30312 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS JOBLESS RATE STATE AND pay with your savings, and you just to trim the general operations side of the NATIONAL TRAGEDY about sit there and cry because it took budget. That means they probably will fall so much work to put that money in on welfare, higher education, prison budgets and wage increases state employees are ex HON. LES AuCOIN the bank in the first place. It's just de pecting. OF OREGON pressing as hell." What a 20 percent cut would mean to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For those who have doubts about higher education in the state was spelled the impact on the folks back home of out by Roy Lieuallen, chief officer of the Wednesday, December 9, 1981 history's longest wave of high interest Oregon system of higher education, which • Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, the Na rates, massive budget cuts in social includes University of Oregon and Oregon tion's jobless rate jumped from 8 per programs, a military spending spree, State University. cent to 8.4 percent in just 1 month. In and the largest tax cut in history, I am Western, Eastern and Southern Oregon Oregon, 10.6 percent of the work fore~ inserting several recent articles from state colleges would have to be closed, he is unemployed. In some counties, the the New York Times. They describe said, along with schools of law, dentistry, rate is 20 percent. For Oregon, the loss the critical situation we have in pharmacy and veterinary medicine. No political figure seeins ready to blame of tax receipts, estimated now to be Oregon as a result of the collapse of President Reagan's economic policies for a $250 million less than estimates of just the lumber and housing industry, the recession that began two years ago. Rather, last spring, means a disastrous budget tragedy of joblessness on families, and they point to high interest rates that have situation and more cuts in vital human the jobs that won't be back after the virtually halted home construction and welfare programs. These reductions recession. ruined the state's lumber business. will come on the tails of Federal [From the New York Times, Dec. 7, 19811 The most recent figures show that 126,000 budget cuts of $1.7 billion in food JoBLEss RATE Is CuTTING INTO OREGON's people were out of work in October. In 1980 stamps, $1.5 billion in child nutrition, BUDGET about 36,000 people exhausted their 26-week and $1 billion in health care. eligibility for unemployment benefits; 14,500 of those also ran through the 13- Recently, Senator PAUL LAXALT of EuGENE, OREG. Dec. 6.- A recession that week period of extended benefits. Nevada was in Detroit to address the began with the collapse of the lumber and "As bad as that sounds, the picture really annual meeting of the National new housing markets in early 1980 has is worse," said Donavon Steward, assistant League of Cities. He expressed concern forced Oregon officials into an almost fre administrator of the state employment divi that too much money may have been netic search for ways to cut back on a dion. "A lot of people are working only part cut from Federal social programs budget that has already been pruned. time and are not listed as out of work." With unemployment at 10.6 percent state when control over them was shifted to wide, and around 20 percent in several coun the States as part of President Rea ties, state revenues from personal and cor [From the New York Times, Nov. 23, 19811 gan's · economic program. Senator porate income taxes are expected to run FAMILIES TELL OF LIVING WITH AN LAxALT said Republican Governors $250 million behind estimates made last UNWANTED GUEST: JOBLESSNESS have been telling him they have had a spring. The problem became evident late last big load dumped on them and they're DETROIT, Nov. 22.-The end sometimes not getting adequate money: "It may month when predictions of advisers to Gov. Victor L. Atiyeh and data on recent econom comes in a pay envelope with a slip of paper well be the case in a lot of these ic trends were fed into a computer program titled "Notice of Reduction in Force," a eu States-and only time will tell-that designed to simulate Oregon's economy. phemism for a layoff. we've given them too much authority, Although some politicians are a bit uneasy The worker fills out an unemployment too much responsibility, and not about accepting the computer's word for the benefit form and heads for the parking lot enough funding." expected shortfall in revenues, none has with the unfamiliar sensation of having no In Oregon, my constituents already challenged the figures. place to go tomorrow and of knowing that LEGISLATIVE SESSION SET the paycheck will be the last one for a know firsthand what it means to be while. out of work for months at a time, with Governor Atiyeh, a Republican, has called As the recession continues, more and more no hope in sight. The lumber indus the Legislature into session beginning Jan. people are finding themselves in this predic try's seasonally adjusted unemploy 11. Mindful that three quarters of Oregon's ament. The national unemployment rate ment rate of 20.3 percent means that financing comes from income taxes, he and stands at 8 percent, the highest level in six in Oregon, of the 31,076 workers nor the Democratic leaders of both houses have years, meaning tht 8,520,000 men and said a tax increase is to be avoided. Some women are out of work and looking for jobs, mally employed in the lumber indus legislators may try once again to get voters try, 60 percent are either unemployed, and Government economists predict that it to accept a sales tax, though that would not could rise another percentage point. or working curtailed shifts. Of the 210 be popular either. mills usually working, 140 have either "I don't believe a sales tax is politically These are the stories of a handful of shut down or are operating short saleable here now," said Terry Mattock, ex them: shifts. Many will never reopen. ecutive director of Oregon Tax Research, a "You remember the American dream?" nonprofit organization dedil'ated to holding Claude W. Williains asked casually. "Work Ron Wymore, his wife, and five chil hard, save your money, get an education, dren live in Molalla, Oreg. His grand down taxes. It has not been decided which programs get ahead? I'm kind of discouraged in all father was a logger. His father was a will be cut. The Governor, who announced that now." logger. He was a logger, and a good the grim results of the computer analysis on The phone rang, and Mr. Williams was up one, a professional in a very dangerous Nov. 27, has told department heads to show with a bound, moving his large frame quick job. But since last July, he's been un him by Dec. 15 what it would mean to their ly around the furniture, snatching up the employed. As a veteran and someone departments to cut the budget by 5 percent, receiver before the second ring had died. who's used to long, hard hours at 10 percent, 15 percent and 20 percent. But it was not a job offer, and he returned work, he sees the dreams he had for A 20 percent cut in operating budgets slowly to the task of feeding Justin, his 22- would produce the needed saving, according month-old son. his family falling apart as he adjusts to the computer analysis. Almost half of the Mr. Williains is 33 and unemployed, laid to the shock of not being able to find budget now goes into tax relief for home off last August from the Ford Motor Com work anywhere. He sums up his situa owners and support for public schools, both pany's huge Flat Rock foundry south of tion like this: "The bills you don't pay of which are viewed as sacrosanct. So the here. He is one of the tens of thousands of with your unemployment check you political leadership now seems determined jobless automobile workers in this area.
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 30313 He grew up on 12th Street, the cockpit of income. It's an awful feeling that makes you ranch house is a heavy drain that will have Detroit's old black ghetto and the center of sick in your stomach." to be stopped for a while. the city's deadly riot in 1967, and he Rod Wymore's grandfather was a logger, "You have to decide which bills you're thought he had come a long way from there as was his father. So after a tour of military going to pay first," Mr. Brown reflected. His to the big brick house in northwest Detroit service in Vietnam and a year as an inspec wife, Becky, added, "I'm not one of those where he lives with his wife and two young tor for a trucking concern, he pulled on a who takes this too well. I'm just calling up sons. pair of spike-soled "cork boots" in 1969 and and telling them that my husband doesn't "I didn't want to work in a factory," he went to work in the deep forests of north have a job and I'll pay as much as I can." said, "but the money was too good to pass west Oregon. Meanwhile, Mr. Brown burns precious gas up." A summer job at Ford between terms "I've done just about everything there is oline scouring the region for work. "Some of teaching school 10 years ago gave way to to do in logging,'' Mr. Wymore said in his times if you approach a foreman or a super full-time work at the hot, dirty foundry, soft, steady voice. Starting out setting drag intendent in a face-to-face situation, you where blacks like him have been concentrat chains on felled trees, he worked his way up have a better chance," he said, "but a lot of ed since the dawn of the automobile age. to feller, the top-paying job of cutting the them are saying they're going to have to lay Mr. Williams finished his higher educa trees. His take-home pay reached $350 a off men." tion at Wayne State University. Ford recog week. Later, he added, "I'm not as economist or nized his ability and paid for him to get a Then, as the economy worsened and the anything, but the whole picture seems to be master's degree in industrial relations. His building industry began to slow, Mr. Wy getting worse, not better. A guy can get a income rose from $8,000 to $16,000, and more's career began to slide-to laborer, and little concerned over that." then to $49,000 one year when he joined then to a night job fixing tires on logging management and worked weekends at the "I go to sleep worried and I wake up wor machinery. ried," Paul Mihalcin was saying. "It sure is height of the boom in the late 1970's, before "Every whack, every time they switched things started to go sour, before he was de tough." my job, I went down a notch in pay,'' he re Mr. Mihalcin is a coal miner, or was a coal moted back to laborer, before the layoffs membered, until last July 31, when he was began. miner until last March 27, when the United laid off. Mine Workers went on strike. The walkout Prospective employees have sent him Unused vacation pay and a $3,400 lump form letters saying they "cannot use your was settled in June, but because of a slow sum severance payment went to pay off as down only 28 of the 100 men who had services at this time." Even his master's many bills as Mr. Wymore and his wife degree is in the wrong field. "They want worked Republic Steel's Banning No. 4 at could manage, and to buy a side of beef for West Newton, Pa., were called back, and Mr. marketing and retailing skills," he said, "not the freezer in a kind of battering down for industrial production. Or else they say I'm Mihalcin was not one of them. hard times. The money has carried the Wy Although he comes from a family of overqualified." mores and their five children this far, but "I feel like I'm falling backwards," he miners, Mr. Mihalcin stayed out of the their savings are starting to dwindle. mines until 1978, when, at the age of 36, he added. "You climb up to heaven, and fall "The bills you don't pay with your unem back to hell." doubled the wages he was making as a He looked around his big living room, at ployment check you pay with your savings," welder by going into the mines. the chrome and glass, the African art, the he said, "and you just about sit there and Now 39, he cannot even get a welder's job. warm comfort of home. cry because it took so much work to put He has applied at other mines, but the coal "I'm surrounded by all the things I've ever that money in the bank in the first place. industry is depressed, and so is steelmaking wanted," he said. "I wanted to escape from It's just as depressing as hell." and everything else, it seems. 12th street, I wanted a big house with a big Many of Mr. Wymore's friends are in the same bind, "out there scratching and kick "I'm a steady worker," He said. "I would sofa to lie back in, I wanted a family and go into work when I was sick. But when I go two cars and an educational background, ing with the rest of them." He has scoured Molalla, his little town, for jobs, and has in to apply for a job, they don't even look at and now I've got it all, but I don't have a me. They just show me a big stack of job ap job." begun to branch out to neighboring areas, but with no luck. plications." At first, years ago now, Valora Hamburg's He has been supporting his wife, Juanita, job at the Pantry Pride food store north of "When you go out looking to apply, some times they won't even take your applica and two children on $183 weekly unemploy Philadelphia brought a welcome supple ment insurance, augmented by $22 a month ment to the income of her husband, a tele tion," he said. "They have too many al ready." in food stamps. These stipends will end the phone company employee. She also loved second week in December, and after that, the job and getting out of the house every He has begun to sense the stigma of un employment, the way "it just takes the wind they will apply for welfare, hoping to get a day. little extra money to heat the three-bed But then, four years ago, her husband suf out of half the people you talk to," the looks he gets when he proffers a credit card, room trailer they live in. fered a stroke that has kept him from work "I can't even find a part-time job," Mr. ing since, and the $311 weekly Pantry Pride looks that say "I wonder how he's going to pay for this." Mihalcin said sadly. "Christmas looks very paycheck became crucial to her, her hus dim."e band and her son. Word has it that men may be needed for a But Pantry Pride began to founder, and power line that is being built across Mon tana, he said, but that would mean moving, eight months ago the last store closed, IN SUPPORT OF H.R. 4326 ending her job and her 21 years with the so he keeps looking closer to home. company. "I've gotten to spend a whole lot more "It's really frightening, being out of time with the kids,'' he said, looking for the HON. JACK BRINKLEY bright side. "When I worked nights in the work," said Mrs. Hamburg, who is 58. OF GEORGIA "When you've worked all your life, it's tire shop I would never see them. :Yeah, pretty hard. I did a little work around the that's about the only good thing that's come IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES house, some gardening and repairs, and out of it." Wednesday, December 9, 1981 tried not to think about it." "Anyone in cosntruction deals with lay Mrs. Hamburg exhausted here 30 weeks of offs periodically," said Jesse Brown, a 33- e Mr. BRINKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I am unemployment benefits "going from place year-old carpenter from Baldwin City, Kan. pleased to add my support as a cospon to place, looking for work." But there was "It's a fact. When the job's over, you've got sor of H.R. 4326, the Small Business none, and she says she knows why. to find a new one." Yet Mr. Brown is starting to feel appre Innovation Development Act of 1981. "It's because of my age, I know, that I As a longtime proponent of small busi couldn't get work," she said. "Oh, I know hensive, even though his year-long, $14.05- they're not supposed to ask your age, but an-hour hospital construction job in St. ness I feel that this bill would go far some application forms ask what year you Joseph, Mo., ended just over a week ago. in promoting productivity and techno graduated from school. 'You're not going to "As many job sites as I've hit, I should logical innovation for which small trick me,' I thought, so I started leaving have had some luck by now," he said. "I business has demonstrated such an im that a blank." didn't think I'd have this hard a time find pressive ability. The Hamburgs got a wood stove, to avoid ing a job-1 really didn't." The purpose of H.R. 4326 is to en the expense of oil, and put the television ' The slump in the construction industry nearby. "The TV gets a lot of use," she said. that threw Mr. Wymore out of work in hance the role of small business in fed "You can't go out with gasoline prices what Oregon has idled Mr. Brown in Kansas. Un erally funded research and develop they are, so we stay home." employment insurance will carry him and ment projects by requiring agencies She paused, then said: "It's a frightening his wife and two young daughters for a with large research and development feeling when you can't advance your while, but the expense of building his new budgets to set aside a percentage of 30314 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981 those funds for Small Business Inno resist efforts to include voluntary 1981, in which he characterizes the vation Research. prayer as part of the official public proponents of voluntary prayer as The declining rate of productivity school activity. people with good intentions who want and increasing foreign competition Now, 10 years later, the Congress to impose their religion on others, to signal the need for the Government to may be forced to vote on this issue. be universal parents to our school chil maximize the contributions which Senator JESSE HELMS of North Caroli- dren, and to tell our kins when to pray small business can make to our econo na, much admired by the so-called and how to pray. They want, especial my. By making Federal research and moral majority and a proponent of ly, to encourage children to start the development funds accessible to small voluntary prayer, has said he will not school day with a prayer. As Cohen business, the Government can insure press the issue for the remainder of says, and I agree, "Start the day with the utilization of the technological 1981. He has promised, however, to a prayer if you wish. But start it at and innovative capability of small, "go at it again next year." home." Not at school. Why is there high technology businesses. In the House of Representatives, a such an urge to impose religion on a H.R. 4326 represents a compilation resolution to eliminate Supreme Court public school system when we have of the best provisions of several other or Federal court jurisdiction over vol- countless churches and synagogues small business innovation bills intro untary prayer was introduced by Con- where children and their parents can duced in the 97th Congress. The SBIR gressman PHILIP CRANE of Illinois. pray? program provided for in this bill is This legislation, now pending in the we are not one religion. This is one patterned after the National Science Judiciary Committee, would allow reason why America is strong. And in Foundation innovation program which States to institute voluntary . pr~~er early childhood education, respecting has proved to be most successful. This without allowing Federal JUdicial these religious differences is impor is a program which will work on a review. At present, 30 Members of tant Those who founded our Consti larger scale as well, to the benefit of Con~e~s. have cosponsored this bill. . tuti~n wisely separated government the Government and the economy.e ~lso.. I~Itlated by <;~n~~ss~an C~NE from religion. We are duty bound to IS a. ~Ischarge petlti?n, which With a maintain that separation which would maJority or 218 s~~atures, w~uld be violated by voluntary prayer in our H.R. 4326 COSPONSORS force the Hous.e Judiciary Committee public schools. to report the bill out to the House for 1 for one will continue to oppose the HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE floor acti~n. ~his would sideste~ ~he efforts of Senator HELMS, Congress OF NEW YORK usual le~Islativ~ procedure provi?mg man CRANE, and all those who would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fo~ public hearmgs and the consider- seek to restrict our essential freedom at10n of amendments. . . of religion.e Wednesday, December 9, 1981 We must not allow the histone e Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, I would American separation of church and like to insert in the REcORD the names state to be overturned, and to let reli- TRIBUTE TO KIWANIS CLUB OF of 12 new cosponsors of H.R. 4326, the gion, through our public schools, UTICA Small Business Innovation Develop become a part of our process of gov ment Act. ernment. This would pose a great di HON. DONALD J. MITCHELL We now have 36 cosponsors of this lemma for people of minority religions very important piece of legislation in our country. School prayer would OF NEW YORK that will strengthen the role of small, also have a harmful effect on their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES high-technology firms in federally children because even voluntary Wednesday, December 9, 1981 funded R. & D. programs and actively prayer fosters exclusion. e Mr. MITCHELL of New York. Mr. promote the innovation that is essen My own childhood memories are still Speaker, as the Representative of the tial if our economy is to be productive clear. I was the only Jewish child in 31st Congressional District of New and competitive. I urge those Members the first grade in a small Southern York State, I would like to pay tribute who have not yet joined as cosponsors town. We all said the Lord's prayer to the Kiwanis Club of Utica, N.Y., of H.R. 4326, the major small business every morning. When the school which celebrated its 65th anniversary bill of the 97th Congress, to do so. began the usual Christmas programs, on December 5. Beyond noting the Following are those Members who our teacher, Miss Evelyn Lassiter, club's 65 years of service to the com have joined as cosponsors of H.R. 4326 whom I well remember as a kind lady, munity, I would like to bring special during the Thanksgiving recess: PAT called me aside and said, "You don't attention to a scholarship fund that WILLIAMS, Montana; CLINT ROBERTS, have to sing Christmas carols along the Utica Kiwanis Club has estab South Dakota; CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, with the others in the class if you or lished in honor of Kiwanian Charles Rhode Island; PAUL SIMON, Illinois; your parents do not wish you to." Was Schmidt. WILLIAM BONER, Tennessee; LARRY this voluntary? One can imagine my Mr. Schmidt, an emeritus professor WINN, Jr., Kansas; ADAM BENJAMIN, feelings of confusion and embarrass at Mohawk Valley Community College Jr., Indiana; MARIO BIAGGI, New York; ment at being singled out. in Utica, was a prominent Kiwanian DON BAILEY, Pennsylvania; IKE AN To place a youngster in a position and well known throughout the com DREWS, North Carolina; WILLIAM where he or she had to pray with the munity for his many good works. He BROADHEAD, Michigan. majority of students or make some thing of a spectacle of himself by taught business management at asking to be excused is cruel. The pro Mohawk Valley Community College VOLUNTARY PRAYER IS NOT ponents of voluntary school prayer are for 27 years. He also served as a direc VOLUNTARY insensitive to the problem this poses tor and officer of the Mohawk Valley for children of minority religions. Workshop, a sheltered workshop for HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN There is simply nothing voluntary the handicapped. In addition he was an active contributor to the Foothills OF FLORIDA about the voluntary prayer legislation. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Would any child of 8 or 10 not bow his Girl Scout Council, the Service Corpo ration of Retired Executives Wednesday, December 9, 1981 head in prayer when everyone around him does it? The child of a minority United States Code, spond to the Soviet buildup. "Their ques of dedication and sacrifice, the Utica to make members of Senior Reserve Offi tions," he said, "deserve to be answered." cers' Training Corps programs who are in The United States must do more than nego Kiwanis has established a memorial jured during summer military camp eligi tiate an arms control agreement with the scholarship in honor of Charles ble for compensation benefits adminis Soviet Union; it must also keep the Europe Schmidt. tered by the Veterans' Administration ans behind NATO's determination to deploy I hope my colleagues in the House new weapons if the Soviet Union does not Be it enacted by the Senate and House of dismantle its own. will join me in congratulating the Representatives of the United States of President Reagan shifted away from his Utica Kiwanis Club for its long and America in Congress assembled, That sec old approach that arms control was out of tion 101<22> of title 38, United States Code, active record of service and for its the question as long as the Soviets were mis is amended- most laudable effort to continue to <1> by striking out "and" at the end of behaving in Afghanistan or elsewhere. He serve the community in the name of clause ; downplayed the theory of linkage and left one of its most distinguished former <2> by redesignating clause as clause aside the idea that arms control is a kind of concess~on to the Soviets to be offered only members.e ; and <3> by inserting after clause the fol in return for an end to their adventures out lowing new clause : side the Communist Bloc. The view ex " annual training duty performed by a pressed by the President is that the limita ROTC COVERAGE UNDER TITLE member of a Senior Reserve Officers' Train tion of nuclear arms is just as much in our 38 ing Corps program when ordered to such interest as theirs. He made it clear that time duty for a period of 14 days or more; and". for adequate preparation is the only precon SEc. 2. The amendments made by the first dition to America's participation in talks on HON. THOMAS A. DASCHLE section of this Act shall apply with respect strategic arms control with the Soviet OF SOUTH DAKOTA to diseases and disabilities incurred or ag Union. Also missing from the President's gravated after September 30, 1982.e speech was any suggestion that the United IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES States seeks military superiority or even a margin of safety in its competition with the Wednesday, December 9, 1981 THE PRESIDENT AND ARMS Soviet Union. Instead, the President seeks e Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. Speaker, today CONTROL levels of strategic and conventional forces I am introducing legislation which will which are "equal". By adopting the objec tive of equality, he apparently accepts the correct an unfortunate inequity which HON. LEE H. HAMILTON view that military superiority is not a prac currently exists in title 38 of the OF INDIANA tical objective since neither side will accept United States Code. At this time, title IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES inferiority. 38 (veterans benefits) does not provide The President's speech highlighted the any assistance (medical or compensa Wednesday, December 9, 1981 extraordinary importance of arms control e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I and made it a major objective of his admin tion) for members of the Reserved Of istration. "Nothing will have a higher priori ficer's Training Corps , and our continued foreign giveways and Whereas, the AQMA, Jackson County and Mr. Speaker, I submit the following the City of Medford have been developing the other from welfare payments, was statement released by the editorial di ignored. More importantly, it was not an implementation plan to meet Clean Air rector of KCMO radio for the RECORD: Act standards since 1976, but the area re recognized to be a contest of will be Fourth District Missouri Congressman Ike mains in violation of Clean Air Act stand tween politicans who seek to stay in Skelton has the right idea in KCMO Radio's ards for both carbon monoxide and total power or gain power by satisfying vari opinion. Last month Congressman Skelton suspended particulates, and ous special interests. Although they introduced a bill to stop Social Security Dis Whereas, substantial progress has been never admit to it, in the past several ability payments to prisoners convicted of a made since 1976, but both elements on non decades when we lived in more pros felony. The bill is designed to close a loop compliance are affected by pollution sources perous times, the status quo was main hole in a law passed last year which intend beyond local control because: tained by the coalition between these ed to cut off benefits to incarcerated felons. Carbon monoxide standards cannot be Under that law, prisoners could continue to met without the tight controls on new car two groups, welfare recipients and the receive Social Security Disability benefits if standards and on inspection maintenance international corporate and banking they agree to participate in a rehabilitation programs. communities who receive the benefits program. As Skelton points out . . . this TSP standards will not be met without of foreign aid and extravagant mili loophole does no favors for the Social Secu controls on pollution drifting into the area tary expenditures. rity system which is having financial diffi- and from outside the AQMA, and 30318 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981 Whereas, elimination of requirements for states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's The Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, one of prevention of significant deterioration legitimacy is not suspended in midair await the most spectacular victories for interna would place the Medford area at an ing acknowledgement by the royal house in tional conciliation in this generation, has economic disadvantage by making other Riyadh. Nor does a group such as the Pales been assailed by Arab hositility, European areas relatively more attractive to industry; tine Liberation Organization have any juri skepticism, and-grotesquely-by United Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the city dicial competence to accord recognition to Nations condemnation. This would be un council of the city of Medford, Oregon: states, or withhold it. derstandable if the Camp David agreement That the Medford City Council opposes A majority of the 155 states in the modern really injured Palestinian interests. But if any amendments to the Clean Air Act which international community are younger in the Camp David text is honored, it can would weaken or lower its standards and is their sovereignty than Israel, which was the carry those interests a long way toward ful particularly opposed to any change which 59th member of the United Nations. There fillment. would: is certainly no other state, big or small, The agreement calls for replacement of Permit additional pollution in this young or old, that would consider mere rec the Israeli military administration in the AQMA, or ognition of its "right to exist" a favor, or a West Bank and Gaza by an elected Palestin Reduce the power of state and local negotiable concession. ian self-governing authority that would pre governnients to abate pollution sources, or What Israel is entitled to have in return side over a system of full autonomy for a Relax or eliminate present require for the increase of its territorial vulnerabil few years, after which the final status of ments for PSD, and ity is not verbal recognition but an effective those areas would be determined, not by That all Oregon senators and congress security system, to be arrived at by negotia Israel alone, but by negotiations and agree men are urged to support this position. tions. ment between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Passed by the Council and signed by me in Back in 1967, when the world community elected representatives of the Palestinian open session in authentication of its passage adopted its unanimous policy for the Middle inhabitants, who would also have the right this 19th day of November, 1981. East in Security Council Resolution 242, to approve or reject any agreement. Attest: some members suggested that Israel should It is only in the bizarre world of Middle EMILY H. KIRKHAM, be satisfied with a solemn declaration of the Eastern diplomacy that the Camp David City Recorder. right of all states to exist. They added that text could be represented as anti-Arab or AL DENSMORE, Israel might, if it chose, regard itself as in anti-Palestinian. Mayor. cluded in that definition. At that time, No harm would be done if American [SEAL) hardly any responsible government in the policy makers who claim to be wedded to I, Emily H. Kirkham, Recorder of the City Western world or elsewhere accepted that the Camp David approach would assert and of Medford, Oregon, do hereby certify that defintion of Israel's rights as adequate. practice their fidelity to it without reserva I have prepared the foregoing copy of reso Most Western countries voted many times tion and avoid sending roving eyes in the di lution No. 4499, have carefully compared between 1967 and 1976 to defeat proposals rection of a Saudi policy that is still im the same with the original thereof on file in similar to the one that is now winning Saudi mensely remote from the values and inter my office, and that it is a correct, true and Arabia such exaggerated attention and ests that the United States is commited to complete transcript therefrom and of the praise. uphold. whole thereof. Thoughout that period, Israel was consid Dated at Medford, Oregon, this 20th day ered worthy of something more concrete KUWAITKUNA of November 1981.e than a mere declaration of its right to stay alive. In Resolution 242, there is a call for "acknowledgment of the right to live in BEIRUT, November 14.-The Palestine Lib ISRAELI AND PLO COMMEN peace within secure and recognized bound eration Organization is facing "serious" dif TARIES ON THE SAUDI "PEACE aries." The resolution also calls for "agree ferences between leaders of its eight guerril PLAN'' ment . . . to achieve a peaceful and accepted la factions regarding a Saudi Arabian proj settlement." ect for comprehensive peace in the Middle In recent days, it has been left to Presi East, a ranking Palestinian official told HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL dent Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and his col KUNA Saturday. OF NEW YORK leagues to make the lucid observation that The official, who refused to be identified, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES any proposal for a Middle Eastern settle noted that the PLO's 15-man collective lead Wednesday, December 9, 1981 ment is merely a collection of words unless ership said the Executive Committee "failed it is accepted by Israel. Since ours is the Friday evening to adopt a unified stand" re e Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, only nation that would increase its security garding the eight-point project announced last week I placed into the RECORD the risk by further territorial renunciation, this by Crown Prince Fahd last August 7. full text of Saudi Crown Prince Fahd's is not an excessive requirement. PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat, who also plan for peace in the Middle East. If Saudi Arabia, as it seems, is now ready heads the PLO's mainstream faction Al Today I offer two recent commen to move from the fantasies of "holy war," Fatah, is to leave for Kuwait later in the there is good reason to hope for a further day Saturday for "talks covering the Saudi taries on the Saudi plan which help to evolution of its policy. But what chance is project and possibilities of working out a place it in the context of Middle East there of further evolution if responsible compromised version accepted by all the politics. First is an assessment by Abba statesman abandon all critical rigor and, as Arabs, hardliners and moderates alike," the Eban, former Israeli Minister for For they already have done, praise a niggardly offical explained. eign Affairs and now a member of the Saudi text that falls short, by an astronomic The Executive Committee's meeting Knesset. distance, of the established international ju Friday evening, according to the official, Next are the opinions of the several risprudence expressed in 242? has pation of all the concerned parties. Brezh on the way toward Palestinian national nev's call was welcomed by the PLO and all unity, and we shall try to respond to those categorically refused to recognize the State its radical factions as well. who have placed their bets on the disinte of Israel, a senior PFLP official, Bassam Independent observers, trying to draw a gration of our national arena over purely Abu Sharif, affirmed today. comparison between the Soviet and Saudi theoretical arguments and differences. We In a communique released here, Mr. Abu proposals, point out that the U.N., as noted must stick together because our enemy is Shariff also affirmed the Palestinian rejec in Fahd's project, is an international venue sticking together. We call on everyone to tion of the Saudi peace plan for the Middle that falls in line with Brezhnev's interna unite. This is what we are working for, con East proposed in August by Saudi Crown tional conference. trary to what the suspect imperialist infor Prince Fahd. But he said this meant only Saudi officials, namely Foreign Minister mation media are imagining. that Palestinians rejected the attaching of Sa'ud al-Faysal, clearly stated that the any prior conditions to the establishment of "procedural frame" of the initiative could BEIRUT ON QADDUMI REJECTION Regarding the Palestinian stand on Saudi an independent state over "all or part of be an international conference sponsored by Palestinian territory." the U.N. Security Council where the Soviet Prince Fahd's peace plan, the head of the Union "can" participate. PLO Political Department, Faruq Qaddumi, The communique accused Israel of prepar The third ranking leader of Arafat's Al has said that it is not necessary for the Arab ing a miliary action in south Lebanon aimed Fatah, Salah Khalaf, launched a visit of the countries to adopt a decision on the Saudi at weakening the Palestine Liberation Orga Soviet Union last week which mainly aimed, plan. In a statement that will be published nization and the Lebanese leftist na according to ranking Arab diplomats, "at in the Lebanese weekly magazine Monday tional movement. sounding the Soviet view regarding the Morning, Qaddumi said that current condi Mr. Abu Sharif called on Palestinians in Saudi project and the Kremlin reaction to tions are not suitable for putting forward the occupied territories to reject the auton this initiative." peace proposals because of the power imbal omy plans called for by the Camp David ac The Executive Committee, following its ance between the Arab countries and Israel. cords. session late Friday, issued a terse statement He added that the Fes summit conference Meanwhile, the Democratic Front for the saying it ":reviewed the political initiatives must focus its efforts on rectifying this im Liberation of Palestine hailed th~ and the political moves in the area." balance by encouraging Egypt to return to The committee, the statement said, the Arab fold. He said that the present "popular revolt" against repression in the "agreed to continue contacts in this regard regime in Egypt under Husni Mubarak is occupied territories, which it said had en for the formulation of a joint Arab stand undoubtedly a transitional one. He said: As tered its third phase. supporting the Palestinian struggle and the Palestinians, we categorically reject Article The DFLP said in a communique that the just cause of our people." 7 of Prince Fahd's plan, which provides for Israeli plan for limited Palestinian auton The paper [as received], in a separate the right of the countries of the area to live omy was "the other face of the Fahd plan report, also said Prince Sa'ud al-Faysal will in peace and consequently recognizes Israel aimed at the recognition of Israel."• 30320 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981 A TRIBUTE TO JAMES T. In a recent article which appeared in wife have two children: a draft-age son and HOWARD the November 23 edition of Crain's a brilliant daughter who led her family in Chicago Business, a publication serv supporting Solidarity, the independent Polish trade union. Each member of the HON. JOSEPH P. ADDABBO ing the business community of Chica family carries a deep wound inside-the cut OF NEW YORK go, Ms. Yu gives her impressions of ting loss of a beloved country. But the par IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Polish refugee camps in a very ob ents had given up hope that Poland would jective and thought-provoking man give their children a chance. Wednesday, December 9, 1981 ner. As I believe her comments are es They feared their son would be taken in e Mr. ADDABBO. Mr. Speaker, it is pecially timely, I insert them at this an uprising against invading Russian troops. with great pride that I take this op point for the Members' attention: They feared their daughter would lose her portunity to call to the attention of [From Crain's Chicago Business, Nov. 23, chance at more education and that her pro 1981] fession would be closed to her because of my distinguished colleagues in the her union activities. House of Representatives of the POLISH PILGRIMS SAVOR THEIR OWN So one by one, the members of the family recent awarding to James T. Howard, THANKSGIVING slipped out of Poland. a constituent of mine, of the Red The son first, then the daughter, followed Cross Certificate of Merit for his ac "I want to be free." some months later by the mother, and final tions on June 24, 1981, when a fellow Those words have been repeated countless ly, the father. One by one, they waited in employee was unable to breathe. times in every language since mankind Vienna, applying for refugee status. One by The American Red Cross, one of our began to talk. The words should have spe one, they reached the United States and Nation's greatest treasures, often ap cial meaning to Americans because the con Chicago. pears in the public eye after a disaster cept of freedom formed this nation. This is All but the father. He was the last to leave a season when we enjoy turkey dinners, tell Poland and remains stuck in Vienna, in the such as an earthquake, flood, or fire our children about the Pilgrims and recite bureaucratic nightmare of immigration tragically disrupts the lives of Ameri prayers of thanksgiving. interviews, visa applications and countless cans. But what many people do not re But how often do we remember the true documents. But he waits with patience be alize is that the American Red Cross reasons behind the settlement of these colo cause his children are in Chicago, already each year trains men and women like nies? A group of people wanted to be free working toward the dream he has for them. ourselves to act accordingly before free to feed themselves and their children, His admonition to them as they left tragedy can strike. Such was the case free to pray to God as they believed they Poland and his reminder in his letters is should, free to work as hard as they could this: "First, learn English. Then you can of Mr. Howard who had been skillfully and know that the fruits of that toil would trained in lifesaving techniques prior become anything you want in America. You reward them and their families. can think anything you want in America. to the incident. It was with great thanksgiving that Amer You are free to speak your thoughts in It was on that day in June when icans celebrated a bicentennial five years America." James realized that a coworker chok ago with continual reminders that those He believes all that can happen in Chica ing on some food, was unable to goals still hold true, making this country a go. He visited this city once, years ago. In breathe. Immediately, and most im symbol of freedom to the world. the small room he shares with four other portantly, calmly, he began a sequence In these past two centuries, people have refugees in Vienna, he has a book he sacrificed lives, fled homes, abandoned pos brought in Chicago, an English grammar. of first aid maneuvers to relieve an ob sessions for the chance to be free in the structed airway, working under pres United States. I know that personally, But what is life like for a man like this, sure until the piece of food was ex having heard my own parents say in Chi who has committed the one act of freedom pelled. Thanks to the efforts of Mr. nese, "I want to be free." I am an American his country allowed him? He has trans Howard and extraordinary techniques citizen today because they believed in that formed himself into a refugee. taught by the American Red Cross, dream, and Americans backed up their right Walk into the camp at Traiskirchen, locat to believe in it. ed about 30 miles southwest of Vienna. It is tragedy did not occur. not physically horrible, as we have come to Mr. Speaker, the Red Cross Certifi In recent years, Americans have support ed that commitment to freedom with dol think of refugee camps. Conditions are cate of Merit and pin is the highest lars, jobs, homes. Hundreds of thousands of crowded, with one of the best buildings award given by the American Red refugees are newly settled in every state of housing 120 people-children and adults-in Cross to a person who saves or sus the union. They had siad, "I want to be a room 25 feet by 50 feet. Each person's tains a life by using skills and knowl free" in Spanish, Russian, Farsi, Vietnamese living space consists of his cot, measuring 2- edge learned in a volunteer training and the countless dialects of Southeast feet-by-6-feet. Privacy was available if you Asia. could find enough blankets to drape around program offered by the Red Cross. your cot . . . unless you had an upper bunk. James Howard, a man who acted But a few weeks ago, I heard those very same words this way: "Chce bye wolnym." If your cot was against a wall, lucky for you, bravely when seconds could have That's Polish, spoken by fathers, mothers, because you could drive nails into the wall meant the difference between life and young men and women, even little children. and hang up your belongings. death is certainly most worthy of that They are sitting in refugee camps today, There is no heat, but there is a roof over award and I commend him for his boarding houses, one-room walk-up apart head. Every inch of space is used, so new meritorious action.e ments in Vienna, Austria. They are waiting comers make do with a bunk and mattress, to come to the United States and freedom. even if it is one of hundreds spilling out into About 20,000 to 40,000 Poles live in Aus the hallways. As winter approaches, those POLISH REFUGEE CAMPS IN tria. No one is sure exactly how many, their in the hallways may be assigned an extra AUSTRIA number increasing daily. They claim to be blanket each. Cold air will blow in through political refugees, because that is their only the windows, long since broken by other ref way to enter the United States. There is no ugees, worn with the anxiety of waiting, HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI doubt some have suffered physical and eco losing themselves day after day in alcohol. OF ILLINOIS nomic deprivation at the hands of the gov But no one is hungry, and that is a great IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ernment in Poland. However, the United improvement from Poland. Breakfast, lunch States requires proof that they experienced and dinner are served daily, as long as you Wednesday, December 9, 1981 harassment, threats if they did not join the don't lose your meal tickets. Starch is pre e Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, Communist Party, loss of work or education dominant in the food, the thin broth has a Linda Yu, coanchor and reporter for because of union activities. The Polish food coating of grease, the stew is long on lard WMAQ-TV in Chicago, recently com shortage and fear of a Russian invasion are but short on meat and vegtables. But few pleted a tour of Polish refugee camps not enough reason to gain a U.S. visa. complain. It's food, and the children are not Even so, many made the difficult choice of hungry. in Austria. Born in Zian, People's Re leaving their homeland because they see no But those are merely the physical con public of China, she and her family freedom in the futures of their children. cerns. It is the internal, the emotional, the left China for Hong Kong before I met one man who left behind two intellectual concerns that are important. reaching the U.S., thus she can under homes, furniture, artwork, books, jewels and Some people say the refugees pass stand the refugee crisis. several bank accounts in Poland. He and his through three stages: first, elation in the December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 30321 days after leaving Poland because this is an to prepare for their retirement in Jan 78,000 jobs. A few years ago the United adventure, the beginning of a new life. uary. This sudden change in the law States Steel Corporation shut an old mill, Soon the second stage, depression or anxi came as a cruel surprise. and Texaco Inc. mothballed an obsolete re ety, sets in. The Polish refugees spend their An additional problem with this revi finery here, idling hundreds more workers. time waiting, knowing there is little likeli New little businesses had come along to hood of being accepted as a political refugee sion is that grossly inadequate notice take up some of the slack when the automo by Austria and then by the United States, was given to those affected-they were bile and housing industries entered their not wanting to acknowledge that, not want to receive this benefit just 5 months prolonged slumps more than two years ago. ing to believe it. It is very important to be after enactment in January of 1982. Unemployment, which reached 11.3 percent lieve life can start anew in the United Thus, people who made their retire locally last month, is rising again as Cater States. But days are stretching into months, ment plans based on existing law were pillar Tractor, GAF, Dow Chemical, Mobil and for some, the · months are becoming unfairly jolted. Five months simply is and Olin Mathieson and others trim produc years, as they sit and wait. too short a time for a change of this tion and lay off additional workers because For a few, there is a third stage-genuine kind even if it were justified and is ex of the current recession. hope. This comes for those who receive the In recent weeks throughout the industrial precious slip of paper, summoning them to a tremely unfair to these 200,000 people belt and in much of the country, hundreds new life in the United States. For others, who were only months away from of communities are confronting events simi there is Canada, Australia or some other their retirement. lar to Joilet's. Manufacturing plants are country where freedom waits. I hope my colleagues will join me in shutting down in Louisville, Ky. Ore miners Fear is always with the refugee. It sits supporting this bill to repeal the ex are being laid off in Minnesota. Aircraft next to him, walks behind him, hovers over tension of the existing earnings limit production is winding down in Seattle and his bunk. Only those who have left a repres Wichita, Kan., and textile output is falling sive government can fully understand the contained in the Budget Act and allow the provision adopted in 1977 to take in New England. fear. There is the fear that the government Unemployment in the nation jumped to will reach out and bring him back. There is effect as planned. The text of my bill follows: 8.4 percent last month, higher than had the fear mixed with guilt that the family been expected, and public officials are con left behind will suffer the persecution the H.R. 5149 cerned that many of these jobs may disap refugee should have suffered himself. A bill to repeal the recently enacted tempo pear forever, leaving unemployment at high Americans, even those of us who long ago rary extension of the existing earnings were refugees, can so easily forget the value levels for some time to come. And a number limitation under title II of the Social Se of social activists, noting that many public of freedom. It takes a walk through Trais curity Act so as to allow previously en budget cutbacks, are predicting unusually smiles and a few words learned in the acted provisions to take effect restricting other's language, to be reminded that we harsh times even for a recession. the applicability of such limitation to per "The implications of a renewed recession are still the envy of many. They do not be sons aged less than 70. lieve it trite to call this the land of opportu are particularly serious for Illinois and the nity. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of neighboring Great Lakes states" where It should not be embarrassing for us to ac Representatives of the United States of much of the nation's manufacturing is con knowledge that life in the United States in America in Congress assembled. That sec centrated, said Roland Burris, controller for cludes a precious gift, the gift of freedom. tion 2204 of the Omnibus Budget Reconcili the State of Illinois. "They have yet to fully Linda Yu is co-anchor and reporter for ation Act of 1981 is repealed.e five-tenths of 1 percent below the level of China, she and her family left China for March 1980, just before the 1980 recession Hong Kong when she was two years old.e began. JOBS WON'T COME BACK Growing unemployment will leave its mark on the rest of the nation, too, experts WE MUST REPEAL ARBITRARY HON. LES AuCOIN say. Rising unemployment will undoubtedly CHANGE IN RETIREMENT TEST aggravate the Federal deficit, now officially AGE OF OREGON projected to be in the $40 billion to $60 bil IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lion range for the current fiscal year. Ac Wednesday, December 9, 1981 cording to the Congressional Budget Office, HON. RICHARD L. OITINGER a 1 percent jump in the unemployment rate OF NEW YORK • Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, in addi increases the Federal deficit by $27 billion IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion to my remarks on the tragedy of as the falling level of economic activity cuts Wednesday, December 9, 1981 unemployment across this Nation, and tax revenues for the Government and soar in Oregon, this article from the New ing unemployment increases unemployment e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, the York Times, December 6, 1981, is illus compensation benefits and other transfer recently enacted Budget Reconcilia trative of what the effects of an ex payments that the Government has to pay tion Act contained a number of signifi tended recession mean for the lumber out. cant changes in the social security pro industry. And the probability of unemployment going as high as 9 percent and remaining in gram including one which received THE JoBs THAT WoN'T CoME BAcK almost no attention during the debate the 7.5 to 8.5 percent range for most of next of this legislation or since. Yet, this SOME INDUSTRIES SHRINK IN EACH RECESSION year, as many economists predict, will also SO UNEMPLOYMENT, NOW AT 8.4%, MAY NOT bring mounting pressure on the Administra provision adversely affects the imme FALL MUCH IN A RECOVERY tion to alter its economic program. diate retirement plan to 200,000 Amer In recent months, the recession has icans. I am introducing legislation JOLIET, IlL-Like hypersensitive economic spread beyond the automobile industry, af today to repeal this change. bellwethers, the old smokestack towns of fecting office workers and government em The Budget Reconciliation Act de the East and the Middle West have for ployees. General Motors indicated in De layed for 1 year-until January 1, many years foreshadowed what economists troit last week that it would lay off 13,000 1983-a provision of the 1977 Social call America's "slow economic rot." This white-collar workers. In Chicago, the city Security Amendments under which in sulfur-filled town 40.miles southwest of Chi announced layoffs of hundreds of health dividuals age 70 and over could receive cago is no different. It emerges weaker from workers and bus drivers. full retirement benefits without each recession than it did from the last, and "These interest rates have to come down," it is likely to do the same this time around, said Michael Biernat, an unemployed car regard to their earnings. too. penter, who chatted with a friend about the Most individuals affected by this The gradual degeneration of Joliet housing industry as they waited in a long were not even a ware of the change became apparent when the Vietnam War line at an unemployment claims office in until they contacted their social secu ended. A local munitions factory closed, Joliet. "The Government could ease up a rity office to file the papers necessary stripping 7,000 jobs from this community of little on money," he added. 30322 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981 A partner with his brother and father in a The bleak prospects for employment are low as $5.50 an hour, down $3 an hour from small construction company, Mr. Biernat producing louder pleas for help from the her old rate. Mr. Biernat has considered said he had become disenchanted with unemployed. "I'm a conservative myself," moving to Miami or Houston to find work as Reaganomics. "The election was supposed said Gary Stiller of Waseca, Minn. "I know a carpenter. but the $6 to $8 an hour that to bring the rates down, but they went up," we have to save money, but the Government he could make in the Sun Belt is less than he said. "It looks like they've lost confi ought to be able to do something." Despite half the local scale of $13 to $17 an hour. dence in everything they were trying to do." his political leanings, he says he favors some Liberal political groups in the area are But conservative economists in Washing some sort of public works employment pro saying they hope to mount enough pressure ton. who see a labor bargaining calendar for gram, recalling that it helped his parents before next year's Congressional election to 1982 that encompasses contracts covering 40 during the Depression. prevent the unemployed from making such percent of organized labor, say a sustained Mr. Stiller, a 42-year-old truck driver who dire sacrifices. National People's Action, a period of unemployment is necessary to had worked for the same company for more Chicago-based activist group that has taken dampen wage demands and to cool inflation. than 23 years. was thrown out of work last the Federal Reserve to task at a series of "The most constructive thing that should April when his employer, Herter's, a sport "town meetings" it sponsored around the be done is nothing," said Marvin Koster, a ing goods chain, went bankrupt, tying up country with the central bank, says it is now specialist in labor economics at the Ameri more than $17,000 he had in the company's turning its attention toward organizing the can Enterprise Institute. "Anything done profit-sharing account. With a daughter in unemployed. now would have adverse consequences later college and a son in high school the family "What this country has to see is a lot of and no immediate beneficial effects." is surviving on the wife's part-time job. angry unemployed people demonstrating In Washington, officials expect the unem Having drawn his final $86-a-week unem and demanding jobs," said Gail Cincotta. ex ployment situation to correct itself. The Ad ployment check, he is getting despondent. ecutive director of the group. "We learned ministration hopes that the interest rates "It's getting out of hand," he said of there some things in the 60's-how to organize will fall enough next year to stimulate a re cession. "It looks like the bottom could drop people and how to build coalitions. Without covery. out." organization we would run the risk of some The next round of tax cuts set for June Some social activists insist that the thing happening spontaneously. This could 1982, will put money in the pockets of con bottom could fall out for people if unem be a rough summer.''e sumers and business, insuring a recovery, ac ployment remains unusually high for a long cording to Administration economists. In period. Extended benefits, which sustained the meantime, they say, short-term deficits some of the unemployed for more than a FAIR COMPETITION-SOLUTION from the recession should not cause alarm. year during the 1974-75 recession, have TO FEHBP'S PROBLEMS Needless to say, that outlook has not gone been severely curtailed under the Reagan unchallenged. Many economists say that program, making it much harder to receive even after a recovery, businesses add work benefits past 26 weeks. HON. RICHARD A GEPHARDT ers slowly and cautiously and many manag Other transfer payments, which are some OF MISSOURI ers use slow periods to permanently reduce times called "automatic stabilizers" because IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their work forces. they prevent a recession from spiraling Laurita Parish, a secretary who was laid downward into a depression, have been cut Wednesday, December 9, 1981 off last month from the GAF building mate also. In addition to welfare and food stamp e Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, I rials plant in Joliet, said she has seen exam cuts, there have have been changes in trade ples of this at GAF since she started work readjustment assistance and the Compre submit my testimony on the Federal ing there a few years ago. hensive Employment and Training Act. Employees' Health Benefit Plan "Every year they lay off people, saying it's And many of the supplemental funds of (FEHBP) for the RECORD. The survival temporary," she said. "Only two people the auto, rubber and steel companies. which and stability of FEHBP is crucial as it have come back. They worked a few months add to the income of furloughed workers, serves over 10 million Federal employ and were laid off again." She said the office are close to depletion because of the pro ees. Reform of the program is neces staff dwindled to 17 from 45 during her longed slump in those industries. sary judging from the current confu tenure, while the production force, at 300 The unemployed defend these programs sion and the delay of open season. now, is about a third of what it had been. vigorously. "If it weren't for unemployment Others say the large budget deficits will compensation, I would have missed a few This reform should promote fair com prevent an economic self-correction. mortgage payments," said Mr. Biernat, the petition among the plans and allow "You're going to have these tremendous Joliet carpenter, who is single. He insists Federal employees to choose the deficits from the recession," said Marion that he would much rather work than col health plan that best meets their Anderson, executive director of Employ lect the payments. But, he says, his compa needs. ment Research Associates, a Lansing, Mich., ny has not built a house in three years. and The statement of RICHARD A. GEP consulting firm. "The Government will be they have had to settle for small, occasional HARDT follows: going to the debt market next year for more remodeling jobs, which are now becoming than a billion dollars a week. That's going even more scarce. STATEMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE RICHARD A. to send interest rates back up and choke off The cutting back on transfer payments GEPHARDT TO THE COMMITTEE ON POST the recovery." and the scaling back of subsidies to the un OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE Barbara R. Bergman, an economist at the employed by the Federal Government has Madame Chairwoman and members of the University of Maryland, has questioned the another purpose besides saving Federal dol Subcommittee, I appreciate this opportuni stimulative effects of the tax cuts, saying lars. "The theory is that the stabilizers have ty to express my views on the difficulties they may not lead to high employment and taken away people's incentive to work at facing the Federal Employees' Health Bene output because they mostly benefit the rich certain wages and for companies to lower fit Program New York City than in Oklahoma AFL-CIO's centennial slogan so aptly ago it cost 26 percent more to process a City. states: "A century of achievement, a Medicare claim than a FEHBP claim. The FEHBP requires careful restructur challenge for the future." On the supply side, however, several struc ing. My health legislation contains certain Long before the current wave of con tural flaws prohibit the plans from compet aspects of what I have proposed above to in sumer advocate and public interest ing with each other on premiums and bene corporate into the FEHBP. We believe that groups were formed, the labor move fits. As you know, to constrain their costs, the health care needs of the Federal em ment toiled diligently as the "people's OPM requested a six and a half percent re ployees, and ultimately the general public, duction in benefits and premiums. OPM's would best be served by a competitive lobby." Whether the cause is fair ability to constrain premiums and benefits health system. In FEHBP the employees wages and safer workplaces or the is contrary to competition and serves to in should be able to choose coverage from sev quest for world peace, the American tensify the problems of adverse selection. eral health plans which compete with one trade union movement has been the The carriers should have free rein to set another on the basis of quality, premiums, conscience of our Nation. We have a their premiums and benefit packages to and benefit packages. Minimum regulations more compassionate society because of meet the needs of the employees. should govern this system to encourage fair them. God bless and protect them in In recent years, for example, Blue Cross competition. As legislators we are not here their next 100 years.e Blue Shield has been required by OPM to to dictate the details of the benefit packages offer mental health benefits. No other carri available to Federal employees. Rather, we er has faced such a requirement. This tends are here to preserve their benefits by the BENEFIT CUTOFFS AND DELAYS to encourage Federal employees who feel best possible means. That translates into TAKE THEIR TOLL ON DIS that they would utilize mental health bene taking very modest steps that will facilitate fits, to join high-option Blue Cross-Blue competition in the delivery of health care to ABILITY RECIPIENTS · Shield. It has been estimated that these Federal employees, which in tum will guar mental health benefits have raised the Blue antee an open season for the people we are HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING Cross-Blue Shield premiums by 7 to 8 per attempting to serve.e cent in the Washington area. These in OF OHIO creased costs are then reflected in higher IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT premiums which accentuate the problem, Wednesday, December 9, 1981 employees who utilize mental health bene CELEBRATES ITS CENTENNIAL fits remain, while employees who do not, e Mr. SEIBERLING. Mr. Speaker, 2 think twice before they continue to pay HON. MARIO BIAGGI months ago, I introduced legislation, such high premiums. OF NEW YORK the Social Security Rights Act, which At this point I would like to emphasize would impose mandatory time limits that I am not advocating a "bail out" for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on processing social security claims. Blue Cross. Blue Cross is financially stable Wednesday, December 9, 1981 and not dependent on the Federal employ The legislation has 57 cosponsors, and ees' business to survive. The ground rules by • Mr. BlAGG!. Mr. Speaker, I would each week my office receives calls re which these plans compete need adjust like to call attention to an event that questing information about the bill, or ment. We do not need to regulate the struc occurred 100 years ago in Pittsburgh. notifying us about an additional co ture of the plans themselves. As a matter of On November 15, 1881, 107 delegates sponsor. fact, it is regulation not competition that is from a handful of unions and local as Interest in this bill is high and con threatening Blue Cross. semblies gathered together to estab tinuing because the problem of back The Federal government's contribution to lish the Federation of Organized logs and delays in social security claim their employees' health benefits should be limited and adjusted annually. This would Trades and Labor Units-the forerun processing is worsening. And I fear divorce the government's contribution level ner of today's AFL-CIO. that the situation will be even bleaker from the premiums which the largest six This historic meeting of working for social security claimants as unem plans charge. It would also remove OPM's people called for: compulsory free ployment continues to climb, and the inclination to become involved in the bene public education; an end to child effects of the administration's eco fits these plans offer, because OPM's ex- labor; achievement of the 8-hour work nomic policy hit home. 30324 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981 One of the reasons for delays in man who runs an obscure branch of the was losing over $2 billion a year to ineligible social security processing is the fact Tennessee Department of Education. claimants. that the Social Security Administra What Mr. Brown does is socially and eco Congress had already ordered the state tion is implementing an order enacted nomically important, even trendy. While agencies, which normally reexamine 160,000 other people talk about refocusing the na cases a year, to take on an additional by Congress to review the cases of cur tion's faltering benefit programs on the 200,000 cases starting in 1982. Then the rent disability beneficiaries to see if "truly needy," he and his staff of 227 people Reagan administration decided to accelerate they are still eligible for benefits. This are trying to do it. the schedule; the speedup began in March, review was part of the social security But for the most part, it has been a truly using a computer profile to pinpoint ques disability benefits approved by the thankless job. tionable disability claims and to send the 96th Congress. Mr. Brown is the director of the Disability cases back to the states. Determination Section of Tennessee's Divi However, the Reagan administration sion of Vocational Rehabilitation. He and FOLDERS PILE UP has accelerated the review. Some his equivalents in 49 other states function That's when case folders, some of them as people have suggested that the step as the gatekeepers for the Social Security thick as the Manhattan phone book began up is not really aimed at keeping only Administration's two huge disability-benefit piling up in Mr. Brown's suite of cramped the truly disabled on the social securi programs. Those programs pumped out over offices. Each represents a claim awaiting ty disability rolls, but to cut a certain $22 billion last year, and investigators say review. In March, 7.272 of them were lying quota of current recipients off. The that some of the money has gone to people around; now there are 14,433. effect has been devastating for the not eligible. Mr. Brown says his office has been termi social security appeals process, be Since March, at the request of the Reagan nating about 40 percent of the computer administration, state officials have been profile cases at a cost of about $112 a case. cause those persons who receive notice trying to narrow the gates by reexamining That means he is saving the federal govern that their benefits have ceased can and rejecting an ever-larger number of ment a great deal of money: The average appeal and are appealing. It is no claimants, telling them that their govern disability-insurance case costs the govern wonder that they are appealing, since ment checks will stop because they are no ment $29,000 over its lifetime. the statistics show that there is a very longer considered disabled. He had managed this success despite a good chance that their benefits will ul That is how the heat started for Mr. handicap: Until last July, Mr. Brown's office timately be restored. However, the Brown, who had been running his agency so was under a statewide job freeze ordered by effect of the increased appeals is to in quietly that few politicians here even knew the governor to cut 3,000 jobs off the state what it did. State legislators suddenly began payroll-even though his people are paid crease the backlog of undecided cases, to get angry calls and they, in turn, began not by the state but by the Social Security and to lengthen the already long proc calling Mr. Brown. Administration. Since the' freeze ended, he essing time. "Some of the legislators have started to has hired more people, but their training is But the most devastating effect is on wonder why do we really need this agency," slow. The Social Security Administration es the people who are told that they will he says. While he has been fielding the calls timates that he should have 100 more em no longer receive social security dis from legislators and from the offices of Ten ployees. ability benefits. Even if they ultimate nessee Congressmen, his disability examin Mr. Brown's struggle to get the job done ers have been getting a steady stream of amid economy measures isn't so unusual. ly have their benefits restored on angry, often abusive calls from disgruntled appeal, they must wait months during GAO investigators have found disability-de claimants. termination agencies in other states caught which they receive no benefits. The One young man in East Tennessee has at up in a wide variety of state-imposed penny frustration, confusion and anxiety ex tempted suicide. Another has attracted the pinching policies. One state agency short of perienced by these people-and I hear attention of the FBI by threatening to do employees ordered disability examiners to from them every day-is compounded bodily harm to President Reagan. decide cases "on the basis of an informed by the very real financial hardship Local television crews have even confront guess." they and their family experience ed Mr. Brown while he was at home, raking What all this means is that it will take a during the appeals process. leaves in his driveway. Reporters have de long time to sort out the disability pro manded to know why it was that he hired a grams. At the Social Security Administra My bill would at least assure current firm of doctors who were reexamining dis recipients whose benefits have ceased tion, Commissioner John A. Svahn predicts ability claimants at the speedy rate of over that things will get worse before they get a timely review of their appeal. The 30 per doctor per day. better because caseworkers haven't even legislation would require the hearings "It's unsettling to have this kind of situa begun to probe the SSI program, a $7 -bil and appeals process for those who tion," says Mr. Brown. "We're not accus lion-a-year adult-welfare program that pays appeal termination decisions to be tomed to this kind of heat." What is happening in Tennessee has been 60% of its funds to disabled clients. made within 60 days. going on in varying degrees across the "I was told that the payment error rate in I believe that Congress must send a nation, but a disproportionate share of the SSI was 5%, but when I got in here and message to the administration that it pain from tightening up the disability pro stated looking at it I said what about dis will not countenance the arbitrary ter grams will be felt in the southeastern U.S., ability? They said, 'We don't count that,'" mination of hundreds of thousands of where one out of every four disability claim Mr. Svahn recalls. ants resides. As disability claims are reviewed, "error social security disability benefits as rate in this program is very definitely going the way to solve social security financ STRANGE ANATOMY to go up," the commissioner adds. He con ing problems. It is time these delays Part of the 'lain and confusion that sur cedes that the task won't be easy. "What were paid for by the Social Security round the disability programs stems from makes disability so tough,'' he says, "is that Administration through adequate their strange political anatomy. Both the there is a lot of subjectivity involved." staffing, rather than by the disabled Disability Insurance program <$18 billion a Once, the decisions were easier. In 1958, workers who pay in suffering, uncer year to 4.6 million people> and the Supple just two years after Congress started the tainty and hardship. mental Security Insurance program Disability insurance program, Mr. Brown's ($4 billion to 2.3 million disabled clients, Tennessee office could handle all its claim I am including in the RECORD follow plus other outlays> are run on federal ing my remarks a copy of a recent ants with just 10 employes. That was be money and administered by the Social Secu cause the original program required a claim Wall Street Journal article on the ad rity Administration. Yet the critical deci ant to be over 50 and to prove a mental or ministration's stepped-up review of sion-who is medically and legally dis physical disability that would result in per current disability recipients' records: abled-is left up to the 50 state agencies. manent unemployment or death. Many of them admit that their decision CUTTING DISABLED RoLLS IsN'T ANY WAY To NUMBER SOAR WIN A POPULARITY CON'fEST-TENNESSEE'S making, often hindered by staff shortages, HERBERT BROWN TAKES HEAT AS HE leaves something to be desired. In 1960, Congress removed the age re Investigators for Congress's General Ac quirement. Five years later if opened the STRIVES To FOLLOW REAGAN POLICY counting Office believe that the disability program to those who could prove a mental programs have been running out of control or physical problem that would result in an NASHVILLE, TENN.-Bureaucratically for several years. Last spring the GAO esti inability to work for 12 months. Next, the speaking, nobody seems to like Herbert L. mated that the Disability Insurance Trust program was further liberalized to allow Brown, 58, a soft-spoken, unfailingly polite Fund, which is collected from payroll taxes, benefits to widows of disabled workers. December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 30325 In 1974, Congress opened the doors to a are trying to prepare guidelines for them, possible and successful for the past 75 new type of claimant when it created the but Mr. Svahn isn't sure just what they will years. SSI program. As originally conceived, the be. "We have contacted the AMA now look as if they are • Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, I would headed for completion and operation. like to call to our colleagues' attention Edwards, "will allow native American crea tivity, which has made us the world's leader Now, I am not saying that things could two recent speeches by NRC Commis in technology, to flower again." not improve for nuclear power, or that more sioner Victor Gilinsky whose remarks My own view is that there is little behind plants might not be built. The economy are particularly pertinent in light of the rhetoric. It is difficult to see how the might pick up, electrical demand may start recent revelations of substantial fail Administration package will do much to re to climb, steps to increase efficiency may be ures in industry and NRC programs verse the current decline of nuclear power. less effective than projected, and someone may produce an electric the regulatory setup. But it is an illusion to car that catches on. But it is difficult to see nuclear power plants. These failures how these things can happen in the period serve to intensify the public concern think these can be the source of a revival of nuclear power. The only stage at which any of time a businessman in this industry has about nuclear safety that is manifest licensing holdup is likely to occur is at the to consider. The fact is that the projections in a recent NBC News/ Associated beginning, when utilities seek construction I am citing could as well be too high as too Press poll indicating that some 56 per permits for new plants. But "streamlining" low. This could happen, for example, if elec cent of Americans now believe that ad these initial licensing procedures will be no trical demand growth is further depressed ditional nuclear plants should not be more than an academic exercise if there are by higher electricity prices. And what lies built. Dr. Gilinsky's speeches provide a no new plants. Despite the ritual pro beyond this decade is difficult to predict. succinct assessment of the status and nouncements of utility executives, orders Administration statement likely future direction of the nuclear for new plants are held back less by the reg One of the unfortunate characteristics of ulators than by the Invisible Hand of Adam nuclear power planning has been that technology. He stresses the impor Smith. almost everyone involved tries to nail down tance of concentrating on insuring the And despite vocal complaints, no plant the distant future at the expense of protect safety of the current generation of ready to go into operation is being held up ing what's on hand today. I am afraid this light water reactors rather than devot by NRC hearings. It turns out that plants character_istic afflicts the Administration's ing our limited technological and eco- thought to have been held up by licensing policy on nuclear power, which seems to say December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 30327 that if the regulators will start being more for it. They can't help but know this means Which is what happens when you take efficient, and if the breeder is demonstrat there will be no commercial reprocessing. ideology too seriously and forget about re ed, and if commercial reprocessing is al Apparently that's the way Allied Chemical ality. lowed, the future of nuclear energy will be sees it, too. A few days after the Presiden What would help? assured. Let's take a closer look at this prop tial statement, Allied announced plans to osition. write off its half-share in the Barnwell com There is not in fact a great deal the gov Streamlining Licensing mercial reprocessing plant, the only one ernment can reasonably do to beef up the that can possibly be expected to operate in commercial nuclear program. Nevertheless, The Secretary of Energy said the Presi this decade. Commenting on the govern there are a few modest, practical steps that dent had designated him coordinator of the ment decision to permit reprocessing, an the government can take to help protect the Federal Government's efforts on streamlin Allied official said "they are going to have country's existing investment in nuclear ing commercial nuclear power plant licens to do more than that." The government, he power plants, both operating and under con ing. This action overlooks several problems. said, would have to guarantee the market, struction-and spent fuel storage is one of First, the Department of Energy has very them. little institutional experience in this area. which is likely to cost as much as the re plants will have a place to go when the utili Second, as I have pointed out, the licens processing portion of the plant. "Private op ties run out of on-site storage. It is all very ing process is not what is holding up plants, eration of the Barnwell plant", according to well to insist that this could be taken care and repeated insistence that it only dis Allied's Chairman Edward Hennessy, "is not of by the private market, but in fact only tracts attention from real problems. The feasible or commercially practicable." This the government is likely to organize off-site plants now in the pipeline may be burdened view is likely to hold true, despite some talk storage. It is unclear at this point just how at times by the regulators, but they are seri abroad of injecting additional foreign much will be needed, and it may be that ously plagued by a variety of construction money into the plant. utilities will be able to build more onsite ca delays and mistakes, labor problems, and The Company has said it may in fact dis pacity. Nevertheless, for modest cost, at management failings, to say nothing of a mantle the plant if that is necessary to least part of which would be defrayed by severe tightening in the money markets. qualify for applicable tax credit. And let's utilities, the government can insure that Plants have had to delay operation to face it, no one is going to build another com there will be some reserve capacity at the mercial plant in the foreseeable future. So back-end of the fuel cycle. It may well be comply with NRC safety requirements, but much for commercial reprocessing. this is another story entirely. If you dis needed, either because reactors run out of agree with that necessity, you are denying Swift Action on Waste Disposal? storage capacity, or because a waste reposi the need for safety at NRC's standard. That Unfortunately that is not the end of it be tory is delayed. A bill introduced in the may be an arguable proposition, but it is not cause the Administration has entangled re Senate, the National Nuclear Waste Policy one many people will find persuasive after processing with nuclear waste disposal plan Act of 1981, contains this provision. Three Mile Island. ning. The picture that emerges from recent Insurance Third, the policy statement does not ac testimony before the Congress is that the knowledge the root of the many difficulties Administration views reprocessing as the My second point concerns insurance. As being experienced by the nuclear industry. "key" to dealing with the back-end of the we all discovered after the accident at Three These can be traced to the time when the fuel cycle. When asked by Senator Hart Mile Island, nuclear power plants are badly government handed an advanced 20th cen whether reprocessing was an integral part underinsured. That plant was covered to tury technology over to utility organizations of the waste management system, DOE As about $300 million, typical for the industry. accustomed to operating 19th century tech sistant Secretary Brewer replied "yes, I be The damage was more like a billion. And nologies. Over seventy utilities with widely lieve it is and should be." A careful distinc some of the plants coming along now are varying capabilities had active nuclear tion is made between spent fuel and high worth a lot more than a billion. projects at one time. There are still over level wastes resulting from the operation of These facts have not escaped the notice of sixty. Many utilities bit off more than they a reprocessing plant. Only the high level Wall Street, and if the industry wants to could chew, or underestimated the inherent waste is headed for the underground reposi regain the confidence of the money mer dangers and technical problems of nuclear tory. It is clear the Administration does not chants it will have to get itself adequately power. Some did not have the managerial want to dispose of spent fuel. "It is our insured. There has been talk of a billion competence to handle large projects as so hope", said Mr. Brewer, "we will not dispose dollar private insurance pool, but it has not phisticated as nuclear plants. Some simply of much spent fuel, that · we will reprocess materialized so far. Congressman Ertel has lost control, both of quality and cost, and the spent fuel and recover its fuel values introduced a bill to provide for government have had to be brought up short by NRC or and convert the waste into solid form for organization of an insurance scheme. Simi their bankers. Even some of those who have disposal." lar bills have been introduced in the Senate made a good job of it are now finding their The Administration has presented us with by Senators Heinz and Specter. construction plans upended by steadily di a conundrum: DOE says reprocessing of A government scheme would contain a minishing electrical demand and the aware spent fuel is an essential step for the dispos provision for retrospective insurance, col ness in the money markets, brought on in al of the nuclear wastes it contains. At the lecting from the member utilities after an part by Three Mile Island, of the vulnerabi same time the Office of Management and accident if the amount of damage and clean lities of these plants. Budget declines to provide a subsidy for pri up cost exceeds what is available in private The Breeder vate reprocessing, without which the private insurance coverage. Although the utilities sector says reprocessing is "not feasible or have welcomed the idea of federal assist The commitment to the Clinch River commercially practicable." In view of this, ance in a scheme to pay for the TMI-2 Breeder Reactor is a distraction from these cleanup, they are oddly cool to government problems. Not only will it consume money in how in the world can DOE proceed swiftly to store and dispose of high level waste, as involvement in non-TMI programs to insure large quantities, but it will also eat up the against future accidents. government's bureaucratic energies to little directed by the President? effect in the period of time we must talk Whatever the explanation for this inter TMI Cleanup about. To use an economist's term, the op nal contradiction, the new reprocessing The third item missing from the Presi portunity cost is very high. My own feeling policy is bound to undermine the waste dis dent's package is any federal plan for clean is that even though the breeder reactor is posal program. this will increase uncertain ing up Three Mile Island. I don't mean fed currently funded, it is not going to be built. ty about waste disposal and further under eral money necessarily, but a larger role in mine public confidence in nuclear power, putting together a definite assignment of re The country is just not in a mood to fund the very opposite of what the Administra projects that do not make sense economical sponsibilities. In the meantime, there isn't ly. And 'this one doesn't make sense at this tion says it wants. any question that the continued uncertain point because uranium is plentiful and the Moreover, the Administration does not ty about the future of the cleanup and the seem to want to provide spent fuel storage, TMI waste is not good for nuclear power. number of reactors expected to use it is di even though it is pretty cheap insurance minishing. Yet DOE has still not even agreed to accept against miscalculation in high level waste all the damaged fuel. Reprocessing disposal planning, perhaps because to do so There is also a bit of flummery in the re would relieve the pressure to reprocess. Protecting the investment processing decision. For while the Adminis "The position of the Administration", ac All in all, the Administration has left nu tration is supporting commercial reprocess cording to Mr. Brewer, "is, storage of spent clear power pretty much where it was ing, it is also declining to pick up the check fuel is a private sector responsibility." before the election. Except for one thing.
79-059 0-85-17 (Pt. 23) 30328 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981 The decision to tie together reprocessing graphically far removed from the peace and health or their lives to make the peace. and waste disposal planning complicates and comfort of this delightful city. That was an older generation. And the delays the solution to the problem of radio Unfortunately, we have been relatively peace is protected by hard work and active wastes. The emphasis on reprocessing late in awakening to this problem. It is now thoughtful policies, not by slogans in the is a throwback to a time when dozens of plu 8 years since the first oil shock; 3 years streets and casual disregard for the vital in tonium-fueled breeders were thought to be since the fall of the Shah; 2 years since the terests of one's country. around the corner. That is now just a fanta Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; 1 year since Indeed, because alliance deterrence has sy. It would have been better had the Ad the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war; 1 month worked so well, many have even lost sight of ministration simply accepted that our earli since the assassination of that great peace the threat itself. Because the alliance has er expectations were too grandiose, that maker, Anwar Sadat: and there is still insuf remained united, and warded off potential 120,000 megawatts of assured light water re ficient attention given in public discussion political pressure against its members, many actors by the 1990's would be pretty useful to the real danger posed by the vulnerabil appear to assume that its unity, and the po to have, and if it had taken the few reasona ity of the Western world-including Japan litical and security benefits it conveys, is a ble steps needed to protect that investment; as well as Western Europe and the United fixed fact of life, that it could not be lost Finally, let me stress that nothing is more States-to a potential cut-off of the supply through irresponsible positions or actions, important to protecting that investment of of oil from the Persian Gulf. or through the wedge-driving efforts of the public and private monies in nuclear reac Everyone recognizes that there is a prob Soviet Union. One has sympathy for the an tors than assuring their safety. Nothing lem, but there has been a tendency to view guish of the aspirations of the young-we would be more destructive of support both the issue as somehow isolated from the were all young once and I, too, have on Main Street and on Wall Street than an more familiar security concerns of the marched for peace in my student days-but, other accident. Yet there is no hint in the NATO alliance. Consequently, there has as is painfully evident in the discussions Administration's statement that the been a tendency on the part of some observ over nuclear matters, very few bother to smooth, safe operation of nuclear plants is ers to see the problems more in terms of concern themselves with the serious busi going to take a lot of improvement in indus economic relations and Third World poli ness of alliance deterrence strategy. try performance. Instead, there is more tics-which are, of course, important aspects Last month, I participated in the semian than a hint that the federal safety regula of the issue-and to downplay the direct nual meeting of the NATO nuclear planning tors don't know what they are doing. That's military and security aspects. group in Gleneagles, Scotland. At that not going to help on Main Street and on In my remarks today, I would like to dis meeting, alliance defense ministers clearly Wall Street, either.e cuss what the United States is seeking to do reaffirmed the alliance deterrence strategy to meet the security challenge in this region that an adequate defense position is the outside of the NATO area; our view of the best insurance for peace. NATO protects the ADDRESS BY PERMANENT REP overall Western interests which are in peace today, as it has for over 30 years. RESENTATIVE TO NATO ON volved; and the way in which the issue re NATO's strategy is based on having ade ''STRATEGY FOR THE WEST'' flects upon the NATO alliance itself. In quate forces at all levels-to convince a po doing so, I would also like to deal With two tential aggressor that the risks involved in major and interrelated misunderstandings precipitating aggression would be out of all HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI which affect public discussion in Europe, proportion to the conceivable gains he OF ILLINOIS and weaken our ability to meet challenges might hope to gain. both within and without the NATO area. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This strategy, which was developed during NATO'S DETERRENT STRATEGY the 1960's in the course of intensive alliance Wednesday, December 9, 1981 The first of these misunderstandings re discussions, reflects solid historical realities. e Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, lates to NATO's plans and capabilities for The history of this century shows clearly Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., deterring conflict in Europe, which have that aggressors are tempted to exploit situa been the target of large but seriously mis tions of weakness; who needs better proof of our Permanent Representative to guided public demonstrations in recent this than Soviet actions in Hungary, NATO, is one of the greatest diplo weeks. The second misunderstanding relates Czechoslovakia, and the whole Eastern tier mats of our time. He recently ad to the widespread assumption that the secu of states, Afghanistan-and now Poland? dressed the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung rity of Europe can be separated from the de Powers like the Soviet Union are less in Conference in Munich, where he gave fense of Western interests in other areas. clined to adventurism when it is obvious an impressive and strong speech on It is, perhaps, understandable that many that the potential opponent has the mili the subject of "Strategy for the West people today do not understand NATO tary capability to meet them, and the will to in the 1980's." plans for the deterrence of conflict in employ that capability if necessary. Histori Europe. NATO has been so successful in cally, aggressors pick victims which are On the eve of Secretary Haig's de maintaining peace and stability in Europe weak, disarmed, and isolated, not those with parture for Brussels to meet with over 30 years that most of the people who close and reliable alliance ties. other NATO countries, I believe Am are demonstrating have never experienced NATO's strategy of deterrence is not, as bassador Bennett's remarks are espe as adults any international situation other Soviet propaganda alleges, a formula for cially timely. They follow, for the than the security provided by the alliance. fighting a nuclear war in Europe. The pres Members' attention: They take it for granted, and do not ask ence of nuclear weapons in Europe-and it how or why it works. is well to remember that they have been sta STRATEGY FOR THE WEST IN THE 1980's How many of the new generation remem tioned on the continent to keep the peace I am very pleased, as always, at the oppor ber that the Atlantic Alliance created the since the 1950's-serves to ensure linkage tunity to speak in Munich. I have found framework within which the devastated between the conventional forces of the alli here, in my frequent meetings and discus Europe of 1945 grew into the prosperous so ance and the U.S. strategic forces. This link sions in recent years, a large measure of un ciety of today? How many understand the age guarantees that the Soviet Union can derstanding and support for the common enduring role played by the alliance in rein never hope to attack Europe alone, nor can political and security objectives which have tegrating the Federal Republic into the it hope to exert political pressure on Europe guided the Atlantic Alliance for three dec Western world, and ensuring the balance on alone, separate from the United States. This ades. And I have personally always enjoyed a continent otherwise open to the political is the reason that successive European the warm hospitality of your city. and military domination of one power, the statesmen have called for the maintenance The topic which you have asked me to ad Soviet Union? How many appreciate that and modernization of nuclear forces in dress, the United States and European Stra the strength and unity of that alliance has Europe to preserve this linkage-this link tegic Approach to the Situation Outside made it possible for the West collectively, age for peace. NATO, is perhaps the single most important and the Federal Republic individually, to This NATO strategy is also the only firm security issue facing us all today. It is even negotiate with the Soviet Union on East basis for arms control negotiations with the more important, in terms of the immediate West issues and arms control, including Soviet Union in the area of theater nuclear potential threat to Western societies, than Berlin, CSCE, MBFR, and, beginning later forces. It was only after the NATO double the hotly-debated questions of LRTNF mod this month, the LRTNF talks in Geneva? decision of December 1979, that the Soviet ernization and arms control. Indeed, there, From the public record, and from my own Union agreed to open negotiations, now is no question in my mind that all of the private discussions, it would appear that scheduled to begin in Geneva this month. members of NATO will find themselves in very few of the new generation have any of The Soviets have had a large nuclear missile creasingly concerned, directly or indirectly, these memories and insights. Young people force targetted on Europe for years; they with the challenge to Western security and tend to overlook the fact that they inherit began adding to and modernizing it with the interests arising in regions of the world geo- ed the peace-they did not sacrifice their deployment of the SS-20 in the late 1970's. December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 30329 There are now some 250 SS-20's deployed, What can the West do in this situation? possibly hostile terrain to reach crucial with three warheads each, a total of 750 Some have suggested that we need new con areas. warheads. Together with the older systems, sultative mechanisms, or that we need to These U.S. efforts, and those of others, the Soviets now have deployed well over extend the operational boundaries of however, have clear implications for the al 1,000 Soviet LRTNF missile warheads. I NATO. I disagree with both of these propo liance defense effort in Europe. Although note that Mr. Brezhnev in his interview sitions. Our existing structures are fully the Reagan administration is making signif with Der Spiegel, published just yesterday adequate for consultation and coordination icant increases in defense expenditures, U.S. in Moscow, admitted to a total of 975 "Euro if they are used properly. And what is re resources are not infinite. U.S. divisions strategic Missiles." NATO has none. Some quired to meet the challenge outside NATO which may have to be assigned to a crisis in how, the demonstrators never seem to men is not an extension of the NATO treaty Southwest Asia would no longer be available tion this comparison. It was not until the area, but an enhanced effort by individual to reinforce Central Europe. U.S. naval Soviets understood that NATO was serious Western nations, singly and in collabora forces serving in the Indian Ocean would about correcting this imbalance that they tion. not be available for the protection of mari accepted the NATO offer of arms control A PROGRAM OF ACTION time convoys in the North Atlantic, or for negotiations. At the very least, the demon controlling the Mediterranean. U.S. aircraft strators are weakening the Western position One thing we can do, of course, is to try to which are used to transport forces to South for the arms control negotiations the dem reduce our dependence on Persian Gulf oil. west Asia would not be availalbe to fly onstrators profess to want. There has, in fact, been a decline in oil con troops to Central Europe. Further, if the I am confident that these basic truths sumption, due in part to greater efficiency United States is to project significant forces about the NATO strategy will be better un in our energy use, in part to a shift to other to Southwest Asia in a period of crisis, it derstood in the future. My Government is energy sources, and in part to the generally will have to depend on cooperation of sever working on this, and I know that others in slow world economic conditions. However, al European allies for transit facilities. the alliance are also active. More, however, we remain far too dependent and too vul If the alliance is to continue to present a needs to be done to reach the new genera nerable. credible conventional defense in Europe, at tion and those in the older generation who We must, therefore, take resolute action the same time that new challenges in should know better. to help ensure the continued viability of the Southwest Asia are being met, we must find THE GLOBAL NATURE OF SECURITY Western lifeline in this area. ways of replacing these U.S. combat capa The second misunderstanding, which tries To do this, we must: Provide economic and bilities in the European theater. to separate the security of Europe from the security assistance to friendly states in the We cannot accept a system which compla security of Western interests elsewhere, is region; increase the Western presence in cently counts everything twice. That is fine closely related to the first. The peace and peacetime; and develop the ability to project in peacetime, but could leave all of us out in prosperity which have been achieved in significant military force to the area in a the cold in wartime. We have, therefore, Europe in the past 36 years thanks largely crisis. agreed in the alliance that we will consult to NATO are unparalleled in world history. The United States is working on all of on the force implications of the out-of-area Never before has such a large group of these levels. We have allocated the major problem, and that alliance members will people lived in peace, enjoyed such demo portion of our economic and military assist take steps to meet any resulting gaps. This cratic freedom, and reaped the benefits of ance to countries in the Southwest Asian is a complex matter, particularly when it is such productive societies. The situation is region, including both those NATO allies on difficult for members of the alliance to find particularly unusual in light of past Europe the southern flank and Near Eastern coun funds for the present level of defense effort. an history, in which wars every decade were tries. We have increased our peacetime pres But there is no other satisfactory course. almost a matter of course. And it is in sharp ence in the area, including particularly our We do not have the option of saying that, contrast with the situation in most of the naval presence in the Indian Ocean. We because of financial difficulties, we chose rest of the world, where there have been have engaged in joint exercises with the not to be prepared. The historical record of major and minor international conflicts states in the area, and intend to increase nations which made such ill-considered every year since 1945; where democratic lib this activity. We have begun the arduous choices is not a happy one. Security is not erties and economic well-being are very process of building a capacity to deploy siza deferrable, unless we are prepared through scarce commodities indeed. ble military forces over the very long dis lack of security to put all our other values In these circumstances, it is perhaps natu tances between the United States and and social accomplishments at risk. ral that some people prefer to look at Southwest Asia. Some people have argued that the out-of Europe as a secure and comfortable island. For that purpose, we have earmarked area problem is exaggerated, and that the Natural, but very misleading. In spiritual units in the United States and have estab members of the alliance should not deal terms no man is an island; the same applies lished a separate command structure. We with it because the NATO treaty area is cir to security. It is not possible to have a secu have pre-positioned equipment, particularly cumscribed. They have contended that the rity policy for NATO, but to ignore this re on ships, for use by U.S. forces coming to problems of oil supply could be solved by quirement for all other areas. Indeed, from the area in time of crisis. The concept is political means, making unnecessary direct the U.S. point of view, all security policy very similar to the deployment of extra sets or indirect Western involvement in the secu must be seen in a global context. It is not so of U.S. military equipment in Germany for rity of the area. different for our European friends and use by the U.S. divisions which would rein Unfortunately, it is difficult to build a allies. force Europe in a crisis. I have visited the strategy on this basis. There is no question In the assessment of the United States, annual Reforger exercises in Germany, and that the political problems of the region are the most likely threats to Western security witnessed U.S. troops who had arrived by severe and deep-rooted. The United States in the next decade are likely to come in the air removing their equipment from ware has been in the forefront of efforts to area of the Persian gulf. Western depend houses and moving out into the field for ma achieve a just and durable peace between ence on the assured flow of oil from the gulf neuvers. The concept works in Europe, and Israel and the Arabs. We know from our is the single most vulnerable aspect of our it can work in Southwest Asia. own experience the difficulties involved and highly-industrialized societies. Europe and We believe that, with our efforts to devel the genuine possibilities which exist. The Japan are more dependent on oil from the op a Rapid Deployment Force, and the ef Reagan administration is continuing to Middle East than is the United States. It forts of those other allies who maintain push forward with the effort which became would be folly to ignore this fact. Today, forces in the area-there are, for example, known as the Camp David process. the ability of the Soviet Union to exploit important French and United Kingdom However, it is not clear that even a com that vulnerability has grown. Soviet aircraft naval units in the Indian Ocean-together plete resolution of the outstanding political in Mghanistan are less than 1 hour's flying also with the efforts of friendly regional problems of the region would ensure the time from the Straits of Hormuz. Soviet di powers, we will present a credible defensive safety of Western oil supplies, which would visions in Afghanistan and in the neighbor capability to deter Soviet adventurism. We still remain vulnerable to Soviet direct ing regions of the Soviet Union, are far do not plan major ground force peacetime attack or indirect subversive activity. There closer to the region than corresponding deployments in the region such as have fore, we believe that what is required is a Western forces. And the internal situation been established in the Federal Republic composite program, of political, economic, in the region may offer the Soviets entice under NATO, and which have contributed and military efforts, which will enhance the ments for intervention, which would be dis so importantly to maintaining the peace in strength and security of our friends in the astrous to Western interests. The continued Europe. The local situation is, of course, dif area, deter Soviet Adventurism, and pre turmoil in Iran, the war between Iran and ferent in Southwest Asia, and the Soviets serve the basis for an enduring relationship Iraq, the insane ambitions of Colonel Kha are not directly bordering the region-as between the West and the region. daffi, all could offer opportunities for the they are in the GDR and Czechoslovakia This is a broad and varied program. There Soviets. but rather would have to cross difficult and are actual and potential roles in it for all 30330 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981 members of the alliance, suited to the par To assist Members and their staffs This pamphlet should not be used as a ticular capacities and policies of individual who are dealing with constituent in substitute for consultation with an attor nations-acting individually and jointly quiries from divorced military spouses, ney. rather than an alliance which, after all, has Q. The McCarty decision was about a case fixed boundaries for its activities. What is I am inserting in the REcORD two from California I was divorced in a different important is that we press forward prompt items. state. Does this case affect me? ly with action, to ensure that our friends First, the NOW legal defense and A. Yes. When the U.S. Supreme Court de are not left exposed and without assistance, education fund has published a bro cides a case, it affects everybody, no matter that our own vital interests are protected chure entitled "After McCarty against where they live. Before McCarty the majori and that the dangerous politics of violence McCarty: A Guide to Your Rights as a ty of states allowed their courts to divide and threat do not come to dominate this Military Wife," which contains an the marital property to help divorced spouses of litigation and appeals-and possibly another in the McCarty against McCarty case, 1 that military retirement pay is not military members understand the impact Supreme Court case. of the McCarty decision upon their rights to Q. Can my former spouse just stop marital property subject to State com share in their former partners' military re making payments? munity property laws and, therefore, tired pay and possible courses of action A. No. Your former spouse does not have could not be divided by a court upon available if court-ordered payments are dis the right to stop making payments without divorce. continued. NOW LDEF also has developed first getting a court order. Ordinarily there Since then many constituents who and made available a Technical Assistance must be a hearing at which you will be able are military former spouses have Package for lawyers, exploring the legal to present your side of the story before any called congressional offices to find out issues raised by McCarty. thing can be changed. By taking matters what effect the McCarty decision into his own hands, your ex-spouse is prob ably in contempt of court. If payments are would have on their receipt of pay 1 Almost all military retirees are men, and almost all former military spouses are women who have discontinued, you should see an attorney ments from a military retiree-either been homemakers. This brochure, therefore, as promptly to protect your rights. as alimony and child support or as a sumes it is the husbands who have received benefits Q. But what happens if I do go to court to property settlement. that have been divided with their ex-wives. force my former spouse to continue pay- December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 30331 ments? Won't the judge apply the new ty property laws and, therefore, these re ment of retirement benefits to the nonmili McCarty rule and allow the payments to be tirement benefits cannot be divided by a tary spouse. discontinued? court upon divorce. However, there are no standardized guide A. Not necessarily. Once a final judgment The Supreme Court reversed California lines that all courts will follow regarding has been reached in a case, usually it is not court decisions which had awarded nearly the conduct of this type of hearing. Each affected by later changes in the law. Even one-half of her former husband's retirement case will have to be assessed on its own when the Supreme Court has overruled one benefits earned during his 18¥2 year mar merits since each is unique. of its own earlier decisions, the new rule riage to Patricia McCarty. The retirement Further, the situation presented to the may not be applied to cases already decided. benefit is often the major marital asset ac court could be quite complex since property Especially when property rights have al quired by military families. and support rights may have been deter ready been established and people have In the future former military spouses will mined many years ago, and both spouses relied on those rights in structuring their have no property claim to any portion of relied upon this determination in restruc lives, courts carefully examine the basic the military retirement pay. This is so re turing their lives after the divorce. fairness of giving retroactive effect to a gardless of their contribution to the acquisi Alimony may not have been awarded and change in the law. In many cases, the courts tion of that asset. may now be inappropriate, a house may may conclude it is unfair to withdraw prop But what happens for the thousands of have been sole, new property may have been erty payments-particularly if other sources former military wives to whom a portion of acquired or similar events or transactions of income, such as alimony, are no longer the retirement benefits has already been may have occurred as part of or after the available. granted in a property award? Because the original property settlement. Q. Can my former spouse stop alimony Court did not indicate whether the McCarty Since it is practically impossible to turn and child support payments? decision was to apply retroactively, the air is the hands of the clock back to the original A. No. McCarty applies only to property rife with confusion regarding what the deci divorce date, a court may call McCarty ret settlements from military retired pay. The sion means for existing marital property set roactive and may conclude that the equities Court recognized that Congress had passed tlements. in a particular situation dictate the continu legislation specifically permitting all federal As a result, former wives of military per ation of the original order, McCarty not benefits, including military retired pay, to sonnel are currently living in a state of withstanding. Any trial court decision is, of be subject to legal process in order to en limbo-fearful that their payments will course, subject to appeal and the questions force child support or alimony obligations. stop, leaving many in difficult financial may not be ultimately resolved for several Even after McCarty, state courts are al straits. Many former military wives have re years. This too will have to be developed lowed to order that alimony or child sup ceived calls and letters from their former through litigation.• port payments be made out of military re husbands threatening to cut off all pay tired pay. ments and some have, indeed, halted the If your former spouse discontinues pay payments. A TRIBUTE TO ABE POLLIN ment of alimony or child support without a While the McCarty decision is clear in its court order authorizing such action, he or application only to ·property claims, threats she may be in contempt of court. You to stop all alimony and child support pay HON. STENY H. HOYER should see an attorney immediately to en ments have also been reported. The emo force your right to payment. tional strain is escalating as lawyers attempt OF MARYLAND Since it is not always easy to determine to assess fully the McCarty decision and its IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES whether you are receiving alimony or prop aftermath. Wednesday, December 9, 1981 erty payments, it is most prudent to consult Clearly the Supreme Court limited its de an attorney familiar with laws in your own cision to the issue before it-the divisibility • Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, 8 years state so your rights are protected. of military retirement benefits. Thus ago, Abe Pollin presented to the citi Q. I can't afford to hire an attorney, what McCarty does not reach alimony or child zens of the metropolitan area, the can I do? support awards. The Supreme Court specifi Capital Centre, a sports-entertainment A. A variety of options is available to cally acknowledged that Congress had en those who cannot afford legal services. You acted legislation which provides that all fed arena that has become the pride of may be eligible for assistance from your eral benefits, including military retired pay, Prince Georges County, Md. local Legal Aid Society or legal services are subject to legal procedures to enforce child support or alimo rim of the beltway, the Capital Centre "Attorneys"). Your state or local bar asso ny obligations. is the product of a unique partnership ciation or women's center may be able to These obligations continue to exist, and put you in touch with an attorney who is between the private sector and the the responsibility to pay child support oral Government. Built with $20 million in willing to accept certain cases at a reduced imony is not abrogated by McCarty. Any fee or no charge. Some states allow the unilateral decision on the part of the retiree private funds, the arena stands on judge to order your former spouse to pay to stop meeting those obligations raises the land rented from the Maryland Na your attorney fees if you must go to court risk of being held in contempt of court. tional Capital Park and Planning to enforce a property settlement. But it is not clear how the McCarty deci Commission. In 33 years, the owner Whatever you do, don't give up without sion will affect existing property settle ship of the Centre will revert to the exploring all avenues of possible assistance. ments. The legal principles on the retroac Your rights are too valuable to abandon county at no cost. tive effect of McCarty will have to be devel This was the first time in our coun without a struggle. oped through subsequent litigation. 1981 by NOW Legal Defense and Educa There are, however, some guideposts ty's history that this type of venture tion Fund, 132 West 43rd Street, New York, which can be considered for insight on how was accomplished, and it has proven to N.Y. 10036. <212> 354-1225. All rights re lower courts might interpret the decision. be an advantageous one for the served. county. Taxes on this real estate have NOW LDEF is a non-profit organization The often threatened "self help" working on precedent-setting projects and method-the retired spouse simply stopping funneled $2.9 million into our coffers. litigation designed to guarantee constitu payments currently being made pursuant to In addition, ticket admission taxes and tional rights to free women and men from a court order-could be improper. income taxes increase the direct cash In fact, since payments are being made payment to the county by $13.3 mil the limitations of sex discrimination. The under the authority of a valid court order, a organization's existence depends upon the former service member might risk being lion. This ranks the facility among the contributions of individuals, foundations held in contempt of court if he unilaterally top 20 sources of tax revenues in the and corporations interested in achieving stops the payments. Instead, it could be county. this goal. Your contribution is invited. argued, a court order must be obtained that But the benefits from the Capital [From the Spokeswomen, September 19811 authorizes the cessation of payments. Centre are not limited solely to its role Although the procedure differs from state THE .AFTERMATH OF McCARTY AGAINST as a tax resource. Not only does the to state, ordinarily this cannot be accom Centre boost county revenues, it also McCARTY plished unless there is a court hearing at , NLADA [National Legal Aid and De owner of the Baltimore Bullets and he OF ALABAMA fender Association], the National Organiza dreamed of creating a home for his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion of Legal Services Workers team that would provide it with a and the Minority Caucus. It will be expand Wednesday, December 9, 1981 ing to include others from within the legal broad base of support and at the same • Mr. SMITH of Alabama. Mr. Speak services community, such as National Asso time, a center in the Washington area er, recently I offered the first install ciation of Indian Legal Services , for sports activities. Pollin tackled the ment of an excellent monograph on migrant farm workers . the American Friends Service Committee Prison Project University, he left the family business , and the Self-Development ny. His offices and apartment build No funds made available by the Corpora Group -are working towards build ings won countless awards for design tion ... may be used- ing a coalition to strengthen their hand in and construction. (7) to initiate. the formation, or act as an opposition to [Massachusetts Governor Ed] Pollins interests soon took him into organizer, of any association, federation, or King['s] administration policy [relating to similar entity, except that this paragraph prison construction]." the sports field, and in 1964 he became shall not be construed to prohibit the provi If these efforts at organizing coalitions for one of three people to buy the Balti sion of legal assistance to eligible clients. political purposes are not in violation of sec more Bullets. Within 4 years he was Since the creation of the Corporation, tion 1007(b)(7), it is hard to understand the sole owner. This ownership paved proponents of the politicized Legal Services what is. the road to the Capital Centre. With Program have attempted to limit the scope The Office of Management and Budget, in the Bullets and the new National of the words "initiate the formation" and an opinion dated May, 1981, found wide "act as an organizer," contained in the sec spread violations by the Corporation and its Hockey League expansion franchise, tion 1007<7> limitation. The House Edu recipients of Federal laws prohibiting lobby the Washington Capitals, he opened cation and Labor Committee's report at ing. Acting Comptroller General Milton J. the Capital Centre on December 2, tempted to draw a distinction between Soclar held that: 1973. "prepar<7> standard. 1007 of the Legal Services Act, and appro directors of the Metropolitan Wash In the December 1979, issue of "Clearing priations restrictions on lobbying and prop ington Board of Trade and as general house Review", Alan Houseman's Research aganda. chairman of the Metropolitan Wash Institute on Legal Assistance solicited mem Unlawful lobbying activities by the Corpo bers for a "national coalition, Citizens for ration and its recipients take a wide variety ington Summer Jobs for Youth pro Tax Justice , and the In addition, however, there is a day-to-day guests. Recently we were honored to American Federation of State, County, and mechanism where issues targeted by backup host the President and other digni Municipal Employees . centers on a national level are systematical taries at the 1981 Inaugural Gala cele- Readers interested in membership were ly lobbied by legal services recipient organi given the address and telephone number of zations. bration. · the executive director of CTJ. The method by which issues are selected Abe Pollin and his Capital Centre The article went on to recommend that varies from case to case. In at least one case, have both contributed greatly to the "those [LSC-funded1 programs active in tax a backup center has polled its mailing list residents of Prince Georges County reform activities, but not interested in join for recommendations. and to the Washington Metropolitan ing the coalition may want to consider con After a decision is made to lobby on tacting the coalition for technical assistance behalf of a given issue, the backup center area. In recognition of the eighth an and information about coalition members phones local legal services offices. The local niversary of the Capital Center and who may be active in their local area." It contact can be a state lobbying coordinator, the 58th birthday of Mr. Pollin, I offer also solicited suggestions and ideas about as in the case of Marshall Cohen of Pine this tribute.e "other actions the legal services and client Tree Legal Services in Maine. In other community could take in conjunction with states, there may be no designated contact, the CTJ." and the national backup center simply In a strikingly similar case involving the phones each Legal Services office within the same recipient, Houseman, in his December, state. 1980, lobbying strategy memorandum, advo Contacts made through this system occur cated the same sort of coalition building. regularly. They involve issues which are Stated Houseman: seemingly unrelated to the Legal Services December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 30333 Corporation's authorizations or appropria "[Reagan's Legal Services proposal isl total become president of the association tions. They may be made in response to a ly insane, exhibiting a callous insensitivity for 1982. Former chairman of the poll or other Washington-based decision to the needs and aspirations of the poor." Commission on Occupational Educa making process, rather than the needs of a Former National Bar Assocaition president particular client. Nothing would appear to Robert L. Harris went on to ad that "[bllack tion Institutions, Payne is the second be more clearly in violation of all four America must rise up and confront the Ad vocational educator to become presi major Legal Services lobbying restrictions. ministration on this proposed madness." dent of the southern association in its It is against this backdrop that the Corpo In implementing the Houseman plan on 85-year history. ration, in 1980, launched a massive illegal the Washington level, the Food Research The Southern Association of Colleg lobbying effort to secure its reauthorization and Action Center and the LSC-funded es and Schools is a voluntary, nongov and, after the election of Ronald Reagan to Native American Rights Fund both joined a ernmental, institution-based organiza the Presidency, to achieve the defeat of the coalition of feminist groups signing a peti tion serving public, private, and pro Reagan economic package. tion in protest of the President's budget cut The lobby strategy memorandum by proposals. prietary institutions at all levels in 11 Houseman represents perhaps the most self In April 1981, and on numerous other oc Sun Belt States. The agency's chief evidently illegal manifestation of this strat casions, Corporation President Dan Bradley purpose is accrediting, which annually egy. In it, Houseman lays down an eight had stood with other Legal Services repre involves thousands of educators who point plan for "waging battle" on behalf of sentatives in the reception room of the volunteer as professionals to serve on not only reauthorizing legislation satisfac Senate chamber, accosting Senators to en visiting committees in the processes of tory to the Corporation, but also retention courage them to bust the President's budget peer evaluation and accreditation. of other Federal agencies which President resolution. Dr. Payne's qualifications are cer Reagan seeks to replace with block grants. According to Budget Committee Chair Because it deals with problems other than man Pete Domenici the board of directors of the Bessemer We will be increasing the Washington lob members of Congress can be crucial." Chamber of Commerce, Bessemer bying efforts of the Corporation and our or Similarly, the Luzerne County Legal Serv Rotary Club, Bessemer Carraway ganizations. NLADA, for example, has hired ices Association advertised in Clearinghouse Medical Center, and Bessemer YMCA. a full-time experienced lobbyist to work on Review for a "law reform specialist," and He is a member of Bessemer Lodge 458 legal services and other matters. The new the Contra Costa Legal Services Foundation F.A.M.-32d degree Scottish Rite, a entity being formed will substantially boasted to would be recruits of its "tradition deacon in the Bessemer First Presby expand our lobbying capacity. of strong coummunity involvement and ag There is ample evidence that the House gressive participation in local political, terian Church, and was named as ·an man plan to defeat the Reagan budget is social and economic battles on behalf of its outstanding young man by the Jaycees being vigorously pursued by a wide variety client communities." in 1972 and 1973. of funding recipients. Clearinghouse Review, which recieved It is truly an honor for me to recog Beginning around the first week in March, $840,000 from LSC in fiscal year 1981, serves nize the achievements of Dr. Charles 1981, hundreds of local newspapers began as a bulletin board for liberal legislative Payne. I am proud to have such an featuring curiously similar interviews with causes, alerting readers to Congressional outstanding educator in my district. I the heads of the local Legal Services pro status of liberal agenda items such as "inter grams, in many cases resulting from press venor funding" legislation and the Domestic know the Southern Association of Col releases emanating from those programs. Violence Prevention and Services Act, as leges and Schools is very fortunate to With a similarity of themes which makes well as harpooning conservative legislation have him as their new president.e coincidence unlikely, these articles bear such as the Family Protection Act.e titles such as "Legal aid lawyer says cuts would hurt rural poor worst," "Cuts Would MYRTLE BEACH SUN NEWS End Legal Aid to Rural Poor, Director TRIBUTE TO AN OUTSTANDING GROWS FAST Warns," "President Reagan's Legal Aid Cuts EDUCATOR Will Hurt North Dakotan's Los Angeles v. Manhart, 435 U.S. 702 (1978). classify that person. Thus, if an individual is The Court accepted as true that women, as ernment benefits and government reg classified as an American male, he will have a class, live longer than men, as a class, but ulation, transportation, recreation, a life expectancy that differs from his life reasoned that the individual was protected voting, education, athletics and virtu expectancy if he is classified as an American by Title VII from being discriminated ally· all other areas of life. My bill male resident of an urban community. This against on the basis of sex. The Manhart leaves enforcement of that policy pri expectancy will also be different from his Court expressed approval of an entirely marily to the States and only second expectancy if he is classified as a black gender-neutral system of contributions and arily to the State and Federal courts, American male resident of an urban commu benefits. It reasoned that such a system and will not set up a Federal agency to nity. Thus, the same person could have would pay retirees with long lives more than three different life expectancies, each one those with short lives. Although such a administer the law. Its enactment will statistically valid and no one expectancy system might result in women, as a class, re make unnecessary the extensive litiga more true than the other. If the data are ceiving more benefits than men, as a class, it tion which, under other statutes such correct and the calculation accurate, each would nonetheless be discriminating precise as title VII and the Equal Pay Act, is life expectancy will be true for the group it ly on the basis of longevity rather than im now facing the insurance industry. describes. precisely on the basis of sex. December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 30345 Following Manhart, there has been a ination in Insurance Act. I urge you to make In the past it was quite common for both growing consensus among courts, federal enactment of H.R. 100 in this Congress a life and health insurance companies to dis agencies and commentators, that both con top priority, and ask that you schedule addi criminate against Americans in the rates tributions and benefits must be equal in an tional hearings on the bill at an early date. they were charged based on membership in employer sponsored pension plan. In fact, I believe your bill will accomplish the im a racial, ethnic, or religious minority. You all courts which have confronted the issue portant goal of eliminating sex discrimina and I remember the days, and they weren't have held that an employer cannot, consist tion in insurance and annuities, and will that long ago, when blacks automatically ent with Title VII, take equal contributions bring tangible economic benefits to millions had to pay more for insurance than whites, and provide unequal periodic benefits upon of Americans. The arguments one hears when they could get coverage at all. Today, retirement. against the adoption of such legislation are while such racial discrimination is not overt The post-Manhart judicial decisions dem familiar ones to all of those who remember ly practiced in the sale of insurance, dis onstrate as important trend favoring the earlier efforts to eliminate racial discrimina crimination on the basis of gender is still elimination of gender-based actuarial tables. tion in insurance. Actuarial statistics were standard within the insurance industry. At the same time, they reveal the inadequa cited then to justify charging black Ameri Earlier this week, I wrote to every cy of litigation under Title VII as a solution cans more than whites. We believed then, member of the House of Representatives to the problem. Title VII applies to employ and we believe now, that it is improper for and to every Senator to urge that legislation ers. It does not apply to insurance compa any company to determine that Americans be adopted to outlaw sex discrimination in nies unless they are found to be the agents be singled out for higher insurance rates or insurance and annuities. Two bills are pres of employers or employers themselves. lower coverage solely on the basis of race, ently pending in Congress to accomplish Title VII litigation will only pressure in and we take the same view with respect to that goal: Congressman John Dingell's bill, surance companies indirectly by increasing discrimination based on sex. HR 100, the Nondiscrimination in Insurance employer demand for gender-neutral poli Operating an insurance company on a Act, and Senator David Durenberger's bill, cies. Insurance companies will be free to basis of fair treatment to all citizens is no S. 888, the Economic Equity Act. So far, market policies based on sex-segregated detriment to business, success, and the over 100 members of congress have co-spon tables to individuals and to employers will adoption of nondiscriminatory rates will not sored this legislation, an important step in ing or forced to pay different prices to impose any substantial burden on the insur establishing fair treatment for every Ameri equalize female and male annuities and life ance industry. In fact, we at Consumers can in the sale and operation of insurance insurance benefits. This may even create in United are taking vigorous steps at this time and annuities. centive for employers further to discrimi to eliminate sex discrimination from our The arguments now being made against nate against women because of the in own rate schedules in advance of the enact the bills to prohibit sex discrimination in in creased cost of their fringe benefits. ment of your bill. surance are similar to those you previously Legislation such as H.R. 100, introduced Because I feel strongly about this issue, I heard when we were trying to get racial dis last term by Rep. Dingell of Michigan, have written this week to every member of crimination in insurance banned. In those would do directly, completely and uniformly the House and Senate urging support for days, actuarial statistics were cited to justi what Title VII can only do indirectly and your bill. In addition, on Saturday, Novem fy charging black Americans more than partially. This bill prohibits all types of dis ber 14, I addressed the national convention whites. We believed then, and we believe crimination in insurance on the basis of of the National Council of Negro Women in now, that it is improper for any company to race, sex, religion and national-origin. Re Washington, D.C. and asked for their sup determine the Americans be singled out for garding discrimination on the basis of sex, it port in the fight to eliminate sex discrimina higher insurance rates or lower coverage requires, among other things, that men and tion in insurance. I have enclosed a copy of solely on the basis of race. We take the women be charged the same premiums for my remarks to the NCNW for your informa same view of discrimination on the basis of the same benefits. It requires insurance tion and use. sex. No American should be arbitrarily as companies to use unisex actuarial tables Thank you again for your leadership on signed a discriminatory rate due to factors that is, actuarial tables that sexually inte this important issue. unrelated to the risk which he or she indi grate. Thus, sex no longer could be used by Sincerely, vidually presents to the underwriting com the insurance industry as a risk classifica ROBERT FREEMAN. pany. Clearly, race or sex is such a arbitrary tion device. In light of the current judicial "ELIMINATING SEX DISCRIMINATION IN IN discrimination. That is why I hope you will consensus that unisex tables are required in speak with your elected representatives and employer-sponsored pension plans, the ex SURANCE"-REMARKS OF ROBERT FREEMAN, PRESIDENT, CONSUMERS UNITED INSURANCE tell them that you believe that sex discrimi tension of this requirement by H.R. 100 nation in insurance should be eliminated.e would fill an important gap in civil rights Co. laws. Throughout our history, black women By setting a uniform federal standard of have offered leadership, strength, and inspi EL SALVADOR-ONE YEAR nondiscrimination H.R. 100 also will elimi ration to us. You have spoken with the voice nate the competitive pressure for insurance of moral authority on matters of concern to LATER companies to maintain sex-based actuarial the black community, and indeed to all tables. In the absence of federal legislation, Americans. Since 1935, the National Council HON. WILLIAM R. RATCHFORD one company's adoption of unisex tables, or of Negro Women has been there whenever one state's requirement of such tables, the need was there-improving conditions in OF CONNECTICUT would drive insureds to insurance companies our neighborhoods, fostering tolerance and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not covered by such action. Congressional understanding between various segments of enactment will totally eliminate this prob our society, and adding enrichment to the Wednesday, December 9, 1981 lem. lives of our youth and inspiring them to e Mr. RATCHFORD. Mr. Speaker, in In sum, gender discrimination is rampant dream new dreams. connection with my continuing con in the insurance industry. It has resulted Today, as economic conditions threaten to primarily from the fundamental sex classifi undo the progress that so many have made, cern for the policies of this country, as cation upon which virtually all insurance and as important programs of social support expressed by our State Department rates are based and secondarily from the in are in danger of drastic reduction, Ameri toward El Salvador, I submit the fol dustry's stereotypical view of women. The cans look once again to voluntary associa lowing article from the December 2, only way to end this practice is uniformly to tions like the National Council of Negro 1981, Hartford Courant: prohibit it through federal insurance legis Women to provide a voice of leadership and strength. Once again, you are called upon to DEATH IN EL SALVADOR: SEEKING JUSTICE FOR lation. A SISTER'S MURDER provide focus and guidance to those who CONSUMERS UNITED INSURANCE Co., seek solutions to the problems which beset Washington. D.C. November 16, 1981. our community as a result of an economy in Mike Donovan is a tall, slender man of 30, Hon. JoHN D. DINGELL, recession-an economy which provides a few with neatly cropped blond hair, wire Member of Congress, with an embarrassment of riches, and pro rimmed glasses and a quiet, sometimes Rayburn Building, vides many with the pain of deprivation. I boyish look about him when he smiles. Washington, D. C. urge you to stay involved in the fight for When he talks about his murdered sister, DEAR MR. DINGELL: As President of Con economic equity in our country. Jean, he adopts a mild tone and a measured, sumers United Insurance Company, I am One aspect of that fight that I know a almost detached manner. After living day writing to express my appreciation to you little something about is the fight to see to and night for a year with the facts of his sis for your leadership and support in drafting it that all Americans are treated fairly in ter's violent death, he distances himself and introducing H.R. 100, the Nondiscrim- their dealings with insurance companies. from the subject as a way of coping. 30346 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981 A resident of Danbury, Donovan is an ac tests by the FBI linked two army soldiers to few days after I heard.... I'm still angry. countant in Springfield, Mass. His sister the murders. . But the sense of rage passes with time, I Jean, two years younger than he, also was Under pressure from the U.S. government guess."e an accountant. They grew up in Westport, and public, the government of President attended public schools there. Jose Napoleon Duarte initiated an investiga After college and graduate school, Jean tion into the murders. In April, six army of NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD: Donovan joined an accounting firm in ficers were placed under "barracks" arrest PART II-ORGANIZATIONAL Cleveland. In her spare time, she volun in connection with the crime. Since then, SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM teered with a Catholic social service agency the investigation has gone nowhere. that worked with the poor and elderly in After the arrests, Ambassador White Cleveland's inner city. was quoted as thing "more substantial" for people, she saying that he is convinced the soldiers will OF GEORGIA sought and accepted an offer by the Roman not be punished for fear they will reveal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Catholic diocese of Cleveland to go to its who else was involved. mission in El Salvador and run an orphan "I seriously doubt," White said, "that Wednesday, December 9, 1981 age there. there are only six guardsmen involved. . . . e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, I She was assigned to a town called La Li If there were, there wouldn't have been bertad in the southwestern region of El Sal enough incentive for the cover-up to have have been discussing aspects of the vador where, with fellow missionaries, she taken place. An arrest of six enlisted men to support given to terrorist groups by immersed herself in work-putting in 14- allay public opinion is a very simple thing to the National Lawyers Guild, an orga and 16-hour days feeding, clothing, shelter accomplish. It has to be followed up by trial nization of revolutionary lawyers, law ing and educating the children displaced by and exposure of those involved." students, and revolutionary activists that nation's violent civil war. Mike Donovan wonders if there will ever founded as a Communist Party front Willingly, she did the grunt work at the be a trial. Last month, the Salvadoran judge and still operating under the control mission. When plans were hatched for im in charge of the· official investigation said of a coalition of members, veterans, proving a clinic or expanding a school, the inquiry was at a "dead end." In spite of someone else would quarterback the idea existing FBI evidence, in spite of numerous, and supporters of the Communist through meetings and approvals of the still-unquestioned local witnesses, in spite of Party, U.S.A., and younger Castroites. archbishop's office. Jean would be happy official reports of intercepted radio trans I have pointed out some instances, accomplishing the more prosaic aspects of missions between military units that might taken from among scores of potential the job, " ... out in a field somewhere un indicate a murder conspiracy, the judge examples, of the involvements of loading a truck." said, "There is nothing more I can do." members of the NLG in terrorist She was not political. "She was very upset People in a position to know, like Robert groups and in illegal activities in sup by the violence she saw around her," Mike White or Connecticut Sen. Christopher J. Donovan says, "but when she talked about Dodd, who recently returned from El Salva port of terrorism. it, she didn't talk in terms of the 10,000 dor, say that justice simply won't be had in Today I would like to examine some people killed last year, she talked about this this case. According to a Dodd aide, there of the support that the NLG provides girl in the church choir who was murdered, have been approximately 25,000 murders of as an organization through its resolu or that child who lost its parents." non-combatants in El Salvador since the tions passed at its national conven J.ean Donovan and Dorothy Kazel, an Ur junta took over in 1979 and not a single case tions, and through projects the NLG suline nun also from the diocese of Cleve has ever come to trial. Even if two eyewit land, were known to their fellow mission nesses to the crime are found, as required has officially sponsored. aries as the "Rescue Squad" because they by Salvadoran law, no judge in the country In cooperation with activists from were always ready with their van to give would be likely to hear the case. Any judge the Weather Underground Organiza someone a lift or make a delivery. They who did, under present circumstances, tion Maryknoll missionaries Ita Ford and the trial. been involved in radicalizing prison in Maura Clarke who were returning from a Mike Donovan was told in October by mates and organizing them to form religious conference in Nicaragua. Donovan Dean Hinton, current ambassador to El Sal and Kazel met Ford and Clarke at 7 p.m. at vador, that the U.S. Embassy in San Salva terrorist shock troops since the late the airport to drive to La Libertad. dor can't employ a Salvadoran lawyer to ex 1960's. This activity is an outgrowth of They never made it. Somewhere along the plain local law in the case because any NLG and Students for a Democratic way, their van was stopped, two of the lawyer entering the embassy for that pur Society collaboration in defense com women were apparently raped, and all four pose would jeopardize his own life. mittees for members of the Black Pan were shot dead. Their van was burned and Donovan can't help but be bitter. "I at ther Party . left by the side of the road. Their bodies tempt as far as possible to be rational. But were dumped some distance away in a cow they-the Salvadoran forces-killed my NLG CONVENTION, 1971 pasture. sister and the U.S. government doesn't care. In 1973, a staff study by the House The following morning, a passing milk I believe that the death of those four Committee on Internal Security re man discovered the grizzly scene. A short women ... is an inconvenience to our gov ported on the NLG's 1971 national time later, a group of government soldiers ernment. It interferes with an already-de convention in Boulder, Colo., and its and a few civilians arrived with a burial cided policy of supporting the Duarte gov permit issued by a judge and covered the ernment. attitude toward the prison organizing bodies in a trench. "There has been a cover-up of the investi movement: The deaths were not reported to American gation by the Salvadoran government," The NLG took a particular interest in or church officials at that time. In fact, it Donovan contends, "and at a minimum, our prison work subsequent to the 1971 conven was not until the following morning, Dec. 4, government has acquiesced; and at a maxi tion noting that it was critical to support that a local Catholic priest called church mum, our government has participated." prisoner militancy as lawyers have relative authorities to report that villagers had seen Much of Mike Donovan's life these days ly free access to jails and penitentiaries. soldiers burying four women who looked focuses on obtaining some measure of jus There was a difference of opinion in the like foreigners. It was then that a group of tice in his sister's murder. Today, he will NLG, however, as to whether their prison church workers and U.S. Ambassador attend a memorial service at Maryknoll work should be merely supportive or given Robert White went to the scene, exhumed headquarters in New York. Thursday, he top priority. At the Guild's National Execu the bodies and identified them as the miss will speak at a memorial service at Immacu tive Board meeting in February 1972, one ing women. late Conception church in Waterbury. faction took the position that the prisoner Because the route the women had trav "I was at work," Donovan said, "when I is the "revolutionary vanguard" who will eled was under the tight control of Salva first heard that Jean had been murdered. "lead us in the streets." The currently pre doran security forces, and because these We already knew the night before that they vailing view in the NLG was expressed on a forces were known for their extremism and were missing. Father Paul 1973 resolution citing prisons as an exagger violence, it did not take long for U.S. offi. Schindler, the priest in charge of the Cleve ated reflection of the "capitalist" system so cials and local Catholic authorities to theo land diocesean mission, called my father that any prison-related work by the NLG rize that the soldiers themselves had been from El Salvador to tell him they'd found would be making a contribution to the revo involved in the crime. Subsequent ballistic Jean's body. I didn't really react to it 'till a lutionary movement in general. December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 30347
PRISON TASK FORCE The analysis presented here finds its basis tion, which means that it does not put forth in the view that the fundamental struggle only one line or censor differing views. The In July 1975, Guild Notes, the NLG's in the world today is against American im Guild must make room for those who be official publication, published materi perialism. We understand imperialism as a lieve in revolution and armed strug als by the NLG Prison Task Force two-headed system with one aim-the subju gle, • • •. that advocated revolutionary armed gation and control of the majority of the The fact that armed struggle politics are struggle-terrorism-in the prisons, people of the world for the benefit of a few. discussed in a paper bearing the Guild logo and detailed how, by using the NLG's Prisons are the ultimate weapon of domestic may in the future bring some pressure from logo, publications supporting terror social control, and the place where imperial the government on the Guild as an organi ism were carried into the prisons. ism most clearly reveals itself as a unified zation. • • • The Guild has come under world-wide system of oppression. • • • attack from the government before as a Some NLG members thought that Because many prisoners are people who result of taking principled political stands the publication the Midnight Special, have resisted subjugation, they are poten and should expect such attacks again and be a newsletter for prisoners initiated by tially a strong revolutionary force. • • • prepared to resist them aggressively. • • • the NLG's New York City chapter in They know that they will only regain their At a meeting of the NLG National 1971 and the Prison Justice Commit freedom and their dignity in a different changed society, and they have very little Executive Board in Columbus, tee, at the time of a takeover and riot Ohio, August 15-18, 1975, there was by militant inmates in the New York left to lose in this one. The MS is a major tool in the fight lengthy discussion of the prison ter City prisons, had become so inflamma against the isolation which is the basic de rorism issue. The NLG's decisionmak tory as to be an embarrassment and li structive tool of the prison system. • • • ing body, the NEB, passed the resolu ability to the National Lawyers Guild. Only lawyers and legal workers have rela tion of the prison task force and made The Prison Justice Committee was a tively free access to prisoners. • • • the Midnight Special a publication of support group for radicalized, vio Those who feel that the Guild should the National Prison Task Force of the lence-oriented prisoners formed by sever ties with the MS argue that it is essen tially a political organ and that it expresses Guild, which should be printed in the revolutionaries who supported the name of the NLG. Weather Underground and the Cleav a particular political life, i.e., armed strug gle, which has no place within a broad-based The NLG's decisionmaking body also er faction of the Black Panther Party legal organization like the Guild. In the agreed not to impose any censorship which formed the Black Liberation context of prisons, however, the dichotomy on the contents of the publication. Army San Francisco Bay Area through warfare and that conditions Neufeld went to work in the NLG's Prison Task Force, which included a demand that the struggle be armed. • • • New York City offices. At the same Members of the Guild who insist that the number of Weather Underground and politics of armed struggle have no place in a time, he was an active and leading Black Panther supporters, defended Guild publication ignore this organization's member of the WUO's overt arm, the the Midnight Special in a position history and self-definition. The Guild is not Prairie Fire Organizing Committee paper that commenced by quoting merely a legal organization-it is not the and the John Brown how weapons and explosives got into NLG lawyer Linda Backiel, who with Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC). Along possession of three Black Liberation NLG Philadelphia member Holly Ma with messages from a WUO support Army terrorists-Herman Bell, guigan had defended Jay Weiner and group for the FALN, the New York Anthony Bottom, and Albert Washing Philip Shinnick, both Sports for the Committee Against Grand Jury Re ton-who were in court for sentencing People activists who preferred to pression of Box 268, 161 East Houston after conviction of the ambush mur spend 8 months in prison for grand Street, New York, N.Y. 10012 (signed ders of New York City police officers jury contempt rather than answer by "chairperson" Peggy Powell), Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini questions about the harboring of fugi Quash printed a guest column by Vicki in May 1971. The New York Times re tive Symbionese Liberation Army ter Gabriner, a WUO member arrested ported that the three BLA murderers rorists Bill and Emily Harris and during the 1969 "days of rage" riots, had been in contact with no one Patty Hearst. convicted of passport fraud , which was orga tingent and a leader of the Boston Hill, Yuri Kochiyama, Bart Lubow (a nized by Morton Halperin, director of PFOC chapter. The GJP described legal worker who had been associated the Center for National Security Stud Gabriner as a lesbian-feminist who is with the NLG South East Asia mili ies , to coordinate grassroots appealing Federal felony convictions tary law project in the Philippines in lobbying efforts against police intelli arising from her anti-Vietnam war ac 1972), Ellen Sokolow Molinari, Curtis gence units, and congressional lobby tivities with Weatherman-80S in Mullins, Martha Pitts, NLG lawyer ing to abolish FBI internal security in 1969-70. and continue tore movement in organizing prisoners as that the police, FBI, and legal system ceive NLG cosponsorship, with fund the vanguard for revolutionary terror exist only as instruments of repres ing channeled through the San Fran ism was in part successful. A number sion. An open letter from Grusse and cisco-based Capp Street Foundation of U.S. terrorist organizations includ Turgeon after they left the project set up by the NLG to fund its projects. ing the Black Liberation Army were cooperation with the legal system as crimes, and on publicizing resistance formed by ex-convicts and escaped informants and demanded "that all activities. One example was the publi prisoners in association with radical political communities be warned of cation of an account of an October activists. their existence • • • and the threat 1977 kangaroo court against the FBI THE GRAND JURY PROJECT they pose to our movement." The which featured as its moderator The Grand Jury Project was initiat open letter made clear that if there Ahmed Obafemi of the violence-ori ed by the New York Women's Union, a was any threat, it was posed by the ented Republic of New Africa ; and Afeni Shakur, a ders of four people by the Puerto NLG's 1977 national convention in former New York Panther 21 defend Rican terrorist FALN in the January Chicago the GJP sponsored a work ant, whose comrades, Joanne D. Chesi 1975 bombing of the Fraunces Tavern. shop on grand jury resistance tactics mard were involved in active in the NLG as well as movement Maguigan and Mara Siegel of the Peo a shootout with New Jersy State activists-legal workers. The purpose ple's Law Office and Chicago PFOC. Troopers on May 2, 1973. Costan, of the Grand Jury Project has been, The Grand Jury Project and People's former minister of information of the December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 30349 Black Panther Party in New York and overthrow the Government by force olutionaries included sponsorship of a brother of one of the Panther 21, was and violence. Tipograph presently rep speaking tour last winter by a leading white killed as was one trooper. Squires and resents Judy Clark and RNA member member of ANC in exile, Albie Sachs; sup Cynthia Boston. porting a 1976 treaty signed by some 30 Chesimard were captured, convicted of countries which classifies apartheid as a first degree murder and sentenced to In 1979, the board of directors of the "crime against humanity" and specifies, life imprisonment. Chesimard escaped Grand Jury Project included Martin said members of the NLG's International in 1978. Stolar, currently representing Kathy Committee, that any individual in any coun But according to the Quash report, Boudin's roommate; Jay Weiner, who try who has committed an act of racial dis Chesimard and Squires were activists went to prison rather than answer crimination is subject to prosecution in any imprisoned as a result of Cointelpro questions from a Federal grand jury in country who has signed the treaty. activity aimed at the black movement. Pennsylvania about Symbionese Lib Another solidarity action by NLG interna A year later, Quash published a call eration Army fugitives Bill and Emily tionalists was a visit to South A.frica by for assistance by the National Task Harris and Patricia Hearst; NLG Marty Garbus of the New York chapter to observe the trial of a man accused of being Force for Cointelpro Litigation and member, Kristen Booth Glen, who an organizer for an underground white revo Research, P.O. Box 65, Bronx, N.Y. represented Susan Saxe; several NLG lutionary apparatus called Okhela ["spark" 10473, of which Afeni Shakur is a lawyers with the Center for Constitu in Zulu]; and of a dozen men accused of leader, asking for intelligence materi tional Rights including Marti Cople membership in the South African Commu als, documents and other materials to man, Jose "Abi" Lugo, and Doris Pe nist Party, the ANC and in their jointly con aid them in uncovering domestic war tersen; and Saxe grand jury resister, trolled terrorist cadre, Spear of the Nation. crimes-particularly against revolu Jill Raymond. Garbus observed the trials ostensibly as a tionary black nationalists which are Among the Project's services are representative of the International League listed as including the BPP and RNA. printing of instructions in Spanish and for Human Rights. On the same page, the NLG's Grand English on how to resist FBI and The white South African revolution Jury Project newsletter reprinted a grand jury investigations. ary was Breyten Breytenbach, who en leaflet announcing the filing of a law NLG NATIONAL CONVENTION, 1977 tered using a false passport and was suit aginst the U.S. Government, the Proterrorist activities remained part arrested. Breytenbach confessed he FBI, and present and former officials of the official NLG program at the had been recruited into a network var by Judy Clark, Dana Bieberman, and 1977 national convention in Seattle, iously called Solidarite and Aid and others associated with the Weather attended by some 500 NLG delegates Friendship that not only engaged in Underground for $100 million in dam and 200 observers and activists. Events agitational activities in support of rev ages. The leaflet, from the Committee during the convention were reported olutionary terrorists throughout West for the Suit against Government Mis in detail by the Information Digest em Europe and the Middle East, but conduct, Box 254, Peter Stuyvesant . The Cuban been described as hovering on the over, we continued to do political work in delegation included Dr. Enrique Marlmon blurred dividing line between left-wing support of political prisoners, in the move Roca, a Cuban Supreme Court Justice; and politics, support for the Third World, ment of solidarity with Puerto Rican ·inde two functionaries of the Federation of and espionage and terrorism. pendence, in the anti-imperialist women's Cuban Women, Ana Maria Navarro Arrue movement; in community struggles for and Maria Yolanda. The Information Digest report on health care, day care and tenant rights. Hassan Rahman, a PLO representative at the NLG's 1977 convention noted the • • • national liberation movements en the UN, praised the NLG for its support of following involvement of staff of the gaged in heightened levels of struggle, ex "national liberation movements and just NLG Puerto Rico Project and Interna emplified by the American Indian Move causes around the world." Said the PLO tional Committee with terrorism: ment's reclaiming of Wounded Knee, the spokesman, "Our struggle is not for the lib During the convention, reports were pre emergence of the F.A.L.N. of South members employed by this federally-funded nent in the WUO's PFOC/May 19th Africa and South West Africa People's program; the Housing Task Force; the Na Communist Organization. Following Organization ; increasing support for such Af Francisco; Susan Gzesh, Ann Arbor; and rican terrorist movements as the South Franklin Siegel of the National Office; on common law wife, Dylcia Pagan, were West Africa People's Organizaion the 1977 NLG observer team at the trial of subpenaed by a grand jury; but they and the South African Communist Party leaders of the Baader-Meinhof gang in West Germany [a 1975 nine F ALN codefendants in Chicago in . Examples of NLG "solidarity work" effort to send a Center for Constitutional 1980 of robbery and attempting to for the Soviet-backed southern African rev- Rights team of Peter Weiss, Ramsey Clark, 30350 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981
William Schapp and Marge Ratner was re Office, 2403 W. North Avenue, Chicago, IL NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 1980 jected by the West German authorities] 60622 [312/278-67061. Active in support of revolutionary with the NLG's 1977 team being Bill Schaap Literature was available in support of and radical groups and causes since its and Ellen Ray; Marty Garbus' trip to South F ALN member William Morales, arrested Africa; and the 1977 NLG delegation to the after the premature detonation of a bomb formation in 1937, the National Law Middle East in support of the PLO which in his apartment in New York last year, by yers Guild held its 38th nation was led by John Quigley. the MLN and Juan Antonio Corretjer's al convention at Boston University, Puerto Rican Socialist League [Liga Socia NLG 1979 CONVENTION August 6-11, 1980. This year's conven lista Puertorriquena -Clayton Van Lydegraf, Judy ed some 725 NLG members and sup during its national convention in San Bissell, Leslie Mullin, Marc Perry and Mi porters. Francisco in February 1979. The fol chael Justesen-arrested and charged in Los Formed with the assistance of the lowing account is taken from the In Angeles with planning to bomb the office of Comintern and operating under the formation Digest : a California state senator. Particularly unquestioned control of the Commu harsh in criticizing Van Lydegraf, long a nist Party, U.S.A. for its first The National Lawyers Guild and the Germany, Nicaragua and other countries as and of course the four remaining National efforts of the NLG's Maoist minority well as lsuch violence-oriented U.S. groups ist Party terrorists serving sentences for the in running alternative candidates for as the American Indian Movement , attempted assassination of President national office and in raising the posi the Black Panther Party , Puerto Truman and shooting Congressmen in the Rican Socialist Party , United RESOLUTIONS League of North Mississippi and the Weath Among the resolutions passed at the NLG It was noted that the present NLG er Underground Organization . national convention and National Executive activists, generally in their late twen NLG involvement with the WUO and its Committee meeting on 2/19/79 of ties and thirties, appear frozen in the overt arm, the Prairie Fire Organizing Com the national officers, regional vice-presi rhetoric, dress, and lifestyle of a mittee [plus its New York City dents and the were replete with references to Fascist reconciled, the May 19 Communist Organi full-time members of the NLG National zation and former coordinator of NLG for use against federal and local intel the National Committee against Grand Jury ligence agencies including the Law Enforce Activities opened with a breakfast Abuse; and Myrna Salgado, National Com ment Intelligence Unit ; and will co meeting by NLG lawyers involved in mittee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of ordinate NLG work with the Center for Na litigation against Cuban terrorism, by War. Sponsors of the 2/16/79 event were tional Security Studies , Campaign which they meant against anti-Castro Chicago People's Law Office and PFOC for Political Rights Pro tional Committee and the Cuba Sub de la Raza, Oakland. The affairs took place gram on Government Surveillance and Po at the law office of Stuart Hanlon at 294 litical Rights . This coalition, segment of the Iranian people have taken Freedom fighters and the armed tentatively termed the Interim Committee up arms to defend the achievements of their clandestine movement for the inde in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican Revolu revolution; Whereas the revolution in Iran pendence of Puerto Rico-featured tionary Independence Struggle, was cen today is a major defeat for U.S. imperialist Puerto Rican Nationalist Party terror tered in the Westtown Community Law policy throughout the world • • •." ist Oscar Collazo and members of the December 9, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 30351 People's Law Office in Chicago who intelligence files. On February 1, 1979, period. This will add as much as $72 a act as the lawyers for the 11 arrested the documents found in the FALN year to the average bill of an Ameri members of the terrorist Fuerzas Ar hideout were brought to the law of can natural gas consumer without a madas de Liberacion Nacional . fices of Jonathan C. Moore, 343 South drop of gas being received in return. With NLG members Dennis Cun Dearborn, suite 1607, Chicago, Ill. Even if the project is completed on ningham and Mara Siegel leading, the 60604, where they were to be inspect time, there is no guarantee that the history of armed struggle by Puerto ed, but not copied. natural gas will be marketable at a Rican revolutionaries through the Partners in the firm include Michael competitive price in its initial 10 to 15 emergence in November 1974 of the Deutsch, Jeffrey Haas, Dennis Cun years. The Energy Committee's own F ALN and the development last year ningham, and Peter J. Schmiedel. staff report indicates that financing of of coordinated actions by several When reporters tried to call Moore, the project may well cause the price of armed groups was outlined. Schmiedel said he was in Boston at gas to soar so high that its users may A draft resolution in support of the the National Lawyers Guild Conven find it cheaper to convert to oil. This jailed F ALN terrorists, termed tion. Schmiedel also confirmed that he will not only result in an increase in "Puerto Rican Prisoners of War Held and Deutsch visited the F ALN prison oil use and oil imports, but also in in U.S. Prisons," was submitted signed ers held in Cook County Jail and had crease the share of the cost to the con by Michael Deutsch, Dennis Cun provided them with guidelines for sumers who are unable to switch to ningham, Mara Siegel, Ed Voci, Brian legal procedure to use in acting as other types of energy. Glick, and others. In revised and ab their own lawyers. Deutsch also filed a The only clear winners from the breviated from, the resolution received petition with the United Nations seek waivers are the oil companies, which additional signatures from Kingsley ing to have the FALN prisoners de stand to receive a 50-percent rate of Clarke and Jose Antonio Lugo of the clared POW's. return on their investment; the pipe Center for Constitutional Rights It will be recalled that several mem line companies, which stand to receive and was accepted by the NLG. bers of the People's Law Office active a 25-percent rate of return; and the The resolution stated that since the in the NLG figure prominently in the State of Alaska, since it will receive U.N. Special Committee on Decoloni declassified FBI report on the foreign $20 billion as its share of the royalties zation, the U.N. General Assembly and contacts of the Weather Underground with no share of the risk whatever. the Conference of Non-Aligned Na Organization However, that represents only 15 per lease from dentention or imprison was present distributing PFLP litera ment, a status claimed by the FALN, cent of the total project. The use of ture and encouraging NLG activists to 54-inch pipe for the Canadian portion the NLG will demand that the U.S. take out subscriptions to its journal. Government release the F ALN terror of the pipeline guarantees that no The PFLP activity took place in asso American steel manufacturer will be ists, send letters to various U.N. agen ciation with distribution of literature cies and officials supporting the F ALN used, since no American firm manufac from the Association of Arab-Ameri turers pipe of this size. The ·remaining claims to POW status, and campaign can University Graduates . completed in a timely and cost-effi will benefit the most. If they are not American Civil Liberties Union cient manner. If this project is not willing to take a risk, the consumer to pay if it helps us lessen our depend poses due to its technological ability to with which the United States has a long ence upon foreign oil from people such penetrate dense cloud and ground standing friendship or has mutual interests, as Libya's Col. Mu'ammar Qadhafi. cover. as determined by the President".e Some may also point to the fact that The appropriation of $3 million for the measure we have passed today is radar overflights will not only help VOLUNTEER DEVELOPMENT inequitable, since not every section of provide the information for detecting CORPS the country will be asked to pay for oil, coal, and other mineral resource the potentially higher gas prices deposits, it will help in mapping our HON. BRUCE F. VENTO which could result from the construc vast plains and mountains. OF MINNESOTA tion costs of the pipeline. In my own In addition to helping America reach IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Delaware, for instance, 99 energy and mineral independence, the percent of our natural gas needs are House's appropriation for this pro Wednesday, December 9, 1981 provided by Transco, a Texas based gram expands the role and mission of • Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, often company which draws its gas from the the EROS Data Center. the EROS times during our consideration of au Southwest, Southeast, and Gulf of Data Center presently houses and pro thorizing and appropriating legisla Mexico. Company officials say they vides information to industry, govern tion, the major attention is focused will not be taking any gas from the ment, and the public from NASA, upon the big issues with big price tags Alaska pipeline nor be involved in its Landsat, infrared and other high- 30354 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981 aerial photographic technology. Side tagon to map rough terrain. "This is going military. One sign is a growing militariza looking radar will produce another set to be a very useful tool for geologists in the tion of political authority. In the Third future."e World, the governments of over 50 countries of data that will need to be dissemi are dominated by the armed forces. nated and stored at EROS. The obsession with weapons and with The recent Space Shuttle launch EFFECTIVE DATE OF H.R. 4420 military solutions to global problems has furthers the use of this new technolo pushed arms budgets to $550 billion a year. gy. A form of side-looking radar was HON.CHARLESB.RANGEL About $100 billion of this outlay goes to the carried aboard the Shuttle and its use growing stockpile of nuclear weapons, which from that altitude was tested. Support OF NEW YORK already contains over one million times the of this type of technology is needed. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES explosive force of the Hiroshima bomb. Energy independence will involve Wednesday, December 9, 1981 History's most expensive arms race con many forms of exploration. Radar is trasts with the steady deterioration of the e Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, as civilian economy. Both military superpow an investment in America's future and chairman of the Ways and Means ers, tied up in an intense arms competition, independence. Preliminary results of Oversight Subcommittee, I introduced have lost status in the commercial market, the Shuttle tests are positive and to il H.R. 4420 which reflects the subcom as well as within their own military alli lustrate this I have included an article mittee's recommendations regarding ances. on the Space Shuttle findings found in small issue industrial development rev Public reaction takes two forms. In the de the Washington Post, December 9, enue bonds. This bill contains an ef veloping world, there is increasing polariza 1981. The article follows: tion and more violence, as military-political fective date applying to bonds issued power resists social change. In Europe and [From the Washington Post, Dec. 9, 19811 after December 31, 1981. I have been America, the nuclear threat has become a SPACE SHUTTLE'S FINDINGS DELIGHTING advised that the Ways and Means major target of public concern. Protests are NASA SCIENTISTS Committee will not be reviewing the peaceful, but joined by a growing and more in uniform. Men cess Anne, Pocomoke, and Federals spect of civil liberties as Switzerland. who are physically unfit for military service burg. Fittingly, he was appointed the Of course Switzerland's defense are trained in civilian defence instead. But district superintendent for the Eastern needs and ours are as divergent as you conscientious objectors do not get a soft Shore churches in 1943, and was could get. I do not suggest that we imi option: about 350 of them, judged to be named bishop in 1964. tate them in every detail. dodgers, are tried by court martial each The unique energy and devotion of However, there are practical lessons year and sent to prison. Bishop Eure should serve as an exam we can take from the Swiss on how to EVERY BOY A SOLDIER ple for men and women. I am sure my survive. The article in the Economist Part of the success of the Swiss part-time colleagues join me in congratulating provides a starting point for our specu army lies in the way in which civilian and military life is interwoven. A popular song him, and in wishing him many more lation. hardly exaggerates when it proclaims: "In years of service to God and his SWITZERLAND Is READY FOR WAR our cantons, every boy is born a soldier". church.e Military service is as much a part of ordi Neutrality and pacifism do not always go nary life as going to school and stretches hand in hand. Switzerland has been a neu over a longer period of a man's life. Every HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 355 tral country since the Congress of Vienna in child sees his father and his teachers go off 1815 but, in many ways, it has become one to the army regularly. of the most military-minded countries in The equipment used by the army and air HON. FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN Europe. Few countries devote so much force does not include the most sophisticat OF RHODE ISLAND human effort to defence. ed arms available, even from Switzerland's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A tenth of its population can be mobilised own arms industry. There is a tendency to within 48 hours, and every Swiss male has rely on old-fashioned ideas. Much time, for Wednesday, December 9, 1981 to undergo regular military training each example, is devoted to training carrier pi e Mr. ST GERMAIN. Mr. Speaker, year until the age of 50. Although the Swiss geons ; and every weekend soldiers can be days, rifle shots crackle out from ranges seen keeping fit by riding heavy, black mili ous discussions be undertaken with behind villages and towns throughout each tary bicycles or by climbing mountains. the Government of Canada, regarding weekend. Switzerland is also one of the few In the past two years, Switzerland has the establishment of a regional strate countries which provides enough nuclear been cutting public spending: but the de gic petroleum reserve by the United shelters to protect all its citizens. Since the fence budget has remained unscathed. The States and Canada. early 1960's, all public buildings and all pri events in Afghanistan and Poland have Past and recent events in the Mid vate houses in urban areas have been legally helped to underpin the need for defence east heighten my concern for future obliged to install shelters. spending, but there are other reasons why Switzerland's mountain fighters were once the budget has not been cut. The army has dependable sources of petroleum from the terror of Europe, but ever since the an almost mystic status and remains one of the Persian Gulf area, especially for battle of Marignano in 1515 the country has the most important national institutions in purposes connected with the contin concentrated on defence. Though its mili a multilingual country where the federal ued uninterruptible operation of key tary budget is relatively small the ground that most of the nation's popu Bishop Eure is responsible for build For the third time in less than a decade, lation and wealth are in the lowlands. But ing, almost singlehandedly, the entire Americans face rising uncertainties concern- 30356 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1981 ing supplies and prices of imported oil-oil certain that a foolproof agreement is ob players in OPEC, warns that political vola on which our economy, despite conservation tainable, given the bickering among OPEC tility in the world makes it necessary for the efforts, is still greatly dependent. Nearly members during and after the Geneva ses cartel to maintain its unity. "You Ameri one-third of all the petroleum we consume sion over production volume, bonuses, sur cans would be wrong to rejoice over a break comes from abroad. charges, discounts and the like. up of OPEC," Calder6n told me recently as What looms ahead for you, the American At Geneva, the unified-price accord we sipped coffee at his office in Caracas. "If consumer, is still more expensive oil-gaso seemed to suggest that prices were being OPEC collapses, you will have anarchy, line as well as heating fuel-and pronounced brought down from their highest levels, with every producer out for himself and no shortages which could start occuring next such as Libya's $41 per barrel this year, to controls of any kind. You may have wild summer as a result of the complex interna the benchmark price of $34 per barrel <1 price oscillations and production cuts. It will tional game of petroleum politics and eco barrel=42 gallons). But this was a political damage you more than having to deal with nomics. oil shell game. The truth is that when Saudi OPEC." At the end of October, OPEC-the 13- Arabia agreed to go up from $32 to $34 per Now 21 years old, OPEC is at a crossroads. member Organization of Petroleum Export barrel, the effect was to kick up the average Its 13 members-Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, ing Countries-had already increased the price, inasmuch as the desert kingdom pro Venezuela, Kuwait, Libya:, Algeria, Ecuador, basic price of crude oil ; and failed to understand meeting in Geneva on Oct. 29 was only an production cuts. On the other hand, they that interest rates, already rising in the interim agreement. signaled to the industrialized world, notably U.S., would discourage oil companies from Having lost about $100 billion in revenues the U.S., that their wishes in military and tying up too much money in building up during 1981 -are earning less. They terminative one. When Sadat was killed on Oct. 6, the therefore pay less in "windfall profits tax," Moreover, it most certainly would international oil market became briefly which may prove damaging to the govern not be fair or accurate to infer that frantic, with buyers placing urgent orders ment's budgetary planning. When OPEC the Senator from California . 4232 Dirksen Building to employees. 4232 Dirksen Building 4232 Dirksen Building JANUARY 12, 1982 Fl!!BRUARY 11, 1982 9:30a.m. JANUARY 27, 1982 9:30a.m. Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. Judiciary Employment and Productivity Subcom Labor and Human Resources Constitution Subcommittee mittee Investigations and General Oversight Sub To resume hearings on S. 1761, amend To continue hearings on unemployment committee ing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to problems in the automobile industry, To hold hearings on problems of drug provide for the application of preclear focusing on the need for job opportu abuse in the American school system. ance provisions to all States and politi nities and training assistance pro 4232 Dirksen Building cal subdivisions, and provide for sub grams. mission of any changes under the pre 4232 Dirksen Building JANUARY 28, 1982 clearance provisions to the appropri 9:30a.m. ate U.S. district court. JANUARY 13, 1982 Judiciary 2228 Dirksen Building 9:30a.m. Constitution Subcommittee Judiciary To resume hearings on S. 1761, amend FEBRUARY 18, 1982 Constitution Subcommittee ing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to To hold hearings on S. 1761, amending provide for the application of preclear 9:30a.m. the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to pro ance provisions to all States and politi Judiciary vide for the application of preclear cal subdivisions, and provide for sub Constitution Subcommittee ance provisions to all States and politi mission of any changes under the pre To resume hearings on S. 1761, amend cal subdivisions, and provide for sub clearance provisions to the appropri ing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to mission of any changes under the pre ate U.S. district court. provide for the application of preclear clearance provisions to the appropri 2228 Dirksen Building ance provisions to all States and politi cal subdivisions, and provide for sub ate U.S. district court. Labor and Human Resources 2228 Dirksen Building Labor Subcommittee mission of any changes under the pre To hold hearings on S. 1785, increasing clearance provisions to the appropri JANUARY 14, 1982 the penalties for violations of the ate U.S. district court. 2228 Dirksen Building 9:30a.m. Taft-Hartley Act, requiring immediate removal of certain individuals convict Judiciary FEBRUARY 23, 1982 Constitution Subcommittee ed of crimes relating to his official po To continue hearings on S. 1761, amend sition, broadening the definition of 11:00 a.m. ing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the types of positions an individual is Veterans' Affairs provide for the application of preclear barred from upon conviction, increas To hold hearings on legislative recom ance provisions to all States and politi ing the time of disbarment from 5 to mendations of the Disabled American cal subdivisions, and provide for sub 10 years, escrowing a convicted offi Veterans. mission of any changes under the pre cial's salary for the duration of his Room to be announced clearance provisions to the appropri appeal, and clarifying the jurisdiction ate U.S. district court. of the Department of Labor relating FEBRUARY 25, 1982 2228 Dirksen Building to detecting and investigating criminal 9:30a.m. violations relating to ERISA. Judiciary JANUARY 20, 1982 4232 Dirksen Building Constitution Subcommittee 9:30a.m. To resume hearings on S. 1761, amend Judiciary FEBRUARY 4, 1982 ing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to Constitution Subcommittee 9:30a.m. provide for the application of preclear To resume hearings on S. 1761, amend Judiciary ance provisions to all States and politi ing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to Constitution Subcommittee cal subdivisions, and provide for sub provide for the application of preclear To resume hearings on S. 1761, amend mission of any changes under the pre ance provisions to all States and politi ing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to clearance provisions to the appropri cal subdivisions, and provide for sub provide for the application of preclear ate U.S. district court. mission of any changes under the pre ance provisions to all States and politi 2228 Dirksen Building clearance provisions to the appropri cal subdivisions, and provide for sub ate U.S. district court. mission of any changes under the pre 2228 Dirksen Building clearance provisions to the appropri CANCELLATIONS ate U.S. district court. JANUARY 26, 1982 2228 Dirksen Building DECEMBER 17, 1981 9:30a.m. 10:00 a.m. Labor and Human Resources FEBRUARY 10, 1982 Judiciary Labor Subcommittee 9:30a.m. Immigration and Refugee Policy Subcom To resume hearings on S. 1541, amend Labor and Human Resources mittee ing the Employee Retirement Income Labor Subcommittee To hold hearings on the impact of immi Security Act by simplifying To hold hearings on S. 17 48, exempting gration numbers and the interrelation both reporting and disclosure require certain employers from withdrawal of immigration policy and population ments, and the process for employers and plan termination insurance provi policy. to provide retirement income to em- sions of title IV of the Employee Re- 5110 Dirksen Building
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