citizens of a better way of life for inner-city communities. ognition to that group on the local, State and Hastings, Ml, on the occasion of the city's Five people were selected to receive this out­ national level. For his tireless effort, the mayor sesquicentennial celebration. standing honor, and each award recipient will of Cincinnati proclaimed December 14, 1984, receive $10,000 to be presented to the non­ as "Bud Merrell Day in Cincinnati." He has profit community service of his or her choice. also served on the Cabinet for Fine Arts, the CONGRATULATIONS TO THE The awards were made in five different areas, United Appeal Community Solicitation and AVALON INN OF WARREN, OH including the arts, business, civics, communi­ Board of Trustees, and the Cincinnati Adoles­ cations, and education. cent Clinic Board of Trustees at Childrens HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. I am pleased to tell my colleagues in the Hospital Medical Center. Bud was on the Ad­ OF OHIO House that this year's Education Award recipi­ visory Board and Solicitations Committee for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ent is from my district. Jacquelyn S. Donald, a Kids Helping Kids. He also was the company native of Birmingham, is a financial planning spokesman for the television presentation of Tuesday, July 29, 1986 manager with IBM who is currently on loan to the film "Second Chance" which sought to Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, on August 8 Lawson State College where she is working to help people understand the need for organ this year, I will have the distinct pleasure of at­ promote education as an avenue toward suc­ donation and transplantation. These are only tending the grand opening ceremonies for the cess and self-esteem. Through her work at a few of the many examples of Mr. Merrell's completion of a new 54-room addition to the the college, she is helping obtain scholarship tireless service to his community. Avalon Inn of Warren, OH. At this time, I grants for disadvantaged students. She has Bud Merrell: husband, father, educator, would like to extend my warm congratulations also devised, implemented, and marketed a businessman, and friend, we salute you. For to the dedicated people at Avalon Inn Serv- highly-effective student motivation program your lifetime of unselfish dedication to the im- 18040 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1986 provement of the quality of life for your com­ FOR AN INDEPENDENT CONRAIL ington, TN, and his family will be moving to munity and for all your achievements in your Kingsport, TN, where Captain Peterson will personal and professional life, we salute you. HON. FRED J. ECKERT enter the private practice of otolaryngology. Mr. Speaker, Bud Merrell is truly a man for OF NEW YORK Though Captain Peterson has been sta­ all seasons. It is a pleasure to share his ac­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tioned in Millington only a couple of years, his complishments with my colleagues in the Con­ tenure has been distinguished and productive. gress. I ask that they join me in extending our Tuesday, July 29, 1986 He has played a leading role in improving the warmest congratulations and best wishes for Mr. ECKERT of New York. Mr. Speaker, I readiness of the hospital to respond to poten­ continued success in their endeavors. stand up today to urge the Department of tial disasters. He has placed tremendous em­ Transportation to move ahead with a proposal phasis on a quality assurance program and in­ LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE for a private offering for the sale of Conrail. creased training for all hospital employees. He BENEFITS OF RETIREES MUST As a member of the Energy and Commerce has enhanced a patient contract program to BE MAINTAINED Committee who has opposed the efforts to identify problems and increase sensitivity to sell Conrail to the Norfolk Southern Corp., I patient concerns. He has reorganized and in­ call upon the Transportation Department to creased the hospital's emergency medical HON. JACK F. KEMP work with the members of the committee in services. He presided over the creation of a OF NEW YORK fashioning an offering that will sell Conrail new after-hours pediatric clinic. He has im­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES through a public offering. Time is running out, proved the physical appearance of the 14- Tuesday, July 29, 1986 it is time to move forward and resolve this year-old hospital. The list goes on and on. Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro­ issue. I am including as part of my remarks an In addition to serving as the hospital's chief ducing legislation to require LTV Corp. to con­ editorial from the July 7, 1986 issue of Busi­ administrator, Captain Peterson amazingly has tinue to provide its retirees with the life and ness Week magazine which also urges that remained a practicing member of the clinical health insurance benefits they have earned the Transportation Department get moving on staff of the hospital. Most importantly, he is and so desperately need. This bill is a com­ the proposal. warmly appreciated by the staff and Millington panion to legislation introduced in the other GET THE C _ONRAIL SALE ON TRACK Now community as a leader and friend. body by Senators BYRD, GLENN, HEINZ, METZ­ Back in August, 1981, Congress told the After earning his doctor of medicine degree ENBAUM, SPECTER, and DURENBERGER and Transportation Dept. to sell Consolidated at the University of Nebraska and completing cosponsored in the House by my friend and Rail Corp. to a private owner. Yet almost an internship, he entered the Navy and served colleague from Buffalo HENRY NOWAK and five years later, Conrail is still in govern­ with great distinction in Vietnam. His military others. ment hands. And an impasse has developed. awards include the Navy Commendation Transportation Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Na­ As many of my colleagues know, LTV Corp., wants to sell the railroad to Norfolk South­ the second largest steel producer in the ern Corp., and she has persuaded the tional Defense Medal, Air Force Outstanding United States, filed a chapter 11 bankruptcy Senate to approve the plan. Unit Award, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam petition on July 17, 1986. I know that many of It was-and is-a good idea. NS is a well­ Civic Action Unit Citation, Vietnam Gallantry us in Congress are deeply concerned about managed railroad with plenty of resources. Cross with Palm Unit Citation, and the Navy the plight of our domestic steel industry; we It could provide reliable service through Expert Pistol Shot Medal. must work to enact policies that will bring good times and bad, minimizing the chance Captain Peterson has had a distinguished about the robust economic growth that will that the government might have to bail out career both in the military and within the field allow steel and all our heavy industries to re­ Conrail again. The hitch is that there seems of medicine. The medical community of the to be no chance the full Congress will go bound. I understand the severe financial hard­ along. Representative John D. Dingell, the Memphis area will miss him greatly. ships LTV faces and I support its efforts to re­ powerful chairman of the House Energy & His success, of course, can be attributed in organize its debt in order to stay in business Commerce Committee, believes firmly that large part to his wonderful wife Fran. In addi­ and provide jobs for its current and future em­ Conrail should be sold only through a tion to her support, Fran has demonstrated ployees-many of whom are in the Buffalo public offering of stock. That option suits her own commitment to the Navy as a Re­ area, working for Sierra Research Corp. I also White House Chief of Staff Donald T. serve Commander in the Navy Nurse Corps. understand that LTV is working to provide its Regan, since a straight sale to NS is not in They have two children, Erika Kari, 9; and retirees and their surviving spouses with retir­ the cards. Bjorn Kristian, 4. ee-paid group medical insurance, and I com­ Dole is understandably disappointed that her plan is being blocked. But to remain in­ As a friend and former schoolmate of Cap­ mend them for these efforts. However, this flexible in the face of the current situation tain Peterson, I regret seeing he and his decision places an enormous and unexpected is untenable. A public offering has the ad­ family move from the Memphis area. But I financial burden on the more than 125,000 re­ vantage of leaving in place Conrail's man­ know they will be successful and warmly re­ tirees who are now left without the life and agement, which has made the railroad prof­ ceived in Kingsport. I wish them well in their health insurance policies they have earned itable. There is no reason to question its new endeavors. and on which they rely. I have talked with ability to compete with the rest of the in­ Louis Thomas of the Buffalo-area United dustry. Steelworkers about the hardship this poses If it takes a public offering to return Con­ DR. BENJAMIN E. MAYS HON­ for western New York families; I don't believe rail to private ownership, then Transporta­ tion should get to work structuring the best ORED BY FIRST AFRICAN this added burden is one these men and deal possible. and it should move swiftly AMERICAN MUSEUM IN ATLAN­ women can easily assume. while the stock market is strong. TA The legislation I am introducing will require LTV to continue to maintain its life and health insurance coverage for its retirees and their NAVY TO LOSE OUTSTANDING HON. WYCHE FOWLER, JR. surviving spouses until such time as the court PHYSICIAN OF GEORGIA suspends such payments. The result would be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to provide retirees with much-needed life and HON. DON SUNDQUIST Tuesday, July 29, 1986 health insurance coverage unless the court OF TENNESSEE rules that LTV cannot shoulder this obligation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. FOWLER. Mr. Speaker, I would like to and still meet the other requirements the take this opportunity to announce an upcom­ bankruptcy proceedings impose. More impor­ Tuesday, July 29, 1986 ing exhibit in Atlanta's first African American tantly, I believe this legislation 'will spur a fair Mr. SUNDQUIST. Mr. Speaker, this week Museum entitled "Dr. Benjamin E. Mays: A and equitable solution to this very urgent na­ the U.S. Navy is losing the services of an out­ Legend Unveiled," the exhibit will honor the tional problem-one that will take into account standing physician, colleague, and patriot as achievements and contributions of the late Dr. the needs of L TV's retirees and their spouses, well as an understanding and caring person. Benjamin Mays, who gave so much to Geor­ as well as those of LTV's current and future Capt. Douglas W. Peterson, presently com­ gia and to the Nation. The Collections of Life employees. manding officer of the Naval Hospital in Mill- & Heritage Museum is presenting the exhibit July 29, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18041 in commemoration of what would have been today: From freedom comes opportunity; from This lively involvement by the Allentown Di­ his 92d birthday. opportunity comes growth; and, from growth ocese-comprised of Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, A distinguished scholar, orator, and civil comes progress. This is not a abstract formu­ Northampton, and Schuylkill Counties-with rights activist, Dr. Mays exhibited a rare kind la. It is the vibrant, beating heart of the Ameri­ the senior citizens is just one example of total of leadership and spirit of community service. can experience. commitment to youth, families, students, the The child of former slaves, he rose to become Private initiative, as demonstrated so often ill, and every member of the entire community president of Morehouse College in Atlanta by Frank Rouse, is fundamental to our Ameri­ within its boundaries. and helped this pioneer black institution gain can way of life. It is inseparable from the Under the 22-year leadership of its founding the national reputation for excellence it now social, religious, political, and judicial institu­ bishop and chief shepherd, Bishop Joseph enjoys. Dr. Mays was elected as the first black tions which form the bedrock of a Nation dedi­ McShea, the Diocese of Allentown has grown president of the Atlanta School Board during cated to individual freedom and human rights. at a deliberate pace through consultation of the height of the desegregation controversy, Mr. Speaker, in this the year of Lady Liber­ priests and lay persons, attention to the regu­ and helped forge the Atlanta plan for integra­ ty's 1OOth birthday, I wish to commend Frank lation of new practices in worship, and to the tion saying: "We must be neither male nor Rouse as one who has taken advantage of extension of the work and mission of pastoral female, black nor white, district nor citywide, the opportunities provided by our great coun­ care. for we are all united at the feet of 90,000 chil­ try, and who, at the same time, has committed Other nations and ethnic groups, both in dren whom we are elected to serve." himself to preserving the freedoms necessary this country and abroad, have been touched Dr. Mays worked tirelessly for equality in all for us to make a bright future for ourselves, and helped by the Allentown Diocese through areas of society as a leading activist during our children, and grandchildren. Operation Rice Bowl, local soup kitchens and the civil rights movement. He espoused a organizations which focus on Spanish-speak­ nonviolent approach to social change and in­ ing peoples and new immigrants. The Allen­ spired countless numbers of civil rights lead­ CRIME DECREASES SHARPLY IN town Diocese can be proud of producing ers, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who WEST VIRGINIA Msgr. Robert Coll, who originated Operation called Dr. Mays his spiritual mentor. Dr. Mays' Rice Bowl with Mother Theresa of Calcutta. life is testimony of his personal philosophy HON. NICK JOE RAHALL II Monsignor Coll was called to work in the inter­ that: Whatever you do, strive to do it so well OF WEST VIRGINIA national community and is now employed by that no man living and no man dead and no IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Catholic Relief Services. man yet born could do it any better." Tuesday, July 29, 1986 The groundwork of pastoral care and edu­ I am honored to represent the district that cation laid so well by Bishop McShea has benefited so greatly from the many contribu­ Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, the Federal been thoroughly and energetically continued tions of this remarkable leader. I am proud to Bureau of Investigation uniform crime reports by his successor, Bishop Thomas J. Welch, serve on the board of directors of the Collec­ released this past Sunday indicate that after 3 D.D., J.C.D. In 1983 Pope John Paul II ap­ tions of Life & Heritage Museum, of which Dr. years of decline, serious crime in the United pointed Bishop Welsh the new bishop of the Mays was an honorary member until his States rose 4.6 percent, to 12,430,026. Allentown Diocese. Bishop Welsh has devel­ death. "Dr. Benjamin E. Mays: A Legend Un­ However, in my home State of West Virgin­ oped the seeds of education, structures for veiled" will be exhibited from August 2-Sep­ ia, the FBI reported that we had the largest pastoral care, and emphasis of family life and tember 30, 1986, in honor of a man whose life decrease of any State in the Nation, a drop of value. He has fostered openness to the entire continues to be an inspiration. I urge my col­ 3.6 percent in crimes per 100,000 residents. community living in his diocese, including vi­ leagues to take advantage of the opportunity West Virginia also had large decreases in the brant ethnic organizations such as the Slovak to see this fascinating exhibit and to pay trib­ number of murders and property crimes per Catholic Federation, and he has promoted the ute to this outstanding American. 100,000 residents. regional encounter of the T ercer Encuentro, a The FBI report did not speculate on the conference on the Hispanic culture. cause of the increase nationwide. However, it The Allentown Diocese, with its leadership "MISTER FOURTH OF JULY" is very heartening to me to see that we in past and present, deserves congratulations West Virginia, while suffering under high un­ and high praise. In this diocese, we see a mi­ HON.ANDY IRELAND employment and tough times, particularly in crocosm of local, regional, national, and inter­ OF FLORIDA the coalfields, have not resorted to crime and national cooperation, care, and respect for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES violence as a result of our lagging economy. life. Tuesday, July 29, 1986 West Virginians have always prided them­ selves on being able to weather tough times Mr. IRELAND. Mr. Speaker, I would like to and the latest FBI crime figures indicate that, bring to the attention of my colleagues the en­ once again, West Virginians are trying to EXPLANATION OF MFN VOTE thusiasm and patriotism of one of my constitu­ bounce back through hard work and dedica­ ents, Mr. Frank Rouse, of Bartow, FL. Frank, tion, not crime. In tough times, the tough get HON. WILLIAM 0. LIPINSKI a native of Caltagirone, Sicily, is a naturalized tougher. OF ILLINOIS American citizen who was recently named IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "Mister Fourth of July" by the city of Bartow. Not only has Frank recently worked with the DIOCESE OF ALLENTOWN Tuesday, July 29, 1986 Committee for the Restoration of the Statue SILVER JUBILEE Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I voted to table of Liberty, but for several years he has been the discharge motion because I do not agree the chief organizer of the Bartow annual HON. DON RITI'ER with the philosophy behind discharge peti­ Fourth of July celebration. The spirit which OF PENNSYLVANIA tions-not because I agree with granting permeates this yearly event has attracted the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES most-favored-nation status to Romania. In my attention of Floridians from all over the State. view, MFN has done little to change the op­ What began as a local celebration is now at­ Tuesday, July 29, 1986 presive nature of the Ceaucescu regime. tended by thousands every year. Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, I wish to express Human rights abuses continue to increase I think Frank's immigrant beginnings, devo­ my deep admiration for the Diocese of Allen­ despite MFN. Amnesty International has re­ tion to the ideals represented by the Statue of town during this silver jubilee year marking its ported that Romania has the terrible distinc­ Liberty, and continuing desire to give his alle­ foundation in February 1961. This year's Sen­ tion of committing the highest number of giance and faithfulness to the United States iorfest is planned for August 4, 1986, at Holy human rights abuses per capita of any other demonstrates the new sense of pride and pa­ Family Manor in Bethlehem, PA, in conjunc­ country in the world. Along with this, the triotism we all feet. tion with the yearlong diocesan celebrations. Ceaucescu regime has done nothing to curb Frank Rouse's life since coming to this All diocesan senior citizens are invited to part­ its policy of cooption of churches and perse­ country has been based on a basic premise, cipate in a picnic, exhibits, and musical enter­ cution of religious believers. National minori­ one which embodies the spirit of our country tainment. ties, especially the Hungarians of Transylva- 18042 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 29, 1986 nia, must still contend with regime-sponsored Granting MFN to a Communist country only try. Many Central and Eastern European discrimination and extremely limited cultural makes sense if some movement toward indi- ethnic organizations join me in feeling that this freedom. vidual liberty is made on the part of that coun- still remains to be seen.