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SCHOOL PRAYER WHY THE PRAYER AMENDMENT IS IMPORTANT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Nontheless, our liberal friend labors under The First Amendment prohibited Con­ a very serious misconception. The issue over gress from establishing any particular reli­ HON. DAN COATS the Prayer Amendment is not trivial. It is a gion as the law of the land, and it guaran­ OF INDIANA symbol of the fact that America for 200 teed the people their right to worship freely years has labeled itself a nation under God. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as they wished. The Fourteenth Amend­ Secularists are struggling valiantly to try to ment has been interpreted to mean that these same rules submission to a supreme moral ruler. They apply to each of the 50 states and local gov­ e Mr. COATS. Mr. Speaker, as a co­ are trying to make the United States into a emments. Immediately after World War II, sponsor of the President's school pagan nation. While few, if any, defend however, a series of Supreme Court deci­ prayer amendment, I felt it was signif­ their opposition to this amendment on the sions upset the balance between these two icant that one of the most influential grounds that they wish to make America a principles of <1> freedom from governmental religious periodicals in our Nation, pagan nation, that is nonetheless the heart prescription of religion, and <2> freedom Christianity Today, editorialized in its of the issue. from govemment interference in the free We are not an obedient nation, nor are we exercise of religion. September 3, 1982, issue on the neces­ a righteous nation. But in our national sity of passing the prayer amendment. The famous McCullum case ruled out re­ motto, in our Pledge of Allegiance, and in leased time . countless other ways, we have consciously The importance of this endorsement, In Eagle v. Vitale, the Supreme Court as well as its content, should not go chosen to be a nation that recognizes God struck down a 22-word prayer prepared by unnoticed by Members of Congress as the Supreme Ruler and the Guarantor of our basic ethical values. The Prayer Amend­ the New York Board of Regents for volun­ and therefore, I am submitting the ment, for good or ill, has become the symbol tary use. majority of the article for their con­ of whether or not America still has the will In Murray v. Curlett, Bible reading and sideration. to claim itself to be a nation under God. the Lord's Prayer were forbidden in school In earlier years, Christianity Today Moreover, no one should ever think that exercises. either opposed the idea or suggested evangelicals will remain satisfied with secur­ Although the Court decisions were not so ing merely the symbol of our national recog­ clear-cut with respect to voluntary religious that a moment of silence would be the exercises as some have thought, the courts best solution. Now, the editors of the nition of God. If this amendment or some other action makes it possible for Americans have made abundantly clear that: <1 > any magazine have come out squarely to give public recognition to God, it will legislated practice must have a secular pur­ behind the proposed amendment. It have far-reaching effects. It will prove to all pose, <2> its primary effect must not be to should be of interest to note that they that this nation has not drifted so far from aid or inhibit religion, and <3> it must not also endorsed as "even better form" its heritage as some have thought. The significantly entangle the govemment in re­ the slightly revised version of the American people still want to commit this ligion. Even more important than this set of amendment suggested by Robert nation to God, however vague and hesitant tests has been the effect of the Court's deci­ Dugan of the National Association of that desire may be. sion upon the practice of our public schools. Therefore, God-fearing people everywhere In order to avoid litigation and to "be on Evangelicals during recent Senate will be encouraged. Evangelicals will gain a the safe side," school officials across our hearings. greater sense of their responsibility to act nation have pretty much eliminated volun­ The editorial follows: politically as Christians. They must not, and tary prayer or Bible reading or religious ex­ ercises of any kind. DOES RELIGION BELONG IN SCHOOL? they will not, stop until they have reassert­ ed their right to the full practice of their The cumulative effect of this upon our They will certainly press for the right to their children the basic structure of their "Astonishingly trivial!" So a liberal oppo­ provide meaningful instruction for their own religious and moral commitments. nent decried the proposal for the School children in Christian doctrine and biblical Moreover, it has deprived our nation of Prayer Amendment. The whole matter, he ethics, however this can be justly safeguard­ communicating its religious heritage to its insists, is so inconsequential that no sensible ed in our pluralistic society. No large seg­ citizens. And finally, it has, in effect, estab­ person will waste his time arguing for or ment of society has ever been willing to turn lished a religion of secularism. against it. The only justification for fight­ its children over to an educational process As Supreme Court Justice Stewart noted ing it, he suggests cynically, is to "keep that undermines or neglects as irrelevant its in his 1964 minority report

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IS THE PRAYER AMENDMENT A SOLUTION? nation. Therefore, it is appropriate for our ject to a higher divine law of righteousness We believe that the amendment proposed government to provide a favorable environ­ and justice. by the Senate the FTC reauthorization bill comes to Congress should be the designation of This September will mark the centennial the floor for a vote, to add an amend­ "National Neighborhood Day." Con­ of a noted northern California historical ment that will take the FTC out of the gress should recognize the importance landmark. In September of 1882, Lt. JohnS. business of regulating the professions. of neighborhoods, and encourage ac­ Parke, USA, erected a wooden cross on the Clearly, the FTC does not have the ex­ tivities to preserve and revitalize spot near where General E. R. S. Canby was pertise to deal with problems of the them.e killed during a peace conference designed to learned professions. The self-regula­ end hostilites of the 1872-73 Modoc Indian tion system and the processes in place War. at the Federal level through the De­ The story of the war and Canby's death is BRIG. GEN. RICHARD D. DEAN well known in the annuals of Western partment of Justice and at the State APPOINTED DEPUTY DIREC­ American history. Just below the Oregon level through the States attorneys TOR OF ARMY NATIONAL border in California an army of about 1,000 general offices and the courts has GUARD soldiers was held at bay by under 170 Modoc worked well for many years. There is Indians. U.S. casualties were high. In time no need for the FTC to become in­ the Indians ran out of supplies and surren­ volved in regulating the practice of HON. IKE SKELTON dered. medicine. OF MISSOURI Seven years after the conflict Lt. Parke The Luken-Lee amendment to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES visited these isolated, desolate lava beds. He FTC authorization bill will put a mor­ viewed the area with awe and must have Wednesday, September 22, 1982 thought of Canby as a cadet and how those atorium on the activities of the FTC early commissioned years were slow in at­ over the professions, until we, the e Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, I take taining rank. There were several Indian Congress, decide the FTC should act this opportunity to congratulate Brig. campaigns, then came the war with Mexico in this area. It is a reasonable propos­ Gen. Richard D. Dean, of Sedalia, Mo., and the Civil War; the latter seeing Canby al. The FTC has never been specifical­ for being appointed Deputy Director become a general officer. He was not the ly granted the power to govern the of the Army National Guard. He is the dashing officer like those we remember so professions. Yet, the agency is taking first Missourian to hold this position, well from this period of our national histo­ the power through its investigations ry. And few realize that Canby accepted the which is the second highest position in capitulation of CSA General Kirby Smith at and orders. We can define where the the National Guard. New Orleans, thus ending final resistance of authority for action by the FTC lies. As the Deputy Director of the Army the Confederacy. We must support the Luken-Lee National Guard, Brigadier General Canby then became an administrative of­ amendment.e Dean will be responsible for supervis­ ficer with occasional periods of field duty. ing efforts to meet manpower and Parke must have thought about the press equipment needs of the National Canby received and remembered that Canby NATIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD DAY was an officer who was without enemies in Guard. He will also work with national his profession, and rarely criticized. He was budget matters for the Guard and will a compassionate and just man, one whom a HON. ROMANO L MAZZOU be testifying before Congress on relat­ OF KENTUCKY number of Indian tribes had come to look ed issues. upon as a friend. Now, here on these lava IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Brigadier General Dean has an im­ beds Canby was murdered while trying to Wednesday, September 22, 1982 pressive history with the National find an honorable peace to end a war brought on by nearly two decades of Indian e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, the Guard. He served as executive officer and white conflict spawned by greed and U.S. Conference of Mayors, meeting in in Battery C, 128th Field Artillery of mistrust. my hometown of Louisville, Ky., this the Missouri National Guard. He has Parke must have thought about Canby's summer, recognized the importance of also served as commander of the 135th past, and he was determined to mark the neighborhoods in the development of Artillery Group and Engineer Brigade place where the peace council tent stood. In the American character and spirit. and was commander of the 35th Engi­ September of 1882 he did just that. With They adopted a resolution pointing neer Brigade, Missouri National Guard the aid of a civilian carpenter he erected a out that ... • • neighborhoods are the at the time of his new appointment. wooden cross with a lava rock base to the building blocks of America's cities, and His service decorations include: the memory of the first general officer of the U.S. Army ever to be killed during an Indian contribute to the social, cultural, polit­ meritorious service medal, Army com­ war. ical, and economic life of urban cen­ mendation medal, United Nations serv­ Today the original cross may be seen in ters • • • strong identification with ice medal, Korean service medal with the Visitor Center of the Lava Beds Nation­ neighborhoods by citizens can enhance battle star, and the Korean President al Monument near Tulelake, California. The city life and help sustain stable, unit citation. original site is still marked by its lava rock family-centered living • • •". Again, I congratulate Brigadier Gen­ base and the 4th or 5th replacement of the But, more than this, neighborhoods eral Dean for his appointment as wooden cross. It is a tribute to an American represent the real "grassroots" Amer­ Deputy Director of the Army National hero which is viewed by many modem day ica-the America that is fed up with Guard and I wish him the best of luck tourists.e nuclear proliferation, with drunk driv­ in his new endeavor.e ers, with crime. And it is from these TRIBUTE TO A PENNSYLVANIA communities that solutions to these SCOUT problems and others will come. It is CANBY'S CROSS-THE the leaders of the communities that CENTENNIAL OF ITS PLACING know their people's needs best, and HON. JAMES L. NEWGAN can help forge the public/private part­ HON. GENE CHAPPlE OF PENNSYLVANIA nership that will get America rolling IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES again. OF CALIFORNIA Many communities across the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, September 22, 1982 Nation-including the Crescent Hill Wednesday, September 22, 1982 e Mr. NELLIGAN. Mr. Speaker, I join Community in Louisville-have adopt­ my colleagues today in honoring an ed the first Saturday following Labor e Mr. CHAPPlE. Mr. Speaker, I in­ outstanding boy scout from the 11th Day of each year as National Neigh­ clude the following historical dedica­ District of Pennsylvania, which I am borhood Day. This year's celebration tion in the RECORD: privileged to represent. This scout will September 22, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24735 receive the highest scouting award, and many others feel about John community. His distinguished partici­ the coveted Eagle Scout Award. Hoving. I am submitting that editorial pation in the Passaic County Munici­ Daniel J. Backo, 16, son of Joseph P. for the record and extending to John pal Clerks Association and in the Mu­ and Lorraine J. Backo of Exeter, Pa., my personal thanks for his contribu­ nicipal Clerks Association of New conducted a free blood pressure clinic tions to our community. Jersey was recognized by his election as his eagle award project. He is a TRIBUTE TO JOHN HOVING as president of both groups, in 1961 junior and is active on the golf team at The impending departure of John Hoving, and 1975 respectively. He has em­ Wyoming Area High School. for a decade senior vice president for public ployed his memberships in these I commend troop 311, its leaders and affairs and public relations of Federated De­ groups as valuable means of improving Scout Master William Daileda for partment Stores Inc., will be a distinct loss the capabilities of himself and his col­ spurring this young man to this out­ for the Queen City. leagues to serve their respective com­ standing achievement, and I join par­ Widely regarded as one of the most effec­ tive public-relations specialists in America, munities efficiently. He also served on ents, friends, and members of the com­ Mr. Hoving has stood at the fore of Federat­ the State advisory board and the edu­ munity in wishing Daniel equal suc­ ed's involvement in the social and economic cation board, teaching classes at Rut­ cess in his future endeavors.e life of Southwestern Ohio and contributed gers University in the latter capacity. significantly to its advancement. His broad Mr. Reda's diligent work to make his A TRffiUTE TO GUY BREWER background in analyzing public issues and community a better place to live repre­ helping to shape public policy has made sents a very commendable form of pa­ him something of a community conscience triotism. The people of West Paterson HON. JOSEPH P. ADDABBO whose insights were welcomed by Cincin­ recognize how fortunate they have OF NEW YORK natians of all persuasions. He has left a positive mark on Cincinnati's been to have such a friend working to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES civic life and a warm place in the memories meet their needs for a quarter of a Wednesday, September 22, 1982 of all those associated with him.e century, so they will honor Mr. Reda e Mr. ADDABBO. Mr. Speaker, I am at a testimonial dinner on September pleased and proud to announce that 26. Nobody could deserve this honor PUBLIC SERVICES OF ALFRED A. more. New York City has recently paid trib­ REDA ute to one of its finest native sons­ America's towns and cities have Guy Brewer-by renaming a Queens great demands for services and facili­ street in his honor. HON. JOSEPH G. MINISH ties in the days ahead; I wish every Guy, an articulate and capable legis­ OF NEW JERSEY one of them had an Alfred A. Reda to lator, as well as a good friend, was a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES deal with them. West Paterson is for­ five-term member of the New York Wednesday, September 22, 1982 tunate to have a good man on the job in these challenging times.e State Assembly until his death in e Mr. MINISH. Mr. Speaker, it is a 1978. He was the first black member of pleasure to call the attention of my any political party to serve as majority colleagues to the public service per­ GET A PIECE OF WILDERNESS whip of that body. Guy also founded formed by Mr. Alfred A. Reda of West BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE the United Democratic Club nearly 40 Paterson, N.J., which will be celebrat­ years ago, which helped to elect the ed this week. Mr. Reda personifies the HON. STEPHEN L. NEAL first black officials in Queens County. kind of civic dedication which has Guy stood out as a champion of indi­ OF NORTH CAROLINA done so much to enhance the quality IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vidual and minority rights, and it is of life in America. most fitting that we give him his due Since January 1, 1957, Alfred Reda Wednesday, September 22, 1982 recognition. has served as the municipal clerk of • Mr. NEAL. Mr. Speaker, I am insert­ A parade and dediction ceremony West Paterson. His tenure has seen ing into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD were held in Queens on Saturday, Sep­ the office expand from a part-time op­ today an excellent article assessing the tember 11, as New York Boulevard of­ eration, open just 2 hours a day, to the policies of the Secretary of the Interi­ ficially became Guy R. Brewer Boule­ present efficient full-time administra­ or James G. Watt that recently ap­ vard. The bill to change the name was tion. By January of 1957, Mr. Reda's peared in the Winston-Salem Sentinel. introduced by Councilman Archie conspicuous abilities and solid achieve­ The author of the article, Jim Dock­ Spigner in May 1982, and signed by ments in office led the mayor and ery, contends that Secretary Watt has the mayor on June 1. The boulevard is council to select him as the borough's turned the Interior Department the longest street in New York City first administrator. Major municipal upside down, politicizing the histori­ named after a black citizen; stretching improvements characterized his cally nonpartisan agency and playing 3.7 miles from the Jamaica business tenure, including the construction of a fast and loose with our national treas­ district on the north to Kennedy Air­ new municipal building, a new public ures. Mr. Dockery characterizes Mr. port on the south.e library, a million-gallon water tank, a Watt's attempts to open wilderness public works garage, newly acquired areas and the entire eastern seaboard TRIBUTE TO JOHN HOVING and developed public parks, and-per­ to mineral exploration as irresponsi­ haps more significant that any build­ ble. He also thinks it would be a fool­ HON. WIWS D. GRADISON, JR. ing-the codification of municipal or­ ish mistake for the Interior Secretary OF OHIO dinances. His has been the particular to auction off public land greater in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES responsibility of attracting desirable size than the State of North Carolina. ratables among commercial and indus­ Mr. Speaker, Secretary Watt would Wednesday, September 22, 1982 trial firms. have us believe that his policies are e Mr. GRADISON. Mr. Speaker, I rise These solid achievements testify not part of a devine plan. In Mr. Dockery's to congratulate John Hoving on 10 only to Alfred Reda's skill, knowledge, view, however, the Secretary's policies years of distinguished service to Feder­ and energy, but most particularly to a are rooted in nothing greater than ated Department Stores and to the true spirit of public service. His prime "self-interest, ignorance, shortsighted­ entire Cincinnati community. John is motivation has been a desire to en­ ness, and greed." now leaving Cincinnati and will be hance the community which has been Mr. Speaker, I would urge my col­ sorely missed. his lifelong home. leagues to take the time to read this The Cincinnati Enquirer on Septem­ Mr. Reda has been active in many article. I believe they would find it ber 14 printed an editorial which I professional organizations, which worthwhile. Mr. Dockery is chairman think succinctly sums up the way I aided his efforts to work better for his of the North Carolina Chapter of the 24736 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1982 Sierra Club and is quite knowledgeable amount of drilling the oil companies can public lands and environmental protection. in matters affecting the environment. handle each year considering manpower, Poll after poll shows great bipartisan sup­ drilling rigs and capital. If acreage vastly port for strong governmental actions to pro­ The article follows: greater than the industry can explore and tect the environment. Watt is poorly serving WATT's AMERicA: OIL RIGS, STRIP MINES develop is thrown upon the market, our na­ his party and the American public. By ironic A billion acres offshore for lease and 35 tional resources will be squandered at cheap fate, however, the conservation organiza­ million acres onshore for sale. Contact Inte· prices. tions have benefited from Watt. Their mem­ rior Secretary James Watt, Washington, Over the next five years the government berships have grown dramatically as many D.C. proposes to sell 35 million acres of "surplus" P.S. Get a piece of wilderness before it's federal land. This acreage is greater than more Americans are responding to the obvi­ too late. the entire state of North Carolina. Granting ous threat posed by Watt and Company. The Interior Secretary is responsible for that some scattered sites are appropriate for This fallout, however, is a blessing the con­ all the nation's public lands, except the na­ disposition, cerainly there is no "surplus" servation organization would just as soon tional forests over which he has jurisdiction equal to the combined states of Maine, New forgo, given the price.e for oil and mineral activities. He is also re­ Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. sponsible for federal oil and mineral inter­ The public domain should be kept for the ests in the outer continental shelf. Some of public use. The current administration is EARLY FIRE ALERTING SYSTEM these public lands and coastal areas are proposing to ape the foolish spendthrift FOR DISABLED available for a variety of private uses-from who, not living within his income, com­ cattle ranges to oil and mineral develop­ mences disposing of his principle. ment. It is the responsibility of the Secre­ What are the motives for Mr. Watt's ac-· HON. JOSEPH P. ADDABBO tary to represent the public interest in the tions? As the kids today say, where is he Interior Department's management of these coming from? OF NEW YORK lands. Mr. Watt has indicated the he believes he IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The balanced approach of the Interior De­ is following Divine sanctions. Watt said, partment under many prior administrations, "My responsibility is to follow the Scrip­ Wednesday, September 22, 1982 Republican and Democratic alike, has been tures, which call upon us to occupy the land radically reversed by Mr. Watt's pro-devel­ until Jesus returns." This he implied may be e Mr. ADDABBO. Mr. Speaker, I opment policies. The fox is now guarding quite soon. It is worth pondering whether would like to take this opportunity to the hen house and trying to hand out the the loving Heavenly Father which the share some very important informa­ fat hens. Three proposals show Watt's Scriptures teach created the earth and all tion with my colleagues. hand. its inhabitants, wants his creation to be Changing years of bipartisan department treated as an occupied land where the rich The National Institutes of Health policy, Watt deliberately sought to open wil­ and powerful govern. and other authorities estimate that derness areas for mining and drilling. The Watt's theology appears to ignore the over 1 million Americans suffer signifi­ oil companies leaped in with about 1,000 ap­ great biblical themes that man is merely a cant mobility impairment as a conse­ plications for over 3 million acres of these tenant of God's creation with stewardship quence of muscular dystrophy or special places including Joyce Kilmer-Slick­ responsibility toward all of creation. The rock Wilderness Area and Linville Gorge in effect of Mr. Watt's use-it-now theology is a other neuromuscular disorders. Until North Carolina. A storm of protest arose. denial of concern or responsibility for the now these disabled citizens have been To block Watt, the House of Representa­ future; a denial that our children and forced to rely constantly on other tives by an incredible 340-58 margin passed grandchildren will inherit the fullness of people for assistance in life-threaten­ a bill closing wilderness areas to oil and min­ the earth voted in in its audacious scale and speed, but at the United States, where we lead the favor of protecting our wilderness resources. heart of this assault are old, old enemies the world with over 9,000 fire deaths. The bill now moves to the Senate where it Sierra Club has been fighting for almost a has 52 sponsors-a majority. Probably no century: self-interest, ignorance, short-sight­ Gratefully, the International Asso­ single congressional action during this ad­ edness and greed." It is perfectly legitimate ciation of Fire Fighters, in cooperation ministration so strongly shows the extensive for corporations to operate for profit and with the Musclar Dystrophy Associa­ public support for wilderness and conserva­ self-interest. In fact, some people, including tion, has undertaken a new initiative tion policies in the face of Watt's pro-devel­ economist Milton Friedman, argue that the to better safeguard our fellow citizens opment policies. Opening the wilderness sole and sufficient duty of corporate man­ areas is unnecessary anyway. These areas agement is to maximize profits. But the through the development of an early are estimated to contain only 1 to 3 percent public interest in the federal lands includes, alerting system in the event of fire or of our undiscovered oil and gas. If we among other things, watershed protection medical emergency. This commenda­ become so desparate that we need to despoil for safe and permanent water supplies, wild­ ble effort undertaken by two disparate our wilderness areas, wildlife refuges and life protection, a perpetual forest resource, and cooperating organizations is being other national treasures, let us at least wait soil conservation and recreation. The cur­ and use them last. If any oil is there now, it rent administration has extolled supply-side done without public funds. Placing will be there later. economics with its "trickle down" theory complete reliance on voluntary efforts Watt has proposed leasing nearly all of whereby everyone is supposed to benefit and private donations, the program the nation's outer continental shelf over the from the invigorated activities of businesses promises a new life safety system that next five years, about 1 billion acres. To un­ aided by tax and regulatory reforms. It will substantially limit the needs and derstand the staggering scope of this pro­ might work in economics but there is cer­ dependence of the disabled on others posal, the yearly acreage-200 million-is 10 tainly no basis to believe that the public in­ times more acreage than has been leased in terest in the conservation of natural re­ more fortunate. With expanded use, total since offshore leasing began in the sources trickles down by turning over the the system will afford an even greater 1950s. The plan is environmentally irrespon­ public lands to private interests for maxi­ degree of independence and confi­ sible. Such huge tracts would make the en­ mum exploitation. In fact, the history of dence. vironmental assessment process unmanage­ the 19th century shows just the opposite. able or render it superficial. Many coastal What trickled down was denuded forests, Such efforts are worthy of praise states, including North Carolina, are con­ eroded lands and abandoned strip mines. It and encouragement by this Congress cerned as to the possible damage to their was in the face of these abuses that Con­ and I move to publicly commend both other coastal resources, including tourism gress established the national forest system the International Association of Fire­ and fishing. Also, Watt's scheme is finan­ as well as wildlife refuges, national parks, fighters and the Muscular Dystrophy cially irresponsible. The oil market is de­ national seashores, the national wild and Association work.e pressed and glutted. A recent sale of off­ scenic river system, wilderness areas and shore tracts brought bids on less than 10 passed a wide spectrum of laws to protect percent of the tracts offered and at the these resources and our environment. lowest yield per acre in 28 years of federal Watt is out of touch with the American leasing. There is a practical limit to the mood with his meat-ax approach to the September 22, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24737 STATEMENT ON H.R. 6458, RE­ can only be done effectively at the these increases, the annual authoriza­ AUTHORIZATION OF FEDERAL Federal level. tions for drug abuse research provided ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE As the lead Federal agency for drug in this bill will not exceed the 1980 RESEARCH abuse research, NIDA is responsible level of funds until 1985. The amounts for providing the national leadership in H.R. 6458 are a small price to pay HON. LEO C. ZEFERETII needed to expand our knowledge of when compared to the benefits of drug OF NEW YORK the health and other factors involved abuse research and the costs of provid­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in drug abuse and to translate this in­ ing anything less for NIDA's program. formation into more effective drug This legislation involves a number of Wednesday, September 22, 1982 treatment and prevention strategies. e Mr. ZEFERETTI. Mr. Speaker, on NIDA's other important functions in­ other issues I would like to address. September 20, 1982, the House passed clude: Collecting and analyzing data First, I am pleased to note that the under suspension of the rules H.R. on national drug abuse trends; dis­ committee report on H.R. 6458 calls 6458 which extends for 3 years the au­ seminating information to increase upon NIDA to allocate a higher priori­ thorization of appropriations for alco­ public awareness of drug abuse prob­ ty during the next 3 fiscal years to ex­ hol and drug abuse research by the lems; promoting new and more effec­ panding research activities in preven­ Federal Government. tive treatment and prevention tech­ tion, particularly with reg~d to stimu­ As chairman of the Select Commit­ niques; providing technical assistance; lating innovative services demonstra­ tee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, I and supporting research training. tion projects involving young people. want to express my support for this Recent budget cuts have severely Moreover, to assure greater attention legislation, particularly the provisions weakened NIDA's ability to fulfill its to such prevention research activities, of H.R. 6458 that authorize funds for national leadership responsibilities for the bill requires the NIDA Director to drug abuse research activities conduct­ demand reduction. With respect to re­ establish an office to administer and ed by the National Institute on Drug search activities, the 1982 research promote the Institute's prevention re­ Abuse . The bill provides $47 budget is nearly 25-percent less than search programs. This increased em­ million for these purposes in fiscal the funds allocated for research in phasis on prevention research and year 1983, $53 million for fiscal year either fiscal year 1980 or 1981. This demonstration is also reflected in the 1984, and $59 million for fiscal year decrease is 30 to 40 percent if the ef­ provision of the bill establishing an 1985. fects of inflation are included. In fiscal Assistant Administrator of the Alco­ Drug abuse continues to be one of year 1982, NIDA expects to award only hol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health the Nation's most pervasive and seri­ nine new extramural research projects Administration to be re­ ous public health problems, particular­ compared to an average annual level sponsible for promoting and coordinat­ ing the prevention research programs I' ly among our young people. In addi­ of 78 for all previous years. tion to controlling the supply of illicit Any further reductions in NIDA's re­ of ADAMHA's constituent agencies, narcotics and other dangerous drugs, search budget, or even freezing including NIDA. the resources of our country-both NIDA's budget at current levels, would Influencing young people away from public and private-must be directed irreparably harm our Nation's drug drugs offers the greatest opportunity toward efforts to reduce the demand abuse research program. NIDA would to reduce substantially the heavy toll for these substances. The consolida­ be forced to phase down or out impor­ that drug abuse extracts from individ­ tion of categorical drug abuse services tant parts of its research program, and uals and society as a whole. By placing programs into a new Alcohol, Drug its ability to fund research in new a higher priority on sponsoring Abuse and Mental Health Services areas of emerging importance would projects to demonstrate new and block grant has resulted in re­ be greatly limited. These develop­ promising prevention approaches, the duced Federal financial support for ments would, in turn, restrict NIDA's Federal Government can make the drug treatment, rehabilitation and ability to attract qualified new re­ most efficient use of its limited re­ prevention programs and has signifi­ searchers into the drug abuse field and sources and at the same time provide cantly decreased Federal involvement cause scientists already in the field to strong national leadership in promot­ in the delivery of these vital services. switch to other research areas that ing prevention efforts at the State and Federal responsibility for providing will be supported. Consequently, the local level. For these reasons, the national leadership in the area of pool of scientists doing drug abuse re­ select committee's comprehensive drug demand reduction, however, has not search would decline, and the quality control progratn, included in our and cannot be diminished. A continu­ of NIDA's research program would annual report for 1981, recommended ing Federal commitment to demand suffer. Rebuilding the program, once extension and funding of the specific reduction efforts is essential to stimu­ such cuts are made, would require a demonstration authority first enacted late non-Federal support for drug number of years. We cannot afford to for NIDA in the Omnibus Budget Rec­ treatment, rehabilitation, and preven­ neglect our drug abuse research pro­ onciliation Act of 1981 proposal to effective approaches to prevent and will enable NIDA to increase research transfer administrative responsibility treat drug abuse. Moreover, assessing support in two of its highest priority for the ADM block grant from the research priorities, providing financial areas, marihuana and cocaine. For ADAMHA Administrator to the Assist­ support and direction for a national fiscal years 1984 and 1985, H.R. 6458 ant Secretary for Health. I want to ex­ drug research program, and dissemi­ will allow modest real growth in press my complete agreement with the nating the findings of this research NIDA's research resources. Even with committee's position and urge the

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' 24738 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1982 HHS Secretary to leave administration THE EXTRADITION ACT: the contributions of this dynamic of the ADM block grant in the hands H.R. 6046 human being. of the ADAMHA Administrator, who Mr. Speaker, the persons participat­ is best suited to oversee the transition HON. ARLEN ERDAHL ing in the retirement dinner for Mrs. to the new block grant. OF MINNESOTA Gussie Jones have a fountain of fond Finally, H.R. 6458 replaces a number IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES memories and feelings for her. She has been a source of strength in the of separate reporting requirements Wednesday, September 22, 1982 concerning NIDA's activities with a community for many years. A native new requirement for a single, compre­ e Mr. ERDAHL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to of Cleveland, Gussie Jones has worked express my concern for H.R. 6046, the each day of her life to pave the way hensive report from the HHS Secre­ Extradition Act of 1982. Earlier in this for a better future for her neighbors tary to Congress every 3 years. This session I expressed my reservations to and friends. With all due candor, I can report is to include information on the this bill in a supplemental view to the think of few people in the Cleveland health consequences and extent of Foreign Affairs Committee report. I metropolitan area who have had the drug abuse in the United States, drug hope my colleagues will take time to widespread impact on the lives of so abuse research findings, and the Sec­ read these objections. many people as Mrs. Gussie Jones. retary's recommendations for legisla­ While I support efforts to reform ex­ Mr. Speaker. she has been a respect­ tive and administrative action. As a tradition procedures, I believe there ed employee and a role model on her result of this change, the current re­ are flaws in this legislation. First, sec­ job with the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. quirement for a biennial marihuana tion 3194 of the bill strictly defines for the past 32 years. At the time of and health report from the Secretary what does not constitute a political, her retirement, Gussie Jones was an to Congress is repealed. that is extraditable, offense. Such lim­ assistant manager in the general serv­ I want to emphasize that the elimi­ itations remove the significance of the ices department of the company. nation of this separate requirement exception. The "extraordinary circum­ Within the company, she was a for a report on marihuana and health stances" clause provided is not well de­ member of the Ohio Bell Speakers should in no way be viewed as an ex­ fined and may not prove to be an ade­ Bureau in which she gained a reputa­ pression of diminished congressional quate safety provision. tion for her outstanding speaking abil­ interest in the development and dis­ Second, the bill would give the Sec­ ity. As an orator, Mrs. Jones was the semination of accurate and current retary of State judicial responsibilities recipient of numerous awards from in determining whether extradition is the Spellbinders Club which is also an public information on the health con­ sought because of a person's "political sequences of marihuana use. We are Ohio Bell speakers group. opinion, race, religion, or nationality." In addition to her distinction as a just now beginning to recognize the se­ Finally, it is possible that arrests and rious harm that can result from mari­ public speaker at the Ohio Bell Tele­ detentions could occur simply on the phone Co. Gussie steadily climbed the huana use, particularly to our young basis of accusations by foreign govern­ people. The need for increased public corporate ladder and scored many ments. "firsts" in the company. Mr. Speaker, awareness of the dangers of marihua­ I appreciate the concern of my col­ that had been the legend and unique na use is great, and the demand for in­ leagues supporting reform in the cur­ way of Mrs. Gussie Jones. She has formation is strong, sparked by the rent extradition law and their desire always been at the forefront of things burgeoning parents' movement across to pass H.R. 6046. I only hope the and is truly a lady of "firsts" and nu­ the Nation. Results of recent NIDA House will see fit to give the legisla­ merous achievements. surveys of high school senior drug tion the time and careful consider­ So, Mr. Speaker, I view the testimo­ abuse offer the most encouraging evi­ ation it deserves. nial for Gussie Jones on September 24 dence of the value of public informa­ Mr. Speaker, for over 200 years the as more than just another retirement tion about marihuana and health. United States has served as a haven dinner. It is, in my estimation, a cele­ After years of unprecedented growth, for persons escaping tyranny and op­ bration of her life and contributions. marihuana use among this group of pression in foreign countries. It is vital It is also an acknowledgement of the young people has declined for the past that, with any new extradition law, valuable tools and inspiration she has 2 years in a row. This drop has been this country protect the rights of given to those who have come into particularly dramatic for daily use of those individuals seeking shelter and contact with her through the job, her marihuana. These changes are attrib­ maintain our Nation's peerless record church, her family. and community or­ uted in large part to the increased of respecting human rights.e ganizations. health concerns related to regular use In each of these facets, Gussie Jones of this drug expressed by a substantial SPECIAL MEMORIES FOR A SPE- has been a guiding light for those and growing number of young people. CIAL LADY-MRS. GUSSIE around her. Inspiration and involve­ In light of the above, I would expect JONES ment have been the trademarks of the the new triennial report required by life of Gussie Jones in the Cleveland this bill to continue to devote substan­ HON. LOUIS STOKES metropolitan area. Memories for tial attention to the health conse­ OF OHIO Gussie Jones on September 24 will be quences of marihuana use. I would a voyage through her life with special IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES attention being pointed to the many also expect that NIDA and the HHS Wednesday, September 22, 1982 Secretary will continue to report sig­ acts of kindness and love she has nificant new information about the ef­ e Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, it is a spread through her many friendships fects of marihuana on health to Con­ signal honor and tremendous pleasure and associations. gress on a continuing basis and will for me to join with the multitude of Moreover, Mr. Speaker, the occasion use all means available to disseminate friends of Mrs. Gussie Jones in salut­ will not only be a tribute to the kind ing her on her retirement from the of service she gave to the Ohio Bell such information to the public in a Ohio Bell Telephone Co. My cherished Telephone Co. but also to the unceas­ timely manner.e friend, Gussie Jones, retired in August ing service she has rendered to our 1982 after 32 years of service. This tes­ church, the St. Paul A.M.E. Zion timonial and retirement dinner, enti­ Church in Cleveland. Every since I can tled "Memories for Gussie," on Sep­ remember, Mrs. Gussie Jones has been tember 24, 1982, in Cleveland is a a powerful force and true servant of token of thanks and admiration for the Lord through this church. Her September 22, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24739 reward for faithful service came in a Washingtonian employed by the any favored group or policy bearing Wash­ 1979 when she was named "Exhorter" COHA. The analysis is balanced and ington's hallmark. for the African Methodist Episcopal is, I believe, an accurate representa­ Peru, which along with Venezuela and ex­ Church. This is a position of honor tion of how we are viewed by our President Aristedes Royo's Panama was one of the most strident supporters of the Ar­ and tremendous responsibility in the fellow American nations in the after­ gentine cause, also seems to have muzzled A.M.E. Zion Church. She was the first math of the Falklands crisis. its sentiments if not its rhetoric. Recent re­ woman in modern day to obtain this FALKLANDS FALLOUT ports of a U.S. plane deal, although denied, title which is still another one of her PART ONE are indicative of Peruvian President Be­ "firsts." . dreds of former work associates, for some moderation on the sovereignty church members and friends is salut­ long considered a paper tiger, has been question. strengthened by the Falklands/ Malvinas ing this very special lady. Everyone But the British remain adamant, main­ controversy. Based in Caracas. SELA has who knows Gussie Jones loves her. taining that the Argentine aggression de­ emerged as a leading forum for Latin Ameri­ This is due to the fact that she has stroyed any prospects for early negotiations. can unity. In July, SELA's "action Commit­ brought us all some very special In addition, Britain is taking steps to perma­ tee for Aid to Argentina" met in Buenos memories. On September 24, we will nently garrison the islands with a "credible" Aires to discuss possible Latin American re­ come together to acknowledge that force to prevent any future Argentine sponses to the continuing economic embar­ during the dinner entitled, "Memories action. As long as the Argentines refuse to go against Argentina, as well as regional as­ for Gussie." end hostilities officially, the British will sistance to Argentina's troubled economy. continue their interdictory control of the is­ In this opening statement to the Buenos At this time, I ask my colleagues to lands' waters and airspace. But if the Argen­ Aires meeting on July 26, SELA Secretary join me in salute of my dear friend, tines were to renounce the possibility of fur­ General Carlos Alzamora, a Peruvian, said Mrs. Gussie Jones.e ther military action, Britain would still not "the Malvinas Islands crisis has taught all waiver from its policy of reestablishing firm of us a major lesson, that is, that the Latin control over the islands, at least as long as Americans can only rely on Latin Americans FALKLANDS FALLOUT the Thatcher government holds office. in the hour of truth." In the face of enthusiastic expressions of Alzamora's remark expresses the prevail­ Latin American solidarity on the Malvinas ing mood in South America. The conflict HON. WILLIAM F. GOODUNG issue the U.S. approach to mending rela­ OF PENNSYLVANIA has not only strengthened the growing tions with the region has been cautiously bi­ sense of independence in the region, but has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lateral. Lake a number of European coun­ kindled a re-born sense of Latin American Wednesday, September 22, 1982 tries, the United States was quick to lift eco­ unity. Argentina itself-not noted for any nomic sanctions Wllposed against Argentina strong feelings of solidarity with the rest of e Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, I during the conflict, and has apparently had Latin America-has, since the crisis, gone would like to insert in the REcoRD an some success in soothing the tempers of the out of its way to prate its gratitude for the analysis of the after effects of the Argentine generals. President Reynaldo Big­ support of its neighbors, and has generally Falklands crisis for the United States none and army commander Christina Nico­ become a promoter of Latin Americanism, which appeared in the Council on laides are seen in Argentina as receptive to including even Cuba in its generous em­ U.S. efforts to normalize relations. The brace.-PJS Hemispheric Affairs' Washington Reagan administration, however, seems to Report on the Hemisphere. The analy­ appreciate the delicacy of the situation and PART TWO sis, I am proud to say, was written by a is being careful not to identify itself with Chile, whose long-standing dispute with native of my constituency, Peter J. any one faction in Argentina, fearing that Argentina over the Beagle Channel led it to Swavely, formerly of Carlisle and now to do so would be "the Kiss of death" for tacitly support Britain during the war, has 24740 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1982 been one of the notable exceptions to the dentials as a "good neighbor" in the wake of ·Bank are false economy, and will crip­ rhetorical backslapping and hypocritical dis­ the war. An amendment to that measure by ple America's export competitiveness. plays of latin American "solidarity" that Sen. Steven Symms, R-Idaho, to uae "any Proposals currently before Congress have characterized the region since the con­ means necessary" to prevent Cuba's spread flict. Indeed, the Chilean ambassador in of revolution in the hemisphere, is indica­ call for cutting the Bank's direct loan Buenos Aires has been busy since the cessa­ tive not only of continuing paranoia over authority from $4.4 bUlion to $3.83 bil­ tion of hostilities denying numerous reports Fidel's "adventurism," but also a reaction to lion for fiscal year 1983, down 13 per­ of clandestine cooperation with the British. the marked boost in Castro's stature in the cent from fiscal year 1982. and 30 per­ This has not been lost on Washington, and hemisphere which was one result of Cuba's cent from fiscal year 1981. there is &TOwing speculation on Capitol Hill support of the Argentine cause. The Eximbank is America's limited that the Reagan administration is now anx­ Not only has Christian Democratic Ven­ means of reslstln& the competitive dis­ ious for Chtle to assume the role of "anti­ ezuela, in its new role of f.llti-imperialist communist bulwark" for which Mrs. Kirk­ crusader. markedly improved its relations advantaces Inherent in a global mar­ patrick and the State Department had been with Cuba. but Argentina herself has ex­ ketplace domtnated by huge foreign grooming Argentina. There have been pressed its appreciation of Cuba's strong government financing subsidies. rumors that the administration will soon diplomatic support. In all the talk of new­ Today, Governor of Washington, move to renew milltary aid to Chtle, sus­ found latin American unity and solidarity. John Spellman, announced the names pended in 1977. Castro's Cuba may be on the verge of cast­ of those Governors who have joined Apparently, the Reagan administration ing off its pariah status among the moder­ the Coalition for Employment has not learned the real lesson of the Falk­ ate and even conservative KOVemments of Through Exports -those who lands War-that snuggling up to milltary the region. dictatorships is a dangerous, as well as un­ Accordin&' to several observers, the fallout recognize that every 1 billion dollars' principled. policy. Indeed, there has been no of the Ji'&lklands War will be most clearly worth of exports means 30,000 jobs. indication that the State Department has apparent in the lon&-term attitudes of latin As Chairman of the House Export recognized its central role in inadvertently American countries to U.S. initiatives in the Task Force, I have learned to what leading the Argentines to believe that they region. In any event, Waah.inaton's cautious, degree our companies are at a com­ were too important to U.S. policy interests bilateral approach has prevented any truly petitive disadvantage in the world in the region to be sacrificed for the sake of spect.acualr deceneration of its relations market. In 1980, some 5.7 percent of a few tenuously held British ialands. with latin America ao far. But the U.S. can Thomas Enders, assistant secretary of state no lon&er count on automatic .upport in the "Made 1n U.S.A." exports were fi­ for inter-American affairs, has said that the OAB, for instance, and any future attempt nanced through official Government reason the Argentines did not heed U.S. to invoke the Rio Treaty aaatnst Cuba or any cent of Japanese exports, 39 percent credibility with a country unless one has other leftist reKime w1ll not be taken seri­ of British exports, and 27.2 percent of strong links to it." ously by its slater states in the OAS. French exports. Aside from the noisy defection of Venezu­ Before the Falklands, Ar&entina was re­ To reduce the funding for the Bank ela from the loyal flock, the Reagan admin­ garded in Washinirton as a strong, secure, as the admin1stratlon proposed to do, istration has had considerably greater suc­ and reliable ally in the v1gllant contest with cess in Central America and the Caribbean hemispheric Marxism. Now, the country is a at a time when our negotiators are at­ in mjnfmizing the fallout of the Falklands seething cauldron of economic crisis and pa­ tempting to convince our trading part­ War. Panama, whose independent foreign litical unrest. ners to limit their credit subsidies, policy on El Salvador, Nicaragua and Cuba Since assuming office on July 1, General amounts to unilateral credit disarma­ had become a source of crowing concern to Bignone has reversed the tight free market ment. Washington, has undergone a "constitution­ economic strategies of his predecessors and As Governor Spellman noted today. al coup" in which Presid~nt Aristedes Royo legalized political party activity. The eco­ the outcome of the Eximbank debate was ousted. The more conservative National nomic situation continues to deteriorate, will send a clear signal of what Ameri­ Guard commander, General Ruben Dario with the Argentine puo collapsing and the Paredes, has emerged as the nation's strong­ government scrambling to restore confi­ ca's intentions are in the world mar­ man. Paredes has affirmed that no organiza­ dence by attempting to reschedule its mas­ ketplace, whether we intend to com­ tion should be formed in this hemisphere sive foreign debt, now estimated at a stag­ pete or not. without the participation of the United gering $39.1 btllion. We should be tal.king about a major States, and is widely expected to more close­ The political future of Argentina remains increase in Eximbank loan authoriza­ ly toe the Central American line drawn in mysterious. Racked by a wave of resigna­ tion levels as our best jobs-generating Washington. tions-the most recent being that of navy bet for a speedy and sustained eco­ Close milltary ties with Honduras, which Admiral Jorge Anaya-the military is also have turned that small country into Uncle pestered by factionalism and low morale. nomic recovery. Sam's point man in the Central American The Peronist Party remains seriow;ly divid­ My colleague NoRK DICKS and I conflict, have been embellished by that ed, and any hope that a quick return to ci­ have sponsored House Joint Resolu­ country's participation, along with Costa vilian rule would result in stability seems tion 456, which establishes the intent Rica-now under the affable, if undistin­ misplaced. of Congress to fund the Bank at ade­ guished leadership of Luis Alberto Mange­ The U.S., sttll sucking its burned fingers, quate levels. to enable U.S. companies in the regional Central American Democrat­ has so far maintained a low profile, but the ic Community . This curious body­ to compete with their subsidized com­ Reagan administration has let it be known petitors on an equal footing. In addi­ called by former Panamanian President that it means to warm up its relations with Royo "an arrow aimed at the heart of Nica­ Buenos Aires as soon as it is allowed to do tion, I have sponsored H.R. 6562, to es­ ragua"-also includes El Salvador and Gua­ ao.-PJSe tablish a $2 billion Eximbank "war temala as its democratic devotees. Panama's chest"-this would let our trading membership under General Paredes would partners know we are serious about further strengthen the U.S. hand in the GOVERNORS JOIN IN SUPPORT competing in the world market. region. OF EXPORT-IMPORT BANK Mexico, in dire economic straits, has been I want to commend Governor Spell­ less active in regional politics than previous­ man for joi.ning the debate. He was ly, prompting concern from those who ad­ HON. DON BONKER one of the original founders of CEE mired its strong, independent line on Cen­ OF WASHINGTON last February. The other Governors tral America as expressed in the French­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES should also be encouraged to lend Mexican initiative of August 1981. Its stand their voices to the debate over export during the Falklands War was subdued, con­ Wednesday, September 22, 1982 financing. We will not experience true demning the use of armed force, but sup­ e Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, I am export recovery as a nation unless we porting in principle the Argentine claim to pleased to announce today that a coa- realize our export potential. the islands. President Reagan's push in Congress for lition of 18 Governors has joined the Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit passage of his highly-touted Caribbean effort to convince the administration for the RECORD the names of those Basin Initiative can also be seen, at least in and the Congress that further pro­ Governors who have lent their names part, as an attempt to reestablish U.S. ere- posed reductions of the Export-Import to support of full Eximbank funding: September 22, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24741 Governor John Spellman, Washington. private university might have something But the more striking attributes of Stan­ Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus, Wiscon- useful to say to the graduates and friends of ford and Michigan, I would argue, are ones sin. a major public university at this very criti· that they share. Along with a handful of Governor Bob Graham, Florida. cal time-something, perhaps, about the ar­ other universities, public and private, they Governor Bruce Babbitt, Arizona. rangements we have made in this society for have a deep commitment to the acquisition Governor Frank D. White, Arkansas. the support of higher learning, about the of new knowledge that accompanies their Governor William A. O'Neill, Connecticut. current threats to the quality of our enter­ responsibility for disseminating the old. Governor George Busbee, Georgia. prise, and about the roles of the public and They are, accordingly, called "research uni­ Governor George Ariyoshi, Hawaii. private sections in guaranteeing its future versities." The two institutions we're talking Governor John V. Evans, Idaho. safety. I certainly hope such a thing like about, along with perhaps ten others, are Governor James R. Thompson, Illinois. that was on his mind, because that's what I responsible for a large proportion of the in­ Governor John Carlin, Kansas. intend to talk about. novation in this society. They consume most Governor Harry Hughes, Maryland. I want to begin with an account of the dif­ of the Federal funds for basic research, Governor Albert H. Quie, Minnesota. ferences and similarities between this insti· produce most of the original work and col­ Governor Hugh Gallen, New Hampshire. tution and the one I represent. The compar­ lect almost all the Nobel prizes, generate a Governor Hugh Carey, New York. ison could as well be between Harvard and substantial fraction of the applications that Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., North Caro- the University of California as between make U.S. agriculture and industry work, lina. Stanford and Michigan; it generalizes to the and are responsible for a good deal of cul­ Governor Victor G. Atiyeh, Oregon. form "what is different, and what alike, tural creativity as well. Such places are the Governor Dick Thornburgh, Pennsylva­ about the private and public institutions of center for quality graduate and professional nia. highest rank?" More specifically, what can education in the Nation, because we discov­ Governor J. Joseph Garrahy, Rhode be said about the congruence of purpose, ered nearly a century ago that training of Island.e style, execution, and quality between my that kind prospers best where original work distinguished middle-sized private Califor­ is also conducted. The policy of brigading nia university and this distinguished public graduate training and research-establish­ PUBLIC AND PRIVATE: THE institution with three times the enrollment ing what Suny Bergstrom has called the COMMON GROUND and twice the operating budget? "democracy of American science"-has Much has been made of the public-private made our research enterprise the most pro­ HON. WILUAM D. FORD difference, usually by private educators. ductive in the world. William Rainey Harper, first president of The pursuit of that wise national policy OF MICHIGAN the then-embryonic University of Chicago, has had a cumulative result that now virtu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES used to refer to its neighbors in the nascent ally submerges one traditional distinction Wednesday, September 22, 1982 Big Ten as "the great engines of public in­ between private and public as it applied to struction." He pictured Chicago as a fragile places like Stanford and Michigan. So im­ • Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speak­ object of great worth, in constant danger of portant and pervasive is support from the er, in his address to summer graduates geing trampled by heedless hordes. The national government that it would not be of the University of Michigan, Stan­ tactic of portraying public institutions as unfair to call each of us Federal universi­ ford University president, Donald less sensitive and somehow less dedicated to ties, especially with respect to the functions Kennedy, made some observations excellence has not, I suspect, entirely disap­ of research and graduate training. about the cooperation between public peared from the repertoire of private uni­ A second area of similarity has to do, and private universities and their versity presidents, expecially near the end oddly enough, with how education is paid of fund drives. for. Most people think of private institu­ common interests. He also addressed But in Harper's time there was little dis­ tions as expensive, and as supported from t.he importance of the Federal student tinction between the social purposes of private sources. But State revenues do not aid programs in giving students the public and private educational institutions. meet most of the costs even of in-state un­ freedom to attend institutions best The first president of Stanford, David Starr dergraduates in an institution like this one: suited to their career goals. I com­ Jordan was President of the University of board and room, some tuition and fees, and mend Dr. Kennedy for his thoughtful Indiana in 1890 when Senator Leland Stan­ incidental expenses, must be met-largely, remarks and urge my colleagues to ford came to Bloomington for the purpose again, from private sources. And in a private review them. of wooing him to California. university like Stanford, conversely, over The day Stanford arrived, the object of half the undergraduates receive part or all PuBLIC AND PRIVATE: THE COMMON GROUND his search was out of town. Where was of their expenses in the form of financial Jordan? In Urbana, giving a speech on the aid, mostly derived from private philanthro­ President Shapiro, Regents, Guests, and importance of the State university! In it he py, but some of it from public funds. Fellow Alumni-to-be, it is good to be back in praised the growth of the State university In short, private and public payers are Michigan. This morning someone asked me: as "an institution existing for all the people, sharing the load in both places. Michigan "Why are you here?" It sometimes helps, in and for no end except the purpose of public and Stanford undergraduates-especially responding to a difficult inquiry, to answer instruction." But he then pointed out the si­ those who happen to be members of minori­ only the stated part of the question while milarities between their fundamental aims ty groups, or who come from the less afflu­ avoiding its real import. Thus the celebrat­ and those of the existing, largely church-re­ ent part of American society-depend upon ed thief Willie Sutton, when asked why it lated private colleges: "In its early years the direct aid and tax policies that have was that he robbed banks, replied "Because State university was, in aim and method, emerged from a carefully-developed nation­ that's where the money is." almost a duplicate of the denominational al policy designed to improve access to So I could say that I am here because, schools by which it was surrounded." True higher education. That policy, crafted by being an ex-resident of Ann Arbor and the to those beliefs, he founded at Stanford a the Congress over several decades and em­ proud owner of 28 credit points from this private university at which-to the amaze­ bodied in the Higher Education Act of 1965, university, I wanted to close a circle. And I ment of every contemporary Stanford is based upon two main premises. The first am here also because of my admiration for parent to whom I recite the story-there is that human resources are critical to the your President, who asked me. Since every was no tuition. Indeed the Stanford of 1895 Nation's future, and that it is against our in­ man is a prophet without honor in his own was different in few significant ways from terest to exclude groups of people from con­ country, you may not know that Harold the neighboring, somewhat older University tributing to that future simply because race Shapiro owns a degree of national respect of California across the Bay. or economic circumstances have handi­ among his peers-those of us, that is, who The private universities have, however, capped them. practice the possibly masochistic craft of always contributed the values of independ­ The second premise is that diversity itself running universities-that is truly enviable. ence and pluralism to higher education in is an important adjunct of the educational Now, you will instantly recognize that as a America. In particular, I think they have a process. I explained that premise from Stan­ Willie Sutton answer. I explained why I special role associated with their status as ford's viewpoint in this way, in a letter to came, but what the questioner may have trusts-an obligation to hold, for the indefi­ the Michigan parent of one of our under­ wanted to know is: "Why did they ask nite future, domains of knowledge, re­ graduates: " we invest in its to join forces over. At the top of the list is AT THE HORN quality just as we invest in the quality of the dismantling of the Federal support for the faculty." access to higher education, .about which I've For both these reasons, a substantial na­ just been talking. Next would be the cooper­ HON. JOHN LeBOUTIWER tional commitment has been made to guar­ ative defense of our service as research uni­ OF NEW YORK antee access of our best young people to versities-centers of graduate training and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES higher education-not only in private uni­ of the production of new knowledge. Future versities, but in the state institutions as productivity gains in this society will Wednesday, September 22, 1982 well-where full financial aid may, despite depend heavily upon the kind of intellectual the lower tuition, still amount to over half e Mr. LEBOUTILLIER. Mr. Speaker, the bill in the expensive privates. Thus at capital our institutions are now providing. since the invasion of Angola in 1975 by Stanford and Michigan, at least in the sev­ To these I would add a third program, one Soviet-sponsored Cuban proxy forces, enties, Federal help was a substantial com­ on which you have, as a public institution, a rather better start than we. It is the need U.S. policy in Africa has tended to ponent of the financial aid mix for under­ take a passive role. Nowhere has this graduates. And for graduate students, of for the universities to support and encour­ course, it loomed even larger. age the quality of public education at all been more the case than in the strate­ But in the 1980's those Federal commit­ levels. In this area the great state universi­ gic Horn of Africa where, since 1977, ments are being unravelled. The direct ties have established a powerful tradition of Ethiopia and Somalia have been at campus-based student aid programs have benign influence. Few examples are more war. been cut drastically, and the loan pro­ laudable than the extraordinary writing Beginning in July 1982, Ethiopia-a grams-in many ways the most important of program run by Professor Daniel Fader in pillar of Soviet, Cuban, and East all-have been made much less attractive. the College of Literature, Science and the German adventurism-escalated its in­ The more fortunate private universities Arts here, which extends into Michigan vasion of Somalia. Under the leader­ have been able to fill in behind the Reagan high schools. It has been widely copied, as it ship of Col. Mengitus Haile, Ethiopia retreat from educational opportunity by re­ deserves to be. deploying private funds; and as a result we initiated a campaign designed to over­ are able to retain our commitment to meet Despite the existence of such programs in throw the regime of President Mo­ the full demonstrated financial need of places like this, the general record of con­ hammed Siad Barre of Somalia and to every student we admit to Stanford. But cern about public primary and secondary establish Marxist control over the other private universities, even some that education in the great universities is disap­ pointingly meager, and it promises to entire region. are considered relatively wealthy, have been In an article appearing in the Wash­ unable to do so. become worse as the schools of education And paradoxically, the Administration's continue to fall into neglect. We have decid­ ington Times on August 17, 1982, Dr. abandonn1ent of past access policies has ed to make a major commitment to a study Z. Michael Szaz, former associate pro­ been even harder on the public institution­ of the schools at Stanford, an effort in fessor of international law and rela­ the ones nominally intended for all the which the Dean of Education and I are tions at Seton Hall and Troy State people. As the New Federalism accomplishes trying to involve a broad array of faculty University, and currently studies pro­ its purpose to returning functions to the members outside the School of Education in gram director at the American Foreign States-for the euphemism functions, read a project led from within it. Unless the sig­ Policy Institute, discusses this issue. financial burdens-the public institutions nificant institutions of higher education He says that, without additional U.S. face the double whammy of less direct Fed­ demonstrate an interest in this problem, we assistance, the poorly equipped Somali eral support for higher education, and risk perpetuating a situation in which only harder-pressed State budgets. In economi­ Army will be unable to withstand the the less able students contemplate teaching increased level of aggression financed cally troubled regions like yours, it is requir­ careers. Two years ago, those college stu­ ing heroic efforts just to keep afloat. Al­ by the Soviet Union. Only with addi­ ready minority enrollments in many of the dents intending to serve in public education tional aid can the United States: public institutions has dropped alarmingly. had test scores averaging more than 40 points below the mean for all students. We Secure the survival of an independent So­ It would not be surprising, though surely malia friendly to the West • • •, complete ironic, if the private universities turned out cannot tolerate that circumstance for very long. the containment of Ethiopia, and challenge for a while to be society's most important the Soviet position on the Hom of Africa. academic reservoirs for ethnic and economic Therefore I want to say to you, as I have diversity. said to our own new graduates, that teach­ I commend Dr. Szaz' article to my Now, what is being offered by way of re­ ing and other forms of public service de­ colleagues as follows: placement help? More and more insistently, serve your serious attention. That is one of HORN OF AFRICA: AIDING SOMALIA, those who are dismantling the Federal the three important convictions that I hope CONTAINING ETHIOPIA higher education programs are recommend­ you have drawn from your time in this great ing a new fix: it is tuition tax credits. university. It arises out of a sense of involve­ This program is designed to help parents ment in public purposes, a sense that is par­ Ethiopia, the former ally of the United pay for school or college by crediting the ticularly alive in places like this one; and it States, has become the pillar of Soviet, cost of tuition against their income tax; it is arises also from an intellectual appreciation Cuban and East German adventurism in the billed as "free choice," and purports to help of the continuity between knowledge and its strategic Hom of Africa area. The Soviets the independent educational sector by offer­ application for public benefit. built air and naval bases at the Dahlak ar­ ing tax incentives to private tuition-payers. chipelago off the coast of Eritrea; 4,000 As one whose institution would theoreti­ What are the other two? First I hope you Russian "advisers" are attached to the Ethi­ cally stand to benefit, I want to leave no have gained some personal experience with opian military and government and 2,000 doubt about my distaste for the entire the extraordinary richness of a great uni­ East Germans operate the secret police, notion. It produces a thinly-spread immedi­ versity-for the complex and grand venture 17,000 Cuban troops are deployed on the ate benefit that will not make the differ­ that is the search for knowledge. It is an op­ Ogaden to contain the guerrillas, and ence between anyone's attending and not at­ portunity available in only a few places. And around Addis Ababa to prevent any anti­ tending a good school or college. And it sells second, I hope you will gain the strength of Soviet coup. out the whole notion of financial aid based confidence in the abilities your own educa­ In August 1981, Col. Mengitus Haile Mar­ upon need. What any responsible private tion has brought you. It is one thing to iam's Marxist regime concluded a pact with college administrator ought to do with a tui­ know, and quite another thing to be able to Libya and South Yemen, the only Marxist tion tax credit, if the Congress is foolish apply that knowledge to unique problems, Arab state, to receive development aid from enough to pass one, is to recoup the funds over unfamiliar intellectual terrain. You are Libya which the Soviets are unwilling to through an extra tuition increase and re­ better able than you may know to do that. provide. The U.S.S.R. did deliver, however. award them as need-based financial aid. The So in conclusion, I wish you well in these more than $2 billion in military equipment purpose of Federal help with tuition is to three ways: I wish you the joy of discover­ since 1977. The pact with Col. Qaddafi, ac­ make sure that the most capable Americans cording to Jay Ross in the Washington Post. get to college, and tuition tax credits won't ing the extent of your capacities, the confi­ already netted $100 million for Ethiopia and do that. They are thus not one bit better for dence to apply them broadly, and the will to brings Libyan terrorist know-how to the Stanford than they are for Michigan, and I employ them in the public interest.e volatile Hom area and the Arabian penin­ hope we can oppose them together. sula.

11' .. September 22, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24743 Effective power in Ethiopia rests with Col. members who hope for a return of Ethiopia work, the administration's top people would Mengttus and his six military aides. As to the Western fold is commendable, but il­ issue dire predictions that the Soviets would there are no political transmission belts, the lusory. soon invade. That is what passed for a colonel is establishing a Communist party, In view of the Ethiopian invasion of policy. still in embryonic stages. Its preparatory Somali territory, the second option to be A workable policy, of necessity, would body, however, the Commission for Organiz. taken up immediately is the containment of have been of the long-term variety which ing the Party for the Working People of Soviet-Libyan influence in the Hom region. the Reagan people have not shown them­ Ethiopia, held its third plenary session in This would include accelerated arms deliv­ selves capable of developing. Such a policy November 1981, and Marxism-Leninism was eries to under-armed Somalia and an effec­ would have included assurances to the declared state ideology three years ago. tive alliance between the Sudan and Soma­ Soviet Union that its security needs would Human rights are nonexistent. During the lia. While the Sudan is receiving increased not be challenged, coupled with subtle and "Red Terror" of 1977-1978 ten thousand economic and military deliveries, the case of deliberate efforts to tie Poland economically were assassinated or executed, and persecu­ Somalia necessitates quick and resolute and culturally to the West. Instead of such tions continue against the Ethiopian Evan­ action on our part, both by the administra­ a policy, we got a television extravaganza gelical Church and the tion and Congress. ("Let Poland Be Poland"). So Poland wound Jewish community. In November 1981 its It will be necessary for both of them to up tied ever more closely to the Soviet last church and property was confiscated by come to the same conclusion as in the case Union. The West, and particularly Washing­ the government, leading to Swedish declara­ of the Sudan. We need to redouble our ef­ ton, clearly lost the moment. tions that the $20 million aid for 1982 would forts to help Somalia economically and mili­ Georgie Anne Geyer gives us some be cut off unless the church and property tarily. Besides accelerated arms deliveries of are restored. FMS already appropriated, the supplemen­ sound advice, and I hope we start Stabilization of the outlying provinces by tal 1982 budget request of the administra­ learning our lessons. military force made progress, but the rebel­ tion should be agreed to by the House­ I urge my colleagues to read her ar­ lions are far from over. Ethiopia. besides the Senate conference which, in the case of So­ ticle. U.S.S.R., constitutes the last remaining co­ malia. includes an additional $10 million THE LEssoNs oF PoLAND FMS and the Fiscal year 1983 foreign aid lonial empire. The minority Amhara tribe rules the majority Oromo tribe and also two appropriations must include the higher ethnically unrelated nations: the Somalis of level of FMS and economic aid . This way we would give a tial law was imposed upon Poland last De­ an Italian colony between 1860 and 1941. It clear signal to the Soviet Union and Ethio­ cember 13, nearly everyone in Warsaw knew was attached to Ethiopia in 1960 and has pia that we would secure the survival of an that the infectious hope of the Polish been in revolt ever since. In 1977-78 its two independent Somalia friendly to the West. August of 1980 was lost. In the prevailing guerrilla groups controlled all the province By doing so, we could complete the contain­ mood of restless futility, no one in the coun­ except the capital and the major port. ment of Ethiopia and challenge the Soviet try could come up with the "formula" for While they lost control of all but one town position on the Hom of Africa.e ruling Poland that was necessary for that and some mountain redoubts, they still tie hope to survive. down Ethiopian forces as does the anti­ I visited the country during the final Communist revolt in Tigray province. LESSONS WE SHOULD LEARN autumn of Solidarity, when the predomi­ A continuing problem remains Ethiopia's FROM POLISH EXPERIENCE nant mood in Poland was paralysis. When I insistence upon controlling the Ogaden, a asked Marek Brunne, Lech Walesa's person­ semi-arid province in the southeast inhabit­ al spokesman, a key question-"Who is in ed by Somalis. To quote Anthony Hughes HON. PAUL SIMON control of the country?-this exhausted, : OF ILLINOIS red-eyed young man almost shouted: "Nobo­ "The dominant ethnic group, the Amhara. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ty's in control! Nobody!" exercises less authority in the region than Wednesday, September 22, 1982 Everywhere in that courageous country, in any other fief of their farflung empire. those final weeks of a 16-month ear which As late as World War II, the Ogaden was e Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, recently, will become the stuff of legends, I could see under military administration with British I came across an article in the Notre the valiant gamble of Solidarity being Somaliland, and today the Somalis of the Dame Alumni magazine, written by squandered. Now, six months later, as re­ Ogaden suffer under a rule from Addis Georgie Anne Geyer, about "The Les­ newed turmoil erupts in Warsaw, it is time Ababa even harsher than meted out to the sons of Poland." to ask from an appropriate distance: What rest of the country." went wrong in Poland? Who threw the final The results were large-scale revolt and en­ It contains some commonsense, dice in the gallant game? Who spun the rou­ suing war in 1977-78 and 2 million refugees common not only for those who live in lette wheel in its last ideological round? entering Somalia from the Ogaden. Since Warsaw, but for those of us who live What, in short, are the lessons of those the return of the Ethiopians in the wake of in Washington. brief, incredible 16 months? Cuban troops, guerrilla activity continues. Georgie Anne Geyer says, in my The search for lessons much begin with In July 1982 Ethiopia started an invasion opinion correctly, that the West Solidarity itself, that extraordinary organi­ aimed at overthrowing the regimed Presi­ missed its opportunity to quietly but zation of 10 million Poles which, beginning dent Mohammed Siad Barre in Somalia. effectively take some actions to rein­ in August 1980, grew from a band of ship­ Col. Mengttus has harbored the "Somali Na­ yard strikers in Gdansk into a historic tional Salvation Front" in Addis Ababa force Polish independence. Instead, we movement aimed at building checks and bal­ since 1978 and claims future control of the made speeches. ances into a totalitarian system. Alas, when Hom, including Somalia and Djbouti. The In the article she says: the moment of truth finally came in Decem­ ultimate beneficiary would be the Soviet The West should also learn some lessons ber 1981, this astonishing organization Union, by being able to deny access to the about its own economic wantonness. By the showed that it was better at organizing its Bab el-Mandeb Straits by Western air and time the revolution came, Poland owed members than at plotting its survival. sea power. Mengitus unleashed some of his Western countries $26 billion. In one sense, Indeed, Solidarity's failures at that crucial army and some Somali dissidents upon Gal­ this massive debt was an indictment of the moment were colossal. dogab and Balambele, opening a third front country's Communist system; it was like the In those final weeks, the movement virtu­ northwest of Balambele in early August. We pregnant belly of an unmarried woman, ob­ ally went mad. Its membership largely ig­ are now airlifting some equipment to the vious to all "decent" society. But in another nored Lech Walesa, their good and reasona­ Somali troops trying to defend their fron­ sense, that debt was the illegitimate child of ble leader who for months had warned them tiers against Ethiopian aggression. In the greedy Western bankers who throcghout constantly against going too far. Its intellec­ meantime, President Daniel arap Moi of the 1970s lined up to lend Poland billions it tuals met clandestinely all over Poland in a Kenya just survived an air force coup at­ knew it could never repay. doomed effort at reorganizing the old tempt which was certainly encouraged by Still, once the revolution began, Poland's prewar political parties, and then called for Mengitus. financial obligations could have been used a referendum on the country's government The situation endanges our national inter­ in a variety of ways to tie the country closer and even on its military ties with the Soviet ests. While the loss of Ethiopia was prob­ to the West. However, during those 16large­ Union-a move which every sober observer ably preventable, there is no practical hope ly free-and-open months, the vocally anti­ knew would prove fatal. For its efforts to to remove the Soviets with or without Col. communist Reagan Administration could build a "new Socialism" in Poland, Solidari­ Mengitus' consent. The nostalgia of some not arrive at any policy to accomplish that. ty required control. In the end, control was government and congressional experts and Instead, every couple of months like clock- sacrificed to passion. 24744 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1982 The fact that the Communist military what to do, the Soviet Union won. It's far have no conception of what "Poland," at government last year was planning a mili­ more sophisticated action this time-in heart, finally represented: the exhaustion of tary crackdown should have surprised no backing the Polish military in an effort to Communism in Eastern Europe. one. But when the military finally did take put down its own people-divided the allies Poland represents a total failure of the over, it became clear that Solidarity did not and, in the eyes of much of the world, pre­ Communist ideology. "Poland" thus repre­ have a contingency plan for such an obvious served the illusion of a Soviet posture of sents a most dangerous delegitimization of eventuality. Solidarity depended for com­ nonintervention. the entire Soviet system, with its lack of in­ munications on the nation's workplants, so What the West, and in particular the centives and corrective devices. the government closed them. Solidarity United States, missed in that dismal first Ironically, Poland could have represented needed telexes and telephones, so the gov­ round was a fact of crucial and sobering sig­ a renaissance for socialism. As Zbigniew ernment cut them. Some Solidarity mem­ nificance: The Soviets have developed a so­ Brzezinski, the national security advisor in bers, filled with foolish grandiosity, had phisticated new style of diplomacy. This the Carter Administration, has so well ex­ boasted that they were invincible because newfound sophistication was demonstrated pressed it, the issue in Poland was "between they had the people. They learned that, at in Poland, and we are going to see more of primitive socialism and participatory social­ least in the short run, the government was it. Indeed, we can see it already: in the ism. Primitive socialism is bureaucratic, dog­ invincible because it had the guns. button-down style of the young Soviet diplo­ matic, brutal, even terroristic, and certainly The most grievous errors of judgment and mats who now rove the world looking like old-fashioned. Participatory socialism is of tactics were made by Solidarity's intellec­ an Eastern bloc variation of our own State more mixed, provides greater opportunity tuals. Their very presence in such a move­ Department types; in the slick American for individual expression and technological ment was a new development; in the Polish English diction of the new announcers on innovation. What is at stake is the concept uprisings of the 1960s and '70s, the intellec­ Radio Moscow, and-most importantly-in of a modern society." tuals and the workers had fought each the cunning use of peace talk and peace It is indeed. But that "lesson," far from other. This time, they worked together. But overtures to disguise Soviet military moves. inspiring the Soviets to make the changes in the end, only the working men, like The West should also learn some lessons which alone can develop and modernize Walesa, saw the situation in its correct pa­ about its own economic wantonness. By the their society, instead reacted in rage, in par­ rameters and warned the movement against time the revolution came, Poland owed anoia and in fear. And all the sleek young the extremes that finally devoured it. Western countries $26 billion. In one sense, Soviet diplomats cannot hide that fact. The reasons for the movement's growing this massive debt was an indictment of the Ironically, even many Polish Communists paralysis were described to me one dark No­ country's Communist system; it was like the understood that what happened in their vember day by Janusz Onyszkiewicz, an at­ pregnant belly of an unmarried woman, ob­ country was a potentially purifying and tractive, blond young Pole who was Solidar­ vious to all "decent" society. But in another even saving event within the Socialist bloc. ity's national spokesman. "It was so much sense, that debt was the illegitimate child of Indeed, one of the most extraordinary con­ easier being in the opposition," he said greedy Western bankers who throughout versations I have had in 20 years as a jour­ thoughtfully. "There was only one thing the 1970s lined up to lend Poland billions it nalist took place in Warsaw last year with then: to be against the government. Now knew it could never repay. Jerzy Urban, a short, chubby man with a that we are taking part in power, we have to Still, once the revolution began, Poland's shiny bald pate who was and is the spokes­ choose one value against another. And we financial obligations could have been used cannot do that." He shook his head sadly. man for the military government. "We could ask people to sacrifice if we had in a variety of ways to tie the country closer When I asked Urban why Communism our structures and institutions in place," he to the West. However, during those 16large­ had failed in Poland, he not only answered went on. "We don't." ly free-and-open months, the vocally anti­ my question, he answered it systematically Solidarity might have benefitted in the communist Reagan Administration could and correctly. "The Polish economy in the crisis by imitating the leadership of the not arrived at any policy to accomplish that. '70s was based on very expensive imports Catholic Church in Poland. Church leaders, Instead, every couple of months like clock­ from the Western economies," Urban began, and in particular Pope John Paul II, were work, the administration's top people would "but we could never produce exports for actually responsible for "the Polish revolu­ issue dire predictions that the Soviets would hard currency. Polish society simply con­ tion," as the Poles themselves call it. Onysz­ soon invade. That is what passed for a sumed too much of the credits." kiewicz put it poetically when he spoke of policy. "Also, power was exercised in a very arbi­ John Paul's 1979 visit to his homeland, the A workable policy, of necessity, would trary way and by very few people," he con­ visit which sparked Solidarity. "When the have been of the long-term variety which tinued. "There was no control over [politi­ Pope came here and we were all in the the Reagan people have not shown them­ cians], and they got rich at the cost of the square, we could see our Polish masses all selves capable of developing. Such a policy people. They become divided from the around us," he told me. "Before, it was would have included assurances to the people, arrogant. pretty clear who 'they' were. Now we saw Soviet Union that its security needs would "The problem, in one sentence, was that who we were." not be challenged, coupled with subtle and we didn't introduce reforms when we Once the movement started, the church deliberate efforts to tie Poland economically needed to." assumed a role that was as well-balanced as and culturally to the West. Instead of such Urban went on to explain why he thought Walesa's. Some criticized its position for a policy, we got a television extravaganza the Soviet response to Poland was so differ­ being too moderate, but in reality it was LARGEST INCREASES too high, and the antidrug campaign • Mr. LEE. Mr. Speaker, due to offi­ The biggest increase in federal spending will be for interest on in the armed services must be pursued cial business, I was unable to be the national debt. It jumps by 58 percent unrelentingly. But the indication of present on the House floor yesterday, over five years as the debt soars from $918 progress is gratifying to those of us September 21, 1982. Had I been here, billion at the end of 1980 to $1.7 trillion at who have pressed the military to take however, I would have cast my vote in the end of 1985. The next biggest increase is firmer action against drugs. the following manner: in spending for national defense. It in-

89-059 0-86-30 (pt, 18) 24746 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1982 creases by 48 percent above inflation, not in­ eral benefits. Major disincentives to work vision of freedom. America was to be cluding the rising costs of military pensions. are being placed in the way of low-income an exemplar of freedom to men and Together, spending for national defense and wage earners. Such workers lose food countries everywhere. As John Adams for interest on the national debt will go up stamps and welfare benefits as their modest nearly 10 percent faster than inflation. earnings rise. The "working poor" -those said in 1765 before independence, the settlement of America constitutes "the 14 ) PENSIONS disadvantaged people whose incomes are just above the poverty line-are being hurt opening of a grand design in provi­ Federal payments for medicare and for as social programs are realigned to help the dence for illumination of the ignorant, pensions of all types will rise by 21 percent. These between $15,000 and $50,000 receive modest expenses will rise about 4 percent faster benefits; substantial advantages fall to The depth of commitment by the than inflation. Thus, about half of all feder­ those who earn more. For example, families American people to freedom and those al spending is now supporting pensions and earning $40,000 per year will get $2,400 in human rights and institutions sup­ the medical benefits attached to those pen­ tax reductions in 1984; those earning portive of its realization cannot be sions. Coupled with defense spending, these $85,000 per year, however, will get approxi­ overemphasized. There are wrongs payments now amount to five-sixths of the mately $20,000 in tax relief that year. federal budget. which transcend all times and circum­ These facts and figures come from reports stances, and the conscience of America ( 5 ) OTHER SPENDING of the Congressional Budget Office, the requires they be judged unacceptable Federal spending in the other major cate­ non-partisan budgetary analyst of the Con­ gories of the budget will show a decline gress, and the Urban Institute, a respected to all men whatever their differences. during this period, after adjustment for in­ private organization which analyzes major Dehumanizing forces cannot be con­ flation. Food stamps and medicaid will fall events and trends in the nation's life. They doned. They must be opposed with by 10 percent over the five-year period from will form the backdrop for the leading de­ consistency and prudence. 1980 to 1985. Discretionary non-defense pro­ bates on public policy in the Congress and It is because of my strong commit­ grams, such as those for highways, national among the public at large in the weeks and months to come.e ment to this tradition that I find the parks, civilian salaries, and the Federal chorus of outcries against the Presi­ Bureau of Investigation, will decline by 31 dent's decision to impose sanctions on percent. Programs of rehabilitation and SOVIET NATURAL GAS PIPE­ child nutrition will drop by 54 percent. the Soviet Union, and those foreign LINE-A CRUCIAL TEST OF subsidiaries who willfully violate con­ ( 6 l DEFICITS WESTERN CONSCIENCE tractural agreements with their parent The bottom line in all of this is not en­ couraging. After the tax and spending cuts companies, particularly distasteful. of 1981 and the tax increase of 1982, the HON. JOHN LeBOUTILUER The Soviet Union is not simply a federal budget remains deeply in deficit. OF NEW YORK State. It is a "prison of peoples," dedicat­ Most alarming is the fact that even asssum­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ed to the final eradication of the ing a healthy economic recovery, the deficit Wednesday, September 22, 1982 Judea-Christian way of life and the would still be in the range of $40 billion to sacred values on which it rests. It is $50 billion per year. Additional efforts to e Mr. LEBOUTILLIER. Mr. Speaker, the enemy of all people and the captor cut spending are inevitable. The deficit is the Soviet natural gas pipeline in­ of each who would be so unfortunate expected to grow by $500 billion during the volves a denial of principles so funda­ to come under its sway. It is, in short, four years of the Reagan Adminstration. mental to Western and American, po­ For 1983, it will be about $155 billion, by far the enemy of the eternal basis of the litical values that any willingness to spirit-freedom. the largest in history and the largest as a participate in its construction can only percentage of the Gross National Product It is no accident that this is the case. since World War II. The outlook is for con­ be judged worthy of contempt. Radical dehumanization flows neces­ tinuing large deficits during the next sever­ American, unique among all nations sarily from the very nature of commu­ al years. If the 1985 budget were to be bal­ of the world, was established with nism. anced without further reductions in spend­ freedom as a fundamental right be­ ing for defense pensions, other spending in queathed to all men by their Creator. The meaning and significance of the federal budget ment: Today the country stands with the scanty wagons which offer little protection Let's face it. America's foreign aid pro­ rest of the European Community in oppos­ from winter temperatures, which sometimes grams have not worked. They have not suc­ ing the American embargo on exports of reach below minus 40 degrees centigrade. ceeded in channeling aid to meet the needs equipment for the project. I question Workers in exile are similarly appallingly of the most needy. They have not been fine­ whether Britain would now be taking the provided for in their colonies. The few tuned to foster self-help efforts in develop­ same strong view if the engineering compa­ shops are never well stocked. Workers rely ing countries. They have not been able to ny of John Brown and Company was not in­ on food from relations. Vitamin deficiencies avoid propping up widespread corruption in volved. Either way, the whole unhappy cause disease. Little heavy construction many countries receiving aid. Why not? affair represents yet another failure on the equipment is used and they are forced to Simply put, they have not been organized to part of the alliance to produce a firm, effec­ perform most of the heavy manual labour do so. tive and united approach towards our trad­ involved in constructing the pipeline. Inju­ Perhaps more importantly, however, US ing relations with the Soviet bloc. ries and accidents occur frequently. Women aid programs fail because they do not in­ I realise that the arguments about the working with the asbestos and fibreglass clude opportunities for Americans to learn pipeline may now be academic because it is used to line the pipeline suffer from severe about the problems and the cultures of the to go ahead, but we should remind ourselves blistering. Gloves are issued only twice a people they are ostensibly helping. of the possible consequences, which seem to year. Eczema is widespread and there is a The first principle in effective aid is public concern President Reagan far more than high rate of lung collapse. participation. Americans from all walks of those nations involved in Western Europe. Such inhumanity to man by man rivals life should have the chance to contribute di­ The fact that France, West Germany, Bel­ that which occurred during the construc­ rectly to aid projects and to understand gium and Italy are prepared to put them­ tion of the pyramids by the Pharaohs. Its both the value of the projects and the selves "in hock" with the Soviet Union on purpose is to advance the living standards of people being supported. Moving toward such a vital commodity is an indictment of people in Western Europe. greater citizen involvement would bring into the concept of the European Community It is suggested that President Reagan is sharper focus the humanitarian motivations and illustrates its failure to produce an ade­ being less than honest in attempting to sab­ behind aid and emphasize the role played quate energy policy of its own. That West otage the European end of the deal while by compassion and mutual respect and un­ Germany, usually one of the Community's continuing to sell American grain to make derstanding in making foreign aid work. most enthusiastic partners and its prime up the shortfall in Soviet harvests. That is While private contributions are to be en­ banker, is prepared to rely on the Soviet to misunderstand the facts and to fall for couraged, it is far better to coalesce private Union for more than 30 percent of its gas Soviet propaganda. American grain is paid donations into community-to-community and 5 percent of its total energy needs in for in cash. That leaves less for the Soviet programs of resource and information ex­ the 1990s is especially surprising. The deci­ war machine budget. Moreover, as we know changes. Through a community approach, sion to go ahead with the pipeline also ig­ from President Carter's grain embargo fol­ both sides are reminded of the importance nores the fact that north-western Europe is lowing the Afghanistan crisis, alternative of community action in furthering general entirely capable of supplying the same suppliers from the West, notably from Ar­ well-being. Americans would be able to view amount of gas from its own proven and gentina, are only too happy to step in. The closely the impact of their assistance. Recip­ probable reserves. pipeline will not only make Western Europe ient communities would benefit from the One assumes, and hopes, that these coun­ more dependent on the Soviet Union, it will direct aid and the knowledge that it comes tries have thought out the consequences to increase Soviet hard currency earnings by as from Americans who know and care about their domestic consumers and to their in­ much as one-third, and our technology will the specific projects. dustries should the Soviet Union decide to substitute theirs. In effect, I am suggesting a "Sister Vil­ cut off the flow of gas. The Soviets have The whole unhappy episode serves as yet lage" program, involving the "adoption" by done precisely that in the past to their own another warning to the Western Alliance to an American city or town of a village in a customers and for their own reasons. China, decide with the utmost urgency on a united developing country. Using the term Sister Yugoslavia and Albania are all closer, ideo- approach to East-West trade, to outlaw Village is a reminder that, while the majori- 24748 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1982 ty of the world's population are village­ programs. But in those countries where the In 1959, Mr. Ulvestad was awarded dwellers, there is still a common bond of hu­ Peace Corps has a large program and where the St. Olay Medal by the King of manity between developed town and unde­ the Sister Village program takes root, tradi­ Norway and, in 1967, received the Lu­ veloped village. tional aid programs could be scaled down or This adoption should take place through phased out, resulting in slackened pressure theran Brotherhood Distinguished the passage of an appropriate resolution by on the federal budget and reduction in the Service Award. the American town or city council, thus deficit over time. Complete recordkeeping In the announcement to staff and making the relationship official and guaran­ on aid contributed to Sister Villages is a nec­ volunteers at Eger it was noted, teeing coverage in the local media. When essary feature of the program. "during the last 18 years, the trustees residents learn that their town has "adopt­ While budget-cutting is not the main sell­ of the Eger Homes have relied on and ed" a Sister Village, they will undoubtedly ing point of this plan, it is fair to underline been guided by Mr. mvestad's direc­ become curious about the program and that, by definition, the new program could about the people in the adopted village. The reduce federal expenditures by relying on tion and stewardship."• idea derives, in part, from the Sister City private contributions. The Reagan adminis­ program and blends in some aspects of a tration surely has a mandate to move in this AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS program run by the Peace Corps-called direction.e Peace Corps Partnership-in which US schools and developing country villages mu­ HON. FLOYD J. FITHIAN tually benefit from an exchange of informa­ HONORING SVERRE ULVESTAD OF INDIANA tion and resources. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Under the Sister Village program, US HON. GUY V. MOUNARI communities would collect tax-deductible Wednesday, September 22, 1982 contributions from individuals and from OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES • Mr. FITHIAN. Mr. Speaker, my col­ civic-minded businesses and organizations. league from Minnesota, Mr. HAGEDORN, Funds collected would then be sent abroad Wednesday, September 22, 1982 to help finance the digging of wells, the con­ and myself are introducing today a struction of latrines, health centers, or e Mr. MOLINARI. Mr. Speaker, I very timely resolution. This legislation schools, and the establishment of education would like to call to the attention of will address the problems of a few of programs in agriculture, sanitation, or adult my distinguished colleagues that on the most depressed sectors of our literacy. The number of tasks crying out for September 30, 1982, an important land­ economy. An increasing number of support is awesome, but small contributions mark date will take place in the histo­ American farmers, businessmen, labor to small villages make a big difference in ry of the Eger Lutheran Home on leaders, and policymakers are express­ terms of human welfare and self-respect. Staten Island, N.Y. On that date, Mr. To make sure the contributions reach ing interest in increasing U.S. exports their intended destination, though, there Sverre mvestad, who has served as ad­ of processed agricultural products. needs to be someone on the scene to identi­ ministrator of the Home for the past There are sizable potential economic fy and channel aid to worthy projects and 18 years with determination and devo­ benefits which could be realized if a to serve as the eyes and ears in the village tion, will retire. larger portion of our agricultural ex­ for the community back home. I propose, Prior to coming to Eger, Mr. fives­ ports were processed at home. therefore, the imaginative use of Peace tad served the needs of people in many America's agribusiness is the largest Corps Volunteers in this role. areas of the world. As a graduate of contributing factor to the U.S. balance Failure to utilize one of the greatest re­ sources the US has in foreign aid-Peace Det Norske Diakonhjem sense of history and without doubt would company entered markets outside its Like a tree, a nation depends on its roots have joined the majority of us in recogniz­ traditional base. for sustenance, support and growth. A sense ing the importance of preserving nationally Today, Philips Industries operates of roots is necessary to mental health and is and regionally treasured sites and buildings. 34 plants with almost 4,000 employees especially crucial in an age of doubt and For 33 years, the national Trust for His­ and worldwide sales. Its headquarters alienation. In the face of economic uncer­ toric Preservation has led our nation in pre­ remains in Dayton. tainty and worldwide challenge, Americans serving structures and places inseparable as never before need the assurance of their from the people and events woven into our Philips Industries stands as strong roots, of a collective continuity. nation's origin and growth. In Oregon, the financially and organizationally as it Continuity has two sides, the future and trust's presence can be seen in Portland's has ever been. Despite the lingering the past. Knowing our history, we can es­ Old Town, the Pittock Mansion, Pioneer recession, during the last fiscal year tablish goals and visions for a shared future. Courthouse, Timberline Lodge, the John Philips Industries enjoyed the most An objectively understood past, which in­ Day fossil beds and the Jacksonville restora­ profitable year in its history. The first cludes race, religion and neighborhood, tion. These and many other successful pres­ quarter of the new year set a company gives us the foundation for personal and ervation efforts are the result of the strong communal confidence and growth. partnership between the trust and dedicated record for sales and earnings. Representing the largest American com­ individuals and organizations such as our Finally, I would like to say a word munity, the federal government must pre­ state and local historical agencies. The about the founder of Philips Indus­ serve our nation's heritage with the active trust's finest work has been in this highly tries, Jesse Philips. Jesse has been a initiative, involvement and help of individ­ successful promotion of joint ventures be­ tireless worker who has accepted a uals and organizations in the private sector. tween the private and public sectors. Politi­ deep responsibility not only for his Just as you cannot catch up with history, cally, it has long enjoyed and earned bipar­ fellow Daytonians but the broader you cannot catch years of history that are tisan support in Congress. world community. lost forever due to neglect. But today, an ad­ Today, the Reagan administration has ministration that professes a strong belief called for the near total abandonment of The record of Jesse's CIVIC involve­ in tradition is neglecting our nation's rich the federal government's role in preserva­ ment is long and varied. It includes history. tion, and it has unloaded federal responsi­ serving as director of the Dayton Area In his budget cuts in the areas of historic bility on the hard-pressed states. But it is a Chamber of Commerce, trustee of preservation, publications and exhibitions, fact that Mount Vernon, and Monticello, Oberlin College and the University of President Reagan may believe he is being Fort Vancouver and the Alamo belong to Dayton, and associate chairman of the frugal. Regrettably, his actions are negli­ the entire nation. Preservation of them Dayton Community Chest Drive. He gent, wasteful and, because of the nature of transcends state lines. has been a part of the Miami Valley historic materials and information, quite The preservation of our nation's history is final. At his direction, our government is a national trust and a national responsibil­ Council of Boy Scouts of America, the withdrawing its modest yet far-reaching in­ ity. Through public and private partner­ Dayton Council of Salvation Army, vestment in programs that have energetical­ ships, this preservation and the public pres­ and the Dayton Art Institute. ly and efficiently saved countless invaluable entation of our history can be accomplished September 22, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24753 on a national level for less than $100 million SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO In order that all of our colleagues a year, or .02 percent of this year's federal H.R. 6457-HEALTH RESEARCH have an opportunity to look over this budget. Our question must be, what are the EXTENSION ACT OF 1982 substitute amendment, I have today priorities of a conservative administration inserted the amendment in the CoN­ that will not dedicate even so tiny an HON. JAMES T. BROYHILL GRESSIONAL RECORD under the "Amend­ amount to help conserve America's abun­ ments" section. dant past? OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I believe that our amendment ad­ The identity we lose will be irretrievable, dresses essential concerns such as the the reflection in our national mirror will Wednesday, September 22, 1982 continuation of important research continue to become more and more dim.e e Mr. BROYHILL. Mr. Speaker, I am programs at adequate levels of funding concerned about many of the provi­ without impeding efficient NIH man­ sions of H.R. 6457, the Health Re­ ONE OF CLEVELAND'S agement, and I urge my colleagues to search Extension Act of 1982. Of prin­ vote "yes" on the Broyhill-Gramm BRIGHTEST STARS cipal concern are the excessively high substitute.e authorization levels for the expiring HON. RONALD M. MO'ITL authorities of the National Cancer In­ stitute, the National Heart, Lung, and H.R. 6514 OF OHIO Blood Institute, and the Medical Li­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES brary assistance programs of the Na­ HON. PETER A. PEYSER Wednesday, September 22, 1982 tional Institutes of Health . An­ OF NEW YORK other concern is the creation of new IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. MOTTL. Mr. Speaker, one of authorizations for specific program Cleveland's leading civic boosters, a areas at NIH. This will yield additional Wednesday, September 22, 1982 man who has held a series of responsi­ costs. The bill would also reduce the • Mr. PEYSER. Mr. Speaker, when ble positions in the business world amount of dollars available for bio­ H.R. 6514, the immigration bill throughout his life, is Campbell medical research by diverting re­ reaches the House floor, I will offer an Walter Elliot, a long-time friend of sources from research to numerous ad­ amendment to clarify the status of in­ mine. ministrative requirements. dividuals who have been granted Cam Elliot is a native of St. Louis In addition, title IV of the PHS Act asylum. Specifically, the amendment and came to Cleveland in 1956 as is recodified, making unnecessary and would provide that a person who has senior vice president of the Midland­ potentially disruptive changes in the been granted asylum may not be invol­ Ross Corp., one of my hometown's management and operating procedures untarily removed from the United of the NIH and its component insti­ States notwithstanding the laws of largest employers. He was president any State or any judicial decree of any and chief executive officer of Ameri­ tutes. The bill also would create a de­ tailed, inflexible administrative frame­ court of any State. can Ship Building Co. in the early work that may have an undesirable This amendment would clarify the 1970's. Since locating in Cleveland, effect on the quality of research con­ status of Walter Polovchak, the 15- Cam has been at the forefront of ducted and supported by the NIH. year-old Ukranian boy who is involved many civic and charitable endeavors. To correct these problems, Congress­ in an Illinios State court custody As president and chief executive of­ man GRAMM and I will offer an amend­ battle. As my colleagues know, Walter ficer of the Greater Cleveland Growth ment in the nature of a substitute to fled from his parents to avoid return­ Association from 1973 to 1977, he H.R. 6457 when it is considered on the ing with them to the Soviet Union and helped pave the way for Cleveland's House floor. Our amendment makes was granted asylum by the Immigra­ rebound from the depths of despair. It the following changes: tion and Naturalization Service. Pur­ was with Cam's guiding hand, that our It provides lower authorization suant to a State court proceeding he downtown was able to experience an levels for the expiring NIH programs. was placed in the custody of the State. incredible rebirth. This will permit continued support for However, an intermediate appellate When Cam retired from the Growth important biomedical research court in Illinois reversed the lower Association, some people assumed he projects at levels above the 1982 court's decision and this decision is would revert to his true loves, his wife budget. These figures will be more in being appealed to the Supreme Court. Dorothy and children Mary Frances, line with those contained in the com­ It is clear that a State court custody panion bill in the Senate. award of Walter to his parents who George, and Michael, not to mention It provides for a simple extension of are living in the Soviet Union would his golf game. But those of us who expiring authorities rather than a conflict with the asylum status grant­ knew this energetic man better knew complete revision of NIH. This will be ed to Walter by the Immigration Serv­ that normal retirement just would not less disruptive to the agency's oper­ ice. This would clearly violate the su­ do. ation and would provide for only those premacy clause. This amendment will Cam heeded the call of his close changes which are essential. This will insure that Walter's rights are protect­ friend, Laury Jones, chairman of the also eliminate troublesome provisions, ed. Van Dorn Co. of Cleveland, and joined such as the unwarranted transfer of Testimony was presented on July 28 Van Dorn as vice president of public other PHS components to NIH. before the House Foreign Affairs Sub­ affairs. He still puts in 60-hour weeks It includes a provision for a study of committee on Human Rights that in that capacity. humane treatment of research ani­ Walter would face not only continued Despite the workload on the job, mals. This will improve oversight of religious persecution but imprison­ Cam and his bride have had the op­ the use of those animals for research ment if he returned to the Soviet portunity for extensive world travel purposes and will promote alternatives Union. the past few years. He has been a to the use of live animals. Mr. Speaker, we cannot allow Walter Our amendment also creates a new Polovchak and others who have been goodwill ambassador for Cleveland Arthritis Institute similar to the one granted asylum to be removed from and the United States to some of the contained in the Pepper and Gold­ the country against their will. The most exciting spots on the globe. water bills. In addition, a study of the Federal grant of asylum by the Immi­ As long as Cleveland, Ohio, has such organizational structure of NIH is in­ gration Service pursuant to its author­ favorite sons as Cam Elliot working in cluded in order to establish a frame­ ity under the Immigration and Nation­ its behalf, Cleveland will continue to work for future decisions regarding ality Act may not be interfered with rebound higher and higher.e the creation of new institutes. by State court decree or law. 24754 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1982 The exact language of the amend­ 1-year agreement with Moscow, he will any problem. Last week, however, in ment follows: hopefully approve a multiyear pact response to my subsequent request for AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6514 which will be more sensitive to the further review in this important area, Page 32, line 22, strike out the close quota­ plight of the American farmer.e Mr. Shad reversed his previous posi­ tion mark and the period following tion regarding the risks of repurchase "asylum" and add after that line the follow­ THE SAFETY OF GOVERNMENT agreements. He announced a thorough ing: DEBT ISSUES SEC staff review of whether new regu­ "Oklahoma City and of the two New of receiving adequate and fair infor­ OF KANSAS York Government securities dealers, mation about the risks and investment IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Drysdale and Lombard-Wall. The policies of their mutual funds from Wednesday, September 22, 1982 mutual fund industry has sought to the funds themselves. capitalize on this concern for safety by The public needs to have this infor­ e Mr. WINN. Mr. Speaker, the Soviet creating a special class of money mation about Government securities Union has a traditional food prob­ market mutual funds that invest ex­ properly understood, and in light of lem-that is, it will be forced to the clusively in Government securities. the SEC's reluctance to take responsi­ import grabl market next year once These Government-only mutual funds bility for policing the industry's adver­ again to make up for big grain short­ have grown very rapidly within the tising standards, I am pleased that the falls. Meanwhile, the United States past year. New York Times has contributed in also has a food problem. We produce Unfortunately the public is largely this way to the needed public under­ surpluses every year, subsequently de­ unaware of what kinds of investments standing. pressing grain prices and forcing Gov­ these mutual funds actually make, The article follows: ernment payments up. But at least our under the label of "Government only." [From the New York Times, Aug. 15, 19821 people are fed without monumental Some of these funds invest heavily in food lines at the corner grocery store THE SAFETY OF GOVERNMENT DEBT ISSUES the securities of quasi-private entities, as is the case in Moscow, Leningrad, such as Federal National Mortgage As­ and Kiev. The Soviet situation is inter­ sociation, the Farm Credit System, As the number of business bankruptcies esting. The International Wheat rises, the safety of Government securities and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage becomes increasingly attractive to investors. Council in London, representing the Corp., which have no direct Govern­ With the popularity of Government issues major exporting and importing coun­ ment guarantee or backing for their there is some confusion about the distinc­ tries around the world, recently com­ securities. Furthermore many of these tions between Treasury securities, securities piled a report on the Soviet food situa­ funds invest heavily in repurchase issued by Government agencies and the tion through 1990. agreements issued by dealers or bro­ short-term financial instruments backed by The Soviets are in the midst of their kers and having some kind of Govern­ those two kinds of securities. 11th 5-year plan with the goal of more ment securities, standing behind them The $800 billion of publicly held bills, food as a chief concern. In the past, notes and bonds issued by the United States as collateral. While most of these secu­ Treasury are the nation's largest, highest­ Moscow concerned itself with develop­ rities and repurchase agreements are quality, and most actively traded group of ing heavy industry for its enormous sound investments, they are not en­ debt securities. defense budget at the expense of basic tirely free of risk, as the name "Gov­ The Treasury securities are distinct, how­ needs for its population. Military ernment" might imply. ever, from $300 billion of securities known spending is still the No. 1 budget prior­ I would like to share with my col­ as Government agencies that come in sever­ ity but slowly and inefficiently the So­ leagues an important and informative al forms and maturities and offer slightly viets are realizing the weaknesses in article on this subject by Michael higher yields than Treasury bills, notes and their economy, especially in agricul­ bonds. The yield spread varies with market Quint that appeared in the New York conditions, but ranges from as little as one­ ture. The U.S. Department of Agricul­ Times, Sunday, August 15. Mr. Quint tenth of a percentage point for short-term ture estimates that Soviet grain pro­ points out the limitations and possible issues to two percentage points or more for duction in 1982 will be 170 billion sources of risk in both repurchase longer-term issues. metric tons, some 70 billion tons short agreements and so-called Government Although Federal agencies that issue secu­ of a previously stated goal for this securities. rities were created by acts of Congress and year. Under the 12th 5-year plan con­ In my view, the reason the public operate with Government oversight, the ceived for 1986-90, the Soviets are does not understand these factors extent of Government backing for their se­ hoping to produce over 250 billion tons curities ranges from the full faith and credit better is because the mutual fund in­ of the United States to no backing at all. of grain a year, but many experts con­ dustry does not inform the public The assumption in the market place is that cede this goal is unattainable. properly through its advertising and Congress would not allow one of its cre­ While Moscow is scrambling to promotional literature. As chairman of ations to default. become agriculturally self-sufficient, the Commerce, Consumer, and Mone­ Agency issues have found a niche in the the United States is in a position toes­ tary Affairs Subcommittee, I have portfolios of investors-including money tablish a profitable foreign grain therefore written to SEC Chairman market mutual funds-who want to combine market on a long-term basis. The Sovi­ John Shad to request SEC review of safety with a higher yield. Some funds use ets do not gain anything by buying the adequacy of the advertising and their holdings of agency securities to but­ tress ambiguous claims of "Uncle Sam American grain. Soviet grain sales promotional literature prepared by safety," "United States Government" secu­ create profits for our hard-working the mutual fund industry on Govern­ rities. or Government agency securities. A farmers and their trade can go a long ment securities. money fund explains what it means by way in revitalizing farm prices. When Mr. Shad's initial response in April "Government" or "agency" in the section of President Reagan reviews our current refused to acknowledge that there was its prospectus called investment policy. September 22, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24755 Besides direct purchases of agency issues, eral Housing Administration or the Veter­ growth in size and in community influ­ many money market mutual funds invest in ans Administration. Furthermore, the pass­ ence is the result of the efforts of repurchase agreements, in which the fund through securities are backed by the full many, many dedicated parishioners buys a security from a large commercial faith and credit of the United States. who are contributing of their time and bank, for example, with the agreement that Federal Home Loan Banks System, to fi­ the bank will repurchase it at a fixed, slight­ nance loans it extends to savings and loan talents. I am sure that my colleagues ly higher price at a specified date-usually a associations, the Home Loan Bank System will wish to join me in recognizing the week or less in the future. By selling the se­ sells short-term discount notes plus longer­ congregation of St. John the Theolo­ curity at a higher price than it paid, a term securities due in several years. These gian at this historic milestone.e money fund is compensated for the use of securities are not guaranteed by the Gov­ its money. ernment, though the Treasury has the au­ While the risk of default on the underly­ thority to buy up to $4 billion fo the sys­ MISCELLANEOUS TARIFF ing securities themselves is nil, there is a tem's debt. The securities are backed by the AMENDMENTS OF 1982 risk that they might not be repurchased as assets of the 12 Federal Home Loan Banks. agreed. Farm Credit System, it sells short-term In that event, the money fund would hold notes and bonds to finance loans made to HON. LARRY E. CRAIG the securities used as collateral for the re­ farmers and agricultural businesses by the OF IDAHO purchase agreement, but it could sustain a Banks for Cooperatives, the Federal Land IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES loss. For example, if the initial seller of the Banks, and the Federal Intermediate Credit securities went bankrupt, it is conceivable Banks. The borrowings are collateralized by Wednesday, September 22, 1982 that a bankruptcy judge might not allow assets of the regional banks, but are not • Mr. CRAIG. Mr. Speaker, today, the money fund to sell the security and get guaranteed by the United States Govern­ Congress is voting on H.R. 6867, the its cash back. Or, during bankruptcy litiga­ ment.• miscellaneous tariff amendments of tion, the value of the security might decline to less than the fund had paid for it. 1982, which combines 30 separate and The bankruptcy scenario is not so far­ GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL various tariff and trade bills, and fetched, considering that some money OF NEW JERSEY DEDICATED amends the Tariff Schedules of the market mutual funds have arranged repur­ IN ANCIENT RITES United States. I ask my colleagues to chase agreements with savings and loan as­ vote "no" on this bill. sociations and savings banks, commercial HON. HAROLD C. HOLLENBECK Generally, I favor this legislation, banks and securities dealers. Last week's but contained within these amend­ bankruptcy filing by Lombard-Wall Inc. was OF NEW JERSEY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments is a provision which would the most recent illustration that some of remove the 30-year-old embargo on these firms are financially strained. Last Wednesday, September 22, 1982 May, Drysdale Government Securities Inc. mink, fox, and other fur-pelt imports failed to satisfy the terms of repurchase e Mr. HOLLENBECK. Mr. Speaker, from the People's Republic of China. agreements in which it was a party. the St. John the Theologian Greek This action has the ability to increase Such funds can rightfully claim their re­ Orthodox Cathedral of New Jersey imports up to 1 million additional fur purchase agreements are of high quality, will be dedicated this weekend in the pelts per year. The U.S. pelt industry but the investor should realize that there is ancient ceremony of consecration. would be devastated. The State of more risk than with direct ownership of se­ These rites date back to the Old and curities. Most funds disclose the maturity Idaho, which I represent, and 22 other and type of security of their repurchase New Testaments and the earliest years States would feel the impact of H.R. agreements, but they do not identify the of Christianity. 6867. other party in the transaction. The consecration of the cathedral is A large number of meat processing The use of agency securities and repur­ one of the most important events in plants would also be adversely impact­ chase agreement is so pervasive that the the life of a Greek Orthodox Church. ed by passage of this legislation. Many only genuine Treasury securities money My thoughts and prayers are with the meat byproducts have no other value market fund is Capital Preservation Fund I, parishioners on this historic occasion, than being used as mink feed. With a based in Palo Alto, Calif. and I am delighted that I will be ex­ "Partly because of Drysdale, we changed declining domestic production of furs, our investment policy in June to eliminate tending my congratulations personally the only result can be a less favorable repurchase agreements," said James at the consecration banquet. income picture for the meat process­ Benham, president of the management com­ The cathedral-and the activities ing industry. The fur industry and the pany for the Capital Preservation Funds. and civic projects it supports-have meat processing industry, as has much The most active issuers of Government brought to our communities a center of the economy, have had difficult agency debt securities are these: for the positive expression of basic times. Passage of this bill would only Federal National Mortgage Association, American traditions: faith and belief exacerbate the situation. commonly known as Fannie Mae, its func­ in God, family, and country. Obvious­ tion is to support the housing industry by Because this is a suspension vote and making a secondary market in home mort­ ly, in our fast paced, highly mobile so­ no amendments are in order, I am re­ gages. It finances purchases of mortgages by ciety, such contributions to communi­ questing a "no" vote on H.R. 6867 ·• selling discount notes due in 30 to 270 days ty, family and religious life are tre­ and longer-terms debentures-neither of mendously important. which is backed by the Federal Govern­ Mr. Speaker, St. John the Theolo­ LAKELAND NEWSPAPERS ARE ment. Mortgage participation certificates gian was formally founded on Palm NO. I-AGAIN that it issues are secured by the mortgages Sunday, April 14, 1968, for Greek Or­ it helps finance and by a Fannie Mae guar­ thodox families in communities of the HON. ROBERT McCLORY antee. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corpora­ Ninth Congressional District including OF ILLINOIS tion, known as Freddie Mac, or the Mort­ Tenafly, Fort Lee, Bergenfield, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Englewood. On April 5, 1979, I was gage Corporation, it also issues mortgage Wednesday, September 22, 1982 participation certificates which represent an pleased to attend ceremonies where interest in a pool of home mortgages whose Bishop Silas was enthroned as the e Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Speaker, in monthly payments of principal and interest Greek Orthodox Bishop of the Dio­ these days of large scale criticisms of are passed through to the investor. Its mort­ cese of New Jersey and the St. John the national press it is gratifying for gage participation certificates are backed by the Theologian was designated a ca­ me to report the honors being be­ the agency's guarantee, but have no direct thedral and became the Episcopal See stowed upon a group of newspapers in Government support. Government National Mortgage Associa­ of Bishop Silas. my congressional district of Illinois­ tion, commonly know as Ginnie Mae, it is The cathedral has grown to serve the Lakeland Newspapers. best known for its guarantee of G.N.M.A. more than 800 families who are regis­ Recently, the Illinois Press Associa­ pass-through securities backed by pools of tered members and some additional tion in spirited competition among the home mortgages insured by either the Fed- 200 families and individuals. This community newspapers published in 24756 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1982 Illinois gave six first place awards to August, a refreshing trip away from the na­ that Georgia Pacific was helping employees the Lakeland Newspapers. This marks tion's capital, where problems often loom being transferred to the area with home the third time in 6 years that the larger than reality. The La Grange, Ga. loans at below market interest rates. Lakeland Newspapers has been grant­ Daily News provides a much different per­ Housing, a good economic barometer, fig­ ed this top newspaper honor in Illi­ spective than the Washington Post. ures in most discussions about the economy. One of the first indications that Sunbelt "Of course, everyone knows the housing nois. citizens take things in stride came from industry is stagnant," Claude Ramsey, presi­ In addition to receiving the coveted Mike Harrison, a young tour guide at the dent of the Mississippi state AFL-CIO said. Verle V. Kramer Award recognizing Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home in Ten­ In Dallas, expensive homes <$500,000 and overall journalistic excellence in its nessee. He often points out that President up) are selling well, according to a spot class, the newspaper group also won Jackson paid off a national debt of $2.5 bil­ check of realtors by the Dallas Times first place awards for its "Modem lion. Does this comment trigger complaints Herald. Rhonda Samuels, a Dallas-area title Family" section, for general excel­ about the current deficit? "Hardly ever," he company manager, said real estate sales had said. been brisk. Housing sales in Nashville were lence, for typography and graphics, That isn't to say people aren't concerned for feature photography, and for its up 39 percent in June. about the economy in America's heartland. Some innovative ideas are being tried in editorial page. A survey by the Memphis Commercial various parts of the Sunbelt to encourage These achievements by Lakeland Appeal revealed widespread layoffs and home buying. Employees of Mississippi Newspapers are particularly meaning­ plant closings in several nearby states. Un­ Power & Light Co. can get a five-year, inter­ ful to me. The paper's publisher, Wil­ employment is above the national average est-free $5,000 loan from the company to liam H. Schroeder and the company's in Alabama <13.9 percent>. Mississippi <11.6 help buy or build an energy efficient elec­ president, Harold R. Kirchhardt are percent> and South Carolina <11.5 percent>. tric home. A Houston homebuilder, Leo Mc­ long-time personal friends. They, in although this is partially due to young Connell, gives away automobiles to home people looking for summer jobs. With the buyers. tum, are the successors of the founder U.S. jobless rate at 9.8 percent for June, of this outstanding and successful Washington's preoccupation with Presi­ Tennessee took a seasonal jump to 11.2 per­ dent Reagan is not as intense west of the chain of community papers-Marshall cent, despite an increase of 2,000 more Potomac. There are critics, such as M. R. Schroeder who continues to reside in people with jobs. Goss of San Augustine, Tex., who com­ my district and serves as a consultant International Harvester is closing its plained in a letter to the Houston Post that to this great media enterprise. Memphis plant, resulting in a loss of 2,400 Social Security checks were being cut be­ jobs. In Birmingham, U.S. Steel Corp. has Responsible journalism is a key ele­ laid off 10,000 workers, including 3,400 when cause the government is rounding off to ment in our constitutional system. a plant closed in June. Cast Metals Co. even dollars. The Pensacola Journal The first amendment to the Constitu­ closed its foundry in Shreveport, idling 350. criticized a Commerce Department decision tion assures press freedom-a privilege to allow killing nearly 1,000 porpoises for a Oklahoma City is still feeling the effects of scientific study. But for the most part, Sun­ which the publishers of the Lakeland a May layoff of 2,500 General Motors work­ belt citizens seem to be tolerant of adminis­ Newspapers have exercised responsi­ ers. tration policies. At Yazoo City, Miss., Amco Products, a bly for the public good. "I think people still want to give Reagan's Mr. Speaker, in calling attention of manufacturer of farm tillage and crop bed equipment, has laid off 100 workers in the economic program a chance," said Grace my colleagues in this body to the No.1 last 18 months, according to Emory Hodg­ Boulton, Republican national committee­ hometown newspapers of Illinois, I am son, vice president and general manager. woman from Oklahoma. also expressing pride in Bill Schroe­ "The hell with this recession talk, this is a Guthrie, Okla. printer Speedy Weems der, Harold Kirchhardt, and their de­ depression in the farm implement business," went even further, saying, "There's not any voted and capable colleagues who said Hodgson. "We're in a survival mode." place in the country where Reagan has serve the Lakeland Newspaper chain.e Even in oil-rich Texas, there are signs of more friends than here." economic distress. In the first half of 1982, As is often the case, local issues are of the 17 Dallas-area oil companies took bankrupt­ greatest concern. San Antonio city officials, OPTIMISM IN THE SUNBELT cy, almost triple the number for the same seeking to relieve consumer anguish over STATES period last year-a symptom of an industry soaring utility bills, are working on a plan to downturn marked by cuts in capital spend­ reward those who conserve electricity and ing budgets and layoffs of exploration and penalize those who don't. South Carolina HON. CHARLES WILSON service company workers. peach growers welcomed EPA approval of a OF TEXAS "Faltering Economy Delays Bond Issue one-time application of the outlawed chemi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for Water, Sewer" was the headline on a cal DBCP to control the spread of ring nem­ atodes. Interior Secretary James Watt's de­ Wednesday, September 22, 1982 story about North Carolina Gov. James B. Hunt's decision against putting a $300 mil­ cision to make a billion acres of offshore • Mr. WILSON. Mr. Speaker, under lion proposal on the November ballot this areas available for oil and gas leasing leave to extend my remarks in the year. aroused concern along the Gulf Coast. RECORD, I include the following: But for every gloomy headline, there's a One local problem that is being felt in cheerful note to be found. The Yazoo City most major cities of the south and south­ OPTIMISM IN THE SUNBELT STATES plant has accumulated a few orders and is west is that of immigration, primarily from rehiring 15 of its workers. Gulfstream northern states. It is especially apparent in . its corporate headquarters to Oklahoma Owings, and Merrill, Chicago, died March Zurich, Switzerland, also bestowed upon Dr. City this fall. San Antonio got a branch 27, 1982 during a business trip to Jeddah. Khan an Honorary Doctor of Technical Sci­ office of Charles Schwab & Co., the world's He was born April 3, 1929, in Dacca, Ban­ ences in 1980. largest discount brokerage house. The San gladesh. He received his Bachelor of Engi­ Other awards he received included: Chica­ Antonio Light said Schwab credited "bur­ neering Degree in 1950 from the University goan of the Year in Architecture and Engi­ geoning Sunbelt business activity and of Dacca. His education continued in the neering, AISC Special Award, Chicago Civil wealth" with luring the business to San An­ United States, where he received a Master Engineer of the Year . Alumni tonio. of Science Degree in Structural Engineering Honor Award . Alfred E. Lindau thing is rosy in the Sunbelt. The problems Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and a Award , National Academy of Engi­ of crime, urban congestion, low farm prices, Doctor of Philosophy in Structural Engi­ neering, State Service Award . Ernest E. Howard Award economy are being felt there as well as in vanced degrees were from the University of . G. Brooks Earnest Award . the outlook is on the upswing and the view After a short period in Karachi, he re­ Dr. Khan left behind him a legacy few is toward the future. One cannot visit the turned to the United States, and made his men can equal. A legacy of buildings that Sunbelt without getting a renewed feeling home in Chicago. He joined Skidmore, will stand the test of time. A legacy of of confidence in America and its people.e Owings, and Merrill in 1955, and remained knowledge, which he bestowed upon others. with the firm until his death at age 52. He And a legacy of ideas, which will sow the became Senior Designer with Skidmore, seeds for more to grow. CAMP GLYNDON Owings, and Merrill his first year there, He is survived by his wife, Liselotte and rising through Senior Project Engineer, As­ his daughter, Yasmin and stepson, Martin HON. CLARENCE D. LONG sociate Partner, Head of Structural/Civil Reifschneider·• Division, and finally to Partner in 1970. OF MARYLAND Dr. Khan had been responsible for the en­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gineering design of many major architectur­ TRIBUTE TO ALBERT ZAPANTA Wednesday, September 22, 1982 al projects. He had developed a number of new structural systems for tall buildings, e Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speak­ both for reinforced concrete and for struc­ HON. JOHN H. ROUSSELOT er, this evening I have the privilege of tural steel. Among many of the significant OF CALIFORNIA attending the annual benefit dinner tall structures designed by him, three spe­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for Camp Glyndon located in my dis­ cial buildings that stand out are the 714 ft. trict. Camp Glyndon, which is sup­ tall One Shell Plaza building in Houston; Wednesday, September 22, 1982 ported solely by private contributions, the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chi­ e Mr. ROUSSELOT. Mr. Speaker, I provides diabetic children 2 exciting cago, the world's tallest multi-use building; rise in recognition of Mr. Albert Za­ weeks at summer camp while training and the 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago, the world's tallest building at 1,454 ft. panta and the latest honor that is to them to cope and lead full lives with Dr. Khan also developed a new composite be awarded to him: The Golden Apple diabetes. system for tall buildings, combining the ad­ Award for Distinguished Service to Camp Glyndon would not exist with­ vantage of both reinforced concrete and Hispanic Students in Public Educa­ out the support and dedication of hun­ steel construction in one. The 52-story One tion. dreds of people. Tonight we honor Mr. Shell Square in New Orleans used this Mr. Zapanta presently serves as di­ Leonard Levine, chairman of the system. rector of external affairs for ARCO board, and one of the camp's sturdiest In addition to his work with Skidmore, Solar Industries. He has held this posi­ advocates. During the past 10 years he Owings, & Merrill, he was also an active tion since 1980. Previous to this posi­ has worked to develop programs to member in many professional organizations, such as the National Academy of Engineer­ tion, AI was special assistant to Lt. assist diabetic children, insure ade­ ing, the American Society of Civil Engineers Gov. Mike Curb and before that he quate financial support and provide of which he was a Fellow, the American In­ was a visiting professor at California friendship to other camp supporters, stitute of Steel Construction, the American State University. AI Zapanta has also counselors, and staff. Because of his Concrete Institute, the American Welding done a stint in Washington, D.C., as a unselfish dedication, as well as the Society, and the International Association White House Fellow at the Depart­ work of many others, thousands of for Bridge and Structural Engineering. He ment of Transportation and a member youngsters have had an opportunity to fulfilled these many responsibilities-in ad­ of President Reagan's transition team attend the camp, regardless of their dition to being chairman of our Council. He published more than 75 technical at the State Department. ability to pay. papers in engineering and architectural For his contribution in the Army, AI I know my colleagues join me when I journals on topics relating to the analysis, was awarded the Silver Star, the say: "May Camp Glyndon continue to design, and construction of complex struc­ Purple Heart, 5 Bronze Stars for valor, serve the diabetic children of our tures. and 30 other awards and decorations. Nation for many years to come.''e At the Illinois Institute of Technology in Complementing this man's outstand­ Chicago, he was also an adjunct professor of architecture, where he taught since 1961. ingly successful career in both Govern­ FAZLUR R. KHAN 1929-82 All of Dr. Khan's remarkable efforts did ment service and the private sector is not go unrewarded or unrecognized. The list his involvement with the American So­ HON. DON RITIER of awards bestowed upon him for outstand­ ciety of Public Administration, the So­ ing achievements is a long one, beginning OF PENNSYLVANIA ciety of Industrial Engineers, the even before he finished his education, with American Red Cross, the National IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Fulbright Scholar award in 1952. He Board of the YMCA Armed Services Wednesday, September 22, 1982 was cited among the "Construction Men of the Year" in 1966, 1969, and 1971 and was Committee, and the advisory commit­ e Mr. RITI'ER. Mr. Speaker, I would voted "Construction's Man of the Year" in tee to the Olympic Organizing Com­ like to insert an article about the life 1972, by Engineering News Record. He also mittee of 1984. He also serves as a of Fazlur R. Khan, an internationally received many medals, such as the Watson commiSSioner of the Los Angeles renowned engineer who recently Medal for most meritorious paper from ACI County Election Commission. 24758 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1982 Albert Zapanta has enriched every will have a cure. Today, insulin helps never exceeded twenty-four or twenty-five group, organization or business he has diabetes victims lead apparently percent of our total. Yet. the Reagan Ad­ been associated with-it is my pleasure normal lives, with the exception that ministration has now projected a military an insulin injection is necessary to budget that in the next few years will to see his involvement duly noted by a exceed thirty-seven percent of our total dinner given in his honor by the Insti­ live. Importantly, insulin is not a cure. budget. As a matter of fact, the military tute for Hispanic School Board Mem­ Someday, there will be such a cure budget proposal for fiscal year 1982 is bers and the Community and Human and we must work to that end.e roughly twenty-nine percent of the total Resources Agency on October 1, budget and is growing rapidly. 1982 .• CONGRESSMAN DELLUMS ON A substantial growth in America's military DEFENSE SPENDING budget occurred in the last year of the Carter Administration. Using budget au­ JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDA­ thority figures, America spent $173 billion TION BIKE 'N' HIKE DAY HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. dollars on the military budget. The last act OF MICHIGAN of the Carter Administration was to propose IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to the American people a budget for FY HON. FRANK R. WOLF 1982, expenditures of $196 billion-a $23 bil­ OF VIRGINIA Wednesday, September 22, 1982 lion dollar increase in one year. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I This was not enough for the Reagan Ad­ Wednesday, September 22, 1982 know of few Members of Congress who ministration. They proposed a military have grappled with the issue of mili­ budget of $226 billion in FY 1982 and, for e Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, diabetes is tary spending as intelligently, elo­ the most part. that budget passed; a $53 bil­ a major health problem in the United quently, and tenaciously as my es­ lion dollar increase in budget authority in States which directly affects 10 mil­ teemed colleague from California, one year at the same time we're cutting lion Americans and indirectly as many $48.5 billion from the nonmilitary side of as 50 million Americans. Of these, RONALD V. DELLUMS. the budget. Then, we attempted to tell the He has served on the Armed Services American people that in some way we were there are an estimated 2 million Amer­ Committee for many years as a voice icans who have insulin-dependent dia­ reducing the cost of government. Nothing of conscience and reason. He has chal­ can be further from the truth. What we betes-juvenile diabetes-which means lenged the orthodoxy of stepped up were doing was decreasing revenues and cer­ they are dependent on insulin injec­ military spending in every area of the tain aspects of expenditures as we were rap­ tions to live. Also, diabetes is the third country. In March and April of this idly increasing defense spending. leading cause of death from disease year he held a series of ad hoc hear­ Last year it was $226 billion. This year, and is the first leading cause of new ings on the implications of the defense the Reagan Administration is asking for cases of blindness. In addition, the budget-its foreign policy, national se­ $258 billion in budget authority. Alice complications of diabetes lead to many curity, economic, and moral conse­ Rivlin of the Congressional Budget Office other serious health problems. quences-and put together the most has stated that even if you only talk about a About a decade ago, a number of seven percent real growth increase in Amer­ complete public record of opposition ica's military budget, by fiscal year 1987, parents of diabetics banded together to defense policies that has ever been America's military budget will exceed $422 because they did not know there was established. billion per year. By the end of this decade enough known about diabetes; there Congressman DELLUMS' remarks we will be talking about over one half a tril­ was too little research into the causes, before the National Newspaper Pub­ lion dollars on the military function alone. effects, and a possible cure for diabe­ lishers Association on March 19, 1982, Now let me shock you with the absurdity of tes. The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation lays out in the most eloquent and rea­ these figures in a different way. When I was formed as an organization of vol­ first came to Congress we were fighting and soned terms the case against escalat­ killing people in Vietnam. Our military unteers to find ways to fund research ing military spending. I wish to insert and to comfort and help newly diag­ budget was roughly $80 billion. Ten years in the RECORD at this point excerpts of later $173 billion. Next year $226 billion. nosed diabetics and their families. On his remarks. The next year $258 billion. Sunday, September 26, the northern CONGRESSMAN DELLUMS ON DEFENSE A few years down the road, $422 billion. A Virginia and District of Columbia/ SPENDING couple of short years down the road, in Maryland chapters of the Juvenile Di­ It is extremely difficult to be Black, to be excess of $500 billion per year. In the abetes Foundation are sponsoring Bike in the left wing of the body politic, to be on decade of the 1970's America spent one tril­ 'n' Hike '82. All funds raised through the Armed Services Committee, and to be lion dollars, one hundred billion, one tril­ this event will go toward research in willing to take a global perspective. It is a lion. An incredible amount of money. We diabetes. Participants will solicit very lonely road to travel in Washington, will spend in excess of $1.6 trillion in the money pledges from sponsors for each D.C. So, I come to this podium because you first five years of the 1980's. It is suggested mile they ride or hike. are the people that I wish to communicate that, given the Reagan Administration's Promotional support for this event with; because you are in communication projections for the decade of the eighties, with a major segment of the American pop­ that we will probably exceed four trillion has been donated by WASH-FM radio ulation that desperately needs to become an dollars in the next ten years on the military and JDF is most grateful for their in­ inherent part of the struggle for peace in function alone, which means that in a rela­ terest and enthusiasm for this cause. the world, for the eradication of the insan­ tively short span of ten years we will have Special thanks go to the Optimist ity of nuclear weapons, and to challenge the gone from a one trillion dollar decade mili­ Club of Vienna, Giant Food, High's, madness of a bloated, wasteful, unnecessary, tary budget to perhaps in excess of four tril­ and Britches who have been most gen­ dangerous and useless military budget. So, it lion dollars. Four times the amount of funds erous in their support of this effort. is for that reason I choose to speak with in one ten year period of time. Stated an­ you. other way, in the next five years, we will Also, the Jaycees and Jaycee Women The policies that are being made at this spend, on an average, one billion dollars per have provided ongoing support not very moment have such enormous implica­ day, seven days a week, three hundred and only for this effort but for all efforts tions and far-reaching consequences that we sixty five days a year for the next five years. on behalf of JDF. Both groups are now have a moral imperative to act. The That, to me, is an obscenity. tireless in their efforts to further the budget represents priorities and these prior­ Now, it is within the context of this kind goal of finding a cure for diabetes. ities in turn represent values. Look at this of expenditure that we need to see our re­ The locations for the Bike 'n' Hike budget, and specifically the military budget, sponsibilities. Before we go to that, let's ask are Rock Creek Park, Burke Lake for what it represents. I would suggest that the question: how do you finance a rapid, Park, and Mount Vernon Bike Trail. this administration has proposed to the substantial, sustained growth in America's American people a rapid, substantial, sus­ military budget that goes from twenty-four With the commitment by volunteers tained growth in America's military budget. percent to thirty-seven percent of the total in gaining funds for diabetes research, Rapid, in that, over the past several years, budget, that goes from $173 billion to over as illustrated by this effort, I am con­ many of my colleagues in various Congress­ half a trillion dollars; a budget that goes fident that someday this major disease es have argued that our military budget has from one trillion dollars in one ten year September 22, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24759 span to almost four trillion dollars in the the people on the face of this earth are expense of the judicial branch is an next ten year span? people of color and if you can sit in a room unnecessary abridgment of our system The problems of the world, on an increas­ and talk about national security and only of checks and balances. This transfer ing basis, are not military problems; they white males can-the arrogance of that is are social problems; they are political prob­ incredible. And so we need you. of authority creates an open space for lems; they are economic problems and they The Black community needs you, America possible abuse of the civil rights of for­ have to be solved in their context. Building needs you and the world needs you. The eigners and U.S. citizens alike. bombs cannot solve America's problems. world needs you because when Black people H.R. 6046 allows the United States Now, what are the implications? What are stand up and become an inherent part of to hold, without bail, Americans or the implications of this level of expenditure the struggle for world peace, the challenge foreigners who have been charged and this kind of foreign policy thrust? First to the insanity of nuclear weapons, and to with a crime by a foreign govern­ of all, we stand on the threshold of nuclear come fighting against the madness of this ment-without one scrap of corrobo­ disaster. This is a war-fighting budget. It is ever-increasing military budget, we can turn terribly important that we as Black people it around. And so in many ways it's our des­ rating evidence. The bill gamely calls in this country, understand that clearly and tiny. So, that's why I come to you. I come to for a promise that evidence will be unequivocally. you with that level of passion to say that we produced sometime in the unspecified Ask yourself, what is the role of nuclear now must educate our people. This debate is future. weapons in our lives? Is it to use them or is not occurring in Black America. Further, subsections of the bill it for deterrence? Every intelligent mind Many of our politicians are not educating, would deny benefit of the political that I've spoken with says the role of nucle­ our own politicians are not educating Black crimes defense to any person charged ar weapons in our lives has never been to America with respect to these implications. by a foreign government with commit­ use them-only to deter the other person In some way in our minds we keep this di­ from using them. Once you cross the chotomy between foreign policy and domes­ ting a crime of bodily violence or a threshold and use nuclear weapons, you tic policy. There is no such thing in the real crime involving the use of a firearm, have destroyed society as we know it. Lord world. How can you be a domestic racist and except in extraordinary circumstances. Mountbatten, a brilliant British fighter, in an international progressive? It doesn't For all the above reasons, and more, 1979, just before he died, made that state­ work. How can you cut social programs that the Extradition Act of 1982 runs con­ ment. And the tragedy, the danger or peril affect the ghettos and the barrios of Amer­ trary to our proud history of respect is that nuclear weapons are actually mili­ ica and then have an enlightened foreign for the individual-the cornerstone of tary weapons, and with that perception, policy with regards to the third world? How our political system. I urge my col­ someone will use them. And that's the can you do it? How can you play divide and danger. We should never talk about using conquer in this country and not play divide leagues to oppose this bill.e nuclear weapons. Once you cross that and conquer in the third world? It cannot be threshold, we have destroyed life. done. How can you spend money in foreign ISAI GOLDSTEIN Maybe you and I, who are the communica­ policy and take it out of the hides of human tors in Black America, must now educate beings in this country and then assume that our people, because the tragic reality is, there's no relationship? HON. STEWART B. McKINNEY that with all of the advancements that have White politicians come into Black America OF CONNECTICUT been made, my confidence has to be in you. when they're campaigning and they talk IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We sat here for three days, in those hear­ about housing, jobs, education and affirma­ ings, but all they could see was my black tive action; then they get in their car, go Wednesday, September 22, 1982 face, not the perception, not the values, not across town and talk about a reactionary the principles, not the perspective, only the foreign policy, a multi-billion dollar military • Mr. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, with black face. CBS network ran me down for budget authority and they just gave away the celebration of the Jewish New two straight weeks, called sometimes twice a the money that they were going to spend, Year, Rosh Hashanah, recently day in order to get my view on minority re­ that they had talked in your community passed, and with the issue of interna­ cruitment in our ROTC, but could not deal about using to solve the problems. And we tional human rights very much a pri­ with the six days of hearings where we have allowed them to do that. mary concern of this Nation, I feel looked at the enormous implication of the If you as the publishers and the writers compelled once again to draw atten­ military budget. Now you tell me what do I and the journalists of Black America begin tion to those persons suffering in the conclude from that? That we can only be to articulate these issues, in powerful terms, Soviet Union as a result of their desire seen in very narrow and parochial terms. So Black America will begin to ask these ques­ my plea is with you. Martin Luther King tions of all their representatives because we for religious freedom. Isai Goldstein, died talking about a dream. And maybe the are also citizens of this planet and we must an established physicist, formerly of dream that he had is that dream that we have the audacity and the arrogance and the Tiblisi branch of the Mendelev now must champion, and that is the dream the dignity to understand our profound re­ Standards Institute, has been denied for world peace. sponsibility at this moment in American his­ both employment in his field and exit This Administration, has perhaps more tory and in this moment in the history of visa status since his first request for singularly, more powerfully than any other the world to save this planet, to save this emigration to Israel 11 years ago. Administration, crammed in our faces the nation, even from itself, and to save our Since that time, the Soviet Union has implications of foreign policy and the mili­ people against the madness of global nucle­ tary budget on our lives. Both because, as I ar war.e denied Isai's emigration visa on the said, the H bomb is an equal opportunity de­ grounds that he had "access to State stroyer and we have to be concerned about secrets," despite the fact that his work the preservation of life, and because we H.R. 6046 was never classified. have to be concerned about the priorities. I Isai's application makes him one of don't know if any of you watched this movie HON. LES AuCOIN the thousands of so-called "refuse­ a few weeks ago, it was on network televi­ niks" currently struggling in the sion, and it's called "World War Three." I OF OREGON IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Soviet Union. These refuseniks are don't particularly like network television, I mostly Soviet Jews who have sought think that it insults my intellect in many Wednesday, September 22, 1982 ways. But I think that because I am a repre­ visas for emigration and have been sentative of the people I must watch that • Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, I want denied-all because they sought a tube quite often because I need to under­ to state for the RECORD my opposition basic human right, the right to reli­ stand how my constituents are being propa­ to H.R. 6046, the Extradition Act of gious freedom. The horrifying condi­ gandized. So, I watched "World War 1982. This bill, which may be consid­ tions and terrible treatment of the Three," the movie, because I wanted to see ered by the House before the end of Jewish people in the Soviet Union how they treated the end of the world. An interesting thing was that when it came to a the session, is fatally flawed. leaves them no alternative but to seek decision to destroy the world, it was a hand­ H.R. 6046 narrows the scope of judi­ an exit from their homeland and at­ ful of white males over fifty that made that cial review in extradition cases, hand­ tempt a new life somewhere else in the judgment, alone. There were no women, al­ ing this responsibility over to the world, where they can prosper in liber­ though fifty-one percent of this country State Department. Expanding the ty and peace. However, the trend of and the world are women. Three quarters of power of the executive branch at the the Soviet Union now seems to be to 24760 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 22, 1982 lower the number of emigrants consid­ even further "consequences" if he is that we reach for if we are to survive erably, almost to a point where fewer unable to find work soon. as civilized human beings. than 3,000 will escape Soviet persecu­ It is my hope that the Members of As will his family and his loyal and tion this year, in contrast to the figure this body will take heed of the gross faithful followers, I too will miss my of 51,320 permitted to leave in 1979. violation of human rights and will con­ good friend. The Soviet Union's continued harsh tinue to draw national attention to the I would like to insert in the RECORD oppression, institutional anti-Semi­ individual refuseniks languishing in the following writeup from the Miami tism, and concerted efforts to extermi­ the Soviet Union. Let us begin the Herald on Rev. Theodore Roosevelt nate Jewish culture in Russia repre­ New Year by bringing promise to Gibson: sent an appalling abuse of civil rights. those less fortunate than us. Let us The article follows: As the number of freed Jews falls un­ hope that Isai Goldstein, his wife and proportionately each year, the condi­ his little son Avi, can be brought "A PRINCE HAS FALLEN" -REVEREND GIBSON tions for refuseniks and other dissi­ closer to the freedom that we all love DIES dents deteriorate in as unproportioned and cherish.e "It's day now. And night is about to come. a manner. Hebrew school teachers and And I must work while it is day ...."­ culture group leaders are arrested, and Theodore R. Gibson. books and sacred artifacts are confis­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION cated and destroyed. These cultural The Rev. Theodore Roosevelt Gibson, leaders and teachers then face lives of HON. LARRY McDONALD who in the late 1950's led Miami's blacks on oblivion, convicted of imaginary OF GEORGIA their first tentative steps toward political IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES power, died Monday at the age of 67. crimes and sentenced to what is offi­ "Today. a prince has fallen in our town," cially termed "internal exile" but what Wednesday, September 22, 1982 said Athalie Range, the first black to serve is really imprisonment in Siberian and on the Miami City Commission. Gulag labor camps, prisons, and • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, ear­ lier today I reluctantly cast a vote Gibson, worn down by a nagging illness he mental institutions. against H.R. 5573, the Computer described as "degenerative arthritis," retired The United States has heard of the last September after 9 1h years as a Miami horrifying details of Soviet human Equipment Contribution Act of 1982. I city commissioner. rights abuse with the examples of did so, not because I do not support He died at 11:20 a.m. at Cedars of Lebanon mathematician Anatoly Shcharansky, the training of our Nation's young Hospital, a year and three days after his re­ who has been imprisoned and made to people in the use of computers, but be­ tirement. Hospital spokeswoman Debbie cause the bill was too narrow and too Zayas, who declined to disclose the cause of live in conditions like a prisoner from death, said Gibson had been admitted just Auschwitz; Lev Mikhailovich, a radio specific. In effect, the bill was nothing short of special interest legislation to over two weeks ago. engineer, made to live an existence of The Gibson family would not confirm or periodic jail terms; and Grigory Vas­ allow the producers of small personal deny reports that he died of cancer, saying serman, a Hebrew teacher, who has computers a special deduction for gifts an autopsy would be conducted to deter­ been raided and beaten into semicons­ of a single type to a particular group. I mine the cause of death. ciousness on several occasions by the am hesitant to give one industry a tax A canon of the Episcopal Church, Gibson KGB. The list could go on. Even in advantage not available to other in­ earned a reputation as the peacemaker on dustries especially when that advan­ the City Commission. He never tired of ad­ this case of Isai Goldstein, violence, monishing quarreling parties to settle their terror, and abuse have been used. In tage will enable the industry to pro­ mote the training of students across differences. 1973 Isai was imprisoned on charges of "It's a corny thing to say that a man was slandering the Soviet State. He was re­ the country in the use of its particular products. wise, but Gibson was," Mayor Maurice Ferre leased some time later due to Western said. "He had a vision beyond the immedi­ pressures, but was unable to rejoice, as I would hope that computer and ate. He had the courage of his convictions his brother was deported to a Soviet other companies would take an active even when the community went against labor prison camp near the Arctic interest in the education of young him." Circle. In this instance, as in all the people and would make donations of Former Miami City Attorney George others, Congress should implore the materials and equipment under exist­ Knox recalled Gibson as "a voice of reason ing tax laws without having to resort and moderation eminent on the City Com­ Soviet Union to abide to some degree mission." of human rights. to special interest tax breaks. Such tax breaks are discriminatory and, there­ It was a voice with a folksy twist that was As our Constitution clearly states, all Gibson. each individual is entitled to some fore, I felt compelled to vote against "I only went to law school for one day," "certain unalienable rights," upon H.R. 5573.e Gibson was fond of reminding the many which no institution in the world can high-priced lawyers who appeared before encroach. These undeniable rights to THE REVEREND CANON the City Commission. "But you food, shelter, health care, education, THEODORE ROOSEVELT GIBSON WELL-REMEMBERED and finally to civil and political liber­ "I always saw him as a man who gave ev­ ty, are the instruments upon which HON. WILUAM LEHMAN erything-all that he had-for everybody the whole of civilized society has been else," said Donna Hildreth, his assistant founded upon for thousands of years. I OF FLORIDA first at Christ Episcopal Church, where believe that no nation has the right to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Gibson was rector, and later at City Hall. supersede that sacred privilege of life. Wednesday, September 22, 1982 "If everybody can remember just one good thing out of the hundreds he did, he will be Isai Goldstein is merely one of the • Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Speaker, south well-remembered," Hildreth added. thousands who have had these privi­ Florida has lost one of its giants. The Gibson's private life was scarred by leges violated, such guarantees that we Reverend Theodore Gibson is gone sorrow. His only son died of a heart attack so often take for granted. His suffer­ and we will not, I fear, see his likes in 1980 at the age of 36. ing is not his alone. His family has again in our lifetime. He was bigger The elder Gibson found that coping with been persecuted. His 6-year-old son, than life-a truly fearless man-yet a his illness was a daily personal challenge. It Avi, has been forced to register in a person who was tuned to the sensitive drew down his strength. Before his retire­ Soviet school where he will undoubt­ problems of the changes going on in ment, he would sit uncomfortably through edly be subjected to abuse from school marathon City Commission sessions, rising our community. now and then to complain, in private, about authorities and also from his fellow Reverend Gibson made a tremen­ stiffness and pain in his hips. classmates. Isai himself has been ac­ dous difference in what really mat­ In an interview with The Herald shortly cused of leading "a parasitic way of tered in south Florida. He transcended before his retirement, he described himself life," and has been threatened with bitterness and embraced the values as a man "setting his house in order." September 22, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24761 He had written his funeral service and roically carried on in our modern soci­ to the competence, heroism, and lead­ chosen the hymns. His wife, Thelma, was to ety than in the self-sacrifice of our Na­ ership mustered by a 9-year-old Girl give the eulogy. tion's volunteer firefighters. In many Scout, Dionne Myers, of Baldwin Park, THE NIGHT COMETH important respects these brave individ­ to help save the life of her fourth­ "It's day now," Gibson said at the time. uals remind us of the high principles grade teacher. Miss Myers is without a "And night is about to come. And I must that transcend money and privilege doubt the ideal Juliette Low had in work while it is day, because night cometh which our society sometimes loses mind when she founded Girl Scouting and man cannot work in the night." sight of. I believe that the volunteer in 1912. Gibson spent much of his year in retire­ ment playing with his seven-year old grand­ firefighters of America are the true In March 1982, teacher Joan Foer­ son, Charles Anthony. He came out of re­ heirs of the early Minutemen who also ster, feeling ill, became unconscious tirement briefly to lend his support to the put their lives on the line at a mo­ upon leaving her classroom and hit recent campaigns of County Judge Leah ment's notice to protect other mem­ her head on concrete steps. Joan Foer­ Simms and state Sen. Jack Gordon . cerely hope that Dr. Schneider will Digest will prepare this information 212 Russell Building take well-deserved pride in what has for printing in the Extensions of Re­ Budget been accomplished. For the reason marks section of the CoNGRESSIONAL To resume hearings on proposals re­ behind his drive and his dedication, REcoRD on Monday and Wednesday of forming the Congressional Budget Act Mr. Chairman, is that he truly cares each week. of 1974, including S. 13, S. 59, S. 581, S. for the people of the U.S. Virgin Is­ Any changes in committee schedul­ 582, S. 193, S. 265, S. 384, S. 938, S. 2629, S. 1683, S. 2008, S. 2069, and S. lands, for their well-being, and for ing will be indicated by placement of 2454. their future. There can be no finer an asterisk to the left of the name of 6202 Dirksen Building quality in a doctor; no finer quality in the unit conducting such meetings. any man. Meetings scheduled for Thursday, Commerce, Science, and Transportation September 23, 1982, may be found in To hold hearings on a proposal to guar­ I would also like to comment on the antee full freedom of expression for public record the Virgin Islands firms the Daily Digest of today's RECORD. the electronic media, focusing on tech­ that worked on the actual construc­ nical and policy issues. tion of these medical facilities, and I MEETINGS SCHEDULED 235 Russell Building would like to point out to my col­ Small Business leagues that these facilities were actu­ SEPTEMBER 24 Urban and Rural Economic Development ally finished ahead of schedule. There 9:30a.m. Subcommittee is no small feat in this day and age, Commerce, Science, and Transportation Aviation Subcommittee To hold oversight hearings on the im­ and it was due in no small part to the plementation of the Small Business dedication and professionalism of the To hold hearings on airline labor protec­ Administration's economic develop­ many men and women who worked on tion relating to mergers, acquisitions, ment programs, focusing on the certi­ these projects. and intercarrier transactions. fied development company program. 235 Russell Building These companies include: Americo, 10:00 a.m. 424 Russell Building Rid-0-Pest, Controlled Concrete Prod­ Energy and Natural Resources 10:00 a.m. uct, Island Block, Jolander Well Drill­ Business meeting, to consider pending Energy and Natural Resources ing, MSI, Caribbean Steel, L. J. calendar business. Business meeting, to consider pending Schuler & Sons, McKenzie Construc­ 3110 Dirksen Building calendar business. tion, Parsons Enterprises, Floor Spe­ Judiciary 3110 Dirksen Building cialist, Inc., Morris Masonry, Hughes Courts Subcommittee Environment and Public Works To resume hearings on S. 1529 and S. Plumbing, Majestic Construction, Rod­ Environmental Pollution Subcommittee gers Electric, National Corrosion Con­ 2035, bills establishing the National Court of Appeals, and to begin hear­ Business meeting, to mark up proposed trol Inc., Meridian Engineering, Schus­ ings on S. 1403 and S. 1874, bills to amendments to S. 2432, authorizing ter's Services, Ephraim Construction, reform and improve the annuity pro­ funds for fiscal years 1983 and 1984 Triumpho Electric, KABOB Construc­ gram for survivors of Federal Justices for programs of the Solid Waste Dis­ tion Co., The Right Way Construction and judges. posal Act and Resource Conservation Co., Ray J. Plietchwait, Gerrits V.I., 2228 Dirksen Building and Recovery Act (pending on Senate Inc., American Carpet Service, Floor calendar>. Specialist, Roe-Win, Blue Mountain SEPTEMBER 27 4200 Dirksen Building Nursery, and V.I. Hotel & Restaurant 10:00 a.m. Governmental Affairs Supplies. Judiciary Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga­ Separation of Powers Subcommittee tions The construction of these facilities To resume hearings on certain constitu­ To resume hearings to investigate al­ has been a joint effort. From the Con­ tional and separation of powers issues leged involvement of organized crime gress of the United States, to the Gov­ involving the U.S.-China Joint Com­ and mismanagement of funds in the ernor of the Virgin Islands Juan Luis, munique of August 17, 1982, and the hotel and restaurant workers union to Health Commissioner Roy Schnei­ Taiwan Relations Act , focusing on Local 28, Oak­ der, to those involved in the actual 8). land, Calif.; Local 19, San Jose, Calif.; 2228 Dirksen Building Local86, Reno, Nev.; and Local30, San construction, to the people of the 2:00p.m. Diego, Calif. Virgin Islands who watched with sup­ Finance 3302 Dirksen Building port and enthusiasm as this dream Savings, Pensions and Investment Policy Judiciary became a reality. It is an outstanding Subcommittee Business meeting, to consider pending example of a community joining to­ To hold hearings on S. 2860, eliminating calendar business. gether for the common good, and I am the retroactive effective date of the withdrawal liability provisions of the 2228 Dirksen Building privileged and proud to have been a Multiemployer Pension Plan Amend­ Select on Intelligence part of this effort.e ments Act , focusing on Local 28, Oak­ To hold oversight hearings on certain , Agency Administration Subcommittee land, Calif., Local 19, San Jose, Calif., activities of the General Services Ad­ Local 86, Reno, Nev., and Local 30, San To hold oversight hearings on the acces­ ministration. sibility of the judicial system. Diego, Calif. 3110 Dirksen Building 3302 Dirksen Building 2228 Dirksen Building Judiciary Governmental Affairs To resume hearings on S. 2784 and S. Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga­ CANCELLATIONS 2821, bills clarifying the intent of anti­ tions trust laws relating to the relocation of member clubs of professional sports To continue hearings to investigate al­ leagues. leged involvement of organized crime SEPI'EMBER 23 and mismanagement of funds in the 2228 Dirksen Building 1:00 p.m. Select on Intelligence hotel and restaurant workers union To hold hearings on Soviet succession. . To hold oversight hearings on the in­ SEPI'EMBER 28 5110 Dirksen Building demnification of and contributions to 2:00p.m. Government contractors. 10:00 a.m. Judiciary 2228 Dirksen Building Environment and Public Works To hold hearings on pending nomina­ Labor and Human Resources Business meeting, to consider pending tions. Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ calendar business. 2228 Dirksen Building mittee 4200 Dirksen Building