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8336 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE April 24, 1979 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, April 24, 1979 The House met at 1 p.m. and Jerusalem. In 1960 he was ordained message from the people of my State. Rev. Vertanes Kalayjian, pastor, St. into the priesthood in the Armenian Pa They are saying "no" to deregulation. Mary's Armenian Apostolic Church, triarchate of Jerusalem. At the end of The people of New England are saying Washington, D.C., offered the following 1964 he came to the United states where "no" to deregulation of the oil industry. prayer: he has served several pastorates before Mr. Speaker, this issue is going to be Magnify the Lord with me,· and let us he was assigned to his present duties. On a crippler for the people on the east exalt His name together.-Psalms 34: 3. June 15, 1970, he became a naturalized coast and especially in the areas of this Amen. citizen, an honor and privilege that he country which depend right now on im cherishes dearly. ported oil. The oil companies are becom Almighty Lord our God, grant us the This past weekend the local parish of ing richer, and our people are just suf courage and the power of conviction to St. Mary's Church, with the Interna fering an undue hardship at the present heed the exhortation of Your prophet, tional Armenian General Benevolent time. and to offer our gratitude and glory to Union, sponsored a cultural program Mr. Speaker, I am asking the Presi Your everlasting and all-sustaining holy celebrating the rebirth of the Armenian dent of the United States to consider his name. spirit and national heritage. This pro position. If he plunges ahead on this Today, April 24, marks the 64th an gram was dedicated to the memory of course in trying to deregulate the oil niversary of the holocaust, the first the one and a half million Armenians industry, that spells doom in the New genocide of the 20th century perpetrated who were persecuted or killed in 1915 England area. upon the Armenian people ·by the Turk while defending their human rights and As far as I am concerned and as far ish authorities during the years of 1915 religious freedom. That tragedy was the as the people of my area are concerned. through 1918 when a million and a half first genocide of the 20th century. this deregulation plan is not right. It is Armenians perished. The Armenian I commend Father Kalayjian for what not in the best interests of the consumers American community, as well as friends of this Nation. in the civilized world, bow their heads he contributes to our country. I know that my colleagues share my appreciation Today, right now, in Rhode Island today in memory of the martyrs who and join me in welcoming him here this they are paying 83 cents for a gallon of put their trust in the Lord and exalted gasoline and 63 cents for home heating His name until the last moment of their afternoon. • Mr. ANNUNZIO. Mr. Speaker, in be oil. Old people, who are on fixed incomes, lives. cannot afford those prices. Let us, 0 Lord, learn from their cour half of my constituents of the 11th Con gressional District of illinois, many of Mr. Speaker, I hope the President will age. Remembering the past, allow us al get the message. I have dropped in the so to learn to prevent the happening of whom are of Armenian descent, it gives me great pleasure to welcome today to hopper today companion legislation to similar atrocities in whatever form and that sponsored by Senators JACKSON and against whomever it is perpetrated. the U.S. House of Representatives Rev. Father Vertanes Kalayjian who is the KENNEDY in the Senate. Lead these, thy servants, in the path Mr. Speaker, I hope that my col of peace and justice, and let Your name pastor of St. Mary's Armenian Apostolic Church here in the Nation's Capital. leagues, when the time comes to support be exalted everywhere and forever. this type of legislation, will stand up and Amen. Father Kalayjian was born in Syria, and subsequently received his religious be counted for the people of this Nation. education at Antelias, Lebanon, and St. The suggested windfall profits tax is a THE JOURNAL James, Jerusalem seminaries. In 1960 he joke, because most of us in this Cham The SPEAKER. The Chair has ex was ordained into the priesthood, and ber realize that that bill will never see amined the Journal of the last day's since that time, he has given dedicated the light of day in this Congress. The proceedings and announces to the House service to the Armenian Church and the end result, therefore, will be that the his approval thereof. Armenian people in many positions of oil companies will get the benefits; and Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the responsibility in the United States and our people will be doing the paying. Journal stands approved. abroad. Mr. Speaker, because I am deeply con It is fitting that Father Kalayjian joins cerned about the impact of oil price us here today, for this day marks the 64th deregulation on Rhode Island, I ask that MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT anniversary of the Turkish genocide of my colleagues consider the following as A message in writing from the Presi the Armenian people. pects of the President's proposal. Over the centuries, there have been nu First. Under current law, mandatory dent of the United States was communi controls on crude oil are due to end in cated to the House by Mr. Chirdon one merous onslaughts by superior foes of his secretaries, who also informed the against the Armenian Church and the May 31, 1979. House that on April 19, 1979, the Presi Armenian people. None of these on Second. It should be noted that diesel dent approved and signed a joint resolu slaughts have succeeded, for today, the and jet fuel already have been decon Armenians remain resolutely steadfast to trolled. tion of the House of the following title: Prices have gone through the roof and H.J. Res. 283. Joint resolution reaffirming their church and to their belief in Chris the U.S. commitment to the North Atlantic tianity. Their religion and their culture we still have shortages throughout the Alliance. continue to flourish wherever Armenians country. live in all corners of the globe. Airlines are cutting down :flights, be I want to thank Father Kalayjian for cause they can not get jet fuel. REV. VERTANES KALAYJIAN being with us today and to wish him con The price of jet fuel on the spot market (Mr. DANIELSON asked and was given tinuing success in his work with the Ar has gone up 50 percent since it was de permission to address the House for 1 menian Church.• controlled in January. minute and to revise and extend his re Third. If diesel and jet fuel serve as any marks.> example of what to expect from decon Mr. DANIELSON. Mr. Speaker, it gives THE PEOPLE OF NEW · ENGLAND trol, the price of gasoline and heating oil me great pleasure to welcome Father ARE SAYING "NO" TO OIL DE will increase for the consumer. Vertanes Kalayjian, pastor of St. Mary's REGULATION Lifting controls now will guarantee the Armenian Apostolic Church in Washing

0 This symbol represents the time of day during the House Proceedings, e.g., 0 1407 is 2:07 p.m. • This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. April 24, 1979 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8337 Two-thirds of all electrical energy in the request of the gentleman from tend the Great Plains conservation pro New England is produced from oil. Florida? gram on a permanent basis. Decontrol of crude oil must at least There was no objection. Nothing is more essential to the future be postponed, because of present eco- food-producing potential of our country's breadbasket than the Great Plains, which nomic conditions. REPORT ON RESOLUTION PROVID My bill will continue mandatory con- stretch through 10 States from Canada ING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. to Mexico. This 436-million-acre land trols until October 31, 1981, and would 3354, NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL give the President discretionary power area produces 60 percent of our country's SHALE RESER.VES AUTHORIZA wheat, 30 percent of our cattle, plus a to extend them until December 31, 1982. TION ACT, 1980 During this period, we will be able to significant amount of grass and hay, find out what the true energy picture Mr. BOLLING, from the Committee on sheep, cotton, and corn. actually is. . . Rules, submitted a privileged report One of the most critical Government currently there are confl.ictmg v1ews. In any event, San Antonio, this little that the American people are deploring Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, today jewel of a city in the Southwest-it is not today. I have cosponsored legislation that so little; it is the third largest city in Many of us in Congress-Republicans would make the Great Plains program Texas and the lOth largest in the United and Democrats--have indicated a will a permanent part of the Soil Conserva States-is celebrating Fiesta Week now. ingness to work with the administration tion Service. Mr. Speaker, I can guarantee the toward enactment of an appropriate The Great Plains conservation pro Speaker that if he were to come down to windfall tax. It was my hope that this gram was established in 1956 to help San Antonio, heading a big delegation, would occur. It is disturbing that the residents of portions of 10 Great Plains he would enjoy the whole affair. President instead indulges in demagogic States combat the area's climatic rhetoric rather than attempting to work hazards. Since the program's inception for a plan to increase energy production in 1956, 7,061 contracts have been signed PERMISSION FOR COMMITTEE ON in our country. That is the bottom line of with landowners in Nebraska, covering SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO a sensible national energy policy, not the approximately 9.6 million acres. During SIT WHILE HOUSE IS IN SESSION financing of bigger government. the same period, many hundreds of thou THIS AFTERNOON sands of acres have been treated with Mr. FUQUA. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION conservation practices, earning over mous consent that the Committee on PROGRAM $20,{)00,000 in cost shares. The program Science and Technology may be permit has provided both technical assistance ted to sit this afternoon from 2 until 4 participation in a Soviet election where persecution of minorities who still be Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, the OPEC there is no threat against voting, but lieve in and love God continues at an nations are raising the price of oil tre there can be threats if one does not vote unrelenting and savage pace. mendously, and, with the order for de for the uncontested party-line slate that Remember, we must, the past. But it is regulation of oil by the administration, offers no alternative candidates. a hollow remembr9.nce indeed if we fail we can surely expect an extraordinary to condemn the atrocities of today. Re increase in the cost of gasoline, other member Shcharansky. Remember yester fuels, and petrochemicals. OTHER HOLOCAUSTS TO day and today. Mr. Speaker, as it happens, we have the REMEMBER world's largest supply of coal. Today, I V{here we hope to achieve Atkinson Gramm Oberstar Harkin Nichols Trible further strategic arms limitations; a ban AuCoin Gray Obey Harsha Pea,se Vanlk on tests of nuclear explosives; mutual Bailey Green Ottinger Hefner Perkins Walker Baldw; Grisham Panetta Hightower Pickle Wampler and balanced force reductions in Europe; Barnard Guarini Patten Holt Preyer Watkins limitations on antisatellite capabilities, Barnes Hagedorn Patterson Huckaby QuUlen Weaver chemical weaponry, and conventional Beard, R.I. Hall, Ohio Paul I chord Rahall White Beard, Tenn. Hamilton Petri Jenkins Reg\lla Whitley arms transfers; and prevention of nu Bedell Hammer- Peyser Kelly Ritter Whittaker clear weapons proliferation. Beilenson schmidt Price Kemp Roberts Whitten To prevent war-and to redirect the Benjamin Hanley Pritchard Lagomarsino Robinson Wydler Bereuter Harris Quayle Latta Rose Wylie resources of nations from arsenals of Bevill Heckler Railsback Leach, Iowa Roth Young, Alaska war to human needs-will be a formida Bingham Hettel Rangel Leach, La. Rousselot Young, Fla. ble challenge to all mankind in this last Blanchard Hillis Ratchford Lee Runnels Boggs Hinson Reuss quarter of the 20th Century. It is a chal Boland Holland Rhodes NOT VOTING-44 lenge that I am determined to meet. Bolllng Hollenbeck Richmond Ambro Downey Mattox JIMMY CARTER. Boner Holtzman Rinaldo Applegate Erdahl Miller, Ohio Bonior Hopkins Rodino THE WHITE HOUSE, April 23, 1979. Ashley Erlenborn Pashayan Bonker Howard Roe Blagg! Ford, Mich. Pepper Brademas Hughes Rostenkowskl Brodhead Garcia Pursell Breaux Hutto Roybal Brown, Call!. Giaimo Rosenthal Brooks Hyde Royer Buchanan Hawkins Rudd ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1978 OF Broomfield Jacobs Russo Burton, John Horton Santini UNITED STATES-JAPAN COOPER Burlison Jeffords Sabo Byron Hubbard Simon Burton, Phillip Jeffries Sawyer Chisholm Ireland Stark ATIVE MEDICAL SCIENCE PRO Carney Jenrette Scheuer Coleman Leath, Tex. Thompson GRAM-MESSAGE FROM THE Carr Johnson, Call!. Schroeder Conyers Lewis Waxman PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED Clay Johnson, Colo. Schulze Crane, Phlllp Long, La. Weiss Cleveland Jones, N.C. Sebellus Diggs McEwen Wllson, Tex. STATES CUnger Jones, Okla. Seiberllng Dodd McKay Coelho Jones, Tenn. Sensenbrenner The SPEAKER laid before the House Collins, Ill. Kastenmeier Shannon 0 1335 the following message from the Presi Conte Kazen Sharp Corcoran Kildee Shuster The Clerk announced the following dent of the United States; which was Corman Kindness Skelton pairs: read and, together with the accompany Cotter Kogovsek Slack Mr. Thompson with Mr. Buchanan. ing papers, referred to the Committee on Courter Kostmayer Snowe Crane, Daniel Kramer Snyder Mr. John L. Burton with Mr. Horton. Interstate and Foreign Commerce: D' Amours LaFalce Solarz Mr. Rosenthal with Mr. McEwen. To the Congress of the United States: Daniel, Dan Lederer Spellman Mr. S t ark with Mr. Rudd. Pursuant to Section 5 of the Inter Danielson Lehman Stack Mr. Longo! Louisiana wit h Mr. Pursell. National Health Research Act of 1960 Daschle Leland Stangeland Mr. Giaimo with Mr. Pashayan. Davis, Mich. Lent Stanton Mr. Pepper with Mr. Mlller of Ohio. issued by the Senate subsection (b) . the U.N.'s self-imposed "no strings at Government Operations Committee, tached" rule on such contributions. The Mr. ROUSSELOT. Mr. Chairman, points out that the proportion of tech amendment does not prevent the U.N. while many of our constituents are aware nical assistance provided primarily by from using portions of the U.S. contri that they are paying ever higher local, mandatory assessments increased from bution for mandatory technical assist State, and Federal taxes, most of them 0.7 percent of all U.N. technical assist ance if it wants to. It merely reduces the are not aware of the dramatic increase ance funds in 1968 to 29.5 percent in 1975. overall U.S. contribution by an amount in their international taxes-mandatory The U.S. share of mandatory assessments equivalent to any dollars which are so taxes collected by the U.N. tax man for technical assistance has soared from used. taxes which are used as an income re $19.3 million in :fiscal year 1978, to $27.7 Second. This amendment takes no distribution device to force the shift of million in :fiscal year 1979, to $41.2 mil position on the value of technical assist wealth from the United States and other lion in :fiscal year 1980: a 50-percent in ance projects. It merely seeks to promote developed nations to the less developed crease per year. A clear pattern is estab budget reform. nations who hold a heavy majority in the lished, with no end in sight. Third. This amendment has no effect U.N. "legislature." The tradition of voluntary support of on the generous U.S. voluntary contri These taxes are also known as "man resource transfers is being rapidly eroded. butions to technical assistance programs. datory U.N. assessments for technical as The erosion must be stopped. As the Rib What it will do? sistance programs"-assessments which icoff report states: The amendment will exert pressure on member nations are forced to pay in ad The regular budgets of most international the U.N. to reform its budget procedures dition to their voluntary contributions organizations are raised through dues as and move technical assistance funding for technical assistance. Let me explain sessed by the organization. The U.S. has ln back to a volunt·ary l.lasis. The American the past opposed using substantial amounts why the funding for technical assistance o! regular budget !unds !or technical assist people need relie·f from the mandatory is being switched from the traditional ance on the grounds that a member should assessments for technical assistance voluntary basis to a mandatory-no be free to decide on a voluntary basis wheth which have become an "international in choice-basis. er or not to provide technical assistance to come tax" designed to redistribute the The United Nations operating budget other countries. Once the precedent is estab world's wealth. I hope you will give them is financed by mandatory assessments of lished that funds raised by assessing mem a hand. member nations. A growing proportion of bers may be used for technical assistance, 0 1345 these funds, however, are being used not the majority voting power of the developing Many of our constituents are clearly for peacekeeping, or operating costs, et countries can determine the amount and na- not aware of the dramatic increases in April 24, 1979 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 8341 international taxes, mandatory taxes said that it should not be diverted from York Mr. ROUSSELOT: Mr. Chairman, will in programs such as those in question. Mr. ROUSSELOT. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield further? For example, it is estimated the United the gentleman yield? Mr. F ASCEL. Certainly; I yield to the States saves $150 million annually sim Mr. FASCELL. I yield to the gentle gentleman from California. ply through the smallpox eradication man from California. Mr. ROUSSELOT. Mr. Chairman, most program part of the World Health Or- April 24, 1979 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8343 ganization. Our total contribution to that Mr. BONKER. Mr. Chairman, will the tional interests far more than they do agency is only $31 million for these tech gentleman yield? any other country. nical assistance programs. Mr. FASCELL. I yield to the gentleman If the gentleman wanted to offer this So that is whY I said that, if the from Washington. amendment in the form of sense-of amendment were to pass, Mr. Chairman, Mr. BONKER. Mr. Chairman, if the Congress advice, as opposed to restric we would simply be cutting off our noses chairman of the subcommittee would tion, it might have some merit. to spite our faces. clarify a point, it is my belief that this 0 1410 Mr. ZABLOCKI. Mr. Chairman, will body has already taken up the Helms I am sure if the State Department the gentleman yield further? amendment. When I look at this lan were crowded enough they would go to Mr. FASCELL. Certainly; I yield to the guage, it appears to me to be a modified work to negotiate downward, of course, chairman of the committee. form of the Helms amendment. I our contribution, voluntary or otherwise. Mr. ZABLOCKI. Mr. Chairman, I want thought we disposed of that. It was the But this amendment would not serve that to associate myself with the gentleman's subject of a rollcall vote last week. purpose. It would force us into an abso explanation and his arguments for de Mr. FASCELL. The gentleman is cor lutely untenable position. It would actu feating this amendment. We defeated rect. We raised that question before, and ally 'be penny wise and pound foolish be this amendment, the so-called Helms I had hoped, frankly, that the gentleman cause the few savings, would cost us tre amendment, when the foreign economic from California would use discretion mendously in the respect and leadership assistance bill was before the House. rather than valor and just simply with that we have at the U.N. When the amendment was offered in the draw his amendment. I would suggest if you want an effec first instance, it was misguided, and it Mr. ROUSSELOT. It is a better tive U.N.-and I am sure all of you do- is misguided now. amendment. you want an effective U.S. position of Mr. Chairman, I think the amendment Mr. BONKER. Mr. Chairman, I would leadership. And any amendment that should be soundly defeated. hope that we would spare ourselves the waste of time and dispense with this would force us to be in arrears is not in 0 1405 our practical interest, as the strong, re amendment so that we could proceed sponsible, leading country of the world. Mr. ROUSSELOT. Mr. Chairman, will with the authorization. the gentleman yield? Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Chairman, I Now, the U.N. is not perfect, but we Mr. FASCELL. If I have time left, I move to strike the requisite number of are there to make it as good as it can be. certainly will be glad to yield to the words, and I rise in opposition to the This amendment would not shave any gentleman. body's taxes. It would not work to the amendment. advantage of the American taxpayer. It Mr. ROUSSELOT. I appreciate the Mr. Chairman, I would like to point gentleman's yielding. will impede us and embarrass us and out that the gentleman from California weaken our leadership at the U.N. I urge Mr. Chairman, first of all, I would like deserves credit for sending to all of us a to say that the circumstances are quite rejection of the amendment. very, very interesting "Dear Colleague" Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Chairman, I different in this bill than they were in letter. Before I address the amendment the previous bill. We provided $136 mil move to strike the last word and I rise itself, I would like to address that mis in opposition to the amendment. lion for technical assistance in the inter sive, since many Members depend on national economic bill. those communications to shape their Mr. Chairman, the gentleman seeks to The CHAIRMAN. The time of the opinion. bring an amendment which he believes gentleman from Florida (Mr. FASCELL) will reform the U.N. system. Now, I would has expired. The gentleman's "Dear Colleague" like to point out that his amendment, (On request Of Mr. RoUSSELOT, and by letter had a banner headline, "The In even if one grants reform to be meri unanimous consent, Mr. FASCELL was ternational Tax Man Cometh." He goes torious, does not accomplish that pur allowed to proceed for 2 additional min on to tell us of the fact that his amend pose; and indeed, it cannot achieve its ment would stop "mandatory taxes col stated purpose. utes.> lected by the U.N. tax man." Mr. ROUSSELOT. Mr. Chairman, will In the first place, while it would reduce the gentleman yield further? Mr. Chairman, if this was a tax meas our contribution and throw us in arrears, Mr. FASCELL. I yield to the gentleman ure, it would have to come from the that device could not result in technical from California. Committee on Ways and Means. So, ob assistance not being taken from these Mr. ROUSSELOT. I want to be sure viously, we are not speaking abOut taxes, assessed funds, because that would con the record is straight on this. In the mandatory or otherwise. What we are tinue. speaking of here, in fact, is an effort to international economic bill there was I would point up that, if you want to technical assistance for $136 mlllion. tie the hands of our administration and the State Department in meeting legiti make this change, we would have to Mr. FASCELL. Is the gentleman talk change the charters of these various ing about voluntary contributions? mate obligations to the U.N. The effect of this amendment would put the United entities. Mr. ROUSSELOT. No. That was for There are five instances where there technical assistance. In addition to that, States in arrears in the U.N. system, without accomplishing any budget re is specific reference to the provision of we provided $140 million for voluntary technical assistance in the appropriate contributions. form in the U.N. Why is this bad? Because for years organic section of the organizations in Mr. FASCELL. Is the gentleman talk volved. They are the World Health Or ing about the UNDP program? and years we have lectured the Soviets, the Peking Government, the French, ganization, which is very important to Mr. ROUSSELOT. Yes. us and to others. There are the Food and So we had two basic funds in that and others, who periodically play games by selectively withholding their contri Agriculture Organization, International bill that the gentleman succeeded in Civil Aviation Organization, the World passing that would cover these contribu butions to the U.N. And then to force us into the position where we would be Intellectual Property Organization and tions. And that is the point that I am the Universal Postal Union. trying to make. repudiating the principles that we have Mr. FASCELL. I understand that. effectively stood for all these years In addition, there are others like the Mr. ROUSSELOT. I just want to be would, in my judgment, be a terrible U.N., where the exact words "technical sure they are not mandatory assess mistake. assistance" are not used but whose pur ments; that is all. Some of the programs that would poses can be construed to include the Mr. FASCELL. No. I have been saying suffer if the gentleman's amendment provision of technical assistance. There all along the gentleman is incorrect be passed would be the international atomic is only one of these entities whose stat cause the amounts the gentleman re energy nuclear safeguards program, the utes prohibit technical assistance from ferred to do not cover these items and World Health Organization, efforts to the assessed funds. there is no way they can. ' control and eradicate contagious dis The end result will simply be to throw Mr. ROUSSELOT. It does not cover eases, the Civil Aviation Organization us in arrears, to cripple entities that are all of the items, but it does cover some promotions of air navigation safety important to us, and to the world and of them, and more than adequately for measures, and others. These are all areas to lessen our influence, as my colleague the funding that has been requested. We where the United States has taken the from Tilinois has said. just do not want to take it out of the initiative in the U.N., where many of The gentleman's amendment simply mandatory funds. these U.N. programs serve our intema- will not work to achieve his purpose, but 8344 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE April 24, 1979 it will work harmfully toward the na tions. When we reduced our contribution Collins, Ill. Hyde Pickle from 30 to 25 percent, the U.N. did take Conte Jacobs Preyer tional interest of the United States. Corman Jenrette Price Mr. ROUSSELOT. Mr. Chairman, will notice. All we are doing here is eliminat Cotter Johnson, Call!. Pritchard the gentleman yield? ing $41 million. D'Amours Johnson, Colo. Rahal! Mr. BUCHANAN. I yield to the gentle The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The Danielson Jones, Okla. Railsback Daschle Kastenmeier Rangel man from California. question is on the amendment offered by Davis, S.C. Kazen Ratchford Mr. ROUSSELOT. I thank the gentle the gentleman from Calnornia

NONIMMIGRANT VISAS mended that a visa be granted to an Mr. FASCELL. If the gentleman will SEc. 107. Section 21 of the Act entitled individual who heads the Beirut office yield further, in other words, the pur "An Act to provide certain basic authority of the PLO. So this amendment is sim pose of that clarification is to point out for the Department of Sta.te", approved Au ply designed to put in the language of that compliance with the Helsinki accord gust 1, 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2691), 1s amended- the law the previous commitment on the is not a one-way street and that the ( I) by inserting "(a)" Immediately after part of the administration with respect United States expects that other coun "SEC. 21."; and (2) by adding a.t the end thereof the fol- to the presumptive inadmissibility of tries will abide by the principles of the lowing: officers of the PLO who want visas in Helsinki accord? "(b) The Secretary of State may refuse order to come into our country. It would D 1445 to recommend a waiver for aliens from sig also provide that the Secretary of State, Mr. SOLARZ. Among other things it natory countries which a.re not in substan in considering whether or not to recom does create an incentive for the other tial compliance with the provisions of the mend a waiver of the prohibition of signatories of the Helsinki accords to Helsinki Fina.l Act, particularly the huma.n visas to members of proscribed organiza rights and huma.nita.ria.n a.ffa.irs provisions. comply with the provisions contained tions, could refuse to recommend such a therein, but it would also slightly "(c) This section does not a.pply with waiver if the alien requesting such a respect to a.ny a.llen who 1s a. member, of broaden the grounds on which the Sec visa was from a signatory country of ficer, oftlcia.l, representative, or spokesm.~n retary of State could refuse to recom of the Palestine Liberation Orga.niza.tlon. . the Helsinki Agreement and who came mend a waiver to an alien who is a mem from a country which was not in sub ber of a prescribed organization. Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Chainnan, I have stantial compliance with the provisions the privilege of offering this amend of the Helsinki Agreement, particularly Right now, the only grounds Qn which ment, together with my very good the human rights and the humanitarian a waiver can be recommended are the friend, the distinguished gentleman provisions thereof. security interests of the United States. f1om ruinois

April 24, 1979 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8347 dividuals into the country on the grounds partment of Justice acceded to the De ruled every single recommendation for that they come from countries which are partment of State request, I do not know. exclusion. not in substantial compliance with the But in the initial case, the Department of The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The Helsinki agreement. Justice said, Do not admit these people. time of the gentleman has expired. Right now, under the McGovern Whether or not they acceded under De The question is on the amendment amendment, the Secretary of State is partment of State pressure as to how it offered by the gentleman from New York obligated to recommend the waiver that worked out, I do not know. (Mr. SOLARZ). they be admitted, unless he believes that Mr. FASCELL. All I am saying is that The amendment was agreed to. admitting them would constitute a threat the ultimate authority still rests with Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Chairman, I to the national security of the United the Attorney General. move to strike the last word. States; and if he feels that they will Mr. ASHBROOK. The Attorney Gen Mr. Chairman, at this point I was go not constitute a threat to the national eral has put forth the recommendation ing to submit an amendment which security of the United States, he is obli for exclusion. The Department of State would have established an "American gated to recommend ~he waiver. objected, and the Attorney General ac Desk" in the State Department. I think Under this amendment, if an individ ceded to that request in every single case it is time they considered American U9.1 belongs to a proscribed organization at least until last fall. opinion and interests in more of their and wants to come here, the Secretary The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The decisions. of State would be relieved of the obliga time of the gentleman has expired. With the numerous developments in tion of automatically recommending the Middle East-some American views if that person came from a country Mr. ASHBROOK. U my colleague, the would have helped shape a better policy. which was not in substantial compliance gentleman from New York, would answer I think these developments are signs with the provisions of the Helsinki one further question, the other thing that of dramatic change in world politics. agreement, such as, for example, the So bothers me about his amendment-! am There are some new realities on the world viet Union. the first to say it is a substantial step in stage-realities that the United States Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Chairman, I the right direction-is that if we have a should meet head on, and not shy away thank my friend, the gentleman from country which has on the record com New York

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Mrs. FENWICK. Mr. Chairman, will Mr. Chairman, I raise this question Mr. BAUMAN. As my colleague, the the gentleman yield? now while this legislation is before us gentleman from illinois supreme faith to the gentlewoman from New Jersey. authority for all our diplomatic relations. in the President and in his judgment. I Mrs. FENWICK. Mr. Chairman, I It seems to me that the Congress of the always go along with him when he is thank my colleague for yielding. United States should and will in fact right; I oppose him when he is wrong. Mr. Chairman, I rise in hearty sup probably go on record in a short time I hope in this case that he will be port of the amendment. I think we calling for the President to honor the so right. should all realize that it was not until called Case-Javits amendment that Con Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Chairman, will October of 1978 that our embassy in gress adopted last year. In that amend the gentleman yield? Iran had a person there who spoke the ment we directed the President to deter Mr. BAUMAN. I yield to the gentle language of the country. He was trans mine whether or not the Rhodesian elec man from Ohio. ferred from Africa where he had been tions were held under free and fair aus Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Chairman, I serving. pices and allowed all groups to partici thank my colleague for pointing out this We had not one member Of the em pate freely. That has now ·been done. important step forward. I think all of us bassy or anyone in the foreign minister's We also directed him to judge whether are chagrined at the growing minority office or embassy in Afghanistan who all parties have shown a willingness to of free government in the world that spoke the language when our Ambassa negotiate in good faith in an interna have come to power through an open dor was assassinated. tional conference, and that the Govern and free ballot box. Here we have a Mr. Chairman, I support the amend ment of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe has done case where a country did participate in a ment, and I thank the gentleman for and will continue to do. free election which I think is a greater yielding. Observers sent to the elections by such participation than any American elec Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Chairman, will groups as Freedom House and the Ameri tion since 1966, percentagewise, in face the gentleman yield? can Conservative Union, which I have of opposition at home, of guerrillas out Mr. PANE'ITA. I yield to the gentle the honor to chair at the present time, side of the country also, in face of op man from Alabama. have come back with the unanimous position, I am sad to say, by the Gov Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Chairman, I judgment that these elections will bring ernment of the United States. I think we thank the gentleman for yielding, and I to power a black majority government should all be pleased by the results of wish to say that I, too, have no objection that represents the people of Rhodesi.a/ the Rhodesian election and appalled at to this amendment. Zimbabwe. the position of this administration. The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The I hope that the President will move The CHAIRMAN. The time of the question is on the amendment offered quickly and turn away from the policies gentleman from Maryland Mr. Chairman, I take this time only to Mr. CHARLES WILSON of Texas. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Chairman, if my direct the attention of the committee to colleague will yield further, I think that the fact that the elections which have Mr. BAUMAN. I yield to the gentle man from Texas. we might also comment a little bit more been held in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe have in a humorous vein that they seemed to now been concluded. The results as re Mr. CHARLES WILSON of Texas. Mr. have the same situation in the Rhodesian ceived from Salisbury this morning by Chairman, is the gentleman from Mary election that we have often in our coun cable indicate that the United African land

• April 24, 1979 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8351 Mr. Chairman, I call my colleagues its citizens, execute millions, and to 1434" and inserting in lieu thereof "and attention to one of the most frustrating never hold a free election and yet 60 290a.". percent is not good enough for Rhode (b) (1) Section 801(5) of the United States events occurring in the wor'd today. After Information and Educational Exchange Act so many recent failures, there 1s one na sia? How can we as a nation say to of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1471 (5)) 1s amended to tion that has made a giant leap into the world that our foreign policy will read as follows: democracy. This nation has held one of be based on human rights when the " ( 5) to employ persons on a temporary the most open elections ever held on the President is almost daily showing what basis without regard to the civil service and continent of Africa. This nation has elec a sham that policy really is? If the classification laws, when such employment ted a government with an election turn President is going to honor all of our is provided for by the pertinent appropria out that is higher than any American enemies and reward oppressors w;hile he tion Act; and". foresakes our friends and ignores posi (2) Section 804(1) of such Act (22 U.S.C. election since 1966 and has done so in the 1474(1)) is amended to read as follows: face of opposition from Communist tive moves toward freedom then he " ( 1) employ, without regard to the civil backed forces and the Andrew Young should come right out and say "this 1S service and classification laws, aliens within type leaders of the Carter administra the new American policy." the United States and abroad for service in tion. The new government of this nation It is time for the Congress to display the United States relating to the translation has a clearer mandate to rule than most the leadership that the White House re or narration of colloquial speech in foreign countries in the world since it has joined fuses or is incapable of providing on the languages or the preparation and production what 1s unfortunately the growing mi issue of human rights in Africa. I call of foreign language programs when suitably nority of governments that have come to on the House Foreign Affairs Committee qualified United States citizens are not avail able, and aliens so employed abroad may be power by the open and free ballot box. to conduct immediate hearings into the admitted •to the United States, if otherwise, I ask, "What has the United States, Rhodesia situation in order that we may qualified, as nonimmigrants under section the leader of the free world, done to en have a factual report on which to base 101 (a) (15) of the Immigration and Nation courage this new democracy that wants actions that I hope would lead to the ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a) (15)) for such to be our friend?" _It is incredible, but our lifting of all economic restrictions time and under such conditions and pro Government has seen fit to do nothing. against Rhodesia and the establishment cedures as may be established by the Di At least nothing to help. I think it is of d1plomatic relations with the new gov rector of the International Communication ironic that had several hundred people ernment. Agency and the Attorney General;". to I think it is the duty of this House, (c) Section 602(d) of the Federal Property taken the streets in this nation and and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 some shots had been fired and a leader and specifically this committee, to take U.S.C. 474) is amended- had come ·forward to say that he was now this action. It is indeed unfortunate that· ( 1) by striking out "or" at the end of the government there would be a major my colleagues did not vote to send of paragraph (19); clamor to recognize a new government. ficial observers to Rhodesia for the elec (2) by striking out the period at the end What has our foreign policy come to tion, but we can rectify that decision by of paragraph (20) and inserting in lieu when we would rather welcome an armed moving forward now. thereof"; or"; and takeover than an open and free Mr. BAUMAN. I certainly echo the (3) by inserting immediately after para election? graph (20) the following new paragraph: gentleman's sentiments. It gives us a "(21) the Director of the International The nation that has given the world chance to be on the side of the people Communication Agency with respect to the this example of our Nation's pious hy of Rhodesia. I would certainly urge my furnishing of fac111ties in foreign countries pocrisy is Rhodesia. For years Rhodesia colleagues to sponsor legislation that will and reception centers within the United was made a media symbol of all that was be introduced that calls for recognition States.". bad in Africa. Now they have shown all of the new government and the lifting of (d) Section 108(a) of the Mutual Educa of us that the years of white rule was a sanctions. I have been assured by the tional and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 prelude to creating a shining example gentleman from New York of (e) Title VII of the United States Infor the Congressional Budget Act regarding The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The mation and Educational Exchange Act of contract authority. In getting the rule gentleman from Ohio (Mr. AsHBROOK) is 1948 (22 u.s.c. 1476-1477a) is amended by on this matter and clearing the matter recognized for 5 minutes. April 24, 1979 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 8353 Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Chairman, I year to offset adverse fluctuations in foreign Amendment offered by Mr. ASHBROOK: On take this time to direct a question to my currency exchange rates occurring after No page 16, after line 7 add the following new colleague from Florida or the chairman vember 30 of the preceding fiscal year. title: Amounts appropriated under this paragraph of the committee. shall be available for obligation and ex "TITLE V-LIMITATION ON EXPENDI On page 6, line 18. section 203, deals penditure only to the extent that the Direc TURES with section 1001 of the U.S. Informa tor of the Office of Management and Budget SEc. 501. No more than 90 percent of the tion and Educational Exchange Act. determines (and so certifies to the Congress) funds authorized to be appropriated by each I also note on page 30 of the report, it is necessary, because of such fluctuations, in title of this act shall be expended." shows the entire section on the loyalty order to maintain the level of operation au 0 1525 thorized under paragraphs ( 1) for RFE/RL, check of personnel being deleted. Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Chairman I do Am I correct that is what is being ac Incorporated. complished on lines 18 through 22 of "(3) Amounts appropriated under this not believe that it will take 5 m~utes subsection are authorized to be made avan to explain this amendment. page 6 in title ll? able untll expended.". Mr. FASCELL. Well, the answer is yes What we a_·e asking, purely and sim and no. What it does is, it brings ICA now Mr. FASCELL

FIRMS IN THE DECORATIVE PLASTICS INDUSTRY ESTIMATE THEIR MARKET SHARES: 1978 (Estimates-In percent)

Firms Formica Neva mar Wilson art 1 Laminart Pionite Firms Formica Nevamar Wilson art 1 Laminart Pionite

Formica: American Cyanamid ______38.6 33 33 33 35 Consoweld: Consolidated Paper_------9 7 7 7 Pionite: Libbey-Owens-Ford. ------__ 13.8 11-12 11 15 10 Wilsonart: Dart Industries.·------24-25 25 21 26 Micarta: Westinghouse ______8. 3 9 12 9 9 Laminart: Eagle-Picher Industries. ______3 3 3 Nevamar: Chagrin Valley ______12.6 12 12 12 10

' More than 100 percent. 8364 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE April 24, 1979 In addition, Formica has provided esti the trademark but the capital and the an affirmation of what the Formica case mates of its share of the market over the management capabilities of the firms has tau~Zht us; the genericness of a last 9 years. These figures, again, indi doing the producing. trademark is not, in itself, indicative of cate leadership, not monopoly: Another indication of an anticompeti competitive advantage. It does not serve tive advantage is the existence of a price Formica's estimate of Us own market share the public interest to invoke this sec premium. The question here is whether, tion of the Lanham Act to promote com [In percent] by virtue of their purported trademark petition when the Federal Trade Com 1970 ------33.4 advantage, Formica can not only seduce mission could and should be using more 1971 ------32.1 customers into buving their product, effective measures to promote competi 1972 ------34.7 but can charge these unsuspecting cus tion. 1973 ------31.2 tomers a price premium as well. Few I would therefore urge my colleagues, 1974 ------34.8 1975 ------36.2 of Formica's competitors are undersell Mr. Speaker, to actively support this 1976 ------35.6 ing Formica's product. Fabricators, rep legislation, in hopes that its ultimate 1977 ------39. 1 resented by the National Association of value will be in the redirection of the 1978 ------38.6 Plastics Fabricators, claim that Formica Federal Trade Commission's activities But what is so fudicrous about this is competitively priced. Yet, the Federal away from such gratuitous forays. case is that the division of the market Trade Commission has suggested that There is much to be done to reduce in among the major producers is not a consumers will save $50 million as a re :flation and promote competition. These factor in the FTC's action. The Com sult of Formica losing its trademark. This are tasks that Congress created the mission. in a letter to Senator WENDELL is difficult to believe. Federal Trade Commission to pursue. FORD by the regional director of the Formica, Inc. has about a 35-percent Denver office, asserted that they inter share of the $400 million laminate mar preted the Lanham Act to state that ket. Thus, the FTC is asserting that fully SOLIDARITY SUNDAY there was a "substantial public interest one-third of Formica's price is due to ly critical of the Labor Department's has spent $85.8 blllion on programs to train experimental-new programs. administration of these programs over the the poor and "hardcore" unemployed and fit To most manpower specialists, the major past several years. They say the agency has them into today's job market. problem over the past 20 years is that the been lax in riding herd on local programs and By almost all accounts, that effort has been programs have provided jobs, but little train more concerned with "numbers" than with a bust. ing. But, training is considered the key, be how the programs actually are working. cause the difficulty is not in finding jobs but Ironically, the manpower effort began not For all the outpouring of federal, state as a program to aid the hardcore unemployed, and local money over the years, there are in providing people with enough skills to get and hold good jobs. (Except during reces as it's come to be thought of now, but as a few experts, even among those who support bid by the federal government to help "save" the current round of programs, who claim sions, some jobs usually are available-even to the unskilled.) middle-class workers who were being threat they have been effective-other than to pro ened by the late-1950s specter of growing au vide income for the recipients. Arnold H. Packer. the Labor Department's chief economist, says the difficulty for these tomation in industry. Moreover, despite the massive investment The first broad-scale, post-war program was $15 blllion in the current fiscal year alone workers is that the jobs they do get pay so poorly and have so little future that they the 1962 Manpower Development and Train experts still don't know such basics as ing Act, administered by the Labor Depart which kind of programs work best, what im offer little attraction. Those workers who take them also leave them quickly. ment's Office of Manpower, Automation and pact they have over the long run and what Training. The theory was that because grow changes. 1! any, to make for the future. Structural unemployment describes cases ing new technology would eliminate thou "The jury still is out on the ab111ty of where workers are too poorly trained-or lo sands of jobs, workers would need training. these programs to improve the tradeoff be cated in the wrong place-to get and hold The scope was broadened during the Great tween inflation and unemployment," con jobs that make use of their potential. While Society days of the mid-1960s, when the cedes Isabel V. Sawhill, director of the Na the category includes a high proportion of Johnson administration included manoower tional Commission for Manpower Polley, an teenagers, blacks and women, it also reaches training programs in its new anti-povery pro independent federal agency now evaluating many other segments of the work force, both gram. The basic theme became help !or un the entire effort. urban and rural. skllled workers, but the program remained The dilemma is a crucial one, not only be Manpower experts argue persuasively tha1. relatively small. cause of the cost but because the problem of with adequate training, these unskllled "in· Perhaps the big~est change--and the most "structural unemployment"-the social and and-out" workers would be able to compete destructive to the training concept-came economic illness these programs are designed for better jobs. And, armed with new skills, under Carter, who used the program as an to relieve-is so devastating to society and they could relieve some of the labor bottle anti-recession tool in 1977. Localities were seemingly intractable. necks that make the U.S. economy so in forced to expand their programs so rapid Although the total number of jobs in the flation-prone. ly that the effort blew apart. The .fobs slots U.S. has grown sharply ln recent years, the But that's not what has happened. In were filled, but training was sidetracked. number of hard-care jobless has mushroomed stead, the bulk of the money spent on man- "The conversion of these programs from 8366 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE April 24, 1979 structural to countercyclical cut into their ther increase the already overwhelming order to convey the sad news to my col ab1lity to deal with structural problems," market-generated incentives for compli leagues that a great American and a says the Manpower Policy Commission's Saw ance through new technology aircraft great spiritual leader, the archbishop of hill. "And having to grow that rapidly gave purchases. Instead, these waivers would the archdiocese of San Antonio, Francis way to a lot of the current fraud and provide strong disincentives to the ear J. Furey, has passed on today. abuse."e liest possible quieting of two and three In his very brief span as archbishop engine jets. Also, they provide. addi in San Antonio, he accomplished so MR. MOAKLEY IN OPPOSITION TO tional, special interest waivers not much that his death is a loss that we will S. 413, AVIATION SAFETY AND brought up last year during Commerce all feel intimately. NOISE ABATEMENT ACT OF 1979 Committee hearings. He was installed as archbishop on The National League of Cities has August 6, 1969, and from the very begin (Mr. MOAKLEY asked and was given ning he set a pace that was fast, and he permission to address the House for 1 informed me that section 303 of the bill would make "good cause" waivers a~il was very successful in doing things that minute and to revise and extend his able to an airline from all of the com had long been in need of being done in remarks.) pliance dates where supply shortages the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise would prevent, or competitive disadvan Among several of Archbishop Furey's today in opposition to Senator CANNON's tage would ensue upon, timely compli outstanding accomplishments were some legislation, S. 413, the Aviation Safety a.nce with the regulation. It would that should have been done years before, and Noise Abatement Act of 1979. appear that this section is nothing other and when we stop to think about it, we Of particular concern is title III of than a reinforcement of airline requests wonder why they were not accomplished S. 413, which would, in effect, overrule for waivers-waivers which can already before. the domestic airline aircraft fleet quiet be granted under 14 CFR part 11, the Archbishop Furey succeeded another ing regulation adopted by the Depart FAA's existing regulatory waiver proc most brilliant and outstanding bishop of ment of Transportation in 1976. ess. This provision would appear to place the San Antonio archdiocese, the most As we know, the DOT regulation in the compliance regulation in greater eminent Archbishop Lucey. question concluded that it was "econom jeopardy. Among the accomplishments Arch ically reasonable" and "technologically The National League of Cities has bishop Furey was instrumental in insti practicable" for all aircraft currently in also informed me that section 304 of tuting was the installing of the first the U.S. airline fleet to be quieted to the bill would provide mandatory exten Mexican-American bishop for that area FAR 36 noise limits by January 1, 1985. sions of the compliance dates, for an in more than 100 years. He established The regulation set the following time indefinite period, where replacement the 1972 Mexican-American Cultural schedule for participation by U.S. air aircraft meeting the most recent and Center which not only works in be lines: stringent FAA noise standards were half of the church in the training of By January 1, 1981: 50 percent of all ordered by airlines prior to those dates. priests for the priesthood but also serves two and three engine jet aircraft

-= 8368 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE April 24, 1979 hensible-the genocides and killings grew a fraction of an inch after that to happen without more of us standing going on this very day. day, it was such a shock to his system. up and saying something about them to It is healthy to remember, as we did in He has come to California and lives in try to prevent them from happening. the rotuna today, the holocaust of sev Hollywood, Calif., to this day. I am hoping, as I know are many of eral generations ago. It is healthy and But the memory of what has brought my colleagues, we will never see that proper that the gentleman from Califor destruction to so many families through chapter in history repeated and that we nia (Mr. DANIELSON) should bring UP the out the world has been terrible. As time have learned an important lesson from remembrance of Armenia six decades passed, communities of Armenians have these events. I am hoping that we will later. But what about that which re settled and flourished in new lands somehow contribute to stamping out the mains today and tomorrow: The killing throughout the world. This is especially terrorism and senseless slaughter that is that still continues? true in America where today there are still going on this very day in some of I thank the gentleman for my being more than 500,000 Armenians living, the nations in Africa, in Northern Ire allowed to join his words. working, and contributing to our so land, and other places where we can Mr. DANIELSON. I thank the gentle ciety. There is a strong community of make some contribution to helping to man for his contribution. Armenians in my district. The record of bring peace and eventually an end to Mr. Speaker, I would like to yield now their involvement in the political, edu terrorism. to the gentleman from California wildcats and some longshot, "home-run" ing from decontrol? "I hope so," he says. on other companies' drilling activities. This projects. After taxes, Mr. Gaddy kept $98,000 of the involved, he says, a fair amount of outright As the deal progresses, other parties may $755,000 gross for hls own use last year. (The spying-"everything from field glasses and be given a share of the enterprise in return sneaking up on the rig and finding a place for services. In Mr. Gaddy's big West Virginia figures are estimates. Mr. Gaddy has re to hid, and observing, all the way to getting quested an income-tax filing extension.) "play," for example, the men who undertook roughnecks drunk." You don't see that kind to supervise the buying of the leases received But most of the expected new revenue from of thing any more, he says, ·because the big decontrol, he asserts, will be plowed back shares. And eventually, when it comes time gest "plays" are all gone. to zero in more finely through seismic studies into the drilling of new wells, just as were By 1969, Mr. Gaddy had become a senior and then actually begin drilling wells, a most of his gross earnings in 1978. Of the Iandman for the Sinclair Company. And large, frequently controlling share may be $755,000, an estimated $450,000 went directly when it merged with Atlantic Richfield that sold to a large independent or major oil into the cost of drilling new wells and acquir year, he made the break toward independ company. It is they who have the finances for ing new drilling leases. (Mr. Gaddy's over ence. "By that time I'd had 16 or 17 years large-scale drilling. In Mr. Gaddy's case, the head costs totaled $130,000, and he will pay of corporate life, and what the hell? I major partner has become the Allied Chemi about $77,000 in taxes.) Because of the need thought I'd give it a run in the other direc cal Corporation, which has many oil-and-gas to replace his own depleting reserves, he says, tion. You sit and watch other independents, interests. "I can't do anything but plow back" most of and you say, 'God Almighty, I can de that.'" The key man in all of this is the entrepre the expected new revenue from decontrol. Settling in Midland, one of a number of neur, the initiator. By training he may be a Mr. Gaddy estimates that, all told, he has oil towns where banks are sympathetic to geologist or, like Mr. Gaddy, a Iandman. He been responsible for the drllling of more producers seeking short-term capital, he may end up actually operating the oil well, than 50 wells since 1974, when he rode into "hung out my shingle.'· And got nowhere !or or he may not. Usually, as in Mr. Gaddy's true independent status on the domestic oil a while. The early 1970s were a low point !or case, he does not. That is commonly left to price surge that followed the Arab oil em domestic drilling activity. The nation was the bigger partners. The salient point is that bargo of that year. It was "the biggest shot relying on foreign oil that was then ex the Dick Gaddys are crucial-the orchestra in the arm I've felt," he says "and I shifted tremely cheap, and some domestic producers tors, the ones who bring geological idea and into high gear." were even quitting the business. So Mr. capital investment together, and get things At present, Mr. Gaddy earns about $45,000 Gaddy was forced to hire himself out as a rolling. a month from the sale of oil and gas from sometime lease buyer to other companies to The major oil companies derive several wells in which he has an interest. He pro "keep beans on the table." His income was benefits from this de facto arrangement. duces the oil-and-gas equivalent of 1,300 about $16,000 a year then. First, men like Dick Gaddy do their explora barrels of oil a day. In the last two years, he His first venture as a capitalist, curiously, tory work for them, work that would require has been responsible for the drUling of 21 was not in oil or gas. He invested his savings them to enlarge their own staffs enormously. producing wells and 18 dry holes. That is in sulfur, only to see the bottom drop out of Second, they get a share of the production a better than average performance. the sulfur market. Back to the drawing profits when wells come in (though they also All 'of which makes Mr. Gaddy moderately board: He went to work !or another small share the risk of a dry hole) . Third, their successful as an oilman and quite well off as independent as a Iandman. But eventually supplies of crude oil are boosted: The oil pro an individual, though not big or rich by oil sulfur turned up again and Mr. Gaddy began duced by Mr. Gaddy and others like him patch standards. He is still looking for the drawing income from that investment. Soon eventually is sold to the majors, who are the "home-run" play that might catapult him his sulfur royalties outstripped his salary, primary refiners. and he made the break to independent status One over-all effect of this is that while the in to the ranks of such storied men of the !or good. past as Glenn McCarthy or H. L. Hunt, or independents lay out some 60 percent of the even of large, present-day independent pro He made his big financial hit, the one exploration money, the majors reap about ducers like the Houston Oil and Minerals that made him truly self-sufficient, almost half the oil revenue. The situation is some immediately. Forming a syndicate with !our what different for natural gas. The independ Corporation or the Mitchell Energy and De individuals, he acquired some 40,000 acres velopment Corporation, each of which ents reap more than half the revenue from of oil and gas leases in the Permian Basin gas. grosses ln the hundreds of millions of dollars. near Midland. That was just after the Arab Such big producers are relatively few in For his part, Mr. Gaddy is more heavily in oil embargo. The price of domestic oil was volved in natural-gas deals than oil ventures. number. Of the estimated 10,000 Independ rising, and when it passed $7 a barrel, Mr. ents, perhaps 200 produce more than 1,000 This is because gas prices have been more Gaddy made his move. favorable of late, and also because gas, being barrels of oil a day or gross more than $2.5 The wells drilled on those leases eventually more abundant at the moment, is easier to million a year. Furthermore, the odds against proved not to be very productive. But the find. But Mr. Gaddy says nevertheless that striking it big are much higher than before, deal itself paid off. The partners sold three "I'm very interested in oil." The economics simply because the biggest finds of oil and fourths of their interest prior to the drilling, simply have to be there. gas have already been made. and Mr. Gaddy realized enough profit on the A number of factors are at work, not the Still, Dick Gaddy is a plunger. He has deal to pay off the four-bedroom house he least of which is the effect of government nearly finished acquiring, In a bold play with had bought !or $21,750. (He and his family policies. 8372 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE April 24, 1979 on producers get two major tax breaks rather than physical genocide is being camps as part of a. program of extermination the depletion allowance that currently en carried out against Jews-in Latin Amer carried out by the Nazi party during World ables the producer to deduct 22 percent of ica, in Northern Ireland, and by terrorists War II; production revenues, and writeoffs of cer everywhere on the globe. In Asia and in Whereas the people of the United States tain nonrecoverable drilling costE·. There is a should recognize that all acts of bigotry are partial writeoff for a producing well and a. Africa we have recently seen the wel come toppling of genocidal maniacs, but rooted in the cruelty of spirit and the cal 100 percent writeoff for the cost of a dry hole. lousness that led the Nazis to commit atroci Combined, these credits saved Dick Gaddy oppression on racial, national, and polit t ies against millions of people, and should !rom having to pay income taxes on an es ical ground still exists on those con dedicate themselves to the principle of hu timated $425,000 of his income last year. Dry tinents. man equality; holes alone accounted for $146,000. The Hebrew name for Holocaust Re The recent slump in the pace of drilling Whereas the people of the United States has taken place despite all that. Now another membrance Day contains a reference to should recognize that tyranny creates the act of Government policy, oil decontrol, t.he brave resistance of Jews to Hitler's political atmosphere in which bigotry flour seems about to change the situation, increas attempt to annihiliate them. April 19 ishes, and should be vigilant to detect, and marked the 36th anniversary of the up nady to resist, the tyrannical exercise of ing the country's oil reserves and bringing power; new profit to men like Mr. Gaddy who are prising of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto already making a good living from oil. How against the Nazis-a resistance that Whereas on April 28 and 29 of 1945 the does he feel about keeping $98,000 a year to lasted longer than the 1939 German cam Armed Forces of the United States liberated support and maintain himself, his wife, and the surviving victims of Nazi internment in two of his three children still in college, one paign against Poland. We also remember the concentration camp in Dachau, Germany, mother and one mother-in-law while the today the gallantry of the countless acts and revealed to the world evidence of a tragic nation as a whole is about to bear the higher of resistance in partisan bands, in other human holocaust that must never be forgot energy cost that will come with decontrol? ghettos. and in the death camps them ten; and "I feel great," he says, "and I want to tell selves, as well as the bravery of those Whereas the Nazi concentration camp in you why. The whole country was built on who fought the Nazis in the Allied Dachau, Germany, is not only a shocking the free-enterprise system. Without it, why Armed Forces. symbol of Nazi brutality and destruction, but should I stick out my neck and take a riE·k Let us hope that today's holocaust also a symbol of the danger inherent in tyr like I do? I think I'd be a pretty lazy guy anny, the pernicious quality of bigotry, and without that incentive. I don't know what commemoration will cause us to redouble the human capacity to be cruel: Now, there an obscene ;>rofit is. The more profit any of our efforts to act effectively against vio fore, be it us can make, I'm happy for that."• lations of human rights wherever in the Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep world they exist. resentatives of the United States of America Finally, Holocaust Rememberance Day in Congress assembled, That April 28 and 29 serves still another si~ificant purpose. of 1979 are designated as "Days of Remem THE HOLOCAUST-IN MEMORIAM It serves to call all people to reflect on bra"'l ce of V!ct.!ms of the Holocaust", and the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a the meaning of life and its potential. President is authorized and requested to issue Particularly for those who have been a. proclamation calling upon the people of the previous order of the House, the gentle United States to observe such days with ap man from New York (Mr. GILMAN) is the special victims of genocide in recent propriate ceremonies and activities. recognized for 5 minutes. years-the Jews and the Armenians-a • Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, we pause dav like today serves to reinforce our THE WHITE HOUSE, today in reverence to commemorate the will to continuouslv defeat their oppres April 2, 1979. memory of the victims of the Nazi holo sors by :fl.orishing as distinct peoples with A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE caust. uninue and precious identities. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA April 28 and 29 have been desig There are an ever-increasing number Thirty-four years ago today the United nated "Days of Remembrance of Victims of people who do not want to remember States Armed Forces liberated the Dachau of the Holocaust," and mark the 34th an What happened in the Polish ghettos and concentration camp during the closing days niversary of the liberation of the Nazi in the German camps, who do not want of World War II in Europe. Words alone can death camp in Dachau, Germany, by the to see what is repeating itself today in not convey the shock and horror that accom Armed Forces of the United States. other nations. But anyone who has any panied this tangible evidence of the Nazi sense of responsibility, not only to the regime's systematic program of genocide. It is particularly fitting that our own Dachau and other death-centers like Buch commemoration here in the rotunda of memory of the past but to the lives of enwald, Auschwitz and Treblinka were the the Capitol today-in the presence of their fellow men, must settle with his means by which the Nazi regime murdered the President, the Vice President, lead own conscience whether he has reason six million Jewish people and millions of ing members of the clergy, the House to feel guilty, to watch and be ashamed other victims in a. planned program of exter and Senate, the diplomatic corps and of his own inaction. I am proud that mination. These crimes have few if any Elie Wiesel, chairman of the President's our Nation has chosen not to be a silent equals in history. Their legacy left deep moral Commission on the Holocaust--took observer. but has consistently fought big scars on all humankind. No one who partic otry within its own boundaries and is ipated in the liberation of these camns or place on the day marked in Israel and by who has studied their history can eve~ for Jews the world over as "Yom HaShoah now speaking out against the violation get-least of all the quarter-of-a-million v'HaGevurah," "Holocaust Remem of human rights by other governments. survivors who found a home and built a new brance Day." It is time for us to once again remind life in this country after the war. Today is also the day that commemo the world of the senseless slaughter of During my recent trip to Israel, I visited rates the memory of the brutal, senseless 6 million men, women, and children who Yad Vashem, the Israeli memorial to the vic slaughter of a large segment of the Ar were the victims of the cruelty and ha t.Jms of the Holocaust. I vowed then, and I tred of their fellow men while the world repeat now, that the world must never per menian population in the Middle East mit such events ever to occur again. around the turn of the century. watched in silence. It is time for us to take up their torch and to continue their We must never forget these crimes against Mr. Speaker, the Nazi slaughter of 6 fight for human liberty and dignity. humanity. We must study and understand million Jewish men, women, and chil "May the memory of the righteous be for the record of the Holocaust. From this, we dren and their senseless slaying of large must learn to remain eternally vigilant us a blessing." against all tyranny and oppression. We numbers of other minorities and the Mr. Speaker, I am gratified and proud murder of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 must rededicate ourselves to the principle of that our Nation has taken official notice equality and justice for all peoples, remem are crimes whose enormity can scarcely of the "Davs of Rememberance of the bering the terrible fruits of bigotry and be imagined. Victims of the Holocaust" and ask that hatred. Nevertheless, it is our solemn obliga at this point in the RECORD the text of A joint resolution of the Congress (H.J. tion to those millions of people to re House Joint Resolution 1014 of the 95th Res. 1014) approved September 18, 1978, au member their tragedy and to take their Congress and the proclamations of thorized and requested the President to issue lessons to heart in our own lives. a proclamation designating April 28 and 29, President Carter and Governor Carey of 1979, as "Days of Remembrance of Victims While the crimes of the Nazis were New York be printed in full: of the Holocaust." unique in their savagery, crimes against H.J. REs. 1014 Now, therefore, I, Jimmy Carter, President humanity continue to be committed to Whereas six milllon Jews and millions of of the United States of America, do hereby day in the Soviet Union-where cultural, other people were murdered in concentration designate April 28 and April 29, 1979, as April 24, 1979 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 8373 "Days of Remembrance of Victims of the to serve as a reminder of the utter in H.J. REs.- Holocaust.'' I ask the people o! the United sanity which can possess those on this Whereas Article I, Section 8 of the Con states to observe this solemn anniversary of Earth. sti:tution of the United States provides, "The the liberation of Da.cha.u with appropriate I think Elie Wiesel put it well in to Congress shall have Power To ... provide study, prayers and commemoration a.s a trib for the Common Defense and general Wel ute to the spirit of freedom, justice and com day's observance when he said that God fare of the United States ..."; passion which Americans fought to preserve. must have been blind to the horror which Whereas Section 8 also provides the Con On the recommendation o! the President's destroyed an entire human race. How gress the power ". . . To raise and support commission on the Holocaust, I also ask could the world have stood idly by when Armies ... To provide and maintain a. the people o! the United States to note In this genocide w.as taking place? The les Navy; To make Rules for the Government ternational Holocaust Commemoration Day son of the holocaust is a memorial to the and Regulations of the land and naval o! April 24, 1979. millions of victims whose lives were Forces ...": In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my taken in cruelest way. The scars remain, Whereas the Declaration of Independence hand this second day o! April, in the year of states, " ... that all men are created equal, our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-nine, and we shall never permit anything like that they are endowed by their Creator with and of the Independence of the United States this to take place again. The world will certain unalienable Rights, that among these of America the two hundred and third. not recover from the shock of the holo are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happi caust. It was an event we must never ness ...": iPROCLAMATION forget.• Whereas the land and naval Forces which the Congress must provide and maintain The Holocaust. the Nazi massacre of six must be composed of dedicated, patriotic million Jews, represents the ultimate 1n citizens who are willing to forego certain man's inhumanity to man. It stands a.s a. LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH BILL rights and privileges under our Constitution horrible page in history. to assure the safety and common defense o! Such monumenta.l genocide of hum&n OF RIGHTS FOR MEMBERS OF all; beings had never been known before. lt ARMED FORCES Whereas in toda.y's era of technology, the would not lbe halted until six milllon o! the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a Armed Services must compete with private Jewish fa.i•th and millions of other victims enterprise for the skills and dedication of had been exterminated. previous order of the House, the gentle young Americans to ensure the quality and The extent of the slaughter was not fully man from California ade Act of 1974, does not go far enough 6. "The Treasury Department should be "material" means. Failure to define the term to Uberallze world trade. Specifically, he authorized to accept bona fide price assur will result in the ITC's adoption of a higher stated that there 1s a flaw in U.S. import ances regardless of the extent of the margin injury standard than now exists in the U.S. relief (section 201 Escape Clause) policy: of dumping." Antidumping Act. "The fia.w is the absence of a. requirement April 24, 1979 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 8379 that no trade restrictions o! any kind may organization of natural resources. This fish meal to produce efficient growth in be imposed to assist a.n industry seriously steals the spotlight from substantive catfish, trout, and other species. injured by legitimate imports except a.s part questions and focuses it on a bureaucratic The oceans provide offshore-derived of (and 1! found indispensable to) a. co oil and gas and phosphate which are herent, balanced, industry-adjustment strat reorganization chart. The time we spend (>gy addressing the real problems and needs shifting organizational boxes is time that important as the petrochemicals used o! that industry." is lost in the effort to establish a clear as feedstock in the production of our The implications o! lack of such a. policy and comprehensive national oceans pol agricultural pesticides and fertilizers. are not only that legitimate foreign exports icy. And it is only from such a policy that Another important building block for are penalized-which in the long term could we can derive a coherent plan, followed agricult~ral fertilizers, ammonia, may harm the American consumer-but also this by well-structured programs. Without be provided by the oceans in the future could ultimately lead to discrimfna.tory im such a policy and plan, we find ourselves if ocean thermal energy conversion port controls, which potentially could ad in the very difficult and unsatisfactory

H . Con. Res. 85: Mr. OTTINGER. H.R. 1539: Mr. JENRETTE. and renumber the succeeding subsections H. Res. 106 : Mr. EVANS of Delaware, and H .J . Res. 213 : Mr. JENRETTE. accordingly. Mr. MATHIS. H. Res. 115: Mr. KILDEE , Mr. NoLAN, and H.R.1716 PETITIONS, ETC. Mr. COUGHLIN. By Mr. HANLEY: H. Res. 146: Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. GREEN, Mr. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions -Page 152, line 6, after the period insert BoNIOR of Michigan, Mr. KOSTMAYER, Ms. and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk the following: "Any transfer or assumption HOLTZMAN , Mr. LONG of Maryland, Mr. and referred as follows: (including any agreement for such transfer WOLFF, Mr. GLICKMAN, Mr. STARK, and Mr. or assumption) pursuant to this subsection HARKIN. 108. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Byron A. Nordberg, Oceanside, Calif., relative to the shall be effective only to such extent or in H . Res. 180: Mr. STUMP, Mr. FORSYTHE, Mr. .Amtrak rout e system; to the Committee on such amounts as are provided in advance in SYMMS, Mr. LOTT, Mr. CLINGER, Mr. CLEVE Interstate and Foreign Commerce. appropriation Acts.". LAND, and Mr. ALBOSTA. 109. Also, petition of Ronnie Cox. Marion, -Page 164, line 14, insert "(1)" after "(b)", H . Res. 224: Mr. MURPHY of New York, and Ill., relative to redress of grievances; to the and strike out "341," and "361, 362,". Ms. MIKULSKI. Committee on the Judiciary. Page 164, after line 16, insert the following new paragraph: AMENDMENTS ( 2) The amendments made by sections 361 DELETIONS OF SPONSORS FROM Under clause 6 of rule XXIII, proposed and 362 shall become effective upon the date PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS of the enactment of this Act, but no amount amendments were submitted as follows: of annuity under chapter 83 of title 5, United Under clause 4 of rule XXII, sponsors H.R. 10 States Code, accruing by reason of those were deleted from public bills and res By Mr. SENSENBRENNER: amendments shall be payable for any period olutions as follows: -On page 13 strike lines 7 through 10 before October 1, 1979.

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