December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34347 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO THE RECREATIONAL MARINE period until parity is reached between the PATRICK M. FAGAN CRAFT ACT OF 1985 two countries' tariff schedules. This bill is not protectionist legislation. HON. DENNIS M. HERTEL HON. JOHN R. McKERNAN, JR. American manufacturers of recreational OF MAINE marine craft must have the opportunity to OF MICHIGAN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES compete on even terms-with equal tar­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, December 4, 1985 iffs-with our largest trading partner, Canada. Tuesday, December 3, 1985 Mr. MCKERNAN. Mr. Speaker, today I Recently, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mr. HERTEL of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, am introducing the Recreational Marine Craft Act of 1985, as a way to draw atten­ Mulroney announced a willingness to seek today I would like to pay tribute to one of "the broadest possible package of mutually our most loved public servants, Mr. Patrick tion to and rectify one of the more onerous trade inequities that currently exists. The beneficial reductions in tariff and nontariff M. Fagan, who passed away this afternoon barriers" between the United States and after a long illness. intent of this bill is to reduce Canadian tar­ iffs on sailboats and other pleasure craft­ Canada. This legislation is completely con­ Seventeen years ago, Patrick Fagan left presently about seven times the rate of the sistent with that statement, and should the Detroit Police Force to serve the people American tariff-and to foster greater strengthen the special trade relationship we of Grosse Pointe Woods as a public safety trade between the two nations. have always had with Canada. officer. Since the beginning of his career, The United States has long been the I urge my colleagues to support this leg­ Mr. Fagan did more than could ever have world's premier producer of sailboats and islation. been asked of him. Patrick Fagan was de­ other recreational marine craft. These ves­ H.R. 3856 voted to children and to their safety. He sels have been recognized for their quality, was a crime prevention officer and a traffic performance, and reliability; in particular, A bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to safety officer, he served in the youth serv­ Maine vessels have an international reputa­ promote expansion of international trade tion for their fine craftsmanship. Unfortu­ in recreational marine craft with Canada, ices department for many years and has and other purposes served on the substance abuse council. nately, the inequitable tariffs imposed by In addition to his regular duties, he vol­ the Government of Canada have severely Be it enacted by the Senate and House of impeded the efforts of United States manu­ Representatives of the United States of untarily attended outside courses on many America in Congress assembled, subjects. Mr. Fagan was particularly inter­ facturers to export their product to SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. ested in magic and public speaking. The de­ Canada. Trade with Canada is hampered by Cana­ This Act may be cited as the "Recreation­ partment actively supported these pursuits al Marine Craft Act of 1985". to the extent of actually sending him to dian tariffs that stand in defiance of fair learn more about magic so that he could trade. The existing U.S. tariff on pleasure SEC. 2. FINDINGS. craft is quite minimal, ranging from 1.6 to The Congress finds that- enhance his communication with the chil­ 2.4 percent ad valorem, while the applicable <1 > trade in recreational marine craft be­ dren of the community. His interest in Canadian tariff is between 15.6 and 17.5 tween the United States and Canada is public speaking led him to become an ac­ percent ad valorem. Such a striking imbal­ being distorted by inequitable tariff treat­ complished toastmaster and master of cere­ ance in duties, when coupled with the ment under which United States boats ex­ monies, serving at many special functions strong dollar, sharply distorts trade flow ported to Canada are generally dutiable at in the community over the years. He was 15-16 percent ad valorem, whereas Canadi­ between the two countries, to the substan­ an sailboats entering the United States are also a member of the local Fraternal Order tial detriment of American sailboat export­ of Police and served as the State Fraternal dutiable at a rate as low as 112 percent ad va­ ers. On the other hand, Canadian manufac­ lorem; Order of Police District Director. turers have benefited from this relation­ <2> in 1984, as a result of inequitable tar­ Patrick Fagan's devotion to his commu­ ship: Since 1978, Canada alone has more iffs and the overvalued dollar, imports of nity is only an example of the loving than doubled its exports of recreational sailboats into the United States rose 13 per­ nature of this fine man. Even though he marine craft to the United States, account­ cent to over $112,000,000 but United States was not an avid sportsman, he liked noth­ ing in 1984 for over $31 million in sales. sailboats exports declined by 22 percent to ing better than to spend time enjoying the This situation represents, in the extreme, $12,400,000; peacefulness of the nearest fishing hole. another trade injustice. <3> Canada was the leading source of sail­ He was a devoted family man to his wife, This bill is aimed at trade reciprocity be­ boat imports in 1984, accounting for tween the United States and Canada for $31,600,000 in sales, or roughly double the Karen and his daughter, Christine. $16,000,000 of Canadian sales in the United Although Mr. Fagan was physically af­ pleasure craft. The bill grants authority to the President to negotiate a trade agree­ States in 1974; fected by his illness, it did not dim his (4) the United States recreational marine spirit nor dull his loving nature in any ment with the Government of Canada to craft industry is composed of approximately way. I, along with his f amity, friends, provide more equitable treatment of United 2,000 establishments employing approxi­ fell ow officers, and everyone in the com­ States pleasure craft imports. If such an mately 40,000 workers; and munity, will always remember the caring agreement is not reached within 1 year of <5> the United States and Canadian recre­ the date of enactment, then the duty on Ca­ deeds and steadfast courage of our special ational marine craft industries are essential­ nadian boats would be increased by 30 per­ ly similar in terms of wages, level of tech­ friend, Patrick Fagan. cent, and increased by 30 percent again 6 nology, access to capital, worker health and I respectfully ask my colleagues to join months later, and finally increased 2 years safety regulations, pollution control require­ me in honoring this fine man, who was after the enactment of the legislation to a ments, and structure. loved by all who knew him. level equal to the comparable Canadian SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO THE TRADE ACT OF 1974. rates. In short, the bill provides Canada (a) IN GENERAL.-Title I of the Trade Act with the option of lowering its tariff on of 1974 <19 U.S.C. 2111 et seq.) is amended recreational marine craft, or facing a by adding at the end thereof the following phased-in tariff increase over a 2-year new chapter:

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51-059 0-87-46 !Pt. 24l 34348 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 ''CHAPTER 9-RECREATIONAL MARINE reational marine craft that is entered after sity Law School, for bringing this state­ CRAFT TRADE AGREEMENTS AU­ the day shall equal the Canadian rate of ment to my attention. THORITIES duty in effect on the earlier last day re­ The tragedy of the South Moluccas, now "SEC. 191. RECREATIONAL MARINE CRAFT PROD­ ferred to in paragraph <2> with respect to a UCl'S TRADE NEGOTIATING AUTHOR­ like United States product, except that each a part of the Republic of Indonesia, is evi­ ITY. rate of duty established under this para­ dent in the fact that the minority Moluccan "(a) GENERAL NEGOTIATING AUTHORITY.­ graph shall thereafter be reviewed on a bi­ population is struggling to retain its unique The President may enter into a trade agree­ annual basis by the President and adjusted culture and traditions, religion, and lan­ ment with the Government of Canada accordingly to equalize any change made in guage, in the face of suppression by the In­ which provide for more equitable Canadian the applicable Canadian rate. donesian Government. When South Moluc­ tariff treatment for United States recre­ "(b) Each rate of duty in effect under sub­ ational marine craft. Such agreement, at a section , (2), or (3) shall cease to apply cas declared independence in 1950, the minimum, shall provide for the elimination upon such date as may be specified by law South Moluccans felt that they would at of- implementing a trade agreement entered last have the right of self-determination. "( 1 > differing tariff levels on recreational into under section 191. However, only a year later, Indonesian marine craft trade between the United "SEC. 193. DEFINITIONS. armies invaded and conquered and for the States and Canada; and " For purposes of this chapter- last 35 years, the South Moluccans have "<2> any Canadian nontariff barrier to "(!) The term 'Canadian recreational struggled to retain their identity and have United States recreational marine craft. marine craft' means a recreational marine been subjected to violations of their human "(b) F CTORS To BE TAKEN INTO Ac­ craft that is manufactured in Canada. COUNT.-ln negotiating a trade agreement "(2) The term 'entered' means entered, or rights. As a member of the International under the authority of subsection . the withdrawn from warehouse for consump­ Parliamentary Group for Human Rights, I President shall consider the following fac­ tion, in the customs territory of the United was concerned to learn of the situation and tors: States. I wanted to share with my colleagues the "(1) Trade distortions resulting from in­ "(3) The term 'recreational marine craft' foil owing statement: equitable tariff treatment by Canada of means any article described in any of items THE SURVIVAL OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF United States recreational marine craft. 969.05 through 696.10, 696.15, or 696.30 THE SOUTH MOLUCCAS "(2) Adverse employment impacts in the through 696.40 of the Tariff Schedules of United States recreational marine craft in­ the United States <19 U.S.C. 1202). dustry. "(4) The term 'United States recreational We seek survival. We have come among "(3) The effect of the overvalued dollar in marine craft' means a recreational marine you because you share our values and our the United States on imports and exports of craft that is manufactured on the United objectives. We join with the other indige­ recreational marine craft. States.". nous peoples thoughout the world in a joint "(4) The effect of persistently high inter­ (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.-The table of struggle for human rights. We want to learn est rates in the United States on imports contents to title I of the Trade Act of 1974 more about what we can do. We want to and exports of recreational marine craft. is amended by adding at the end the follow­ help you and we want you to help us. "(C) AGREEMENT TREATED IN THE SAME ing: We, the South Moluccans, are Melane­ MANNER AS AGREEMENT UNDER SECTION 102.­ CHAPTER 9-RECREATIONAL MARINE sians. We are Christians. Our indigenous For purposes of subsections through (g) CRAFT TRADE AGREEMENT AU­ tongue is Ambonese. Our people are native of section 102 and chapter 5 of this title, a THORITY to an island group in the southeastern part trade agreement entered into under subsec­ "Sec. 191. Recreational marine craft trade of the Indonesian archipelago, north of Aus­ tion shall be considered to be a trade negotiation authority. tralia and east of New Guinea. Our area is agreement entered into under section 102. "Sec. 192. Effects if negotiations unsuccess­ one and a half times the size of Switzerland. "SEC. 192. EFFECTS IF NEGOTIATIONS UNSUCCESS- ful. But in a world where almost all popula­ FUL. "Sec. 193. Definition of recreational marine tion groups are growing, ours is shrinking. "(a) STAGING OF INCREASED DUTIES.-Sub­ craft.". Once we had a population of three million. ject to subsection , if a trade agreement SEC. 4. CONSULTATION. Now just over a million are still on the is­ is not entered into under section 191 The President shall consult with the Com­ lands, struggling to retain their ethnicity before- mittee on Finance of the Senate and the and culture. And they are a conquered "<1 > the earlier of the last day of the 12- Committee on Ways and Means of the people, living under the rule of a non-demo­ month period beginning on the date of the House of Representatives and other appro­ cratic state-Indonesia. Their indigenous enactment of this chapter, or October 1, priate congressional committees, as well as leaders cannot-dare not-travel to interna­ 1986, the rate of duty on each Canadian rec­ the appropriate committees established tional meetings to plead their cause. reational marine craft that is entered after under section 135 of the Trade Act of 1974, Another million South Moluccans are dis­ that day and before an increased rate under in carrying out chapter 9 of title I of the persed over the other Indonesian islands, paragraph <2> takes effect shall be the lower Trade Act of 1974. forced to leave their homeland for economic of- reasons. Still living under the Indonesian " a rate of duty equal to 130 percent of SEC. 5. CONSEQUENTIAL CHANGES IN THE TARIFF dictatorship, they likewise cannot speak out. the rate of duty in effect with respect to a SCHEDULES. The President shall proclaim such modifi­ Alas, most of us fear that they no longer product of that kind on the date of the en­ cation to the Tariff Schedules of the United want to speak out; that they have melted actment of this chapter, or States as may be necessary to implement a into the Indonesian melting pot; and that " takes effect shall be the lower IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES speak for them. of- We make no apology for our race, for our " a rate of duty equal to 130 percent of Wednesday, December 4, 1985 ethnicity, for our culture, for our language. the rate of duty determined under subsec­ Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I would like Like all cultures, ours has riches which tion on that product; to direct the attention of my colleagues to must be preserved. Like all indigenous peo­ " a rate of duty equal to the Canadian a poignant plea for survival made by the ples we have a right to survive with our rate of duty in effect on the earlier last day refugee Foreign Representative of the ethnic beings intact. That is why we are referred to in paragraph <1 > with respect to here. That is why all of you are here. a like United States product; and South Moluccas, Margaretha Hatu-Syauta, But we are not strong. We are few in num­ "(3) the earlier of the last day of the 24- at the Geneva meetings of the Commission bers. Economically speaking, we are poor. month period beginning on the date of the on Human Rights this past summer. I And perhaps we are too adaptable to our enactment of this chapter, or October 1, would like to thank my former professor, surroundings and too readily forsake our 1987, the rate of duty on each Canadian rec- Albert P. Blaustein, of the Rutgers Univer- tongue, our dress, our habits and our cus- December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34349 toms to conform to the dominant cultures American, and Contadora countries. The Central America should be based on the under which we live. communique outlines a constructive ap­ principles included in the charters of the And we have lived under too many of proach to Central America that emphasizes United Nations and the Organization of these dominant cultures: Arab, Portuguese, political dialog, economic cooperation, and American States regarding the respect for Dutch, Japanese and Javanese. That is why all nations' sovereignty and independence, our human rights so long have been tram­ peaceful solutions. It stands in marked territorial integrity, non-intervention in the pled upon, why our culture is in jeopardy contrast to the Reagan policies. Mr. Speak­ internal affairs of other states, and the pro­ and why the South Moluccan indigenous er, I wish we would follow Europe's exam­ scription of the use of threats or force. people are in danger of becoming a lost spe­ ple. On Support to Contadora: The Ministers cies of humankind. The communique follows: of Foreign Affairs of the E.E.C., Spain and Once we would not have needed outside JOINT POLITICAL COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE Portugal have reaffirmed their support to help and international support to preserve II MEETING OF MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AF­ the Contadora Group and have acknowl­ our peoplehood. For after the defeat of Jap­ FAIRS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMU­ edged the progress made by the Group on anese imperialism. our colonial masters over NITY, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, THE CENTRAL AMER­ the basis of the September 12, 1985, draft of what was called the Netherlands East ICAN GOVERNMENTS AND THE CONTADORA the Act of Contadora. The participating Indies, offered us an independence. The GROUP, HELD IN LUXEMBOURG, NOVEMBER countries reiterated their will to create the South Moluccas declared independence as a 11-12, 1985 conditions necessary for the signing of Con­ new republic on April 25, 1950, a date prior On Cooperation: The Ministers have ex­ tadora's Act for Peace and Cooperation in to the establishment of the Republic of In­ Central America. donesia. pressed their hope that this dialogue would Sadly, the armies of the Republic of the contribute to promote a climate of trust within the Central American region, and be­ South Moluccas were no match for the mas­ A TEACHER LOOKS AT TEACH­ sive forces of the Republic of Indoneisa, and tween Central America and the 12 member our nation was conquered and incorporated states of the European community, so as to ERS' CERTIFICATION AND AS­ into Java-dominated Indonesia. What is left facilitate the progressive expansion and de­ SESSMENT PROGRAMS of that nation we once had is a govemment­ velopment of cooperation. They also stated in-exile in the Netherlands and a people that the incorporation of Spain and Portu­ who would have been prevented from excer­ gal to the E.E.C. could represent a very im­ HON. NEWT GINGRICH cising their right to self-determination. portant factor in improving the understand­ OF GEORGIA ing between Europe and Latin America. This is bad enough, but the aftermath was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES worse and is becoming more serious. For the On Political Dialogue and Economic Coop­ government of Indonesia has adopted To complete the efforts made by the Cen­ tion in Georgia. The South Moluccan people are one of tral American countries towards regional co­ I have been involved in education in this the recognized "minorities" of the world. operation to overcome economic disequili­ state since 1978. As a teacher's aide, I dis­ We were one of the 44 minorities first classi­ briums and social injustice. which, to a large covered the thrill and satisfaction of teach­ fied as such by the Minority Rights Group extent, are a result of political instability; ing children and decided then that I wanted in their three-volume work on To strengthen, within each country's legal to become a teacher. I was encouraged in World Minorities. We know that democracy order, the principles which are the basis of my decision all along by the teachers and demands majority rule-but the cause of democratic institutions; principals I worked for because they felt human rights also demands minority rights. To promote reconciliation between all strongly that I would make a very capable We now share our plight with you and countries in the region; and caring teacher. seek your guidance and help in securing our To develop and guarantee in all countries I began to attend a Georgia college in 1980 rights and maintaining our existence as in­ of the region human rights and fundamen­ and decided on Health and Physical Educa­ digenous people. tal liberties, such as respect to human integ­ tion as a major because I had been dissatis­ rity, freedom of the press, civil rights, and fied with P.E. when I was in school and UNITED STATES SHOULD JOIN religious freedom; wanted to make changes . During my years at col­ WESTERN EUROPE IN A MORE dora's process, international law and a reli­ lege I had to rely on student loans and work CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH TO able regional security system which will im­ three jobs just to stay in school. I mention CENTRAL AMERICA plement effective decisions and policies this because I want to convey how much it leading to stop the arms race, in all its ex­ meant to me to become a teacher and also, HON. MICHAEL D. BARNES pressions, to establish a system control and that many people have no family assistance OF MARYLAND reduction of armaments and military per­ and have to work very hard in order to get sonnel, to eliminate foreign military pres­ an education. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ence, to avoid threatening and destabilizing I graduated from college in 1983 and Wednesday, December 4, 1985 actions, and to prevent terrorism, subver­ found a teaching position in 1984 at a sion and sabotage. nearby high school. I was hired to teach Mr. BARNES. Mr. Speaker, I wish to in­ On a Peaceful Solution: The Ministers of Driver's Education and had to attend clude for the information of my colleagues Foreign Affairs also reiterated their convic­ summer classes for two and a half months, the joint communique that was recently tion that the conflicts in Central America driving 180 miles to school issued following a meeting of the Foreign cannot be solved by force. They consider every day. My year teaching was the hap­ Ministers of the Western European, Central that a peaceful solution of the conflicts in piest of my life and I was asked to return 34350 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 the next year. However, the school board PATRICK J. SULLIVAN SPEAKS ics, construction and maritime industries to dropped the Driver's Education program for ON FREE BUT FAIR TRADE name a few. financial reasons. Because the economic interests of other I went to school to be a teacher and at nations may dictate their control of U.S. in­ this point I am paying for, and will be HON. JACK F. KEMP dustries, our nation must constantly review paying for a number of years, an education OF NEW YORK the benefits to the United States of any such action. Bilateral trade agreements may that I cannot use. There is no other profes­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sion that I want to pursue though I may, in well provide an adequate mechanism for ad­ the end, be forced to. Wednesday, December 4, 1985 justing what may otherwise prove fatal. While the ILA does not specifically deal in My major complaints concern the current Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Teacher's Certification Test and Assessment the import and export services, we are a Program. I have taken the State Merit Test bring the attention of my colleagues to the service union-loading and unloading ves­ and scored in the top ten percent. I have testimony recently offered to the Labor Ad­ sels. Trade problems must be considered in taken the TCT in Physical Education and in visory Committee of the Republican Party negotiations based on practical solutions for Middle Grades without success. by Patrick J. Sullivan, the legislative direc­ specific current problems so that a huge di­ There is no way to pass the TCT without tor of the International Longshoremen's versified U.S. service industry will not be some preparation and there is no adequate Association. Mr. Sullivan addresses the im­ lumped together inappropriately in multi­ way at this point to prepare for the test. portant issue of bilateral trade, and I am lateral negotiations. Instead of broad international negotia­ The list of objectives available list reference sure my colleagues will benefit from his tions on investment rights, emphasis should books which to this date have been impossi­ input as he is widely respected in the labor be placed on encouraging domestic invest­ ble for me to locate. I have been to two col­ movement. ment by U.S. banking and investment inter­ lege libraries global over-capacity and wide spread import suggestion was to get the textbooks actually Any discussion of bilateral trade, or com­ controls abroad. While we ignore the trade being used in the local classrooms which merce between nations, should include the regulating controls of other nations, we ex­ isn't an easy task, but I managed to get 24 views of organized labor, most particularly, perience injury to U.S. workers and indus­ textbooks. The textbooks provided the an­ from the voices of those whose daily lives tries. It is possible that bilaterial trade swers to only a few objectives. The major are involved in transporting these goods agreements can address such issues more eq­ portion of the objectives can be answered from shore to shore. uitably than GATT or the multilateral only if you have access to the reference The International Longshoremen's Asso­ trade negotiations framework. books from which the questions were de­ ciation, AFL-CIO as member of the mari­ While there is much more to be said, we rived in the first place. The State should time community, feel that bilateral trade should not be talking about subsidizing the make sure that the reference books they use and agreements to regulate such commerce American worker as the national economy to compile their lists of objectives are avail­ desirable in order to achieve an efficient de­ disintegrates. We know that you can not get able to teachers or they should provide the velopment of the U.S. economy. However, positive numbers for negative numbers, de­ information from those books and include it for such agreements to thrive and endure, spite some statements to the contrary. We on the objective lists. The only way in they must be fair, serving the needs and in­ must reverse the current decline of our posi­ which the current certification test can be a terests of both parties. Ideally, they would tion in international trade to give some fair one is 1) have a uniform curriculum es­ not impinge upon trade economies of other hope for a balanced budget. Bilateral trade tablished for all Georgia college and univer­ nations or at least take such matters into agreements, properly negotiated, may well sities that will prepare students to pass the consideration. serve that grave necessity. test their jobs depend on; and 2) there The complications of world trade, gov­ Finally, we would hope that in negotiating should at least be a book available French Connection" and his highly suc­ has the right to question or disagree with Many of our industries have been targeted cessful production company, Grosso Jacob­ their policies and methods and that anyone by traders from abroad for market and/or son Productions, Inc., Sonny's major con­ who does is against improvement. This corporate takeover. Such actions have re­ tributions benefit the law enforcement couldn't be farther from the truth. I and sulted in foreign government ownership community, particularly the New York every teacher I know favor quality educa­ rather than foreign private enterprise man­ Police Department of which I am proud to tion and want improvement but many of us agement. U.S. laws, more strict than those disagree with the methods being used. I say of other nations, place a stigma upon the be a 23-year veteran. His many years serv­ let teachers teach and keep the government protection of U.S. industries against preda­ ing the NYPD launched his present career out of it. tory foreign targeting. Such action from in­ as movie writer, producer, and sometimes Sincerely, dustry sections abroad abound in the U.S. actor, focusing these talents on accurately STEPHEN P. HART. auto, chemical, steel, textile, shoe, electron- portraying the daily life of a typical police December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34351 officer. His contributions to the law en­ taining his career with the New York . In some respects, the European feder­ forcement community often go unnoticed; Police Department. ation has never been stronger: it has therefore, today I would like to call the at­ In 1976, Sonny resigned from the police brought prosperity to Western Europe, and with the admission of Spain and Portugal tention of the Congress of the United department and concentrated his attention on January 1, 1986, it will include most of States to the life and works of Sonny on producing. His credits include the criti­ Western Europe. But expansion will also Grosso. cally acclaimed "A Question of Honor," make further integration more difficult and Although Sonny is a native of East based on his book "Point Blank"; "Track­ could strain EC relations with its trading Harlem in New York City, he now lives down," based on a true story of a detective partners, particularly the U.S. with his mother Lillian, in the Pelham who solves the murder case of a young New Despite our traditional support for the EC Park area of the Bronx. Family is an im­ York City teacher-it is thought that and its expanding political and economic im­ portant aspect of Sonny's life; he maintains "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" is also based portance to us, most Americans know little on this story; a recent television movie about it. The EC began in the 1950's when close contact with his sisters, Sis, Baby Western European nations pledged to inte­ (Lilian), and Celeste. Originally he had no "Out of the Darkness,'' relating to the story grate their economic and political systems. interest in police work, dreaming of replac­ of detective Ed Zigo, who was instrumental The most important of a series of founding ing Joe DiMaggio in center field. One day, in solving the Son of Sam murder case; and agreements was the 1957 Treaty of Rome, a friend invited him to apply for a position the television series "Night Heat,'' present­ which formed the European Economic Com­ on New York's Fire Department. Sonny, ing a realistic view of the big city detective munity , or the Common Market. too involved in his ball game, asked the during a typical night shift. At its founding, many hoped that the EC would become a "United States of Europe." friend to bring back an application. Fortu­ Throughout his productions his convic­ tion to use television and motion pictures That goal is still distant, but the EC has nately for the law enforcement community, had impressive successes, particularly in ec­ his friend brought back the wrong applica­ as a source of education, not solely enter­ onomics. Trade barriers between members tion-one for the police force. So in 1954, tainment, remains strong. This conviction have been breached, bringing the EC closer Sonny started walking a beat in Harlem, to educate elevates Sonny beyond the pro­ to a true common market and making it the concentrating on crime prevention with the ducer who merely uses, sometimes exploits, single largest trading power in the world youth division. From 1958 to 1968, Sonny the police story solely for entertainment. today. In agriculture, the Common Agricul­ Sonny plays an important role in deter­ tural Policy has made Europe self­ served on the narcotics bureau, first under­ sufficient in food. And in monetary affairs cover, then with the field group and then mining how the law enforcement communi­ ty is depicted on television. To quote the European Monetary System has initiat­ special investigating unit, advancing to ed its own currency, the European Currency first grade detective by 1961. In fact I rec­ Sonny, "I think there's enough people Unit . The Ecu is now a clearing ommended him for the detective division. around to do shows about the negative as­ system for the currencies of all EC mem­ Sonny also worked, as a member of the pects of police work. I want to do shows bers, but it might someday be used across Permanent Subcommittee on Narcotics, on about the positive aspects. I want to do Europe. The EC's progress in the political area the revision of State narcotics laws and re­ things that educate and tell people, 'Well, maybe you don't like everything a cop does, lags behind its accomplishments in econom­ habilitation programs for narcotic addicts. ics. France's nationalism strained the EC in During his 22 years with the NYCPD, but here's why he does what he does.' " Sonny's shows might not have the glitz and the 1960s and, more recently, national con­ Sonny has been recommended for honora­ cerns have thwarted attempts to settle ble mention and has received one commen­ glamour, or scandal and corruption of budget differences and coordinate agricul­ dation, two meritorious police work, and some other popular police shows; but, tural policy. Bitter disputes have erupted six excellent police work decorations. Per­ Sonny's shows portray the real-life drama over the cost of the CAP, which consumes haps the most noteworthy accomplishment intrinsic to the life of every police officer. about % of the EC budget but primarily The life of a law enforcement officer is benefits large producers, such as France. In­ of his police career was the case he headed, tegration will be more difficult after Spain a $32 million heroin bust, the largest single filled with controversies, compromises, and life-and-death situations. Sonny recognizes and Portugal join the Community. seizure of pure heroin by a municipal that accurately telling the story of this life Attempts are underway to strengthen the police force, which inspired the book and EC's institutions and the process unifying is exciting enough. He actively works to film "The French Connection." However Europe. Removal of remaining impediments bolster the image of the law enforcement many of his greatest contributions to law to the movement of goods through the EC profession and to improve the welfare of are being considered. Another reform would enforcement commenced because of the the courageous individuals who serve in it; simplify EC decision-making by replacing new career this film generated. he does this by telling the truth. the current requirement for unanimity Sonny's involvement in the making of Once, when asked his profession, Sonny among Community members with a system "The French Connection" initiated his in­ replied, "I'm a cop and I'll always be a cop. enacting proposals with a simple majority. duction into the motion picture industry. A third area of reform would strengthen the It's the greatest profession in the world for EC's governing bodies-particularly the Eu­ Sonny combined the knowledge he gath­ me.'' Sonny, the law enforcement commu­ ered serving the NYPD with his production ropean Parliament. More than any other EC nity and my colleagues in the House of institution, the Parliament symbolizes the skills, gaining him the respect of the pro­ Representatives, join me in expressing our hope for a united Europe. Yet its powers are duction industry and the gratitude of the thanks and happiness that you do consider small compared to those of the U.S. Con­ law enforcement community. yourself a "cop.'' Sonny, the Renaissance gress. The Parliament is reviewing ways to Possibly the best term describing Sonny Cop, our admiration and gratitude are strengthen its legislative role and to make Grosso is one once used by a journalist­ yours. other EC officials more responsive to it. Renaissance Cop. Sonny Grosso is just U.S. support for the EC has long been that-a police officer who has produced based on the belief that the Community-by movies and television series; who has writ­ THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY fostering a stable and prosperous Europe­ serves broader U.S. interests by promoting ten two books, "Murder at the Harlem democracy and containing communism. In Mosque" and "Point Blank"; who acted in HON. LEE H. HAMILTON part, the EC's success could not have oc­ many of his own productions; who has per­ OF INDIANA curred without U.S. backing. But confronta­ formed as technical advisor on such criti­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion with the EC over a series of economic cally acclaimed films as "The French Con­ and political issues has led some Americans Wednesday, December 4, 1985 nection" and "The Godfather" and well­ to argue that the U.S. must take a tougher known television shows such as "Kojak," Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I would stand toward the EC. "Movin On," "Baretta," "The Rockford like to insert my Foreign Affairs Newslet­ Perhaps the greatest source of tension be­ ter for November 1985 into the CONGRES­ tween the U.S. and the EC is the Common Files." Still, in spite of all his work in the Agricultural Policy. With its substantial production industry, Sonny proudly says SIONAL RECORD: subsidies, the CAP encourages surplus pro­ he is just a "cop." Sonny's first contribu­ THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY duction, forcing the EC to push into third tions were advisory, serving as technical The late 1980's will be an important time world markets formerly dominated by the advisor and story consultant while main- in the history of the European Community U.S. CAP policies, along with the strong 34352 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 dollar, also caused U.S. farm exports to the wives in assisting in births at home or in conflicts, which should be systematically ex­ EC to drop from $9.1 billion in 1981 to $6.4 hospitals. With the rising cost of health plored. billion in 1984. Spanish and Portuguese par­ care in the United States, alternative op­ The training of health professionals ticipation in the CAP is expected to cost the should include communication techniques U.S. some of its $2 billion in wheat and corn tions to child care should be explored. Indi­ viduals pursuing careers in midwifery have in order to promote sensitive exchange of exports to those two countries. The EC is information between members of the health now considering restrictions on imports of long been ignored and the WHO recom­ team and the pregnant woman and her U.S. soybeans and some non-grain livestock mendations urge us to take a second look family. feeds. at this underutilized profession. The training of professional midwives or The U.S. and the EC have serious trade CFrom the Lancet, Aug. 24, 19851 birth attendants should be encouraged. problems in addition to agriculture. The Care during normal pregnancy, birth, and longstanding controversy over EC steel ex­ WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR BIRTH afterwards should be the duty of this pro­ ports to the U.S. is coming to a head. The fession. U.S. steel industry already has surpluses In April, the European regional office of Technology assessment should involve all and stiff competition from cost-effective the World Health Organisation, the Pan those using the technology, epidemiologists, third-world steel producers. European pro­ American Health Organisation, and the social scientists, health authorities, and the ducers have also entered the U.S. market to WHO regional office of the Americas held a women on whom the technology is used. unload their surplus steel. U.S. producers conference on appropriate technology for are urging import quotas, particularly on birth. The conference, held in Fortaleza, Information on birth practices in different the highly-subsidized European steel. In Brazil, was attended by over 50 participants hospitals, such as rates of caesarean section, high technology, Europe denies U.S. tele­ representing midwifery, obstetrics, paedia­ should be available to the public. communications marketers the same access trics, epidemiology, sociology, psychology, Research on the structure and numbers of that their own producers enjoy in U.S. mar­ economics, health administration, and the team attending at birth should be con­ kets. High-tech industries are for the first mothers. Careful review of the knowledge of ducted, at regional, national, and interna­ time asking Congress for retaliation against birth technology led to unanimous adoption tional levels, consistent with maximising the Europeans. of the recommendations which follow. access to appropriate primary care and max­ · Though less explosive than the trade dis­ WHO believes these recommendations to be imising normal birth outcomes and improv­ putes, there have also been disagreements relevant to perinatal services worldwide. ing perinatal health, cost effectiveness, and over political issues. Efforts to create a Eu­ Every woman has the right to proper pre­ the needs and desires of the community. ropean political position have succeeded on natal care and she has a central role in all SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS some issues, such as Central America, the aspects of this care, including participation The wellbeing of the new mother must be Middle East or South Africa. In certain in the planning, carrying out, and evalua­ ensured through free access of a chosen cases, particularly over Central America, tion of the care. Social, emotional, and psy­ member of her family during birth and this united European position was strongly chological factors are fundamental in un­ throughout the postnatal period. In addi­ critical of U.S. policy. Furthermore, some derstanding how to provide proper perinatal tion, the health team must provide emotion­ Europeans' support for a common European care. Birth is a natural and normal process, al support. defense doctrine raises questions about how but even "no risk pregnancies" can give rise Women who give birth in an institution the Atlantic Alliance would be affected. The to complications. Sometimes intervention is must retain their right to decide about importance of our ties is reason enough for required to obtain the best result. In order clothing must coexist should abstain from purchasing new equip­ April of this year. with the official system and a collaborative ment. The WHO recommendations, entitled approach must be maintained for the bene­ It is recommended that the fetal heart "Appropriate Technology for Birth," show fit of the mother. Such relations, when es­ rate be monitored through auscultation the need for adequate prenatal care of ex­ tablished in parallel, can be highly effective. during the first stage of labour, and more pectant mothers and the importance of Professional training should pass on new frequently during expulsion. knowledge of the social, cultural, anthropo­ There is no indication for shaving pubic having a well-developed health care plan­ logical, and ethical aspects of birth. hair nor for an enema before delivery. ning program before, during, and after the The perinatal team should be jointly mo­ It is not recommended that the pregnant birthing process. It encourages families to tivated to enhance relationships between woman be placed in a dorsal lithotomy posi­ explore different options for delivery and mother, child, and family. The work of the tion during labour and delivery. Walking commends the services provided by mid- team can be affected by interdisciplinary should be encouraged during labour and December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34353 each woman must freely decide which posi­ scrupulously honest, unstinting in his pur­ say I was the only bureaucrat in the world tion to adopt during delivery. suit of waste and fraud in public spending, suing for more work." The perineum should be protected wher­ and unafraid to stand up to the Pentagon Fitzgerald didn't set out to become a whis­ ever possible. Systematic use of episiotomy bureaucracy and his superiors in defending tle-blower; it happened almost by accident. is not justified. A native of Birmingham, he served in the The induction of labour should be re­ the national interest and the public inter­ Navy during World War II, then returned served for specific medical indications. No est. home to earn a degree in industrial engi­ region should have rates of induced labour I bring this profile of Ernest Fitzgerald neering at the University of Alabama in higher than 10%. to my colleagues attention and take this 1951. He worked as an industrial engineer During delivery, the routine administra­ opportunity to honor a dedicated and patri­ for various companies-concentrating tion of analgesic or anaesthetic drugs campaign. A top official at Livermore plastic stool-leg cap that cost the Air Force leagues wonder how he can keep up the and another at Los Alamos, the two nation­ $916.55; the seemingly simple six-inch air­ fight after so many long, frustrating years, al labs where the key research takes place, plane maintenance tool that cost $11,492. "I'm surprised he hasn't thrown in the have resigned, though they are too discreet "Fitzgerald is impeccably honest and ex­ to explain their decisions. tremely competent," says Rep. John Din­ towel and gone off somewhere," says Sena­ Ray Kidder, a physicist at Livermore, was gell, chairman of the House Subcommittee tor Grassley. "I'm surprised he doesn't have quoted in The Los Angeles Times as saying: on Oversight and Investigations, which fre­ an ulcer. I'm surprised he can still laugh.'' "The public is getting swindled by one side quently uses Fitzgerald as an investigator. But many of Fitzgerald's colleagues believe that has access to classified information and "He's an expert in government procure­ it is laughter that has saved him. Fitzgerald can say whatever it wants and not go to jail, ment, and he has a superb nose for things agrees. "Some people come in here and get whereas we Cthe skeptics] can't say what­ that just don't smell right." all outraged at the injustice of it all,'' he ever we want. We would go to jail, that's the When Fitzgerald testifies before Congress, says as he carries his huge briefcase difference." which is frequently, he generally comes through the halls of the Pentagon, heading Energy Secretary John S. Herrington, bearing bad news. Those outlandish prices for a meeting on Capitol Hill. "They can't however, has both denounced the doubters for spare parts are nothing unusual, he let go of it. They get obsessed. I can let go for hurting the national interest in speaking claims; billing for huge items like jet en­ of it." up and called it just a "little squabble" gines involves the same astronomical mark­ Fitzgerald heads down a stairway, then among scientists. ups. And the rip-offs will continue, he says, pauses at a window. Outside in the Penta­ Mr. Herrington said that the next test, as long as the Pentagon, which spends gon courtyard is a little gazebo that serves scheduled in Nevada this month and named nearly $1 billion every working day, pays its as a snack bar during good weather. "I have "Goldstone," was going "full speed ahead" bills by reimbursing contractors for any al­ a fantasy about that place," he says, smil­ despite clear evidence that it cannot be lowable expense they can document. As an ing. "I see the Joint Chiefs of Staff making properly measured with existing instru­ alternative, Fitzgerald advocates a "should their last stands in there, besieged by an ments. The X-ray laser, pet project of the cost" approach, in which contracts would army of angry taxpayers." His grin grows physicist Edward Teller and the centerpiece specify the proper cost of each item and wider, more mischievous. "They're in there, on which he sold Star Wars to President contractors would be held to that price. "As Reagan, is the current focus of many of the long as the system is not changed,'' he says, the Joint Chiefs, surrounded by sandbags scientists' distress. "you'll have these horror stories. and they're saying, 'We won't let 'em take It was Mr. Teller himself who leaked last Fitzgerald leaves that grim message with a us alive.' " And then Ernie Fitzgerald April that a test took place on March 23, healthy dollop of humor. "When you see a throws back his head and lets out that mad and his cronies put out word that it was beautiful jet flying overhead,'' he once said, cackle that keeps him sane. highly successful. It wasn't. It turned out "you're seeing a collection of overpriced that the monitoring instruments themselves parts flying in close formation.'' were excited by the X-rays to emit light. Not surprisingly the Pentagon doesn't Therefore the brightness they measured think this is funny. "Ernie has the capacity was much greater than what the device ac­ to really irritate people," says his boss, tually produced and the result was com- December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34355 pletely unreliable. One scientist in the pro­ same apartment complex for the last 8 in applied mathematics at the Rehovot gram concluded that "instead of a weapon years. we have a toy." campus. Undaunted, Mr. Teller went to Mr. He was a very thoughtful and kind man, One of the country's leading bankers, Reagan and wangled another $100 million both in his work and in his personal life. Bram Goldsmith and hs wife, Elaine, have for the project, including this month's test, He served in this Chamber for 44 years lived in Los Angeles since 1951. Renowned which will probably cost $30 million. Partici­ and was chairman of the Appropriations as chairman of the board and CEO of City pants urged a delay until the measuring Committee for 14 years, longer than National Bank and City National Corp. and problem could be solved, which would take anyone else in the history of the Congress. real estate specialist, Bram Goldsmith is six months to a year. That was rejected on There is no doubt that he will be long re­ the grounds that loss of momentum would equally prominent as one of Los Angeles' membered for the very dedicated work he leading philanthropists. In addition to his be politically unfavorable, even though the performed in this House. test is almost sure to be futile in the circum­ work on behalf of the Weizmann Institute, stances. He was a great American and I will miss him. Bram Goldsmith is a board member of the Furthermore, although the Administra­ National Conference of Christians and tion keeps saying its antimissile program is Jews, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the nonnuclear, the X-ray laser relies on a nu­ clear explosion for its energy. Insistence on WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCI­ Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. He continuing these tests is a major reason ENCE HONORS BRAM GOLD­ is former regional board chairman of the Washington won't even listen to the Soviet SMITH United Way, and past president of the proposal for a comprehensive test ban. Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los There are other well-grounded scientific HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN Angeles and national chairman of the doubts about the X-ray laser. The assump­ United Jewish Appeal. tion that it can kill Soviet missiles while OF CALIFORNIA they are being boosted rests on their cur­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I ask the Members to join with me in congratulating Bram Goldsmith not only rent technology; they take three to five Wednesday, December 4, 1985 minutes to burn out and carry warheads for the honor now being bestowed on him some 200 miles above the earth. But Ameri­ Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, it is with a by the Weizmann Institute but in recogni­ can experts know that it wouldn't be hard, great deal of pleasure that I call to your at­ tion of a life of contribution to our society nor inordinately expensive, for the Russians tention an outstanding American, respected as a whole. to accelerate burning time, bringing it down citizen of Los Angeles and longtime per­ to some 50 seconds and completing the sonal friend, Bram Goldsmith. boost at 50 or 60 miles high. On December 8, 1985, Bram Goldsmith X-rays can't penetrate the atmosphere, TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN and at that altitude they wouldn't get will receive the highest honor of the Weiz­ GEORGE H. MAHON through even if the loss of shoot time could mann Institute-the Weizmann Award in be overcome. But nothing else has been de­ the Sciences and Humanities. The Weiz­ veloped as far, so X-ray lasers remain the mann award has been conferred only 16 HON. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI chief hope for boost-phase missile defense. times since the Institute's founding in Re­ OF ILLINOIS The willful distortion of research is a hovot, Israel, in 1934. The last receipient IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES scandal, reminiscent of Stalin's support for was British Prime Minister, Margaret Trofim Lysenko's phony theories of genetics Thatcher. Tuesday, December 3, 1985 because they were politically pleasing. The result set Soviet biology back a generation. The Weizmann Institute is ranked as one Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, The American physicists working on the of the 10 leading scientific research centers rise to join my colleagues in expressing my Strategic Defense Initiative aren't threat­ in the world. Founded by Dr. Chaim Weiz­ deep respect for George Mahon, now de­ ened with the gulag, but they are being put mann, Israel's first chief of state, the insti­ parted. In honoring his memory, we honor in a demeaning position that undermines tute is Israel's main source of future scien­ a giant of the House and a man of incom­ their integrity. It isn't a violation of their tists, awarding half of the science doctorate parable personal contribution to the service high security clearance to say that, but it degrees in the country. could be if they gave out details to support of his country. their stand. Through the research done at the Weiz­ I consider it a vast privilege that I served They have been arguing inside the pro­ mann Institute, many scientific break­ 20 years in the House with George Mahon. throughs have been accomplished. Weiz­ gram for some time, to no avail. Apparently He had already been here 24 years when I mann researchers are currently engaged in they haven't been able to get through to arrived as a freshman, and he rose to the President Reagan to let him know what is approximately 700 projects including stud­ happening. That is why their concerns are ies of cancer and other diseases, genetic en­ chairmanship of the Appropriations Com­ seeping into public print, despite the gag gineering, biology of aging, physiology of mittee soon thereafter. When I was asked rule. human fertility, and brain chemistry, plus to chair the floor debate on military appro­ Apart from the other arguments for and priations the first time, I knew I was in for against Star Wars, if it isn't based on good research into earthquake and pollution control, solar energy, improvement of agri­ a challenge, and I got one; but more impor­ science it can never be anything more than tantly, I got an education. My teacher was what President Reagan calls it, his "dream." cultural crops and applied research in all But it could be a devastating nightmare, areas of high technology. Major progress George Mahon, and I never had a better sapping the authenticity of American sci­ has been made in the fight against drug one. It got to be that I looked forward to ence. and alcohol addiction, immune dysfunction chairing that debate, just for the chance to in the elderly, cystic fibrosis infirmity, learn what George had to impart. chronic myeloid leukemia; in the area of To this day, people who watched George TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN bioengineering, Weizmann scientists have work marvel at his mastery of the rules, GEORGE H. MAHON developed an externally rechargeable cardi­ the process, the inner-workings of the ac pacemaker, an ultrasonic scanner for di­ House. What was even more marvelous to HON. G.V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY agnosing breast cancer and a magnetic me was his love of the House, and of its OF MISSISSIPPI drink for the diagnosis of ulcers. Creating history, its traditions, and its role in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES new hope for famine areas, the institute American way of Government. has developed an improved strain of pro­ The result was that George Mahon has Tuesday, December 3, 1985 tein-rich wheat which requires 20-40 per­ no peer in the annals of this body for his Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, I rise cent less water to cultivate. steadfast and unpretentious dedication to to pay tribute to the gentleman from Texas, Bram Goldsmith serves on the interna­ serving his constituents and his country. Representative George Mahon. I enjoyed tional board of governors of the Weizmann We have in him a role model of principle, serving with Mr. Mahon in the Congress Institute and is vice president of its Los candor, and tirelessness in public office. and I also knew him because he and his Angeles support committee. He and his We will miss George Mahon greatly, and wife Helen lived on the same floor of the wife have endowed a professional chairm we will never forget him.

51- 059 0-87- 47 (Pt. 241 34356 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 THE DEFENSE BUILDUP as a result of equipment funded, but not yet BHOPAL, A YEAR LATER: WHAT delivered. DID WE LEARN AND WHAT RE­ Another concern is that too much of the HON. LEE H. HAMILTON defense budget has been allocated for nucle­ MAINS TO BE DONE? OF INDIANA ar systems at the expense of conventional IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES weapons. To modernize the U.S. nuclear ar­ HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING Wednesday, December 4, 1985 senal, the Pentagon is developing five nucle­ ar weapons systems: the MX and Midget­ OF OHIO Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I would man land-based missiles, the B-lB and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES like to insert my Washington Report for Stealth bombers, and the Trident II subma­ Wednesday, December 4, 1985, into the rine-based missile. Under current estimates, Wednesday, December 4, 1985 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: the total cost of these new systems could top $180 billion by the mid-1990s. The Presi­ Mr. SEIBERLING. Mr. Speaker, 1 year THE DEFENSE BUILDUP dent has also asked for $26 billion by 1989 ago yesterday, on December 3, 1984, a Since 1980, the U.S. has spent over $1.1 to research the proposed Strategic Defense human and environmental tragedy oc­ trillion on its military arsenal, both nuclear Initative, the space-based defensive system curred in Bhopal, India, as a result of and conventional, to improve our overall de­ to counter a nuclear attack. chemical (methyl isocyanate) releases from fensive capability and to keep up with the There are also concerns that the Penta­ a Union Carbide plant. The I-year anniver­ Soviets. That is about 36%; more in real terms than we spent in getting less for more. The Pentagon bought sary of that tragedy is an appropriate time the previous 4 years, and is the fastest rate 30% more tanks and combat vehicles than to reflect on our responsibilities in assist­ of expansion in the defense budget in peace­ from 1977-80, but the budget increased by ing developing nations and on our role in time since World War II. 147%. Missile purchases were up by 6%, but preventing environmental deregulation The overriding question is what improve­ cost 91% more. Aircraft increased by 9%, worldwide; what have we done to prevent ments in U.S. military capabilities have while the budget rose by 75%. Congress future incidents like that in Bhopal, and been obtained with this build-up. Spiraling must ask if funds for costly, but only mar­ what steps still need to be taken? cost increases for many weapon systems, re­ ginally better, equipment should go instead ports of waste and fraud by defense contrac­ for less expensive weapons to expand inven­ We cannot ignore the environmental con­ tors, and charges of Pentagon mismanage­ tories. Also, the Pentagon had predicted sequences of our development assistance; ment have led many to question whether we that increased production would improve ef­ we must also assist nations in developing are getting our money's worth. ficiency and gradually lower costs, but in their own expertise in environmental crisis No single measure or group of measures many cases price per unit has gone up. Of management. There is an encouraging can fully caputre the effects of increased 15 major weapons purchased in 1985, costs movement among many Members of Con­ funding on national security. Parts of the of 12 increased by at least 10% compared to gress toward designing legislation that will defense budget-intelligence, communica­ 1977-1980. tions, classified programs, for example-are Finally, despite a 63% increase in funding encourage sustainable development assist­ difficult to evaluate. Most studies agree that for basic technology, U.S. superiority over ance. Others are concerned with preventing we are better able to defend ourselves. Yet, the Soviets declined modestly between 1980 environmental degredation and preserving these studies raise worries that the alloca­ and 1985, according to a Defense Depart­ biological diversity. tion of significant resources has only mod­ ment ranking of fifteen basic technologies. The Subcommittee on Public Lands, estly improved key areas like force struc­ In three technologies-electro-optical sen­ which I chair, held a successful hearing in ture, personnel, modernization, and readi­ sors, microelectronic materials, and subma­ early October of this year on the interna­ rine detection-the U.S. is losing its clear ness. tional conservation programs of the De­ FORCE STRUCTURE advantage. Only in the area of radar sensors did the U.S. gain an edge. partment of the Interior and Forest Serv­ The current buildup has focused on re­ READINESS ice. We learned that while their existing placing outdated equipment, both conven­ international programs are often well exe­ tional and nuclear forces, rather than en­ Funding for operation and maintenance larging the U.S. arsenal and forces. Except increased by 34% over five years, with only cuted, the agencies lack enough legal man­ for the Navy, where plans for 600 ships an­ slight improvements in the Pentagon's own date and direction to provide sufficient and ticipate a new role for seapower, low growth measures for troop and equipment readi­ coordinated international technical assist­ is planned for strategic and conventional ness. The Defense Department contends ance. Furthermore, the agencies confirmed forces. that U.S. force sustainability has doubled what we already knew; namely, that the PERSONNEL from 15 to 30 days. War reserve stocks of issues confronting the United States in con­ munitions have been increased by all the by 44%, more than the private sector aver­ services. Yet, as a percentage of require­ limited to our borders. When we assist age, and personnel policies were enhanced. ments, stocks of secondary items like spare other nations with these problems, we are The quality of personnel entering the serv­ parts, medical supplies, fuel, and food have also benefiting the United States. For ex­ ices three-fourths of the total budget, rising by propriations Committee with such a man. It is a well-known and oft-lamented fact 37 percent from 1980 to 1984. He administered the affairs of the commit­ that people just do not follow current With this vast expansion in government tee with a firm judicial hand. events very carefully. A less well-known fact spending it would have taken a 50 percent His concept of public trust was without is that commentators and politicians do not increase in both individual and corporate parallel and never did he hesitate to speak either. That is the kindest way to account income taxes to balance the budget. Imag­ out against any proposal which he felt was for why so many Americans even in the ine how those gigantic taxes would crush upper altitudes of power say things that are our economy, to say nothing of the world not sound and not in the best interest of palpably untrue and occasionally even pre­ economy. our people. Words are inadequate to fully posterous. It is, then, quite erroneous to say that appraise George Mahon's tremendous ca­ Consider the widespread belief through­ Ronald Reagan's economic policies have pacity for loyalty and love of his country. out Washington that soon "Mr. Reagan been a failure. They did not cause the huge In every position he held, either private or must be forced to confront the failure of his deficit we face, nor is it clear that this defi­ public, he achieved distinction. His service economic policies." "Failure of his economic cit is the sign of a sick economy. As econo­ in all of his assignments was marked by a policies" -what can this mean? mist Alan Reynolds observes, "The purpose high sense of conscience and duty. George By most standards Mr. Reagan's policies of an economy is not just to balance the have been a prodigious success. Compare government's budget but to increase wealth Mahon possessed the outstanding moral the Reagan economy with its predecessor. and job opportunity." and intellectual qualities necessary for the Today more people are working than ever By those enlightened standards the position of chairman of the Committee on before, and unemployment is where it was Reagan policies are a success. The presi­ Appropriations. As a Member of the House in fiscal 1980. Then, the rate of inflation dent's only failure that I can perceive is from Texas, he had those qualities that are was 12.4 percent. Today it is 3.2 percent. that he has failed to persuade Congress to essential for leadership-sound judgment, The prime rate is under 10 percent. In cal­ restrain its impulses to spend, but that is patience, perseverance and unyielding ad­ endar year 1980 it was 15.2 percent. Produc­ not what his critics have in mind. herence to the principles and policies advo­ tivity was declining at 0.5 percent in fiscal 1980. In fiscal 1984 it was growing at 3.2 per­ cated by his party for the welfare of the cent. I know it is only normal to long for the NEW ENGLAND'S "ECONOMIC country. good old days, but who would long for the MIRACLE" I have served as a member of the Com­ economy of the late 1970s when he's had mittee on Appropriations for a period of 30 Ronald Reagan's? years and am now serving as the subcom­ Moreover it compares very favorably with HON. STEPHEN L. NEAL mittee chairman of the subcommittee that that of its fabled trade partners. From the OF NORTH CAROLIN!. end of 1982 to mid-1985 this country's indus­ makes recommendations for the Depart­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments of Labor, Health and Human Serv­ trial output climbed at a yearly rate of 8.8 percent, as opposed to 8.6 percent for Japan Wednesday, December 4, 1985 ices, and Education. Our friend George and 4.8 percent for West Germany. In sum, Mahon was very much concerned about the these are palmy times. Mr. NEAL. Mr. Speaker, a recent Wall bill that we report from our subcommittee. Of course, those who murmur about "the Street Journal article entitled "The Frost As chairman of the subcommittee that failure" of Reagan's economic policies do Belt's Revenge," by Bernard L. Weinstein makes recommendations for the Depart- not have such broad considerations as un- and Harold T. Gross, takes note of the New 34358 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 England "economic miracle"-the sudden Sun Belt. Since the Reagan landslide in slightly below the national average and well turnaround in the fortunes of the North­ 1984, the industrial-policy debate has below New England's 7.6% and Massachu· eastern States. waned, though the administration's propos· setts's 8.1%. In most of the Northeast, unemployment al to eliminate the deductibility of state and Perhaps the best indicator of the regions' local taxes has generated considerable comparative prosperity, however, is found in is below the national average, new compa­ hand-wringing among high-tax states, prin· nies and jobs are being created at an im­ residential construction. In the Northeast, cipally in the Frost Belt. housing starts were up 29% for the first half pressive rate, housing starts are up, and Still, the Sun Belt-Frost Belt wars seem to of 1985, and in Boston, 4,600 new housing population growth has resumed. In con­ have ended, primarily because of the two re­ units will be completed in 1985, doubling the trast, many Southern and Sun Belt States gions' growing resemblance to each other: 1984 total. In Dallas, which is arguably the have had high unemployment and econom­ Many parts of the Frost Belt are returning healthiest housing market in Texas, hous­ ic reversals recently. We should take this to prosperity, while the Sun Belt has col· ing starts were down 21 % for the first half opportunity to demolish the myth of Sun lapsed into only a few "sunspots." Since of 1985. Furthermore, for the first half of 1980, for example, eight Sun Belt states Belt boom and Frost Belt decline, and to 1985, Texas led the nation in mortgage fore· have experienced net out-migration, while closures. acknowledge that every region has econom­ five Frost Belt states have shown net immi· ic strengths and weaknesses. gration. Ten Sun Belt states have lost jobs With slight variations, the same trends More important, those of us from the that now characterize Texas are repeated since the start of the decade, a consequence throughout most of the Sun Belt states: Al· Sun Belt can learn an essential lesson from mainly of the structural decline in the refin· ing, petrochemical, shipbuilding, automo· though some of the Sun Belt's current eco­ the New England economic revival. As nomic ills may be attributed to the national Messrs. Weinstein and Gross put it: "It is bile, textile and steel industries, while seven Frost Belt states have posted employment business cycle or the strong dollar and its by now generally accepted that New Eng­ gains. impact, they are a reflection principally of land's 'economic miracle' has come about The best example of this regional identity the structural change that is under way in in large part because of the quality of its crisis, however, is found in the recent role many of the region's manufacturing indus· human capital. For generations, New Eng­ reversals of New England and Texas. During tries, particularly those tied to the energy landers have invested heavily in public edu­ the 1970s, New England and Texas were sector. In short, the Sun Belt is experienc· cation with the result that the regional seen by many as archetypes for the Frost ing the "deindustrialization" that once work force is literate, trainable, and re­ Belt and Sun Belt. Between 1970 and 1980, seemed peculiar to the Frost Belt as layoffs, plant closings and "capital flight" become trainable. By this standard, the Sun Belt's for example, New England's population, on average, grew by less than 0.5% a year, increasingly common. Indeed, economic de· near-term future appears far from promis­ while Texas's population increased at an av­ velopment has now become a priority for ing." erage rate of 2.7% annually. Similarly, non· communities across the Sun Belt and, iron· Our Southern States recently have made agriculture employment in New England ically, most look to New England as the ex­ a strong effort to improve their schools. grew by only 2% a year during the same ample to be followed. But we have a long way to go if we are to period, while in Texas job growth went up It is by now generally accepted that New prepare our citizens for the economy of the at an average annual rate of 6.2%. More im· England's "economic miracle" has come future. It is popular now in some States to portant, New England's manufacturing about in large part because of the quality of work force grew by only 0.3% a year be· its human capital. For generations, New smile a lot and cut taxes instead of taking Englanders have invested heavily in public the long view and investing for the future. tween 1970 and 1981, while Texas's manu­ facturing employment expanded at an aver· education with the result that the regional If we are wise, however, and if we hope to age annual rate of 4.5%. The gap in per· work force is literate, trainable and retrain· have our own economic miracle, we must capita personal-income growth between New able. By this standard, the Sun Belt's near· make that investment in public education. England and Texas offered additional evi· term future appears far from promising. At this point, Mr. Speaker, I would like dence_ of relative decline and prosperity. Generally, the Sun Belt states have long to insert in the RECORD the article by From 1970 to 1980, per-capita income in neglected their public education systems, Messrs. Weinstein and Gross which ap­ New England grew at an average annual with regard both to funding and to academ· peared in the November 19, 1985, edition of rate of 13.8%, compared with 16.7% in ic standards. This legacy of neglect, despite the Wall Street Journal. I commend it to Texas. recent reforms enacted by many state legis· More recently, however, the tables have latures, may hamper the region's ability to my colleagues, especially those from the turned rather dramatically. With respect to compete in the national and international South. population growth, for example, although marketplaces. Once again, a comparison of The article follows: Texas's 1983 to 1984 growth rate of 1.3% re· New England and Texas is revealing. THE FROST BELT'S REVENGE mains nearly double New England's 0.7%, Only 16% of Texas's adult population are HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. Time, the Christian Science Monitor, Na­ LIVERMORE, CALIF.-The Lawrence Liver­ OF NEW JERSEY tional Geographic, Yankee magazine, the more National Laboratory is proceeding IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Boston Globe, and the Boston Herald with plans for a $30-million test of its nucle­ among others. ar-driven X-ray laser weapon despite Wednesday, December 4, 1985 The ensemble of "Le Grand David and charges from other government scientiests Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, it was my His Own Spectacular Magic Company" has that there are serious flaws in the experi­ pleasure to attend an anniversary banquet been invited to perform at the annual ment's design, The Times has learned. Easter Monday egg roll festivities at the The decision to proceed with the top­ honoring my good friend Bishop Curtis secret test, code-named Goldstone, next Douglas Gilmore on Sunday, November 24, White House. This invitation has been ex­ tended for the past 4 years, beginning in month at the Nevada nuclear test site also 1985 in Newark. Bishop Gilmore has been ignores warnings from some of Livermore's 1982. the pastor of the St John's Unified Freewill own experts-as well as from scientists at In recognition of his outstanding work, Church for the last 16 years. During these the government's other weapons lab at Los Cesareo Pelaez/Marco the Magi has re­ Alamos, N.M.-that a design error in a key years he has had the privilege of ordaining ceived the Magician of the Year Award- measuring device used in all past tests has 17 ministers who are now pastoring their 1980 which is the? highest award of Holly­ caused it to give false readings own churches. Bishop Gilmore is a commu­ wood's prestigious Academy of Magical The X-ray laser weapon has been the nity minded individual who has helped the Arts. In addition, Mr. Pelaez has been in­ most publicized element in President . Rea­ gan's Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star church meet the needs of its members as ducted into the Society of American Magi­ well as those of the community. Wars" program. But past claims for the cians Hall of Fame in Hollywood, CA, and weapon's success have now been called into At the end of 1986 Bishop Gilmore and he is currently the president of one of the question, including the most recent $30-mil­ the St John's Unified Freewill Church, with oldest and most distinguished magical fra­ lion test, which was conducted in March and a membership of 350, will be celebrating ternities, the Society of American Magi­ code-named Cottage. groundbreaking ceremonies for an exten­ cians. Goldstone and Cottage are part of a five­ sion to their church. In addition to his roles as producer and year-old series of tests in which Livermore star performer of the magic show, he is an scientists are attempting to transfrom the During this memorable anniversary Ban­ power of the nuclear explosion into X-ray quet scripture reading was given by Elder associate professor in psychology at Salem lasers. If the laser can be focused into suffi­ Carl Burnett, pastor, Mission of Hope UFW State College, In Salem, MA. His tremen­ cient brightness, they might provide a beam Baptist Church; the invocation and blessing dous drive and creativity has resulted in of light lethal enough to destroy satellites were given by Dr. Sturley Brooks, Th.D., the production of one of the most stupen­ or missiles in space. pastor, Emanuel Hope UFW Baptist dous magic shows in the world today. His Three months after the reportedly suc­ success is the quintessential example of the cessful Cottage test, scientists at the Los Church; the toastmaster was Elder Hilton Alamos weapons lab reviewed the highly Rawls, pastor, St Paul UFW Baptist American theme: turning one's dream into reality. I ask my colleagues today to join classified data and warned Livermore offi­ Church; the keynote speaker was the Rev­ cials that the results had been distorted be­ erend Reube) Caldwell, and the Benediction me in commending Cesareo Pelaez for his cause the device used to measure the laser's spectacular work. was given by Dr. Dorenza A. Gerrell, Th.D., intensity cannot provide accurate readings pastor, Christ Temple UFW Baptist Church. and, therefore, should not be used. I would also like to take this time to give GOLDSTONE X-RAY LASER TEST WOULD DELAY PROGRAM thanks to the chairperson, Novella Wooten SHOULD BE DELAYED Los Alamos scientists urged Livermore to and the cochairpersons, Mary Singleton develop a new mechanism to measure the laser, which would have caused an estimat­ and Laura Uzell and the Committee for HON. EDWARD J. MARKEY ed delay of six months to a year in the pro­ making this anniversary banquet possible. OF MASSACHUSETTS gram. It was my privilege to participate in honor­ An independent internal Livermore review ing such a fine individual as Bishop Curtis IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES conducted by physicist review conducted by Douglas Gilmore. Wednesday, December 4, 1985 physicist Joseph Nilsen reached the same conclusion as the Los Alamos scientists. Nil­ Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, sometime sen's classified report was circulated in the this month, a nuclear test, code-named lab on June 27. Nevertheless, when George Goldstone, will be conducted at the Nevada H. Miller, the lab's deputy associate direc­ test site as part of the star wars X-Ray tor, went to Washington in July to brief the Laser Program. SDI office on progress in the X-ray pro- December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34361 gram, his presentation ignored the error in claimed, is not eventually attained-the ex­ ray laser despite warnings by other govern­ the experiment. periment will have no military usefulness. ment scientists that a key measuring devi~e According to one source, confirmed by This was also the conclusion of the Los is faulty and inaccurate. others-all of whom requested anonymity­ Alamos study conducted by scientists Jack The experiments involve exploding nucle­ scientists working on the program "were fu­ C. Comly, Donald E. Casperson, Nelson M. ar devices underground and converting the rious because Miller used the old view Hoffman and Gottfried T. Schappert. The energy that the explosions release into a graphs on the experi­ Times obtained an unclassified abstract of powerful X-ray laser beam. As a strategic ment, which did not take into account the their study that mentioned problems with defense weapon, a nuclear-pumped laser new distributing findings." the measuring device. would have to be developed in space because Repeated attempts to reach Miller for The full classified report of their study X-rays cannot easily penetrate the Earth's comment were unsuccessful. was presented at a nuclear explosives design atmosphere. For the same reason, the laser Key scientists working on the X-ray laser physics conference at Livermore Oct. 28- would have to catch rising enemy missiles project held a series of meetings at Liver­ Nov. 1. after they had entered space. more last summer and some urged a post­ SDI chief scientist Gerold Yonas, who was Assuming that such a device can be built, ponement of the December test to solve the contacted by The Times, said he "will not there are practical objections. As generally physics problems in the measuring device. comment on classified matters." But he said perceived, a fleet of nuclear-armed laser de­ But lab officials accepted the arguments of "substantial progress has been made in the vices would have to stand guard in perma­ test proponents that a delay would have un­ Livermore X-ray laser program. Support of nent Earth orbit. Since the nuclear pump is favorable political repercussions for the pro­ the program is continuing." really a bomb, we aren't sanguine at the gram. The X-ray laser program at Livermore prospect of dozens or hundreds of these "Miller didn't want to delay it because it continues to expand at a rapid pace and bombs-some American, some Russian­ would look bad," one federal scientist enjoys increased funding from the Depart­ whizzing around overhead. Critics also note charged. ment of Energy, which sponsors the lab and that nuclear pumped lasers would probably At that point, according to sources who the SDI office. But the program's pace is blow up other parts of a defense system were involved in reviewing the experiment, the subject of much controversy at Liver­ that were anywhere near them. And nobody Los Alamos scientists complained to the SDI more. has explained why Livermore is spending office about the experiment's flaw. Sources contend that most scientists in­ more than $100 million a year on nuclear X­ Also, a federal scientist tipped the prestig­ volved in the program agree on the need for ray laser research when the President says ious Jason Group, a 26-year-old committee research, but they argue that the program that the defense shield would be non-nucle­ of senior scientists, with whom the Defense has fallen victim to politics and that the ar. Department consults on military projects search for "spectacular results," in the Those problems all lie in the future. The involving complex technologies. words of one such critic, "has overridden immediate problem is that project managers On Sept. 27, a Jason delegation visited careful physics." at Livermore are claiming dramatic success Livermore to examine the problem and en­ "Pressure to go faster," one federal scien­ dorsed the critique of the Los Alamos scien­ tist said, "means making mistakes like rely­ in underground tests while scientists at the tists with whom they had conferred the day ing on a calibration system they didn't fully Los Alamos weapons laboratory warn that before. understand which gave a false large signal, the tests may not be valid because the so after five years, we still don't know what device used to measure the laser beam's in­ ADDITIONAL $60 MILLION tensity had a serious design flaw. An inter­ Despite the warning from Los Alamos, the they have." nal review by other scientists at Livermore SDI office recently awarded Livermore an TELLER PROTEGE agrees with the Los Alamos assessment of additional $60 million, largely because of Critics charge the pressure to race ahead the test results. the lobbying efforts of physicist Edward comes largely from a faction within Liver­ Rather than accept the six-months-to-a­ Teller, a Livermore consultant and the man more headed by Teller protege Lowell year delay that waiting for a new mecha­ often credited with having sold the Presi­ Wood. Although Wood is not formally in nism would involve, the program managers dent on "Star Wars." charge of the X-ray laser research, his crit­ at Livermore are going ahead with plans for The Times has learned that the warning ics and supporters agree that he has im­ a new test. Critics charge that political con­ from Los Alamos scientists is not the first mense indirect influence over the project. siderations were a major factor in the deci­ time that Livermore scientists were aware This influence is buttressed by his connec­ sion. that the laser measuring device was flawed. tion to Teller and the high-level access both Whatever the motive, it is self-evident A major study conducted by Livermore men enjoy within the Reagan Administra­ that millions of taxpayer dollars should not scientist George Maenchen was widely cir­ tion. be thrown away in a test that cannot be ac­ culated at the lab in August of 1984 raising Sources within Livermore say that there curately and reliably calibrated. The Admin­ points similar to those of the Los Alamos was a great deal of tension between Wood istration should put further tests on hold study and advising caution. and the lab's former associate director, Roy until the measuring-equipment problem is Measuring the results of such tests, which Woodruff, who recently "requested reas­ solved. are conducted at the Nevada test site, is an signment," but insists he is "satisfied with extremely complicated procedure. A nuclear the technical progress of the program." Ac­ CFrom Valley Times, Nov. 18, 19851 bomb is placed at the bottom of a 30-foot­ cording to one colleague at the lab, Wood­ tall canister filled with various instruments. ruff, who had overall responsibility for the "STAR WARS" LASER To BE TESTED Protruding from the bomb are rods, which X-ray laser project, said he was tired of his vision, in been at the forefront of State government ciation of Regulatory Utility Commission­ March 1983, of a non-nuclear "peace shield" policies which have responded to the tre­ ers at the highest levels, serving on various defensive system that would forever protect mendous growth of Florida, now the sixth committees and on its executive committee. the United States against nuclear assault, largest State in the Union. Joe has been honored by resolutions of the famous physicist has faced many rivals commendation by both the Florida house and critics. He has worked diligently and effectively to improve the management and perform­ and senate. Chief among his establishment opponents Nancy and I extend our very best wishes is retired Gen. Daniel Graham, a former di­ ance of State government for the benefit of rector of U.S. military intelligence who cre­ 12 million Floridians. to Beverly and Joe Cresse and their family ated "Project High Frontier." With mission­ "Joe Cresse is an individual who has on this significant event in Florida State ary fervor and money from conservative given unceasingly of his time and devoted governmental history. A career public event think tanks. Graham has worked to sell the his career to sound government for his retires after 30 years of splendid service to administration on a Strategic Defense Initi­ fellow Floridians," Gov. Bob Graham said his State and Nation. A public servant's ative of by Federal policies. In addition to serving Ratification of the interstate compacts the bill. as a member of the Santa Barbara County would, under amendments adopted by the A description of the manner in which the Board of Supervisors, and twice as chair­ committees, be effective subject to the con­ significant differences between the bills are man of the board, he served on the Santa tinued adherence of the compacts to the resolved in the substitute follows. Barbara Board of Education for 6 years, as Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act Equitable Allocation of Disposal Capacity: president of the Southern California Re­ and other Federal law. Disposal capacity The Interior bill provided for the annual al­ gional Association of County Supervisors, will be available at sites now receiving low­ location of disposal capacity at the three ex­ on the State council on developmental dis­ level waste until December 31, 1992. Begin­ isting sites through the agreement of the abilities, on the Department of the Interior ning January 1, 1993, States which operate three States in which the sites are located. OCS Policy Committee, the California disposal facilities under the auspices of a The Energy bill had no comparable provi­ State Coastal Commission, and the South regional compact ratified by Congress will sion. The substitute provides a trigger mechanism that permits States to refuse Central Coast Regional Coastal Commis­ be authorized to close those facilities to access to waste if they are accepting their sion. He served on city park, recreation, waste not generated within the compact annual limit. However, if all three sites have police and fire commissions, to name only region. reached their annual limit, all sites must in­ a few of his many public appointments. During the 7-year "interim access" crease the capacity made available in succes­ Bob Kallman's record of civic involvement, period, low-level waste generators' access sive 10 percent increments. Priority is given including the Council for Retarded Chil­ to the three currently operating disposal fa­ to waste within the compact region. dren and the Navy League, would occupy a cilities will be somewhat limited. Nuclear Emergency Access: Both bills contained whole page of the CONGRESSIONAL utilities have been given allocations for provisions for emergency access. The substi­ RECORD. space at the facilities which assume that tute generally follows the language of the As a businessman who successfully the volumes of waste being sent for dispos­ Energy bill, but includes the restriction con­ owned and operated a major landscape al will be reduced. The capacity available tained in the Interior bill that no site will be nursery in Santa Barbara, CA, he appreci­ for nonutility generators also assumes a re­ required to provide emergency access in any ates the needs and concerns of the taxpayer duction, albeit a smaller reduction, in the year for more than 20 percent of the total volume of waste sent for disposal. volume of waste accepted in the previous who ultimately foots the bill for Govern­ year, nor will a site be required to accept ment's policies. Access to the facilities will be available waste in excess of its capacity or license. While his sound judgment and steady to generators only to the extent the States Mixed Waste: Both bills provide for the hand will no doubt be greatly missed by the and compact regions in which they are lo­ resolution of conflicting regulations relating county government in Santa Barbara, Bob cated achieve specified objectives in the de­ to hazardous waste that is also low-level now takes on new challenges of regional velopment of new disposal capacity. waste. Such mixed waste is subject to regu­ and national significance. I have no doubt The essential goals of H.R. 1083-assur­ lation under the Solid Waste Disposal Act he is up to that challenge. As a member of ance of availability of disposal capacity and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. The the House Interior and Insular Affairs until new sites can be developed, assurance substitute is a hybrid of the two bills. Lan­ Committee, I look forward to continued that new sites will be developed in a timely guage in the Energy bill providing for the work with Bob Kallman on OCS energy manner, and assurance that interstate com­ resolution of conflicting regulations and the matters, national park, public lands, and pacts can be ratified and carry out State re­ development of guidelines to consolidate natural resource issues. In the days ahead, sponsibilities in a manner benefitting inter­ procedures is retained. Language in the In­ I'm certain many of my colleagues will find state commerce-have been retained and terior bill providing for the development of joint regulations for mixed waste is included Bob Kallman a pleasure to work with and reinforced by each committee's recommen­ in a modified form providing that the joint to know. dations and by the consensus amendment I regulations will become effective upon ap­ am presenting today. I am submitting our proval by Congress. joint explanation of the amendment, which Rebates: Both bills provide states where H.R. 1083, LOW-LEVEL RADIOAC­ follows: TIVE WASTE POLICY AMEND­ sites are now taking low-level waste for dis­ MENTS ACT EXPLANATION OF CHANGES CONTAINED IN CON· posal with authority to place a surcharge on SENSUS SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 1083 AGREED TO waste admitted to the sites which is generat­ BY MESSRS. UDALL, LUJAN, MARKEY, DIN· ed outside the state's compact region. The HON. MORRIS K. UDALL GELL, BROYHILL, AND MOORHEAD Energy Committee bill provides that a por­ OF ARIZONA The text of H.R. 1083 as amended by the tion of such charges collected by the sited IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs states will be refunded to non-sited states served as a basis for consideration of the bill which meet specified goals for development Wednesday, December 4, 1985 by the Committee on Energy and Com­ of new waste disposal sites. The consensus Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, I am having merce. The Energy Committee further bill adopts the rebate as a useful incentive printed in the RECORD an amendment to amended the bill and reported the text for state development of disposal capacity in which has largely served as the basis for de­ a timely manner. The rebate for meeting H.R. 1083 which represents a consensus velopment of a consensus substitute resolv­ reached on the bill by the principals of the the final goal of operation of a new disposal ing the differences between the committee site, which is double the rebates for other committees of jurisdiction: Mr. LUJAN, Mr. recommendations. MARKEY, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. BROYHILL, Mr. goals in the Energy Committee bill, is, how­ Care was taken by the committees to im­ ever, reduced from 50 percent of the collect­ MOORHEAD, and myself. Having resolved prove the technical quality of the bill ed fees to 40 percent of the collected fees. the differences between our committees­ during each step of consideration. Much re­ drafting has occurred which does not reflect Miscellaneous: The substitute includes the Committee on Interior and Insular Af­ language providing that 11.9 million cubic fairs and the Committee on Energy and differences in policy or intent. For example, the Interior Committee bill drew a distinc­ feet of disposal capacity will be available for Commerce-we will together request the tion between the definition of low-level ra­ utility waste, and 7.7 million cubic feet for support of the House for this amendment dioactive waste in effect for Federal regula­ non-utility waste. This allocation was im­ and for passage of the bill. tion and other Federal purposes, and such plicitly assumed by both bills. H.R. 1083, the Low-Level Radioactive definition as it describes those substances Waste Policy Amendments Act, lays a foun- for which states are responsible. While the 34364 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 PUERTO RICO AND THE CBI we have come is powerful testimony to the All of you welcomed this step-as helpful virtues of fre~dom and the vitality of free to your own countries, and vital to President enterprise. Reagan's initiative. Many of you have wel­ HON. DANTE 8. FASCELL Now, with President Reagan in the fore­ comed me, as I have crisscrossed the Carib­ OF FLORIDA front of our effort, we seek to forge that bean, discussing the twin plant concept, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES same kind of fruitful partnership in the bringing delegations of potential investors wider arena of the Caribbean. The United to your nations. The concept has offered Wednesday, December 4, 1985 States has given a new and greater pledge to greater promise as the months have Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, on Novem­ this region-to defend liberty not simply passed-and it has assumed greater impor­ ber 9 of this year, the Honorable Rafael with armaments, but with the far stronger tance because the United States Congress appeal to the yearning for a better and did not pass the President's full Caribbean Hernandez Colon, the distinguished Gover­ fuller life. nor of Puerto Rico, addressed the Confer­ program. In this first stage of that historic Today the Caribbean Basin is the testing Initiative, the Puerto Rican contribution ence on Democracy for the English-speak­ ground-and the entire world is watching has already become a Caribbean necessity. ing Caribbean, which was held in Bridge­ what we do here. Your nations are the near­ The twin plant concept has become a key to town, Barbados. est neighbors of the greatest nation of this our new alliance for economic growth. We Governor Hernandez spoke positively hemisphere, the leader of the forces of free­ have made real progress already, but we still and constructively about the Caribbean dom around the globe. If we fail or falter face real problems. And I am here today to here, others elsewhere will question the ca­ report on both the gains we can count and Basin Initiative [ CBl]-a program which I pacity of a free society. But if we succeed, have long considered one of the most im­ the barriers we confront. the Caribbean and the Caribbean Basin Ini­ First, the good news-which is very good portant foreign policy initiatives of the tative will become a model everywhere-and indeed. So far, twenty-four major companies Reagan administration and one which I the most powerful rebuke to those who sug­ have committed themselves to twin plant have consistently supported. The Governor gest that human beings must choose be­ projects, provided section 936 is preserved not only discussed the tax incentive plan tween liberty and bread. unchanged. Their commitments will mean known as section 936, which provides a tax The siren song of Marxism has been heard $114 million in new investments and 15,000 credit for corporations that invest and in the Caribbean for almost three decades. new jobs for the Caribbean. If President The people who have followed it-or had it Reagan and Congress will permit us to produce in Puerto Rico, but also described fastened upon them-have found only op­ the so-called twin plant concept in consid­ transform these commitments into bricks pression, frustration and economic failure. and mortar, machines and jobs the result erable detail. But we cannot be content merely with will be a welcome increase in Caribbean em­ I was particularly struck by this observa­ pointing to the mistakes and missteps of ployment-and an increase of more than 50 tion in the Governor's speech: others we must point out a direction of our percent in new U.S. investments since Presi­ own and mark out a path toward a common The siren song Marxism has been heard in Caribbean prosperity. dent Reagan's Initiative. And all this has the Caribbean for almost three decades. President Reagan has recoginzed that the been set in motion in only the first ten The people who have followed it-or had it United States cannot exist as a continent in months. fastened upon them-have found only op­ isolation from the concerns and aspirations In Grenada alone, the twin plant concept pression, frustration and economic failure. of this region and this hemisphere. All of us will more than triple new American invest­ But we cannot be content with merely whose shores are touched by the Caribbean ment under the Reagan plan. So far that pointing a direction of our own and mark Sea are involved inextricably in one history total equals $1.2 million-which will yield out a path toward a common Caribbean and one destiny. And all of those who live 118 new jobs. That is progress, but the twin prosperity. here, from Florida, along the great archipel­ plant concept could move us so much far­ Mr. Speaker, the economic destiny of ago to Barbados, and across to Central ther toward prosperity. Four pharmaceuti­ Puerto Rico is not only inseparably linked America, must claim their rightful place cal firms-and two other companies-have under a single Caribbean sun of progress made commitments to twin plants likely to with our own, it provides the example for bring an additional $4.2 million and 430 the rest of the Caribbean. It is the testing and economic growth. I come from a Commonwealth whose citi­ more jobs to Grenada. ground for the eventual success of the CBI zens recognize a special responsibility to For them, for all the people we represent because Puerto Rico is our responsibility. this endeavor. In a very real sense, Puerto there today, hope is the heart of the Carib­ We must succeed in Puerto Rico if we are Rico has been the beneficiary of an earlier bean Basin Initiative. And the twin plant to get the governments and the people of Caribbean Initiative by the United States­ concept can transform hope into reality, as­ the region to follow our lead-and not that the tax incentive known today as Section piration into achievement-not only in Gre­ of Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega. 936, which provides a tax credit for corpora­ nada, but in every island and land of the tions that invest and produce on our island. region. We now have twin plant pledges for For this reason, I believe Governor Her­ investments in eight different countries. nandez' comments are of major signifi­ Because of this provision, we launched "Op­ eration Bootstrap" in the 1940's. Since then, One project, for example, will manufacture cance and merit the serious attention of all we have stumbled occasionally, as every nurses caps in Grenada and Puerto Rico; an­ Members of this body. I ask unanimous economy must; but in the long view, we other involves finishing shoes in Puerto consent to include in the RECORD at this have moved clearly and steadily forward. To Rico from undersoles made in the Domini­ point the full text of the Governor's ad­ any who say that free institutions cannot can Republic. The Intel Corporation has dress: break chains of poverty and bring freedom plans to put an additional $40 million into The text of the address follows: from want, we reply: Let them come to its computer operations in our Common­ Puerto Rico. In light of our own experience, wealth and here in Barbados. And eight STATEMENT BY THE HONORABLE RAFAEL HER· with an understanding of what we have other 936 companies have made commit­ NANDEZ COLON, GOVERNOR OF PuERTO Rrco gained and what we can give, we have enlist­ ments to twin plants, and will soon deter­ I am honored to be here with you. I come ed fully in the Caribbean Basin Initiative. mine the specific size or site of the invest­ on behalf of the people of Puerto Rico, who Just as the United States cannot exist as a ments. share your high hopes for the future of the continent in isolation, we cannot and do not The $114 million already pledged for twin Caribbean Basin Initiative. And I bring with regard Puerto Rico as "an island, entire of plants will generate more than $38 million a me, to this meeting which will make history, itself," disconnected in geography or sepa­ year in wages in the Caribbean Basin. And our own special heritage of progress and rate in its future and its fate from the rest we are not talking simply about statistics, or partnership with the United States. of the Caribbean. corporate earnings, or economics. We are Our Commonwealth is a unique link be­ So in my Inaugural Address as Governor, talking about people ready to earn their tween that country and the Caribbean. For less than a year ago, I announced a plan to own way, to build a future for their fami­ most of a century, we have been part of the share the benefits of Section 936 with the lies-and in the process, strengthen their United States; for nearly half a century, the nations of our region. We have committed countries. We are talking about keeping the policy of the federal government has explic­ to the Caribbean Basin Initiative $700 mil­ truest promise of America-and proving itly and especially encouraged private enter­ lion of funds deposited in our Development that it can come true for America's closest prise to invest in Puerto Rico, to develop Bank by Section 936 corporations. The neighbors. We are talking about individuals, our potential, to create productive work for funds are available on concessionary terms with their own sense of pride and initiative, our people. The United States has helped to companies starting or expanding twin who want to make freedom and free enter­ Puerto Rico to help itself. We have asked plants-manufacturing enterprises in prise work for them. for opportunity, not a handout; for a Puerto Rico and complementary facilities in In Puerto Rico, we feel strongly about this chance, not a guarantee-and the distance another Caribbean island or country. purpose and the prospects of the Caribbean December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34365 Basin Initiative. Therefore, we have decid­ when that would jeopardize the very exist­ our outrage over abuses in the spending of ed-and I am announcing today-that if sec­ ence of Section 936? public funds in defense contracts, we ne­ tion 936 is preserved unchanged the Com­ There are those who say that Puerto Rico monwealth is prepared to commit an addi­ is late in recognizing its common bond with glect to recognize those who make substan­ tional $140 million of the Development and responsibility to the rest of the Carib­ tial contributions in effecting savings. Bank deposits to finance additional twin bean. To those I say: there is a new adminis­ Guy Charles Throner is the type of indi­ plants outside Puerto Rico. This new capital tration in Puerto Rico; and we appreciate vidual who is deserving of such public rec· will be allocated primarily to financing that the waters that wash your shores reach ognition. Mr. Throner has previously been those investments in Eastern Caribbean ours as well; the problems that beset your honored by the prestigious American De· countries that can be shown to benefit the people and mine can often be tackled best economy of Puerto Rico. And it will increase when we work together. iense Preparedness Association on two sep­ our commitment to a total of $840 million, There are those who question the sinceri­ arate occasions: the first time when he was available for twin plant projects in this ty of our commitment to twin plants in your awarded the Bronze Medallion in 197 4 and region. countries as well as in Puerto Rico. To those this year when he was presented the covet­ What we offer, in sum, is a plan to create I say: there can be no more credible commit­ ed. E. Simon Award Silver Medal. I thought new investment equal to more than all U.S. ment than one that is based on enlightened it only fitting that he be honored through investment in all the beneficiary nations of self-interest. We are convinced that our best the Caribbean Basin Initiative since the hope for preserving section 936 over the the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD for the many start of the program. The twin plant con­ long term is your avid defense of it because advances in defense technology he engi· cept can double the impact of President by the actual creation of jobs in your coun­ neered. Reagan's great step toward a more secure tries you perceive that this provision is also Mr. Throner serves as the manager of the and prosperous Caribbean. in your self interest. Ordnance Systems and Technology Section With so much confidence in what we can So let me convey to you a request as well accomplish, with so many corporate pledges as a pledge-that you will help us to save of the Battelle Columbus Laboratories. In in hand, with so few setbacks so far, we Section 936-so that we in turn can help his present position with Battelle, Mr. should be moving ahead swiftly, without your nations to help themselves. Many of Throner leads a group of internationally concern or delay. But there is a threatening you have spoken out, and I hope you will recognized scientists and engineers in ad­ cloud on the bright horizon of the twin continue to be heard. For I am convinced vanced R&D on weapons and space tech· plant concept. That cloud has shadowed our that your voices and your views will be nologies. In that role, Mr. Throner has con­ efforts from the beginning. heeded in Washington. The twin plant concept depends funda­ I am convinced that President Reagan and ducted and managed activities in diverse mentally on the fate of 936. That section at­ the Congress agree with us that the history fields of science and technology. He is an tracts the investments which create the we make or fail to make in this region, in active inventor, with over 300 inventions to wealth-which in turn is deposited in our this generation, will have a shaping influ­ his credit, in such fields as explosive metal Development Bank and which will be direct­ ence on the history of our hemisphere and forming, high-speed instrumentation, medi­ ed to twin plant projects. Without 936, we all the world. cal devices, oil field equipment, agricultural will not have the necessary capital-and we There are forces with a great stake in our will not have a single company-to invest in failure. They are fighting their subversive and construction equipment, laser technol­ twin plants. Without 936, half of all the re­ wars now in Central America, cloaking their ogy, and weapons and space technology. sources marshalled for President Reagan's plans for oppression with the words and Mr. Throner's most significant contribu­ historic initiative could be lost-and it is symbols of progress. They have been driven tions have been in so-called shaped charged hard to see how that loss would be replaced. from Grenada, but there and across the technology. Beginning in 1946, he pio­ The case is so compelling that one almost Caribbean they wait to put their roots down neered numerous key developments that wonders why it has not already carried the once again. They will have that chance only day. Surely the Administration does not if we blunder away our own chance for were vital to advances in this important want or welcome a situation in which its change. munitions concept. In 1949 he was respon­ major domestic initiative-tax reform-is at The whole, long struggle of our hemi­ sible for the first use of linear shaped war with one of its major foreign policy ini­ sphere has been an effort to move forward charges in missiles, for development of ex­ tiatives-the effort to strengthen the soci­ and upward, against the odds. As Simon Bo­ plosive wave shaping, for introduction of eties and the economies of the Caribbean liver once said, to those who doubted his and Central America. The price of progress ability to move his men through the Andes aluminum shaped charges in antiarmor ap­ at home cannot and should not be retreat Mountains, "Where a goat can pass, so can plications, and for the use of aluminum­ abroad. an army." zinc and copper-zinc warhead experiments. Reasonable questions have been raised We here, assembled in this Conference, He solved the problem of fragment spalling about the twin plant concept and Section are the peaceful army of Caribbean in discrete fragment warheads, and his pat­ 936-and we have provided answers which progress. I know we can prevail-for I have ented technique is used in many of today's are not only reasonable, but clearly right. seen in my life what has come to pass in Some have asked-how much have you Puerto Rico. So let us now join with each active missile system. really achieved? In fact, the scale of the ini­ other in saying to the United States: We are Mr. Throner is also responsible for the tial projects compares favorably with the committed to the Caribbean Basin Initia­ invention and development of the Air original corporate investments in Puerto tive. We need the investments to make it Force aimable cylinderic warhead for anti­ Rico that have now become our most impor­ work-in the form of President Reagan's aircraft missile applications, which is per­ tant industrial plants. With projects of this own program and the twin plants which can haps the most capable nonnuclear explo­ size, we began "Operation Bootstrap"-and result from Section 936. We will use the re­ with such projects, the nations of the Carib­ sources wisely; we will build a future of lib­ sive munition for antitarget application yet bean can also begin to lift themselves up. erty and economic opportunity. Give us the developed and represents the technology We are at the starting line now, and we tools to make the climb-and together, we the experts tell me we can expect to contin­ must not turn from the best opportunity we shall reach the high mountains of our own ue in the future. have had in a generation to reach sustained best hopes. The scope of Mr. Throner's work ranges regional economic growth. from deep sea to outer space. Certainly, Others have questioned-how certain can we be that the commitments we have from GUY CHARLES THRONER Mr. Throner's contributions to military 936 companies will actually be kept? Our technology are extraordinary and it is only answer is unequivocal: We are prepared to HON. CHALMERS P. WYLIE fitting that he be congratulated and that see to it, by every necessary means, that the OF OHIO his work be appropriately recognized. twin plant pledges will be met. We are pre­ pared to condition new tax exemptions IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which the Commonwealth grants to 936 en­ Wednesday, December 4, 1985 terprises on fulfillment of these commit­ ments to twin plants. And we are prepared Mr. WYLIE. Mr. Speaker, I ask my col· to enter into an Executive Agreement with leagues to join me in paying tribute to a the Treasury Department to ensure that member of our defense community for his this will be done. In any event, why would outstanding contribution and dedication to 936 corporations fail to honor their word- the protection of our country. Too often in 34366 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 LOW-LEVEL WASTE CONSENSUS statement in today's RECORD by Interior al years has certified offshore operating BILL DEVELOPED Committee Chairman Udall. personnel in order to meet OCS-5 require­ ments. It is our direct observation that all oil field operating personnel working off­ HON.EDWARDJ.MARKEY OCS OIL AND GAS shore are not only aware of the environ­ OF MASSACHUSETTS DEVELOPMENT ment and safety but work diligently to pre­ vent any adverse conditions from progress­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO ing to a problem. Wednesday, December 4, 1985 I would urge your continued support of OF CALIFORNIA Offshore Exploration on the West Coast. Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES After all, oil is only where you find it, not to report that we now have a compromise necessarily where we might want it to be. version of H.R. 1083, the Low-Level Radio­ Wednesday, December 4, 1985 Very truly yours, active Waste Policy Amendments Act of Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, lately W.W. HEWSTON, 1985. The bill had been reported by the there has been a great national debate over President and CEO. Committee on Energy and Commerce and the issue of OCS oil and gas development off the coast of California. Proponents of the Committee on Interior and Insular Af­ STATEMENT OF JOSE RODOLFO fairs. The bill reported by the Committee blanket moratoriums cite pressing safety and environmental considerations as justi­ ROSALES AGAINST THE on Energy and Commerce generally fol­ COUNTER-TERRORISM BILL lowed the Interior bill, but made a variety fication for blanket moratoriums. However, of substantive and technical drafting since 1970 a total of fewer than 840 barrels changes. Although the reported bills were have been lost out of over 5 billion barrels HON. TERRY L. BRUCE similar to each other, and both were re­ produced from the entire Federal OCS. OF ILLINOIS Studies by the National Institute of Science ported unanimously, it was necessary to re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES solve the differences between the two bills and University of California at Davis prior to consideration on the House floor. among others have repeatedly shown that Wednesday, December 4, 1985 As a result of negotiations among the tanker traffic, municipal and industrial Mr. BRUCE. Mr. Speaker, recently I met committee and subcommittee chairmen and waste, and natural oil seeps (which is par­ with Jose Rodolfo Rosales, a native of El ranking minority members, we now have a ticularly concentrated in my district) ac­ Salvador. Jose is a fourth year medical stu­ consensus bill that fairly reflects the work count for the vast majority of marine oil dent at the University of El Salvador and of the two committees. I commend my col­ pollution. Since oil discharges from off­ the vice president of the General Associa­ leagues for their efforts. I believe that the shore platforms are insignificant, blanket tion of Salvadoran University Students. consensus bill, like the bills reported by the OCS moratoriums would not result in any This past summer, Jose's name was pub­ two committees, will receive unanimous significant reduction in total oil discharges. lished in the student newspaper as one of support. The environmental damage caused by for­ the targets for a Salvadoran death squad. As is the case with all compromises, no eign tanker traffic carrying imported oil After an attempt on his life, Jose was en­ one receives everything they are seeking. could be greatly reduced by greater domes­ couraged to come to the United States. His However, all parties will gain from the pas­ tic production. request is that the Congress not approve sage of this bill. States without operating Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to the counter-terrorism bill. low-level radioactive waste disposal facili­ review the following letter I received from In Jose's opinion, aid through the ties will avoid the possibility of an arbi­ Mr. W.W. Hewston, who is president and counter-terrorism bill will only enhance trary cutoff of access to existing facilities CEO of Measurement and Control Engi­ the ability of the state security forces and beginning next year. In return, sited States neering of Ventura, regarding the economic the death squads to repress the civilian have received the assurance that after a 7- havoc caused by blanket moratoriums and population. year transition period they will not be re­ the safety record of OCS energy personnel. Meanwhile, President Reagan has deter­ quired to continue accepting waste from MEASUREMENT AND mined that the Salvadoran Government has outside their compact region. Most impor­ CONTROL ENGINEERING, made significant progress in eliminating Ventura, CA, November 18, 1985. human rights violations. Therefore, he is tantly, the public health and safety will be Hon. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO, protected under the provisions of this bill. House of Representatives, Washington, DC. again encouraging the Congress to make In order to permit enactment of this leg­ DEAR MR. LAGOMARSINO: Having received assistance available to the state security islation prior to the end of the session, it is your October 7, 1985 letter expressing your forces of El Salvador. our intention to consider the bill, H.R. support of additional OCS Tracts for oil and The consistent discrepancy about what is 1083, as amended by the consensus substi­ gas exploration I would appreciate the op­ really going on in El Salvador makes me tute, under suspension of the rules, next portunity of expressing a few additional question the effectiveness of our foreign week. The consensus substitute is printed comments. policy. For 4 years Congress has accepted The recent election in Santa Barbara the President's certification of improve­ in today's CONGRESSIONAL RECORD as an County indicated almost a two to one voter amendment to H.R. 1083. approval of the current practices by the ments in El Salvador, and responded by ap­ It is also our intention to pass the seven Santa Barbara County Supervisors with re­ proving some form of military aid. Yet doc­ bills providing congressional consent to the spect to offshore oil. Also, a recent listener umented evidence by Salvadorans such as various interstate compacts providing for poll by Santa Barbara radio station KRUZ Jose suggest that few, if any improvements the disposal of low-level radioactive waste. showed that 73% of the listeners were in have occurred. In fact, Jose described many These bills have also been reported by both favor of offshore development. examples of increased violence by the mili­ the Committee on Energy and Commerce Do to the decline in offshore exploration tary, the resurrection of the death squads, activity it has been necessary that my com­ and Committee on Interior and Insular Af­ pany reduce it's work force by 42% with a and the continued bombings of innocent ci­ fairs in slightly different forms. A consen­ resulting loss in excess of $750,000 per year vilian populations. sus amendment to these bills has also been of payroll to the local economy. My compa­ I wish that each one of my colleagues developed. ny certainly does not stand alone in having had the opportunity to meet with Jose. His The consensus bill developed as an to reduce personnel since the exploration description of the current situation in El amendment to H.R. 1083, the Low-Level activity has declined. Salvador would make most of us reconsid­ Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act Being a third generation citizen of Ven­ er the role the United States is currently of 1985 follows the language of the Energy tura County, I know the value of the energy pursuing. There seems to no consistent industry and what it represents to the local and Commerce bill, as reported, with sever­ economy. The environment has never been proof that our military aid has produced al changes. A brief joint explanation of the better since I was a kid getting tar on my needed reforms. significant changes in the Energy and feet at the beach. Mr. Speaker, Jose had prepared a formal Commerce bill that were incorporated into Safety and pollution are one of our statement which was to have been present­ the consensus substitute accompanies a utmost concerns; our organization for sever- ed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34367 as part of its report on counter-terrorism. the university campus and the equipment benefits New York and New Jersey, the Through a course of events however, his were totally destroyed during the June 26, amount of vehicles traveling between the words were not presented. I'd like to share 1980 military occupation of the University which lasted until May, 1985. two States will continue to grow. The rise with my colleagues what Jose has to say 14. Threats continue to be carried out in trans-Hudson travel has actually out­ about the Salvadoran dilemma. Mr. Speak­ daily by the state security forces. These paced Manhattan job growth in recent er, I ask that Jose's statement be printed in state security forces appear on campus un­ years. Between 1979 and 1982, the number the RECORD at this point. invited, driving vehicles with blackedout of commuters from the New Jersey suburbs Thank you Mr. Speaker. windows and with shotguns visible. They increased by 11.6 percent, while net em­ The statement follows: stop students and ask them about other stu­ ployment in New York City rose by 1 per· 1. I, Jose Rodolfo Rosales, native of El dents whose names appear on lists they carry with them. cent. The congestion which now plagues Salvador, Central America, 28 years of age the entrances to our bridges and tunnels am a fourth year medical student at the 15. At this time, I would like to request Faculty of Medicine at the University of El that the Congress not approve the Counter­ will become an impediment to the success­ Salvador, San Salvador. Terriorism Bill since the aid will only en­ ful development of the area. It is important 2. I am the Vice-President of the General hance the ability of the state security forces that the quality of transportation improves Association of Salvadoran University Stu­ and the death squads to repress the civilian with the increasing number of people who dents . I am presently in the population in general and the University depend upon it. United States on a west coast tour of univer­ population in particular. I, Jose Rodolfo Rosales, swear under pen­ My bill would require the Secretary of sities and colleges. I have visited 40 campus­ Transportation to study tangible solutions es to establish ties and support between alty of perjury that the above statements these U.S. institutions and the National are true. to this problem. This study will look into University of El Salvador. the most appropriate facility to serve trav­ 3. On July 12, 1985, the Secret-Anti-Com­ BRIDGE FEASIBILITY STUDY elers. It does not limit the Secretary to con· munist Army CESA>. published a death list sider conventional modes of travel, and en­ including the names of eleven <11> universi­ courages the exploration of innovative ty students, staff and workers, threatening HON. FRANK J. GUARINI methods for dealing with this critical situa­ them as follows: OF NEW JERSEY tion. "All of these traitors of the people have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been condemned to death and we give them Mr. Speaker, as the present structures until Saturday the 20th of this month to be Wednesday, December 4, 1985 serving transportation between New York forwarned that from that day on our be­ Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, I am intro­ and New Jersey are operating beyond loved military squads will put the execution ducing legislation which would set aside normal capacity, it is essential that we pre· orders into effect." pare to meet the future need of the area. 4. On July 20, 1985, the Christian-Demo­ funds to study the transportation facilities, services, and needs for cross-Hudson travel Our commitment to expand and improve cratic Party of President Jose Napoleon access between the two States is the only Duarte published a statement justifying the between New York City, New York, and communique published by the death squad. northern New Jersey. practical way to accommodate continued 5. I was one of the students named in the The principal arteries which serve the regional economic growth. A study would death list. New York/New Jersey metropolitan area determine the appropriate design standards 6. On July 28, 1985, an attempt was made are seriously overcrowded, and no longer for facilities to unburden the already over­ on my life but I was protected by a group of adequately serve the needs of the bistate crowded arteries into the city. It is time to North American students and professors community. There are two tunnels and a plan for the fullest potential development who were visiting the university at that of this great metropolitan area. I respect· time. bridge which were built when traffic be­ 7. On or about August 7, 1985, a second at­ tween the two States was manageable. fully urge my colleagues' support for this tempt on my life was carried out. I narrowly Urban growth and suburban expansion timely legislation. escaped from being shot while I was walking have put pressure on all forms of transpor­ in downtown San Salvador. However, a tation within the region. While additional WHY I LOVE AMERICA woman standing close by was injured. and widened roads, increased mass transit 8. Eight (8) out of the eleven <11> individ­ facilities, and larger carpools have helped uals threatened have already left the coun­ HON. JIM CHAPMAN try. speed travel for a greater number of com­ OF TEXAS 9. On July 24, 1985, one of the other 2 stu­ muters, the structures which carry them IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES across the Hudson River remain un­ dents who stayed in El Salvador, Antonio Wednesday, December 4, 1985 Quezada was shot at. changed. 10. On August 5, 1985, another attempt on In recent years, extraordinary congestion Mr. CHAPMAN. Mr. Speaker, each year, Mr. Quezada's life was carried out. at the entrances of the Lincoln Tunnel, the American Legion, Post 30, in the First 11. These life-threatening acts are not iso­ Holland Tunnel, and George Washington Congressional District of Texas, which I lated cases facing the university community. Bridge has become common during the proudly represent, conducts an essay con­ During the last eleven <11 > months, 55 stu­ dents have been killed by the Salvadoran rush hours. Between the hours of 7 and 10 test on the subject of "Why I Love Amer­ armed forces and the death squads; 9 stu­ a.m. the Lincoln Tunnel, built in 1937, is ica." Only high school students from dents have "disappered" by the government used by 65,000 bus riders and 16,800 auto· Lamar County, TX, may participate, and forces and 24 have been incarcerated. Thir­ mobile passengers. Eighty-seven percent of the first through third place winners re­ teen <13> of the latter have been released these people are bound for New York City's ceive medals, and scholarships when he or after intensive international pressure. central business district. The Holland she enrolls in college. I am rising today to 12. On June 20, 1985, the General Secre­ Tunnel, opened in 1927, transports an aver­ pay special tribute to the first place winner tary of the University, Ana Gloria de Mon­ age of 8,200 motorists and 2,700 bus passen­ of the 1985 essay contest, Ms. Cescily Man­ toya; the President of the Engineering and Architecture Department, Ing. Manuel gers at peak hours, with 70 percent of its ning. Through the use of her heart and her Canas Lazo; University worker, Salvador traffic headed for downtown Manhattan. pen, Cescily has written a tremendous Ubau, President of AGEUS, Antonio Que­ the George Washington Bridge, completed essay showing us all why she is so proud to zada and myself met with Ricardo J. Lopez, in 1931, carries nearly 40,700 motorists and be an American. Ministry of the Treasury, to discuss the fi­ 5,700 bus passengers. Thirty percent of Too often we hear that young people are nancial situation facing the university in­ these commuters travel to the Wall Street apathetic and blatantly hostile to our coun­ cluding the lack of funds to pay the salaries area. try's offerings, but I can tell you this is just of the administration, the faculty and the The number of all trans-Hudson com· not so. There are many young Americans workers. Mr. Lopez at that time stated that President Duarte's financial priorities were muters is expected to increase by 50,000 be­ like Cescily who have considerable strength the needs of the war and not higher educa­ tween now and the year 1990. This will and character, and I feel very comfortable tion. bring the total amount of people moving in knowing that one day they will lead our 13. Mr. Lopez's statement is disheartening, across the river to 265,000 during the daily Nation to even higher planes than did our particularly when a significant portion of rush hour. As renewed economic prosperity forefathers. 34368 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 I would like to share Cescily's essay with During his tenure with the New York THE UNITED NATIONS AND you because I believe she speaks for many City school system, Mr. Gibson has worked HUMAN RIGHTS Americans. She speaks with the refreshing tirelessly to improve the quality of educa­ touch of youth, and her words may help tion for our city's youngsters. On Decem­ HON. PETER H. KOSTMAYER remind those of us in the older ranks of ber 16, many of his friends and colleagues America about the freedom that we some­ will be gathering at a retirement dinner to OF PENNSYLVANIA times take for granted. In Cescily's words: thank Mm for his three decades of service IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I love America for the lives of those who to education in New York City. Wednesday, December 4, 1985 paid the supreme sacrifice in defending I would like to share with my fell ow Mr. KOSTMA YER. Mr. Speaker, as we her, those lives that are represented by the Members the following proclamation that observe the 40th anniversary of the found­ red, white and blue of the American flag. will be read at the retirement dinner being ing of the United Nations, it is important to WHY I LovE AMERICA held in his honor: review the performance and effectiveness America, land of the free and home of the PROCLAMATION of that body on the entire spectrum of vital brave, the land of opportunity. This may Whereas: Edward Gibson has had a distin­ international issues. Perhaps no issue is as sound like a far-fetched claim, but it is guished career with the New York City critical as the world's approach to human every bit true, and I love everything about Board of Education, spanning from 1953, rights. Jerry Shestack, a Philadelphia attor­ this country and what it stands for. where he began as a substitute teacher, and The United States of America is made up retiring as Administrator of Reimbursable ney and president of the International of people from every nationality and race. Programs-Community School District 28 in League for Human Rights, is uniquely Because of this, the population is sometimes May 1985. This period included a two year qualified to shed a much needed perspec­ referred to as the "melting pot." Many of stint in the United States Army; and tive on this subject, having served as the these people are immigrants that came to Whereas: In the course of his 29112 years U.S. representative to the UN Commission this country looking for a new life because with the New York City Board of Educa­ on Human Rights during the Carter admin­ America offered them opportunity and free­ tion, Edward Gibson gained tenure as a Reg­ istration: dom. In America any person with a little ular Teacher, Assistant Principal, and Prin­ hard work and a true desire to succeed can cipal, thereby expanding his scope of influ­ PROPOSALS FOR U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS REFORMS lead a happy and prosperous life. ence and involvement in education; and America is a nation whose citizens have Whereas: Edward Gibson has shone as an The lip service that heads of state are many freedoms. In America we are able to example of professionalism, serving the giving to freedom and liberty during this gather in meetings to discuss freely our principles of education and social responsi­ 40th anniversary of the United Nations ideas on any matter from the government to bility through his many efforts to advance cannot hide the fact that the UN's record in our leisure time activities. We have the the disadvantaged, he always worked in securing observance of human rights is piti­ right to gather in churches and worship the inner city schools-Harlem, Bedford Stuyve­ ful. God of our choice in the manner we choose, sant, and South Jamaica. He is one of the More than 50 governments still practice without fear of arrest and possibly even exe­ original teachers in the More Effective torture. There is severe repression in the cution. The press in America has the right Schools Program; and Soviet Union, South Africa, Chile, Para­ to publish the truth, even if it is critical of Whereas: Edward Gibson skillfully man­ guay, the Philippines, and many other the government or any governmental policy, aged the Federal Title I, Title II, Title III, places. The UN has been apathetic in ad­ without fear of arrest or prosecution. These Title IV, Title VII Programs, State Quality dressing these abuses and certainly ineffec­ are but a few of the rights that we, as citi­ Incentive, Community Education Centers as tual in curing them. Yet, there are simple zens of this great country, have. I also love well as other Federal and State Special Edu­ reforms in this area which the UN can America for the great patriotism she in­ cation Grants, bringing about an awareness adopt to advance human rights. spires. As I watch the flag being raised at and raising consciousness of the needs and The failure of the UN to advance human the football games every Friday night, I am objectives these programs address; and rights lies not in a lack of substantive stand­ reminded of just how lucky I am. I am also Whereas: Edward Gibson has further tire­ ards of international law. Ever since the reminded of the many, many Americans lessly devoted his consummate talent and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, pi­ who gave their lives for the freedoms that energy to the special problems of youth em­ oneered by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1948, and the flag represents. ployment, educaton, health and recreation the subsequent adoption of numerous I love America for the blood that has been in his participation in many organizations. human rights covenants, there has existed a shed in the countless battles fought to keep He has been affiliated with Scouting since solid base on international human rights our freedom and to prevent the spread of 1961 to the present. He is the founder of the standards. Indeed, that is the UN's most sig­ tyranny. I love America for the lives of Explorer Post # 38 of Grace United Method­ nificant achievement in this area. those who paid the supreme sacrifice in de­ ist Church. He has worked in Child Day But rights without remedies are hollow, fending her, those lives that are represented Care Centers, Vacation Playground, After and the UN's unwillingness to focus on by the red, white, and blue of the American School Programs, St. Albans Little League, means to secure international human rights flag. as well as training Blacks for administrative is a critical failing of that body. No one ex­ America is my home. I love the country positions; and pects the UN to be able to establish an en­ and everything it stands for. I love her for Whereas: Edward Gibson has generously forcement system the way an individual the rights and freedoms we all enjoy. I love contributed his time to activities involving nation can. But what the UN can do is to her for the sacrifices made in her name and his membership in various professional and concentrate on fact-finding and public expo­ for the warm and caring spirit that flows social organizations such as Block Associa­ sure of human rights abuses. Even the most through each American. It is this spirit that tion, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi offending nations dislike seeing the public draws us together, helping and supporting Mu Alpha, Jazz Knights, National Associa­ spotlight focused on their abuses. In the ab­ one another. This feeling is stronger at tion for the Advancement of Colored sence of any judicial system of enforcement, times than it is at others, but it is always People, New York Association of Black public exposure has proved to be the best there. These reasons are why I love Amer­ School Supervisors and Administrators, As­ means available to persuade governments to ica. sociation of Assistant Principals, Council of stop, or at least reduce, their human rights Supervisors and Administrators, United violations. Federation of Teachers, and the Association To that end, here are some noncomplicat­ EDWARD GIBSON TO BE of Compensatory Educators; now, therefore, ed reforms that are possible to achieve: HONORED IN QUEENS be it The UN should establish a High Commis­ Resolved: That the United States House sioner on Human Rights. At present, the HON. JOSEPH P. ADDABBO of representatives praises Edward Gibson UN secretariat in the human rights area is for his distinguished service both in the pri­ weak, timorous, and underfinanced. Too OF NEW YORK vate and public sectors, honors him on the often it bows to pressure from repressive IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES occasion of his retirement from the New blocs. A high commissioner (patterned after Wednesday, December 4, 1985 York City Board of Education, and takes the UN High Commissioner for Refugees> this opportunity to congratulate him. should be empowered to coordinate all UN Mr. ADDABBO. Mr. Speaker, after Signed this sixteenth day of December in human rights activities, convene needed nearly 30 years of service to the New York the year nineteen hundred and eighty five. emergency sessions of the Commission on City Board of Education, Edward Gibson is JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, Human Rights, send out fact-finding mis­ retiring from the school system. U.S. House of Representatives. sions, present key human rights issues to December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34369 the UN bodies, and issue forthright reports faiths, criticizing the Kremlin's genocidal perts say the number of camps could be as on human rights violations. Proposals to es­ war in Afghanistan, and similarly "danger­ high as 4,000. tablish an independent and vigorous high ous" and "irreconcilable" crimes. Experts describe the Soviet forced-labor commissioner have been on the UN agenda Mr. Speaker, we in this body have the camp and prison system as a vast subculture for many years. A concerted effort by pro­ within Soviet society. Its inhabitants in­ human rights nations could bring it to pass. moral responsibility to speak out for those clude political prisoners-religious believers, The UN Commission on Human Rights who cannot speak for themselves. The mil­ Jews trying to emigrate, dissident scientists now receives many complaints of human lions who are being illegally and oppres­ and artists-and other lawbreakers, such as rights abuses by particular nations. These sively incarcerated at the hands of Commu­ petty criminals and murderers. They share complaints are kept secret and considered in nists demand that we speak out. We have a fate in what has become known as the confidential hearings. Under UN practice, no alternative. As Winston Churchill once Gulag Archipelago, a term coined by a the world never learns the details of the said, "The worst crime is not to tell the famous Russian emigre, writer Aleksandr most egregious human rights violations truth to the public." Solzhenitsyn. being considered by the commission. The At this time, I would like to bring to the Avraham Shifrin, another leading chroni­ UN must open those hearings to the public. cler of the Soviet prison camp system, says Such public exposure is critical to marshal attention of my colleagues the foil owing ar­ in his "Guidebook to Prisons and Concen­ pressure on abusing governments. ticle by Bill Gertz of the Washington tration Camps" that the system consists of Many nations that grossly violate human Times, entitled, "Labor Camps Thrive De­ more than 2,000 labor camps in which most rights do not allow the UN investigatory spite Soviet Rhetoric, Experts Say." It is in­ inmates work in freezing temperatures and bodies to enter their territory to investigate formative and should serve to open our live on starvation diets. the condition of human rights. This is intol­ eyes as to the nature and expansiveness of Besides the regular camps, Mr. Shifrin erable. The General Assembly should re­ the Soviet gulag system. says there are several categories of special quire every nation to allow access to UN in­ The article follows: camps. vestigatory missions. Such missions can be These include 119 camps for 10- to 18- extremely useful. The widely publicized LABOR CAMPS THRIVE DESPITE SOVIET year-old males and for women with chil­ report by the Inter-American Commission RHETORIC, EXPERTS SAY dren. Fifty-five camps are "psychiatric hos­ on Human Rights on disappearances in Ar­ pitals." In these, the Soviet secret police, gentina during the junta dictatorship was a The Soviet system of forced labor and im­ the KGB, can place prisoners for up to powerful influence in stopping such disap­ prisonment is flourishing despite the Sovi­ three years without leagl proceedings. pearances. ets' recent efforts to obscure human rights Forty-one are "extermination camps," in The UN should establish a corps of objec­ violations, according to experts on the sub­ which prisoners are forced to work at ex­ tive trial observers with the right to attend ject. tremely hazardous jobs. and report on political trials in any nation. The Reagan administration continues to Mr. Shifrin, who says his father died in a Where such observers have been present, condemn the system, citing a critical 1983 camp for the crime of telling an anti-Stalin experience shows they have had a beneficial interagency report, according to a govern­ joke, writes that the extermination camps effect on the fairness of the proceedings. ment official who asked not to be identified. come in three varieties. In some camps pris­ These are modest steps. While far from a The report finds the forced-labor system to oners work in uranium mines and uranium panacea, they would begin to make the UN be a prime instance of Soviet failure to live enrichment plants with no protective gear. an effective force of world opinion against up to obligations under international trea­ In others, prisoners work in nuclear weap­ human rights abuses. By enacting these re­ ties and conventions. ons plants and on nuclear submarine reac­ forms, the members of the UN could help "In maintaining its extensive forced labor tors. In others, they mine mica, polish glass make this 40th anniversary one that human system to serve both the political and eco­ or work with laquer enamels in unventilated rights advocates, too, can celebrate. nomic purposes of the state, the govern­ areas. ment of the Soviet Union ... is contraven­ Prisoners who work in the extermination ing the U.N. Charter and failing to fulfill its camps "face a virtually certain death" after SOVIET LABOR CAMPS solemn undertakings in the Universal Decla­ several months, wrote Mr. Shifrin, who THRIVING ration of Human Rights and the Anti-Slav­ spent 10 years in the camp system and now ery Convention of 1926," the report says. lives in Israel. HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO The report says the Soviets are holding 4 Experts say it is difficult for Americans to million political prisoners and other crimi­ imagine the harshness of the Soviet prison­ OF CALIFORNIA nals in the labor camps. In the Soviet camp system when in the United States con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Union, criticizing the state is a crime pun­ victs share television sets and can maintain Wednesday, December 4, 1985 ishable by up to 10 years in a labor camp. bank accounts. President Reagan is expected to bring up "If such a thing Cas the Gulag] existed Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, the subject of Soviet rights abuses in meet­ here, corresponding to our population, there Americans unanimously share a commit­ ings today in Geneva. would be 2,000 camps into which people dis­ ment to human freedoms and human "An essential element of the administra­ appeared, about which no one spoke, and rights. This Congress has taken a forceful tion's concern is that the Soviets' use of whose existence we denied constantly to the stance on this important issue in our deal­ forced labor for political and economic pur­ outside world," said Martin. ings with the Soviet Union, expressing soli­ poses violates fundamental human rights," "Americans can't think like that until said the official. they wander into an Auschwitz and find the darity with President Reagan that human The Soviets have mounted a "counter­ bodies." rights remains of central concern to the human rights campaign" to distract atten­ Catholic theologian Malachi Martin, a American people. tion at the summit from Soviet rights Vatican expert and author who spent sever­ We should operate under no illusions abuses, according to Georgetown University al years in the Rome studying the Soviet about human rights in the Soviet Union, Professor Roy Gordon. The Soviets have ac­ camp system in search of banished Soviet however. Protestations by Members of this cused the United States of violating the Catholics, said he doubts rights abuses in body, and others, usually fall on deaf rights of Jews, blacks, American Indians and the camps will be the subject of a summit Soviet ears. Clearly, spokesmen for the migrant farm laborers. communique because the Soviet Union A new Soviet pamphlet says Jews in the would never agree to "revise its system of Kremlin, and even General Secretary Gor­ Soviet Union are treated better than any death camps." bachev himself, are more concerned with other nation, according to Herbert Romer­ "The Soviets forbid talk about this as in­ maintaining their stranglehold on political stein, an expert on Soviet propaganda at the imical," Mr. Martin said in an interview. power than with insuring universal free­ U.S. Information Agency. The pamphlet, "They will simply break the meeting up." doms for the Soviet people. which amplifies remarks made in France re­ He said the Soviet gulags are not units of In fact, the Soviet Communists have es­ cently by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, a penal system, but rather are 2,500 to 3,500 tablished what can only be considered the also contends that Jews are mistreated in concentration camps set up to deal with world's largest prison camp system. Despite the United States, Mr. Romerstein said. popular dissent. "They are obviously counter-attacking on A few of the camps are simply remote vil­ Soviet rhetoric, Soviet labor camps are full the human rights issue" to support their lages with impassable natural borders, he of political and other prisoners, many of "allegations of the mistreatment of the said. These camps are designed to "prolong whom committed such heinous "crimes" as [American] Jews," Mr. Romerstein said. life," Mr. Martin said. speaking out against repression inside the The administration estimates the Soviets "But the majority of camps are so harsh Soviet Union, teaching Hebrew and other run 1,100 forced labor camps, but other ex- that, as one man said to me, "The weak 34370 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 never survived," Mr. Martin said. "The The total spending for seven of the ap­ other proposed costly utility power genera­ hardship was meant to kill. It's a diabolical propriations bills included in this continu­ tion units. The innovative approach to the system." ing resolution is $2.6 billion over the origi­ problem utilizes what is known as the Mr. Martin said the exile of Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights advocate Andrei nal congressional budget resolution. This "contact method" where heat is produced Sakharov was "de factor prison" in the clearly does not reflect legislative and in the form of hot sulfur gases. Normally, remote city of Gorky. Mr. Sakharov's plight spending priorities as set in authorizing much of this heat is simply wasted, or is expected to be a topic of discussion at the legislation, in the 13 regular appropriations vented. The Conserv process cools these summit. bills, nor in the first budget resolution. gases with boilers, economizers, and super­ Mr. Martin said President Reagan's elec­ As if the inability of this House to abide heaters, using what would normally be tion in 1980 and the advent of Polish Pope by the rules that it sets for itself isn't bad excess or waste heat to produce steam. The in Rome led to a Soviet crackdown on dis­ enough, in two of the instances where this steam, in turn, generates electricity. sent. Several Catholic "listening posts" behind the Iron Curtain disappeared during House has directed our conferees to agree Mr. Speaker, Conserv has made this fa­ the last five years, he said. to compromise spending levels, the result cility available for inspection by any and Television producers David B. Aldrich and has been to increase spending levels. all interested parties. I would like to com­ Lorraine Garnett have cowritten a forth­ The Treasury-Postal Service appropria­ mend the company's initiative and its con­ coming documentary on the Soviet camp tions bill has already been vetoed by the tribution to energy production and conser­ system called "Conspiracy of Silence: President on this basis and the Congress vation in this country. Human Rights in the U.S.S.R." Using fig­ has been warned that trying to roll exces­ ures provided by the Senate Intelligence sive spending into one big bill will not fare Committee and the U.S. Helsinki Human well at his desk either. VA REGIONAL DIRECTOR JOHN Rights Commission, they estimate that J. McNIFF there are between 2,000 and 4,000 camps. I cannot, and did not, support this con­ Mr. Aldrich stressed in an interview that he tinuing resolution because it exceeds previ­ considered the figures "conservative." ously agreed to spending levels and does HON. BRIAN J. DONNELLY Victor Zolatarevski, a Russian emigre and not reflect the legislative priorities set by OF MASSACHUSETTS filmmaker, said in an interview that a Congress. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES summit in November 1974 between former Before this bad check bounces, I urge my President Gerald Ford and late Soviet colleagues to complete action on all of the Wednesday, December 4, 1985 leader Leonid Brezhnev took place near "at regular appropriation bills and to report Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. Speaker, John J. least 11" Soviet labor camps containing McNiff began his service to our Nation in thousands of prisoners, in Vladivostock. them within the limits of the budget resolu­ "The train in which Ford and Brezhnev tion. Further, I urge the leaders of this the Army during World War II. Since his held discussions, ate caviar and had a good House to allow for a vote on the Gramm­ discharge, John has continued in a life of time was running along the tracks Cbe­ Rudman Emergency Deficit Control Act service-service to his fell ow veterans. tweenl a string of labor camps," Mr. Zola­ and on the balanced-budget amendment. The lifelong dedication of John McNiff tarevski said. was recently detailed in a fine article in the The Soviet Union, he said, used slave Patriot Ledger of Quincy, MA, by the news­ labor to build the new phased-array radar SPECIAL ENERGY INNOVATION paper's veterans' reporter, Maurice Rear­ system at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. The radar RECOGNITION AWARDED TO don. has been an obstacle to arms talks because CONSERV, INC. it is regarded by the Reagan administration VA OFFICIAL KNOWS ALL ABOUT THE as a major violation of the 1972 Anti-Ballis­ PROBLEMS OF FORMER Gls tic Missile Treaty. Mr. Shifrin reports that HON.ANDY IRELAND John J. McNiff of Pope Street, Quincy, is the remote region contains 68 camps, six OF FLORIDA director of the Boston Regional Office of prisons and two psychiatric prisons. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Veterans Administration and he has first-hand experience with the suffering and Wednesday, December 4, 1985 problems of the American veteran. A BLANK CHECK FOR FISCAL Mr. IRELAND. Mr. Speaker, on Novem­ The disabled World War II veteran was IRRESPONSIBILITY ber 6, 1985, Conserv, Inc. of Nichols, FL, wounded while serving with the 318th In­ fantry, 80th Division as a staff sergeant and was presented a Special Recognition Award rifle platoon commander. McNiff was HON. DEAN A. GALLO for Energy Innovation by Department of awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in OF NEW JERSEY Energy Secretary John Herrington. action during the relief of Bastogne. His IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Conserv, a Florida-based producer of battalion, 2/318, was part of a task force high-analysis fertilizer materials, was one with the Fourth Armored Division. Wednesday, December 4, 1985 of 20 recipients chosen from a field of some McNiff also was awarded the Bronze Star, Mr. GALLO. Mr. Speaker, by passing 240 candidates submitted by the individual Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Presidential Citation. He served in five House Joint Resolution 465, a continuing States to receive this special national rec­ major campaigns in Europe and helped lib­ resolution for fiscal year 1986, the House ognition. Conserv has received similar erate the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. of Representatives has signed a blank awards at the State level. He went to work as a clerk in the Boston check to continue its irresponsible spend­ Accepting the award for Conserv was Mr. Regional Office following his discharge ing for yet another year. The result will be Ron Graf, president of Conserv and Mr. from the Army. He climbed through all su­ larger deficits, a higher national debt, and John Lee, CEO of Intercontinental Devel­ pervisory positions to the post of regional will earn for this House the complete out­ opment Corp., the Conserv parent compa­ director, in which he has served for the past rage of the American public at Congress' ny. six years. During his 41 years of service, McNiff at­ inability to act in a responsible way. Conserv has long recognized the impor­ tended numerous federal and private semi­ This is yet another example of fiscal fri­ tance of energy conservation. The proto­ nars and schools in all phases of manage­ volity in a long line of irresponsible budget type plant, which is the world's first and ment and is a graduate of the Federal Exec­ decisions by this House. The continuing only high-energy efficient cogeneration sul­ utive Institute in Charlottesville, Va. He has resolution is a sad excuse for fiscal respon­ furic acid plant, uses the heat naturally just completed five years on the Depart­ sibility. generated during the manufacture of sulfu­ ment of Veterans Benefits Advisory Com­ It is only necessary because Congress has ric acid to produce its own electricity. This mittee. failed to complete action on all 13 of the new supply of electricity, which is sold to "In essence, the major portion of my life has been spent in the service of the Ameri­ regular appropriations bills. In addition, Tampa Electric Co., contributed to the de­ can veteran, their widows and their families. many of the regular appropriations bills ferment of construction of one of the util­ It is a work I have been committed to. that have been brought before both the ity's generating units. "I have had the honor of testifying before House of Representatives and the Senate Cogeneration plants are potential major Congressional committees responsible for for consideration have exceeded approved sources of environmentally sound electrical veterans benefits, and I can report these budget levels. energy that could result in the deferral of committees are aware of and supportive of December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34371 veterans' rights and benefits. In the Boston Because colon/rectal cancer is generally 1978, he was promoted to work in the Pa­ Regional Office there are 202 employees, a slow-growing tumor, many years can pass cific Coast Minor Leagues. Less than a and the office disburses $535 million annu­ ally," he said. between initial development and obvious month after joining the Pacific Coast McNiff said that there are 28.5 million symptoms. Thus, it is possible for potential League, Charlie was promoted to a full­ American veterans. Their widows and fami­ victims to detect and do something about time assignment as a major league profes­ lies bring the total to 90 million. their cancer before it is too late. sional umpire in the National League. He is a life member of the Military Order The AMC Colon/Rectal Cancer Screening Charlie, who is the fourth black umpire of the Purple Heart and the Disabled Amer­ Program is offered, with the support of The in professional baseball, earned the distinc­ ican Veterans, a member of the American Medicine Shoppe Pharmacies, and local tel­ tion, in July of this year, as the first black Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, the evision sponsors, free to participants across National League umpire to work the All­ U.S. Government Senior Executive Associa­ the Nation. It provides a safe, simple, and tion, the Federal Executive Institute Star Game. In addition to his professional Alumni Association and the North Quincy reliable method of early detection of colon/ work, Charlie devotes time to teaching his Council, Knights of Columbus. rectal cancer. The program, now in its 5th skills to others, and to supporting a A native of Dorchester, McNiff has been a year, is the largest in the Nation. It is number of youth and cultural activities. Quincy resident for 39 years and an usher at unique in its extensive followup to ensure My wife, Lee, joins me in congratulating Sacred Heart Church in North Quincy for that each participant receives the results of Charlie Williams on his outstanding 30 years. the test, understands its significance, and achievements and on the great honor of He has been married to the former Alice obtains medical help where appropriate. To having a day designated in his honor by the Norton of Dorchester for 40 years and the date, AMC has distributed over 600,000 test people of Long Beach, CA. We wish him couple have one daughter, Mary Ann Giese, a teacher in the Quincy school system. She kits and uncovered thousands of significant and his wife Diana, and their children, is married to Dr. Roger W. Giese, professor health conditions requiring medical atten­ Drake and Gabriel, continued success and of clinical chemistry, Northeastern Universi­ tion, including colon/rectal cancer and pre­ all the best in the years ahead. ty. The McNiff's have three grandchildren, cancerous polyps. Matthew, Michael and Mark Geise. I want to commend the AMC Cancer Re­ search Center for its Colon/Rectal Cancer LEGISLATION OPPOSING THE Screening Program and for its dedicated SOVIET INVASION AND OCCU­ RULE ON H.R. 3838, THE TAX service to our Nation's public. AMC and its PATION OF AFGHANISTAN REFORM ACT OF 1985 cosponsors are making a very significant effort to educate, motivate, and most im­ HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO HON. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI portantly to make available the opportuni­ OF CALIFORNIA OF ILLINOIS ty for the detection of curable colon and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rectal cancers. I urge my colleagues to help educate the Wednesday, December 4, 1985 Wednesday, December 4, 1985 public about the importance of early detec­ Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, I rise Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, tion and annual screenings for colon/rectal today to express my deep concern about take this opportunity to inform my col­ cancer. I congratulate the AMC Cancer Re­ the brutal Soviet invasion and continuing leagues that the Committee on Ways and search Center for developing and imple­ occupation of Afghanistan. For almost 6 Means today favorably ordered reported to menting this vital Cancer Control Program years now, Soviet troops in Afghanistan the House of Representatives H.R. 3838, the and applaud their efforts to involve the pri­ have waged a relentless war against "every­ Tax Reform Act of 1985. vate sector and the public in assuming thing Afghan," as the U.S. Ambassador to I wish to serve notice, pursuant to the greater responsibility for disease preven­ the United Nation, Vernon Walters, recent­ rules of the Democratic Caucus, that I have tion and the maintenance of the public's ly stated. been instructed by the Committee on Ways own good health. The Soviets vicious and immoral war and Means to seek less than an open rule against the Afghan nation, people, culture, for the consideration of this legislation by food supply system, irrigation system, reli­ the House of Representatives. A CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO gion, and more, is unconscionable. Virtual­ CHARLES H. <94 Stat. 932) able financing scheme: a special tax on all In devising a strong superfund bill, the on how the Secretary of the Interior or manufactured goods." House must also settle the befuddling fi­ such Commission, respectively, intend to Their first editorial admonishes the nancing question. As Durenberger noted, expend such funds. that won't be easy. A dumping tax on pol­ House to follow Minnesota Senator DA VE luters, which the Reagan administration DURENBERGER'S advice and find a mixed favors, would raise insufficient revenue and TRIBUTE TO RAYMOND S. source of financing which would not con­ could encourage improper waste disposal. DENNIS tain a VAT and would conform to the cor­ Raising the current superfund tax on oil nerstone of Superfund and all U.S. environ­ and chemical producers, while theoretically HON. WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY mental legislation: the polluter pays. fair, could prove politically impossible. And The more recent editorial mentions a financing the superfund through general OF MISSOURI "sensible approach" to the funding dilem­ tax revenue would unjustly force all citizens IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to bear the cost. ma offered by the Downey-Frenzel amend­ To assure a fair and ample superfund, Wednesday, December 4, 1985 ment which would replace the manufactur­ Durenberger urges mixed-source financing Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, one of my con­ ers value-added tax with a new waste end based on the polluter-pays principle. The stituents, Mr. Raymond S. Dennis, has proposal, higher taxes on oil/chemical pro­ House should follow his advice. beaten the odds against his success in busi­ ducers and some contribution from general A SUPERFUND TEST FOR THE HOUSE revenues. ness in superlative fashion. The future of the federal superfund lies in The qualities required to succeed in busi­ I, too, believe that the Downey-Frenzel the hands of the U.S. House, which now is ness include tenacity, industriousness, in­ proposal offers the most fair mixed-source juggling a basketful of bills to reauthorize telligence, training and experience in the financing for the advancement of our Na­ the program. The best course lies in a mar­ chosen field and a great deal of foresight tion's program to cleanup hazardous waste riage of two superfund measures. One would and flexibility. Raymond Dennis is en­ sites. guarantee quick and thorough cleanup of dowed with each of these qualities in great Mr. Speaker, as a cosponsor of Downey­ the nation's toxic waste dumps; the other abundance. He will be celebrating 25 years Frenzel, I urge my colleagues to give this would ensure that the worst polluters pay funding alternative their careful consider­ the cleanup cost. as a successful black businessman in the Senators erred in bypassing such a two­ city of St. Louis, on Sunday, December 8, ation as we vote on H.R. 2817 this week. pronged approach in their September super­ 1985. SEARCHING FOR COMPROMISE ON THE fund deliberations. Although the Senate­ Mr. Dennis began his business as a SUPERFUND passed bill promises a renewed attack on the custom tailor for men and women and rap­ Although the federal superfund bill toxic-waste problem, it suffers worrisome idly became one of the better tailors, con­ passed by the Senate Thursday promises a defects. Its $7.5 billion fund falls far short stantly in great demand. His business flour­ renewed attack on the nation's toxic-waste of the actual price of cleaning up the 812 problem, the measure has worrisome de­ sites on the Environmental Protection ished through the years. Mr. Dennis, a man fects. It would deny the Environmental Pro­ Agency's national priority list. It lacks the of vision, soon realized that if his business tection Agency much of the cash and clout strict timetables and standards necessary to was to continue to succeed, that he had to it needs to quickly mop up thousands of ensure speedy and complete cleanup. And diversify. After much research he decided dumps. And it would excuse some polluters the Senate bill would expand the superfund that he would began to design and produce from paying their share for the cleanup. through reliance on a flawed financing December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34375 scheme; a new excise tax on all manufac­ stands the needs of those around him. market going to be like and how could we tured goods, which Minnesota Sen. Dave When San Franciscans honor Mo, whether prepare poor people, especially minority Durenberger criticizes as a hidden tax and a it be dedicating a kitchen to feed the needy, poor, for those jobs? How would we prepare dangerous departure from the "polluter or any worthy cause, they are really honor­ them to cope with the computer revolution? pays" principle. But invariably, before the dates arrived for The House now has a chance to create an ing themselves. For they are one; Mo Berrr­ those sessions, some emergency would arise. antidote to the Senate's mistakes. A bill ap­ stein is San Francisco and San Francisco is Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney, three of proved by the House Public Works Commit­ Mo Bernstein. our CORE staff people, were killed in Mis­ tee offers the needed environmental safe­ My wife, Lee, and I consider it one of the sissippi, and three thousand persons were guards. It includes a realistic $10.l billion great privileges of our lives to be tounched Jailed in Greensboro, North Carolina. Obvi­ pricetag and contains the essential timeta­ with the heartfelt warmth of Mo and Rea. ously, we could not pull staff out of those bles and standards. It would require compa­ For the world has rarely seen a more faith­ areas for planning. nies that use and discharge hazardous waste ful, loving, and hardworking couple than We should have found some other way to to alert nearby communities to possible dan­ Mo and Rea. We wish them continued suc­ do it. Because when success came-success gers. And the bill would maintain polluters' in terms of the short-term legislative victo­ liability for future cleanup, thereby giving cess in all their future endeavors. ries-the movement was caught flat-footed the EPA crucial leverage in negotiating without a program. It did not know where cleanup agreements. CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE UNITED to go. That was one of the main factors that Adopting those environmentally sound STATES TODAY drove it into disarray. At the same time this provisions is an essential first step. But was happening, the movement was shifting House members still must settle the thorny its sights northward and concentrating on question of financing. One sensible propos­ HON. TED WEISS national problems, rather than on exclusive­ al, offered by Minnesota's Bill Frenzel and OF NEW YORK ly southern problems, because the southern New York's Thomas Downey, would replace IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES problems of apartheid at the lunch the Senate-backed excise tax with a new tax counters, on the buses, and wherever had on waste, higher taxes on oil and chemical Wednesday, December 4, 1985 been licked. We had battered down those producers and an increased contribution Mr. WEISS. Mr. Speaker, these are trying barriers with much effort, but, when we from general revenues. Although that times for the civil rights movement. After turned to the national problems, they were mixed-source financing system would years of apparent progress in rectifying our more complicated. _ compel all citizens to bear more of the It was not easy for our troops-the non­ cleanup cost than the current superfund, it Nation's shameful record of racial inequal­ violent troops of the movement then-to get rightly imposes the largest burden on indus­ ity, the civil rights movement has encoun­ a handle on these problems, to sink their tries that generate toxic wastes. Such a plan tered a pair of formidable obstacles: a Fed­ teeth into them, to come up with tactics and would do more than the Senate's to force eral budget for social programs that is strategies which were relevant and which polluters to pay their share for cleanup. shrinking and an administration that not proposed answers. We were not able to per­ Strict enforcement and fiscal fairness are only fails to acknowledge our country's sonalize the enemy. We were not able to essential to a strong superfund. The House civil rights problems but seeks to destroy point the finger at a Bull Connor and say, should embrace both principles and press the progress that has been made in the last "He is the devil." When we could do that, Senators to accept them in conference com­ two decades. we could mobilize folk to go to war against mittee. the devil, because he was definable in terms It is in times like these when leadership of individuals who could be seen, touched, and foresight are most critical. A thought­ and felt. They could see on television the IN HONOR OF "MIGHTY" MO ful assessment of the state of the civil police dogs released by Bull Connor which BERNSTEIN-ONE OF SAN rights movement was contained in a speech tore at the clothing and flesh of children. FRANCISCO'S GIANTS given by James Farmer, founder of the And they could see his high-power, high Congress on Racial Equality and former pressure fire hoses rolling women down the Assistant Secretary of the Department of streets in the Birmingham demonstrations HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON Health, Education and Welfare. The speech of Dr. King. When we could point to the devil, then it was simple to organize, to mo­ OF CALIFORNIA was delivered on June 24, 1985, at a meet­ tivate, to maintain unity, and to keep the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing of the Humanist Society of Metropoli­ battle going. Wednesday, December 4, 1985 tan New York, chaired by another civil But when we moved north, the focus rights leader of long standing, Rabbi Bal­ turned to national problems. How could you Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, it truly is four Brickner of the Stephen Wise Free personify Job problems, employment prob­ an honor for me to rise and pay tribute to Synagog in Manhattan. The speech, enti­ lems, housing problems, getting rid of San Francisco's Morris "Mo" Bernstein, tled, "Where Does the Civil Rights Move­ slums, de facto school segregation as op­ who commands my deepest respect and ad­ ment Stand Today?" follows. posed to de Jure school segregation? The miration. A testimonial to this remarkable enemy was scattered all around. You could WHERE DOES THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT not define him. You could not draw a pic­ man would be incomplete, however, if I STAND TODAY? failed to recognize the other half of a very ture of him. You could not touch him or feel him. He was hidden. Furthermore, the enthusiastic team, his wonderful wife, Rea. I don't know what I can say about where sit-in, the freedom ride, the march, and the On December 12, Mr. Speaker, the re­ to go in the civil rights movement, except to picketline no longer seemed to reach him modeled kitchen at the Glide Memorial confess that I don't know. I don't think because in some cases he was on those pick­ Methodist Church, where over 2,000 hungry anyone knows, and that is the rub. This lack etlines-unknowingly. men, women and children are fed every day of direction today reflects the failure of the How could you deal with those problems of the year, will be dedicated as "Mo's movement, or the limitation to the move­ then? What happened to the movement at Kitchen." This is, indeed, a fitting honor ment's success, in the sixties. It was partly that point was that, unable to find the for someone who has been such a positive our fault, those of us who were in it, be­ enemy to shoot at nonviolently, we turned cause we did no long-range planning. Our on each other. The movement ripped itself force in the bay area over the years. excuse for not doing so was that we were apart. Internecine warfare tore it asunder. Mo and Rea, who have been married now dealing with emergencies and crises. We did The problems were more complex in the for close to 60 years, in itself a feat, never not have time for the luxury of long-range North and nationally than in the South had any children of their own. In fact, to planning. I do recall in a couple of instances where the problems were simpler-problems my knowledge, they have never owned a in the Congress of Racial Equality which separated the good from the bad, the pet. Consequently, San Francisco became that I had planned to pull the staff in for a right from the wrong. their child. And all who reside there have week or two of brainstorming and have Four black freshmen at North Carolina benefited from this adoption. scholars there with data, so that we would A & T College in Greensboro sat at a Wool­ not be merely batting the breeze. We were worth lunch counter in the "For White To be honest, I could tie up the proceed­ trying to figure out what problems would Only" section and demanded coffee. What ings on the House floor for days simply by exist after passage of the Civil Rights Act of could be simpler? Nobody of any decency recognizing the many accomplishments of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. could argue that those kids should not have this great man who lives each moment to What would the problems be in 1970, 1980, received the coffee if they had the money to its fullest, and who really cares and under- 1990, and the year 2000? What was the Job pay for it. Anyone who argued that they 34376 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 should not have been served or sitting to go shopping and visiting. At the end of have also been assailed by the Justice De­ where they chose to sit, had to be a racist, a the month, he pays the bills and he squeaks partment. They said, "Look, we are happy. bigot. it out. There is very little, if anything, left­ The employees are happy, management is There were no two ways about it. It was but he is making it. Driving into work, he happy, special-interest groups are happy, right versus wrong. And the same applied to passes a job training program run by the the community is happy. Please get off our the buses of the freedom rides. Who could War on Poverty. He looks at it and says, backs." But the Justice Department doesn't argue that the riders who bought their tick­ "My tax dollar is paying for that. I'm get off their backs-it files suits to wipe out ets, who paid the same amount for them as paying for it. It takes a big bite out of my such advances on the basis of either a others, and who were going in the same di­ tax dollar, and who am I training there? A narrow ideology or a malignant design. I am rection the bus was going should not be able bunch of blacks and Hispanics, and they are inclined more and more to think it is the to sit where they chose among the seats being given modem training with modem latter. that were available? The same held true for equipment with modem techniques. What And we have the Clarence Pendletons and voting-the right to register and vote with­ jobs are they being trained for? My job." other blacks who support the administra­ out risking life and limb. These issues clear­ That is probably not the case, but it is the tion's view vociferously. We have even Jim ly separated right from wrong, good from perception that counts. So he believes that Meredith saying the same thing. RIGHT VS. RIGHT That evening when he goes l:Iome and sits at Well, there will be more. I understand that However, the issue is not as clear-cut the dinner table, his wife tells him that a there was a bunch at the NAACP conven­ when you deal with problems such as Af­ black family is going to move into the tion. firmative Action, with numerical goals and vacant house down the street. He sighs and To develop a plan, a program to work timetables, or when you deal with how to shrugs wearily. Mrs. Hansen, who works for toward, is what we must do. And it cannot close the income gap, with the median aver­ the real estate company, says that his prop­ be a black program. If it were, then we age black income remaining under 60 pecent erty values are going down. He looks up and would be reinventing the wheel. It has to be of the median average white income. of House to come up with alternatives to the 0.8 percent on all manufacturers. will not one day turn on us. They are Taxpayers and consumers should be prop­ human beings. We have got to see that the VAT for the toxic waste cleanup program. erly alarmed because this amounts to a twin evil of poverty and prejudice is not al­ The Senate on September 24 overwhelm­ lowed to keep on pouring antisocial folk out hidden national sales tax of about lf.z of 1 ingly passed a sense of the Senate resolu­ percent on virtually everything they buy into the streets of America. Teenage preg­ tion condemning the VAT portion of the nancy-we have got to attack that problem, and is unquestionably the first step down too. bill, noting that the House version was the slippery slope of massive new taxation This is what I mean about a rebuilding of scheduled to contain no VAT and urged its of a sort that has already stagnated most of people and a renaissance. We have the tac­ conferees to delete the VAT from the final the European economies. tics to do it. We know how to do it. As Alan legislation which emerged from conference. We urge our readers to register their pro­ Gardner can tell you, there have been vari­ In this regard, Mr. Speaker, I think it is test against this dangerous and unnecessary ous pilot programs around the country that new tax intrusion into their lives. Being important to remind the Members of this against the SuperVAT does not mean you have shown what to do. There is a project in body of the Senate action. Thus, I am sub­ Gainesville, Florida, in which people in the are for hazardous wastes. poverty community are taught how to stim­ mitting for the RECORD both the Detroit Under the old Superfund law, 90 percent ulate their children using the comprehen­ News editorial of November 11 and the of the costs of cleanup were generated by sive education program-a technique used in sense of the Senate resolution of September excise taxes on the production of petroleum Israel for dealing with the Sephardic 24: and chemical feedstocks, plus fines levied di­ rectly against polluters. Under the proposed people. Peer groups, grass-roots folk, are AMENDMENT NO. 686 trained to go .lUt into the community. An Superfund renewal measure, which was ap­ to be heads and shoulders above children in the five-year cost of Superfund would jump control groups who have not been part of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ques­ from $2.1 billion for a simple extension of the program. We know how to do things like tion recurs on the amendment of the Sena­ the present law to $10.4 billion, with a total Memphis, Tennessee, which is run by St. The clerk will report. of $9. 7 billion in new taxes of which $4.5 bil­ Judes Children's Hospital and a community The assistant legislative clerk read as fol­ lion would be raised through the VAT and action project, has shown that brain devel­ lows: $850 million would be raised from an added opment is affected by the nutritional intake The Senator from North Carolina CMr. tax on the production of gasoline. of the mother during pregnancy and of the HELMS], for himself, Mr. McCLURE, Mr. This means that general consumers would infant during the first two years of its life. LEv1N, and Mr. PROXMIRE, proposes an pick up 55 percent of all new Superfund ex­ Intervention can correct a problem if the amendment numbered 686. penses, and the Internal Revenue Service intervention comes quickly enough. At the end thereof, add the following: would immediately have to spend at least $5 The Value Added Tax is a regressive tax million in new personnel costs to administer which places the burden of paying for pollu­ the VAT. NEW NATIONAL SALES TAX: tion on persons other than those responsi­ By contrast, the administration proposes FIRST STEP DOWN THE SLIP­ ble for it; to fund all of the additional costs of Super­ PERY SLOPE OF MASSIVE NEW The Value Added Tax on S. 51 represents fund cleanup through a new "Waste-End" a dangerous shift toward the principle of a tax levied on an output basis on the owners TAXATION broad-based tax on sales; or operators of the 5,000 EPA-regulated The Value Added Tax has escalated rapid­ hazardous waste-management sites, a tax HON. HOW ARD WOLPE ly in virtually every country in which it has that can be collected for an administrative OF MICHIGAN been implemented; cost of less than $100,000 a year. Both the The administration has stated, in a Sep­ Senate and House have in fact approved a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tember 16, 1985, Statement of Administra­ $1.5 billion five-year waste-end tax in addi­ Wednesday, December 4, 1985 tion Policy the "(t)he President's senior ad­ tion to the huge new VAT, on the theory Mr. WOLPE. Mr. Speaker, the hidden na­ visors will recommend disapproval of any that they are going to need VAT, on the legislation containing a value-added or theory that they are going to need a lot tional sales tax contained in the pending other broad-based tax"; more money than the EPA has projected for Superfund legislation is "unquestionably The House of Representatives is expected the next five years. the first step down the slippery slope of to adopt a financing mechanism for the Su­ The imposition of the new SuperVAT has massive new taxation of the sort that has perfund bill which will not include the already drawn critical fire not only from already stagnated much of the European Value Added Tax; consumer groups and the vast majority of 34378 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 manufacturers who do not create hazardous insurers don't elect to cancel policies, they be no prenatal or neonatal care. Testimony waste, but also from the administration and are often forced to charge such high rates was given that it would be necessary to a surprisingly broad-based spectrum of both that the vital services being insured may charge annual medical malpractice insur­ the House and the Senate. The Senate on themselves become uneconomic. Sept. 24 overwhelmingly passed a "sense of ance premiums of up to $73,000 per nurse­ the Senate" resolution condemning the We seem, as a society, to be in danger of midwife to provide an actuarially sound VAT portion of the Superfund legislation having to put more resources into the nega­ basis for insuring them. Currently, the and urging both the House and their own tive side of insuring against possible torts total earnings of each nurse-midwife aver­ prospective conferees to delete it from any than into the positive side of supplying age only about $25,000 per year. Not only is conference bill that finally emerges. better municipal services, better medical the liability tail wagging the medical care This week, in fact, Congressmen Tom services, and better-designed products. Downey, a liberal Democrat from New York, dog in this case, but it has the unfortunate Let me cite three quick examples. First, a consequence of resulting in poorer quality and Bill Frenzel, a Minnesota Republican, recent study concludes that it will soon will push an amendment that would fund and more expensive health services. One become feasible to sue for education mal­ can safely predict that without nurse-mid­ Superfund without the VAT. A similar practice, a "defective" education. While we amendment is being offered by Republican wives there will be even more mothers and 1 Congressmen Judd Gregg of New Hamp­ may think of this kind of litigation as friv­ olous, surely it is no more improbable than infants, particularly in poor rural areas, shire and John Duncan of Tennessee. with problem pregnancies and deliveries. Liberal as well as conservative opposition some of the recent California decisions. to the VAT is growing. On Sept. 23, Michi­ One of those decisions awarded a large set­ I think all of us in this country love and gan Sen. Carl Levin said, "At -a time when tlement and monthly payments for life to a appreciate our strong legal system which people seek a more simplified tax code, the trespassing vandal who was injured when provides redress for those who have been VAT adds new complexity. At a time when he fell through a skylight. He was hoping wronged. The legal system protects the people seek greater fairness in the tax code, to break into the building. rights of each of us and is one of the the VAT adds new inequities." Imagine the social consequences if edu­ strongest pillars of our national freedom. The administration has let it be known tort system itself is indisputably neces­ that a veto awaits any Superfund bill that cation malpractice suits are to be settled The contains the new VAT. As we have made with the typical type of generous tort sary and valuable. clear before, we are doubtful that massive award that includes economic costs for the The current tort explosion, however, has new spending for a Superfund is warranted. "victim" to buy a new education, compen­ many unfortunate aspects to it. We are So much money simply can't be spent wisely sation for his decreased earning capacity, seeing the bad side effects all over the by the government. But raising the money plus perhaps an additional award for the country in the fields of municipal liability in this fashion would set a dangerous prece­ "pain and suffering" inflicted by lack of a coverage, medical malpractice, and product dent for future tax increases anytime good education. The school system would there's a perceived need for revenue. liability. In each case, durable, economical­ have to divert funds to pay for the judg­ ly sound solutions will only come through ment and litigation costs, instead of putting simultaneously addressing the issues of THE LIABILITY EXPLOSION those scarce dollars into more and better quality control and cost control. teachers, textbooks, and educational re­ Quality control is based on accountabil­ HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER sources. The tort approach would have ity. The tort explosion is a negative means OF ILLINOIS caused a gigantic misallocation of re­ of enforcing quality control, a means which IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sources from positive to remedial activities. often has perverse effects on the quality of The quality of education would fall as tax­ life for everyone. We need to balance this Wednesday, December 4, 1985 payers' money is drained away from educa­ backward incentive for quality with posi­ Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, we face seri­ tion and into litigation. tive incentives and goals to improve munic­ ous problems in the availability and afford­ In Illinois, in my district, several small ipal services, health services, and the prod­ ability of liability insurance across the municipalities with excellent risk records ucts and services provided by business. country. This crisis has come up suddenly have not yet found any insurance coverage In particular, balance must be restored as a result of drastic retrenchment in the this year for their paramedics. The risk of so that unforeseeable, unfortunate out­ insurance industry in the face of 1984 un­ lawsuits is simply too great for any insur­ comes are not penalized disproportionately derwriting results that are the worst in the ance company to regard this as a viable to the actual negligence or malfeasance in­ history of the industry. As notices of non­ business proposition. So what are the con­ volved just because someone has been hurt renewal and substantial premium increases sequences? Some of these villages may and a "deep pocket" can be linked tangen­ are received by local governments, health eventually have to stop running local medi­ tially to the incident. Lots of individual care providers, and small businesses, an at­ cal emergency /rescue services. Citizens court decisions, however humanitarian, mosphere of panic is setting in. I think we may die unnecessarily of heart attacks be· easily add up to terrible social policy when are now in the early days of what is quick· cause there may be no CPR-trained para­ this balance is neglected. ly going to become a flood of concern di­ medic to help them. Ironically, relatives of Economic benefits such as lower insur­ rected at Congress on liability insurance those citizens may eventually try to sue the issues. Since insurance issues have tradi­ very same munlclpalltles for lack of ance rates have also been a driving force tionally been State concerns, we must begin prompt emergency services. behind many positive forms of risk man­ by asking whether the Federal Government In the meantime, these municipalities agement. The force of lower rates for in­ really has any business getting involved in remain partially or fully bare against suits stance, leads to improved quality of care in these matters. in order to maintain emergency services. medicine. In some cases Federal legislation Well, the answer is that insurance issues Even a single incident, however, could may be helpful in giving legal teeth to qual­ are State issues, but they are becoming result ln a huge jump in local tax rates or ity control. Federal issues because of the changing possibly even in personal judgments Cost control is important to everyone, nature of the tort doctrines of liability that against the town's officials. How long can but especially to the taxpayers and con­ have crept up on us over the years. In addi­ we continue to attract good people to ca­ sumers who ultimately foot the bills. We tion, there exists a growing public expecta­ reers in local government or to service on are in a period when insurance premiums tion that for every unfortunate occurrence, volunteer community boards lf these trends for municipalities are rising 100 to 500 per­ someone must be sued and made to pay. continue? cent a year, often for decreased coverage. Third, the Federal Government is indirectly Another example recently highlighted in The same is true for doctors and hospitals, paying for some of the costs associated hearings ln the House Committee on especially in high-risk specialties. Many with increased litigation. Energy and Commerce ls the lack of insur­ small manufacturing businesses are on the The costs of liability judgments are be· ance coverage nationwide for nurse-mid· verge of closing and jobs are being lost be­ coming so high and so unpredictable in wives. Midwives have been seen as a lower­ cause they cannot sustain their product li­ many areas that the business of insuring cost alternative to expensive obstetrical ability coverage even if they have risk-free against them is no longer attractive. And if care for those whose alternative might well records. December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34379 We hear that these escalating costs are issues and for deciding on appropriate Fed­ France which have elected him as "honor­ linked to cyclical problems in the insur­ eral actions, if any. ary member." ance industry as well as to increasing fre­ Born on February 14, 1924, Mr. Klein­ quency and severity of claims. I hope that SCOTTISH RITE MASONS NAME knecht graduated from the public schools the insurance groups can find ways to of the District of Columbia. His major in­ smooth out this rollercoaster as their own FRED KLEINKNECHT AS GRAND COMMANDER terest was writing and business so he pur­ contribution to quality control. From the sued further education at Benjamin Frank­ legislative side, at both State and Federal lin University. But World War II hit and levels, we can also help to implement reme­ HON. DON FUQUA put an end to any easy transition from dies that will make the risks and costs OF FLORIDA classroom to commerce. Fred Kleinknecht more predictable so that there is a sound IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES welcomed the opportunity to do his part actuarial basis for steady and businesslike for America's destiny. Serving in the U.S. insurance practices in the future. Wednesday, December 4, 1985 Mr. FUQUA. Mr. Speaker, it is always an Navy, he was an example of what patriot­ Briefly, I think that there are some spe­ ism really is. Through hours of toil, he and cific changes that are needed in the fields honor to see a friend receive due recogni­ tion and honor. It is no wonder then that I millions like him gave to the world that of municipal liability, medical malpractice, one precious gift-freedom. and product liability to get the tort explo­ take special pride in the election of C. Fred Kleinknecht to serve as sovereign grand Masonically, Mr. Kleinknecht has an sion under control. equally diverse and extensive career. A In the field of municipal liability, the commander of Scottish Rite Freemasonry most pressing priorities are, first, to limit for the Southern Jurisdiction. The mem­ member of Silver Spring Lodge No. 215, the application of joint and several liability bers of the Southern Jurisdiction, by way AF&AM, in Silver Spring, MD, he is con­ in favor of a return to a comparative negli­ of explanation, live throughout 37 States, cerned about the progress and future of the gence standard and, second, to cap awards Guam, Japan, Korea, Okinawa, the Panama symbolic lodge. Similarly he has a keen in­ for pain and suffering and other non-eco­ Canal, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, the Virgin Is­ terest in the activities of his home Scottish nomic damages. The standard meant by lands, and the NATO area in Germany. Rite Valley in Baltimore, MD. His affili­ "duty of care" needs to be more clearly es­ As a successful administrator and leader, ation with the Shrine is also in Baltimore tablished at appropriate levels for various Fred Kleinknecht possesses the keen traits at Boumi Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S. In 1955, he public activities like maintenance of streets of concentration, experience, sterling char­ was invested with the rank and decoration and sidewalks. For certain activities involv­ acter, and the desire to work hard. In an of the knight commander of the Court of ing public service provision, there may era of passing the buck, he makes the buck Honour and, in 1959, he was coroneted an even need to be a return to the doctrine of stop at his desk. inspector general honorary of the 33rd sovereign immunity when assistance is un­ For almost 40 years he has been a dedi­ Degree. His involvement does not stop dertaken in good faith. Attention to inter­ cated member and worker for the Scottish there however. In the York Rite he is a nal quality control through employee edu­ Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Ju­ member of Mt. Pleasant Chapter No. 13, cation and better maintenance for safety risdiction. Beginning his career as an as­ RAM; King David Council No. 19, R&SM; will also be necessary. sistant in the office of the grand secretary and St. Elmo Commandery No. 12, KT. His In the field of medical malpractice, simi­ general of the Southern Jurisdiction, he support of still other masonic activities has lar measures such as caps on noneconomic has climbed to the top and was elected last won him recognition and many awards. awards should be adopted by the States to October 18, as the sovereign grand com­ Among these are honorary membership improve risk predictability and insurabil­ mander. The leader of the 650,000 Scottish in the Scottish Rite Bodies of Miami, FL; ity. These cost management measures Rite Masons in the Southern Jurisdiction Nemesis Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., at Parkers­ should go hand in hand with actions to of the United States, Mr. Kleinknecht will burg, WV; Kalif Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., at deter and control questionable behavior by be responsible for the well-being of his or­ Sheridan, WY, and National Sojourners health-care providers so that the overall ganization as well as the continuation of Inc.; the certificate of appreciation from quality of care for consumers is improved. its multifaceted charities. the American Military Scottish Rite Bodies, Better risk management procedures Grand Commander Kleinknecht's experi­ NATO Area, Frankfurt, Germany; associate should be encouraged. Alternate systems ence with Scottish Rite leadership is exten­ member of the Conference of Grand Secre­ for expediting settlement of worthy mal­ sive. In 1966, he was appointed assistant to taries in North America; the Honorary practice claims should be protected by law the then grand commander, Luther A. Legion of Honor, Order of DeMolay; hon­ in situations where providers and consum­ Smith. Efficiently, with his warm and orary member of the International Su­ ers can agree in advance on nontort meth­ friendly manner, he solved problems before preme Council, Order of DeMolay; the dis­ ods of resolving disputes. they arose and quickly handled all supreme tinguished service award from Monroe, LA; On the product liability issue, I applaud council matters coming before him. It was ambassador of goodwill of Chattanooga, the pioneering work of the Senate Commit­ no surpise then, when in January 1967, he TE; certificate of award from Lakeland, tee on Commerce, Science and Transporta­ was appointed acting grand secretary gen­ FL; Friend of West Virginia; honorary citi­ tion which is taking the lead role in trying eral. The months that followed proved this zen of Monroe, LA, and of Mobile, AL; and to define good and balanced national legis­ to be an excellent decision and at the bien­ honorary cotton picker. lation in this critical area of our national nial seHion in October of that year, he was To this distinguished record, Mr. Klein­ economic life. elected and installed sovereign grand in­ knecht fulfills other roles-equally well-as An immediate need is to explore the po­ spector general at large and grand secre­ husband, father and church member. Mar­ tential roles for the Federal Government in tary general of the supreme council. ried to the former Miss Gene E. Kamm, he encouraging tort reform and other re­ Mr. Kleinknecht also has strongly be­ and his wife have four children: Gene sponses to the liability crises. One possibili­ lieved that the Scottish Rite is worldwide Ellen, Henry, Scott, and Joan. Each has ex­ ty is comprehensive Federal legislation and that cooperation between supreme celled in his or her schooling and profes­ such as is being considered for product li­ councils is a must. As a result, he has been sional ambition which is no easy task in ability. Another is Federal guidelines for a key participant and representative of the this competitive world! State action, using either a carrot or stick, Mother Supreme Council at International In addition, he is a member of the Uni­ in order to establish minimum standards Scottish Rite Conferences, the European versity Club of Washington, DC, and with for State action. The legislation encourag­ Conference of Sovereign Grand Command­ Mrs. Kleinknecht, a prominent participant ing States to implement a minimum drink­ ers, English-Speaking Conferences of Sov­ of the Columbia Country Club in Bethesda, ing age of 21 is an example of one way this ereign Grand Commanders, and reunions MD, and of the Rehoboth Country Club in can be done, and perhaps there are other of Sovereign Grand Commanders of the Rehoboth Beach, DE. Finally, in his church models that could be applied. The coming Americas. His most recent recognition at in Silver Spring, MD, St. Luke Evangelical year will be a critical period for evaluating the international level has come from the Lutheran, Fred Kleinknecht practices the the effects of State actions on liability supreme council for Turkey and that of policy of Freemasonry, active and full sup- 34380 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 port of the church of one's conscience in Mr. Kleinknecht as he has worked a little President Reagan recently invited the So­ service to man and honor to the Creator. harder to become an effective leader. The viets to observe a U.S. nuclear test in A dedicated worker in the vineyards of Scottish Rite of the Southern Jurisdiction Nevada. The President's invitation could Freemasonry and the Scottish Rite, a fer­ is fortunate to have him at the helm as prove to be a positive step in beginning a vent patriot and a devoted family man, they navigate through the waters leading more constructive dialog with the Soviets; I Fred Kleinknecht is what others aspire to into the 21st century. would encourage him to repeat his invita­ be. By example, he provides the leadership tion. necessary for positive programs to be im­ FIRST YONKERS TORCH RELAY Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev recently plemented and ultimate progress to be announced a 5-month unilateral ban on nu­ gained through the Scottish Rite. clear test explosions. Gorbachev said the Of great interest among the brothers are HON. JOSEPH J. DioGUARDI ban on Soviet testing will remain in effect their charitable and service programs. Each OF NEW YORK "As long as the United States, for its part, year tens of thousands of patriotic books IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES refrains from conducting nuclear explo­ and pamphlets dealing with good citizen­ Wednesday, December 4, 1985 sions." ship are printed and distributed gratis to Mr. DIOGUARDI. Mr. Speaker, I am very President Reagan turned down the pro­ public school systems. Further, as staunch pleased to announce to my collegues a very posal flatly. Secretary of State Shultz dis­ supporters of public schools, the Scottish missed the Soviet proposal as an unverifi­ Rite members honor outstanding teachers special event that will take place this week­ end in Yonkers, NY. Through the joint ef­ able propaganda ploy. and students. As a result, hundreds of thou­ If this is propaganda, so what? Politics is sands of dollars are spent annually on forts of the Yonkers Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Council of Yonkers, part propaganda, so why not accept the local scholarships. In addition, each year Soviet proposal? If the Soviets are bluffing, the supreme council gives the $5,000 na­ the first Yonkers torch relay will take place this Sunday morning. This event, let's call their bluff and extend the ban. tional scholarships to professional educa­ While this proposal may be propaganda, tors who wish to pursue a doctorate in which will begin at 9:30 at the Greystone Jewish Center, will commemorate the first it is certainly verifiable. For at least 15 public school administration. The award is years we have been able to discriminate nu­ for 2 years. Further, each year a $5,000 Chanukah celebration. The torch, which will be lit and then di­ clear explosions down to 1 kiloton of ex­ Shepherd scholarship is given to an under­ plosive power, without onsite inspection. graduate or graduate student. rectly flown from Modi'in, Israel, will be carried by members of the Yonkers Jewish The Soviets' smallest strategic weapon is The most visible charitable activity of the 500 kilotons. Their smallest intermediate organization is the aphasia and dyslexia community. This will symbolize a "link with the Maccabees of old and with the range weapon is the SS-23, at 100 kilotons. program with 32 childhood language disor­ There is no dispute here. We are clearly ders clinics in 17 States. Aphasia in chil­ world Jewish community," said Meyer Gro­ detsky, chairman of the board of governors able to verify any significant Soviet test, dren is a language disorder in the speech down to an explosion 100 times smaller center so that normal language patterns do of the Jewish Community Center. Harvey Fuchs, president of the Jewish Council of than their smallest intermediate range not develop. This affliction is curable as weapon. evidenced in the thousands of children who Yonkers, views the event as a proclamation of the Jewish faith throughout the world. We should entertain all proposals, even have been helped through our Scottish Rite those that may have been made for propa­ clinics and are now able to attend public With the help of Martin Greenberg, the executive director of the Jewish Communi­ ganda purposes. I would urge the adminis­ schools. Dyslexia is a disorder that makes tration to take up the Soviets' offer for a reading or writing difficult, if not impossi­ ty Center, and Carolyn Weiner, the execu­ I temporary test ban. I ble, in suffering youngsters. Through tive director of the Jewish Council of Yon­ proper treatment these youngsters also can kers, the beginning of a holiday tradition be virtually cured so they may experience will occur in Yonkers this Sunday, Decem­ ber 7, 1985. DR. ROBERT G. ALBERTSON-AN normal development. OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR Specialists treat the afflicted youngsters. I look forward to personally attending Clinic directors have either a doctorate or this event and beginning the holiday season a master's degree with additional on a very momentous note. HON. NORMAN D. DICKS coursework. All clinicians have at least a OF WASHINGTON bachelor's degree. Younsters are treated at IN SUPPORT OF CONGRESSWOM­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cost, or ability to pay, and without regard AN SCHROEDER'S SIMULTANE­ to race, color, or creed. Many of the clinics OUS TEST BAN ACT Wednesday, December 4, 1985 are located in the Scottish Rite Temples Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, each year the where special rooms have been designed HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL Council for the Advancement and Support and equipped with teaching aids. The Scot­ OF NEW YORK of Education selects 10 of the best college tish Rite defrays all construction costs. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES professors in the Nation, and I would like Youngsters in Dallas and Atlanta are treat­ to call my colleagues' attention today to ed in Scottish Rite hospitals for crippled Wednesday, December 4, 1985 Washington State's "Professor of the children. Others are treated at universities, Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I would like Year," Dr. Robert G. Albertson of the Uni­ or in the case of Denver, at a local hospital. to commend my colleague, Congresswoman versity of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. As Clinics are available in the following PATRICIA SCHROEDER, for her leadership the founder of the Pacific Rim travel pro­ States: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Col­ in sponsoring the Simultaneous Nuclear gram at the university, the hallmark of orado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Test Act, to urge President Reagan to Professor Albertson's career has been his Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, accept Soviet President Gorbachev's offer ability to challenge his students to be Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Vir­ of a 5-month moratorium on nuclear war­ global rather than provincial. He is an ginia, and Washington. head testing, and to urge the resumption of imaginative and energetic teacher, as well Each clinic is geared to the needs of the negotiations toward a comprehensive test as an accomplished scholar. He is one of community. This requires proper diagnosis, ban treaty. those special individuals whose inspiration­ contact with local universities, effective I am proud to be an initial cosponsor of al qualities leave his students with an en­ treatments, and parental involvement. Congresswoman SCHROEDER'S bill. Her thusiasm for the subject matter long after Some clinic directors also use volunteers of goals should be our administration's goals, they leave the campus. Many of those for­ Scottish Rite Masons, their families and and her goals should be or Nation's goals. tunate alumni of the University of Puget friends. She has been a strong supporter of rational Sound during his 29 years on the faculty Years ago there was the popular book weapons policies throughout her 13 years have taken a keen interest in Professor Al­ about a seagull that soared a little higher in Congress, particularly in her tireless bertson's selection as professor of the year, than the others. By analogy this applies to work on the Armed Services Committee. and I know that the entire university com- December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34381 munity takes great pride in the honor be­ U.S. TRADE POLICY and in the case of the Peoples Republic of stowed upon him. China $0.16 per hour. Most foreign apparel Perhaps the most-often-mentioned at­ HON. BUTLER DERRICK plants are inefficient by American standards tribute of this outstanding educator is his and even with labor rates substantially OF SOUTH CAROLINA below the United States would only be mar­ respect for the individual student, a quality IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ginally competitive. Therefore, most of the essential for encouraging initiative. Ralph Wednesday, December 4, 1985 low wage exporting countries employ export Waldo Emerson was correct in noting that subsidies to gain a larger share of our "the secret of education is respecting the Mr. DERRICK. Mr. Speaker, I have had market, with these subsidies in some in­ pupil," and it is clear that Professor Albert­ the opportunity to read testimony present­ stances being as high as 60%. In addition, son has mastered the process Emerson en­ ed to the other body recently by Mr. Bob there is prima facie evidence that massive visioned. Furthermore, he has done so with Eisen, the retired chairman of marketing trans-shipments took place to subvert our a characteristic humility that endears him for Greenwood Mills, Inc. Mr. Eisen pre­ quota system. to his colleagues on the f acuity as well as sented an excellent statement to the Senate Our government has no trade policy and has been lax in administering the bi-lateral the student body. Finance Committee on November 20, 1985, textile agreements. As a result, in 1983 tex­ Professor Robert G. Albertson is truly during the course of Senate hearings on tile and apparel imports increased 25% to one of America's great teachers in one of the U.S. trade policy. He has done a re­ record breaking levels, and in 1984 increased the Northwest's fine private universities. I markable job in enlightening the Congress 32% over 1983. These imports were devastat­ was proud to learn of the national recogni­ on the plight of the American textile and ing with many apparel, textile and man­ tion he has received, and know that it is a apparel industry and its workers as a result made fiber plants closing. Greenwood Mills, well-earned honor. of the onslaught of imports over the last with its modern plants, was forced in 1984 several years. and 1985 to let go 2,400 employees. If the Mr. Speaker, the statement by Mr. Eisen U.S. apparel industry disappears, there will INDIANTOWN'S T&M RANCH be little or no U.S. textile mill industry and is a very thorough report on the problems no U.S. man-made fiber industry. SENDS HOLIDAY GIFT OF this most basic American industry is facing LOVE TO CONGRESS Many of the foreign markets are closed to in international competition as a result of our products with these restrictions imposed the incoherent, unstable, and fragmented by the very same countries who are demand­ HON. TOM LEWIS trade policy on the Reagan administration ing a larger share of our market. OF FLORIDA and steps the American industry has taken Henry Ford in 1914 announced that he IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to compete. At this point I would like to would pay his workers $5.00 per day, a wage Wednesday, December 4, 1985 insert in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, for scale substantially over the going rate. He the benefit of my colleagues, Mr. Eisen's helped create a middle class with disposable Mr. LEWIS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, for statement: income so that they could buy automobiles the third consecutive year, I have the dis­ and other products. Other manufacturers tinct pleasure of extending holiday greet­ STATEMENT ON U.S. TRADE POLICY followed his example. For 71 years Ameri­ ings to you and our other colleagues in the My name is Robert Eisen. I am employed can manufacturers, with their payrolls and House and Senate from some very special by Greenwood Mills, Inc., a privately owned wage scales, have been the primary force textile company headquartered in South behind creating this great American market. residents of the 12th Congressional District Carolina. In a three year period from 1981 Is our government going to sit idly by and of Florida. to 1983 we invested $135 million in modern­ watch low wage foreign countries, many of Once again the residents of the T&M izing our plants to protect our share of whom are using illegal export subsidies, Ranch in Indiantown, FL, have honored market, our investment, and the jobs of our take away our market and the jobs of Amer­ me by inviting me to share in their gener­ employees. Prior to this expenditure, we em­ ican citizens? l ous holiday spirit-by letting me present to ployed about 6,000 and afterwards 7 ,000. I It is my understanding that in 1978 the you, Mr. Speaker, and my other colleagues cite these payroll figures to refute state­ U.S. Congress suggested that U.S. govern­ ' in the House and Senate, another Christ­ ments that the loss of jobs in the U.S. tex­ ment personnel in embassies and consulates mas ornament from their beautiful "Angels tile mill industry is due primarily to mod­ abroad, should be alert for illegal trade ernization and to a lesser extent to imports. practices prevailing in the country in which of the World" collection. We believe Greenwood Mills' plants are they are stationed and should forward this As you may remember when I brought among the most modern textile mills in the information to Washington, D.C. so that it these gifts to Washington last year and the world, and that the American textile indus­ could be published and made available to in­ year before, the T&M ranch is a home and try is the most efficient in the world. All of terested American industries. In addition, school for mentally handicapped adults. the fibers that Greenwood Mills consumes under our trade laws, the U.S. government There they learn the necessary vocational are produced in the U.S.A. In addition, we has the authority to bring countervailing and individual skills that will enable them do not import any textile products. Our cus­ suits against foreign governments engaging to eventually become working members of tomers are assured that all of our fabrics in illegal export subsidies. To my knowledge are made in the U.S.A. I mention this by the Administration has not gathered any in­ their communities. way of background so that you can properly formation on illegal trade practices, nor Each year the T&M Ranch residents evaluate my comments. published any such information, nor craft these beautiful Angel of the World or­ The American cotton farmers and wool brought any countervailing suits for illegal naments after they are designed by re­ growers are efficient, and the U.S. man­ export subsidies. Why? nowned sculptor Laszlo Ispanky. They in­ made fiber producers are the most efficient When the Multi-Fiber Arrangement on dividually package them before selling in the world. If the U.S. textile mill industry textiles was renewed in 1982, the European them for a nominal sum. Proceeds from the is without a peer, and its fiber suppliers are community, in negotiating their bi-lateral sale of the ornaments are used to teach the efficient, why do we have a severe problem agreements, imposed rollbacks on shipments T&M Ranch residents money management with imports? in sensitive categories from key suppliers. The U.S. textile mill industry on a level As a result this put increasing pressure on and personal needs care. playing field could be competitive worldwide our market resulting in the substantial in­ This year, the ranch and its residents in almost all product areas. However, our in­ creases stated above. have expanded promotion of the program dustry is part of a larger soft goods com­ Recently Japan imposed unilateral roll­ and actor Charles Nelson Reilly has gener­ plex. Many of our customers fabricate ap­ backs on textile and apparel shipments ously offered his time as national spokes­ parel, home furnishings and industrial prod­ from China, Taiwan, South Korea and Paki­ person for the Angels of the World pro­ ucts from our fabrics. The U.S. apparel in­ stan. gram. dustry was and possibly still is the largest In spite of what the European community Mr. Speaker and fellow colleagues, I ap­ customer for our industry. However, be­ and Japan have done, the Administration preciate your kind remarks and support of cause of the nature of their product, it is still insists on a polcy of no rollbacks. Why? difficult to automate an apparel plant. Al­ An example of a lack of a trade policy is the angel program and the T&M Ranch in though there are a few apparel units in this the Administration's handling of Indonesia. the past. Please accept and enjoy this gift country who can compete against foreign This country was not a supplier of textiles of love from its residents. And, from all of suppliers, the vast majority cannot. Labor and apparel to the United States until 1980 them and myself, have a very happy and rates in many of the exporting countries are when they shipped a modest 7 million memorable holiday season. less than the equivalent of $1.00 per hour square yard equivalent. In 1981 this in- 34382 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 creased to 14 million square yard equivalent. Planned Parenthood CPPl groups out­ high school so they would not "dead end" in In 1982, with shipments increasing substan­ stripped the rest by gaining $9.l million in welfare programs. Others concentrated on tially, the Administration negotiated at mid­ foundation grants in 1983. In its annual prenatal care, obstetrical aid and instruction year a three year bilateral agreement. 1982 report for the year, the Planned Parent­ in child care. imports were 42 million square yard equiva­ hood Federation of America CPPF Al said Some foundations supporting this work lent. In 1983 they shipped 86 million and in that PP affiliates provided 83,000 abortions also financed pro-abortion groups such as 1984-268 million square yard equivalent. as well as "contraceptive services for 1.3 mil­ Planned Parenthood. To make these huge increases legal, it was lion people." PPFA boasted of court victo­ Several foundations showed a special in­ necessary for the Administration to amend ries for abortion and of fighting "antichoice terest in pro-abortion groups claiming reli­ the bi-lateral agreement three times. In groups" through the media. gious connections. The Missouri-based mid-1985 the Administration negotiated a The Register survey was based on founda­ Sunnen Foundation dominated this field, new three year bi-lateral agreement with In­ tion tax returns and annual reports on file with grants of $70,000 to Catholics for a donesia starting with a base of 285 million at the Foundation Center Library here. It Free Choice and $115,000 to the Re­ square yard equivalent. How did Indonesia focused on fiscal 1983 because that is the ligious Coalition for Abortion Rights reciprocate our generosity? They waited latest year for which most tax returns are . Most of its RCAR money was about a month and then bought 220,000 available. channeled through the largest Presbyterian bales of Chinese cotton because it was The survey identified $2.8 million in denomination, according to a 1984 interview cheaper than the American cotton they had grants to abortion providers-chiefly with Presbyterian spokesman Allen Krantz. been using. Planned Parenthood affiliates that operate Sunnen also gave $25,000 to the National Our trade negotiators only know how to abortion clinics. Rep. Robert Doman . Either give away our market. They get nothing in Calif.) is trying to end such grants through return. that or an earlier grant helped finance a a bill called the Tax Exemption Equity Act prochoice program guide for NCJW. Speak­ of 1985. The Doman bill, H.R. 2897, would ing of the Jewish community, the guide ad­ FUNDING ABORTION deny tax exemption to groups that "directly vised: "Emphasis on First Amendment or indirectly perform or finance abortions." rights, attempts to limit court jurisdiction It may be offered as a floor amendment or and civil liberties are more persuasive argu­ HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN "rider" to tax reform legislation. ments than women's rights or even teen-age OF CALIFORNIA In an Oct. 31 interview, Planned Parent­ pregnancy.'' IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hood lobbyist William Hamilton described NCJW staff member Holly Sloan Smith the Doman bill as "patently unconstitution­ told the Register last month that her Wednesday, December 4, 1985 al" and "a nonsense act by a nonsense group's work in family planning and abor­ Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. Speaker, member of Congress." tion is no longer financed by foundations, on December 1, 1985, the National Catholic Hamilton said, "You can't deny tax­ but rather by the NCJW membership. She Register published, "For Population Con­ exempt status to an organization on the said that NCJW members tend to identify basis of their performance of a legal medical with the Reform tradition of Judaism, but trol Groups, It's Fat City," by Mary service." Meehan. The article clearly documents that the group is not an official religious or­ Doman told the Register Nov. 5 that ganization. foundation funding not only of population Hamilton was mistaken and that "Congress One of the last foundation-financed control and contraceptive programs, but of can deny tax-exempt status to any group NCJW projects was a publication on teen organizations which actually perform abor­ they want." He said that Planned Parent­ sexuality, family planning and similar tions. hood is "into the abortion business up to topics. Published earlier this year, it ac­ I am sponsoring the Tax Exemption their eyebrows" and that "the time is up for knowledged "the generous contribution of I Equity Act of 1985 to deny tax exemptions, them." Doman called his bill "a very the Playboy Foundation which helped un­ like those outlined in the article, to groups common-sense amendment" and said he was derwrite this program idea guide." not bothered by Hamilton's attack. Foundation support for Catholics for a which directly or indirectly perform or fi­ The Ford Foundation, the largest donor nance abortions. Free Choice has not diminished, according to population groups, gave $8.3 million in to Frances Kissling, CFFC director, but she J I urge my colleagues to read the article, fiscal 1983. As in the past, Ford supported said the CFFC prominence in the "Vatican inserted in the RECORD today, and to co­ the Population Council and other groups in­ 24" controversy has not increased the sponsor H.R. 2897 to eliminate tax breaks volved in population control abroad. It was group's foundation support, either. "It's had for those groups and individuals who are in also one of 14 foundations funding Catho­ almost no effect whatsoever" on foundation the abortion business. A copy of the bill is lics for a Free Choice . aid, although it "has certainly helped our also inserted for my colleagues' review and Ford Foundation President Franklin public visibility," Kissling remarked. consideration. Thomas, in his report for fiscal 1984, de­ As reported earlier in the Register . But in a recent fundraising appeal, Foundations contributed vast sums in sup­ proving women's education and broadening the RCAR director, Fredrica Hodges, said, port of population studies, contraception, their options for economic activity and secu­ "It is much harder for us to raise the money abortion and projects to discourage teenage rity are universally regarded as powerful in­ we need for RCAR's programs than it is for pregnancy. They sent smaller grants-total­ fluences in bringing about long-term reduc­ the Moral Majority and New Right groups ing $1.4 million-to pregnancy aid centers tions in fertility." to finance their simplistic, judgmental cam­ and pro-life groups. Foundations gave an ad­ Ford's Child Survival/Fair Start for Chil­ paigns which ignore the real needs of real ditional $3.3 million for pre-natal care and dren program "is based on the assumption that and new parents. as more children survive, and as their But its been groups supporting abortion growth and development needs are recog­ FOUNDATION FUNDING FOR PRO-ABORTION GROUPS and population control projects which have nized, parents will want fewer children so (1983) reaped most of the foundation largess. that they can provide them with better nu­ When Catholics for a Free Choice sought trition and education," he said. Foundation To CFFC To RCAR To NCJW foundation money in fiscal year 1983, it was The Register survey counted the Child able to raise nearly a quarter of a million Survival/Fair Start program in the $3.3 mil­ Mary Reynolds Babcock (North Carolina) .... $20,000 ...... dollars. The American Civil Liberties Union lion category of "pregnancy/parenting sup­ and its affiliates received a like sum for pro­ port." Projects in this category often includ­ ll~ih~~~~~'.'.~~~~~~!::::::::::::::::::: ::: :::: ::·· · ···· ~~ : ~~f...... ~~~~ .. :::::::::::::::::: abortion lawsuits. Others received funding ed contraception-and sometimes abortion 1 2 for projects ranging from a "training pro­ referrals-but primarily helped young par­ :o~ ~! r. ¥~;i l~:l v~~~~~-~-~~~~ .:: · ~~~ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Educational Foundation of America (Con- gram in new contraceptive technology" to ents through pregnancy and early parent­ necticut) ...... 25,000 ...... "population control in Mexico." ing. Some tried to keep young mothers in Ford (New York) ...... 25,000 ...... December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34383 FOUNDATION FUNDING FOR PRO-ABORTION GROUPS Sources: Foundation tax returns and annual reports. Planned Parenthood <3> GIFT TAX.-Section 2522 of such Code congressional testimony, 1981; "yellow pages " clinic advertising, telephorie (1983)-Continued interviews. and by inserting after subsec­ A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code tion the following new subsection: George Gund (Ohio) ...... 20,000 45,000 $10,000 of 1954 to deny status as a tax-exempt or­ "(d) DENIAL OF DEDUCTION FOR CONTRIBU· Huber (New Jersey) ...... 18,000 10,000 ganization, and as a charitable contribu­ TIONS TO ORGANIZATIONS WHICH PERFORM OR ~!~~tk~:~~fy f~~~~~)COiiini'iiiii~ " lO,OOO ...... tion recipient, for organizations which di­ FINANCE ABORTIONS.-No deduction shall be Funds (New York) ...... 12,000 rectly or indirectly perform or finance allowed under this section for a gift to or North Shore Unitarian Universalist Veatch abortions for the use of any organization which per­ 5,000 70,000 forms or finances abortions shall apply to tax­ FOUNDATION GRANTS TO ABORTION PROVIDERS, FISCAL (a) DENIAL OF TAX-EXEMPT STATUS.-Sec­ able years ending after the date of the en­ tion 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of actment of this Act. 1983 1954 shall apply to es­ Abortion Provider Grants Major Foundations redesignating subsection as subsection tates of decedents dying, and transfers, and by inserting after subsection m the after the date of the enactment of this Act. Planned Parenthood of Alabama ... $51.425 Sunnen (Missouri) . following new subsection: Planned Parenthood Alameda / 99.784 Compton (New York); Wallace San Francisco (California) . Alexander Gerbode; Jessie "(m) DENIAL OF ExEMPTION FOR 0RGANIZA· Smith Noyes (New York); TIONS WHICH PERFORM ON FINANCE ABOR­ LET'S BAN CONTINUING TIONS.- Planned Parenthood/World 397,910 Ah~~:r~\ni~u~~ . RESOLUTIONS Population Los Angeles (Nevada) ; James Irvine; W.M. "(1) IN GENERAL.-An organization shall (California). Keck; Kenneth T. & Eileen L not be treated as described in subsection Norris; Phillips (Minnesota) ; if such organization performs on finances HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER Times Mirror; Torrey H. & Dorothy K. Webb Char. Trust. abortions. OF ILLINOIS Rocky Mountain Planned 27,875 Boettcher; Denver; Huber (New "(2) ORGANIZATIONS WHICH PERFORM OR FI­ NANCE ABORTIONS.- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Pla~:n~~t~~iation 260,000 M~~~ker Foundation of of Maryland. Maryland; New York "(A) IN GENERAL.-For purposes of para­ Wednesday, December 4, 1985 Community Trust & Community graph Cl), an organization performs or fi­ Funds (New York); Jessie nances abortions if such organization, di­ Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, we ought to Smith Noyes (New York); Aaron Straus & Lillie Straus; rectly or indirectly, performs or finances ban continuing resolutions. Never in the U.S.F. & G. any medical procedure which takes the life history of this Congress will so much be de­ Reproductive Health Care Center 179,916 Kalamazoo; Harold & Grace of a preborn child. cided for so many by so few. ila~,: P~~~~ic~m~~tg UpP!in. "(B) EXCEPTION.-Subparagraph shall Back in a smoke filled room somewhere Planned Parenthood of 104,825 Cargill; Dayton Hudson; General not apply to any medical procedure required new programs will be started and spending Minnesota. ~::~~u~~~one ; McKnight; to prevent the death of either the pregnant will be increased and the process will be Reproductive Health Services, 70,000 Sunnen. woman or her preborn child so long as every St. Louis. Missouri. reasonable effort is made to preserve the subverted once again. Planned Parenthood of Vermont 123,000 Brush (Ohio) ; Cleveland H. life of each." Forty-five or 50 of the most important (now called Planned Dodge (New York) ; General Parenthood of Northern New Service (Colorado); Huber (b) DENIAL OF ELIGIBILITY FOR CHARITABLE issues facing this Congress will be decided England). (New Jersey) ; Jessie Smith CONTRIBUTION.- at the last minute, in the wee hours of the Noyes (New York) ; Turrell (1) INCOME TAx.-Subsection of section Fund (New Jersey) . night, preferably while no one else is look­ Planned Parenthood of 35,250 Huber; New York Comm. Trust & 170 of such Code is amended by adding at the end A new farm bill, the future of the Exim Planned Parenthood of New 876.750 Achelis; Vincent Astor; Bodman; thereof the following: "For purposes of this York City (New York) . Bristol-Myers Fund; Louis Bank, aid to UNITA, chemical weapons, de­ Calder; Edna McConnell Clark; section, such term does not include a contri­ bution or gift to or for the use of any orga­ fense procurement reform, revenue sharing ~=~~:lli~~n .a~/~rica nization which performs or finances abor­ and off-shore drilling are all issues that (Connecticut) ; Charles must be dealt with the next 7 days. Engelhard (New Jersey); Ford; tions is amended by re­ Edward John Noble; Jessie CONGRESSMAN ROYBAL ASKS Smith Noyes; Scherman; Union designating subsection as subsection SUPPORT FOR RELEASE OF Pacific Uris Brothers; and by inserting after subsection Ce> the fol­ REFUGEE ASSISTANCE FUNDS Weyerhaeuser (Minnesota) . lowing new subsection: Planned Parenthood of Greater 47,770 Aetna Life & Casualty Charlotte (North Carolina) . (Connecticut); Greater "(f) DENIAL OF DEDUCTION FOR CONTRIBU­ Charlotte; Z. Smith Reynolds. TIONS TO ORGANIZATIONS WHICH PERFORM OR HON. EDWARD R. ROYBAL Elizabeth Blackwell Health 61,850 William Penn; Philadelphia. FINANCE ABORTIONS.-No deduction shall be Center for Women, OF CALIFORNIA Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) . allowed under this section for a transfer to Planned Parenthood Association 97 ,400 Brush (Ohio); Samuel S. Fels or for the use of any organization which IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Fund; Independence; Jessie performs or finances abortions of section 2106Ca><2> press my appreciation to the distinguished McCune. Planned Parenthood of Houston 201.300 Brown; Clayton Fund; Houston of such Code is amended by Subcommittee, BILL NATCHER, for his sup­ Education & Char. Trust. striking out "section 2055" and inserting port of efforts to resolve questions on refu­ in lieu thereof "subsections Ce> and Cf) of gee targeted assistance funding levels. I Note.-Some of the grantees listed below are abortion clinics, while the section 2055". others operate such cl inics. Many of the clinics offer contraception and commend my colleague's sense of equity sterilization as well as abortion; some also offer prenatal care. In some cases, Clause of section 2106<2> of such as Minnesota and southeastern Pennsylvania, a Planned Parenthood such Code is amended by striking out "sec­ and devotion to the rule of law. Both of affiliate provides abortion at on.ly .one of its many clini~ . Unless otherw!se those traits characterize the response of the indicated, the donor foundation 1s in the same state as its grantee. Agencies tion 2055Cf)" and inserting in lieu thereof receiving less than $25,000 are not listed here. "section 2055Cg>". committee to the administration's decision 34384 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 to withhold $11.5 million of fiscal year 1985 the Massachusetts Instrumental Conduc­ The Westchester community should be targeted assistance funds. tors Association marching band field com­ proud of his efforts in abolishing Zionism. That decision was based on an erroneous petition. As a personal friend, I would like to extend interpretation of the funding level set by Last month, the East Bridgewater Viking my deepest congratulations to Irving and the fiscal year 1985 continuing resolution marching band and color guard was award­ wish him the best of success in all of his for targeted assistance. Two opinions by ed the New England Division III champion­ future endeavors. the Comptroller General and a decision by ship at the New England Scholastic Band a Federal district court have since affirmed Association's marching band field competi­ that the disputed $11.5 million ought to be tion. MITCHELL SVIRIDOFF HONORED released. These distinctions were earned with long As it is stated in the conference report on hours of rehearsals and practice under the HON. MARCY KAPTUR H.R. 3424, which is incorporated into the supervision of band director Daniel A. OF OHIO continuing resolution, House Joint Resolu­ Lasdow. They are a tribute to him and his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion 465, "while the initial dispute over staff of instructors, and to the encourage­ Wednesday, December 4, 1985 these funds may have been based on an ment and support of the Music Parents As­ honest disagreement • • • this is no longer sociation. But above all, the honors recog­ Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, on December the case." Thus, the conference report nize the effort and commitment of each 9, some of the Nation's most distinguished makes clear that the funds should be re­ member of the band and color guard. citizens from all walks of life will be gath­ ering in New York City to honor a man ) leased. I have just learned that, in fact, We, in the Nation's capital, will have the some of the impacted counties in Califor­ opportunity to see and hear the East who has spent his entire adult life working nia have received funds to provide the serv­ Bridgewater Viking marching band and to improve the lives of others across our { ices so critically needed to assist the large color guard this spring, when they partici­ great Nation. Whether it be in the areas of numbers of refugees that have settled in pate in the prestigious Cherry Blossom education, human resources development, my State. Parade in Washington, DC. labor-management relations, civil rights The continuing resolution also seeks to and social justice, public-private partner­ avert any similar confusion about the fund­ ship for community improvement, neigh­ ing level for refugee targeted assistance in HUMAN RELATIONS AWARD TO borhood self help development organiza· fiscal year 1986. It specifically sets the IRVING L. BAUMWALD tions, or any other endeavor, Mitchell Svir· amount at $50 million. Language contained idoff has had a lasting impact. Wherever he in the conference report on H.R. 3424 notes HON. JOSEPH J. DioGUARDI has labored, Mike has been, in the words of that the fiscal year 1985 funds that were OF NEW YORK his friend Terry Sanford, "a devoted cham­ not released by the end of the fiscal year, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pion of human aspirations." Throughout his life, Mike Sviridoff has that is, the $11.5 million, are not to be Wednesday, December 4, 1985 counted as a 1985 carryover balance to be maximized the resources available to him subtracted from the 1986 appropriation. It Mr. DIOGUARDI. Mr. Speaker, on De­ to help people find solutions to the social is expected that there will be no question cember 19, the New Rochelle community, and economic challenges confronting our about the proper interpretation of such on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League society. In every instance, he has been cre· language. Appeal, will present the Wolfe Duberstein ative, enlightening, pragmatic, and inspir· I believe strongly that targeted assistance Human Relations Award to Irving L. ing. His work over the years is a model for to significantly impacted areas is a neces­ Baumwald. all people contemplating or pursuing ca­ sary component of our Federal responsibil­ I cannot believe that you could find an reers in helping others achieve their full ity. This program is particularly important individual more deserving of this award potential. It is most encouraging to know to California, where almost one-half of all than Irving. His list of accomplishments that next year, Mike Sviridoff will be pass­ and community service are endless. Known ing on his wisdom to a new generation of l Indochinese refugees now reside, and which has 13 counties that the Office of as the dynamic partner of KMG Main community, national, and world leaders as Refugee Resettlement has determined are Burdman, the international accounting and professor of urban policy at the graduate impacted by refugee resettlement. The pro­ consulting firm, Irving is deputy tax direc­ level, the New School for Social Research gram has been successfully implemented in tor of the firm's tax division in the New in New York. the State and has proved to be the most ef- York office. In addition to being a CPA Mitchell Sviridoff has been president of fective Federal employment program in re­ and an attorney, Irving also serves on the the Local Initiatives Support Corp. [LISC], ducing welfare dependency in the State. company's tax advising committee, the ex­ a public-private venture for community I ask all my colleagues to support, not ecutive tax committee, and the New York and neighborhood revitalization since Jan­ only these refugee assistance provisions, division's development committee. Howev­ uary 1981. Before that, he served for 13 but the entire bill. er, these accomplishments pale in compari­ years as vice president in charge of the Di­ son to the dedication Irving has shown to vision of National Affairs at the Ford the entire Westchester community. Foundation. Earlier, Mr. Sviridoff served A TRIBUTE TO THE EAST As president of the Tom Paine Lodge of as the administratorI commissioner of the BRIDGEWATER VIKINGS B'nai B'rith of New Rochelle, a post he pre­ Human Resources Administration of a viously held in 1977-78, Irving serves as a major community development program in HON. BRIAN J. DONNELLY trustee of the Anti-Defamation League New Haven, CT. All of this following distin­ OF MASSACHUSETTS Appeal of Westchester County. He is also guished service in the labor movement, an active member of the Beth-El Syna­ first as director of the United Auto Work­ / IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gogue, and his willingness to share his ex· ers in Connecticut and then as p:resident of Wednesday, December 4, 1985 pertise has been a major support to numer· that State's AFL-CIO. \ Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. Speaker, hard ous committees, including audit, youth ac­ Like many of my colleagues in the House work, dedication, and school pride have re­ tivities, and cultural activities. of Representatives, as well as in the other cently paid off for an extraordinary group Irving truly symbolizes what I believe to body, I have had the opportunity to work of young people in East Bridgewater, MA, be the greatest asset of Americans, volun· with Mike. We all know how much his and I rise in the House today to say a word teerism and the desire to help others. In a dedication has meant to so many working of tribute to the fine young men and world in which Zionism is spreading, it is families as well as the poor and disadvan­ women of the Viking marching band and comforting to know that individuals, like taged-how he has helped them realize color guard. Irving, are dedicated to the goal of abolish­ their goals and dreams. He created oppor­ In October, the talents of the 70 members ing this repressive form of hate and dis· tunity where it would not otherwise have of this organization were recognized when crimination. Because of Irving's efforts, the existed. Mike has made our country a they won the Division AA championship in world is a better place for all of us. better place in which to live. He knows December 4, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34385 America's neighborhoods as well as anyone According to endowment officials and Gershman, the endowment president, can­ I know. So many of my colleagues join me Congressional aides, $1.4 million in endow­ celed payment of any undistributed money in saluting this great American and wish­ ment money has been secretly channeled to the U.N.I., as it is known in France, through an overseas branch of the Ameri­ "until we clear up questions about its anti­ ing him the best in the next phase of his il­ can Federation of Labor and Congress of In­ lustrious career. To his wife Doris and democratic character." dustrial Organizations to two center-right Mr. Gershman said all but $73,000 of the their daughters Michelle and Karen, thank groups in France that have opposed the money budgeted for U.N.I. publications had you for sharing Mike with us and the policies of President Francois Mitterrand's already been disbursed, but he said none of Nation for so many years. Socialist Party. it was "intended for activities that in any What is more, the secrecy was maintained way could be construed as criticism of the for months under an agreement among offi. Mitterrand government." THE "FRENCH CONNECTION" NA­ cials of the A.F.L.-C.1.0., endowment ad­ In an interview Mr. Gershman empha­ TIONAL ENDOWMENT DEMOC­ ministrators and the Subcommittee on sized that the Free Trade Union Institute RACY International Operations of the House For­ would be allowed to make no more secret eign Affairs Committee, which oversees the grants. "In the future there will be a full endowment. level of detailed disclosure," he said. HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. The existence of the agreement was con­ Mr. Gershman said details of the grants in OF MICHIGAN firmed by Carl Gershman, president of the endowment, and by Richard W. McBride, France had been "less than fully disclosed" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the subcommittee staff director, after it was after A.F.L.-C.1.0. officials asserted in a memorandum last April that prior promises Wednesday, December 4, 1985 uncovered by Mark Shipiro, a reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting here, of secrecy had been made to its sub-grantees Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, when the who was on assignment for the Paris news­ and that publicity would pose "danger or National Endowment for Democracy was paper Liberation. embarrassment" to them or to the United created, we were repeatedly told that it was A PIVOTAL TIME States. to openly promote democracy in a nonpar­ Details on the two programs in France The Shipiro scoop, published last week, were omitted from the endowment's 1984 tisan manner in countries lacking a demo­ came at a pivotal time for the endowment. annual report, a document whose introduc­ cratic political structure. On Wednesday a Senate-House conference tion declares that "we must operate Last week, however, it was revealed that committee is scheduled to make a final openly." Details were also omitted from re­ NED has funneled $1.4 million in taxpayers judgment on the endowment's appropria­ ports of the House subcommittee, Mr. money to two right wing organizations in tion for the 1986 fiscal year, compromising McBride said. between $18 million voted by the House and France who have been actively engaged in $10 million by the Senate. OF THE DEMAND FOR SECRECY opposing the policies of the Mitterrand gov­ Last year, on the eve of a crucial vote in Eugenia Kemble, executive director of the ernment. One of these organizations, the the House on the endowment's first full­ Free Trade Union Institute in Washington, Inter-University Union, is reputed to have year appropriation, critics of the program who wrote the secrecy memorandum, did close ties to Service d'Action Civique, an produced a cable to the State Department not return repeated telephone calls. outlawed, extreme right paramilitary from the United States Embassy in Panama But according to other labor union and group. The French Government had not complaining of an "embarrassing" and Congressional aides, the demand for secrecy been informed nor had Congress. I am "compromising" discovery: $20,000, given by for the labor institute grants in France re­ the endowment through another A.F.L.­ flected the tough anti-Communist style of frankly amazed to learn of such ill-advised C.1.0. overseas branch, had been spent in and mismanaged U.S. money through the Irving J. Brown, the 74-year-old official who Presidential election campaign to support has been the American labor federation's media. the candidate backed by the Panamanian chief overseas representative since the end Regrettably, this is not the first time this Army. After that disclosure, the House cut of World War II. has happened. Last year it was discovered the endowment appropriation to zero, but In the postwar years, Mr. Brown's leader­ that NED was funding a military-backed conferees relented and gave $18 million. ship of American labor union intervention candidate in a very close Panamanian Now, according to Representative Hank in Europe was credited with helping defeat Presidential election. Brown, the Colorado Republican who is one Communist attempts to sabotage the Mar­ of the endowment's most persistent critics, shall Plan and other economic recovery pro­ I still cannot fathom exactly why the the disclosure of the endowment's "French United States sees the need to intervene grams of the United States. connection," as he put it, "requires Ameri­ But, Mr. McBride said in an interview, without the consent of the government in cans to ask how they would feel if they "Today, I think one has to ask the question one of the world's oldest democracies. learned that the French Government was whether the limited funds available to the At this point I enclose two items for the giving millions of dollars to the A.F.L.­ N.E.D. should be going to Europe at all, record. The first is an article in today's C.I.O. to oppose the policies of Ronald rather than to Central America and the New York Times on the French incident. Reagan.'' third world countries." Another endowment critic, Representative The second is the text of an internal memo­ John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan, randum of NED's which cast serious doubts said he would demand a Congressional in­ MEMORANDUM as to promises of intended "openness". I vestigation of the endowment's French To: Carl Gershman. urge my colleagues to take note of these. I grants. From: Eugenia Kemble. intend to call for a further investigation Earlier this year, Congressional uncertain­ Re Budget List Enclosed. into this. ty about endowment operations brought an As we have discussed, there are a number DEMOCRACY PROJECT FACING NEW CRITICISMS end to an appropriations system that re­ of projects we are funding where recipients quired the endowment to give labor groups would either be endangered or embarrassed up to two thirds of its annual funding. Most if specific budgets were published or an­ WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-The National En­ of the balance was to be distributed by the nounced. This information is not secret dowment for Democracy is a quasi-govern­ Chamber of Commerce of the United States when it comes to accountability, but we mental foundation created by the Reagan and the foreign institutes of the two major would like to avoid advertising it. I am list­ Administration in 1983 to channel millions American political parties. ing the relevant countries below so that you of Federal dollars into anti-Communist "pri­ One of the french groups that received en­ can pass the information on to those who vate diplomacy." dowment funds was the National Inter-Uni­ need it. In these cases either repressive gov­ Its bylaws require "openness" and "public versity Union, and anti-Communist student ernments or Communist front group could accountability" in its stewardship of mil­ federation with reputed ties to the Service use the information to hurt individuals or lions of dollars a year in taxpayers funds, d' Action Civique, an outlawed, extreme­ unions we are seeking to help. which are distributed to labor, business, right paramilitary group. The other recipi­ The Philippines education and other groups and organiza­ ent was Force Ouvriere, an anti-Communist Chile tions overseas to promote democratic ideas. trade union. Brazil Today, however, for the second time in its A week ago, when the story broke that the Nicaragua brief existence, the endowment finds itself A.F.L.-C.1.0.'s Free Trade Union Institute Poland in trouble with Congress. Some of its "pri­ had committed $575,000 in endowment Portugal vate diplomacy," it turns out, has been more funds to the National Inter-University Suriname than private; it has been secret. Union and $830,000 to Force Ouvriere, Mr. Paraguay 34386 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1985 There are many others where the publica­ miralty Island National Monument in 3:00 p.m. tion of figures would not be helpful. These Alaska. Labor and Human Resources are just the ones where it would be most SD-366 To hold hearings on the nomination of harmful. Finance Otis R. Bowen, of Indiana, to be Secre­ Many thanks to you and others for consid­ International Trade Subcommittee tary of Health and Human Services ering this problem. To hold hearings on S. 1629, to provide (pending receipt of the Senate). that certain agricultural products are SD-430 treated as "like products" for purposes SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS of antidumping and countervailing DECEMBER 12 duty investigations. Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, SD-215 9:00 a.m. agreed to by the Senate on February 3:00 p.m. Armed Services 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a Governmental Affairs To continue hearings on the organiza­ system for a computerized schedule of To hold hearings on the nominations of tion and decision-making procedures all meetings and hearings of Senate Harold L. Cushenberry, Jr., and Mi­ of the Department of Defense and chael L. Rankin, each to be Associate Congress. committees, subcommittees, joint com­ Judge of the Superior Court of the SD-G50 mittees, and committees of con!erence. District of Columbia. 9:30 a.m. This title requires all such committees SR-301 Energy and Natural Resources to notify the Office of the Senate Business meeting, to consider pending Daily Digest-designated by the Rules DECEMBER 10 calendar business. Committee-of the time, place, and 9:30 a.m. SD-366 purpose of the meetings, when sched­ Armed Services 10:00 a.m. uled, and any cancellations or changes To resume hearings on the organization Er. 1ironment and Public Works in the meetings as they occur. and decisionmaking procedures of the TC' .ic Substances and Environmental As an additional procedure along Department of Defense and Congress. Oversight Subcommittee with the computerization of this infor­ SD-106 To hold hearings to explore problems of 10:00 a.m. groundwater pollution caused by nu­ mation, the Office of the Senate Daily Environment and Public Works Digest will prepare this information trient applications. Toxic Substances and Environmental SD-406 for printing in the Extensions of Re­ Oversight Subcommittee To hold oversight hearings on environ­ Labor and Human Resources marks section of the CONGRESSIONAL Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of mental effects of global atmospheric warmings. mittee each week. Business meeting, to mark up proposed Any changes in committee schedul­ SD-406 10:30 a.m. legislation authorizing funds for pro­ ing will be indicated by placement of Labor and Human Resources grams of the Higher Education Act. an asterisk to the left of the name of To hold hearings on the nomination of SD-430 the unit conducting such meetings. Jeffrey I. Zuckerman, of Maryland, to Meetings scheduled for Thursday, be General Counsel of the Equal Em­ DECEMBER 17 December 5, 1985, may be found in the ployment Opportunity Commission. 10:00 a.m. Daily Digest of today's RECORD. SD-430 Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on the nominations of MEETINGS SCHEDULED DECEMBER 11 Wendell L. Willkie, II, of the District 9:00 a.m. of Columbia, to be General Counsel, DECEMBER6 Judiciary and Bruce M. Carnes, of Virginia, to Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Sub­ be Deputy Under Secretary for Plan­ 9:00 a.m. committee ning, Budget and Evaluation, both of Armed Services To hold hearings on S. 1523, to create a To continue hearings on the organiza­ the Department of Education. Federal statute of limitations against SD-430 tion and decisionmaking procedures of civil suits by foreign governments the Department of Defense and Con­ seeking the return of art, artifacts, DECEMBER 19 gress. and other cultural property. SD-G50 SD-628 10:00 a.m. 9:15 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Labor and Human Resources Finance Energy and Natural Resources Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ Health Subcommittee Business meeting, to consider pending mittee To hold hearings to review possible re­ calendar business. Business meeting, to resume markup of forms in the Federal supplementary SD-366 proposed legislation authorizing funds medical insurance program