April 5, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7581 Matsunaga Packwood Sarban ea Vermont EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS TAX RELIEF FOR THE SUPPORTERS 1954, providing an additional per.sonal similarly afflicted: People as equally OF DISABLED OR BLIND DEPEND exemption of $1,000 for the parents and hard hit in the pocketbooks as the dis ENTS supporters of blind or otherwise disabled abled taxpayer, if not more so. dependents. We in Congress are sometimes hard HON. NICHOLAS MAVROULES I do so with great pleasure, as the pressed to coordinate our duties here b1ll was inspired by one of my constitu with our responsibilitie.s at home. OF MASSACHUSETTS ents, Mrs. Sarah Cooper of Lynn, Mass. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES An additional tax exemption already But when we can introduce legislation arising from the .needs and concerns of Thursday, April 5, 1979 exists for blind taxpayers in recognition ()If their unusual personal and financial one of our constituents, as I am doing e Mr. MA VROULES. Mr. Speaker, today hardships. today, we have come some distance in I am introducing legislation that would My bill, however, would extend this meeting our obligations as Congressmen. amend the Internal Revenue Code of relief to the supporters of dependents I believe that this proposed revision • This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. CXXV---477-Part 6 7582 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 5, 1979 of the Internal Revenue Code is long such day, there may !l'easona.bly be expected reorganization shows all too clearly their overdue, Mr. Speaker. to be allowable an exemption under section concerns. 151 (f) (3) for the taxa.ble year under subtitle It is fair and justifiable, and, again, A in respect of which amounts deducted Fourth, to remove the space mission I am pleased to speak in its behalf. and withheld under this chapter in the from ADCOM and to turn it over to an H.R. 3493 calendar year in which such day falls are offensive command such as SAC mili Be it enacted by the Senate and House of allowed as a credit;"; tarizes the space component and may •Representatives of the United Stat,~s of (4) by striking out "(C), or (F)" in sub escalate an arms build-up in space by the America in Congress assembled, That (a) paragraph (F) (as redesignated by para U.S.S.R. at the same time we are phasing section 151 of the Internal Revenue Code graph ( 1) ) and inserting in lieu thereof down our capabilities. of 1954 (relating to allowance of deductions "(C), (D),or (H)"; and There are many other reasons why the for personal exemptions) ls amended by (5) by striking out "subparagraph (G)" proposed reorganization is not in the na adding at the end thereof the following new in the last · sentence and inserting in lieu tional interest, and all of these need to subsection: thereof "subparagraph (I) ". "(f) ADDITIONAL EXEMPTION FOR DIS• (c) Subsection (a) of section 6682 of such be considered and discussed. ABILITY.- Code (relating to false information with For these reasons, Mr. Speaker, I am "(1) FOR TAXPAYER.-An additional exemp respect to withholding allowances based on today introducing, along with the gen tion of $1,000 for the taxpayer if he is itemized deductions) ls amended by strik tleman from Colorado (Mr. KocovsEK), disabled. ing out "section 3402(f) (1) (F)" and insert a resolution disapproving the proposed "(2) FOR SPOUSE.-An additional exemp ing in lieu thereof "section 3402 (f) ( 1) (H) ". ADCOM reorganization. I w·ould hope all tion of $1,000 for the spouse of the taxpayer SEC. 2. (a) The amendments made by sub my colleagues interested in peace and a if- section (a) of the first section of this Act .. (A) a separate return ls made by the shall apply to taxable years ending after strong air defense would join in sponsor taxpayer, and the date of the enactment of this Act. ing this resolution and in requesting the " ( B) the spouse is disabled and, for the (b) The amendments made by subsections necessary hearings.• calendar year in which the taxable year of (b) and (c) of the first section of this the taxpayel° begins, has no gross income Act shall apply with respect to payments and is not the dependent of another tax of wages made on or after the first calen POLL RESULTS RELEASED payer. dar month which begins more than 10 days "(3) FOR DEPENDENT.-An additional ex after the d,ate of the enactment of this emption of $1,000 for any dependent of the Act .• HON. LARRY WINN, JR. taxpayer if- OF KANSAS " (A) such dependent is disabled; and "(B) the taxpayer ls entitled to an ex U.S. REDUCES ITS AIR DEFENSE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES emption for such dependent for the taxable CAPABILITY Thursday, April 5, 1979 year under subsection ( e) . "(4) DISABLED INDIVIDUAL.-For purposes •Mr. WINN. Mr. Speaker, I am today of this subsection- HON. KEN KRAMER releasing to the public the results of my " (A) IN GENERAL.-An individual is dis OF COLORADO recent winter questionnaire which was abled if he ls unable to engage in any sub IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mailed to all postal patrons in the Third stantial gainful activity by reason of any District of Kansas at the end of Febru medically determinable physical or mental Thursday, April 5, 1979 ary. To date, there have been over 20,000 impairment which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period • Mr. KRAMER. Mr. Speaker, on responses. of not less than 12 months. March 29, the Secretary of the Air Force From these results, I found the big "(B) PHYSICAL OR MENTAL IMPAmMENT. announced to the w'orld that the United gest concerns in my district are that the The term 'physical or mental impakment' States has decided to reduce its air de Federal Government is taxing people too · includes mental retardation, cerebral palsy, fense capability. much and spending too much money. autism, epilepsy, blindness (as defined in This was not the official announce For example, my constituents favor a subsection (d) (3)), or a substantial loss ment. The official statement merely de rollback of the next increase in social of speech or hearing. security taxes by a margin of 66 to 34 "(C) DATE OF DISABILITY DETERMINATION. clared the Air Force's intention to re The determination of whether an individual structure our aerospace defense posture percent. Sixty-three percent favor a ls disabled shall be made as of the close of by eliminating ADCOM, the major com Constitutional Convention to amend the the taxable year of the taxpayer; except that mand segment of the U.S. Aerospace De Constitution to require a balanced Fed if such individual dies during such taxable fense Command, and in the process, eral budget. year such determination shall be made as eliminate approximately 1,400 positions On other economic issues, I found that of the time of such death. in air defense, turn the day-to-day con 51 percent of those responding feel that "(5) BLINDNESS OF TAXPAYER OR SPOUSE. trol of the remaining air defense inter mandatory wage and price controls No additional exemption shall be allowed should be imposed as a means of slowing under this subsection for any individual ceptor squadrons over to the Tactical Air with respect to whom the taxpayer is al Command, and hand over missile defense inflation. As far as the next increase in lowed an exemption under subsection (d) ." radars and remote satellite monitoring the Federal minimum wage is concerned, {b) Paragraph (1) of section 3402(f) of stations to the Strategic Air Command. 51 percent indicated that they would such Code (relating to withholding exemp In essence, the proposed ADCOM re favor deferring it. tions for income tax collected at source) ls organization partitions the Air Defense Like people throughout this great amended- Command and splits the parts between Nation, my constituents would like to (1) by redeslgnatlng subparagraphs (D), two offensive commands. see the Federal Government do away (E), (F), and {G) as subparagraphs (E), with wasteful and inefficient programs. (F) , (H), and (I), respectively; For a number of reasons, I am con (2) by inserting after subparagraph (C) vinced that this is a bad decision: I asked for their help in deciding where the following new subparagraph: First, at a time when the U.S.S.R. is cuts should be made in the budget. Out "(D) one additional exemption for him beginning to rebuild its long-range of nine program areas, the first choice self if, on the basis of facts existing at bomber forces, starting with the Backfire was in foreign assistance programs. This the beginning of such day, there may rea bomber, we are dismantling our unified was followed by the desire for cuts in sonably be expected to be allowable an ex air defense. income security programs like social emption under section 151 (f) (1) (relating Second, we are sending an interna security and Federal retirement pro to the disabled) for the taxable year un tional political message to our allies that grams, and in health programs like der subtitle A in respect of which amounts deducted and withheld under this cha.pter we, as the strongest Nation in the free medicare and medicaid. in the calendar year in which such day world, intend to reduce our air defense Moreover, my constituents are strongly falls are allowed as a credit;"; capabilities, and right at the same time opposed-83 to 17 percent-to legisla (3) by inserting after subparagraph (F) that we are attempting to persuade them tion providing for Federal financing of (as redeslgnated by pairagraph (1)) the fol to spend more on NATO and arms for congressional election campaigns. They lowing new subparagraph: their own defense. also oppose, by a margin of 61 to 39 "(G) an additional exemption for each Third, the very fact that it took the percent, the extension of the general rev individual with respect to whom, on the Department of Defense months to per enue sharing program beyond its ex basis of facts existing at the beginning of suade our allies in NORAD to accept the piration date in 1980. April 5, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7583 My questionnaire did not deal entirely that those readers of the Post who also ral presentation of the San Diego Na with spending and economic matters. I read this RECORD will be afforded the op tional Air Festival from May 19 through also asked for my constituents' opinions portunity to read it: May 28, with a myriad of aviation-re on the reinstitution of the military draft. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, lated activities, some of which mentioned Well over half-54 percent-said they Washington, D.C., March 1, 1979. below I would hope might nudge the in would favor a return to the selective The EDITOR, terest of our aviation-minded colleagues. service military draft system. The Washington Post, SAN DIEGO TO HOST NATIONAL AIR FESTIVAL if Washington, D.C. Finally, I asked my constituents DEAR SIR: I was intrigued by the article on A full, nine-day program of aviation and they believe nuclear energy should be gold that you reprinted from The National flying activities throughout San Diego developed as a prominent energy alter Journal. Gold is, as the author said, "forcing County is being mapped for this year's in native to oil and gas. Seventy-three per itself back into our consciousness," for in a augural presentation of the San Diego Na cent responded affirmatively. world of depreciating dollars, gold burns tional Air Festival. Mr. Speaker, I would like to include with a brilliance unmatched by any other Sponsored by the San Diego Aero-Space money, ancient or modern. Museum and Hall of Fame Recovery Fund, in the complete results of this poll in the conjunction with the Combat Pilots Associa RECORD at this time: In his book, The Golden Constant, Profes sor Roy W. Jastram showed that prices in tion, the program is scheduled to start May 19 WINTER QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS England doubled between 1585 and 1718, and and continue through May 28. 1. Should the Social Security tax increase then remained more or less stable until 1930, Retired Air Force Brig. General Thomas M. (6.65 % on the first $29,700) scheduled to a period of over 200 years. It so happens that, Knoles, Ill, executive director of the festival, take effect in 1981 be rolled back? Yes, 66 %. not coincidentally, Sir Isaac Newton, Master said this marks the first time that San Diego No, 34 %. of the Mint, put England on the gold stand has attempted an event of this magnitude. 2. Would you support legislation providing ard on December 22, 1717. Since 1930, how "With a population of more than 12,000 for federal financing of Congressional elec ever, England's wholesale price index has general aviation pilots flying in and around tion campaigns? Yes, 17%. No, 83 %. the county's airports in fixed-wing, conven gone from 100 (with the gold standard) to tional airplanes plus all of the other non 3. Do you favor a return to the Selective 1284 (with political control of money) in powered and unconventional vehicles that fly, Service m111tary draft system? Yes, 54 %. No, 1976. we're convinced sufficient interest exists here 46%. Despite the fact that his book dramatically to assure success," noted Knoles, whose di 4. In light of continuing inflation, would illustrates that continuous price inflation is rection last year of a benefit, three-day a1r you favor the imposition of mandatory wage not a !act of life but an act of government, show at Brown Field netted the Recovery and price controls? Yes, 51 %. No, 49 %. Dr. Jastram is as defensive about progressing Fund, $27,000. 5. Looking ahead to the 21st Century, do to the gold standard as Mr. Samuelson, author He said, "The Associated Glider Clubs of you believe that nuclear energy should be of the National Journal article, is. Both men San Diego are scheduling a day-long dem developed as a prominent energy alternative present a list of specious reasons why we onstration of soaring activities May 19 to to oil and gas? Yes, 73 %. No, 27 %. ought not adopt honest money-which is launch the Festival events that follow over 6. The federal minimum wage rate ls gold-as the basis of our economic system. the nine-day period. sche PRODUCTIVITY AND AVERAGE WORKWEEKS OF MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION WORKERS IN 11 INDUSTRIAL NATIONS, 1960-77 Nation 1960 1965 1967 1970 1972 1975 1977 Nation 1960 1965 1967 1970 1972 1975 1977 Indices of productivity: Indices of average workweeks: United States. ______79. 9 98 4 100 104. 5 116. 0 117. 9 126. 7 United States ______97. 8 iCl. 5 100 98. 6 99. 9 98. 0 99.4 Great Britain ______76.8 92. 4 100 108. 6 121. 2 124. 4 126. 6 Great Bri tain ______NA NA 100 99. 9 97. 5 95.6 96. 9 Canada ______------90.9 100 114. 7 128. 5 133. 3 146.1 Canada ______------100. 2 101. 7 100 99. 3 98.3 97.1 96. 7 Japan .• ______75. 5 52. 6 79.1 100 146. 5 162. 3 174. 6 199. 2 Japan.Belgium ______----_-______------__ 107. 6 98. 9 100 96. 9 94. 9 87.6 90. 6 Belgium ______------70. 5 88. l 100 129. 5 153. 2 188. 4 213. 1 Denmark ______105. 0 103. 3 100 97.2 93. 6 84.4 85. 0 Denmark ______------66. 6 86. 7 100 129. 3 150. 7 178.0 196.1 NA NA 100 93. 4 91.1 85. 1 83. 5 France. __ ------______68. 7 88.5 100 121. 2 135. 1 150. 3 172. 6 France_------______102. 4 100. 2 100 98. 4 96.8 92. 2 91. 2 West Germany ___ ------66.4 90. 4 100 116. 1 128. 7 150. 4 169. 6 West Germany ___ ------108. 6 105. 0 100 102. 0 98. 7 92. 5 93.1 65.1 91. 6 100 121. 7 135. 3 152. 9 167. 1 NA 103. 4 100 95. 4 88. 9 80. 7 84. 3 ~~heria-ricis::::::::::::::: 67.8 87.8 100 134.0 154. 4 180. 5 206. 7 ~:~heriiin-cis::: ::: :::: ::::: 96. 7 101. 5 100 94. 7 92. 3 86.2 85. 4 Sweden. ______----- _____ 62. 3 88.6 100 124.5 137. 9 150. 4 156. 6 Sweden._---- __ ------105. 5 101. 9 100 95. 9 92.0 87.9 84. 7 • LEGISLATIVE ISSUES OF THE Engineer, which provides excellent the subspecies category, dramatically increas ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT background on the legislative issues of ing the possible total. Equally important is the provision that the Endangered Species Act. It was makes Federal agencies responsible for en HON. DAVID R. BOWEN written by David Seldner, Governmental suring that their actions, or a.ny actions they Affairs Liaison, for the American Con fund, do not jeopardize the continued exist OF MISSISSIPPI sulting Engineers Council. ence of an endangered species. Activities that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UNDERSTANDING THE BUTTERFLY BLOCKADE destroy or adversely modify the habitat crit Thursday, April 5, 1979 ical to the survival of a species must be (By David Seidner) changed or, if necessary, discontinued. To e Mr. BOWEN. Mr. Speaker, in the final The government is deeply concerned a.bout accomplish this, agencies are required to hours of the last Congress, the House them. They've been missing for years. Sup consuU; with the FWS to determine whether and Senate passed the Endangered posedly, they lived in the Houston area. In or not an endangered species is native to an Species Act Amendments of 1978. As one case they are still around or plan to return, area where an agency project is to be located. the government has proposed setting •aside In cases where such a. species is identified, of the floor managers of the bill, I must land for them to live. So goes the story ot the FWS issues a biological opinion on what say that this legislation reflected an the Houston Toad, one of the hundreds of ways the project will impact on a. species. At emerging consensus that the pendulum endangered species many of us have never times, it suggests alternate courses. between the development and environ heard of. The law has far-reaching implications !or mental sector of our Nation's economy The government's protecting what it can consulting engineers and the construction in needs to be more balanced. The 1973 not find is but one problem with the Endan dustry. Design professionals working on Fed law was exceptionally rigid. Now an gered Species Act. There are bridge projects eral projects that would negatively impact exemption mechanism has been created that have been delayed for months to allow an endangered species must alter the plans which will allow projects to move for divers to search waterways for obscure mus in accordance with the biological opinion of sels which are never found-only empty the FWS or face legal action brought by the ward despite the presence of an endan shells testify to their existence! When a con environmental groups. In cases where a plant gered species. Conversely, before proj tract is lump-sum and based, therefore, on or animal cannot be accommodated, the cre ects are authorized, a complete exami-. a. projected time element, such delays erode ativity of the design and, quite possibly, the nation of endangered species will be the profitability of a project, and at the utility of the project may be sacrificed. made. same time, inflation takes its bite. The legislation also poses problems in ex Hearings are currently being con The Endangered Species Act was passed pansion of existing facilities a.nd in the ex ducted in the House for the reauthori almost unanimously by Congress in 1973. It ploration and development of new areas. The zation of the law, which must be re;.. was heralded as progressive legislation since designation of a critical habitat could pre ported to the appropriate budget com it aimed at protecting the American grizzly. clude the needed development or renova the bald eagle, and other valuable wildlife. tion of airports, bridges, a.nd other facilities. mittees by May 15. In June oversight To date, however, the act has limited devel Virgin areas critical to the survival of an en hearings are planned on the final Gen opment more than it has protected valuable dangered species may remain undeveloped, eral Accounting Office report which is species. regardless of the resources they may contain. ~xpected to highlight serious problems The act is administered by the Office of At a time when the United States is pressed m the way in which the Fish and Wild Endangered Species, a.n agency within the for new sources o! energy, forbidding such life Service has administered the En Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in the De exploration could impact adversely on our dang~red Species Act. I look forward to partment of Interior. The office is charged dependency on foreign countries for essential a review of that report at that time. both with preparing and maintaining an resources. our balance o! trade deficit, and official Endangered Species List. The act per our standard of living. ~ call your attention to the following mits FWS to designate plants as well as ani The endangered species list has grown article that appeared in the Consulting mals as endangered, and to list both below rapidly from 109 ln 1973 to approximately 7588 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 5, 1979 25,000 today. Biologists estimate that there ments are cited by defenders of the law. I thought about that conversation, and are anywhere from three to 10 mllllon life Not taken into account, because of the pau my eyes became moist again. This time, how forms known to us, with perhaps as many as city of information, are the costs and modi ever, I cried not for my friend, Alrey Neave. 10 percent threatened or endangered. An fications developers must make to proceed This time, I cried for my country, as I ichthyologist notes that with the help of with projects. wondered how my friend in St. Louis, an four or five biologists he could halt any Too often the only constituencies that otherwise completely civlllzed Ameirlcan public works project in the southeastern Congress hears are environmentalists, who citizen, could think and act with such de United States. The potential for abuse by tend to see one side of an issue. The result: testable incivlllty. groups using the law as a tactic to thwart a law fashioned by few and imposed on This, in turn, caused me to think of some policy decisions is readily apparent. The act many. For this reason, consulting engineers otheir troubling conversations I recently effectively preempts any public dialogue by and developers need to articulate their con have had with Missourians, and I want to emphasizing the near-total protection of all cerns so the law represents a balance of all share some o! those conversations with you. that roams and grows over man's ab111ty to reasona;ble interests. I cry for my country ..• decide which projects are a societal necessity The General Accounting Office ls preparing when a citizen cancels a contribution to or important enough to be built. a report which ls expected to highlight seri his church because the clergyman spoke out In the final hours of the last Congressional ous problems in the way in which the FWS on a significant social issue. session, and after months of protracted de has administered the law. Rejecting a move I cry for my country . . . bate, Congress passed the Endangered Spe for a three-year authorization, Congress voted when an educated person tells me that all cies Amendments of 1978. The passage of overwhelmingly for an 18-month extension of education should be turned over to private this corrective legislation reflects an emerg in order to assess the law. In the interim, and parochial schools with government fund ing consensus that the pendulum between it ls essential for consulting engineers and ing, a.ind that the public schools should be new development and the environmental others in the business community to chal come a modern day version of Charles Dick safeguards has swung too far. The 1973 law lenge the dominance of the unrepresentative ens• ireform school. was unacceptably rigid. Now, an exemption but inordinately effective environmental I cry for my country . . . mechanism has been created that enables lnterests.e when a farmer says he cares not whethet" important projects to move ahead, despite he destroys public property and wlll con the presence of an endangered species. A tinue to destroy public property unless the seven-member cabinet-level Endangered Spe A CRY FOR MY COUNTRY government guarantees him a profit. cies Committee wlll consider applications I cry for my country ... for exemptions submitted by Federal agen when a. spokesman for a. group which ad cies, the governors of the states in which HON. HAROLD L. VOLKMER vocates greater federal funding to combat the agency action would occur, and owners OF MISSOURI a dreaded disease tells me that he wants his or developers. money, regardless of the consequences of Working with other associations in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES taking money away from research on another business community, ACEC successfully lob Thursday, April 5, 1979 dreaded disease. bied for a provision requiring the Secretary I cry for my country . . • of the Interior to consider the economic e Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, on Sat when a local public official refuses to work implications of designating habitats as crit urday evening last I was among many with the federal government to build new ical to a species. As a result, decisions that, who had the honor to hear an address housing because he doesn't want "those in effect, delineate growth patterns for the by the senior Senator from Missouri, people" in his area-and we all know who future and affect the public interest as a Hon. THOMAS F. EAGLETON. Senator "those people" a.re. whole cannot be biological, according to the I ory for my country . . . amendments. EAGLETON''s remarks are noteworthy for when a member of the United States Sen The debate on this issue was emotional. all of us in these days of trial for our ate whispers to me, as one recently did, that Environmental groups and the Administra country and I urge all Members and what this country needs ls another Maya.guez tion argued that the law has worked well, citizens to study and heed these words incident so that the United States can beat pointing to thousands of consultations be of concern and conscience. up on the Cambodian Navy to prove that we tween agencies and the FWS. They claimed The remarks of Senator EAGLETON are a.re tough guys. that only two or three cases exist where as follows: I cry for my country ••. problems have occured. The Tennessee Val when a constituent tells me that he ley Authority's failure to complete the Telli A CRY FOR MY COUNTRY doesn't give a damn whether there ls an co Dam indicates otherwise. Designed as a As most in the audience know, it has energy crisis, and that he is going to drive multipurpose regional development project to not been my custom at Jackson Day to what he wants, where he wants, when he provide electricity for 20,000 homes, prevent orate in a serious vein. However, a story wants, and to hell with conserving energy. flood damage, and stimulate shoreline devel which I heard on the radio yesterday as I I cry for my country . . . opment, work on the dam was held up after drove to the airport in Washington has when a civic leader punches his finger in discovery of the snail darter. The darter, a stirred in me some serious thoughts, which to my chest and tells me that he wants the three-inch member of the perch family in I would like to share. $130 billion, 100% coverage Kennedy health habiting the Little Tennessee River, was dis I listened to the newscast and learned insurance plan and that he wants it NOW covered eight years after the construction of that Mr. Airey Neave, a member of the and that he doesn't care what kind of fed the Telllco Dam had begun. In a citizens' British Parliament, had been assassinated. eral deficit it would create. suit, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court Mr. Neave was scheduled to become the I cry for my country ... Minister for Northern Ireland Affairs in the ruling, explaining that the law left no room when the Senate of the United States tries for compromise and clearly protected the next British cabinet if Mrs. Thatcher's Con servative Party wins the May election. Yes to sneak through a hush-hush change In habitat of any and all species. At the time the Senate rules so as to allow a Senator of the ruling the dam carried a $119 million terday, someone put a bomb in his car out side of Parliament and blew him up. to increase his outside earned income by price tag, was 90 percent complete, and con some $16,000. tinued to receive Congressional support I first met Mr. Neave more than thirty through appropriations. years ago when he and my late father were I cry for my country ... Preservationists point out that Telllco ls an assistant prosecutors at the Nuremberg when a retired m111tary officer tells me isolated case. Admittedly, most controversies War Orime Trials. I went over to spend that there is nothing improper in being a have not taken such extreme forms. Never two weeks with my father, and Mr. Neave so-called "triple dlpper"-that ls, simultane theless, there ls simple evidence that the was very <:onsiderate of a curious young ously drawing a full mllitary retirement 1973 law has been distorted, result ing in un man. We met again from time to time in benefit, a social security check and a pri intended consequences. In Mississippi, for the intervening years. Just a few months vate corporation pension check. example, the construction of a crucial high ago, Mr. Neave sent me a copy of his new I cry for my country ... way interchange designed to serve a highly book on the Nuremberg Trials. when an old, old friend of mine tells me industrial area has been delayed for five years. As the news of Mr. Neave's death sank to continue pouring hundreds of mllllons The reason: the presence of 40 Mississippi in yesterday, my eyes became a bit moist. of public dollars a year into underused, in sandhlll cranes. The FWS claimed that the "My God," I thought to myself, "what a efficient Amtrak train service, just because cranes could not be transplanted success horrible, senseless a.ct." he nostalgically remembers the good old fully. As of this writing, contracts have yet to Then my thoughts fl.ashed back to a conver days when railroads were "king" and he be let, as various executive departments at sation at a big St. Patrick's bash in St. would like for his grandchildren to be able tempt to implement an agreement whereby Louis just two weeks ago tonight. A long to ride a tr<:i.ln. the Department of Transportation will pur time friend o! mine, a man of Irish heritage Inartfully, perhaps, I draw a moral from chase nearly 2000 acres of marshland for the like mysel!, came up to me and said, "Tom, all of this. Our country is simultaneously cranes. The cost in terms of inflation, delay, I am going to continue to send money to suspicious, scared and selfish. We are sus and the denial of services will be high. the I.R.A. so that they can kill every man, picious of attitudes and styles different from The expense of the consultation process woman and child in Britain who stands in our own, an d in many ways we are suspicious, between agencies and the FWS also will need the way," as he called it, "of the liberation of ourselves. We are scared that somehow we review. Thousands of "successful" agree- o! the occupied North of Ireland." have lost our grip on the world, on our coun- April 5, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7589 try and on the events which reverberate tract whatever number and quality of volun hour less than the minimum wage for a. 48- within it. teers for the military it wants-at some level hour week. But most troubling of all, we are selfish. of compensation. There are those who argue that while Selfishness is as old as Adam and Eve. But Proponents of conscription interpret the overall figures give the impression that in today's America, we have elevated self proposition that voluntarism will always things are satisfactory, those figures con ishness to an art form. We want what we work at some level of compensation as ex ceal some special problems; for example, perceive to be ours; we want it NOW; we tremist. They are indignant at the idea of that the quality of Army recruits ls too low, want it regardless of the negative conse paying whatever it will take to get the de or that personnel turnover ls too high, or quences it may have with respect to our sired number and quality of volunteers. What that the proportion of blacks in the Army fellow citizens and our nation. if we have to pay very high wages to get enlisted ranks ls too high. If Congress My friends, it ls nigh unto impossible for enough of the right quality of volunteers? believes that these are real problems, it ls government at any level to fashion prudent The nation couldn't afford it. its responslb111ty to alter compensation and public policy in a suspicious, scared and That reaction reflects a pervasive and fun conditions of service to solve them. selfish atmosphere. Government cannot live damental fallacy about conscription. If we There is, indeed, much room for improve by law alone. Government ls predicated on have to pay very high wages to attract volun ment in mllitary recruiting, retention and faith, and when faith disappears government teers, that fact tells us that defense manpow compensation policies. There ls, for example, falters. The rebuilding of faith is not the er is very costly, but conscription does not a pronounced reluctance to take into account singular responsib111ty of the office holder. It enable us to avoid those costs. All conscrip what the problems are and how they can be is an act of private commitment for every tion does is decide who wm pay the costs. resolved. The Army, for example, has always citizen. It is the responsibi11ty of everyone We cannot avoid the manpower costs of de had more difficulty attracting volunteers in this audience. fense by substituting conscription for volun than the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. tarism. Conscription ls a form of taxation. The rebuilding of faith isn't easy. It wasn't While that fact has, at least in part, been rec Conscription simply imposes the burden of ognized by providing ($2,500) bonuses for easy in Roosevelt's time, but it was done. It taxation for defense on our youth rather wasn't easy in Truman's time, but it was than the general public. Army combat enlistments, the Army ls not done. It wasn't easy in Kennedy's time, but Over 200 years ago, Benjamin Franklin, in permitted to advertise those bonuses as an it was done. It isn't easy in Carter's time, commenting on a judicial opinion concern attraction to volunteers. Invoking such but it will be done. ing the legality of Impressment of American restrictions while simultaneously contend I think we can. merchant seamen, recognized the heart of ing that voluntarism is not working raises I think we must. the issue, and even estimated the hidden serious questions about congressional I think we wlll.e tax. He wrote: "But if, as I suppose ls often lntent.e the case, the sailor who is pressed and obliged to serve for the defence of this trade at the rate of 25s. a month, could have £3. 15s, THE COSTS OF THE DRAFT in the merchant's service, you take from him TRIBUTE TO HIS GRACE BISHOP 50s. a month; and if you have 100,000 in your SILAS service, you rob the honest part of society HON. JAMES P. (J1IM) JOHNSON and their poor fammes of £250,000. per month, or three millions a year, and at the OF COLORADO HON. HAROLD C. HOLLENBECK same time oblige them to hazard their lives OF NEW JERSEY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in fighting for the defence of your trade." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, April 5, 1979 Once we understand that conscription is a tax, it ls easy to see why Congressmen Thursday, April 5, 1979 e Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. find it appealing, especially at a time when Speaker, the debate is continuing over they are under great popular pressure to re e Mr. HOLLENBECK. Mr. Speaker, this the question of reviving the draft, and a duce taxes. Reinstitution of a specialized week His Grace Bishop Silas will be most important ingredient of the debate hidden tax wm enable them to preserve a enthroned as the first bishop of the Greek is congressional intent and desire. An larger government than would be possible Orthodox Church of New Jersey. The if they were forced to rely entirely on ex occasion is a proud and historic one for article, in the April 5, 1979, edition of plicit general taxes. the Wall Street Journal, by William H. the members of our 22 New Jersey To say that at some level of compensation parishes and the nearly 2-million mem Meckling, dean of the Graduate School the services can attract the numbers and of Management at the University of Ro quality of volunteers desired is not to say bers of the Greek Orthodox Church in chester, points up the deficiencies of that compensation wlll have to be very high North and South America. "congressional intent" as it relates to the in order to achieve those goals; it does not The church has a long and distin All-Volunteer Force. Mr. Meckling raises even say that compensation ought to be guished tradition of support for human some important issues and I recommend increased. Moreover, it does not imply that progress, which can only be achieved his article to my colleagues. higher compensation is the only course of within the confines of the mystical order action avallable to make m111tary service and moral law. His Grace Bishop Silas THE DRAFT SHIFTS DEFENSE COSTS more attractive. TO NATION'S YOUTH brings to his new responsibilities a long The truth ls that all four of the active and distinguished personal record of (By W1lliam H. Meckling) duty forces have generally been able to main The "let's revive the draft" symphony ls tain authorized strengths since conscrip service as a religious leader and educator. being played in earnest on Capitol Hill. The tion was abolished. Only in specialized areas He has ministered to the physical and dominant theme ls that "the all-volunteer such as medicine and the reserves has there spiritual needs of men and women force isn't working." Senator Stennis, for ex been any problem, and the short-falls there around the world and is embraced for his ample, was recently quoted as saying that can be eliminated whenever Congress and service not only by his :flock, but by the "the mmtary isn't getting enough and the the administration make up their minds ecumencial body of churches. right kind of personnel" and that military that they really want to do so. We can bulld The significant increase in church leaders have had "a full and fair opportunity up the reserves and we can increase the membership, which led to the enthrone to determine if the all-volunteer force wm number of M.D.s in the services If we are work. It has failed its test and proved not prepared to bear the costs. ment of his grace and the elevation of to be the answer for peaceime or wartime Because congressional desires about qual the Greek Orthodox Church of St. John needs." ity are not well defined, it ls more difficult the Theologian to Cathedral status, can The logic of the proposition that mllltary to say whether their desires in that dimen only bode well for our New Jersey com conscription should be revived because the sion are being met. What we can say is that munities. all-volunteer force is not working will not the quality of military personnel today com I am confident that the Greek Ortho withstand careful scrutiny. No one would pares favorably with the experience under dox Church will continue to foster in take seriously the proposal that we under conscription. In 1977, 69% of those recruited our area its firmly espoused values of take conscription of federal employes because were high school graduates. In 1970 and in God, family and country. These values, the Civil Service System was failing to pro 1964, 683 of those recruited were high vide the numbers and quality of employes school graduates. In 1964 one of seven re upon which our government was Congress desired. Most of us would recognize cruits fell in mental group IV, the lowest founded, are no less essential to our na that it is a responsib111ty of Congress and the mental group eligible for recruitment. By tional and world survival today as we administration to see that compensation and 1977, this ratio had dropped to one in 20. stride forward into the 21st century. conditions of employment produce the num I am confident, as well, that in His ber and quality of civll service employes All of this is being accomplished at modest desired. levels of compensation. The Department of Grace Bishop Silas. the citizens of New Defense estimates that pay and allowances Jersey welcome a truly outstanding chief Congress and the administration can at- for a new recruit works out to 33 cents an shepherd.• 7590 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 5, 1979 EXCESS PROFITS TAX words, the worst profit margin year for profiteering have become apparent. any of the top five U.S. oil companies in Exxon reported that its fourth quarter, any of those years was higher than the 1978 revenues rose more than 16 per HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN best year for all manufacturing corpora cent to $18.06 billion, up from $15.5:J OF NEW YORK tions. billion a year earlier. For all of 1978, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES While the oil industry pointed to its Exxon's revenue was up nearly 11 per Thursday, April 5, 1979 needs for capital to aid in energy devel cent to $64.76 billion from $58.45 billion opment as a reason for high profits, oil from $5.10 billion a year earlier. The • Mr. On.MAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to company spending of its record profits list of examples could be lengthened; day to announce that I have introduced went for a variety of purposes unrelated the trends are self-evident. And despite a measure establishing, for a limited pe to exploration and development. For ex worries over Government regulation in riod of time, an excess profits tax on the ample, Mobil decided to use $802 million the United States and uncertainties else income of corporations engaged in the in cash to buy Marcor, a conglomerate where-mainly in Iran-the companies production of petroleum products. which operates Montgomery Ward and generally expect earnings to keep grow I am determined that the kind of Container Corp. ing. profiteering by the oil companies that oc curred during the 1973-74 oil crisis shall Because of the interruption of Iranian We must take steps now to prevent not happen during the coming period of oil shipments, a supply crisis similar to windfall profiteering at the expense of oil shortages due to the dying up of sup that of 1973 is in the making. Unless ac the American consumer. The oil indus plies from Iran or from any other source. tion is taken, substantial windfall profits try has demonstrated that it cannot re My bill will encourage oil companies to will follow in its wake. There are prepa strain itself and act responsibly; if it plow back any new profits attributable rations being made at the highest levels did, there would be no need for this to higher world prices into domestic ex of Government for gasoline rationing, legislation. Obviously, there is such a ploration and production and the devel and top energy officials are predicting $1 need; a poll of my district shows that opment of new energy sources, so that per gallon gasoline in the near future. over 85 percent of my constituents fa our dependence on the whims of foreign If the ceiling on old oil prices is removed, vored taxing excess oil profits. I believe suppliers is diminished. further significant profit increases will that this is indicative of the public's The necessity for this bill is brought result. concern about burdensome fuel prices. home by the record of the oil companies My bill will impose on the income of Accordingly, I urge my colleagues to during our last oil crisis in 1973. While every corporation engaged in the pro join with me in support of this legisla the American public was standing in long duction of petroleum and petroleum tion in order to impose reasonable re lines for gasoline and paying sharply products, for each taxable year which straints on this vital segment of our higher prices or all petroleum products, ends or begins during the life of the tax economy, and to remove the incentive for the oil companies were reporting, quar <3 years), an excess profits tax equal to profiteering on the coming supply ter after quarter, record earnings, with 25 percent of the excess profits taxable crunch.• increases, over 1972, of 60 to 80 percent income. Excess profits are defined as not uncommon. profits over and above the greater of 120 A survey by Carl H. Pforzheimer and percent of company profits during the 1970-72 period, before the first oil em Co. of 43 important oil companies showed STEADY PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES aggregate 1973 net income of $11.83 bil bargo The insta.b111ty in Iran suggests that the I don't buy the proposition that the Demo MARCH 16, 1979. Sa.uclls could be next. They a.re already crat party has preempted our traditional Mr. DAVE NELSON, fia.nked on the South by another communist ground and taken the issues away from us. Subcommittee on - Oversight Investiga«on, oriented regime-South Yemen. And then Far from it! Interstate and Foreign Commerce Com just a.cross the straits to the Horn of Africa. It gives us all the more ammunition to mittee, Washington, D.C. are more Soviet-supported Cubans in Ethi prove to the American people that we were DEAR MR. NELSON: On December 7, 1978, opia.. You think the Israelis a.nd Jorda.nla.ns right in the first place and that the basic there was a. meeting called by OCA W repre a.re not aware of these implications? principles upon which our party was founded sen ta. tive , Mr. Henry Shiro and Steelworkers We in the Congress a.re a.t a terrible dis a.re good and sound principles to espouse 1n representative, Mr. Joseph Sparacio. At this advantage in the foreign poUcy arena. We 1979 and 1980. meeting, there was also Dr. Chris Oliver. get no intell1gence briefings. As a. matter of Let's welcome those who want to join our This meeting wa.s called because of health fa.ct, we haven't had one Joint Congressional ranks. But let's not be fooled by their problems that were reported at Niagara. Steel Leadership meeting with the President this rhetoric. Finishing, which borders the Hyde Park year. "By their deeds ye· shall know them", and Landfill. Union Officials felt that these prob We had only 4 la.st year and 3 the year it won't take long for us to put their feet lems may have been ca.used by this land before. During Republican Administrations, to the fire when it comes to voting on the fill. The reason why National Lead a.nd G!"elf the Democratic Leadership In Congress was issues they talked a.bout so freely during the Brothers Unions were invited ts because our consulted every other week or a. t worst every last election. plants also border the chemical dump. third week or so. Many will, I am sure, ultimately be ex At the meeting, Dr. Oliver asked us a.bout I'm reminded of what Sena.tor Vandenberg posed as polttlcal opportunists. Governor only health problems that our people have once told President Truman when he ca.lled Jerry Brown of Calfornia. has to be right up ha.d. We gave her the lllnesses that we knew for a bi-partisan foreign policy. "Mr. Presi there at the top of that list. Now I don't dis of a.t the time. This meeting prompted us to dent," he said, "If you want us a.round to like Jerry Brown. Don't get me wrong. I just go back to our people a.nd find out a little help pick up the pieces after the crash land don't know which of his two faces to take more a.bout the illnesses and deaths we have ing, we have to be there for the take-off." seriously. ha.d. Like the American people, we've been kept We're on the right side of the tax issue. Before I get into the lllnesses, I would like in the dark. There 1s great dlsa.rra.y. The We're on the right side of the spending to give you more information about the state Department says one thing, the Na issue. dump. This dump ha.s many toxic chemicals. tional Security Council says another and the We're on the right slde of deregulation and Some of these chemicals a.re: President says yet another. less government control. Dioxin; Chloro Benzene; Toluene; Hexa When there ls no clear llne of pollcy We're on the right side of the defense is chlorocyclopenta.diene (C-56); Mirex; Kepone within the Admlntstra.tlon, we can't expect sue a.nd the ma.n we honor tonight-Abe (Poss.); Llnda.ne; Hexa.chlorobenzene; Ben to exert much influence, or build confidence Lincoln-charted a course for our party 1n zene; Chloro Toluene; Carbon tetra.chloride; among our allies or gain respect from our education a.nd clvll rights. Trichlorophenol; Tetrachlorobenzene; and adversaries abroad. Forgive me If I get excited about our party, at least 15 chlorinated hydro-carbons. The incompetence and ineptness of the our fortunes and the prospects that Ue These chemicals a.re very toxic and many Carter Admlntstra.tton ln foreign affairs has ahead of us. I just happen to be sick and of these were found a.t the Love Canal. Many become a. grave national problem, endanger tired of being a. member of the minority, residents have ha.d 111 effects from these ing the very security of our nation. Congress where I have been tn a.ll my 22 years in the chemicals. must begin, now, to find out what ls wrong. Congress. A very important fa.ct a.bout this dump ts I personally a.m concerned enough to be I know that given the opportunity we ca.n the land lt wa.s bullt on. The dump was seriously considering the Introduction of a do a. better job of leading in the Congress bullt on a. very wet a.nd swamp area. A1J resolution of inquiry tn the House calltng and restoring the peoples' confidence in that we a.ll know, these toxic chemicals wm upon the President to lay the facts out before Institution. lea.ch faster through wet areas. This was us so you and I can make our own judgments. And compared with Jimmy Carter, any Re proven at the Love Canaa. area.. Accord This type of resolution hasn't been proposed publican sta.nda.rd-bea.rer ln 1980 will re ing to reports, the toxic chemicals lea.ch tn the Congress for several years and tt ought gain for us our once proud position of pre .faster ln the swell areas of the canal. not to be considered ltghtly, but tt does seem eminence a.nd respect ln the world a.nd a We have had the same problems a.t the Hyde to me tha.t we need some vehicle to get the full measure of domestic tra.nqulllty here a.t Park site. The land ls very wet and swampy. dialog going on the gravity of our foreign home.e About 50 yards from the chemical dump, poltcy problems. there ls a creek. This creek is a. product of I have stressed the Carter record on foreign ground water and run-off water. Much of this policy and defense because you hear so often run-off water from the dump runs into this that the elections tn 1980 wm be won on CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY BY creek. The name of this creek ls Bloody Run domestic issues a.lone. That may well be true. DENNIS VIRTUOSO OF NIAGARA Creek (nick-named because of lts reddish But remember: 1f we ignore foreign poltcy FALLS color). This creek has been a. problem with and defense, we ma.y wake up one day and us a.t Greif Brothers. Bloody Creek runs right find out there aren't any domestic issues to underneath our plant, through a. sewer pipe. discuss because we have been attacked by There ls also a. manhole ln our plant which an adversary who couldn't resist the tempta HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE is pa.rt of this sewer pipe. We have had many tion of ma.king a first strike on a weakened OF NEW YORK complaints a.bout bad smells and fumes from America. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this manhole. Complaints got so bad that Now let me conclude on a more positive the company covered the manhole with plas note. Whlle we did lose the Senate race here Thursday, April 5, 1979 tic but this wa.s to no avall as the plastic was in New Jersey tn November, we dld pick up • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, on eaten a.way. The company then placed a. piece Senate sea.ts ln New Hampshire, Minnesota, March 21 several of my constituents of 16-ga.uge steel under the cover. When they Iowa, Colorado and Mississippi that will make did ·this, the smell was no longer there. a significant difference. And in the House came to Congress to present the problems In between our pla.n·t and the parking lot, we're mighty grateful for your sending us an they have faced as a result of hazardous there ls another stream. This stream ls also additional Republlcan congressman tn the wastes having been improperly handled a. product of ground water. It has a. reddish person of Jim Courter. We have given him and buried in areas where they live or color and sometimes looks very slimy. very important Committee assignments and work. Mr. Dennis Virtuoso, president, Another interesting thing a.bout the area he will, I'm sure, become a.n outstanding ls the disappearance of wild ll!e. When I first Member of Congress. Local No. 12256 of the United Steelwork ers of America, was one such witness. Mr. started working at the plant !n 1970, almost I mentioned earlier the increase of better every morning while driving to work, I would than 300 Republtcan State legislators and we Virtuoso gave detailed information about see rabbits running a.round-you don't see now have 6 more Republtcan Governors the toxic chemicals leaching from the this anymore. The birds have also diminished throughout the country. dump and the illnesses that his fellow from this area. Our strategy of rebuilding the party from workers have experienced. I would like to Getting back to the lllnesses at Greif the grass roots up rather than from the share his presentation with my col Brothers, we have had a large number rang top down ls paying off. We're winning more leagues, for it will help focus their atten ing from cancer, breathing a.nd respiratory mayorality, city councn and County Board problems, skin rashes, lumps, growths a.nd members. tion on the horrifying effects chemicals cysts, blood diseases, heart problems, high We're on the move, and I feel very opti can have on our health. blood pressure. a.nd sinus. These illnesses mistic a.bout the future. The presentation follows: from our plant were not on Dr. Oliver's report April 5, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7595 because I did not know a.t that time that On Saturday, February 17, 1979, we had a The climate iDi our part of the county we had these health problems. meeting with all three unions, area residents, ranges from semiarid to subhumid. We have We took surveys, both oral a.nd written, local politicians, and Love Canal Homeown severe soil and climate variations character going back eight (8) yea.rs, a.nd have the ers Assoc. At this meeting, we formed a group ized by intense summer storms with runoff known as the Bloody Run Area Association. of water essential to crop production. This following statistics: One of the main objectives at this meeting runoff or loss of water causes severe erosion Cancer: 8 employees (a.11 dead). was to get physicals for workers a.nd fam of our productive sons that in turn create Brea.thing a.nd Respiratory: 15 people (6 mes living in the a.res.. water quality hazards. Presently, there a.re a.re dead or retired) . As of this date, the only help we have few short term economic lnce~tives to prac Skin Ra.shes: 17 people (present condi received ls from OSHA. They came into our tice sou conservation. We need to know more tion). plant on Thursday, March 1, 1979 and started about how to conserve our soil and water Heart Problems: 6 people (2 dead). testing on March 2, 1979. They are just test under the intensive cropping practices that High Blood Pressure: 6 people (present ing the air at the plant site. What we want are required to meet present economic sur ls NIOSHA into our plants. We feel that they vival levels in farming. Field research on condition). soil and water conservation must be and ts Lumps/Growths/Cysts: 9 people (present are much more equipped to handle the situ currently underway at several sites. This re condition). ation than OSHA is. search ls coordinated and directed by the Blood Disorders: 2 people (present condi We would also like to involve the Congres North Central Soil Conservation Research tion). sional Hearing to investigate these chemical Laboratory at Morris, Minnesota, with satel Sinus: 12 people (present condition). dump sites. There are many more of these lite locations at Westport, Minnesota, and Love Canal and Bloody Run situations Our employment ls around 50 to 60 peo Madison, South Dakota, in cooperation with around the country. I feel that some action our respective State Agricultural Experiment ple; it varies with business. The written sur and laws must be passed soon before we have veys have not yet been completed. They also stations. a. complete disaster in this country! Soll and water research ls our major in do not cover everybody that has worked there Yours truly, or retired in the la.st eight (8) years. Our terest but by itself ls no longer sumcient. statistics would be much higher if a.11 were DENNIS VIRTUOSO, We also need to increase our opportupity for President, Local 12256 multidisciplinary research efforts that lead included. Unfted Steel Workers of Amerlca.e At National Lead Industries, there are pres to a better understanding of our whole crop ently 128 employees. We ha.Ye received 64 production system and the factors that limit health surveys a.s of this date. The results it, particularly major soil pests such a.s the were as follows: corn rootworm, if we are to develop farming IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC systems that effectively maintain our pro Cancer: 14 people (3 dead). RESEARCH duction, while at the same time conserve Breathing a.nd Respiratory (Bronchitis): our soil, water, energy, and protect the en 18 people (present condition). vironment. A multidiclpllnary approach has Sinus: 29 people (present condition). HON. THOMAS A. DASCHLE been started on our farm by the Morris lab Skin Rashes: 28 people (present con OF SOUTH DAKOTA oratory and the Northern Grain Insects Re dition). IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES search Laboratory at Brookings, South Dako ka. The object of the present research ls to Hee.rt Atta.ck: 3 people (present con Thursday, April 5, 1979 better understand the relationship between dition). the soil, the plant, and soil pests. However, High Blood Pressure: 12 people (present • Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. Speaker, recently the FY 80 budget threatens the longevity of condition). Roland Leonhardt and Richard Fossum, this research. Cysts: 13 people (present condition). farmers from South Dakota and mem We a.re very concerned by the decllne we Eye Irritations: 16 people (present con bers of the board of directors of the East see in support for Agricultural Research in dition). ern South Dakota Soil and Water Re the proposed FY 80 budget. The budget as Tense (hyper): 15 people (present con- search Farms, Inc., testified before the proposed would intensify the continued dition). House Appropriations Subcommittee on erosion of talented, expert scientific per Agriculture and Related Agencies. Their sonnel from our research staffs. If t hese sug Bladder: 5 people (present condition). gestions are adopted, South Dakota. will lose Prostate: 2 people (present condition). testimony in support of continued fund $172,000 and Morris, Minnesot a, wUl lose As you can see, we have had our problems. ing of a 100-acre agricultural research $173,193 and more importantly six people. Many more of these illnesses do exist, such farm in South Dakota correctly points Lack of an increase in funding threatens to as, headaches, no energy a.nd people who out the critical importance to our coun dismiss these persons. A cut in funding and want to sleep a lot. try and the world of scientific research, personnel position does dismiss them and Many of these 1llnesses are common and such as is carried out at the Eastern dismantles the equipment they work with many could be caused by toxic chemicals. South Dakota Soil and Water Research and even threaten to close the laboratories As you can see, there are a large number of Farm, of our entire food production sys and research farms where they work. The all these lllnesses and the percentage of em tem. Mr. Speaker, I place the testimony major area. of our grave concern ls the ployees involved greatly influences our con threatened loss of talented, expert scientific of Roland Leonhardt and Richard Fos personnel. Recent past history of pest out cern in wanting to investigate its cause. The sum into the RECORD: percentages on these health problems are breaks have severely affected our crop· and much too high for the number of people we STATEMENT OF THE EASTERN SoUTH DAKOTA livestock production. These outbreaks have a.re talking about. SoIL AND WATER CONSERVATION RESEARCH been reduced and stopped before they be CORPORATION came a national catastrophe, but only be Most of our union members have been We are Roland Leonhardt and Richard cause we had research scientists at hand very concerned. We feel something should and working who had the talent to recognize be done to resolve these problems. Fossum, farmers in Kingsbury and Lincoln Counties of South Dakota. Today, we a.re the outbreaks and the techniques to quickly We tried on two occasions to set up a meet representing over Va of the people in South develop control methods. How quickly ing which Dr. Vienna. who is with the New Dakota through our positions on the Board Psuedo Rabies in our hogs was isolated, and York State Health Department. Both times of Directors of the Eastern South Dakota control methods developed. Would these were cancelled out. We contacted Dr. Vienna Soil and Water Research Farm, Inc. This 100 have been possible without the correct ex at the Love Canal Meeting on Thursday, acre farm was purchased in 1959 by 1'5 East pert personnel on our research staffs? February 8, 1979. We told him of our situa ern South Dakota Soil Conservation Districts All of us would llke to see infla. ti on checked tion and gave him Dr. Oliver's report. He said for the sole purpose of conducting agricul but if our agricultural research thrust ls that he would meet and talk with us at the tural research pertinent to our part of the diminished regardless of the merits of the WNYCOSH Meeting in Buffalo, New York. country. We believe, research ls essential if cause it wm seriously impair our future pro I went to the WNYCOSH Meeting in Buf we a.re to maintain or increase our present duction potential and the portion of the falo a.nd saw Dr. Vienna. He told me that he production levels and emciency. You have American budget used for food and fiber will read Dr. Oliver's report and would recom recognized the need for increased Agricul increase. We encourage the Congress not to mend her suggestions for testing the employ tural Research iDi the Food and Agriculture trade the long term needs of our people for ees to Dr. Axelrod. The only answer that we Act of 1977 where you stated: short term benefits. It is in this spirit that got was that it was the Federal Government's "Expanded agricultural research and ex we urge the Congress to restore the pro responsibllity. We felt that we were getting tension are needed to meet the rising demand posed funding and personnel cuts and to re the run arounc!. so we contacted Senator John for food and fiber caused by increases in verse the current downward trends of sup Daly. He arranged to meet with Dr. Axelrod worldwide population and food shortages due port !or the Science and Education Admin- and Dr. Vienna, and it was decided to ask to short-term, localized, and adverse climatic -1. stration-Agricultural Research particularly the Federal Government for help. conditions." in the North Central Region where we pro- 7596 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 5, 1979 duce 84 percent of the corn, 68 percent Principal and interest Principal and interest of the soybeans, and 44 percent of the to due and unpai d due and unpaid tal cash receipts from farming in the U.S. Country: 90 clays or more Country: 90 days or more but receive under 20 percent of the fund Bolivia ------$364, 823 Nigeria ------$342, 110 ing for soil and water conservation and Brazil ------297. 114 Norway ------42, 381 crop production research in spite of the British Solomon Is______2. 392 Oman ------142,906 fact that soil erosion from agricultural land British Virgin Is______31, 877 Pakistan ------5, 116 remains the major threat to our continued Bulgaria ------7, 773 Panama------8,705,766 productivity and our water quality. Burundi ------2. 102 Paraguay------412,792 We a.re here today as active operative Cameroon ------3,727 Peru------2,117,190 farmers who have spent our lives farming. Canada.------1,155,188 Ph111ppines ------47. 856, 926 we see a grave crisis in our food production Cape Verde Is------11 Pitcairn Is------1, 974 system, if cuts ln our research funding are Cayman Is. (U.K.)- (Carib- Poland------20,994 carried out as threatened ln the proposed bean Reg.)------149,706 Portugal ------190,421 FY 80 budget. We appreciate your consid Central Af.rica.n Empire ____ _ 379,334 Portuguese Timar (now eration of our requests in the pa.st. We be 1 Indonesia.) ------201 lleve strongly ln the benefits of agricultural Chad ------ 21,609 Chile ------Qatar ------1,286 research and a.re grateful to have this op China., Peoples Rep. of Rhodesia ------43,579 portunity to express our views to you. Thank (Mainl.) ------603, 767 Romania. ------14,495 you very much.e China. Rep. of (Taiwan)--- 109. 203, 087 Rwanda. ------462 Colombia. ------11, 777, 099 Sa.int Helen&------ 565 Cook IS------2,679 Sa.int Lucla------3,697 MILLIONS IN PAST DUE DEBTS Costa Rica. (Cocos, Kesllng Sa.int Vincent ______44,880 OWED TO UNITED STATES Is.) ------ 629,108 Saudi Ara.bia------ 611, 429 Cuba ------ 2,827.867 76,883 7,372 Singa.pore ------ Cyprus ------Sonia.Ila. ------1,948,323 HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG Czechoslovakia ------7,886,072 South Africa ______445 Denmark ------ 623,160 South-West Africa. ______1,808 01' FLORmA 1,333 DominicanDominica ------Rep ______Spain ------1, 511. 768 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 666,351 Sudan ______.: ______128,496 Ecuador ------611, 172 Thursday, April 5, 1979 Egypt, Arab Rep. of______Suriname ------ 2,663 73.661 518 • Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, 115,530 Swaziland ------El Salvador------ Sweden ------70.735 as the ranking minority member of the Ethiopia ------ 40,633,777 415,857 72,062 Switzerland ------Appropriations Subcommittee on For Finland ------Syria ------384,651 eign Operations, I have become increas France ------494,715 5 French Guiana______354 Tanzania ------ ingly concerned over the increasing size Thailand ------20,024,764 French Polynesia------16,373 1,647 of the debt owed to the United States by 16,298 Togo ------ other nations and especially the situa Cla.bon ------ Tonga ------1,773 Cla.mbia. ------8,900 Trinidad and Tobago ______50,534 tion of those who are delinquent in their Germany, Fed. Rep. of 6, 131 repayment. 1,859,020 Tunisia ------(Bonn) ------ Turkey ------94,746,301 As of September 30, 1978, the U.S. Germany, Sov. (I>em. Rep. Turks and Caicos Is ______13,453 ls of E.)------ 37,554 1,566 Government owed a total of $41,938,- 19,105 Tuvalu ------379, 733 from all countries and official Ghana ------Union of Soviet Socialist Gibraltar ------ 751 212,291 organizations. However, what I am Gilbert Islands------480 Reps ------troubled by is the fact that delinquent United Arab Emirates ______16,108 Greece ------18,859,279 United Kingdom ______4,413,163 payments of 90 days or more total $523,- Guadeloupe ------5,945 Upper Volta. ______402,761 586 647,177. It is time for the U.S. Govern Guatemala ------239,243 ment to make every possible effort to col Guinea ------ 2,758,975 Uruguay ------ 638,577 Vatican CitY------45,933 lect this money. Haiti ------Viet-Na.m N. Dem. Rep. of __ _ 221, 311 Honduras ------ 54,352 Those who bear the cost for failure to Hong Kong (U.K.)------643,967 Viet-Nam Rep. of (Sa.igon)-- 11,829, 185 Western Samoa. ______4,823 collect overdue debts are the American Icela.nd ------11, 306 taxpayers. While delinquent debts 5, 126,438 Yemen Arab Rep. (Aden)--- 428 India. ------24,877 increase, the real value of that money is Indonesia ------41,318 Yugoslavia. ------ 36, '732, 631 Zaire (Congo-Kinshas) ---- 37,618,467 decreasing, and it ls the American tax Iran ------ East African Common Serv- payer who again makes up the difference, Iraq ------ 2,683 lces Org ______Ireland ------397,900 67 At a time when the United States is fac 568 European Atomic Energy ing a severe budgetary and balance-of Israel ------ 18,764 Italy ------1,409,058 Comm ------payments problem of its own, it is ludi Jamaica. ------241,345 Intl. Atomic Energy Agency_ 17.665 crous not to insist that nations owing us 933,009 NATO ------1,548 Japan ------ United Nations ______6,438,995 longstanding debts begin to make regular Jordan ------6,851 payments and to honor the terms of Kampuchea. (Khmer Repub- their contracts made 1n good faith. lic) ------12,339,897 • Kenya ------1,108,842 The following is a table showing Korea. (Dem. Peoples Rep. THE HONORABLE SAM FRIEDEL country by country, the principal, and of) ------155 interest due to the United States that is Korea., Rep. of (Seoul)------646,929 past due 90 days or more as of Septem Kuwait ------ 35,325 4,594 HON. FRANK HORTON ber 30, 1978. Laos ------ OF NEW YORK The table fallows: Lebanon ------ 157.266 Lesotho ------339 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Pr!nc!pal and interest 224,961 due and unpaid Liberia. ------Tuesday, April 3, 1979 Libya ------145,312 Country: 90 days or more Luxembourg ------ 15,353 e Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, I join my Tota.I, a.11 countries and Macao (Portug.)------ 11, 701 colleague, Congressman CLARENCE LoNG, official organizations __ $523,647, 177 Madagascar (Malagasy Rep.) 584 in commemorating the life of our former Algeria ------1,681 Malaysia. ------ 56,120 100,027 1,669 colleague, Samuel Friedel. His former Angola. ------ Maldive Is------colleagues and friends were informed of Anguilla ------568 Malta ------3,031 Antigua. ------449,234 Martinique (Fr.)------2,7Q.9 his death on March 21. Aa-gentina ------33.684 Mexico ------345,205 Sam served nine terms in the House of Australia. ------ 364,126 Morocco ------14,886,758 Representatives from 1953 to 1971 as the Austria ------ 135, 182 Nauru ------_ 1,027 Congressman from Maryland's Seventh Bahamas ------ 60,677 Netherlands ------246,656 Belgium ------ 112, 839 New Caledonia ______213 District. During his 18 years of service, Bellze (Br. Honduras)------22, 911 New Hebrides ______109 he became well known among his col New Zealand ______Benin ------7,257 101,391 leagues for his close ties to the people Bermuda. ------18.648 Nicaragua ------56,321 of his district. He may best be remem- April 5, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7597 bered for his strong advocacy of civil One is currently residing in West Germany Agreement is reached through the classic rights and the war on poverty during where his father is in the U.S. mmtary serv triad of persuasion: the appeal to self-inter the 1960's. I recall the many floor ice. est; negotiation: the exploration of all the My conclusion at the present time is that possible quid pro quos; and compromise, speeches Sam delivered which were al there must be some extrinsic cause for these compromise, compromise: the slow, step-by ways characterized by a deep commit children's problems and that cause could step descent of the negotiators from their ment to the improvement of life for all perhaps be the chemicals coming from the optimum goals to the minimum they will Americans. Bloody Run Creek chemical dump site. "settle for." During his years of service, Sam served The game model of all negotiations is poker. as chairman of the House Administra GRAND ISLAND, N.Y., An excellent and witty little book on this tion Committee from 1968 to 1971 and as October 6, 1978. subject was written some twenty years ago Re Armagost family, 477 Belvedere Avenue, and appeared in Fortune Magazine. A highly second ranking minority member on Niagara Falls, N.Y. entertaining application of Professor von the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Dr. FRANCIS J. CLIFFORD, Neumann's "Theory of Games," it was called, Committee. As one of the senior members Commissioner, Health Department, Niagara Politics. Business, War, and Poker. of that committee, Sam was also chair County, Lockport, N.Y. The game of poker depends on the art of man of the Subcommittee on Transpor DEAR DR. CLIFFORD: It has come to my bluffing. The player who never bluffs is a sure tation and Aeronautics. attention that the creek known as Bloody loser. So is the habitual bluffer. The winner I join with my colleagues in extend Run traverses thru the property of the Fred is the "honest bluffer"-the player who .Armagost family living at 477 Belvedere may--or may not-be bluffing when the ing sympathy to his widow Regina, and Avenue, Niagara Falls, New York 14302. Mr. stakes are highest. his sister Gertrude Justman in their Armagost, his son, Wayne, age 24, Wayne's I remember I gave Professor van Neumann's loss.• wife, Barbara, and four of his grandchildren book to Jack Kennedy during his presidential all live on this property and all have severe campaign. He told me later, after the Cuban upper respiratory problems. Each of his missile crisis, that the book was right. "The CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY BY grandchildren has had problems since re nuclear showdown," he said, was an "utterly DR. JAMES A. DUNLOP OF NIAGARA turning home from the newborn nursery fol terrifying game of poker." Kennedy thought, FALLS lowing birth. of course, he had won it, but Khrushchev, in As you know, Hooker Chemical has re his memoirs published much later, said that cently admitted to dumping Mirex into the the acquisition of Cuba as a political and po HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE Bloody Run Creek. In addition, Hooker has tential Soviet base was a prime strategic ob OF NEW YORK been dumping various chloride compounds jective of Soviet policy. And he insisted that in the creek; these latter chemicals are even though he knew that Kennedy held the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES known to be hlghly toxic to the respiratory winning hand of nuclear aces, he, Khrush Thursday, April 5, 1979 tract. chev, nevertheless had won, because he had All of the Armagosts have been evaluated bluffed Kennedy permanently out of Cuba. • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, on March by myself and Dr. Dyung Park, Professor of Khrushchev also learned, from the naval 21 several of my constituents came to Pediatrics and Immunology at Buffalo Chil blockade and the nuclear showdown, the Washington to share with Congress the dren's Hospital, and we together cannot ex strategic value of nuclear and naval superi problems they have had to confront as a plain the high incidence of respiratory dis ority. result of hazardous wastes having been ease in this family on any other than ex In any event, the aim of all sound nego improperly handled and buried in the trinsic causes. tiators is to remove as much as possible I have discussed the situation with Dr. the factor of "bluff"-honest or dishonest past, and which are now having a perni Laverne Campbell of the State Health De from the game. For example, Company A's cious effect on their health and well partment and Dr. Campbell feels that the negotiators, considering a purchase or merger being. situation should be handled initially by the with Company B, wm, unless they are Dr. James Dunlap, a pediatrician in the Niagara County Health Department. morons, insist on seeing as many of Com Niagara Falls area, told about the tragic Where do we go from here? I'll look for pany B's cards as possible. They will de effects chemicals leaching from aban ward to hearing from you regarding this mat mand, so to speak, on-the-site inspection of doned landfill in the town of Niagara ter in the near future. Company B. A smart negotiator can't know have had on children in the area. I would Sincerely, too much about the other fellow's business. JAMES A. DuNLOP, M.D .• Or about the other fellow. Company A's like to share his testimony with you. It negotiators will want to know such things, follows: for example, as the private reasons why the STATEMENT OF DR. JAMES A. DUNLOP, BASICS OF NEGOTIATION president of highly profitable Company B MARCH 21, 1979 was willing to negotiate in the first place. I am James A. Dunlop. I am a. Board quali Many a good deal has turned out to be a fied university-trained pediatrician who has HON. JAMES ABDNOR sour one because of a negotiator's failure to been in private practice for six years. I am dig up the unfactored factors. also Medical Director of School Health Serv OF SOUTH DAKOTA Time, and timing, are important factors in ices for the Niagara Falls Board of Education IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES negotiations. The negotiator who is in a and have been invloved with the Love Canal Thursday, April 5, 1979 hurry, or in under pressure to conclude a situation in this capacity. deal, never does as well as the patient, un I currently have under my care eight chil e Mr. ABDNOR. Mr. Speaker, I wish to hurried negotiator. dren residing near the Bloody Run Creek commend to the attention of my col But once an agreement is reached between dump site in Niagara Falls. Six of these leagues an article appearing in the April citizens in democracies and when the legal children are the grandchildren of Fred and 1979 edition of Air Force magazine. The papers are drawn up, and the fine print is Barbara Armagost residing at 477 Belvedere scrutinized, the agreement, for good or m, Road in Niagara Falls. The two other children author, the Honorable Clare Boothe Luce, is binding on both parties. That ls, it is are the offspring of Mrs. Betty Tuttle who is a for mer member of this body and upheld by the law, and cannot be broken resides at 483 Sherman Avenue in the same served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy from with impunity by either signator. neighborhood. 1953-57. Diplomatic negotiations are something Most of these children have be•n under my Her comments merit serious considera else. The classic triad of diplomacy is still care since birth. All of these children de tion by all of us. persuasion, negotiation, and compromise. veloped serious upper respiratory ailments The article follows: But in the jungle world of the sovereign within the first few months of life and these [From Air Force magazine, April 1979] nations, there is no law above or behind the problems have continued t111 the present diplomatic negotiators except the law of time. How TO DEAL WITH THE RUSSIANS-THE force. The threat of force, the nation's triad The eldest of these children will be five in BASICS OF NEGOTIATION of land, sea, and airpower, stands in the August and the youngest is currently 9 (By Hon. Clare Boothe Luce) shadowy background of all diplomatic nego months old. Extensive medical studies have The principles and techniques of the art tiations. The very essence of sovereignty is been performed on these children to rule of negotiation are not arcane. They are uni the right to exercise force in the pursuit of out cystic fibrosis, immune deficiency dis versal. Any successful labor union negotiator, its objectives. ease and allergy and to date, nothing intrin corporation lawyer, or real-estate broker The nation with predominant power, and sic has been found to explain why these could set them forth in a few pages. the willin~ness to use it, seldom has much children have such profound respiratory The objective of any negotiator is to reach trouble reaching satisfactory agreements problems. an agreement that represents a gain. or an with its less-powerful world neighbors. Jn Four other Armagost grandchildren who do improvement, over his prenegotiation status. the nineteenth century, British diplomats not live at the Belvedere Road address do Obviously, no agreement can be reached un received many kudos for their subtle nego not have any significant respiratory prob less it also represents a gain for the other tiating skills, which really belonged to Her lems. Two of these children are my patients. party. Imperial Majesty's admirals. CXXV----478-Part 6 7598 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 5, 1979 Twenty-five hundred years ago, lit tle tation before PFIAB (the President's Foreign stuck, or cease to be safely symmetrical, the Sparta, informed of a Greek plan to at tack Intelllgence Advisory Board) between the nuclear, and strategic, status quo could al it, sent envoys to Athens, pointing out the "A" and "B'' teams. Arguing from the same ways be restored by another and still another injustice of such an a ~ tack , and pleading known facts, they reached widely different SALT negotiation. And this "peace" would for peaceful negotiativns. The Athenians conclusions about the Soviet intentions and become the be a my, brlgh t-eyed child of a cynically replied that "the question of jus ca.pabllities. Obviously, this was because of MAD mother. These autistic hopes have al tice and negotiations only a.rises between their different a priori estimates of Soviet ways seemed to me doomed from the begin equals." objectives. It was not what the experts know, ning. Negotiations between nations who perceive but what none of them really knows, that Nature abhors, even as much as she does a themselves to be more or less equal in power led to this confrontation. These same un vacuum, both the status quo and equality. are always long and drawn out, and the factored factors have produced ten years of The only t hing that does not change in na gains for either side a.re minimal. And where dangerously off-the-mark NIEs (National In ture, or the affairs of mankind, is change negotiations begin to cut close to the bone telllgence Estimates). itself. Even the great continents and the of "vital issues," they are always fraught What Soviet negotiators tell US negotia mighty mountains, seemingly fixed on the with great tensions. As these approach the tors a.bout anything of more than trivial sig floor of the planet, are constantly changing crisis, or confrontation stage, both sides may nificance ma.y--or may not-be true. The their shape, size, and position. All history equally fear, and equally wish to avoid, the point is, it cannot be verified. Signal intelli evidences that the shape, size, and status of arbitrament of arms, since wars between gence is, indeed, a formidable tool. But, of nations change considerably faster. equals are always the riskiest and the blood course, it has its limitations. The !act is that "Equality" ls a mathematical concept. No iest and the most likely. But it is precisely our human intelligence, our espionage, has two things in nature, or in human affairs, here that the "honest bluffer," the nation failed to pentrate even the lower echelons are ever more than approximately "equal," with the greater military credibllity, has the of the Soviet bureaucracy-much less the and then only for a fleet ing second. Even as advantage. Generally, even the veiled threat Kremlin. The only secret that the OlA has between two scorpions in a bottle, one will of a nation with mllitary credlbllity to re been able to conceal successfully-from the have a longer sting than another, and grow sort to force is sufficient to bring the other White House, the Congress, and the country wearier of life in the bottle faster. When side's negotiators around to offering an ac is the extent of this failure. What cannot be "Greek meets Greek," even though they seem ceptable compromise. concealed are the effects of this failure on our equal, when the tug of war begins, one al One other point a.bout international ne Soviet policies. They are tragically ambiva ways proves, in the end, to be "a little more gotiations ls worth mentioning. All treaties lent, ambiguous, vacillating, contradictory, equal" than the other. The "correlation of are essentially "scraps of pa.per." It takes confused. Our Soviet estimates are at best in forces" is never equal. two to sign an agreement but only one to formed guesstimates. Beyond that, our nego The ancient Greeks chose the arrow as the break it. The only judge a !'overelgn nation tiating posture is further weakened by the symbol of the state, to remind themselves can be hauled in front of is the mouth of !act that US mllitary credibllity is at a his that a nation, in its dynamic trajectory the cannon. When an agreement no longer toric all-time low. through time and space, is always either ris serves a nation's interest, that nation will Today, President Carter couldn't blutr ing or falllng, and hitting or missing its generally break it, since there is no way, Castro out of his afternoon siesta, much less target. short of war, that it can be made to keep out of Africa. The known unwillingness of With every hour of every passing day, the it, and, when the chips go down, very few t he people and the Congress to back up dip "nuclear balance," and the correlation of treaties are worth the price of a war. The lomatic negotiations or Presidential rhetoric forces, is either changing in favor of the Soviet Union's record for breaking its agree anywhere in the world, even with a seven U.S.-or against it. Today, against our very ments and treaties, and often before the veiled threat of force, subtracts the !actor of will-or the wlll of the Soviets-dozens of ink ls dry, is virtually unblemished. even covert coercion from the US negotiating factors, including technology, driven by the In any event, such is the mortality rate process, not only vis-a-vis the USSR but with demon computers, are changing it. Our la.ck of treaties that a wise diplomatic negotiator all other countries. In these circumstances, of an energy policy ls changing it. And unless will never sacrifice an immediate gain-how we must be prepared to see our diplomatic we can shoot all fissionable material, and the ever small-for a. future advantage, how negotiations and initiatives fail, as they have secrets of using it, back into sidereal space, ever great. One very small bird in the na so tragically tailed in the Middle East-and the "nuclear balance" wlll go on changing. tion's hand is worth ten big ones in the wm fail in Africa. Or we must be prepared to Curiously enough, even the SALT idea.l int ernational bushes. ists-when they bother to think hard about conclude our negotiations by making the it-find the prospect of a perpetual balance NEGOTIATING WITH THE RUSSIANS sorts of compromises and concessions that of terror maintained by nuclear equality About negotiating with the Soviet Union: have come to be called appeasement. All the both irrational and a little repulsive. Their negotiating techniques are no different skills of even the most experienced nego But the SALT concept is rooted in three than ours-or any other nation's. The differ tiators, as Henry Kissinger has learned, can great cont emporary American illusions: That ence in our national characters are of very not offset the disadvantages of negotiating armaments are the cause of war; that all in little importance. So what does it matter with a powerful enemy who can chest all his ternational conflicts of interests can be re that our negotiators prefer the two-martini cards, and who knows not only all the cards solved by "patient negotiation"; and that lunch, while theirs prefer the ten-vodka you hold, but that you are being forced, by the Tree of Liberty is watered, not by blood, dinner. What is important-all important public opinion, to discard your aces. And but by moral rhetoric. All three illusions ls t he difference between our two systems. that, I venture to suggest, ls where it ls at, in were expressed by President Carter in his The Soviet Union is a closed and-at the our great game of poker wt th the Soviet speech at Not re Dame last year. government level-hermetically sealed so Union. AMERICAN ILLUSIONS So, grabbing for their crystal balls, the ciet y. All Soviet political, economic, scienti SALT idealists see SALT III, IV, or mayhap fic, mllitary intentions and capabllities of The current case of SALT II illustrates an v, leading to a US-USSR agreement to "do even the smallest significance are closely important point. From the beginning, SALT has been to me a.way altogether" not only with all nuclear a.nd successfully-guarded secrets. weapons, but all conventional weapons as Take, for example, what the Soviets call a totally incomprehensible exercise in Amer well. That is, over and beyond "adequate" the "correlation of forces." ican statecraft. Why would any nation, possessing superi national frontier police forces. This was the By this they mean the relative economic, dream President Carter presented in his In political, mmtary, ideological, and psycho ority in a decisive weapon system, voluntarily logical strengths of our two countries. Ours negot iate itself into a position of equality auguration address. is an open, not to say, wide-open-mouthed with an avowed enemy of a quarter of a I fear it will require some very painful and society. They know all our strengths and century? humiliating events to awaken the SALT de weaknesses, and, mutatis mutandis, our in Obviously, this extraordinary, perhaps his votees from their dream of it as the way to tentions, capablUties, and obj~tives . A de torically unique, diplomatic and mllitary world disarmament. I! they cannot be awak mocracy, we play our negotiating games with init iative had to be based on some rationale. ened. the dream will turn into the nightmare all our cards face up on the table. Only the It was probably based on the George Kennan of World War III. Soviets know their own strengths and weak assumption that Soviet hostility, and its But a concluding thought a.bout the SALT nesses, their own intentions and objectives. military buildup, was a natural nationalistic negotiations: They know, and we do not know, the real reaction to our own hostile cold war global How great, really, is our own devotion to score on the "correlation of forces." containment policies; that the Soviets, like the SALT concept of strategic equality? The element of Soviet bluff in our nego ourselves, were essentially defense, and not tiating games simply cannot be estimated, offense, minded; that they feared nuclear war Assuming that US advances in particle because all t heir cards are held close to the as much as ourselves; that they believed lt beam weapon technology would represent a chest . Wherefore, our negotiators play the just as unthinkable, and unwinnable, as we significant increase in our defense-and con game under a most serious handicap. did; and that, therefore, they would be satis sequently, our offense capabilities-are we Now the proof that our government does fied with nuclear parity and an arms-control now prepared-are the Pentagon and the not know the "correlation or forces" is the arrangement that would guarantee their Congress prepared-either to share that intense cont roversy about 1 ~ among our polit security by a perpetual nuclear standoff. technology with the Soviets, or to abandon ical, m111tary , and foreign pollcy "experts." It was no doubt further reasoned that even it, as we did the B-1 bomber? If not, the I shall never forget the dramatic confron- if this nifty arrangement should come un- Soviets certainly can, and with good reason, April 5, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7599 claim that our refusal to do so is totally In Some people don't even realize it's in Mon THE INFANT FORMULA consistent with our present SALT and de roe County, said David Hale, an English CONTROVERSY tente policies. professor at the State University College at In conclusion, my advice to US SALT nego Brockport, who has complied an historical tiators, when in Moscow, ls to enjoy the pamphlet about the vlllage. HON. RONALD V. DELLUMS ballet and the museums, and lay off the "I have friends in Brighton and Pittsford OF CALIFORNIA vodka, which tends to deposit a peculiarly who think anything west of the Genesee high level 01' fat in the liver. I would also River is a suburb of Buffalo," Hale said. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES counsel them to enjoy their historic nego That's short shrift, considering Brockport Thursday, April 5, 1979 tiating contributions to SALT II. since the once was the wealthiest and second largest way things are going in this best of an pos village in the county. •Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, many of sible words, the chances of a SALT III are The village's history began in the fall of my colleagues have lately been receiving about on a par with the chances 01' Ruth 1882, when a Connecticut Yankee named mail from their constituents concerning Carter Stapleton converting Idi Amin.e Riel Brockway decided to "make a buck" in the promotion and marketing of infant upstate New York, Hale said. He and some formula in developing countries, where friends bought some land, put up houses and use of infant formula has shown to re BROCKPORT, N.Y.: AN ALL stores and named the settlement Brockport. sult in widespread malnutrition, disease, AMERICAN VILLAGE They got a boost a year later when the Barge Canal was opened in the v1llage. By and death among infants whose parents 1829, 685 people had moved there, and the live in poverty. Since not many of us HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE village of Brockport was incorporated. Only are familiar with the roots of this con OF NEW YORK one other vlllage in the county, Rochester, troversy and some of its recent develop was incorporated then. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments, I am here providing a chronology The rough-and-tumble v1llage, site of one of the issue in the hopes that familiarity Thursday, April 5, 1979 of seven canal toll stations, became known will breed contempt of the unethical as "Little Hell." • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, on my promotion practices that lead to this Grain, !rutt and vegetable farmers soon es tragedy: frequent trips home to the 36th Con tablished the community as a major agricul gressional District in New York, one of CHRONOLOGY-THE INFANT FORMULA tural market point. They brought their prod CONTROVERSY the places which I always enjoy visiting uce there to be transported to mills and is the village of Brockport in Monroe markets in Rochester. DANGERS OF BOTTLE FEEDING IN THE THIRD County. This village represents the best In 1845, Brockport's big business began: WORLD BECOME KNOWN in the American way of life through its the manufacturing of harvesters and reap The early 1970's peaceful lifestyles, its ability to come ers. Congressman Elias B. Holmes introduced A few voices (primarily in professional back from attacks on its economy, and its Cyrus McCormick to Brockport to bulld reap journals and at medical congresses) warn blending of the commercial and educa ers, which led to the establishment of the against the advance of the bottle and the Johnston Harvester Company and D.S. Mor danger of advertising campaigns by milk tional industries. Through its history, gan Company. Those companies made Brock firms in the Third World. Brockport has staunchly maintained its port, now about 4,000 strong, "one of the In a widely discussed article entitled Com independence and individual identity. wealthiest and most popular communities in merciogenic Malnutrition?, Dr. Derrick B. Though this community is often the the county, outside of Rochester," Hale said. JellUie, a well-known expert on infant nutri forgotten child in Monroe County, being After the Civll War, Brockport flourished. tion, denounces the promotional activities o! overwhelmed by the size and prosperity Wealthy businessmen built palatial stone the baby formula companies and invites of the city of Rochester, it is to me the homes along Main Street between the canal them to "dialogue." The aim is voluntary ideal of a small educational community and the railroad tracks. Still maintained, restriction of their activities. which has preserved the values on which they give Brockport a bygone-era atmos EXPERTS INCREASE CRITICISM, COMPANIES this Nation was founded, and which phere, despite the heavy influence of the INCREASE PROMOTION demonstrates that those values can lead college. The mld-1970's to prosperity and comfortable growth. Its halycon days were short-lived, however. This "dialogue" drags on for several years Now, as the village of Brockport pre A fire in the 1880s destroyed the Johnston and leads mainly to unfulfilled declarations Harvester Co., the biggest factory in town. of intent on the part of the milk companies. pares to celebrate its 150th birthday, its It was rebuilt in Batavia, and took with it residents can be justly proud of the rich At the same time, they considerably increase hundreds of employees. The v1llage suffered their promotional activities. and fascinating history, and can look a second blow when the Morgan company forward to more of the same, using the went out o! business a few years later. Simultaneously, criticism within profes sional circles increases; it is reflected by a time-honored traditions and institutions By 1920, only 2,000 people lived in Brock flood of publication whose tone grows sharper to live fully in the present. I salute port. It didn't begin to grow again until and sharper. Brockport on this historic occasion, and after World War II. General Electric located look forward to celebrating with them a housewares division in the vlllage in 1949, U.N. AGENCY WARNS AGAINST PROMOTION OF and the Owens-Illinois bottle plant moved INFANT FORMULA FOR "VULNERABLE GROUPS" throughout this year. July 18, 1972 I insert for the RECORD at this point, there in 1961. an article from the March 22, 1979, issue The college, on the western edge of the vil The Protein Calorie Group (PAG) o! the lage, also flourished in the 1960s. What had United Nations issues a statement (No. 23) of the Rochester Times-Union, detailing been a prep school, a state normal school and that emphasizes "the critical importance of the history of this proud village: a teachers college was turned into a liberal breast feeding under the socio-cultural and [From the Rochester Times-Union, Mar. 22, arts college. economic conditions that prevail in many 1979) The influx of teachers, students and other developing countries." BRITISH GROUP PUBLISHES SHOCKING REPORT BROCKPORT PREPARING FOR ITS 150TH employees made the village the fastest grow BIRTHDAY ing area in the state from 1970 to 1973, with February 1974 (By Lynda Smith) about 12,000 residents, according to the U.S. The Baby Killer, a report on infant mal Census Bureau. In 1975, almost 12,000 stu nutrition and promotion of artificial feeding Brockport wlll have its cake and eat it, too. dents were enrolled at the college. Now, the practices in the Third World, ls released That's only appropriate !or a vlllage that village's population ls about 10,000 and the by War on Want. has weathered well in the past 150 years. college's enrollment ls 9,800. WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY TAKES ACTION On April 6, village officials wlll kick off the '!'he extra tax burden the college stud en ts 150th anniversary celebration by handing out brought because of increased fire protection May 23, 1974 cake at the First Federal and Lincoln First and other services prompted talk o! a mer The Twenty-Seventh World Health As banks. The comfortable vlllage in northwest ger with the Town of Sweden in 1974. The sembly (WHO) passes resolutions strongly Monroe County, about 30 minutes from vUlage ultimately resisted, however, choos recommending the encouragement of breast downtown Rochester, has a lot to congratu ing instead to hold on to its identity. feeding as "the ideal feeding in order to late itself for. That was typical of the village, Hale said. promote harmonious physical and mental It survived a rough canal-town beginning, development of children." WHO calls for a roller-coaster population pattern, an at Its long continuity of institutions, such as countries to "review sales and promotion tempted merger with the Town of Sweden, the 147-year-old fire department and 100- activities on baby foods and to introduce a huge influx o! college students, and what year-old library, have helped give the vlllage ,appropriate remedial measures, including some say is an alienation from the rest o! the "a strong sense of pride in local identity," advertisement codes and legislation where county. Hale said.e necessary." 7600 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 5, 1979 NESTLE SUES "Code" is so vague and meaningless that it is formula companies and calling upon A.I.D. June 1974 disputed even within the baby !oods indus- to develop a nutrition education component try. Abbott and Bristol-Myers, two o! the in relation to breast-feeding. In Berne, Nestle brings penal charges largest formula marketers, refuse to join against the Third World Action Group for EXTENSIVE EVIDENCE OF FORMULA ABUSE ICIFI. Two months later, the PAG releases an PRESENTED IN THE SISTERS' LAWSUIT defamation. internal document highly critical o! ICIFI's CONSUMERS UNION SPONSORS INVESTIGATIVE "Code." October 1976 STUDY CHURCH GROUPS REFILE PROXY RESOLUTION WITH The Sisters of the Precious Blood submit massh·e documentation in the U.S. Federal September 1974 BRISTOL-MYERS ASKING FOR CORRECTION OF ''MISSTATEMENTS" District Court, documenting their charge A study funded by the Consumers Union that Bristol-Myers lied in its proxy state provides further evidence on the dangers o! December 1975 ment to shareholders. The company claims, breastmilk substitutes. The report called ICCR member groups file a 1976 resolution for example, that it did not sell where there "Formula for Malnutrition," is published in with Bristol-Myers which requests the correc was "chronic poverty." Affidavits from more Robert J. Ledogar's Hungry for Profit. tion o! the Company's August 1975 report. than 15 Third World countries prove that U.S. CHURCH GROUPS BEGIN TO ACT AGAINST The resolution states: "Several doctors as Bristol-Myers formulas are readily available AMERICAN MULTINATIONALS PRODUCING well as lay spechlists have indicated that the to poor people from the barrios of Santo BREAST MILK SUBSTITUTES report distorted important facts concerning Domingo to the squatters' camps of Kuala. the sales and promotion of Bristol-Myers Lumpur. In Haiti, investigators !ound can Winter 1974 formulas." labels in English and Spanish despite the The Interfaith Center on Corporate Re GERMAN GROUP INITIATES INFANT FORMULA fact that literate mothers there read French sponsibllity (!CCR), the sponsor-related and Creole. movement o! the National Council o! CAMPAIGN January 1976 Affidavits from the Phllipplnes include Churches which analyzes the social perform charges that the company engages in un ances of major U.S. corporations, begins its The Action Group !or Social Economic ethical practices aimed at inducing doctors_ own investigation of infant formula abuse in Problems (ASOP) of Cologne, West Germany, and hospitals to use Bristol-Myers' products the Third World. In December, !CCR member begins a campaign against the formula. pro exclusively. A local company representative groups file shareholder resolutions with U.S. motion practices of Nestle'. In the months denies such practices. formula companies, requesting information that follow, the German Nestle' Company re on sales and promotional practices. peatedly harasses the efforts o! ASOP. STOCKHOLDERS FILE NEW RESOLUTIONS WITH U.S. MULTINATIONALS INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS ARE SYMPATHETIC TO SECOND HEARING IN NESTLE' CASE December 1976-January 1977 ACTION OF THE INTERFAITH CENTER ON COR• February 1976 PORATE RESPONSIBILITY MEMBERS Church-related stockholders submit new At the request of the Third World Action proxy resolutions to American companies. April 1975 Group, the British nutritionist Professor These resolutions call for specific changes of The Ford Foundation joins with other Derrick B. Jelliffe, gives evldenc~ lasting three practices, including the end to widespread flha.reholders in support of a. church-spon hours. free samples, the termination of nurses to sored resolution calling for a. report on sales BRISTOL-MYERS ISSUES PROXY STATEMENT distribute baby feeding products, and clear and promotional practices of Bristol-Myers. March 1976 warnings on cans. Dr. John Knowles, president o! the Rocke CITIZENS ACTION GROUP FORMED IN U.S. feller Foundation, writes to Mr. Gavin K. Church groups and other !CCR supporters MacBain, chairman o! Bristol-Myers, point are shocked to discover that Bristol-Myers INFACT (Infant Formula Action Coali ing out the hazards of infant formula use in claims, in its 1976 proxy statement, that it tion) is formed to begin a national cam less developed countries (LDC's). He states: has been "totally responsive to the concerns paign aimed at changing the practices of "It is a misconception to visualize the use of (o! !CCR members) in the 1975 and 1976 th& American companies and the Swiss giant, such preparations in LDC's as in any way resolutions." The company also claims "in Nestle'. comparable to the feeding of middle class fant formula products are neither intended, BORDEN VOLUNTARILY CURTAILS PROMOTION infants in this country." The letter concludes nor promoted for private purchase where February 1977 with a. request !or the "publication o! all chronic poverty or ignorance could lead to product misuse or harmful effects.'' Feeling After church groups file a resolution re relevant information to the outer limits per questing sales and promotion information, mitted by competitive consideration." sure this ls grossly inaccurate, the Sisters o! the Precious Blood, ICCR members and co Borden agrees to withdraw all promotion of BRISTOL-MYERS ISSUES A REPORT ON ITS filers of the 1976 resolution, seek legal KLIM milk to infants. Management instructs MARKETING PRACTICES counsel. over-seas operations to clear all KLIM adver tising with the home office. August 7, 1975 AFTER A WEEK OF INTENSE NEGOTIATIONS WHICH In response to increasing pressure, Bristol FAIL, THE SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD A SECOND COMPANY CHANGES ITS MARKETING Myers issues a 19-page report entitled, "The FILE LAWSUIT PRACTICES Infant Formula Marketing Practices o! Bris Aprll 14, 1976 March 1977 tol-Myers Company in Countries Outside the Abbott Laboratories agree to numerous United States." Bristol-Myers ls charged with making "mis statements" in its proxy, i.e. breaking a U.S. policy changes, as well as making seven re MEETING TO CHALLENGE THE ACCURACY OF THE Federal Law. The suit argues that the Com visions in their Code of Marketing Ethics. REPORT ISSUED BY BRISTOL-MYERS pany's allegedly false and misleading state The changes include the elimination o! nurses' uniforms being worn by company Winter 1975 ments were aimed at defeating the Sisters' proxy resolution. The suit calls for "a resollc saleswomen, and an end to the term Over 20 church representatives are joined ltation of proxy vote, free from the taint o! "Mothercraft Nurses." by staff members of the Rockefeller and Ford fraud." JUDGE DISMISSES BRISTOL-MYERS LAWSUIT Foundations in a. meeting with Bristol-Myers management. NESTLE' LAWSUIT SETTLED May 1977 Key sections o! their report a.re challenged; June 1976 U.S. District Court Judge Milton Pollack advertisements of En!amil and OLAC ln Ja Nestle' drops three of the four libel charges rules in favor of Bristol-Myers' request !or a maica and Barbados a.re presented to the on the day before the verdict is announced. dismissal of the suit. In dismissing it, the company representatives in response to the The judge then rules on the remaining charge judge declines to rule on the accuracy o! company's claim that they do no mass media regarding the title o! the Third World Action Bristol-Myers' proxy statement, saying the advertising. Group's booklet "Nestle' Kllls Babies," saying Sisters were not caused "irreparable harm" that since It cannot be shown that Nestle' di by the statement. The text of the decision FORMULA COMPANIES CREATE INTERNATIONAL rectly kills infants-the mother who prepares implies that since a shareholder resolution COUNCIL TO COUNTER INCREASINGLY BAD PUB· the formula. is a. third party intermedlary ls "preca.tory," 1.e., not binding on manage LICITY REGARDING THEm ACTIVITIES the title must be considered libelous. But the ment, it isn't relevant whether a company A number o! large baby milk companies, judge also says, "This verdict is no acquittal," fails to tell the truth in responding to a led by Nestle', !orm the International Coun serves the Action Group with minimal fines shareholder proposal. cil o! Infant Food Industries (ICIFI). ICIFI and calls on Nestle' to "fundamentally re SISTERS PLAN TO APPEAL THE JUDGE'S DECISION finally announces plans to implement the think" its advertising policies. The Group The Sisters o! the Precious Blood announce self-restrictions demanded by the U.N.'s Pro celebrates a. major victory. tein-Calorie Advisory Group (PAG). Two days their decision to appeal Pollack's dismissal before the Nestle' case opens, after five years THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS BEGINS of the lawsuit. They state that the ruling, o! delaying tactics, ICIFI proclaims the pub- LEGISLATIVE ACTION "does not address the merits o! the charges lication of a. "Code of Ethics" for formula August 2{), 1976 and makes a mockery o! Securities and Ex promotion. The code is released two days Twenty-nine members of Congress, led by change Commission laws requiring truth in after the Nestle' hearing ends, despite the Representative Michael Harrington of Mas corporate proxy statements." The Sisters ask fact that even membership in the Council sachusetts, co-sponsor a resolution calling other church and institutional investors to has not yet been settled. The text of the for an investigation of the United States join the appeal by filing Friend o! the Court April 5, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7601 briefs. The S.E.C. agrees to submit such a BRISTOL-MYERS LAWSUIT SETTLED OUT OF COURT mercial marketing practices were actually brief if the Sisters go ahead with the appeal. January 1978 contributing to infant malnutrition and MINNESOTA IN FACT CALLS FOR NESTLE BOYCOTT After several months of negotiations, Bris morbidity ... From this time forward, the July 4, 1977 tol-Myers agrees to send a. report to its sellers of infant formula must bear the bur den of proving that their products ... Believing that Nestle' has not responded stockholders which includes Third World evidence gathered by the Sisters of the actually serve a public purpose in the devel sufficiently to pressure from critics, the oping world. Minnesota chapter of INFACT initiates a Precious Blood. The Sisters' documentation boycott of Nestle's products, making the fol details the sale of Bristol-Myers formula in WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY RESOLVES TO lowing demands: poverty areas and describes the medical SUPPORT BREASTFEEDING 1. Immediately stop all promotion of Nes problems thus caused. Bristol-Myers also agrees to halt the use of all consumer May 24, 1978 tle' artificial formula. oriented advertising and to withdraw its The 31st World Health Assembly over 2. Stop mass media advertising of formula. milk nurses from Jamaica where they have whelmingly passes a. resolution recognizing 3. Stop distribution of free samples to hos violated government health regulations. breastfeeding as "the safest and most appro pitals, clinics, and homes of newborn. The Sisters agree to withdraw their appeal priate way to feed infants" during the first 4. Discontinue Nestle' milk nurses. of the May 1977 summary judgment. The months of life. High priority is given to 5. Stop promotion through the medical settlement closely follows the Securities and breastfeeding promotion programs and regu profession. Exchange Commission's filing of a Friend of lation of "inappropriate sales promotion of 6. Artificial formula should be prevented the Court brief which supports the Sisters' infant foods." from getting into the hands of people who request !or stockholder rights. do not have the means or fac111ties to use Church groups file new resolutions with CBS REPORTS Ams FORMULA DOCUMENTARY them safely. American Home Products and Carnation. July 5, 1978 Other INFACT members join the boycott. THE BOYCOTT GROWS; NESTLE' REACTS WITH Over 9 million people view "Into the INFACT publishes its first newsletter an Mouths of Babes," Bill Moyers' half-hour nouncing the boycott and further publiciz NEW ROUND OF MEETINGS February 1978 documentary which focuses on health prob ing the issue. lems caused by formula use in the Domini CONGRESS ACTS ON BABY FEEDING PRACTICES Nestle'. feeling the pressure of the Boycott, can Republic. Moyers also reveals a kickback July 1977 initiates a second round of discussions with scheme involving the formula. companies critics. On February 14th, Nestle' meets in paying a percentage of formula. sales rev An amendment to the International De New York City with representatives of Clergy velopment and Food Assistance Act of 1977, and Laity Concerned, Church Women United enues to the Dominican Medical Association. introduced by Rep. Michael Harrington, urges and several medical professionals. Five days INVESTIGATORS UNCOVER VIOLATIONS OF the President, through U.S. A.I.D., to develop later in Chicago, the INFACT Midwest Policy BRISTOL-MYERS MILK NURSE POLICY a "strategy for programs of nutrition and Council sits down with the U.S. and Swlss July 1978 health improvements for mothers and chil Nestle' officials. Nestle' calls the Boycott "an dren, including breast-feeding." irrational action;" INFACT, CALC and CWU A Bristol-Myers milk nurse pays a horn~ The report accompanying the House ver stress that the Boycott will continue to grow visit to a Singapore mother in July in clear sion of the amendment states that "busi until Nestle' makes substantial policy violation of BM's May 23rd Senate testimony nesses involved in the manufacture, market changes. that "a.II of our mothers craft nurses have been discontinued." In the Philippines, an ing or sale of infant formula have a re CHURCHES WAGE PROXY FIGHT WITH AMERICAN sponsibility to conduct their over-seas activi !CCR investigator discovers that 8 or 9 "milk HOME PRODUCTS nurses" discontinued by BM were immedi ties in ways which do not have adverse March 1978 effects on the nutritional health of people ately rehired as "medical representatives" to of developing nations.'' In an attempt to pressure American Home promote formula to the medical profes Products to change its promotion practices, sionals. SISTERS BEGIN NEW ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS church groups solicit the support o! institu WITH BRISTOL-MYERS NUTRITIONISTS CALL FOR END TO NESTLE tional investors. The proxy statement, pre PROMOTION September 1977 pared by !CCR a.nd filed with the SEC, docu August 27-September 1, 1978 Under pressure from the appellate court, ments the criticized promotion strategies. the Sisters again enter into negotiations Bottle-feeding action groups around the Over 200 prominent nutritionists at the with Bristol-Myers in order to reach a sat country contact local AHP shareholders, 11th International Congress of Nutrition in isfactory out-of-court settlement. The Sis such as universities and pension funds re Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, sign a petition urging ters seek changes in corporate practices and questing their support. that Nestle immediately "discontinue all an accurate report on Bristol-Myers' formula AHP llEVIEW COMMITTEE RECEIVES STRONG promotion of milk formulas !or the use of promotion in the Third World. Plans for the STOCKHOLDER SUPPORT children below the weaning age . . ." The Brazilian press also reports that U.S. nutri appeal continue, however, in case nego April 26, 1978 tiations break down. tionist is detained by the Brazilian police for A stockholder resolution filed with Ameri circulating the petition. A Brazil Herald edi MAJOR MEDIA COVER BABY FORMULA can Home Products by !CCR members torial notes that "such an occurrence demon CONTBOVEBSY requesting an infant formula review com strates little attention to the rights of per November-December 1977 mittee receives 5.28 percent of the vote, sons. What (the nutritionist) did was not In November, the Canadian Broadcasting strong display of dissent with management. 1llegal; illegal was her arrest." Corporation airs a. new documentary The Institutions favoring the resolution include W .H.O. AGREES TO SPONSOR IN1'ANT FORMULA Formula Factor, filmed in Jamaica. The film the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, Har exposes violations of government policy by vard University, the Minnesota State Board MEETING formula. companies and explores the at of Investments and the General Life Insur September 1978 tempts made by Jamaican health workers ance Company. Acting on a request from Sen. Edward Ken and government agencies to contrt>l the U.S. SENATE HOLDS HEARINGS ON FORMULA nedy, the Director General of the World problem of bottle feeding. U.S. distribution PROMOTION Health Organization announces that the of the film is planned. WHO will sponsor a. meeting on infant Mother Jones magazine carries a. major May 23, 1978 formula promotion, marketing and use. Nu article in its December issue which draws The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Health trition experts, Third World officials, indus nationwide iattention to the bottle baby and Scientific Research, chaired by Sen. try representatives and industry critics will problem. The article follows an August Edward Kennedy (D, MA), hears testimony attend. !CCR, INFACT and other industry Mother Jones advertisement announcing the on the infant formula problem from Third critics welcome the meeting as a sign of Nestle' Boycott. World health professionals, church repre the impact of public pressure, but recognize MINNESOTA'S MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY ENDORSES sentatives, international medical and mar the limitations of such meeting since similar NESTLE' BOYCOTT keting authorities and industry officials. symposia held after 1970 have had little December 17, 1977 Third World doctors and nurses describe the effect on corporate practices. detrimental impact of formula promotion The Democratic Farmer-Labor Party N.C.C. OVERWHELMINGLY ENDORSES NESTLE and use in their countries, and church rep BOYCOTT adopts a. resolution calling for a boycott of resentatives note the industry's inadequate Nestle' products. The DFL also sends letters response to criticism. Company officials deny November 3, 1978 to the American formula companies urging responsibility for socioeconomic conditions The Governing Board of the National them to restrict their formula promotion in in the Third World, but admit that they have Council of Churches endorses the Nestle the Third World. no evidence for their claims that formula is Boycott by an overwhelming majority. Out Additional shows of support start to flow used only by the well-to-do. going President William Thompson had met in, including endorsements from Ralph Dr. James Post of Boston University with various top Nestle officials in July, Nader, Dr. Derrick Jellitre, numerous state observes "For eight years, the industry critics August and October to discuss Nestle's role and local church agencies, and many others. have borne the burden of proving that· com- in the infant formula problem and concluded 7602 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 5, 1979 that Nestle' had not met the demands of the ters, banners, etc., converge on Nestle Head Finally, I would urge my colleagues to boycott. quarters in New York after stops ln major cities from coast to coast.e read the following tribute to Mac Mc NESTLE HmES PUBLIC RELATIONS FmM Cormick which appeared in his paper on November, 1978 January 4, 1979. The mayor of San Nestle hires H111 & Knowlton, the world's SAN MARINO TRIBUNE'S 50TH Marino, Maurice Jones, Jr. has accu largest public relations fl.rm. Under its tute ANNIVERSARY rately caught the essence of Mac and lage Nestle sends out a 24-page statement to what he meant to the community of San the National Council of Churches plus a cover Marino, Calif. to nearly every (est. 300,000) pastor/minister HON. JOHN H. ROUSSELOT The article follows: in the country. Claire Randall of the NCC re OF CALIFORNIA sponds strongly to Nestle's distortions of the [From the San Marino Tribune, Jan. 4, 1979] IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES events at the NCC Governing Board meeting. MAYOR PAYS TRmUTE TO THE TRmUNE'S RESPONSE TO CARTER'S EXPORT PLAN Thursday, April 5, 1979 HERBERT McCORMICK December, 1978 e Mr. ROUSSELOT. Mr. Speaker, today On December 29, San Marino Community President Carter receives letters from Mem· is the golden anniversary of my home Church held a memorial service for Herbert bers of Congress, Minnesota state elected of town newspaper, the San Marino Trib H. McCormick, the former owner and pub ficers and members of the public urging that une. A special tribute is being paid to lisher of the San Marino Tribune who died he put infant formula on the list of hazard on Christmas Day. (The following is ex ous substances in his proposal to assist Amer this paper which has consistently em cerpted from the eulogy delivered by ican companies in increasing exports. phasized the positive side of the news Maurice Jones Jr., mayor of San Marino and has taken great pride in reporting and long-time friend of Mr. McCormick.) NESTLE ACCELERATES PUBLIC RELATIONS I! it be true that "to live in the hearts of ATTEMPTS those events which would be of special interest to the community in a neigh those we love ls not to die," then Mac, or Winter, 19,78-79 borly and friendly way, always devoting "Mr. San Marino" lives on. Nestle malls PR packets to business & Mac was a devoted father, grandfather health professionals, academics, Congress attention to the betterment of the and shortly before his passing a great persons and citizens who write in. The com community. grandfather. pany put two fulltlme staff on Capitol Hill; In observing the birthday celebration He was a Christian gentleman in all the their schedules are coordinated by Hill & that has been arranged by the San finest implications of that expression. Knowlton. Nestle's Office of Corporate Re Marino Historical Society there will be He was not only a good citizen but one sponsibility consents to more public debate much reminiscing about the times, that worked energetically to help make San on the issue as groups across the country set events, and people connected with this Marino better and greater. up public forums. Stouffer Corp., in talks paper of unique and excellent quality. During the 33 years he owned and pub with the Greater Cleveland Interchurch One who will be mentioned with great lished the Tribune he never abused the Council, ties a possible Boycott endorsement "power of the press." to continuation of a longterm dialog about affection is Herbert H. "Mac" McCor He was honest and fair ln his reporting its minority hiring practices-blackmail. The mick, who was the San Marino Tribune's and never tried to smear the character of opening of a Stouffer hotel in Cedar Rapids editor and publisher for more than 30 anyone. He enjoyed giving credit to people ls picketed by 50 INFACT supporters. years. Mac McCormick passed a way on for work well done. GROCER BOYCOTTS NESTLE; MORE NESTLE Christmas Day this past year and many Mac was consistent ln his attendance at VIOLATIONS of us miss his presence in the community meetings of the School Board and City Coun January, 1979 very much. Mac was special to me, as cil. Having served on both boards I was aware of his great interest in our deliberations. A grocer in Duluth, MN, decides that it is well as to my mother and father, who enjoyed a warm friendship with him Many times he would express his suggestions not in his best economic interest to restock and ideas, always in a friendly, constructive Nestle products and refuses a delivery of for many years. way, not at all aggressive or dictatorial. We Nestle promotional materials. Boycott sup Mac was especially helpful to me on always gave serious consideration to his re porters educate his customers by extensive many occasions. One year my parents marks. Many times they served as a helpful leafietting. gave me a small press and mimeograph guide to us, as we knew he had his fingers INFACT researchers in Central America machine for Christmas and I recall dis on the pulse of the community and had San find many violations of Nestle policy regard cussing with him my desire to publish a Marino's best interests and welfare at heart. ing product labels. little weekly neighborhood newspaper He loved young people and encouraged They also find new Nestle "weaning soups" one day. From that discussion to more those interested ln journalism to write of at high prices and with similar rehydration school activities for publication in the problems as infant formula. recent ones on politics and world affairs, Tribune. he always made time available to share He never failed to support movements, ac BOYCOTT ORGANIZER IS ARRESTED thoughts and exchange opinions. tions, elections and bond Issues that, after January 13, 1979 As publisher and editor of his fine careful consideration, he sincerely believed Cynthia Kokls of Eugene OR, CALC ls ar newspaper, the San Marino Tribune, were for the welfare of all. I parttcularly re rested for distributing Boycott literature dur which was truly devoted to the progress call how he worked so vigorously and con ing an International Year of the Child ex and prosperity of our city, Mac gave me tributed so much to the establishment of hibit at a shopping mall. The pretext for her more back-up and coverage than I prob our high school and the subsequent bond arrest is that her material ls political-yet election which created our Unified School other groups with political pamphlets on ably deserved-and I need not tell my District. display are not asked to leave. colleagues here today how much news In the last few years, Mac was approached coverage means to a political figure. by representatives of chain newspapers that BOTTLE BABIES ON PUBLIC TELEVISION I suppose one of the many characteris February 12, 1979 published a number of small papers ln var tics which I appreciated so much about ious cities and were interested in purchas WCDB, public TV in Maine, airs Bottle Mac was not only his willingness to be ing the Tribune. He never seriously consid Babies as part of a series on controversial is an adviser and counselor in many areas ered any of their offers. He was interested sues which have received inadequate national of activity, but his giving of practical, only ln having the paper remain a "home attention. The infant formula controversy town" newspaper for the benefit of his is No. 2 on a list of 10 such issues accord solid, commonsense advice-constructive in every way. - "home town." A year ago he accomplished ing to the Christian Science Monttor and the his mission and sold lt to "home town" peo Washintgon Post. Blll Moyers, who wrote the When my father passed away in 1967, ple, knowing they would continue in the CBS documentary Into the Mouth of Babes, I relied more and more on Mac to help tradition he established. comments in an interview that the Ameri me think out ideas and suggestions, be I would like to share a verse that I believe can formula makers tried to get CBS to cause he and my father were alike in is most appropriate, titled "The Measure of quash the report. many ways. Mac provided a tremendous a Man." (Author unknown.) CLIP NESTLE QUIK CAMPAIGN STARTS amount of help, assistance and counsel Not-How did he die? But-How did he Uve? April 26, 1979 ing which I would have received from Not-What did he gain? But-What did he The Clip Nestle Quik Lenten campaign be my own dad had he lived longer. give? gins successfully with Nestle already cutting These are the true units to measure the Maurie Jones summarized Mac's life worth of a man ns a man, regardless of down on their coupon specials ln all parts of best when he recited the final phrase birth. the country. The CNQ campaign culminates from The Measure of a Man . . . "Mac Not-What was his station? But-Had he a. during INFACT Week, April 19-26, with local fully measured up to the true 'Measure heart? celebrations. Trucks carrying coupons, let- of a Man' ... as a man." And How did he play his God-given part? April 5, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7603 Was he ever ready with a word of good cheer? served to limit the work week to the standard AJ:, page, chief of pages, reading clerk, To bring back a smile, to banish a tear? set by the FLSA. However, the 8-hour day, and finally minority clerk of the House, Not-What was his church? Nor-What was 40-hour week standard has since been eroded. Joe Bartlett has proven to be an invalua his creed? A concerted campaign of forced overtime has ble asset to the operation of this institu But-Had he befriended those really in resulted in lengthening the work week for need? many workers-organized as well as unorga tion. A dedicated public servant and true Not-What did the sketch in the newspaper nized-to 50-60 and even 84 hours. gentleman, Joe easily won the respect say? TIME-AND-A-HALF NOT ENOUGH and friendship of Members and staff from But-How many were sorry when he passed Several factors contribute to this, but it both sides of the aisle. away? all adds up to the fact that in today's world I wish Joe continued success and hap Mac fully measured up to the true "Meas it ls often cheaper for an employer to pay all piness in his retirement. We shall cer ure of a Man" . . . as a man.e or part of an existing workforce overtime tainly miss him.• than it ls to hire new workers. To begin with, employer payments of ELIMINATING COMPULSORY "fringe benefits"-penslons, medical insur PARTICIPATION BY THE STATE OVERTIME ance, vacations, holidays-are generally llm UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT lted to stranght-time hours. Payroll taxes POTSDAM'S CRANE SCHOOL OF soclal security with its present cut-off of $16,500 and unemployment insurance taxes MUSIC IN THE 1980 WINTER OLYM HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. PIC GAMES OF MICHIGAN with a much lower cut-off-also encourage overtime. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Then there ls the fact that wages and other Thursday, April 5, 1979 payroll costs have, over the years, become a HON. ROBERT C. McEWEN smaller and smaller proportion of total pro OF NEW YORK e Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, on Feb duction costs. Then there are constant costs ruary 1, 1979, I reintroduced the Fair that include the plant and machinery, heat IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Labor Standards Amendments of 1979 and llght, the wages and salaries of the office Thursday, April 5, 1979 • This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor.
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