12658 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 17, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS CHIPOLA JUNIOR COLLEGE 4-E Albert Folds, medical director at ­ Perhaps the centerpiece of the pro­ CONFERENCE AT MARIANNA, land Training Center; gram was the student science fair, FLA., TREMENDOUS Bill Holmberg, U.S. Energy Depart­ which drew 156 entries from our great ment; Mrs. Merle Houston, public af­ State. Particular credit is due Paul fairs for Chipola; Norwood Jackson, Coley, Dr. Sims, and Paul Huang for HON. DON FUQUA manager of the Jackson County making this such a tremendous suc­ OF FLORIDA Chamber of Commerce; David Nichol­ cess. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES son, instructor at Chipola; Scott Crossfield, one of the world's Tuesday, May 17, 1983 Dr. Dale O'Daniel, dean of business greatest test pilots and aeronautical at Chipola; Mike Peacock, Florida engineers, who now serves on our com­ •Mr. FUQUA. Mr. Speaker, If ever public utilities; Pete Pylant, Com­ mittee staff, went down as a special this Nation comes to grips with the in­ merce Department of the State of guest to talk to young people and creasing problems face in providing Florida, Tallahassee; judge the exhibits. energy for future generations, it will Dr. Joyner Sims, dean of students at The West Florida Electric Coopera­ be because the American people are Chipola; Ken Stoutamire, director of tive provided a fried chicken dinner convinced that it is a real and serious vocational training at Sunland; Tom for over 1,100 young people who at­ problem. I am convinced that realiza­ Thayer, Governor's Energy Office, tion will only come about because of tended the science fair. events such as one in which I have Tallahassee; and Charles Thibos, man­ I think it would be appropriate to just participated in Marianna, Fla.­ ager of the West Florida Electric Co­ list the award winners. These bright the 4-E Conference held April 14-16, operative. and innovative young people will be 1983. Involved was a week of alternative the leaders of tomorrow in finding so­ This conference grew out of the con­ energy activities which was truly in­ lutions to our energy problems. cern of a few people in the area who spired by local concern and broadened Grand prize winners of the fair were: joined together in a committee to seek by the contagious enthusiasm of the junior division-Christopher Gibbs, ways to address the problems of their tiny group which first conceived the Alachua County, ; senior divi­ community in the field of energy. Out idea to incorporate involvement by sion-Stacy Peacock, Marianna High of this concern came an idea to have a government agencies from three School, Jackson County. The awards seminar or program at the Chipola States, the Federal Government, were presented by Dr. Richburg. Junior College in Marianna and out of schools from throughout Florida, and First runnersup in the grand prize this idea grew the 4-E Conference. private entrepreneurs from across the category were Leon Couch, Alachua To quote one participant: "It might Nation. County, junior division; and Wendy have been bigger; it could not have To say that I was pleased and im­ Manger, Jackson County, senior divi­ been better." pressed by the dedicated work and sion. Members of my staff and myself imaginative organizational ability of The Publishers Award, presented by joined with this committee to discuss these constituents would be an under­ Dr. Elizabeth F. Abbot, executive sec­ ideas and out of those conversations statement of the first magnitude. retary of the Florida Foundation of came the idea for a student science Marianna, Fla., is the county seat set Future Scientists, went to Michael fair, a symposium, an exposition by among the rolling hills of Jackson Clark of Bay County. those involved in conservation and de­ County in northwest Florida in that First place recognition in the junior velopment of energy sources, and a frequently ignored area of pastoral division went to the following: meeting of a subcommittee of the Sci­ beauty known as the Florida Panhan­ Behavioral and social science-Leon ence and Technology Committee of dle. Its economy is based on agricul­ Couch, Alachua; biochemistry-Doug­ the U.S. House of Representatives. ture and, more particularly, on soy­ las Hodges, Alachua; botany-Christie One of the more remarkable aspects bean and peanut production. The Cage, Alachua; chemistry-Stan of this community effort, and that is Census Bureau reported a population Young, Marianna High School, Jack­ exactly what it was, is that it was done of 39,154 in the county in the 1980 son; engineering-Evan Carter, Ala­ with no budget. The fees of the ex­ census. chua; and space science-Robby hibitors helped to defray a part of the While I will be praising the work of Whitesell, Wakulla; mathematics and cost, and everything else was contrib­ many who made this week such a re­ computers-Scott Dunbar, Leon; uted by the community. sounding success, I would like to high­ microbiology-Jay Thrash, Alachua; I want to pay special tribute to the light the efforts of the few who start­ medicine and health-Richard T. La­ 19 members of the steering committee ed it all and Chipola Junior College, Salle, Leon; physics-Christopher who were primarily responsible for the which provided the physical facilities Gibbs, Alachua; and zoology-Jill Bu­ inception and successful implementa­ and much of the administrative effort shong, Polk. tion of this project: required in such a major undertaking. Second place recognition in the Al Barrs, director of vocational edu­ Particularly, I do want to mention senior division went to: cation at Chipola Junior College; Dr. James R. Richburg, president of Behavioral and social science-Char­ Leonard Cobb, county agent; Paul Chipola Junior College. In spite of a lie Davidson, Marianna High School, Coley, environmental education for busy schedule in leading Chipola to Jackson; biochemistry-Jay Shively, the State Department of Education, excellence and revitalization, he Marianna High School, Jackson; Tallahassee; Dr. Don Dellow, academic chaired the committee and kept the botany-Angela Spikes, Gulf; engi­ dean at Chipola; program moving. neering-Joseph Hornsby, Malone Billy Demmon, Florida public utili­ The 4-E Conference drew its title High School, Jackson; Earth and ties official; Ollie Ellis, manager of the from the four areas on which the space science-Danny Kilgore, Leon; neighboring County group wanted to concentrate-energy, mathematics and computers-Stacy Chamber of Commerce, Chipley; Dr. education, ecology, and economy. Blane, Bay; microbiology-Myla Sims,

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. May 17, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12659 Marianna High School, Jackson; medi­ Testifying on two panels were and pioneer in the field of sawdust cine and health-Joe Hsu, Leon; phys­ Thayer and Dr. Wayne Smith, men­ gasification. Also designs and builds ics-Ashley Albright, Polk; and zoolo­ tioned earlier; Ms. Victoria Tschinkel, small-scale gasifiers using wood chips gy-Grace Culley, Leon. Florida Department of Environmental and blocks; First place recognition, senior divi­ Regulation, Tallahassee; Dr. Charles Bill Ayers, vice president, Buck sion, went to: Kidd, dean of the College of Engineer­ Rogers, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., manu­ Behavioral and social science-Katie ing, Florida A&M University, Talla­ facturers and markets small- and Rudden, Polk; biochemistry-Stacey hassee; Dr. Robert San Martin, medium-scale gasifiers representing Peacock, Marianna High School, Jack­ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy the state-of-the-art technology. son; botany-Jennifer Clark, Bay; for Renewable Energy, Washington, Ted Keehen, vice president, Farmers chemistry-Daryl Givens, Leon; engi­ D.C.; and John T. Shielf, director, divi­ Group Purchasing, Kansas City, Mo., neering-Randy Anderson, Holmes; sion of agricultural development, Ten­ identifies state-of-the-art technology Earth and space science-Matt Austin, nessee Valley Authority, Muscle in farm energy systems, upgrades the Sneads High School, Jackson; mathe­ Shoals, Ala. engineering and arranges for manufac­ matics and computers-Todd Fuder, The printed report of these hearings will reveal an enormous quantity of in­ turing where necessary, and markets Bay; microbiology-Kayte Jean these systems with needed perform­ Fuqua, Madison; medicine and formation regarding our accomplish­ ments and our needs. Let me say that ance guarantees; health-Wendy Manger, Marianna Dr. Harry La Fontaine, consultant, High School, Jackson; physics­ out of the symposium and the hearing, we heard the need for conservation, a Miami, Fla., recognized international Andrew Martin, Polk; and zoology and desperate need for development of al­ expert on wood gasification. Michael Bennett, Sneads High School, ternate sources of energy, and for the Willis Wittmer, distributor, Conklin Jackson. wise use of present fuels so that they Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; Conklin man­ Kathryn Stoutamire of Marianna do not foul the environment and are ufactures and markets turnkey, small­ High School was presented the show­ used to their maximum potential. scale-35,000 to 70,000 gallons a year­ stopper award in the senior division. Many companies, individuals, and ethanol plants; Top awards included computers, agencies of Government participated Dave Keenan and Ward Forquer, monetary prizes, and certificates. in displaying the latest technologies. I wood energy, Morbark Industries, Inc., Awards presented by others than personally visited each exhibit and, Winn, Mich.; Morbark is in the fore­ those named above were: Crossfield; with the expert information furnished front in designing, manufacturing, and Mrs. Leila McMullian, founder of the by Dr. Folds, found it fascinating. marketing wood energy equipment Florida Science and Engineering Fair On behalf of all those who made this and systems; and former teacher at Marianna High program successful, we want to thank Alan Morrow and Vivian Dungan, School; Optimist Club president Dub them for participating. Alabama Power Co., Ashford, Ala., Stear; Demmon and various college of­ They were: computer display and ficials. Bill Paynter, president, Union story; Particular credit is due the Mar­ Flights, Sacramento, Calif., alcohol Boyd J. Atterberry, Atterberry En­ ianna Optimist Club and the Optimist fuels in aviation. Modified a company terprises, Ashford, Ala., solar-vac stills clubs of north Florida, who provided aircraft and piloted a transcontinental and energy management systems; the original money necessary to initi­ flight on methanol; Robert C. Whorton, Automatic ate the student science fair and carry Dr. Max Shauck, president, Flight Switch Co., Mobile, Ala., Pneumatic it off so successfully. Research, Inc., Waco, Tex., alcohol solenoid valves and energy metering The symposium was a great success fuels in aviation. Modified a company systems; and the speakers excellent. They in­ aircraft and piloted a transcontinental James H. Blubaugh, Blubaugh & As­ cluded Holmberg and Thayer, mem­ flight on ethanol; sociates, Pensacola, Fla., energy man­ bers of the steering committee. Jack La Mothe and Lawrence Matt, agement systems; Also on the program were: Roy division of aeronautics, Illinois Depart­ John S. Brewer, Marianna, Fla., Thompson, Jr., Florida economic de­ ment of Transportation, Springfield, wood burner systems; velopment at Florida State University, Ill., alcohol fuels in aviation. Modified Forrest M. Bridges, Bridges Enter­ Tallahassee, Dr. Wayne Smith, direc­ an Illinois State aircraft and piloted prises, Philadelphia, Miss., Hardy tor of the center for biomass energy, the plane on a cross-country flight­ Gainesville; J. Fred Allen, chief of home heaters; Springfield, Ill., to Marianna, Fla., and Julius Sullivan, Chipola Soil Conser­ forest research, Forestry return; Commission; Eddie Sokol, head of gov­ George W. Thomas, Jr., Agri-Fuel vation, Marianna, Fla., soil conserva­ ernment affairs, Russell Corp., a com­ Systems, Inc., Cleveland, Tenn., pio­ tion; pany with a major plant in Marianna; neer in the production of ethanol from Jane R. Burgess and Leonard Cobb, and Dr. J. R. Orsenigo, vice president, animal waste; county extension agents, Marianna, Florida Sugar Cane League, Clewiston. Al Mavis, president, Alenco, Rock­ Fla., farm home energy; Symposium participants discussed chester, Ill., recognized expert and pio­ Ernie Brookins, E. E. Bentley Insula­ more completely later were: Peter neer on the small- to medium-scale tion Co., Dothan, Ala., fiberglass insu­ Widner, Bill Ayers, Al Simpler, and production of ethanol and the utiliza­ lation; Ted Keehen. tion of alcohol fuels; Greg Peterson, Energy, Engineers, Seven witnesses appeared before our Peter Widner, president, Agro Gas, Pensacola, Fla., energy management congressional hearing which was enti­ Cresco, Iowa, internationally recog­ systems; tled "Energy and Rural Development: nized expert and pioneer in anaerobic Janet McMullan, Florida Electric What is Needed? What is Being digesters-the production of methane Power Coordinators Group, Winter Done." gas from animal wastes; Park, Fla., watt counter; Heading off the proceedings was my R. L. Bibb Swain, president, Ener­ Tom McFalls, Florida GO-Between, long time friend, Florida Lt. Gov. Dyne Corp., Manchester, Tenn., recog­ Cantonment, Fla.; Wayne Mixson, who is from Marianna. nized expert and pioneer in the field Fran Marinelli and Morris J. Fisher, In concise language, he pointed out of vapor recompression and low­ Florida Power & Light Co., Miami, the massive problems facing our State energy conversion of starch crops to Fla., motorhome display, energy; and rural America and what we, as ethanol; C. Thomas Thayer II, Florida Solar Floridians, are trying to do about Raymond Rissler, president, MGS, Center, Tallahassee, Fla., solar energy them. Inc., California, Mo., recognized expert display; 12660 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 17, 1983 Bobby Richardson, Georgia Forestry energy as they put together ideas for the RALPH T. CASTEEL Commission, Macon, Ga., wood energy Marianna Educational Recreation Expo program; . A group labeled SEEK-Solar G. Ballard Simmons, General Elec­ Energy Ecology Knowledge-consisting of HON. G. V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY tric Co., Jacksonville, Fla., motorhome Dr. Al Folds, Bill Demmon, Dr. Joyner Sims OF MISSISSIPPI display, energy; and Ken Stoutamire begin pooling their re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sources, knowledge and ideas on energy. As G. R. Fell, GTE Products and Sylva­ part of the MERE project, they hoped to Tuesday, May 17, 1983 nia, Atlanta, Ga., energy-conserving develop an energy component at the project fluorescent light bulbs; e Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, to tie into the vocational department at Chi­ Ralph Casteel, a very able member of Don Anderson, Gulf Power Co., Pen­ pola. All of this, of course, was part of a sacola, Fla., electricity exhibit; long range plan. the staff of the Committee on Veter­ Curtis Hardy, Lewis-Smith Supply ans' Affairs, is retiring from Federal Ideas kept falling into place and on July service. Ralph has served his Nation Corp., Dothan, Ala., heat pumps; 23, 1982, a steering committee consisting of Frank Duquette, McDonald Douglas Paul Coley, Leonard Cobb, Don Dellow, Bill well for more than 42 years. He has Astronautics Co., Huntington Beach, Holmberg, Albert Folds, Norwood Jackson, been a member of the staff of the Calif., photos/words on solar energy; David Nicholson, Dale O'Daniel, Mike Pea­ Committee on Veterans' Affairs since Merle Williams, Northwest Florida cock, Joyner Sims, Ken Stoutamire and Dr. 1976. Water Management, Havana, Fla., Bob Richburg met at CJC and plans were Ralph served his country during water resources; sketched for a conference. World War II. He entered the military Tommy Belk, Pfiffer-Wire Products, Task forces were also derived at this meet­ service in February 1941 and remained Tuscaloosa, Ala., energy shading ing to deal with the areas of conservation until September 1946. He was dis­ panels; and energy efficiency, passive solar, active charged as a lieutenant colonel, U.S. Wally Houston, Radio Shack, Mar­ solar, photovoltaic and biomass. This was Army, with the Office of the Surgeon ianna, Fla., computers; done so that energy education would be an General in the European Theater of Harry Daggett, Rockwell Energy ongoing process at Chipola, thus serving a Operations. five-county area. Ralph was a member the U.S. Army Corp., Canoga Park, Calif., pictorial Bill Holmberg, a former official with the display of Rockwell Energy Systems Department of Energy offering his techni­ Reserve from September 1946 to No­ Group; cal assistance to the group, presented esti­ vember 11, 1978. He retired from the Al Simpler, Simpler Solar Systems, mates of an expenditure of $80,000,000 for Reserves as a full colonel. Inc., Tallahassee, Fla., solar van, pho­ energy in Jackson County alone. By 1995, After leaving the military he served tovoltaics; $120,000,000 quickly moves the issue of for more than 30 years with the Veter­ Ronald Stephens, Southern Solar energy into the realm of economic develop­ ans' Administration, starting as an ad­ Distributors, Marianna, Fla., solar ment. If a portion of energy could be pro­ ministrative officer of the Special equipment systems; duced locally, then dollars which flow out of Boards of the Department of Medicine Larry Spivey, Spivey Buck Stoves, the area could be used here for further de­ and Surgery in May 1946. In April Marianna, Fla, wood-burning stoves; velopment. 1948, he became executive officer of L. M. Shaw, Agricultural Engineer­ The group agreed that biomass technolo­ the Research and Education Service of ing Department, Roger Webb, Forest­ gy had the greatest potential in the rural the Department, and in September ry Conservation, and Martin Lorber, area. As the brainstorming continued, the steer­ 1955 was named special assistant to University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., ing committee increased in numbers. As the Chief Medical Director of the De­ gasifiers, computer-biomass, and wa­ people would hear about the developments partment of Medicine and Surgery. As tershed model; of an energy conference they would volun­ personal representative of the Chief Ed Collins, Andrea Santos and Linda teer their assistance. One of the people Medical Director, Ralph participated Wilson, Westinghouse Electric Corp., throwing his hat in the ring was Congress­ in the establishment and implementa­ Madison, Pa., modules with graphics man Don Fuqua. His aid, Herb Wadsworth, tion of all policy involving operational

11-059 0-87-8 (Pt. 10) 12682 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 17, 1983 the mistake should not be made of de­ ceded the storming of the town's trenched CFrom the , May 12, 19831 picting the leftist guerrillas in El Sal­ perimeter and the hail of bullets that fol­ DEATH OF TOWN: SALVADOR REBELS SETTLE A vador as the good guys and the Gov­ lowed, numerous residents said. SCORE Cln Washington, a State Department ernment forces as the bad guys. The articles follow: spokesman, citing reports from the Salva­ doran armed forces and from the represent­ CINQUERA, EL SALVADOR.-Mayor Cordelia CFrom the Washington Post, May 13, 19831 ative of the U.S. military group attached to Avalos survived the death of her town by SALVADORAN GUERRII.LAS EXECUTE 18 the U.S. Embassy who visited Cinquera, con­ hiding in the woods. Wednesday, she lay on firmed "at least" 16 executions. The spokes­ a scrap of canvas in a dirty pink and orange CINQUERA, EL SALVADOR.-Guerrillas, many man added that "based on reports from Sal­ dress, cupping a hand over her eyes, unwill­ of them embittered former residents of this vadoran authorities on the scene, there ing to watch the funeral rites. mountain hamlet, executed 18 captured sol­ were an undetermined number of civilian Around her, like sleepwalkers, townsfolk diers and civilians during a two-day occupa­ deaths including several small children."] lugged valuables from shattered adobe tion, residents said Wednesday. By Monday morning, many of the rebel houses into the plaza, where a flowering An insurgent force of several hundred combatants had left. But at least 10 guerril­ royal poinciana mocked their agony with overran the town's 40-man Army and Na­ la supporters-the "masses" who live and orange fire. There were goats, bullocks, tional Guard garrison Sunday morning, kill­ move with rebel columns-came out of the tethered pigs, religious pictures, beds, rick­ ing 30 soldiers in the fierce mortar and ma­ hills to Cinquera to commandeer supplies ety tables, sacks of rice and, in a cardboard chine-gun attack. and visit old acquaintances, Bonilla said. box, a 12-day-old girl aptly named Dolores. Breaking with their widely publicized "The women came in to see their sisters," Sorrow. "humane treatment" prisoner policy, the he said. In several cases, the rebel support­ Near the church, too poor to have a name, rebel forces summarily executed 10 soldiers where the steeple clock was stopped at some and eight other men they accused of col­ ers interceded to save former friends from 'far away 10:30, an army lieutenant looked laborating with the Army, residents said. being executed as government informers. up from the April, 1964, Spanish edition of "They said they couldn't pardon the sol­ A force of nearly 1,000 Army troops drawn Reader's Digest to say that trucks would diers, because many of their own people had from three provinces dislodged the guerril­ come soon. By nightfall, Cinquera would be died fighting for the town," said 47-year-old las in heavy fighting in the surrounding just a place on the map. No more people, Julia Tomasino as she packed her belong­ hills Monday evening. Wednesday, trucks except those who rest in . fresh, shallow ings to flee with her two children Wednes­ loaded with refugees carrying their battered graves. day. furniture and hungry livestock rumbled out "It was as if it were a crime to live here," of the town, and it appeared that within A DUSTY MICROCOSM Tomasino said. days Cinquera would be uninhabited. Guerrillas came to Cinquera before dawn Cinquera's political history is a microcosm The Associated Press reported the follow­ Sunday with a score to settle. By Monday, of the fratricidal divisions that have ing from San Salvador: when they withdrew, the town was dead, a wracked this country since the mid-1970s. Two young Salvadorans said they were ab­ dusty red-tiled, nowhere microcosm of the The local priest organized the town's ducted north of the capital Saturday night violence that wracks El Salvador. farmers during the last decade into a by uniformed death squads, shot with auto­ Cinquera, a nasty two hours by car north­ "Christian peasants' union" demanding im­ matic rifles and dumped along a shantytown east of the Salvadoran capital, is one of proved wages and living conditions. A road where Red Cross workers found eight those places of more tears than facts, a of killings and disappearances-believed to bullet-riddled bodies. town-in-a-hollow where surrounding hill­ be the work of rightist landowners-oc­ "When they went away I rolled into a sides were once planted with beans and curred after the peasants seized a nearby ditch to escape the dogs," said one of the corn. ranch. Electric lights went out more or less for The polarization culminated.in 1980, when survivors Wednesday. good two years ago. It has been a year since the priest and hundreds of the town's poor It wasn't possible to verify the stories in­ any bus would brave the rocky tract from fled to the surrounding hills to join the de­ dependently. Western diplomatic and Tejutepeque to the southeast. Once, several veloping armed rebellion. human-rights sources agreed the case ap­ thousand people lived around Cinquera but, Many of the residents who remained were peared to have the markings of an attack by as the troubles worsened, many left and members of the now-disbanded paramilitary death squads, who have been blamed for others moved from the countryside to the organization ORDEN, and the town, since most of the 42,000 deaths in El Salvador town. Mayor Avalos thinks there were 104 considered a rightist stronghold, has been over the past 3 ':/2 years. families in Cinquera when the guerrillas briefly occupied at least twice by insurgents. The two men said they had been abducted came or, perhaps, she said, it was 145. The executions unleased here during the separately in the rough Mejicanos neighbor­ · Around 1977, according to Salvadorans fa­ weekend reflected this legacy, Salvadorans hood north of the capital by armed, uni­ miliar with the town, a priest whose name is familiar with the town said. formed men, presumably from a right-wing not remembered politicized the poor and Late Saturday night, guerrillas launched group. formed them into Christian communities coordinated attacks on the town and the International Red Cross officials said they and peasants' leagues of the sort common in Army's three mountain outposts that con­ found the men along a road three miles Latin America but which always excite trol its main access road. Nearly 55 soldiers north of San Salvador where eight corpses rightist alarm. died in fighting outside the town, according had been dumped. The road is frequently Landowners and the town Establishment, to Lt. Col. Roberto Rodrigues Murcia, com­ used as a dumping ground for victims of po­ traditionalists who had historically support­ mander of Cabanas Province. litical killings. ed whatever military government held "Here, the soldiers didn't all die in their The survivors said their assailants called power here, struck back. Killings and disap­ respective trenches," said 22-year-old Anto­ them "subversives"-a term the government pearances began. nio Bonilla, who was visiting relatives in uses for leftist rebels-and ordered them to In 1980 the priest and some of his peasant Cinquera Saturday when the fighting board open-bed trucks of the type the Army followers went into the hills as guerrillas. At began. "Here, some surrendered wounded uses for transport. They said the trucks least twice since then the guerrillas occu­ and were killed as they bled. drove north of the capital to the area where pied the town briefly, fueling the flight of "See that wall? That's where a sergeant its people. surrendered, and that's where they shot the bodies were found. They said they were Around 1 a.m. Sunday the guerrillas came him," Bonilla said. Pointing down a cobbled ordered off the trucks, and the gunmen back in force, striking from all sides in a co­ street littered with spent rifle shells and started shooting. ordinated attack against a 30-man army gar­ bloody clothing, Bonilla said 10 captured A western source said the bodies of two rison supported by civilian defense forces. soldiers were killed by the rebels. He indi­ former political prisoners freed earlier this The garrison surrendered around 8 a.m. cated the spots where each one fell. year, Manuel de Jesus Orellana Moran, 24, On Wednesday, the leveled, blue-sided mili­ Across town, Bonilla pointed to a puddle and Pedro Antonio Chamul Montano, 24, tary headquarters and the debris from over­ of dried blood where, he said, the command­ were among those found on the road. The run strongpoints around the plaza bore er of the local civil defense force was exe­ source said the two were released earlier mute testimony to the ferocity of the strug­ cuted. Bonilla named seven other civilians this year after military judges dropped sub­ gle. executed by the rebels. Some were paramili­ version charges. When the garrison fell, Cinquera discov­ tary fighters like the civil guard command­ Cln Washington, a State Department ered that the guerrillas were not just any er. spokesman said, "This is a matter of serious guerrillas, but some of the same people who Scores of women, children and old men concern. We are looking into the matter fur­ had followed the priest into the mountains died in the mortar bombardment that pre- ther."] three years before. May 17, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12683 With the town secure, the guerrillas I fully support tne fundamental "Despite the fact that the United States began exacting specific vengeance, witnesses premise of the above quote and hope has the world's largest capital base, the said Wednesday. in the near future to introduce legisla­ world's most advanced technology and a "They robbed everything, destroyed my tion which will address this problem, highly educated and skilled work force," the house, killed my husband," said Avalos, who report said, "there is disturbing evidence fled in the confusion. so vital to our economic interests. I that the nation is failing to utilize these "My husband was the mayor's assistant, would like to submit the story on the strengths fully." 61 years old," said a new widow standing report, which appeared in yesterday's Earlier this month the National Task amid the wood framing that was all that re­ New York Times: Force on Education for Economic Growth, a mained of the front of her house. "They [From , May 16, 19831 group Qf 41 state governors and corporate came and got him and led him away with and educational leaders, called for "deep his hands tied. He is buried over there. U.S. PusH IN WORLD MARKET URGED and lasting change" in the American educa­ Please do not publish my name or they will COMPANIES' EXECUTIVES AND EDUCATORS tional system to put the country on a par kill me too." STRESS ABILITY TO COMPETE with Japan and other industrial nations. "They killed people they said had cooper­ Many American corporations have begun ated with the government." said Julia To­ to aid local school systems with financial masino, whose house fronts on the plaza. Leaders of 16 major universities and cor­ support and the time of executive person­ "The guerrillas said they could not pardon porations called on President Reagan yes­ nel. In New York City, for example, at least the soldiers who surrendered because too terday to put the full weight of the White a dozen companies have developed ties to el­ many of their friends had died. They tied House behind a new national program to re­ ementary schools through a program known them up and shot them." store the nation's ability to compete with as Adopt-a-School. other industrial nations. The Business-Higher Education Forum A mustachioed farm worker, Jose Antonio Such a restoration must become the coun­ Arias, sat on the steps of the church try's "central objective" for the rest of the was established five years ago to promote Wednesday, favoring a leg he said was decade, the members of the task force of cooperation between corporations and insti­ wounded by a guerrilla grenade. the Business-Higher Education Forum said tutions of higher education on issues of "I saw them take away seven soldiers and in a letter to Mr. Reagan. Their letter ac­ mutual concern. Its 78 members, all of six civilians. They didn't come back. The companied a report urging changes in trade, whom are senior executives of industrial or guerrillas dragged people out of their homes taxation, investment and educational poli­ academic institutions, meet twice a year. It and made them lie down in the street. They cies to solve "deep-rooted and structural" has a permanent staff that operates under took food and clothes and told us if we economic problems. the sponsorship of the American Council on didn't leave they would kill everybody." "Other nations," the report said, "have Education, the principal umbrella organiza­ In all, perhaps 40 civilians died in the recognized the new economic imperative tion of American colleges and universities. town, together with the 30 soldiers. Another and have integrated their domestic and for­ The 51-page report released yesterday, 60 soldiers are said to have died when a eign policies into aggressive coordinated na­ "America's Competitive Challenge: The relief column was ambushed Wednesday, tional strategies to meet the challenge of Need for a National Response," was signed and estimates of dead civilians in the coun­ international competition. The United by the task force consisting of 16 forum tryside run as high as 80. Guerrilla casual­ States has not." members. The· co-chairmen are Robert An­ ties in the fighting in and around the town derson, chairman of the Rockwell Interna­ are estimated to be about 50. PATIENCE, SACRIFICE, VISION tional Corporation, and David S. Saxon, Numbers never tell the story, though, and The first thing to do, they said, is this: president of the University of California. are almost never right. A more accurate re­ "As a nation, we must develop a consensus The task force was created last spring flection of the Salvadoran reality Wednes­ that industrial competitiveness is crucial to when President Reagan, in response to an day was the pathetic emptiness of Cinquera our social and economic well-being." overture from the American Council, indi­ and its survivors; open doors to empty The task force cautioned: "Strengthening cated that he would be receptive to such an houses, a skinless bass drum rocking on cob­ America's ability to compete will require ex­ analysis from coporate and educational blestones, a schoolgirl's essay entitled "Art ceptional resources, patience, sacrifice and leaders. Representatives of the group are in the Middle Ages," forgotten under fleeing vision. It will require avoiding the twin pit­ scheduled to meet with the President later feet.e falls of protectionism and increased govern­ this month. ment intervention into private sector activi­ In its letter to Mr. Reagan, the task force ties." said: "Unless the United States improves its U.S. PUSH IN WORLD MARKET Among the changes recommended by the · ability to compete, unless we develop a com­ URGED task force are modification of antitrust laws prehensive, coherent, long-term approach so companies may cooperate in sponsoring and unless we address our problems from a basic research, further reductions in the broad perspective, we fear that domestic HON. TIMOTHY E. WIRTH capital gains tax on long-term investments, economic revitalization will remain an elu­ OF COLORADO Federal loans for graduate engineering stu­ sive goal. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dents who agree to become teachers and de­ "And unless we rebuild the American velopment of a "displaced worker program economy and strengthen our educational Tuesday, May 17, 1983 modeled after the G.I. Bill." system, it will be increasingly difficult-if • Mr. WIRTH. Mr. Speaker, for some The task force said that restoring the abil­ not impossible-to maintain a just society, a time now many of my colleagues in ity of American industry to compete in high standard of living for all Americans the Congress have shared a concern international markets would require "the and a strong national defense." same national consensus that allowed the The report noted "the decline of U.S. eco­ .J about this Nation's ability to compete United States to land men on the moon." nomic competitiveness," adding that "unem­ successfully in the international Because of the magnitude of the proposed ployment persists at near-record levels." It market and during the past year, we changes, the task force declared, leadership said, "The fiscal strength of all levels of have seen many leaders from business, must begin with the White House. It urged government has been weakened, forcing re­ industry, and labor voice that same President Reagan to take these immediate ductions in public services that affect the concern. steps: quality of life." Yesterday, the Business-Higher Edu­ Make a major public address describing A wide variety of reasons for the decline cation Forum released a report that the "nature and severity of the competitive were cited, including a decade-long decrease challenge" and suggesting ways of dealing in capital investment as a percentage of the formally addresses this critical con­ with it. gross national product, shortages of engi­ cern. I would like to share one quote Appoint a Presidential Adviser on Eco­ neers, scientists and other technical workers from this report: nomic Competitiveness similar to those in and "the absence of unified U.S. foreign eco­ Other nation's have recognized the new fields such as national security and science. nomic policy." economic imperative and have integrated Staff a previously announced National American business, according to the docu­ their domestic and foreign policies into ag­ Commission on Industrial Competitiveness ment, has compounded the problem gressive, coordinated national strategies to that would coordinate national efforts in through policies that favor "the short term meet the challenge of international compe­ this area. over the long term." And colleges and uni­ tition. The United States has not. Establish an Information Center on Inter­ versities, it added, have been "responding As a nation, we must develop a consensus national Competitiveness in the Commerce too slowly" to changing manpower needs. that industrial competition is crucial to our Department to facilitate the flow of infor­ In its deliberations, the task force evaluat­ social and economic well-being. mation relating to economic growth. ed more than 200 suggestions, made by vari- 12684 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 17, 1983 ous groups in recent years, about how to im­ itly accepted the denial of equal edu­ an article on the frightening implica­ prove economic competitiveness. cation for both sexes is not only repre­ tions of space-based weapons by Prof. "Our ideas are not new," said John W. hensible but a national disgrace and Michio Kaku which appears in the Peltason, president of the American Council on Education and a member of the group. tragedy which will surely result in June 1983 Progressive magazine. "What we tried to do was to say that the negative consequences for us all. WASTING SPACE-COUNTDOWN TO A FIRST country needs a process for constantly re­ While the advancements of women in STRIKE viewing such ideas and that the need is suf­ education cannot be attributed solely ficiently urgent to require Presidential lead- to Federal programs and regulations . Here, retired and Mr. Peltason, the members of the task long before it became fashionable," his Lieutenant General Daniel 0. Graham, force are Derek C. Bok, president of Har­ administration has attacked and un­ former director of the Defense Intelligence vard University; Phillip Caldwell, chairman dercut educational equity for women Agency, advocates a policy of "ensured sur­ of the Ford Motor Company; Edward at a rate unmatched by previous ad­ Donley, chairman of Air Products and vival" to replace the current doctrine of "as­ Chemicals Inc.; Theodore M. Hesburgh, ministrations, either Democratic or sured destruction," which leaves the United president of the University of Notre Dame; Republican. States vulnerable to wholesale destruction Gerald D. Laubach, president of Pfizer Inc.; Given that this Nation is already at by Soviet nuclear warheads. James E. Olson, vice chairman of the Ameri­ risk with regard to its educational To ensure survival, Graham recommends can Telephone and Telegraph Company; system, we cannot further afford the a system of 400 satellites that would con­ Wesley W. Posvar, chancellor of the Univer­ stantly circle the globe, armed with a lethal price of sex discrimination in educa­ array of energy beams capable of shooting sity of Pittsburgh. tion at any level. So too, at a time Also, John F. Burlingame, vice chairman down Soviet missiles within five minutes of of the General Electric Company; Richard when we are seeking avenues to put their launching. The energy beams would M. Cyert, president of Carnegie-Mellon Uni­ this Nation back on the road to eco­ consist of light (driven by hydrogen fluoride versity; Paul H. Henson, chairman of United nomic recovery, we cannot afford to lasers), particle beams • cation Armenia in an article on "What for the RECORD today an outstanding the U.S. Means to Us," they described publication by the Heritage Founda­ THE MURDERS OF TURKISH the United States as the main enemy tion entitled "Tax Cuts: The Lower PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND DIPLO­ of Armenian nationalism and called the Incomes, The Better It Looks." MATS for an armed struggle against it. I would urge my colleagues to review It is true that the overwhelming ma­ this publication closely because it con­ HON. CHARLES WILSON jority of the American Armenians de­ firms what those of us who strongly OF TEXAS nounce the horrible crimes of the ter­ supported the Economic Recovery Tax IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rorists, who infiltrate as "immigrants" Act have been arguing for 2 years. fleeing the war in Lebanon. This conclusion, which was substan­ Tuesday, May 17, 1983 Mr. Chairman, we need more · re­ tiated by a nationwide Sindlinger poll, •Mr. WILSON. Mr. Speaker, interna­ search and surveillance by our law en­ was that poor and middleincome tional terrorists continue unabated in forcement agencies of both the Americans most strongly support in­ their vile deeds of murdering public ASALA and the Justice Commando dexing the tax tables and keeping the officials and diplomats of our most Group-the latter is more akin to the July tax cut. Of those earning over May 17, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12687 $15,000 a year, over 64 percent of dexing more strongly than they do the July WATCHING AMERICAN JOBS those interviewed indicated they rec­ tax cut, their support is far below that FLEE TO JUAREZ ognized the economic benefits of these among lower-income groups. The population provisions and they wanted to keep as a whole supports indexing by a 54.2 per­ HON. RONALD D. COLEMAN both the tax cut and indexing on cent. But support from those with incomes schedule. of $15,000 and below is an impressive 64.8 OF TEXAS percent. Those earning $50,000 and above IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, if this Congress is seri­ do support indexing by 50.9 percent, but ous about insuring long-term economic this is still less enthusiasm than is ex­ Tuesday, May 17, 1983 prosperity for all Americans, then we pressed by lower-income groups. e Mr. COLEMAN of Texas. Mr. must not tamper with either the 10- Support for indexing, like the tax cut, Speaker, today I am submitting an ar­ percent July tax reduction or the long seems to be rooted in the positive effects it ticle which recently appeared in the overdue indexation of our tax brack­ is expected to have on economic growth. Washington Post concerning in-bond ets. And again, it is the wealthy, not the poor, industries or maquiladoras as they are The text of this publication follows: who are the most skeptical. While 55.7 of those earning $15,000 or less believe that popularly known in my district. This TAX CUTS: THE LoWER THE INCOMES, THE concept is unique to border regions BE'ITER IT LoOKS eliminating indexing would hurt the econo­ my, only a 37.8 percent plurality of $50,000 and lately has generated national in­ Is Ronald Reagan a rich man's President? terest. I believe it underscores some Yes, say his critics, arguing that his tax cut and above incomes agree. program benefits and is supported only by The verdict from grass-roots America is important economic issues along our upper-income Americans. Low-income and that the Reagan economic strategy is far southern border with national and even average-income Americans, the critics from being a rich man's program. The poll international implications for my col­ claim, are bitter that tax breaks are going to reveals that indexing and the July cut are leagues to consider. the rich. supported most vigorously by lower-income WATCHING AMERICAN JOBS FLEE TO JUAREZ Americans. And middle- and low-income The trouble is that these critics, champi­ rake, the corporation's executive director. a directive purportedly aimed at stem­ lives, they would be required to submit all "You can put your management structure ming the flow of "leaks" of classified memoirs, lecture notes, texts of speeches, in CEl Paso], deal with U.S. banks, have information. Under the directive, Fed­ even letters to the editor and fiction drawn your kids go to U.S. schools and still deal eral agencies will be authorized to re­ from their government experience to feder­ internationally." quire polygraph examinations of any al censors for clearance. It is not difficult to He and his industrial director, Fred Mitch­ employee-or contractor-who has imagine the potential abuses this power of ell, see Juarez-El Paso not as an alternative access to classified information as part prior censorship can and undoubtedly would to Detroit or Cleveland but to Indonesia or of a "leak" investigation. "Adverse invite, if this pernicious new policy were Hong Kong. "If these companies were not in adopted. Juarez, they would not be in Detroit," consequences" will follow if there is a The government already has protection Mitchell said. refusal to take the examination. Cur­ against leaks of actual national security se­ To Drake and Mitchell, there are three rently, only the intelligence agencies, crets. But a great deal of government infor­ choices for an American company facing CIA and NSA, use polygraphs on a mation is classified not to protect the na­ competition from production facilities over­ wide scale. The Department of De­ tion's security but to protect politicians and seas: one is to stay in the United States and fense and the Department of Justice bureaucrats from embarrassment, and many go out of business; two is to go offshore also administer polygraphs under cer­ leaks come not from some anonymous little completely, with no jobs remaining in the tain situations. troublemaker, but from cabinet-level offi­ United States; three is to manufacture its cials. As nettlesome as such leaks may at materials in the United States and assemble In addition, a practice used currently times be, they are one way in which a free them in Mexico. "From Juarez alone, this only by the CIA will be expanded to people gain the information necessary to in­ [process] provides American jobs in 39 cover employees in other agencies. formed debate on matters of national states," he said. Currently, all CIA employees are re­ policy. Prior censorship and forced lie-detec­ The maquila plants have mistakenly been quired to sign agreements under which tor tests are the kind of measures that known as "twin plants," on the theory that they promise never to disclose classi­ should be reserved for times of grave na­ a company would have a plant in El Paso fied information without specific au­ tional peril, and we see no such peril now. doing part of the work on a product-gener­ thorization by the Agency. As part of Even if tighter security measures were ally the part that requires capital and few needed, the Reagan measures are deeply people-and the assembly-or labor-inten­ this agreement, employees also prom­ flawed. Lie-detector tests, for instance, are sive-part in Juarez. In practice, there are ise to submit all writings and speeches, notoriously unreliable. The General Ac­ few truly twin plants, which is what makes basically for the rest of their lives, to counting Office last year conducted a study people like Tony Sanchez suspicious about the CIA prior to their publication. The of all Defense Department investigations the spinoff benefits for El Paso. President's directive will now require into "national-security leaks" from 1975 to 12690 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 17, 1983 1982 and found that not one-with or with­ Yet most Americans believe that technolo­ colleagues to an excellent editorial out the polygraph-was able to identify the gy cannot be defeated. A syndicated televi­ which appeared in the Washington leaker. The GAO also found, incidentally, sion show, "Lie Detector," hooks up its Post on May 7, 1983. The editorial ac­ that the "national-security" shield is often guests to a polygraph as F. Lee Bailey de­ used as a ruse. One Defense Department in­ means the profession of defense counsel by curately outlines the need for begin­ vestigation last year, for example, involved asking the questions. The machine is not as ning daylight savings on the first a leak about how the department had un­ accurate as the "laughmeter" on radio's old Sunday of March rather than the last derestimated the costs for a certain new "Can You Top this?" but most viewers Sunday of April. weapons system-information the public accept the polygraph's judgments as proof The message in this editorial is espe­ had every right to have. of a human being's veracity. cially important now since we are cur­ Fortunately, Congress is reviewing Rea­ Comes now Attorney General William rently enjoying the fruits of daylight gan's plan. This Thursday, California ~ep. French Smith and his mentor in plumbing, savings. A 2-month extension of this Don Edwards is scheduled to hold the first genial Ed Meese, with a directive issued in of two subcommittee hearings on the direc­ the name of the President of the United could save us hundreds of thousands tive. Edwards hopes to get answers to some States that enshrines as official policy this of barrels of oil next year when we hard questions and to bring a little "inform often inaccurate and always antilibertarian might really need it. persuasion" to bear on an administration investigative practice. The editorial follows: that wants for itself and its successors un­ Because intelligence operatives deal in a [Editorial from the Washington Post, May precedented power to control the flow of in­ world of deception and double-digitry, C.l.A. 7, 1983] formation. If the president won't back off employees have long accepted "fluttering" the proposal voluntarily, Edwards says he as a condition of employment. Now the gray CLOCKWORK IN CONGRESS will attempt to force a retreat legislatively. standards of that world are to be applied After years of on-again, off-again experi­ Either way, the congressman can count on throughout the U.S. Government: In an ob­ ments with daylight time, Congress has pro­ us for support. scene euphemism, an unsigned Justice "fact duced a logical proposal for a slight change President Reagan, seeking to curb what sheet" describes this plunge into Big Broth­ in the current national schedule for clock­ he thinks is a danger to this society, has erism as "a greater degree of consistency in switching every year. It is this: begin Day­ issued a directive that is a much greater Government-wide policy." light Saving Time on the first Sunday of danger. We urge him to consider how such a On the same basis, Mr. Reagan could call March instead of the last Sunday of April. directive might be abused by some future for making the Defense budget as secret as It would end as it does now, on the last administration, less benign than his own. the C.I.A. budget, or apply the C.I.A.'s loose Sunday in October. For all who prefer the overseas wiretap standards to the F.B.I. at extra hour of light in the evenings-not On May 2, William Safire wrote an home. Consistent, but wrong. merely for pleasure but for safer passage essay which focuses on the polygraph In many states, a private employer who home after work, more opportunities for provision of the directive. I believe my insisted that workers be subject to poly­ physical exercise and less bright sunshine in colleagues will find the following arti­ graph tests would be breaking the law; 22 the pre-6 a.m. hours of spring mornings­ cle by Mr. Satire enlightening: employees of a Connecticut firm just won this modest extension of the DST period $219,000 in damages from a lie-detecting em­ has much appeal. [From the New York Times, May 2, 19831 ployer. But the Presidential directive tells The earlier date for starting daylight time REAGAN, FLUTTERING Federal workers: "Adverse consequences will is not arbitrary. Congressman Richard Ot­ follow an employee's refusal to cooperate tinger of New York, chief sponsor of the bill with the polygraph examination." WASHINGTON.-Lie detectors do not detect and chairman of the subcommittee that Anonymous Justice Department spokes­ moved this measure to approval by the lies or determine truth; they merely indi­ men pretend that this does not mean that a cate when you are relaxed or tense about House Energy and Commerce Committee Federal worker who takes a stand against last week, notes that the proposal would giving an answer. A smooth or psychopathic this humiliation on constitutional principle liar can beat the machine; a truth-teller, in­ make the period of daylight time symmetri­ will be fired. For appearance' sake, addition­ cal around the summer solstice, the day the timidated or nervous about being hooked up al evidence-furtive glances, perhaps, or a to the machine, can often be branded a liar. sun shines longest each year. Other sup­ pattern of association with lone journal­ porters, including the Reagan administra­ When a member of President Reagan's ists-may be required. National Security Council was given a test, tion, argue that this change could help con­ But one top Cabinet member has let it be serve energy and reduce crime-and they he was asked, "Have you ever been black­ known that if anyone impuned his integrity mailed?" The polygraph's needle fluttered cite various studies to this effect. with a lie detector demand, he would Even if these claimed advantages are not widely, which could be interpreted as "here promptly resign. comes a whopper"-and the official said no. all that sizable, neither are they outweighed That's the honorable course, as is getting by the traditional objections to any sum­ Afterward, he explained why the question fired and bringing a lawsuit. Talk about slip­ threw him; he had remembered all the mertime clock changes. For example, Con­ pery slopes-first the spies; now on the gressman Tom Daschle of South Dakota times he had said "This is blackmail!" with­ "consistency" excuse, everyone in Govern­ out literally having been the target of the writes on today's "Free for All" page that ment; next, Congressmen and journalists, farmers have difficulty tending to their ani­ crime of extortion. and finally everyone will be required to A similar reaction was described in a mals when the morning daylight begins at a prove himself innocent on the machine, lest different time. But even if animals cannot memo, obtained by George Wilson of The a refusal lead to the presumption of guilt. Washington Post, from the Assistant Secre­ adjust their biological clocks easily, farm March 11, the day of President Reagan's chores can be carried out in earlier, darker tary of Defense for Health, John Beary 3d, directive to submit to the polygraph or be a physician, to his boss, Caspar Weinberger: hours, as they are during half the year al­ fired, is a day that will live in constitutional ready. "No machine can only detect stress; howev­ infamy. Until this rape of principle is re­ er, the stress may result from several emo­ The House approved this proposal in the scinded, conservatives will bear the shame last Congress, but the Senate Commerce tional causes other than guilt, such as fear, brought on us by the "pragmatic" Attorney surprise, or anger." Although recognizing Committee never got to it. This year, both General and his anything-goes lust to track houses have time to enact the bill and settle the Government's desire to plug leaks, De­ down the source of public disclosure of fense's doctor added: "The polygraph mis­ this issue in a reasonable and welcome fash­ wrongdoing. ion.• classifies innocent people as liars. In one A foolish consistency has once again study, 49 percent of truthful subjects were shown itself to be the hobgoblin of a little scored as deceptive. In another study, 55 mind.• p_ercent ,,of the innocent were misclassi­ CYSTIC FIBROSIS WEEK fied ... RESOLUTION For that reason, Federal courts and many DAYLIGHT SAVINGS EXTENSION state courts do not admit lie-detector results HON. SI~VIO 0. CONTE as evidence. A polygraph is not a drunkom­ eter; judges know that innocents can flunk HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER OF MASSACHUSETTS and liars can pass. I have sources who have OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been whistle-blowing about scandalous de­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, May 17, 1983 fense weaknesses for years; they are regu­ Tuesday, May 17, 1983 larly "fluttered" and just as regularly get e Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, today I away with declaring that they do not know e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to once again introduce a me from Adam. would like to call the attention of my resolution designating a week for rec- May 17, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12691 ognition of a very serious health H.J RES. 270 DeLong noted that Wells has "always threat to our youth. This resolution Whereas cystic fibrosis is the number one been very supportive of Council's goals and genetic killer of children in America, and objectives," and has enjoyed working with will set aside the week of September him during her nine years on the Council. 18 through 24, 1983 as National Cystic about thirty thousand children and young adults in this country have cystic fibrosis; Wells said he attributed his two successful Fibrosis Week. Many of the Members and decades as city manager to a population of this body have supported this reso­ Whereas public knowledge about cystic fi­ that cares about their city and city pro­ lution in the past. I want to ask all of brosis contributes to early detection and grams, City Councils which care and work you to support once again this effort. treatment of the disease and to improved with the citizens and good staffs. "My ef­ Enactment of this resolution will understanding about the symptoms of cystic forts have always been to improve the qual­ continue the fight to bring hope to fibrosis; and ity of life for citizens of Falls Church now Whereas increased national awareness of and in the future. "Falls Church is a great thousands of America's young people cystic fibrosis and of the young people place in which to live and grow up in," he and their families and friends. By set­ whose lives are affected by the disease stim­ added. ting aside this special week we will ulates public concern and increased atten­ Wells said that he is pleased at the highlight the special needs of those tion to research seeking control and cure: progress made in Falls Church over the who are afflicted with this disease. Now, therefore, be it years. Some of the projects completed or Resolved by the Senate and the House of begun during his tenure of which he is Hopefully when we describe the diffi­ proud include major street improvements culties connected with cystic fibrosis Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the such as South Spring Street and Van Buren and the progress that is being made in week of September 18 through 24, 1983, is Street; opening of the Group Home for the finding an answer to these difficulties, designated as "National Cystic Fibrosis Mentally Retarded; the development of the we will be able to obtain additional re­ Week," and the President is authorized and municipal center with the City Hall, Cherry sources with which to finish the job. requested to issue a proclamation calling Hill and the Community Center; and the We also want to educate the public upon the people of the United States to ob­ Harry E. Wells Building addition. about the symptoms of CF, particular­ serve that week with appropriate ceremo­ When Wells was appointed city manager nies and activities.• in February 1964, then-Mayor Charles ly as they occur in infancy in- order Hailey said: "The appointment of a city that the affected children will reap as manager is one of the most critical decisions much benefit from early detection as HARRY WELLS-CITY MANAGER the City Council has to make. The city man­ possible. TO RETIRE AFTER 35 YEARS ager affects the lives of all the citizens of In working with the Cystic Fibrosis OF SERVICE Falls Church. He must possess the ability and skill to work with the City Council and Foundation over the past several to direct the myriad activities of the city years, I have come to understand what HON. FRANK R. WOLF government. Harry Wells possesses all these it means to be born with or have a OF VIRGINIA qualifications and we are fortunate to have loved-one stricken with this terrible IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES him in this new job." disease. The day-to-day agony of the Wells began working for Falls Church in CF victim is a succession of physical Tuesday, May 17, 1983 1948, when it was still a town. He has served and respiratory therapy treatments, a • Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, Harry as treasurer, purchasing agent, registrar of voters, clerk of the municipal court, clerk of multiplicity of pills, and the realiza­ Wells, Falls Church, Va., city manag­ the city council, assistant and acting city tion that at any time a long hospital er, has announced that he will retire manager. stay may be required to treat the after 35 years of public service-most In June 1978, the City Council voted severe infections that exacerbate the recently he held the city manager post unanimously to name the Falls Church City disease. The families and friends who for the past 20 years. Mr. Wells has Hall the Harry E. Wells Building. At the suffer with the child bear the constant been an effective and dedicated public dedication ceremony. then Councilmember emotional and physical stress which servant who has made a positive Harold Silverstein said, "It is fitting then, impact on the city of Falls Church and when a significant part of the history of comes from the realization that there Falls Church is being made right among us, is no cure and an early and painful serves as model for others in public that we take time to recognize it." death is inevitable. service. A summary of Mr. Wells' work Prior to his employment with the city, For the past 3 years, the Cystic Fi­ and achievements recently appeared in Wells worked for the Bureau of Internal brosis Foundation has conducted an Focus on Falls Church and I ask that Revenue in Washington. From 1941 to 1946, intense campaign of public informa ... it be printed at this point in the he served with the United States Army Air tion and education during the latter RECORD. Forces, retiring as an air force intelligence The article follows: officer. part of September in order to reach as Wells was born in Maryland in 1917, but many in America as possible with the CFrom Focus on Falls Church, May 19831 has lived in Falls Church for 60 years. He message about this disease. The pub­ CITY MANAGER TO RETIRE AFTER 35 YEARS OF and his wife, Kathleen, have six children. licity which has been created by Na­ SERVICE The Wells family has always been active in tional Cystic Fibrosis Week has Harry Wells has announced that he will Falls Church. Harry Wells' father, Sher­ brought this message to parents, phy­ retire later this year as Falls Church City man, served on the town/city council from sicians, educators, and employers who Manager, a post he has held for 20 years. "I 1943-1951. His brother, Claude, is the Falls will miss working with a highly professional Church Commissioner of Revenue and has were previously unaware of many of city staff, interesting and caring citizens and held other posts in the city government. the basic facts connected with cystic dedicated mayors and city council mem­ Last year, another Wells brother and sister fibrosis. More than ever before our bers," he said. "The opportunity to work for who live nearby returned to Falls Church to population is learning about this dread and with people of such integrity, ethics help host a reunion of several hundred disease, but there are many, many and fairness is a rare one." people from across the country who lived in more who need to learn more. This Mayor Carol DeLong said Falls Church Falls Church in the 1920's.e has been "richly served" during Wells' resolution will help in this effort. tenure as city manager. "Few cities are so The objective of the week and of the fortunate as to have a city manager who NATIONAL TOURISM WEEK CF Foundation which sponsors it is to cares so deeply for the city he manages," eventually conquer this disease so that she added. the suffering and dying will end. The City Council has begun a search for a HON. FOFO I. F. SUNIA Therefore, I would urge my colleagues new city manager which may be conducted OF AMERICAN SAMOA nationwide, DeLong said. While Wells gave to join me in sponsoring this resolu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion which sparks hope that the no specific date for his retirement, allowing the Council flexibility in its search for a re­ Tuesday, May 17, 1983 progress we have made to this point placement, DeLong said that she hopes the will be carried forward to eventual vic­ Council can appoint a new manager by the e Mr. SUNIA. Mr. Speaker, I rise to­ tory. beginning of 1984. gether with my numerous cosponsors 12692 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 17, 1983 of House Joint Resolution 168, a joint [From the County News, May 9, 19831 built homes decreased by 5.3 percent, sales resolution designating the week of Is MANlJFACTURED HOUSING AMERICA'S of manufactured homes dropped only .5 per­ May 29 through June 4 as "National DREAM? cent. However, of the total number of single Manufactured housing-can it fulfill the family homes sold in 1982, manufactured Tourism Week". homes accounted for a greater proportion of Coming from the Territory of Amer­ American dream of home ownership? Can a house built in a factory, towed to a site and the market than ever before with 238,808 ican Samoa, located some 2,600 miles installed on a cement pad or foundation be homes sold. southwest of Hawaii, and currently the same as a stick·built house? Emphasis on energy-efficiency has been a served by only one essential air serv­ Is it safe and attractive? Can it harmonize hallmark of manufactured homes with fed­ ice, I know that tourism is one of the with neighboring homes or must it be isolat­ eral requirements ensuring high standards. greatest goals of the American ed in a park? Is it energy.efficient, easy to In many areas, financing has been a prob­ maintain, easily financed and insured? Will lem since manufactured homes are treated Samoan Government. The expansion it be a good investment and appreciate in as personal property and traditional home of trade and tourism to our lush and value? mortgages have not been available through paradisiacal islands is a top priority. These are the questions local governments local lending institutions. However, FHA We feel that any efforts on the nation­ are grappling with as they are confronted and VA financing is available for those who al level that will contribute to the ex­ with the public's demand for more afford­ qualify. pansion of travel will be multiplied able housing as well as the removal of bar­ Often the manufacturing home retailer riers to manufactured housing. arranges financing with insurance as part of many, many times over within our Since 1976, manufactured homes must the package. Banks, savings and loans and economy to assist us in our movement meet either stringent federal construction credit unions are other sources of financing toward greater self-reliance, economic and safety codes or local building codes. as lenders recognize the viability of manu­ stability, and positive growth. These standards regulate design and con­ factured homes in the housing market. Only recently, the Travel Agents of struction. As local governments change zoning regu­ Many counties across the country are lations and development codes to permit American Samoa Association was modifying their zoning ordinances to permit manufactured homes in single family neigh­ formed to assist in the private sector, manufactured housing in single-family borhoods, their use as infill housing is be­ just the purpose of the resolution now neighborhoods. For example, Montgomery coming more widespread. With the infra­ before us. I hope the passage of the County, Md., stipulates that such homes structure already in place, counties such as resolution will benefit" their efforts must have pitched roofs and harmonize Montgomery County, Ohio, are working and thus the entire travel industry. with the surrounding neighborhood. with non-profit development corporations to The Southern Maine Regional Planning purchase infill sites to produce more afford­ My district is probably as dependent Commission has adopted a model approach able housing. upon tourism and the travel industry for siting manufactured homes. Narrow, For more information, contact Sandra as any here in Congress, and I heartily single unit homes with flat or rounded Barnes at NACo.e support the resolution's motives, in­ roofs, metal-paneled siding and no founda­ tentions, goals, and, hopefully, the tion are permitted only in mobile home long-range benefits to my constituen­ parks. Units with pitched roofs with shin­ PRESS ACCESS TO THE RADIO gles or similar surfaces, traditional siding AND TV GALLERIES cy, the terriory of American Samoa in and a frost wall or masonry skirting are al­ the South Pacific.e lowed in rural non-restrictive and multi­ family zones. HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD In single family residential areas, the MANUFACTURED HOUSING-RE- manufactured homes must be at least 14 OF MICHIGAN STORING THE AMERICAN feet wide and designed to accept a T- or L­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DREAM shaped addition, with roofing, siding and skirting. Tuesday, May 17, 1983 Another important step that the industry e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I HON. JOHN HILER is taking is to design homes in a variety of want to take this occasion to call the architectural styles, floor plans and interior OF INDIANA attention of my colleagues to an excel­ decors. Two units can be joined together to lent article which recently appeared in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES double the width or be placed in an L or T shape. With an attached, stick-built garage, the Wall Street Journal. Tuesday, May 17, 1983 the home approximates the width and I find it truly distressing that while •Mr. HILER. Mr. Speaker, none of square footage of conventionally built Tass and Ea.stern bloc correspondents my colleagues certainly have to be told homes. This home can vary in size from 865 have access to the House and Senate square feet to 1,500 square feet. Their exte­ Press Galleries, VOA, Radio Free about today's high housing costs. High riors are wood or brick, vinyl or aluminum Europe and Radio Liberty reporters inflation of the la.st decade have put a siding with peaked and shingled roofs, slid­ remain unaccredited, and are officially crimp in the plans of many families, ing doors and bay windows. banned from those areas. particularly young families, to pur­ Interiors also feature amenities such as It is ironic that reporters from the chase a new home. While housing fireplaces, cathedral ceilings, skylights, greenhouse windows, bathtubs and eat-in Communist world who invariably bad starts have improved dramatically so mouth our Government, our foreign far this year compared to 1982, we kitchens. Although single-family residences are the policy, our national efforts, and our must continue to encourage new inno­ most common, some manufacturers are open society and free press have unim­ vations in housing that will help make building multifamily duplexes, townhouses peded access to report on the branch the American dream of homeowner­ and condominium structures in a variety of of our Government which is open to ship a reality for millions of middle­ designs. Continental Homes of Roanoke, all and is made up of freely elected income families. Va., is building three-story condominiums in citizens. Mr. Speaker, I was very pleased to Ocean City, Md. Already completed are four-story condominiums in Garden City, Why deny representatives from the find in a recent edition of County S.C., and vacation condominiums in Myrtle VOA and Radio Europe/Liberty from News, a publication of the National Beach, S.C., as well as in a number of other having similar privileges to report the Association of Counties, an excellent areas on the East Coast. news? Why not give them the opportu­ article on the tremendous success of A typical manufactured house can cost nity to report from the Congressional manufactured housing in meeting half the price of a comparable stick-built Press Galleries and show the world today's challenge for affordable, high­ house. Typical two- and three-bedroom what our open and free Legislature is quality housing. I commend it to my units range from $25,000 to $45,000, well below the average cost of $75,000 for today's doing? Why penalize correspondents colleagues and urge them to be mind­ single-family home. merely because they work for an ele­ ful of the opportunities this vital in­ The market for manufactured housing is ment of the U.S. Government which is dustry is providing for millions of fam­ growing. Even in the depressed housing tasked with telling America's story to ilies. market of 1982 in which construction of site the world? May 17, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12693 Just recently, the Senate Rules Pravda allowed in? In 1950, it seems, the parish came into existence in order to Committee advised that it would like Correspondents Committees bent the rules serve the German-speaking immigrant to accredit these reporters and official­ a bit under pressure from the State Depart­ Catholics who had settled in Toledo ment and major U.S. news agencies, which during the late 19th century. By 1889, ly admit them to the previously closed feared retaliation against American corre­ areas. The House and Senate's Com­ spondents in Moscow. aware of the need to provide an educa­ mittee of Correspondents is now con­ But when it comes to VOA and Radio Free tion for their children and at great sidering the Rules Committee's recom­ Europe/Radio Liberty, whose listeners rely personal sacrifice, Sacred Heart mem­ mendation. Let us hope that the deci­ on them to fill in the news that the Tass bers established the parish school. sion is favorable so that we in the and Pravda reporters on Capitol Hill might In 1900, a tragic fire destroyed the House can let these correspondents have missed, the good men and women of church structure. The mission cross, have official access to the House gal­ the Washington press corps refuse to cede however, was saved and served as a leries and hearing rooms. their principles.e symbol to the parishioners, not only of It is in this spirit that I strongly rec­ their strong faith, but also of their de­ ommend this article to my colleagues UNITED BLACK FUND llTH termination to rebuild their church. and call for their support on this issue. ANNUAL VICTORY LUNCHEON Six years later, the magnificent stone The Wall Street Journal, May 16, church was completed and in 1951, the 1983, "Read All About It" article fol­ HON. WALTER E. FAUNTROY famous Kilgen organ was rebuilt. lows: OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Sacred Heart parishioners from all READ ALL ABOUT IT ethnic groups, committed to Christian IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Among the hordes of Clark Kents in service, have been dedicated to caring Washington gathering the most up-to-date Tuesday, May 17, 1983 for their neighbors and the less fortu­ news about the goings-on in government, e Mr. FAUNTROY. Mr. Speaker, I nate in their community. They active­ there are a few unsung heroes. Namely, the ly participate in the feed your neigh­ correspondents for Tass, Pravda, Izvestia, would like to bring to the attention of Hungarian News Agency, East German the Congress the 11th annual victory bor program and annually sponsor one News Service, China's Xinhua News Agency luncheon of the United Black Fund of of the city's more famous cultural and Soviet TV and Radio. These reporters Greater Washington to be held on events, the Sacred Heart Festival, work diligently to explain the complexities June 2, 1983, in the Sheraton Wash­ which accents the German culture in of our freely elected government, upholding ington Hotel between 11:30 a.m. and 2 America. the finest journalistic traditions of their p.m. Sacred Heart's 100 years can best be native lands, and are thus accorded official Presiding will be Dr. Calvin W. described as years of faith, dedication credentials to cover the U.S. Congress. Not so much can be said about the scrib­ Rolark, president and founder of the to God and society, and the preserva­ blers who toil at the Voice of America or United Black Fund. Awards will be tion of a proud cultural heritage. May Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Ameri­ given to Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis for Sacred Heart's history of accomplish­ can taxpayers provide more than $200 mil­ their many contributions for the bet­ ment carry its people into the next lion every year to subsidize these operations terment of society. century in the continuation of its good to bring news of the free world to more This year's luncheon theme is "The work.• than 100 million listeners behind the Iron Decade of the Disabled: Unlocking and Bamboo Curtains. This, of course, Doors Through Technology." In fact, makes the VOA and Radio Free Europe REPEAL WITHHOLDING correspondents propagandists. Obviously, over the past 14 years, the United these hacks aren't decent enough to cover Black Fund has unlocked many differ­ the hearings, speeches and votes of our lu­ ent doors for the deserving of our city. HON. WILLIAM L. DICKINSON minaries on Capitol Hill. Today, the United Black Fund assists That at least is the official position of the 55 participating member agencies and OF ALABAMA Washington press corps, represented by the grants emergency funds to numerous IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Standing Committee of Correspondents, which decides who gets official accredita­ qualified nonprofit organizations that Tuesday, May 17, 1983 render complunity-oriented services tion. The Standing Committee is composed e Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, if of journalists elected by the Capitol Hill within the Metropolitan Washington press corp, incidentally including the valiant area. ever there was doubt about represent­ reporters from the Soviet Union, Eastern The United Black Fund has become ative democracy being healthy in our Europe and China. Officials of the govern­ the largest black fundraiser in the Nation, a current letter-writing cam­ ment-run VOA and the government subsi­ Nation, the first with full payroll de­ paign to Members of Congress shows dized but privately operated Radio Free duction privileges within the Federal it is alive and well in our Republic. Europe/Radio Liberty keep asking for ac­ The huge influx of mail hitting the creditation, so they can have the privilege campaign and is the only one to have a partnership with the United Way. Congress during recent weeks ex­ of sitting in the congressional press galler­ presses great concern about legislation ies. But their fellow Washington journalists Throughout the last 14" years, sever­ keep turning them down. al hundred thousand people have been passed last year that requires banks, It all goes back to Senate Rule 33, adopted helped by the United Black Fund. I credit unions, savings-and-loan associa­ in 1877, that denies press credentials to encourage all Members of Congress to tions, mutual funds, brokers, insur­ anyone employed "in any legislative or exec­ join the United Black Fund at its vic­ ance companies, and other interest­ utive department or independent agency of tory luncheon.e and dividend-paying institutions to the government, or by any foreign govern­ withhold from customers 10 percent of ment or representative thereof." Depending each interest and dividend payment on who tells it, the rule was adopted either SACRED HEART CENTENNIAL to keep the executive branch from spying for Federal income taxes. on Congress or to foster objective journal­ I voted against the legislation then ism instead of the yellow kind. Whatever, HON. MARCY KAPTUR and have introduced a bill in this Con­ the press committees have maintained over OF OHIO gress to repeal the measure, which is the last 40 years that VOA reporters should IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES simply a new and unnecessary degree be denied gallery passes because they are of Federal bureaucracy in our private government employees. Only last year was Tuesday, May 17, 1983 business and lives, which needed to be this ban extended to cover reporters of •Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, Sacred stopped. Radios Europe and Liberty. casion that deserves our recognition. manifested itself with the passage by What about the ban on employees of for­ Sacred Heart's history is a part of the the House of Representatives of legis­ eign governments? Why are Tass and history of the people of Toledo. The lation that repeals the 10-percent 12694 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 1 'l, 1983 withholding tax on interest and divi­ ciary, Subcommittee on Crime has en­ SUPPORT PRESIDENT REAGAN'S dends. abled me to study this country's seri­ FOUR-POINT PEACE PROGRAM The measure that we have just re­ ous drug abuse problem and to work pealed was justified by its sponsors as for legislation, such as forfeiture HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO necessary to help catch income tax reform which will enable our law en­ cheaters-to collect taxes that were forcement personnel to deal effective­ OF CALIFORNIA not being paid. However. my informa­ ly with the enforcement of our laws. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion is that approximately 95 percent The south Florida task force. the re­ Tuesday, May 17, 1983 of these taxes are being paid and such gional task forces and the new border e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, drastic measures will cost savings insti­ interdiction task forces all demon­ I wish to call to the attention of my tutions hundreds of millions of dollars strate the tremendous gain in law en­ colleagues the expression of support to set up new reporting and payment forcement to be made when the mili­ for President Reagan's four-point mechanisms that are unnecessary. tary, DEA, FBI, customs and local offi­ peace program for Central America by Lending institutions already provide cials work together in interdiction and the Region's Association of American the IRS form 1099 which reports in­ other law enforcement efforts. Chambers of Commerce. terest and dividends earnings of tax­ My work in this area has led me, The text follows: payers. That should be enough infor­ however, to the unfortunate conclu­ AMERICAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE IN CEN­ mation for the IRS to go after the few sion that, no matter how successful TRAL AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN REGIONS cheaters who do not pay. these efforts might be, drugs will EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT REAGAN'S Withholding entails far more than always be smuggled into the United CENTRAL AMERICAN SPEECH deducting 10 percent of the annual States as long as a market exists for While attending AACCLA's XVI Annual payment. and would have been in­ those drugs. Too many people want Meeting in Washington, on May 5-6, the creasingly burdensome to everyone. drugs, and, until we properly educate American Chambers of Commerce of Costa Depositors and shareholders would the public on the harmful aspects of Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, have to be notified of the grounds for drug abuse, we will continue to have a Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, and Panama exemption and given a certificate or expressed their support for President Rea­ national drug problem. gan's four point program to bring peace to application to return before they A Weekly Reader Publication Study Central America. According to the chamber would qualify for special treatment. of Children's Attitudes and Percep­ representatives, the four point program, Many individuals would need assist­ tions about Drugs and Alcohol brings which has been popularly received in their ance in understanding whether they home the desperate need to educate host countries, insures the corrective ac­ qualify or in filling out the forms. children on drug abuse as early as the tions needed to strengthen democracy and Computing and accounting systems fourth grade. Almost 40 percent of the human rights, create social and economic would have to be modified to deduct development, provide protection to the fourth graders in the survey believe countries endangered by reactionaries and 10 percent of each payment-daily, that drugs are a serious problem monthly or quarterly-only from ac­ extremists, and, at the same time, open the among kids their age. The major rea­ doors to dialogue so that the guns can be re­ counts of individuals who have not sons fourth graders take drugs are to placed by words and ballots. filed certificates and who are expected feel older and to fit in with other kids. The Central Americans and their Caribbe­ to receive over $100 annually. This information indicates that these an neighbors join the President's call for a Most of those who save and invest young kids already need education re­ bipartisan commitment to support this would, in effect, have been extending garding drugs in the fourth grade. policy wholeheartedly and welcome the op­ the Federal Government an interest­ portunity to work with Senator Richard Dr. Carlton Turner, Special Assist­ Stone in the task before him.e free loan until they received a refund ant to the President for Drug Abuse at the end of the year. Savers would Policy stated: have lost part of the advantage of NICARAGUA automatic compounding of interest Communicating the truth about drugs to since a portion of earnings would have users and potential users is one of the most effective weapons we have in battle against HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST been removed from their accounts drug abuse. OF VIRGINIA with each payment. The administra­ Two companies, working in conjunc­ tive cost imposed on financial institu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion with the White House, have de­ tions would ultimately have been Tuesday, May 17, 1983 passed on to savers through increased veloped a program to address the service charges, lower interest rates or problem by educating fourth graders. I e Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, reductions in services. commend the Keebler Co. and DC Miss Joan Frawley, a contributing Finally, it has been estimated that 2 Comics, Inc. for turning the comic editor of the National Catholic Regis­ million investors automatically rein­ book into an educational tool. In a ter and a freelance writer, has recently vest their interest and dividends. The new Teen Titans comic book, their fa­ returned from a trip to Nicaragua, and imposition of withholding would have vorite DC super heroes, a new charac­ in the Wall Street Journal of Tuesday, removed about $3 billion from the Na­ ter "The Protector," and Ernie, the May 17, 1983, there is a column which tion's pool of savings-most of which Keebler elf, tell fourth graders "we she has written as a result of that would have never been returned. want you to be a hero • • • Stay drug visit. Again, I am very pleased that repre­ free." The comic books and teacher Having also been a recent visitor to sentative democracy has worked its guides are being distributed with a Central America, with a stop in Nica­ will and I am pleased to have played a letter from our First Lady, Nancy ragua, I was struck by the lucidity of part in this process.e Reagan, who tells children: her views, and I wanted to take this Don't let anyone tell you that you can't be opportunity to share her comments a hero • • • you can-with the drug aware­ with my colleagues. It continues to be DRUG FREE HEROES ness comic book and educational materials­ a matter of great concern to me that learn to be a hero. the American people are being sup­ HON. HAROLD S. SA WYER The Keebler Co. and DC Comics plied with so much misinformation OF MICHIGAN have provided a tremendous public and distortion, to the extent that it is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES service to this country and its youth. I difficult for them to make an in­ applaud this creative, private sector formed judgment about the situation Tuesday, May 17, 1983 effort to reach our children, regarding in that part of the world. e Mr. SAWYER. Mr. Speaker, my one of the most serious decisions they I hope that my colleagues will appre­ service on the Committee on the Judi- will make so early in life.e ciate the fact that there is a strong May 17, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12695 dissimilarity between the truth as it is Even visitors who scratch the surface of generally envelopes papal trips to hostile and the truth as it is presented by the this society are likely to question the exist­ lands. This time even lukewarm Catholics official Nicaraguan Government line, ence of objective truth. were forced to consider the next step-a For example, a reporter returns from a choice between the revolution and the de­ and that oppression as practiced by visit to a Miskito Indian camp on the Atlan­ fense of their religious beliefs. the Sandinista government is no less tic Coast where he heard refugees commend The government appears eager to learn stringent than that perpetrated under the government's relocation efforts. Back in from its poor management of truth during Somoza. Managua, a Catholic priest explains that the papal trip. Further, it has promoted a FACT Is FICTION IN THE SCHIZOPHRENIA OF the camp he visited was little more than a new interpretation of its actions vis a vis the TODAY'S NICARAGUA Potemkin village. pope to protect the credibility of its cultural George Orwell observed that totalitarian· Words are also transformed to comple­ transformation. The Sandinistas face the ism demands "the continuous alteration of ment the new landscape. "Do the universi­ now-familiar task of convincing their coun­ the past and in the long run probably de­ ties have autonomy under the revolution?" trymen that what they saw and heard was mands a disbelief in the very existence of Carlos Tunnerman Bernheim, minister of really something quite different from what objective truth. . . . A totalitarian society education, is asked. He nods, then replies transpired.• which succeeded in perpetuating itself "You must understand that our concept of would probably set up a schizophrenic university autonomy is not exactly the same system of thought, in which the laws of as it was under Somoza." A BATTLE FOR SOULS common sense held good in everyday life Seeking to blunt the erosion of their indi­ and in certain exact sciences, but could be vidual reality and the moral and cultural disregarded by the politician, the historian, perspective that shape it, the majority of HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH and the sociologist." Nicaraguans tum for support to the inde­ OF NEW JERSEY When Orwell wrote that in 1946, this form pendent press and the local Catholic IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of social schizophrenia already dominated Church. But they too are not immune to Soviet life, and today it continues to be a the debilitating effects of confronting a Tuesday, May 17, 1983 subject for underground satirists in the schizophrenic system of thought. •Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Eastern bloc. But the exportation of totali­ Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Jr., the co-direc­ Speaker, I would like to call your at­ tarianism to other parts of the world, most tor of La Prensa, the country's only inde­ recently Nicaragua, offers a first-hand look pendent daily newspaper, approaches his tention to an article written by Donald at the young roots of a society in which job with a strong sense of black humor. Re­ Kimelman which appeared in the May truth has a twin. acting to the imposition of official truth on 8, 1983, edition of the Philadelphia In­ Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the late de­ his publication, Mr. Chamorro created a car­ quirer. posed dictator of Nicaragua, possessed toon character named Rionsito who wicked­ Mr. Kimelman takes a deep look at simple tastes. His interests extended to ly pokes fun at the inconsistencies of life in "freedom of religion"-or the lack money and power. The Sandinista revolu­ the new Nicaragua. When the censors thereof-in the Soviet Union. It is in­ tionaries who gained control in 1979 are banned any mention of Commander Zero, teresting to note that, regardless of more ambitious. They want acceptance as Eden Pastora, the popular revolutionary the consequences, regardless of the the apostles of a cultural transformation hero who broke with the Sandinistas and is that will liberate their countrymen from plotting their overthrow, Rionsito told La pain suffered by the faithful, religion the clutches of tradition. Prensa's readers, "Since zero no longer is alive and growing for millions of be­ Public acceptance will come only with the exists, only the numbers from one to nine lievers in the Soviet Union and Com­ widespread conversion of ordinary citizens _ remain." munist-dominated Eastern Europe. to the "revolutionary process,'' but many In his effort to present an independent During my visit to the Soviet Union remain unconvinced, even confused, by the voice, the young editor follows the path of last year, Mr. Speaker, I witnessed the social and econoinic miracles wrought by his late father, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro pain and discrimination suffered by the Sandinistas. Sr., the former head of La Prensa whose as­ those who wished to worship God Their uncertainty begins with the exclu­ sassination in 1978 sparked the final insur­ sion of their private reality from official dis­ rection to overthrow Somoza. Nicaraguans freely. This was especially true for the course-a condition that is felt most strong­ still cherish the memory of this hero who young Soviet believers who often ly among the poor, the assigned benefici­ courageously fought for human freedoms. found themselves without a job or aries of the revolution. Lacking education It is a measure of the schizophrenia which unable to enroll in classes because of and financial resources, the campesinos are fragments this society, however, that not all their beliefs. more dependent on the state and more vul­ members of the Chamorro fainily maintain I recommend that all of my col­ nerable to its encroachment into their daily their ties to La Prensa. The late newspaper­ leagues study this article, draw inspi­ lives. man's brother Xavier established Nuevo Told that the new order liberated them Diario, a revolutionary daily, and his other ration from it, and endeavor to do all from the oppressive Somoza regime, they son, Carlos Fernando, directs Barricada, the that is humanly possible to foster reli­ now find their actions and leisure time more official party newspaper. His widow, Violeta, gions and civil liberties within the carefully monitored than ever. Sandinista remains at La Prensa with another brother, Communist bloc. Defense Cominittees, neighborhood organi­ Jaime. Each insists that the spirit of Pedro [From the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, zations that distribute ration cards, organize Joaquin Chamorro Sr. resides at this paper. 19831 party activities and regulate revolutionary The social confusion that divides once IN Sov1ET UNION, THE PARTY Is WAGING AN fervor, are stronger in poorer sections of united families like the Chamorros also af­ UNHOLY WAR urban and rural areas. · flicts the church. Sandinista supporters con­ On "black and red Sundays" barrio resi­ tend the official church must confer moral