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INNOCENCE ABROAD-JIMMY in the Carter Administration, was not that MISCONCEPTION NO. 2: MILITARY SPENDING CAN CARTER'S FOUR MISCONCEP- he did not understand foreign affairs, but AND SHOULD BE REDUCED TIONS that he did not understand that he did not When Carter pledged in his 1976 cam understand. paign that "we can reduce present defense Jimmy Carter is by no means the solitary expenditures by about $5 billion to $7 bil HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO author of the present weakened state of lion annually," he was merely registering OF CALIFORNIA U.S. foreign policy. Toward the end of the the Democratic Party's post-Vietnam con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Vietnam war and in the years that followed, sensus of "reordering priorities." That con Democratic Congresses began slashing away sensus, in turn, reflected the loathing of all Monday, June 9, 1980 at the defense budget. Republic Presidents things military that grew out of Vietnam. e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, timidly accepted this. Nevertheless, our in By deed, though not by word, Carter soon an article in the most recent issue of creasing vulnerability derives very substan began to accept the argument of many ad tially from the steady reinforcement of four visers that a nation's arsenal could become Reader's Digest by Rowland Evans basic misconceptions that Carter carried too great for its own good. and Robert Novak describes four sig into office with him: Although a cutback of $5 to $7 billion a nificant misconceptions perpetuated MISCONCEPTION NO. 1: THE COLD WAR IS OVER y~ar in " present" defense spending was pat by the Carter administration in for ently impossible, Carter moved in that di eign policy. The pronouncement was made four rection. On June 30, 1977, he announced· op The four misconceptions are that: months after the inauguration in Carter's position to the new B-1 bomber. On April 3, commencement address at Notre Dame Uni 1978, he deferred production of the neutron First, the cold war is over; second, versity: "Confident of our own future, we military spending can and should be warhead. On August 17, 1978, he vetoed are now free of that inordinate fear of com Congressional authorization of a nuclear reduced; third, human rights must be munism, which once led us to embrace any aircraft carrier. In 1979, he delayed produc the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy; dictator who joined us in our fear." tion on the cruise-missile, the Trident-sub and fourth, there is no need for covert In giving voice to this innocence he was marine and the SSN-688 attack-submarine intelligence activity. merely endorsing the then popular senti programs. The Trident II missile system was I call to the attention of my col ment that ideological conflict between postponed. leagues this article and urge that they democratic America and totalitarian Russia In his first three years in the White not be misled into the same trap of be was no longer relevant. That view prevailed House, he cut $38 billion from spending lieving that the four misconceptions among such foreign-policy advisers as Secre called for by President Gerald Ford's last tary of State Cyrus Vance, chief disarma five-year defense program. Naval shipbuild are valid. ment negotiator Paul Warnke and Marshall ing languished. Development was delayed of The article follows: Shulman, Vance's resident Soviet expert. a mobile-basing system for the MX missile INNOCENCE ABROAD-JIMMY CARTER'S FOUR The only dissenter within the Administra to protect the U.S. land-based deterrent MISCONCEPTIONS tion was National Security Adviser Zbigniew from the dramatically improved accuracy of e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 13778 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 9, 1980 year-old military assistance treaty with the policies had been wrong and now appear Disclosure can also be good for your firm. United States. American relations with Ar rejected? Take the topic of pay, which is not public gentina and Chile deteriorated. And, finally, can a rational person explain, information in most firms. There are many The peak of human-rights zealotry came much less excuse, the incompetence demon reasons given for keeping salaries secret in last year in Nicaragua and Iran. The result strated when Carter disavowed the recorded cluding the risk of dissatisfaction, hard feel in Nicaragua is a pro-Marxist regime that U.S. vote in the U.N. Security Council in the ings, and a loss of flexibility in rewarding did not even join the United States and the bizarre matter of Israel's settlements policy? performance. But when companies switch to vast majority of the United Nations General Such sophomoric antics would be funny as a policy of making pay information public, Assembly in condemning Soviet aggression slapstick comedy if they did not tear away none of these threats really materialize. In in Afghanistan. The result in Iran is Ayatol at the confidence and credibility of the pre fact, most researchers suggest that produc lah Khomeini and anguished months of hu sumed leader of the West. tivity increases when salaries are disclosed. miliation for the United States. The early innocence may be gone, but People who are overpaid work harder to jus what has replaced it? Tough rhetoric makes tify their salaries. People who are underpaid MISCONCEPTION NO. 4: IN THE NEW WORLD, work harder to justify a raise. THERE IS NO NEED FOR COVERT INTELLIGENCE good headlines, but there is abiding reason ACTIVITY to doubt whether the old misconceptions Our economic, political, and scientific in have truly been swept away.e stitutions all provide support for the idea The men brought into high office by that disclosure is good. We believe in the Carter had come to regard the CIA's great "free marketplace of ideas". We believe that feats of the 1950s-the overthrow of a pro GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP OF free and open discussion will lead to good communist regime in Guatemala and the THE MEDIA decisions and that dialogue allows truth to restoration of the Shah in Iran-as cause emerge. for shame. Carter said at Notre Dame, "For This is not to say that all disclosure is too many years, we have been willing to HON. TOM BEVILL good, there are some forms of irresponsible adopt the flawed principles and tactics of OF ALABAMA disclosure. Certainly I'm not suggesting that our adversaries, sometimes abandoning our Coca-Cola reveals its secret formula or that values for theirs." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Pentagon disclose "Top Secret" papers Carter decided not to retain George Bush Monday, June 9, 1980 to the news media. But on . balance, Ameri as CIA director but instead to single out for cans support the idea that disclosure is good that job a leading critic of the intelligence • Mr. BEVILL. Mr. Speaker, for sever and that in the end truth will win out. system, Theodore C. Sorensen. When the al years, I have been pleased to ins.er-t, These two beliefs that people have the Senate forced Carter to withdraw· Soren into the RECORD the top entries of the right to h"ifurmation and that disclosure is sen's name, he responded with a man far Albert Rains Speech Contest of Snead good lead to the third belief that business less controversial: Adm. Stansfield Turner, State Junior College in Boaz, Ala. This should not remain silent. If disclosure is an old Annapolis classmate with excellent good then silence is bad. A few years ago, brains but faulty judgment. contest is named for one of our distin guished former colleagues. critics were snapping at the "no comment" Turner began by summarily abolishing policy which was big businesses reply to any 820 jobs in the clandestine service. His cal Albert Rains' membership in this controversial issue. That has all changed lous order forced out men and women with body spanned three separate decades, now. Today companies are speaking out priceless and irreplaceable expertise. Some as he served Alabama in the House about controversial issues. of these operatives were in mid-career and from 1945 to 1965, and retired follow Speaking out and being informed is the ineligible for retirement pay. Morale plum ing a career of outstanding service to main issue. For example, when the Andrea meted and many of the best CIA personnel the people of his district. Doria sank and survivors were asked "what have since quit in disgust. Among Turner's was the most upsetting part of the experi casualties: the agency's top experts in During his years in the House, Albert was regarded as one of its finest ence?" They didn't say the danger of death counter-insurgency, in Iran, the People's or the loss of loved ones. They answered Republic of China, the Kremlin power orators, and it is for this gift that the that nobody told them what was going on. structure and the vital Middle East. Snead State contest is so aptly named. The past Watergate climate of public opin Combine that with Congressional shack The theme for this year's contest ion has made the practice of stonewalling or ling of covert operations, and it is no was "Government Censorship of the hiding the issues highly suspected. Silence wonder Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan suggested that the analytical func These beliefs that people have the right tions now left to the CIA might well be per year's competition was Ben Gilliland of Arab. Second place went to Teresa to information, that disclosure is good, that formed by the Library of Congress. He was silence is bad-are important because in a exaggerating only a little. The CIA has Reid of Holly Pond. I think you will democratic society like ours public policy ceased to function as the intelligence service agree that their speeches reflect many must meet the test of public acceptance. of a great power. It cannot even aid anti hours of thought and research on this Policies of silence and resistance to disclo communist insurgencies in Angola and Af vital subject. sure simply don't meet the test. For these ghanistan. THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION reasons, in today's world disclosure is good. With U.S. diplomats imprisoned for months as hostages in their own embassy in The disclosure of information or the tell Teheran, and with Soviet troops pouring ing of information has become accepted as a CAN ANYONE HAVE A FAIR TRIAL? into Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter began re matter of public policy. The widespread ac Can anyone have a fair trial? Can anyone election year 1980 by appearing to reject ceptance of this policy by the American rest in peace? In America it's a great ideal, each of his misconceptions. He forthrightly public is based on three commonly held be but what about reality these days. Think confessed after the Afghan invasion, "My liefs: about it. opinion of the Russians has changed more <1 > that people have a right to informa I feel our television news broadcasts are drastically in the last week than in even the tion. turning into a 3 ring circus, yes all of them. previous 2'12 years." Here-declared the Cold <2> that disclosure is good. Total News, Action News, World and Eye War with his pronouncement of the "Carter <3> that businesses should not remain witness News, this is a problem. Many of us Doctrine," guaranteeing the territorial in silent. fail to see this because we roll with the tide tegrity of Persian Gulf nations; he set aside The belief that people have a right to in not realizing what is going on right under his cherished SALT II; he raised defense formation. There is some debate in legal cir our own noses. spending; he began to unshackle intelli cles as to whether the public's right to know In this speech I don't intend to tell you gence and counter-intelligence activities. is guaranteed by the fir~t amendment to the what the government or we ourselves can do Yet, questions persist: Why are negotia Constitution or not. For all practical pur about the news we see and hear, but that it tions with the Soviet Union on European poses the question is irrelevant. The media is a problem and why something should be force reductions and on a comprehensive act on the principle that the people have a done about it. nuclear-test-ban treaty continuing? Why is right to know. Our newscasters seem to think that we, the SALT II Treaty still on the Senate cal The simple fact is that a great many of the American public, are uneducated fools endar? Why is the Office of Management the people who are in a position to influ who thrive on goriness and exaggerated and Budget still resisting desperately ence disclosure policy in the country, be detail. Words as well as swords and guns ter needed programs such as Naval moderniza lieve that people have the right to informa rorize. Don't we have the right to peace? To tion and career-pay improvements? Why are tion. The belief that people have a right to free ourselves from tidbits of horrid news the B-1 and the neutron warhead still in information would be enough to justify a that really does not affect us at all. After all mothballs, the fate of the MX mobile considerable amount of disclosure, but it is can a citizen be truly informed if falsehoods missile still uncertain? Why is the old team enhanced by the belief-that "disclosure is are masqueraded as truths? Can't the abuse of top Carter advisers still on the job if its good". of liberty destroy liberty? June 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13779 Our national security should be the most slip upon one minor detail and the world rently drafting legislation to achieve important thing to consider. But many knows about it in 2 minutes, but let him do these goals. I feel that exposure of broadcasters tell us everything, many things something outstanding and maybe they'll this information is essential for this that have been going on since the beginning find 30 seconds on the late news. In Bir of time, and it hasn't hurt us not to know mingham, for example, all the riots against Congress to carry out its oversight re before. police gave publicity to many people who sponsibility and to guarantee public Yes, the public does have a right to know, never had it before and I believe gave incen awareness. but what about a right not to know, when tive to many others who later joined, lVIy legislation will not hinder the they could be putting our lives in jeopardy mainly so they could get on television. Pub procurement process in any way. It by telling us some of the things they do. For licity for people going against the establish will merely allow sunshine into the instance, I'm sure if they had gotten _their ment, they're destroying what morals and labyrinth of the Federal Govern hands on the plan for rescuing the hostages patriotism we have left. ment's consulting activity.e they would have told all and if by chance What are they trying to turn us into? someone in Iran had heard, which isn't at They must think they have turned us into all unlikely, the whole attempt might have something or do they really think we're RISK ASSESSMENT BILL caused more trouble than it did. such idiots that we can't understand what Who knows what might have happened. the president says in his speeches. After They could have taken all of the rescuers every speech some commentator comes on HON. JOHN W. WYDLER hostage or they could have killed them. Of and repeats everything he said. Then when OF NEW YORK course no one really knows what would have the regular news comes on they show one happened, we can only speculate, but I film clipping and again repeat what he said. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES think you agree that sometimes too much It can really give you a complex. These Monday, June 9, 1980 can be told. things are ridiculous. We are supposed to be And speaking of the rescue attempt, I a society of self-governing people if we are • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, the repeat my question. Can anyone rest in to stay that way we must defend ourselves issue of risks connected with techno peace? Those eight men who gave their lives against the way our newscasts are tearing us logical advancement, particularly in for their fellow countrymen in the attempt apart. energy technology, has begun to re were exploited, their bodies shown on na Don't you agree . . . something should be ceive well-deserved attention in recent tional television. Weren't their families suf done?e months. Our Science and Technology fering enough without adding that to their Committee has been pursuing this grief? Yes, I agree we should be informed, but that was carrying the information too CONSULTING ABUSES theme as a basis for assessing technol far. ogies over the past 2% years. Most re Most of the time it seems they are not in HON. HERBERT E. HARRIS II cently, a member of the committee terested in the actual news but in how big pr.oposed a risk assessment bill to en they can make the story. They are profit OF VIRGINIA courage the Federal agencies to ad oriented. Television news has become so IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dress this question in a more compre competitive that they are all after the big Monday, June 9, 1980 hensive manner. The related question gest story. They don't put enough emphasis which I feel deserves additional con on fact, they are too busy using impressive • Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, I would words. like to direct the attention of my col sideration is that o.f the gap between And as if the impressive words are not leagues to a new GAO report which I real and perceived risk of technology enough they are advertising. It reminds me released yesterday with Senator development. of little kids vying for an adult's attention. PRYOR on the improper use of consult For instance, it is clear that a major "Looky what I'm gonna do". It's ridiculous, ants by Federal agencies. According responsibility for that gap between they come on at all hours of the day telling to GAO, agencies have failed to make the real comparatively small risk of ra what their big story is going to be. And they diation from nuclear power generation are constantly getting new things, which in satisfactory progress in their manage itself is good, but the way some of them ment of consulting services during the and the perceived risk on the part of carry on you would think they never got past 20 years. Despite- the fact that the people must, in large part, lie with anything new before. They come on and tell GAO has issued 30 audit reports iden this administration. The White House about what they have new, then all the tifying problems in every major has simply not chosen to educate the other stations get the same thing and we're agency, improvements still need to be people in any balanced way on the constantly reminded who got it first and made in: comparative risks of energy technol who's got the best. What does this have to Identifying expenditures for consult ogies and has allowed its own visceral do with the news? Pointing these things out discomfort with respect to nuclear seems tacky to me. ing services, Rumors shouldn't be started on the news Obtaining adequate competition power to dominate its position rather but unfortunately we are so often victims of when awarding consulting service con than performing critical assessments. the broadcasters opinions that it is hard to tracts, The following is an interesting article determine fact from fiction. Something that Justifying the need for consulting which appeared in the New York really bothered me was all the talk about services, Times on May 22, on this topic, "Tech the Cuban refugees, the rumor that some Assuring that consultant studies are nology: Scientific Gains and the had tuberculosis and a few had leprosy, not duplicated, and Risks," by Peter J. Schuyten and I rec some were mental patients and things like ommend it to my colleagues. that. If some of those people really want to Implementing effective management become Americanized who is going to give controls to assure the proper use of TECHNOLOGY: SCIENTIFIC GAINS AND THE them a chance, there is enough prejudice these services. RISKS among us without the broadcasters adding I agree with GAO's conclusion that Has the rapid proliferation of technology to it. OMB's efforts to improve agencies and the risks associated with technological Speaking of prejudice, is it really possible management of consulting services advancement created a new wariness on the for anyone to have a fair trial? There is so have not been effective. OMB's at part of the public? much pre-trial publicity about anything And what of the public's belief in experts? major and many minor things that the only tempts to identify the amount of Have the disturbing events at Three Mile people truly applicable for jury work are money spent by agencies for consult Island, the fractured engine mounts of the hermits and how many hermits do you find. ing services have resulted in understat DC-lO's, or the unfolding story of Love I've always heard that a person is innocent ed figures. OMB guidance to establish Canal eroded the public's confidence in the until proven guilty, but seldom have I seen controls to improve the management pronouncements of the scientific and engi this statement in practice. Many broadcast of consulting services has resulted in neering communities? ers tear suspects apart weeks before their little improvement. Perennial prob In an attempt to assess the present mood, trial, so most everyone has formed an opin lems concerning conflict of interest an independent opinion survey found that a ion one way or another by the time for jury majority of Americans feel they face more selection. continue to surface. risk now than they did 20 years ago, and Our policemen no longer get any respect, I feel that the time has come for leg further, that the risks of living in a techno they are being slaughtered so often and islative action to identify consultant logical society will increase. praised so seldom. It seems the criminals get costs and the potential for conflicts of But despite the heightened sense of more praise than they do. Let a policeman interests to the sunshine. I am cur- danger, the findings indicate that the public 13780 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 9,_ 1980 feels the future benefits from science and "That was not true five years ago," noted vides for a maximum penalty of $5,000 technological innovation still outweigh the Richard Wilson, a professor of physics at and/or 3 years in prison. In the days risks. Harvard University. "Executives have ap to come, Mr. Clark must answer for The survey, "Risk in a Complex Society," parently now caught up with the notion his reprehensible action. is based on some 1,500 interviews with ana that the public wants to have a share in the tional cross section of the adult population decision process." Mr. Speaker, during this troubled and 600 interviews with members of Con When asked to choose the most attractive period, let us and our countrymen gress, corporate and financial leaders, and investments in light of the evolving public stand together in our hope that the Federal regulators. opinion on risk and the future impact of crisis will end and that our fellow citi The survey was commissioned by the government regulation, corporate executives zens may safely return home.e Marsh & McLennan Companies, an insur and financial leaders listed computers, pe ance brokerage concern, and was conducted troleum, synthetic fuels and electronics. by Louis Harris and Associates. Least attractive were tobacco, railroads, WILL THE PENTAGON KILL THE Among other things, it addressed the automotive, steel and nuclear energy.e GOLDEN GOOSE? factor of risk in the areas of energy, trans portation, health care, environmental pollu tion, and even the question of assigning a RAMSEY CLARK'S TRIP TO IRAN HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK value to human life in the allocation of AN IRRESPONSIBLE ACT OF CALIFORNIA scarce resources. According to Mr. Harris, the study docu HON. DOUGLAS APPLEGATE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mented some wide and revealing discrepan Monday, June 9, 1980 cies between public and corporate percep OF OHIO tions of risk. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES • Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, how much military spending can the The public, he noted at a news conference Monday, June 9, 1980 held earlier this week, feels that the safety United States afford? We, of course, of society will be jeopardized if some future e Mr. APPLEGATE. Mr. Speaker, for must spend enough to provide for the restraints on advanced technology are not close to 8 months now, 50 of our citi national defense. But we can no longer imposed. zens have been held hostage in Iran. afford to define the national defense "In addition, most Americans feel strongly Recently, a new development has oc so broadly that every Pentagon re that our present knowledge about the curred, that being former U.S. Attor quest and wish is satisfied. actual risks stemming from modern technol ney General Ramsey Clark's trip to ogy has touched only the tip of the ice We must ask the tough questions. berg," Mr. Harris, said. "Corporate leaders Iran. This event compels me to speak Expenditures must be justified by flatly disagree, express deep confidence in out to my colleagues. necessity, not because they would buy advanced technology and see no dangers vir Mr. Clark, through his self-appoint items it would be nice to have. Not all tually from decreased governmental safety ed American Crimes Conference, has close calls can be resolved in favor of regulations." indicted, tried, and convicted the more military spending. The survey also found that only 28 per United States for their lawless acts in cent of the public felt they had a strong As James J. Treires points out in his the aborted rescue attempt last April June 5 Christian Science Monitor sense of control over the risks they face in of the 50 American hostages in Iran. their daily lives, while nearly a fifth felt essay, "Will the Pentagon Kill the they had almost no control at all. He has acted in an anti-American way Golden Goose," military potential de In the area of energy, the poll disclosed to discredit this Nation and has under pends on the national economy, and it that, while nearly three-quarters of the mined American credibility and is clear that the U.S. economy is in public believed there was no guarantee strength in world leadership. His ac trouble. Loading more military spend against a catastrophic nuclear accident, tions are demeaning to the American ing on an already strained economy most nonetheless felt that nuclear power people. will not yield a stronger nation, better was too important to abandon at this time. I believe this totally irresponsible prepared to defend its international Similarly, a majority indicated that they act on Mr. Clark's part should be im interests. accepted the increased use of coal despite mediately condemned by the Presi the potential dangers posed to health and I agree with Treires that a military the environment, although most also indi dent, the Congress, and the American spending increase big enough to satis cated a preference for solar energy despite people. No matter how noble Mr. fy congressional hawks may kill our the fact that the survey takers pointed out Clark's purported intentions are, his golden goose-the American economy. to respondents that solar "may not provide mission can only serve to damage long The article follows: sufficient energy -to support our current term American interests. The present standard of living." Iranian crisis is a very tense, complex WILL THE PENTAGON KILL THE GOLDEN In the area of transportation, most execu situation. Such an attention-seeking GoosE? tives felt that the lower costs and energy event by the former Attorney General The United States is the world's wealthi savings associated with smaller, lighter cars can only serve to prolong and aggra est nation, with a gross national product outweighed the risk of higher fatal acci nearing $2.5 trillion. President dents. A plurality of the public, however, vate the crisis in two ways. Carter's military budget calls for 1981 out did not. First, the central and only issue in lays of $150.5 billion, and Congress wants a The Harris organization concedes that the Iranian crisis is the illegal and im further increase. some of the questions oversimplify the moral kidnaping of American citi The Pentagon's main argument in support issues, and indeed, the word "risk," itself, zens, an act that clearly violates inter of this huge budget request is the relation was purposely left undefined, allowing for national law, and may I point out, in ship between these numbers. Even at $157 each question to provide the necessary con the name of which the militants say billion, the military budget would amount text. they are acting, Islamic law. Any to only 6.3 percent of the GNP. Ergo, the Still, in the context of cost/benefit analy grievances that the Iranian Govern Pentagon concludes, we can easily afford it. sis, for example, a majority of executives Time magazine, using slightly outdated fig and regulators said they were now willing to ment has against our country may ures, tells us that "social spending is now place an economic value on human life only be considered after the hostages the largest item in the national budget, when making important decisions about the are unconditionally released. Mr. amounting to $423.8 billion this year as allocation of scarce resources. Clark's trip serves to divert attention compared with $145.1 billion for defense." Similarly, executives indicated over from this most important and vital These are comforting ideas. We are evi whelmingly that the potential break concern. dently a fat, prosperous, pleasure-seeking throughs from genetic research far Second, our Government must have society that needs only to cut back on a few outweighed the possible health hazards, and a firm, unified plan for dealing with luxuries-like the lavish "social spending" they also favored the continued use of cited by Time-in order to pay for a big ex chemical pesticides on crops. this international crisis. Further, it is pansion in our military power. But a majority of the executives and fi illegal for self-appointed negotiators Would that it were so. While the numbers nancial leaders indicated that, in the decade to negotiate as representatives of the cited above have some basis in fact, a care ahead, the country's mood regarding risk United States with foreign officials. ful look at the United States economy as it would have a significant impact on their in The Logan Act, designed specifically is currently functioning tells a much differ vestment decisions. to halt such unwarranted activity, pro- ent story. June 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13781 Beneath the shining surface of the GNP fare, as the beneficiaries of federal social tricts around the country. I commend figures lies an ugly reality: The US economy programs are already learning. An increase them to my colleagues.• is in shambles. The basic industries which big enough to satisfy Congress's hawks once catapulted America into the number could kill the golden goose.e one economic postion are losing ground rap idly to foreign competitors. While our gov ISRAEL'S WEST BANK SETTLE ernment bemoans our dependence on im WILLIAM C. PRATTELLA CHOSEN MENTS ARE AN OBSTACLE TO ported oil, a resource whose supply is limit TOP SCHOOL EXECUTIVE ed by nature, its economic policies have THE PLO-NOT TO PEACE made us "dependent" on imported auto mobiles, television sets, shoes, hi-fis, steel, HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER HON. NORMAN F. LENT and clothing, all of which we once supplied OF NEW YORK for ourselves. Although some profits have OF NEW YORK accrued to US corporations operating IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES abroad, the losses in jobs and income from Monday, June 9, 1980 Monday, June 9, 1980 America's industrial decline have been enormous. The February foreign trade defi e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, Wil e Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, there is an cit of $5.6 billion was the worst in our histo liam C. Prattella of Mount Vernon, unfortunate and still-growing misun ry. N.Y., has been selected as one of derstanding in this country concerning The theory that the US private sector is North America's 100 top school execu Israel's position on the West Bank set vigorous and successful without government tives by the Executive Educator, the tlements question. President Carter's assistance or coordination is rapidly being egregious blunder in permitting the destroyed by a fact: Those capitalist democ magazine for elementary and second racies that give top priority to their civilian ary school administrators. United States to cast a U.N. Security manufacturing industries are crowding On June 12, Dr. Prattella will be Council vote against Israel's settle American products out of world markets. honored by his friends and colleagues ment policy has contributed greatly to America is a nation in serious economic for this well-deserved tribute. I am that misunderstanding. Tragically, difficulty, barely able to support its current pleased to share with my colleagues at subsequent explanations of that vote defense expenditures, and in real danger of this time a brief recognition of Dr. by Mr. Carter and his foreign policy collapse if that burden is substantially in Prattella's numerous accomplish advisers have further confused the creased. ments. issue, rather than clarifying it. Israel The measure of a nation's potential mili and the government of Prime Minister tary strength is the size of its economic sur A native of Mount Vernon, Dr. Prat plus. What we don't need to live on is what tella has spent 19 years in the city Begin have come under unjustified we can spend for defense. Before any re school system. In 1972, he was ap attack in America for obstructing the sources can be used for national defense, pointed superintendent of the Mount progress of peace agreements in the the economy must provide the necessities of Vernon school system which has an Middle East because of the settle life for all its people. Before they can fire a enrollment of approximately 10,000 ments issue. rifle, sail a ship, or fly a plane, the men and It is absolutely vital that Americans women in the armed forces must have food, students. At age 32, Dr. Prattella was the youngest individual in New York have a thorough understanding of this shelter, clothing, and the other amenities of important question. With that modern life. State to hold this important position. It is the crucial relationship between civil During his tenure as superintendent, thought in mind, I direct the attention ian economic base and military expendi Dr. Prattella has reduced the percent of my colleagues to a most perceptive tures that is now being threatened by the age of students performing at below examination of the entire issue con hawks in Congress. Ignoring direct evidence minimum competency on State tests tained in an article recently published of serious economic crisis all around them, from 36 percent in 1972 to 7 percent in by the Wall Street Journal. The arti they focus on the abstraction called GNP as cle was written by Mr. Theodore R. proof that a bigger military budget is easily 1978. His innovative methods include: teaching reading by the phonics Mann, chairman of the Conference of affordable. Presidents of Major American Jewish Many people are unaware of the fact that method, using television scripts as military spending is automatically counted teaching aids, starting programs for Organizations. I congratulate Mr. as GNP; the more we spend on the Penta early identification and treatment of Mann on his learned discussion of this gon, the bigger our GNP. Obviously we can't learning disabilities, and teaching Chi important matter, which places the improve our personal economic circum sanbop-the Korean finger-calculation settlements question in its proper his stances by spending more for defense, but technique-to first and second graders. torical context. I ask that the article we can increase the GNP. be reprinted in its entirety in the As for the mythical growth of "social Dr. Prattella also helped start the first magnet school for elementary stu RECORD because I believe it contributes spending," most of it is in federal programs significantly to a better understanding that pay for themselves through special dents in New York State. This school, contributions-social security, medicare, un which I have visited many times, has of Israel's position on the settlements employment compensation. They don't become a model for school districts question. come out of our income taxes and they across the country. The article follows: don't compete for defense dollars. The raw political power of the military in In addition, to his responsibilities as ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS Aru; NOT AN OBSTACLE dustry lobby in Washington is awesome. superintendent, Dr. Prattella teaches To MIDEAsT PEAcE Presidential candidates are afraid of being two graduate school courses at Ford- labeled "soft on defense," a code phrase for ham University and serves as chair- Are Israel's settlements on the West Bank unwillingness to give the Pentagon more man of the scholarship committee of ' really an obstacle to peace? money. Jimmy Carter-the candidate who the Italian Civic Association. In recent President Sadat of Egypt has condemned called for a $5 billion to $7 billion cut in years, Dr. Prattella has been honored them as "unfounded, ill-conceived and il military spending-has increased real mili for his distinguished service and lead- legal." President Carter say~ t.he settl~ tary spending in every one of his three ership by many groups including the m~nts are harmful to the cont~numg negotl years in office, and now seeks the biggest Mount Vernon Parent Teacher Associ- at10ns on the fut~re of ~he .d1~puted areas. boost of all for 1981. . . . The New York T1mes ed1tonallzes that the From World War II through the early six at10n, the M~unt ~e~non CI~Y ~ouncll, spirit of Camp David is threatened by Prime ties, the US economy was indeed a golden and the Italian CIVIl Association. Dr. Minister Begin's settlement policy. But the goose, bringing rapid improvement in the Prattella lives in Mount Vernon with history of the area repudiates this view. The standard of living and the military power re his wife and four children. obstacle to Arab/Israel peace is the same as quired to fight in Korea and Vietnam. By I am pleased to join the Executive it has been since 1948-Arab refusal ARIZONA years," Pomeroy said. New fire services in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES clude a paramedic program and community impact of such works. We know simply service trucks. that they will register high on the Monday, June 9, 1980 "We've worked fast," Pomeroy said. "Four Richter scale of technolgical and polit years is not very long and I worked con ical significance. e Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, last stantly. And that staff was just as excited Mr. Speaker, we deeply regret, but week my good friend, Wayne Pomeroy, and enthusiastic as I was-they never do not mourn, the passing of Frank stepped down after 4 years as the looked at a clock." Huddle-because he himself did not mayor of Mesa, Ariz. In a time when The mayor is highly pleased with pro want memorials, eulogies, tears. If there seems to be so much concentra grams established for senior citizens during anyone espoused the philosophy ex tion on the negative aspects of public his term, including Dial-a-Ride for the el pressed by the famous line: • • • Let service and elective office, Wayne's derly and handicapped and the Senior Cen career as mayor demonstrates that it ter's daily activities. · there be no sadness of farewell when I is possible to achieve, and derive, a Pomeroy also stai"U:!d the Mayor's Youth depart • • •. It was Frank. great deal that is positive through Committee, made up of students from the So, we are sorry. But mostly we are city's junior highs and high schools, which grateful for Frank Huddle, for what public office. plans a wide variety of activities for young he was and did. Very grateful. A recent article in the Arizona Re people. Mr. Speaker, I attach a brief notice public summarizes Wayne's record in The mayor confirmed he is being consid office, not only in terms of specific ac ered for a post on the Interstate Commerce of Dr. Huddle's career as it appeared complishments, but also in terms of Commission, but added it does not appear in the Washington Star, June 4, 1980: the sense of community which he likely he will win the appointment. FRANKLIN PIERCE HUDDLE worked to maintain in the midst of the He has been urged to run for other politi Franklin P. Huddle, 66, a senior specialist city's tremendous growth. cal offices but was not interested in those in science and technology for the Congres I commend and congratulate Wayne particular races. sional Research Service of the Library of "I don't have any (political) plans," he Congress, died Friday of cancer in Fairfax Pomeroy on his outstanding record of said. "If there's something for me out there Hospital. He lived on Nemeth Court in Alex service to the people of Mesa and wish and it looks good and it's waved at me, I'll andria. him every good luck as he returns to sure go at it. But I haven't found that yet. Mr. Huddle was known for his prolific leg· private life. I now insert the Arizona "I do have a busmess to operate She's a perfect wife of a mayor-so kind and Brown University in Rhode Island in 1939. MESA.-In monetary terms, Wayne Pom considerate and gracious. She understands He taught English at Brown during World eroy's tenure as mayor of Mesa has netted my job." War II and also was a reporter for the him a little more than $2 per hour. The outgoing mayor's great-great grandfa Providence Journal, a writer for Editorial For the past four years, Pomeroy figures, ther, Francis Martin Pomeroy, sailed the Research Reports and director of Brown he has put in about 60 hours a week as Atlantic trade routes until he joined the University's news bureau. mayor, which pays $600 per month. Mormon church and made the long, hard Mr. Huddle began working for the federal "It's a job you sure don't take for the trek to Idaho and, later, to Arizona. government in 1947 at the Defense Depart money, but there are lots of things that "They came to where Centennial Hall is ment, where he held several assignments, mean as much as money," Pomeroy said last now and made their camp there on Feb. 14, including the department's materials con week as he prepared to re-enter "civilian" 1878," the mayor said. "We opened Centen servation program which he began in 1949. life. nial hall exactly 100 years from that day." In 1962, he participated in a study of na He will step down as mayor Monday when Pomeroy graduated from Mesa High tional materials policy in the Executive Donald Strauch, elected April 29, takes over School in 1941 and since has earned degrees Office of the President. the city's top job. from Brigham Young University and New Also in the early 1960s, Mr. Huddle was a Joining the City Council at that time will York University. senior staff engineer and senior staff scien be Murray Woods and Dave Guthrie, replac He was wounded on a bombing mission tist for a laboratory of the Hughes Aircraft ing Cordon Driggs and Elma Milano, who over Czechoslovakia on June 16th, 1944. In Co. in California, and he was a consultant ran unsuccessfully. 1945, still hospitalized, he married his high- June 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13785 school sweetheart, Ceil. They now have four malaria, poisonous snakes, lack of equip "Major Graham did not receive his orders daughters. ment and funds, their work was delayed in Washington definitely detailing him to In 1950, he borrowed $4,000, using his time a.nd again. this service until November 1, 1839. It then mother's home as collateral, and opened Po The boundary was marked by mile mark became necessary for him to proceed to meroy's Mens Store in downtown Mesa. ers placed from the mouth of the Sabine on Philadelphia, New York, and Boston to col "I have other stores, but that store's been the Louisiana-Texas border to the Red lect and pack up the astronomical instru there for 30 years," the mayor said. River on the Arkansas-Texas border. A ments necessary for execution of his duties In 1966 he was elected to the City Council, granite ma-ker set on the west side of the when he and Lt. Lee, who was in charge of where he served eight years. He was elected Sabine fell 1nto t l-te river years ago when the instruments, sailed from New York to mayor in 1976. the sandy bank crumbled. A second granite New Orleans.... After a very boisterous During his term he tried, he said, to "give marker was located on the 32nd parallel passage, attended by adverse winds, they people a purpose, make them feel they're about 100 feet off FM 31 on the Louisiana reached the latter place on December 18." part of the city and should have a sense of Texas border near Logansport, Louisiana. They needed water transportation to community value. Set on April 23, 1841, it was recently "re insure safe passage for the delicate instru "I tried to keep that, even though during discovered" by District 19 employee Del ments, so they sent a messenger to tell the the four years we grew nearly a third in Moore while he was charting historical and commission they would be delayed. The total city population (between 40,000 and archeological sites for the Highway Depart messenger left on December 29, but didn't 50,000 people). Mesa's population now is ment. On the west side of the marker is en reach the commission's campsite until Janu more than 160,000, making it the third-larg graved "R.T.," which stands for the Repub ary 21. est city in Arizona. lic of Texas; the east side has "U.S." On the In the meantime, the U.S. Commissioner "Everybody smiles," the mayor said. "I south side is "Merid N T Boundary, estab had gone to New Orleans on business and can go down the street and pass an old city lished A.D. 1840." The shaft was prepared had already met with Major Graham and pickup. They see my car, they wave and I in 1840 and was dated to be set that year, Lt. Lee. By this time the pair had arranged wave. I couldn't be treated better than I've but because of delays, it was not placed for "an excellent 47 ton sloop," the Thomas been treated as mayor. until the spring of 1841. Several years ago, Camby, and were ready to sail pm January "I can go out of office and feel very satis woodsmen felled a tree on the marker, 27. Three days later they reached the fied."e breaking it off a few inches above the Sabine campsite. ground, but it was repaired. They immediately "commenced the neces Jake Watson of Beckville, who submitted sary astronomical observations for deter DEDICATION OF INTERNATIONAL the joint commission's journal so that a mining the latitude and longitude of the BOUNDARY MARKER STONE story could be written for the 'I exas High junction of the west bank of the Sabine ONLY REMAINING EVIDENCE ways says, "The boundary between the with the sea, and the dip and declination of United States and the Republic of Texas is the magnetic needle." OF OFFICIAL BORDER BE the only boundary the United States negoti TWEEN UNITED STATES AND ated with three foreign powers. It was nego Finally, on May 21, 1840, demarcation of REPUBLIC OF TEXAS tiated with Spain in 1818, Mexico in 1821, the boundary was begun. It was marked by and the Republic of Texas in 1838." a high mound of earth about 50 feet in di HON.CLAUDE(BUDDY)LEACH Both France and Spain explored the ameter and seven feet high and surmounted southern half of North America. The two by a 36-foot high pole with a keg at its top, OF LOUISIANA countries had long-standing disputes about and the site was marked "A" on the map. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES land that is now on the Louisiana-Texas They continued tracing the boundary up the river, often making astronomical obser Monday, June 9, 1980 border. They both claimed lands beginning with the first watershed west of the Missis vations long past midnight, especially when • Mr. LEACH of Louisiana. Mr. sippi. The dispute arose over whether the the nights were clear. One night their en Speaker, the Louisiana and Texas sec first watershed was the Sabine or the campment was on a bluff on the east bank, tions of the American Society of Civil Atchafalaya in Louisiana. or Louisiana side, of the Sabine River and Engineers have honored me by invit When the United States purchased Louisi they wrote, "We crossed today the path of a ana from France in 1803 and inherited recent tornado which has prostated trees ing me to participate in a special his and cane on the river banks. This was sup torical dedication this Saturday, June France's claim, the disputed land east of the Sabine River was considered "neutral posed to be the same tornado which occa 14, in DeSoto Parish, La. An original ground" and became a haven for outlaws sioned such dreadful destruction on human international boundary marker stone, and deserters-a no-man's land. lives and houses in Natchez on the seventh set in 1841, marking the border be When the United States bought Florida of May." tween the United States and the Re from Spain in 1819, the two countries There was some question that the treaty public of Texas, will be designated a agreed the boundary of Texas was to be the between the United States and Mexico in local historical civil engineering land Sabine River until it crossed the 32nd paral 1821 may have named the Neches River in mark. Because it is the only remaining lel; then it was to be from the west bank of stead of the Sabine. The surveyors deter evidence of the exact survey line be the Sabine to the south bank of the Red mined that the Neches could not be the River. Texas was still a part of the Spanish boundary line and they wrote in their jour tween the two, it is therefore of na Territory. nal: "The edition of Melish's map of the tional historical significance. I would When Texas gained its independence in United States, improved to January 1, 1818, like for my colleagues to share with 1836, the boundary had to be settled. The referred to in the treaty as laying down and me an article, "Epic Journey," pub joint commission was appointed two years identifying the particular stream, could not lished in the Texas Highway magazine later. The commission met in New Orleans be found. In the absence of that evidence, several years ago. The story by Marjie on August 7, 1839. Gathering enough provi the commission has been led to conclude on Mungo describes the circumstances of sions and arranging transportation to the other grounds equally satisfactory to them mouth of the Sabine River, they reconvened the River Neches could not have been in how the marker was set in 1841, and tended as the river designed by the treaty as how it was recently rediscovered. on October 15. "Owing to the peculiar un healthiness of the season and other obsta constituting this portion of the boundary EPIC JOURNEY cles," the commission reassembled instead between the two countries." It was April 25, 1838. W. J. Stone, an am on November 12 at Green's Bluff, about 35 At times dense forests and sinewy streams bitious young engineer, shook hands with miles upriver on Sabine Lake. hampered their progress. One morning they President Harrison in Washington, D.C. and They still had problems, however. Major started out at 6 a.m. and had gone no more promised to complete his appointed task J. D. Graham and Lt. T. J. Lee hadn't ar than three miles when their passage was "with all due speed and accuracy." Stone rived with their astronomical apparatus and blocked by a raft called Moore's "discovery" a "historical appended to this statement the two schoolteacher and through forests of cypress and almost im historian, Mrs. Leila LaGrone, agrees with March 15, respectively. pervious undergrowth, added to the exces Moore and says, "The 'historical find' has [Material referred to not reproduced sive heat, were very severe upon the party not been lost by historical-minded local in the RECORD.] who would only go 1,950 feet to the banks of people. I am pleased with the publicity. This When these checks were paid, it was JimsBayou." will add impetus to our movement to have a more than a year prior to the effective They were in the homestretch now, and state-line park built at the marker site." date of the new campaign reporting the journal tells of all their troubles: Says Tom Hunter, Del Moore's boss and supervising resident engineer, "The marker law of April 5, 1972. In March 1971, it June 1: "After a most circuitous day's was not illegal to hold fundraising din journey, encamped at a spring of most deli is of great historical significance, and it is cious water on an old Indian trail leading still valid, as far as we know." ners for the purpose of funding ex from Caddo Prarie to the Oushatta Village [NoTE.-The International Boundary penditures of Congressmen for nonpo and a short distance west of the boundary. Marker landmark is located on land dedi litical expenditures. In particular, a Established the 58th and 59th miles . . . " cated for use as a park. It is the only re number of our colleagues in 1971 were June 9: "On this day Mr. A. G. Gray was maining evidence of the exact survey line accustomed to raising additional funds thrown from his horse and narrowly es between Louisiana and Texas. Surveyors on for newsletters and travel expenses caped from a serious injury. He was soon East Texas and Louisiana still use in their which were not then compensated, as able to resume his duties on the line. Estab surveys the common points established from this original boundary line.le they are today, from House official ex lished the 77th and 78th miles running penses. Neither illegality nor breach along a creek bottom for some distance." June 11: "The supplies of bread having of House rules was involved in holding been left at the last encampment the hands THE PROPOSED CENSURE OF fundraising functions for this purpose. refused to work and several were taken sick. HON. CHARLES H. WILSON The same holds true of counts 9, 10, Established 82, 83, 84, 85 and 86th miles and 11 which involved three expendi passing through an almost impenetrable un HON. PAUL N. McCLOSKEY, JR. tures totaling $9,900 at a time when dergrowth of young oaks and hickory. The Wilson was raising $13,880 through a increasing sickness of the U.S. Commission OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fundraising dinner held on November er, with an attack of fever upon three of his 17, 1971, in Washington. The bank officers, along with the sick hands amount Monday, June 9, 1980 ing to a dozen or more, rendered the camp statements reflecting these deposits to more the appearance of a hospital, and the e Mr. McCLOSKEY. Mr. Speaker, in his campaign account during October most unpleasant and disagreeable passed on the matter of CHARLES H. WILSON, and November 1971, are also appended the line." House Resolution 660, I have previous to this statement. June 12: "This morning four gentlemen ly expressed reservations about the [Material referred to not reproduced rode into camp from Red River and in quantum of proof of guilt contained in in the RECORD.] formed us of our near approach to the Sul the Committee on Standards of Offi We are thus left with fundraising re phur Fork. They were the first new faces seen in camp for a long time. They re cial Conduct's original report. These ceipts of over $29,000, and expendi mained a few days and were of signal service reservations were printed in the CoN tures in excess of $25,000, 9 years ago. in expediting our passage across the swamp GRESSIONAL RECORD of May 29 at pages While these expenditures were clearly and the river." 12132 and 12733, not for campaign expenditures, the June 14: "The men engaged this day in as When House· .Resolution 660 was question is upon whom the burden sisting the wagons through an overflow first brought to the floor on May 29, should fall-WILSON to show that they swamp and across a large tributary of the new evidence was presented by our col were for business, not personal, ex river over which the oxen and mules swam league from California, Mr. THOMAS, penditures, or the committee to show with the wagons empty." which effectively rebutted the theory that they were for personal expenses. June 15: "Engaged the principal part of the day in constructing rafts to transport of presumed innocence I had present Nine years after the fact, it is my supplies, baggage, etc. across the river ..." ed on counts 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. tentative conclusion that the burden is June 20: "Encampment stationary. I had expressed the concern that the on the committee and that that Marked 96th and 97th miles crossing the re evidence on those five counts of al burden has not been met from facts mains of an old hurricane." leged violations did not overcome the contained in either the original report Then-success! They reached Red River. reasonable possibility that Repre- or the supplemental report. The factu- June 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13787 al evidence does not furnish clear and urban blacks each year to ancestral tribal scant, and homeland boundaries are gerry convincing proof of the eight counts "homelands." mandered to leave prosperous white areas specifically charged, and it is the clear Black anger builds both at the idea of the outside. resettlement policy and at the way it has Since 1948, two million blacks have been and convincing standard that we our been carried out. Blacks in city and subur resettled and the number in the past decade selves have set.e ban areas receive little notice before they has been running about 100,000 a year, ac and their possessions are piled on trucks cording to experts at the SA Institute of and moved hundreds of miles away. The Race Relations, in Johannesburg, a non SOUTH AFRICAN RESETTLEMENT bulldozers come in quickly to level their governmental organization. Official South POLICY PROVOKES RACIAL former homes. The people are often offered African figures, however, put resettlements TENSION IN RURAL AREAS little shelter in the rural resettlement areas. for the 1970s at about 30,000 a year. In any Frequently they are given land too poor for case, roughly half of South Africa's 20 mil cultivation. lion blacks now live in the homelands HON. DON EDWARDS "In five years, the pendulum of revolution about 40 percent of the country's total pop OF CALIFORNIA will swing from urban to rural areas," de ulation. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES clares one black tribal leader. An academic Ten homelands have been established, expert in Johannesburg says, "The home most of them consisting of several sections Monday, June 9, 1980 land policy has backfired, but the govern of noncontiguous territory. Three of the e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. ment won't admit it." homelands-Transkei, Venda and Bophuth Speaker, as a member of the Human ARMS ARE FOUND atswana-have accepted independence. Resi Already arms caches have been found in dents of independent states aren't citizens Rights Committee of Members of Con of South Africa, and South Africa regards gress for Peace Through Law, I would several of the homelands, including the Zulu homeland here in KwaZulu stretching the states as foreign countries. like to express my concern over the along the Indian Ocean to Marxist Mozam To persuade homelands to accept inde growing racial unrest in South Africa bique. The recent black victory in Zimbabwe pendence, South Africa has offered them fi resulting from the Government's has added to the mood of rising militancy. nancial aid if they do so. This aid then policy of forcibly removing thousands "One sees the possibility of terrorism in amounts to foreign aid, and South Africa of urban blacks each year to tribal creasing-the potential is there," says Chief can cut it off whenever it pleases. It did just Lucas Mangope of the Tswana tribe in the that in a border dispute with Transkei. homelands. KwaZulu is spurning independence. Here I am inserting in the RECORD an arti Bophuthatswana homeland. Even the homeland policy doesn't prevent in the capital of the Zulu homeland-a few cle from the Wall Street Journal by the black population from increasing in the dusty streets and a handful of simple build Jonathan Spivak of May 30, 1980, cities as rural blacks pour in to seek jobs. ings-lies the heart of resistance to the which describes the homelands policy But the policy has slowed the net growth pomelands policy. M. Gatsha Buthelezi, the and its political and social repercus and, in time, may even bring it to a halt. strong-willed 51-year-old hereditary leader sions. Blacks are allowed permanent residence in of 5.5 million Zulus, shrewdly manipulates Since 1948, 2 million blacks have white areas-within designated black town the policy to enhance his own power and been resettled from urban to rural ships-only if they were born there or have undermine the South African government's. areas. About half of South Africa's 20 permanent jobs. HEADQUARTERSFORINKATHA million blacks now live in rural home Certainly the prospect remains for grow Take his smartly clad, blue-coated two lands which, as Mr. Spivak points out, ing racial violence in and around cities. The man police force. The government was op headlines these days tell of bitter racial con posed to even this small effort to replace are economically depressed areas of flict in Johannesburg, Durban, capetown South African security police, but Chief fering few jobs and services to the and other urban areas where millions of· Buthelezi insisted that he was acting under urban black families arbitrarily trans blacks live without political rights. A school authority already granted to his homeland ported to them. boycott, which started in Capetown five government. "It's necessary to protect our Ten homelands have been estab weeks ago, has spread throughout the coun property and will be expanded," he says. lished since the late 1940's and three, try, touching off rioting and a police crack The Zulu leader also uses the homeland as including Transkei, Venda, and Bo down. Government retaliation has so far headquarters for a highly disciplined politi produced the deaths of four demonstrators cal and cultural movement known as In phuthatswana, have . accepted inde and the arrest of hundreds, including 50 pendence from South Africa. KwaZulu katha. It seeks to unite urban and rural prominent church leaders in Johannesburg. blacks into South Africa's largest black po is, however, one homeland that is refus Obviously, such events have a potential litical movement; with large numbers of ing independence as Chief Buthelezi, for racial conflagration. But most leaders, Zulus living in Soweto and other urban hereditary leader of 5.5 million Zulus, white and black, believe that the govern areas, Inkatha has reached throughout the organizes a political and cultural ment has massed sufficient power in Soweto country and now claims 300,000 members. movement known as Inkatha. This and other urban centers to suppress black Chief Buthelezi is, in fact, the only black movement seeks to unite urban and uprisings there. The government, despite leader who currently boasts a national fol strong political criticism, shows no hesitan lowing-other than jailed black activist rural blacks. It now claims about cy in using its forces. 300,000 members throughout the Nelson Mandela, whom the South African country. CRITICS' VIEW government vows never to release. And the Thus, most white critics of the govern chief's increasing activity is causing increas The creation of this movement ment's racial policies believe that urban in ing worry among whites. among the Zulu population and the surrection can't succeed. "The black kids "Inkatha is being organized as a fight building resentment of urban blacks are very fed up, very militant, very radical," against whites," says Prof. Ben Piek, a forcibly removed to destitute home says Helen Suzman, a liberal member of the white who is a homelands expert at Rand lands would seem to show that the South African parliament, "but the thought Afrikans University in Johannesburg. "A homelands policy has only served to of a massive uprising just isn't possible." mobilized Zulu force is a threat." spread racial unrest from urban to The rural areas may be another matter. Resentment of the homelands policy rural areas of the country. The homelands policy was begun in the makes it easier for Chief Buthelezi and late 1940s as a major element of apartheid, other black leaders to mobilize black feel I commend the following article to the official doctrine of separate develop ing. the attention of my colleagues: ment of the races. Large numbers of urban In the Johannesburg office of a legal-aid [From the Wall Street Journal, May 30, blacks would be sent back to their old tribal service known as Black Sash, a young black 1980] homelands, which would eventually become client's eyes smolder with anger as a coun HOMELAND POLICY STIRS THREAT OF RACIAL independent states with no voice in South selor tells him why he is being ordered to STRIFE IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA . African affairs and no claim on help from return to a homeland 200 miles to the the South African government. north: Since he has lost his job as a driver For years, the policy seemed to be work for a local company, he no longer has any ULUNDI, SOUTH AFRICA.-An angry activ ing as black leaders passively went along. legal right to remain in Johannesburg and ism is slowly building in the hinterlands of But now discontent is growing, particularly must leave even though he feels he can't South Africa. It could, in the end, turn out as black leaders come to realize that while support his wife and children in the home of be far more explosive than urban unrest. most homelands have virtually no hope of land. "Our offices are full of people like this 13788 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 9, 1980 every day," Sheena Duncan, a white woman FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS IN Committee could change its procedures to who heads the aid service, says sadly. THE CASE OF MR. CHARLES H. differ significantly from the due process WILSON OF CALIFORNIA used in the courts, and that would be just as "BLACK SPOTS" WIPED OUT constitutionally acceptable as long as the procedures are basically fair. I personally At the same time that it obliges individ HON. LEE H. HAMILTON think that some of the Standards Commit uals like the truck driver to return, the gov OF INDIANA tee rules of procedure should be altered. ernment is also wiping out entire "black They are not perfect, and they can be im spots"-unauthorized black settlements in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES proved. However, the changes must keep urban white areas. The human devastation Monday, June 9, 1980 the process "discretionary because it could produced by the forced removal of these not exist under the procrastination of gen blacks from their long-occupied homes to e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, Con eral rules" is of questionable Response. This obviously does not change the homelands. To avoid such danger in this value because the House action on the area, whites are increasingly interested in the fact that the findings were not revealed Powell case was reversed by the Supreme to the general public until recently. We are some sort of political settlement between Court. Chief Buthelezi's KwaZulu homeland and not attempting to punish Mr. Wilson for Response. The reversal was not because something generally known by his constitu the surrounding South African province in the procedures used by the Celler Commit tents for eight years. Rather, the damage to Natal. The provincial government there has tee were not precisely judicial. In fact, the the public's perception of the integrity of traditionally been more liberal on racial reversal had nothing to do with the Com the House has been recent, and needs to be matters than the central government, and mittee actions at all, but was over the floor corrected now. Mr. Ford's suggestion that many whites in Durban, Natal's major city, amendment of exclusion offered by Repre the damage done to the House was more have a high regard for Chief Buthelezi. sentative Gerald Ford of Michigan. Had the due to the Standards Committee revealing House used the same nonjudicial procedures Mr Wilson's actions than to the actions AN ECONOMIST'S QUESTION to expel Powell rather than to exclude him, theinselves is certainly puzzling. then, as Justice Douglas said, the Court 7. Mr. Ford states . gress. The relevant evidence is: Mr. Rogers mittee which judged Mr. Wilson are outra Mr. Rogers admitted under oath such an in admitted his interest in legislation before geously unfair and violate every concept of terest. Contrary to Mr. Ford's claims , I Congress. Mr. Wilson received $10,500 from due process under American law". In my earlier statement I defended I thought that Mr. Wilson was influenced loans, as evinced, first, by the absence of the Standards Committee and House pro by Mr. Rogers, but only that Mr. Rogers at traditional earmarks of loans, and second, ceedings by pointing out that the framers of tempted to influence Mr. Wilson, as evinced by the fact that Mr. Wilson's financial the Constitution, the House, and the Su by facts such as his correspondence on spe statements filed with the House list no out preme Court all have recognized that con cific pieces of legislation and by his general standing loans from Mr. Rogers, indicating gressional ethics proceedings are sui generis role as director of a trade association in that he did not view the money as loans but and need not follow the exact due process volved in legislative matters relating to the as outright gifts. requirements used in the courts. The proce mails. This is why the Committee-recom 8. Summary counts 7-11. In counts 7-11, dures need just be generally fair, and they mended sanction is especially fitting: Mr. Mr. Wilson is charged with violating Clause clearly are. Mr. Wilson had access to all doc Wilson is currently chairman of the House 6 of the House Code of Conduct in that he uments in the Committee's possession, he Subcommittee on Postal Operations and converted almost $25,000 in campaign funds had the right of counsel, the right of cross Services, and it handles matters that Mr. to personal use that were not reimburse examination, the right to have subpoenas Rogers clearly would have an interest in. Al ments for legitimate and verifiable prior issued, the right to file motions, the right to lowing Mr. Wilson to retain his subcommit campaign expenditures. The relevant evi present arguments and testify on his own tee chairmanship after accepting money dence is: On five separate occasions, cam behalf, the right to request delays, and so from such an individual would raise serious paign funds were transferred to Mr. Wil on. Mr. Wilson did not even choose to take questions in the public's mind about the in son's personal accounts, and Mr. Wilson has advantage of all the rights that were made tegrity of Congress and of the legislative stated that he was aware of the transfers. available to him, e.g. he chose not to testify. process. The timing and amounts involved indicate The Standards Committee made every 4. Mr. Ford claims that the mis testimony he specifically denied under oath conduct of Mr. Wilson is less severe than that there were any legitimate reimburse SOVIET ADVANCES SHOULD NOT the type of misconduct involved in the three ments involving large sums of money. GO UNNOTICED cases I mentioned in which there were 5. Mr. Ford states Vermont Royster that appeared on islation before his Committee and before money from campaign accounts to myself". June 4 in the Wall Street Journal. the House, as Mr. Wilson did. Such actions 6. Mr. Ford states that I chose to The article attempts to alert the clearly cause more damage to public percep ignore expert testimony that when a reader to the relationship between tions of the integrity of the House and the Member is reimbursed for legitimate cam Marxist theory and the latest Soviet Congressional legislative process. paign expenses, he can spend the money as advances into foreign countries, and 2. Mr. Ford claims (II.B) that the three he sees fit. transactions totalling $10,500 were loans the ventures conveyed by Adolf Hitler Response. The testimony is correct. How in "Mein Kampf." In light of this fact, from Mr. Rogers to Mr. Wilson, and that my ever, the important point is that there was remarks that they were gifts are simply in no verifiable evidence before the Committee we must not make the same mistake correct. Mr. Wilson did not report his loans that this money was in fact reimbursement and ignore the intentions of the Sovi from Mr. Rogers on his 1977 House finan for legitimate campaign expenses. On the ets as Hitler was ignored in the 1930's. cial disclosure statement because of a Cali contrary, the timing and amounts of money The article follows: fornia statute of limitations. involved showed that it was only for person THINKING THINGS OVER Response. It bears repeating that the al expenses rather than for campaign reim that Mr. Rogers' he stated: "None". completely forgotten. For there remains in interest in legislation before Congress has 7. Summary counts 1-3. In order that the it a lesson that is very relevant indeed to been carelessly presented and needs to be key overall points are not lost in such ex our own times. clarified. changes I want to briefly summarize the Published in 1924, "Mein Kampf" <"My Response. In order for there to be a viola main issues at hand. In counts 1-3 Mr. Struggle") was written while Hitler, then in tion of the House Code of Conduct, it need Wilson is charged with violating Clause 4 of his mid-thirties, was in prison for an abor only be shown that Mr. Wilson accepted the House Code of Conduct in that he ac- tive effort to overthrow the Bavarian gov- C:XXVI-868-Part 11 13790 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 9, 1980 emment. The story of his life up to that leader of the opposition, cries the danger in fear losing their benefits. They also point, even as he tells it, is that of a misfit the Soviet arms buildup. In our own country worry about losing collateral benefits, who failed in almost everything he tried. there are those, including a former Secre particularly for medical care if they But by the time the world began to pay at tary of State and a former President, who tention, a decade later, this Adolf Hitler was urge us to those ramparts that we not tempt return to work. This bill has several the Fuhrer of the German Reich, soon to be a foe by being weak. provisions to encourage the disabled to the conqueror of all Europe. But in many quarters all who speak so are go to work and become productive citi What is fascinating about that prison branded as "hawks," a pejorative term. Its zens. written book is that in it Hitler told the intended implication is that anyone who A final section of the conference world exactly what he intended to do and argues the need to build up the military de how he intended to do it. He told how he fenses of the West is someone who would report deals with medigap insurance. would undermine the Weimar Republic, lead us to war. Anyone who suggests that This largely parallels a proposal by arouse the German people demoralized in Soviet ambitions are what they have always Congressman PEPPER to set up a volun the aftermath of World War I, seize control said they were, that their huge rearmament tary certification program for medi of the government and, using the Nazi program is not purposeless, is decried as an care supplemental health insurance Party of his own devising, make himself ab alarmist. solute dictator. This mood is, I recognize, understandable. policies. He explained how, once master of Ger You cannot look at the well-tended fields of All three of the bills which have many, he would proceed to divide and con France and Germany, or the tulip fields of been incorporated in this conference quer Europe. He outlined the technique of Holland, without a feeling of horror that report are measures which I have co advancing boldly in small but increasing in they might be overrun again by tanks and sponsored. I am pleased that they crements of conquest, no one of which-as marching troops as they have been over and have now received final approval and he foresaw-would seem to the European over. And when all is serene the temptation powers worth a war to halt. After each one is to believe that earthquakes never come, will become law. I am particularly glad he would pause, publicly foreswearing fur that volcanos never erupt. to note that these provisions overall ther ambitions, until ready for the next All the same I find it surprising, in Europe will save money.e step. It worked from the seizure of the especially, that so soon after the agony of Rhineland, to Czechoslovakia to Austria. World War II the lesson of "Mein Kampf" He was equally frank about his internal should be so quickly forgotten.e URBAN JOBS AND ENTERPRISE plans for Germany. Foreshadowed there was even what became his "final solution" ZONES of the "Jewish problem." H.R. 3236, THE SOCIAL SECURITY What was astonishing about all this is DISABILITY INSURANCE HON. DAVE STOCKMAN that the · world-including its statesmen read "Mein Kampf" avidly and hardly any AMENDMENTS OF MICHIGAN body believed him. Few believed him be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cause nobody wanted to believe him. In Monday, June 9, 1980 France, in Great Britain, in the United HON. JOSEPH L. FISHER States there was no effort to prepare for OF VIRGINIA e Mr. STOCKMAN. Mr. Speaker, our war until it was too late to avoid the holo IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES distinguished colleague from New caust of world war. York, Mr. KEMP, recently proposed a What remains astonishing is how slow the Monday, June 9, 1980 bold new plan for revitalizing our eco world has been to learn the lesson of Hitler. At any rate the rulers of the Soviet Union e Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, I was nomically depressed urban areas. Mr. have never made any secret about their am very pleased by the overwhelming vote KEMP'S bill, H.R. 7240, is designed to bitions for conquest. In Marxist theory com of the House in approving the confer stimulate employment and investment munism need only wait for the "internal ence report on H.R. 3236, the social se in declining urban areas by creating contradictions" of the capitalist West to curity disability insurance amend special urban jobs and enterprise cause its collapse. In practice the men in the ments. This bill was the culmination zones in which unique tax breaks and Kremlin, without any dissimulation about incentives would apply to both busi it, have built a huge military force with the of work started by the Social Security Subcommittee of the Committee on nesses and workers. This legislation intention of speeding the Western collapse correctly calls for a strong dose of eco by force whenever and wherever the oppor Ways and Means on which I serve, to tunity presents. nomic growth as the only real cure for provide incentives for disabled people urban decay. Thus far they have skillfully used Hitler's to return to work and to make im I am pleased to be a cosponsor of incremental technique. In the chaotic after provements in the administration of math of World War II they seized half of this measure, and I would like to bring Western Europe, including much of Ger the program. The Congressional to the attention of my colleagues a many, and all of Poland, Hungary, Czecho Budget Office estimates that this bill recent editorial on the subject by slovakia. They missed Austria only by a mis will result in savings to the social secu noted columnist George Will. Writing calculation and Yugoslavia only because of rity trust fund, starting at $70 million in the May 20 issue of Newsweek, Mr. Tito. in 1981, increasing to over $1 billion by Elsewhere they have extended their reach Will convincingly makes the argument wherever opportunity presented, from Cuba 1985. The savings come not through for swift enactment of this important to Afghanistan. They assumed that if they arbitrary cuts, but by capping the legislation. I commend the article to followed each nibble with peace-loving amount of family benefits that can be the attention of my colleagues and ev words none would arouse peace-loving peo paid so that disability benefits will not eryone who cares about the future of ples to their own defense. If imitation is the exceed the earnings the worker had our Nation's urban areas: best form of flattery Hitler would admire before he stopped working. One pur his former foe. How To CUT TAXES AND PRosPER For those of a certain age this is bound to pose of the cap is to encourage those . the bill would reduce by 50 change is intelligent manipulation of soci Blaine Harden in the RECORD at this per cent the capital-gains tax on investment ety's structure of material incentives. point: This republic was founded by men with a in each zone. To stimulate the expansion of YORKTOWN RESTAURANT "KNOWN WORLD businesses already in such zones, Kemp's keen, perhaps too keen, sense of how to make "self-interest" the central concept in a OVER" FOR ITS EXCELLENT SEAFOOD, ARTIS bill would reduce tax rates on those busi TIC DECOR nesses by 15 per cent, and would accelerate political philosophy, and almost the sole depreciation of the first $500,000 of capital fact of political life. They would immediate YoRKTOWN, VA.-At sundown on the south investment by each business each year. ly recognize the assumptions of Reaganite bank of the York River, the smell of fish government. It is government grounded in a hangs heavy among rococo statuary and Kemp estimates that at most 5 per cent of not very elevated, or elevating, but clear and ailing palm trees. Lines of diners loop in the the population lives in areas that could be constant sense of what makes people tick gravel parking lot. Nick's Seafood Pavilion, eligible to become jobs-and-enterprise zones. all people, "rich and poor," calculating like the legendary home of gastronomical virtue The costs would be low because the targeted crazy. As a philosopher said: "I reckon served amid a motley of art, is cooking. areas produce virtually no revenue. As there's as much human nature in some folks Kemp says, government loses nothing by "Ah hah," says Nick, the owner, his Greek lowering tax rates on people now unem as there is in others, if not more.''• accent as heavy as the smell of fish. "We ployed. Kemp, by the way, is a Republican always busy. We known the world over, I tell you. The kings and the queens, the stars so convincing in his concern for jobs that TRIBUTE TO MR. AND MRS. his predominantly blue-collar constituency and the politicians, we got 'em all here.'' gives him astonishing majorities <94.7 per NICK MATHEWS Nick Mathews, 72, swept-back white hair, cent in 1978). nice brown suit, cigar in left breast pocket, When preparing the bill, Kemp began HON. G. WILUAM WHITEHURST smell of cologne, is known inside his restau with a clutch of dismal facts, and a paradox. OF VIRGINIA rant at Mister Nick. His wife, a Greek immi One dismal fact is that all Americans would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES grant with thick brown hair and a predilec be above the poverty line if the poor were tion for chopping air with her right hand just given, directly, the money poured into Monday, June 9, 1980 during conversation, is known as Miss Mary. anti-poverty programs. Another dismal fact • Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, a With the help of up to 100 cooks, waiters, is that urban blight has deepened and waitresses and a Vietnamese maitre d' who spread even though, by fiscal 1979, nearly most marvelous tribute was paid to six years ago was a general commanding 1.1 one-quarter of the nondefense portion of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Mathews in the million troops, Mister Nick and Miss Mary the Federal budget was being spent in cen- Monday, June 9, edition of the Wash run what is often called the best restaurant tral cities. The paradox is that the most ington Post. Having known Mr. Nick in Virginia. heavily taxed American is someone who has and Miss Mary for many years, and Couples have been known to drive 400 been receiving $8,000 worth of welfare and having enjoyed their incomparable miles in one day just to eat the shrimp cas who accepts an $8,000 job. When he begins cuisine, I would like to add a few serole. Ann Landers, in a radio show a few to earn, his welfare benefits decline and he words of my own on behalf of this years ·ago, referred to Norfolk <40 miles to begins to pay income and payroll taxes. He marvelous couple. They represent the the south> ;RS "that Virginia city that's near winds up with little, if any, more real a good seafood restaurant." income, so the effect is of a marginal tax fulfillment of the American dream for U.S. Sen. John Warner , Would Kemp's idea work? Dunno. But it when he said, "Hard labor, decency, describes the food at Nick's Seafood Pavil wouldn't work worse than a slew of central- and sweat on the forehead, that's how ion as "excellent, just excellent." izing, bureaucratic programs have worked. I made it." "My wife [Elizabeth Taylor Warner] and The Federal government's recent urban The unique thing about Nick and I, whenever we are in a radius of 10 miles, policies call to mind this axiom: "To err is Mary Mathews is that they have given we will deviate from our course to go there. human, but when the eraser wears out f Not only because of the food, but because of faster than the pencil, you're overdoing it." as much o themselves to their com our friendship for these two great Ameri munity and the Nation as they have to cans," Warner says. It is, I warrant, unsettling, the cocksure their restaurant. Their concern about way some of the deepest-dyed Reaganites keeping alive our historical traditions Virginia Gov. John N. Dalton has eaten talk about the benefits that must flow from there countless times, according to Paul Ed this or that tax cut. It reminds me of Frank and their spirit of patriotism are an in- wards, his spokesman. McKinney Hubbard's axiom: "Tain't what a · spiration to millions of us who were "I don't think any Virginian, especially an man don't know that hurts him; it's what he lucky enough to have been born in elected official, can go long without eating knows that just ain't so." But a !ot of good this country. at Nick's," Edwards says. 13792 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 9, 1980 According to Mister Nick, there are two "We've had 15 years of purple," says Miss Deerfield and the city of Highland things in this riverside village that are not Mary, proudly. "It gives a little life. We had Park along with its park district, for sale. The first the Department of Interi the white before, then we came to the police department, Rotary Club, or's holdings, which include a 5,000-acre na purple and we like the life." tional historical park commemorating the The prize of the art collection, most of Clergy Association, chamber of com surrender of the British army under Lord which was purchased in Florida when Miss merce, youth committee and League of Cornwallis to George Washington and his Mary went there to get away from cold, wet Women Voters, should be applauded victorious rebels in 1781. The second, Mister winds off the York River, is a statue of an for their - patriotic - attempt to put Nick's holdings, which include Nick's Sea Egyptian princess holding the baby Moses. America on the road to energy self food Pavilion. It the highlight of the Nile Room and sufficiency. I submit to the RECORD Now Mister Nick is quite willing to give up before it came to Nick's Seafood Pavilion it other things besides his restaurant for the stood in a John Wanamaker department Highland Park's "Help Put America sake of Yorktown, a town of 400 that he store in Philadelphia. Back on Her Feet" proclamation, and refers to as "the beginning of our freedom." When lunch and dinner is served at Mayor Buhai's letter on the program. He and Miss Mary paid the town's light bill Nick's, Miss Mary works the cash register, I urge my colleagues to consider sup in 1972, when Yorktown went into arrears Mister Nick walks around smoking ciga porting this program in their own con by $212. "How anybody can stand this his rettes and the maitre d', Dong Van Khuyen, gressional districts. toric Yorktown to be in dark. I always hate a former three-star general and chief of the dark," Miss Mary said at the time. staff of South Vietnam's army, seats cus PROCLAMATION That same year, Mister Nick and Miss tomers, who often stand in line for 1% Whereas loyal and patriotic American citi Mary gave the Commonwealth of Virginia hours to get in. zens everywhere are alarmed over the de 25 acres of prime river-front property Chicago and Highland Park, nz., May 27, 1980. then I went to Brooklyn. In New York one HON. PHILIP M. CRANE day, in the Greek Orthodox cathedral, that Hon. PHILIP M. CRANE, is where I met Mary. She was singing in the OF ILLINOIS House Office Building, choir. I sort of picked her up." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Washington, D. C. Mister Nick hasn't cooked for four or five Monday, June 9, 1980 DEAR PHIL: I thought you might be inter years. He's written up his recipes and ested in the program which we are pioneer spends seven days a week walking around e Mr. PHILIP M. CRANE. Mr. Speak er, I would like to bring to my col ing in Highland Park called "Help Put the restaurant making sure they are fol America Back on Her Feet". The first step lowed. He says he's particularly proud of his leagues' attention the efforts of one seafood shish kebab. is proclaiming the month of June 1980 as community in the 12th District of Illi "Help Put America Back on Her Feet "Shish kebab is my creation. I thought it nois to combat high-priced energy. up about seven or 10 years ago. It has Month" with strong emphasis on Walk, Our current helter-skelter energy Don't Drive! shrimp, scallops, lobster, onion, tomato, policy has placed America in the pre mushrooms-all cooked in real butter. Ah, The City of Highland Park, population ap hah, they talk about it all the way to Cali carious position of depending on unre proximately 35,000 people, has over 15,000 fornia," Mister Nick says. It costs $10. liable foreign energy sources. Rather registered vehicles. If each vehicle can proj In Nick's Seafood Pavilion there are three than sit by idly and wait for this ad ect a gasoline savings of a gallon per month, major dining rooms. The old dining room, ministration and Congress to act on the results can be overwhelming. If we can the Triton Room and the of Highland Park has proclaimed the tive and exciting program, the savings in Nile Room to facilitate an asterisk to the left of the name of rector of the Community Services U.S. investment in developing coun Administration. tries to promote economic growth. the unit conducting such meetings. 4232 Dirksen Building Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, 4221 Dirksen Building June 10, 1980, may be found in the 2:00p.m. Governmental Affairs Daily Digest of today's RECORD. Foreign Relations Business meeting, to continue mark up To hold closed hearings on pending ap of S. 2, to provide for a review of Gov plications for the export of nuclear ernment programs every ten years, S. MEETINGS SCHEDULED fuel to India for the Tarapur fuel reac 1938, to increase government efficien tors. cy and to provide a mechanism for JUNE 11 S-116, Capitol raising the level of protection of work 9:00a.m. Select on Ethics ers, the general public, and the envi Judiciary To hold an open and closed business ronment against unnecessary radi To hold oversight hearings on the activi meeting. ation exposure; a proposed budget ties of the Public Integrity Section of S-207, Capitol waiver resolution waiving section the Criminal Division, Department of 402(a) of the Congressional Budget Justice. Select on Intelligence Act of 1974 with respect to Senate con 2228 Dirksen Building Closed business meeting. sideration of H.R. 826, to increase the 9:30a.m. S-407, Capitol authority of the President and Con Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry gress in postal operations and to pro Business meeting, to consider S. 2675, JUNE 12 vide continued financial security for authorizing funds for child nutrition 8:00a.m. the Postal Service; and S. 2160, to re programs. quire public disclosure of certain lob 324 Russell Building Armed Services bying activities to influence issues •veterans' Affairs To hold hearings on proposed legislation before the Congress. To hold oversight hearings on the activi authorizing funds for fiscal year 1981 3302 Dirksen Building ties of the Office of the Inspector for the operation and maintenance of Judiciary General of the Veterans' Administra the Panama Canal; the nomination of Criminal Justice Subcommittee tion. Charles W. Snodgrass, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secre To hold hearings on S. 252, proposed 412 Russell Building Anti-Arson Act. 10:00 a.m. tary of the Air Force; and on routine unobjected-to military nominations. 5110 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources Labor and Human Resources Business meeting, to consider pending 212 Russell Building calendar business. 9:30a.m. To hold hearings on the nominations of Judiciary Cynthia G. Brown, of the District of 3110 Dirksen Building Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary Environment and Public Works Constitution Subcommittee for Civil Rights, Department of Edu Business meeting, to continue considera Business meeting, to resume markup of cation, and Edwin W. Martin, Jr., of tion of S. 1480, to provide for the ade S. 506, to provide the Department of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for quate and safe treatment of hazardous Housing and Urban Development with Special Education and Rehabilitative substances released into the environ new enforcement powers to insure Services, Department of Education. ment. compliance with statutes guaranteeing 4232 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building equal access to housing in the United Select on Intelligence Governmental Affairs States. 2228 Dirksen Building Closed business meeting. Business meeting, to mark up S. 2, to S-407, Capitol provide for a review of Government Labor and Human Resources 3:00p.m. programs every ten years; S. 1938, to Health and Scientific Research Subcom Governmental Affairs increase Government efficiency and to mittee Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga provide a mechanism for raising the To hold hearings on S. 2490, proposed tions level of protection of workers, the gen Infant Formula Act. To hold an open and closed business eral public, and the environment meeting. against unnecessary radiation expo 1318 Dirksen Building sure; a proposed budget waiver resolu 10:00 a.m. 3302 Dirksen Building tion waiving section 402 of the Con Energy and Natural Resources gressional Budget Act of 1974 with re Energy Resources and Materials Produc JUNE 16 spect to Senate consideration of H.R. tion Subcommittee 9:30a.m. 826, to increase the authority of the To hold oversight hearings on the im Judiciary President and Congress in postal oper plementation of the Federal coal leas To hold hearings on pending nomina ations and to provide continued finan ing program. tions. cial security for the Postal Service; 6226 Dirksen Building 2228 Dirksen Building 13794 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 9, 1980 10:00 a.m. JUNE 18 JUNE 26 Energy and Natural Resources 10:00 a.m. 9:30a.m. To resume hearings on S. 2665, to pro Energy and Natural Resources Commerce, Science, and Transportation vide for the development of an ade Business meeting, to consider pending Science, Technology, and Space Subcom quate national coal distribution calendar business. mittee system by acquiring the necessary 3110 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on the administra rights-of-way to grant access for coal Labor and Human Resources tion's transition plans to develop an slurry pipelines across railroad proper operational land remote sensing satel ty, and to expedite the construction of Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom mittee lite system. such pipelines. 235 Russell Building 3110 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on Title II, pro posed Youth Education and Training Labor and Human Resources Environment and Public Works Act, of S. 2385, proposed Youth Act. •Health and Scientific Research Subcom To hold hearings on proposed Federal 4232 Dirksen Building mittee building prospectus. To hold hearings on S. 1424, authorizing 4200 Dirksen Building JUNE 19 funds for fiscal years 1981-84 for the 2:00p.m. advancement of international coopera Conferees 9:30a.m. tion and assistance in health matters. On S. 932, authorizing funds to establish Energy and Natural Resources 4232 Dirksen Building the production of synthetic fuels, gas To resume hearings to assess the politi 10:00 a.m. ohol, solar energy, renewable re cal, military, economic, and social fac sources, geothermal energy, to estab tors affecting world oil production and Energy and Natural Resources lish an energy conservation program consumption over the next decade, fo Energy Regulation Subcommittee and energy supply targets, and to cusing on the prospects for developing To resume oversight hearings on the im extend the Defense Production Act hydrocarbon resources in Latin Amer plementation of the Department of until September 30, 1986. ica. Energy's Building Energy Perform 345 Cannon Building 3110 Dirksen Building ance Standards . providing for energy efficiency standards for new Veterans' Affairs building construction. JUNE 17 To hold hearings on S. 2020 and 2596, bills to provide educational assistance 3110 Dirksen Building 9:00a.m. Select on Indian Affairs Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry programs for those individuals who Agricultural Research and General Legis enlist in the Armed Forces, and to To continue hearings on proposed legis lation Subcommittee hold oversight hearings on the imple lation authorizing funds for the pur To hold hearings on S. 23 and 1580, bills mentation of current educational in chase of land in the State of Maine for to clarify the terminology contained in centive programs to promote an All the Passamaquoddy, Penobscot and the Plant Variety Protection Act relating to specifications on 412 Russell Building 1202 Dirksen Building seed varieties. 10:00 a.m. 2:00p.m. 324 Russell Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation Finance 9:30a.m. To hold hearings on S. 1957 and H.R. Taxation and Debt Management General Veterans' Affairs 4310, bills to promote increased u8e of ly Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 2649, to increase U.S. waterways and provide for contin To hold hearings on S. 2283, 2418 and the rates of compensation for disabled ued recreational boat safety programs. 2321, bills to increase the earned veterans, and to increase the rates of 235 Russell Building income exclusion for U.S. citizens dependency and indemnity compensa Labor and Human Resources working abroad who are bona fide resi tion for their survivors; S. 1212, to •Health and Scientific Research Subcom dents of a foreign country. extend from 1 to 7 years the presump mittee 2221 Dirksen Building tive period during which a veteran suf To hold hearings to review the Food and fering from the neurological disorder Drug Administration's evaluation of JULY1 syringomyelia can obtain service-con the drug dimethyl sulfoxide , 9:30a.m. nected disability benefits if deter to determine its application and effec Commerce, Science, and Transportation mined that the disease was brought on tiveness. Consumer Subcommittee by active wartime military service; S. 4232 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on S. 415, to strength 2755, to provide a memorial plaque or en highway safety programs by dis marker in appropriate situations to JUNE 24 the next of kin of an individual who couraging driving while under the in would otherwise be memorialized in a 10:00 a.m. fluence of alcohol. national, private, or local cemetery; S. •Labor and Human Resources 5110 Dirksen Building 2758, to expand the eligibility for spe Business meeting, to mark up S. 2375, Commerce, Science, and Transportation cially adapted housing benefits; and S. authorizing funds for fiscal years 1982, Science, Technology, and Space Subcom 2330, to provide for the confidentiality 1983, and 1984 to provide support for mittee of the medical review process in VA the training of professionals in health To hold hearings on H.R. 27 43, to pro hospitals. service needs. vide for a national policy for materials 412 Russell Building 4232 Dirksen Building research and development and to 10:00 a.m. 2:00p.m. strengthen Federal and private pro Joint Economic Appropriations grams of materials research and devel To hold hearings on the effectiveness of Transportation Subcommittee opment. local public works programs as admin To resume hearings on proposed budget 235 Russell Building istered by Federal agencies. estimates for fiscal year 1981 for cer 10:00 a.m. 457 Russell Building tain programs of the Department of Veterans' Affairs 10:30 a.m. Transportation. To hold oversight hearings on the im Labor and Human Resources 1224 Dirksen Building plementation of small business loan •Education, Arts, and Humanities Sub Office of Technology Assessment programs for veterans recommended committee The Board to hold a meeting on pending by the White House Conference on To resume hearings on Title II, pro business items. Small Business. posed Youth Education and Training EF-100, Capitol 412 Russell Building Act, of S. 2385, proposed Youth Act. 4232 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. JUNE 25 JULY2 Appropriations 10:00 a.m. 9:30a.m. Transportation Subcommittee Select on Indian Affairs Commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold hearings on proposed budget es To hold hearings on proposed legislation Science, Technology, and Space Sub timates for fiscal year 1981 for the authorizing funds for the purchase of committee U.S. Railway Association and the land in the State of Maine for the To continue hearings on H.R. 2743, to Washington· Metropolitan Area Trans Passa.ril.aquoddy, Penobscot and Male provide for a national policy for mate portation Authority. cite Indian tribes. rials research and development and to 1224 Dirksen Building 1202 Dirksen Building strengthen Federal and private pro- June 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13795 grams of materials research and devel tial Bodies (pending receipt by the severance tax percentage that a State opment_ Senate>. may impose on coal shipped in inter 235 Russell Building 235 Russell Building state commerce. 10:00 a.m. 3110 Dirksen Building Select on Indian Affairs To hold hearings on S. 2166, to establish JULY 24 a National Institute of Native Ameri CANCELLATIONS 9:30a.m. can Culture and Arts Development. Commerce, Science, and Transportation 6226 Dirksen Building Science, Technology, and Space Subcom JUNE 12 mittee JULY 31 To resume hearings on the administra 9:00a.m. tion's transition plans to develop an 9:30a.m. Judiciary operational land remote sensing satel Commerce, Science, and Transportation To continue oversight hearings on the lite system. Science, Technology, and Space Subcom activities of the Public Integrity Sec 235 Russell Building mittee tion of the Criminal Division, Depart To resume hearings to assess certain ment of Justice. provisions relating to the use of space 2228 Dirksen Building environment contained in the pro JULY 29 posed Agreement Governing the Activ 9:30a.m. ities of States on the Moon and Other Commerce, Science, and Transportation Celestial Bodies