36856 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 18, 19 '79 amended, and for other purposes; to the H .R. 2769: Mr. RoussELOT, Mr. RoBERTS, LAGOMARS!NO, Mr. NICHOLS, Mr. LEACH Of committee on Education and Labor. Mr. CLAUSEN, Mr. !CHORD, Mr. ANDREWS Of Louisiana, and Mr. STUMP. By Mr. ROSENTHAL: North Dakota., Mrs. HOLT, and Mr. TREEN. H.R. 6070: Mr. PERKINs, Mr. ULLMAN, Mr. H. Con. Res. 230. A J.""esolution to disapprove H.R. 3246: Mr. NoLAN. DICKINSON, Mr. MONTGOMERY, Mr. CHAPPELL, the sale of smaJrt bombs and missiles to H.R. 3252: Mr. KEMP and Mr. RAILSBACK. Mr. MATHIS, Mr. MCKAY, Mr. RUNNELS, Mr. saudi Arabia; to the Committee on Foreign H.R. 3264: Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. DORNAN, Mr. JoHNSON of Colorado, Mr. LoTT, Mr. REGULA, Affairs. KOGOVSEK, e.Ild Mr. STANGELAND. Mr. CHARLES WILSON of Texas, Mr. YOUNG Of H.R. 4358: Mr. AuCOIN, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Alaska, Mr. HUCKABY, Mr. MARRIO'I"I', Mr. Mr. CLINGER, Mr. HANCE, Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT, STUMP, Mr. ANTHONY, Mr. CLINGER, Mr. LEACH MEMORIALS Mr. KEMP, Mr. LELAND, Mr. MARRIO'I"I', Mr. of Louisiana, and Mr. WAMPLER. MINETA, Mt. MrrcHELL of New York, Ms. Under clause 4 of rule XXII, H.R. 6109: Mr. BENJAMIN, Mr. PEPPER, Mr. 0AKAR, Mr. TAUKE, and Mr. VENTO. WHITEHURST, Mr. LAFALCE, Mr. LAGOMARSINO, 329. The SPEAKER presented a memorial H .R. 4516: Mr. EDWARDS of Oklahoma., Mr. Mr. WINN, Mr. STANGELAND, Mr. MURTHA, Mr. of the Legislature o! the State of Indiana., JONES of North Carolina, Mr. RoBERT W. REGULA, Mr. LUJAN, Mr. DouGHERTY, Mr. DER­ relative to Iran; to the Committee on Foreign DANIEL, Jr., Mr. HUCKABY, Mr. MCDONALD, Mr. WINSKI, Mr. LUNGREN, Mr. RHODES, Mr. MAz­ Affairs. ANDREWS Of North Dakota, and Mr. GINGRICH. ZOLI, Mr. GUDGER, Mr. WON PAT, Mr. HYDE, Mr. H.R. 4563: Mr. CAVANAUGH. RoE, and Mr. BUCHANAN. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H.R. 4588: Mr. CONTE, Mr. DERWINSKI, Mr. H.R. 6149: Mr. THOMPSON, Mr. GUARINI, HORTON, Mr. MURPHY Of Pennsylvania., Mr. Mr. FORSYTHE, Mr. FLORIO, Mrs. FENWICK, Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private RAHALL, Mr. WHITEHURST, Mr. WEISS, and Mr. HOLLENBECK, Mr. HOWARD, Mr. HUGHES, bills and resolutions of the following Mr. SIMON. Mr. MAGuiRE, Mr. PA'I"I'EN, Mr. RoE, Mr. Ro­ titles were introduced and severally re­ H.R. 4631: Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, DINo, and Mr. RINALDO. Mr. SCHEUER, Mr. CHARLES H. WILSON of Cali­ H.R. 6152: Mr. BOWEN and Mr. STAGGERS. ferred, as follows: fornia, Mr. OTTINGER, Mr. MCKINNEY, Mr. H.J. Res. 15: Mr. MARRIO'I"I'. By Mrs. SPELLMAN: YATRON, and Mr. EDWARDS Of Oklahoma.. H.J. Res. 414: Mr. ADDABBO, Mr. DAVIS of H.R. 6178. A bill for the relief of John D. H .R. 4678: Mr. VOLKMER, Mr. SABO, Mr. South Carolina, Mr. GRAY, Mr. GUARINI, Mr. Rogers; to the Committee on the Judiciary. WILLIAMS Of Montana, Mr. ENGLISH, Mr. KOSTMAYER, Mr. LLOYD, Mr. LoWRY, Mr. By Mr. STANGELAND: WHrrEHURST, Mr. VENTO, Mr. LAFALCE, Mr. McCORMACK, Mr. MATSUI, Mr. ST GERMAIN, H.R. 6179. A bill for the relief of Sophia SIMON, Mr. DOUGHERTY, Mr. ANTHONY, Mr. Mr. SEmERLING, Mr. STACK, and Mr. WmTH. Sanchez; to the Committee on the Judiciary. PEASE, Mr. YATRON, Mr. HOLLENBECK, Mr. H.J. Res. 432: Mr. YATRON, Mr. HEFTEL, Mr. DOWNEY, Mr. WOLPE, Mr. STUDDS, Mr. RoE, BROWN of Ohio, and Mr. GRAMM. Mr. CARR, Mr. RINALDO, Mr. BEDELL, Mr. H.J. Res. 445: Mr. MARKEY, Mr. PERKINs, Mr. ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS COELHO, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. GRAY, M. HAW­ MrrCHELL of New York, Mr. LEACH of Loui­ Under clause 4 of rule XXII, sponsors KINS, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. SEmERLING, Mr. siana, Mr. LAGOMARSINO, Mr. NICHOLS, Mr. Mc­ BINGHAM, Mr. MINETA, Mr. BURGENER, Mr. DADE, Mr. FORSYTHE, Mr. CLINGER, Mr. LED­ were added to public bills and resolutions HUGHES, Mr. BEILENSON, Mr. NOLAN, Mr. ERER, Mr. SABo, Mr. SNYDER, Mr. LUNDINE, as follows: STENHOLM, Mr. McCORMACK, Mr. CORRADA, Mr. DouGHERTY, Mr. FRosT, Mr. BARNES, Mr. H.R. 75: Mr. MADIGAN, Mr. LUNGREN, Mr. Mr. ROYER , Mr. MILLER of California, Mr. BOLAND, Mr. GRADISON, Mr. JONES of North Lo'I"I', Mr. RoussELOT, Mrs. SNOWE, Mr. BUT­ MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. D'AMOURS, Mr. Carolina, Mr. STOKES, Mr. PREYER, Mr. DE LA LER, Mr. MAZZOLI, Mr. KINDNESS, Mr. REUSS, JEFFORDS, Mr. GORE, Mr. FAZIO, Mr. 0BERSTAR, GARZA, Mr. LENT, Mr. CHENEY, Mr. FOUNTAIN, Mr. BAUMAN, Mr. FROST, Mr. SANTINI, and Mr. Mr. PANE'I"I'A, Mr. HEFTEL, and Mr. NEAL. Mr. TRAXLER, Mr. MOTTL, Mr. ADDABBO, Mr. ATKINSON. H.R. 5282: Mr. RoE. PATTEN, Mr. QUILLEN, Mr. LoNG of Maryland, H.R. 76: Mr. MADIGAN, Mr. LUNGREN, Mr. H.R. 5616: Mr. RoYBAL. Mr. EMERY, Mr. DOWNEY, Mr. DoRNAN, Mr. Lo'I"I', Mr. RoussELOT, Mrs. SNOWE, Mr. BUT­ H.R. 5642. Ms. HOLTZMAN. MYERs of Pennsylvania, Mrs. SPELLMAN, Mr. LER, Mr. MAZZOLI, Mr. BAUMAN, Mr. FROST, Mr. H.R. 57115: Mr. FuQUA, Mr. RrrrER, ami Mr. DuNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. FARY, Mrs. SNOWE, SANTINI, and Mr. ATKINSON. LAFALCE. Mr. RAILSBACK, and Mr. MATSUI. H.R. 77: Mr. MADIGAN, Mr. LUNGREN, Mr. H.R. 5756 : Mrs. CHISHOLM. H. Con. Res. 129: Mr. HANLEY, Mr. BUR­ LOTT, Mr. ROUSSELOT, Mrs. SNOWE, Mr. BUT­ H.R. 5813: Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. GENER, and Mr. ROE. LER, Mr. MAZZOLI, Mr. KINDNESS, Mr. REuss, RUNNELS, Mr. YOUNG of F'lorida, Mr. DER­ H. Con. Res. 225: Mr. O'BRIEN, Mr. HoP­ Mr. WmTH, Mr. BAUMAN, Mr. FROST, Mr. SAN­ WINSKI, and Mr. BOB WILSON. KINS, Mr. EvANS of the Virgin Islands, Mr. TINI, and Mr. ATKINSON. H.R. 5847: Mr. IRELAND. LEDERER, Mr. DAN DANIEL, Mr. WINN, Mr. H.R. 78: Mr. MADIGAN, Mr. LUNGREN, Mr. H.R. 5862: Mr. ARCHER, Mr. BENJAMIN, Mr. PERKINS, Mr. APPLEGATE, Mr. MOAKLEY, Mr. Lo'I"I', Mr. RoussELOT, Mrs. SNOWE, Mr. BUT­ BOWEN, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. BURGENER, Mr. WHITEHURST, Mr. FORSYTHE, Mr. MURPHY of LER, Mr. MAZZOLI, Mr. KINDNESS, Mr. REUSS, COLLINS of Texas, Mr. ERI.ENBORN, Mr. GUD­ Pennsylvania, Mr. GAYDOS, Mr. BARNES, Mrs. Mr. WmTH, Mr. BAUMAN, Mr. FROST, Mr. SAN­ GER, Mr. HINSON, Mr. HYDE, Mr. KEMP, Mr. CHISHOLM, Mr. DERWINSKI, Mr. KOSTMAYER, TINt, and Mr. ATKINSON. KINDNESS, M!r. TREEN, Mr. WALKER, Mr. Mr. GoLDWATER, Mr. ScHEUER, Mr. RoE, Mr. H .R. 168: Mr. MADIGAN. WHITEHURST, and Mr. CHARLES WILSON of MARKS, Mr. MrrCHELL of Maryland, Mr. LEACH H.R. 169: Mr. MADIGAN, Mr. WHrrEHURST, Texas. of Iowa, Mr. NOWAK, Mr. LAFALCE, Mr. SWIFT, Mr. RoussELOT, Mr. SYMMS, Mr. HYDE, and H.R. 5909: Mr. GILMAN, Mr. MINETA, Mr. Mr. KRAMER, Mr. DAVIS of Michigan, Mr. DIN­ Mr. PRrrcHARD. COLLINS Of Texas, Mr. DICKS, Mr. BEDELL, GELL, Mr. YOUNG Of Alaska, Mr. YATRON, Mr. H.R. 172: Mr. MADIGAN. Mr. LAGOMARSINO, Mr. MURPHY Of Penn­ RICHMOND, Mr. HYDE, Mr. D'AMOURS, Mr. H.R. 173: Mr. MADIGAN. sylvania, Mr. CARR, Mr. WOLPE, Mr. JEN­ MURPHY Of Dlinois, and Mr. PANE'I"I'A. H.R. 174: Mr. MADIGAN. RETTE, Mr. EDWARDS of Oklahoma, Mr. BAR­ H.R. 801: Mr. KAZEN. NARD, Mr. PEPPER, Mr. SCHEUER, Mr. PAT­ H.R. 882: Mr. MICA. TEN, Mr. MITCHELL of New York, and Mr. PETITIONS, ETC. H.R. 2341: Mr. BROOMFIELD. BARNES. H.R. 2400: Mr. LOWRY and Mr. YOUNG Of H.R. 6062: Mr. MOTTL, Mr. BEVILL, and Under clause 1 of rule XXII, Alaska. Mr. STUMP. 255. The SPEAKER presented a petition of H.R. 2447: Mr. D'AMOURS, Ms. FERRARO, Mr. H.R. 6063: Mr. AMBRO, Mr. McDONALD, the House of Representatives of the Republic GRAY, Mr. LEACH of Iowa, Mr. MoAKLEY, Mr. Mr. CHARLES WILSON of Texas, Mr. BEVILL, of Cyprus, relative to disarmament; to the PA'I"I'ERSON, Mr. STOKES, and Mr. WmTH. Mr. MONTGOMERY, Mr. WHrrEHURST, Mr. Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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CAREER OF TOM BERKLEY published in the Oakland Post newspa­ velopment of minority business and po­ per, commemorating the career of Tom litical leadership. Many people in the Berkley. bay area are indebted to him for his HON. RONALD V. DELLUMS Mr. Berkley is a man with many fine contributions to our community. I OF CALIFORNIA careers in the bay area. He is a lawyer, take great pleasure in commending this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES newspaper publisher, and director of one article to my collegaues: Tuesday, December 18, 1979 of the major U.S. ports. His is a 1[From the Oakland Post, Nov. 16, 1979] career which by example has offered e Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, it is with FivE HUNDRED TO HONOR TOM BERKLEY promise to many black and minority per­ TONIGHT great pleasure that I commend to my sons and he is a person who has always Mayors of six Bay Area cities and Los colleagues the following article, recently sought to positively influence the de- Angeles have proclaimed toda.y "Thomas L.

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Berkley Day", in honor of Post Publlsher international studies. The Magnet School achievements, I joined with the other and Editor and Oakland Port Commission of International Affairs-to be estab­ Members of Congress in sponsoring leg­ President Atty. Thomas L. Berkley. lished in center-city Philadelphia as the islation WINE CELLARS nalistic rights that would never have been 45 kilowatts of electricity-more than double yielded in normal circumstances. The stu­ Maglio's present needs. dent revolutionaries, not the network, called HON. JOHN P, HAMMERSCHMIDT The windmill is not Maglio's only attempt OF ARKANSAS the shots on prime-air time for the inter­ at energy self-sutficiency. Two years ago the view and imposed strict editing limitations. retired building contractor installed an ela­ lN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES They won, too, the right to air a stridently borate solar hot water and space heating Tuesday, December 18, 1979 partisan statement. system in the house he was building for But there was also, surely, a strong dose himself and his wife. e Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT. Mr. Speak­ of hypocrisy in the CBS and ABC attacks on er, the new year of 1980 will mark the their sister network for agreeing to the "I knew that fossil fuel was going to be arrangement. expensive, so I built an aU-electric house lOOth anniversary of the Wiederkehr What about the concessions of CBS and and decided to give solar a try," he explains. Wine Cellars near Altus, Ark. ABC in submitting written questions, with He added a carport and installed solar This enterprise was begun by a no rights of follow-up, as a price of their collectors on. its roof and a 2,000-gallon water Swiss immigrant and is today still a earlier interviews with the ayatollah? storage tank under the driveway. He read family business run by the two grand­ There are differences in the controls solar and wind magazines and designed the sons, AI and Leo Wiederkehr. yielded, but they are largely differences of project himself, purchasing most materials Because many of my colleagues may degree. And it is interesting, at least, that from local building supply companies (the not be familiar with the production of the morning after the NBC interview both windmill, however, was built by Energy De­ CBS and ABC elected to carry brief canned velopment Company of Hamburg, Pennsyl­ excellent wine in western Arkansas, a interviews with Gallegos that were prepared vania) . feature article by Tom Wood, which ap­ entirely by the Iranians. A tour of Maglio's basement reveals the peared in the Arkansas Democrat news­ NBC is more vulnerable to criticism, it meticulously installed solar apparatus. He paper on Sunday, November 11, entitled seems to me, on the complaint of its cor­ will incorporate air cooling into the intricate Wiederkehrs Grows into Award-Win­ respondent, Ford Rowan, that the network network of piping before next summer he ning Winery, is included at this point failed to include in the Gallegos broadcast says. ' in the RECORD: a State Department response to the inter­ With the windmill now in place and ready WIEDERKEHRS GROWS INTO AWARD-WINNING view. (Rowan reportedly resigned as result WINERY of the network's decision.) to spin, Maglio expects to wipe out his power Of all the issues of journalistic integrity, costs, and in fact to sell surplus electricity (By Tom Wood) in fact, Rowan's concern about the problems to the Atlantic City Electric Company. WIEDERKEHR Vn.LAGE.-Because the specif­ of telling both sides of the story as fully and "That's why I put up such a big machine," iC founding date is not known, Wiederkehr fairly as possible is probably the major con­ he explains. "I wanted to interface with the Wine Cellars, Inc. will celebrate its IOOth anniversary all year long in 1980. cern of most editors grappling with the Teh­ electric company. The manufacturer says This giant of the Arkansas wine industry ran crisis, in the print and broadcast fields t his machine generates 45,000 to 60,000 kilo­ alike. had a modest beginning in 1880 when a A common-sense regard for the h ostages' watt-hours per year, and I only need 20,000 Swiss immigrant, Johann Andrew Wieder­ safety clearly compels decisions of extraordi­ for my house." kehr, made his first wine in this country nary restraint, as in any terrorist/ hostage In the future he will use some of the excess and stored it in his cellar, a niche carved situation. The decisions are of a sort, how­ for outdoor liggrape most well intentioned of guidelines are of lit­ with Atlantic City Electric to monitor the wines. They were from other fruits raised tle help. output of the machine during the coming in Arkansas-persimmon, cherry and apple. The remarkable thing about the Tehran year to determine how much electricity it The Wiederkehr firm, now able to store coverage is that so few issues of real contro­ will actually produce. two million gallons of wine for aging, not versy have thus far emerged. Given the cir­ counting a warehouse capable of holding cumstances, there are apt to be others.e M8g'lio knows tlha.t he may not be entkely 65,000 cases of products from the vine, self-reliwnt, since wind C&ll be repla.oed 'by actually inched its way into proininence, calm. IHJ.s array CJif eleven 12 1/2-volt indus­ which now includes winning gold, silver and NEW JERSEYITE HARNESSES WIND trial storage batteries shOUld hold enough bronze medals in wine competitions with AND SUN eleotric1ty for at least two days, he believes. California, New York and other wines. The inventive retiree had to prepare a site In the 1880's, the founder would make plan for his loca.l zoning '8.Ild planning boards his wine and stash it in his cellar. When HON. JAMES J. FLORIO before erecting the windmiltl. He needed .a it was ready, he would cap crock jugs with corn cdbs, loa.d them into his hack on a Sat­ OF NEW JERSEY va.riance, siillCe a 35-foot structure was the urday night and head for Altus, then an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES maximum allowed, and lhis windmill is 60 active mining town. He'd come back with feet. Tuesday, December 18, 1979 the hack empty and his pockets full. "My nelighbors were all for it," he says. He At that time he was one of as many as • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, a new sent letters to 20 of them telling a.bout the 14 small wine producers. As time went on, feature of the Northeast Solar Energy wind turbine and the need for a variance. Johann persevered and most of the other Center's publication, Update, is to report The manu.f.acturer provided .a letter assuring competitiors !Sided away. news of people, places, and events which abutters that the m.a.chine would produce no His grandson, Alcuin (AI) Wiederkehr, ra.dio or television interference since it runs the present chairman of the board, said shape the world of solar energy in the no one knows where the original gra.pe stock slow'ly (60 r.p.m.), and that 1t is quiet Sit a. northeast. The December issue, I am came from. It is only known that Johann pleased to say, focused attention upon distance of 100 feet or more. only brought pear, cherry and rose cuttings the ingenuity of my constituent, Mr. In fa.ct, response to Maglio's dual system from the old country when he brought his Vito Maglio, of Clarksboro, N.J. has been so positive that he is holding semi­ family here. Mr. Maglio's response to the rising nars twice a month to introduce others to Johann built a cabin, a cellar and a costs of energy is an inspiring story solar and wind energy. At the first seminar on lean-to kitchen on his 80-acre start. By 1881, September 15, his workshop was transformed he was planting grapes. He and three neigh­ which I would like to share with my bors had only one pony among them to work colleagues. Recently, when I visited Mr. into a classroom for several electrical and plumbing contractors, a member of the local the vineyards. He produced an increasing Maglio to view his solar system, and his zoning board and a representative of the amount of wine, aged it, then corked them windmill, he expressed the hope that electric company. The charge for attending in one, two and five-gallon jugs. the success of his dual system of solar the day-long sessions is $50. According to the grandson, production never exceeded 5,000 gallons a year until and wind power would encourage others More information may be obtained from: to follow his lead. Toward that objec­ after the turn of the century, a time when Vito Maglio, 5 OU:rrtden Avenue, Cla.rksboro, the container size had increased to five- and tive, he is now conducting seminars and New Jersey 08020. Telephone: (609) -423-5080. ten-g&llon kegs, along with an occasional workshops. Maglio's next solar-related projects? Air 50-gallon keg. The article from Update follows: cooling in his house, solar hot water and Only six Swiss-German families and one NEW JERSEYITE HARNESSES WIND AND SUN space heating in the workshop a.nd finally, Irishman had arrived ahead of Johann. AI The biggest windmill in New Jersey is in sola.r hot wa.ter in the eight apartment Vic­ Wiederkehr credits energy, ingenuity and Vito Maglio's backyard in Clarksboro. torian ma.nsion on !h.iB land."e luck with his grandfather's success. December 18, 19 79 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36863 He didn't know it was good wine country, Okl!ahoma law, he said, the three wines could center has provided essential health serv­ but all of the settlers came with the belief not be shipped into the state, but after they ice to the West Oakland community these that Arkansas soil could grow anything. This arrived, the retail dealer could mix them as past 10 years. It serves as an outstand­ spurred the energy and ingenuity. Luck came he saw fit. The Sooners went for the Wieder­ ing model for a health care delivery sys­ with the sandy loam and the location of the kehr wines, which were higher priced than vineyards on a plateau between two ranges most popul81r wines but stUI competitive. tem that truly meets the needs of those of mountains, the Bostons on the north and During the first year of this innovation, it serves. the Quachitas on the south. Wiederkehr sold 15,000 bottles o! their prod­ I would like to pay special tribute to Conditions were more temperate than the ucts in Oklahoma. the citizens of the West Oakland area surrounding areas. The plateau was off the Thus, the Concord wine was a turning who have given of their time and effort valley floor and afforded a view across the point in expansion. The change was dramatic. to make this center a success.• valley to the west, where the Subiaco Monas­ That was when A1 went north to Ohicago, tery watched over the terrain and the Arkan­ Detroit and Evansville, Ind., to look for stor­ sas River cut its path on the way to joining age !ac111ties. He came back with 48 tanks CUSTOMS BROKERS: THE MIDDLE the Mississippi River. with the capacity of 16,000 gallons eaoh. PEOPLE Johann died in 1927 at age 74. His son, Arkansas wines began finding space on the Herman, took over and expanded the winery. shelves of the nation, in competition with He had tenure during prohibition and the Italian Swiss Colony and Gallo, then pressed HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI on into the category of quality wines. Great Depression. OF MARYLAND Although Arkansas was considered an up­ In the years since old Joha1!Jl. had started start wine region at the time, Herman began the trail blazing, this Swiss family clung to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to expand his trade territory. Swiss-German patterns and instituted an Tuesday, December 18, 1979 "He'd take the back seat out of the family Okltober!est, .a celebration !or the harvest. car, load it up and drive to outlets in towns The Wiederkehrs began buying quality grapes • Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I would over the region," Al Wiederkehr said. from other growers and the area of the pla­ like to bring to the attention of my col­ It was a time when Wiederkehr's made and teau vineyards grew to occupy most o! a leagues and others, both in Government sold sacramental and medical wines. It is 2,900-acre tract. and the private sector, who are inter­ even said that notorious mobster Al Capone The Wiederkehr vineyards expanded to in­ ested in significant aspects of our inter­ got his hands on some Wiederkehr wines, al­ clude 560 acres of grapes, including one hardy national trade, two articles relating to though no shipments were made directly. strain that has been in production !or the the important and basic roles played by Wiederkehr's began a substantial expan­ last 70 years. sion in the 1930s when prohibition began to The family incorporated its holdings in the both the U.S. CUstoms Service and the lose ground. Growth was slow and steady. 1960s. Wiederkehr Wine Cellars, Inc. then had thousands of small businessmen known Imbibers early had taken a liking to Wieder­ subsidiaries----,Swiss Family Vineyards Inc., as customs brokers and jnternational kehr wines and often would order shipments Alpine Nurseries and the Weinkeller Restau­ freight forwarders. from great distances over the country. Her­ rant, a quality dispenser o! Swiss-German I have had ample opportunity over man Wiederkehr, now 84 and still an execu­ foods. They imported a. Swiss chef and the some years to know of the professional, tive consultant to the company, endured entire family chipped in their efforts !or the expert, and vital services rendered by the until the third generation-sons Leo and expanded operation. Leo took over the restau­ rant, which began attracting so many people members of the Baltimore CUstomhouse Al-were able to lift much of the burden. Brokers and Forwarders Association. Al Wiederkehr, with a bachelor's degree in that reservations were the only assurance o:f commerce from Notre Dame University, a table in the restaurant. The Weinkeller Thus, I read with particular interest an joined his brother and they conducted ex­ Restaurant now occupies the cellar first hewn article that appeared in the summer edi­ periments on 100 varieties of grapes until out of the hills by the founder, Johann Wie­ tion of Customs Today, the official they finally settled most of their output on derkehr, before he was 40 years old. magazine of the U.S. Customs Service. new French hybrids. Wiederkehr Village now consists of the Entitled "Customs Brokers: · The Middle Johann, during his first years in Arkan­ winery itself, the restaurant, a wiengarten People," the article reports an interview sas, had joined his fellow settlers in working that seats nearly 400 celebrants at festive oc­ with William R. Casey conducted by Ed­ out a substitute for coffee which, at most, casions and a gift shop. People visiting Wiederkehr ViUage st111 ward L. Kittredge of the Customs' head­ was only passable. In those rugged days, that quarters staff. From my standpoint, one part of Arkansas had no coffee. Johann and have the opportunity to chat with Herman the others charred peanuts and brewed their Wiederkehr, now 84 years old. He's frequently of the many significant responses made "coffee." at the gift shop or on the grounds, Where by Mr. Casey was his statement: When the grandsons came along, a change he's on standby as a consultant. The most common complaint that I hear was in the wind. Herman had expanded the In the past few years, Wiederkehr Wine is lack of uniformity between the different wine storage area beyond the original cellar, Cellars, Inc. has stepped to the front of the Customs districts as well as the regions. pushed his trade routes out, signed on with wine business by winning medals for their beer or whiskey distributors and increased fine wtne. Mr. Casey is president of the National vineyard space. The grandsons followed that Wiederkehr finds itself in compatible cir­ Customs Brokers & Forwarders Associa­ path, but they did more. cumstances, the soil and climate are friends, tion Niagara Falls, New York, is in ance was based on no relevant information my Congressional district. In August of 19'78 stant prodding from my office to have them you determined that this area. was so dan­ about the costs which might be incurred to issue a. release to the public explaining the remedy the environmental hazards at the "real" meaning of the report, actions neces­ gerously cont&mina.ted by hazardous wastes Love Canal. OMB wlll not state publicly that you declared the existence of e.n "emer­ sitated because the draft had already been gency" under the Disaster Rellef Act, .thus that it put this arbitrary cap on federal sent to the President of the Love Canal underscoring the New York State Health spending, 'but it did! When the costs mounted Homeowners Association. Commissioner's finding that the Love Canal a.t the site and New York State came to the HEW'S RESPONSE TO A HEALTH EMERGENCY federal government for more assistance, OMB is a. "great and imminent perU to the health The Department of Health, Education, and of the general public residing at or near the said "no", asserting that the federal govern­ ment had done its share. In fact, the federal Welfare has proved itself to be no better site." government has not. organized than EPA or HUD to handle envi­ I applauded your willingness to set a. ronmental emergencies of this kind. As with precedent by deola.ring a. man-made environ­ EPA'S "DEMONSTRATION PROJECT" those agencies, bureaus and offices within mental tragedy a. national emergency thus EPA was given $4 milllon by Congress to HEW don't know what each other ls doing, triggering a federal response to the problems spend a.t the Love Canal in order to conduct to say nothing of what other agencies are at the Love Canal. However, since your a. demonstration project. However, .EPA was doing. Coordination seems to be absent from declaration the federal government has not strapped from the beginning because it had the vocabularies of the federal officials who responded in the urgent, responsible, com­ to use a. large proportion of its money to do have been asked to help with regard to the prehensive and compassionate manner tha.t construction work which should have been Love Canal. the situation demands. pa.ld for by FDAA, thus freeing up the EPA For example, I asked one of the health In fact, Mr. President, I believe I can state money to do what Congress intended it to bureaus of HEW-the Center for Disease without reservation that each federal agency do: provide information on how to deal with Control-to provide physicians to help ex­ that has been called upon to help at the cleaning up and containing leaching haz­ amine residents of the Love Ca.na.l area.. Ini­ Love Canal-including OMB, HEW, HUD, ardous waste landfills. tially the response was that CDC would do EPA, FDAA, and your own White House However, EPA did not seize the opportu­ this, but when it counted and the request staff-has taken the position that it will do nity it had to make the most of its demon­ came ln, CDC reversed its position. And only as little as possible so as to minimize its stration project. EPA signed a. cooperative when I inquired further did we learn that role instea.d of doing as much a.s possible to agreement with New York State for the while CDC was unwllllng to send experts for help the innocent victims of a.n environmen­ demonstration grant, gave its money to the such a. purpose, another bureau-the Health tal dlsa.ster of immense proportions. State to spend, and then deferred almost Services Administration-would do so. Why At no time have federal agencies, either completely to the State. EPA has not even this information wasn't known and/or vol­ collectively or individually, a&Sumed a. leader­ attempted to monitor the project to see if unteered leaves me ba.ffied. ship role. At no time have federal agencies, the construction work has been a. success, Again and again in my dealings with HEW individually or collectively, attempted to de­ or to see if the place Ls, indeed, a. healthier officials, up to and including those from fine the federal role in this or future en­ and safe place in which to live. a.n agency called the National Institute of vironmental emergencies caused by the I have asked EPA time and time again to Environmental Health Sciences, I've essen­ esca.pe of toxic chemicals from abandoned examine new information which has come tially been told that the responsib111ty be­ hazardous waste disposal dumps. to the public's attention supporting allega­ longs elsewhere. If the Love Canal doesn't Mr. President, the Love Canal is only the tions that the construction work might need fall into the purview of the National Insti­ first of what may prove to be many explod­ to be redesigned in various ways, and I have tute of Environmental Health Sciences, what ing .ticking time bombs. Yet the federal not received a. reply. Now the construction in the world does? government has been remiss in Lts responsi­ work has ended and it is too late. The fed­ The same thing happened when I re­ bllity to the public to act it: this case and eral government may have spent $4 million quested neutral federal experts to review formulate an approach for handling future ineffectively. I sincerely hope not. the conflicting findings of the New York Love Oa.na.J.s. It has learned little from this In addition to EPA's abrogation to the State Department of Health and those of a. tragic experience because it has not tried to State, it has been remiss in organizing itself respected, local scientist regarding health lea.m. so that lt could centralize its efforts at the conditions of the area. residents. If I were a. Mr. President, I have seen approximately Love Canal. My omce, a. legislative office, has federal health official, I know I'd jump a.t 2,000 of my constituents--500 fa.m111es­ had to serve a.s a. virtual tra.mc cop for the the opportunity to study the Love Canal, suffer needlessly over the last several years Agency, and indeed for all the federal execu­ clearly a. benchmark in environmental because the federal government has not re­ tive branch agencies. It is so bad that one of health. But federal scientists and federal sponded adequately even after you declared my staff was called by a. person in Water En­ health agencies apparently don't care. a.n emergency. forcement a.t EPA to find out how EPA ob­ One result of the initial HEW/EPA study, I have exercised great restraint, and have tained its authority to spend the $4 million which I had to instigate, was the formation tried to work within the system and with it was spending a.t the Love Canal. A very of another task force. Yet it is studying your appointed secretaries and administra­ high-ranking EPA omcia.l did not even know theoretical problems, not reality. EPA's own tors. However, I have reached the limits of the name of the person within EPA respon­ estimate-that there are perhaps 2,000 my endurance. I see no prospect of this situ­ sible for the Love Canal demonstration dumps across the country which may pre­ ation resolving itself without your direct project. sent imminent and substantial health prob­ intervention and forceful leadership. The HUD/EPA "COORDINATION" lems-should alone have been enough to Love Canal is no longer a. matter which can The Cancer Assessment Group (CAG) spur that agency, and any other federal be handled by Secretary Harris, Secretary under EPA's AssLsta.nt Administrator for Re­ agencies which ought to have been involved, La.ndrieu, Administrator Castle, Mr. Mcin­ search and Development, formulated a. re­ into action. Why did they walt for a. Con­ tyre, Mr. Watson or Mr. Macey because each port for HUD to advise HUD on what policy gressman to demand study and action? And of these individuals has had his or her it should consider regarding FHA mortgage why, I wonder, has EPA not assigned top­ chance and has failed to respond effectively. insurance in the Love Canal area. I had level personnel to work as part of the task Mr. President, let me explain the specifics originally contacted HUD ln February ask- force along with scientists and technicians? December 18, 19 79 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36867 This seemingly logical step, too, has been I have found over the last two years that LETTER FROM DR. DANA RAPHAEL overlooked. I have had to attempt to orchestrate the OMB AND THE WHITE HOUSE federal bureaucracy single-handedly if I want any federal governmental action to help HON. RONALD V. DELLUMS Last, but certainly not least, is the role the people of the Love Canal. which OMB and the White House have OF CALIFORNIA Mr. President, I am a legislator, not a bu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES played in the Love Canal tragedy. As I noted reaucrat. I am a lawmaker, not a traffic cop. I earlier, OMB arbitrarily and capriciously put have hired a staff to help me in my duties, Tuesday, December 18, 1979 a $6 million cap on the federal participation not to carry out the entire Administration's. at the Love Canal. This arbitrary cap is ab­ I believe the time has come for you, person­ • Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, the fol­ surdity in the specific. ally, to review the Love Canal situation and lowing letter was sent to me by Dr. Dana Just as absurd has been OMB's and the the federal government's role in environ­ Raphael of the Human Lactation Center White House's role in developing legislation mental disasters of this nature, and to de­ in reply to my comments which appeared to deal with emergencies of this kind and velop a responsible, comprehensive plan for in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of July 25, prevent them in the future. Because of the the federal government which delineates the Love Canal, along with EPA's findings that 1979. I welcome her comments and rec­ federal government's role as a whole and the ognize her sincere desire to help solve a there were thousands of other potential role of each component agency. This matter "Love Canals" around the country, I had needs your immediate, personal attention. tragic problem. Her comments follow: been urging your Administration to come It needs your immediate, forceful leadership. THE HUMAN LACTATION CENTER, LTD., up with a comprehensive program to deal I stand ready to help should you call on me. Westport, Conn., September 7,1979. with these issues. After much talk, but little Sincerely, Rep. RONALD DELLUMS, action, I prepared my own blll, based on a JOHN J. LAFALCE, Rayburn Office Building, "Superfund" concept, to provide a meaning­ Washington, D.C. ful federal role in dealing with these emer­ Member of Congress.e DEAR RONALD DELLUMS: My answers follOW gencies and assisting the innocent victims to the cha.rges you read into the Congres­ of exposure to hazardous wastes. sional Record of July 25, 1979. A month later you announced that the Ill-advised is the word for your decision Administration had its own "Superfund" IN MEMORY OF FULTON JOHN to cite two sentences from a letter sent only proposal, and you sent a bill to Congress for SHEEN to Members of the Board of The Human Lac­ consideration. I was gratified to hear you tation Center. You have used my words out­ say at that time that this is a high priority of-context to fashion a fantasy world of con­ for the Administration, yet I noted the irony HON'. TOM CORCORAN flict-of -interest situations. of the situation where I and a number of You attempt, by subtle nuance, to cast OF ILLINOIS other federal legislators had developed major doubt on my credibility because I advised an legislative initiatives before your "experts" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES infant food company on the scientific aspects of a film. Yes, I have served as consultant did. Tuesday, December 18, 1979 Irony turned to despair, however, when I anthropologist with full knowledge of my read the Administration blll as initially e Mr. CORCORAN, Mr. Speaker, it was board, whenever there was an opportunity to drafted and learned that it had two incred­ work in behalf of women in poverty. with fond memories of a time when the I helped Nestle take a somewhat self-serv­ ible omissions: First, it would have pro­ Government was not perceived as the vided no funds to assist the State of New ing film and turn it into a valid presentation source of all solutions that I learned of of what mothers are experiencing in three York with regard to the tens of millions of the passing of the Most Reverend Arch­ different areas-a Gambian village, a Kenyan dollars it is spending to clean up the Love urban environment, and an East Indian com­ Canal, the tragedy which had spurred the bishop Fulton Sheen. For nearly 30 years, His Excellency communicated to the munity in Glasgow, Scotland. Several pedia­ development of the bill itself. Secondly, it tricians and nutritionists from the United contained no provision to assist the individ­ people of our country the interrelation­ Kingdom and sectors of the developing world uals and families whose health and welfare ship of society and religion with what also were among the consultants. There was are threatened by environmental emergen­ can only be termed oratori::al brilliance. no "cloaking of our advocacy efforts" as you cies such as these. The Archbishop was born on May 8, claim. Nestle identifies all of us quite openly My cajolery helped convinced EPA and 1895, in El Paso, ill., which is located in at the end of the film. OMB that a revision had to be made in the my congressional district. Today, El Contrary to your suspicions, neither The blll to include assistance for states that have Center nor I personally took a fee for my met their responsibilities and tried to deal Paso is still a place of neighborliness and counsel, only travel expenses. It has been a with these situations, rather than letting respect for the good things that have so policy of The Center not to take funds from them fester, and I'm grateful that the Ad­ bountifully been granted to the members the infant formula companies. ministration has agreed to that change in its of that community. While in his youth, You imply that we deliberately published proposal. However, I have yet to succeed in Archbishop Sheen moved with his family the Margaret Mead Memorial Issue of The persuading your people that our government, to Peoria, which is ably represented in Lactation Review to serve the infant formula of the people, ought also to care about the the House of Representatives by my dis­ companies. Not so. The staggering number people and provide assistance to innocent tinguished colleague, BoB MICHEL. After of inquiries regarding the oontroversy had victims of tragedies of this kind. prompted us to contract with Mr. Edson to attending a secondary school in Peoria write an impartial history of this issue. He Mr. President, I have testified on the Hill conducted by the Christian Brothers, he no less than a dozen times over the last year did so well, but neither group is satisfied. on the need for new laws and regulations pursued his studies at St. Viator's Col­ Each claims he favored the other. which would authorize the federal govern­ lege in Kankakee where he was gradu­ My hope was that the infant food com­ ment to clean up, contain, and monitor aban­ ated with a bachelor of arts degree. - panies also would see this history of the doned sites as well as compensate victims The obituary notice which appeared in breast/bottle controversy as a balazwed pre­ for personal injury and property damage. I sentation of the issues and distribute it have also testified on the need for the Ad­ the Post contained an interesting pas­ widely. I am anxious to have all our pub­ ministration to implement the laws that sage: lications read because they contain infor­ Congress has already passed. Called home in 1926, he was assigned for a mation about the plight of women in The Administration has been lax and in­ year to a poor parish in his home town. "For developing countries that is not known nor deed negligent in its efforts to promulgate all intents and purposes," he recalled, "that available elsewhere. Some companies did regulations for the Resource Conservation was to be my life and I was happy about it." buy several thousand copies of this issue and, and Recovery Act which Congress passed in I am delighted to say, are distributing them In less than a year he was assigned to teach to people who have expressed concern about 1976; it has been remiss in promulgating philosophy at Catholic University. His bishop regulations for the hazardous discharge sub­ the fate of malnourished children in devel­ told him that the brief posting to Peoria had oping countries. But, not all, as y'OU would section of Section 311 of the Clean Water been a test of his humility and obedience. Act; it has been derelict in its duty to pro­ have the Congress believe. In fact, Nestle pose a National Contingency Plan for the "It was a great lesson to me," Bishop has no interest in the Margaret Mead Memor­ implementation of the regulations for the Sheen said. ial Issue. hazardous discharge provision of Section 311 As for the two nutrition and health ex­ (something that is now six years overdue); Archbishop Fulton Sheen remembered perts whom you claim resigned f"rom The and it has been delinquent in its duty to re­ that lesson and shared it with the Ameri­ Center because of our advocacy role. Let quest funds for Section 504 of the Clean can people. His ecumenical advice has me enlighten you. Dick and Pat Je111ffe, from Water Act so that the federal government meant much to those who had the for­ your home state, resigned because we could can exercise its present authority, limited as not work out the responsibilities of the that is, to act in times of environmental tune to hear it spoken by a man who had West/East Coast units of The Center, and emergencies. Mr. President, this is not a "no earlier recollections than a desire to we disagreed on the role of the formula. record of which one can be proud. be a priest." • compa.nies in solving the problems of infant 36868 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 18, 1979 malnutrition. I believe the companies are overtime, and would reduce the standard respectable amount-when we take out the as much a part of the solution as the prob­ workweek from 40 hours to a new level 3 recession years of 1969-70 and 1974 (years lems. They do not. I exchange views with of 35 hours, phased in over the course when the whole economy declined through these companies and work with them on a no fault of production workers). During thi.s no-strings basis whenever my own expertise of 4years. period of time the number of overtime hours can be usful. I commend to the attention of our col­ worked in manufacturing continued to in­ We make no claims as tx> ha.ve studied the leagues the testimony of my friend, Mr. crease, despite the fact that aggregate na­ long term effects of the use of infant formula. CoNYERS, at the recent hearings. Mr. tional unemployment rates, particularly the In fact, no group has studied the phenom­ Speaker, his testimony explains the jobless rates of black Americans, young enon completely to date. Even now, bids are purposes of this legislation, the issues people, and of minority communities in cen­ out to begin researeh in this area (AID which have given rise to the need for tral cities, Jumped tremendously. Fifteen #2003). we have our hunches a.bout what this bill, and the relationship between years ago, a. 5 or 6% jobless rate was con­ happens, having had the extraordinary op­ sidered a. national crisis; today, that same portunity to work with mothers in over a this bill and the larger question of how rate is widely regarded as normal, as the best dozen cultures. But, contrary to those who our economy can move toward the goal we can do to lower unemployment. take advocacy positions, we must await of full employment, as mandated by the Also during this period of time, since the thorough research and careful data amalysis Full Employment and Balanced Growth last significant Congressional inquiry into before we issue any public statements which Act of 1978. worktime and overtime, technology has con­ might affeot United States food policies. Congressman CoNYERS' testimony fol­ tinued to throw out of work hundreds o! I welcome your so-called "detailed criti­ lows: thousands of American workers and the rate que" of The Center's vwrious publications. of industrial plant closings has accelerated. I cannot believe, since the judges you have TESTIMONY OF REPRESENTATIVE JOHN CONYERS Technology creates unemployment when it chosen, including t he Jelliffes, have already BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR is not balanced with the need for full em­ admitted their biases that it could be of STANDARDS ployment. As examples, 30 years ago, several much value. Let me save you some time and Mr. Chairman and Members o! the House thousand telephone operators handled 1 mil­ public money. You will find, Congressman, Labor Standards Subcommittee, as prin­ lion long-distance calls; today, ony a few that all our work and my public statements cipal sponsor of legislation to shorten work­ dozen operators are needed. 30 years ago, a pursue one clear path. Our policy remains ing hours and abolish compulsory overtime, single auto worker produced the equivalent akin to what Margaret Mead cautioned when I am honored to come before this Committee of 8.4 cars per year; today, he or she pro­ we first discussed the ramifications of work­ and be identified with a. great historical duces 17. 30 years ago, roughly 13 million ing with Nestle on a. film. She said, "Make movement of American labor-the strug­ manufacturing production workers produced sure this is the cleMest representation of gle of working men and women to obtain a. one-third of what the same number o! women's lot that i.t ca.n possibly be." fair share of the fruits of their labor and workers produce today. In other words, about I have only one axe to grind-babies can't to create a full employment econOiny in the 4 m1llion workers today are creating as much wait while we, well-fed professionals, ad­ nation. productive wealth as 13 m1llion created in vocates and political figures, debate who is A century and a. half ago, American work­ 1948. right a.nd who said what to whom in the ers were on the job from "sunup to sun­ Shorter hours-a shorter workweek-is a. halls of Congress or at "by invitation only" down." The demand for shorter hours was necessary and desirable response to the tre­ conclaves. at the center of all major labor events in the mendous erosion of industrial employment Sure we all believe that brea.stfeeding is first half of the 19th century-the first in­ that has taken place over thi.s period of time. best. I have spent 25 years of my life trying dustrial strike, the development of labor In addition, the Full Employment and Bal­ to convince whomever would listen that this organizations, the participation of women anced Growth Act of 1978 mandates the re­ is so. However, we are discussing the essen­ in the labor movement. By 1860 industrial duction in the national unemployment rate tial nature of the additional food the infants workers won the 10-hour day, yet the move­ of persons 20 years of age or older to 3 % by must have after three months. Tra.gica.lly, ment to shorten hours continued in full 1983, a mere 4 years away. There is little each human baby cannot possibly have milk, force as soldiers returned from the Civil War evidence that we can reach these mandated no less formula. It is up to us to stop quar­ unable to find jobs. Swings in the business goals simply by relying on newly generated reling and find a substitute that can keep cycle, in particular the economic depression jobs in the private or public sector. These them healthy. Food first, please, no matter in the 1870s and, again, in the 1890s, re­ hearings will examine the dominant ap­ what the delivery system-breast, cups, bot­ kindled the demand for shorter hours as the proach to curbing unemployment histori­ tles or hands. way to COinbat unemployment. This gave rise cally-the reduction in working hours and You say you are open to further discussion to one of the central principles of American the curbing of excessive overtime, partic­ of the i.ssues. I would be happy to meet with labor-the need to spread work around so ularly compulsory overtime, as the means to you when you return to Washington. that labor would not be divided between spread around employment. I request that you read this reply into the those fortunate to find work and others, who The severe deoline in the industri.a.l work­ Congressional Record. I! you feel t.t is in­ through no choice of their own, were con­ force, the chronic high levels of unemploy­ appropriate for you to do so, please advise demned to unemployment. Samuel Gompers, ment, the excessive use by em.ployers of rela­ me. I will be glad to ask another one of your the founder o! the American Federation of tively uncostly overtime at the expense of colleagues to do so. Labor, some 90 years ago captured the es­ the unemployed are some of the reasons that Yours truly, sence of the shorter workweek movement I introduced the Fair Labor Sta.nda.rds DANA RAPHAEL, PH. D., when he declared: "So long as there is one Amendments of 1979 (H.R. 1784) in the 95th Director.e man who seeks employment and cannot find and 96th Congress. These amendments it, the hours of labor are too long." womd raise the statutory premium on over­ During the Great Depression one of the time work from time-and-a--half to double­ CONYERS BILL ADDRESSES WORK­ principal means to keep unemployment in time; require employers to obtain their em­ WEEK ISSUES check was the passage o! the Fair Labor ployee's consent in tbe scheduling of over­ Standards Act in 1938, which cut the work­ time; a.nd reduce by stages over a 4-yea.r week from 48 to 40 hours and established a. period the standard workweek from 40 to HON. WILLIAM H. GRAY III premium rate for overtime work in order to 35 hours. This legislation keeps in force !or OF PENNSYLVANIA discourage excessive overtime and encourage .their duration exi.sting collective bargain­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES new hirings. American labor's advocacy o! ing agreements, and it provides fiexibility shorter hours always has been tied to the during periods of nation.aJ. emergency. Tuesday, December 18, 1979 specter of massive unemployment and its The purpose of H.R. 1784 is to stop the • Mr. GRAY. Mr. Speaker, just recently efforts to build a. full employment economy. erosion of indu&trial employment in the The hearings before your Committee repre­ nation a.nd open up new jobs that will be the Labor Standards Subcommittee of sent the first major Congressional inquiry created-it is estimated some 8 million new the House Committee on Education and into overtime and worktime issues in more jobs--when we curb overtime and shorten Labor completed hearings on legislation than 15 years. Much has changed in this the workweek .to 35 hours. It does not pro­ which would combat unemployment by period of time. Fringe benefits have risen pose anything that 1s revdlutionary or even shortening the traditional workweek and considerably as a. proportion of workers' novel. We reduced the wor:kweek f·rom 60 curbing excessive overtime work. earnings so that today it costs employers less hours to 48 hours to 40 hours over the last The focus of these hearings was the to pay their existing employees overtime, one hundred yea.rs, without ha.ving to reduce Fair Labor Standards Amendments of despite the time-and-a-half, than it does to wages overall, and we found tha.t business hire new workers. and industry benefitted. Prdductivity of 1979, H.R. 1748, introduced by Mr. CoN­ workers increased. These gains made t.t pos­ 13 The overtime provision of the 1938 law 1.s YERS, myself, and of our colleagues. simply not working as it was intended­ sible to maintain income standards. This legislation would raise the over­ namely, to encourage new hirings. Industrial Numerous industries already have adopted time rate of pay, from time-and-a-half workers' productivity doubles roughly every a reduced workweek. Ga.rm.ent workers have to double-time. Also, it would require the few decades, and in the last 15 years has in­ worked a. 35-hour week for many years. consent of employees in the scheduling of creased on the average 3 o/o annually-a very Typogra.phicaa workers, electrical workers, December 18, 19 79 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36869 and telephone operators aJ.ready a.re work­ lar legislation has been introduced in several carryover basis problem. (CONGRESSIONAL ing a reduced workweek. In 19'7'4: telephone States. A major national grass-roots move­ RECORD, November 19, 1979, p. 33080). All of operators went on a 37Y:z hour week (35 ment for a shorter workweek-spearheaded these professional groups have concluded hours in some States like New York). They by the AU-Unions Committee to Shorten the that carryover basis is unworkable, and did this without losing wages, and the tele­ Workweek-in two years' time has generated Whereas, Senator Byrd has stated the facts phone industry has discovered .that its em­ tremendous support both inside and outside as well as they can be stated (CoNGRESSIONAL ployees are working more productively a.t no the labor movement. REcORD, November 19, 1979, p. 33080) as added cost as a result. It 1s estima.ted that Mr. Chairman, the Labor Standards Sub­ follows: American industry as a whole, on a.n annual committee today is tackling work issues that "Mr. President, the reason that it is lrn­ basis, spends between $20-30 billion on have been neglected for too many years. portant to repeal the carryover basis is that absenteeiSm and job-related stress, includ­ These hearings accur at a time when conven­ it is a totally unworkable law. It is totally ing increased medical costs. The experience tional economic policies clearly are not work­ unworkable. Virtually every individual who learned from those industries tha.t have ing, and new ideas a.nd fresh approaches are has testified on the subject so states. • • • moved to a redm:ed workweek 1s that on a. needed to solve the nation's economic prob­ I have just read the number of organiza­ 35- or 37 Y:z -hour week, worker morale and lems. The proVisions of H.R. 1784 hold the tions which are strongly opposed to it and productivity is higher, management is pl'omise of a new policy to combat unemploy­ feel it must be repealed. That is the only .tighter, and the whole work and productive ment. The hearings this week can be a. sig­ sensible thing to do, Mr. President. The only process 1s more efficient tha.n it was before. nificant breakthrough in implementing at sensible thing to do is to repeal it, because Opponents of a sho:rrter work week assert last a full employment economy.e it does not work, it cannot work. It cannot that reduced hours of work would contribute be complied with and it cannot be ad­ to inflation. There 1.s no evidence, his­ ministered.", torically, to verify this charge. Nor 1s there and any evidence tha.t workers' wages a.re a cause REPEAL OF ESTATE TAX CARRY· Whereas, the Fisher Bill would not cure of infiation. Actually, ma.nutaoturing wages, OVER BASIS any of the basic problems in carryover basis in real rather than infiated dollar terms, and, in fact, in many instances would make have decreased in the past decade and them worse. worker&' purchasing power has diminished. Now, therefore, we urge our Iowa Senators The real sources of infia.tion-complex as HON. CHARLES E. GRASSLEY and Congressmen to oppose the passage of they are-lie in other areas: in the in­ OF IOWA any legislation such as the Fisher Bill and credible bOost in OPEC oil prices which led IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES we also urge that they use their best efforts .to the rise in domestic prices; in the in­ to persuade their colleagues that the only credible increase in interest rates, the result Tuesday, December 18, 1979 answer to carryover basis or any refinement of Federal Reserve Board action; in a.dmin­ e Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. Speaker, we thereof is to repeal it.e istered pricing in oligopollstic industries, found out in the last 3 years that the which the real 'W3ges of working people have carryover basis is not only detrimental not kept up with. to the maintenance of family fanns and Opponents of a shorter work week, who SENIOR CITIZENS also, incidentally, are opponents of a full businesses, but that it is impossible to employment economy, charge that produc­ administer. tivity would decline if working hours were Throughout my study of this matter HON. JAMES J. FLORIO reduced. History shows, however, that, just I have had the able assistance of attor­ OF NEW JERSEY the opposi.te is true. Furthermore, industrial neys and tax planners located in the productivity in the United States has grown State of Iowa. Arley Wilson of Marshall­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ea.oh year, not declined. It continues to grow Tuesday, December 18, 1979 in those industries that already have adopted town performed yeoman's work educat­ a reduced workweek. ing me and other Members of Congress • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, Govern­ Productivity would increase considerably, as to the impact of carryover basis. The ment recognition of the problems facing furthermore, if our society ever finds the Iowa Bar Association has also been of older citizens, and their capacity to con­ means to create a full employment economy. invaluable assistance. I would like to tinue to serve their communities, was The 7 to 10 million Americans today who are share with my colleagues a resolution unemployed-the figure depending on highlighted by congressional passage of which the Iowa State Bar Association the Older Americans Act in 1965. whether or not "discoura.ged workers" and adopted on December 7, 1979: workers forced to work part-time who want That act established a nationwide net­ to work ful:ltime are included-are truly un­ RESOLUTION work of aging offices, concerned with productive, through no fault of their own, Whereas, we understand that the Treasury meeting the economic and other needs of and the tremendous social costs of unem­ Department and Internal Revenue Service ployment a.nd the unproductivity of involun­ are going to attempt to substitute a bill senior citizens. Furtlher amendments tarily unemployed workers are the real cul­ called the "Fisher Bill," H.R. 4694, instead of made to the 1965 act have greatly ex­ prits behind whatever productivity probems repealing carryover basis, and panded the responsibilities of local aging exist in our society. American taxpayers are Whereas, because the Fisher Bill, in fact, offices. Today these offices serve as a one­ pa.ydng for unemployment and underemploy­ does not In any way solve the basic prob­ stop agency where older citizens can re­ ment, and the under-utilization of our hu­ lems of carryover basis and, in fact, in­ ceive a daily meal; obtain help on a legal, m3/n and material resources. We would aJll be creases them.. and transportation, medical or home-repair better off were we to find jobs for all persons Whereas, to illustrate, Congressman Fisher problem; or find a community-service who are able and willing to work but who is quoted (CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Novem­ cannot find it. We would all be better off ber 19, 1(}79, p. 33084) as saying "The bill is job where their career-long talents can were work spread around the greatest num­ a reasonable, workable proposal" and provides be put to good use. ber of workers. "simple administrable rules", and I am particularly pleased over the re­ There is another reason that recommends Whereas, the American Bankers Associa­ markable strides the camden County reduced working hours as a means to com­ tion's excellent study of the Fisher Blll (CoN­ Office on Aging has made during the last bat unemployment. Recent participation of GRESSIONAL RECORD, November 19, 1979. p. decade in meeting the needs of southern women, the increasing number of multiple­ 33084) states: New Jersey senior citizens. Directed by earner households, working husbands and "To assert that the Bill is either simple wives, and the reduced size of fa.milies­ Edward L. Donohue, the office serves a or administrable is a gross distortion of the major portion of elderly citizens in my pal.nt to the Shorter hour and shorter work­ true facts. One need only to read and note week 8.9 a sensible a.nd desira.ble method for congressional district. I have worked oombatting unemployment, maintaining ex­ the length of proposed section 1023 in order closely with Mr. Donohue and his staff, isting industrial employment, and creating to appreciate its complexity. We also dis­ agree with the suggestion made by the Con­ and I am consistently impressed over the new sources of employment. · professionalism and efficiency the office The Fair Labor Standards Amendments gressman that carryover basis in the form of 1979 (H.R. 1784) represents a solid method contained in the Bill will promote 'tax equity has achieved in meeting the concerns of for moving toward a full employment econ­ and justice'. A system that will substantially Camden County senior citizens. omy, as mandated by the Full Employment increase the cost of administering estates, I would like to direct my colleague's and Balanced Growth Act. They make a that will place a higher relative burden on attention to the summary provided be­ great deal of sense from the point of view of smaller estates than on larger estates and low of the 10-year service growth of the trends in industrla.l production and the that is riddled with exceptions and exclu­ sions, is not entitled to make this claim.", Camden County Office on Aging. Without changes taking place .in the workforce. For reservation, I feel that the achievements this reason, H.R. 1784 enjoys the S'Upport of and the AFL-CIO, the U.A.W., 20 other national Whereas, The Iowa State Bar Association, of the office represent what a "model" and international unions, and more tha.n 100 its members, and a host of other profes­ area agency on aging should emulate. I labor organizations across the nation. Simi- sional groups have thoroughly studied the look forward to continue to work with 36870 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 18, 1979 Mr. Donohue and his staff in further im­ try has spotlighted Frank Sinatra's 40th 40th year in show business, we can all be proving the lives of Camden County's year in show business. It was highlighted thankful that his "retirement" was only an elderly population. by a dinner and show at Caesar's Palace hiatus. The summary follows: in Las Vegas last week with the great Few entertainers in show business can boast the individual honors and adulation A DECADE OF CHANGE, GROWTH AND and near great not only of screen, stage accorded Frank Sinatra. His many years in ACHIEVEMENT and television, but from all walks of life, the limelight have not dimmed the brilliance (A Synoptic Review of the Camden County paying homage. of his individual star. Office on Aging 1970-<1980) It was a tremendously warm outpour­ That, after 40 years, he is still considered As we enter a new decade on January 1, ing to a man who for over 40 years has the number one, entertainer in the world is 1980, it 1s both practical and prudent tore­ enjoyed top billing in achieving a magi­ a tribute to his talent and charisma. view the past, to study t he present and to cal and unique entertaining hold on our In Las Vegas he is a legend. He almost prepare for the future. country. Fortunately, the rest of America single-handedly helped put our city on the The Camden County Office on Aging has will have a glimpse of this wondrous international map and every Sinatra appear­ undergone more change and progress dur­ ance in Las Vegas heralds a huge influx of ing the 1970's in serving the needs of the evening as NBC has scheduled it for a 2- media attention and visitors. He is synony­ County's older citizens than probably any hour television special on January 3. mous with Las Vegas, and since it was his other department within Camden County's But, while millions of Americans know decision as to where tonight's event should government. and recognize him as perhaps the No. 1 take place, he does us honor to have chosen In 1970, the Office on Aging had a budget. entertainer in the world, little is really Las Vegas and Caesars Palace. well under $100,000, whereas today, ten (10) known of his wonderful humanitarian Los Angeles wanted to host the affair as did years later, our budget, including funding contributions. I am pleased that a front­ New York City. Had Sinatra decided on either from all sources (federal, state and county) locale there could have been no arguments exceeds $2 million. page editorial from the Las Vegas Sun from any quarters. Certainly these are glam­ Our scope of services has increased incred­ was recently sent to me so that I had the orous, populous sites with immediate access ibly during the 1970's. Ten years ago, the opportunity to read of this man's great to international press. Sinatra's choice of Office on Aging was primarily an Informa­ generosity and love of people. Briefly, Las Vegas was made because he has repeat­ tion & Referral Agency as well as an advo­ the editorial mentioned concerts he has edly triumphed here as a performer. His re-. cate for senior citizens. Today, in addition given to build homes for orphans in Ja­ turn to show business took place at Caesars to I & Rand advocacy, services and programs pan and Hong Kong and that he has en­ Palace. He likes Las Vegas, and the city and emanating from the Office as an Area Agency dowed children's homes in several coun­ all its inhabitants return that affection a on Aging envelops practically every essen­ tries. thousandfold. tial facet of an older person's life including: An honorary doctorate at the University of congregate nutrition sites and home deliv­ It was said that Nevada owes much to Nevada, Las Vegas is evidence of the esteem ered meals; legal aid; coordinated transpor­ Frank Sinatra. He put Las Vegas on the in which he is held by our community and tation (18 vehicles) for medical and other entertainment map. It is probable, as state. emergencies; housing assistance; in-home more and more Americans learn of his His name is magic on a marquee and his services such as health/ homemaker aides; private, less publicized work for his fel­ appearance at any charitable event is assur­ minor home repairs/ renovations and chores; lowman, that our country owes him ance of success. a nursing home ombudsman program for even more. Tonight we will be honoring two Sinatras-­ long term/ alternate care with specialized case the truly great entertainer and an equally management; multipurpose senior centers The editorial from the December 12, great humanitarian. and much, much more! 1979, edition of the Las Vegas Sun fol­ Sinatra's dedication to humanity does not Operating on a sub-grantee basis, the Cam­ lows: end in our country. Whether it's Nevada, den County Office on Aging is responsible for [From the Las Vegas Sun, Dec. 12, 1979] Egypt, Israel or the Far East-wherever you more than 200 paid workers supplemented by DOUBLE MAGIC: SINATRA AND LAS VEGAS go, you'll most likely see a project that is over 100 trained and active volunteers to de­ there because of Sinatra's generosity and deep liver all of the various services mentioned Front page editorials are usually reserved love of people, especially children. previously. for public matters of great significance, or He has given concerts to build homes for the memoralization of momentous historic All of this has been accomplished with an events. orphans in Japan and Hong Kong and has additional five (5) county employees over a endowed children's homes in several coun­ span of ten years (January 1970---4 county Entertainers' contributions normally have tries. In almost every country you visit, he employees; January 1980-9 county em­ exposure in the entertainment sections of a. has made contributions to orphans, the poor, ployees) . newspaper, as notable sports figures are found in the sports pages. the less fortunate of our society; and has However, with all of these increased serv­ given financial support to educational insti­ ices and programs requiring extensive plan­ But when an entertainer, a singer, has im­ pacted the world social order and an entire tutions round the world. ning and coordination as well as exhaustive Frank Sinatra was born with a voice that monitoring and evaluation, the salary struc­ city in particular, a front page expression of gratitude would not be overstated. has thrilled the world, but behind that voice ture of the Executive Director and his pro­ is a man who recognizes that he has been fessional staff has not nearly kept pace with Frank Sinatra will be honored with a party commemorating his 40th year in show busi­ doubly blessed and shares his good fortune other County departments. Without desig­ with those who are in trouble and in need. nating specific departments for comparison, ness. The event will take place at Caesars Palace and it is also of significance that it He is a dedicated champion of the under­ a rather perfunctory review would reveal this dog, a spokesman for the underprivileged of significant and obvious inequity, bearing in falls on his birthday. Why does this man merit front page edi­ our society. mind the importance of serving our older He has compassion for his fellows because citizens in a professional and sincere manner. torial space in a Las Vegas newspaper? It is the magic of the man. he has been up on top and back down again, The time has long passed when the reali­ only to persevere until he again reached the ties surrounding the efficient and effective It is quite true that the public's reaction to many entertainers is a will-o-the-wisp top. Few entertainers have taken more blows operation of a county office on aging (NOW or achieved greater success; and none has an area agency on aging) must be faced and emotion-a love affair that fizzles after the first glow subsides. equalled the joy and delight he has brought resolved. Our new decade of the 1980's hovers into the lives of all who have heard him. on the horizon, and the continued enhance­ Not so with the 40 years of affection and admiration that has been showered on Frank Nevada owes much to Frank Sinatra and ment of the quality of life for Camden Coun­ Sinatra by adoring fans. the Sun joins the people of Las Vegas in ty's older citizen lies in our hands. letting him know what is in our hearts. Let's hope and pray that their future years The man with the golden voice and mag­ netic personality has survived all the mood May he continue doing all these glorious are bright and happy because those in posi­ things his way, because his way is our way.e tions of authority Care! e changes of a fickle public. No matter what kind of music became the fad, his magic always worked with audiences all over the world. He is the master singer and when he EUGENE LELAND MEMORIAL A GREAT ENTERTAINER AND AN sings the world beats a path to his door. HOSPITAL EQUALLY GREAT HUMANITARI­ In 1971, when Sinatra decided to pack It AN-FRJANK SINATRA all in and give up his entertainment career, he had visions of a semi-retirement wherein HON. GLADYS NOON SPELLMAN he could relax and enjoy life without the OF MARYLAND HON. GUY VANDER JAGT continual demands of show business. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MICHIGAN It wasn't long before he realized this was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATTVES not the life for him. The lure of the spot­ Tuesday, December 18, 1979 lights-the rapport with audiences who loved Tuesday, December 18, 1979 him-the sharing of his talent for worthy • Mrs. SPELLMAN. Mr. Speaker, a few causes-an conspired tQ bring him back to days ago, it was my happy duty to ?e e Mr. VANDER JAGT. 'Mr. Speaker, in the place where he belongs. present at the dedication of an $8 ~­ recent days, media throughout the coun- And tonight, when he is honored on his lion addition to Eugene Leland Memorial December 18, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36871 Hospital in Riverdale, Md. The first full­ their great uncle, Eugene Leland. But this into more extreme positions. President Carter fac111ty is as much a monument to the broth­ was so "disgusted" with the NBC interview, service hospital constructed in Prince ers' own spirit and dedication as it is to their said an aide, that he turned it off halfway Georges County, Leland remains today relative's. It was their dream. It was their through-only to have it replayed later. Re­ one of the key medical facilities in my determination. It was their work which re­ publican Rep. Robert E. Bauman of Mary­ congressional district. sulted in its construction. It was their con­ land suggested that "NBC should be nomi­ In an effort to enlighten my colleagues tinued involvement and interest which led nated for the Benedict Arnold Award for on the subject of this exemplary institu­ to its steady expansion through the years. broadcast journalism." CBS and ABC also tion, I would like to share with them my I said before there are no rules of archi­ sniped at their rival's exclusive. "I'm sur­ remarks at the dedication ceremony, tecture for castles in the clouds. I know the prised and disappointed that NBC did it," Malin brothers would be the first to agree. sniffed ABS News president Roone Arledge. held Sunday, December 9, 1979. A castle in the clouds-a dream come true. "It was not television's proudest moment." The remarks follow: That's what Leland is. The Malin brothers' CONDITIONS My father taught us that "work is love foresight made it all possible. And since, it made visible." If ever there was an institu­ has been their donation of time, their guid­ Such indictments were hardly supported tion which proves his point, it is this one. ing hand which have caused it to flourish. either by NBC's journalistic conduct or the The number of people Leland has helped, And you and I have reaped the benefits, interview itself, in which the young marine whose lives it has touched, since its doors many times over. Their work truly is "love gave creditable answers reflecting the ten­ opened some four decades ago is incalcula­ made visible." It has made an indelible mark sion in which the hostages live. The charge ble-young children, heads of families, moth­ on this community in the form of Leland most widely-and unfairly-leveled at NBC ers, fathers, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts Memorial Hospital. And with this new ad­ was that it surrendered editorial control by and uncles. Leland touches them all every­ dition we are dedicating today, that mark, agreeing to conditions imposed by the stu­ dent captors. In fact, NBC, CBS and ABC had time a seriously ill patient enters its doors. that imprint, will continue to grow ever larger, ever greater.e all rejected initial proposals by the militants And now, with this new wing, with more for a pooled, prime-time interview with a beds, with better facilities, there will be even hostage, with questions submitted in ad­ more patients-more acts of mercy, of car­ vance, plus the opportunity for students to ing-more "love made visible" through Le­ present a statement of their own. Unlike the land Hospital and its work. WHEN ARE THEY INFLUENCING? other two networks, NBC took advantage of How did it all begin? It began with two the opening to make this counterproposal: special people, two brothers in medicine as a half-hour interview in prime time conduct­ well as in life, Drs. Wendell and Lawrence HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE ed by NBC correspondents Fred Francis and Malin. Without their dedication and love, OF NEW YORK George Lewis---.with no restrictions on ques­ there would be no Leland Memorial Hospital. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions, no questions submitted in advance Theirs is an inspiring story, a story of vi­ and no editing by anyone but NBC. The stu­ sion and commitment, a story well worth Tuesday, December 18, 1979 dents asked for a few minutes of air time in recalling as we mark the latest expansion return. NBC agreed, but only on condition of this facility. • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, events that it retain the power not to run the pro­ It begins in the mid-1930s, in the depths taking place in Iran during the past 6 gram at all. of the Depression, with a. dream. In retro­ weeks have become the center of world­ The other two networks say they believe spect, it seems a far-seeing vision-a. vision wide attention. they would have relinquished editorial con­ of a full-fledged, self-supporting hospital in The information we get about this sit­ trol by giving the militants unedited time to this area. uation must rely almost completely on state their case and by acceding to demands It was a revolutionary idea at that time. journalists, for the Iranian Government, that the program be carried in prime time. There were no hospitals a.t all in Prince (The next morning, both CBS and ABC tele­ Georges County in those days. But there are such as it is, has eschewed use of normal vised portions of a different interview with no rules of architecture for castles in the diplomatic channels and other means of Gallegos--conducted solely by the Iranian clouds, so it didn't matter that what the communication within the world com­ students and so identified by the newscasts.) Malin brothers were thinking of was un­ munity. This puts a very heavy burden NBC's Pentagon correspondent Ford Rowan precedented. on the journalistic profession, and most resigned over the interview, accusing the So often, of course, such dreams remain particularly on television journalists on network of "irresponsible journalism." He just that--dreams-dreams which are never whom many Americans rely for much of was openly miffed because NBC's first tele­ realized. But not so with Wendell and their information about this crisis. cast did not carry his own two-minute spot Lawrence Malin. They believed, a.s I do, that giving a response by State Department things don't turn up in this world until Making news judgments in these cir­ spokesman Tom Reston, although anchor­ somebody turns them up. So when they saw cumstances is extremely difficult, for as man John Chancellor had summed up Res­ the need for a hospital here, they went to a recent analysis in Newsweek (December ton's remarks. work. 24, 1979) pointed out, there is always For its part, NBC had clearly e1q>la.ined to The first tangible result of the Malin the question of when a news story does viewers the conditions under which it got brothers' dream was the purchase in 1936 of more than just report on events and, in­ the interview. The network justified giving a vacant lot one block west of Highway 1. stead, begins to influence them. This five minutes to the militants• spokeswoman, Up to that point, Wendell Malin had been is an important question which should "Mary," on the ground that her speech show­ practicing medicine out of his home. He ed the intensity of the students• feelings. It must have had a good practice. His home not be ignored, and I commend this ar­ is hard to conceive that U.s. viewers were was bursting a.t the seams. So the lot was ticle to my colleagues' attention. brainwashed by her statement--any more purchased for construction of a new home, The article follows: than they have been by the views of Foreign large enough to provide care for his patients. TV: HELD HOSTAGE? Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh as frequently And it wasn't long before the first building It was the break every American reporter (and properly) televised by all three net­ of what was to become Leland Memorial in Iran had been waiting for-the first works. Hospital was up. chance in more than five weeks to question NBC's decision to run the interview raised In 1938, Lawrence Malin joined his one of the 50 hostages held in the U.S. Em­ larger questions about television dLplomacy. brother in the rapidly expanding practice bassy in Teheran. But when NBC broadcast When are the media being manipulated? on Queensbury Road. And four years later, its eighteen-minute inteqview with Marine When are they influencing events they seek in 1942, the brothers' dream was realized in Cpl. William Gallegos last week, it set off to cover? Although the media are keenly full. On Labor Day that year, a. 58-bed hos­ a storm of controversy that had been brew­ aware of these problems, the situation in pital-the first in Prince Georges County­ ing for the past month-ever since then net­ Iran is unprecedented. Direct dipl0lll.81tic omcially opened its doors. works agreed to submit questions in ad­ channels are nonexistent and U.S. omcials A couple of years after that, the Malin vance to obtain interviews with Ayatollah are understandably frustrated by the media's brothers were paid perhaps the ultimate Ruhollah Khomeini. easy access to sources in Iran. compliment. During the crisis, the media-and pri­ The lack of omcial communication has Another hospital, 100-bed Prince Georges marily television-have been accused of ev­ also created the temota.tion to enlist the General, had just been completed. And erything from letting themselves be manipu­ press and TV a.s velhicles to present the cases leading physicians in the county maintained lated by the Iranians to subverting the dip­ of both sides. "We knew that some people it was the example of the Malin brothers. lomatic process-and even of being un­ would accuse us of spreading propaganda more than any other single factor, that led patriotic. Administration omcials have voiced for the Iranians or of not being pro-Ameri­ to construction of the county facility. So, contradictory complaints. Press secretary can," said NBC's George Lewis. "But we are where just a few short years earlier there Jody Powell criticized TV reporters for fail­ not here to be pro-American. We are here had been no hospitals, now there were two­ ing to ask Iranians "tough question," while to tell people what is happening here." both in large part due to the commitment State Department spokesman Hedding Car­ Although the effectiveness of their mes­ of Wendell and Lawrence Malin. ter III accused correspondents of pressing so sage is diluted by its doctrina.lre content, the The Malins named their hospital after hard that they forced Khomeini and others militants have shown impressive TV savvy. 36872 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 18, 19 79 Like Gbotbzadeh himself, who bas been in Almost every time Jimmy Carter does friends and helping our enemies as our for­ charge of Imnia.n TV, they know the size something else atrocious--which is daily-! eign policy has consistently done. of the U.S. prime-time audience and are hear someone say: Why can't we get the kind Such efforts were doomed to failure. If you masters a.t staging media. events. They have of government we deserve? Maybe we have will take our foreign policy at face value­ even installed three cameras and a. micro­ it. That thought frightens me. If we have not analyzing it in terms of what you know wave dish inside the embassy compound to sunk so low that we deserve what we have about the conspiracy, but just taking lt at fa.c111ta.te transmission of film to the ma.ln in Washington, I do not believe America. face value-the best that you can call it is a. TV station. The captors receive instant feed­ can be saved, or merits saving. policy of evangelistic imperialism, as dis­ back by telephone from Iranians ln the U.S. It would not be so bad-in fact, it might tinguished from conventional or rapacious about the content of press coverage-and be fun-if we who ·believe in freedom could imperialism. Our government has assumed are not above punishing those they consider have it, and let all the rest go hang. But the right and responslblllty of aiding, up­ out of line. 'When the students misinter­ freedom is not divisible. In the end, it ls lifting, and defending a.ny part or all of the preted. a. commentary by columnist Carl freedom or slavery-for all. foreign world, as, when, and where the ad­ Rowan on WDVM, CBS's TV aflllla.te in Wash­ There ls no middle ground. Commentators ministration ln power deems proper. ington, D.C., they briefly denied CBS access who have dally access to a national tele­ No matter how administered, a. policy of to the satellite in Teheran. vision audience say otherwise. They rejoice i·mperialism, whether evangelistic or rapa­ FEAR at political party activity which shuns ideol­ cious, would ,be disastrous for our !Republic. Some journalists argue that if NBC had ogy, and they praise political moderates who Under the Constitution, our govtlrnment rejected the m111ta.nts' demand for a.lr time, swim ln the mainstream of American poll­ has no legitimate mission to aid and defend the Iranians might have backed down a.nd tics and shun extreme positions which tend the world. Its mission is to secure the bless­ granted an unconditional Interview. But, to overheat the voters and obscure their ings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. said NBC News president William J . Small, judgement. History seems to indicate that a Republic "experts on hostages have pointed out that There is a. mainstream ln American pol­ which adopts a. policy of imperialism can­ the worst thing you can do ls lha.ve a. tota.l itics; and, for a generation, it has been not remain a Republic. In the second news blackout, because then the captors do sweeping our nation inexorably toward total­ century B.C., the last full century before more dramatic, more radical things to get itarian socialism. In the past 25 years, there the Roman Republic became the Roman attention." Walter Cronkite raised a. related has been striking change ln tone, appearance, Empire, Aemllius Paulus, Roman general, concern: the fear that terrorists might some­ and tempo; but direction has not altered. The conquered Macedonia. From that one foreign day hold hostages aga.lnst a. demand a! eJ.r direction and ultimate goal of our main­ conquest, he brought so vast a. quantity of time. "The alarm that ls felt by some net­ stream political leadership was the same ln money into the public treasury that the work news executives," said Cronkite, "ls the 1950's under Eisenhower as it is now people of Rome paid no taxes whatever for that NBC let the Ira.nia.n students get their under Carter. more than 125 years. Republican Rome had foot into that door." The mainstream ls so strong and wide that a strong currency so there was none of that The debate over tlhe media's role ln Iran lt carries along, and makes use of, every po­ hidden taxation which we now call inflation. will continue long aft er the hostage crisis litical leader who, imagining that he is too For 125 years, Romans paid no taxes. In the ends. "It's a.n old story," says Reuters State shrewd to swim against lt, tries to slow down end, however, the imperialism which brought Department reporter Jeffrey Antevil. "The or deflect it. such lavish benefactions to Rome damaged fact ls, TV ls there and we'd be subjected to Remember the late Robert A. Taft, Sr. the Roman Republic, more fatally than it a. lot more criticism lf we started deciding (known in his time as Mr. Conservative Re­ damaged the foreign nations that were pll­ which events not to cover." When unusual publican)? Senator Taft wrote the Public la.ged. Imperialism requires autocratic con­ circumstances arise and the media. do make Housing Act of 1949, knowing it was uncon­ trol at the top. Trading their liberty for exceptions to established journalistic stand­ stitutional and economically unsound. He huge infusions of something for nothing ards, most critics believe that news organi­ was making a tactical maneuver-sponsoring seemed like a good bargain to the people of zations can fulfill their responsiblllt y by a. little public housing law which the nation Rome. But the infusions so corrupted the clearly explaining the conditions under could live with, even though bad, to forestall people and their armies and their rulers that which the story was obta.lned.e liberals from enacting a law that would so­ the Republic died; and its successor, the cialize the housing industry. Taft's Public Empire, rotted away from the same cause. Housing Act of 1949 has been the general The Roman people got what they deserved. statute of reference for the mass of socialistic We can readily understand how the legisla. tion in the broad field of housing ever Romans were corrupted. They were greedy. DAN SMOOT TIRELESS PATRIOT since. So are we. The political appeals to our Remember the political struggle over so­ greed have not been as direct and honest as HON. LARRY McDONALD cialized medicine in the last years of the those made ln ancient Rome and the payoff Eisenhower Administration. Leftist Demo­ has certainly not been as real and dazzling OF GEORGIA crats introduced legislation to do what ln our case as in the case of Rome. But IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Franklin Roosevelt had failed to do in the greed has played a. major role in the decline of our Republic. Hundreds of unconstitu­ Tuesday, December 18, 1979 thirties: Add medicare to social security. This came to be known as the King-Anderson ap­ tional multi-blllion-dolla.r domestic pro­ • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, one of proach to medical care-after the names of grams that are corrupting the people and two Democrat sponsors. bankrupting the nation are the progeny of the most noted Americans in our his­ greed-greed for office, fame, riches, and tory is a gentleman from Big Sandy, Mainstream Republican leadership coun­ power on the part of politicians who get Tex., by the name of Dan Smoot. He is tered with legislation written by two other elected on promises to give people something Democrats who were called conservatives: to be paid for by someone else. Greed moti­ a graduate of Southern Methodist Uni­ Senator Robert Kerr and Congressman Wil­ versity and has a master's degree in vated the people to sell their votes for those bur Mills. Kerr-Mills medicine proposed a promises. American history from Harvard Univer­ complicated mess of federal grants to states sity. for tax-financed medical care, known as med­ Appeals to greed account ln large degree icaid. for public acceptance of our suicidal foreign After honorably serving in the FBI for policy, too. There wa.s a heavy mixture of almost a decade, he changed his activi­ King-Anderson medicare or Kerr-Mills high-sounding but false idealism ln the ra­ ties to devote full time in an effort to medicaid? This became a. major issue between tionale advanced to win public acceptance; build an informed electorate. Over the John Kennedy and Richard Nixon ln 1960. but most people tuned that out as routine Kennedy advocated the King-Anderson ap­ political rhetoric, whlle listening to ldlotlc past three decades he has authored nu­ proach. Nixon called that socialism. He stood merous works on our constitutional re­ appeals to greed. For example, the cheapest tour-square for the Kerr-Mills approach, way to defend our nation is to give economic public and the threats to it; in addition calling it the free-enterprise way. What did and milltary aid to foreign nations, making he has been a noted television and radio we get in the end? We got both: Medicare them strong enough to help us in time of program host as well as an active speak­ and medica.ld. crisis; keeping their forces strong and ln er for the American cause. How many times have you seen mainstream readiness will cost us far less than maintain­ On November 17 of this year in Den­ conservatives ln Congress supporting the ing the huge armies we would need without ver, Colo., Dan Smoot addressed the broad outlines of American foreign policy the certainty of their assistance. Another while complaining about its handling and example: America. can no longer stand alone; council dinner at the quarterly John Its consequences? Did you ever hear one of without allies, we would collapse a.t the first Birch Society Council meeting. His words them openly demand that we abandon, ln assault; therefore, because we cannot stand are giving warning to all Americans, and toto, the foreign policy which every adminis­ up without help, we must run full tilt with even more so, coming from such a noted tration and every congressional majority has scores of other nations on our back until authority on the U.S. Constitution. supported. since 1940? No. They have tried to they get strong enough to help us. Another change implementation so that our military example: many nations are too poor to buy For the benefit of my colleagues and interventions and outpourings of wealth our products; but if we will give them money all concerned Americans, his speech fol- would help foreign governments that seemed to buy, then we can sell, and we will all be lows: friendly toward us, instead of destroying our prosperous. December 18, 19 79 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36873 How was it possLble to sell such nonsense conference report on H.R. 595, and voted are on foreign oil. Our national silver output to the people of a literate nation? remains at roughly 43 million ounces; usage to delete the sale of silver from the meas­ w111 be steady at 160 mill1on, and recycled The policies of our government were set ure. At that time some of the Members by a conspiracy operating to drag America metal will provide about 20 million." into the quagmire of one-world socialism; in favor of the sale of silver appeared The biggest sliver exporters are Mexico, and massive resources were marshalled to to be unaware of what is actually taking which produces about 56 million ounces a achieve public acceptance. place worldwide as regards silver. In year; Peru, with 44 million, and Cana.da, with But with all that, I do not believe that hopes of remedying this gap in the knowl­ 43 million. But Conticommodity's New York a majority of Americans were ever sold on edge of some of the Members, I am plac­ research chief also discovered something far the post-World War II policies of our gov­ ing in the RECORD an article by Mr. H. J. more important, he said. As he observed: ernment. The public went along in grop­ "The Soviet Union has quietly been im­ Maidenberg of the New York Times on porting large amounts of silver, and our re­ ing confusion, because there was no real this issue. It appeared on December 10, opposition to the fundamentals of those search here and abroad strongly indicates policies. Leaders of the mainstream con­ 1979, and discusses the silver market as they will be taking another 100 million servative opposition supported the funda­ interpreted by Mr. Paul Sarnoff of Con­ ounces in 1980. Moscow buys its silver mentals and broad outlines of the domestic ticommodity of New York City, who is through Swiss banks, through which it sells and foreign policies set by totalitarian lib­ a distinguished commodities analyst. its gold, platinum and other metals. The erals, but caviled about detalis. Soviets rarely, if ever, export silver." The article follows: Unlike the United States, the Soviet Union There is no moderate or middle ground in CHARTING SILVER'S FuTURE the struggle to determine the fate of the depends almost wholly on secondary recov­ American Republic. Every political practi­ (By H. J. Ma.idenberg) ery of silver found in mining baser metals. tioner must be somewhere in the main­ No commodity market analyst is ever at a "They are not blessed with Idaho's silver stream-along with people like John Con­ loss to explain a market's behavior after the valley," Mr. Sarnoff continued. "The people nally and Howard Baker, and people like fact; rare is the one, however, who can pre­ there also like to take pictures of their Edward Kennedy and Andrew Young--or he dict a. price trend for a year ahead with children," he noted. "Soviet usage of silver must stand squarely against the mainstream accuracy. for photographic film is climbing. current, determined to turn it around and But Paul Sarnoff, New York director of "More important, Moscow is intensely in­ terested in solar cells for the production of head it in the opposite direction. We have research at Conticommodity Services Inc., correctly called the silver market a year ago. electricity," he went on. "The reflective ma­ only two choices: Restore the traditional terials in these solar cells are heavily sli­ American foreign policy of benign neutrality At that time, cash silver was selling at $5.50 an ounce, having wavered between $4.50 and vered. And the Russians prefer using silver and reestablish a free-market economy un­ for missile batteries to using lithium chlo­ der strictly limited constitutional govern­ $6 for several years. Mr. Sarnoff declared at the time that silver ride, and so forth." ment, or continue on the road to doom. He stressed that solar cells should not be There is evidence that doom awaits us. would be $8 by mid-1979 and would undoubt­ edly go much higher. Also present at that confused with the more f.amiliar solar­ There is also evidence to the contrary. energy systems designed to heat homes and Something fine is still alive in the Ameri­ interview was Norton Waltuch, Conticom­ modity's chief metals trader, who recently other buildings. can spirit. Given these situations, Mr. Sarnoff con­ Despite half a century of saturation bomb­ gained widespread notice in the trade as a leading sliver bull. He said Mr. Sarnoff's fore­ cluded: ing with the propaganda of socialism, Ameri­ "I sincerely believe that unless the reces­ cans will still respond to the old American cast was far too conservative. "Actually," Mr. Sarnoff recalled last Friday, sion gets out of control today's silver prices ideal of liberty, with God's help, under could well be the floor for 1980. If Soviet severely limited constitutional government. "I agreed with Norton, but as I explained to the Northwest Mining Association meeting in Union imports of silver continue a.t the 1979 The traditions of freedom are deeply rooted rate, $25 to $30 would not be unreasonable. and strong; and the blessings of Uberty are Seattle yesterday, had either Norton or I said a year ago that sliver would go to $16 or And if gold takes off after oil prices, then still green in the national memory of Amer­ $30 would be very conservative a. year from ica. Otherwise, how can you account for the $20, our employers, our clients and families would have thought we had gone stark raving now. In fact, I think we'll see a. 20-to-1 ratio fact that, in the present Congress, we have between gold and silver late next year; it's a comforting number of real statesmen­ mad." Last Friday, the most widely held sliver that close now." men like Larry McDonald and 35 others, in Last Friday, the spot December Comex House and Senate, who currently have 100 futures contract on New York's Commodity Exchange, the near March delivery, closed gold contract closed at $426 an ounce, up percent Americanist voting records? In the $7.90 on the week. At a. silver/gold price ratio previous Congress, we had eighty 100 per­ at $19.37 an ounce, up 10 cents on the week and $1.23 below its record of $20.60 set ear­ of 20 to 1, silver should be selling a.t $21.30 centers, which was probably more abso­ lier in the week. Eooh 1-cent move in sliver an ounce. The spot Comex silver controot lutely-right men in Congress than we have futures represents $50 per contract of 5,000 ended at $18.76 an ounce, off 6 cents on the ha.d in a.ny other Congress in this century. ounces. week.e Absolute-righters will provide the poli­ Having explained his caution a year ago, tical leadership to save our country, if it Mr. Sarnoff was asked to look into the sliver IVEY BROTHERS is to be saved. When they fall much below market and say what he saw there in the absolutely-right, they are floundering around year ahead. "I'll repeat what I told the min­ in the mainstream a.nd, by their ineffectual ing people yesterday, but first I'd like to presence, swelling its volume. make some general comments," he replied. HON. RONALD V. DELLUMS I pin my hope on the belief that our "First and foremost, I am a fundamental­ OF CALIFORNIA good men in Congress are not political ist. I follow basic supply-and-demand fac­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sports who got there by accident. They are tors in any given market. A year ago it was there because the ideal of being not par­ clear that the recovery of sliver from coinage, Tuesday, December 18, 1979 tially right, but absolutely right on a.ll ma­ which had helped bridge the growing gap e Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, I would jor issues is becoming more a.nd more per­ between supply and demand, was coming to vasive. And for that, I attribute a. lion's an end. The supply of silver-content coins like to take this opportunity to praise the share of the credit to you-the tireless, was near exhaustion." work of three men: partners in the dauntless, educated patriots of the John Mr. Sarnoff then noted that despite sup­ development, implementation and, now, Birch Society. Standing stubbornly for what plies of recycled silver, the nation was st111 expansion of Ivey's Restaurant in the 1s absolutely right, you have been sowing short about 100 mill1on ounces a year and Eighth California Congressional District. seeds. There ha.s already been good harvest. that this gap would widen. "We then calcu­ There will be more. Fred, James, and John Ivey opened Ivey's lated the soaring price of oil and other infla­ Restaurant on November 12, 1976, in the To sum it up: the nation will continue tionary factors as well as silver's historic to move in the direction Jane Fonda wants, price linkage to gold, and we had our basic historic Jack London Square area of or it will swing around and go the way Bob trend for silver in 19'79," he sa.ld. "I concede Oakland. Its popularity-a tribute to the Welch is pointing. I think Bob is gaining on that I didn't expect the degrees of emo­ dedication of these three men and the her.e tional and speculative fervor that gripped cuisine of their mother. Ms. Rosia Lee the silver market last September a.nd Oc­ Ivey-has made it an enduring success. CHARTING SIINER'S FUTURE tober." I thank my colleagues for taking note Studying the silver situation recently, with of the achievement of these minority an eye toward catching next year's price business persons. Men whose father, Fred HON. LARRY McDONALD trend, Mr. Sarnoff first looked at the supply Ivey, Sr., cultivated the soil of Arkansas side. OF GEORGIA and California and who themselves now "The nation will have another deficit in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bring food to the tables frequented by the silver supply-demand equation in 1980, many hundreds. I congratulate them on Tuesday, December 18, 1979 as we have had every year since 1946," he went on. "The deficit next year will prob­ entering into their fourth year in busi­ • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker. on ably be another 100 million ounces. We are ness and wish them every success for the Wednesda¥, the House considered the just as dependent on foreign silver as we New Year.e 36874 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 18, 1979 CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD control over the transition to deregulation in is on the commissions ce111ng set by the A1r the hands of an agency involved over many Trame Conference carriers. Similar ceilings years in detailed regulation was quite an act for international sales under the auspices of of faith. I should allay any doubts. We are the International A1r Transport Association HON. JOHN J. RHODES well on our way to deregulation, perhaps (lATA) were, as you well know, disapproved OF ARIZONA with more speed than Congress intended. last summer.3 The recent show cause order IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Some of the major changes were made in parallels the lATA order. the route licensing area. They are primarily I should point out that none of the com­ Tuesday, December 18, 1979 aimed at making it less dl.ftlcult for carriers ments received to date on the "open com­ • Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, early this to receive authority to serve new markets. We missions" show cause oppose abolition of month, my very good friend Richard J. no longer need to make the finding that the fixed commissions. Aside from comments in O'Melia, who is a member of the Civil service is required by the public convenience support, objections go either to the mech­ and necessity. Instead, the service an airline anics or the timing of moving to open com­ Aeronautics Board, was in Scottsdale, proposes must be "consistent with" that missions. Our work tracking system shows a Ariz., to address a meeting of the Hick­ standard. February decision date on open commiss1ons. ory Association, which is a cooperative of As you know, bllls are in varying states of We may even do better than that and get lt travel agents. approval in the House and Senate that would out next month. It was an excellent speech, describing apply similar liberal standards to interna­ The Competitive Marketing Investigation the steps the CAB is taking to "vanish tional route licensing. We could well have a is at this point very broadly defined to cover into the sunset," as my friend described final international aviation blll passed this everything from rules requiring exclusive it, in conformance with the Airline De­ year. It has been in a House-Senate Confer­ use of conference accredited agents to the regulation Act of last year. I commend ence Committee this past week. standards to be used for accreditation. It The new Act's treatment of fare regula­ involves restructuring the pricing system for it to my colleagues and ask that it be tion is brief and to the point. Within a air travel and can dramatically and drast1· placed in the RECORD: specified range, carriers are free to compete cially alter the travel agent's role in retail ADDRESS OF MEMBER RICHARD J. O'MELIA AT for ticket sales by charging whatever fares marketing. It may provide new alternatives HICKORY AsSOCIATION INAUGURATION BAN­ they choose. The draft international aviation to the travel agent or airline ticket office. QUET AND SALUTE TO INDUSTRY AsSOCIATES bllls contain similar proposals on fares. We By that, I mean "net fares", which, to me at Good Evening: at the Board take the credit, or you may least, is a term that still requires further Thank you for asking me to join with you say the blame, for developing this scheme. definition in the investigation. at your Inauguration Banquet here in beau­ Before the Deregulation Act was passed, we We are reviewing right now at staff level tiful Scottsdale. I wlll take just a few mo­ issued a rule which in effect told carriers Pan American's recent filing to sell "Group ments of your full program to tell you a lit­ that we would not interfere if they lowered Contractor Fares" in the U.S.-Germany mar­ tle about what is going on of interest to their fares up to 70 percent of the indus­ ket and National's proposed contract bulk travel agents at the activist Civil Aeronau­ try's standard fare level or raised their fares fares in the New York-Miami market. I tics Board. I'm sure you are all well briefed a. small percentage. The Deregulation Act guess these are our first "net fares". because I regularly see the agency press and adopted our approach and created a no-sus­ In the past, we have ruled that the pur­ I must say that Travel Agent, Travel Weekly, pend zone of reasonableness for passage fares chaser of blocks of tickets in circumstances Travel Trade and all the rest provide some of 50 percent down and up 5 percent on 11ke National's contract bulk fares proposal of the very best coverage in the aviation certain routes. amounts to an indirect air carrier holding industry. We have seen many results of our innova­ himself out to the public as selling air It was from that press that I first heard tion in fare policies. Hundreds of thousands transportation. Thus, under the Aviation Act, of the travel agent movement toward co­ of people are fiying for the first time. Air­ the seller at retail requires a CAB license. operatives like this association. I have heard port operators say they can no longer iden­ I suspect that is the issue that wm warrant that the Hickory Association is among the tify separate peak periods of air travel. Busi­ most of the Board's attention. From what most active and successful co-ops though nessmen no longer see each other on nearly I have been hearing in Board Room dis­ perhaps not among the very first nor the empty planes. As you know so well, your cussions, "net fare" experiments are wel­ biggest. In fact I have come out here to favorite airline probably can't begin to de­ comed. I, myself, do not know if "net !ares" Arizona to find out more about this move­ scribe all the discount fares that are now are a. good idea or not. I do know travel agents ment in our industry. available. are very concerned about the concept. I also I am here today in a rather unique capac­ We regret the inconveniences that air trav­ suspect that the co-ops will have a very ity. That is, as a Member of the most suc­ ellers--especially those accustomed to the important role in how "net !ares" will work cessful 41 year old agency in Washington more individualized treatment that the air­ out for the passenger, and for the travel ever to vanish into the sunset. As you know, lines offered in the old days-are now endur­ agent industry. We have not yet reviewed the Airline Deregulation Act was signed into ing. Most mornings we would rather not look these proposals at Board level but I sus­ law last October 1978. As a result, our cur­ at our consumer complaint statistics, which pect we will be seeing more of them before rent functions wlll either termlna.te or be were up 40 percent during the first nine the Marketing Investigation gets decided. transferred to other agencies by December 31, months of this year over a similar period I am glad to see that the Hickory Asso­ 1985. That Act is a final 5-year plan for the last year. Most of that increase is traceable ciation has asked to participate in the Mar­ CAB. either to the huge growth in the number of keting Investigation, as well as in the show Within that time frame, we've been di­ passengers flying or to the rapid schedule cause proceeding. The Board welcomes ex­ rected to make major changes in every area changes made since last October. Changes tensive agency participation in these pro­ of our responsibllities. The new Act stresses and increases in fares are also included. ceedings. After all, who is in a better position competition and safety. It significantly But it is equally important to keep in mind than working agents to describe the effects changed the standards by which we make that we are not receiving any sizeable pro­ of current ATC and LATA programs. No one portion of letters clamoring for those good route awards. It reduced our control over can better predict the effects of modifications fares. It broadened our jurisdiction over car­ old days of lower load factors. Instead we of these programs. read reports that our encouragement of lower rier agreements. It gave us a detailed man­ I guess I can't say much more than this fares has been so satisfactory that Congress about our two big cases without getting my­ date to assure essential air service to small is eyeing other regulatory agencies with a communities. Our future and final success self in trouble with our rules on ex parte view towards attempting to achieve similar communications when it comes time to wm be judged by how well we administer the results. gradual phaseout of our current responsi­ make a final decision. I know, and I can assure you that the There is a related matter, however, that blllties. Board and staff know, that you and all travel Unlike most legislation, the Deregulation I can report on. Shortly after the Board agents have had many problems with the issued the Marketing Investigation order, Act is unified around the central theme of multitudinous new fares that have resulted. encouragement of competition through grad­ lATA submitted a revised United States I understand the difficulty having tried to agency resolution which contains a number ual loosening of past regulatory controls. figure out the best fare available for some of significant changes. Under the new agree­ Congress didn't hint around. Over and over, of my recent travels. But as in all transi­ in both the text of the Act and in the ac­ ment, the prohibition on paying compensa­ tions, I think some of this confusion will tion to non-accredited agents is limited to companying conference report, lt directed us subside. We are seeing some settling down to place maximum reliance on competitive "sales agency remuneration". According to now in the fare structure and I expect that lATA, its carriers would be free to pay forces, to maintain a system based on com­ increasing access to industry automated petition and to encourage entry into the commissions tor non-"sales agency" selling. fare systems will go a long way to help. The new program also creates a travel industry. Regardless of which section of the Of course the biggest news for the travel Act you examine, that stress on competition agent commissioner with functions similar agent today is the Competitive Marketing to the ATC commissioner. The commissioner is apparent. The ultimate evidence that Con­ Investigation 1 launched by the Board in gress has confidence that competition would would have the power to review applicants September, along with the companion order denied accreditation as well as lATA's agency benefit both the airlines and their passengers tentatively disapproving the agreements that is its decision to abolish the Board and the set the levels and methods for compensat­ 1 Order 79-9--64, September 13, 1979. bulk of our functions by the end of 1985. ing agents.2 The primary focus o! the show 2 Order 79-9-65, September 13, 1979. It may have occurred to some that leaving cause order, the "open commissions" order, 3 Order 78-8-87, decided August 13, 1978. December 18, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36875 administrator decisions to withdraw accredi­ the Harris/ Travel Weekly Survey discloses The editorial-like the President's tation. Unlike with ATC, the lATA Commis­ another important development in the in­ Commission report--notes that 5 years sioner would be funded jointly by agents crease of commercial travel handled by have passed since the World Food Con­ and lATA members, rather than just by agents.8 For a change, you might say, with ference in Rome, but the results are dis­ the carriers. all the turmoil we have been causing, the appointing. lATA also established new working capi­ Board took action in the past year that tal and equity ratios to gauge an agent's should encourage that growth. In December The challenging editorial follows: financial standing. Finally, lATA intends to we approved lifting the ban on commissions HUNGER-A SOBER REPORT set up a joint agent/airline committee to on point to point sales made on the Univer­ The hostage crisis in Iran. The nuclear consider and recommend changes to the sal Air Travel Plan (UATP) credit card.o missile debate in NATO. These are the inter­ agency program before they are considered From what I've read in the trade press this national topics commanding front-page at­ by the lATA membership as a whole. That change has been a boon to carriers and tention in this week's newspapers. But it is seems to me to be an excellent idea. lATA agents alike in handling commercial custo­ an item of news on the inside pages which is has asked that its new program be consid­ mers. I assume you have been heavily in­ likely to prove the most crucial to global ered in the Marketing Investigation but that volved in that trend with your high propor­ stability over the long term. That is the re­ the Board also approve it on an interim basis (;ion of business travel. port of President Carter's Commission on in the meantime. If you have ever read ATC The Board has made it easier to set up in­ World Hunger stating that the world's food or lATA resolutions, you can understand plant travel agency locations, branch offices situation is getting worse rather than better that it will take us several weeks to get the on the premises of commercial customers. and calling on the United States to lead a new rules sorted out. Last February the Board passed on a peti­ worldwide effort to eliminate hunger in the I referred earlier to the Board's 1978 de­ tion filed by a travel agent and its customer, next 20 years. It hardly needs pointing out cision disapproving international commis­ concluding that employee-sharing agree­ that the cost of failure to respond, because sion agreements. That commission system ments between an agent and its customer of inertia or lack of foresight, could be high. were legal under the Federal Aviation Act. had been in effect at least 20 years. Infor­ As the commission bluntly declared: mation available to the Board from a variety Under that decision the customer of an in­ "A major crisis of world food supply--of of sources indicates that, on balance, open plant agency can be reimbursed by the agent even more serious dimensions than the pres­ commissions have not meant radical changes for providing the agent with its own em­ ent energy crisis--appears likely within the ployees, so long as the recompense is based for agents. I would be interested to know next 20 years, unless steps are taken now ..." if your individual experience has been on time worked, and not on the volume of 10 Summoning up the moral conscience, po­ different. sales. litical wm, and perseverance needed to come The reports we have on commissions paid We have taken another action within the past year that tips the carrier/agent balance to grips with the problem of food sumciency by carriers, filed under Part 253, indicate a clearly should be a most pressing goal of rise of a point to a point and a half in the in favor of agents. Again, as a result of a petition by an agent, the Board, starting last American policy. Yet the record leaves much average commissdon paid over the old lATA to be desired. It is now five years since the ceiling with present average commissions at October, inquired into then existing ATC practices which required conference-wide World Food Conference in Rome and the re­ about 8 percent. While some carriers experi­ sults are disappointing. No system of inter­ mented for awhile with substantially higher termination of an agent's appointment based on a single carrier's claim that the agent had national grain reserves has yet been set up to commissions, some as high as 25 percent, protect countries against sudden food short­ they appear to have been in connection wdth defaulted on its obllgations.11 As a result of that review, ATC modified its rules so that ages. Good harvests in major food-producing promoting new service or have been short countries in the past three years have made 4 now the Travel Agent Commissioner reviews lived. the food situation seem secure, but special­ Comparing either entry and exit of inter­ individual complaints before concerted ac­ national travel agents under closed and open tion can be taken. This eliminated alto­ ists warn that two consecutive bad years in commissions, or by comparing domestic gether disputes over liab111ty for stolen such regions as China, the Soviet Union, and agents under fixed commissions with inter­ tickets as a cause of conference-wide India could place many countries in jeopardy. national agents under open commissions, action.l.il Even with the good world harvests of recent shows that opening up commissions does not Again on the basis of a petition by an years the number of the world's hungry has appear to have made the travel agent indus­ agent, the Board took favorable action on grown from 740 milllon to 800 milllon. try significantly more or less attractive to dishonored travel agent checks. Under ATC's Of greatest concern to aid experts is the new entrants, nor made it significantly eas­ new revised rules, agents are no longer re­ fact that the poor countries of the world, ier to stay in business. Applications for both quired to immediately pay on demand all where population growths are highest, are ATC and lATA accreditation each generally money owed after a check is dishonored. sinking in their efforts to produce more food dncrease from year to year. New entrants Rather, the agent must make good on the and that many are unable to pay for food im­ remain at a fairly constant proportion of 11 check which was dishonored. All other money ports. Robert McNamara of the World Bank to 13 percent of existing accredited agents. owned is then collected under ATC's normal notes, for instance, that a major structural Withdrawal rates disclose no discernible reporting and remitting scheduleP change has occurred in the pattern of global grain trade. The better-off developing coun­ trend, although interestingly enough the I mention these few cases, which you all fluctuation in the rates of exit for lATA tries, the OPEC countries, and the USSR are know about, to indicate that the Board has today the chief customers in the grain mar­ agents appears to be less under open com­ been listening to you and that we will con­ missions than under closed. ket, with the result that the poorest of the tinue to listen. Travel agents are uniquely poor are being priced out of the market. The Louds Harris/Travel Weekly Biennial situated to give the Board a view from the If the problem looms large, it is not beyond Survey of Agents also contains a variety of front lines in marketing air transportation. solving. The commission in fact makes the information on the effects of open commis­ We welcome your individual and collectively­ reassuring statement that in the next two sions. Agency business broken down between stated views in general and particularly in decades "there appear to be no major physi­ domestic and international travel remains the big marketing case. Your views are ab­ cal barriers to feeding all the world's inhab­ roughly two thirds domestic to one third solutely necessary for the Board to make a itants." The principal grain producers, nota­ international. This ds the same breakdown balanced, intelligent decision in that im­ bly North America, will continue to be relied as in 1976 and 1974. This suggests that open portant case. upon for commercial grain sales and food commissions have not in fact caused a dra­ Thank you.e grants. But the only long-term solution is to matic shift in travel agent marketing efforts.G help the developing countries produce their This fact is also borne out by that part of own food and this will require more aid and the survey which indicates that over 80 per­ HUNGER-A SOBER REPORT investment. To double their farm output in cent of vacation and pleasure travellers have the next 20 years will take $30 to $40 billion a at least a general idea of where they want to year, according to estimates. Here the United go and that agents are only moderately suc­ HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN' States is reminded yet once again that it has cessful in influencing their customers to OF MASSACHUSETTS fallen far behind other rich nations of the completely abandon these plans.il On the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES world in amount of aid given in terms of per­ other hand, most agents reported that they centage of gross national product. The com­ could influence the choice of a particular Tuesday, December 18, 1979 mission recommends the U.S. double the $1.5 destination within a general area.7 This type billion it supplies annually in technical and of choice might be more susceptible to com­ • Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, the Chris­ tian Science Monitor has an excellent economic aid to developing countries for ad­ petition in commission levels. vancing agriculture. The question of open commissions aside, editorial praising the report of President The other side of the coin is that the poor Carter's Commission on World Hunger. nations themselves must institute the social • See Order 77-8--14, August 3, 1977. and economic reforms needed to make the ;; Table I-3, page 9 of Study. 9 Order 78-12-155, December 21, 1978. foreign aid effective. Land reform, for exam­ 6 Tables III-1, III-2 and III-3 at pp. 62 10 Order 79-2-92, February 15, 1979. ple, is desperately needed in many areas to through 65 of the Study. u Order 78-10-31, October 5, 1978. give farmers incentive to produce more. The 7 Table III-4, p. 166 of Study. u Order 79-8-134, August 24, 19'79. poorest people in the world, according to a. 8 Tables I-5 and I-7, pp. 13 and 15 of Study. 13 Order 79-7-202, July 30, 1979. Worldwatch Institute study, are not small CXXV--2318--Pa.rt 28 36876 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 18, 1979 farmers but landless laborers, sharecroppers, generate the progress that makes it possible pollutive effects of burning coal. And, of and marginal farmer who form the rural ma­ for all nations to grow and prosper. course, a dam has no backup system to pro­ jority in most developing countries. It is And what is the greatest present-day tect those who live below it. Indeed many therefore not unreasonable to ask that U.S. threat to the prosperity and even the sur­ of these people have lost their lives and more and other Western aid programs be made de­ vival of nations? A lack of energy. Both de­ their homes. pendent on structural reforms. Pouring funds veloped and developing nations are threat­ Q. I live within 50 miles of a nuclear into the coffers of affluent landowners or rul­ ened. power plant. What are my chances of being ing elites will not get at the root of the prob­ The citizens of the United States have just injured by a nuclear accident? lem and in fact only aggravates rich-poor begun to recognize the impact of the world's A. About the same as being hit by a falling disparities. growing energy shortage. Gasoline lines, elec­ meteor. In sum, the United States and other rich trical brownouts and higher prices are minor Q. What about the effect of an earthquake nations must give far more attention to the irritants. They are nothing compared to what on a. nuclear plant? economic needs of the third world. Primary may lie ahead. In a. struggle for survival, A. At the first sign of a tremor, the re­ emphasis in recent decades has been placed politics, law, religion and even humanity actor would shut down automatically. Also, on military assistance. But, as the presiden­ m::ty be forgotten. When the objective is to reactors are built to withstand enormous tial commission points out, the chronic hun­ stay alive, the end may seem to justify the structural damage. The only man-made ger of over a. half billion people could lead to means. In that event, the world may indeed structures I can think of that are more disastrous political instability. Iran itself is a. return to the "simpler" life of the past, but stable are the pyramids of Egypt. sharp reminder of how little military weapons mlllions of us will not be alive to discover Q. Is it true that we still have no satis­ count when people's aspirations for a better its disadvantages. factory way to dispose of nuclear wastes? society appear to them threatened. If there is When our existence is at stake, we cannot A. No. Ways do exist. What we have not a. lesson to be learned from that experience, it afford to turn our backs on any source of had is a decision by our government on is surely that the U.S. stands most to gain­ energy. We need them all. When it comes which way to go. Waste disposal is a political morally and politically-by addressing above to generating electricity, we especially need problem, not a. technical problem. all the social and economic rather than mili­ nuclear power. Contrary to what Nader and Q . How much radioactive waste materials tary needs of the developing world. The com­ Fonda, and their friends such as Sternglass, are produced by nuclear plants? mission's report on world hunger should help Wald and Kendall, would have you believe, A. At the moment, about lZY:! percent reorder the nation's priorities.e nuclear power is the safest, cleanest way to of our electricity is generated by nuclear generate large amounts of electrical power. power. If all of it were produced this way, This is not merely my opinion-it is a fact. the wastes from these plants over the next Due to the lessons learned at Three Mile Is­ 20 years would cover a. football field to a I WAS THE ONLY VICTIM OF land, the nuclear way of generating electric­ depth of about 30 feet. To dispose of this THREE-MILE ISLAND ity will be made even safer. waste a mlle underground would add less I have attempted to respond briefly to than one percent to the cost of electricity. some of the questions which people ask about Q. How dangerous is the release of low­ nuclear power. The problems that these ques­ level radiation from a nuclear power plant? HON. LARRY McDONALD tions raise are problems because of political A. If you sat next to a. nuclear power plant OF GEORGIA indecision or public fear. Technically, they for a whole year, you would be exposed to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are nonproblems, because the dangers they less radiation than you would receive dur­ ing a. round-trip flight in a. 747 from New Tuesday, December 18, 1979 imply either do not exist or else we have the know-how to solve them. I am absolutely York to Los Angeles. • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, what convinced of this, after a lifetime of work Let me put it another way: The allowable as a nuclear scientist. radiation from a nuclear plant is five mrems follows is a statement by our famed per year. In Dallas, people get about 80 nuclear scientist, Dr. Edward Teller, the I was once asked how I would like for my grandson, Eric, to think of me and my life's mrems per year from the natural back­ father of the H-bomb. This, in turn, is ground of buildings, rocks, etc. In Colorado, wprk after I am gone. Eric is nine years old. people get as much as 130 mrems per year followed by a series of questions and an­ He is a terrible guy-he beats me at the game swers in which Dr. Teller discusses safety from the natural background. Therefore, of "GO." I am enormously fond of him, but just by moving from Dallas to Boulder you and nuclear power. Dr. Teller is perhaps I have not given much thought to what he the most knowledgeable person in the would receive ten times more radiation per will someday think of my life's work. I have year than the person gets who lives next world on nuclear energy and he should given a. great deal of thought to whether he to a nuclear power plant. be listened to. The Jane Fondas of the will be alive in the next century, and wheth­ A mrem is an appropriate unit used to world who experts on nothing but care­ er he will be living in freedom or in slav­ make comparisons. ery. If he is living under communism, he will Q. How much radiation were the people fully staged theatrics should not be know I was failure. listened to. The items follow as they around Three-Mile Island exposed to during I believe that we have reached a turning the accident? appeared in a Dresser Industfies, Inc., point in history. The anti-nuclear propagan­ A. Let me put it this way. Your blood con­ ad. da we are hearing puts democracy to a severe tains potassium 40, from which you get an I WAS THE ONLY VICTIM OF THREE-MILE test. Unless the political trend toward energy internal dose of some 25 mrems of radiation ISLAND development in this country changes rapidly, in one year. Among the people not working there may not be a United States in the on the reactor, a. handful may have gotten On May 7, a few weeks after the accident twenty-first century. at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. as much radiation as 25 mrems. I was there to refute some of the propaganda The President has recognized the danger Q. Should "spent" nuclear wastes be re­ that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda. and their of the energy shortage. As yet, he has given processed to save the plutonium and other kind are spewing to the news media. in their only some of the answers. I think-! hope­ by-products? attempt to frighten people a.wa.y from nu­ that democracy has enough vitality to eval­ A. Yes. Plutonium, for example, is as val­ clear power. I am 71 years old, and I was uate the risks and to .recognize the great ben­ uable as the original uranium fuel, because working 20 hours a. day. The strain was too efits of nuclear power to human health and of its potential use to produce still more en­ well-being, and to the survival of our free ergy. In the end, reprocessing is needed to much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. make nuclear energy abundant and lasting. You might say that I was the only one whose society. health was affected by that reactor near Q. Can a nuclear reactor explode like an Q. Is there a danger that the plutonium Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was atomic bomb? produced by nuclear reactors might be stolen not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda.. Reactors by terrorists and used to construct home­ A. No. Energy cannot increase fast enough made nuclear explosives? are not dangerous. in the reactor. Therefore, it is absolutely A. I believe that reactor products can be Now that I am recovering, I feel com­ impossible for a nuclear power plant to ex­ properly safeguarded from terrorists. This pelled to use whatever time and strength plode like a bomb. For this to happen, the can be much more easily done than the are left to me to speak out on the energy laws of nature would have to be repealed. guarding of airplanes. Also, any terrorist who problem. Nuclear power is part of the answer Q. What is the risk of nuclear power com­ puts his mind to it can come up with ways to that problem, only a part, but a very pared to other forms of producing electricity? to terrorize a. population that are less dan­ important part. A. It is far safer than coal or hydroelectric gerous to himself than handling plutonium. I have worked on the hydrogen bomb and power, but all three are necessary to meet The answer is not to get rid of the reactors-­ on the safety of nuclear reactors. I did both our need for energy. It may sound strange to let's get rid of the terrorists. for the same reasons. Both are needed for the say it, because coal has been around so Q. Will the expansion of nuclear power by survival of a free society. If we are to a void long, but we know more about controlling other countries enable them to produce nu­ war, we must be strong and we must help to radiation than we do about controlling the clear weapons? December 18, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36877 A. Unfortunately, yes. This is already hap­ and has begun organizing activities to The emphasis in drug law enforcement on pening. Two-thirds of the reactors in oper­ develop a library and obtain urgently heroin sellers as opposed to marijuana sel­ ation in the free world today are outside the needed clothing, supplies, and toys. lers, for example, would hardly be considered United States. Since we can't stop other na­ unconstitutional simply because it puts tions from building nuclear plants or weap­ In addition to his work with children, heroin peddlers at greater risk. That policy ons, what we must do is find better solutions Michael has made innumerable contacts reflects a reasonable judgment that heroin to international problems. An energy-starved with Ecuadorean citizens who are inter­ trafficking represents a greater national nation is much more likely to make and ested in giving moral and financial sup­ danger at this time. use nuclear weapons as a last resort to sur­ port to his activities. This has been cru­ The decision to place priority on enforc­ vival. The only way to prevent that is to cial for acquiring the resources necessary ing immigration laws with respect to non­ see to it that there is enough energy to go to sponsor the special olympics. In the permanent resident alien Iranians came around, and to strengthen cooperation and after the rapid deterioration of relations be­ confidence among the nations. true spirit of the Peace Corps, he is at­ tween the U.S. and Iran. It is hardly unrea­ Q. What have we learned from the accident tempting to recruit various Ecuadorean sonable for the government, responding to at Three-Mile Island? physical education instructors to assist an act of war by another nation, to check up A. Two things. First, that nuclear reactors him with the organization and develop­ on that country's nationals here and deport are even safer than we thought. Despite many ment of the special olympics. He realizes any who are violating immigration laws. To human errors and a few mechanical failures that, if he does not help create the local do less would be negligent, if only because of at Three-Mile Island, the damage was con­ capability to carry on his work once he the risk that some may be acting illegally as tained. No one was killed, or even injured. leaves, the benefits will be short-lived. foreign agents. We have also learned that a lot can be done Moreover, immigration policy has tradi­ by better educated, better paid and more Michael travels by bus every day to tionally been bound up with U.S. foreign responsible reactor operators, and by a more and from his work sites, which are on policy. The acceptance of foreign students efficient display of the state of the reactor by the outskirts of Quito in poor neighbor­ and implementation of cultural exchanges modern instrument panels. hoods. While there are approximately is often a sign of strong or strengthening Three-Mile Island has cost $500-million, 30 other Peace Corps volunteers working relations with another nation. Tolerance of but not a single life. We must pay for safety in special education and vocational infraction by a given country's visitors and, even after we have paid for it, nuclear training in Ecuador, Michael is thought here-indeed, general restraint in pursuing energy is the cheapest source of electrical by all to be a special volunteer. violators because of the risk of creating 111 power. It is most remarkable that in the case will in a foreign capital-has also been com­ of nuclear energy we are paying for our les­ What makes Michael's work extraordi­ mon. sons in dollars, not in lives.e nary is the fact that he is blind. By ex­ Likewise, when relations with another ample, he is showing other people with country are shattered by a violent and hos­ handicaps that it is possible to lead tile act against the United States, it is al­ happy and productive lives. His work together proper for immigration law enforce­ should make an impression upon all of ment attention to turn to visitors from the MICHAEL FEDOR OF Mll.FORD, offending state. It is significant that despite CONN.-PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER u.s who sometimes blind ourselves to the the domestic rage at Iran's behavior, of the conditions of the Third World poor. I more than 50,000 Iranian v!sitors inter­ commend Michael's dedication to his viewed by immigration officials after the HON. ROBERT N. GIAIMO fellow man, and I am certain that the takeover, more than 41,000 were found to be OF CONNECTICUT people of Quito will remember his efforts complying with the law and allowed to con­ tinue to go about their business. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for a long, long time.• Not only has the U!.S. enforcement effort Tuesday, December 18, 1979 in the wake of the embassy takeover in Iran been entirely legal and constitutional, it has • Mr. GIAIMO. Mr. Speaker, we are all been really quite selfrestrained.e aware of the excellent humanitarian JUDGE GREEN AND EQUAL PROTEC­ work that is carried on day after day by TION OF ffiANIANS the volunteers of the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps is the only U.S. agency BEN PRESS which provides individual Americans the HON·. HENRY J. HYDE opportunity to work with the people of OF ILLINOIS developing nations while living as part IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. IKE SKELTON of their communities. Throughout the Tuesday, December 18, 1979 OF MISSOURI globe, the United States is proudly rep­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES resented in 60 countries by nearly 6,000 • Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, the Govern­ volunteers working on a broad range of ment has been stymied in its appropri­ Tuesday, December 18, 1979 programs, motivating people to utilize ate reaction to the acts of war com­ • Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, it is with local resources in meeting their basic niitted by the so-called Government of great sadness that I inform my col­ needs, and showing them how to become Iran, by an ill-considered ruling of a leagues of the recent death of a good more self-reliant. Last year alone, nearly local district court judge. The Chicago friend- of mine, Ben Press of Independ­ 1 million people in the Third World ence, Mo. benefited from the work of Peace Corps Tribune's editorial of December 13, 1979, provides a clear answer to Judge Green's Mr. Press was born on January 7, 1905 members. in St. Joseph, Mo. After moving to Jack­ Every volunteer is unique in the spe­ unfortunate decision: EQUAL PROTECTION OF IRANIANS son County, he became the owner of Lee's cial gifts that they bring to their job. Sporting Goods in 1945. Mr. Press was an I have become aware of the work of one The federal court order stopping immigra­ tion checks into the status of Iranian visi­ active member of the Independence Ro­ of my constituents, Michael Fedor of tors in the United States is based upon a tary Club. The club is establishing a Milford, Conn. For over a year Michael misconception of the Constitution and memorial in his honor for his 25 years of has been working and living in the city ought to be reversed. service. of Quito, Ecuador. His main project is U.S. District Court Judge Joyce Hens He was also a licensed architect and to prepare mentally retarded children Green ruled in Washington that singling for their participation in the special out Iranian nationals for special scrutiny to a member of the Beth Israel Abraham olympics he has organized. He directs determine whether they are complying with and Voliner Congregation. physical education and recreation pro­ immigration laws amounts to a violation of He was a warm and congenial person, grams at two special education institu­ their rights to equal protection of the laws. active in his community, and had scores tions. The constitutional question, however, is of friends from all walks of life. not simply whether an identifiable group is Ben Press will be m~ssed by his friends He also works with the children in an being treated differently than other groups, orphanage, where he assists them with but whether the difference in treatment re­ and his community. I wish to extend my recreation and manual activities, ac­ flects a valid and sufficient government in­ sincere sympathy to his widow, Mrs. companies them on outings and picnics, terest. Doris Press.e