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TRIBUTE TO MRS. TOYOKO During these years, Doris was an active par ly meeting in Geneva and examining the Draft FUJII ticipant in the affairs of the community. Some Code of Crimes against the Peace and Securi of her involvement included membership in ty of Mankind. The Commission is a prestigi HON. ROBERT T. MATSUI the Chinese American Democratic Club, ous body of experts in international law, elect OF CALIFORNIA NAACP, National Council of Negro Women, ed by the U.N. General Assembly, which has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Single Parents for Adoption. Some of her cur the mandate to codify and progressively de rent professional and community affiliations in velop international law. Monday, June 8, 1987 clude Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Black Lead As chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, it gives me great ership Forum, William Hastie Lawyers Asso Subcommittee on Human Rights and Interna pleasure to rise today to offer my congratula ciation of California. She has also served as a tional Organizations, which has oversight over tions to a close friend of mine, Toyoko Fujii, board member of many of those organiza international law and international organiza who will soon be retiring from the Sacramento tions. Doris has had bestowed on her many tions, I would like to bring to the attention of School District. awards and citations for her distinguished my colleagues excerpts of a recent speech by Mrs. Fujii will be leaving after serving as service to the community. These awards re His Excellency Andrew J. Jacovides, Ambas school secretary for the Sacramento School flect the appreciation for her service to the sador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United District for the past 15 years. Prior to her dis citizens of San Francisco and the hundreds of States, who was recently reelected for a tinguished service in Sacramento, Mrs. Fujii friends she made during these years, Her second 5-year term as a member of the Com worked at the Freeport Elementary School for dedication to ensure the rights of all of the mission. In his speech, he commented on 9 years, and the Sacramento Children Center people of this diverse city, regardless of race, each of the draft articles being examined for for 3 years, and the John D. Sloat Elementary color, creed, national origin or sexual orienta inclusion in the proposed code, and human School for 3 years. Throughout her career, tion is appreciated by all whom she has rights violations as they pertain to the code. Mrs. Fujii has consistently demonstrated an served during the past 23 years. The people Ambassador Jacovides offers an interesting unmatched level of compassion and dedica she served could count on prompt attention to perspective on this matter, and I commend tion to her service to this community. Mrs. their problems and needs. Some of her the material to the attention of our colleagues. Fujii has much to be proud of; she has awards have included: "Woman on the The speech follows: touched a great many lives with her warmth Move," San Francisco Anti-Defamation STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR A.J. JACOVIDES and good humor. I know that her many friends League (1987); Certificate of Merit for Out and colleagues in the Sacramento School Dis BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMIS standing Work with Graduate Students, San SION ON THE CODE OF OFFENSES AGAINST trict will miss her in the days and months Francisco State University School of Social THE PEACE AND SECURITY OF MANKIND, ahead. Welfare (1986); Award of Merit for Outstand GENEVA, 12 MAY 1987 In addition to her service to the community ing Public Service, Mayor Dianne Feinstein Mr. Chairman, so far I have spoken in the academic field, Mrs. Fujii has been (1982); Commendation-California State Leg mostly with my mind. Perhaps, I would not active in local politics, and has donated much islature, Assemblyman Art Agnos (1978); proc be out of order if I now say a few things also of her time to assisting candidates for a varie lamation from Governor of California, Edmund from the heart. ty of off ices. Brown, Jr. (1978); Most Distinguished Woman To some the project we are engaged on may be no more than a debatable academic Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the people of Newcomer to the Bay Area, San Francisco Sacramento, I would like to offer my thanks to exercise. To others, however, who have been Sun Reporter Newspaper (1962); Blacks in Mrs. Fujii for her many years of service to this and continue to be the victims of the gross the West Hall of Fame Award, African-Ameri community, and extend my best wishes for a violation of the international law rules re can Historical and Cultural Society, (1977); happy and productive retirement. lating to the peace and security of mankind, The Street People's Committee Award of Ap it is much more than that. In my own coun preciation for Unselfish Assistance, Coopera try, which has been the victim of a brutal TRIBUTE TO DORIS THOMAS tion and Inspiration in the Institution of the military aggression, continuing occupation Program, (1976); proclamation-Mayor of San and massive violation of human rights-as amply proven, after a quasi-judicial investi HON. BARBARA BOXER Francisco, Hon. George Moscone, (1978). gation, by the European Commission of OF CALIFORNIA Doris' role in the community did not deter Human Rights in 1976, the findings of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES her dedication in raising her 19-year-old which amounted to a horrendous indict daughter, Tandi Thomas, who is presently Monday, June 8, 1987 ment of the cruelties inflicted by the invad completing her first year at City College, San ing Turkish army in the summer of 1974 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. Speaker, Doris R. Francisco. Doris will embark on a new career and subsequently, this Code of Crimes Thomas, the administrative assistant to the as a consultant in governmental affairs, spe against the Peace and Security of Mankind late Congressman Phillip Burton and Con cializing in immigration law. She will devote is too close to home and possesses the di mensions of gruesome reality. Nearly thir gresswoman Sala Burton of the Fifth Congres considerable time to voter education as an im sional District, San Francisco, CA, is retiring teen years after this documented interna portant ingredient in the democratic process. tional crime against Cyprus was committed from the office after 23 years of service to the and dozens of legally binding Resolutions by district. the United Nations political organs-begin Doris received a bachelor of science degree STATEMENT OF AMBASSADOR ning with the unanimously adopted land from Hampton University, VA, and juris doctor A.J. JACOVIDES BEFORE THE mark General Assembly Resolution 3212, from Howard University, Washington, DC. Her INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMIS unanimously endorsed by the Security professional career began in California in SION Council in its Resolution 365, and more re 1960, with the All Nations Foundation in Los cently Security Council Resolutions 541 and Angeles. In 1962, Doris worked as a commu HON. GUS YATRON 550-and the decisions of other internation nity organization specialist for the Bay Area al bodies, including those of the Non OF PENNSYLVANIA Aligned Movement and of the Common Urban League, San Francisco. In 1963, she IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wealth, the tragic situation we are confron~ became the administrative assistant to Con Monday, June 8, 1987 ed with remains without remedy. In fact, it gressman Phillip Burton. From 1983 to 1987, has been further aggravated through illegal she served in the same capacity for the late Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, the United Na attempted session and the systematic ef Congresswoman Sala Burton. tions International Law Commission is current- forts of the Occupying Power, Turkey, to
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 14922 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 8, 1987 alter and falsify the age-long demographic TRIBUTE TO SHERIFF DWIGHT the stage was set for Radcliff's climb to na composition of the Island, to destroy and E. RADCLIFF tional law enforcement prominence on Sept. obliterate the cultural heritage of the areas 14, 1932-his birthday and the day his it occupied through the illegal use of force mother and father brought him home from and to bring about partition through the HON. BOB McEWEN the hospital to the sheriff's residence above guise of unworkable system of ethnic sepa OF OHIO the Pickaway County jail. ration. All this has been occuring with the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tolerance of the international community, His father, Charles H. Radcliff, had been the members of which, for a variety of rea Monday, June 8, 1987 elected Pickaway County sheriff in 1930. sons, have been unable or unwilling to act Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to The elder radcliff went on to serve 30 years effectively in order to implement the resolu have the opportunity today to honor Dwight E. as sheriff, before being defeated in a Demo tions for which they voted. Cyprus is a Radcliff, a lifetime law enforcement officer cratic primary in 1960. Dwight Radcliff's re small country but it is a test-case of the rel who was recently selected president of the lationship with his father was solid, and evance of international law and of the effec very early on he became interested in law tiveness of the United Nations in today's National Sheriff's Association. On June 24, enforcement as a career. During high school world. When such grave injustices are toler 1987, this 22-year veteran will assume an he worked in his dad's crime lab. In 1953, he ated or condoned they are bound to be re office which is traditionally selected from sher became a full-fledged deputy, a job he held peated elsewhere. "Who today remembers iffs in large metropolitan counties. Sheriff Rad until he was let go by the new sheriff after the Armenians," Hitler is quoted to have cliff is different. his father's election defeat. asked rhetorically before embarking on his Born in Pickaway County, Sheriff Radcliff is Radcliff says his father was an excellent genocidal action and other grave crimes the quintessential "little man" story. Deter before and during the Second World War. police officer, but in later years adopted a We are under no illusions. Nor are we so mined and self-motivated, he has proven to "take it for granted" attitude about politics. naive as to think that the Code, when com be a servant to his career and the Nation. He refused to campaign in 1960, figuring pleted, will prove to be a panacea to our Throughout his lifetime of service, he has that " If the people don't know me now, grievances or cure the many other problems been heralded as a selfless officer who, they never will." The younger Radcliff of a similar nature which exist in the through his new ideas and dedication, served didn't make that mistake in 1964 when he world-any more than the Definition of Ag to give his statesmen heightened protection decided to run against then incumbent sher gression, achieved after many years' efforts and brought himself pride. iff Walton Spangler, the man who defeated in 197 4, by coincidence and ironically just Sheriff Radcliff's ability to overcome obsta his father. He campaigned hard and won by before the aggression we experienced soon 3.9 votes. He's been sheriff ever since. afterwards, proved to be salutary or even cles and gain a highly respected office as this relevant: demonstrate that he is a patriot who is well Now, Dwight Radcliff and his wife, Betty, But I think it can be validly held in this deserving of the honors brought to him. In the live in the same apartment over the jail respected body of international law experts spirit of celebration for this true citizen, I where he grew up. Betty Radcliff works as that, if we can succeed in preparing an ef would like to include the following statement. the jail matron, a job that also was held by fective Code with appropriate penalties and Mr. Speaker, I have been a longtime admir Dwight Radcliff's mother. jurisdiction, it may at least serve as an im er of Sheriff Radcliff, so it gives me great portant building block in constructing the pleasure to publicly congratulate one of the Radcliff took office at a time when sher edifice of international legal order and as a iff's departments were beginning to struggle deterrent to present and would-be aggres finest public servants in all of Ohio. As presi with the modern issues of law enforcement. sors and other violators of its provisions. dent of the National Sheriff's Association, One of his first acts was to reorganize his The international community expects from Dwight will bring to that organization what office and grant all of his employees civil us no more. And, we would be remiss in our those who live in Pickaway County have service protection. He was one of the first duty if we did any less. known for more than two decades-dedicated Ohio sheriffs to actively promote state service, commitment to a purpose, and com training and certification of police officers. 200 YEARS AGO AT THE CONSTI passion for his fell ow citizens. I wish Sheriff He also has greatly expanded his depart TUTIONAL CONVENTION (JUNE Radcliff the very best in his tenure as presi ment's crime lab facilities. 5) dent of the National Sheriff's Association and Radcliff has been involved in law enforce I am certain that the association will prosper ment on a statewide and national scale since and grow under his leadership. the late 1960s, and in 1975 was elected to HON. PHILIP R. SHARP [From the Columbus Poland and President of RCDA's Re tee on Veterans' Affairs, I have scheduled search Center. Among the speakers were Risk Reduction, Training, Prevention, Treat many oversight hearings on this important scholars, clergymen, and diplomats. Some of ment, Care, and Research Act of 1987. Join medical computer system over the past sever the subjects included: The millennium of ing with me in introducing this legislation are al years and the reports on its effectiveness Christianity and the religious situation in the my colleagues Mr. GILMAN and Mr. GUARINI. Soviet Union; human rights in Gorbachev's and costs have been uniformly very positive. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or time; law and religion in the Soviet Union; the Since our hearing of April 8, 1987, on this AIDS is arousing fear in our society. The Cen Catholic Church in Lithuania; the Islamic reviv important subject, I have received many let ters for Disease Control [CDC] Report now re al in the Soviet Union; the millennium of ters from veterans and Veterans' Administra ports over 35,000 cases of AIDS, with a fatali Ukrainian Christianity, and many others. tion employees in support of the DHCP. ty rate of almost 60 percent. I am convinced that efforts like these do I would like to share with my colleagues a These statistics are frightening. As lawmak make an important difference. Governments copy of a letter sent to the chairmen of the ers, it is imperative that we not react out of rarely admit that pressures created by such House and Senate Appropriations Committees fear, but enact well-thought-out policies that activities lead to positive results. But, prison which I received from Dr. W. T. Moore, chief will respond effectively to the problem. I be ers are released, and at times conditions are of staff of the VA Medical Center at Grand lieve the legislation proposed today would do eased because of public concern. In fact, I be Junction, CO, that demonstrates how the VA just that. lieve that some of the positive gestures which employees feel about their medical computer The bill would provide for the following: The dissemination of information to educate have occurred in Eastern Europe recently can system. The letter follows: be attributed to the constant work of RCDA GRAND JUNCTION, co, all Americans about AIDS, the associated and other important organizations, including May 15, 1987. risks, and choices that can be made to pro the many concerned Members of Congress. Hon. JAMIE WHITTEN' tect themselves. Nevertheless, there is much to be done. Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, Support for the development of networks of Countless numbers of individuals are denied U.S. House of Representatives, Washing treatment services to meet the complex ton, DC. health and social service needs of AIDS pa their right to religious expression. We must DEAR CHAIRMAN WHITTEN: Let me person continue to pressure Communist governments tients cost-effectively. ally visit with you concerning the imple An expanded, intensified, and AIDS coordi to fulfill their international obligations in ac mentation of the DHCP system from a clini cordance with the Helsinki accords, the Uni nated research program. cal perspective at the Grand Junction VA An expansion of voluntary testing programs. versal Declaration of Human Rights, other rel Medical Center. evant covenants, and their own laws. We are in the third year of DHCP imple As chairman of the Select Committee on mentation and have found that the system Narcotics Abuse and Control, I am particularly meets the needs of the physician and nurse, concerned about the relationship between TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO AT as well as the veteran patient. Lab reports, AIDS and IV-drug use. This is a growing prob THE CONSTITUTIONAL CON pharmacy profiles, and x-ray reports are lem, generally, and particularly in the minority VENTION fined variety. Another says some weeks diatric AIDS cases are attributable to IV-drug MANAGUA, NICARAGUA.-Seven hundred there isn't any toilet paper in the store. use, either that of the mother or her partner. thousand pounds of bagged cornmeal, most BUS CHECKS Because of the high concentration of of it infested with worms, clutters the El female AIDS cases among women in their Caracol cereal-processing factor. While the Until such methods were banned earlier child-bearing years, a growing number of pedi Sandinista government urges the plant to this year, Micoin inspectors manned road boost productivity, trucks from the Internal blocks on highways entering Managua to atric AIDS cases is expected, as more women block transport of basic goods destined for become infected through intravenous drug Trade Ministry haven't been by to pick up the cornmeal in more than two months. the black market. Long delays were resented abuse and sexual intercourse with infected Meanwhile, Managua's poorest children are by bus passengers, while inspectors were men. By 1991, the Public Service estimates going hungrier without cereal. sometimes reduced to confiscating paltry that 3,000 children will have suffered from this Two years ago, the ministry-better amounts of food from old women who tried disease and virtually all will die. known by its acronym Micoin seized El Caracol's distribution pockets. problems and new crises are compounded by rights in a move to strengthen the socialist Merchants in Masaya's concrete-and-tile side of Nicaragua's economy. Today, it has city market bitterly complain about the our Nation's drug problem. Therefore, effec snooping of Micoin inspectors, who lurk tive solutions require that we address the drug succeeded more in alienating the population than in achieving that goal. Indeed, so in about in search of grain, salt and cooking problem. The legislation proposed today pro tense is the public outrage that even the oil-products that can only be sold by vides the study and demonstration projects di Sandinista newspaper Barricada has felt Micoin or merchants with Micoin licenses. rected toward reducing the transmission of compelled to run a series of page-one arti "It's like being a child spanked by your par AIDS among IV-drug users and increasing cles and editorials criticizing the ministry's ents again," says one Masaya merchant. treatment available to IV-drug users with performance. "But these parents have guns." AIDS. At the El Caracol plant, Micoin is vilified. Actually, Micoin personnel don't carry "Micoin isn't good for anything," says Enri weapons, but they are so despised that they Moreover, the Select Committee on Narcot can't enter some markets without the pro ics Abuse and Control, which I chair, has queta Rodriguez, a 38-year-old bag packer who wonders why she bothers to continue tection of guard dogs or police escorts. One scheduled a hearing on the problem of pediat shoveling the grains. She adds: "You can't Micoin inspection at the Leon city market ric AIDS in New York City next month. Effec ever find eggs to buy and that's Micoin's last year triggered a small riot. "If the tively addressing the AIDS problem, in gener fault too." people are hungry enough, there will be an insurrection," predicts Ivan Herrera, a direc al, and the pediatric AIDS problem in particu EASY TARGET lar, means confronting the IV-drug use prob tor of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Com As the circulator of ration cards, regulator lem. merce. "That's a possible consequence of of market prices and supplies, manager of a Micoin's policies." We must reach a solution to this problem nationwide network of supermarkets and quickly. I believe that the Acquired Immunode corner food stores and primary purchaser of NOTHING FOR CONTRAS ficiency Syndrome Education, Information, basic grains from Nicaragua's peasant farm Fortunately for the Sandinistas, wide Risk Reduction, Training, Prevention, Treat ers, Micoin wields enormous economic clout. spread dissatisfaction with Micoin tion is essential because the Cuban people 10 individuals. It is the Federal Government's need a standard, independent of the one honor and privilege to present the Department I. INTRODUCTION provided by their Government, by which to of Agriculture's Honor Award to Mr. John In late 1983, President Reagan signed the judge their Government's domestic and McGee for his ranger district's heroic, lifesav Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act into law. The objective Congress sought to provide such informa resent Federal employees such as these who of the RBC Act is to "provide for the open tion in Cuba. As a Senate report found, one communication of information and ideas of the primary purposes of Radio Marti is to place the lives of others above their own. through the use of radio broadcasting to inform- Cuba." In order to implement this objective, "* * * the Cuban people about their Gov TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO the United States Information Agency ernment's domestic mismangement and its subsequently estab promotion of subversion and international TODAY AT THE CONSTITU lished a fifty-kilowatt radio station, Radio terrorism in this Hemisphere and elsewhere. TIONAL CONVENTION service to Cuba. Many nations have found shown, it has not seriously adhered to broadcasting standards, which require the radio broadcasting to be the most effective NARBA. "broadcast of programs which are objective, method to reach target audiences outside In late 1981, the World Administrative accurate, balanced, and which present a va their borders. This section examines radio Radio Conference, an arm of the Interna riety of views." U.S. officials hope that by as the desired medium, focusing on the tional Telecommunications Union . frequency countries. The segment "Cuba Without USSR also broadcasts to Latin America in modulation to reserve expenses are fixed. the right to reconsider Cuba's cooperation WEIGHT LIFTER TAKES ON HIS BIGGEST CHAL V. CONCLUSION with the United States in controlling piracy LENGE-WELL-WISHER INSPIRES HIM AFTER and other activities, and (5) to reserve the Radio Marti affords an opportunity to STROKE right to broadcast to the United States present facts and ideas to Cuban citizens, Cuba's view of U.S. problems and interna who otherwise might never enjoy such ex (By Robert Lohrer) tional policy. posure. Indeed, an independent evaluation Stanley Stanczyk, a two-time Olympic The Cuban Government carried out the confirmed the station's success. Radio Marti medalist and the weight lifter who set 11 first of its threats by suspending the immi seeks to respond to the needs of Cubans world records in a single year, has a new gration accord. Although the Cuban Gov who suffer human rights violations result challenge and a new source of inspiration. ernment never completely suspended all ing from the deprivation of fundamental It came in the mail the other day, from a trips to Cuba by Cuban-Americans, flights rights such as the freedom to receive and man Stanczyk doesn't know. It's a letter between the two countries were severely re- impart ideas. from another weight lifter who had a June 8, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14931 stroke, just as Stanczyk, 62, did in January TABULATION OF 1987 Hughes, Melissa C. Hyde, Doris E. Jackson, 1986. QUESTIONNAIRES Bonnie L. Jeffers, Kimberly D. Johnson, It starts: "I'm writing to you to let you Larry J. Johnston II, Tamikio K. Kendrick, know what an effect you have had on my Barbara C. Keys, Kay F. Kimbro, Audrey T. life and lifting career." HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. Kizzie, Kathy A. Knight, Breck C. Ladd. The letter sits on a table in Stanczyk's OF KENTUCKY Paul E. Lamb, Jacqueline E. Leavell, Eliza home in Biscayne Park. It's a reminder of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES beth D. Lewis, Alma G. Lusk, Joseph T. Stanczyk's past and how he once was an in Manire, Kimberly E. Manire, Nancy Y. Monday, June 8, 1987 Martin, Bruce E. Mccalister, Keith A. spiration for others. And it's a token of McGhee, James B. McKenzie, Tony G. Mea what the future might hold, because Stanc Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, each year distribute a questionnaire throughout the First cham, Gary L. Mitchell, Wade Moore, zyk's pen pal has recovered from his stroke. Joseph M. Nunn, Kathryn L. Over. The letter sits next to the exercise hand Congressional District of Kentucky in an effort Linda F. Overton, Carla S. Poindexter, grip and some two-pound weights. to provide my constituents an opportunity to Dona A. Porter, Connie D. Pryor, Gwendo Stanczyk picks up a weight and holds it at voice to me their opinions about issues of im lyn D. Reigel, Neva E. Rice, Syllanda R. arm's length. He flexes his arms easily. First portance to western Kentucky and the Nation. Rowan, Richard T. Shaw, Kathy A. Short, half a dozen times. Then two dozen times. Earlier this year, on February 27, I distribut Keith A. Simmons, Marlena M. Smithson, Easy. ed my 1987 questionnaire, and over 33,200 Leigh Anne Smith, Ruth A. Stewart, James It used to be that way with the .military western Kentuckians completed and returned G. Stone, Edward L. Thacker, Christi L. press and the clean and jerk and the snatch. their responses to my office. The responses Waldrop, Natalie G. Walker, Norma S. Wal Stanczyk set world records in all those were tabulated by my staff and by college stu ston, Carolina S. Wells. events. dents at Murray State University and the com MADISONVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE It used to be that way with a bowling ball, which is what Stanczyk did for 27 years and munity colleges at Henderson, Hopkinsville, Tim Cantrell, chairman of social sciences, Madisonville, and Paducah, KY. Dwayne T. Cantrell, Larry Holt, Leroy 20,000 games at the Bowling Palace at 10855 Veazey, Marie E. Ramsey, James K. NW Seventh Ave., which he ran as a busi The results of the questionnaire will be pub lished in the near future. However, I would like Ramsey, Gail DeMoss, Susan K. Head, Juli ness with his wife Dorothy and four chil Jarvis, Sharon Marie Hill, Jackie Arm dren. They sold the business after Stanc to take this opportunity to thank the students strong, Kenny Vanover, Crawford L. Jent. zyk's stroke. for their hours of efforts in scoring the ques James Douglas Ray, DeAnna Burden, Stanczyk doesn't think so much about tionnaires, and I want to express my apprecia Wanda Darden, Jonathan Oglesby, LuAnne bowling anymore. The stroke robbed him of tion to the faculty members who devoted their Capps, James H. Walker, Rea Walker, Lisa his sense of equilibrium. Right now, walking time in overseeing the tabulations at their re E. McKinney, Jennifer Mcintosh, Lori Lan and balancing without the aid of a wheel spective institutions. Indeed, their assistance trip, Jaquetta
