18268 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ANTI-DESECRATION BILL H.R. would be punishable by up to 2 years "(b) As used in this section- 2611 in prison, and a fine of up to $25,000, "( 1) the term 'religious structure' means a or if bodily injury results, up to 10 building or other structure owned or operat ed by a church, synagogue, or other reli years in prison and a fine of up to gious organization; and HON. BOBBI FIEDLER $25,000. "(2) the term 'consecrated cemetery', 'reli OF CALIFORNIA Why do these crimes belong in the gious structure or religious article contained IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Federal jurisdiction? For several rea therein', and 'property of another' shall sons. Religious hate crimes strike at apply only to property located in the United Tuesday, July 9, 1985 one of the very pillars of our identity States, any territory of the United States, • Ms. FIEDLER. Mr. Speaker, 4 years as a nation: the right to religious free the District of Columbia, the Common ago, I introduced legislation to stop dom. My ancestors, and I'm sure many wealth of Puerto Rico, or any possession of the wave of desecrations of churches of yours, came to the United States the United States. and synagogues. That very serious seeking that freedom. When vandals "(c) In any prosecution under paragraph (1) of subsection , proof that a defendant problem has not gone away. So I have paint their swastikas, they identify engaged or attempted to engage in one or reintroduced the bill, H.R. 2611, and themselves with an evil cause that more of the acts of injury, destruction, dese joined with my colleagues on the Judi over 400,000 Americans died to defeat. cration, or placing of antireligious symbols ciary Committee to work toward the An assault on religious freedom is described therein and (1) has traveled in enactment of legislation to address more than mere vandalism, more than interstate or foreign commerce, or (2) has this issue. mere arson, it is an assault on an use of or used any facility or instrumentali In 1984, after a 2-year decline the American ideal. ty of interstate or foreign commerce to com municate with or broadcast to any person or hateful acts of desecration were on the Furthermore, many acts of desecra group of persons prior to such acts, such rise again, 715 against Jewish commu tion are linked with the spread of or travel or use shall be admissible proof toes nities alone. That means swastikas ganized hate groups across the Nation. tablish that such defendant traveled in or splashed on the walls of synagogues, These people use our telephone used such facility of interstate or foreign graves destroyed, sacred books burned, system, our mail, our highways to commerce. and hate posters plastered on the incite others to burn Torah scrolls, de "(d) Nothing in this section shall be con walls of schools for young children to stroy graves, and burn crosses. Surely strued as indicating an intent on the part of see. that should be considered a Federal Congress to prevent any State, any posses Last summer, on the Jewish holy sion or Commonwealth of the United crime. States, or the District of Columbia, from ex day of Tish B'Av, hatemongers placed Finally, local prosecutors are already ercising jurisdiction over any offense over anti-Semitic posters on the walls of overwhelmed with enormous caseloads which it would have jurisdiction in the ab five synagogues in my home State of while State lawmakers are busy with sence of this section; nor shall anything in California. Maybe it was irony, maybe their own statewide agendas. There is this section be construed as depriving State those twisted minds had done their need for the kind of coordinated, and local law enforcement authorities of re homework: Tish B'Av is the day when bridging action that only the Federal sponsibility for prosecuting acts that may Jews commemorate the destruction of Government can provide. be violations of this section and that are vio their ancient temples in Jerusalem. H.R. 2611 will amend chapter 65 of lations of State and local law. "(e) If any provision of this section or the These crimes of hate are occurring title 18 of the United States Code by application thereof to any person or circum nationwide. Though New York and adding the following new section. stance is held invalid, the remainder of this California have been most affected, 30 "§ 1365. Desecration of religious structures and section and the application of such provi other States and the District of Co consecrated graves and placement of antireli sion to any other person or circumstance lumbia have their own ugly incidents gious symbols on property of another shall not be affected thereby.". to report. Nor are Jews the only vic "(a) Whoever- SEC. 2. CLERICAL AMENDMENT. tims. Catholics, Baptists, Buddhists, "(!) travels in interstate or foreign com The table of sections of chapter 65 of title and members of other faiths have merce or uses a facility or instrumentality 18, United States Code, is amended by found their places of worship torched, of interstate or foreign commerce with adding at the end thereof the following new intent to injure, destroy, or desecrate any item: ransacked or vandalized. These inci consecrated grave, religious structure or re dents take on even greater meaning "1365. Desecration of religious structures ligious article contained therein, or to place and consecrated graves and today, when we read of rightwing ex a swastika, burning cross, or other antireli placement of antireligious sym tremist networks plotting race war and gious symbol or article on the property of bols on property of another.".e killing policemen. another without such person's consent; or To meet this threat, H.R. 2611 "(2) with an intent to injure, intimidate, would, under certain circumstances, or interfere with any person or any class of WHY WE DON'T RECOGNIZE THE persons in the free exercise of religion se BALTIC TAKEOVER make it a Federal crime to commit an cured by the Constitution or laws of the act of religious desecration. My bill United States, or because of having so exer would make it a Federal crime to dese cised the same, willfully injures, destroys, or HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL crate a grave or religious structure, or desecrates any consecrated grave, religious OF ILLINOIS place swastikas, burning crosses or structure or religious article contained IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other antireligious articles on a per therein, or places a swastika, burning cross, son's property, without their consent, or other antireligious article on the proper Tuesday, July 9, 1985 when this is done to interfere with ty of another without such person's con e Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, how that person's right to free exercise of sent, or attempts to do any of the same; many Americans know that the U.S. their religion. H.R. 2611 would also shall be fined not more than $25,000, or im Government has never recognized the prisoned not more than two years, or both; make it a Federal crime to use the in and if bodily injury results, shall be fined Soviet Union's brutal domination of strumentalities of interstate com not more than $25,000, or imprisoned not the nations of Lithuania, Latvia, and merce, such as the telephone system more than ten years, or both; and if death Estonia? I asked the Research Service or a federally funded highway, to plan results, shall be subject to imprisonment for of the Library of Congress to provide or commit such acts. These crimes any term of years or for life. information on this important foreign
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18269 policy issue. At this point I wish to DEHUMANIZING A PEOPLE around the airport is controlled by Amal insert in the RECORD the two questions and not what's left of the central govern I asked the Library of Congress and HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR ment. But if TWA 847 had been coming into the answers I received: John F. Kennedy in New York and the hi OF OHIO jackers had threatened to blow up the plane 1. What is the historical background to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with a hand grenade, it would have been the decision by the United States not to rec given permission to land. In fact, for all that ognize the takeover of Lithuania, Latvia and Tuesday, July 9, 1985 is being said now, that plane could have Estonia by the Soviet Union? Is there a doc e Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, Wash landed at Andrews Air Force base, next to ument or executive order on which this de ington Post columnist, Richard Cohen, Air Force One, if the terrorists had so insist cision is based? is to be commended for his recent arti ed. The Soviet takeover of Lithuania, Latvia cle where he discusses the disturbing It's probably true that the administration and Estonia was effected in several stages had to do something after the hijacking and between September 1939 and Juh• 1949. At practice of dehumanizing entire maybe, given the bomb-'em-kill-'em sugges that time girls said, 'You're ested in the issue. Schultz recalls, "I came During the time that students are in being sexist, you're always talking about back from that conference saying to any volved in M/8/TEP, they complete re baseball and football.' So I put a problem on body who would listen, 'Hey, we have to do quirements for a master's degree in the board about Mary Lou Retton, and the something!'" the area of their major. At the same girls suddenly got interested in physics.'' The creation of M/S/TEP involved a co In Ellen Walen's biology class at Brook operative effort among four parties with a time, the public schools benefit, be line High School the students weren't cause graduate students teach a mini stake in the future of education-the Uni always perfectly sure of themselves when it versity, where M/S/TEP enrollees take mum of 3 years at the schools. But in came to such genetic questions as predicting classes at the School of Education; a the long run, the real winners are the the offspring of homozygous and hetrozy number of Massachusetts public school sys high school students because M/S/ gous parents. But there was some genetic tems, which provide classroom experience TEP has shown considerable success in lore that seized their attention in a big way. through teaching internships; the Bay State bringing a steady flow of capable and Walen remembers the reaction when she Skills Corporation . and the Digital told the class about Klinefelter's Syndrome, Equipment Corporation . enthusiastic teachers to the ranks of a genetic abnormality characterized by, high school science and math class among other traits, enlarged breasts in the BSSC is a state funded, quasi-public cor rooms. male: "All the boys went 'Eeeewh!' and were poration which is supporting M/S/TEP to I commend the University of Massa looking down at themselves.'' the tune of $95,000. Most of that money is chusetts for creating M/8/TEP. MIS/ Another genetic issue that hit them where earmarked for payments to "mentors," ex TEP has proven it can be successful in they lived was the connection between radi perienced teachers who work with the stu attracting intelligent young men and ation and mutation. "I think I scared them dent teachers during their training Kath one day," Walen confesses. "I told them, 'If leen Scherek, manager of innovative pro women to the teaching profession. I grams for BSSC, explains her organization's can only say that I hope other educa you have to have an X-ray, wear a lead bib over your genital area.' They wouldn't stop interest in the program: "We are set up pri tional institutions follow the example asking me questions. 'Oh, Mrs. Walen, I had marily to provide funding to educational that UMass has set, because there is an X-ray on my thigh, do you think I'm and training institutions throughout the nothing more important than making going to have normal babies?' " state of Massachusetts to develop curricu sure the high school students of These efforts to add immediacy, fun or lums that directly pertain to what's happen today-the leaders of tomorrow-are relevance to the study of science all spring ing in industry in Massachusetts. Our man well-educated and receive a strong from a new training program for prospec date is twofold. Number one is to provide in tive high school teachers, Borden-Munoz, dustry with the type of people that it seeks, foundation in the sciences and mathe with the type of skills that it seeks in matics. I would also urge my col Bowers, and Telfair are members of the second class of teacher trainees enrolled in people. Number two is to enhance the edu leagues to read the following article the Math/Science/Technology Education cational capacity of institutions throughout which explains in more detail the Project at the University's School of Educa the state.'' merits of this fine program. tion. By the end of this summer they will The rules governing BSSC grants require GOING TO THE HEAD OF THE CLASS have their Master of Education degrees and that private industry provide dollar-for "She's small, she's slight, and if you saw be certified to teach high school in Massa dollar matching support, either in the form her walking down the hall you wouldn't be chusetts. Walen is a graduate of the first of funds or in access to equipment and fa able to tell if she was a senior or a teacher. M/S/TEP (pronounced EM-step> class. She cilities. The grant to M/S/TEP is being But she has such rapport with the stu interned at Brookline High during the 1983- matched by DEC, one of the state's major dents!" says Lawrence High School principal 84 school year, and the administration was high-tech employers. During their training, Margared Horner. "Of course, it helps that sufficiently impressed to hire her as a full M/S/TEP enrollees spend half a school she's bilingual. If I had an opening for a sci fledged teacher once she got her degree. year in a high school classroom as teaching ence teacher and she were available, I'd M/S/TEP aims to address a problem that interns paid by the participating school sys snap her right up." has arisen in Massachusetts and throughout tems, the other half working at one of the The subject of this lavish praise, teaching the country in the wake of the celebrated DEC's many locations in the state as interns intern Victoria Borden-Mun.oz, is almost in high-technology business boom. With corpo paid by the corporation. Once they became visible at the front of the classroom, sur rate money available by the megabite to certified teachers, DEC undertakes to offer rounded by a thicket of students who have lure bright young scientists and mathemati them summer employment as a way to sup brought in cake, balloons, and other party cians into high-tech industry, it has become plementing their teaching income. Further supplies to bid their biology teacher God steadily harder to attract promising gradu more, the company pledges not to try re speed on the last day of her half-year in ates into the teaching profession. Left un cruiting M/S/TEP graduates away from ternship. checked, this trend away from careers in their treaching jobs for a period of three The following period, in another Law education could help to scuttle the very years. rence High classroom Borden-Mun.oz, is high-tech revolution that produced the When M/S/TEP was in the planning helping students review for the next week's trend in the first place. A steady flow of stages, according to program director mid-term. Her fellow intern Rodney Bowers, talent into the ranks of high school math Schultz, a number of corporations expressed who will be taking the class for the second and science teachers is essential if the torch a willingness to serve as partial sponsors, half of the year, is also on hand to help is to continue being passed to new genera taking on limited numbers of interns. DEC with the review. Who knows how many dif tions of thinkers and innovators. offered to take up to 24 per year, which ferent kinds of joints there are in the Even before the recent upsurge of career means, at current enrollment levels, that human body? opportunities in high-tech industry, educa the company takes everybody. Says Schultz, Hands fly up all over the room; a lot of tors were worried about the teaching of "They gave us the impression, which has the students know the answer to this one. math and science at the high school level. since been borne out, that they were really There are two kinds-hinge joints and ball- From 1963 to 1980, mean scores on the interested in aiding education, and not just July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18271 in a PR gesture or in sneaky recruiting of cal freedoms from an ever-growing tained by the appellate courts. Our workers for themseleves." Soviet military threat. One of the State Department has recognized and Before M/S/TEP trainees commence their teaching internships, they spend a most important dilemmas we continue applauded the cooperation displayed summer of student teaching combined with to encounter, however, is how best to by the Taiwanese authorities in bring courses and seminars at the University. support our friends on Taiwan, while ing these murderous thugs to justice. After their internship year, they have an expanding our so-called strategic Mr. Speaker, the Taiwanese Govern other summer of study at the University, dialog with the leaders of the People's ment has recently taken steps to allow concentrating primarily on educational ap Republic of China. It is my firm belief greater political freedoms in that plications of computers and other new tech that this country should proceed cau country, and has brought to justice nologies. To complete the internship year tiously in our dealings with our new and two summers of study takes 15 months those individuals responsible for the in all. found ally, the PRC, while maintain murder of an American citizen on M/S/TEP is designed to attract people ing a strong and public commitment to American soil. Instead of turning our who might not otherwise have considered a the people of Taiwan. backs on our long-trusted allies, the teaching career. Victoria Borden-Munoz, for The ROC on Taiwan has made sig United States should continue to press example, worked as a photojournalist in her nificant progress toward greater de for, and approve when they occur, sig native Puerto Rico after completing her un mocratization and a broadening of nificant strides in the area of human dergraduate work in biology, film, and pho human rights, Mr. Speaker. The ROC rights and democratization. After all, tography at the University. Ellen Walen, has greatly expanded the number of looking for a way to use her degree in biol the United States has an enduring in ogy from Smith College, had applied to a elective offices in each of the three na terest in promoting freedoms and en couple of nursing schools. Brian Telfair, al tional elective bodies, and supervision hancing our security as well as that of though he had done some substitute teach of the high court and the district our friends and allies throughout the ing in his home town of Richmond, Virginia, court has been transferred from the region. was considering following up his undergrad Ministry of Justice in the political Finally, Mr. Speaker, I would like to uate work in chemistry with graduate study branch, to the separate jurisdiction of bring to the attention of my col in medicine or biomedical engineering. Judy the judicial branch. Progress has also Dorfman, a Smith College graduate who in leagues a recent editorial from the terned as a math teacher at Longmeadow been made in other areas as well, in Santa Barbara News-Press entitled, High School, was planning to attend busi cluding the enactment of the public "Stand by Taiwan." officials election and recall law, the ness school. [From the Santa Barbara News-Press) All M/S/TEP graduates are pledged to enactment of the state compensation devote a minimum of three years to teach law, the revision of the code of crimi STAND BY TAIWAN ing. How many will pursue an educational nal procedure to give suspects the So far the Reagan administration is not career beyond that three-year requirement right to have a lawyer present during going along with Chinese officials who want is impossible to predict. "I've found teach interrogation and the decision to the United States to pressure Taiwan's non ing a combination of very good moments communist Nationalist Party leaders to and very bad moments," says Mike Conwill, eliminate vacancies left by the demise return to the national fold they abandoned an MIT graduate who interned as a math of members of the central legislature more than 35 years ago. But it does seem to teacher at Brookline High School. who were elected on the mainland in have climbed on a fence, which looks to us Many veteran teachers would probably 1948. like something of a retreat from the long agree with his assessment of the profession. The United States applauds these standing ideological and military support There's no way of knowing this early in the actions as a sincere signal of the Tai America has always given feisty, pro-West history of M/S/TEP whether the good mo wanese political leadership's desire for ern Taiwan. ments will seem to outweigh the bad when further democratization and the ex The little island's successful brand of cap the young teachers reach the end of their italism contributes substantially to the Far three-year commitment and become avail pansion of a wide range of human and East's growing economic strength, which in able for corporate recruitment. Some stu political freedoms. turn bolsters political stability in a region dents in the program say that a teacher's In another area of great concern to where flourishing non-communist govern salary is enough for them while they are the United States, the Henry Liu ments can be helpful to the United States. young and single, but that they might lean murder, progress has been witnessed But recent economic stirrings in China have toward more lucrative careers once they and justice appears to have been clouded the traditional delineation of U.S. marry and start families. served. As my colleagues are aware, China interests regarding Taiwan. Borden-Munoz points out that three years Mr. Henry Liu, a U.S. citizen, was mur The United States views China's apparent of classroom experience is the requirement dered at his home in Daly City, CA, by embrace of some free-market practices as a for certification as a principal or vice-princi hopeful sign that a new, billion-customer pal, administrative positions in which educa members of the Chinese criminal market may close some of the gaping U.S. tors can earn higher salaries than they can gang, known as the Banboo Union. In trade deficit. This legitimate hope should as classroom teachers. She adds, however, a bizarre series of developments, Mr. not, however, lead to a new Taiwan policy. "You don't go into teaching for the money. Liu was found to be an agent of the As Newsweek magazine's Peking bureau That's not my motivation. There have to be ROC Intelligence Bureau as well as an chief noted in a recent issue, China's flirta good teachers. There has to be someone to agent of the intelligence apparatus of tion with capitalism may not last beyond tell these kids about life.''e the PRC. Subsequently, it was re the life of its new economic pragmatist, 80- vealed that Mr. Liu had also worked year-old Deng Xiaoping. Deng's political op ponents are waiting in the wings-and they THE SITUATION ON TAIWAN for our own Federal Bureau of Investi may not be off stage for long. gation. It would be best if the United States built HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO Following the murder, law enforce no new Asian policies on the shifting sands OF CALIFORNIA ment authorities on Taiwan moved of a Chinese experiment that could at any rapidly to locate and apprehend the time be declared a failure, and halted.e IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES perpetrators of the Liu murder. Those Tuesday, July 9, 1985 brought to justice include Adm. Wong e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, Hsi-ling, director of the Defense Intel WITHOUT GUNS DO PEOPLE in Northeast Asia, several challenges ligence Bureau, Maj. Gen. Hu Yi-min, KILL? confront the attainment of U.S. for his deputy, and Col. Chen Hu-men, eign policy and national security ob deputy chief of the bureau's third de HON. DON EDWARDS jectives. On the Korean Peninsula, partment. With the exception of Tung OF CALIFORNIA almost 40,000 U.S. troops stand shoul Kui-sen, one of the murderers who is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES der to shoulder with their South at present a fugitive from justice, all Korean counterparts in order to deter of the conspirators have been brought Tuesday, July 9, 1985 aggression by the North. In Japan, we to justice after speedy public trials e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. work to safeguard that nation's politi- and all convictions have been sus- Speaker, I thought our colleagues 18272 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 might be interested in an article, 7,900 deaths in 1981 involving arguments we approach that anniversary, I would "Without Guns, Do People Kill and brawls were caused by guns [unpub like to bring to my colleagues' atten People," which appeared in the June lished data, Federal Bureau of Investiga tion an opened piece published in the tion]. These deaths would largely be re 1985, issue of the American Journal of placed by non-fatal injuries if a gun were July 8, 1985 New York Times. Public Health, so I am submitting it not handy.9 Thus, a far more appropriate This piece, by Robert L. Bernstein, for the RECORD today. generality would be that "People without chairman of Helsinki Watch, correctly WITHOUT GUNS, Do PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE? guns injure people; guns kill them." points out that despite the change in Firearms killed 33,000 Americans in 1982, Despite the overwhelming importance of Soviet leadership and the hope that accounting for one injury death out of five: gun availability, the problem of firearm the Soviet Union's stance on Soviet 1,756 of these deaths were classed as unin injury and its solution are far from simple. Jewry might be improving, the reality tentional, 16,575 as suicide, 13,841 as homi Much attention has been given to the possi is quite different. We must not be de cide, 276 as legal intervention, and 540 of bility of restricting the sale and ownership undetermined intent [National Center for of handguns and handgun ammunition, be railed in our fight for human rights by Health Statistics unpublished cause of their very low benefit-risk ratio. Al public relations ploys. We must hold datal. though the size and concealability of hand the Soviets to the Helsinki accords, Firearms are the second leading cause of guns is of no benefit except for killing now more than ever. death in the United States for ages 15-34, people, proposals to limit private ownership [From the New York Times, July 8, 19851 with motor vehicles in first place and cancer or use of small, easily concealed handguns a distant third.1·2 For ages 30 to 54, firearms evoke strong reactions from the firearm in UNDER GORBACHEV, THE OLD REPRESSION generate as many deaths as motor vehicle dustry, the National Rifle Association, and behind barbed wire in so-called re-education last remaining relatives-his sister and her On May 20, 1982, President Reagan said, camps. young child-live in Moscow. The sister has "Lincoln was a simple man, but he spoke This does not sound to me like a man and applied to emigrate to live with Mr. Cha great truths. He said, 'No man is good a nation that are moving toward the West. lidze. For doing so, she lost her job as a sci enough to govern another man without that On February 11, President Reagan signed entist and now works as a maid, trying to other's consent.' This expresses my idea of a memorandum to the secretary of state in scrape out subsistence until there is some democracy. What-ever differs from this is which he stated, "I hereby find that the word on her application. Hers, of course, is not democracy.'' furnishing of defense articles and defense only one example among thousands of a The U.S. State Department wants Con services to the government of Mozambique policy that does not allow citizens of the gress to send $3 million in military aid to will strengthen the security of the United Soviet Union to leave when they wish and the Marxist government of Mozambique. States and promote world peace." punishes them severely for making such re President Reagan agrees. I not only dis Ten days later, in a communique between quests. agree, but also am amazed that this Admin the governments of Mongolia and Mozam There was no significant change in this istration could even consider such a ludi bique, the two nations congratulated one policy during Mr. Gorbachev's first 100 crous and inconsistent policy. another and boasted of their Marxist goals days. I recently returned from the Peoples Re and achievements. They spoke glowingly of Nor was there any new word about Anato public of Mozambique. I saw first hand why their brethren in the Palestinian Liberation ly B. Shcharansky, who still drifts between it would be absurd for the United States to Organization and criticized imperialist prisons and labor camps, his health broken, make such a move. forces in the world and the deployment of the INF in penal system has to offer. Mr. Shcharansky city, I saw rising skyscrapers and beautiful Europe. They praised the Soviet "libera is a symbol of what happens to a human buildings. Tall cranes flanked towers under tion" of Afghanistan and the successes of rights activist in the Soviet Union, and what construction as though a massive building the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. happens to a Jew who wants to leave that boom were under way. As in Nicaragua, there are freedom fight country. Walking the streets, however, I saw that ers in Mozambique, The "Renamo" forces This is a time when one can sense a desire the buildings were empty, the crane engines number more than 20,000 and operate in all for change among many who are not in cold-a stone and steel ghost town. 10 provinces of the Peoples Republic of Mo volved in the day-to-day governmental dis Mozambique is ruled by Samora Machel, a zambique. putes between the superpowers. Scientists, man described by the New York Times as a Unlike the Nicaraguan Contras, however, lawyers, book publishers are looking for new "fanatical Maoist" trained in China and Al the Renamo forces are close to victory. ways to make contact, in the hope that this geria who has grown into an avowed Marx These pro-West freedom fighters stand a will bring understanding or a more civilized ist-Leninist. good chance of making Mozambique free relationship between two great nations that Machel's supporters in Washington say again, ending human rights atrocities and disagree on so many things. he's a man who's waiting to be weaned from bringing an independent government to Yet none of these attempts to improve re the Soviet Union, a man longing to embrace that nation. They are close to providing an lationships is likely to bear fruit without the West. other critical ally to the United States in some moderation from Moscow toward The truth is that his SNASP Secret Police that region. those who wish to express their opinions were trained in East Germany and mirror Giving military aid to the Marxist govern publicly or, if those opinions are unaccept the Soviet KGB. The bodyguards surround ment of Mozambique, regardless of how able, to leave Soviet society. ing him are East Germans and Cubans. "token" $3 million may seem, would be the A change in attitude toward Soviet respect Libyans pilot Machel's private plan. His same as waiting until the Contras were close for the human mind would do more for to victory and then sending guns to the San progress on disarmament, economic coop power is secured by the presence of an esti mated 18,000 Cuban, East German, Tanzani dinistas. eration and mutual trust than any other " ...[Wlhat we're supporting are the single act that Mr. Gorbachev could per an, North Korean, Zimbabwean and Soviet troops and advisers. people of Nicaragua who have now been form. It would be the most effective demon While hundreds of thousands of his subjected to a totalitarian, Marxist-Leninist stration that the Soviet Government be people starve to death, Machellets the Sovi state," President Reagan said in a December lieves in its strength and not in its weak ets take all the good fish out of Mozambican interview with Human Events. ness.e waters and sell back inferior fish to its gov "We believe... ," he said in a February ernment. Some of the food sent by Mozam news conference, "that we have an obliga WHY SHOULD U.S. AID MARXIST bique by compassionate people in the tion to be of help where we can to freedom MOZAMBIQUE? United States and around the world ends up fighters, lovers of freedom and democracy in the bellies of Machel's soldiers. from Afghanistan to Nicaragua and wherev To repay his growing debt to the Soviet er there are people of that kind that are HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL Union, Machel has sent 12,000 children, striving for that freedom.'' OF ILLINOIS aged eight to 18, to work as slave labor in Hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES East German mines and factories. When I are striving for that freedom, Mr. President. asked our officials about this, they said the When the Foreign Affairs authorization Tuesday, July 9, 1985 children were there "on educational schol bill comes to the floor of the House of Rep e Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, one of arships.'' resentatives, I am proposing an amendment the more perplexing issues that has The same Soviet M-124 assault helicop to the $43-million authorization for Mozam troubled our Nation's foreign policy is ters that have been blasting freedom fight bique. ers out of the Afghan mountains fly The amendment would, first of all, elimi the question of our relationship to through friendly Mozambican skies. nate the $3 million in military aid to the Marxist-Leninist controlled Mozam Addressing the Committee for a Free Peoples Republic of Mozambique. bique. Our colleague, MARK SILJANDER World in London last March, former U.N. Second, it would restrict economic assist of Michigan visited that nation and re Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick said, "The ance to food aid and would allow other eco turned with a first hand account of ex United States approved food aid and $10 nomic aid only if the Cubans, Russians, East actly what is going on .in the nation million in supplementary military assistance Germans and North Koreans are limited to ruled by Marxist-Leninist ideologue to Mozambique in the same week that 17 55 "advisers" in Mozambique as we limit Samora Machel. The report is a sober MiG fighters arrived in Maputo." ourselves in El Salvador. It is interesting to note that Machel's gov I completely support aid to help children, ing and disturbing one for anyone who ernment voted against the United States women and men who are starving and in believes that Mozambique is turning 100 per cent of the time in the United Na need. But what kind of sense does it make toward the West. tions until 1983. Then, say congressional to send military and other economic aid to a At this point I wish to insert in the supporters, it changed dramatically in our Soviet bloc country like Mozambique know RECORD, "Why Should U.S. Aid Marx- favor. Their "dramatic change" was the fact ing that it serves only to free up Soviet re- 18274 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 sources to continue expansionism in Poland, Following are the petitions which ernment raised an objection to this decision, Afghanistan and Nicaragua? were given to me to present to Con as provided in the International Whaling Historian Arthur Schlesinger wrote, "If gress. Treaty as a regular course of action. There you really want to find racism in America, is also the fact that the U.S. government you'll find it in the fact that they [certain A PETITION has raised an objection to the 1954 ban on Americans] think communism is tolerable We express our heartfelt gratitude for Pacific Ocean blue whales. However, on for people of a different skin color.''e coming to Taiji township today. Japan's objection in this instance, the U.S. We are the Taiji Whaling OB Association, government has used as weapons the Pack which has a long tradition of engaging in wood-Magnuson revised bill and the Perry THE OCCASION OF A VISIT TO the whaling industry. Our passion for whal revision to pressure Japan to withdraw from TAIJI, JAPAN ing concerns not only whaling in present so whaling. ciety, but whaling in Taiji-the cradle of Even though the bow-head whale, which HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY Japanese whaling-where whaling is the the Alaskan Eskimo is catching, is on the sole industry. From of old, our [whaling] verge of extinction, the U.S. approves of it OF CALIFORNIA ancestors have toiled and toiled, have over as native whaling. On the other hand, we IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES come many adversities, and have handed cannot understand the morality of whaling Tuesday, July 9, 1985 down to us citizens of Taiji their cultural ethics of the U.S., which demands a total values. ban on Japan's whaling industry which is e Mr. DYMALLY. Mr. Speaker, The present whaling environment is very rich in resources. having the good fortune to represent critical but, fortunately, the citizens of Taiji have expressed their desire to strongly fur Taiji has been the cradle of Japan's whal the largest Nikkei population in the ing, having a 700-year history, and even Continental United States, I was grati ther the continuation of whaling, and we of OB have joined wholeheartedly in their en after having gone through many changes, fied to be invited and hosted by the deavors. We are determined to protect our its tradition has continued to today. At the people in the village of Taiji on my 700-year old tradition, but we earnestly re present time, approximately 20% of the recent trip to Japan! It was a most en quest that you take into consideration vari town's entire labor force, that is, nearly 400 lightening and important visit in ous circumstances and make known to the people are engaged in whaling-related in which Mrs. Dymally and I received ex U.S., the American people, and Congress the dustries. While whaling is a vital industry to ceptionally fine hospitality from the unanimous intent of our whaling OB. Taiji, the pride and boundless enthusiasm We wish Your Excellency and your wife shown toward whaling has been a source of people of Taiji, Japan. great strength to Taiji township. Mr. Speaker, as I observed the large happiness, and pray for prosperity in the United States. We petition that, from the viewpoint of majority of humble folks in Taiji, I establishing friendly Japan-U.S. relations, could not help but recall how the A PETITION you give particular consideration to the var simple lives of villagers may be affect We express our heartfelt gratitude to ious circumstances surrounding Taiji whal ed by what we in the United States do Your Excellency, who has shown great con ing. in organizations such as the Interna cern for whaling, for your efforts in the In conclusion, we wish Rep. and Mrs. tional Whaling Commission UWCJ. area of Japan-U.S. whaling issues, and for Dymally well, and pray that you will work For these people make their liveli coming here to observe Taiji township, for the cause of Japan-U.S. friendship in hoods and depend on the annual which has a long history of whaling. the future. taking of whales, a tradition dating As you well know, in face of the great storm of unreasonable international politics, A PETITION back to over 700 years of their village's and without an adequate basis of scientific livelihood. As you may well be aware discussion, the Japanese whaling industry, We are very happy to have met Your Ex back in 1982, the IWC voted to ap which has long been nurtured in history cellency and your wife today. prove a worldwide moratorium on and tradition, is now on the verge of being The proposal made by Congressman Dym commercial whaling to go into effect shut down. ally at the 36th IWC General Meeting last during 1985; the Japanese Govern Moreover, we and our family, who have year has given us great strength. Further, worked solely by whaling, will be cut off we wish to express our heartfelt gratitude ment filed a formal objection, which for not only exercising your good sense in under the IWC charter allows Japan from our source of livelihood and pride in our work, and are now on the verge of losing matters of whaling, such as the announce and any other member nations to our future means of livelihood. ments in the Human Rights and Interna exempt itself from the total quotas We very much regret that on the whaling tional Subcommittees, the letter addressed enunciated by the IWC for all species issue, the position and views between Japan to Secretary of State Shultz, but also your of whales. The total ban and the possi and the U.S. do not necessarily agree. How esteem of the Japan-United States partner ble implementation of punitive sanc ever, in the context of Japan-U.S. relations, ship. tions by the United States has worried where freedom and harmony are professed, Happily, we have now been able to meet not only the people of Taiji, but other we believe that a mortal problem that af Your Excellency here today. I wish to heart villages in other countries whose tradi fects the industry of both countries must be ily welcome you on behalf of the Taiji town dealt with calmly and fairly, by observing assembly. I am the head of Taiji town as tional customs and dietary habits the objectives of treaties and regulations sembly as well as the head of the town's Li depend on the whaling industry to based on international covenant. aison Body in Opposition to the IWC's meet their needs. We who are engaged in whaling, and who Total Ban on Whaling. Mr. Speaker, I should like to put live with the whale and know better than In the midst of all Your Excellency's ef into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the anyone else the importance of whale re forts with regard to whaling problems, you petitions and appeals from the people sources, request Your Excellency, who has a have come to observe our concerns. There is of a simple village, who are requesting special understanding of Japan's whaling, not a page in history of an example of one for your consideration and guidance. country's food culture having been de Congress to review and reevaluate our stroyed by another country's culture. The adopted policies in support of a total A PETITION mutual agreement reached at the recent moratorium on the taking of whales The people of the township of Taiji are Japan-U.S. fishery negotiations has deeply and in applying sanctions which would happy to welcome Representative Dymally grieved the hearts of countless people. Re hurt people like the villagers of Taiji. here today. grettably, the U.S. has made a declaration In translation, the verbiage is simple We express our heartfelt gratitude for of intent, beginning December 31, 1990, to and plain, but these words speak elo your great efforts in the United States for impose a total ban on foreign fishing within quently and forcefully of our cultural the continuation and understanding of Jap 200 nautical miles of the U.S., as well as to diversity and the sensitivity to which anese whaling. prohibit foreign fishing within 200 nautical all people and governments should At the 34th annual meeting of the IWC in miles of back-flow repuarian fishery and 1982, a decision was made to place a total continental-shelf fishery resources. practice in respecting each other. I am ban on commercial whaling. That action Despite the fact that fishing in the North grateful to the people of Taiji for trampled on the spirit of the International Pacific Ocean faces the same fate as whal their lesson of humility and earnest Whaling Treaty, and ignored the customs of ing, our government is attempting to sacri ness which were genuinely impressed a country's history, culture, and food habits fice whaling for the sake of North Pacific upon me during my brief visit to Taiji. pertaining to whaling. The Japanese gov- Ocean fisheries. July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18275 In order to grasp the realities of Japan [From the Japan Times, June 3, 1985] There is no question that that coun U.S. relations, and to offset this harsh and CONGRESSMAN SEES WHALERS OF TAIJI try's apartheid policies are reprehensi inhumane situation, our legislative-govern SHINGU, WAKAYAMA PREF. (KYODO).-A ble, and that we have a moral obliga ment representatives have, at the sugges U.S. congressman visited the whaling town tion to encourage their end. But I tion of Diet Member Tamaki, formed a of Taiji near here Sunday and expressed his "Diet Members Whaling Federation," which question our imposing sanctions sympathy with the town's objection to a against a proven ally like South includes Diet Member NikaHsic] Nikaido. total ban on whaling decided by the Inter If we can join with Rep. Dymally's action national Whaling Commission . Africa, which is vital to U.S. defense in the U.S., we believe that a new dimension Mervyn Dymally, Democrat representa and economic interests, while accord will be assuredly added. We, too, will tive from California, was invited to the town ing trade and other benefits to proven embark on a continuing movement for the by Lower House members from Wakayama enemies, like the Soviet Union, with revocation of the decision for a moratorium to meet the town officials and whalers. its blatant disregard for human rights on commercial whaling. Dymally said there are some whale species and human life. Imposing economic We earnestly request Rep. Dymally's which are increasing and they would in sanctions against South Africa is a active support and understanding for the crease to excess when whaling is totally policy bound to failure for we not only continuation of whaling in the days ahead. banned. Criticizing the IWC's decision in 1982 on risk driving South Africa into the PETITION the total ban on commercial whaling after a enemy camp, but we seem to be selec tive in condeming South Africa while We thank you, from the bottom of our three-year moratorium, Dymally said he hearts, for your coming all the way over to would propose to the U.S. Congress to con ignoring problems of extreme injustice our town of Taiji for inspection. trol whaling by selecting certain species.e in black African nations across the As you know, our town, Taiji, historically continent. has been the whaling town. For some 700 COMMEMORATING THE 30TH According to recent press reports, years, we have developed whaling as the ANNIVERSARY OF ROLL CALL more than 50,000 people were killed means of our livelihood. Right now, this during Idi Amin's reign of terror in whaling business, with its age-long tradition SPEECH OF Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Since and of vital importance to our livelihood, is Apollo Milton Obote assumed the on the verge of extinction under interna HON. E de Ia GARZA tional pressure. presidency in 1980, more than 100,000 We, as much as any others, wholly agree oF TEXAs Ugandan civilians have died in a cam- that we should pay full attention to the pro IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . paign against antigovernment activi- tection of all species on earth from extinc Thursday, June 27, 1985 ties. tion, especially the species of whales. How • Mr. DE LA GARZA. Mr. Speaker I Last year, Kenya sent government ever, we can never agree with the ideas of came to the Congress 20 years ago, trOOJ?S into its turbulent northeast those people who try to steal away from us and Sid Yudain had already been provmce. Thousands of Degodia men our profession and livelihood based on a long tradition, by condemning whaling on plunking away on the Roll Call type- were ~ounded up and. faced torture. the ground of humanitarianism. writer for 10 years. I figure anyone Degodia wome~ and children were told Various countries have developed differ who can stick it out for 30 years de- to vacate their homes, which were ent emotional views of things in accordance serves a hat tipped in his direction. then burned. More than 300 people with their own natural environments and And tip my Stetson I will. The Roll died in 1 day-February 10, 1984. [respective] histories. As an example, the Call paper is uniquely Capitol Hill. Since a group of military officers Hindus regard, even today, the slaughtering Businesses and corporations have seized control in Nigeria more than a of cows as a sin against their gods. Their their in-house newsletters where em- year ago, that country's media-once view is incompatible with the view of many people of your country and many other ployee feats and foibles find their way the freest in Africa-has been severely countries of the world, where cows are the into print-but Roll Call is the king of restricted. Because the restrictions greatest source of nutrition. them all. were also made retroactive, journalists We, as members of a free society, can You can find items in Roll Call that became liable for what they had al never agree with those people of the Green you'll never find in any other newspa- ready written or broadcast. The ac Peace Party, who force their emotional per in the country. It's a more or less cused, who must prove their inno ideas on people of other countries, disre discreet microphone along the corri- cence, can be jailed for a period of up garding the historical background of such dors of Congress-and the discreeter to 2 years; news organizations face a other countries. It is the teachings of God the better. Mr. Yudain has kept the minimum fine of $13,000 or can be that we should mutually respect the feel ings and beliefs of others. We think that tol personal touch-letting us know closed for up to a year. erance and consideration of other human what's going on with us. Since the overthrow of Haile Selas- beings are the basis of a free society. We do June 26 marked Roll Call's 30th an- sie in Ethiopia in 1974, the Communist not deny, of course, that commonly shared niversary and I, for one, hope Sid Moscow controlled government has feeling and ideas might develop among dif Yudain pulls it off for another 30 closed or taken over more than 2,000 ferent races through long international re years. He has put out a first-rate pro- churches. Many priests and pastors lationships. fessional publication that over the have been jailed. We believe that a majority, at the least, of years has earned the respect of Mem- Repression is not unique to South the people of the United States of America, bers, Senators, and their staffs. We Africa. The overwhelming majority of the country of continued great prosperity and the great vanguard of free society, congratulate him on his achieve- African nations have a dismal record would not agree with the way the Interna ments.e on terror, human rights, justice and tional Whaling Commission forces its ideas equality. We cannot be selective in ex unilaterally on us common people and tries pressing our outrage over such prob to deprive us of our livelihood and profes APARTHEID SITUATION lems.e sion that we have developed through gen erations from our ancestors to the present HON. ELDON RUDD THE EMPIRE STRIKES FIRST over many centuries. OF ARIZONA It is a great honor for us to be able to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES present our views directly to you here in HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO Tuesday, July 9, 1985 person. It is our sincere hope that you will OF CALIFORNIA convey our views to as many Americans as • Mr. RUDD. Mr. Speaker, the House IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES possible upon your return to your country. recently passed legislation to impose We pray for the continued prosperity of Tuesday, July 9, 1985 your family and your country. We, all the strict economic sanctions against people of the town of Taiji, sincerely hope South Africa in an effort to move that e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, that you and your wife will visit our town nation away from its practice of apart we hear a lot these days about alleged again. heid. "violations of the ABM Treaty" by the 18276 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 United States in pursuing its "star partners." Meanwhile, "'the U.S.A. is ac is critically important to the legisla wars," or strategic defense initiative cused of wanting to militarize outer space." tive process. [SDIJ research program designed to What else can be said, except perhaps And Stanley Johnson has been, ascertain the feasibility of destroying that a CIA report shows the Soviets moving rapidly toward a nationwide missile defense quite simply, one of the very best. Soviet ballistic missiles in flight before system? The ABM Treaty allowed each su Stanley's honesty and integrity have they detonate on American and Euro perpower to put a missile shield over one been of the highest order. His respon pean soil. Much propaganda emanates city. The U.S.S.R. already had one-the siveness had been unrivaled, his wit in from the Kremlin about how Presi Galosh system-around Moscow. The U.S. fectious, and his wits first rate. No dent Reagan's Star Wars Program is had none-and still doesn't. The Soviets are matter what time or what the level of scuttling any hopes for an arms con now upgrading their radar and missile inter difficulty, Stanley has been so often trol agreement in the near future. The ceptor hardware so as to extend the Galosh system far beyond Moscow-all of this, mind the one that we in the House and our Americans, we are told, are to blame you, quite apart from Soviet Star Wars re colleagues in the Senate have turned for this undesirable state of affairs. seach. to for factual or analytical work. He Such arguments are nonsense, Mr. Something for President Reagan to always delivered. Speaker, and we all know it. Not only ponder as he perpares to meet Comrade Stanley Johnson's career and specif is the SDI treaty-compliant-and will Gorbachev at the summit.e ic responsibilities have spanned the remain so-as President Reagan, Cap period during which virtually all of Weinberger, George Shultz, and Paul the Nation's major environmental laws Nitze, and others have told us, but the ONE OF THE CITY'S BEST were written: The 1972 Federal Water Soviets are also pursuing their own Pollution Control Act Amendments, SDI, and are ahead of the United HON. GENE SNYDER the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act and States in ballistic missile defense OF KENTUCKY Ocean Dumping Act, the 1976 Re [BMDl capabilities. In fact, the Sovi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES source Conservation and Recovery ets have poured billions of dollars into Tuesday, July 9, 1985 Act, the 1977 Clean Water Act and strategic defenses, and maintain and Clean Air Act Amendments, the 1980 are upgrading the world's only oper e Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, while Superfund law, and the 1984 Resource ational BMD site around Moscow. we are back home for the Fourth of Conservation and Recovery Act They have also violated the ABM July district work period, a significant Amendments. And this is only a par Treaty by building a huge ABM radar event occurred which should not be al tial list. Stanley's involvement in the complex near Krasnoyarsk. lowed to go unnoticed. Stanley John development of all of these laws was As the following Washington Times son, one of Washington's true profes significant. His impact, in every in editorial points out, Soviet Defense sionals, retired from Texaco after a stance, was substantial. He leaves a Minister Sokolov recently "handed out long and illustrious career as Texaco's legacy and record of accomplishment research contracts for a space defense chief lobbyist on environmental issues. that speaks for itself, that-in a system to his East Bloc colleagues at In that capacity, Stanley Johnson has word-is remarkable. the April 26 summit in Warsaw." So been one of the finest, most outstand As Stanley Johnson closes this chap much for a "unilateral U.S. program ing, most responsible individuals that I ter in his life and begins the next, I'd to destroy the delicate nuclear bal and my colleagues have had the pleas just like to take this opportunity to ance" or "Reagan's plans to militarize ure of interacting with over the course say-on behalf of all of us who have the heavens." I urge my colleagues to of almost 15 years. already benefited and, by virute of his review the Times editorial and consid It might be worthwhile to focus for impact on the laws he leaves behind, er the amount of propaganda flowing a minute on the tremendously impor will continue to benefit from his true from Moscow on this topic versus the tant, even essential, role that true pro professionalism: Thanks, Stanley true motives of the Soviets regarding fessionals like Stanley play in the de Johnson, for a job well done and best strategic defenses. velopment of our Nation's laws. of luck in whatever you choose to do No matter what the issue or what with the remainder of what already [From The Washington Time's, July 9, side of the issue, the profession of lob 1985] has been a rare and truly impressive byist is much maligned in some cor life.e THE EMPIRE STRIKES FIRST ners. But those of us who deal on a Yuri Zhukov, chariman of the home chapter of the World Peace Council, making legislative decisions affecting FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF told his group last March 30 that "mankind the present and future welfare of our THE POCONO MOUNTAIN is menaced by the Star Wars plans on whose implementation U.S. military specialists are Nation and its people understand the CENTER OF THE ARTS working so zealously ..." This is the key critical role that people like Stanley note of a campaign being pursued worldwide play in helping us understand the im by Soviet fronts and useful idiots. portance of the issues we deal with HON. JOSEPH M. McDADE Last month, Juergen Todenhoefer, a nu and the impact of the decisions we are OF PENNSYLVANIA clear arms adviser to West German Chan called on to make. Without the Stan IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cellor Helmut Kohl, told the Associated ley Johnsons of the world, the Con Press that "Moscow's Defense Minister gress would not have all of the kind of Tuesday, July 9, 1985 [Sergei] Sokolov handed out research con information it needs to knowledgeably • Mr. McDADE. Mr. Speaker, today I tracts for a space defense system to his East bloc colleagues at the April 26 summit in develop and pass laws that are truly am introducing legislation that will di Warsaw" and that East Germany "among reflective of the best interests of the rectly benefit over 10 million people other things, is being relied upon in the Nation. living in the Pennsylvania, New York, areas of photoelectronics, technical measur It is true that Stanley and others and New Jersey corridor-and this ing, and precision engineering. Another like him are not just information pro benefit will be at no cost to the Feder main supplier is Czechoslovakia." Mr. To viders. They are also advocates who al taxpayer. denhoefer's sources, according to the news bring a certain predefined position to The bill I am introducing today au paper Bild, are "secret Soviet documents at the legislative table. This advocacy thorizes the transfer, at the request of NATO" headquarters in Belgium. function is one that is basic to the role the Governor of the Commonwealth Mr. Todenhoefer called it "a political scandal that, while West Europe is bickering played by lobbyists and that is under of Pennsylvania, of 110 acres of the about whether to take part in research on a stood-and accounted for-by those of Delaware Water Gap National Recrea space weapons system, Moscow has been us in the Congress who deal with lob tion Area to the Commonwealth for working on its own for about 10 years and is byists on a daily basis. The important the purpose of establishing the moving forward with the help of its pact point, however, is that a good lobbyist Pocono Mountain Center of the Arts. July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18277 This project, similar to the Wolf Trap H.R. 2557 were designed to prevent high school drop Center for the Performing Arts in con outs. These programs were located in rural cept, will be built by the Common HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY and urban areas which had a high percent wealth. The center is projected to be age of children: ( 1 > from low income fami OF CALIFORNIA lies, and <2> that did not complete elementa self-financing. My legislation specifi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ry or secondary schooling. The projects cally prohibits any form of Federal Tuesday, July 9, 1985 were based on an analysis of why students funding for the project, including the were dropping out and had to be approved use of funds for routine maintenance, e Mr. DYMALLY. Mr. Speaker, I re by the State Education Agency. Appropria security, utilities, site construction, cently testified before the Subcommit tions ranged from $30,000,000 in 1969 to tee on Postsecondary Education re $33,000,000 in 1976. planning, or parking areas. This Title VIII-the dropout prevention pro project must compete on its own sub garding H.R. 2557. I wish to share my testimony with the Members of the gram-was authorized under section 807 of stantial merits. House. the Elementary and Secondary Education There are several reasons why the The testimony follows: Act. For fiscal years 1969 and 1970, Con Pocono Mountain Center of the Arts gress appropriated $5,000,000 annually. H.R. 2557 These funds supported 10 projects. In 1971, should be established: Mr. Chairman, distinguished colleagues of the appropriation was increased to The facility would be a direct benefit the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Educa $10,000,000 and a total of 19 projects was to over 10 million people living within tion. I appear before you in support of H.R. supported. a 90-minute drive of the center, pro 2557, a piece of legislation which I intro The Title VIII projects followed many dif viding unmatched cultural and educa duced, and which I hope will be included in ferent strategies to reduce the dropout rate. the Higher Education Act of 1985. The uni Some organized alternative schools, learn tional opportunities for both perform versity-high school partnership bill has the ing centers and began work-study programs. ing artists and art patrons. capability of making significant impacts on Others offered after-school programs and The economic benefit of the project the quality of education which will be af summer camps. Still others established spe is substantial. The Delaware Water forded to very special groups of nontradi cial academic programs, individualized in tional students-the educationally disadvan struction, reading labs, community liaison Gap National Recreation Area relies taged, potential dropouts, pregnant adoles assistance, and teacher-student "buddy" sys heavily on tourism. It has been esti cents and teen parents, and the gifted and tems. mated by the Commonwealth of Penn talented students of this great and prosper However, none of these programs attempt sylvania that for every $1 invested in ous nation of ours. ed to merge several approaches, and as a the facility, $1.80 will be returned to The Honorable Mario Biaggi, the distin result, none sought the goal of the universi the local economy. guished gentleman from the 19th Congres ty-high school partnership bill-which is to sional District of New York, expressed ex merge successful concepts and approaches Because of the nature of the arts tremely cogent remarks on the topic of non onto a total pattern of addressing the drop center, it will dramatically round out traditional students in a July 3rd article out rate. the recreational, educational, and cul which appeared in "The Chronicle of A recent report by President Reagan's tural attractions of the region. In addi Higher Education." Discussing his personal Commission on Industrial Competitiveness tion, more people would be drawn to education experience, Mr. Biaggi stated, "In the other fine facilities of the Dela reason to support them than the traditional." And, while the points about our youth: is currently defined by the National bulk of his text was geared to the adult stu 1. That the high school dropout rate in Park Service as being underutilized. dent, his logic for support of the nontradi our secondary schools is contributing to the This project is in demand. Already, tional student appropriately applies to large development of a growing, permanent un numbers of special students for whom this derclass in our society. Twenty-six percent the mere mention of this arts center legislation was created. of all students enrolled in school dropout. has sparked the interest of four sym The university-high school partnership At this rate, our Nation is producing in phonies and an opera company who bill will give support to partnerships by pro excess of 1 million dropouts annually. In ad would like to make the Pocono Moun viding grants to institutions of higher edu dition, the dropout rate among minorities is tain Center of the Arts their summer cation and local education agencies that substantially higher-40 percent for black home. Nearby East Stroudsburg Uni have agreements to develop activities which Americans and 43 percent for Hispanics. will enable secondary students to improve One out of three of all American Indians versity has expressed interest in estab their academic skills, to increase their op and Alaskan Natives leaves school before lishing a curriculum program in per portunities to continue education after high graduating. forming arts education at the center. school, and to improve their prospects for 2. New approaches are required to address One of the most telling arguments employment after high school. Businesses, the problem of school dropouts and stem labor organizations, professional associa this loss of human resources. National at for this legislation is the fact that the tions, community-based organizations or tention must be focused on the severity of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is public or private associations or agencies the problem, and if the dropout rate contin eager to build the arts center. The may also sign onto the partnership agree ues to accelerate, part of an entire genera State is standing by with $6 million ment. tion could be lost to the productive process ready to invest in the construction of The phenomenon of dropouts (persons es of creating workers for and contributors the Pocono Mountain Center of the who are not enrolled in school and who to this society. have not graduated from high school or re The overriding recommendation of the Arts. In addition, the State has estab ceived the G.E.D. certificate> from our edu Commission was for a national partnership lished a private, noprofit organization cational systems is not a new one, and, to be established between the Federal Gov to operate and manage the facility. indeed, it is one which the Federal Govern ernment and the private sector to address Only one thing is asked of the Fed ment at one time provided financial assist the dropout problem. The purpose of this eral Government: Can we transfer ance to a small number of school districts partnership would be to coordinate special for the purpose of preventing students from services in the school setting, and to give in unused land in an existing national dropping out of high school. tensive help to those students most at risk. park to enhance the use and beauty of Today, however, Title VIII of the Elemen This legislation, the university-high school the entire region? Can we contribute tary and Secondary Education Act is no partnership bill, specifically addresses this as much to the region as the Common longer authorized and some 16,000 school recommendation and goes a step further by wealth of Pennsylvania has contribut districts of our Nation are faced with a 25 providing an avenue of totally coordinated percent dropout rate for all students ninth educational services for high school drop ed to the National Park System? I through 12th grade. outs which could be offered in a variety of think we can. I urge my colleagues to In its heyday <1969-1976> the Elementary settings all of which would be academic. support me in this effort.e and S.econdary Education Amendments of In addition, the university-high school 1967 was authorized to partnership bill is based on a provision of make grants available to local educational the children's survival bill , San Diego and Fresno . Today only about 80 kids showed up be 5. They were offered a job, and they The State of North Carolina runs two cause it is the planting season and the kids wanted to work. major dropout specific programs. One pro must help in the fields so the fa.."llily can One particular category of dropouts who gram, the dropout prevention/Job place eat. Even with one third of the students need immediate attention by the university ment program operates in 73 secondary missing there were not enough benches for high school partnership bill is the pregnant school districts. This program serves 14 to all the kids to sit down. adolescents and teen parents. 21 year olds who are experiencing academic This school is different from many be In 1980, national statistics revealed that and other difficulties associated with a high cause there were a few books visible in the 48 percent of all teen births were out of probability of dropping out. Each of the classroom. Usually there are no books. The wedlock. In 1982, 14.2 percent of all babies participating local education agencies has teachers made the 12 hour trip to Teguci born were born to women under the age of formed partnerships with private sector or galpa to get books for their students. They 20, and today <1985) the figure approaches ganizations, and education and social serv were hoping for another teacher this year 16 percent. ices agencies. but with 20,000 unemployed teachers and In California <1982), 55,365 babies were The other program, the Extended Day thousands more graduating each year Hon born to teenagers 15 to 19 years of age <12.4 Program, helps dropouts complete their duras can afford to hire only about 100-200 percent of all births), and 773 babies were schooling. It serves persons with financial new teachers a year for the whole country. born to babies-teenagers under 15 years of problems or those unable to succeed in tra They were promised a new school last age. For black Americans the statistics are ditional school settings. Districts receiving year. The town gathered the sand, gravel more dramatic as 19.6 percent of all black funding under this program are determined and rocks and raised about $1500 for labor, babies were born to mothers 15 to 19 years on a "need" basis which is determined by a but so far the promised materials, etc. have of age. It is no secret that high school drop formula applied by the State Department of not appeared. Since this is a political year outs are more likely to be poor and more public instruction. there is not to much hope they will appear. July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18279 For the cost of one helicopter flight those In 1983, the Twentieth Century fidence as they fully assimilate the kids could have new desks. Of course that Fund reached the following conclusion culture of their adopted Nation.e many desks wouldn't fit in the existing in its report on Federal elementary building . . . For the cost of one day in Te gucigalpa for one soldier you have lf2 a and secondary education policy: School children to whom English is an A CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO month's pay for a teacher ROY FERRIN, OUTGOING The amazing thing is how hard the kids alien language are being cheated if it re try. Most of the kids today had rubber flip mains unfamiliar to them; they will never PRESIDENT OF THE HARBOR flops on. In many schools they are bare swim in the American mainstream unless CITY CHAMBER OF COM foot ... Few have more than one change of they are fluent in English. MERCE clothing. Some have just the clothes on Why, then do we continue to pour their backs. scarce Federal dollars into the unpro HON.GLENNM.ANDERSON I'm not trying to tell you a sob story. In ven bilingual educational approach? many ways it is not sad because although To continue to rely on a concept OF CALIFORNIA the people are poor, hungry, etc. etc. they which may actually inpede the assimi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES always have the goodness, the richness of lation of young people with limited Tuesday, July 9, 1985 human spirit to offer food, drink, rest to visitors. Sometimes it shames me. Today I English into American society has a e Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, on went to check on Donna Sheila who has tragic result; it keeps many linguistic July 12, the Harbor City Chamber of been sick for two days. She got up from her minorities forever on the fringes of Commerce will hold its installation chair to give it to me and then tried to give our society. dinner for 1985-86 officers and direc me mangoes. The woman is old, sick, be I am not claiming that special assist tors. Among those to be honored is cause she can't afford to eat enough variety ance should not be given to those with Roy Ferrin, outgoing president of the of food, and yet she gives joyfully and freely limited English. Indeed, since the deci to me. And I must take at least part of what chamber. sion to admit large numbers of immi A native of South Dakota, Roy is a she gives because otherwise I'll offend her, grants and refugees to our country insult her. Honduras needs jobs, education, graduate of San Pedro High School jobs, health care, jobs, fairer distribution of was a Federal one, clearly the Federal and California State University at land not military "aid." This just plunges Government has an obligation to pro Long Beach. Today, Roy is president them deeper in debt. Sometimes I think if vide training and services to those who of Ferrin Woodworking, a family all of us, me included, would just pull out are new to our shores. However, that owned business in the Harbor City1 and let them alone they would do much service should have as its goal inte Lomita area since 1947. better. grating the new individuals into our Any way thanks for hearing my rantings. society, not promoting the segregation In addition to his service at the I've come to love Honduras these years of immigrants. chamber, Roy is past district governor here, and admire and respect the people. It If bilingual education has been tried of Lions International <1973-74> and is make me sad, ashamed, angry to see how for 10 years and found wanting, then in his lOth year of service as treasurer the US manipulates Honduras. It makes no intensive training in English has dem of the Lomita/Harbor City Lions Club. sense to me to be spending and lending so It's important to note that it was Roy many millions of dollars here to defend onstrated great effectiveness in but a short, experimental period. To quote who founded the successful Lions against communism by aggravating the situ "Hear" program for the hearing im ation. A well educated, healthy country the Washington Post, paired. where there are job opportunities is not No approach rodeo. Although language's role in the creation of conflict is istrative policy must make keeping the peace alive a high priority for each new there was much work to be done as a becoming increasingly greater .... Words ranch hand, there was no money with are ... the only tools available to bring the leader. change in the minds and hearts of men and This is how to establish peace, Mr. Gro which to pay the hands. More often women and children around the world that rnyko and Mr. Shultz, but just like the car, than not, a ranch hand would be paid must occur if there is to be peace. if it is not fed with new ideas and friendly with a meal, or with livestock. In the actions, it will sit in the driveway and rot rodeo, a good month's wage could be Having recently met with the Reis away.e man family, I am pleased to insert in made with a 60-second ride. But, ac the RECORD at this time the words and cording to Earl, you had to be "good to thoughts of Jill Reisman, a ninth EARL BASCOM: AN AMERICAN win and you had to win to keep grader at Palmetto Junior High HERO going." Earl was a winner. School, one of the winners of the 1985 In addition to riding in rodeo events, Dade County Student Essay Contest. Bascom tried his hand at being a In her essay, "The Peace Prize," Jill HON. JERRY LEWIS rodeo clown. The job of a clown is par points out that: OF CALIFORNIA ticularly more dangerous than actual The most important thing needed to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES riding, for it was the clown's responsi achieve peace is the desire to have it .... Tuesday, July 9, 1985 bility to protect the rider from a Second is the willingness needed to make raging bronco or bull. But Earl's love the changes and the compromises peace re • Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. for riding prevailed, and in the mid quires. Speaker, it is with great pride that I thirties, he took the rodeo on the road I hope and trust Jill will maintain rise today to recognize the achieve and directed the first one in the State her convictions and work to bring ments of a man I truly admire; a man of Mississippi. them to fruition. Her insight and whose accomplishments have served as Along with his many other honors those of the other essay winners is inspiration to countless young Ameri and titles, Earl was named "Rodeo's sorely needed in these troubled times. cans over the years. On June 19, 1985, First Collegiate Cowboy" in 1940. Mr. Earl W. Bascom of Victorville, CA, THE PEACE PRIZE Acting on his strong desire to further celebrated his 79th birthday. His son, his education, Bascom used the money John, wrote me to tell me about the The date is January 7, 1985. U.S. Secre he earned by riding in rodeos to fi tary of State George Shultz and Soviet De birthday celebration, and in his letter, nance his entire 4-year course of study fense Minister Andrei Grornyko are seated he told me about Earl's latest honor: at Brigham Young University. Earl in a small room in Geneva, Switzerland dis During recent ceremonies at the Cana now spends his time on his ranch in cussing arms reductions and U.S.-Soviet re dian Finals Rodeo in Edmonton, Al Victorville, CA, translating his rodeo lations. It has been almost two years since berta, Earl Bascom was inducted into experience into magnificent works of leaders representing the two superpowers the Canadian Rodeo Hall of Fame. art. Working in bronze, Bascom's have met. Very few Americans have been hon sculptures depict, for the most part, Sitting in between them is Nobel Peace ored in this manner, and Mr. Bascom Prize winner Jill Reisman, who begins to rodeo scenes. He has also done excep speak: is the first Californian ever to be in tional works of general western cul Although from the outside your nations ducted. Ten thousand rodeo fans were ture. look tough and hardened, you are brought on hand for the ceremony which was Mr. Speaker, in light of Earl Bas together time and time again by a secret broadcast for Canadian television com's extraordinary career, his re desire for peace that stabs you from within. viewers. markable talents and the example he You become excited when the sound of ne Alberta province was the site of Bas has set as an inspirational American, I gotiations catches your ears, but when the com's first rodeo in 1916. Since then, music dies down you ask yourselves, "What take great pride in commending this has really changed?" To say the least, noth he's been traveling the rodeo circuit in great man to my colleagues here in ing much at all has changed. You sit the United States and Canada. His the House of Representatives. Earl through hours of talks pretending to corn special events included saddle bronc, Bascom's contributions to our national promise with each other, but in reality, you bull and bareback riding and steer heritage will be remembered for many are doing nothing at all. In reality you are wrestling. In 1933, Earl was named Re years to come.e fooling yourselves, thinking you can have it serve North American Champion at all without giving up a little first. Calgary and set a new world record The most important thing needed to time for Steer Decorating. That year, SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO MONTAN achieve peace is the desire to have it. With DON EAGLE SCOUT AWARD out an intensely burning desire nothing can Bascom placed third in the world be changed. Second is the willingness rodeo standings. RECIPIENT needed to make the changes and the corn Earl's experience with horses and promises peace requires. Once that has been riding began when he was a boy. One HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS accomplished by both nations individually, of 11 children, he was raised on a OF PENNSYLVANIA the detente concept, or easing of tensions, ranch and worked with stock and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES must be established. This opens the door for horses for as long as he can remember. the exchange of knowledge. Trading of For fun, Earl and his brothers would Tuesday, July 9, 1985 ideas, technology, and culture is an impor tant part of the peace-making process be stage their own rodeos. Bascom re • Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, today I cause once the people of your nations have called, "We got a lot of practice riding would like to recognize the achieve realized how similar and interesting they anything that walked, crawled, or ment of Mr. Todd David Whitmyer, a both are, a sense of closeness can arise be bucked." constituent of mine from Montandon, tween them. None of these goals though, Early in the 1920's, the young rodeo PA. On Sunday, July 14, 1985, family can be reached without trust in one an star created two pieces of rodeo equip and friends will gather at the Montan other. This main ingredient makes possible ment that have become standard in all don Baptist Church to witness the a state of detente which in turn brings professional rodeos throughout the presentation of the highest achieve about many other benefits. As soon as suspi United States, Canada, and Australia. ment in Boy Scouting-the coveted cion is removed and belief in each other fills the gap, peaceful relations will fall into Rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle Eagle Scout Award-to Mr. Whitmyer, place naturally. was designed and made by Bascom in a member of Troop 522. Once peace has been reached it cannot be 1922, and in 1924, he introduced the As a young citizen, Mr. Whitmyer left alone with no one to nurture it. It must first one-handed bareback rigging. has displayed his energetic capabilities July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18281 by participating in many different tremendously to give us a research and insure a continued educational oppor projects and community services technological edge that has been vital tunity for all and a continued national which have won him special merits of to America's national and internation drive toward educational excellence? honor. al economic well-being. All sides of the debate agree on the I am proud to congratulate Mr. But the questions are now being con key role of education, and agree on its Whitmyer, a recent graduate of Milton sidered on how we best protect that continued development. But the gap is High School, for his outstanding con role in an age of tight Government wide in how to reach this goal. The tributions to the community. His un budgets. debate is a good, healthy one for our selfish attitude toward others has set The Carnegie Foundation for the Nation and our education system. But an example for the rest of us to follow. Advancement of Teaching issued a the stakes are extremely high, thou I am honored to have an individual recent report which stated: sands of lives and our national eco like him in my district.e The current debate about national prior nomic future will be affected. This ities has focused almost exclusively on debate demands our attention and res budget numbers and on the negatives of AMENDMENT TO DEFENSE higher education. The larger perspective olution.• AUTHORIZATION BILL has been lost • • • Educational obligations are increasing, and Federal support for col BOB GARCIA ON BOOSTING leges and universities must increase too • • • HON. DONALD J. PEASE For the Washington debate to focus almost PUERTO RICO OF OHIO exclusively on how much education costs is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to neglect the larger questions: How much HON. JACK F. KEMP Tuesday, July 9, 1985 of America's human resources can we afford OF NEW YORK to waste? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES • Mr. PEASE. Mr. Speaker, I want to Weighing in with another point of note the passage of an amendment to view was an editorial in the Greens Tuesday, July 9, 1985 the fiscal year 1986 defense authoriza burg Tribune-Review which conclud • Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, Puerto tion bill which I offered last week. My ed: Rico's Governor, Rafael Hernandez amendment will require the Secretary Higher education deserves strong backing. Colon, has recently unveiled a propos of Defense to adopt a fuel conserva Our future depends on it. But the support al that promises to help revitalize tion plan and send to Congress within should come primarily from those using the Puerto Rico's economy and give a 90 days a report on its progress. The colleges and universities. Society benefits in much-needed boost to the Caribbean savings over 3 years is projected to be a general way and this justifies some gener Basin Initiative. My friend and distin $1.2 billion. al help. But the chief beneficiaries are indi viduals. They should pay their bills directly, guished colleague, BoB GARCIA, ex The Department of Defense used 7.5 plained this proposal in a piece in the billion gallons of gasoline in fiscal year while making sure they are getting a solid return on their investment. The control Washington Times, and noted the cru 1981. This is 80 percent of the total should lie with the consumer, not the gov cial role the utilization of section 936 Federal Government usage. In the ernment. of the Internal Revenue Code will play same year, they spent $5.7 billion for With such differences of viewpoint, in its success. I commend this article aviation fuel alone. Despite the magni it is essential that Congress get a firm and the sound thinking behind these tude of money involved, the Depart ideas, to my colleagues. ment did not have an aircraft fuel handle on the direction we want to go. management program. My amendment The decisions for at Jeast the remain BOOSTING PuERTO RICO will correct this oversight and require der of the century are before us now. In his inaugural address this January, the In budget deliberations, how will the governor of Puerto Rico, Rafael Hernandez the Department of Defense to design student aid and loan programs be Colon, announced an innovative plan that and implement a fuel conservation structured, and what families in Amer would give the Caribbean Basin Initiative a program. ica will qualify for these funds? In the much needed shot in the arm, as well as This amendment is a result of one of tax debate, what incentives shall help Puerto Rico's ailing economy. the five bills that I introduced earlier The governor intends to achieve this goal this session to implement various rec remain for charitable contributions as by making available a portion of corporate ommendations of the Grace Commis colleges try to offset government aid funds accrued by utilizing section 936 of the sion. with private donations, and what in Internal Revenue Code. centives shall there be for basic re Section 936 is a tax break which permits I want to thank the chairman, Con search at universities and for corpo U.S. mainland corporations to earn tax-free gressman LEs AsPIN, and the other rate donations advancing this re profits from their Puerto Rico-based affili members of the House Armed Services search? ates. In addition, most of these corporations Committee for accepting my amend In the research field, how can gov often deposit their 936 earnings in Puerto ment. I hope they will stand by it Rican banks to take advantage of a Puerto ernment grants be used best and divid Rican tax law which reduces the tollgate without change when they go to con ed among the widest range of qualified ference.e tax that would otherwise be levied on the schools? In the civil rights field, we repatriation of these profits to the main face legislation in coming weeks to land. CROSSROADS AT THE HIGHER insure the continued adherence of As of last September, there were $6.7 bil EDUCATION DEBATE title IX, and what role shall the gov lion in deposits in Puerto Rican banks as a ernment play in working for nondis result of this program. The depository crimination and equal educational op banks under Puerto Rican law are required HON. JOHN P. MURTHA to redeposit 10 percent of these funds OF PENNSYLVANIA portunities? some $670 million at the moment-in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We dramatically face these problems Puerto Rican Development Bank. Until in Pennsylvania. The typical minimum now, that bank has used these funds for in Tuesday, July 9, 1985 cost of a year's education at the Penn vestments in the mainland, which has little e Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, Amer sylvania State University-our land direct benefit for development in Puerto ica is engaging in one of the healthiest grant college designed to insure an Rico. The governor intends to make these and most important debates of recent educational opportunity for the sons funds available on a concessionary basis to decades on the relationship between and daughters of the working people Puerto Rican companies willing to set up twin plants in Puerto Rico and Caribbean Government and higher education. of the Commonwealth-is $6,500 a Basin nations. No one in the debate is challenging year, or $26,000 for a 4-year education. The twin-plant concept is fairly simple: a the cornerstone of college education in How can the State and Federal Gov corporation would begin manufacturing a America-we have the finest education ernments, work together with indus product in a CBI nation-the labor-intensive system in the world, and it has helped try, individuals, and communities to portion of that product-and complete the 18282 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 process in Puerto Rico-the capital-inten SKIN CANCER-PROGRESS IN and American Academy of Dermatology say sive or more technical part of the manufac SCREENING PROGRAMS everyone should examine their skin month turing process. At least 20 percent of the ly. value of the product must come from Most cancers can be surgically removed, Puerto Rican plants. HON. RICHARD C. SHELBY but early detection is critical to a cure, says This concept makes it even more crucial OF ALABAMA Joann Schellenbach, American Cancer Soci to preserve the 936 tax break in the face of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ety spokesman. Treasury Department and congressional Tuesday, July 9, 1985 To aid detection, the groups offer What threats to eliminate or moderate it in a tax You Should Know About Melanoma, includ reform package. The importance of 936 to • Mr. SHELBY. Mr. Speaker, as spon ing symptoms and photos of cancerous Puerto Rico's economy cannot be overesti sor of "National Skin Cancer Preven moles. The free pamphlet is available from tion and Detection Week," which gar cancer society chapters. Danger signs: mated. Approximately 25 percent of all sala Any change in existing moles or beauty ries paid in Puerto Rico are derived from nered the cosponsorship of 252 of my colleagues, and which set aside March marks. 936 firms either directly or indirectly, and Irregular borders around moles or other this is at a time when the unemployment 24-30 of this year to heighten our col markings. rate of Puerto Rico is hovering around 20 lective awareness of skin cancer, I am Moles that grow bigger than a standard percent. pleased to highlight a recent article on pencil eraser. Further, 936 firms account for 34 percent this subject appearing in USA Today. This year, more than 22,000 in the USA of Puerto Rico's gross domestic product, 20 Nearly 400 skin cancer screening will develop malignant melanoma; 5,500 will percent of its gross national product, 19 per programs are being carried out across die. cent of personal income, and 14 percent of the Nation by local and State affiliates "By the year 2000, 1 person in 100 will de government income. of the American Academy of Derma velop malignant melanoma sometime in The governor's plan is not completely tology, assisted by many volunteers their lifetime," says American Academy of new. A similar program is already being both dermatology physicians and lay Dermatology spokesman Gilbert Martin. It used by the Japanese. They have actively can take 30 years of suntanning before skin persons. In my own State of Alabama, cancer shows up. developed a manufacturing process that em a number of clinics are scheduled to phasizes captial-intensive or higher-value Ultraviolet rays are the major cause of operate throughout the summer. skin cancers. The best protection is to avoid added manufacturing. The Japanese farm In Gadsden, AL, over 400 people out the labor-intensive portion of the proc the sun, and that's been the point of the ess to other nations in the region which are were screened, illuminating several group's ad campaign "Fry Now, Pay Later." better equipped to produce that part of the cases of skin cancer. The number of Since March, the American Academy of cases diagnosed was larger than ex Dermatology has sponsored 286 free detec product. tion clinics; 100 more are planned.e Puerto Rico would like to become the pected from the size of the population Japan of the Caribbean Basin, and Gov. and when viewed in comparison with Hernandez Colon believes it is possible. The the national average for skin cancers. THE "JUSTICE" DEPARTMENT key to Puerto Rico's success is the preserva The cities of Huntsville and Birming tion of 936. ham will serve as screening center lo The CBI was developed on two basic prin cations later this summer. HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. ciples, duty-free access to U.S. markets and Also of interest is a provocative new OF KENTUCKY tax incentives. While the duty-free access technique in the screening effort now IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was written into the legislation-nations get being demonstrated on channel 6 Tuesday, July 9, 1985 12 years of access to U.S. markets-the tax nightly news in Birmingham. The me incentives have never materialized. By using teorologist uses a sunburn meter to • Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, more 936-related funds, tax incentives-that is, in measure ultraviolet light and to indi and more Americans are becoming vestment incentives-would finally become a cate a sunburn index-from low to aware that the U.S. Justice Depart part of the CBI. dangerous. Dr. W. Mitchell Sams, Jr., ment is the most politically conscious, Finally, the worthiness of any program professor and chairman of the Depart politically active agency in our Federal can be measured by the willingness of ment of Dermatology at the Universi Government. people to try it out. The governor of Puerto ty of Alabama in Birmingham, was Newspapers across the Nation con Rico decided to put his brainchild to the tain articles about the activities of the test by taking a trip to Grenada with a active in the development of the sun burn meter. He is attempting to imple Justice Department on an almost daily group of executives representing potential basis. Recently, stories appeared in twin-plant investors. This group met with ment the idea throughout the State and Nation. Washington and Texas newspapers Grenadian Prime Minister Herbert Blaize. about the timing of a special election As a result of that meeting, Johnson & As the USA Today article illustrates, Johnson, Schering-Plough, and Smithkline the American Cancer Society has in Texas' First Congressional District Beckman corporations, as well as Prime become extaordinarily active in publi vacancy that was created when the Minister Blaize, have all committed them cizing the issue of skin cancer. We are Democratic incumbent in the House of selves to participating in the governor's pro now seeing serious prevention efforts Representatives, Hon. SAM B. HALL, gram if 936 is left intact. take hold-the increasing use and pop JR., was appointed to a Federal judge Gov. Hernandez Colon recently stated ularity of the self-test for skin cancer ship. that Puerto Rico " ... share[sl [with] the is an example of this. Recognition is As reported, a letter was sent to United States [al stake in the political sta certainly due the dermatology profes Texas Governor Mark White-a Dem bility of the entire Caribbean and Central sion, cancer specialists and lay persons ocrat-by William Bradford Reynolds, America. We must become creative partici who are so prominent in the nation Assistant Attorney General for Civil pants in the region. By assisting our neigh wide prevention screeing programs. Rights at the Justice Department, in bors and the United States, we can also I submit the following article for my which unspecified legal action was assure our own prosperity." colleagues' and their constituents' en threatened because Texas had not The governor is right: we all have a stake sought clearance from the Depart in regional stability, and that stability can lightenment. [From USA Today, June 18, 19851 ment for the date of the election, an be best. achieved by working toward econom action Reynolds maintained is re ic prosperity. SELF-TESTS FIND SKIN CANCER EARLY quired by the Voting Rights Act. His program holds out hope for that pros The Justice Department's letter was perity. It costs nothing in direct aid, and it Alarmed by the dramatic rise in malignant received by Governor White on June offers a great deal of promise.e melanoma-the second-fastest growing cancer in the USA-experts are urging 27. monthly self-examinations. Although Texas officials claimed Just as doctors ask women to check breast such notification was not required, for cancer, the American Cancer Society they agreed to the review by the Jus- July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18283 tice Department and the election was an action Reynolds maintained is required from the Reserve, the choice of which held on June 29. The letter from As by the Voting Rights Act. technologies are most worthy of ad sistant Attorney General Reynolds White, who said such notification is not required, nonetheless agreed yesterday to vancing will be made largely by those produced confusion about the election submit to the review, and the election will in industry who will have to adopt and prompted complaints that it was a be held on schedule today. them for subsequent use. political ploy to hold down voter par The snafu over the notification rule, de We will have an opportunity to ap ticipation, as maintained by Texas signed to ensure that the timing of an elec propriate funds for this program in State Democratic Chairman Robert tion does not have a discriminatory effect, the fiscal year 1986 Interior appropria Slagle. produced news stories in Texas yesterday tions bill recently reported by the sub I believe my colleagues will be inter about the confusion and prompted state committee of the gentleman from Illi ested in reading some portions of news Democratic Chairman Robert Slagle to de nounce Reynolds' letter as "a political ploy nois [Mr. YATES]. accounts from various respected news to hold down voter participation." I commend Mr. Diamond's article to papers regarding another blatant, po The special election in the rural north my colleagues' attention as an aid to litically motivated act by the U.S. Jus eastern part of the state is being watched by understanding the importance of im tice Department. Democrats and Republicans alike as a ba plementing the Clean Coal Technolo First, the Dallas Morning News of rometer of realignment in the conservative, gy Reserve. solidly Democratic South. June 29, 1985: TECHNOLOGY-NEW METHODS To CLEAN COAL AusTIN.-Despite a last-minute threat by A Republican has not represented the dis the U.S. Justice Department, Gov. Mark trict in more than a century, but the leading The technology of burning coal is under White and Texas election officials said candidate in the eight-man field is Republi going what energy experts say is the largest Friday that the special election in the 1st can Edd Hargett, a farmer, engineer and advance in more than a century. Hundreds Congressional District will be held Saturday former football star at Texas A&M.e of companies are researching and applying as scheduled. methods to burn the traditionally dirty fuel The threat by the Justice Department to as cleanly as oil. They include large boiler seek legal action that could have delayed PROMISING CLEAN COAL makers, utilities and engineering companies the election and Democrat White's terse TECHNOLOGIES as well as small industries. reply that it was "misguided" brought a Some of the impetus stems for stricter en last-minute twist to the nationally watched vironmental laws to combat acid rain and HON. PHILIP R. SHARP toxic waste. Also, Congress late last year ap race. OF INDIANA Secretary of State Myra McDaniel, noting proved a $750 million clean coal fund-a reports of relatively heavy absentee voting, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES major new program in a shrinking energy predicted a turnout of 25 percent of the Tuesday, July 9, 1985 budget. The Electric Power Research Insti tute, the utility research arm, plans $582 339,158 registered voters. • Mr. SHARP. Mr. Speaker, I would In announcing that the election will be million for clean coal projects. Finally, it is held as scheduled Saturday, Ms. McDaniel like to call to my colleagues' attention believed that other conventional fuels-oil, agreed with White that the concern by the an article in today's New York Times gas, nuclear and hydropower-face uncer Justice Department was unwarranted. on some of the new clean coal technol tain futures. Late Thursday, White received a letter ogies. Written by Stuart Diamond, it "The nation stands at a threshold of fun from Assistant Attorney General William describes a few of the promising tech damental change in its technological base Bradford Reynolds saying that the gover for coal-fired generation," said Kurt E. nologies that place the Nation at a Yeager, the research institute's coal vice nor's setting of the date for the election was threshold of fundamental change in not "pre-cleared" with the Justice Depart president. ment. its technological base for coal-fired Coal is the nation's most abundant con In a brief reply to Reynolds Friday, White generation. ventional energy source, with reserves for said he appreciated the assistant attorney These technologies should be of 500 years at current use. Demand has risen general's "interest in this election" but it more than routine interest to us, be rapidly amid recent oil shocks. Coal now does not require pre-clearance. cause we have the opportunity to provides 56 percent of domestic electricity, Reynolds told White in his letter that if ensure that they are brought into up from 46 percent in 1973, and 23 percent the governor does not voluntarily comply, commercial use in time for the retro of all energy, up from 17 percent in 1973. legal action might be necessary. fits and/or additions to electrical gen But traditional coal burning emits sulfur White insisted in a statement distributed and nitrogen oxides, both acid rain compo to reporters Friday afternoon that he had erating capacity expected to be needed nents. Soot and fly ash cause further pollu "acted properly" in calling the election and in the 1990's. tion. that he felt the Justice Department was They can contribute to better air Recent efforts to clean the burning of coal "misguided in insisting on the need for fed quality, lower electricity costs, and in have been costly or imperfect. Electrostatic eral pre-clearance. crease the use of our abundant coal re precipitators trap flue gas particles on metal "I cannot understand why the Justice De serves. plates like dust to a cloth, but many parti partment waited until less than 48 hours In hearings before the Fossil and cles escape. Scrubbers can remove sulfur before this highly contested election to raise Synthetic Fuels Subcommittee, a vari from smokestack gases by injecting lime the issue," said White. stone and water, but each year one scrubber State Democratic Party Chairman Bob ety of witnesses have made it clear generates enough paste-like waste from a Slagle called the threat by the Justice De that it is not in the financial interest single large plant to cover a square mile one partment a "political ploy" by the Republi of any single electric utility to build foot deep. It also can add 40 percent to a cans to try to "hold down voter participa the first commercial-scale unit using plant's cost and use up to 8 percent of the tion in a last desperate effort to help the these new technologies. power output. Republican candidate Edd Hargett." It is equally clear, however, that it is The major new technology for sulfur re in the interest of the Nation as a moval is a fluidized bed. It extracts the Next, the Washington Post of June sulfur during combustion instead of in the 29: whole and all of us as consumers of stack. Conventionally, finely ground coal is Texas and federal officials resolved a last electricity, to commercialize these shot into a furnace and burns in midair. In minute squabble yesterday that briefly cast technologies before we are required to the new method, coal burns in a limestone doubt on the timing of a special election build new plants with expensive, inef bed agitated by air from below. Sulfur com today in Texas' 1st Congressional District, ficient scrubbers. bines with the linestone without water. Less but not before Democrats accused the Jus Congress last year authorized a $750 waste and furnace slagging results. Low tice Department of last-minute "meddling" million Clean Coal Technology Re quality fuel such as lignite, peat, garbage, to dampen voter turnout. serve with funding authority taken wood waste and cow manure can be used, The doubt arose Thursday when William from the Synthetic Fuels Corporation, without violating clean air laws. Bradford Reynolds, assistant attorney gen After a decade of research, commercializa eral for civil rights, wrote Gov. Mark White to assist in the commercialization of tion is starting, and it is estimated that 200 threatening unspecified legal action be these promising technologies. existing plants can use it. In Burnsville, cause Texas had not sought clearance from Because the private sector will have Minn., a $50 million, 125-megawatt unit is to the department of the date of the election, to share the cost of projects assisted open at a Northern States Power unit next 18284 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 year, with Foster Wheeler boilers. In Nucla, siers in national issues and a determi OIL INDUSTRY RESTRUCTURING Colo., a $35 million, 100-megawatt unit is to nation to make their opinions known RAISES QUESTIONS open in 1987 at Colorado Ute Electric, with Pyro-power Corporation boilers. Near Padu to those of us representing them in cah, Ky., a $220 million, 160-megawatt unit Washington. HON. JAMES J. FLORIO at a Tennessee Valley Authority plant is to The following is the results of the open in 1989, with Combustion Engineering OF NEW JERSEY 1985 questionnaire: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES boilers. At least 20 American and 32 foreign First, to reduce the budget deficit, companies are competing for the market, as Tuesday, July 9, 1985 are engineering concerns such as Stone & do you support spending reductions in Webster, Wormster, Burns & Roe, and all parts of the budget, including aid e Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, the Pope, Evans & Robbins. Several dozen in to cities, health, farm programs, edu withdrawal of a major oil company dustries have also built on planned units. cation, student aid programs, and de from significant refining and market Another technology is known as combined ing operations in the region that in cycle coal gasification. Coal, steam and fense? Yes, 70 percent; no, 30 percent. oxygen combine under pressure at very high Second, in an effort to reduce the cludes my district raises a number of temperatures, gasifying the coal. The gases deficit, would you support a 1-year, questions. An article from the Phila do double work. They turn a turbine to gen across-the-board freeze on Federal delphia Inquirer that I am here insert erate electricity, and then are burned in a ing in the RECORD describes a possible boiler, turning water to steam to generate spending at 1985 levels, including both swap of gas stations on the east coast more electricity in another turbine. The domestic and defense programs? Yes, for those owned by another oil major sulfur combines with hydrogen and can be 82 percent; no, 18 percent. on the west coast. removed for sale. One plant, Texaco's $284 Third, have you or your family been Recent oil industry restructuring million, 100-mega-watt Cool Water unit in hurt as a result of Federal cutbacks in Daggett, Calif., opened last year. Shell and has raised a variety of questions con CE-Lummus Crest are building one in Deer spending? Yes, 27 percent; no, 73 per cerning the impact of mergers, liquida park, Tex., and Potomac Electric Power of cent. tions, and market withdrawals on jobs, Washington is planning one. Fourth, should the annual Social Se energy supplies, and competition. To minimize nitrogen oxides' formation, curity cost-of-living increase There has been a good deal of debate utilities are adding newly developed burners be frozen if Congress adopts a budget lately regarding oil company mergers, that lengthen the combustion zone and but there are other issues that also de lower the temperature and oxygen concen freeze? Yes, 54 percent; no, 46 percent. tration. Fifth, should taxes be increased to serve attention. One question raised New flue gas cleanup methods include reduce the Federal budget? Yes, 23 by transactions involving the swapping capturing sulfur with magnesium oxide that percent; no, 77 percent. of assests in different markets is can be re-used after the sulfur is separated whether there could be a lessening of for sale. Philadelphia Electric and Essen Sixth, would you support a simpli competition as a result of withdrawal Chemical of Clifton, N.J., are using that fied, flat rate income tax system from certain markets by one company method. Other utilities are injecting a sub which lowers most tax rates but also and enhancement of the market posi stance similar to baking soda to capture the eliminates most credits and deduc tion of the company that displaces ti. sulfur. Indiana Power and Light, Research tions? Yes, 73 percent; no, 27 percent. Cottrell and others are testing electron If a situation amounting to market al beams to break up sulfur dioxide and nitro Seventh, in order to reduce the trade location arose, that could raise serious gen oxides and combine them with ammonia deficit, do you believe the United additional antitrust questions. to produce fertilizer for sale. States should impose the same restric Mr. Speaker, the restructuring going More utilities are also using baghouses, tions on its trading partners as they on now in the oil industry is having which act like big vaccum cleaners, to impose on U.S. exporters? Yes, 89 per troubling consequences in many areas remove particulates in higher-ash, lower of the country. This situation deserves quality coals. cent; no, 11 percent. New methods to clean coal before burning Eighth, should the United States greater attention from public officials include an emulsion that separates coal subsidize farm exports to meet compe and I urge Members of the House to from impurities. General Electric is experi tition from government who subsidize examine carefully the developments menting with microwaves, and TRW is using described in the article to which I molten sodium hydroxide to remove impuri exports from their farms? Yes, 39 per have referred. ties.• cent; no, 61 percent. The article follows: Ninth, in writing the 1985 farm bill, [From the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 30, THE ANNUAL ISSUES should Congress move toward a 19851 market-oriented policy, phasing out QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS ARCO AND MOBIL DISCUSSING SWAP OF farm subsidies? Yes, 83 percent; no, 17 SERVICE STATIONS HON. JOHN T. MYERS percent. OF INDIANA Tenth, do you support President Atlantic Richfield Co. yesterday con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Reagan's strategic defense initiative to firmed that it was holding talks with Mobil develop the capability to stop enemy Corp. over a possible swap of some of Arco's Tuesday, July 9, 1985 ballistic missiles and their warheads 2,000 service stations on the East Coast for e Mr. MYERS of Indiana. Mr. Speak before they strike the United States? some of Mobil's West Coast stations. er, each year, since coming to this Yes, 80 percent; no, 20 percent. In April, Arco, the nation's largest domes body I have asked my constituents tic gasoline marketer, announced that it Eleventh, do you believe U.S. vital planned to sell 1,000 service stations east of their views on issues before the Con interests are threatened by Soviet/ the Mississippi River and its 125,000-barrel gress. Therefore, I am happy to insert Cuba involvement in Central America? a-day refinery in Philadelphia as part of a in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD my Yes, 79 percent; no, 21 percent. major restructuring. weekly newsletter for July 2, 1985, list Since then, several potential buyers have ing the results of my 1985 poll. Twelfth, should the U.S. Govern approached Arco. They include at least The results of my annual issues ment provide assistance to famine three major oil and convenience-store com questionnaire are in! This year almost stricken nations in other parts of the panies: Southland Corp., which franchises 20,000 residents of the Seventh Con world? Yes, 60 percent; no, 40 per the 7-Eleven convenience stores; Sun Co. of cent.e Radnor, which markets Sunoco gasoline, gressional District responded to the and Shell Oil Co. poll which contained 12 questions on Yesterday, Mickey Parr, a spokesman in topics ranging from taxes, the deficit, Arco's Los Angeles headquarters, confirmed and foreign affairs. that Mobil Corp. had approached the com The large number of responses pany about a potential swap. He character shows an active interest among Hoo- ized the talks as being in the intial stage. July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18285 "We're obviously taking to a number of ic analysis argue for the broadest pos SUPPORT PRESIDENT REAGAN parties. We're anxious to sell. Our policy is sible distribution" of hydroelectric not to discuss them until there is something definite," he said. power and called H.R. 44 the fair and HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. A spokesman for Mobil, which is ranked sensible remedy. I would like to submit OF KENTUCKY fifth among U.S. gasoline marketers, said: a copy of the June 14, 1985 editorial "We are in very preliminary talks with Arco. for the RECORD. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We are looking at some of their stations, Mr. Speaker, thank you for this time Tuesday, July 9, 1985 and they are looking at some of ours in to remind my colleagues of this matter terms of a swap between East Coast and e Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, last West Coast outlets," he said. of vital importance to consumers month I received an excellent letter "This is absolutely standard procedure in throughout the Nation. from my constituent, Michael L. any market withdrawal," the Mobil spokes [From the New York Times, June 8, 1985] Keller of Salem, KY, which I believe man said. "All those companies in a market will be of interest to my colleagues. look at the withdrawee's assets and proper LET PuBLIC POWER BE TRULY PuBLIC Mike Keller, a registered pharmacist ties." Dams on rivers subject to Federal regula at Clinic Pharmacy in Salem, has A spokesman for Shell Oil Co. of Houston, tion produce $5 billion worth of electricity taken the time to share his comments the second-largest domestic gasoline mar each year at virtually no cost. Who should keter, also confirmed that it is considering with me in support of President Rea benefit? gan's initiatives to reduce individual acquiring Area's properties. Common sense and economic analysis "We are looking at Area's properties to see argue for the broadest possible distribution. income taxes and the Federal deficit. if any fit into our plans. We're always inter But because of a quirk in a 65-year-old law, At a time when the House and ested in good properties and will review the windfall may eventually go to a tiny Senate conferees are trying to agree them when they come to our attention," he fraction of Americans served by municipally upon a compromise for the fiscal year said. owned power companies. That is why a 1986 budget for Federal Government Neither Sun nor Southland said it has dis reform proposed by Representative Richard spending, I believe Mike Keller's views ucssed an offer for the stations with Arco. Shelby of Alabama and Senator Malcom But both said they were not interested in about the need to put partisan actions Wallop of Wyoming deserves speedy pas aside are indeed timely and worthy of buying the Arco refinery in South Philadel sage. phia, where 600 people are employed. our consideration. "We will certainly take a look" at the During the 1930's and 40's private utilities The June 21 letter from Michael L. Arco stations, said Henry Stanley, vice built hundreds of hydroelectric dams on Federal waterways. The original permits Keller follows: president of Dallas-based Southland. "We JUNE 21, 1985. always take a look at these things." typically ran for 50 years, with provision for relicensing later. Until recently, it was as Hon. Carroll Hubbard, Officials of Sun Oil Co. said that they are Washington, DC. also looking at Area's gasoline stations but sumed that the companies that built the dams would be allowed to renew the licenses HoN. CARROLL HuBBARD: I urge you to fully that the company has made no offer to ac support President Reagan's stance on the quire them. Sun pulled out of the gas-sta unless new management were clearly shown to be in the public interest. many important bills coming to Congress. tion markets in the Southeast last year, ex Foremost in my mind are simplifying and plaining that it intends to concentrate its But in 1980, the Federal Energy Regula hopefully reducing individual income taxes marketing efforts closer to home. tory Commission decided that the Water and reducing the federal deficit. Tom Wizda, executive director of the Power Act of 1920 gave preference in reli President Reagan is a strong leader and Pennsylvania-Delaware Service Station censing to municipally owned utilities. The has restored respect in the United States of Dealers' Association, said he doubted that commission reversed itself in 1983, but mu America. I am in almost total agreement Mobil would be able to orchestrate a gas-sta nicipal authorities cling to its first judgment with him on every issue. I feel that his plans tion swap with Arco. and still demand the power from 11 hydro for the future of America are sound. More "What stations would they [Areal give power projects now scheduled for relicens importantly, his plans are the only ones up? I think Area's major concern is to sell ing. If they win in court, as some experts that stand a chance of passing without the whole lot," he said. predict, a total of 178 projects will be trans being watered down to the point that they Arco has not said whether its network of ferred from private to public power authori would be ineffective. We need unity behind gasoline stations would be sold as a unit or ties over the next nine years. a strong leader in times like these, not the broken up.e What would be so terrible about that? disunity of partisan politics. I have enclosed The taxpayers would lose $5 billion a year an article regarding balancing the budget and a sizable amount of energy would be which I believe is pertinent. H.R. 44 misused, with too little regard for efficiency. I think you have done a fine job of repre Ideally, the Federal Government should senting the people of Kentucky in the past. HON. RICHARD C. SHELBY auction use of the dams to the highest bid Now I urge you to vote for the common OF ALABAMA ders and assure the Treasury a steady good of all the people of the United States IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES income. The power would then be consumed of America even at the expense of special in by the homes and businesses that most terests in Kentucky and elsewhere. I believe Tuesday, July 9, 1985 value it. But that appears politically impos that this can most effectively be accom e Mr. SHELBY. Mr. Speaker, I rise sible; just last year Congress voted over plished by supporting President Reagan. whelmingly to give away the billions of dol Thank you for this opportunity to commu today on an issue of critical impor nicate my thoughts and feelings to you. tance to millions of Americans who lars worth of power produced by Hoover Dam. The only remaining choice is whether Sincerely, benefit from inexpensive hydroelectric a small or large number of Americans will MICHAEL L. KELLER. 1 power. Due to confusion surrounding share in the newly available benefit. the 1920 Federal Power Act and con The 11 contested projects serve 8.5 million LAW WEEK ESSAY WINNERS flicting rulings by the Federal Energy customers of private utilities, reducing their Regulatory Commission, the power average power bill by $29 a year. The peti benefits from our Nation's water re tioning municipalities, however, would HON. DON SUNDQUIST sources risk being arbitrarily shifted divide the windfall among only 947,000 cus OF TENNESSEE from the vast majority of the electric tomers. That's not only unfair, it's ineffi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES consuming public to a relatively few cient: power sold so cheaply would sharply number. Over 160 cosponsoring Mem reduce incentives to conserve energy. Tuesday, July 9, 1985 bers of this body support legislation I The Shelby-Wallop bill, now in committee e Mr. SUNDQUIST. Mr. Speaker, re have introduced, the Electric Consum hearings in both houses, would eliminate cently I had the privilege of attending the law's implied preference for municipal ers Protection Act toward the good. HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY Law is an opinion of what is good and bad, TRIBUTE TO BOB SWAIN AND hoping to insure the good. By doing this, it THE LAST MAN'S CLUB OF CALIFORNIA protects one's personal freedom from being IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES infringed upon by another. For example, Tuesday, July 9, 1985 the law strictly forbids the murdering of a HON. GEORGE MILLER human being. If one commits murder, they OF CALIFORNIA • Mr. DYMALLY. Mr. Speaker, I have are taking away another's freedom to live. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES given a good deal of thought over the One has the freedom to choose between past several years to how we should good or bad. Law insures not only personal Tuesday, July 9, 1985 give support to the Philippines. We freedom, but also, freedom for others. • Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. have legitimate security concerns that SECOND PLACE ESSAY-JUDITH MARIE FARRIS Speaker, I would like to take this op justify support in the Philippines. The Quite contrary to the beliefs of some citi portunity to bring a touching story of question that bothers me is when zens, this country could not be the "land of friendship and patriotism to my col should the line be drawn? How much the free" without laws. Without some form leagues' attention. Over 60 years ago, human rights abuse must we tolerate of order the nation would be in a chaotic the United States sent its young men to assure the well-being of our own state. There must be an accepted govern to Europe to fight for the freedoms strategic interests? I am beginning to mental system in which someone has an au and principles for which we stand. think we have already exceeded the thoritative position. John Locke explained During the tribulations that those limit. Today, Mr. SoLOMON offered an this situation as the theory of popular sov ereignty. This theory explains the fact that men endured, bonds of friendship were amendment to the Foreign Aid Au people must give up some of their rights forged that were destined to last as thorization that would increase our and freedom in order to live in harmony long as the friends lived. level of military spending in the Phil with other people. By giving up some of One group of 13 World War I veter ippines. At this point, far from being their rights, people are able to obtain to ans that met on July 11, 1934, made a prepared to support an amendment gether what they might not be able to solemn pact to meet annually on that which would increase military aid to obtain alone. For example, if there were no date. They invested their pledge in a that country, I would prefer to be of laws, simple subjects such as property rights would become major issues. People would symbolic bottle of champagne which fered an amendment to reduce such claim that they could live anywhere they was to be opened by the last member spending. wanted and conduct themselves in any still alive, so that he could drink a My conviction on this matter was re manner which they saw fit. The laws are set toast in remembrance of his 12 inforced by events that have happened up to protect the rights of every citizen, not friends. For exactly 50 years, these in the Philippines during the last sev to limit them. Americans must recognize men met to share anew their stories, eral months. I am particularly dis some people to have higher authority than and to think of the members who had turbed about acts of violence which themselves in order to protect these rights. Without an established group of people passed away. have befallen lawyers who are part of with higher authority, anyone could claim The men met each year at the same the Free Legal Assistance Group. power. Although there is a presidential table with 13 chairs. After the death These Philippine lawyers are civil office, no one person has enough power to of a member, the chair of the deceased rights lawyers involved in investigat decide the fate of the nation. The House of was tipped up against the table. Never ing alleged cases of civil liberties viola Representatives and the Senate were set up once did any of the survivors miss even tion. In the past year three of these as authoritative organizations in order to one meeting, and until this March lawyers have been murdered. The prevent the Executive of the nation from having absolute power. Thus we are protect there had always been at least two latest murder occurred over the past ed from living under any type of dictator left. But now there remains only Mr. weekend. Five other lawyers from this ship. Yet, at the same time, we are not in an Bob Swain. The Last Man's Club, as group have been arrested and impris unruled anarchy situation. As a result, we they called themselves, is down to its oned. Three of them were ordered to are "free". last man. be released by the Philippine Supreme July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18287 Court. Yet all of them remain impris of us made enough noise to disturb anyone's was relatively small; the birthrate in the oned. One of the five, Antonio Arel reverie. first years of the Depression had been the lano, is in extremely poor health and That's too bad. Although limited in its lowest in the nation's history. needs to be hospitalized. goals, Korea was, by any definition, a major There were college student deferments, It was recently discovered that the war. In three years and one month nearly but a lot of guys whose grades were below a 34,000 Americans were killed in action or certain level or who let their class load slip names of four other civil rights law died in captivity, and more than 20,000 below the 12-hour minimum found them yers are listed on a Philippine order of others died of noncombat causes. By com selves snatched unceremoniously off battle. This appears to mean that they parison, about 56,000 Americans died in campus. There also was a remarkable liberal are considered legitimate military tar Vietnam. deferment policy for fathers, even for those gets. That is a chilling thought. It The North Korean and Chinese commu who got married for that reason. means that in the Philippines, if you nist forces suffered an estimated 1.6 million Many opted for four-year enlistments in try to help people gain their legal civil combat casualties, about 60 percent by the the Air Force or Navy, figuring the extra rights you are quite literally risking Chinese, plus another 400,000 deaths from two years' obligation was worth the guaran your life. disease. An estimated 3 million North tee of not winding up in the infantry. Korean civilians and 500,000 South Korean There was no question at the time that it If a government is using its military civilians died as a result of the war. was a real and lethal war. And it featured to deny citizens their civil rights by However obscure the Korean War is now, some of America's finest feats of arms. liquidating those who might represent it was vivid enough to those involved at the MacArthur's landing at Inchon still stands those citizens in the courts, I just have time. My first inkling of it came on that daz out as a strategic masterpiece. The First to question the wisdom of increasing zling sunny Sunday 35 years ago when I was Marine Division's skillful and courageous military aid to that government. I an 18-year-old in western Kansas sleeping fight out of the Chosin Reservoir under the the sleep of, if not the just and innocent, at most horrendous winter conditions imagina hope this body will take some time least the uncaught. and seriously consider the internation ble is a performance unexcelled by any My grandmother was making her usual fighting force. The campaigns of maneuver al repercussions for our image if we preparations for church and Sunday dinner by Matthew Ridgway and James Van Fleet choose to continue high levels of mili (fried chicken) when she heard the early, in the months following the withdrawal tary support to a government that fragmentary reports on the radio that from the north are generalship any nation continues to fail to protect the human North Korean infantry and tanks had in can be proud of. rights of its citizens.e vaded South Korea. There was the usual But the last two years saw trench warfare commentary that such a conflict carried the more reminiscent of World War I than seeds of possible conflict between the World War II, with bloody small-unit fights KOREAN WAR REMEMBERED United States and the Soviet Union. for the hilly outposts in front of the main Grandmother gave me the wake-up call of line of resistance. It ended after millions of my life: "Wake up, Jimmie D, World War casualties with the boundary between North HON. JAMES J. FLORIO III is about to break out." Now there's a rev and South Korea essentially unchanged, as OF NEW JERSEY eille that will rouse even a night-owl adoles the United States concentrated on keeping IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cent. Particularly in those days of Cold the war from spreading into a global con War, early-atomic-age hostility in which Tuesday, July 9, 1985 flict. every U.S. reconnaissance plane that was There's not much glory in limited wars. As • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I would shot down over East Germany or the Baltic a child excited by World War II, I had won like to insert this recent column from Sea inspired speculation that Armageddon dered what it would be like to be a veteran the Washington Post into the RECORD. was at hand. of the Spanish-American War or the War of I headed for the drugstore to get the 1812. I was to find out.e James R. Dickenson very aptly traces Sunday papers with, for once, more than the fears and concerns which were the sports and comics in mind. Because of provoked by the North Korean inva the papers' early closing times-we got the CONGRESSIONAL ART sion of South Korea over 30 years ago. boondocks editions-none had a word about COMPETITION It is a tribute to Mr. Dickenson and to the invasion. the veterans of that war that we are I made my bemused way back home specu able today to remain free and strong lating gloomily on where in Russia I might HON.THOMASJ.DOWNEY as a people. be at that time the following year. When I OF NEW YORK passed the bench in front of the People's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, the date July 10, 1985, State Bank on the corner on Main Street, will also become an important date for the usual half-dozen elderly loafers, includ Tuesday, July 9, 1985 Korean War veterans. The Task Force ing a Spanish-American War veteran, were e Mr. DOWNEY of New York. Mr. on Libraries and Memorials of the taking the morning sun, chewing and spit House Committee on Administration ting, whittling and telling each other lies. Speaker, for the second year General will hold a hearing on a bill which I in They, too, had heard the radio. Motors Corp. has sponsored the open troduced last spring. H.R. 2205, the "Hee, hee, hee, boy, get your fightin' ing festivities of the Congressional Art Korean War Memorial Act, would clothes on," the Spanish-American War vet Competition currently displayed in called out. Trust me that this quotation is the Cannon tunnel. Roger Smith, honor the forgotten veterans of that exact: "We done whomped up a war for General Motors chairman, delivered brutal conflict with an appropriate you." the following remarks which reaffirm memorial in Washington. It is, indeed, My response, in tribute to my training in the importance of the competition: a timely piece by Mr. Dickenson which respecting my elders, was inaudible. Later, seeks to focus the attention of his in my first days at the Marine Corps recruit CONGRESSIONAL ARTS CAUCUS, WASHINGTON, countrymen upon a largely forgotten depot at San Diego, I had reason to recall it. DC war. The words inscribed high above No one was gung-ho about the war in General Motors is proud to be associated, Korea although there was no opposition to for the second year, with this magnificent Constitution A venue upon the granite it as with Vietnam. There was little question collection of student artworks from around facade of the National Archives read: of its necessity. And unlike the guerrilla war the country. "the past is but a prelude to the in Vietnam, it was a conventional war with And it's heartening to see the exhibition future." If this is true we must begin armies opposing each other. growing in size, as more congressmen hold by remembering. I commend Mr. Dick Conditioned by the Depression and World competitions in their districts. enson's article to the attention of my War II, we accepted our lot as just another A number of years ago, perhaps the great colleagues. of life's random deals of the cards. With the est artist of the 20th Century, Pablo Picas memory of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany so, offered some memorable words about "WAKE UP, JIMMIED, WORLD WAR III" still vivid, it was generally accepted that we the creative process. (By James R. Dickenson) had to stand up to aggression, although the He said that "to draw, you must close your June 25 came and went without notice fact that it ended in effect as a tie, after all eyes and sing." except by a relatively small segment of the that suffering, caused great frustration. Looking around us today at this exhibit, population-middle-aged males who consti The pressure of the draft was enormous we can almost hear America singing tute the Korean War generation-and none because the draft-eligible manpower pool through the works of these student artists. 18288 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 They give us a fresh and original sense of long as they're the only ones allowed to use and who now can no longer collect ourselves, as a nation. the technique. Federal supplemental benefits because And it's a pleasure to join the Arts Caucus The way the law stands now, the bankers for 1 week they received temporary in supporting a program that tries to en are the only ones who can legally use the courage that originality and to nurture it.e float. You'll recall the pious horror the payment. banking industry expressed when the bro The current law states that an indi kerage firm of E.F. Hutton was caught vidual must be eligible for consecutive CHECKHOLDS: LET'S END THIS floating checks on a systematic basis to get weeks in order to continue to qualify UNNECESSARY PRACTICE! millions of dollars' worth of interest-free for benefits. The law was meant to loans at the banks' expense. prevent payment to individuals who A few perspicacious observers pointed out had found new employment. It was HON. FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN that the bankers' indignation was hypocriti OF RHODE ISLAND cal, a self-serving exercise in outrage at the not meant to punish these guardsmen IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES idea that a mere stockbroker had the ef and volunteers. Since Federal supple mental compensation benefits expire Tuesday, July 9, 1985 frontery to pirate the banking fraternity's exclusive swindling technique. soon, and since the only area declared e Mr. STGERMAIN. Mr. Speaker, we Such diverse politicians as Sen. Alfonse M. a Federal disaster in the period before are all acquainted with the expensive, D'Amato agree that it may be time this legislation is minimal. checkholds that many banks employ to put an anchor on the bankers' float. St Germain cited these typical abuses to I urge my colleagues to join me in to earn additional income at their cus our associate Les Whitten: supporting this measure. I feel it is the tomers' expense. It is time to bring an A Pennsylvania man deposited a federal least we can do.e end to this practice by enacting H.R. tax-refund check for more than $1,000, 2443, the Expedited Funds Availability waited nine days for it to clear and then Act. wrote a check on it. The bank bounced his TRIBUTE TO JACK STUBBS H.R. 2443 draws on committee hear check and charged him a $30 overdraft fee. ings and nearly 2 years of technical It was poetic justice: He was a retired HON.CARLOSJ.MOORHEAD analysis of the U.S. check clearing banker and his wife had been a bank regula system. H.R. 2443 would bring about tor. OF CALIFORNIA In a small California town, a customer de IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES major improvements in check clearing posited in his checking account a check for and would benefit every household in $1,295 drawn from his savings account in a Tuesday, July 9, 1985 America. bank just down the street. He had to wait e Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Speaker, I My staff is now in the process of re seven days for the deposited check to clear. would like to call to the attention of contacting every Member of the House A New York City man got a $1,000 check from his credit union and deposited it in his my colleagues in the House of Repre regarding cosponsoring H.R. 2443. I sentatives the retirement of Mr. Jack urge all Members to add their names checking account a bank a few miles away. Six days later he wrote a check for $800 to Stubbs from the Southern California to the growing list of cosponsors of pay a credit-card bill. The check bounced, Rapid Transit District, where he has H.R. 2443, and help me bring an end and he had to pay not only the overdraft been employed for the last 19 years. to the practice of checkholds. charge but a month's interest on his credit A good friend and fellow resident of Mr. Speaker, this subject is now be card balance.e coming a matter of significant press Glendale, CA, Jack Stubbs began attention. The Jack Anderson article working for the Rapid Transit District below, from the July 9 Washington NEW I .. EGISLATION on August 19, 1966. Initially, he served Post, H.R. 2443, the Expedited Funds as the liaison officer for the Rapid HON. JOE KOLTER Transit District to the California State Availability Act. Legislature. Later on, he rose to the BANKS READY TO BATTLE CHECKING REFORM OF PENNSYLVANIA position of assistant general manager IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for the SCRTD. Prior to his employ The holdup men are on the other side of Tuesday, July 9, 1985 ment with the RTD, he was the ad the counter these days at your friendly ministrative assistant for the rules neighborhood bank-and the money moguls e Mr. KOLTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise of the banking industry are determined to today to introduce legislation that will committee of the State assembly. It see that it stays that way. correct an unfortunate situation in my was in this capacity that I originally They're gearing up for a massive lobbying district which is an unpredictable became acquainted with Jack Stubbs effort against a proposed law that would let aftereffect of the devastating torna and learned to admire him as a man of customers use the money they deposit right does which struck the area 6 weeks capability and conviction. away instead of a week or two later. ago. In the aftermath of those torna He began his public service by enlist For years, bankers have insisted that ing in the U.S. Navy during World "clearing" a deposited check-making sure does, there was a great deal of heroism there are funds to cover it in the bank ac and good, old-fashioned neighborli War II. After his discharge, he attend count on which it was drawn-is a time-con ness. Many individuals volunteered ed the University of Minnesota and suming process that can't be telescoped their efforts to help those who had Loyola University in Los Angeles, re without shaking the foundations of the lost homes and businesses to the tor ceiving a bachelor of science degree in banking industry. But in this era of comput nado. Many of those who helped their American history. He worked a variety ers and high-tech communications, the neighbors were themselves victims of of jobs before coming to the SCRTD. image of quill pens and celluloid sleeve earlier disasters, such as plant closings Jack Stubbs is a member of the In guards is distorted. It's no mystery why the bankers cherish and layoffs. carnation Catholic Church, the the clearance myth. When they can clear a The unfortunate situation which I Knights of Columbus, the Glendale deposited check in a matter of hours but hope to address is the fact that many Chamber of Commerce, the Glendale make the customer wait 10 days to two of the unemployed people who pitched Republican Assembly, the National weeks before he can write checks on his de in to help their homeless neighbors Trust of Historic Preservation, and the posit, the banks get free use of the money have now lost their Federal supple American Numismatic Association. He for a while. Multiplied by millions of checks mental unemployment compensation and his wife, Genevieve, have 10 chil and millions of days, this gives the bankers benefits because some of them re dren and 8 grandchildren. interest-free loans from their customers amounting to billions of dollars a year. ceived some payment for the work Mr. Speaker, I trust that retirement The difference between the time a check they did that week. The clearest exam for Jack Stubbs will be as rewarding is deposited and the time the customer is al ples are those members of the Nation and productive for him as were his lowed to use it is called the "float", and the al Guard who answered the call of the nonretirement years. I wish him and bankers' slogan is "Vive la difference!"-as Governor to perform disaster relief his wife the very, very best.e July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18289 A MEMORIUM FOR SHU KUANG st~dent, who receives a scholarship under weapons. I feel that the United States HU this Act for study at a college or university, should not break the moratorium it that the student enroll in and pass a course has observed since 1969 on production ~hich studies the classics of American polit HON. ROY DYSON Ical thought or which otherwise emphasizes of these weapons, which are among OF MARYLAND the ideas, principles, and documents upon the most vicious and least controllable IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which the United States was founded.e to mankind. Nerve gas production is simply unnecessary in view of huge Tuesday, July 9, 1985 stockpiles of chemical weapons the • Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise DEFENSE VOTES EXPLAINED United States possesses. Just last year today to honor the memory of Shu a blue ribbon panel established by the Kuang Hu, a widely respected and ad HON. WILLIAM D. FORD Secretary of Defense found that the mired public servant for the Republic OF MICHIGAN current U.S. chemical stockpile pro of China. At the time of his passing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vides a credible chemical retaliatory last month, Mr. Hu was deputy repre Tuesday, July 9, 1985 deterrent into the 1990's. sentative of the Coordination Council The Defense Department authoriza for North American Affairs, the • Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speak tion bill for fiscal year 1986 would former Embassy of the Republic of er, since taking office in 1981, Presi have nearly doubled spending for the dent Reagan has requested huge in China, which represents the Govern ~tr~tegic Defense Initiative Program ment on Taiwan. creases in military spending-far m JUSt 1 year. This would have been Throughout his long and illustrious beyond the actual needs of the United an increase from $1.4 to $2.5 billion. career Mr. Hu was known for both his States for defending our Nation. Part Such a massive increase would result personal warmth and professional of this money has gone for unneeded in the kind of huge waste in defense acumen. Born in Shaghai in 1918, Mr. nuclear weapons systems like the MX programs that has been characteristic Hu was graduated from Chiao Tung missile. The share of strategic nuclear under the Reagan administration. University and later took a master's forces has risen from less than 8 per Just a few weeks ago it was revealed degree in aeronautical engineering at cent in 1980 to more than 12 percent in 1985 of the overall defense budget. that less than 5 percent of the funds the University of Michigan. authorized for the strategic defense Upon his return to China, Mr. Hu It makes no sense to drive the Nation deeper into debt by buying initiative in the current fiscal year had embarked on a career in his country's actually been spent, even though the air force. He was a production manag more and more weapons and ignoring the disastrous effects of excessive de year was more than half over. This er and superintendent of aircraft fac demonstrates that even $1.4 billion is tories until 1949 when the Commu fense spending on the budget and the economy. There is no amount of de far too much for the scientific commu nists came to power on the mainland. nity to digest, must less the $2.5 bil From 1954 to 1965 Mr. Hu was fense spending that would guarantee absolute security for the United lion in this bill. Therefore, I supported Chiang Kai-shek's personal military the Dellums amendment which would secretary, and also served as chief of States. Real security comes from a combination of sufficient military reduce the authorization for the stra protocol, military spokesman and di t~gic defense initiative from $2.5 bil rector of the liaison bureau of the readiness to deter attack, a healthy economy, and the well-being of our lion to $954 million which is more Ministry of National Defense. In 1965 than adequate to continue research he joined the National Chinese Em citizens. The Reagan administration seems to believe that larger defense for this program. bassy here as chief of the military pro A great deal of basic research on curement division. He remained a min budgets are the sole measure of na tional security. This concept is clearly antiballistic missile technologies is ister until 1978 at which time the permitted under the-Antiballistic United States ended official relations not in line with American history or public support for a multitude of do Missile [ABMJ Treaty, and Congress with Nationalist China. has funded that research for more From 1979 until his death last mestic programs that improve the lives of most Americans. than a decade. However, the strategic month, Mr. Hu served as deputy repre defense initiative is a clear break with sentative of the Coordination Council During consideration of H.R. 1872, the Department of Defense Authoriza the past. Under the administration's for North American Affairs. He will be Strategic Defense Initiative Program missed by his fellow countrymen tion Act for fiscal year 1986, I support ed the amendment offered by Con the goal of research is not to prevent whom he served so faithfully, as well technological surprise by the Soviet as by many of us here in Washington, gressman BENNETT which would elimi nate all fiscal year 1986 MX missile Union or another nation, but to build DC.e procurement funding and all unobli and deploy an antiballistic missile gated prior year MX appropriations, system. AMENDING THE FOREIGN thereby terminating the program. The ABM Treaty does not prohibit SCHOLARSHIP BILL This year we have a budget deficit research, such as that on lasers and re that may exceed $200 billion. Yet we lated technologies, however, the ad HON. JIM COURTER are being asked to continue the pat ministration wants more, and the bill tern of throwing billions of dollars at a provides it. This includes funding for OF NEW JERSEY demonstration projects, space-based IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES missile that remains extremely vulner able to attack and that can only be weapons research, and similar activi Tuesday, July 9, 1985 used as a first-strike weapon. The ties that would violate the 1972 treaty. e Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, on United States does not need more By withholding funding from areas of behalf of Mr. WRIGHT of Texas and MX's for arms control leverage. Con the strategic defense initiative which myself I will soon propose an amend gress has already authorized 42 MX would violate the ABM Treaty and ment to H.R. 1555, the foreign assist missiles and the rest of the U.S. nucle funding the rest of the program at the ance bill, and wish now to include the ar arsenal is enormous enough to per 1985 level, the Dellums amendment full text of that amendment in the suade the Soviets that their own best would continue a research program al RECORD. interests are served by serious arms lowable under the terms of the ABM Our proposed addition would be control negotiations. Treaty. made to title 6, section 604, the guide During consideration of this bill I Mr. Speaker, despite the tremendous lines, and would read as follows: voted against the Skelton amendment increase in U.S. spending on strategic <11) The United States Information to authorize the appropriation of $124 systems since 1981, the Reagan admin Agency shall explicitly recommend to each million to produce binary chemical istration has not reached a single arms 18290 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 control agreement with the Soviet guide all our actions. I regret to report information I can to have a little edge in Union. The United States does not that this principle was violated on the laying my bets on football and basketball need more MX missiles, new chemical Crane Reservation in Ipswich, MA.e and on the nags. So after this welcome saying of hello and weapons or the strategic defense initi how are you to my good friends and buddies ative to succeed in arms control nego DAN CRYSTAL, CIVIL at the Meadowlands, I drop in at the boat tiations; we need genuine commitment LIBERTARIAN called the Aratusa Supper Club, that is on both sides to mutual, good-faith re moored there on the banks of the good old ductions.• Hackensack River right there in Secaucus, HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. New Jersey, on the Meadowlands Parkway, OF MICHIGAN to have a juicy steak and some chilled ale, WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and who do I run into there at that seafar NATURE ing restaurant but my old friend, Joe the Tuesday, July 9, 1985 Barrister, who is a well known lawyer in e Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, for as those local parts and a big wheel, or so he HON. EDWARD J. MARKEY long as I have known him-and that tells me, in the lodge that the barristers OF MASSACHUSETTS has been many years-Dan Crystal of have that they call the Passaic County Bar IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES New Jersey has been an active and Association. So I make again with the hello's and how Tuesday, July 9, 1985 tireless defender of civil liberties and are you's and what have you been up to and e Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, the advocate for human rights. In recent who is the new doll in your life and all the management of our public lands and years, he has become an equally active other chit chat that friends exchange when reservations is a sacred trust which and tireless promoter of world peace, they haven't seen each other for a long time our Government must implement with serving as publicity chairman of Law and Joe sits down with me and we both the utmost care and good conscience. yers for Nuclear Arms Control. order up juicy steaks and Joe fills me in on Dan was recently honored by the how he is not only being a success in the We have an obligation to nature and legal fraternity in New Jersey, but he has to our children and grandchildren that Essex County branch of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political also expanded his activities to get a piece of we do all that we can to preserve the the action in Washington, D.C., where gentle balance of nature and take the Repression for his devotion to the President Ronnie Reagan and the other least intrusive action whenever man's struggle for progressive ideals and pols hang out when they're not meeting at interests runs up against the balance policies. Dan richly deserves this rec Camp David or visiting Ronnie's ranch in of nature. ognition, and I applaud the Essex California. I have great concern that the Feder County branch of NAARPR for giving Seems as if Joe now represents some com Dan this award. Despite his many ac panies that got themselves into temporary al Government may have gone too far hot water with the Pentagon and the Air recently in dealing with nature and in tivities, Dan finds time to write for, and serve as associate editor of the Re Force what with charging more than a the process destroyed that gentle bal thousand bucks for wrenches that they ance. porter, a publication of the Passaic order wholesale for $8.99 at a joint on Canal Mr. Speaker, I am referring to the County Bar Association. One of his Street and charging also nine hundred and Crane Reservation in Ipswich, MA. recent contributions to that publica sixty nine bucks for a toilet seat cover that This reservation is managed by the tion is a whimsical account of this they purchase for $5.73 from Sears Roe Department of the Interior. Recently, year's Gridiron Dinner, which I am in buck, Joe tells me also that he goes down to serting at this point in the RECORD so Washington, D.C. as to try to smooth out the Fish and Wildlife Management the ruffled feathers of the Pentagon and Office decided that deer had become that my colleagues will have an oppor tunity to read and enjoy it. the Air Force and while he is down there he too plentiful in this area. The deer wangles two tickets to go to the Gridiron had become too plentiful because man GRIDIRON MADNESS Dinner that the scribes who write from has disrupted the natural habitat and Washington run each year. The tickets are balance of nature. And because man It comes on finally to be spring, as my $120 each which doesn't faze Joe who is bill has caused that disruption, then man good friend Damon Runyon, God rest his ing it all to his clients anyhow and, besides soul, might have said, and I start getting vi business is business, and who knows, he may has an obligation to correct that im sions of the magnolia trees flowering along be able to talk to a general or an admiral at balance in the least intrusive manner the Hackensack River which most certainly the bar and put in a good word for one or possible. ain't the purest stream in the world but another of his clients with no animosity Unfortunately, the Office of Fish then I served in the Occupation Forces in about the wrenches and the toilet seat and Wildlife Management did not Europe after World War II and I can tell covers because everybody in the business is follow this principle. Instead, the you that the Beautiful Blue Danube ought doing the same thing and so will the gener office chose to bring in a rifle sharp to be called the Big Muddy. als and the admirals when they retire and shooter to kill the deer on Crane Res So spring fever hits me real bad, and I start using their own connections to get a start thinking about the Jersey Generals, job with some company they used to regu ervation. This action was taken despite the New York Giants and the New York late. protests by local citizens who thought Jets all of which teams play on different oc So Joe calls up a doll he knows with whom that the action was extreme. Further casions on the gridiron in Giant's Stadium he shacks up sometimes when he is in more, the sharpshooter was enlisted in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and a cab Washington, who is a secretary to a colonel and the possibility of relocating the from midtown will take you there in no time in the Air Force, and they dress up in their deer was not explored adequately. along Route 3 which also passed Secaucus fancy evening clothes and go to the Grid I raise this example of the slaughter which used to have the pig farms and what iron Dinner which is a special occasion this of deer on Crane Reservation to call with the scent of magnolias and of hogs get time when it is held on March 23rd on a ting all mixed up in my memory and think Saturday evening on a very rainy night be the attention of my colleagues to the ing of the Secaucus pig farms makes me cause it turns out that this is the hundredth serious responsibility we hold to think also of the stables at the Meadow time that they have held the Gridiron manage our natural resources. In lands where I have often been given valua Dinner and even the old pols in the District order to survive on this planet, we ble tips by the stable hands and those tips of Columbia like Ronnie Reagan and Tip must coexist with nature, not rule it can be very welcome indeed when the nags O'Neill don't claim to go back that far. and subject it to our every whim. Man start running and it's time to lay your bets So everybody who is anybody is there at will intrude on the parameters of on which nag will wear the roses in the win this hundredth running of the event and all nature; that is to be expected. But ner's circle. And so, what with wondering the faces you see on Hot Line or Meet the how good Phil Simms' arm will be this Press are at the bar lapping it up and their when we do so, there must be a com season in the NFL and how well Doug Flutie dolls are there too looking very pretty and mitment to manage the resources in a is learning his signals with the Jersey Gen wearing dresses that cost enough to be a careful and compassionate manner. erals, I hop a cab to the Meadowlands and worthwhile and very acceptable purse for a In nature, we cannot rebuild that have a good time exchanging greetings with big stake event. Seated at the head table are which we destroy. This principle must one and all and picking up whatever inside the President, Ronnie Reagan, and Nancy, July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18291 his buddy, Jim Baker, also Geraldine Fer day referred to as "Silent Cal." Coolidge is the scribes showed up on stage in cone-head raro who lost to Ronnie in the last election still a hero, the papers of today inform me, costumes with gold-glittered toilet seats so bad that she can't even claim to have to Ronnie Reagan which confirms my feel hanging from their necks. They sang pretty placed in the event. All through the ball ing that Ronnie is often sour in the good much on key to the tune of that other room are more ambassadors, governors, ty judgment department. Their lyric for Silent golden oldie, "I Found a Million Dollar coons, Supreme Court Justices and the like Cal ain't so hot either: "Little Boy Coolidge, Baby in a Five-and-Ten-Cent Store": than you can shake a stick at. come blow your horn, there's woe in the "We buy our toilet seats at Tif'ny's; So Joe the Barrister and his doll mingle meadow and slump in the corn; where is the We drive Mercedes by the score. with the crowd, and join in the festivities man that looks after the sheep? He's down They found a million-dollar hammer and Joe gets a chance to put in a word for in the White House fast asleep." In a five-and-ten cent store." his clients here and there with some gener Next the Gridiron Club choristers belt out Gerry Ferraro was there, both in person als and colonels of influence an they have a with a song about Herbert Hoover. When I and in song. A lady scribe impersonating good meal and after a while the entertain was a somewhat older kid during the depres Gerry sang a song that went like this: ment starts. sion, Hoover was very such disrespected by "Now that I've got payola Seems as though the Gridiron Club is maybe twenty million heads of families who Pushing Pepsi-Cola, made up of sixty newspaper people who didn't have jobs and some of whom were I'm full of beans,' make with the news analyses all year long, trying to peddle apples because in those I'm Gerry from Queens." 365 days a year, less vacation time, and who days no one had ever heard of food stamps. After the songs and skits were over, it was rip up the national politicos or tout their He wasn't too popular either with their time to make with the speeches and the virtues, depending upon how they figure wives and kiddies which may explain why gags. They had Jim Baker and Gerry Fer their bread is buttered, but this one time a F.D.R. won four elections in a row. raro and Ronnie Reagan. The way Joe the year they make with the jokes and sing Joe tells me that the top of the Hit Barrister tells it to me, Jim Baker stole the songs about the famous men and women of Parade in those long-ago days, according to show, Gerry's gag writers were good but not the country and a good time is had by all, the Gridiron Club, went like this: "Rock-a as good as Baker's and Ronnie Reagan blew ho, ho, ho, except that even though these bye Hoover, on the tree top, when the wind at least two jokes very, very badly indeed. scribes are all top newspapermen and news blows, the market will drop, when the boom Gerry did her own share of roasting this paperwomen none of them is another Ira breaks, the prices will fall. Down will come way: Gershwin or Oscar Hammerstein, and they Hoover, Curtis and all." "I see the president has relented on emer haven't ever made it in show biz, and to tell Those three sets of lyrics that Joe re gency relief to the farmers. He's opened a you the truth, the way Joe the Barrister counts amply confirm my judgment that special line of credit for them to be drawn tells it to me while we're eating our thick the lyric writers for the Gridiron Club on any Ohio savings and loan." steaks, he's heard much better lyrics in ought to stick to writing about the MX mis "It appears that over the next five years shows that closed in Philadelphia and never sile or how the farmers of the land are there will be nearly 20 votes on 'Star Wars' made it to Broadway. taking to being told that they'd better get in the House. Twenty votes! Can you imag Joe has a very good memory indeed and used to going bankrupt because Ronnie and ine? That's 40 different positions for Les he has no trouble remembering some of the Reagan Administration won't help them Aspin to take." those forgettable lyrics which probably ain't get mortgage money to start in on their Joe told me that Les Aspin is chairman of all that much of a feat for a barriser who spring planting after hard months of bliz the Armed Services Committee of the House can do a look-innocent act and persuade the zards and hail storms and other whims and of Representatives and used to be a peace Pentagon that a wrench you bought whole caprices of Mother Nature this past winter. maker but now he's for the MX missile. Ap sale on Canal Street in lower Manhattan for I got more interested though when Joe parently, he's been trying to play both ends $8.99 is worth more than a thousand bucks the Barrister tells me about the songs they against the middle, which ain't so easy as to the Air Force. sang cutting up the guys in Ronnie Rea many a married man or woman has found He tells me, for example, that they re gan's cabinet. out. wrote the lyrics for that old goodie, "St. Caspar Weinberger who heads the Army She was gutsy enough too to laugh at her James Infirmary Blues," to kid the Demo and the Navy and the Air Force came in for own Diet Pepsi endorsement. She quipped, crates, and it went like this: lots of ribbing. Some scribe acting his part "To tell you the truth. I really wanted to "I went down to the Demo-crate in-firm-a-ry sang: endorse diet Perrier, but the Perrier people "I found my party there. "Thank heaven for neutron bombs! They said George Bush or nobody." "It was stretched out on a long white ta-ble. blow up in the most constructive way. Jim Baker though, according to Joe the "So beat. So broke. So bare." Thank heaven, for neutron bombs! They'll Barrister, was the real hit of the evening. Well, in my opinion nobody is going to win save our cities for another day. Joe recalled examples of the wit that Baker a Tony or an Oscar for writing lyrics like "Those little bombs, so subtle and appeal passed on to the audience from his gag writ that and Joe says he fully agrees with me. ing; their dreadful blast won't crack the ers: Joe also tells me that the first act of the plaster on your ceiling." "There are a lot of well-known people at show the scribes put on was a review of It seems like the Gridiron Club must the head table tonight. The president is songs from the dinners in the past, and even think that Cap Weinberger is a special here, the chief justice is here, the secretary though I am not a student of history I de target. They make him Ground Zero for yet of state is here ... ... John Riggins is here?" has long since passed. The president called me very excited the The songs go way, way back to when a fat "We got 'Star Wars', we got 'Star Wars', "We got high apple-pie in the sky wars." other night when he got back from Canada. old geezer named William Howard Taft was He'd heard about the bank holiday in Ohio. President. Seems that he got that way by Jim Baker, one of Ronnie's special cronies He wanted to know if we all got the day off. liking to eat, and so the songsters from the who used to be his Chief of Staff, gets a Joe the Barrister told me about another Gridiron Club sounded off with this ditty good needling too. They rewrote the lyrics story that Jim Baker told, but in my book it which most certainly won't make the Hit for him to that golden oldie, "When I'm Not should have gotten F-minus in the form Parade with the Gourmet Club: Near the Girl I Love," so that it went this book. I thought it was very disrespectful of "Sound the good old dinner horn, we'll sing way: the dead and who knows when any of us another song "First with Ford and then the preppie won't need some respect after we're gone. I About the trip Taft once made when the di I ignited Reagan fear don't expect good taste from a politician gestion strong, When I'm not near the pol I love and I know that it gets pretty rough out He ate his share of everything that they I love the pol I'm near." there in the clinches just like in the pileups would bring along. The singer a writer named John Hall who in the NFL, but I thought that one of As he went eating through Georgia." was acting the part of Jim Baker, continued: Baker's cracks smelled and was insulting to Well, Taft came in to the list of Presidents "I spent four years in the White House. the feelings of the Russians, whatever the somewhere half way between George Wash As a most pragmatic man. guys and dolls at the Gridiron Club dinner ington and Ronnie Reagan according to my When I couldn't fix programs, Reagan thought of it. He told the crowd: reckoning, and even Methusaleh was a whiz might favor. "Speaking of people 'low down on the list,' with the dolls in those distant times. I favored the fix at hand." the vice president is here tonight. But we They also go back closer to modern times, Joe tells me he winced and thought that should all be proud of George Bush. Bush to my own days of youth when I was a kid his whole trip to D.C. was ruined when the did so well at the first Soviet funeral that in grammar school and they sing about good Gridiron Club put on a skit about military they keep calling him back. In fact, his old Calvin Coolidge whom the papers in my procurement. Seems as though several of motto is 'You die-I fly!'" 18292 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 Joe the Barrister tells me that Jim Baker quoted him as booming out in his North 50-yard pass and it all made the spread on got a real belly laugh though from the Boston voice, "He didn't say that. He's too any game seem like very small potatoes whole crowd with this other yarn; also politically smart to say that." indeed.e about people deceasing: Joe said that he was fascinated by the "I had a terrible dream last night. I whole thing because it beats him too as to dreamed the three most powerful Ameri why the President would take a political FAIR RATE OF EXCHANGE ACT cans-the president, the speaker of the risk like that. It may be OK to make with House and the chairman of the Federal Re the jokes about hayseeds and farmers for serve-suddenly passed away. All three ap city folk, but farmers have lots of votes too HON. BERKLEY BEDELL peared in St. Peter's waiting room. and even someone who ran up all the points OF IOWA "A voice came over the intercom telling the way Ronnie did in the last election still IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the president to go to Room One. He went has a thing for votes and for not making im inside and found himself with a huge goril portant voters sore at him or his party. Tuesday, July 9, 1985 la. The voice then said, 'Ronald Reagan, you Predictably enough, Joe went on, the PR e Mr. BEDELL. Mr. Speaker, I am have sinned, and you must spend eternity people in the White House starting man today introducing the Fair Rate of Ex with this gorilla.' ning and womaning the barricades once "The voice over the intercom then sent they realized that Ronnie's jokes had laid a change Act. This is legislation on Tip O'Neill to Room Two, where the speak bomb about the farmers. Joe pulled out an which I have been working for some er found a mad dog. 'Mr. Speaker,' the voice other clipping from the Washington Post time. However, its importance was on the intercom said, 'you have sinned and (his pockets were bulging with the stuff be made even more clear to me during a must spend eternity with this mad dog.' cause as an old pro in politics himself he recent trip to Japan. In Japan, almost "Then the voice sent Paul Volcker of the was interested in what happens when the everyone with whom we met told us Federal Reserve to Room Three. He went big enchilada himself blows his lines>. This that the overvalued dollar was a large in, and to his surprise he found himself with one quoted Larry Speakes, the President's part of our trade problem. Bo Derek. Then the voice came over the press secretary as saying in hifalutin lan The Fair Rate of Exchange Act will i~tercom ~-?,d said, 'Bo Derek, you have guage that even I could see no farmer I ever smned .... knew would cotton to: "The president re address the problem of the overvalued According to Joe the c~ · owd went bananas. grets his intentions have been misinterpret dollar. The Federal Reserve Board That old pro, Ronnie Reagan, spoke there ed by some. As we all know, the Gridiron is computs monthly the current value of too. Most of the time he was in his usual top a night for political harpoons. Barbs are the dollar as compared to March 1973 form. He told his audience at one point, "I thrown in many directions-most of them when currencies were deregulated. got some news from Geneva, Nancy, your the other night seemed to be coming at the This comparison is with the value of watch is ready." president himself. 10 major currencies. The Fair Rate of He described what he called the tedium of "His remarks are in no way indicative of his job and said that to break the monoto the sympathy and understanding he has for Exchange Act would provide that an ny, "every few days, I call CBS and ask for many American farmers who face difficul additional charge would be made on Jesse Helms." ties." all imports equivalent to one-half the What Joe told me further though was I guess your Reporter is a family newspa overvaluation of the dollar, and a pay that two of President Reagan's punch lines per for lawyers and their wives and girl ment would be made on all exports not only did not sit so well with some of the friends or boyfriends, so I won't use the lan equivalent to one-half the overvalu guests, but that in fact they produced a guage I think a lot of farmers will use when ation of the dollar. The amount of chorus of groans followed by a deafening si they read that so-called explanation of what charges and payments would be ad lence. Ronnie did or didn't do or say about the So, if you get the picture, there is Ronnie farmers. Most people who have been around justed monthly according to the value Reagan who went from being a Grade B a barnyard know all the words anyhow. of the dollar. movie actor cavorting with the likes of Well, my happy reunion with Joe went on Since our imports currently exceed Bonzo the Chimp to being President of the and on, and Joe told me lots of other inter our exports by more than $100 billion, United States and having Air Force One at esting yarns, all of which made me feel as if and the dollar is overvalued by 40 per his disposal, and he's making with the jokes I was improving my street smarts, and I cent, the 20 percent adjustment in this as usual, and the 600 or more in the ball gave him some tips I had just picked up legislation would bring in more than room are chuckling politely or roaring with from my buddies at the Meadowlands, and $20 billion at this time, and reduce the laughter, depending on whether they're after a while we finished our steaks and had good Domocrats or good Republicans. another round of ale, and then it was time Federal deficit by such an amount. And then, so help me, he gets that silent to make with the goodbyes and keep in Future revenues would be dependent boo from a large part of the crowd-not just touch and the other fond farewells. upon the effect of reducing our unfa once but twice. I flagged a cab to get back to Manhattan. vorable balance of trade. One time was when Reagan talked about So I was sitting there in the back of the cab Since this bill only adjusts for one "rumors" that he was seeing a therapist which was cruising along good old Route 3 half the overvalued dollar, it will not "three times a week." He went on to tell the on its way to the Lincoln Tunnel. I was re remove pressure on U.S. producers to audience not to worry. flecting on what Joe the Barrister had told improve their efficiency and ability to As he explained it to the crowd, he just me about watching Ronnie Reagan get into had a "problem" with pushing buttons. real political trouble with the farmers of compete, but it will go a long way Also, in speaking of the farm issue, he told the land. I was thinking too about what he toward enabling them to compete on a the crowd, many of whom come from states had said about the little red button and that more even playing field. where farmers have very large numbers of it was surprising that hip outfits like SANE I hope my colleagues will recognize votes indeed: "I think we should keep the and the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms the magnitude of this problem and the grain and export the farmers." Control that Joe tells me he is active in importance of this legislation. That last crack didn't sit at all well with haven't gotten into the act of blasting To get further information or co those who understand that the farmers Ronnie for what he had said. That in turn 225- these days just ain't too happy about going made me think even more about Ronnie's sponsor, call Mike or Ralph at bankrupt. crack about playing too much with that 5476. To put it mildly, according to Joe the Bar little red button and about his seeing a The text of the legislation follows: rister, the old Gipper really blew that play shrink three times a week. Just as we hit H.R. 2934 too just as he did with his equally bum joke the Lincoln Tunnel I was thinking that I Be it enacted by the Senate and House of about the little red button and the shrinks. don't have much education and I don't Representatives of the United States of Joe told me that the Washington Post know anything about throw weight and SDI America in Congress assembled, later had an interview with that wise old and whether Star Wars will work but that I pol, Tip O'Neill, later who speaks for the still get scared when I think of how easily SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. House or is the Speaker or something. Tip Ronnie Reagan or someone else I've never This Act may be cited as the "Fair Rate of was quoted as saying that he hadn't attend seen can push a button and then we can all Exchange Act". ed the Gridiron Dinner and so he didn't get ready for "The Day After" which I saw SEC. 2. FINDINGS. know anything about Ronnie's booboo on TV and if that does happen the chances The Congress hereby finds that- about "export the farmers" until reporters are that I will never again see the nags run (1) the United States dollar has become so told him about it. When they did, the Post or watch Phil Simms or Doug Flutie zip in a overpriced in international financial mar- July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18293 kets that it is destroying the vitality of the percentage for the base month in the fol product from the United States, apply to United States economy and its ability to lowing table: the Secretary for a currency equalization serve as a locomotive for world economic payment for that product. growth; DOllAR APPRECIATION PERCENTAGE FOR BASE MONTH (b) APPLICATIONS.-Applications for CUr <2> the overpriced United States dollar is a rency equalization payments shall be made major factor leading to the deindustrializa But not Currency in such form and manner, and include such tion of the United States and to the worst Not less than more than equalization documentation, as are prescribed by the crisis in the history of American agriculture; percentage Secretary. (3) the overpriced United States dollar is a 85 .. 100 45 (C) PAYMENTS.-Subject to the applicable major factor causing the unprecedented and 75 ...... 84 40 appropriation Acts, the Secretary shall worsening trade deficits, reaching 65 74 35 make currency equalization payments from $123,300,000,000 in 1984 with current ac 55 ...... 64 45 ...... 54 ~~ the Exchange Rate Equalization Fund es- count deficits exceeding $100,000,000,000, 35...... 44 20 tablished under section 6. that have made the United States a debtor 25 ...... 34 15 SEC. 8. REGULATIONS. nation for the first time since 1914 and will 15 ...... 24 10 5...... 14 5 The Secretary and the Commissioner of make the United States the world's largest 0...... 4 0 debtor nation by 1986; Customs shall each prescribe such regula <4> the overpriced United States dollar is tion as may be necessary or appropriate to severely distorting world market forces and (b) DETERMINATION.-As soon as practica carry out his respective functions under this inefficiently misallocating United States ble before the beginning of each month the Act. and world resources; Commissioner of Customs shall determine SEC. 9. TAKING EFFECT OF ACT. <5> the framework established for interna the currency equalization percentage for This Act shall apply with respect to arti tional trade under the General Agreement that month and publish notice of that per cles entered, and products of the United on Tariffs and Trade assumed fixed centage in the Federal Register. States exported, on or after the first day of exchange rates and has recently been faced SEC. 5. IMPOSITION AND PAYMENT OF CURRENCY the month beginning more than 30 days with unnecessary pressures due to severe EQUALIZATION CONTRIBUTION. after the date of the enactment of this Act. distortions and volatility of exchange rates; IN GENERAL.-No article may be en SEC. 10. TERMINATION OF ACT. <6> of the 148 countries in the Internation tered during any month unless the importer This Act shall cease to have effect on al Monetary Fund, only 12 countries have of record of that article pays to the customs whichever of the following days first occurs: currencies that officially "float" independ officer concerned the currency equalization <1 > The first day of the first month occur ently and approximately one-third of the contribution for that article." ring after date of the enactment of this Act members engage in multiple currency prac (b) TREATMENT.-<1> The currency equali for which the dollar appreciation percent tices; zation contribution imposed on an article is age for the applicable base month is not <7> the economic vitality and security of in addition to any duty or fee imposed by more than 4 percent. the United States and the world would be statute or proclamation on that article. (2) The provisions of the Tariff Act of <2> The first day of the month after the greatly enhanced by a more reasonable and month in which the Secretary finds that for stable exchange rate for the United States 1930 relating to the ascertainment, collec tion, and recovery the United States merchandise trade SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. refund> of duties, and the enforcement of the customs laws, apply to the enforcement balance; to As used in th is Act- the gross national product of the <1) The term "base month" means the of the customs laws, apply to the currency equalization contributions in the same United States; second month occurring before the month is less than one percent.e for which the currency equalization per manner and to the same extent as they centage is determined. apply to regular customs duties. <2> The term "currency equalization con (C) DEPOSIT OF CONTRIBUTIONS.-All cur THE TERROR NETWORKS tribution" means, with respect to any article rency equalization contributions collected of foreign origin, the amount obtained by by the Customs Service shall be deposited multiplying the customs valuation of that into the Exchange Rate Equalization Fund HON. JIM COURTER article determined under section 402 of the established under section 6. OF NEW JERSEY Tariff Act of 1930 <19 U.S.C. 1401a) by the SEC. 6. EXCHANGE RATE EQUALIZATION FUND. currency equalization percentage (deter (a) ESTABLISHMENT.-There is established IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mined under section 4> in effect for the within the Treasury of the United States a Tuesday, July 9, 1985 month in which the article is entered. trust fund to be known as the Exchange (3) The term "currency equalization pay Rate Equalization Fund The term "dollar appreciation percent by the Secretary under section 7. sored terrorism, but how many of us age", with respect to a base month, means (C) EXCESS MONIES TO GENERAL FuND. give thought to the time, effort, and the average trade-weighted and inflation-ad The Secretary shall deposit into the general purposefullness state officials must justed appreciation of the United States fund of the Treasury as miscellaneous re invest to plan for such acts? dollar, as determined by the Federal Re ceipts those monies, if any, in the Fund at Strategic and tactical indicators-the serve Board, against the aggregate curren the close of each fiscal year quarter that facts about finance, planning, training, cies of Belgium, Canada, England, France, the Secretary does not consider necessary and targeting-are often lost or care Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, for the operation of the Fund. lessly buried within what we read, Switzerland, and West Germany during the (d) REPORT ON FuND 0PERATION.-The Sec period beginning March 1973 and ending retary shall report to Congress annually re hear, and see about terrorism. Yet with the base month. garding the financial operations of the they are the bones and sinews of ter (5) The term "entered" means entered, or Fund, including the aggregate amounts of rorists acts; while not always visible, withdrawn from warehouse for consump currency equalization contributions re they are necessary to and inseperable tion, in the customs territory of the United ceived, and currency equalization payments from the spectacular and emotional States. made, during the reporting period and a aspects which more easily take our at <6> The term "Secretary" means the Sec breakdown of those currency equalization tention. retary of Commerce. payments by manufacturing and agricultur Of the hundreds of articles which SEC. 4. DETERMINATION OF CURRENCY EQUALIZA al sectors. TION PERCENTAGE. SEC. 7. CURRENCY EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS. appeared in the press during the (a) TABLE.-The currency equalization per IN GENERAL.-A manufacturer, produc recent crisis, several were memorable centage for any month is that percentage er, or grower of a product of the United for their placement of the TWA hi appearing opposite the dollar appreciation States may, upon the exportation of that jacking within a broad strategic frame- 18294 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 work, and thus are especially deserv Fact 6-President Assad, a master of order to overcome moderate forces in the ing of preservation. They focused not deceit and hypocrisy, underwent a dramatic region. Mr Assad's grand design dovetails on the present crime but on planning psychological change in recent months. He neatly with Soviet plans. There is no central for future crimes. is now inspired by the Islamic cult of Sha war room in the bowels of the Kremilin di hadah in spreading terror among enemy ranks, non-and changed the course of history. It raising people's morale, and enhancing citi does not require an overwhelming effort of With all the pap and pabulum about the zens' awareness of the importance of mar imagination to figure out how we might get moderation of Syria's President Hafez Assad tyrdom. Thus, waves of popular martyrdom similarly discouraged in West Germany. and Lebanon's Minister of Justice Nabih will follow successively and the enemy will After prolonged harassment by terrorists, a Berri, the time has come to explain, in not be able to endure them." growing number of people would be tempted detail, what the intelligence community, on President Assad concluded his advocacy of both sides of the Atlantic, knows about to conclude that we're not wanted over state-sponsored terrorism. state-sponsored terrorism by saying that there. Fact 1-Shi'ite terrorists, working hand "My conviction of martrydom is neither in Fact 13-In May 1984, key international in-glove with the Syrian and Iranian secret cidental nor temporary. The years have en terrorist leaders, including Mrs. Fusako Shi services, have struck U.S. targets 16 times trenched this conviction. . . . I hope that genobu, who heads what's left of the Japa since April 1983-from the kamikaze attack my life will end only in martyrdrom." nese Red Army network, met with Col. against the Marine compound that killed Fact 7-Mr. Assad, in person, with the as Muammar Qaddafi in Tripoli. Shortly 241 to the kidnapping of seven Americans in sistance of Gen. Kholi, has supervised the thereafter, Col. Qaddafi announced, upon Beirut who are still being held. It's what the training of handpicked kamikaze squads, in the 14th anniversary of the closing of the specialists call low-level, low-intensity, low cluding a group of fighter pilots who are U.S. Air Force at Wheelus Field outside risk and high-payoff warfare. now in the final phase of their training Tripoli, that Libya was "now in a position to Fact 2-The latest hijacking was not the and rehearsals-at Minakh air base north of export terrorism, arson and liquidation to work of extremists working in isolation. The Aleppo the heart of America and we shall do so if Israeli Mossad, after many interrogations of Fact 8-A recent analysis completed on necessary." Shi'ite prisoners, knows that Nabih Berri behalf of the CIA is titled "Expelling Amer Fact 14-Libyan plots to mine the Red himself was involved in the planning of ica-A New Coordinated Radical Strategy." Sea; sink a ship in the Suez Canal; bomb the eight hijackings and two car bombings. President Assad has reached agreements Aswan High Dam ; and assassinate moderate Arab non. French counterintelligence discovered Fact 9-West European counter-terrorism leaders have all been uncovered in the past in 1983 the existence of a terrorist training operatives have discovered that Syrian-con 18 months. camp near Damascus that specialized in car trolled networks are now in place in Athens, Fact 15-There are 66 identified training bombings and where the trainers were mem Madrid, Lille, and Marseilles. Iranian terror camps for international terrorists in Marx bers of the Bulgarian DS. ists, disguised as mullahs, have used French ist or pro-Marxist countries; 20 in Libya Fact 4-Col. Kana'an was in charge of the mosques as safehouses. alone. The Libyan Mukhabarat is supervised by the East German MFS 20,000 opponents of the minority Assad dic rorist operations include Sabah Noun, who on behalf of the KGB. The KGB knows pre tatorship were killed by Syrian special helped coordinate the Shiite campaign cisely how this entire network operates and forces and the town virtually leveled. against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, what its objectives are. Fact 5-It was President Assad who origi and who has now been given overall charge Fact 16-About half of all terrorist actions nally authorized the installation of Iranian of operations against Israel and Jordan; in the world are aimed directly at U.S. tar terrorist squads in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Issam Kansuq, a Syrian intelligence officer; gets-about 500 in 1983, up 20 percent in Mr. Assad has been profoundly impressed and Hossein Mansouri, the Iranian who 1984. Most of the others were directed by the success of Lebanese Shi'ite suicide commanded the Ayatollah Khomeini's Rev against U.S. allies or pro-Western Third squads in forcing a hasty U.S. withdrawal olutionary Guards in Lebanon until six World countries. from Beirut in 1984 and in "breaking Isra months ago. These are the agents who have Fact 17-Former Secretary of State Alex el's fighting spirit"-as he has expressed been made responsible for liaison between ander Haig was the first high-ranking ad himself in recent conversations with his Damascus and networks in West Europe and ministration official since World War II to brother Rifaat and his top intelligence aide, the Gulf. warn about Soviet and Soviet proxy links to Gen. Mohammed al-Kholi. Electronic sur Fact 11-President Assad is convinced that international terrorist groups, during his veillance-from the ground and from orbit he has a personal mission to harness Arab first press conference in February 1981. His ing satellites-does produce known results. radicalism to Iran's fundamentalist fury in successor, George P. Shultz, repeated this July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18295 warning at the Jonathan Institute Confer are condemned to watch the slow erosion of Moreover, the Shiite fundamentalist ence on International Terrorism in Wash our still free societies. movement that has sprung from the anar ington in June 1984. chy in Lebanon has given the radicals a new Fact IS-According to a lengthy French [From the Wall Street Journal, June 19, stock of young Moslems willing to carry out intelligence report dated May 11, 1978, it 1985] terrorist actions. was in Havana, in January 1966, at the first LIBYA, SYRIA AND IRAN COORDINATE SCHEMES Perhaps the most ominous of the new Tricontinental Solidarity Conference, that To STRIKE U.S. TARGETS, ARAB SOURCES SAY movements in the region is the loose agree the Soviet bloc secretly decided on a two BEIRUT, LEBANON.-While attention is fo ment apparently struck by Libya, Syria and track approach for destabilizing the West. cused on the hijacked American jetliner Iran early this year. Arab sources close to On a government-to-government level, it held hostage here, a much broader terrorist was to become "peaceful coexistence," a sort the Syrian government say that Syria and network aimed at America and moderate Libya spearheaded the drive. At Iran's of smokescreen behind which the Soviet Arabs is taking shape in the Middle East. Union was to achieve global military su urging, the group avoided forming a formal The region's radical states of Libya, Syria alliance that would appear to put the group premacy, while the West was being dis and Iran all share a desire to strike out at armed psychologically. On another level, American targets right now. Their motives on the side of the Soviet Union; Iran doesn't the Havana 66 compact agreed to organize, are different, but their common interest in want to appear to be on either side of the fund and train international terrorist terrorist action has given rise to a series of superpower struggle. groups through a variety of proxies. troubling moves suggesting that an upsurge But the sources say the three countries The introduction of the French intelli in state-sponsored terrorism could be in the did agree on a strategy to coordinate policy gence report said "the analysis of intelli offing. on Middle East issues and to strengthen re gence collected since 1972 establishes that Among the indicators: lations with Soviet-backed states like South the international solidarity of revolutionary The foreign ministers of Libya, Syria and Yemen and Ethiopia. movements on different continents and, for Iran met in January in Tehran and laid the Syria and Libya also agreed to whip up some of them, their terrorist emanation, groundwork for a new "anti-American strat Palestinian terrorism by radical Palestinian stems from the [19661 Havana conference. egy," Arab sources close to the Syrian gov factions opposed to Palestine Liberation Or In six years time [that is by 1972], the struc ernment say. The countries agreed to esca tures of this new terrorist international ganization leader Yasser Arafat. Mr. Arafat late terrorism against U.S. interests and per has angered the radicals by his apparent became operational. The 'mother cell' is in sonnel on a world-wide scale, the sources Cuba. The external ramifications, centers of say. willingness to participate in a peace process coordination and action impulses of various More recently, Libyan leader Muammar led by moderate Arabs and the U.S. 'anti-imperialist' movements of the Third Qadhafi formally formed and agreed to fi Iran, the sources say, pledged to encour World, as well as European terrorist groups, nance his first pan-Arab terrorist organiza age terrorism by Moslem extremists. are, for the most part, made up of the net tion, called the Organization of Arab Revo All three countries have agreed to cooper works that the KGB and its surrogate serv lutionary Forces. The organization, with ate in the exchange of intelligence informa ices have established abroad. Since 1972, headquarters in Tripoli, pledged to "conduct tion, forging passports for their operatives sheltered by detente and peaceful coexist the Arab struggle for liberating all Arab ter and providing them with finances and trans ence, the actions of this new network of ter ritories" and "confront American imperial port facilities, according to the sources. The rorism are detectable throughout the West ism." countries also reportedly ordered their dip ern world." Other organizations aimed at overthrow lomatic missions abroad to cooperate close One recent example: Barricada, the offi ing Jordan's King Hussein and Iraqi leader ly.e cial Sandinista organ, confirmed the pres Saddam Hussein recently set up operations ence in Nicaragua of a Basque ETA "bri in Syria. gade" while Interior Minister Tomas Borge, Several weeks ago, Egypt announced that then on a visit to Spain, was busy denying it it had uncovered and foiled a Libyan plot to EXPANDED CAPITAL OWNER to the Spanish press. The Cuban DGI su blow up the U.S. Embassy in Cairo with a SHIP AND THE IDEOLOGICAL pervises camps that have trained terrorists truck loaded with explosives smuggled into HIGH GROUND from all over the world, including members the country. Egyptian officials said the inci of the IRA, ETA and Italy's Red Brigades.e dent was part of a broader Libyan terrorism Fact 19-Turkey, as a member of NATO, campaign. HON. PHILIP M. CRANE was the victim of a reign of terror for six There isn't any evidence linking the latest OF ILLINOIS years at the height of the so-called detente hijacking of an American jetliner to these period, all masterminded by the KGB, via new organizations. But Shiite terrorists IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Bulgarian DS, which operated a multi such as those holding the American jet and billion-dollar heroin-for-guns ring based in its passengers hostage-acquire inspiration, Tuesday, July 9, 1985 Sofia. It supplied tens of millions of dollars guidance and often material assistance from e Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, today, I worth of weapons, ammo and explosives to radical states, particularly Iran. am including another segment of a terrorists on both the extreme right and ex Unless the U.S. finds some clear link be treme left-until the military were reluc tween the current hijacking and terrorist ef series of discussions on the concept of tantly forced to take over in 1980 to put an forts sponsored by radical states, however, it expanded capital ownership. Today's end to Soviet-manipulated terror in a will have a difficult time retaliating. The material is the conclusion of yester member country of the Atlantic alliance. U.S. has had to refrain from striking back day's article, written by Louis Kelso, Fact 20-In his political testament smug after previous terrorist episodes because it the leading proponent and ideological gled to the West in the spring of 1980, Dr. lacked clear evidence that any government founder of the idea of expanded cap Andrei Sakharov warned us to take serious or groups of governments had sponsored ly allegations of links between the KGB and terrorists that hit American targets. ital ownership. In this essay, entitled its integrated surrogates, on the one hand, Hard-line states in the Middle East, of "Karl Marx: The Almost Capitalist," and international terrorist groups on the course, share a general anti-American senti which appeared in the American Bar other. The media ignored this part of this ment that always makes them eager to un Association Journal of March 1957, he 7,000-word message. dercut American interests. Now, though, addresses the third of Karl Marx's It is a war, albeit undeclared and by they have special reasons to want to lash It proxy, against Western democracies. Terror out at the U.S. major ideological errors. would be ism is but one of the weapons. The others Iran is enraged at the American tilt well for each of us to remember that are penetration, subversion and disinforma toward Iraq in the Persian Gulf war. Syria the entire purpose of the human right tion. Lenin said the purpose of terror is to wants to demonstrate that it won't allow of equal access to productive owner terrorize. He practiced what he preached. the U.S. to engineer an Arab-Israeli peace ship is the transcendent human right He also said in 1921 that to tell the truth is package that satisfies moderate Arabs and of dignity through freedom and jus a petty bourgeois habit. Palestinians but doesn't satisfy the region's The time has come for tough warnings hard-liners. Libya wants to encourage radi tice. We must therefore be vigilant in and tough action against known terrorist cals to disrupt the new "moderate Arab assuring that private ownership of the states, those that act as terrorist proxies for axis" of Jordan, Egypt and Iraq that the means of production remains the ideo Soviet objectives. Syria is one of them. So U.S. is fostering. logical high ground in our battle with far, all the Reagan administration has done "There is something in common" among collectivism and oppression around the is apply a Band-Aid to a hemorrhaging these states, says one knowledgeable Leba world. wound. Unless its deeds match its words, we nese. "Blackmail the Americans." 18296 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 [From American Bar Association Journal, speech, writings, mechanical action, is not ing that capital instruments are active March 19571 by itself capable of entering into ordinary forces in the production of wealth, perform ERRORS OF KARL MARX commerce. ing an economic function of the same sort the mental activity of the Whether Marx could have closed his eyes war against capitalists for hoarding capital scientist and manager is responsible for the to the facts of production in the now-dawn ism. invention, development, improvement and ing age of automation is an interesting spec Error No. 3: Mistaking the Wealth Cre production of capital instruments, and the ulation. Yet even in Marx's own day it ated by Capital for Wealth Created by supervision of productive activity of both la should have been possible for him to recog Labor and Stolen by the Capitalists. borers and capital instruments. Scientists nize that the scientists in de Let us now examine once more the princi and managers are in general the top echelon signing capital instruments build into these ples of capitalistic production that Marx of labor-the professional level. Their serv instruments the capability of performing might and should have used as a starting ices include entrepreneureal activities, in operations which, if performed by labor, point. In an exchange economy, and par which they provide the initiative in organiz would require the application of brainwork. ticularly in an economy of freely competi ing the capital and labor to institute or His obsession with the labor theory of value tive markets, each service and each com expand particular business activities. A sub rendered him incapable of this insight. modity is valued for its peculiar ability to stantial portion of their services is rendered But today, with the development of feed satisfy a certain desire of the consumer. in improving the productivity of capital in back, self-correcting and self-programming Whether the service or commodity is pro struments, thus promoting the substitution machines, capable of automatically per duced by labor alone or by capital alone or of machines for men and otherwise reducing forming a sequence of logical operations, by the co-operation of these two, is unim labor requirements, where to do so will correcting their own errors as they perform por.tant to the potential purchaser except as reduce the costs of production and render their productive tasks, choosing from built the method of production implants specific the businesses in which they are engaged in instructions or characteristics their characteristics in the thing marketed. It is more efficient and competitively better. The proper functions, it is likely that even Marx the finished product which is demanded by steady improvements in capital instruments, would have broken through his barrier-ob the purchaser, not the knowledge that it is systems of production, and orga1".:Zation of session that labor does all the work. produced in one way or another-a mere productive processes, are the results of the Human minds ultimately direct the pro means by which the product was brought mental activity of the scientists and manag duction of goods and services. This is true of forth. Contrary to what some sentimental ers. Their ability to produce in these fields the functions of capital instruments as it is ists think, there is nothing sacred about the is the secret of their rising productiveness of workers. As a production process uses products of labor that is not equally sacred and the increased demand for their services. more and more capital instruments, more of about the products of capital or those pro <2> Mental activity enters into non-scien the human mental control of the process of duced jointly by capital and labor. tific work and non-managerial work in vary production is shifted away from workers to To effect any change in the nature or po ing degrees. The intelligent direction by the scientists To effect such changes in matter, or to costs and to improve upon hand methods of ductive process; he produces, or in any event perform such services, purely physical, i.e., production. "The instrument of labour he may produce, vicariously. Mental activity mechanical means, must be used. With rare [meaning, of course, machines, the instru as such is not the basis of the property exceptions, pure thought is not economical ments of the capitalist] when it takes the rights of either labor or capital owners in ly compensable. Speech, writings, mechani form of a machine, immediately becomes a wealth produced. cal action-all these things,· performed by competitor of the workman himself." 51-059 0-86-33 (Pt. 13) 18298 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 the children of "fractured" families. "Some fore increases the risk of developing AIDS Both Dr. Oleske and Dr. Rubinstein vigor times," he said, "the whole family is dying." for women who are carrying the virus. ously treat infections in AIDS, children and "The people we take care of are a very dis "They want a survivor," said Dr. Rubin subscribe to an experimental program in enfranchised group," said Dr. Oleske, a pe stein, explaining why women often shun his which gamma globulin, a blood product con diatric immunologist, who noted that drug advice not to have another child. taining antibodies, is administered intrave abusers were a population less organized Only 12 percent of the mothers of AIDS nously. and more scorned than other groups at risk children nationwide actually had the dis Dr. Oleske reports that five children on for AIDS. ease during pregnancy, according to the the program are alive four years after diag With two or three new cases of pediatric Centers for Disease Control. But the birth nosis, and three of those are showing im AIDS diagnosed locally each month, policy of an AIDS child is a signal that the mother provement in their immune systems. Dr. makers are taking action. Dr. Rubinstein is carrying the virus, said Dr. Polly Thomas, Rubinstein said his star patients are two 7- was awarded $400,000 by New York City last a pediatric immunologist in the New York year-olds, whose symptoms were detected at month to establish a day-care center in the City Health Department. 12 months and subsequently diagnosed as Bronx for the children. Many AIDS children born to addicted AIDS. This summer, with the advice of health mothers are already in foster care when Neither doctor cites these cases as an indi care professionals who stress their strong their illness is diagnosed, and such foster cation that the progress of the wasting dis belief that the disease is not contagious parents often keep the children. ease can be halted; their goal is to keep pa through casual contact, both New York City "The goodness of these parents, I can't tients alive as long as possible in the hope of and New Jersey will promulgate guidelines tell you," said Anita Septimus, a social a cure. "Every month we gain, every day we that could admit AIDS children to public worker in Dr. Rubinstein's unit, who said gain, is worthwhile," Dr. Rubenstein said. school next fall. foster mothers were much more likely to "But there's no delusion that we're doing "If they're well enough to go to school, attend support groups than natural moth anything dramatic," Dr. Oleske said, "All we they're not a risk to other children," said erts, whose "guilt and denial is unbeliev can give these children is good supportive Dr. David J. Sencer, the Health Commis able." care." sioner of New York City, where last year a Abandoned AIDS children are extremely handful of AIDS children were instructed at difficult to place with families, according to WHEN HOPE EBBS home. "But it's going to take a lot of patient Harry Silverstein, the director of placement At the stage of severe neurological impair discussion, not only with the Board of Edu at the Office of Special Services for Chil ment, both doctors cease the most aggres cation, but with the community at large." dren, a division of the city's Human Re sive treatment. "The brain just shrinks ROLE OF DRUG ADDICTION sources Administration. away, like Alzheimer's," Dr. Rubinstein said. "Everyone agrees that under proper cir Sixteen AIDS children have come to the "They lose milestones and stop talking, cumstances, these children should be main attention of Mr. Silverstein's agency in the walking, sitting. Once that happens, we streamed," said Joseph Mancini, a spokes last two years. Two have died, three live throw up our hands. That sounds terrible, man for the New York City Board of Educa with relatives, one was returned to a foster but you have to draw the line somewhere." tion. family and three have been placed after Dr. Oleske set a similar standard when he One foster mother of a 3-year-old child publicity campaigns. Seven homeless AIDS decided against a respirator for his 4-year with AIDS-related complex who had been children remain in New York City hospitals, old patient at Children's Hospital, after abandoned in a hospital for 20 months after although they are not sick enough to re neurologists advised that the AIDS virus being diagnosed said she was more afraid of quire inpatient care. had irreversibly affected the brain. "When society than of her foster daughter's illness. Most doctors and social workers say fear it hits the vital centers, we fail," he said. The 44-year-old woman said she had consid of contagion and of loss-is what inhibits Parents, Mrs. Septimus said, are loath to ered lying, as she has to neighbors and prospective foster parents. New York City confront the severity of the disease, in their friends, in order to enroll her child in a reg pays foster parents $250 to $350 a month, offspring or theinselves. She considers this ular nursery school program. and certain categories of children entitle a reluctance a blessing because, she said, a "Some people think that's evil," said the foster parent to $5 a day extra, which Mr. fearful woman is more likely to abandon her woman, who has been shunned by family Silverstein said was not "automatic" for child. members and friends. "But if she's going to AIDS children until recently. Typical, she said, was the foster mother of have a short life, I want it to be a full life." AFTER THE DIAGNOSIS the 3-year-old child with AIDS-related com The woman's foster daughter, like most Dr. Rubinstein and Dr. Oleske disagree plex, who has been hospitalized once in the AIDS children in the New York area, was about how to deal with children who are last six months with pneumonia, recently infected by a drug-addicted mother. Nation still with their natural parents at the time contracted a skin infection after a swim in a ally, about half the AIDS children are born of diagnosis. hotel pool and has chronically enlarged to women who were intravenous drug users Dr. Rubinstein said, "I always send them organs and glands. The foster mother, a or who were infected, through sexual con back, because a bad family environment is hospital administrator, said, "I'm convinced tact, by drug-using mates. In New York, 80 better than no family environment." His she's going to lick it," and she bristles at children have been diagnosed as having social worker, Mrs. Septimus, said some ad what she considers alarmist doctors. AIDS, according to the Centers for Disease dicted mothers responded to their children's A believer in "therapeutic touch," the Control definition, and 70 percent of the illness by reshaping their lives, while others mother said that each night she rubbed her cases have been traced to drug use, usually became "more irresponsible" under the new daughter's belly and back. "I say, 'Spleen, by the mother. stress. go down' and it's already gone down," she Local doctors report that they are seeing Dr. Oleske said, "The worst possible care said. "Next I'll do the liver and then the more cases from middle-income families, provider is a drug-addicted woman." He oc lymph glands." often in situations where the woman was casionally urges social workers to remove a "MY HEART GOES BANG" unaware of her mate's drug habit. "There's child from its natural mother. The Newark For the doctors, such hope is more elusive. social chaos on all levels of society," said Dr. doctor is treating 22 AIDS children; nine are Jane Pitt, who has treated about 35 children Dr. Oleske said there were days when it was in foster care, six because the natural moth nearly impossible to put on his optimistic with AIDS or AIDS-related complex at Co ers died and three because the mother was lumbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. face, that he had not anticipated dealing judged unfit. with so many dying children and "wasn't Less frequently, children have been infect One 2-year-old girl at Children's Hospital ed with AIDS because of a mother's sexual emotionally ready for it." has been hospitalized for 16 months because Dr. Rubenstein said that he protected contact with a bisexual man, or because of her teen-age mother is not capable of caring contaminated transfusions. hiinself from "burnout" by delegating many for her. The child, in the final stages of the emotional chores to his social workers. But Medical experts are unsure whether AIDS disease, which often ends with pulmonary children are infected in the womb or during Mrs. Septimus said the doctor was always or neurological failure, was put on a respira the one to tell parents that their child was birth, or what percentage of children born tor and the mother has stopped visiting. to infected women are affected. about to die. "I've heard it time and again," Local doctors tell many stories about WAITING FOR A CURE she said, "and each time my heart goes mothers who give birth to more than one Often, the children are initially labeled as bang.''" AIDS child. But, in the face of limited data "failure to thrive" babies, with symptOins of Lately, Dr. Rubenstein said, staff mem that seem to indicate a substantial risk in a immunological failure usually appearing by bers regularly weep in his office. "There is second pregnancy, the doctors are divided six months. In children with AIDS, an infec so little hope at the end of the tunnel," he on the ethics of encouraging abortion. Many tion-often pneumonia-usually occurs by said. "And the misery of the family-every doctors say that in general, pregnancy af the age of 12 months. In 80 percent of those one is involved. I don't know of any other fects a woman's immune system, and there- cases, the child is dead within two years. disease that does this." July 9, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18299 "It's good in your head to think you can ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS) WEEK- task force kept a steady but firm walk out on the job." Mrs. Septimus said, "but even if you wanted to go back to the LV SURVEILLANCE REPORT, JULY 8, 1985, U.S. CASES- course. It was the belief of this admin same little life, you couldn't do it, because Continued istration-a belief shared by a majori you look at your own humanity in a differ ty of task force members-that the ent way. But, there are days when I feel like Reported Reported only feasible path that could be fol- screaming, 'What did they do to deserve ______ca_se_s __dea_th_s lowed for a full accounting was by gov- this?'" Massachusetts ...... 218 ... ernment-to-government negotiations, District of Columbia ...... 181 ..... ::::::::::::: not through any independent or oth- ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS) ~~~r :::::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::: :: : :: :::::: : ::::::::::::::::::: 179 ...... erwise nongovernmental mercenary WEEKLY SURVEILLANCE REPORT, JULY 1, 1985, U.S. CASES Puerto Rico ...... m::::::: ::::::::::: action. ~~i~~~~.~.t.:: : :::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::: :::::::::::: : :::::::::::::::: m:::::::::::::::::: Americans who have seen motion Reported Reported 125 ...... pictures depicting a single hero, with cases deaths ~i~r~ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : ::::::::::::: ~~~ :::::::...... adequate firepower, obtaining the re- Adult/adolescent ...... 11,219 5,586 ~~f~~~~~.::::: : :::: : : ::: : ::::: ::::::::::::::::::: ::: :::::::::::::: : :::::::: 69 ...... lease of many live Americans, were Pediatric (under 13 at diagnosis) ...... 133 97 ~~~u~~~~i.~~.::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~ :::::::::::::::::: sadly deluded. While we have received Total .. 11,352 5,683 ~~ ::::::::::::::: ::: a number of reports or sightings of ~;.?a~t: :::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::: : : :: :: :::::::::::::::::::::::: 38 ...... live Caucasians in actuality, we have Age of AIDS patients: Indiana ...... 38 Under 13 ...... 133 ...... 35 ...... not been able to substantive evidence 13 to 19 ...... 62 ...... ~~~~~i-a ·::::::: :::::::: :::::::::::::::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 21 ...... of any live Americans being held cap- 20 to 29 ...... 2,386 ...... South Carolina ...... 30to39 ...... 5,374 ...... Alabama ...... ~~: ::::::::::::::::: tive that part of the world. Indeed, if 40 to 49 ...... 2,377 ...... 26 ...... we did, I dare say a vast majority of Over 49 ...... 1,020 ...... ~:~~rri ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: :::::::: Tennessee ...... our colleagues would take to the floor Total ...... ~5 :::::::::::::::::: 11,352 ...... Oklahoma ...... 19 ...... demanding immediate action. Rhode Island ...... 15 ...... Residence: Delaware ...... 14 ...... However, the events of the last few New York ...... 4,071 ...... Nevada ...... California ...... 2,615 ...... Utah ...... ~~ :::::::::::::::::: weeks prove that it is our reasonable, Florida ...... 808 ...... New Mexico ...... 10 ...... realistic approach that is beginning to New Jersey ...... 703 ...... Texas ...... 576 ...... ~:~ ~fii~a ('loj':::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~ :::::::::::::::::: reap dividends in this quest, not the Pennsylvania ...... 240 ...... • Hollywood histronics. Illinois ...... 234 ...... Total...... 11,505 Massachusetts ...... 217 ...... In February of this year, for the District of Columbia ...... 179 ...... 179 ...... first time in history, the Government ~~f~~ii :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 147 ...... of Laos allowed an American technical 127 ...... ~~i~~~~-~-t_:::::: ::: ::: .. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 127 ...... MISSING IN ACTION team to excavate a known crash site Puerto Rico ...... 127 ...... within Laotian territory. That crash Washington ...... 115 ...... Virginia ...... 101 ...... HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN site, near the point where Vietnam, Colorado ...... 88 ...... OF NEW YORK Cambodia, and Laos meet, about 24 Michigan ...... 69 ...... 68 ...... IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES miles from the village of Pakse, was ~~~uiL::::::::::::::: .. :::·::::::::...... 54 ...... the point at which an AC130 gunship, North Carolina ...... 53 ...... Tuesday July 9, 1985 48 ...... with 16 crewmen aboard, crashed after ~~~~~r :::::::::::::::: .. ::::::::::::::::: ::::::::...... 37 ...... • Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am being struck by enemy firepower. Two Indiana ...... 35 ...... Oregon ...... 34 ...... pleased to join with my distinguished Americans escaped alive, and the body Minnesota ...... 27 ...... colleague from New York [Mr. SoLo of a third was recovered shortly there South Carolina ...... 27 ...... MON], 25 ...... the chairman of the House Task after, but the whereabouts of the ~:~~rri ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : ::::: 25 ...... Force on our Missing in Action, in other 13 remained a mystery. Alabama ...... 24 ...... Tennessee ...... 20 ...... noting for our colleagues that recent Our excavation this February pro Oklahoma ...... 19 ...... revolutionary developments indicate Rhode Island...... 15 ...... duced fragmentary and severely Delaware ...... 14 ...... that 1985 will be remembered as the burned remains. Long and arduous ex Nevada ...... 14 ...... pivotal year in the resolution of this Utah ...... 13 ...... amination by our U.S. Army Central New Mexico ...... 10 ...... issue-an issue which has haunted Identification Laboratory resulted in West Virginia ...... 10 ...... America since the last of our troops Other States ( I 0) ...... 57 ...... the positive identification of those re supposedly left Southeast Asia in 1973. mains as those of our 13 brave Ameri Total ...... 11,352 ...... This year, it has been alleged that interest in our missing Americans can servicemen. reached a greater peak than at any Last week, while the attention of the ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS) time since the conclusion of hostilities. world was focused on the crisis in Leb WEEKLY SURVEILLANCE REPORT, JULY 8, 1985, U.S. CASES This public interest, stirred by popular anon, our heroes were finally returned motion pictures and television presen to their loved ones. Their families re Reported Reported tations, is certainly most welcome by ceive our condolences, now that the cases deaths those of us both in this House and in long wait is at last over, and these men have earned an eternal place in our Adult/adolescent...... 11 ,372 5,617 the private sector who have struggled Pediatric (under 13 at diagnosis) ...... 133 97 for years to obtain a full accounting of hearts. Total ...... 11 ,505 5,714 our missing Americans. At about the same time as our Lao Although we welcome the public in tian excavation, a breakthrough in our Age of AIDS patients: Under 13 ...... 133 ...... terest, we did not and do not welcome talks with Hanoi took place. The Gov 13 to 19 ...... 62 ...... those who, for whatever purpose, over ernment of Vietnam, long isolated 20 to 29 ... 2.418 ...... 30 to 39 ...... 5,450 ...... simplified and in many ways sullied from the civilized world and faced 40 to 49 ...... 2,410 ...... the cause of our quest for a full ac with internal chaos and bankruptcy, Over 49 .. 1,032 ...... counting. Many persons throughout agreed to fuller cooperation with the Total...... 11,505 ...... this Nation, undoubtedly patriotic and United States. To a great part, this Residence: well-meaning, took up the hue and breakthrough signifies the determina New York ...... 4,143 ...... cry: "Why aren't we doing more? Why tion of our President and our Secre California ...... 2,656 ...... Florida ...... 808 ...... aren't our live Americans brought tary of State and his staff, who have New Jersey ...... 705 ...... home?" insisted that the MIA issue be a condi Texas ...... 576 Pennsylvania ...... 240 ...... Throughout this ever-increasing tion for any normalization of rela Illinois ...... 235 ...... clamor, our President and the House tions. At that time, six sets of remains 18300 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 9, 1985 were repatriated, as a gesture of coop brethren are still missing and the oc this kind of task can be accomplished eration. casion for educational programs advis if we are determined enough to accom This week, we received the long ing all Americans of the complexity of plish it. sought news that the remains of 26 the problem. Second, I think this announcement more Americans will be returned to us Accordingly, Mr. Speaker, let us be is, in my view, a clear vindication of as soon as possible. In addition, the grateful for recent developments, at the policies of President Reagan and Hanoi government has indicated their the same time not forgetting that concerned members of his administra goal of resolving this issue once and much more work remains to be done. tion, who have made the fullest possi for all "within 2 years." Hanoi is cur For those who gave so much, we can ble accounting of American MIA's rently considering the admission of do no less.e "the highest national priority." U.S. technical search teams into As chairman of the House Task Southeast Asia. HOMECOMING FOR MIA'S Force on American Prisoners and This development offers the most Missing in Southeast Asia, I applaud promising ray of hope yet offered on the President's commitment. this priority issue since the end of the HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON I wish also to commend the work of Vietnamese conflict. Although we all OF NEW YORK the U.S. Army Central Identification look forward to the day when we have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Laboratory, which performed nothing a full and total accounting of our 2,400 servicemen still missing in action, Tuesday, July 9, 1985 short of a technical miracle in identi e Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, never fying the fragmentary and severely these recent developments should burned remains. make it clear to one and all that the were the words "Welcome Home" so most effective means of obtaining a affectionately spoken as when Presi I wish also to thank all those con full accounting is by way of govern dent Ronald Reagan uttered them at cerned and patriotic Americans, most ment-to-government cooperation and Andrews Air Force Base to the 39 hos notably the National League of Fami not by any private initiatives. tages who had returned to America lies, who have supported us every step Undoubtedly, there will be those after 17 days as prisoners of Shiite ter of the way. who will say that this was not enough. rorists. Third, I want to highlight the news There will be Americans who insist The sight of this homecoming was about the identification of these 13 that there are live Americans still indeed welcome. But equally welcome, sets of remains because it now appears being held captive and that we cannot if less noticed, was another homecom there is a good possibility that such rest until they are freed. ing of sorts which took place that very announcements may soon become, if Although no evidence has been gath same day. not routine, at least more common ered to date proving that there are live On the day the hostages landed place. Americans in Southeast Asia, all home on American soil, the White Over the weekend of the Fourth of Americans can rest assured that we House also released news that the re July, the Government of Vietnam an will not rest until every conceivable mains of 13 American servicemen shot nounced that it is willing at long last means has been exhausted to obtain down over Laos in 1972 had been posi to enter into joint, high-level discus the final and full answers to this issue. tively identified. sions with the United States about the Mr. Speaker, our House Task Force, Thus a long and agonizing wait fate of the 1,375 servicemen still listed and the Subcommittee on Asian and ended for the families of these brave as missing in that country. Pacific Affairs, under the able leader Americans, a wait that began when an I take this announcement as another ship of the distinguished gentleman AC130 gunship with 16 crewmen vindication of the Reagan administra from New York [Mr. SoLOMON] and aboard crashed in rugged terrain tion policy of keeping the MIA issue as the distinguished gentleman from New about 24 miles northeast of Pakse, in a top humanitarian concern which York [Mr. SoLARZ], conducted hear southern Laos, just 4 days before must be resolved before reconciliation ings 2 weeks ago to bring the Congress Christmas 1972. or diplomatic recognition can take up-to-date on this issue. We took testi Two crewmen escaped; the body of place. mony from a host of administration another was recovered the next day. As a symbol of their good intentions and military officials in open session, But the other 13 were eventually of resolving this issue over the next 2 and in executive session interrogated listed among the 576 Americans miss years, Hanoi officials have already Marine Pfc. Robert Garwood, because ing in Laos since the Vietnam War. agreed to return the remains of 26 we do not intend to leave any stone In September 1982, a decade after servicemen. unturned in our quest for a full ac the crash, the Government of Laos, For the families of those 26, the long counting. after some prodding, agreed to permit and agonizing wait now begins. We can The developments since those hear representatives of the National League only hope and pray that over the ings adjourned are a clear signal that of Families to visit various suspected coming years, the same process just the administration and Congress are crash sites. This visit was followed up beginning for those 26 families, and on the right track on this issue, and in December 1983 by a team of techni now ending for the families of the 13 that now is not the time to be swayed cal experts who surveyed the Pakse servicemen returned from Laos, will be by any sensationalist and the oversim site. resolved for the remaining families. plificationists who are proposing all On February 14, 1985, the remains Let us also hope and pray that we sorts of schemes to resolve this issue were excavated. Then, finally, came continue to show the resolve we have rather than the realistic and the pro that Tuesday in July, homecoming displayed so far until all those brave ductive path. day, when the identity of these re Americans, missing so long, come Mr. Speaker, in 10 days, Americans mains were released. home to be interred in native soil and will be marking National POW/MIA I relate all these details for three to have their names inscribed beside Recognition Day. This date, July 19, reasons. their fallen comrades on the rollcall of established by Congress, should be the First of all, I think it is instructive American heroes whose courage and occasion of solemn ceremonies remind for all Americans, and especially to sacrifice have enabled us to enjoy the ing all Americans that 2,400 of our those who are skeptical, to see that blessings of freedom today·•