25620 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS NATIONAL ITALIAN-AMERICAN The words given by Phillip Mazzei to his In the '60s and '70s began the stirrings of CONFERENCE REMARKS friend Thomas Jefferson went to the heart the Women's Movement. It was a natural of our Declaration of Independence: "All and inevitable outgrowth of several power­ men are created equal." Two centuries after ful factors: WWII which placed millions of HON. JAMES J. FLORIO the last echo of the last shot fired in that women in the work force; the post war boom OF NEW JERSEY revolution faded away, those words still which required a workforce far larger than IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES echo round this world. the male segment of our society alone could In the U.S., the power of that ideal of provide; the availability of higher education Tuesday, September 28, 1982 equality and freedom has inspired multiple without restrictions as to its end use; and • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, as an and continuous revolutions. the commitment against discrimination, American of Italian heritage I would The most obvious was the struggle against made to Blacks, whose application to the like to recognize the Third Biennial slavery called the Civil War. But there have problem of discrimination against women been others, seemingly more prosaic, but re­ could hardly be denied. The ramifications of Conference of the National Italian sulting in enormous changes nevertheless. American Foundation, which was held this movement are no where near being Many have occurred within the lifetimes played out as everyone here is surely aware. earlier this month. The foundation of most of the people in this room. Indeed, Still another decision of the Supreme and the conference are dedicated to some are still underway. Court caused a veritable earthquake in the awareness of ethnic identities. But because they have been largely gradu­ political and social landscapes. In what may The Italian-American community, al and peaceful, and because our citizens have been its most momentous decision of which makes up the largest ethnic ma­ still remain largely isolated behind huge this century, the Court entered the "thick­ oceans, most have ben unable to contrast jority in New Jersey, plays a signifi­ these upheavQ.Ls with lifestyles elsewhere et" of legislative reapportionment and con­ cant role in New Jersey and national and thereby fully grasp their significance. gressional redistricting and breathed life affairs. The Third Biennial Confer­ Yet these revolutions have changed for­ into the phrase "one man, one vote". State ence of the National American Foun­ legislatures, the Congress, and their con­ ever the old static relationships of man to stituencies have not been the same since. dation was an unquestionably success­ society, just as dramatically as the Revolu­ And adjustments in political power parellel­ ful event. I would like to submit, for tion of '76 changed forever the relationship ing population shifts guarantee major the RECORD, the opening address to of Americans to the British crown. Let us examine some of these revolutions. changes every 10 years in the politics of the the Third Biennial Conference by its One was that of "rising expectations." It U.S. general chairman, Benjamin J. Pa­ was given force by the sacrifices demanded The late 60's, 70's, and into the 80's has lumbo, further explaining the role of in World War II. One of its early manifesta­ witnessed the breakdown of the traditional the conference and of Italian Ameri­ tions was the GI Bill of Rights. Until its political parties. Republicans and Demo­ cans in our society. passage higher education had been mostly crats still vie for victory, but the old auto­ The remarks follow: the preserve of the privileged. After the GI matic voting patterns have weakened, the number of independents has grown, turn­ OPENING ADDRESS OF BENJAMIN L. PALUMBO, Bill, millions whose education would have GENERAL CHAIRMAN OF THE THIRD BIENNI­ ended with high school, went on to colleges outs in elections have continued to decline, and universities. In doing so they created acceptable definitions of the terms Demo­ AL CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL ITALIAN crat and Republican appear elusive, and the AMERICAN FOUNDATION, SEPTEMBER 9, 1982 the climate which led to acceptance of the unprecedented notion of higher education rise of one-issue groups armed with money ITALIAN AMERICANS AND THE FUTURE OF for all capable of handling it. We have and manpower is steering the nation's polit­ AMERICAN DEMOCRACY become the most educated society in the ical system into unchartered waters. Welcome to the Third Biennial Confer­ world because this revolutionary idea While all this turmoil was taking place ence of the National Italian American Foun­ became the accepted norm. the great technological leap began. Epito­ dation. Another example was the advent of post mized by television-soon to pale by com­ First let me pay tribute to the Founda­ World War II prosperity. It put America on parison to the computer age-it spread rap­ tion's hardworking and dedicated staff for wheels; built vast highway networks; and idly across the land. Night after night it the splendid support which they have given opened huge tracts of land for development. beamed the same shows, the same news, and to this Conference. I would like them all to It lead to acceptance of the idea that the the same sports into every corner of Amer­ stand for a round of applause. American dream of a single family home ica, putting a veneer of homogenization on I would like also to thank my co-chairs with a car, or two, in the driveway, could what was thought by some to have been the Lucy Falcone and Bob DiPietro for their and should become reality. The pursuit of dawning of the age of the melting pot. magnificent efforts in this undertaking. All that dream made us the most mobile society But, ladies and gentlemen, something this could not have happened without them. the world has ever known, resulting in tu­ went awry; the melting pot didn't melt. You'll be hearing more from them later. multous mass migrations from South to It is true these revolutions had set people In this room are several hundred United North, farm to city, city to suburb, and now adrift, separating them from old familiar States citizens. United States citizens who East to West. ties and associations. But what was not wait­ have chosen to call themselves Italian­ In the early '50s, while this material revo­ Americans. ing for these countless millions was the lution was in progress, the Supreme Court warm embrace of an alternative American I would like to take a few moments to of the United States rightly struck down share with you my thoughts about why we culture. Instead, there was a void. And sud­ the laws segregating the races. denly the most frequently asked question of have chosen to do so. And also to deal with This was a momentous and overdue deci­ the significance of this conference. sion. Suddenly whites and blacks found the 70's was-"who am ?" To do that we must come face to face with their dialogue of the deaf was over and that The answer to this question was bewilder­ a reality about the United States. And that they had to know and understand each ing for many, easier for some. Blacks, for reality is that the United States was not other in the aftermath of this decision. example, answered by asserting their right merely born in revolution but continues to Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow to be both Black and American. And ethnics this day to be a revolutionary society. Americans are even now trying to sort out by asserting their right to be both ethnic What is meant by this? How does it affect their relations, with the end of this process and American. us? What obligations does it place on us? still not in sight. In these reactions was a powerful truth: Let us begin at the beginning. In the '60s, Angelo Roncalli, otherwise there is no agreement on the description of Two hundred and six years ago in Massa­ known as John :XXIII, dramatically the typical American. For there is no typical chusetts-"by the rude bridge that arched changed the outlook of the Catholic American. There are, quite simply, many the flood" -the "shot heard round the Church. In so doing, he altered the way kinds of Americans. world" was fired. Thus was begun the revo­ American Catholics relate to their fellow That truth gives us the answer to the lution from which was born our country. citizens of all persuasions; and vice versa. question of why we choose to describe our­ It was a revolution of blood and fire. But For most of us in this room that has had selves as Italian Americans. In a rootless so­ it was also one of ideas ... and ideals. special meaning. ciety, constantly on the move, filled with

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25621 lonely people loosened from their moorings can and Italian struggles for independence in expertise for training firefighters striving to identify themselves, our declara­ and liberty, are what this Conference, and from all parts of the country in the tion of common heritage gives us a certain we, are all about. sense of self, and helps fill that void. Most Thankyou.e most modern techniques. In addition, important, it frees us from the frustrations it develops programs for all phases of of excessive introspection and allows us to firefighting and presents fire preven­ concentrate on the enormous problems IN APPRECIATION OF THE ALLE­ tion courses and seminars for some around us. GHENY COUNTY FIRE ACADE­ 30,000 volunteers from 254 fire compa­ This country needs that kind of citizen. It MY needs citizens able to withstand the con­ nies. stant buffeting of the winds of change. It As chairman of the Science Subcom­ needs citizens able and willing to look clear­ HON. DOUG WALGREN mittee which has jurisdiction over the ly at the world, examine its problems intelli­ OF PENNSYLVANIA U.S. Fire Academy, I understand the gently, and support rational sound solu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES crucial need for effective fire training. tions. Rootlessness exacerbates this need; Tuesday, September 28, 1982 but the existence of people with a sense of Local firefighters from across the self helps fulfill it. e Mr. WALGREN. Mr. Speaker, I Nation joined my fight to save the And therein lies both the significance of want to pay a special tribute to the Al­ USFA, for we all realize that while this Conference and the answer to the ques­ legheny County Bureau of Fire Train­ firefighting is a local function, it de­ tion of our obligations as Italian American ing's School and Academy on comple­ serves the full support and coopera­ members of a revolutionary society. Today armed with our sense of self, we tion of its 12th year of operation. This tion of the National Government. can and must embrace this opportunity to academy is a prime example of what I want to congratulate and commend contribute to the well-being of our country, can be accomplished with cooperation the fine young men and women who which has contributed the opportunity for between the Federal and local govern­ are graduating from the Allegheny well-being to us. An opportunity which ments. County Fire Academy this fall, and began when our immigrant ancestors ar­ We all should be aware of the fact rived, in the words of the song by writer that fire is one of the most devastating wish them the best of luck as they Neil Sedaka "to live in the light of the killers we encounter today. The pursue their careers in service to us beacon of liberty." all.e The contribution which this Conference annual deaths from fire roughly equal represents will find its expression in you. two jumbo jets crashing in mid-air For it is our goal that the several hundred every month. The fire death rate is 20 WHAT TWO SUMMERS HAVE Italian Americans-and their guests and times that of tornadoes, hurricanes, friends-who have come to partake of our and floods combined. By ones and WROUGHT efforts will leave here better informed about twos in their homes, or in the great ca­ some of the important issues of our times. This Conference was not meant to be a tastrophes that seem to be happening HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK meaningless exercise. We have not sought as frequently as ever, we lose more OF CALIFORNIA an occasion for smugness; for patting our­ than 8,000 people a year to fire. Over selves on our backs in congratulations of our 300,000 people are injured each year, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES impressive heritage. with many scarred permanently, and Tuesday, September 28, 1982 To do that would have been to invite you more than $5 billion in property is to ignore the future in favor of the past. lost. So much of this could be stopped e Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, as we That would have been grossly inconsistent if we had proper and adequate fire prepare to recess, it is a good time to with our heritage. Our immigrant ancestors step back and see where we stand after came to these shores to secure the future training and prevention programs. not to celebrate the past. And most assured­ The very best of such training is avail­ 2 years of the Reagan administration. ly that is our intent today. able in Allegheny County. Recently, Mr. J. W. Anderson, a For we have planned this Conference Established in 1970 by the Allegheny staff writer for the Washington Post, with, above all, a concern for the future. County Commissioners, the academy, wrote an informative column entitled, Specifically, for the future of our American situated in the north hills of Pitts­ "What Two Summers Have Wrought." democracy. A future which is utterly de­ burgh, has as its purpose the train­ pendent on the quality of the country's po­ The column does an excellent job of litical debate which, in turn, rises or falls on ing-at no expense to the student-of describing the changing priorities of the existence of an informed and interested volunteer, paid, industrial and security the Federal budget, the changing electorate. firemen in the latest firefighting tech­ burden of taxation-and the awesome Through your participation in workshops niques. The training at the academy on ·the family, education, contemporary pol­ emphasizes the modern dangers result­ deficits facing us in the years to come. itics, and international relations we intend ing from fires involving plastics and The article follows: to make our contribution to the existence of other hazardous materials. In addi­ [From the Washington Post, Sept. 14, 19821 an informed and interested electorate and tion, the academy teaches fundamen­ WHAT Two SUMMERS HAVE WROUGHT thereby to help strengthen American de­ tals of firefighting, advanced mocracy. Each summer since President Reagan We ask all of you to take very seriously firefighting, cardiopulmonary resusci­ came to Washington, there has been a tre­ the warning of the great revolutionary tation , and first aid. mendous struggle over federal taxes and Thomas Jefferson, who told us that "if a The academy serves Allegheny spending. Now that the second summer's nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it County by opening its facility to vol­ work has been signed into law, it's possible expects what never was and never will be." unteer fire companies so they can to take stock of the profound changes over­ And be guided, we beg you, by the spirit of broaden their experience with struc­ the great Italian revolutionary Guiseppe taking the basic pattern of the budget. Mazzini who wrote "Three things are tural and vehicular rescue techniques; The comparison begins with the fiscal sacred, tradition, progress, association-the the academy serves the Nation by con­ year 1980, the last full year before Reagan immense voice of God which the centuries ducting seminars and providing facili­ took control. The following numbers for transmit to me through the universal tradi­ ties for the International Society of fiscal year 1983, the year that starts on Oct. tion of humanity . . . tells me that the Fire Service Instructors, the National 1, come from the Congressional Budget Of­ Family, the Nation, and Humanity are the Fire Protection Association, and the fice's most recent revision of its Economic three spheres within which the individual Pennsylvania Association of Arson In­ and Budget Outlook, Published this month. has to labor for the common end . . . " vestigators; the academy serves private In spending policy, the changes are the I submit to you we have a sense of our­ industry by training many industrial/ ones that you would expect. But the magni­ selves. That we are here because our immi­ private brigades such as those serving tude of those changes is dramatic. Here are grant ancestors were concerned with the a few numbers, representing percentages of future, and we can be no less concerned. PPG industries and the major hotels And that the Jeffersonian and Mazzinian in Pittsburgh. In all, the Allegheny total spending by several major categories. 25622 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 [In percent] bers below express total spending-this time lation will provide additional protec­ including interest payments-and tax reve­ tion and assistance to victims of, and ______1_98_0 __19_83_ nues as percentages of the gross national witnesses to, crime. product. Defense ...... 26.5 32.1 The legislation addresses concerns 37.7 that victims have about personal =. . ~.::::::::::: ::::: :::::::::::::::::::: ::: ::::::::::::::: ::: ::::::::::: 10.8 m [By fiscal years, in percent] Eveiything else ...... 25.0 16.1 safety reimbursement for financial ----- 1980 1981 1982 1983 Total spending...... 100.0 100.0 loss resulting from the offense, and fair treatment by the criminal justice Outlays...... 22.4 22.9 24.2 23.7 system. Interest is not included in this definition Revenues...... 20.l 20.9 20.5 19.0 of spending because it is set by the commer­ Deficit...... 2.3 2.0 3.7 4.7 PERSONAL SAFETY cial interest rates rather than by policy and The bill takes three steps to provide including it would obscure the view of the greater protection for the physical purposeful decisions that the president and Far from declining, the first Reagan sa.f ety of witnesses. First, it clarifies Congress are making. budget in 1982 rose sharply in relation to and strengthens present Federal of­ These figures reflect, not the budget that the size of the economy. It wasn't wholly Reagan originally proposed in February, but due to the recession. It resulted, in roughly fenses prohibiting the use of force or the budget as Congress has revised it over equal importance, from rising defense threats to intimidate or retaliate the past seven months. Under the original spending, rising interest costs and rising against victims and witnesses. Second, Reagan budget, the allocation to defense spending on income security and health. In it authorizes a Federal prosecutor to would be somewhat higher. 1983, according to the CBO estimates I am obtain a protective order preventing Nearly two-thirds of income security using here, spending will finally begin to harassment of victims and witnesses. spending is Social Security. Most of the rest turn downward as a percentage of GNP-al­ Finally, the legislation requires that is other pensions, and unemployment com­ though slowly. pensation. Food stamps and several other In contrast, the Reagan policy on taxes there be an explicit condition of every welfare programs, small by comparision, are took effect immediately and sharply. Feder­ release on bail that the person re­ also in there. Similarly, about two-thirds of al revenues, as a share of GNP, were rising leased not commit a victim or witness the spending on health goes to Medicare for when Reagan took office. But, following the intimidation or retaliation offense. the elderly, and most of the rest is Medicaid 1981 tax cut, they began dropping, and, as FINANCIAL REIMBURSEMENT for the poor. the table shows, the drop accelerates rapid­ It's worth noting that about half of feder­ ly as the government goes into the coming One of the goals of our criminal jus­ al spending is now pensions plus various year. tice system should be to restore the smaller income support programs and medi­ Those figures for 1983, by the way, victim to the victim's financial status cal benefits attached to them. These catego­ assume moderately good economic growth quo before the offense-to make the ries, with defense, were three-fourths of the next year. They are based on the CBO's for­ victim financially whole. The person budget as the Carter presidency ended. Now cast of recovery from the recession with no who should bear the principal respon­ they are five-sixths of it. increase in inflation. sibility for doing this is the offender. The two tax bills of the past two summers If those numbers for 1983 turn out to be The legislation addresses the financial have shifted the balance among the various correct, and revenues are 19 percent of sources. The numbers below represent per­ GNP, Reagan will have lowered the tax needs of victims by encouraging great­ centages of federal revenues. burden to the level of the middle 1970s-the er use of restitution as a criminal pen­ Ford era. It will still be larger in proportion alty for all offenses defined in title 18 [In percent] to the whole economy than it was in the of the United States Code. Procedures Nixon period, or in the early 1960s before are spelled out for determining in a 1980 1983 Vietnam. particular case whether restitution is As for spending, at 23.7 percent of GNP it an appropriate penalty and, if so, what Personal income taxes...... 46.9 47.1 will be lower than this year but higher than 1 the amount of the restitution should tl:' ~=..:::::::::::::::: ::::::: :: :: ::: : : :: :::::::::::::::::::::: ~ : ~ 3U any other year since World War II, and a Excise taxes...... 4.7 6.0 good deal higher than in the Carter years. be. In addition, the bill directs the At­ Other 1M11ues ...... __5_. o __5_ .2 At 4.7 percent of GNP, the deficit will also torney General to report to Congress Total rwenues...... 100.0 100.0 be higher than any since World War II. within a year on the need for legisla­ So far, Reagan and Congress have done tion to assure that a Federal felon will most of the cutting in the small spending not derive profit from books, articles, Despite two large cuts in income tax rates, programs that are weakly defended, like movies and the like about the offense. and a third coming next July, the share of welfare and food stamps, rather than in the FAIR TREATMENT federal revenues raised by the personal big ones like Social Security that serve very income tax will be almost exactly the same large numbers of people. To close the deficit The bill contains two provisions in­ next year as it was in the Carter years. The by cutting spending, as Reagan keeps prom­ tended to insure that victims and wit­ striking drop has come in corporate taxes. It ising, is impossible without heavy reductions nesses receive better treatment by the is being offset chiefly by the rise in social in at least two of the three largest groups of Federal criminal justice system. First, insurance taxes. Most of that is the Social programs-defense, health care or the pen­ the bill requires that a. Federal judge Security payroll tax. sions. If that seems unlikely to you, there receive, before sentencing a convicted Politicians and economists are currently are only two possibilities. Either the deficit defendant, informa.tion a.bout the discussing the flat income tax and whether stays at the present very high levels, or the country should nove toward it. That there must be further tax increases.e impact of the crime upon the victim. little table above is a reminder that the The bill also directs the Attorney Gen­ country is, in fact, moving toward it rapidly. era.I, within 9 months, to formulate The personal income tax is at present pro­ COMPREHENSIVE VICTIM AND and implement guidelines insuring gressive-meaning that people with higher WITNESS PROTECTION AND that victims and witnesses will be incomes pay larger shares of their income ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1982 fairly treated at all stages of the Fed­ than the poor. But the Social Security tax is eral criminal justice process. These regressive. It's a flat tax on earnings up to $32,400 a year, with no exemptions and no HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. guidelines a.re to encompass such mat­ deductions. OF NEW JERSEY ters as seeing to it that victims and Taken together, the personal income tax IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES witnesses receive prompt notification and the Social Security tax form a structure of the scheduling of hearings and that is still probably mildly progressive-but Tuesday, September 28, 1982 trials and that property held for evi­ only very mildly. e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, today I dentia.ry purposes is returned as So far we've been talking about the chang­ am introducing, together with the gen­ promptly as possible. ing allocations within the budget. That Mr. Speaker, Bertram Gross noted leads to another crucial question: how big is tleman from New York, Mr. FrsH, and the budget under Reagan's guidance? over 70 of our colleagues, the Compre­ in an article in the Nation that crime The best way to Judge it is in relation to hensive Victim and Witness Protection victims frequently endure triple jeop­ the size of the whole economy. The num- and Assistance Act of 1982. This legis- ardy. September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25623 The victim suffers at the hands of the which discusses this growing problem vorable deal with Mr. Reagan's appointees burglar, mugger ... or arson profiteer, he in a clear and well reasoned manner. I at the EPA. suffers when he loses wages because of the time he must spend in Island Rum Industries, made a personal court, and he suffers a third time if his co­ and consider its implications carefully. appeal in December to John Daniel, chief of operation with the authorities brings retal­ EPA's DRIVE To LoOSEN SOME RULES staff for EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch, iation by the accused. ANGERS FIRMS THAT HAVE COMPLIED asking that the standards be revised. The This legislation addresses each of company claims it may be forced to shut these problems. I urge my colleagues For Bacardi Corp., the situation is hard to down permanently and to lay off approxi­ to support it.e swallow. The world's largest rum producer mately 70 workers if the agency requires it fears it may be penalized for complying too to build a $4 million treatment facility. If readily with federal environmental laws. that happens, the islands' government wor­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION Under pressure from the U.S. Environ­ ries it may lose nearly 20 percent of its mental Protection Agency, the company has annual local tax revenue. spent more than $10 million since 1979 to BACARDI BATTLES BACK HON. BUTLER DERRICK clean up water pollution from two distill­ OF SOUTH CAROLINA eries in Puerto Rico. Bacardi built a sophis­ Puerto Rico Distillers argues that adverse economic conditions-including unemploy­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ticated and unique treatment plant on the condition that the government would re­ ment at more than 20 percent-make it dif­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 quire the rest of the industry to meet equal­ ficult to pass on extra costs to customers. e Mr. DERRICK. Mr. Speaker, unfor­ ly stringent anti-pollution standards. "It makes little sense to impose massive But now, as part of the Reagan adminis­ costs for treatment," complains Gov. Carlos tunately, I was unavoidably detained Romero-Barcelo, "when this investment and was unable to vote on the House trations's overall effort to ease regulation, the EPA is considering changes that would may not enhance the quality of the environ­ floor September 22, 1982. Had I been permit the company's major competitors, lo­ ment." Unlike Bacardi, neither company so there I would have cast my vote in the cated in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, far has started construction of facilities re­ following manner: to continue dumping large amounts of mo­ quired by the three-year-old compromise. Rollcall No. 355: Florio amendment lasses residue into the Caribbean. Bacardi In April, the EPA announced a formal re­ to Senate Joint Resolution 250, a joint executives are discovering, much to their evaluation of the rum industry, including a resolution to resolve the railway labor­ dismay, that some of the proposals would new analysis of company arguments that management dispute-Nay. place them at a competitive disadvantage pollution from the plants can be assimilated with smaller firms that steadfastly refused by the sea without appreciable environmen­ Rollcall No. 356: Passage of Senate tal damage. Allowing such dumping could Joint Resolution 250-Yea. to invest in modern pollution-control equip­ ment. reverse nearly a decade of federal water Although I regret that Congress had policies and set an important precedent for to intervene in a labor-management REWARDING NONCOMPLIANCE dozens of other industries. dispute, my prime concern was with Similar complaints are heard in other in­ Not surprisingly, Bacardi, which produces the potential affects a strike would dustries, such as oil refiners, steel makers four times more rum than its largest U.S. have had on an already suffering econ­ and companies that dispose of hazardous competitor, takes a dim view of the agency's omy.e chemical wastes. These critics assert that latest position. In an official filing with the loosening environmental rules can back­ EPA, Bacardi's attorneys warn the Reagan fire-especially if some of the leading com­ administration against trying to assign EPA'S DRIVE TO LOOSEN SOME panies in an industry have made huge in­ "extra environmental costs to whatever pro­ RULES ANGERS FIRMS THAT vestments to comply with existing stand­ ducer is currently more successful in the ards. marketplace." HAVE COMPLIED "Without firm scientific evidence, the agency is rewarding those companies that OTHER CASES failed to comply" with the regulations, says There already are several other instances HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA where the EPA is under fire for allegedly OF CALIFORNIA Clement B. Malin, government relations manager for Texaco Inc. doing exactly that: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "It's becoming a big, often very difficult In an unusual move, Texaco, Exxon Corp. Tuesday, September 28, 1982 problem for the agency to grapple with," and several other large companies sharply concedes an EPA official. "We face it all the criticized an EPA proposal last month to • Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, as we time, but few people are ready to talk about allow certain small oil refineries to use more have discussed often, the Reagan ad­ it publicly." lead in gasoline than the rest of the indus­ ministration is in the process of radi­ In fact, the administration risks alienating try. An Exxon official charged that the gov­ cally retreating on many of the impor­ some of its natural allies in the business ernment would penalize companies that al- tant regulatory functions of the Fed­ community. Says William K. Reilly, presi­ . ready had made substantial investments to eral Government. dent of the Conservation Foundation, a modernize facilities while "subsidizing cer­ One curious and perverse effect of Washington-based environmental group: tain favored" companies that resisted com­ this retreat is the impact upon those "Above everything else, industry wants and plying with clean-air laws. The agency needs predictable regulations that won't argues that the overall effect of the new well managed and public minded busi­ change after investment decisions are rules would be cleaner air and more compe­ nesses which have gone ahead and made." tition among refiners. made often sizable investments in new The rum industry started bickering with The administration's long-awaited stand­ plants and equipment to conform to the EPA in the early 1970s. The agency de­ ards for landfills that dispose of hazardous Federal regulation. cided that effluent from distilleries could wastes stirred similar opposition. By giving As regulations are modified, with­ damage fish and other aquatic life in the many landfill operators several years to drawn or simply not enforced, these Caribbean. The companies challenged the comply with strict health and monitoring firms are penalized relative to those scientific validity of the findings, and years requirements, critics contend, the EPA is of expensive but inconclusive legal battles providing a "new loophole" for companies firms which have failed to bring their ensued. Finally, in 1979, during the Carter that haven't invested in up-to-date equip­ facilities into compliance. administration, both sides believed they had ment. A coalition of companies claims the This is one more example of the found a way to solve the problem. new rules amount to preferential treatment unfair and harmful side effects of the Bacardi, Virgin Island Rum Industries and extra profits for certain operators. "regulatory reform" movement. Once Ltd., and In the past few months, the EPA also re­ again we are reminded that broad gen­ Puerto Rico Distillers Inc. Ca Seagram Co. ceived complaints from steel companies wor­ eral theories of Government are no unit> agreed to curtail sharply the amount ried that regulatory decisions could under­ substitute for careful and thoughtful of pollution they spewed into the sea. In cut their competitiveness. Specifically, the return, the EPA dropped some of its tough­ agency must decide whether to grant clean­ attention to detail, and an understand­ er demands and set basically the same anti­ air waivers to steel producers based on their ing of all impacts of a governmental pollution standards for each of the compa­ previous and proposed investment in anti­ action. nies. The arrangement appeared to be work­ pollution equipment. Following is an article from the Wall ing until last year, when Bacardi's competi­ On the rum issue, the political crossfire Street Journal of September 23, 1982, tors thought they could negotiate a more fa- around the regulators is intense. Interior 25624 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 Department officials and the U.S. trade rep­ man and his mirror acts.... He's not serv­ programs, including social security and fed­ resentative, William Brock, for instance, ing the nation well, he's not serving the eral health care benefits, and further in­ urged the EPA to ease its standards because President well, he's not serving his party creases in taxes. The remainder of the non­ of changed economic circumstances. Mr. well." military budget already has borne deep cuts. Brock and others believe higher pollution­ For all of Reagan's rhetoric about reduc­ John L. Palmer and Gregory B. Mills, who control costs could make it difficult for com­ ing the size of the federal government and analyzed budget policy in the Urban Insti­ panies operating in Puerto Rico and the his professional abhorrence of deficit spend­ tute's recent report, The Reagan Experi­ Virgin Islands to compete with other Carib­ ing, his credibility is being challenged by ment, suggest two other alternatives fre­ bean rum distillers. Non-U.S. distillers also the budget figures that have resulted from quently grasped by Presidents facing tough stand to benefit from administration pro­ the performance of the economy and the budget decisions. They warn that "the ex­ posals to eliminate all duties on Caribbean policies enacted since he has been in office. treme political difficulty of the choices in­ rum. In March 1981, Reagan had predicted that volved will continue to result in considerable Before revising clean-water guidelines for by 1984 he would bring the federal budget pressure both to engage in unrealistic Ceco­ rum makers, EPA officials must analyze a into balance and reduce total federal out­ nomicl forecasting to postpone the painful 10-inch stack of comments and technical re­ lays to less than 20 per cent of the gross na­ reckoning and to tolerate substantial, con­ ports submitted by the companies. A final tional product. A year and a half later, he is tinuing deficits." decision isn't expected until next spring.e staring at monumental continuing deficits Along that line, a veteran Reagan watch­ and a federal establishment that threatens er, Los Angeles attorney Douglas Hallett, to lumber on for several years at a level warned in The Wall Street Journal on Sept. BIG SPENDER IN THE WHITE closer to 23 per cent of GNP. The latest pro­ 8 that the President does not "mean his HOUSE jections by the Congressional Budget Office rhetoric to be taken literally and does not 1985, the annual interest payment on the When Congress approved a supplemental national debt will climb from $100 billion to Township, N .J. I believe we should appropriations bill that would cost nearly $2 $139 billion. make note of those individuals in our billion less than the Administration had Against this backdrop, it is no wonder community who seek to alleviate the asked for, President Reagan vetoed it. He that nerves get frayed in Congress when conditions of the less fortunate. said it was a "budget buster" because it in­ Reagan goes out on the hustings and points Joe was involved for some time in se­ cluded too much money for social programs his finger at the "big spenders" on Capitol curing food and clothing from various and not enough for the military. Hill. His own program, which he has been sources in order to give these items to And when the House overrode the veto by remarkably successful in persuading Con­ a lopsided margin, the President told an air­ gress to enact, has increased the size of the needy individuals. Unfortunately, Joe port crowd in Ogden, Utah that "the big federal government, relative to GNP, to a has had to give up his one-man benev­ spenders won." level higher than in any of the four years of olent venture because of the aggrava­ The next day, when the Republican-con­ the Carter Administration. tion of a back ailment and substantial trolled Senate followed suit, several of the Even with the tax increases enacted with damage done to his car which resulted 21 GOP Senators who broke party ranks to Reagan's support earlier this summer, the from an automotive accident. help override the veto had harsh words for CBO projects continuing deficits in the $150 Joe's activities are a first-rate exam­ Reagan and Office of Management and billion to $160 billion range for 1983-85. Budget COMB> director Dave Stockman. During the Carter years, the federal deficit ple of a compassion and concern which "By no responsible account can this be ranged from a low of about $30 billion to a is taken to a unique degree. Despite called a budget buster, as it has been char­ high of close to $60 billion. being hampered by his chronic back acterized by the bean counters at OMB," If Reagan ls to make good on his rhetori­ ailment and a limited source of said Senate Appropriations Committee cal commitment to "fiscal responsibility," income, Joe strived to insure that chairman Mark 0. Hatfield, R-Ore. "I've he will have to take bold action to bring the needy people received comforts of life swallowed hard many times, I've held my government's spending more into line with which would make their lives easier. nose on many occasions," Hatfield contin­ its income. In the view of most budget ana­ He received no compensation of any ued, "but there comes a time when con­ lysts, that can be done only through a com­ science and principle transcend loyalty to bination of measures that the President kind for his efforts. In fact, he paid one's party and one's President." thus far has been reluctant to embrace: a re­ for all the bills he incurred in his Sen. Mark Andrews, R-N.D., declared: duction in the growth of defense spending, effort to locate and distribute the "I'm getting sick and tired of David Stock- cutbacks in politically popular entitlement foodstuffs and clothing. September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25625 His efforts were noted recently by Margaret "Peg" Mendoza, director of the On Thursday the House Public the Gloucester County Times in the department, wrote a letter commending Joe Works and Transportation Committee fallowing newspaper article. Every citi- and Charlie. They "have been working very moved to extract the antidrunk driv­ zen who is dedicated to the principal diligently at their own expense" she wrote ing provision from H.R. 6211, the Sur­ . and "their dedication is admired and re- of helping others thanks Joe GaffJ?-eY spected by the staff of the department as face Transportation Act, and bring it and other selfless citizens like him. · well as the seniors of Gloucester County." to the floor separately. The article follows: Joe also donated items for the Thanksgiv­ H.R. 6170, which seeks to reward No SHAM-DESPITE HIS ILLS, DEPTFORD MAN ing and Christmas food basket program run States which take effective steps to Is ALWAYS READY To HELP OTHERS by Gloucester County Sheriff George Small. combat drunk driving with grants for "Joe has always been extremely helpful to highway construction, could be on the Y ev n onza ez us," said Small. "He never sold five cents floor for a vote today or tomorrow. I DEPTFORD TOWNSHIP.-For a man beset worth of food. He never even suggested it. with enough problems to test the patience hi hope my colleagues will be able to sup­ of Job, Joe Gaffney is well qualified to be Anyone who would say that about m I port this worthwhile legislation. constantly singing the blues. But he doesn't. would think is certainly out of line." Joe and Charlie also found time last The excerpts follow: Despite whatever catastrophe befalls him, Christmas to get gift items for a couple of WHEN You LosE A CHILD THAT'S A HORSE OF he has the capacity to laugh it off. "Oh hundred patients in the v A Hospital in A DIFFERENT COLOR-BUDDY, THAT HURTS boy!" he says with a chuckle and shakes his Coatesville, Pa. Bob Adams, chief of volun­ After Nancy Wilder Brown died, her col­ head as he details yet another problem. teer services there, recalls Joe quite favor- And as if that isn't hard enough to leagues and friends at the Spouse Abuse fathom, there's something else that's puz- ably. "He's the kind of guy who will help if Center in Louisville compiled an album for zling. Joe always has the time and energy to he can," he said. The gifts, he added, were her 4-year-old son, Penn. The green, leath­ help others worse off than himself. His bad free; nobody made any money. erette book contains affectionate remem­ luck never puts a hammerlock on his ability Edith Zimmerman of Washington Town­ brances and pictures of a vibrant young to care. His wife, Violet, might be in the ship, a farmer who has been supplying the woman with a mischievous grin. Her friends hospital, his car may be kaput, his ailing program with free beans and com a couple called her sweet, vivacious, lively, full of back will ache fiercely, he might be wonder- of times a week, said this about him: "He's dreams, unique, special. One woman said, ing how he'll pay his bills, and he just mut- not selling nothing. He's giving it away." "Nancy Wilder Brown made a difference." That's why she's willing to help him. A year ago, Jerry R. Willoughby of Louis­ ters, "Murphy's Law!" and keeps on plug- "He's just a disabled guy who's doing what ging away for the benefit of others. ville made a difference, too. He got drunk But it appears some people just can't buy he can to help others," she added. and killed Nancy Brown in a car wreck. Wil­ that. They're convinced he's a phony, that Maryville Director Jeanne C. Barber was loughby, 29, pleaded guilty to reckless homi­ his chronic Good Samaritanism is a sham. the most eloquent on Joe's behalf. Joe man- cide and public intoxication during a recess And that's just not true. aged to include the alcoholic rehabilitation in his trial, after hearing some of the evi­ The controversy concerns his free food center on his list of places to help with free dence. He admitted to having drunk a pint program. About a year ago, he and a neigh- food. of liquor and two beers. bor, Charlie Patton, began an ambitious vol- "He never took any money," she said. Even so, the screening division of the com­ unteer program to get free food for "He's not getting paid. He paid for his gas monwealth's attorney's office believed the Gloucester County senior citizens. They and his phone bills out of his own pocket." case was too weak to take before a grand have served as the channel for tons of fruit, She knows about his problems and under­ jury. It was pouring rain on the day of the vegetables, bread and chickens for folks who stands why he does what he does. "He's dis­ crash; there were no witnesses; the damage otherwise wouldn't have been able to get abled but he wants to feel productive," said to Mrs. Brown's car indicated little speed, them. Ms. Barber. "There's a human need to do and Willoughby-who told police he tried to Armed with good intentions, a phone di- good and he's doing what he can to respond stop-was never given a Breathalyzer test to rectory, and the belief that people are basi- to that." She also feels the more he worries determine if he was drunk. Nonetheless, cally generous, they began their campaign. about others, the less time he has to ponder police took the case before the grand jury Sometimes, the businesses and farms they about his own problems. on a direct submission of evidence, and Wil­ called were skeptical and refused assistance. Yes, Joe does limp around with the help loughby was indicted. Some were not and gave what they could. of a cane, a cervical collar and a back brace. Tommy Wilder kept his composure They kept a low profile. When I first But his heart and compassion are unim­ through most of the trial, but he fled in wrote about what they were doing, they re- paired. He is unabashedly sentimental and tears as a doctor described his daughter's in­ fused to have their names printed. So I quickly moved to tears when he hears about juries: teeth broken off at the gumline, left called them "a couple of middle-aged whip- someone else's troubles. shoulder crushed, heart punctured, skull persnappers," a nickname given to them by There were times when the program cost pulverized. a farmer who was giving them produce. him so much he couldn't afford to buy food "When you lose a child," said Wilder, a They didn't want other people to think they for his family. His own refrigerator was bare restaurant owner, "that's a horse of a differ­ were in it for the publicity. but he didn't touch any of the food he got ent color, Buddy, that hurts." Patton had to quit because of major sur- for others. In March, Jerry Willoughby was sen­ gery: Gaffney, 49, continued despite his Joe has been forced to give up on the proj­ tenced to a year in prison. The clergyman back injury that is serious enough to keep ect because a recent auto accident aggravat­ who accompanied him to the sentencing him from working. His sole income is from ed his ailment and caused expensive damage asked Jefferson Circuit Judge George Kunz­ Social Security and VA disability. to his car. Ms. Barber has taken it over. man for leniency. The Wilders said Kunz­ But now it's time for their story to go "I'd like to see him get a break,'' she said. man replied, "Father, I don't think you did public for reasons of self-defense. Certain "He's been a real blessing to us. Just about your homework. You're only going to lose individuals are positive Gaffney is making all our sources for food had dried up and him for a few months. These people won't money off this enterprise. They have re- then Joe came along. I'm certain God sent ever see their daughter again." ported him to the local Social Security him to us."e Jerry Willoughby was released on "shock office, which has sent out investigators to probation" May 24, two months after he check on this alleged unreported income. was sentenced. The case is closed, according to Gerard DRUNK DRIVING Nolan, branch manager of the Social Securi­ MILLER AND HIS WIFE "DON'T THINK WE ty office in Glassboro. No wrong-doing was HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOU CAN EVER HAVE CHILDREN AGAIN. WE found. DON'T WANT To TAKE THE CHANCE" I did my own investigation and agree with OF KENTUCKY John Randolph Reed could be anybody's Nolan. First, I asked myself a few questions IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES since I have, on at least three occasions, neighbor. Until last fall, he was earning made substantial deliveries of food to the Tuesday, September 28, 1982 $30,000 a year as a salesman with a large, Gloucester County Office on Aging in national company. He is neat, polite, articu­ e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I late and the father of a little girl. Woodbury when Joe's car had broken down. would like to commend to the atten­ The food was distributed from there to the He also killed a baby after he got behind five senior citizens nutrition centers in the tion of my colleagues the following ex­ the wheel of a car drunk. county. cerpts from Elinor Brecher's Septem­ About dusk one day last September, Did I see any money changing hands? No. ber 5 piece on drunk driving from the Steven and Sandra Miller of Evansville were Did I hear of any financial transactions? No. Courier-Journal magazine. riding their bicycles. Their only child, Nat- 25626 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 alie, 1, was strapped into an infant carrier it eventually, one way or another," Mary honored for his "outstanding and dedi­ on her father's bike. Reed drove his compa­ said.e cated service to the veterans and de­ ny-owned car into the two bikes from behind, knocking both parents off and in­ pendents of Orange County," Mr. juring them severely. MAN OF THE YEAR: BEN DE Speaker, it is with a shared sense of The bikes hung up under the car. Charles LEON pride that I Join my community in Andrus, the Vandenberg County prosecutor honoring the dedicated career of Ben who handled the case, said Natalie was de Leon, Man of the Year for 1982.e dragged nearly one-half mile under the car. HON. JERRY M. PA il'ERSON She died five hours later of massive head in­ OF CALIFORNIA juries. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN Andrus said Reed, 32, testified that he Tuesday, September 28, 1982 STUDIES BILL heard what sounded like the bump of hit­ ting a chuck hole. He was stopped by a mo­ e Mr. PATTERSON. Mr. Speaker, I torist who saw the bikes under the car. He am pleased to recognize the accom­ HON. LEE H. HAMILTON told the court he had amnesia and said he plishments and abilities of Ben de OF INDIANA wasn't intoxicated, having had only two or Leon, an outstanding citizen in my IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES three beers. 38th Congressional District in Califor­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 An Evansville jury took 30 minutes to con­ nia and a very deserving recipient of vict Reed, who had two prior drunken-driv­ the "Man of the Year Award" for e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I am ing arrests of manslaughter. He is serving introducing today along with my col­ two years at the Indiana State Farm in 1982. This award, as bestowed by the Greencastle. Judge Maurice O'Connor fur­ selection committee of Tiempo Sobre league from Illinois, Congressman ther ordered that when he is released, Reed el Tiempro (Time and Time Again), PAUL SIMON, a bill to encourage the be on six years' probation and for eight will soon be presented to Ben during maintenance and development of years be forbidden to drive or drink. Reed the group's fourth annual recognition American expertise on the Soviet was ordered to make a public statement at awards ceremony. Union and its East European allies. his sentencing that he killed Natalie be­ For many years, I have observed This legislation is necessary because cause he was drunk and to complete an Al­ private and public funding for foreign coholics Anonymous program. Ben's professional career in public Steve Miller, who is vice president of the service as the veteran service officer languages and area studies has been Evansville chapter of AIM award such fellowships as the Board DEFINITIONS of Trustees of the National Council deter­ sufficient body of expertise so that if mines will best serve to carry out the pur­ we act now, we can educate a new gen­ SEc. 3. As used in this Act- <1 > the term "Board" means the Interna­ poses of this Act after reviewing applica­ eration of students to meet our need tional Research and Exchanges Board orga­ tions submitted under subparagraph ; for competent analysis and research. nized in 1968 by the American Council of and The present generation of specialists Learned Societies and the Social Science disseminate research, data, and find­ was largely educated in the 20 years Research Council; ings on Soviet studies and related fields in after World War II, when universities, <2> the term "Center" means the Wood­ such a manner and to such extent as the row Wilson International Center for Schol­ Board of Trustees of the National Council private foundations, business, and determines will best serve to carry out the Government joined to support Soviet ars of the Smithsonian Institution; (3) the term "Fund" means the Soviet­ purposes of this Act. bloc studies. In the last 15 years, as Bloc Research and Training Fund estab­ (3) One part of such payments made in funds have dried up, fewer and fewer lished by section 4; each fiscal year to the National Council gifted graduate students have entered <4> the term "institution of higher educa­ shall be used for payments to the Center the field. But this decline can still be tion" has the same meaning given such term to- reversed. in section 120l of the Higher Education provide fellowship support and re­ The bill I am introducing would set Act of 1965; search facilities in the District of Columbia up a special endowment of $50 million (5) the term "National Council" means for American specialists in the field of the National Council for Soviet and East Soviet studies to conduct advanced research for Soviet and East European studies. European Research, a not-for-profit corpo­ with particular emphasis upon the use of The program will be self-sustaining, ration· organized under the laws of the Dis­ data on Soviet-bloc countries; and after the initial appropriation, with in­ trict of Columbia in 1978; and conduct seminars, conferences, and terest from the $50 million supporting (6) the term "Secretary" means the Secre­ other similar workshops designed to facili­ the studies. No further appropriations tary of the Treasury. tate research collaboration between Govern­ will be required. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOVIET-BLOC RESEARCH ment and private specialists in the field of AND TRAINING FUND Soviet and East European studies. A copy of the legislation follows: (4) One part of such payments made in H.R.- SEc. 4. There is established in the Treas­ each fiscal year to the National Council Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ury of the United States a trust fund to be shall be used for payments to the Board to Representatives of the United States of known as the Soviet-Bloc Research and conduct specialized programs in advanced America in Congress assembled, Training Fund. The Fund shall consist of- training and research on a reciprocal basis SHORT TITLE <1 > amounts appropriated to it under sec­ in the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics tion 5; and SECTION. 1. This Act may be cited as the (2) interest and proceeds credited to it and the nations of Eastern Europe designed "Soviet-Bloc Research and Training Act of under section (8)(c). to facilitate access for American specialists 1982". to research institutes, personnel, archives, AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE documentation, and other research and FINDINGS AND DECLARATIONS FUND training resources located in the Union of SEc. 2. The Congress finds and declares SEC. 5. There are authorized to be appro­ Soviet Socialist Republics and such nations. that- priated to the Fund, without fiscal year lim­ Cl> Payments to the National Council Cl > factual knowledge, independently veri­ itation, $50,000,000. under this Act shall be made as soon after fied, about Soviet-bloc countries is of the PAYMENTS FROM THE FUND; USES OF PAYMENTS approval of the application as practicable. utmost importance for the national security (2) Payments to the National Council of the United States, for the furtherance of SEC. 6. The interest on any obligations our national interests in the conduct of for­ held in the Fund shall be available, as pro­ under this Act may be made in installments, vided in advance by appropriations Acts, for in advance, or by way of reimbursement, eign relations, and for the prudent manage­ with necessary adjustments on account of ment of our domestic affairs; payments to the National Council for use in (2) the development and maintenance of accordance with this section. overpayments and underpayments. knowledge about Soviet-bloc countries de­ Cl> One part of the payments made in APPLICATIONS pends upon the national capability for ad­ each fiscal year shall be used by the Nation­ SEc. 7. The National Council shall pre­ vanced research by highly trained and expe­ al Council to- pare and submit an application to the Secre­ rienced specialists, available for service in develop and conduct a research tary once each fiscal year. Each such appli­ and out of Government; agenda of a national research program at cation shall- (3) certain essential functions are neces­ the postdoctoral or equivalent level in the Cl > provide a description of the purposes sary to ensure the existence of that knowl­ field of Soviet and East European studies to for which the payments will be used in ac­ edge and the capability to sustain it, includ­ be designed in consultation with officials of cordance with section 6; and ing- the United States Government designated (2) provide such fiscal control and such ac­ graduate training; by the Secretary of State; counting procedures as may be necessary advanced research; disseminate information about the re­ to insure a proper accounting of Federal public dissemination of research data, search program described in subparagraph funds paid to the applicant under this Act, methods, and findings; and solicit proposals for research con­ and to insure the verification of the contact and collaboration among Gov­ tracts from American institutions of higher costs of the continuing education program ernment and private specialists and the fa­ education and not-for-profit corporations, furnished by the applicant. cilitation of research based on the extensive which contracts shall contain shared-cost (b) The Secretary shall expeditiously ap­ data holdings of the United States Govern­ provisions; and prove any application that meets the re­ ment; and award contracts for such research quirements of this section. first-hand experience of Soviet-bloc projects as the Board of Trustees of the Na­ countries by American specialists including tional Council determines will best serve to :MANAGEMENT OF THE FUND on-site conduct of advanced training and re­ carry out the purposes of this Act after re­ SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the Sec­ search to the extent practicable: viewing the proposals submitted under sub­ retary to invest such portion of the Fund as (4) three existing institutions already or­ paragraph . is not, in his judgment, required to meet ganized to conduct the functions described (2) One part of the payments made in current withdrawals. Such investments may in this section on a national scale are the each fiscal year shall be used by the Nation­ be made only in interest-bearing obligations National Council for Soviet and East Euro­ al Council to- of the United States or in obligations guar­ pean Research, the Woodrow Wilson Inter­ establish and carry out a program of anteed as to both principal and interest by national Center for Scholars, and the Inter­ graduate, postdoctoral, and teaching fellow­ the United States. For such purpose, such national Research and Exchanges Board of ships for advanced training in Soviet studies obligations may be acquired <1) on original American Council of Learned Societies; and and related studies conducted (i) at Ameri­ issue at the issue price, or <2> by purchase of (5) it is in the national interest for the can institutions of higher education, and outstanding obligations at the market price. United States Government to supplement on a shared-cost basis; The purposes for which obligations of the the support for the functions described in disseminate information on the fellow­ United States may be issued under the the section furnished by local, State, region- ship program described in subparagraph Second Liberty Bond Act are extended to 25628 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 authorize the issuance at par of special obli­ stand the staff of the subcommittee, million through the year 1994. Second, gations exclusively to the Fund. Such spe­ after discussions with the GAO audi­ cial obligation shall bear interest at a rate the cumulative imputed interest on equal to the average rate of interest, com­ tors, believe the GAO final estimate the project over the same time period puted as to the end of the calendar month may be as high as $11 billion. may be as much as $3.9 billion. Any obligation acquired by the Fund for the demonstration period. Howev­ can. When totaled, the Clinch River may be sold by the Secretary whether the fuel comes from existing Government-the U.S. taxpayer-as at the market price, and such special obliga­ stockpiles or is produced in the future, much as $8.8 billion. I must point out tions may be redeemed at par plus accured its value could range from $143 million that this is an interim report and the interest. to $1.2 billion. final figures could be very different. The interest on, and the proceeds from On the subject of the sale of electric­ However, I strongly urge all Members the sale or redemption of, any obligations ity produced from the reactor, the held in the Fund shall be credited to and of Congress to review both the interim form a part of the Fund. GAO found the revenue projects may document and the final very carefully. be overstated for a variety of reasons. I am certain given these new estimates REPORT One reason is the DOE is planning on SEC. 9. The National Council shall prepare we will finally be able to put the and submit to the President and the Con­ sale of the electricity from the reactor Clinch River project to rest before the gress at the end of each fiscal year in which to the Tennessee Valley Authority Congress wastes any more money on the National Council receives assistance . However, the TVA is currently this boondoggle.e under this Act a report of the activities of capable of generating more electricity the National Council, and the activities of than needed and the GAO found that the Board and the Center, supported by as­ it was likely the same capacity would A TRIBUTE TO MAYOR JOHN T. sistance under this Act, together with such continue into the life of the Clinch HALLAHAN recommendations as the National Council River project. deems advisable.e As to the allowance for construction HON. GREGORY W. CARMAN contingencies, the GAO has found the OF NEW YORK AN ESTIMATE FOR CLINCH estimates to be too low when com­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RIVER BREEDER REACTOR pared with the actual experience of the nuclear industry. The Clinch Tuesday, September 28, 1982 HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER River project includes an estimated • Mr. CARMAN. Mr. Speaker, I would OF ILLINOIS contingency of 9.2 percent of the con­ like to pay special tribute to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES truction cost estimate. After reviewing mayor of Farmingdale, Mr. John T. the actual contingencies of three TVA Hallahan; the Board of Trustees of Tuesday, September 28, 1982 nuclear powerplants (21 percent, 16 the Village of Farmingdale, Mr. Willis e Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I would percent, and 22 percent), the GAO be­ B. Carman, Jr., Mr. Rocco Posillico, like to draw my colleagues' attention lieves the contingency should be much Mr. Fred Rathgeber, and Mr. Pat Ro­ to an interim report by the General higher. And, I might add, the breeder manelli; and the village of Farming­ Accounting Office on a revised technology is still unproven; even as a dale attorney, Mr. Jack E. Gillies for cost estimate for the Clinch River layman, I would suggest the potential their continued efforts and leadership breeder reactor. The report is a result for construction contingencies would on behalf of senior citizens. I am of a request by Representative JOHN be, at the very least, closer to that of a pleased to announce to my colleagues DINGELL, the chairman of the Subcom­ conventional nuclear plant. How can that through their continued dedica­ mittee on Oversight and Investigation we expect an untried technology to ex­ tion to insuring happy retirements for of the Committee on Energy and Com­ perience few construction setbacks seniors, the Farmingdale Housing De­ merce. given our past experience with con­ velopment Corp. has received funding In the report, the GAO analyzed struction delays in conventional nucle­ to build an 80 unit apartment complex such factors as inflation rates, offsets, ar plants? for seniors at Main and Weiden contingencies, and the costs of pluto­ Separate from the items included in Streets in Farmingdale, N.Y., from the nium. The GAO interim estimate of the DOE estimate that could cause an Department of Housing and Urban the cost of the Clinch River project understatement of the true costs of Development. I would also like to note totals an appalling $8.8 billion. The the project, GAO has found many the efforts of Rabbi Paul Teicher of Department of Energy has been re­ items, which are costs, were not in­ the Farmingdale Jewish Center, Rev. porting the cost to be only $3.65 bil­ cluded in the estimate. Three such Ralph J. Morgan of the Farmingdale lion. items include salaries of the employees United Methodist Church, Rev. Mr. Speaker, I must remind my col­ assigned to the project, the imputed Donald R. Shane of St. Kilian's leagues that the original estimate for interest of Federal funds used for the Roman Catholic Church, Rev. Albert the reactor was $699 million. Now, I project, and the costs to decommission H. Palmer of St. Thomas Episcopal understand that we have experienced the plant at the end of its life. All of Church, and Rev. James R. Corgee of a decade of inflation since the project these are very real costs which have St. Luke's Lutheran Church in secur­ was conceived. But a jump in cost not been calculated. ing this senior housing unit. As a life­ from $699 million to $8.8 billion is a First, the GAO has said the costs of long resident of Farmingdale and as a 1,300-percent increase. And I under- salaries could range from $20 to $30 member of the Select Committee on September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25629 Aging, I take special joy in commend­ Employment and Training of the U.S. demonstrate disrespect for the rule of law, ing my friends on their successful ef­ Department of Labor, the Honorable the threat of the force of law can no longer Alfred R. DeAngelus, Assistant Com­ adequately deal with the problem. forts to have senior citizen housing in When public corruption has infected the Farmingdale.e missioner of the U.S. Customs Service, highest echelons of our government, and the Honorable Donald Senese, Assist­ the response among some national leaders is ant Secretary for Education Research to spend more effort examining the tactics CHARLESJ.BONAPARTE and Improvement of the Department of the investigators and the prosecutors, 22D ANNUAL CEREMONY of Education, and the Honorable Fred and not the state of affairs that led to such Villella, Associate Diretor of Training corruption, then the example set by our HON. MARIO BIAGGI and Education of the Federal Emergen­ leaders undermines, rather than under­ OF NEW YORK cy Management Administration. scores, the need for all to be governed by the rule of law. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I am happy to state that I have been What, then, is the cause for the apparent Tuesday, September 28, 1982 honored on these ceremonies on prior breakdown in respect for law? occasions. Clearly when we compare our present eco­ • Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, on I wish to insert into the RECORD the nomic and social conditions with the condi­ Friday, June 11, 1982, at 11:30 o'clock, speech by Associate Attorney General tions at the turn of the century, the major at the Charles J. Bonaparte Auditori­ Rudolph W. Giuliani who, on the June difference is that certain institutions had a um of the J. Edgar Hoover Federal 11, 1982, ceremony, on behalf of Attor­ much greater share in shaping human de­ Bureau of Investigation Building, ney General William French Smith, velopment then as opposed to now. The in­ there was held the 22d annual Charles presented special awards to Chief stitutions of which I speak are the family, J. Bonaparte ceremony. The first the neighborhood, the town, the church and Judge Edward D. Re and to Mr. John the school. annual ceremony took place on June N. Lacorte, the founder and director Over the past three-quarters of a century, 22, 1961, at the Great Hall of the De­ of the Italian Historical Society of the effect of such institutions has receded, partment of Justice. The ceremony America. in some cases dramatically. More particular­ was sponsored by the Italian Histori­ SPEECH OF ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ly, these institutions, which taught values in cal Society of America and, on that oc­ RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI early stages of development, which imbued casion, the principal speaker, was 64th Congressman Mcclory, Judge Webster, respect for the law early and reinforced it Attorney General of the United Mr. Lacorte, Chief Judge Re, distinguished often, no longer have the same force in our States, the Honorable Robert F. Kenne­ guests and friends. It is an honor to be here society as they once had. This has left a dy. The speakers on that occasion in­ today, as the representative of the Attorney vacuum that government alone cannot, and General, at the Italian Historical Society's should not, fill. cluded the director of the Italian We do not have in this nation, nor do we historical Society of America, Mr. John Annual Charles J. Bonaparte Ceremony. This is the twenty-second consecutive year want to have, a pervasive government. Two N. Lacorte, who spearheaded the drive in which we celebrate the contributions of hundred years ago we devised a form of lim­ to honor Attorney General Bonaparte, Charles J. Bonaparte, whose accomplish­ ited government, limited by checks and bal­ and to make his good works and contri­ ments have been outlined this morning. ances among the branches of the federal butions better known. The presiding of­ Bonaparte served in law enforcement at government, limited by the principle of fed­ ficer at that inaugural ceremony was the turn of the century, a period which, in eralism in the relationship between the fed­ the Honorable Edward D. Re, who retrospect, seems now to have been a sim­ eral government and the states, and limited then served in the Kennedy adminis­ pler day. The nation, of course, faced diffi­ by a Constitution which derives solely from cult problems then. It found itself in a powers ceded by the people and by a Bill of tration as Chairman of the Foreign period of transition, as vast numbers of im­ Rights enacted to protect the individual Claims Settlement Commission of the migrants entered our shores, as society con­ from the exercise of pervasive and arbitrary United States. On that occasion, on tinued its movement away from the rural government. behalf of the Italian Historical Society areas and into large cities. But certainly, in Without such limitations in law, govern­ of America, a monument to honor the 1906, America did not face the pervasive ment could, in theory and in practice, step memory of Charles J. Bonaparte was drug problem we face today. It did not face in and fill the vacuum left by the deteriora­ placed at the Ninth Street and Penn­ the frightening and widespread epidemic of tion of families, churches and schools as the violent crime we face today. It did not face teachers of values. In some Communist gov­ sylvania Avenue entrance to the De­ ernments, the state begins mind control and partment of Justice Building. All of us today's immigration problems, which are so vastly different from those presented in the behavior modification when its citizens are owe a debt of gratitude to John La­ still-undeveloped America of 1906. still very young and inculcates the values it corte and the Italian Historical Socie­ Why are American's crime problems so wants to teach at very early stages of devel­ ty for having continued these annual much more grave than those we faced at the opment. This is certainly the most effective ceremonies. turn of the century? Can it be said that our and efficient way to teach such values. This most recent ceremony was par­ society today is more underprivileged than But we do not want such a pervasive gov­ ticularly impressive. The speakers on in 1906? That the gap between rich and ernment. It would offend our laws and tradi­ this occasion included the Honorable poor is greater today than in 1906? In short, tion, and in the long run it would not work. Rudolph W. Giuliani, Associate Attor­ can it be said, as many have said for the If we do not want pervasive authoritarian past 20 years, that poverty and deprivation government, then we must recognize that ney General of the United States, the are the primary causes of crime? government does not have the power, or the Honorable William H. Webster, Direc­ In my view, history and experience re­ mechanisms, for solving this entire problem. tor of the Federal Bureau of Investiga­ quire that we answer those questions with a We will begin to renew our national respect tion, Dr. Philip Guarino, director of the firm "no." Americans are far more affluent for the rule of law only when we begin to re­ Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Ital­ today than in the day of Charles J. Bona­ build the important institutions, outside of ian Historical Society, and the Honora­ parte. Although economic problems persist, government, which mold young Americans ble Edward D. Re, chief judge of the we are today more materially secure, at all and reinforce the values so critical to pro­ levels of society, than we ever have been. ductive participation in society. U.S. Court of International Trade. The Clearly, history refutes the notion that No institution is more crucial to this proc­ distinguished audience included the today's crime problems are surely the prod­ ess than the family. The values taught Honorable ROBERT MCCLORY, Congress­ ucts of poverty, deprivation. within the family structure play a primary man from Illinois, the Honorable How­ What, then, is the cause of our current role in developing character. All of us here ard T. Markey, chief judge of the U.S. crime problems? Ultimately, in my view, the who abide by the rule of law do so not for Court of Customs and Patents Appeals, pervasiveness of crime in our society stems fear of punishment but because we were the Honorable William H. Webster, Di­ from a breakdown in respect for and volun­ taught the value of voluntary adherence to tary adherence to the rule of law. law by our parents, and then later by our rector of the Federal Bureau of Investi­ When the majority in a society has re­ teachers, clergymen and others. They gation, the Honorable Kevin D. spect for the rule of law, government can taught by example; they taught by direc­ Rooney, Assistant Attorney General contain crime by using the force of legal tive; and their lessons ran deep. Without for Administration, the Honorable Al­ sanctions against the small number with no doubt, the command of law in a free society bert Angrisani, Assistant Secretary for respect for the law. But when large numbers is an empty one unless it is given substance 25630 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 by the willingness of the people to support Re has returned each year since then to and provide emergency aid to the in­ it. Without doubt, the willingness of the honor Bonaparte's memory and to celebrate nocent victims. people to support and respect the law can Bonaparte's accomplishments as Attorney The Jewish Federation of Greater only be instilled by the fundamental lessons General. learned within American families. Judge Re, on behalf of Attorney General Bridgeport has formulated a resolu­ The recommendation of a day to honor Smith, I present you with this Special Com­ tion which I believe correctly ex­ the American family comes at an important mendation Award in recognition of your un­ presses the proper course to follow in time in our history. At no time has the tiring efforts. Your work has helped bring alleviating human suffering within American family been under such attack, in honor to the Department of Justice as we southern Lebanon whenever it is theory and in practice. Efforts such a the commemorate each year the contribution of within their power to do so. I have one recommended by the Italian historical Charles J. Bonaparte. asked that it be printed in the CON­ society, to set aside a day as American AWARD FOR JOHN N. LA CORTE Family Day, will help rebuild the American GRESSIONAL RECORD and I commend it It is my distinct pleasure this morning to to all my colleagues, the administra­ family. These efforts must be applauded by present to Mr. John La Corte, on behalf of all Americans. More laws, more police, more the Attorney General, this Special Com­ tion, and any other interested parties. judges, more prisons, longer sentences may mendation Award. This award is presented The Jewish Federation of Greater help to control the problem of crime and in recognition of Mr. La Carte's many con­ Bridgeport's resolution follows. disrespect for law in our society. But ulti­ tributions over more than two decades to Whereas, there has been military activity mately such measures will have far less causes of tremendous significance to the De­ conducted between and among various per­ effect than rebuilding the primary teachers partment of Justice. sons and parties within Lebanon at various of values-the family, the school and the More than twenty-one years ago, Mr. La times since 1975 and, more recently, during church. Corte conceived the idea of honoring much of the period from June 5, 1982 until We can be fiercely proud of the legal and Charles J. Bonaparte, the 46th Attorney June, 1982, and social system we have inherited from the General of the United States. By the early Whereas, as a result of the said military time of Bonaparte and even earlier. But 1960's, Bonaparte's contributions as a civil activity, there has been extensive suffering that pride should not even for a moment service reformer and in other areas had al­ among Lebanese civilians residing in south­ delay us in the task of improving our system ready been recognized by several historical ern Lebanon, and even more. It should not deter us from groups. But no one before Mr. La Corte had coming to the rescue of the rule of law. Whereas, both the United States of Amer­ ever chosen to study and acknowledge Bona­ ica and the State of Israel recognize in gen­ And that is by no means work merely for parte's contributions to law enforcement, in­ lawyers or policemen or judges. That is not eral a moral obligation to alleviate human cluding, of course, his founding of the inves­ suffering in the world whenever it is within just work for government officials-al­ tigative arm of the Department of Justice though they must, more than anyone else, their power practicably to do so: It is hereby which later became the Federal Bureau of Resolved, That the respective govern­ set an example. That is work for citizens, Investigation. for parents, for teachers, for all who derive ments of the United States of America and And so, 21 years ago this month, Mr. La the State of Israel should undertake in co­ benefit from our laws. They must under­ Corte stood at the entrance to the Depart­ stand the importance of the rule of law as ordination with each other to make a ment of Justice at 9th and Pennsylvania. He prompt and reasonable effort to alleviate the fundamental underpinning of our socie­ stood there with Robert F. Kennedy, our ty, our government and our civilization. human suffering within southern Lebanon, 64th Attorney General. And they placed including the providing of food, water, shel­ They must treat it as something special and and dedicated a monument to Charles J. Bo­ essential. And as parents, teachers, church­ ter and medical assistance to civilians who naparte in recognition of Bonaparte's con­ are in need of food, water, shelter or medi­ goers and neighbors, they must live by the tributions to the Department of Justice and rule of law and promote respect for it as a cal assistance as a result of said military ac­ to law enforcement. tivities.• vital and sacred precept. And every year since 1961, Mr. La Corte, AWARD FOR CHIEF JUDGE EDWARD D. RE at his own expense and on his own time, has It is also with distinct pleasure that I pre­ made the trip to Washington to honor Bo­ ARTIFICIAL FAMINE IN sent a Special Commendation Award to naparte. UKRAINE 0932-33) Judge Edward Re, the Chief Judge of the Mr. La Corte, on behalf of William French United States Court of International Trade. Smith, the 74th Attorney General of the Judge Re's accomplishments are truly out­ United States, I formally thank you for HON. CLARENCE J. BROWN standing. Chief Judge Re is a noted educa­ your untiring efforts in bringing honor and OF OHIO tor, scholar and distinguished public serv­ recognition to Charles J. Bonaparte and all ant. He has been in government service that Bonaparte stood for. Your efforts are a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES since 1961, serving first as Chairman of the model for all concerned citizens. Your work Tuesday, September 28, 1982 Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of has brought honor not only to Bonaparte the United States by appointment of Presi­ and his memory, but the Department of e Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, dents Kennedy and Johnson, and later as Justice as a whole over the course of two this year, 1982, commemorates a very Assistant Secretary of State for Educational decades. We thank you heartily and I pre­ tragic anniversary in the continuing and Cultural Affairs by appointment of sent you with this Special Commendation quest for human rights. Fifty years President Johnson. In 1968 President John­ Award as a symbol of our appreciation.e ago, Stalin and his Commujist Russian son appointed him a Judge of the United followers imposed an artificial famine States Customs Court and in 1977, he became Chief Judge of that Court. In 1980 A RESOLUTION TO AID on the rich farmland known as the he became the first Chief Judge of the LEBANON Ukraine. On Saturday, October 2, cere­ United States Court of International Trade, monies will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, the successor court to the United States HON. STEW ART B. McKINNEY to remember the atrocities committed Customs Court. and the suffering of millions of people. Judge Re is a Distinguished Professor of OF CONNECTICUT The following is a history of the Law at St. John's University and holds the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES famine prepared by George Kul­ Martin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Tuesday, September 28, 1982 chycky, professor of history at at New York Law School. He was a member of the board of higher education of the City e Mr. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, the Youngstown State University. of New York from 1958 until 1969 and once recent events in Beirut can only be Shaking clear from the centuries old again is a member of that board. He is truly looked upon with deep sorrow and re­ Russian occupation of the czarist a prolific writer and has authored several of morse. The tragic events make it still regime, the Ukrainians established the leading case books used in law schools clearer the need for nations to work their independence on January 22, throughout the country on the subjects of together to bring about peaceful nego­ 1918. The immediate invasion of the remedies, equity and advocacy. tiation and an end to violence in the newly formed state by Russian Com­ And this morning the Attorney General wishes to honor Judge Re for his contribu­ Middle East. In this vein, it is more ap­ mujists initiated a fierce struggle be­ tions to the Charles J . Bonaparte ceremony. parent than ever before the need for tween the two and precluded the fail­ Judge Re chaired the first Bonaparte cere­ the United States and Israel to take ure of the Ukrainian Republic in No­ mony on June 22, 1961 at which Attorney the lead in encouraging an interna­ vember 1920. Yet in its struggle with General Robert F. Kennedy spoke. Judge tional effort to help rebuild Lebanon the Ukrainian nation, communism was September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25631 forced to temporarily abandon some of chose. Lawlessness was sanctified by them in commemorating this impor­ its goals. The resistance of the Ukrain­ decree. Whole families were thrown tant event. ian peasantry to russification and to out of their homes and forced to live The first settlers came to Claremont land collectivization forced Lenin to in holes like mice on the fields. Those in the early 1880's, attracted by the adopt the new economic policy known suspected of stealing food were shot as frantic railroad rate wars of the period also as Ukrainization in Ukraine. But pilferers even if the crime was as inno­ and the land boom in southern Cali­ this attempt to placate the Ukrainians cent as gleaning. As food became im­ fornia. By the end of the decade, a ultimately yielded to the Russians a possible to obtain, "Torgsen" state second influx of settlers arrived; this policy which would have dire conse­ stores were set up to wrest even the group of hearty Congregationalists, quences for the Ukrainians. By this family heirlooms from the poor starv­ experience, the Russians learned to many of them from New England, ing wretches. Those wishing to survive were singleminded in their determina­ use famine as an instrument of policy, and strong enough to travel, attempt­ the first of which they initiated in tion to make their new home a place ed to escape the village only to find of beauty and culture. Governed by Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, in that escape was futile. And as this 1921. the traditional New England town happened the state decreed that no meeting, they organized volunteer After Lenin's death it was up to one was to know of the crime. Western Stalin to continue the communization humanitarian organizations wishing to labor groups to plant trees throughout and subjugation of Ukraine. This he give aid to the rumored victims were the city, while citizen committees took achieved in a manner unprecedented told that no aid was needed. Newsmen responsibility for everything from in history. He rendered the Ukrainian were not allowed into the country. street construction to the manage­ nation headless by first destroying its Ukraine was efficiently blockaded in­ ment of the newly formed school intellectuals, politicians, and church ternally and externally. system. hierarchy. Having achieved this, he Death on the streets was common. By the turn of the century, however, proceeded to implement collectiviza­ So was suicide, murder, kidnaping, and Claremont's growth made it apparent tion and industrialization of the Soviet cannibalism. Thus, Stalin achieved his that the city could be better managed Union at the expense of the Ukrainian objectives. He humbled the Ukrainian by a formal city government, rather peasantry. village and its desire for freedom. He than the democratic but unwieldy Using the experience of the famine collectivized the land and destroyed of 1921-22, Stalin projected it into Claremont Town Meeting. True to his purported Kulak or Kurkul "class Claremont's commitment to communi­ 1932-33. The official policy of Moscow enemies." He industrialized Russia by was clearly reflected and expressed in ty participation, it took several years paying for it with Ukrainian blood and of debate before the town voted, in the decrees of the Communist Party bread. and men like Stalin, Kosior, Posty­ 1907, to incorporate as a general law Never before in the history of man­ city. shev, Molotov, and others. One can kind, let alone in the ric~est agricul­ conclude very clearly, and quickly that ture area of Europe, Ukrame, had man Incorporation was a crucial turning in a planned economy as the Soviet suffered such mass privation and de­ point in Claremont's histkry because it Union had, the resulting disaster in struction. It is estimated that Ukraine set the stage for the residential and Ukraine was indeed a planned, artifi­ lost at least 7 million people during commercial expansion of the 1920's, cial famine-a Ukrainian holocaust. this holocaust. Mr. Skrypnyk, a lead­ and led to the development of guide­ While obtaining agricultural goods ing Ukrainian Communist, who in de­ lines for Claremont's future growth. and money for his projected industri­ spair shot himself in 1933, said that 8 In making this transition, however, alization of Russia, Stalin consciously million died. The head of the secret the people of Claremont never forgot plotted the destruction of the Ukraini­ police, V. Balytsky maintained that the importance of community involve­ an peasants. Significantly, the attack the figure was 9 million, while J. ment. Town meetings continued in the had an anti-Ukrainian character in years immediately following the incor­ that it encompassed only the Ukraini­ Stalin testified to W. Churchill that an villages and was not aimed at the the famine dead numbered 10 million poration; and community participa­ rich or "class enemies" of communism. people. tion, whether in the form of formal Cities in Ukraine, occupied by the Ukraine, where millions of those un­ public hearings or informal local meet­ Russians, did not experience the sub­ fortunates died, today is systematical­ ings, has helped guide Claremont's sequent horrors. Only the Ukrainian ly colonized by the Russians. The growth in the 75 years since then. genocide of the Ukrainian nation Residents of Claremont can take pride village suffered. Its losses numbered begun in 1921 and 1932-33 continues over 7 million dead. in a superlative school system, well­ The height of this manmade famine in the form of Russification. kept neighborhoods, an efficient local occurred in 1932-33 and was methodi­ The victims' cries reach across the government, and a level of community cally carried out by Moscow. On the years. The question is, "Will we involvement matched by few other pretext of creating collective farms, listen?"• cities-all made possible by the long­ peasants were dispossessed of their standing commitment of the people of property. Those who objected were THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF Claremont to their city. beaten, robbed, deported, or killed. In CLAREMONT, CALIF. The 75th anniversary of Claremont's order to pay for the industrial equip­ incorporation is indeed an important ment, all grain, including next year's HON. DAVID DREIER event. It is both a recognition of the planting seed, was confiscated from OF CALIFORNIA accomplishments of the past and a re­ the peasantry. "Red Broom" brigades affirmation of Claremont's dedication swept through the villages seeking IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "stolen grain." Special instruments Tuesday, September 28, 1982 to preserve its close-knit community were used by these henchmen to dis­ and unique lifestyle. I am proud to e Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I would know the people of Claremont and to cover the "hiding places" which in the like to take a moment to pay tribute to end yielded mere ounces of food. represent them in this Congress. I join the city of Claremont, Calif., which them in celebrating this festive occa­ Stoves were destroyed, walls torn will celebrate the 75th anniversary of apart and roofs made irreparable on its incorporation on October 9, 1982. sion and wish them the best of luck in the threshold of winter. Special units The people of Claremont have built a years to come.e made up of secret policemen and hard­ city that is unique among southern ened criminals took whatever they California's many cities, and I join 25632 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 THE INTER-AMERICAN dation has been able to make a differ­ small grants for equipment and the where­ FOUNDATION IS HELPING OUT ence in the lives of thousands of poor withal for training in bookkeeping, invento­ people throughout Latin America and ry control, purchasing and marketing. Last the Caribbean by providing, as Mr. year a fellow who makes children's shoes HON. MICHAEL D. BARNES was able to buy some lasts and tools, and OF MARYLAND McPherson argues: now, in a shop about the size of our elev­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . . . an element of hope that some of the enth floor conference room, employs eight people who could normally look to lives of Tuesday, September 28, 1982 or nine workers. Some of them are ten or heart-crushing deprivation will find a way twelve years old, and they sit gluing togeth­ •Mr. BARNES. Mr. Speaker, I would to care for themselves and their families, er cheap black shoes in conditions that like to share with my colleagues an ar­ gain self-respect and show the way to would make OSHA and the unions here ticle on the Inter-American Founda­ others. raise the roof in protest. But the alternative tion and its accomplishments in the I want to share with my colleagues is worse-joining the workless people out­ Dominican Republic as viewed by a Mr. McPherson's description of a few side the sewer-run streets. member of the Foundation's Advisory small ways in which the IAF has been Another fellow makes handbags, a woman able to make a difference. And this makes shirts in a spic-and-span room entitled "Helping Out" originally ap­ difference in the nature of official de­ outside of which a handful of men split a peared in the newsletter of Mr. velopment assistance was mandated by bottle of rum. Another woman, an ebullient McPherson's law firm. Congress, and its most important com­ artist, has trained a dozen women to make In 1969, the Congress, recognizing ponent is the recognition that the excellent decorative pillows, dolls and party that "the future of freedom, security, people themselves should be the initia­ masks. Some of the women were prostitutes, and economic development in the tors of and full participants in their some simply trying to hold families together Western Hemisphere rests on the real­ development process. The IAF believes in paper shacks near the river, but all had a ization that man is the foundation of that "a sense of self-help among the natural gift for color and design, and after people for whom the projects are many interviews and tests were taken on for all human progress", created the training. Outside that shop were tin-roofed Inter-American Foundation to provide mounted • • • is about as important hovels, naked children, dogs whose bones support for development projects de­ as the end product itself." seemed almost outside their skins. signed to capitalize on this human re­ The article follows: Thirty carpenters and woodworkers have source. HELPING OUT joined in a cooperative to buy wood more In order to accomplish this, the Con­ cheaply and to market their furniture more gress clearly outlined the purpose and Several years ago I traveled with our profitably. We saw one fellow, covered with mandate of the Foundation: friend and client Peter Jones -for which dividually. the Appropriations Act denied funding last There is more to be told, but enough for Tuesday, September 28, 1982 year. now-you get the idea: a small American aid The House-Senate Conference which pro­ program that intervenes when some very e Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, in the September 1982, Europe/Amer­ duced the final version of the Defense Au­ poor Latin Americans show the will and the thorization Act went even further than the capacity to better their lives; that provides ica Letter, an international defense House of Representatives what they cannot hope to acquire for them­ policy briefing for senior defense man­ in blunting the impact of the remaining selves, equipment 1 and basic management agers in Europe and North America, "Buy American" proposals. Specifically, the training; that has seen many such endeav­ there was a thoughtful and cogent ar­ conferees: ors fail because of the carelessness, mendac­ ticle by Thomas A. Callaghan, Jr. As a Eliminated what congressmen had dubbed ity, or simply volitional fatigue of its partici­ defense marketing executive, Dr. Cal­ the "Dan Flood Memorial Amendment" which succeeds greatly. It is a minute effort, given tary communications satellite and the would have required the Pentagon to pro­ the enormity of Latin America arid her U.S. Marine Corps procurement of the cure American coal for U.S. bases in Europe, human problems, but it is quite inspiring in Harrier aircraft from the United King­ regardless of cost. a time when such efforts are out of fash­ dom. Sustained a prohibition against leasing ion.e In addition, the Callaghan Report of T-5 Replacement Tankers which have a 1974 for the U.S. Department of State main propulsion system, or any other major COMMEMORATING THE ROLE has long been recognized as the core component, not built in the United States. document in the establishment of U.S. In an unguarded moment, the sponsor of OF THE SCHOOL NURSE this amendment-Representative Les Aspin policy on a transatlantic defense in­ • Mr. OXLEY. Mr. Speaker, in recog­ I am pleased to share Dr. Calla­ circulated before 1 July 1982. nition of the October 4 observance of ghan's thoughtful commentary with Amended the United States Code to au­ thorize an exception to the prohibition National Child Health Day, I would my colleagues, because I believe it against constructing a naval vessel in a foreign ship­ vices of school nurses in promoting which we in the Congress, and more yard, providing <1 >the President determines the health of children in our Nation's important, the administration, should it to be in the national interest to do so, <2> schools. address and pursue vigorously, in notifies the Congress of such determination, School nurses strengthen and facili­ order to help insure the continued via­ and <3> no contract is agreed until 30 days tate the educational process by im­ bility of NATO. after such notice. proving and protecting the health Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Required the Secretary of Defense to status of children and by identifying inform the Congress of a procurement THE DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT Is A GREAT which would make the United States de­ and assisting in the removal or modifi­ PI.us FOR ALLIED ARMAMENTS COOPERATION, pendent upon a foreign manufacturer for cation of health-related barriers to the BUT**• essential equipment, but without the re­ learning process for individual chil­ quirement for a 30-day delay in procure­ dren. The major focus of school nurs­ The Defense Authorization Act, 1983, ment. ing services is the prevention of illness passed the Congress last month. It repealed Two of the provisions showed the continu­ and disability, and the early detection virtually all of last December's "anti-coop­ ing congressional concern over the appropri­ and correction of health problems. eration" amendments. It rejected or nulli­ ate balance between American commitments The school nurse is especially pre­ fied a large new crop of "Buy American" to Europe and elsewhere, and the need for proposals. It contained more positive sup­ still greater allied burden-sharing. Thus the pared and uniquely qualified in the port for allied armaments cooperation than Congress: areas of preventive health, health as­ any thing the congress has yet done, includ­ Authorized only $15.0 million of the $31.0 sessment, and referral procedures. ing the Culver-Nunn Amendments of six million requested by DoD for prepositioning The important function served by years ago. So the ball is now in the Presi­ additional material in Belgium and the the nurses in our schools cannot be dent's court! But-it's not yet clear what . But do about this congressional windfall. More in taking this halfstep, the conferees again 1 I leave for another time a description of "alter­ expressed their apprehension lest such addi­ native technology," a rather clumsy phrase from about that later. the lexicon of development. What it means is that The Authorization Act disposed of the tional prepositioning <1 >affect the ability of . the people being assisted are invited to help come "anti-cooperation" amendments by: the United States to respond to contingen­ up with simple, inexpensive variations on the kind Repealing the prohibition against procur­ cies outside the NATO area, or <2> degrade of tools we use routinely in building and manufac­ ing weapons or equipment containing spe­ the overall readiness of the National Guard turing. Seeing photographs of one dramatic town­ cialty metals produced outside the United and Reserve Forces, which also need this rebuilding project sponsored by IAF, I suggested to States. equipment. the Dominican who had organized the project that Repealing the prohibition against procur­ Required still a third and more detailed a Chinook helicopter would make short work of moving supplies to the site. But that is Just what ing chemical warfare protective clothing report from the Secretary of Defense on IAF can neither afford, nor what it seeks to accom­ produced abroad. allied contributions to the common defense; plish: a sense of self-help among people for whom Amending the administrative use vehicle reinstated a provision dropped last year ex­ the project is mounted. That sense, IAF believes, is provision enacted last year so as to honor pressing the sense of the Congress that the about as important as the end product itself. both the US/FRO AW ACS Offset Agree- NATO allies and Japan should increase 25634 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 their contributions to a level more commen­ Reagan administration; by the Canadian or between Western Europe and North Amer­ surate with their economic resources; and European governments. But, because it is so ica that would increase the efficiency and called upon the President to seek greater remarkable and so unremarkable-particu­ effectiveness of NATO expenditures by pro­ allied acceptance of their international secu­ larly at a time of severe trans atlantic viding a larger production base while elimi­ rity responsibilities, and greater allied con­ stress-many questions remain. Among nating unnecessary duplication of defense­ tributions to the common defense. them: industrial efforts; In several program areas, the Congress Will the secretaries of Defense and State, (3) to share more equitably and efficiently showed positive support for much greater and the National Security Advisor, recom­ allied armaments cooperation. The House­ the financial burdens, as well as the eco­ mend to the President that he act upon the nomic benefits (including jobs, technology, Senate conferees: 87-1 constitutional advice of the Senate Increased the budget request from $677.1 of NATO defense; and million for the procurement of 18 McDon­ Representatives>. and implement the Roth­ (4) to intensify consultations promptly for nell Douglas/British Aerospace jet V/STOL Glenn-Nunn Amendment? the early achievement of the objectives de­ Harrier aircraft to $779.0 million Will the Secretary of Defense put some­ scribed in clauses <1> through <3>.e for 21 AV8Bs. body in charge of allied cooperation? Full­ Approved the $13.994 million requested time? At the assistant secretary level? With for the Navy's ARAPAHO Project exploring adequate authority and staff? the antisubmarine potential of the helicop­ Will the Department of Defense recognize ter/container-ship combination, and then that armaments cooperation is a govern­ JEWS IN THE U.S.S.R. added $4.0 million to explore other poten­ mental with the NATO, ANZUS, riders, and other "Buy American" proposals, Tuesday, September 28, 1982 and other allies. in this year's Defense Appropriations bill? Added $50.0 million to the $98.9 million The full text of the Roth-Glenn-Nunn e Mr. PHILLIP BURTON. Mr. Speak­ requested for the procurement of the Brit­ Amendment on NATO Defense Industrial er, in May of last year, as part of the ish Aerospace Rapier air defense missile Cooperation follows: congressional vigil on Soviet Jewry, I system-with the additional sum to be used Sec. 1122. The Congress finds that- spoke of the plight of Eitan and Alex­ to procure and deploy in Europe either the <1 >the United States remains firmly com­ Rapier, or the Franco-German Roland, or mitted to cooperating closely with its North andra Finkelshtein and their. young the French Crotale, for the defense of Atlantic Treaty Organization (hereinafter daughter Miriam. American air bases on the continent. in this section referred to as "NATO"> allies I am greatly distressed that, as I par­ Declared that a timely and comprehensive in protecting liberty and maintaining world ticipate in the vigil again this year, NATO conventional force modernization peace; this courageous family still suffers at program is necessary and urgent-and di­ (2) the financial burden of providing for rected the Secretary of Defense to submit a the defense of Western Europe and for the the hands of the Soviet Government. report to the Congress next year on the po­ protection of the interests of NATO Eitan Finkelshtein, a member of the tential advancements in conventional weap­ member countries in areas outside the Lithuanian Helsinki monitoring group, ons and munitions affecting NATO's war­ NATO treaty area has reached such propor­ has been trying to emigrate to Israel fighting capabilities in an air-land battle. tions that new cooperative approaches since 1971. He has not only been The SecDef report is to include a compre­ among the United States and its NATO hensive program for the development and allies are required to achieve and maintain denied an exit visa but he has not production of <1 > a second-echelon interdic­ an adequate collective defense at acceptable been allowed to work in his profession­ tion capability, and (2) a counter-air weapon costs; al field, physics, since he first applied capability. The conferees required that <3> the need for a credible conventional for an exit visa. "both programs should entail plans for sub­ deterrent in Western Europe has long been The Finkelshteins are reported to be sequent European participation through co­ recognized in theory but has never been development and coproduction agreements." fully addressed in practice; under constant surveillance, their tele­ Lastly, the Congress enacted a revised <4> a more equitable sharing by NATO phone conversations monitored and in­ Roth-Glenn-Nunn Amendment on NATO member countries of both the burdens and terrupted and their mail cut off. Defense Industrial Cooperation. Originally the technological and economic benefits of Eitan has been active in the human pointed at the NATO Summit, the Roth­ the common defense would do much to rein­ rights movement and is a contributor Glenn-Nunn Amendment passed the Senate vigorate the North Atlantic Treaty Organi­ last May by a roll call vote of 87-1. The zation alliance with a restored sense of to the journal, "Jews in the U.S.S.R." complete text of the revised amendment ap­ unity and common purpose; Because of his concerns for human pears at the end of this article. The amend­ <5> a decision to coordinate more effective­ rights, because of his own desire to ex­ ment calls upon the President to propose to ly the enormous technological, industrial, ercise the right to emigrate to Israel, allied heads of government that they agree: and economic resources of NATO member To create-at acceptable costs-a credible, countries will not only increase the efficien­ Eitan Finkelshtein has lost his profes­ collective, conventional force for the de­ cy and effectiveness of NATO military ex­ sion, been fired from even short-term fense of the North Atlantic Treaty area; penditures but also provide inducement for menial jobs, and he and his family To establish a cooperative defense-indus­ the Soviet Union to enter into a meaningful must live in virtual isolation. trial effort within Europe, and between arms reduction agreement so that both This gross violation of human rights Europe and North American, that would Warsaw Pact countries and NATO member is the concern of all persons of good provide a larger production base while elimi­ countries can devote more of their energies nating unnecessary duplication of effort; and resources to peaceful and economically will the world over. To share more equitably and efficiently more beneficial pursuits. I strongly urge the Soviet Govern­ the financial burdens, as well as the eco­ It is the sense of the Congress that the ment to end its harassment of the Fin­ nomic benefits of NATO defense: and government of the NATO member countries that the NATO allies of the United States allow them to immigrate to Israel. To intensify consultations promptly for join the United States in agreeing- Whenever the free movement of the early achievement of these objectives. <1 > to coordinate more effectively their de­ people is denied, wherever the human All in all, this year's Defense Authoriza­ fense efforts and resources to create, at ac­ spirit and free expression are restrict­ tion Act is a remarkable declaration of con­ ceptable costs, a credible, collective, conven­ ed, in each instance that human digni­ gressional support for the North Atlantic tional force for the defense of the North At­ Alliance, and for still greater allied coopera­ lantic Treaty area; ty is degraded, then it is our obligation tion. Remarkable, but, unremarked-by the <2> to establish a cooperative defense-in­ to speak out and to call attention to media here, in Canada, or in Europe; by the dustrial effort within Western Europe and these violations of basic justice.e September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25635 FIGHTING INFLATION IS PAIN­ If the costs had been laid out more clear­ CONTRACT SANCTITY BILLS FUL-AND WE NEED TO FIND ly, the political momentum in favor of curb­ SOME BETTER IDEAS ing inflation may have been less. These also may have been a more vigorous attempt to HON. BILL FRENZEL HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK find other ways of doing it. OF MINNESOTA Reagan officials often have rejected the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA notion of a trade-off between inflation and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES unemployment, whereby lower inflation Tuesday, September 28, 1982 must be bought at the cost of higher unem­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 ployment, and low unemployment leads to e Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, this •Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, recently, faster inflation. year there have been many "contract the Washington Post business section But the present notable success in reduc­ sanctity" bills which would permit carried an insightful editorial entitled ing inflation has resulted in large part from contracts for agricultural products to "Fighting Inflation Is Painful.'' recession. Severely depressed markets have be honored regardless as to whether a Basically, the message of the column cut some commodity prices, and have forced foreign policy restriction would be is that voters should never, ever trust manufacturers and retailers to hold down made that would nullify existing con­ their prices. tracts to other countries. These bills politicians who promise to end both For any inflation gain to be long lasting, it inflation and unemployment. But must feed through to wages. If labor costs would also permit contracts made what is interesting is that this admin­ continue to rise rapidly, then eventually through foreign subsidiaries to be istration has apparently completely businesses have to push up prices to cover honored. forgotten the human suffering of un­ them if they are to survive. Wage inflation Today I have introduced a bill which employment and has no suggestion or has apparently moderated somewhat during would permit contracts for all agricul­ idea of how to get unemployment the recession. High and rising unemploy­ tural products and for all manufac­ ment has pushed workers into accepting tured goods to be honored in the event down to some less tragic level. There smaller wage increases than they otherwise must be some more happy medium­ would. that any restriction is imposed on the some level of moderation. Administration officials now say that the export of any item to an offending I believe a wise administration would predicted economic recovery will be unusu­ country. seek to find the bottlenecks in society al-it will not trigger faster inflation, and Obviously, this bill is directed at the which are particularly inflationary­ will therefore represent a break with the export controls imposed on December health care, highly trained technician past. But the predictions of economic 30, 1981, and June 22, 1982, which skills, alternative energy forms-and growth without much speeding up of price forbid the transfer of any U.S. tech­ rises again depend to a great extent on the nology for the Soviet Union's gas pipe­ concentrate on removing those bottle­ fact that only a very weak recovery is fore­ necks so that we can move toward cast. Unemployment is likely to stay ex­ line to Western Europe. Both of these more jobs without returning to the traordinarily high. decisions, particularly the latter which days of double-digit inflation. Clearly, Claims that government could achieve extended the controls to foreign sub­ we need some better ideas than those much lower inflation with little cost in sidiaries and licensees of U.S. compa­ of President Hoover and President terms of unemployment rested in some nies have and will continue to have Reagan. cases on the "rational expectations" view disastrous effects. They are disrupting The article follows: that if wage and price setters only knew in our relationships with our European advance that monetary policy would put a allies. Many companies in my area FIGHTING INFLATION Is PAINFUL lid on the economy, they would tailor their wage and price demands so as to stay in jobs have been affected by the embargo. When President Reagan took office, he or in business. Inflation would slow with no Cancellation of contracts already promised that his economic program could pain. threatens costly legal battles, loss of simultaneously cure inflation, create new The experience of the past three years employment will occur, and U.S. com­ jobs and hasten economic growth. makes it clear that this is not how things panies will once again be labeled unre­ Few experts believed him then. The work. The nation's total output is now liable suppliers. The greatest irony of present deep recession, which has continued almost exactly the same as it was three all is that the pipeline decisions may for much longer than expected either by years ago. Without the two recessions since not even result in a couple months the administration or by most private 1979, real Gross National Product might be economists, has demonstrated that fighting 9 percent higher than it is. At this huge cost delay in the start of pipeline construc­ inflation is indeed not painless. Some econo­ in lost output, gains have been made against tion. mists believe that continued losses in output inflation-but they are small. The underly­ Generally, embargoes never work. and employment are inevitable if economic ing rate of increase in prices is now about 6 Further we cannot impose our laws policy remains focused on slowing inflation. percent or 7 percent, down from 8 percent and regulations on other countries Is the pain unavoidable? And is it worth or 9 percent. without risking permanent damage to the prize of lower inflation? Many economists were more realistic than our relationships with some of our The main argument in favor of concen­ the president about the costs of reducing in­ most important allies. Our allies have trating policy almost exclusively on fighting flation, but still believed that it was worth inflation has been that long-term growth it. Martin Feldstein, Reagan's nominee for a right to regulate commercial oper­ and prosperity cannot be achieved without a chairman of the Council of Economic Advis­ ations within their boundaries regard­ significantly slower rate of inflation. ers, said last year, "I think stretching out less of who owns them. I can guess At the end of the 1970s, the gradual accel­ the recession into 1982 is the only way that what the U.S. reaction would be had eration in inflation that had been present we're going to really change inflationary the restrictions been made on foreign­ for 15 years turned into a rapid and appar­ psychology, shake up labor markets, begin owned operations in the United States. ently uncontrollable acceleration of price in­ to get progress on the wages front." Mr. Speaker, we have made a very creases. Policymakers, particularly at the What concerns others is that far from Federal Reserve, became concerned that in­ being put through a once-for-all wringer, embarrassing error that could result in flation was feeding on itself and seriously where inflation is beaten down so that serious impairment of our relationship distorting the workings cf the economy. normal rapid growth in employment and with the Europeans. We have caused Moreover, it was clear that rapid, double­ output may take place thereafter, the econ­ needless distress, unemployment, and digit inflation was extremely unpopular po­ omy is likely to be constricted for many general economic hardship to our con­ litically. years if policymakers continue to focus on stituent companies, who continue As Brookings Institution economist fighting inflation. their pleas that this nonsense be Martin Neil Baily pointed out this week, "Suppose you get inflation down close stopped. however, the political debate about fighting enough to zero that the authorities declare inflation was very unrealistic. Carter talked victory," but they then decide that unem­ I do not condone what the Soviets of reducing inflation, but did not describe ployment must stay high-perhaps as high have done in Poland, nor in Afghani­ how. Reagan promised that tight money as 9 percent-in order to preserve the infla­ stan. Nonetheless, the record is clear would do the trick, but at no cost to the tion gains, suggested economist James that embargoes are not useful policies economy. Tobin recently. Will that be acceptable?e for dealing with foreign policy crises. I 25636 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 am greatly concerned that the anxiety Wladyslaw also loved this land, no less The Congress should have no problem in caused by this fatally flawed policy than his parents. Yet, he was not to join immediately enacting H.R. 4086. Any delay does not seem to be reaching the with them in becoming a American citizen. can only serve to adversely reflect upon the He wasn't to live long enough to take the memories of those who consecrate our hal­ President. I believe that it is shared by oath of citizenship. lowed grounds. many of his top officials in the Gov­ But he did take an oath. In 1967 he swore This Nation will be indebted eternally to ernment, yet it does not seem to be to defend the United States against its en­ Corporal Wladyslaw Staniszewski, Ameri­ reaching our top decisionmaker. emies. He became a Marine and served his can.e I hope my bill, and others like it, will country in time of need. somehow send a message that this ill­ More than that, he made the supreme sac­ conceived policy is receiving a great rifice by giving his life in battle in Vietnam. TRIBUTE TO LT. GEN. HAROLD deal of concern at the local level at a The Staniszewski's gave their only son in F. HARDIN, JR. the service of this country and have asked time when the country's economy de­ for nothing in return. But they do feel that mands that we look for new ways to the country should grant him citizenship as maintain and increase employment HON. BILL NICHOLS an expression of its appreciation. OF ALABAMA rather than to encourage further job They believe that this is what he would losses.e have wanted. They believe that he will rest IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more peacefully. Tuesday, September 28, 1982 It seems a reasonable enough request. It PERSONAL EXPLANATION would appear that it is the least the Nation e Mr. NICHOLS. Mr. Speaker, I take should do for someone who offers a life in this opportunity to pay tribute to a HON. MARGE ROUKEMA its defense. · most distinguished gentleman and OF NEW JERSEY Not so. Like the wheels of justice, the leg­ military leader, the deputy command­ islative gristmill churns in mysterious fash­ ing general for material readiness of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ion. Tuesday, September 28, 1982 H.R. 4086 to confer citizenship posthu­ the U.S. Army Materiel Development mously has been introduced in the 97th and Readiness Command, Lt. Gen. e Mrs. ROUKEMA. Mr. Speaker, I Congress by Congressman Brian Donnelly Harold F. Hardin, Jr. General Hardin was unable to vote on the House floor . There are seventy co-sponsors of will retire from the U.S. Army at the on September 24, 1982, during consid­ the bill which is currently in the Sub-Com­ end of October after serving faithfully eration of House Resolution 581, the mittee of Immigration, Refugees, and Inter­ and honorably for over 30 years. Gen­ House Historian bill and H.R. 6173, national Law of the Judiciary Committee of eral Hardin has been in his current po­ the health planning block grant bill. the House. sition since June 1979. This was his Had I been present, I would have Since special bills are being continuously sixth assignment with the U.S. Army voted "nay" on House Resolution 581 introduced and enacted by the Congress Materiel Development and Readiness Croll call No. 370) and "yea" on H.R. granting various kinds of preferential status to aliens leading to citizenship, it is difficult Command. He served as deputy direc­ 6173

89-059 0-86-12 (pt, 19) 25638 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 We need your help THE DAY MY FATHER LOST HIS couldn't meet our eyes. Enemies were We can't see straight SMILE friendly. The books we read My dad was like those unemployed people Say we weren't right that President Reagan regards as statistical The people now ask HON. CARL D. PERKINS casualties in the battle against inflation. OF KENTUCKY Are they alright? They are in Stirrat, W. Va., Rockford, Ill., IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ashland, Ky. We answered your call They have seen the guts ripped out of And now we ask Tuesday, September 28, 1982 their lives because they've lost the security Please answer ours e Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, within their jobs gave them and their families. My Now at last ... a few days, the Bureau of Labor Sta­ father later told me that it was like being tistics will report on the employment suddenly naked in a crowd of strangers. Dad found a job in another mine several VIETNAM THE SUM OF IT ALL situation for the current month, and hardly any of the economists expect months later. We had to move to another We gather to honor the efforts of a lot of town and our lives adjusted. young men and women, the unemployment rate to fall below But I'll never forget that moment when the 9.8 percent rate for August. There we learned that our fate wasn't ours to con­ Some who have returned! is every likelihood that it might even Some who have not! trol. I've always wished that somehow I go up. could have shared that walk down the rail­ Some alive, some not! No matter what administration is in road track with my father. It must have Some crippled for life! power, it is always more comfortable been sheer ag.>ny for him to bring home And others with no visible scars but scars for officials to talk about unemploy­ such news. just the same! ment rates than about unemployed He is proof that President Reagan's statis­ Some whose children were left parentless tics feel pain. They shed tears. And their people. numbers are growing.e and some whose parents were left childless! But even to discuss the jobless So let us grieve with our hearts for those people numbers-10 million or 11 mil­ who have died and let us prove with our lion-is to cloak the real, human situa­ TRIBUTE TO TWO hearts that they, both living and dead did tion in terms that the ordinary citi­ PENNSYLVANIA SCOUTS not give in vain for to do any less would be zens finds hard to comprehend. dishonorable and that is the, "Sum of It All".e I hope this Congress never forgets that unemployment is an economic HON.JAMESL.NELLIGAN disaster to the individual human being OF PENNSYLVANIA A TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH W. who loses his job. And it is a personal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ALBENSI trauma to one who finds himself re­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 jected and unneeded as the workaday e Mr. NELLIGAN. Mr. Speaker, I join HON. JAMES A. COURTER world moves on without him. my colleagues today in honoring two OF NEW JERSEY Dan Martin, managing editor of the Battle Creek and the Science and Technology DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: When you consider a on Interior and Insular Affairs. Committee has proven to be cost effective. A large amount of stress placed on the family. director of the WIC program at the recent Harvard Study indicated that WIC is This stressful situation can cause parents to New Britain General Hospital. Ms. assisting to alleviate the incidents of low­ abuse their children. The Head Start pro­ Susan Sponheimer, head social worker birth weight and other health related prob­ grams and the Day Care Programs work lems among newborns. The Harvard Univer­ closely with the Department of Children & at the Stamford Child Day Care sity School of Public Health study revealed Center, presented the succeeding re­ Youth Services to help families in this situa­ that for each $1 spent on pregnant women tion. It's important to get an abused child marks. in the WIC Program resulted in an estimat­ out of the home and into a day care setting. STATEMENT OF ED J. D'ANTONIO ed $3 savings in hospitalization costs for It puts the child in a secure environment. A Good morning, Congressman Moffett, low-birth weight babies. In addition, the place where a positive self-attitude is Congressman Miller, Congresswomen Ken­ Special Supplemental Food Program at the cause of the budget cuts. Evidence has indi­ the stress the parent may feel as a result of State and Local levels. Currently, the State cated that malnutrition during pregnancy constantly being with the child. It also gives of Connecticut has 39,000 participants being and early childhood results in life-long prob­ the parent time to go out and look for a job. served per month. Enumerated below will be lems i.e. brain damage from malnutrition A characteristic that may be seen in an the transactions the State Health Depart­ being irreversible, language and learning abuse parent is one of isolation. Head Start ment would have to implement depending disabilities along with behavorial problems. and Day Care Programs through their upon what Congress decides as the fiscal In conclusion, let's remember to be Parent Involvement components can help year 1982-83 funding level for WIC. The "penny wise not pound foolish". dissolve this feeling of isolation. Parents are Connecticut WIC Program is allocated pres­ STATEMENT OF Ms. SUSAN SPONHEIMER encouraged to come to P.T.A. meetings and ently $16,910 million. If Connecticut re­ Now that approximately 56% of the moth­ meet the other parents. They are encour­ ceives the same funding level from USDA, ers of children 3 to 5 years old are working, aged to take an active part in their child's the ramifications due to inflation would be: day care centers have become an essential educational experience whether by volun­ 1. 2,500 participants would be lost per part of the community. When a child enters teering in the classroom or by working on month. a day care center at the age of 2.9 months, fund raising projects. 25642 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 Children's health is a very important part body the case of Dr. and Mrs. David tions of this technology. Technical of both the Head Start and the Day Care San of the Ukraine, U.S.S.R. Dr. and review procedures are not new, and Programs. For both programs the children Mrs. San have been waiting now for must have had a recent physical and their they must be initiated so transfers or immunizations must be up-to-date before over 2 years to receive permission to diversions of U.S. technology will not enrollment. Immediate action is taken if the leave the Soviet Union. This permis­ result in military benefits to our ad­ Health Coordinator finds a child who has sion has not been forthcoming, be­ versaries. In addition, the review I fallen behind or has never had an immuni­ cause Dr. San has periodically been sought was intended to assess the risk zation. called upon to examine the physical that the technology could be used to The following screenings are performed fitness of recruits for military service. produce or improve the military capa­ on the children who are enrolled in the While the Russian Government rou­ bilities of the Soviet Union. While Head Start Programs: Visual Acuity, Hema­ tocrit, Blood Lead, Hearing, Stabbismus, tinely refuses exit visas to those of its there is a reasonable argument that Height and Weight Measurements and citizens who may have had access to the export of any technology allows Dental Screening and Assessment. If a prob­ classified information, Dr. San himself Soviet engineers to work on military lem is detected as a result of a screening and has never even served in the Russian projects rather than civilian ones, the further treatment is necessary, sometimes Army, which clearly demonstrates the controls that I foresaw were not based Head Start must pay the bill. A problem dubious basis for this refusal. on this economic diversion argument. that some of our Head Start parents who The right to lead a decent and In effect, the specific provisions of my are working for minimum wage are facing humane life is one of the fundamental amendment would have allowed the today is that they no longer have their Title 19 medical cards therefore, they are respon­ human rights. If, however, a state President to carve out certain technol­ sible for their families' medical bills. These takes it upon itself to deny this right, ogies that should not be exported for parents may have medical insurance, but it ought not to obstruct people from national security purposes, while al­ paying the one hundred deductable before seeking happiness elsewhere. It is for lowing other nonmilitary significant they get the 80% reimbursement may liter­ this reason I call upon the Soviet exports to proceed. ally mean taking food out of their children's Union to honor the request of Dr. and The pipeline sanctions imposed by mouths. They are definitely in need of Head Mrs. David San to leave that coun­ the President stem from the Export Start helping them pay the medicaid bill. try.e Many of the parents of children in the Head Administration Act. In this particular Start program do not have regular physi­ case, the foreign policy controls of sec­ cians for their children. They take them to THE Y AMAL PIPELINE AND THE tion 6 of the act were imposed. My the emergency room when they are sick or STRATEGIC TRADE ACT OF amendment would have allowed a to the clinic to get their shots. There is no 1982, H.R. 6880 review of the proposed exports on the continuity to their medical care. Often grounds of national security, along the times the children have never seen a den­ lines of section 5 of the act. tist. It's part of the Health Coordinator's HON. BEVERLY B. BYRON The pipeline will take years to com­ job to link these families with physicians OJ' KA.RYLAND and dentists who can provide ongoing care plete, with or without the U.S. tech­ for their children. Our handicapped budget IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nology. I believe that a 30-day engi­ at Head Start is small, yet with it we are ex­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 neering review of the pipeline technol­ pected to pay for a part-time handicapped •Mrs. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, I have ogy is not too much to expect in light coordinator, an aide, some screenings, equip­ come before the House on numerous of the scale of the entire project. All ment and some transportation. The Head the emphasis has been on the foreign Start program is mandate to provide 10% of occasions recently to discuss the haz­ its spaces to handicapped children. The ards of technology trans!er to the policy implications of the sale. We small budget we receive has got to be spread Soviet bloc. Too often in the past we should at least make an effort to look a long way. have observed civilian sector exports at the national security implications. In the Head Start Program with funding from the United States being diverted But more to the point, the whole from the Child Nutrition program we are in the Soviet Union for military pur­ Export Administration Act, which able to provide the children with breakfast must be reauthorized by September of and lunch. We have a nutritionist who plans poses. That is why I planned to offer these meals so we know they are well-bal­ an amendment to this legislation, H.R. next year, needs to have a thorough anced. Some of the children do not receive a 6838, and have introduced the Strate­ and complete reemphasis. Examples of well balanced diet at home. This shows up gic Trade Act of 1982, H.R. 6880. unfortunate trade relations with the on our screenings when their hematocrit is The amendment I planned to offer Soviets are frequent, wherein civilian low. By providing the children with break­ provided for a 30-day period within sector exports are diverted to military fast and lunch we are assured that they are which the President may make a dec­ use in the Soviet Union. My bill, H.R. getting an appropriate amount of iron in laration to Congress that certain tech­ 6880, the Strategic Trade Act of 1982, their diet. If we could not have our food would attempt to place a greater em­ program there would be nothing to ensure nologies may be used to produce or im­ that these children would get the appropri­ prove military hardware by the Soviet phasis on military engineering review ate kinds of food twice a day. Union. During this period, the execu­ procedures than now exists. In this country when there is trouble with tive department, and particularly the As an example of a particular area, the economy it is the children's programs Department of Defense, would have need I point out that it took 10 years that are cut first. There has been a large had a chance to review the technol­ to develop the technology embodied in amount of talk about saving programs for ogies implicit in this sale of equip­ the pipeline turbines? The blade con­ children but what we really need is to see ment. If the President found that par­ tours, the positioning of the cooling some action, not just talk.e ticular technologies could be used for passages, the design of attachments military purposes, then the President and the alloys themselves are all possi­ REQUEST OF DR. AND MRS. had the opportunity to certify this ble areas of turbine technology that DAVID SAN TO LEAVE THE finding to Congress and restrict the could benefit the Soviets in making SOVIET UNION export of such technologies on the military turbine engines. I point out grounds of national security. This that the most impressive Soviet fight­ HON. BUDDY ROEMER action is based on a completely dis­ er aircraft, the Mig-25, is known to 01' LOUISIANA tinct consideration from the foreign suffer seriously from unreliability in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES policy controls that the House appears its jet turbine engines. Turbines are to be ready to erase by supporting also used to power military warships. Tuesda11, September 28, 1982 H.R. 6838. How much of this technology will be e Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, I wish I firmly believe that we should allow used to benefit the Soviet naval mod­ to take this opportunity to bring to a few days for our engineers and scien­ ernization efforts, the most aggressive the attention of my friends in this tists to review the military implica- military shipbuilding program on September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25643 Earth? And, finally, there is the use of 100 YEARS OF SERVICE country has been ruled continuously computer-aided controls that will be since 1954 by Gen. Alfredo Stroessner. incorporated into the pipeline. In my HON. JOHN HILER He has been reelected to the presiden­ estimation, there are just too many cy every 5 years since he took power in 01' INDIANA a military coup that year. Every three key technologies in the pipeline sale IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not to allow a final engineering review. months, Stroessner renews the nation­ Two years ago a Swedish company Tuesday, September 28, 1982 al state of siege under which he rules used U.S.-manufactured electronic e Mr. HILER. Mr. Speaker, on the Paraguay. It is not clear why Para­ components to build a sophisticated evening of October 16, the Hungarian­ guay must be governed under state of air traffic control system. The U.S. American community in South Bend, siege conditions. components were legally exported to Ind., will be celebrating the 100th an­ In June, 1979, Representative Tom the Swedish company. The problem niversary of their arrival in northern Harkin and Senators Alan Cranston, lies in where they installed the air Indiana. Mark Hatfield and Edward Kennedy traffic control system: Moscow Air­ Hungarian-Americans first traveled joined with me to cosponsor a Sympo­ port. We are still uncertain how much to this country for many of the same sium on Paraquay. Representatives of benefit this system provides the Sovi­ reasons our forefathers left their the four principal opposition parties to ets, considering that air traffic control homelands in the 17th and 18th cen­ the Stroessner regime had intended to systems have military counterparts, turies-in search of social and econom­ come to Washington to discuss the po­ such as detection and acquisition ic opportunities, and the freedom to litical and human rights situation in radars that are used to provide early pursue them. Their industriousness, their country in an open forum. warning and tracking of aircraft and energy, and selfless dedication to We were forced to cancel the Sympo­ missiles. South Bend and our Nation have sium when leaders of the three opposi­ Consider the well-known case of the helped make the community one of tion parties still in Paraguay sent word ball bearing grinders exported to the the most important in the Midwestern to us through the Washington Office Soviets in the early seventies after United States. on Latin America that they could not nearly 10 years of continuous requests Many Hungarian-Americans in leave Paraguay. They stated that the by the Soviets. It is the precision ball South Bend have experienced the deterioration of the human rights situ­ bearings produced for the Soviets by tragedy of oppression in their own ation in Paraguay at that time made it U.S. equipment that makes the Soviet homeland, Mr. Speaker, and have a clear that they could not leave and missiles so accurate, thereby resulting special appreciation of the personal return to Paraguay without incident. in the U.S. expenditure of millions of and economic freedom we so easily Although representatives from the dollars for a survivable basing mode take for granted. three opposition parties still in Para­ for the MX missile. They have thanked their new home­ guay, the Christian Democrats, the Finally, consider the most recent land by their steadfast dedication and Febreristas, and the Authentic Radical event, where the Soviet Union re­ contributions to our free enterprise Liberals, were unable to attend, repre­ turned for repair equipment easily system, contributions to the communi­ sentatives from the Argentina-based used for reconnaissance and photo­ ty, and personal sacrifice during our Popular Colorado Movement graphic enhancement efforts. The Nation's times of crisis-many Hungar­ Party came to Washing­ equipment was made by a U.S. compa­ ians have died for our country on the ton to discuss the state of affairs in ny, bought and shipped to an English battlefield. Paraguay. company, and then sold to the Soviet Mr. Speaker, I am proud to be asso­ In February 1979, all four parties Union. Now it is back in the United ciated with the Hungarian community signed the National Agreement States to be fixed. As the Commerce in South Bend, and ask my colleagues or the House of Good Shephard within the opposition. The Febrerista Party, has been divided since March 1981 when a approved by the government-controlled WEAPONS BAN government-managed change of leadership Board of Elections has abstained for the ended several years of increased constituen­ past three elections but is now debating the cy participation. Massive layoffs in the tex­ possibility of returning to token participa­ HON. JOE MOAKLEY tile and garment industry have led to tion in Parliament (since the division of par­ charges of unconcern against the CPT, peas­ liamentary representation was established OF MASSACHUSETTS ant farmers and agricultural workers in 1967, not one substantive piece of legisla­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES remain unrepresented, and local attempts at tion introduced by opposition members has organization have been systematically sup­ been enacted). The Christian Democratic Tuesday, September 28, 1982 pressed. Strikes are forbidden, but within Party has unsuccessfully sought Election that limitation a few independent trade Board recognition since 1965. e Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, last unions, inside and outside the CPT, have de­ The once powerful Liberal Party is now di­ week I, along with several of my col­ veloped an active and innovative style of vided into half a dozen factions, and the leagues, introduced a joint resolution collective bargaining. fragmentation continues as party leaders calling on the President to engage in Freedom of assembly is routinely restrict­ jockey for top places on the parliamentary negotiations aimed at banning weap­ ed under the state of siege, and in some slates. Two liberal groups are currently the rural and urban areas by the presence of po­ only participating opposition parties, while ons of any kind from space. It is my litical informers and heavyhanded police a third-the Authentic Radical Liberal hope that this resolution will help and party authorities. Party, which claims a majority of the Liber­ stimulate dialog on a topic that has b. Freedom of Movement Within the al constituency-is officially excluded and been brushed aside as being a prema­ Country, Foreign Travel, Emigration and refuses to seek recognition. The National ture issue. It is imperative that Con­ Repatriation. Accord, a coalition of non-participating par­ gress immediately begin to discuss and Since the September 1980 assassination of ties, gathered wide popular support after its Nicaraguan ex-dictator Anastasio Somoza, inception in 1978 but has lost momentum in debate the issue of the weaponization the previously lax system of internal docu­ the past year. of space before we are forced to deal mentation has been tightened, and there 3. Government Attitude and Record Re­ with weapons in space and nations un­ are sporadic sweep identification checks. garding International and Non-governmen­ willing to negotiate their removal. An The government has established a program tal Investigation of Alleged Violations of arms race in space will benefit no to issue identity cards to all Paraguayans, Human Rights. but ex-prisoners and government critics are The government responds to inquiries nation. It will only increase tensions often denied identity cards or passports, or from international bodies, including the and add to the probability of a nuclear their cards are specially marked for police Inter-American Human Rights Commission. war. recognition. Despite repeated commitments since 1978, Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., a retired rear Self-exiled Paraguayans have been in­ signed, but not ratified the American Con­ present, deputy director of the Center creasingly free to return in the past few vention on Human Rights. for Defense Information here in years. They include political dissidents as 4. Economic and Social Circumstances. Washington, D.C.-has written an ex­ well as economically motivated exiles re­ For several years Paraguay has sustained cellent article for the Los Angeles sponding to the recent economic growth in consistent economic growth, due to con­ Herald Examiner dealing with the Paraguay and reduced opportunities else­ struction of a mammoth hydroelectric proj­ where. ect at Itaipu. The project has stimulated weaponization of space which I would The "confinement" or internal exile of po­ the Paraguayan construction industry, like to include in the RECORD for the litical opponents was used less frequently in banking institutions, and related enter- benefit of all my colleagues. 25646 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 CFrom the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, of the world-disease, starvation, overpopu­ ative from the First District of Massachu­ August 6, 19821 lation. setts, SILVIO 0. CONTE the "soul of the age," WAR IN SPACE: THE U.S. HAS NOTHING TO Is there a sensible alternative to a destruc­ a unique political statesman possessing Sha­ GAIN tive race to militarize space? Fortunately, kespearian qualities in the noble art of gov­ yes, and one that can be readily adopted. ernment. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger The United States, the Soviet Union and 87 Arriving in Congress 23 years ago, the recently issued marching orders to the U.S. other nations have signed and are comply­ Congressman quickly established himself as armed services for the next five years. Al­ ing with an outerspace treaty in which, in both a trusted team player and a thinker, though his 135-page document was titled Article IV, they agree "not to place in orbit with the independence of the people of his "Defense Planning Guidance," there was around earth any objects carrying nuclear native Berkshires. He has dedicated himself very little in it which related to the defense weapons or any other kinds of weapons of to improving the quality of our human and of the territory and the citizens of the mass destruction." A proposal by President natural resources and nurturing respect for United States. Instead, the guidance provid­ Reagan to expand that language to prohibit our system of government. He has been de­ ed a blueprint for offensive measures to all weapons, offensive or defensive, in space voted to the needy, especially to those in "open major new areas of military competi­ probably would be received with enthusiasm need of our medical care, or access to higher tion with the Soviet Union." It constituted by every nation in the world. The Soviet education. declaration of a form of military and eco­ Union certainly has strong economic rea­ "Hear him debate of commonwealth af­ nomic war against the Russians. sons to support an end to a space race, and fairs, you would say it hath been in all his The most widely publicized, and contro­ compliance could be verified readily study." . The press calls him versial, part of the document were plans to through existing ground surveillance sta­ a "rare appropriations surgeon with prior­ prepare for a protracted nuclear war. Per­ tions and reconnaissance satellites. ities." On the floor of the House of Repre­ haps because of the strong reaction to this An initiative by President Reagan to de­ sentatives, Mr. CONTE imparts passion and radical proposal, very little attention was militarize space would add credence to his humor. For example, he described federal given to equally aggressive language which other arms-limitation proposals and help re­ peach subsidies as "a pit to the consumer, described plans to expand U.S. military pro­ store the image of the United States as a but a plum to the purveyors of fuzzy fruit"; grams in space. We are to undertake pro­ nation truly dedicated to the cause of world he described beekeeper federal indemnity grams in space to enhance the effectiveness peace.e programs as "a honey-coated program of U.S. and allied military forces in prepar­ where taxpayers are stung by deceased pol­ ing for and waging war. We will deny the linators." As Shakespeare would say: "From use of space to opposing forces. And we will CONGRESSMAN CONTE RE­ the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, accelerate areas of technology offering sig­ CEIVES GEORGETOWN UNI- he is all mirth" strained race to militarize space in the ap­ HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. Mr. CONTE has had more amendments parent belief that U.S. technology will gain OF NEW JERSEY adopted on the floor of the House of Repre­ America some measure of military superiori­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sentatives than any other Member of Con­ ty over the Soviet Union and at the same gress, due in large part to his persuasive wit time increase the strains in the already Tuesday, September 28, 1982 and argument. Many a national park has shaky Russian economy. We will challenge e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I want been preserved by his stance against an ill­ them with particle beams and chemical to take this opportunity to congratu­ conceived water project. lasers, anti-satellite and satellite defense late my friend, SILVIO CONTE, on re­ As Shakespeare often leaves his audience systems, swarm jets and devices yet to be ceiving the very distinguished Presi­ with the vision of harmony between all imagined in order to gain military superiori­ ranks and interests, so have the efforts of ty in space. dent's Medal of Merit from George­ SILVIO 0. CONTE striven for harmony in Is this necessary? Is this wise? The first town University. Government. problem the space plan creates is the need It is fitting that the university Government, though high and low and to reduce or abandon some part of our cur­ should bestow its highest honor on lower rent military programs in order to fund Congressman CONTE in recognition of Put into parts, doth keep in one consent major initiatives in space. Mr. Reagan's mili­ his efforts to establish Georgetown's Congressing in a full and natural close, tary budget envisions spending $400 billion new Intercultural Center, a school Like Music, and 2 under foreign flag, be inspected regu­ e Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, I would of the Shipping Act, 1916 <46 U.S.C. 802 larly by the U.S. Coast Guard. and Cb)). The incineration equipment on like to take this opportunity to submit these vessels shall meet all current United To provide this assurance, this this letter from one of my constituents States Coast Guard and Environmental Pro­ amendment provides that the ocean expressing his views of our current tection Agency standards. These vessels incineration ships meet all U.S. Coast economic situation: shall, in addition to any other inspections Guard and EPA regulations for ocean WALDORF, MD., by the flag state, be inspected by the United incineration on a continuing basis, be July 24, 1982. States Coast Guard, including drydock in­ inspected by the Coast Guard on the Hon. RONALD REAGAN, spections and internal examinations of same schedule that applies to U.S.-flag President of the United States, The White tanks and void spaces, as would be required vessels and that the Coast Guard be House, Washington, D.C. of a vessel of the United States. Satisfactory DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: The inflation of the inspection shall be certified in writing by satisfied that any foreign-made com­ '70s was touched off by a huge boost in the Secretary of Transportation. Such in­ ponents on the ships be at least as ef­ OPEC oil prices. It was aggravated by the spections may occur concurrently with any fective as those required by the Coast unhinging of gold from the dollar. It was inspections required by the flag state or Guard for U.S.-built ships. fueled by increasing investment in specula­ subsequent to but no more than one year The new Vulcanus II has been con­ tive and nonproductive tax avoidance ven­ after the initial issuance or the next sched­ structed in close cooperation with the tures. It gained additional impetus as non­ uled issuance of the Safety of Life at Sea U.S. Coast Guard and meets all U.S. reserve lending ballooned in the world Safety Construction Certificate. In making and international standards for ocean money market, a money market in which all such inspections, the Coast Guard shall Americans participate, willing or not. refer to the conditions established by the incineration vessels, both those cur­ The Monetary Reform Act of 1980 was de­ initial flag state certification as the basis for rently in effect and those under con­ signed to use the Volcker-led Federal Re­ evaluating the current condition of the hull sideration in the International Mari­ serve System as a battering ram-to fight and superstructure. The Coast Guard shall time Organization. The existing Vul­ inflation by using high interest rates to allow the substitution of an equivalent fit­ canus, while presently holding a U.S. reduce consumption. ting, material, appliance, apparatus, or Coast· Guard certificate for foreign­ Inflation has come down, but at a cost equipment other than that required for ves­ flag vessels entering U.S. ports to load which becomes more evident with each sels of the United States if the Coast Guard day's financial page. has been satisfied that fitting, material, ap­ hazardous substances, is an old ship whose international certification ex­ The economic landscape is littered with pliance, apparatus, or equipment is at least closed factories, bankrupt farms and long as effective as that required for vessels of pires within a year. Thus, for the Vul­ unemployment lines. Steel production has the United States." canus to pass the rigorous Coast dropped 30 million tons since the Fed's tight A number of years ago, our Govern­ Guard inspection mandated by this money policy was enacted, to levels of the ment became interested in disposing of amendment, she will have to be sub­ Great Depression. Busi­ sea, where the prevailing winds would The owners have assured the com­ ness failures during the first half of 1982 ex­ not add to the air pollution in the con­ mittee that they intend to perform ceeded the total for all of 1980. And interest tinental United States. Both the Envi­ whatever repairs or rebuilding may be now gobbles up two-thirds of the average Vulcanus corporation's cash flow dollar. ronmental Protection Agency and the required to make the as safe Some say we could lower interest rates by Coast Guard cooperated in permitting as any ship built today regardless of balancing the Federal budget, either a pioneer incineration ship, the Vul­ cost in order to continue serving the through increased taxes or decreased spend­ canus, to transport highly toxic wastes waste disposal requirements of U.S. in­ ing. There is a fatal flaw in the reasoning outside American coastal waters. The dustry and the U.S. Government. that leads to that conclusion. Vulcanus established the standard of If the Vulcanus or Vulcanus II The flaw is that you must assume that performance on which the EPA's 99.9 should at any time fail to pass their somehow government revenues, either bor­ percent efficiency standard for ocean Coast Guard inspections, they will be rowed or raised by taxation, do not circu­ incineration is based. precluded from transporting waste late. With the success of the Vulcanus in from U.S. ports for incineration at sea In fact, they do. Nearly all government revenues received are almost immediately recent years, its parent company, until such time as the defects are cor­ disbursed-either to people in the form of Waste Management, Inc. of Oak rected and reinspected by the Coast salaries or entitlements, or to companies for Brook, Ill., invested $15 million in an Guard. goods or services purchased by the govern­ improved incineration ship, the Vul­ Until such time as U .S.-built ocean ment. canus II, which was launched last incineration ships enter service and Suppose the government is borrowing month in Germany and will enter are certified by EPA and the Coast money at 12 percent from my local bank, service in November. Guard, the Vulcanus and Vulcanus II and Congress decides to reduce the Federal The Vulcanus was purchased by her will continue to be the only ships Debt at that bank by raising my taxes five American owners in 1980 and the con­ dollars. I am a businessman and need the available to perform this essential five dollars for operating capital, so I go to tract to build the Vulcanus II was let service. This amendment is intended the bank and borrow the money. At 15 per­ prior to the time our committee began to grandfather the continued oper­ cent. If I am a consumer, I have five dollars to consider the question of placing ations of the Vulcanus, now and after less to apply toward my 18 percent loan ocean incineration under the Jones rebuilding, and Vulcanus II under rea­ with the same bank. Or, I have five dollars Act. This committee is in full agree- sonable standards of safety and has less to put in savings at that same bank, 25648 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 thus reducing money available for credit by funds will then be loaned out under guide­ ton and Washington said to promote pro­ the same amount the government increased lines laid out by Congress and under general ductive investment. They were perhaps the it. supervision of the Secretary of the Treas­ quintessential supply-siders. No wonder bankers and money market ury. The loans will in principle be limited to Our economy is in distress. Why not use managers love to see the government raise capital goods-producing and high-technolo­ the "American System" to rescue it? taxes! gy categories of industrial and agricultural Sincerely, Now let's look at a reduction in expendi­ production. JOE B. COPE •• tures. The government should sponsor one or I am a businessman who makes a five two projects which develop the basic eco­ dollar black box which I sell to the govern­ nomic infrastructure of the nation. Exam­ SCOREKEEPING REPORT ON ment. Once again Congress decides to ples of this sort of thing are the Interstate THE SURFACE TRANSPORTA­ reduce the Federal Debt at my local bank­ Highway system and the Atoms-for-Peace TION BILL AND NUCLEAR this time by not buying my black box. I Program fostered by the Eisenhower Ad­ must sell that box to stay in business; I find ministration. We should have a modern WASTE DISPOSAL BILL a customer. The customer becomes the con­ equivalent of that program. Our nuclear sumer in the previous example. energy industry is dying on the vine. Con­ HON. LES ASPIN If I am selling a service, the same argu­ struction has halted on three reactors in ment applies. Washington State due to high interest OF WISCONSIN Those persons receiving entitlements rates. That should not be allowed to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES whose income remains discretionary, or happen. And more should be built. Perhaps Tuesday, September 28, 1982 above subsistence level, after expenditures some thought should be given toward re­ are reduced, fall into the category of the building our rail system to accommodate •Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker, today I am consumer in the first example. Those per­ high-speed trains of the Budget Act. Each com­ EARLY WARNING SUMMARY-H.R. 97-6598, scorekeeping, the Energy and Commerce mittee then divides the 302Ca> allocation NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT Committee has two targets: one for the pro­ among its subcommittees or programs and Floor action: Tentatively scheduled for gram subdivision submitted by the Commit­ reports its subdivisions back to the House in Wednesday, September 29, tee in their 302Cb> allocation and one for the a 302Cb> report. It is this 302Cb> report that Scorekeeping: The functional totals in­ full Committee total. These are targets for the House Budget Committee uses to cluded in the First Budget Resolution con­ Committee action on direct spending bills "score" a spending bill. ference report are allocated to the appropri­ this year. The Committee has not filed a Scoring of this bill: Using the 302Cb) ate House committees in accordance with 302Cb> subdivision as required by law so the report, the Budget Committee makes sever­ Section 302Ca> of the Budget Act. Each com­ numbers below come from the 302Ca) total al comparisons to determine whether or not mittee then divides the 302Ca> allocation allocation. a spending bill is within the targets of the among its subcommittees or programs and This bill provides the authority to levy First Budget Resolution. Many of these reports its subdivisions back to the House in fees for nuclear waste disposal, which are comparisons are for informational purposes a 302(bJ report. It is this 302Cb> report that estimated to total $300 million in fiscal year only; the only procedural sanction is de­ the House Budget Committee uses to 1983. This equals the amount of fees as­ f erred enrollment which causes a confer­ "score" a spending bill. The Energy and sumed in the First Budget Resolution. The ence report to be held at the desk if the Commerce Committee has not filed a 302(b) bill also authorizes appropriations for pro­ budget authority exceeds either its target subdivision report as required by law so the grams, which are not scored as budget au­ for the 302Cb> subdivision or the allocation cost analysis compares with the 302Ca> allo­ thority. They will be scored as budget au­ for the entire committee. cation and with Budget Resolution assump­ thority when appropriated, and would be (1) Program subdivision C302Cb)): The bill tions. scored against the allocation of the Appro­ is under the budget authority total for the Scoring of this bill: Using the 302Cb> priations Committee. program subdivision by $4 million and thus report, the Budget Committee makes sever­ The summary table shows where the bill not subject to delayed enrollment under al comparisons to determine whether or not stands relative to the Committee total. this provision. a spending bill is within the targets of the <2> Overall committee total: The bill is First Budget Resolution. Many of these III. Summary table Un millions of dollars) (The amounts shown below are only for dis- over the full committee's total by $366 mil­ comparisons are for informational purposes lion and thus would be subject to the de­ only; the only procedural sanction is de­ cretionary 1983 spending by the Energy and Commerce Committee) f erred enrollment provisions of the budget f erred enrollment, which causes a confer­ resolution. This bill, plus prior action, ence report to be held at the desk if the dis­ Full Committee (302(aJJ breaches the full Committee total because cretionary budget authority exceeds its 1. Amount in bill...... - 300 the Committee has not yet made user fee target. 2. Prior action ...... savings assumed in the budget resolution. <1 > Program assumptions: This bill is For additional details see the attached within the program assumptions in the 3. Total action to date...... -300 early warning report. budget resolution. 4. Target...... - 387 (2) Overall committee total: While this EARLY WARNING ADDITIONAL DETAIL, HOUSE bill conforms with Resolution assumptions, 5. Over <+>/under(-)...... +87 BUDGET COMMITTEE the Committee has not yet achieved its tar­ 6. Amounts assumed but not yet con- Bill: H.R. 6211, Surface Transportation gets because other user fee legislation is also sidered...... -87 Assistance Act of 1982 assumed. STAFF ANALYSIS For additional details see the attached 7. Over <+>/under(-) ...... early warning report. Committee: Public Works and Transporta- IV. Explanation of over/under EARLY WARNING ADDITIONAL DETAIL-HOUSE tion BUDGET COMMITTEE As stated, this bill is equal to the program Subcommittee: Surface Transportation assumption underlying the 302Ca> allocation Bill: H.R. 6598, Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Chairman: Mr. Anderson to the Energy and Commerce Committee. Ranking Minority Member: Mr. Shuster STAFF ANALYSIS The Committee is over its total target by Committees: 1 Energy and Commerce, In­ $87 million because other user fee legisla­ Scheduled: Wednesday, September 29 or terior and Insular Affairs, and Science and tion assumed in the Resolution has not yet later in week Technology. been reported. I. Description of bill Subcommittees: Energy Conservation and VI. Definitions of terms in summary table, Power . Energy and Environment Cin­ section III This bill provides or authorizes funding terior>, and Energy Research and Produc­ for highway construction and improvement tion CS&T>. Line 1. Discretionary amounts in bill: and highway safety and authorizes appro­ Chairmen: Messrs. Dingell . fiscal year 1983 budget authority in H.R. priations for public mass transportation Udall and Fuqua . 6598. programs. Ranking Minority Members: Messrs. Broy­ Line 2. Prior action: the fiscal year 1983 budget authority and outlays for this com­ II. Comparison with subcommittee and full hill committee allocations and Winn . mittee that were provided in prior bills this Scheduled: Tentatively for Wednesday, session. Pursuant to the Budget Act and HBC subject to rule being granted. Line 3. Total action to date: line 1 plus scorekeeping, the Public Works Committee I. Description of bill line 2. has two targets: one for the program subdi­ Line 4. 302 target: the target for discre­ vision submitted by the Public Works Com­ This bill establishes a program by which tionary budget authority for the Energy mittee in their 302Cb> allocation and one for the Secretary of Energy could receive nucle­ and Commerce Committee pursuant to the the full Committee total. These are targets ar wastes from private industry, and charge Budget Act. for Committee action on direct spending a fee for disposing of them. The fees levied Line 5. Over<+ >/Under< - >: line 3 minus bills this year. would go into one of two funds, and appro­ line 4. This bill provides contract authority, priations would be required before any Line 6. Amounts assumed but not yet con­ which under the Budget Act is scored as monies could be obligated and spent. The sidered: these are amounts assumed in the budget authority. It also authorizes appro­ money could be spent on building and oper- fiscal year 1983 budget resolution for which priations for programs, which is not scored legislation has not yet been considered by as budget authority. It will be scored as 1The Armed Services, Merchant Marine and Fish­ the Energy and Commerce Committee. budget authority when appropriated, and eries and Judiciary Committees have also had refer­ Line 7. Over<+>/Under<->: line 5 plus line would be scored against the allocation of rals on parts of this bill. 6. the Appropriations Committee. 25650 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 If either the program subdivision or the VII. Definitions of terms in summary table, by Federal agencies to propagandize their total Committee allocation is breached by section III conclusions. this bill, it will be subject to deferred enroll­ Line 1. Discretionary amounts in bill: dis­ I would hope that you would agree! ment. The summary table below shows that cretionary fiscal year 1983 contract author­ Very truly yours, the bill is under its subdivision allocation, ity in H.R. 6211. FRED M. GOLDBERG.e but exceeds the Committee total. Line 2. Prior action: the fiscal year 1983 III. Summary table fin millions of dollars) budget authority and outlays for this com­ mittee that were appropriated in prior bills NATURAL GAS PRICES SHOULD this session. BE FALLING AS DEMAND FALLS The amounts shown below are only for discretionary 1983 spending by this Line 3. Total action to date: line 1 plus committee line 2. Line 4. 302 target: the target for discre­ HON. CLARENCE J. BROWN Subdivi- Full tionary budget authority set by the Public OF OHIO sion r.or;it- Works Committee pursuant to the Budget IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (302(b)) (302(a)) Act. Tuesday, September 28, 1982 Line 5. Over<+>/Under<->: line 3 minus I. Amount in bill• ...... 4,708 4,708 line 4. • Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, 2. Prior action ...... 600 Line 6. Amounts assumed but not yet con­ in each day's mail you and I receive an 3. Total action to date ...... 4,708 5,308 sidered: these are amounts assumed in the 4. Target ...... 4,712 4,942 increasing amount of letters from con­ fiscal year 1983 budget resolution for which stituents and colleagues alike angry at 5. Over(+)/under( - )...... -4 +366 legislation has not yet been considered by 6. Amounts assumed but not yet considered...... - 370 the sharply increasing price of natural the Public Works Committee. gas. 7. Over(+)/under( - )...... -4 - 4 Line 7. Over<+ )/Under<->: line 5 plus line 6 •• Why should natural gas prices be • Committee amendment. rising, as they are, when the supply is in surplus and demand is down? The THE USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS simple answer is' that they should not rv. Explanation of over/under TO "PROPAGANDIZE" be, except for us. It was Congress, in As stated, this bill is under the program 1978, which passed the Natural Gas subdivision as submitted in the 302Cb> HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. Policy Act which not only allows the report of the Public Works Committee. OF KENTUCKY automatic passthrough of natural gas However, this bill, considered with prior prices, but also encourages the pay­ action, breaches the Public Works total for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment of very high prices to certain fa­ direct spending. Tuesday, September 28, 1982 vored sources of natural gas such as: The ADAP section of the tax bill, passed e Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, I Algerian LNG at $7 .18; deep gas once selling contract authority for airport development. would like to take this opportunity to This amount is shown in line 2 of the "Full share an excellent letter from one of at $8 and $9, still high-priced at $5 and Committee" table above. my fell ow Kentuckians, attorney Fred $6; Canadian gas at $4.94; and Alaskan The budget resolution also assumed that M. Goldberg of Louisville, Ky. Mr. gas taking away their mar­ motor fuels, trucks and trailers, truck parts letter to you as a private citizen. Enclosed kets. and accessories, tires and tubes, gasoline, you will find the cover sheet from the The pipelines, some of them at any and highway motor vehicles. The bill ex­ United States Environmental Protection rate, are trying to renegotiate their tends for two years the present excise tax Agency Environmental Impact of the Mill contracts. But in our subcommittee's exemption for fuel used by qualified taxi Creek area of Jefferson County, Kentucky. hearings, so ably chaired by our col­ cabs. It also transfers the Highway Trust This study covers wastewater facilities. league from Indiana Los Angeles Times sug­ among the various factions.• throughout its history, resisted the ons­ gests that there may finally be hope laughts of Russian aggrandizement and op­ for a negotiated settlement of the con­ pression; the beloved Country of Poland is flict in El Salvador. As one who has CHANCELLOR JOSEPH S. MUR­ no stranger to the callous designs of its east­ long argued that negotiations are the PHY'S ADDRESS AT LAGUAR­ ern Neighbor who has long sought to digest DIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE Her fertile fields and green plains, who has only way out, both for us and for the long schemed to enslave Her valiant people, Salvadorans, I hope the optimism of and who has labored, so fruitlessly, to de­ the Los Angeles Times turns out be HON. GERALDINE A. FERRARO stroy Her Christian faith, and in doing so, justified. As the editorial says: OF NEW YORK Her Occidental allegiances; and Negotiations are the only realistic way to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whereas it is, moreover, most apparent end El Salvador's three-year-old civil war, that like the mythological Phoenix, that which is stalemated both militarily and po­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 lone and beautiful bird who rose to glory, so litically. Neither side, the government of e Ms. FERRARO. Mr. Speaker, on also, will the Polish eagle of freedom re­ the guerrillas, has the political support or assert its immortal and eternal claim to na­ the military strength to overcome the other. September 12, I was honored to re­ tionhood as it is so clearly manifested in the The choice is between prolonged warfare ceive the LaGuardia Community Col­ Solidarity Movement; and and dialogue leading to an accommodation lege President's Medal for Community Whereas the Soviet oppression of the among the various factions. Service. Polish nation is relentless and dualistic: not The commencement address at that only has it effected the abrogation and The complete text of the editorial follows: ceremony was delivered by Chancellor denial of personal liberty, but also, through Joseph S. Murphy of the City Univer­ ineptitude and indifference, through a hap­ EL SALVADOR: FINALLY, HOPE sity of New York. Chancellor Murphy hazard, ill-managed, and ill-conceived forced It is too early to tell whether an indirect industrialization, it has accomplished the "dialogue" that has begun between the gov­ gave what I consider to be an insight­ disruption of the Polish economy as mani­ ernment of El Salvador and the insurgent ful and realistic speech on the policies fested in the scarcity of basic food and, groups fighting it might lead to a peaceful of the Reagan administration. indeed, the lack of simple necessities for settlement of the civil war there. But it is a At this time, I would like to enclose even a modest standard of living; and hopeful development, and should be pur­ this address in the RECORD for my col­ Whereas the renaissance of Polish nation­ sued with whatever assistance the United leagues to read. alism is ubiquitous throughout that beloved States can provide. Thank you. nation; there has emerged a new unity of The initial step toward this dialogue was purpose, a spirit of national will unparal­ taken when El Salvador's interim president, COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS BY CHANCELLOR­ leled in the history of that beloved nation; Alvaro Magana, said he hoped to establish a DESIGNATE JOSEPH S. MURPHY it is this spirit of unity and purpose, this commission that would study the possibility Members of the Board of Trustees of The identification of nationhood, which cries of opening negotiations with leftist guerril­ City University of New York, Borough out for our recognition and concern; and las and their political support groups. President Manes, Congresswoman Ferraro, Whereas it is, moreover, the sense and col­ Since then, there have been contacts be­ Assemblyman Lafayette, Assemblyman lective circumspection of this Legislative tween Magana and a key leader of the prin­ Wilson, honored clergy, community leaders, Body that we address this budding declara­ cipal political opposition group, the Demo­ President Shenker, distinguished faculty tion for nationhood, that this most treas­ cratic Revolutionary Front, with the gov­ members, parents and graduates. ured nation of thirty-five million, beloved ernment of Costa Rica acting as the inter­ I have thought long and deeply as to an Poland, with millions more constituting the mediary. It has been reported that the appropriate gift for the commencing class at citizenry of our own America, many of Reagan Administration quietly encouraged LaGuardia Community College this after­ whom since the very beginning of our this indirect contact. noon, and have concluded that the greatest nation have so bravely given their lives, as Magana publicly denies that he received I can give you is a brief and succinct com­ Brigadier General Pulaski did, in the cause any peace proposals from the guerrillas, and mencement address. And this I promise you. of liberty, not be abandoned; now, there­ the U.S. State Department insists that the As September graduates, you have the un­ fore, be it Administration's position on negotiations to usual distinction of being the only class in Resolved, That this Legislative Body re­ end the Salvadoran war is unchanged. But the history of this college to graduate on spectfully memorializes the Governor of the both Magana and U.S. officials have to be the lOOth anniversary of the birth of the State of New york to proclaim October careful in exploring possible negotiations. great man for whom the institution was third, nineteen hundred eighty-two as "Pu­ There are conservative forces in El Salvador named. Fiorello LaGuardia shares with laski Day" in memory of the valiant death that want a military solution to that coun­ many Americans two things. First, he came and martyrdom of this great hero of the try's crisis, no matter how bloody. Some of to New York from elsewhere. And second, American Revolution whose heroic deeds those forces are represented in the govern­ his parents came to America from else­ ought to be perpetuated in the memory of ment, and might try to sabotage any peace where. Total dedication to the working all peoples of this great nation and to urge efforts. people of the city, the people who make the 25654 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 city work, the people provide the drama, the It is not, nor has it been my intention, to ored by Congress by passing your legislation energy, the productivity, the imagination make a political speech. I do not consider making it our first national legal holiday that make New York City the most impor­ that the present attack on the American and having the President issue a proclama­ tant city in the world, was the hallmark of working people is a political issue. I take it tion each year. the man after whom this institution is to be a cosmic and moral issue of great im­ It won't cost anyone a cent. It won't named. His legacy, our legacy, stands for portance. We have struggled in this nation change the way it's celebrated. It will only what is the very best in America today, and for fifty years to establish the principle that pay the highest honor to the most impor­ his principles-for what is the very best in a fundamental responsibility of our govern­ tant date in our history- July 4-the birth­ America today, and his principles-now ment is enhancing the conditions of life for day of the home of all real Americans. under severe attack by those who do not un­ all of our people. It has a responsibility to "America We're for You." derstand that work and sacrifice are the un­ provide education, health, housing and op­ Sincerely, derpinnings of the creation of culture and portunity. Any effort to diminish that com­ GEORGE BUCHAN, Sr.e civilization-must be our principles. mitment is an attack upon us all. And In the life he led, Fiorello LaGuardia indeed, when we consider what is to be done teaches us something else, equally impor­ in the face of this attack, it is clearly NUCLEAR WASTE: LET US HAVE tant to us today. He shows us that he did against our interests to be divided upon the MORE THAN A 10-PERCENT SO­ not forget from whence he came. Many of basis of considerations that are fundamen­ LUTION you here today see yourselves on the tally irrelevant. And it is clealry within the threshold of jobs and upward social mobili­ interests of those who would make that ty, of moving from the neighborhoods in attack upon us to keep us divided. HON.EDWARDJ.MARKEY which you spent your childhood into a more Today, the graduates and I share the OF MASSACHUSETTS affluent world. Those of you who have prof­ hopes and fears of new beginnings. I would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ited from the sacrifices made by your par­ also like to share with them my conviction ents and others, as well as from the sacrific­ that one cannot live one's life for one's self Tuesday, September 28, 1982 es you yourselves have made by working alone. My new beginning is important to me • Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, for the long, conscientiously and hard, must never personally because it means being a part of forget that behind you is another genera­ something that dramatically changes and past 6 years, I have worked to help tion. enhances peoples lives. Wherever your ca­ fashion a national nuclear waste Fiorello LaGuardia never forgot that he reers should take you, I urge you to enrich policy. And for the 30-year life of the was not born with a silver spoon in his your lives with an active concern for social nuclear power industry, representa­ mouth. He dedicated his life to the advance­ responsibility and justice.e tives across this country have attempt­ ment and progress of those who came after ed to "solve" the nuclear waste prob­ him. Your own self-esteem as individual lem. We have come to realize that we human beings, and the pleasure you take of JULY 4 HOLIDAY will not solve the problem. Our best making it successfully in American life, hope is to "deal" with it-responsively, must always be measured against the enor­ HON. BARNEY FRANK mous responsibility that all of us bear. comprehensively, and permanently. There are, I suppose, two kinds of people OF MASSACHUSETTS We must not be misled by the special who come from these streets, from working IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES interests and parochial concerns of the class neighborhoods, from urban decay, Tuesday, September 28, 1982 domestic nuclear power industry or from ghettos: those who make it and cannot •Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, I wish to any other group which stands to gain remember what it was like, and those who share with my colleagues a letter I re­ from the policy. It is the American make it but cannot forget. I hope that you people who need our protection and will be among those who can never forget. cently received from Mr. George For then you will know that you do not live Buchan of Natick, Mass., concerning concern, for their health, safety, and your life for yourself alone. And your life the importance of July 4 in our na­ their pocketbooks. will be enriched by the knowledge that tional heritage. Mr. Buchan is a 79- In the past weeks, under the guise of you've contributed in a significant way not year-old man who has worked for creating a consensus bill merging the only to your own children, but to everyone's different notions of the seven major children that come after you. many years promoting the most im­ portant civil holiday in our Nation. As legislative committees who had some We are faced today with a concerted Mr. Buchan's letter states, many claim on the subject matter or other effort by a national administration to break committee's treatment of the subject us apart, to stir up an awareness of mean­ people are unaware of the role July 4 ingless differences among us, to encourage plays among out national holidays. My matter, Chairmen UDALL, DINGELL, and us to overlook the fact that we are all work­ legislation, House Concurrent Resolu­ OTTINGER have made some rather en­ ing people and that our destiny and tion 353, would require the President couraging gains from the dismal prod­ progress in America depends upon our to issue a proclamation designating ucts of their respective legislative mutual cooperation, understanding, affec­ July 4 of each year as our principal na­ bodies. However, before the Nation tion and respect for each other. This admin­ tional permanent legal holiday. can rest comfortably with a national istration, increasingly, has given safe pas­ I urge my colleagues to support this rather than utility nuclear waste bill, sage into national debate and into social the product of the reconciliation proc­ policy to some of the worst elements of bill and consider Mr. Buchan's letter. The letter follows: ess needs some additional work. American life. The strategy represents no Today, the Committee on Rules less than a head-on attack on the interests NATICK, MAss., of working people in America. The fact that September 8, 1982. under the leadership of Chairman we have ten million people unemployed in Hon. BARNEY FRANK, BOLLING agreed to allow 36 separate the richest nation on earth and that we are House of Representatives, amendments to the reconciled bill, financing an obscenely huge military budget Washington, D. C. H.R. 7187. The amendments are to be by taking money from poor people, unem­ DEAR MR. FRANK: I realize Congress is printed in today's RECORD. But the ployed people, working people, Black, quite busy and has more important busi­ portion of the RECORD which allows White, Hispanic, Asian and other peoples ness to work on. But I believe the birthday who are struggling to make it in America, is of this wonderful country, that makes it for the printing of amendments does no accident. It is a conscious attempt to re­ possible to enjoy the way other folks can not permit accompanying text explain­ spond to a particular constituency whose not live, deserves the highest honor of any ing those amendments. The following solitary commitment is to enhance the posi­ holiday. I'd like to ask some questions, not text explains the 12 amendments tion of class, privilege and wealth in Amer­ to be fresh but to point out that many folks which I have had printed and intend ica. Under this administration, taking from I talk with don't know July 4 was not our to offer, along with synopsis of an the poor and giving to the rich-A kind of first national holiday. I'd like to ask the amendment which will be offered by grotesque inversion of the Robin Hood Congressmen: How many of them, before Mr. LUNDINE, under the rule, for story-has become a cornerstone of national going into Congress, knew we didn't have a policy. This policy cannot be sustained for national holiday on July 4? which I have particular concern. long. For it contributes to the dehumaniza­ I'd like them to conduct a poll in their 'MILITARY WASTES tion of our people and in so doing, corrupts States asking: Have we a National Holiday? As introduced H.R. 7178 applies only se­ and diminishes us all. What date? Should July 4 be kindly hon- lectively to military high level radioactive September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25655 wastes. Yet these wastes account fc::: about T&E LICENSING DESTRUCTIVE TREND IN OUR 90 percent-by volume-of the Nation's ac­ Under Section 202 of the Energy Reorga­ EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM cumulation of radioactive material. This nization Act of 1974, the Nuclear Regula­ amendment recognizes that all wastes in the tory Commission is vested with the possession of the Federal Government are, authority to issue regulations, standards, HON. DANIEL K. AKAKA in fact, DOE wastes and applies the provi­ sions of the act equally to all high level ra­ and licenses for sites holding high-level ra­ OF HAWAII dioactive wastes. dioactive wastes. This amendment extends IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The amendment does not expand the the requirement of licensing to the T&E fa­ NRC's licensing authority and allows the cility as it was previously extended to in­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 fullest discretion with the military to pro­ clude both civilian and military repositories. • Mr. AKAKA. Mr. Speaker, in May tect national security information. T&E COLOCATION WITH PERMANENT REPOSITORY 1982, the National Academies of Sci­ GOVERNOR OR STATE LEGISLATURE AMENDMENT This amendment prohibits the co-location ences and Engineering held a national Requiring the Governor and the State of the T&E facility and a final repository. convocation to consider the state of Legislature to act jointly to submit a notice Because final repositories need to obtain precollege education in mathematics of disapproval to Congress regarding a NRC construction licenses and licenses to and science in the United States. The siting decision could be a nearly impossible possess, hold or transport high-level radio­ report of that convocation is now task for some states. Many state legislatures active wastes, but T&E facilities are not meet only once a year or once every other burdened by either requirement, it would be available; its findings are indeed dis­ year for a short period of time. Given that inappropriate to allow the co-location of li­ turbing. I call on my colleagues to the state has only 60 days in which to object censed and unlicensed activities. obtain a copy of the report "Science to a siting decision, the bill should state and Mathematics in the Schools: that either the governor or the state legisla­ LICENSING T&E RECEIPT, POSSESSION OR USE OF Report of a Convocation" published ture could submit the state's objection. This RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL by the National Academies of Science amendment is supported by the National Under Section 202 of the Energy Reorga­ and Engineering. Governors' Association and the National nization Act of 1974, the Nuclear Regula­ Conference of State Legislators. tory Commission is vested with the One of the major objectives of this authority to issue regulations, standards convocation was to focus public atten­ STATE AND TRIBE T&E PAYMENTS and licenses for the receipt, possession or tion on the 20-year erosion of mathe­ With respect to reimbursement under the use of radioactive materials in order to pro­ matics and science education in the final repository title, states are to be given tect the public health and safety. This 90 percent and Indian Tribes are to be given United States. The importance of this amendment requires that a license be ob­ issue to the future of our Nation 100 percent of the costs incurred for activi­ tained for such activities at the proposed ties including reviewing DOE activities, test­ T&E facility. cannot be overstated, for it has ing and evaluating such activities, providing become increasingly clear that we are information to states, etc. Under the Test & DELETE T&E POPULATION LIMIT in the process of raising a generation Evaluation title, states and Indian tribes The population criteria set out for perma­ of Americans who lack the education would each be reimbursed only 75 percent nent repositories are inconsistent with an to participate in the world of technolo­ for the same activities. This amendment arbitrary population limitation set out for gy. The sad fact is that we are in the brings the reimbursement levels up to the T&E facilities. The same rules should apply levels provided for in the permanent reposi­ process of raising a generation of to final repositories and the T&E facility. people who are technologically illiter­ tory section. This amendment strikes the population Since final disposal of high-level radioac­ limit from the T&E title of the bill. ate. tive materials is considered a "federal re­ The findings of this convocation sponsibility," and the T&E facility is pro­ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AND should be enough to generate a very moted as helping to achieve that end, there JUDICIAL REVIEW real concern among our Nation's lead­ is little justification for requiring a specific The amendment restores existing law as ers, for our Nation is only as strong state or Indian Tribe to contribute 25 per­ required by the National Environmental and capable as her people are educat­ cent of the incurred costs. In effect, that Policy Act which would require an state or Indian Tribe will be required to sub­ environmental impact statement at this ed and competent. This is especially sidize all other states and Tribes insofar as stage of the development of repository can­ true in the field of high technology-a T&E activities are concerned. didate sites. Considering the fact that each body of knowledge which is critically DELETE T&E FACILITY site characterization activity will cost about important to all nations in the 20th This amendment deletes the entire Test $100 million to complete, that kind of ex­ century. According to the convocation and Evaluation title of H.R. 7187. Although penditure seems to merit a full environmen­ report, there is evidence that the con­ many of the premises behind the T&E facil­ tal review as now provided for in NEPA. dition of precollege science and mathe­ ity seem sound and logical, its existence will GOOD FAITH BARGAINING matics is not healthy; some of this evi­ detract from the commitment to establish a This amendment changes the language re­ dence is quantitative while some is deep geological repository program and qualitative. Scholastic aptitude test delete funds for such program. If we accept lating to the bargaining between state and the premise that the benign disposal of DOE officials concerning the contract for scores have declined; the number of highly radioactive waste in deep geological support of state activities within regard to students taking math and science media is an application of existing technolo­ the siting of a T&E facility within its bor­ courses has declined; a decline in the gy, then the T&E facility only sidetracks ders. The amendment requires negotiations level of interest in math and science our goal of pursuing that option. to develop a written agreement or to inform bears witness to a profound weakness Congressional Committees why such agree­ MAKE TEST AND EVALUATION FACILITY ment has not been completed. The inclusion in the teaching of science and mathe­ DISCRETIONARY of this provision will avoid the difficulties matics in our schools. This amendment changes the develop­ presently occurring between DOE and re­ What we are doing in this country is ment of a T&E facility from an obligation pository states regarding the access to infor­ very simple: We are laying the ground­ to a discretionary act on the part of the Sec­ mation and allegations of bad faith. work for the collapse of American retary of Energy. The amendment provides that as soon as practicable, the Secretary SCHEDULE OF TARGETS technology and expertise in the years will determine whether establishing a T&E As drawn H.R. 7187 obligates the Secre­ to come. facility is advisable. Given the limited re­ tary of Energy to recommend candidate I urge my colleagues to study care­ sources of the program for deep geological sites for a permanent repository on a prede­ fully the recent report put out by the repositories and the relatively advanced termined schedule. The amendment would National Academies of Sciences and stage of current site characterization activi­ change that obligation to a goal. The sched­ Engineering. And then, I urge my col­ ties in several states, this amendment will ule would require the nomination and selec­ leagues to join hands in an effort to allow the Secretary the discretion necessary tion process to coincide with the political to conserve resources and pursue the ulti­ primary schedule in potential repository reverse this destructive trend in our mate goal of disposal rather than an inter­ states. The goal of selecting a final reposi­ educational system. mediate step of pursuing the T&E facility tory is a national priority and should not be I ask that comments from speakers simultaneously. affected by the political process.e at the May convocation be inserted in 25656 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 the RECORD immediately following my safety, and welfare of the state law in ques­ AND ANOTHER ROUND OF ARMS FOR remarks.• tion. In addition, the FTC will be prohibited EVERYBODY from finding a method of competition to be unfair under its antitrust authority where THE TRUE FACTS ABOUT THE the method of competition is prescribed by Unwilling to punish Israel, President Reagan is turning toward fatter arms deliv­ BROYHILL SUBSTITUTE a state according to the State Action Doc­ eries to pro-American Arab states as proof trine. of evenhandedness in the Mideast and as a HON. JAMES T. BROYHILL The Administration supports this compro­ restraint against future Israeli adventures. OF NORTH CAROLINA mise amendment. We believe it strikes area­ The move is certain to provoke Israel and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sonable balance between total elimination likely to encounter resistance in Congress, of FTC jurisdiction over business practices but Reagan has no other options. Other­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 of professionals-even practices found to be wise, Arab countries such as Egypt, Jordan e Mr. BROYHILL. Mr. Speaker, today deceptive or anticompetitive-and current and the Persian Gulf states will conclude I am inserting material in the CON­ law, which contains no restrictions on the that American impotence in curbing Israel's GRESSIONAL RECORD to correct certain FTC's authority regarding the professions. bloody Lebanon operations puts the U.S. in Your compromise would be consistent Israel's hip pocket. inaccurate and misleading statements with the Administration's policies of assur­ The first signal of the post-Lebanon which have been made about the sub­ ing vigorous market competition while elim­ policy switch is the decision to give the tiny stitute which I intend to offer for the inating Federal intrusion into matters best Gulf state of Bahrain its own air force. Luken-Lee amendment to H.R. 6995, reserved to the states. Jordan will soon be ticketed for new aircraft the FTC Authorization Act of 1982. The Administration appreciates the op­ and a mobile air defense system. In Egypt, A recent "Dear Colleague" referred portunity to comment on your amendment. President Hosni Mubarak privately warns to the position taken by the adminis­ Sincerely, the United States that some measure of tration in a letter from Dave Stock­ DAVID A. STOCKMAN, arms balance in the Middle East is essential Director. to prevent new runaway military operations man on the Broyhill substitute with­ by Israel is not available, ac­ In this most recent incident, the this Century." And yet no comment by cording to spokesmen at the PRC Embasssy. senseless slaughter of refugees, we the networks, no hesitation about It is known, however, that China has been a find, once again, emotion overwhelm­ broadcasting that shot, nobody re­ technologically underdeveloped country and ing objectivity; reaction rather than memberirig that this same man was has only recently begun to develop a tech­ response; blindness rather than the butcher of Munich. nological capability. Edward Teller, a physi­ reason. Make no mistake-the wanton Israel won a great military victory cist and senior research fellow at the slaughter of innocent human beings is and now faces an even greater political Hoover Institute, has disc~ed that the his­ an indictment of all humanity. Let us torical roots of China's underdeveloped defeat. For those of us who care about status go back many centuries. The Chinese try and put into perspective this Israel, it is time that we recognize the civilization was the first to make substantial human tragedy despite the percep­ forces that are against us and use our progress in technology-"it developed print­ tions created by the media in its rush resources to meet this onslaught. The ing, gunpowder, and rockets;" ... revolu­ to be the first bearer of the news. Government of Israel must recognize tionized European agriculture by inventing The Israeli Army is a professional the reality of this situation and re­ "a harness designed so that horses could army in the finest sense of the word spond-rather than react-to the at­ draw plows;" it also "developed the magnet­ and not given to the slaughter of civil­ tacks being made. ic compass for navigation. Five hundred ians. The units were not haggard and The fact that the President of Israel, years ago,'' Teller states, "China was on its suffering from combat fatigue like rather than the Prime Minister, called way to explore and enrich the world. Then a some American units were in Vietnam. for an immediate investigation of the change occured." In 1448, an imperial edict And yet we heard on the evening news refugee incident does not do justice to declared that China, the technological that the attackers included "Israeli the position of Israel. The emotional leader of that time, would "concentrate on commandos" and that the Christian reaction of the Prime Minister, howev­ traditional subjects-Confusion philosophy, units were commanded by "Israeli offi­ er justified, does not provide Israel the calligraphy, and ceramics." As a result, cers." Is that reasonable to believe? "four hundred years later, when the West same political position that a rea­ made contact, China had turned into a tech­ Can that be factually proven? The soned, controlled, objective response nologically underdeveloped country." Teller answer to both questions is, "No." And would have. By these comments, I defines this situation as the "China Syn­ yet, our networks saw fit to create mean in no way to be critical of Prime drome"-"the event begins with a rejection that perception. Somewhere along the Minister Begin. I do not believe that it of science and technology; the effects are circuit, the point that was never em­ is proper for any American political that the standard of living for the average phasized was that the Palestinians leader in any way to become involved man deteriorates and the nation becomes were killed by Christian soldiers, not in the internal politics of another defenseless." He believes that the United Israelis. country. States is experiencing this syndrome. We are told that Israelis fired flares, We are at a most serious, sensitive In addition, Paul D. Hurd, Professor emer­ which facilitated the killings. Is is pos­ and uncertain time in the life of itus in the School of Education at Stanford sible that at night, with firing taking Israel. It is most important that we re­ University in his as yet unpublished study, place, the Israelis were concerned as to affirm our behief that the future of "Science Education in the People's Republic whether or not they might be under Israel and the future of America are as of China,'' reports that during the period of attack? Have you ever been out in the the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976, one. We need each other. We can an "anti-intellectual" system of belief exist­ countryside in pitch darkness and never allow the cause of Israeh to heard noises and wondered what was ed. In order to "restore educational and sci­ become solehy the cause of the Jewish entific vigor,'' he states, "new educational going on and where? Did the slaughter American commujity. It is time to re­ actually take 3 days or was it done in and science policies were announced in late affirm the truth; to call for objectivity 1977 and in 1978. The new policies called for one night? We really do not know and and fairness in reporting; to return to rapid developments in scientific research, will not know until the matter is fully reason. It is most important to replace technology, and industrialization and a na­ investigated. Were the Christians fired rash, pubhic words, with quiet, private tional reformulation of school and college on from the camps, and if so, where actions.e science curricula that will make them sup­ did the refugees get the guns? Is it in­ portive of national interest." Dr Hurd also conceivable to believe that the PLO notes that the Chinese Constitution was re­ could have initiated the firings on the CHINA SHOWS FOLLY OF U.S. written and adopted, in 1978, to include poli­ Christians hoping for an incident to EDUCATION POLICY cies concerning scientific education. Articles further isolate the Christians and the 12 and 13 in the constitution declares specif­ Israelis? We don't know-but the HON. PAUL SIMON ically: media has exercised its judgment by OF ILLINOIS Article 12: The state devotes major efforts creating in the public conscience the to developing science, expands scientific re­ perception that the Israehis were re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES search, promotes technical innovation and sponsible for this slaughter. Tuesday, September 28, 1982 technical revolution and adopts advanced This same media saw fit to advance •Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, we can techniques whenever possible in all depart­ the idea that the Israelis were respon­ learn from others. ments of the national economy. . . . sible for the assassination of Presi­ Our friends in China offer an exam­ Article 13: The state devotes major efforts dent-elect Gemayel of Lebanon. I find ple of why the present policy of deem­ to developing education in order to raise the it impossible to believe anything trans­ phasizing education is a policy of folly. cultural and scientific level of the whole mitted over the airwaves without chal­ The Congressional Research Service nation... ·• lenge. On cable news, former Senator has put together a paper titled, Abourezk went unchallenged when he "United States Supply and Demand of September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25659 THE TRUE FACTS ABOUT THE tion and quality of care issues. This into the professions and reduce costs: Now, BROYHILL SUBSTITUTE preserves the traditional role of the therefore, be it States in regulating professionals. Resolved that the National Association of Specific findings must be made by Attorneys General: HON. JAMES T. BROYHILL 1. Opposes the enactment of any limita­ OF NORTH CAROLINA the Commission prior to proceeding tions on the ability of the Commission to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pursuant to its consumer protection enforce the Federal Trade Commission Act authority under the substitute. it must Tuesday, September 28, 1982 with respect to the professions, particularly be shown that a professional commer­ S. 2499 and H.R. 3722; and e Mr. BROYHILL. Mr. Speaker, re­ cial or business practice which is anti­ 2. Authorizes the General Counsel to com­ cently, several inaccurate and mislead­ competitive is at issue. The interest of municate the views of this Association to ing "Dear Colleagues" have been cir­ the State in protecting the quality of the United States Congress and the appro­ culated about the substitute which I care must be carefully weighed in the priate members of the Administration.e intend to offer for the Luken-Lee Commission's decision to proceed. To amendment to H.R. 6995, the FTC Au­ insure consideration of the State's CONGRESSIONAL VIGIL FOR thorization Act of 1982. concerns, the substitute guarantees SOVIET JEWRY In order to set the record straight, I State participation in the FTC's pro­ am inserting a series of remarks in the ceeding. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD to correct Under the Luken-Lee amendment HON. BRIAN J. DONNELLY these inaccurate statements and to see the FTC would be powerless to halt il­ OF MASSACHUSETTS that my colleagues have the true facts legal, unfair, deceptive or anticompeti­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on the Broyhill substitute. tive activities. The argument that the Tuesday, September 28, 1982 The statement has been made that professions under the exemption are the Broyhill substitute "would give still subject to Justice Department and e Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. Speaker, I am the Federal Trade Commission its State enforcement is without merit. honored to participate today in the largest expansion of regulatory au­ The National Association of Attor­ congressional vigil for Soviet Jewry. thority since the Magnuson-Moss War­ neys General, of which the attorney This morning a troubling news ac­ ranty Act of 1975." general of North Carolina is a count caught my eye. Ida Milgrom, Here are the true facts: member, adopted a resolution in oppo­ the mother of imprisoned dissident The substitute does not expand the sition to the Luken-Lee amendment in Anatoly Shcharansky, has informed FTC's regulatory authority over pro­ part because the FTC is uniquely Western reporters that her son is en­ fessionals. The U.S. Supreme Court equipped and has developed an exper­ gaged in a hunger strike to protest his has long since held that professionals tise in evaluating anticompetitive ac­ desperate situation. It is indeed tragic are subject to the antitrust laws, Gold­ tivities of professionals. Moreover, the that Shcharansky has become so dis­ farb v. Virginia State Bar, 421 U.S. 773 Justice Department has no authority heartened by his brutal imprisonment <1975), and there is no question that as to enforce the consumer protection that he is moved to undertake a individuals they are subject to the con­ laws and their antitrust jurisdiction is hunger strike. The Soviets have not sumer protection laws. There are cur­ narrower in scope than that of the succeeded in breaking this brave man's rently no statutory restrictions on the FTC. spirit, although they have resorted to Commission's authority in this area. Given the letter from the attorney cowardly sanctions against him and To eliminate this potential for abuse, general of North Carolina being circu­ his family. Shcharansky was placed the substitute imposes strict limits on lated by the proponents of the Luken­ into solitary confinement last year. the Commission when it intrudes into Lee amendment, I have attached a His health has suffered greatly be­ the State regulation of professionals. copy of the association's resolution op­ cause of the inhuman prison condi­ The substitute actually puts profes­ posing the Luken-Lee amendment for tions the Soviet authorities have sub- sionals in a better position than they the review of all Members. jected him to. · are presently in. Not only does it set I call upon the Soviet authorities to out legal boundaries for the FTC, but I urge your support for the Broyhill release Anatoly Shcharansky from it also will clarify its role to the bene­ substitute when it is considered on the unjust imprisonment, and permit he fit of those subject to the FTC's juris­ House Floor. and his family to leave the Soviet diction. RESOLUTION CONCERNING S. 2499 AND H.R. Union. The continued imprisonment Second, the statement has been 3722 of this Prisoner of Conscience demon­ made that the Broyhill substitute Whereas the Congress of the United strates how terrified the Soviet Gov­ would "enable the Commission to States is considering legislation, S. 2499 and ernment is of legitimate dissent and H.R. 3722, which would reauthorize the override and invalidate State laws, Federal Trade Commission but would independent thought. The interna­ thereby legitimizing a power the remove the professions from antitrust and tional community must voice its out­ agency has simply assumed up to consumer protection scrutiny by the Com­ rage at the mistreatment of Shchar­ now." mission; and ansky, and renew its call for his imme­ Here are the true facts: Whereas the antitrust laws establish a diate release from Soviet prison.e The substitute does not give the regime of competition as the fundamental Commission new authority to preempt principle governing commerce in this coun­ State laws. It is precisely because the try; and H.R. 6046-A STEP BACKWARD FTC has the broad ability, as deter­ Whereas the Supreme Court of the mined by the courts, to preempt con­ United States has previously ruled that the professions, in ordering their business af­ HON. STAN LUNDINE flicting State laws that I have fash­ fairs, are subject to the rule of competition OF NEW YORK ioned a substitute which substantially embodied in the antitrust and consumer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES restricts the preemptive authority of protection laws, like other trades and occu­ the FTC. pations; and Tuesday, September 28, 1982 It is firmly established in a case law Whereas the Commission is uniquely e Mr. LUNDINE. Mr. Speaker, it has that FTC regulations may supersede equipped to evaluate the activities of profes­ recently been brought to my attention State statutes and regulations. Kathe­ sionals and their associations for potential that H.R. 6046, the Extradition rine Gibbs School FTC, anticompetitive effects and potential unfair v. 612 F.2d 658 or deceptive acts or practices and has devel­ Reform Act of 1982, may soon be <1979>. To avoid overreaching by the oped great expertise in doing so; and scheduled for floor consideration. Commission, the substitute precludes Whereas, removal of the Commission's au­ While I respect the intent of this legis­ the Commission from second guessing thority to scrutinize such activities would lation, to facilitate the surrender of State judgments on licensing, educa- severely hinder efforts to inject competition terrorists, I strongly believe that H.R. 25660 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 6046 proposes to accomplish this goal stand on these projects before we $189 million next year alone. Nobody but a through the subordination of another return home for the election break. handful of politicians would miss The Blob. national goal: Our longstanding tradi­ The editorials follow: Never in history has so much federal money been pledged to the benefit of so few tion of providing refuge to political op­ CFrom the Norman Transcript, Sept. 23, ponents of authoritarian regimes. In as it has for the Tenn-Tom Blob. The 450- 1982] mile-long system of dams, locks and chan­ its present form, H.R. 6046 is so over­ CUTTING WASTE nels is supposed to make the Tombigbee broad that its passage would surely The exercise in fiscal restraint we've wit­ River navigable from the Tennessee River result in grave repercussions for those nessed at the federal level over the past two to the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile, Ala. individuals who have sought refuge years has been uneven where political con­ The waterway won't generate any electric within the United States from the ty­ siderations have intruded. At times this has power and it won't protect anyone from rannical regime they have been forced worked for the good of a great many people floods. to abandon. or even the nation as a whole. However, The Blob will carry coal and other select­ Several of the most abhorrent provi­ there have been some glaring exceptions to ed goods from Tennessee to the export sions in this legislation include: The the congressional concern about spending docks at Mobile. That's all. To finish it, the which serve no discernible purpose other Corps of Engineers plans to move more erosion of judicial review, and the ex­ than the security of a few political careers. earth than was necessary to build the pansion of executive power; the elimi­ Two such spending items that appear to Panama Canal. nation of constitutional recourse have no equals are the multi-billion-dollar Blob boosters say it will be a cheaper way through habeas corpus for U.S. citi­ Tennessee Tombigbee kg.) This estimate was based on an AFR fa­ ards to diverse federal agencies, Congress STORAGE: THE MOST EXPEN­ cility capable of handling and storing 5,000 may unwittingly prevent agencies from fol­ SIVE OPTION metric tonnes U. A copy of this study is at­ lowing the mandates given them by Con­ tached. gress in earlier legislation. 2. A November 1981 study by E. R. John­ HON. EDWARD J. MARKEY son Associates for DOE estimated that dry The business lobby in Washington is OF MASSACHUSETTS storage of spent fuel on site in casks would working overtime to see some "regulatory 2 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cost approximately $120 per kg. The study reform" enacted soon. Before bowing to this reviews a number of dry storage options. Se­ pressure, the Democratic leadership in the Tuesday, September 28, 1982 lected pages from this report are attached. House must ponder the possiblity that such e Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, an 3. TVA has been investigating the poten­ "reform" is, in fact, a back-door way of evis­ issue of great public concern for the tial of a large dry-storage facility for spent cerating the environmental standards, next several decades and beyond is the fuel. An article in the May 24, 1982, issue of health protections and consumer safeguards Nuclear Fuel reported that a demonstration now on the books.e issue of interim storage of high-level facility would cost $210 per kg. and a 1,300- radioactive waste from nuclear power­ tonne facility would cost $67 per kg. I was plants and other sources. Legislation unable to reach the source for the Nuclear A TRIBUTE TO CORWIN now pending before Congress includes Fuel article, but the TVA office here in EMERSON RILEY provisions for away-from-reactor Washington indicated to me that the num­ storage that is sponsored and bers in the article were probably reliable. A subsidized by the Federal Govern­ copy of the article is enclosed for your infor­ HON. RONALD M. MOITL ment. mation. In addition to these attachments, I am en­ OF OHIO I have consistently argued that AFR's are not a viable strategy for closing copies of testimony before the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Energy and Environment Subcommittee dealing with our country's radioactive and the Senate Energy Committee by Ad­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 waste storage problem. The creation ministration witnesses stating their opposi­ of a Federal interim storage site would tion to Federal AFR facilities. •Mr. MOTTL. Mr. Speaker, I take greatly reduce the incentive for estab­ I hope this information meets your re­ this opportunity to pay tribute to Mr. lishing a permanent repository and quirements. If you have further questions, Corwin Emerson Riley, one of the would greatly increase the near-term please call me at 287-7241.e most successful salesmen in the coun­ risks to the public from the additional try. He is the current president of the transportation and handling of the Kirby Vacuum Cleaner Co. in Cleve­ wastes that AFR's would involve. MAINTAINING ACCESS TO land, Ohio. But most significantly, a federally EDUCATION Corwin Riley has been a distributor sponsored AFR would offer a bailout for 53 years and has promoted 44 to nuclear utilities when the technolo­ HON. STEVE GUNDERSON other distributors. He is an inspiration gy already exists for them to solve OF WISCONSIN and great motivating force to others in their temporary problems onsite. The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES most recent innovation in this area is his fiel~ and has trained great num­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 bers of salesmen. dry cask storage. A memorandum that Corwin was born in 1907 and spent I received today from the Library of e Mr. GUNDERSON. Mr. Speaker, as his childhood in the rural atmosphere Congress' Congressional Research representatives of the American Service, reveals yet another important people, it is our duty and responsibil­ of Hinkley, Ohio. He is married to advantage of dry cask storage over ity to look to the future as we deal Arlene Riley and is the proud father AFR's, it is at least three times cheap­ with the issues of the Nation. of three children-Denise, Diann, and er. I would like to share with my col­ The very future of the United States Richard, and grandfather of four. leagues the following memo: is directly dependent upon the quality He has a long and impressive record CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE, and scope of education provided for of service to the community as well. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, American young people today. During 1928, Corwin was the scout­ Washington, D.C., September 28, 1982. While we cannot bankrupt this master of the Parma Boy Scout Troop. To: Subcommittee on Oversight and Special country financially, we in Congress He served as the president of the Investigations, House Committee on In­ must also guard against bankrupting it North Royalton Chamber of Com­ terior and Insular Affairs. intellectually by denying access to merce for 2 years, and president of the From: Carl E. Behrens, Specialist in Energy Policy, Environment and Natural Re­ higher education. Civil Service Commission for 10 years. sourcs Policy Division. In that regard, this Congress has He was also the campaign chairman of Subject: Cost estimates of storage of com­ taken the necessary steps to aid in the Cuyahoga County March of Dimes mercial spent fuel. providing financial assistance to those and Police Athletic League. In addi­ Several estimates have been made in who are in need, while restoring the tion, he was one of the founding fa­ recent years that may help in evaluating programs to their original intent. thers of Parma Community Hospital. the relative cost of storing spent nuclear Two actions taken by this House in fuel in Away-From-Reactor facilities and on­ Currently, he is a member of the site: recent weeks indicate the dedication of Volunteers of America. He is on the 1. A DOE study issued on October 1980, 1 this Congress to preserving education­ disbursement committee of Blue Coats in pursuit of the Carter Administration al opportunities. and is cochairman of the Cuyahoga policy that DOE take title to spent fuel and With the additional funds provided Police Chiefs Association-Crime charge a one-time fee for temporary storage in the supplemental appropriations and ultimate disposal, proposed a fee of bill total student financial aid funding Stoppers. $137 per kilogram of uranium for storage at On a personal level, I want Corwin a Federal AFR facility until a final reposi­ for fiscal year 1982 was increased by Riley to know how much I have appre­ tory was operable. . Octo­ partment of Energy loans that students must faith. grant family amendments which elimi­ begin repaying six months after completing school and insured by balanced analysis, Ambassador Orfila however, reflect an effort to return the aid either the federal government or a State discusses the issues that we face in our programs to their original purpose, which Guarantee Agency. This, the largest student was to help students cover the cost of a col­ hemisphere and calls for "a recommit­ aid program, will make available over $9.5 ment of political will" to deal with lege education-not to carry the whole billion in loans during the 1982-83 school burden. A successful return to original year. them. He proposes a summit meeting intent will help ensure the survival of these As the economy continues to recover, we of the 31 nations of the inter-Ameri­ aid programs for future students. can expect a continued lowering of interest can system to point us toward new ar­ The Pell Grant Program is one of the best rates, thus easing student repayment costs rangements and commitments for known of the federal student aid programs. and reducing federal expenditures. In addi­ dealing with our common problems. I Formerly called the Basic Educational Op­ tion, the Reagan Administration has em­ hope all my colleagues will give the portunity Grant, Pell is often the first barked on a major initiative to collect delin­ speech, which follows, their careful at­ source of aid in a package which may be quent and defaulted loans under the Nation­ composed of other federal and non-federal al Direct and Guaranteed Student Loan tention. sources. In the 1982-83 school year, 2.55 mil­ Programs. It is anticipated that $80 million LATIN AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES: PER­ lion students share $2,279,040,000 in Pell will be collected in 1983. Congress has been MANENT COMMITMENT OR TEMPORARY DIS­ Grants. asked to allow funds collected on delinquent CORD? The Supplemental Educational Opportu­ loans to be recycled in the loan programs; nity Grant provides another mechanism for This is both an opportune and logical oc­ under present law, such funds are returned casion in which to reflect upon the future of making awards to students. SEOG is differ­ to the treasury. Returning money to the ent from the Pell Grant in that it is man­ the inter-American system and of the Orga­ loan funds would make more money avail­ nization of American States. I thank Leon­ aged by the financial aid administrator of able to future college students.• each participating college. Each school re­ ard Marks and the directors of the Foreign ceives a set amount of money from the de­ Policy Association for inviting me to speak partment and when that money is gone, IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM T. to you at a moment which may constitute a there are no more SEOG funds for the year. FAUNTROY crucial turning point for the history of the In 1982-83 the Department of Education American region. will provide 440,000 students with For over nine decades the nations of this $278,400,000 in Supplemental Education Op­ HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. Hemisphere have had a formal regional as­ portunity Grants. Students will get up to OF NEW JERSEY sociation. Under this we are committed to: $2,000 a year under this program. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Foster the cause of regional peace and friendship; Grant programs are designed to help the Tuesday, September 28, 1982 most needy students get a college education. Safeguard the practice of non-interven­ The Pell Grant, in particular, is targeted to e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, the tion; help those students whose families earn less Washington community recently lost Recognize Juridicial equality of all 31 OAS than $12,000 per year. Grant aid is not one of its most respected citizens, with member countries; meant to cover all college costs but is ex­ the death of William T. Fauntroy, who Promote democracy and human rights; pected to be combined with a reasonable was the father of Congressman and, contribution from the student's family and Achieve integral human development: po­ individual self-help, generaly in the form of WALTER FAUNTROY. I want to pay trib­ litical, economic, cultural, technical and loans, private scholarships, and work. ute to this fine man. moral-of all OAS states. Another type of student financial assist­ As a dedicated worker in the U.S. Our American community has built up a ance is the College Work-Study Program. Patent Office for 44 years, a church complex regional relationship on the basis Designed to provide on- or off-campus Jobs vocalist and musician, a standout of mutual adherence to these interlocking for undergraduate and graduate students center fielder for several semipro base­ principles. None of these principles takes who need financial assistance, work-study is ball teams, a track star who was one of precedence over the other. This is the bind­ usually managed by the college financial aid the first to cross the color line in that ing force of our association with each other. administrator. Some 950,000 students will sport, and as an active member of the Through this relationship we have achieved receive $528 million under this program in much together, including a generation of 1982-83. New Bethel Baptist Church, William relative international peace in this Hemi­ A great deal of publicity has been generat­ Fauntroy was greathy admired by the sphere. ed lately on federal student loans, particu­ people of the District of Columbia. Our regional institution is a product of larly the National Direct Student Loan Pro­ On Father's Day in 1971 the New the vision of many learned statesmen over gram. Although all colleges do not partici- Bethel Baptist Church honored him several decades. It is a unique and multi- September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25665 purpose forum for dialogue in which the po­ This reversed a decade of inaction on this order. It now has broader dimensions for sition of each one of its members is able to important instrument. contemporary societies: peace is inderstood be heard. At this crucial moment in our his­ These are the lessons of our past history as the mutual determination to promote de­ tory, the overriding mission of the OAS is together. They demonstrate that the na­ velopment. This means, above all, that the once more as a forum for the exchange of tions of the Americas can find solutions to benefits of progress must be shared more ideas, the consideration of different posi­ the dilemmas which confront them at any equitably with all nations and with all soci­ tions and-in an atmosphere of hemispheric given point in time. However, experience eties. For the Americas this particularly re­ brotherhood and mutual respect-to arrive also attests that OAS States only discover quires that we strive to limit the injustices at solutions which are in the overall interest new answers as they deal with each other which force millions of persons to survive of the entire Hemisphere. OAS members on the basis of mutual respect and with on the margin of society. need each other now more than ever before mutual understanding. Our regional association enables us within in their long history together. As we examine the future of the regional the OAS framework of multilateral coopera­ It is undeniable, however, that for almost association after the Malvinas, then, we tion to pursue peace. Decisions within this a decade now the traditional association be­ should have confidence that we can again forum are taken on the basis of equality, tween the nations of the Americas has not find new avenues of opportunity. This is the freindship and consensus. This means we been as deep or as pervasive as before. We principal insight to be drawn from the must engage each other in dialogue and have permitted drift and indecision to take course of hemispheric history. with an attitude of mutal respect and com­ precedence over our underlying commit­ Now, though, we stand once more at a his­ prehension. ment to the principles we cherish. torical crossroads. It is marked by a dual Within this OAS forum we are reminded At present we are living through the after sign: One post indicates the dangers in constantly that peace has many dimensions. effects of the failure to resolve the long­ which we find ourselves; the other points As we have tradtionally accepted, it involves standing dispute over the Malvinas islands. the way towards pivotal circumstances restraining the forces of war or armed For the first time in generations our Hemi­ which may well offer a historic opportunity threats to international order. But it also re­ sphere has seen the unwarranted introduc­ for renewing or for perfecting the regional quires dealing with the fundamental condi­ tion of extra-continental military force into relationship. tions of development, with the pressures its midst. We can choose either path. Shall we con­ tinue to permit the drift and decline of the which can lead to international conflict be­ These tragic events have severely com­ past decade to continue? Will we, on the tween one nation and another. pounded the stresses and strains already un­ contrary, use the violent shock of the Mal­ A decade or two ago the Hemisphere's de­ settling the traditional regional relation­ vinas as a catalyst-a powerful force urging velopment agenda was readily apparent. We ship. It is this profoundly serious situation­ us on to address the urgent problems we had to expand sanitation and health ser­ and not the recent violence in the South At­ have neglected for too long? These are the vices, establish educational systems and pro­ lantic-which compels us to re-examine fundamental questions before us. vide for basic social welfare. These issues where we go from here. But what are the most pressing issues remain but they are being dealt with on a At this juncture in history, I suggest, we today? To answer this we must first recog­ systematic and sustained basis. confront two extremist views about the nize that the Western Hemisphere has been At present we confront a new series of future of the American Family of Nations: transformed in unique ways since the end of questions which impede efforts to achieve On the one side are the doom-sayers. the Second World War: integral human development in this Hemi­ They forecast the gradual demise of the re­ We have inherited a generation and more sphere. The challenges at hand include: gional system, with eventual exclusion of of regional international peace. Until the Determining measures to provide greater the United States from it. recent strife, the mark of this region was supplies of energy for development pur­ On the other side, however, are the over­ the prolonged absence of international con­ poses. simplifiers. Despite the Malvinas, they be­ flict. The dispute between Honduras and El Helping Latin America fulfill its untapped lieve, nothing has happened and after the Salvador was the major exception-with potential for food production. discords of the present, harmony will be their Peace Treaty deposited at the OAS in Accelerating the process of employment automatically restored. 1980. generation so that millions of persons may Neither of these extremes, in my view, is We have witnessed an unprecedented not be without work. correct. The chronic problems undermining period of economic growth. Twenty years Discovering newer instruments of interna­ Hemispheric harmony will not disappear ago, Latin America's outlook differed from tional financial cooperation, thereby not simply because the sounds of battle in the the present. Its population was heavily saddling OAS members with excessive diffi­ icy waters of the Atlantic are stilled. rural, and underemployment was a univer­ culties in servicing debt burdens. Yet why should we concentrate only on sal phenomenon. Public and private institu­ Opening up new channels for internation­ temporary negative features of the hemi­ tions for providing health, education, and al trade and commerce. spheric picture? We have been tested many social services were weak, banking and fi­ This is the existing development agenda times before in this region and not found nancial systems, limited. In various coun­ on which action has been limited for too wanting-even if few other crises were as tries industrialization was only in beginning long. Those who champion the cause of dramatic as the Malvinas. In many previous stages. This restrictive economic pattern no peace have no recourse but to renew the instance OAS members rose above tempo­ longer exists, except in some smaller coun­ dialogue between the North and South in rary discords by working together so as to tries and in specific sub-regions. the Americas so as to address its full dimen­ strengthen their basic commitments to each But this is only the successful part of the sions. other. We have witnessed this capacity at hemispheric story. The Malvinas dispute re­ A renewal of the regional dialogue must work in varied ways: minds us of other unresolved geopolitical be designed to promote mutual comprehen­ At an early moment in OSA history the and territorial disputes which could erupt sion of each other and of our primary con­ Inter-American Peace Commission was into armed turmoil. At the same time the cerns. For the United States this implies formed to fill a region vacuun in dispute set­ current hemispheric development agenda is seeing Latin America not only as a source of tlement. It carried out this task forcefully a different one than yesterday. It is an raw materials and energy but as a major until the Charter reform of 1967. agenda, moreover, whose dimensions are actor in world diplomacy and as a creative In 1958-following a decade of Latin clear but for which the response remains and dynamic force for the international American misgivings about U.S. economic uncertain. economy. Latin America and the Caribbean, policies-the region moved into new paths As we look towards the full dimensions of on the contrary, must acquire more compre­ of economic cooperation. This occurred our contemporary agenda, let us not over­ hensive insights into the global responsibil­ when the Inter-American Development look the costs of war-the millions of dollars ities of the United States, as well as a great­ Bank was created within the OAS forum. wasted, the untold human suffering, the er sensitivity to the political dynamics of its In the early 1960's turmoil in the Caribbe­ lives lost, the property destroyed. Events in democratic culture. With an improved an helped launch the ambitious response of the South Atlantic have burned these reali­ mutual understanding neither party within . the Alliance for Progress. ties into our minds. this relationship will come to expect either Following the regional tensions created by But at the same time let us also reflect too much or too little from the other. actions in the Dominican Republic in 1965, upon the benefits of peace. We do recognize Failure to ground the regional dialogue in a Meeting of Presidents was held at Punta these. But are we willing to pay any price, mutual comprehension is the primary del Este in 1967. This opened the doors to to act in concert, to honor any commitments source of the prolonged and fundamental nearly a decade of sustained cooperation in to regional harmony, to seize opportunities strains existing in the Hemispheric relation­ education, technology, science and culture. at hand, so that these benefits can become ship. As a consequence, when disputes erupt In the 1970's concern about abuses of permanent? Latin America and the United States fre­ human rights led to ratification of the For centuries peace was defined as the ab­ quently find themselves talking past each American Convention of Human Rights. sence of war or the tranquility of public other like two ships passing blindly in the 25666 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 night. Unless we reverse this pattern of spite all their differences, they need each THE GIANNETTI BROTHERS events the strains will continue to grow in other. At times this conviction is weak and PRESERVE THE NATION'S PAST intensity and dimension. clouded by harsh rhetoric. But it is none­ To re-establish the regional dialogue on theless always present. We are now pressed firm ground means making one thing clear: by the demands of history to infuse new life the cause of Hemispheric peace can never into this conviction by a frank and honest HON. STENY H. HOYER be served by separating the United States and yet friendly dialogue at the highest OF MARYLAND from the OAS. Latin America and the Car­ levels of our societies. ibbean do require greater coordination of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Few are unaware that the American .their own views and policies before present­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 ing them to the OAS forum. But there are region possesses the natural resources, the major regional issues which can only be ad­ cultural riches, and the political will to •Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, despite dressed by all hemispheric nations together. become a shining model of harmony for the trends toward chrome and plastic This can be done only through the OAS mankind. It has demonstrated a consistent that have been overtaking our society forum. In fact, so true is this that were the ab1Uty to overcome the differences which in recent years, a goodly number of OAS not to exist, a similar institution would divide it. Despite the discords of the Americans cherish the craftsmanship have to be created to carry out its work for present, its record of achievement is clear in peace. many spheres. of our bygone eras-craftmanship that But if we recognize this truth we must Only those without vision, then, believe still can be seen in our historic homes, equally accept a parallel one: Our countries the present is a time for doomsaying or for our antique furniture, and our vintage have a basic underlying friendship. Yet standing still. Have we any serious choice automobiles. from time to time the United States has but to work together once more so as to But in order to maintain such treas­ basic underlying friendship. Yet from time transcend the problems of the present? Let ures of the past we must continue to to time the United States has difficulty in us, rather, cooperate in seeking to move to­ produce the kind of men and women determining whether it wishes to be with wards fulfilling the sterling ideals held out and not merely for the American Hemi­ who are willing and able to keep these sphere. At these moments its own uncer­ for us by a Bolivar, a Jefferson, and a San traditions alive. In Prince George's tainities about its regional commitments Martin: an America that is and remains the County, Md., we are indeed fortunate cause uncertainty and anxiety in this last, best hope for a manking searching for to have two such Americans, John and region. universal peace and for a genuine interna­ Bob Giannetti of Giannetti Studios. Beyond this, no one can deny that the re­ tional path leading to cooperation among the peoples of this planet.e They are the most recent recipients gional system has prospered as its members of the legacy of craftmanship handed have taken an abiding and deep interst in each other's fortunes. This was reflected to them by their father, Gregory. An during the diplomatic success of the Good DELTA-THON '82 Italian immigrant, Gregory Giannetti Neighbor period, in the cooperative meas­ worked for several ornamental sculp- ures taken during the Second World War . ture companies before opening Gian­ and during the Alliance for Progress. When HON. GEORGE MILLER netti Studios in 1935. Since the mid- we limit or reduce this interest in each OF CALIFORNIA 18th century, the Giannetti family has other, we imperil the pursuit of freedom passed the exacting, hand-worked tra­ and Justice among the American community IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of nations. dition of molding and sculpting plaster After the tragedy of the Malvinas we now Tuesday, September 28, 1982 and wood into beautiful rococo designs possess an extraordinary opportunity to re­ e Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. to succeeding generations. direct our regional association into more Speaker, on Sunday, October 3, 1982, a Bob and John Giannetti are the open and harmonious channels. This will re­ major East Contra Costa County com­ latest to continue this fine work. Their quire a recommitment of political will to the remarkable skill in what has become hemispheric common good rather than munity run, Delta-Thon '82 will be almost a lost art reflects the tremen­ merely to national self-interests. Such a re­ sponsored to foster good will and com­ dous pride they have in their work and commitment of political will, however, can munity spirit and to demonstrate sup­ only take place at the highest governmental the profound respect they have for port for East Contra Costa County's the historical tradition of their craft. levels. nonprofit service agencies. For this reason I believe it essential that Many of the intricate moldings sur­ we enforce and act upon the recommenda­ This year, the three agencies select­ rounding the doors and windows of tion of Presidents Luis Herrera Camplns of ed from among more than 20 appli­ homes and government buildings of Venezuela and Gregorio Alvarez of Uruguay cants to receive the proceeds from the the last century are eroding away. So for a meeting of OAS heads-of-state in the event are Reach Project, Inc. of Anti­ too are the interior moldings at the immediate future. Will anything less than a och, Pittsburgh Food Pantry of Pitts­ meeting at this level be adequate, given the base and upper edge of walls. They are insistent challenges standing before the burg, and Liberty Area Child Care the re1nnants of an era when hand American nations at this moment? Committee, Inc. of Brentwood. built moldings were the rule, and they From previous experience we know that Reach Project is a 13-year-old com­ have become the sources for thou­ such a meeting must be preceded first by a munity-based program for the preven­ sands of newer models that are much conference of OAS foreign ministers and tion of juvenile deliquency, drug, and in demand as millions of Americans other Cabinet members. Their task would alcohol abuse. The Pittsburgh Food seek to copy the past. In fact, the be to set the agenda for the presidential Giannetti brothers have created a new meeting. It is these ministers who must Pantry has been providing food to transform the unwidely concerns of the needy families for the last 8 years. moldmaking process that works par­ present into an orderly agenda for decisions The Liberty Area Child Care Commit­ ticularly well with exact reproduc­ by the heads-of-state. As happened for the tee has served working parents for tions. meetings of OAS presidents in 1954 and in nearly a decade by delivering pre­ The exquisite results of the Giannet­ 1967 and for the signing ceremonies for the tis' talents can be found in homes and Panama Canal in 1979, the services of the school nursery and compensatory edu­ cation programs for their children. Government buildings throughout the OAS Secretariat are available to assist in Washington area. The seals for many whatever way requested. Each are widely recognized for their Federal agencies, particularly the pop­ There is a constant ebb and flow in the dedicated service to the community. growth and progress of the hemispheric as­ ular American Eagle, were designed sociation. Its formidable strength has been I wish to commend the California and executed by the Giannettis. The proven time and again during the course of Delta Newspapers, Inc., for sponsoring restoration of Ford's Theater to its our uneven history together. But one fea­ Delta-Thon '82 and Join the partici­ exact condition on the day of Presi­ ture stands out in our relationship: the pants in saluting its importance for dent Lincoln's assassination is one of belief of OAS nations and peoples that, de- East Contra Costa.e the Giannettis most famed contribu- September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25667 tions to the preservation of historic charge their legislative responsibilities ation including advertising, printing, Washington. in a prompt and efficient manner. marketing, and circulation. Not only have the Giannetti broth­ I have not yet taken a final position It's rare to have a mixture in one in­ ers worked their wonders on historic on H.R. 6267 and S. 2879. I will there- dividual of streetwise instincts com­ sites in the District of Columbia, they fore closely review the product of the bined with scholarly training as evi­ have restored many elegant homes conference committee. Clearly some­ denced by Gordon's impressive aca­ and mansions in Prince George's thing must be done to assist our ailing demic degrees. County. One of their most difficult thrift institutions. It is unfortunate, That is the chemistry of success for projects was the restoration of the however, that the House leadership Gordon and all those served by Sun ceiling in the Grand Salon of the Cal­ has chosen to utilize this procedure on newspapers.e vert Mansion in Riverdale. To execute legislation that will revoluntionize the the job, they had to remove the entire delivery of financial services in this ceiling, reproduce the ornamentation Nation for years to come.e CONGRATULATIONS TO and then replace everything. ROSEMONT, ILL. The Giannettis have also construct­ ed a beautiful 18-foot statue of the GERALD H. GORDON-CHAMPION HON. HENRY J. HYDE Madonna, which is now on the front of OF THE FOURTH ESTATE OF ILLINOIS St. Mary's Church in Lanham. Other IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES restoration projects include Matta­ HON. RONALD M. MOTIL poni, a 16th century home in Croom, Tuesday, September 28, 1982 Maryland; Woodlawn, a 19th century OF OHIO •Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, Rosemont, home in Largo; Beal's Pleasure in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ill., a small community of 5,000 per­ Landover, dating from the late 1700s; Tuesday, September 28, 1982 sons in my district, has once again uti­ and Content, a 19th century home in e Mr. MOTTL. Mr. Speaker, all of my lized its prime location-surrounding Upper Marlboro. colleagues are aware of the value Chicago's O'Hare International Air­ Indeed, their impressive body of newspapers hold for our Nation. We port-to further its business and eco­ work has gained them national promi­ do not agree with their editorial posi­ nomic development, even in these re­ nence, including the demonstration of tions all the time and they may not cessionary times. Making conventions their art on public television, and a print stories from quite the same per­ and meetings a top industry, Rose­ major article in Historic Preservation spective we would like but they pro­ mont has been able to keep property Magazine. vide a service that is essential to the taxes among the lowest in the State. Mr. Speaker, artists such as John Congratulations are due once again and Bob Giannetti deserve our praise, operation of this, the world's greatest democracy. to the community of Rosemont and its our support and our recognition. With mayor, Donald E. Stephens, on the oc­ their outstanding workmanship, we It is in the truest spirit of the rights and freedoms inscribed in our Consti­ casion of the topping off of the new can remain confident that the artistry Westin Hotel-Rosemont. Westin is also of the past remains with us, which can tution that Gerald H. Gordon pursues to be congratulated for recognizing only bring continuity to our lives as we a tireless course of publishing the truth for readers in northeast Ohio. that Rosemont is an excellent place to approach the new wonders of the 21st locate its new 12-story, 550-room century.e Northeast Ohio, including Greater luxury hotel which is due for comple­ Cleveland, is a tough market for news­ tion in January 1984. The success of BANKING BILL S. 2879 papers Just like it is for other business­ the hotel will generate revenues for es these days. Recently we witnessed the village of Rosemont and create the closing of the Cleveland Press more than 500 new Jobs when it opens. HON. STAN PARRIS after more than 100 years of oper­ OF VIRGINIA The marriage of Rosemont and ation. The combination of increased Westin is one which will contribute to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES costs, fewer advertisers, and competing the business and economic develop­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 electronic media have been too much ment of both concerns. Best of luck.e •Mr. PARRIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in for a number of long-existing newspa­ opposition to the motion to go to con­ pers to survive during the recession. ference with the Senate on the bill S. Gordon's track record of success with PEYSER RESPONDS TO THE 2879 the suburban weekly chain-Sun news­ PRESIDENT I do so with a deep sense of disap­ papers-attracted the attention of the pointment. I am disappointed that the Press when it was already drowning in HON. MATTHEW F. McHUGH leadership and the Chairman of the a sea of red ink, but even his talents OF NEW YORK Banking Committee has chosen not to during a short tenure with the fading IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bring this bill before the Banking, Fi­ daily could not avert the inevitable. Tuesday, September 28, 1982 nance and Urban Affairs Committee Gordon has been back with Sun for full committee hearings and newspapers as the division manager of e Mr. McHUGH. Mr. Speaker, on Sat­ markup and thereby to permit the the Ohio Division of Post Corp. The urday our colleague PETER PEYSER was committee to work its will. fine editorial product which is a hall­ given the opportunity to respond to This is the second time that the 97th mark of Sun newspapers has been en­ the President's weekly radio broad­ Congress leadership has pursued a hanced with his assistance. cast. course of action which denies the I would like to commend the gentle­ Members an opportunity to express Gordon realized that suburban resi­ man from New York for his timely re­ their views on significant legislation dents know their concerns are front marks and respectfully offer them to affecting the Nation's economy. The page news. Trained, professional re­ my colleagues for their review. porters give individual suburban com­ first instance was on the recent tax RESPONSE BY CONGRESSMAN PETER A. PEYSER bill when the leadership sought to munities full-time comprehensive at­

89- 059 0-86-13 (Pt. 19) 25670 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 versity. We all know that Coach Rob­ phis Jewish Federation, several con­ is an article by John Plender, reprint­ inson had many opportunities to move gregations and a host of other philan­ ing an article which appeared in the to bigger universities and more money. thropic causes. He has maintained a Economist, a British publication, on But he chose to remain at Grambling, lifelong relationship with B'nai the topic "Can Anti-Soviet Sanctions and for this we are grateful. B'rith-joining Aleph Zadik Aleph, the Work?" The recognition, the accolades, the boys' component of the B'nai B'rith Among the points mentioned in the honors which will come his way, the Youth Organization, as a youth, and article are these two which we should phone call from President Reagan­ continuing his association as a not lose sight of: they are all richly deserved. He has al­ member and president of B'nai B'rith's First, trade accounts for only 1112 to ready served as president of both the Sam Schloss Lodge in Memphis. He 2 percent of the Soviet Union gross na­ American Football Coaches Associa­ served on the B'nai B'rith Youth Com­ tional product so that when we impose tion and the National Association of mission, and was recently appointed to trade sanctions, even if they are effec­ Intercollegiate Athletics. The Ameri­ B'nai B'rith's top governing body, the tive, they can have but limited impact. can Football Coaches Association has international board of governors. Second, he points out that the honored him with its highest award­ Fogelman and his wife, Mollye, have United States is more willing than the Alonzo Stagg Trophy. And, in instilled in their children-Robert, most countries to use economic meas­ 1966, the Football Writers of America Avron and Gail-an equal sense of phi­ ures as an instrument of foreign policy cited him as "the man who made the lanthropy and community responsibil­ since exports amount to about 9.9 per­ biggest contribution to college-division ity. cent of our gross national product, a football during the last 25 years." Robert is president of Fogelman In­ much lower percentage than in the I certainly am proud to represent vestment Co. He has served as chair­ Western European countries. Grambling in Congress and to have man of the board of trustees of the The article is a thoughtful discus­ Coach Robinson as a constituent. He Memphis Academy of the Arts and St. sion of this issue which I am inserting has done so much for so many-and Mary's Episcopal School for Girls. in the RECORD at this point. for Grambling. He has brought him­ Like his father, Robert supports the CAN ANTI-SOVIET SANCTIONS WORK? self and the university not only na­ Memphis Jewish Federation. He has tional, but international recognition. also participated on the board of trust­ The Tigers have played in Yankee Sta­ ees of the city of Memphis Arts and in Tokyo twice. western at Memphis. And on top of all this-No. 300. It is "Commerce is the cure for destructive Avron, president of Fogelman Prop­ prejudices; and it is almost a geneal rule the icing on the cake. Congratulations, erties, is also the current chairman of that where there is civilized behavior there Coach Robinson. the board of Mud Island-one of the is trade,-and wherever there is trade there is most modern leisure parks in the civilized behavior." This assertion by the United States. Like this father, he, French 18th-century political theorist MEMPHIS COMMUNITY SALUTES too, has served as president of B'nai Montesquieu was, in the best of times, a FOGELMAN FAMILY great oversimplification. Today, in the con­ B'rith's Sam Schloss Lodge in Mem­ text of East-West relations, it looks more phis, and he is an active supporter of like a joke. After the dramatic expansion of HON. HAROLD E. FORD the Memphis Jewish Federation and is East-West trade that flowed from detente, OF TENNESSEE a member of their board of directors. why have hopes for political gains for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES He is a past president of the Memphis West come to so little? Apartment Association, past chairman netente was not primarily about econom­ Tuesday, September 28, 1982 of the Memphis and Shelby County ics, but the participants identified specific • Mr. FORD of Tennessee. Mr. Speak­ Planning Commisson, and has been on interests that touched on their economic ob­ er, it is a pleasure for me to take this the board of directors of the National jectives. For the Soviet Union access to opportunity to recognize the outstand­ Western capital, technology, and grain ap­ Conference of Christians and Jews peared to offer an opportunity to narrow ing accomplishments and contribu­ and Future Memphis. the gap between the economic performance tions of one of my district's most dis­ Robert and Avron have together of West and East. The U.S. stood to gain rel­ tinguished families as they receive the taken a significant role in shaping the atively little economically from increased prized B'nai B'rith International future of youth by aiding the Fogel­ trade with the Soviet Union, but it saw in Family Award. This award will be pre­ man College of Business and Econom­ the Soviet need for trade an opportu.nity to sented to the Fogelman family on ics at Memphis State University, dedi­ exercise political leverage. Wednesday evening, October 6, 1982, cated in their honor in 1980. They also The advocates of detente were not clear at the Peabody Hotel, Memphis, established the Morris S. Fogelman on precisely how trade was going to exert a Tenn., before the most eminent repre­ chair in real estate in 1972. restraining influence on the Soviet power structure. The Soviet Union reaped its gains sentatives of the Memphis religious, The Fogelmans further enliven the from trade at low political cost to itself. business, and political communities. city of Memphis through ownership of Even when the West raised the cost of For over 40 years, the Fogelman the Memphis Chicks baseball team. Soviet adventurism after the invasion of Af­ family has provided exemplary leader­ Mr. Speaker, I am proud to have ghanistan, there was little evidence of re­ ship and outstanding philanthropic known the fine members of the Fogel­ straint. Disillusionment deepened when support to the Memphis community. man family for many years and com­ Gen. Jaruzelski, with Soviet support, Morris Fogelman, a retired real mend B'nai B'rith International for abruptly cut short Poland's experiment estate and insurance businessman, has bestowing this much deserved award.• with reform. been a Memphis resident since emi­ Soviet bloc countries now owe the West around $80 billion, with Poland responsible grating from Poland as a youth. In ECONOMIC SANCTIONS DO NOT for nearly $30 billion of that figure. In the 1940 he launched the Fogelman family WORK long run the only way the Soviet bloc can real estate and insurance business a meet the debt-servicing obligation on this highly successful enterprise. ' millstone is to run down its reserves, borrow Morris Fogelman's deep sense of reli­ HON. PAUL SIMON more from the West, or earn surpluses on gious commitment has been realized OF ILLINOIS its hard-currency balance of payments. But through his deeds. Active in the Mem­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES its reserves are inadequate and Western phis Jewish community all his life, he Tuesday, September 28, 1982 bankers too panicky to lend more money. The West's trade relations with Eastern has held leadership roles in the Mem­ e Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, in the Europe are bound to run down over the phis Jewish Community Center, Mem- recent edition of World Press Review coming decade. Private banks may resume September 28, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25671 lending to the more credit-worthy countries less than speedy response to martial law in guns and butter by denying them technolo­ such as Hungary and Czechoslovakia, but Poland. The French are skeptical about the gy and credit? the financial problems of Poland, and per­ effectiveness of sanctions, with good histor­ Mr. Weinberger's view does not command haps Rumania, will take years to resolve. In ic reason: the Napoleonic economic blockade much support in Western Europe, where of­ a deteriorating East-West political climate of Britain did not work. ficials argue that the Soviet economy is too prospects for trade in Eastern Europe are The response to martial law in Poland last big and complex to permit Western coun­ dismal. The focus of the West's political December does not rate as one of the West­ tries to exert economic pressure with the concerns in economic relations with the ern Alliance's more harmonious achieve­ limited means at their disposal. They also East will therefore shift to the Soviet ments. While general agreement was question whether sanction could ever push Union. reached on measures to be taken against Soviet leaders to consider reform when this The notion of pulling the economic rug Poland, Western Europeans complain that poses political risks. And they worry that from underneath Marxist-Leninist ideolo­ there was a lack of consultation over Presi­ the denial of technology, which would make gies has an obvious appeal for Western cap­ dent Reagan's measures against the Soviets. it much harder for the Soviet Union to de­ italists. In the case of the Soviet Union, The outcome has been disagreeable. velop its energy resources, would make the however, the rug is smaller than a prayer The row between the U.S. and Western Soviet bear more dangerous. mat: trade accounts for only 1.5 to 2 per Europe over Gen. Jaruzelski's imposition of The most starting feature of the Ameri­ cent of its gross national product. That is martial law in Poland underlined the practi­ can policy debate after martial law was the not to say that the Soviets are invulnerable cal obstacles to consensus. NATO contingen­ hawks' powerful argument that the U.S. for they have severe problems. After high cy plans produced a set of measures ready should declare Poland in default on its growth during the forced industrialization for use as the need arose. But the trouble debts. Secretary of State Haig and Secre­ of the 1950s and a gradual deceleration in with contingency planning is that it takes tary of the Treasury Regan beat off the the 1960s and 1970s, the world's second larg­ place when the political temperature is pro-default lobby on the ground that de­ est economy is suffering from hardened ar­ below crisis level, so it is harder for the par­ fault would release Gen. Jaruzelski from teries. ticipants to confront unpalatable or uneven­ the pressure of debt service and have the Soviet planners pulled off the trick of ly distributed costs than it is when the opposite effect from the one intended. The rapid industrialization but they are having threats finally materialize and opinion is possibility of a politically motivated declara­ increasing difficulty controlling and direct­ aroused. tion of default is, as far as the Pentagon is ing a more complex modem economy. The West's contingency plans for Poland concerned, deferred, not canceled, in the ab­ Soviet-style central planning is more effec­ did not fail completely. Part of their pur­ sence of change. tive at promoting quantity than quality, at pose was to deter Soviet intervention, and For the West credit is a subsidiary issue. encouraging risk avoidance than innovation. while the decision about which measures to The real question is whether it is in the There is a lack of competition and of flexi­ invoke was deferred until the main event, Western interest to help the Soviet Union bility in wage and price systems, and the the list of sanctions was sufficiently tough develop its huge but increasingly high-cost planners are remote from those who work to amount to a credible deterrent. West energy reserves in Siberia. It is a major eco­ on research and development and from con­ Germany and France gave clear hints that nomic interest of the Europeans that Soviet sumers. the future of the Siberian gas pipeline to energy resources should be developed since The Soviet Union is the world's biggest oil Europe could no longer be guaranteed in this will put a brake on the pressure for in­ producer, but the Russians are living off the event of Soviet intervention. creased oil prices as Eastern European coun­ capital: oil exports provide more than half Assuming that the $15-billion Siberian tries come increasingly into the market. The the country's hard-currency revenue. While project goes ahead as planned, Western Eu­ U.S. is less interested because it is depend­ experts cannot agree on when Soviet oil pro­ rope's vulnerability will increase sharply. ent on external supplies for only 20 percent duction will reach a peak, most of them West Germany and France will both depend of its energy. agree that oil exports to the West will de­ on the Soviets for 30 per cent of their gas It is not difficult to identify the West's cline in the 1980s. On top of all this, the supplies by 1990. The Soviet Union would be economic interests in Eastern Europe. The markets in gold and diamonds are down and unlikely to tum off the tap for unmistak­ objective must be to rescue the financial the real price of oil has fallen sharply over ably political reasons except in circum­ the past two years. American sanctions since stances of extreme tension, but the Rus­ chestnuts from the fire but to avoid easing sians have used the "oil weapon" in the the Soviet Union's financial burden in East­ Afghanistan and Poland have been an irri­ ern Europe while doing so. tant. The Council for Mutual Economic As­ past-against Cuba, for example, when their sistance is becoming a burden. relations with Fidel Castro deteriorated in The debt problems of Eastern European Most Western analysts expect the Soviet 1967. countries take two forms-liquidity crises, Union to enjoy some economic growth in The U.S. has been working to drum up al­ when countries are temporarily unable to the 1980s, but the growth will be paltry. ternative sources of energy to the pipeline. generate enough foreign exchange or do­ The Soviet Union has vast raw material re­ Its proposals include increased American mestic savings , and fundamental overindebted­ it out just as they did after the balance-of­ French such alternatives appear not to ness, which arises where a country has used payments crisis in 1975 when a shocking match the deal offered by the Russians. past borrowings imprudently and cannot harvest coincided with world recession and a The reluctance to look sympathetically at meet even its interest obligations. Further fall in the gold price. But the country is any American alternative was largely borrowing helps a country with a liquidity unable to feed itself, and it is more finan­ brought on by America's decision to lift its crisis but it exacerbates the problems of cially embarrassed than in any peacetime grain embargo against the Soviets. countries that are fundamentally overin­ year since the 1930s. American politicians are judged on their debted. The remedy is an adjustment pro­ The U.S. has traditionally been more ability to deliver the goods to their constitu­ gram, usually under the auspices of the ready than most countries to use economic encies. No politician with all the farmers of, International Monetary Fund, that may in­ measures as an instrument of foreign policy say, Iowa in his constituency would care to volve rescheduling of the debt. because it can afford to do so. Exports display too anti-Soviet an attitude, because Poland is fundamentally overindebted. amounted to 9.9 percent of its gross national sales to the Soviet bloc accounted for 8 per Hungary has a liquidity crisis brought on by product in 1980-a far lower percentage cent of American feedgrain exports in 1980, a loss of confidence in panic-stricken West­ than for the Western European allies. Also, even after the partial embargo over Afghan­ ern banks rather than by gross economic American military, political, and economic istan. American farmers need those sales mismanagement. The remaining countries clout is such that the threat of retaliation badly. When President Reagan lifted the of Eastern Europe stand between them. does not cause much loss of sleep. grain embargo his excuse that it had There is nothing novel about the present Attitudes in Western Europe to the use of become ineffective carried little conviction tensions in the West over East-West eco­ economic measures for foreign policy objec­ in Europe. nomic relations, but the background has tives are different from those in the U.S. Now, with the Soviet economy slowing changed. The world has become a more dan­ West Germany has the Warsaw Pact powers down, its oil production reaching a peak, gerous place, and the balance of economic on its doorstep and its links with East Ger­ and its balance of payments under strain, a power between the U.S. and Europe has al­ many. Britain has less to lose politically window of opportunity is opening for the tered in favor of the Europeans. The com­ than West Germany, but since Afghanistan West. Why not, runs the argument of U.S. bined gross domestic product of the Europe­ it has become increasingly wary about lead­ Secretary of Defense Weinberger, impose a an NATO partners is now roughly equal to ing the W_estem European pack-witness its harsher choice on the Russians between that of the U.S. It is now both more impor- 25672 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 28, 1982 tant to establish a common policy toward Americans retain a vicarious hold on Euro­ linking of loans through cross-default the Soviet Union and much harder to do so. pean trade with the East through technolo­ clauses means that the Americans enjoy dis­ Conventional wisdom has, in the past, sug­ gy licensing agreements. proportionate leverage over both the Soviet gested that the U.S. can bring only limited The same is true, to an even greater bloc and its fellow creditors in the West. economic pressure to bear on the Soviet extent, of debt. The Soviet bloc's huge accu­ They can enlarge the economic offensive Union on its own, because most of the eco­ mulation of debt may be owed only in small against the Soviet bloc unilaterally, and nomic levers are in European hands. That part to American creditors, but the inter- substantially at Western Europe's expense. underestimates the potential of American The challenge to Western diplomacy is for­ leverage. Apart from their grain power, the midable.e