November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33729 a.tives to postpone for one day the final vote H. Res. 445. October 12, 1979. Rules. Estab H. Res. 453. October 18, 1979 . .&ppropria on any blll or resolution which was a.mended lishes in the House of Representatives an Ad tions. Disapproves the deferral of budget au in the Committee of the Whole. Hoc Committee on Water Resources. thority for fiscal year 1980 for prompting and H. Res. 435. September 27, 1979. Rules. H. Res. 446. October 16, 1979. Rules. developing fishery products (Deferra.l Num Amends the Rules of the House of Repre Amends the Rules of the House of Repre bered D 80-7). senta.tives to require that a. portion of the sentatives to restrict provisions of and H. Res. 454. October 18, 1979. Sets forth time provided for general debate on any bill amendments to appropriation bllls. the rule for the consideration of H.R. 2727. or resolution when the House is meeting in H. Res. 447. October 16, 1979. House Ad H. Res. 455. October 18, 1979. Sets forth the the Committee of the Whole shall be re ministration. Limits the use of the section of rule for the consideration of H.R. 3948. served and ma.de available exclusively for the Oongressiona.l Record entitled "Exten H. Res. 456. October 18, 1979. Sets forth the a final period of general debate on the bill sions of Remarks" by Members of the House rule for the consideration of H.R. 2313. or resolution in its final form. of Representatives. H. Res. 457. October 18, 1979. Waives cer H. Res. 436. September 27, 1979. Rules. H. Res. 448. October 16, 1979. Merchant tain points of order in the consideration of Amends the Rules of the House of Repre Marine and Fisheries. Directs the Depart the conference report on S. 1030. senta.ti ves to require that a.t lea.st 500 copies ment of the Interior to rename the Big Stone H. Res. 458. October 18, 1979. Sets forth the of any proposed fioor amendment be made National Wildlife Refuge, Minnesota., to be rule for the consideration of H.R. 2335. available in the Hall of the House of Repre known a.s the Lem Kaercher Na.tiona.l Wild H. Res. 459. October 18, 1979. House Ad sentatives for the use of other Members life Refuge. ministration. Prohibits the use of official prior to the offering of such amendment. H. Res. 449. October 16, 1979. Foreign Af funds for expenses of foreign travel by a H. Res. 437. September 27, 1979. Sets forth fairs. Expresses the sense of the House of specified Member of the House of Represent the rule for the consideration of H.R . 1885. Representatives with respect to the failure atives. H. Res. 438. September 27, 1979. Sets forth of Chile to extradite certain individuals to H. Res. 460. October 18, 1979. House Ad the rule for the consideration of H.R . 3580. the United States. ministration. Authorizes funds for the fur H. Res. 439. September 27, 1979. Sets forth Urges the President to take certain actions ther expenses of the investigations and stud the rule for the consideration of H.J. Res. 341. with respect to Chile. ies to be conducted by the House Committee H. Res. 440. September 27, 1979. Waives on Small Business. certain points of order in the consideration H. Res. 450. October 17, 1979. House Ad of the conference report on H.J. Res. 404. ministration. Authorizes the printing a.s a H. Res. 461. October 19, 1979. Standards of H. Res. 441. October 9, 1979. Sets forth the House document of an anthology of Csoptive Official Conduct. Amends the Rules of the rule for the consideration of H.J. 412. Nations Week proclamations, addresses, and House of Representatives to prohibit foreign H. Res. 442. October 9, 1979. Sets forth other relevant material. travel by Members convicted of a. felony. the rule for the consideration of H.J. 413. H. Res. 451. October 17, 1979. Foreign Af H. Res. 462. OCt.ober 22, 1979. Authortzres H. Res. 443. October 9, 1979. Post Office a,.nd fairs. Condemns the use of poison gas in the printing a.s a. House of Representatives Civil Service. Proclaims the week of October Laos. document of the transcript or· the proceed 14 through October 20, 1979, a.s "National H. Res. 452. October 18, 1979. House Ad ings of the Workshop on Congressional Over Mobile Home/ Manufactured Housing Week." ministration. Authorizes expenditures for sight. H. Res. 444. October 11, 1979. Waives certain the further expenses of investigations and H. Res. 463. October 23, 1979. Elects a points of order against the consideration of studies conducted by the House Permanent named Member to the House of Represent the conference report on H.J. 412. Select Committee on Intelligence. a. tives Committee on Ways and Mea.ns.
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS H-BUMS BY HARRY ma.tic personnel. If it succeeds we can ex sight of foreigners, here in the U.S. by the pect to be faced with the same situation grace of our generosity, acting like they own a.gain and a.gain. We simply cannot afford to this country and can dictate our course of allow a foreign mob to dictate United States action. We should certainly establish the HON. IKE SKELTON policy in any ·respect. principle that this 1s our country and any OF MISSOURI We may be forced to bide our time until one who is visiting here is doing so because IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES our people a.re safely released and returned we have allowed them to come, not because home, but it seems to me that we are dealing of any inherent right for them to be here. Monday, November 26, 1979 with fanatical, irrational people and we may Ninety days should be sufficient to deport • Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, Harry ha.ve to bite our tongues for a period of those Iranians now here and if it takes new Dumford, who writes for the Lexington weeks or months until the situation is re legislation from the Congress to get this Advertiser-News, of Lexington, Mo., re solved. In my opinion, we should then an accomplished, so be it. cently wrote an article about Americans' nounce certain principles in our further Pearl Harbor pulled the United States to dealings with Iran or any other country gether in a bond of unity which lasted until attitudes regarding the Irainian crisis. I which acts in like manner. after the victory was won. Current events wish to show it to the other Members We will not continue to feed the faces have age.in united us age.inst the enemies of of the body, as it reflects the thinking that curse America.. We will not send our our country in Iran. We should establish of many in western Missouri. grain to those who vilify our country and principles for dealing with such situations, The article follows: shout for the death of our president. We will and then we should follow the advice of H-BUMS BY HARRY embargo every shipment of foodstuffs to Thomas Jefferson to stand llke a rock.e them and will continue such embargo untll It seems to me that not since December 7, they respond in friendly ways to our past 1941 have the American people been so united a.s they have been in the pa.st week. generosity. The dastardly attempt to blackmail our Further, we will not furnish technology of AFGHAN APPEAL TO UNITED country through the actions of a mob in any kind to such a country; we will not allow NATIONS Tehran, Iran has been the moral equivalent oil drilling or refining equipment to be sent of another Pearl Harbor. It is my opinion from Houston; we will not allow airplane that the United States should enunciate a parts to be airlifted to them when their HON. EDWARD J'. DERWINSKI planes sit on the tarmac and cannot take clear set of principles to meet the situation. OF ILLINOIS While it is obvious that at the present off without spare parts; we will furnish no moment there is little we can do to free the computers, no telephone equipment, no IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 60 Americans held in the embassy except training, nothing to aid them in any manner Tuesday, November 27, 1979 play a waiting game in the hopes that they until they have made amends to our country will soon be freed, nevertheless, we should in word and deed. We should make this clear • Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, many be prepared eventually to announce to the and stick with It. Members have become experts in re world a course of action which will serve no We should not only break otr all diploma.tic cent weeks on I.slam as a result of the tice that we no longer will be pa.tsys to the contacts, but we should act as if their coun tragic developments in Iran, Pakistan, whims of the rest of the world. try does not even exist. They will, of course, and Saudi Arabia. A principle to which we already appear to cut otr our oll supply but we should make 1t be committed is that we will not bow to clear that somehow' or other we'll get by However, a positive development in blackmail. The kidnapping at our embassy without it. volving Islamic leaders must be noted personnel-and that is what it a.mounts to-- There has been nothing that has riled in Afghanistan where inspiration for re ts a threat to the future safety of all diplo- ·Americans m'Ore in the past week than the sistance against the Soviet-imposed gov-
• This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 33730 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 ernment has been provided by religious as possible. In fa.ct, Soviet forces tried to independence, human rights, peace and leaders in that country. enforce his instructions with no discernment order. Otherwise, the free world will sobn I submit for the RECORD a memoran or feeling of pity, a.s usual. collapse under the Jncrea.sing pressure of the Adolph Dubs, the U.S. Ambassador, was Soviet Union's uncontested power. dum from the Afghan National Libera killed together with his kidnappers. Over As for us, we will never give in to the Com tion Front to the United Nations. This 3,000 political prisoners have been executed munist doctrine which denies God, preaches organization is a member of the United without any trial. 60,000 to 80,000 people hatred, creates divisions inside the nations Islamic Forces far the Liberation of have been imprisoned a.nd tortured merci and considers religion, justice, international Afghanistan. lessly.1 The Soviet Air Force, covered with law and order as creations of crafty men de The memo follows: the red tla.g of Ta.ra.kl's government, has signed to exploit the lower classes. We will dropped napalm bombs on the cities and defend our religion, dignity, freedom and in THE APPEAL OF THE AFGHAN PEOPLE TO THE v1lla.ges and has burned to death many thou dependence a.t the cost of any a.mount of UNITED NATIONS sands of lnnocen t children, women and men. blood and tea.rs. The Soviet Union's struggle for world According to some sources, 250,000 people However, we believe in your wisdom and domination is contrary to the present inter have been massacred by the Soviets. In excess sense of justice, and still place our hope in national order and the right of other na of 200,000 people have lost their homes to your organization. Therefore, we urge you to tions to national sovereignty. This allega napalm bombs and have ta.ken refuge in take immediate action in order to make pos tion, which has been upheld also by Mr. Pakistan and Iran. They live presently on sible the exercise of our right to self-de Dung, Prime Minister of China., is not the border areas of these two neighboring termination. The exercise of this right groundless. The invasion of several Asia.tic countries without adequate food and shelter. through popular consultation (referendum) and European countries by the Soviet Union Any lnterna.tlona.l lnquiry board would most must take place under the auspices of the during the la.st sixty yea.rs is still fresh in our likely find higher figures and more cruelties United Nations, without the interference memories. The recent Soviet aggression in than those mentioned. and pressure of the Soviet Union. We pray Afghanistan is more evidence of the So In addition, President Brezhnev has re that God may give the United Nations the viet Union's imperialistic efforts. quested the Prime Minister of India., during courage to prevent the Soviet dicta.tors from The Soviet Union ls, indeed, a.n aggressor his visit to Moscow, to compel Pakistan's gradually exterminating the non-commu in Afghanistan in the eyes of international government to take radical action against nist population on ea.rth.e law. President Leonid I. Brezhnev himself the Afghan guerrllla. fighters and refugees. arranged the bloody coup of April 27th, 1978, To President Brezhnev's great surprise, the through intrigue and the cooperation of Soviets have failed to break down the re Soviet a.gents in the Afghan army. A few sistance of the Afghans by these unpa.ra.1- CHRYSLER months before the coup, he requested Presi lelled massacres and atrocities. On the con dent Daoud, during their meeting in the trary, the more the Soviets kill fille Afghans, Kremlin, to assign key positions in the gov the stronger becomes their will to defend HON. JAMES M. COLLINS ernment to communist party (Kha.lq) mem their freedom and independence. To date, OF TEXAS bers. they have delivered 24 provinces from the This distressed Daoud very much. He communist yoke and have established a.n IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pounded on Brezhnev's desk and said, "I effective national control in 75 percent of Tuesday, November 27, 1979 will not allow any foreign power to interfere Afghanistan's territory. The cities in the in the internal affairs of my country." hands of the communists are encircled by •Mr. COLLINS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Brezhnev considered this an insult and national revolutionary forces. Even inside the the Chrysler issue is pressing, but Con looked for revenge. Through the coup, he ca.pita.I, the increasing hostility and disorder gress must weigh it objectively. England's tried to reach both his objectives: to an among the people lh.a.S forced the leaders of experience was that :financial aid led to nihilate Daoud for his "recklessness" and to the so-ca.lied Kha.lq (People's) party to take a governmental socialistic industry. establish Soviet domination in Afghanistan. refuge in the barracks of the Soviet forces According to Brezhnev's instructions, Soviet outside of Kabul and to send their fa.mmes You will appreciate the statement of advisors and pilots in the service of Afghan to Moscow. the editorial from the Dallas Morning istan's government participated openly in the Under these conditions, no one can deny News. coup against the Afghan Army. Besides, hun that recognition of the communist govern Here is the Dallas Morning News dreds of people in Afghanistan a.re convinced ment in Kabul by the Member States and its editorial: that Soviet planes coming from the bases admission to the United Nations is a fia.gra.nt COUNTING THE COST near the Afghan border have bombarded the insult to justice, to the spirit and the letter barracks of the Presidential Guard and sev of the Charter, and to the principles of in The headline in the Friday pa.per said, eral military centers outside of the ca.pita.!. ternational law. "Trouble clouds a.tr for Chrysler in Senate Consequently, President Daoud, a. non-com The member states cannot pass over this panel." It is just po&slble that the reason can munist friend of the Soviet Union, seventeen manifest violation of the Afgha.ns' rights to be found in the senators' reading of stories members of his family and 12,000 men from national sovereignty without jeopardizing in like the one appearing in the previous day's the Afghan Army were massacred mercilessly. ternational order and their own freedom and news. Ta.ra.ki's Marxist government was brought to independence. They may hide the present The Associated Press reported, in Thurs power against the will of 16 milllon Muslim situa.tioI! in Afghanistan by using any imagi day's issue of The News: Afghans. nable excuse, and shun their moral and legal "Brita.in lurched toward a. new industrial President Brezhnev continued to violate obligations. But they cannot. prevent the So crisis Wednesday when mmta.nt union work boldly the spirit and the letter of intema. viet Union from seeing the reality. The Soviet ers at the state-run British Leyland auto tiona.l law by further actions. He precipi Union knows that the other member states company ca.lied for a 1-da.y genera.I strike ... tately recognized the government of Tara.kl, a.re perfectly a.ware of its aggression in Af "The Leyland militants, angry a.bout the while of 28 provinces of Afghanistan, 27 had ghanistan, and that their silence is essen firing of a. communist union official for not been under its effective control. He also tially due to their weakness and fear. This urging workers to take over the ailing com pledged in the treaty, which he signed in De will naturally encourage the Soviet Union to pany's plants, called on Brita.In's 12 million take more important steps toward world unionized workers to join Leyland workers in cember 1978 with Tara.kl, to assist the illegal domination. communist government in Kabul a.gs.inst the a 'day of action and demonstration' Mon Undoubtedly, Afghanistan is not a final ob day." people of Afghanistan. The Soviet President jective in the Soviet scheme. In subjugating publlcly denied the pa.rticlpa.tlon of the So There is usually strong political pressure Afghanistan, the Soviet Union is trying to on politicians, even conservatives, to throw viet advisors and a.dr force in the coup. He pave its way to the domination of South stated repeatedly that this country does not public money with both hands a.t any pro Asia., the Indian Ocean, the Middle Ea.st, and gram that claims to save jobs. This ls par interfere in the internal affairs of Afghani subsequently Africa and Europe. Many emi stan. He also tried tQ convince world opinion ticularly the case when a. recession looinS and nent statesmen and scholars have expressed weaker companies begin to wobble. that the coup was in reality s revolutionary their worry in this respect. Today, the gen move of the Afghan people, who favor "So It is very easy to put numbers on the dam era.I public shares their views. age that will be done if government stands cialistic Reform." Soon after the coup, events Therefore, it is vital for member states, revealed the falsity of President Brezhnev's by and lets an "ailing company" fall. Never especially small nations, to bring the United mind that the free enterprise system is sup- statements. Nations back to life by honoring their obli The Afghan nation, which has never posed to weed out those competitors who fall gations. They should use the power granted to win the consumers' approval and pur yielded to foreign domination, revolted to them by the Charter and stand collective against the Soviet puppet governm.ent of chases. When governments hear about the ly, with courage, against the Soviet Union's number of Jobs in danger, they weigh that Tara.kl. Consequently, President Brezhnev continua.I acts of sabotage and aggression in cost of inaction against the much-less quan has been forced to increase the number of a.ny form and in any pa.rt of the world. This so-called Soviet advisors and pilots from is the only way to protect the small nations' titla.ble cost of bailing out the company. And 1,500 to 4,000 and later to 8,000, and has so, in they go. instructed them to suppress the Afghan na 1 See the report of Ainnesty International The British government has been doing tion's uprisings with drastic action as quickly published in September, 1979 in London. this for years, British Leyland being one of November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33731 the rescued. The record there provides a most sale of electric vehicles. Argonne ls working of Defense for the fiscal year ending Sep startling picture of the cost of the rush to closely with a major battery manufacturer, tember 30, 1980, I would have voted bail out uncompetitive firms with govern Gould, of Rolllng Meadows. Argonne also has "yea." a nuclear waste management project which ment money and direction. On No. 673, in which the House passed Has government intervention made British I hope to be able to visit in the future. Mike industry more productive, more efficient in Yao, I;>uane Barney, and Dick Adams assisted H.R. 2335, to provide for a research, de producing what customers want? w1 th the Argonne tour. velopment, and evaluation program to Well, let's see. The AP story reports that MOBIL REFINERY, JOLIET determine the feasibility of collecting in the Leyland director incurred the wrath of The briefing given at this refinery was space solar energy to be transmitted to the union militants because he fired the en most useful in describing refinery operations Earth and to generate electricity for do tire night shift at one plant for sleeping on and the efforts petroleum companies are ex mestic purposes, I would have voted the job. And his survival plan for the com erting to conserve energy in their production "nay."• pany, which has the unions in turmoil, calls of petroleum products. This fac111ty ls the for laying off 25,000 employees, for closing second newest refinery in the United States. or cutting back a third of the firm's plants. Ray Kruep, Blll Abbey, and Russ Snowe gave ffiANIAN SITUATION III; THE NEED So the protection of jobs, including those the briefing at the refinery and John Phil FOR INTERNAL SECURITY slept on, would seem to be temporary at best. bin assisted through Mobil's Washington of Government intervention may seem to save fice. jobs in the short run. But when such rescues LA SALLE NUCLEAR POWER STATION, MARSEILLES HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK become standard operating procedure, they This station is under construction by Com OF OHIO create in the long run an unholy mess.e monwealth Edison. I was able to have a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES complete tour of these facilities, and was impressed with the emphasis on the safety Tuesday, November 27, 1979 ILLINOIS ENERGY TOUR PROVES standards being incorporated into this plant. USEFUL e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the Leo Burke hosted this tour. current crisis in Iran has impacted on ADM GASOHOL PLANT, DECATUR about every aspect of American life. Our HON. TOM CORCORAN This plant ls the largest of its kind in the energy resources have been partially United States engaged in the production of crippled, our dipJomatic respect has been OF ILLINOIS alcohol used for gasohol. I was pleased to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES note that DOE Secretary Duncan toured the shattered, our military capability has ADM plant earlier this month. Briefings on been questioned, and our Nation as a Tuesday, November 27, 1979 ADM's operations were provided by Dick whole stands awestruck by ·the ongoing e Mr. CORCORAN. Mr. Speaker, dur Burket, James Randall, and Duane Andreas. shockwaves that are emanating from the ing the period October 2-4, I toured en ELM MINE, MIDLAND COAL CO., DIVISION OF Middle East. Unfortunately I must re ergy-related facilities in and around the ASARCO, TRIVOLI port that the Iranian situation has also 15th District. In view of the importance Illinois ls the nation's third-largest pro called into question the adequacy of of energy today, and particularly because ducer of coal, and so I thought it important America's ability to remain internally of my membership on the Commerce to tour a mine. The Elm Mine is a surface secure. While the tensi-on in the Moslem Committee's Energy and Power Sub mine typical of Illinois. Bob Kropp and Bob world has been building, there has been committee, I felt it important to obtain Izerd hosted this tour. a parallel evolution of Iranian-led vio firsthand knowledge of energy from the SOLAR HOME, LACON lence within th,e United States. This Illinois perspective. The Dave Wier family home is an A-frame trend has already shown the gapping During my tour, I found much to be which has eight roof panels and three 400- holes in our security. Thankfully, no one gallon .water storage tanks. Solar heat pro has been injured or killed by this new optimistic about. People are apprehen vided the primary heating source during last sive about U.S. energy policy but they are wave of terrorism, but enough is going year's severe winter. on to underscore the need for quick ac doing the best they can under the cir SOLAR GRAIN DRYER, STREATOR cumstances. I am grateful to the Illi tion by this Nation before tragedy Under the guidance of an agricultural pro strikes. noisans who took the time and made the fessor at the University of Illinois, the Dale effort to help me gain a better insight Sass family has constructed a building with Some of the incidents of the new Iran into the energy situation as it exists in fiberglas on the south wall and a roof with ian terrorism range to the bizarre, like lliinois. I would like to share With mY col fiberglas panels to absorb solar heat. The the arrest of four Iranians who planned lee.gues the below listing of energy facili heat is circulated throughout the structure to kidnap Minnesota Governor Al Quie. ties I visited during my October lliinois with fans and dries the grain. However, other situations have more se energy tour. CENTRAL ILLINOIS ENERGY CONFERENCE, PEORIA ri<>us and deadly overtones. In one case, The listing follows: I addressed the Central Illinois Energy Con an airliner flying out of Chicago has a ference which included as participants rep bomb explode in its cargo hold. The LisTING OF ENERGY FACU.ITIES IN ILLINOIS resentatives of industry, commercial inter plane landed safely but, had the bomb AMOCO RESEARCH CENTER, NAPERVILLE ests, educational institutions, and govern been larger, many deaths would have oc On our tour of this major facll1ty, we ment, curred. Last week eight Iranians were learned of the extensive research Amoco is CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO., AURORA undertaking to best utillze crude oil and arrested at Baltimore-Washington Air I concluded my energy tour by touring the port in Maryland. Under surveillance for other fossil fuels. Keith McHenry, Bob Argan Caterpillar plant in Aurora. I gained first bright, and Chuck Mason hosted our tour hand knowledge of the various efforts Cat is over a week the group was intercepted of this facll1ty. using to conserve energy as well as Cat's anti as one of them was about oo board a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LAB, BATAVIA pollution efforts. Bob Dryden and Dan Mc TWA :flight to New York. The police During this tour, we learned about Fermi A voy hosted this tour·• found three disassembled Winchester lab's energy conservation programs in terms 30.06 rifles, matching scopes, 15 boxes of of solar development, conservation measures ammunition, and a map of Washington, in buildings, and the Lab's tra.nsportatlon D.C., With certain embassies marked, ac planning and use of gasohol for its vehicles. STATEMENT AS TO VOTE cording to court documents. We also toured the central helium Uqulfier building and the cancer ther111py fac111ty. This There are currently 40,000 legal Ira tour was hosted ·by Leon Lederman, John HON. GEORGE E. DANIELSON· nians studying in the United States, an McCook, Hank Hinterberger, John Colson, OF CALIFORNIA other 25,00G to 250,000 are estimated oo Bill Fowler, and Miguel Awschalom. be in the United States illegally or on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ARGONNE NATIONAL LAB, LEMONT e:>G>ired visas. Many of these students Our tour of this major fac111ty included a Monday, November 26, 1979 are organized, according to a recent briefing and a first-hand look at the Nation •Mr. DANIELSON. Mr. Speaker, on Newsweek article. The article went on to al Battery Test Laboratory. NBTL is the ma Friday, November 16, 1979, I was unable say: jor Federal facility which tests and evaluates to be present on the fl.oor of the House of There is no doubt that Iranian student electric storage batteries developed under protests in the U.S. are well orchestrated, the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, De Representatives for rollcall vote No. 672 and perhaps centrally directed. Two major velopment, and Demonstration Act of 1976. and No. 673. On No. 672, in which the groups, the Iranian Students Association I was particularly interested in this fac111ty House agreed to the conference report on and the Organization of Iranian Muslim Stu as I have introduced legislation, H.R. 3718, H.R. 4391, making appropriations for dents, have dozens of U.S. chapters. Both that would encourage the production and military construction for the Department organized frequent marches and demonstra- 33732 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 tions in New York, Washington, and other overcome by the ruthless tyranny of the counting for transfer payments of some $250 cities. If this were the extent of Iranian Soviet Union. bllllon annually? activity in America. there would be no need Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia exem In other words, this is a good way to send for concern. However, Newsweek adds a.n omi plify the true meaning of human rights. another government check to some 25 mil nous note, "some European counterintelli In fact, no part of the world represents lion persons--the total of those enrolled on ~ence specialists believe that as many as welfare, food stamps or supplementary social 5,000 of the 60,000 Iranian students abroad a more serious denial of human rights, security-and cement their voting loyalty belong to Marxist or Trotskylte groups and including the right of self-determination, to the administratlon.e that 500 or so are active members of terror than the imprisoning of the Baltic ist cells." poople. Given that there are no solid numbers Soviet repression has been consistent of how many Iranian students are really and harsh. Human rights have been vio THE INVENTION THAT REMADE THE residing outside of Iran, all of these lated in numerous ways and these viola WORLD numbers are only estimates. Numbers tions are continuing. This ongoing re problems are not the only thing hamper pression makes it incumbent upon us to ing adequate monitoring of Iranian ac uphold our heritage of a free and open HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL tivities. The Immigration and Naturali society and we must champion the cause OF ll.LINOIS zation Service the Washington Post, When the Congress considers the FBI use of these funds and it will not do a thing November 26, 1979: charter and possible Intelligence Agency to help solve our energy problem. A MOMENT OF MACHINERY REVOLUTION: THE legislation, it should keep in mind that We think the House and senate acted with INVENTION OF THE BULLDOZER IN 1904 hindering the intelligence community in undue haste and let sentiment rather than (By Larry Kramer) the name of reform may lead to the tak reason rule their heads in passing sllnilar On Thanksgiving Day, 1904, grain har bills appropriating up to $1.35 blllion for vester manufacturer Benjamin Holt tested ing of innocent lives in the name of the this purpose. Ayatollah.• a new earth moving machine on a farm near It is not that we want any family to have Stockton, Call!. to choose between eating and heating, or By the time he finished his e:xiperlment, that we have a lack of concern for poverty more than just earth moved. stricken families. No, we simply believe that The invention of the diesel-powered trac THE 61ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE welfare programs are adequate to take care tion machines that could move over land too DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE of anyone and everyone in need, and if their soft to support horse-drawn or wheeled trac OF LATVIA appropriations prove inadequate then let tors caused a revolution not only in the Congress boost them. farmd·ng business but in the construction and Such need can best be determined and be military businesses as well: Holt's track HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG met by welfare agencies at the local level. drive principle was applied later to every OF FLORIDA Bear in mind that the poor are largely thing from bulldozers to the World War I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES renters who already receive rent sU'bsidles military tank. and share public housing-that fuel bills In cele'bra.tlon of the 75th anniversary of Tuesday, November 27, 1979 are, for the most part, the landlord's prob that tractor, the Smithsonian Institution's • Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, lem. Also, there ls the possibllity that a. Museum of History and Technology put on bonus fuel check may wind up in the hands display la.st week a. 1929 Caterpillar tractor on November 18, Latvians throughout of aggressive bill collectors or be squandered called the "Cat 10." the world commemorated the .61st anni for purposes other than fuel. It was a. merger of the Holt Manufacturing versary of the declaration of independ And, can there be any doubt that this stop Co. and the Best Tractor Co. in 1925 that ence of Latvia. It is important that gap fuel a.id will become a. permanent, open created the Caterpillar Tractor Co., which Americans take time to memorialize the ended extensd.on of the federal welfare pro ls today the largest crawler-tractor manufac- plight of the Baltic people who have been gram that now numbers 182 programs ac- turing firm in the country. November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33733 The "Cat 10" on display is a. gift from will be honored at several events, be bulge which we ignored even a.s it crowded George E. Logue of Trout Run, Pa.., a. busi cause of the Good Citizen award. schools and later flooded the job market. In nessman who has collected over 50 antique Ruben's demonstrated leadership only ten yea.rs, between 1950 and 1960, school pieces of Caterpillar equipment since he first qualities deserve to be recognized, and I enrollments leaped almost 50 percent, from d·eveloped a. passion for them living on a. fa.rm 22 million to 33 million. Two decades later at age five. ask the Members of the House to join when those students graduated to job hunt "It's a totally American invention," Logue with me, his wife Sharon, and their two ing, it was possible for President Gerald Ford says of the Caterpillar tractor. "What would children, in extending congratulations to to report that employment had never been transportation be without the bulldozer? Ruben Organista.• higher and for candidate Jimmy Carter to What would our roads, shipyards, airports, respond, neither had unemployment. anything be like? It all has to start with Last year, the House Select Committee on the bulldozer." POPULATION STABILIZATION Population looked back on what has hap The "Model A" of the tractor business, the pened in federal policy since those years "Cat 10" was the smallest ever built by Cater when we ignored the impact of the Ba.by pillar. Nearly 5,000 were prod,uced between HON. PAUL N. McCLOSKEY, JR. Boom's numbers. You know what they found? 1928 and 1931, selling for about $1,100. OF CALIFORNIA We continue to ignore demographic change. But that tractor represents only one o! IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Population changes still affect our lives and the many manifestations of Holt's drea.m the government's work. But we have no machine. Tuesday, November 27, 1979 policy to respond to those changes, and we There are millions of tractors on farms e Mr. McCLOSKEY. Mr. Speaker, ear don't even have the capacity to make deci across the nation today. The track-type trac sions a.bout what we should do. tor has more than doubled farm output per lier this month, Congressman OTTINGER In other words, we la.ck the needed leader man-hour since they were first put into mass addressed the New York Chapter of Zero ship, as I have defined it, to: use 50 yea.rs a.go. Population Growth, pointing out the Give polltlca.l definition to population Mllitarily, they were first used by the Allies need for a national policy of population changes and the problems they create, in 1916. In, fact, the word "tank" originated stabilization. His remarks are worthy of Set goals for federal response to them, and because of the way in which the new weapons our perusal and concern. Take concerted, visible action on them. were shipped overseas during that first World The address follows: Yet, the need for leadership in the decades war. ahead will be greater than ever. People a.re H.R. 5062: A CHALLENGE TO LEADERSHIP ON The armor-plated machines with tractor having small familles today, but the popu POPULATION STABILIZATION treads were considered a secret weapon. So lation still grows by a.bout two million more when they were shipped they were identified The 1980 national elections a.re exactly a each year. In the 1980s, reports U.S. News only as water tanks for British troops in year from today. But the Presidential cam and World Report, "Growth in the numbt:r Egypt. paigns a.re already well underway. In both of Americans will speed up. Population wlll Today, tractor customers expect their ve parties, men are vying for the nomination. expand by about 21 million • • • or 3 mil hicle to live a functioning life of about For all the candidates' talk of SALT II, lion more than in the 1970s." 20,000 hours: roughly the equivalent of one energy, and .lnfia.tlon, they give one main rea Adding to it will be mounting pressures for milliollj miles of automobile travel, the son for their quests. It's the need for "leader international migration. Global population Smithsonian claims. ship." More accurately, it is the absence of growth and global poverty already are driv leadership in the federal government which Not to mention what the tractor has done ing millions of people to leave their home preoccupies both the candidates and the for George Logue. In an interview with the lands, seeking entry into industrialized coun local newspaper in Williamsport, Pa., he makers of the candidates. tries like the United States-both legally and said it has "had· a profound effect. My life Americans seem to be searching for the 1Uegally. There are 300 million unemployed has never been the same." meaning of leadership as much as a good and underemployed in the world today. Dur leader. But we're better at knowing what it ing the next 20 years, 800 million more adults Which, by the way, is easy to believe. His isn't than what it is. It's not fist pounding. will seek jobs. fascination for the Caterpillar tractor led It's not a louder voice; nor a sterner expres Meanwhile, people in the United States Logue to quit what he called a "respectable, sion. good engineering job" in 1957 to work with a.re on the move, too • • • motoring beyond bulldozers full time. Despite the objections A Washington Post editor recently of the metropolitan suburban rings to the next of his father, Logue began digging wells and fered a positive definition which I like. Lead stretch of the countryside. Rural communi basements with his own Caterpillar. ership, said William Greider, is "the abillty ties which lost population for yea.rs a.re now Today, Logue heads a. $5.25 million con to see the future and to make it convincing." growing a.gain. Between 1970 and 1976, more struction business with 125 employes. "It's I would put it in terms of the work to be people moved into rural counties than metro kind of fun to be able to make a living at done. Leadership is the ab1llty to: politan ones-2.3 milllon more. And it's all what you like to do," he says.e Grasp a problem fundamental to the built, says USDA demographer Calvin Beale, nation's well-being, on the gas-powered automobile in its last Put forward clear goals for its solution, and yea.rs of economic viabillty. RUBEN ORGANISTA, GOOD CITIZEN Take visible, consistent steps to realize The Baby Boom hasn't gone a.way. It is those goals. simply growing older. Our older population That kind of government leadership in already is growing faster than the popula the face of problems aggravated by great tions of Korea, India, and other less devel HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO oped countries. Today, a.bout one out of every OF CALIFORNIA changes in our country's population does not exist and that ls why H.R. 5062, the pop 11 Americans is 65 or older. Early in the next IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ulation stab111za.tlon blll, ls so needed. Ig century, when the Baby Boom generation nored and overlooked for decades, changes in reaches retirement age, one out of five may Tuesday, November 27, 1979 the growth, the distribution, and the a.ge be. Straining schools, housing markets, and structure of the population have wrought job markets will give way to new stra.tns on e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, our health care and social security systems. General Telephone Co. of California's havoc with the United States' environmental, economic, and social well-being. H.R. 5062 establishes a mechanism to watch Good Government Club has chosen Mr. for and deal with these changes in the na Ruben Organista as its Good Citizen of Between the 1930's and the 1950's, we tion's population growth, distribution, and the Year. The Good Government Club doubled our average family size and pro age structure: duced an enormous Baby Boom. And then H.R. 5062 recognizes the tremendous im does not take the award lightly nor do we proceeded to ignore the tremendous ·im its recipients earn it easily. Out of the pact these population changes will have on pact of their numbers. health, education, the economy, and the en company's 25,000 employees, only 16 The Baby Boom added to a rate of popu vironment as well as the federal programs in were considered this year. lation growth which often has outstripped these areas. Ruben Organista, a 14-year employee our ab111ty to protect the environment from H.R. 5062 recognizes the need for the fed of General Telephone, believes in good its collective impact. For example, had there eral government to plan continually for these government and believes in being part of been no population growth between 1946 changes with stabilization-an end to growth and 1968, poisonous lead emissions from cars and a balance between generations-as our it. He has been recognized for entering would have been 50 percent less. national goal. the city of Carpinteria's political arena The need to house and educate the Baby in 1978, without any organized financial H.R. 5062 recognizes that visib111ty ts Boom-plus the desire to give them a better needed at the top of federal decision support and running on his own merits life-propelled a nationwide drive to the making with a White House Office of Popu to improve local government; he was suburbs. With this movement came the loss lation Polley pointing to population changes elected to city council. Prior to this elec of agricultural lands, a dependence on gaso and the goal of stabilization when federal tion, Mr. Organista spent 2 years on the line-fueled transportation, and pollution decisions about health care, education, the Carpinteria Planning Commission. He all of which the Council on Environmental economy, and the environment are weighted. Quality has tagged the "costs of sprawl." I believe enactment of H.R. 5062 could CXXV--2121-Part 26 The Baby Boom created a generational make a big difference in federal policy-mak- 33734 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 ing if it were enacted. I'll give you some ex mental groups which would invest in a pro ayatollah with disastrous results. Not only amples. fessional staff capable of analyzing both the has American sovereignty been trampled in European countries already have experi impact of federal policies on population the embassy, but this country has been in enced slower population growth, for which growth and the ways the government in its creasingly regarded by Iran's neighbors as they did not prepare themselves. Their re on-going programs can plan for changes in a poor credit risk, a pitiful helpless giant. sponse: to encourage families; through tax the population. In trying to right the balance, Washington breaks and other incentives, to have more I am challenging the Congress and the Ex first needs to reduce its vulnerability to the children. In the United States, with a White ecutive Branch to demonstrate leadership by blackmail tactics of the Iranian militants. House office focusing policy-makers on our acting on H.R. 5062. I also challenge con That means closing down the embassy tn goal of stabilization, the issue would be how cerned citizens-like each of you-to support Tehran and shutting down the embassy to allow people to have the smaller families the creation of institutions which would add here-at least until a firm understanding on they want while benefitting from the eco to the leadership for population planning in ground rules can be reached. nomic advantages of slower growth, which the private sector.e In the bargain, as an indication that it Business Week magazine highlighted in its means business, the United States ought to 50th anniversary issue this fall. enforce seriously the laws governing Iranian Today, we are making major decisions students in this country. If the laws are about the future of health care, education, THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN FOR inadequate, then new statutes can be written. and employment programs supported by the EIGN POLICY A next necessary step is to blunt the Ira government. In an increasingly older popu nian oil weapon. The United States can easily lation, will we continue to subsidize institu tionalized health care, schooling only for the push the few American companies that do young, and job-retraining primarily for teen HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO business with Iran to other sources. Whatever agers? With a commitment to planning for OF CALIFORNIA is lost on that account, and it will not be stabilization and a balance between genera IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more than 500,000 barrels daily, can be offset tions, a White House office would focus pol from allied countries-notably the Japanese, icy-makers' attention on the need for pro Tuesday, November 27, 1979 French and Germans-that buy Iranian oil. grams which maximize the health and pro e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, In that way this country would show Iran ductive occupation of all generations; older and the world something they both need to following are two articles which ap know-that Tehran cannot organize an oil as well as younger. peared in the November 11, 1979, Wash This year, at the initiative of Congress, a embargo against the United States. high level Select Commission is re-examining ington Post, by George F. Will and Jo The next step ls the truly important step. our nation's immigration policies. For two seph Kraft. It involves finding occasion for an unmis hundred years, the federal government has I recommend them to my colleagues' takable, and preferably suprlsing, assertion written and rewritten the laws limiting the attention as representative of the views of American power on behalf of the regimes numbers of immigrants the United States of the citizens of this Nation who are that feel menaced by the ayatollah. That admits without considering the total popula getting tired of an administration that might take the form of supporting Iraq in its tion it serves. With a stabilization policy, a efforts to stir up provincial resistance inside White House office would call attention to makes excuses for itself instead of de Iran. It might mean giving military assist the need for this Commission and Congress mands on itself, especially in view of the ance to Turkey. to determine future limits on immigration immense demands it makes on its peo But the most likely candidates for Amer with goals for population size as well as the ple. Americans are forced to stand by ican help are the oil-rich monarchies of the economic and social well-being of the coun helplessly and swallow the abuse and Persian Gulf. The regimes in Kuwait, Saudi try. insults which are hurled at them. It is Arabia, Bahrain, the Arab Emirates and Reacting to the gaslines of the summer, no wonder the frustration is beginning Oman feel their security in danger. They federal officials have pushed energy devel to show. We have asked this country to would like to develop a joint policy for the opment strategies which would commit the Persian Gulf, and they met to consider meas Southwest to population growth its re swallow too many Government mistakes. The articles follow: ures to that effect in Saudi Arabia. on Oct. 16. sources-particularly waters supplies--can The United States could support them en not withstand. With a White House office, TIME FOR A SHOW OF POWER bloc. More dramatically and more effectively, the growth issue would have to be raised (By Joseph Kraft) it could give assistance to a particular coun and addressed in terms of the future of the Events in Tehran decree the opening of try in a particular place-say, Oman, at the region and the implications for the nation's a full-scale inquest into American policy to choke point of the Gulf, the Straits of goal of stabilization. ward Iran. Not only because American cit Hormuz. The United States has experienced leader izens have to be protected. More important, ship, William Greider wrote, at times of To find and exploit such opportunities, the whole Mideast-and in the matter of oil, there ls required a crucial internal change greatest national controversy, not the least. the whole world-needs to be insulated H.R. 5062 could generate its own share of in Washington. The United States needs a controversy in Congress. Broad, national against the fanaticism of the Ayatollah Kho capacity to do something besides sending goals such as stabilization are not popular meini. Marines and bombing. It has to rebuild a in the halls of Congress today, but without The starting point of the inquest is ac capacity self-destructed only a few years them, government and governing are noth ceptance of a hard fact that does not go ago-a capacity for covert intervention. ing more than politics. New White House of down well with moralists in the country at As that requirement suggests, the rebulld fices are not popular either in a time of dis large and the administration in particular ing of American policy toward Iran ls going enchantment with bureaucracy. But without namely, that the downfall of the shah was to be a long, slow, uphill task. It wm probably a top level focus on the impact of population a calamity for American national interests. be years before this country ls ready to play changes across the board of federal policy, Like him or not, the shah made available a political role in Iran. we'll continue to watch federal programs be to the world a regular flow of oil in large amounts and without political conditions. But in the meantime there is one thing upset by twists in demographic trends. ordinary Americans can do. There ls nothing Leadership in the Executive Branch is what His imperial pretensions, and the forces he maintained, imposed order on the Iranian in the Constitution that obliges this country H.R. 5062 is all about. But neither leadership to be run by a. president whose instinctive nor its absence are the preserve of that plateau and the submerged nationalities that populate its borderlands. reaction to a. challenge is a declaration of branch of government. For the House of Rep national impotence. resentatives, which dismissed the needed The ayatollah, in contrast, instituted what work of the Select Committee on Population amounts to a cultural revolution. He is pre in favor of returning those responsibilities to paring an Islamic constitution that vests A NATION AFRAID overburdened standing committees, it wlll absolute authority in the Moslem clergy, or (By George F. Will) take real leadership to act on H.R. 5062. mullahs. He pushes Iran's brand of Islam It is difficult, and not at all desirable, to Leadership is also not the preserve of the the Shi'ite version-into neighboring coun be cooly clinical about photographs of government. It must come from the private tries where the more orthodox, Sunni brand American citizens bound and blindfolded sector, too. Activists such as ZPG supporters of the creed holds sway. He ties the sale and and spat upon by rabble, but the freezing have shown it in their advocacy for H.R. 5062. production of oil to narrow political con truth is that Americans had better get used But just as H.R. 5062 looks to government in siderations. to such photographs, if they are not already. stitutions, not just individuals, for leader Since theocracy doesn't work, practical Enduring the contempt of the contemptible ship, so the population and environmental power gravitates elsewhere. In Tehran, miU is just one severity that life has in store for movement must look to the adequacy of its tant students and revolutionary guards rule a declining nation. institutions to lead in the development of a the streets. The minorities of the provinces A nation that, in gestures aimed at the national effort to plan for population stabi including the oil fields in the south-are Middle East, sends an aircraft carrier steam lization. restive or in revolt. Every country adjoin ing in circles in the South China sea., and There is more you can do. Last summer, in ing Iran sees in the ayotollah a threat to sends ostentatiously unarmed airplanes to an article on population policy, Sierra Club stab1lity, which is not high in the region Saudi Arabia. (where many a.re then grounded activist Les Corsa called for new leadership. anyway. for days because of bungled planning and He proposed a private consortium of environ- Washington has tried appeasement of the support)-such a nation had better get used November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33735 to enemies who think it is impotent. Well, past hoping he will understand that, be treated. Earlier in 1976 and 1977 the not altogether impotent: it can unleash tween nations, such issues also a.re problems Ramsey Clark. of power.e British Government was tried, found A nation that loses a war It could have guilty and pleaded guilty to human won by confidently employing its conven rights violations charges filed against tional milltary assets had better get used them by the Irish Government before to hum111atlon. A nation that has no s~rious LADIES AUXILIARY OF ANCIENT the European Commission and Court of response when three ambassadors are mur ORDER OF HIBERNIANS IN CLIN Human Rights. The human rights rec dered (in Cyprus, Sudan and Afghanistan) ord in Northern and Southern Ireland is had better get used to spittle on its cheeks. TON, MASS., LAUNCHES GRASS ROOTS EFFORT ON BEHALF OF not good. The United States now con A nation that, in February, orders the siders respect for human rights be Marines guarding its embassy in Iran to sur PEACE AND JUSTICE FOR IRELAl'ID to render without a fight to a mob should not the very soul of our foreign policy. It is be surprised when, in November, another therefore imperative for us to speak out mob arrives to play with the embassy as HON. MARIO BIAGGI against these violations and urge theii with a toy. OF NEW YORK cessation. A nation that uses an ally such as Taiwan IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We are in fact making progress in as a pawn for utterly unnecessary appease terms of recognizing the human rights ment had better get used to having fewer Tuesday, November 27, 1979 problems. The annual human rights re and fewer a.mes of any size, and to the • Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, as chair worldwide conviction that It ls a nation with port to be filed by the State Department no serious convictions. A nation that collab man of the 130-member ad hoc congres early next year will have references to orates in throwing to the wolves an ally like sional Committee for Irish Affairs I am the human rights problems in Ireland. the shah should not expect respect from the pleased to inform my colleagues of a More directly, thanks to the efforts of wolves. major_grassroots effort being undertaken the ad hoc committee as well as the Respect? For a nation too feckless even by the Clinton, Mass., division, Ladies chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commit to confine !rans• diplomats to their Wash Auxiliary, Ancient Order of Hibernians tee, the State Department has instituted ington compound when they are collaborat America's oldest and largest Irish Ameri an indefinite ban on the sale, export, or ing with the rabble of Tehran? Respect? For can organization. a nation so Inanely tolerant it does not licensure of any U.S. weapons to the promptly ship home to Khomeini the thou Beginning in July, the auxiliary under Royal Ulster Constabulary because of its sands of Iranian "students" who are here il the inspired and tireless leadership of conflict with our law and its provisions legally, and who adore Khomeini-from Mary J. Richards began a national peti barring sale of U.S. weapons to nations a safe distance, of course-from the comfort tion drive to bring attention to human or organizations with proven record of of what Khomeini calls "Satan America"? rights violations in Northern Ireland. As human rights violation. You know Khomeini: he's the fellow An of early October, more than 4,200 Irish I hope that my colleagues will pay close drew Young said might be a saint. You re Americans from the States of Massachu attention to the message contained in member Young: he's the fellow who sym setts, New York, and Illinois had signed bolized the Carter administration's plan to the petition. It is a message which seeks get America loved in the Third World by their name to the following petition a consistent application of U.S. foreign appeasing terrorists in -Rhodesia and sub which I insert in the RECORD at this policy. Above all it is a message which verting the shah. point: all should respond t0-it seeks peace You remember the shah, an ally for 37 A PETITION and justice for the beleaguered people years. During the 1973 war he was the only We, the undersigned, citizens of the State of the six counties of Northern Ireland. ruler in the region who banned Soviet over of Ma.ssa.dhusetts and members and friends At this point in the RECORD I also in flights. He urged an end to the oil embargo of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and sert two newspaper articles discussing and rushed fuel to U.S. ships. He rushed Auxilla.ry, a.re deeply concerned by the on arms to South Vietnam (you remember going violations of human rights by the the work of the auxiliary and Mary South Vietnam: an ally deceased) before the British Government in Ireland and by the Richards: ban on such aid went into effect under the lack of action on the part of our President, HIBERNIANS INITIATE HUMAN RIGHTS DRIVE Paris accords. (You remember the Paris ac our Sena.tors and our Representatives in FOR NORTHERN IRELAND cords: they brought peace to Indochina.) Washington. CLINTON.-Mary J. Richards of 189 Prescott The shah helped the United States in many We urge you to make a concerted effort to St., with help from other Irish-Americans, ways, but such is our trembling fear of inform yourself of the true situation in Ire has initiated a national drive to bring atten Khomeini, that the shah had to become a land. We respectfully demand that the issue tion to human rights violations in Northern cancer patient before we would let him pa.st of human rights in Ireland be made a priority Ireland. the Statue of Liberty. in all statements and decisions on foreign The drive is being coordinated through the A nation afraid of Khomeini should not policy matters. state divisions of the Ancient Order of Hi bluster at the Soviet Union. A nation that There are more than 46 million Americans bernians and the auxiliaries. Mrs. Richards blusters about Soviet activities In Cuba be of Irish descent in the United States and and Miss Hester are local auxillary members. ing "unacceptable," and then says, well, er, we are ready to utilize our voices and our "What we need is an Irish lobby too big come to think about It, we just remembered votes by petitioning you to secure human to be ignored," Mrs. Richards said. She said that these activities are, well, for want of ·rights and peace in Ireland. persons wanting to help should contact her a better word, acceptable-and, no don't We urge all Congressmen to join the Ad or Joseph M. Duffy and James P. Morrison of worry, we won't reject SALT II; we were very Hoc Committee on Irish Affairs and work the men's division. decent, you must admit, canceling the Bl toward this goal. PRISON CONDITIONS and neutron weapons, no reciprocity asked; In September of 1977 largely due to the and, oh, yes; are you quite sure 25 mlllion Dr. Desmond Fitzgerald of Sterling, a na metric tons of grain will be sufficlent?-a efforts of the Ancient Order of Hiber tive of Ireland, spoke at the "Leprechuan nation that behaves this way had better get nians and the Irish National Caucus, the Convention" here last St. Patrick's Day and used to the cackle of derisive laughter. ad hoc Congressional Committee for noted one Irish archbishop toured the in Speaking of grain, and of photographs that Irish Affairs was formed. In that time, famous Long Kesh prison in Northern Ire take some getting used to, and of the price we have raised the Irish issue from ob land and said it was similar to the concen of losing wars, consider Cambodia.. If the scurity to one of national and interna tration camps operated by the Nazis during people who used to rant a.bout "American tional visibility. The support we have World War II. genocide" are really interested (and they received from the Irish American Com Eva B. Hester, local auxiliary member, told really aren't) they should note this: real the irat.ie Hibernians the Clinton people genocide looks like what is happening In munity has been invaluable to our work. should initiate this drive because it was here Cambodia now. The starving of millions, the The petition focuses on the largely President Jimmy Carter said he would seek obstruction of relief: this ls Hanoi's work overlooked problem of human rights peace between Egypt and Israel. and could be stopped by Moscow. But we violations in Ireland. The fact is Miss Hester added when the peace talks flood the _Soviet Union with grain while the Amnesty International in 1978 cited become a reality the national media referred Soviet Union collaborates in keeping to a to President Carter's remarks in Clinton as Great Britain for human rights viola "another shot heard around the world." trickle the relief for the people it is helping tions practiced by their security forces to exterminate. VOCAL ROLE Will we make continued grain shipments in the North of Ireland. Later when the British Government appointed a special Miss Hester said "Here is our opportunity to the Soviet Union contingent on Soviet for us, as members of an ancient and honor cooperation a.bout Cambodia.? No. commission to verify the Amnesty find able Irish organization to play a vocal role President Carter says Cambodia is "a moral ings-this same commission did just in this great expectation. Surely all Hibern issue." Yes. But I, for one, am past trying that-confirm the findings that prison ians and their friends will win in this quest to understand what he means by that, and ers and suspects were customarily mis- for human right and peace." 33736 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 Mrs. Richards said, "There are 46 million should introduce the petition for peace, since mates completely, and I strongly urge Americans of Irish descent in this country two years ago when President Carter visited all Americans to emulate their outstand and it is time to raise our voices and our Clinton, one of the questions asked of him ing example. Not only will we be conserv votes in support of a lasting peace in Ire was regarding the possibility of Peace talks ing a vital and scarce resource--we will land," Mrs. Richards said. between Israel and Egypt. Hester said when She made her appeal for state help at the the peace talks became a reality the national also be making it known that we will not Hibernian State Convention in June at the media referred to President Carter's remarks capitulate to fanatical unstable regimes Raddison Berncroft Hotel and Country Club in Clinton as "another shot heard round the in the name of oil. in Danvers. Other Clinton Hibernians there world". At this time I ask that my colleagues were Virginia Sesia O'Toole, local auxiliary "Ladies and gentlemen", Hester continued, join with me in paying tribute to Janae president and recently elected county vice "here is our opportunity, for us, as members Hamby and the students of Oakdale High president, Kathleen Chiavaras, local auxiliary of an ancient and honorable Irish organiza School, and in working fervently to stim vice president and newly named county his tion to play a vocal role in this great expec ulate other citizens to follow that lead.• torian, and Esther Kilcoyne, local aux111ary tation. Surely all Hibernians and their treasurer. friends will join in this quest for human PETITIONS rights and peace." Concluding her remarks, Hester said, "We would like to introduce this Mrs. Richards, program chairman, for the ABUSE IN THE HEW OFFICE IN local auxiliary said yesterday petitions seek petition in memory of a great Hibernian, ing an end to human rights violations and known to many of you here, John P. McGrail KANSAS CITY peace in that country will be distributed in of Clinton and Berlin who passed away in town. They a.re now available at Ryan's Gen Clinton this morning. He was a great Irish eral Store, the Old Timer Restaurant and scholar, teacher and a friend of Ireland, an HON·. ADAM BENJAMIN, JR. Sesia. Motors. More locations a.re expected inspiration to many of us in Clinton, we OF INDIANA shortly. present this petition in his name." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mrs. Richards introduced a petition on Richards said the petition signing is well the convention floor that she discussed at under way in Clinton and will be circulated Tuesday, November 27, 1979 the local division meeting in May. "The nationally for added effectiveness. Richards e Mr. BENJAMIN. Mr. Speaker, I petition will be a national effort to bring said, "What we need is an Irish lobby too big would like to share with my colleagues attention to the violations of human rights to be Ignored." an article from the Chicago Tribune re in Northern Ireland which are happening Anyone wishing to help may contact Mary on a daily basis," she said. Richards or other members of the Hibernian gardjng reported abuse in the manage She distributed 1,000 petitions to be signed Divisions. Joseph M. Duffy and James P. ment ·of the Health, Education, and by all convention delegates and auxiliary Morrison a.re representing the local men's Welfare office in Kansas City. members. Division. Petition may be signed at: The Old Once again, the growing lack of con Timer Restaurant, Ryan's General Store, the fidence in our Government by our con NORTH IRELAND VIOLATIONS HIT IN LOCAL Senior Citizens Center and Sesia Motor Sales stituents has been nurtured by another DRIVE and the Clinton Daily ITEM.e exposure of irresponsible management. A group of Clinton women have initiated If we are to restore confidence in our a drive which would bring national atten Federal Government, we must respond tion to violations of human rights in North to these alerts of abuse by bringing them erc Ireland. TRIBUTE TO JANAE HAMBY AND to the attention of the appropriate con Mary J . Richards of 189 Prescott St. in OAKDALE HIGH SCHOOL troduced a petition on the floor of the Hi gressional committees and agencies for bernians State Convention in Danvers re review and necessary action. cently. The petition had been initiated by HON. NORMAND. SHUMWAY I have forwarded copies of the article her at the Clinton meeting this spring. and have requested Health, Education, Mrs. Richards was accompanied at the OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Welfare, the General Accounting convention by Virginia Sesia. O'Toole, Clin Office, the House Subcommittee for In ton auxiliary president and recently-elected Tuesday, November 27, 1979 county vice president; Kathleen Chiavara.s, tergovernmental Relations and Human vice president of the Clinton auxiliary and e Mr. SHUMWAY. Mr. Speaker, I would Resources and the Senate Subcommittee newly-named county historian Esther Kil like to bring to the attention of my col on Civil Service and General Services coyne, auxiliary treasurer. leagues an admirable and commendable to investigate the extent of abuse in the The petition will be a National effort to effort originated by Miss Janae Hamby, Kansas City regional office as well as the bring attention to the violations of human president of the student body at Oakdale existence or prevalency of mismanage rights in Northern Ireland which are hap ment in other Health, Education, and pening on a daily basis. High School Russia involvement, fearful of the presence do. · number chose not to go home-turned their of the hoards of Communist Chinese sol 2:15 p.m.-Typed travel voucher. backs and their minds and their hearts away diers, we denied our m111tary leaders the 2 :25 p.m.-Pa.ssed out mail to four bureau from their native land, from their families, victory they might easily have won. crats. their friends, their sweethearts, to remain in My friends, at the end of World War II 2: 50 p.m. Passed out more ma.11 to four the land of their captors. almost fifty percent of the people then living 33738 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 on planet earth enjoyed some aspects of the sick and the prisoners because our Loi;d sians have gone from deficiency to parity to political and individual freedom. taught us to accept responsibility for the superiority. Today that percentage ha.s dwindled to welfare of our brothers. Then there are those who believe in con a.bout seventeen percent. Secular humanism, separated from its re vergence theory, who insist that all the com It is not necessary for me to itemize free ligious foundation, ls like a bouquet of cut petition between the masters of the Krem dom's losses for you because you understand flowers-beautiful and appealing, sweet lin and the free world will gradually dis the enormity of the peril which threatens smelling-but doomed to wither and die and appear and modify if we provide the re you a.nd me, a.nd the free men everywhere putrify. sources to bring the Communist world into today. This philosophy is the handmaiden of a position of economic parity with the free But for those who might be listening appeasement. world. for those who a.re una.wa.re, I a.m compelled The secular humanists argue that concern This argument might be more believable to make that count. and charity are an essential part of our pub if the tyrant masters of Russia were not Moving from the triumph of that accom lic policy in order .to quiet a.nd contain the devoting such a disproportionate share of modating ceasefire in Korea.--a.nd I would restless. their social resources to achieving military remind you we a.re stm living under that You a.nd I know that concern and charity superiority. unreliable ceasefire-there ha.s been no per a.nd .:Compassion a.re the essentis.ls of the It is not given to us to know the future. manent settlement of the Korean question. teachings of our Lord. But to look at the future without reading International Communism has spread into Secular humanism rests on expediency. the pa.st is childish nonsense. And the les most of Southeast Asia., a.11 of Vietnam. The free man's proper concern for his sons to be learned from the events of the In the troubled country of Cambodia. the neighbor rests on the commandments of 1950's and the 1960's and the 1970's are clear. slaughter continues. There, the contest is God. The Communists do not share our com not between freedom a.nd slavery, but rather There ls a character in a. great American mitment to peace. They will lie, cheat, steal between two different brands of Communism. novel who, when confronted with vexing and murder to gain their objective. In Sub-Sa.ha.ran Africa. the Communists problems, put off facing reality saying, "I They can be restrained only if the free hold dominion in Angola. a.nd Mozambique will think a.bout that tomorrow." world remains strong and committed and a.nd threaten Rhodesia.. They dominate the My friends, for the pa.st twenty-five yea.rs willing to use the same measure of force our entrance of the Red Sea. in Ethiopia. a.nd leaders of the free world, for the most pa.rt, enemies have employed against us. South Yemen. There disciples control Af have refused to face reality. We have closed We must build the defenses of the free ghanistan. They threaten the entrance to the our eyes hoping the evil would go a.way. world. We must modernize the Western Persian Gulf. Shrinking from the brutal, wasteful, miser arsenal of defensive weapons. We must use And in the Western Hemisphere, opera.t able bloodshed of wa.r, we have compromised our economic power to discourage Commu ing from their forward base in Cuba., they with the beauty of truth. nist Russian expansion. have produced and supplied the revolt in Let us then, on this occasion, put a.side But above all we must recapture that cour Nicaragua.. They are the source a.nd inspira wishful thinking a.nd self deception. age-that spirit--that will which is the prop tion for the troubles in El Salvador a.nd in Let us look a. t the world around us and erty of all f.tee men. Costa. Rica.. face reality. For if we do not unite in freedom, we The Dicta.tor of Pana.ma. is Castro's friend The struggle which threatens to engulf our will be divided by slavery. and a.Uy. world is a. battle for the minds of men. It is Let us then put a.side timidity and uncer In the troubled Middle Ea.st recent events not commercial or territorial. It does not tainty and fear. in Iran threaten to destroy our efforts to center on a. disagreement over political Let us proclaim to all men everywhere that establish peace. theory. It rests squarely on two contending only by uniting in freedom can we improve The attacks by the Iranian mob on the constructions of the nature of man himself. the quality of life for all sorts and conditions American Embassy, the attempt.6 to black Is ma.n to be regimented, exploited, doc of men, and overcome Communist aggres mail the U.S. government, have a. signifi tored, fed, and worked then discarded? sion. cance beyond the present moment. Is our transient existence on this earth all Let us now, with one mind and one voice This incident clearly demonstrates the there is to life? and one purpose, in concert with those who weakness of the West. Pinned down by our You and I say no; but our voices have been have gone before and those who will come dependency on the Middle East for oil, it faint and some leaders, hoping to postpone after, swear upon the altar of God eternal a.ppea.rs we were forced to temporize. the final showdown, have retreated. hostility against every form of tyranny over The murderi.ng terrorists of the PLO have This contest may someday degenerate into the mind of man. There can be no compro persuaded some Americans to overlook their an armed conflict with the missiles of the mise with international Communism. You cruelties and their inhumanities and to re West destroying the East and the missiles of see, freedom is not negotiable.e gard them as the legitimate spokesmen for the Ea.st destroying the West. But it need not the Palestinian people. be. When terror, directed a.gs.inst innocent For we know the appeal of freedom will civllia.ns, can successfully bring its perpetra overpower those who would resort to slavery. tors to the international bargaining table, INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT We know that in every human heart there 877 PASSES RESOLUTION morality a.nd decency disappear from the lives an insatiable thirst for the blessing of arena. of international relations. freedom. Have we failed? Of course not! We anti-Communists know that over the HON. RICHARD NOLAN Can it be that the doctrine of Communist long reach of history, through wars and slavery holds more appeal for mankind and famine and pestilence men in every nation OF MINNESOTA more hope for tomorrow than does the prom and in every land have raised their hands to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ise of individual, physical, political a.nd grasp the torch of freedom. Tuesday, November 27, 1979 economic freedom? We also know that weakness breeds ag Of course not. gression. We know that superior strength •Mr. NOLAN. Mr. Speaker, I would like Sta.Un preached the nothingness of the military strength, economic strength and, to bring to the attention of my colleagues individual. We recognize that every human being is above all, spiritual strength is the only cer a resolution recently passed by Inde tain way to contain the ambitious adven pendent School District 877, Buffalo, precious, intended by his Crea.tor to be free. turer, aggressor nations who would destroy What then has happened to erode the Minn., in opposition to proposed cuts in purpose and the wm a.nd the commitment freedom. school lunch reimbursement for paid of the Western World to freedom's ca.use? Their hope is that because we long for lunches. I believe the board has done an Some will sa.y it is our comfortable afilu peace, because we are peaceful by nature, because we understand the horror and fu excellent job of expressing these very ence which has turned us soft. Others will legitimate concerns. sa.y that in the changing world with the tility of war, they can by threatening wa.r emergence ·of the have-not nations freedom impose their will on the other nations of the The resolution follows: a.nd ca.pita.Usm can no longer satisfy the world. RESOLUTION aspirations of these populations. Their economic system based on compul Whereas, the President has recommended Where ha.s Communism done better? sion is bankrupt. The great reversal of Red that Congress reduce the federal reimburse Mother Russia. cannot feed her own people China is ample evidence of this. ment level for lunches served to paying without drawing on the productive ca.pa.city They rule by fear and force. And, tragi children under Section 4 of the National of the American farmers. cally, some prominent voices in the free world School Lunch Act and; Russia's Communist leaders squander their echo the Communist propaganda line. Whereas, such a cut would make it neces substance on the weapons of wa.r, secure in Some leaders in areas of American foreign sary for most local school districts to make the knowledge that humanitarian Uncle Sa.m affairs would have us believe the Russians, an additional charge of 10¢ per pupil (above will not permit their people to starve. fearful of Aµierican superior might, were infia.tiona.ry cost of 5-10¢ already budgeted My friends, there has in this century de driven to increase their armaments-to build for the 1979-80 school year) and; veloped a new and dangerous dominant their ICBMs-to enlarge their a.rmies--PENNSYLVANIA Alabama rights. nating interline traffic in favor of single line Carriers who acquire other carriers, or por longhaul service. Anyone at all famma.r with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions of other carrier's rights, usually do so the trucking industry knows that was prog Tuesday, November 27, 1979 because: ( 1) the geographical pattern of ress. Interline costs and delays in service traffic fits their own; and/or (2) the com time were eliminated. To revert to and create · e Mr. BAILEY. Mr. Speaker, it is a modity traffic is compatible with their pres a new fragmented, interline pattern would pleasure to bring to your attention a resi ent operations. set the industry back 20 years. No new long dent of the 21st district, Jim Fabert, a Again, the sophistication to isolate traffic haul less-truck-load giants are going to ap 1979 recipient of the Commissioner's Ci patterns of the small community ·and their pear to challenge today's leaders, with or without regulation. Capital investment, cre tation for his outstanding service to the profitabillty ls not present. All of the great Social Security Administration in the disasters in motor carrier acquisition over the ating a market need for the service, and the past 20 years occurred because of failure to complexity of creating an immediate system public information field. observe the above simply stated maxims: ( 1) are far too great a risk !or private capital. Commissioner Stanford Ross hand end to end or hole filllng geographical ac It seems to us that along with the myths selects the citation recipients from a quisition; or (2) same commodity traffic listed in this testimony should be added host of recommended candidates from acqulsltlon. myths number 5 and number 6. The cost o! across the country. I wholeheartedly Page 6, The applications for small com entry--either purchasing or applying !or a agree with the Commissioner's choice in munities before the ICC, are all part of the certificate--is the lea.st o! restrictions on Mr. Fabert. entry. If there ls a market !or the service the first proposition suggested above. A carrier is was seeking to fill in holes in his existing cost of entry ls nearly inconsequential. What The Commissioner's Citation the geographical authority. I am familiar with will create the chaos referred to In myth highest internal award within the Social two of the examples used, and those applica number 2, is for existing small entrepreneurs Security Administration recognizing tions were for that express purpose. to believe that they can jump into large long service aimed to improve and make it's Pages 6 through 12. Active case law enforce haul operations, just by buying a fieet o! operation more efficient. Mr. Fabert has ment is not necessary to impose an obliga trucks, when deregulation arrives. Diluting given 15 years of dedicated service to the tion to serve upon a carrier or groups of the traffic o! carriers supplying needed trans Administration and has been a part of carriers. A complaint that a carrier or group portation service, will cause rates to rise. The the Altoona, Sharon, and Greensburg of carriers is not serving a community, or a second step ls that the dilution will not be offices. His outstanding perseverence in shipper, can have startling effects upon those argument. Minor adjustments in the common carriers. There is no need for a "failure to the block and that operation will !all. The implementing direct deposit procedures serve" citation where the threat of formal small operator relying upon the representa and initiating superior service; proce procedures brings compliance. The force be tion that deregulation ls going to benefit him, dures, and liaison with all service banks hl.nd the law has been adequate since the will go broke based on that representation. is commendable. His inherent and dis beginning of motor carrier regulation. Myth number 6, ls the absolute certainty tinctive professional abilities have been Every driver, dock foreman, dispatcher, of the authors of this legislation that deregu responsible for much of the progress re vice president of sales or marketing, traffic lation wlll work. What happens if it does not? ported in the respective offices. 33742 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 I admire his leadership qualities and mately 236,000, which is double the number authorities unless and until they a.re sus ten yea.rs a.go. In addition, the U.S. Immigra pected of committing a major crime. The managerial skills and am very proud to tion and Naturalization Service (INS) says practical effect is to permit them to move bring him to your attention. The Social that at least 42,300 foreign students admitted about the United States more or less at will, Security Administration is very fortu to this country on visas (no breakdown as without official cognizance of their actions. nate to have a man of his character to nationality) are no longer at the institu A typical example is a case reported by the within its ranks.• tion where they were supposed to be regis Washington Post, concerning an Iranian tered and ta.king full credit loads of student who (a) is a. Marxist, (b) is in vio courses.3 As the Post observes, "no one knows lation of the terms of his visa, and (c) has how many former students continue to live travelled freely all over the country par IRANIAN STUDENT SITUATION here, illegally."• ticipating in demonstrations.~ ANALYZED Guesses as to the number of Iranian il In addition, U.S. authorities, until the re legals in the United States vary widely, from cent reversal, have treated Iranian students 25,000 (U.S. News and World Report) to Georgetown University ob to Soviet Secretary Brezhnev. Shortly obtaining information from informants tained funds from Iran to expand Middle after I sent the letter, the Nikonovs who could easily be subjected to physi Ea.stern study programs. Professor John were asked to reapply for visas. They cal retribution because of the extraordi Marks, chairman of Princeton's department reapplied and were finally granted per narily violent nature of the drug trade. of Near Ea.stern Studies, says his department is one of the best of its kind, with over 600 mission to emigrate. H.R. 4072 would make it illegal to "at students.:?O Mr. Speaker, the apparent successful tempt" to leave the United States with Some smaller schools, badly in need of conclusion of the Nikonov case has been large amounts of currency without :filing funds, employ :recruiters who offer slide most gratifying to me. For the benefit of those reports which are already required shows and brochures to foreign students to my colleagues, I would like to insert in under the Bank Secrecy Act. While pres get them over to the faltering schools. One the RECORD at this point the text of the ent law makes it illegal to leave the such recruiting firm, International Educa letter expressing my appreciation to country with more than $5,000 without tion Services, Inc., takes in 15 % of the tui Secretary Brezhnev. having filed the report, the courts have tion paid by each recrui t.21 The letter follows : held that a person cannot be arrested The trouble is that it ls not dlfilcult for CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, recruiters to obtain I-20 (student immigra for violating this law until he has ac Washington, D.C., November 26, 1979. tually left the country. At that time, the tion) forms pre-signed by college admissions His Excellency LEONID I. BREZHNEV, omcers. Once a student has his hands on such First Secretary of the Central Committee violator is outside the jurisdiction of the a form the State Department will routinely of the CPSU, Chairman of the Presidium United States and cannot be successfully grant him a. visa. of the Supreme Soviet, Moscow, U.S.S.R. prosecuted, which is an obvious "Catch- "Everybody in the field knows there a.re DEAR SECRETARY BREZHNEV: I have recently 22" situation. people who take presigned I-20's in their learned that the Boris Nikonov family has My third bill, HR. 4073, would allow pockets and sprinkle them abroad,'' says emigrated from Moscow. There a.re indica customs officials to search for unreported Mary Chance of the National Association For tions that my April 5 letter to you on behalf amounts of cash-in their presently au Foreign Student Affairs.22 An informed high of the Nikonovs may have been useful with Justice Department omcia.l confirms that I-20 respect to the Nikonovs' request feyr visas. thorized search for contraband-where forms a.re often sold and otherwise ab11sed. As I mentioned in my April 5 letter to you, reasonable cause exists to believe that Once the a.lien reaches the country, there the Nikonovs have close friends who lived this currency is leaving the country as is no way to enc;ure that he will actually in Aurora., a city in my district, until re a result of illegal activities. enroll in the collei;re, and no way for the INS cently. I have worked closely with the admin I was most happy to learn CY! the Nikonovs' to keep track of him 1f he does not. JNS istration on tt~e above three bills, and does not have centralized or oomputerized emigration, and I very much appreciate your files, and what files it does have, according assistance in this matter. have recently received the written sup to informed sources, are not in order. The Sincerely, port and endorsement of the Depart Los Angeles INS center keeps student files TOM CORCORAN, ments of Justice and Treasury, the Cus stacked in boxes. The agency is apparently Representative in Congress.e toms Service, the Drug Enforcement Ad- 33744 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 ministration, and the Office of Manage changes suggested by Treasury. I hope meeting of the U.S. Conference of ment and Budget. Treasury has written all my colleagues will join me in cospon Mayors in Baltimore on the subject of me that they "strongly urge enactment" soring that very important bill. transportation. of my bills. The Drug Enforcement Ad Attached is a copy of the omnibus bill: Had I been present for the vote on ministration wrote me on November 5, Be it enacted by the Senate and the House H.R. 2335, I would have voted against the 1979, detailing the tremendous need for of Representatives of the United States of bill. At best, the bill is unnecessary since this legislation and specifying how the America in Congress assembled, That section solar power satellite research is' already bills would "greatly improve" the ef 231 (a) of the Currency and Foreign Transac tions Reporting Act (31 U.S.C. 1101 (a)) is underway. More likely, it will push our forts of law enforcement officials in cur amended to read as follows: country into developing a highly tech tailing drug trafficking. I want to share "(a) PERSONS REQUIRED TO FILE.-Except as nical system which has not yet been the contents of that letter wit.h all of provided in subsection (c) of this section, found safe, economical, or wise. Since the my coleagues, and insert the text in the whoever, whether as principal, agent, or Department of Energy and NASA will RECORD at this point: bailee, or by an agent or ba1lee, knowingly- soon complete a 3-year study on the solar U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, "(1) transports or causes to be transported, power satellite, I believe it was premature Washington, D.O. or attempts to transport or have transported. for the House to authorize an additional Hon. JOHN J. LAFALCE, monetary instruments- · "(A) from any place in the United States $25 million in fiscal year 1980 to establish House of Representatives, a research, development, and evaluation Washington, D.O. to or through any place outside the United DEAR MR. LAFALCE: I have been monitoring States, or program in the Energy Department. closely the three legislative initiatives you "(B) to any place within the United States I will oppose the conference report to introduced upon your return from Colombia from or through any place outside the United H.R. 2335 when it is presented for House this past May. I refer to H.R. 4071, 4072, and States, or approval and I will continue to oppose 4073 which still remain pendlng in the House "(2) receives monetary instruments at the termination of their transportation to the efforts to speed up development of a solar of Representative. power satellite until I am satisfied that As you know, the enactment of these three United States from or through any place out laws would greatly improve the effectiveness side the United States. such a satellite would be environmentally of our law enforcement efforts to curtail the in an amount exceeding $5,000 on any one and economically sound.• illegal movement of U.S. currency out of the occasion shall file a report or reports in ac U.S.A. Most of this illegally obtained money cordance with subsection (b) of this sec is realized as a result of narcotics trafficking. tion.". With the enactment of H.R. 4071 there no Section 235 of the Currency and Foreign A VETERANS LEADER doubt would be the added incentive for law Transactions Reporting Act (31 U.S.C. 1105) abiding citizens to come forward with in ls amended by redeslgnatlng subsection (b) formation relating to currency violations. as subsection (c) and by adding a new sub HON. DAN MICA The impact would greatly improve the effec section (b) as follows: OF FLORIDA tiveness of the U.S. Customs Service in its "(b) any customs officer may stop, search enforcement responsibilities. and examine without a search warrant, any IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Present law makes it illegal to leave the vehicle, vessel, aircraft or other conveyance, Tuesday, November 27, 1979 country with more than $5,000 without filing envelope or other container, or person en a declaration. However, the courts have held tering or departing from the United States • Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, I would like to that a person cannot be arrested for this on which or whom he shall have reasonable take this opportunity to pay tribute to my violation unless he has actually left the cause to suspect there are monetary instru colleague, RAY ROBERTS of Texas, the country, thus escaping U.S. jurisdiction. The ments in the process of being transported for chairman of the House Committee on enactment of H.R. 4072 would remove this which a report ls required under section 231 Veterans' Affairs. The Congress and the of this Act.". loophole by providing that attempting to veterans of this country will miss his That the Currency and Foreign Transac leave the country is also a violation. leadership when he retires at the end of This will improve our effectiveness in stem tions Reporting Act ls amended by adding ming the flow of illegally obtained currency a new section 236 to read: the 96th Congress. from leaving the country. H.R. 4073 would "SEC. 236. AWARD OF COMPENSATION TO IN A wise man once said that the true give to our brother law enforcement officers of FORMANTS.- cost of war does not start until the last the Customs Service the authority to search " (a) The Secretary is authorized to pay a shot is fired. Since first coming to Con for undeclared monetary instruments where reward to any individual who provides orig gress and joining the House Committee reasonable cause exists to believe that these inal information which leads to a recovery on Veterans' Affairs in 1962, the gentle monetary instruments are leaving the courii of a criminal fine civil penalty, or forfeiture, man from Texas has seen the budget for try as a result of illegal activities. With to which exceeds $50,000, for any violation of day's sophisticated drug trafficking organiza this Act or any regulation issued hereunder. . veterans' benefits and services rise from $5 billion to over $21 billion. A vast por tions, much of the profits leave the United "(b) The amount of the reward, if any, is States for source countries to purchase ad to be designated by the Secretary, but shall tion of that startling increase has been ditional drugs and other smuggling resources. not exceed 25 percent of the net amount of forced upon us by inflation, which is a I understand that the above three legisla the fine, penalty, or forfeiture collected or challenge we all must face, not only in tive initiatives are before the Subcommittee $250,000, whichever is lesser, in a case in the area of veterans affairs, but through on Financial Institutions and there is a pos which the person was an informant. sib11ity of hearings regarding these measures. out Government. But while RAY ROBERTS As Administrator of the Drug Enforcement "(c) Any officer or employee of the United is the first on our committee to scruti Administration, I would welcome the oppor States or of any State or local government nize the cost of veterans programs and tunity to participate in these hearings and who furnishes information or renders serv services, especially in these days of high discuss further with the Subcommittee the ice in the performance of official duties is Government spending and escalating in importance of this corrective legislation as not eligible for payment under this section. flation, he is unyielding in his determi it relates to effective drug law enforcement. "(d) There are authorized to be appropri nation to maintain our commitment to ated such sums as may be necessary to carry On behalf of the Drug Enforcement Ad our Nation's veterans in full. ministration's Special Agents, I thank you out the purposes of this section.'.e for your efforts. The number of veterans in the United Sincerely, States today has grown to a record level. PETER B. BENSINGER, The Congress and the House Committee Administrator. VOTE ON SOLAR POWER SATELLITE on Veterans' Affairs, especially in recent Additionally, Mr. Speaker, I want to R.&D. years, have been challenged to meet the thank the Treasury Department for its needs and fulfill the expectations of al recommendations for certain technical HON. ROBERT W. EDGAR most five generations of veterans, from changes in H.R. 4071. the Spanish American War to the Viet OF PENNSYLVANIA nam conflict-now over 30 million Because the administration has an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES strong. nounced its support for all three of my Tuesday, November 27, 1979 As committee chairman for the past 5 bills, with certain technical changes in years, ROBERTS has led the fight to main one of them, I have today introduced one • Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, tain an equitable distribution of benefits omnibus bill to amend the Bank Secrecy November 16, I was unable to be present Act, which includes all the provisions of in the House for the final vote on and services among all those who have the three bills referred to above and in H.R. 2335, the solar satellite research served in defense of our country. Accord troduced last May, with the technical and development bill. I was speaking at a ingly, he has safeguarded the traditional November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33745 rights of older veterans while, at the Germany, Cubans, want generated safely? to spend the rest of their lives in the United of the city of Nacogdoches. States of America. Yes, 59 percent. PROCLAMATION No, 36 percent. The world generally knows that America Undecided, 5 percent. Whereas, on November 4, 1979 irresponsible maintains border guards to keep illegal and fanatic citizens of Iran perpetrated upon aliens out of the country. It also knows that 9. Should we shift from development of American citizens in the diploma.tic service nuclear power to other alternative energy the communists build walls to keep their of the United States, the take over of the subjects from leaving. Those who attempt to sources? American Embassy in Iran, and the holding escape are shot. Yes, 59 percent. of such American citizens as hostages against Newspapers recently reported that in the No, 32 percent. their will since that date in violation of in Soviet, the decision has been made to remove Undecided, 9 percent. ternational laws; and, a.11 the children from Moscow during the 1980 10. Should gasohol be developed? Whereas, the Government of Iran has con Olympics. The Soviets a.re fearful that their Yes, 84 percent. doned such illegal and dastardly acts and children will become contaminated by west No, 7 percent. has by its failure to take steps to correct ern democracy. Undecided, 9 percent. such action become an active participant in A great many South American countries 11. Do you believe American agriculture this cowardly and hideous crime against aro suspicous of us despite the generosity of can produce enough additional foodstuffs American citizens. citizens of the United States in going to to produce gasohol? Now, therefore, I, A. L. Mangham, Jr., their aid during disasters. We a.re looked Yes, 84 percent. Mayor of the City of Nacogdoches, by this upon as imperialists although no effort has No, 10 percent. proclamation, encourage all the citizens of been ma.de to annex any South American ter Undecided, 12 percent. Nacogdoches and Nacogdoches County to fly ritory and we are in the process of giving 12. What types of Energy Sources would the American Flag as a visible means of to Panama. the canal which the United States you like to see the Federal Government protesting this unlawful act of the Iranian created and has maintained since the days develop? citizens and their government in holding of Teddy Roosevelt. (Rate in order of priority, 1 highest). the American citizens in the diplomatic corp Our country defrays the bulk of the costs Coal, 27 percent. of the United States in violation of inter of the United Nations, maintains an army Gasohol, 8 percent. national law, and further that such flags and pays most of the expenses of the North Nuclear, 10 percent. be flown until all such American citizens Atlantic Treaty Organization for the pro Solar, 29 percent. are set free without ha.rm.e tection of Europe against the threat of the Other, 4 ipercent. Soviets. America. maintains an army in South Undecided, 22 percent.e Korea for the protection of that country: We fought a bitter war there to prevent it WHY IS THE U.S.A. SO UNPOPULAR? from being swallowed by communism. We stand as protectors of Japan and Southeast A PROCLAMATION AGAINST Asia generally. IRANIAN MILITANTS HON. GERALD B. H. SOLOMON The latest country to vent its spleen on OF NEW YORK us ls Iran where about 70 Americans were taken hostage in our own embassy to be held HON. CHARLES WILSON IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES until the former Shah of Iran, undergoing Tuesday, November 27, 1979 medical treatment in New York City after OF TEXAS having escaped from the country he once IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, the ruled, is returned for trial. Iranian students Tuesday, November 27, 1979 American people are frustrated and captured the Statue of Liberty in New York angry over the events in Iran and in Harbor and dangled propaganda. from the e Mr. CHARLES WILSON of Texas. Mr. other Moslem countries. The new vio crown. Their action prevented thousands of Speaker, with the November 4 invasion of lent outbreak of anti-Americanism has Americans from visiting their own historic the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Iranian landmark. What happens to such students? hurt and -confused Americans. "Why is Do they get deported? militants, public opinion in this country the U.S.A. so unpopular?" they ask. Other Arab countries are hostile to the was immediately galvanized, and it is no Mr. Speaker, the best expression of United States. exaggeration to say the current crisis in these feelings I have seen is contained The United States guarantees the protec Iran and all that it portends are being in an editorial in the Washington tion of the Panama. Canal and maintains felt wholeheartedly by the American County Peace Corps have been serving throughout the RUSSELL SAVILLE action against the United States by :fly world to aid in education, agriculture, ing the American :flag until the hostages health, and in a variety of other ways to are set free. Since the American :flag is bring the so-called Third World into the HON. RALPH S. REGULA 20th Century. symbolic of all that we as a nation hold OF OHIO sacred, I can think of no better way to We know that Mexicans by the hundreds mark our vigil for the 49 Americans still of thousands a.re constantly poised on the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES border, ready to sneak their way into the Tuesday, November 27, 1979 held captive. United States. We know that dissident Rus I respectfully submit for my colleagues' sians are eager to live here. Immigrants from • Mr. REGULA. Mr. Speaker, last week attention the text of the proclamation Jamaica., the Philippines, Cambodia, Viet- end, with the death of Russell Saville, CXXV--2122-Pa.rt 26 33750 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 the House of Representatives gallery THE IRRIGATION WATER CONSER- age U.S. farm, which is 412 acres, was to lost one of its more familiar faces and VATION ACT OF 1979 convert entirely to a drip system, it would one of the House's most ardent ~up cost the farmer over $200,000. porters. Russell had served · on van<;ms Today's family farmer simply cannot staffs since 1945, when he came t.o the HON. NORMAN D. SHUMWAY afford to borrow that much money, nor Capitol as an administrative assistant OF CALIFORNIA has the available capital to invest. This to Congressman Thomas Morgan. ~e ~as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES predicament will not improve because served the people of the 16th Oh10 Dis Tuesday, November 27, 1979 equipment prices will only continue to trict since 1966 as a member of my staff escalate. The drip irrigation equipment and that of the late Frank T. Bow. e Mr. SHUMWAY. Mr. Speaker, today is made primarily from plastic. With the A unique characteristic of Russell was I am introducing the Irrigation Water unsettled nature of the world petroleum his unfailing devotion to the House of Conservation Act of 1979. production there is no question that the It is estimated that, in the United Representatives and particularly ~o the price for oil will continually increase Capitol building. Most people will re States today, approximately 40 million and consequently plastic products will member Russell Saville as the man who acres are under irrigation. Without wa continue to be more expensive. According almost daily walked the halls of the ter delivery capability, our great agri to the Department of Energy, imported Capitol with numerous constituents of culture regions could not realize the sig crude oil has increased $4 per barrel over all ages in tow. Oftentimes he would be nificant production of food and fiber for the first 7 months of this year and it is gin one of his famous tours with six or our citizens and export sales to other expected to escalate even further in the eight people but, by the time he finished, nations. Irrigation is a crucial part of the future. Thus, farmers who might other the group would have doubled in size. production of many crops such as corn, wise plan on installing a new system are Visitors in the Capitol would overhear cotton, fruits, vegetables, and nuts. persuaded to repair existing equipment, some of his commentary and tag along However, it is becoming increasingly rather than upgrade for next season, in for the rest of the tour. Attracting peo evident that our once-plentiful supply view of projected costs. ple to him was one of his more charming of irrigation water is becoming rapidly Inflation continues to eat away at the assets. more scarce. Increased demand for avail buying power of the farm dollar. Just able supplies by residential users is di Russell managed to breathe life into verting water away from farmers. During as equipment costs soar, growers are the marble walls, the bronze statues and the last two decades, water withdrawals looking elsewhere to finance their opera the paintings on the walls. He knew all have been increasing at a rate of 3.5 tions and, as a result, farm debt in 1980 there was to know about this building percent a year, thus indicating a need is expected to reach $159 billion-an all and the men and women who served for all users to assure that water is time high. In view of this, most farmers here in Congress. The names and faces, consumed in the most beneficial manner. must contend with more immediate and the stories and tales of all who have pressing commitments. made their mark here were an impor Recent estimates show agriculture uses A farmer can realize other positive about 80 to 85 percent of the water con results when a more modern irrigation tant part of each of his tours. sumed in the United States. Unfortu Russell loved the Capitol. He could method is online. Weed growth is often nately irrigation methods are not always substantially reduced since the uncul think of nothing better than to spend the m~st efficient means of distributing the day sharing his enthusiasm for it tured portions of a field's surface never agricultural water. Simple surface irri become wet. In the case of drip irrigation, with others. Once when asked if he ever gation has an application efficiency of tired of giving the same tour over and wet and dry soil fluctuations are minimal anywhere from 30 to 70 percent, and a since the soil stays well aerated. thus in over, he responded that tours fed his ap great deal of water is lost through s~ep petite for the Capitol just as food satis creasing the possibility of enhanced age in unlined canals and leaky pipes. yields. Additionally, a grower has the fied his hunger. In some parts of the country, the cost of "No matter how much I eat in one opportunity to apply fertilizers directly water is the only irrigation expenditure, to his plants by means of the plastic day," he said, "I'm ready to eat again so the farmer has no incentive to in the next day. I never grow tired of eat delivery system. This type of fertilization crease the efficiency of his system. is more direct, lessens the chance of over ing, and I never grow tired of the For these reasons, I am introducing Capitol." application, and reduces energy costs. legislation which will provide incentives Besides saving a great quantity of water, He considered each tour a unique op for farmers to change their methods of other agricultural-related benefits occur portunity to impart some of his knowl irrigating and thereby reduce water con when a more modern irrigation system is edge and interest in Government on sumption. The Irrigation Water Con implemented. others and help them to appreciate more servaltion Act of 1979 would provide an These innovative systems would be an fully what this country really was. additional IO-percent tax credit to the asset during drought conditions. For ex One measure of Russell's life can be current investment tax credit for the ample, during the 1976-77 California taken from the thousands of Ohio's 16th purchase of certain irrigation works. The drought, groundwater tables were sub Congressional District residents who grower who purchases this equipment stantially reduced to augment depleted walked with him through the chambers would also have the opportunity to de surface water supplies. In the San Joa and corridors of the Capitol. Their eyes preciate it over 3 years, and thus have quin Valley, the number of wells nearly provided the measurement of the man. the additional incentive of rapid amor doubled as a result of the drought. If In bidding him farewell, their shining tization. The bill defines the fallowing advanced irrigation equipment were on eyes clearly reflected the respect, the ad water conservation property as eligible line, it is reasonable to conclude that miration, the appreciation and the affec for the credit and 3-year depreciation: groundwater overdraft would not have tion they had for this man who had (a) drip irrigation equipment; (b) recov been so significant. given them a greater understanding and ery systems; (c) sprinkler irrigation Two crops which illustrate the amount love of their country and his. equipment; (d) canal or ditch lining of water that can be saved by utilizing In losing Russell Saville, we have lost material; and (e) pipeline equipment. refined irrigation systems are tomatoes a good friend; one with a big heart and These incentives are necessary because and grapes. According to Dr. Elias Fe a love for this Nation and its people so farming costs are high and as a result reres at the University of California at great that it could fill a room. Fortu farmers have been reluctant to purchase Davis, a grower who utilizes a drip sys nately, his love and enthusiasm were c~n new and improved systems. The amount tem on his tomato crops will save over tagious. And all of us who worked with of capital to convert to a drip system is 50,000 gallons of water per acre per year. him who knew him or who merely saw significant, running as high ase $500 per This means that on an average American him' each day as he passed by have been acre. Various components of the system tomato farm of 25 acres, 1.25 million gal affected. which include emitters are $3.15 each; lons of water (3.8 acre feet) will be saved. I can't think of a better legacy to leave plastic pipe at $7.65 per 100 feet; pwnps, On one average grape farm of 50 acres, behind than devotion to one's Govern :filters, and pressure equalizers all sub 5 million gallons of water (15.3 acre feet) ment and a love of its people.• stantially increase the cost. If an aver- are conserved. November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33751 If we are to make water conservation risks-the true risks of alternative People are r.a.turally more willing to accept a national priority-as the administra energy sources, for example- the risks of a voluntary activity-especially tion suggests-emphasis must be placed r believe that much of the impetus for one from which they receive a direct and on rural America to conserve its irriga public understanding of comparative obvious benefit-than the risks of an invol tion water. American agriculture uses risks can and should come from Congress untary one. But a larger part of the explana tion lies in a general public confusion. approximately 80 percent of our Nation's and, toward that end, I have tried to Recently it has begun to seem as though just consumed water. Clearly, the time has formulate legislative approaches. I have about everything is dangerous to your come to bring about real and lasting con recently introduced a bill, H.R. 4939, health-nuclE'ar power, chemical wastes, servation. President Carter, in May of which would assist the American people pesticides (which DuPont now advertises as 1977, labeled water conservation as the in analyzing technological activities. Es "crop protection chemicals"), occupational "cornerstone" of his revised Federal Wa sentially, the bill would direct the Presi hazards, antibiotics in animal feed, air pollu ter Policy. In order to achieve conserva dent's Office of Science and Technology tion and on and on. Just about everything tion on the farm, members of the agri Policy to lead Government agencies in seems to cause cancer-what you do, what exploring the ways that comparative risk you eat (or don't eat), where you live. In the cultural community must be given ap face of such a systems overload, it is difficult propriate incentives. can become an active field of investiga to be very rational. Although the bill specifically provides tion and public education. Are the risks of ordinary living really benefits for the American farmer, others H.R. 4939 is an updated version of a increasing, or are they merely being adver will realize positive results. Since the in bill I introduced shortly after the start tised better? The answers aren't clear. We stallation of irrigation conservation de of the 96th Congress. The updated bill are running out of empty space where wastes vices would save a tremendous amount of was introduced on July 24. rt is presently can be dumped and forgotten. We are also water, it is reasonable to assume the pending in the Subcommittee on Science. able to measure tiny amounts of chemicals Research and Technology. and traces of pollution that would have been quantities not used could be beneficial undetectable only a few years ago. We have for groundwater recharge, municipal I think the time has never been riper for bringing comparative risk into public a slightly better understanding of which and industrial use, and many other uses. view in Congress and elsewhere. In fact, substances are likely to be carcinogenic, and The Irrigation Water Conservation I was delighted to see that the Washing a much improved appreciation of how closely Act provides incentives for farmers to various parts of the environment interact. ton Post devoted its lead editorial yester In short, we are much more aware of risks save water by updating their existing day to this very subject. Entitled, "Every rt that have been around for some time. But it systems. will encourage the use of day Risks," the editorial put its finger on may also be true that, because of more modern equipment and methods, and the heart of what comparative risk is all people, more industrial activity and declin will allow substantial saving of water on about. ing natural resources, new dangers are now the farm. The tax credit and deprecia I believe it would be of interest to my being generated faster than ever before. tion incentive give the grower the oppor colleagues to read this excellent editorial. A central theme of the 1980s will be cop tunity to make the extensive capital in The editorial follows: ing with the discrepancy between the tech vestments when he otherwise would not. nical capacity to generate, detect and meas EVERYDAY RISKS ure risks, and our much more rudimentary Not only would water be conserved, A quarter of a million Canadians were social abilities to control, accommodate and water would be applied · directly to the evacuated from their homes two weeks ago manage them.e plants, thereby enhancing aeration and because of a train derailment that released reducing weed growth. In addition, deadly chlorine and phosgene gases. The farmers would have the potential for story made front-page news for one day and lowering energy bills. According to the was quickly forgotten-which illustrates THE NURSE SHORTAGE Government Accounting Office, irriga the strange and often perplexing ways in tion accounts for 20 percent of a farm which society responds to the myriad risks of industria.lized living. One can only HON. MARJORIE S. HOLT er's energy bill. Since irrigation pumps imagine how bleak the future of nuclear OF MARYLAND in many cases would be pumping less power would be if 250,000 people had had to water and at a lower pressure, a strong be evacuated from the vicinity of a. nuclear IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES possibility exists for energy savings. reactor. Tuesday, November 27, 1979 Water is the lifeblood of American ag What accounts for the phenomenon that riculture. All too often of late, this most produces yawns over chemical accidents and • Mrs. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, congres vital resource has been overdrawn, mis instant headlines about even the hint of a sional moves to cut back Federal funds nuclear danger? It is not just a reaction to for nurses' education are usually accom used, and taken for granted. The Irriga the ghostly qualities of radioactivity, tion Water Consorvation Act demon panied by arguments about a surplus of though that is a part of it. Radioactivity can nurses. strates an effort by the Congress to focus kill you without your ever having seen, attention on this problem and provides smelled, heard or felt it. But there are also Well, there is no surplus of nurses, as means to overcome it.• many chemicals-carbon monoxide, for many of us can attest. I have personal example-that are colorless, odorless, taste knowledge of the shortage of nurses in less and deadly. Nor is the difference simply my area, and the Baltimore Sun said on that nuclear energy is relatively new and November 18 that "the quality of patient COMPARING RISKS IN THE 1980'S unfamiliar. Commercial nuclear power has care is seriously threatened" in Mary been around for two decades now, and that is land by the shortage. substantially longer than, for instance, people have recognized the relationship For the attention of the House, I HON·. DON RITTER respectfully submit the editorial: OF PENNSYLVANIA between chemicals and cancer. Society, in other words, reacts differently THE NURSE SHORTAGE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to risks that a mathematician would say Maryland and other states face shortages Tuesday, November 27, 1979 were equally grave. Coal, for example, is of hospital nurses so severe that the quality almost certainly more dangerous than of patient care is seriously threatened. City • Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, many of nuclear power if the combined risks of min Hospitals has 80 vacancies, University Hos my colleagues are aware that, since com ing accidents, black lung, air pollution, acid pital has 75 vacancies and Sinai Hospital has ing to Congress early this year, one of rain and carbon-dioxide buildup are con 43. The situation, unfortunately, may get my primary concerns has been to en sidered. But Jane Fonda, et al., have yet to worse before it gets better. courage in Congress an understanding hold an anti-coal rally. We live happily with Hospital nurses traditionally have been of how important it is that we as a so one technology, the automobile, that causes overworked and they often have been under ciety begin bringing comparisons of risks 50,000 deaths a year-an astronomical figure. paid and undervalued as well. That situation in areas like energy, environment and And of course there is smoking. The death was tolerable in a time when patient care technology out into the open. If we do rate of smokers is double that of non-smok was simpler and less demanding a.nd when that, we will enable the American people ers, regardless of age. And smoking also nurses themselves viewed their work as increases the danger from a variety of other intrinsically subordinate or even menial. But to better understand that almost every sources: asbestos workers who smoke, for as nursing becomes a highly sophisticated major political choice we make in Con example, get lung cancer at nearly 100 times profession often requiring advanced degrees gress involves a sensible balancing of the rate of their non-smoking coworkers. and medical skills of a high order, its prac- 33752 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 titioners are much less willing to accept low together and are achieving tangible re views on the major issues facing agriculture pay, poor working conditions and menial sults. in the 1980s. status. The publisher, William S. McNamee of MEMBERS VARIED As a result, many nurses are leaving hos the Farm Press Publications is to be com Members include not only farmers and pitals for non-institutional nursing or even implement dealers but local cooperatives, for different occupations. That, in turn, mended for this excellent job in exam production credit associations, federal land throws a heavier work-load on the nurses ing grassroots interest and participation bank associations, commercial banks, farm who remain, and a vicious circle ls created. in the program. And, certainly the par supply dealers, agricultural media and Another problem ls the difficulty many aspir ticipants in this program are to be others. ing nurses have in financing their initial praised for their effective efforts in ex How does USDA view the ACA? training and later their advanced trainlng pressing the message-"Agriculture: It's "They love us," said Barringer. "We give a problem exacerbated by declining federal Your Heartbeat, America." them the exposure they can't get any other support. way. We have what we call Farm Lines In the sellers' market nurses now enjoy, ACA: CAN IT BECOME VOICE FOR AMERICAN where people are encouraged to call in and pressure ls growing on the hospitals for major AGRICULTURE? ask questions of USDA officials and others. changes in the way they treat their nursing Jack Baldwin is an International Harves For instance, Secretary Bergland can sit in staffs. Perhaps the most important demand ter dealer in Greensboro, N.C. his office in Washington and take calls and by nurses, and one that may often be justi Don Snider is a John .Deere dealer in questions from a meeting of 400 farmers fied, is for higher status, including a role in Phoenix, Ariz. anywhere in the country." hospital policy-making. Also needed is an Will Stokes is a Massey-Ferguson dealer And many of these programs are aired over expansion of hospital programs for provid in Murray, Ky. radio which can increase that audience to ing advanced training at low cost to their Aside from being farm implement dealers, millions. nurses. they all have something else in common. DEALER REACTION Help is needed from government, as well. Each is a member of the Agriculture Council Don Snider, the Deere dealer at Arizona For instance, the Maryland Health Services of America and they think other dealers as Machinery Company in Phoenix, looks at it Cost Review Commission needs to give more well as all of agribusiness should get behind this way: consideration than it has to the sometimes the ACA to help create a single voice for "ACA's activity is one of education and legitimate demands by nurses for higher sal agriculture. one of the best things they have going is aries, and the president and Congress need to AGRICULTURE'S VOICE the farmer hot line. They have a positive re-examine the thinking that led them in "I think it's one of the fey; farm organi approach where some organizations do not," recent years to cut back funds for nurses' zations really trying to get the message he said. training. While all of the demands nurses are across to the American public about the "They don't talk boycotts and tractor making nowadays obviously are not going to true facts of agriculture," Baldwin said. cades and that sort of thing which can leave be met, many of them at least deserve to be "ACA is letting them know that the a bad taste in the public's mouth. taken far more seriously than they have in farmer just doesn't put seed into the ground "They have a good information program the past-especially when the alternative and sit back waiting for dollar bills to such as films and slide programs. Their could be a serious breakdown in patient care sprout." whole approach is putting agriculture's in the nation's hospitals.e The ACA message ls: "Agriculture-It's viewpoint in front of the public. We sup Your Heartbeat, America!" And Baldwin port it one hundred percent." thinks it's time this story is told. WORK TO DO AGRICULTURE: IT'S AMERICA'S FOOD PRICES Massey-Ferguson's dealer in Murray, Ky., HEARTBEAT "Everytlme prices go up in the supermar feels that ACA still has a long way to go. ket, urban people blame the farmer," said "I think they're doing a good job but I'd the North Carolina dealer. "ACA ls telling like to see them put it all together and see HON. ED JONES the true farm story and I think all of agri more farmers, themselves, get involved," business ought to support the ACA and get Will Stokes said. OF TENNESSEE this story told." "I'm a fairly new member but I don't see IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The ACA is a non-partisan organization the interest in the organization that there should be. It's going to take more publicity Tuesday, November 27, 1979 of farmers and farm-related businesses cre ated to advance the economic and social and education. But at least they're making • Mr. JONES of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, interests of the U.S. by increasing the aware a. good effort and I think ACA deserves full our Nation's No. 1 industry. Our Nation's ness of agriculture's contribution at the support from everybody." No. 1 employer. Our Nation's most pro community, state, national and interna OTHERS INVOLVED ductive sector of the economy. tional levels through programs of research, Not all of the agribusiness members are Each of these statements describes the education and communication. equipment dealers. Harry Dendy is president That's the way ACA states its purpose. of the Federal Land Bank Association that bedrock of the U.S. economy-agri John Barringer, immediate past chairman serves six counties in central Mississippi. culture. And each is being presented na of the ACA board, is a Memphis cotton mer "The pocket-size fact card included in the tionwide in an exciting new communica chant who helped pioneer the organization. Heartbeat Campaign informational folder tions program coordinated by the Agri HOW IT STARTED has sparked a lot of interest for us," he said. culture Council of America Federal Reserve Board fig another 16 companies made public stocks and companies from trying to sell ures, households had 17.7 percent of their offerings.e them. assets in houses worth $569.7 billion in 1970. "When you add everythd.ng up, it's no mys Their stock holdings were larger: $729 tery why the stock market is performing so b11lion. poorly," said James Balog, senior vice presi Today households own residential real FIRST WORLD AEROSPACE EDU dent of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. estate worth $1.5 tr111ion-22.8 percent of CATION CONGRESS Analysts list a host of factors that have total assets-while their stocks are worth hurt the equity markets, among them: only $790 b11lion. Tax laws that encourage investment in They also are showing interest in other HON. JIM WRIGHT houses-where mortgage interest is deduc things such as gold, and in newly formed tible-and in tangible assets such as stamps, investment devices such as stock options OF TEXAS coins, paintings and the like. "Mortgages are and financial futures that permit investors IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES now the largest component of the capital to put up small amounts of cash with, the Tuesday, November 27, 1979 markets," noted Robert Salomon. hope of large financial gains. The same tax laws that allow companies to But the nation's love affair with tangible • Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, the First deduct interest payments as a cost of doing assets wlll come to an end just as its love World Aerospace Education Congress was business but permit them to pay dividends affair with the stock market did a decade held in Cairo, Egypt, on October 21, 1979. only out of after-tax profits. Furthermore the ago, many analysts believe. dividends are taxed again when received by "It's fine to own a home that keeps in We were ably represented by our dis shareholders. creasing in value," said Washington broker tinguished colleague from California, The discouraging impact on investors of Julia Walsh. "But what good is that if you Congressman DoN CLAUSEN. This was in the increasing retention of profits by corpo cannot sell it. And we're beginning to see deed a major historic event and is de rations. Unable to sell new stock, companies signs of that in Washington right now. serving of recognition by the people of devote a smaller share of profits to dividends. "The young people who have never in the United States and other cotllltries of Because investors have not realized much vested in stocks will begin to realize that increase in the price of their stocks, they the world. Representatives of 14 nations they might not be able to sell a stock for attended this important conference and cannot be comforted by riSling dividend pay quite what they want, but they wlll always outs. In the last 10 years, dividends have be able to sell it. That's the great virtue of discussed means of promoting aerospace about doubled, while retained earnings the stock market. It brings together thou aviation education. nearly have tripled. "It's a self fulfilling sands of buyers and sellers," Walsh said. I can think of no better spokesman for prophecy of discouraging people from buying Indeed liquidity is one of the primary our body than DoN CLAUSEN. His long stocks," says Salomon. functions of the stock market, according to time national leadership in the field of High interest rates, whiich ma.ke investing New York Stock Exchange chief economist aviation and aerospace education is well in nearly riskless assets such as Treasury bills Wllliam Freund. It ls a forum where investors known to us all-culminating in his hav arid very safe assets such as corporate bonds always can exchange their financial assets for or high-yielding bank certificates nearly as ing been the recipient of the Nation's cash. highest award in aerospace education profitable-and in some periods more profit "All we need to change attitudes toward able-than buying stocks. stocks is for enough people to realize that the Frank Brewer Trophy. Inflation that eats away at the value of owning things is not always what it ls cracked The most significant aspect of the corporate earnings and makes the replace up to be," Gouws of Salomon Brothers said. Congress was that it provided a forum ment cost of current corporate assets (which "For example, antique car sales in a West for nations, which have sometimes been the tax laws value at original cost) rise Coast auction last spring fetched prices far at odds with each other politically, to sharply every year. beyond what was anticipated. A 1935 Mer work together in harmony toward the The growth of penSlion funds and Social cedes which was expected to sell for $200,000 Security which discourages individuals from achievement of a common goal. In this went for $400,000. When a similar auction was way, the Congress and future Aerospace saving at all. held here last month, people had high ex But probably the most important reason pectations. But only about eight of the 40 Education Congresses contribute to in investors-first individuals, then institu cars were sold." ternational understanding and world tions-became wary of stocks was the sharp "In our business, people are highly skilled peace. decline in stock prices that began to occur at looking 1n the rear-view mirror. They The Congress was opened on October around 1970. haven't noticed that somehow the Standard 21 by the World Aerospace Education Investors were lured to the market by the & Poor's index (of 500 stocks) has sneaked Organization's President, Kamal Naguib. sharp growth in stock prices that began in in with a 16 percent return recently," Gouws Dr. Mahmoud Amin Abd El-Hafez, the 1950s and 1960s and was accompanied by said. Egypt's Minister of Tourism and Civil strong economic growth and low inflation. Drexel Burnham's Balog is not so sure that Aviation, then read a message from the Common stocks began to seem riskless. And stocks will rebound. "Unless there is a cut in Congress sponsor, President Anwar most American investors, be they individuals interest rates or an increase in the reward or institutions, are adverse to risk. for investment,· Americans are not likely to Sadat. DoN CLAUSEN, as senior American "It's the simple rule of supply and de return to the equities markets," he said. Representative, responded with a per mand," said Drexel Burnha.m's Ba.log. "There "When inflation is as high as it is, a.re stocks sonal message to the Congress from was a tremendous infiux of cash into the really a bargain?" President Carter. Our colleague from equities markets in the late 1960s. The whole Merrill Lynch's Regan noted that there will California presented the keynote ad- November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33757 dress-"Aviation Education, a Global God be with you in your sincere efforts to Second. To promote the methods and Challenge." pave a better future !or the human race. practices used in aerospace education Mr. Speaker, I would like to insert and to contribute to the creating of in STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF PRESIDENT JIMMY ternational standards related to aero President Sadat's m~ge and President CARTER, PRESENTED BY REP. DON H. CLAUSEN Carter's response in the RECORD at this AT THE FIRST WORLD CONGRESS ON AERO space education; point: SPACE EDUCATION IN CAIRO, EGYPT, ON OC Third. To identify the main trends in MESSAGE OF DR. MAHMOUD AMIN ABDEL HA.FEZ, TOBER 21, 1979 aerospace education in the developing MINISTER OF TOURISM AND CIVIL AVIATION, On behalf of the American people I ex countries making use of the experience of ADDRESSED ON BEHALF OF PRESIDENT ANWAR tend warmest greetings to those attending developed countries; and EL SADAT, TO THE FIRST WORLD CONGRESS ON this first Congress of the World Aerospace Fourth. To increase the understanding AEROSPACE EDUCATION Education Organization. We in the United of people everywhere of aerospace impor The President o! the World Aerospace Edu States have long been interested in the con tance for life today and tomorrow. cation Organization, Ladies and Gentlemen, cepts o! aeronautic and aerospace technology By bringing the representatives of members o! the Congress. and in their application to the field of edu many nations together to work toward It ls my privilege to be honoured by Presi cation. The transfer of knowledge gained in the achievement of these objectives, dent Anwar El Sadat, to inaugurate on his space and aviation to other fields and the behal! this First World Congress on Aero spreading of this knowledge as widely as something even more important can be space Education, and to convey to you his possible continue to be among our primary accomplished: A major step can be taken personal greetings, and best wishes !or your objectives. toward the achievement of world peace Congress to achieve the noble objectives !or The National Congress of Aerospace Edu with freedom. which it is convened. cators has lpng been involved with these The achievement of these vital objec Most o! you have came !rom !ar away to issues. It has always welcomed observers tives could make the World Aerospace exchange views and experiences, needed to from other nations at its annual sessions. Education Organization a major force realize the goals o! the World Aerospace Ed This first Congress o! the World Organization for the improvement of international re ucation Organization, to promote the meth represents a formalization and broadening of lations throughout the world. ods and practices used in this domain and that international interest in the field of to help create international standards re aeronautics and aerospace education. Mr. Speaker, I would like to insert into lated to aerospace education. Within the U.S. Government we have a the RECORD at this point the full text You have come !rom !ar away to foster specific mandate from the Congress to insure of DON CLAUSEN'S keynote address the interest o! the World Youth in the aero the widest possible dissemination of informa wherein he outlines his innovative con space age, to increase the masses' under tion gained in the fields of aeronautics and cept of an "Airborne Freedom Offen standing o! aerospace importance for life space technology. We also share a keen in sive." today and tomorrow, and to help developing terest in increasing the participation of ADDRESS OF CONGRESSMAN DON H . CLAUSEN TO countries by conveying to them the experi young people everywhere in addressing the THE FlRsT WORLD AEROSPACE EDUCATION ence o! developed countries on how to pro problems and challenges of space and aero CONGRESS, CAIRO, EGYPT, OCTOBER 21, 1979 mote aerospace education. nautics. The world organization proinises Our generation has lived with the techno to make a major contribution toward achiev I firmly believe it is providential that we logical advancements in aerospace sciences ing both of these goals. come together for this First World Aero achieved during the sixties and seventies of Given Egypt's historic and modem leader space Education Congress in Cairo, Egypt. this Century. The younger generations will ship role in education, your meeting in Cairo I further believe it is most fitting and be really affected by those advancements. seems especially appropriate. You have my proper to launch this great Aerospace-Avia They will actually live the Aerospace Age. best wishes for a most successful Congress. tion Education initiative in the land of one It ls the duty o! leaders and educators to of the grea. test peacemakers of our time- prepare their minds to cope with the changes I would like to briefly mention a few the brilliant and courageous President of which will accompany this new Age. of the 120 distinguished participants rep Egypt-An war Sadat. We know that developed countries have resenting 14 nations at the Congress: In my view history will record President given the subject the attention it deserves. Dr. Assad Koteit, president of the In Sadat as the "Statesman of the Century" It is now the time of our countries to join recognizing him for his bold and courageous ternational Civil Aviation Organization. peace initiative here in the Middle Ea.st. the game. Gen. Jacques Mitterrand, president di rector general, Aerospatiale. To our Egyptian friends we, respectfully, We cannot forget that our country had say Shukra.n Ga.zlin (thank you) for the carried the fiambeau of civilization, seven Mohamad Fathy Taha, president of steadfast support you have given this out thousand years ago, and we cannot also for the World Meterological Organization. standing "Citizen of the World." All Ameri get that Egypt was the first to enlighten Knut Hammerskjold, director of the cans stand steadfast in support of his timely the way for wisdom and knowledge for the International Air Transport Association. and productive effort that led to the nego rest of the World, and that its scientists have Dr. Farouk El-Baz, research director, tiated Ca.mp David agreement signing cere imagined flying and soaring in the air, thou Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, mony, which I attended on the White House sands of years ago. Smithsonian Institution. lawn, between President Sadat, our own Today, our President with his faith in President Carter and Prime Minist.er Begin God, and his unparalleled courage, has John Steiner, vice president-corporate of Israel. overcome the obstacles which were draining product development, the Boeing Co. My colleagues in the U.S. Congress share our resources. He gave his directives to mod Secor Brown, professor MIT and past a common conviction-this mutual commit ernize civil aviation services, and he is as president of the CAB. ment to stability and peace in the Middle signing the human and material resources East could prove to be the turning point in needed for the education of our youth in Dr. Mervin K. Strickler Jr., vice presi world history. A "momentum for peace" was aerospace aspects. dent of WAEO and former Chief, Avia set in motion that day. We are extending our hands to the tion Education Programs Division, FAA. Today, as I stand before you, I see an World, we are strengthening our ties with in Mr. Speaker, I would like to focus the other historic event ta.king pla.ce--the ternational organizations and we believe attention of my colleagues on the his launching of the First World Aerospace deeply in World Cooperation. Education Congress that has the potential Our mind ls open to exchange knowledge toric and genuinely constructive pur of accelerating that "momentum for peace." with you in a civilized framework. Our heart poses of this great World Aerospace Con As I look around me, it ls a pleasure to is open to welcome you, the leaders of aero gress. This, the first Congress of its kind, recognize both old friends and see new faces: space industry and aerospace education. can provide both the developing and the WAEO's President, Kama.I Na.guib, who has I wish you again success in building a new developed nations with a new forum for done so much to make this great Congress beacon !or science, culture and clvllizatlon. the exchange of ideas and information. possible. I hope, that when you go back to your To give my colleagues a better idea as Semret Medhane, Secretary General of the homes, you will !eel satisfied with what you to the importance of the World Aero African Airlines Association who has con have achieved in the Congress, and that you tributed so much to building commercial space Education Organization, let me aviation on this continent. wm keep the best memories about this briefly state its objectives. These are: Country which was privileged to be your My old friend, Dr. Mervin Strickler, host, and which was proud when you se First. To group at the international Former Chief, Aviation Education Programs lected Cairo to be the site of the World Aero level, organizations, firms and individ Division, Federal Aviation Administration. space Education Organization. uals interested in aerospace education to Mary Jo Oliver, Acting Chief, Aviation Best regards to all of you, from my heart, provide an international forum for ex Education Programs, Federal Aviation Ad and from the hearts of all Egyptians. May change of experience; ministration. 33758 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 Curtis Graves, Chief, Community Services It is to this end· that I should like to address With the overwhelming needs of the world and Educational Programs, National Aero a few remarks. and the staggering costs l_nvolved, it de nautics and Space Administr~tion. Many of us in America with extensive mands our consideration of the most effec Jack Sorenson, Deputy Chief of Staff for aviation backgrounds have seen the general tive and efficient means available, with pri Aerospace Education, Civil Air Patrol. aviation fleet grow from a few small 40-horse mary emphasis on promoting self-sufficiency Dr. Shannon W. Lucid, recent graduate of power Piper Cubs to our present-day equip in the environment people live. The lack of NASA's Astronaut Training Program. ment where business now recogizes the com adequate roads and tax sources or funds to The signs of our times, as we view the pany aircraft as an indispensable tool in build them, points to the need for expanded world situation, strongly suggest the time the promotion and expansion of its enter use of aircraft. But, financial restrictions also has come for increased cooperation among prises. The flexibility and general utility of limit the size and quality of airports the Free Nations of the world- a movement scheduled and nonscheduled aircraft have pointing again clearly to the dramatic need where the developed and developing coun increased trade areas to be served and per for slow-flight aircraft. tries start coordinating and integrating mit highly competent executives to ex The importance of aviation to our area of transportation systems in order to accelerate pand their talents and opportunities to re the United States has made us see the im the building of better public, private and gions heretofore considered to be inaccess portance of fostering aviation education. volunteer sector institutions in these coun ible. Just as aviation is vital to our area, so is tries. In our recent past, there has been a pre aerospace education vital to the future of We need to share and convey the full po dominance of concentration on programs to aviation. The growth of aviation demands a tential of benefits and blessings that can increase the speed of aircraft and space ve continuing supply of qualified men and accrue to the people of the developing coun hicles. In the 60's, I stressed my concern to women to work in its ranks. tries if they associate with this free institu the American aeronautical community that There are, however, additional benefits to tion building effort. we were concentrating on pro~rams to in be realized from a dynamic aerospace educa In particular, I want to transmit this mes crease the speed of aircraft and space ve tion program beyond having capable aircrews sage to the young people of the world. hicles but were making an inadequate com and ground support staffs. Open your minds, open your hearts and mitment to STOL/ slow flight aircraft. I am Aerospace education has proven its ability open your eyes to the unlimited potential firmly convinced that not enough atten to provide previously disinterested and un available to all of you that choose to partici tion has been given to how slow we can fly successful students with that vital spark we pate in this "Airborne Freedom Offensive." an aircraft, even though great progress has call motivation which makes them produc We can forgive the child for being afraid been made. tive members of our society. I have seen, at of the dark but the great tragedy of our life Rapid transportation in rural areas and first hand, this fantastic transformation time is when grown men and women refuse locations with limited access have caused change a backward and indifferent youth to see the light. spectacular growth in general aviation in al into a dedicated and enthusiastic graduate Our challenge is to broaden the perspective most every country in the world. Most na and member of the aviation family. of the people in the developing countries of tions have remote areas that cannot be effi Why? Because aviation gave that student Africa, Latin America and Asia by acquaint ciently reached by any other means than the added spark of excitement, motivation, ing them with the great value of building through small, slow-flight aircraft. As I am and Interest that was so badly lacking in his public, private and volunteer sector organi sure Monsieur Miterand knows, there are al life. Suddenly, otherwise dull subjects such zations and institutions designed to maxi pine areas in France which rely heavily on as mathematics and science, physics and geography took on a new and exciting mean mize the participation of people in the general aviation for transportation. And ing. process. this is particularly true of my area of the Functioning democracy is a continuing United States. Based on many years of personal experi experiment In the governmental process ence with aerospace education, I am firmly As a matter of fact, the use of aviation by convinced that it is not only an effective and which places the strongest emphasis on Gov emerging nations iS of particular interest to ernment Of, By and For the People. A prop viable "anti-drop-out-tool," but also a high me because the geography of the part of the ly motivating force that will provide the kind erly structured public sector makes this United States I represent in Congress has possible. of a challenge that many young people so many similarities to that of emerging na desperately need early in life. The Free EQterprise System is the "engine tions. The people of my Congressional Dis of productivity" from which fund sources are I predict that aerospace education is going trict are widely dispersed through large to be ever more widely taught In the world's derived to support the public and volunteer rural areas. Quick transportation of goods, sector institution building effort. school systems. Where yesterday's schools services, and people from one end of my taught Latin or Greek, today, driver educa The dreams and aspirations of millions of Congressional District to the other takes tion ls prevalent in many areas. Tomorrow, Americans, and other people in the developed place by air. We are using aviation exten aeorona utical training wlll come to the fore countries have been realized through the sively just as the emerging nations are and may even become essential in some evolutionary free institution building effort. using aviation extensively. It appears that areas. There ls little doubt about the need for There are advocates in the world of a industrial and rural nations alike need gen closed-controlled society. aviation and aerospace education In today's eral aviation. schools, if only to Instill in the student an We want to be associated with the free and I would also like to see the revival of an understanding of the problems and poten open society concept where basic human Arab Aerospace Education Seminar similar tia!s of aviation in this expanding new aero needs are addressed and the dignity of the to the one held 6 years ago initiated by space age. individual is r~ognized and meaningful. Kamal Naguib and adopted by the President Now how do we go about introducing to The airplane is one of the greatest tools for of the Civil Aviation Council for the Arab day's student to aerospace education? meeting human needs. When used as the States. At that time, Mr. Mohammed El One way is by placing a flight simulator in basis of a rapidly developing communications Hakin, the most knowledgeable man in the each elementary and secondary school in our and transportation network, the aircraft can Arab world in the aviation field, was Presi respective countries. This is a fine way to significantly contribute to the meeting of dent of the Council. It is clearly conceivable introduce young people to the techniques basic human needs such as food, shelter, and that a similar educational effort can have of fiight. clothing. Clearly by helping nations meet application to all of the countries of the con Much more can be done to foster areo their basic needs, the airplane can help pro tinent of Africa. In addition, I have partic ,space education. The way to do this is vide the political, social and economic sta ipated in events to similarly advance this through extensive and innovative use of bility so vital to achieving peace in the world. concept in the Americas. "available resources." The most successful efforts are those which We all need aircraft that will permit access Look around you. There are numerous involve the people themselves. The aircraft . to remote sections of the world. Developed sources of aerospace information in every is an invaluable tool to accelerate the com nations can share knowledge and know-how nation. You can find them in the private munity and institution building concept to with the developing nations through the ex sector and in the public sector. They exist help the people help themselves. panded use of aircraft. in commercial airlines, in aircraft manufac As we review the great technological and Developing nations can profit greatly from turing firms and in small general aviation engineering achievements in the aviation and the use of the Economic Growth Center con companies. You will find them in government space programs over the past decades, we cept. By geographically concentrating busi agencies, both military and civilian. The must applaud the great talents among the ness activities, more land will be preserved sources and opportunities are virtually limit people responsible for these accomplish for agriculture. The key to success of these less. ments. Also, we must recognize the tremen centers in sparsely populated areas is trans As an example, I am proud to be the au dous contributions made to our communica portation, particularly through the use of thor of legislation enacted by our Congress tions and transportation systems throughout aircraft. I'm convinced that many develop which establishes a program to encourage the world. The potential to benefit mankind ing nations will advance their social and the use of available resources in my own is seemingly unlimited. Conversely, the po economic well being through the early es country. This plan requires the Administrator tential to destroy mankind still remains as tablishment of a coordinated and integrated of the Federal Aviation Administration to the most frightening thought of our time. air transportation system. establish, "within available resources" a November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33759 civil aviation information distribution pro portation to carry forward his work. This education. The Brewer Trophy, sponsored by gram. The legislation requires the program World Aerospace Education Congress can be the American Society for Aerospace Educa to be designed to provide state and local come the instrument through which we carry tion and administered by the National Aero school administrators, college and university out his plan. Our guiding principle for this nautic Association, is awarded annually for offi.cials, and offi.cers of civil and other inter effort must be the Golden Rule, "Do unto the most outstanding contribution to the ested organizations, upon request, with in others as you would have others do unto development of aerospace education. formational materials and expertise on var you." The Brewer Selection Committee met in ious aspects of civil aviation. Clearly, we, the United States of America, Washington, D.C. on March 3 to review the Note that in drafting this program, we did do not have all the answers. We, too, have nominations !or the award. Congressman not just provide for the establishment of a our share of problems to resolve. But, we Clausen was cited for his "Outstanding lead· repository of information but rather an have gained valuable experience from our ers~ip and performance ln a number of ac information distribution system. Informa continuing experiment with functioning de tivities in furthering aviation and space tion has no value unless it is placed in the mocracy for the past 200 years. education, including Chairmanship of the hands of the people who can and will make By launching an "Airborne Freedom Offen California Task Force on Aerospace-Aviation good use of it. sive" through the implementation of Aero Education. He also authored federal legisla Now what is the best method of establish space-Aviation Education programs in our tion establishing a civil aviation information ing an effective aerospace information dis respective countries, we can all become "sol distribution program designed to provide tribution system? diers of peace and stabillty" throughout the state and local school administrators and In my home state of California, we found world. college university officials with informational that the task force approach was highly suc This is not to suggest that we wlll ever let materials and expertise on various aspects of cessful. bur task force, which I was honored down our "Security Guard" for the protec civil aviation." to chair, assembled many of the finest minds Mon and preservation of Free Systems but rather to indicate our desire to mobll1ze the Congressman Clausen is the first elected in the state Jn every phase of aerospace edu public offi.cial ever to receive the Brewer cation: And we did it without the expendi non-~111tary capabilities-economic trade, knowledge and information distribution, in Trophy. The Selection Committee members, ture a! public funds. distinguished aviation and aerospace educa Let me suggest the establishment of these stitution building and technology advance ment-into a "Freedom Offensive." tion and government officials appointed by aerospace education task forces by neighbor the President of the National Aeronautic ing countries which are geographically con What noble task could we undertake? Today, we have the awesome potential of Association, commended Clausen for his sev t.iguous to each other. By gathering the best eral decades of leadership in aviation educa people in the aerospace field from the nations destroying the world with our advanced weapons systems. tion as a public official and aviation busi of a common geographical area, which face nessman. His efforts in ma.king aviation edu common aerospace problems, much can be But, today, we also have the communica tions and transportation technology poten cation a part of the curriculum of local achieved in advancing aviation education. schools in California and his leadership in The procedure used in California and the tial to build a better world. It ls my fervent hope and prayer that we assuring nationwide adaptation of such pro United States was successful because of grams was an important part of Clausen's years of free institutions building. While this capture this moment and all its meaning. By dedicating ourselves to the cause of selection. The Committee also cited his inno approach was possible in our country, simi vative Congressional leadership role in help lar efforts in other nations will clearly have peace, with freedom and justice for all; By dedicating ow· Aerospace Education ing to create and assure passage Of Public to be structured to flt your own situations. Lil.w 94-353 and authorship of section 21, We wlll cha.re with you the information efforts toward the countries of the world de sirous of building freedom and free institu Appe~dix B of the Avia tion Development Act we have developed, and I hope this Congress tions for the progress of mankind; and which stimulated a nation-wide aviation can serve as a forum for a continuing dia By proving conclusively that the adrplane education and information distribution logue in the years ahead. can be used more constructively as a "tool program. In the United States, we have enjoyed the of peace" than destructively as a "tool of Clausen was a U.S. Navy pilot during benefits of a positive and evolutionary proc war." World War II. He is an instrument rated ess throughout the past 200 years. My experiences and efforts have been commercial pilot, has a flight instructor's We started with an Agriculture Revolution shared and coordinated with many of Amer rating, and was a CAA pilot examiner. then came the Industrial Revolution. In ica's outstanding aviation leaders and pio Among the highlights of his leadership role more recent years, the Technology Revolu neers, many of whom are here today. I am in aviation education he was an early advo tion. And, now we're entering the Knowledge but a "small cog in the wheel" a! the ex cate of placing flight simulators in school Revolution. tensive Aviation-Aerospace Enterprise. classrooms, he has been a strong supporter We're diSSeminating knowledge and infor We believe the lessons we've learned have of women's aviation organizations, estab mation about our agricultural and industrial potential application to the newly developing lished aviation education programs at sev technologies through the expanded use of countries-much of which ls already under eral colleges and high schools, cosponsor of our communications and transportation way. legislation recognizing the contribution of technology. We are prepared to share this But this is just the beginning. we have Women's Air Service Pilots (WASPs) in knowledge and know-how with the people of only scratched the surface. The highest World War II, member of the Advisory Board the developing countries. ideals and greatest aspirations of people wlll of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, All that is required is for those people to never be realized or supported unless they served as President of the Congressional Fly prepare themselves, educationally and insti fully comprehend how aerospace-aviation ing Club, and coordinated aviation education tutionally, to take advantage of it. · equipment and technology can provide solu programs through established educational There are three documents which amplify tions to our most pressing domestic and facilities.e these concepts that I'd like to make avail international problems. able to you: The threats and dangers of our nuclear age The Report of Governor Reagan's Task have brought us to a point in history where Force on Aerospace-Aviation Education those people and nations who believe in re THE IRANIAN SITUATION II· which includes my speech given in New York taining and advancing the cause of freedom THE SOVIET STAKE , City on the merits of aviation education in and free institutions can no longer afford to schools. "remain in ignorance" of the great problem My speech "Slow Flight ln a Peace Offen solving capab111ties our aviation and aero sive." HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK space technology can provide for us in the OF OHIO My remarks on the "Growing Crisis of the social, economic, political and security fields Lack of Airports" which details the need for of endeavor. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a national plan of integrated airport systems. The key to our survival and quality of the Tuesday, November 27, 1979 As we look to the future, "the Cooperative life we all seek requires a commitment to and the Corporation" concept of enterprise this effort. •Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the development can and will play a dynamic role tragedy in Tehran has touched . the in the free Institution building process. Together, we can accelerate the Free Insti tution development process. hearts of all people in our Nation. There They provide the organizational structure This is the challenge to the young people is a growing awareness that our policies for the human and financial resources needed around the world have led to the pres to responsibly develop our natural resources of the world. for the benefit of mankind in our quest for This to me is what this First World Aero- ent crisis and that our past lack of re economic and social progress and the 1m- space Congress is all about. solve has put innocent lives in jeopardy. proved standard of living we all seek. We all know that the issues involved in This is in keeping with the Creator's DON H. CLAUSEN the embassy takeover and the hostage master plan. As his children we have a spe- Congressman Don H. Clausen (R-Calif.) situation have little or nothing to do cial responsibllity to utilize our advancing was awarded the Frank G. Brewer Trophy for y.rith _the fate of the Shah. The ayatollah technology in communications and trans- his efforts in furthering aviation and space IS usmg the Shah as a vehicle to con- 33760 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 solidate his precarious hold over the mobs and in South Yemen, circles the Persian of the reformer in a. backyard society accus in the streets and to divert attention Gulf area. It also effectively closes the tomed to absolutism. How is it possible to from his own inability to govern a com Gulf of Aden. At any time, the Soviets make concessions without giving encourage plex oil-based economy. could move against any of the crucial oil ment and impetus to a revolutionary move ment that would sweep away the reforming These facts, however, do not bring the lanes in the Middle East with overwhelm regime itself? hostages home safely nor do they solve ing force. Although the Soviets may de But even though the shah's problems a.re the deep rift between this Nation and cide not to force such a confrontation at mostly self-generated, they certainly have Iran. If the domestic violence in Iran or this time, the mere fact that they have been aggravated by covert warfare waged even ~he turbulence of the Shiite sect . the capacity provides important diplo against him by the Soviet Union and proxy were the only issues involved even the matic leverage for them in this vital re regimes like Libya. The main reason why the blundering Carter White House might be gion. In light of American reversals in evidence of Soviet involvement in Iran has able to meet the challenge thrown on our the area and the new wave of Moslem not b-ecome generally known is that the shah himself has striven to keep it secret, fearing doorstep. However, other forces are at violence, the United States should keep that the Russians would take even more work in the Middle East. these developments in mind as the stakes aggressive measures if provoked. The shah The Soviet Union has been desper start rising. told me when I met him a month ago that ately trying to regain its ability to act in I would like to call my colleagues' at he ls very conscious of sharing a 1,600-mlle the region since Egypt wisely threw the tention to an excellent article by Robert border with the Soviet Union. The Russians Communists out. Recent activity by the Moss, of the Daily Telegraph in London, recently have reinforced their border mlll Kremlin in the region points to a pattern that provides additional evidence regard tary presence, which includes a division of far more ominous and far-reaching than ing Soviet intentions in the region. Mr. Farsi-speaking troops recruited in the south ern republics of the U.S.S.R. Moslem violence. If the United States is Moss' article makes it very clear why the going to assure its future use of Arab oil democracy of Bakhtiar and the moder I have been able to assemble, from both Iranian and non-Iranian sources, some strik and prevent the Red Sea or the Indian ate Moslem state of Bazargan have both ing new evidence of surreptitious Soviet in Ocean from becoming a new holding failed in Iran and why no stable, pro volvement in this year's troubles. The Soviet tank for Soviet naval might, it must real west government will rise there as long lntelllgence services-the KGB and GRU ize that other events are happening in as America avoids facing up to all the have long been engaged in an ambitious pro the Middle East that may prove Amer realities of the situation:. gram of espionage and covert action in Iran. ica's undoing in light of Iran. WHO'S MEDDLING IN IRAN? The success of the Soviet intelligence serv (By Robert Moss) ices in tllllng Iran with both professional of The entire southern border of the ficers and "lllegals" (agents operating under U.S.S.R. has been a focal point of turbu Throughout the upheavals in Iran the deep cover, often posing as Iranian citizens) lence for some time. The flrst wave of taboo subject has been the extent of covert ls impressive. About 100 Soviet citizens are diplomatic violence directed against the Soviet involvement. Leonid Brezhnev, the accredited as diplomats with the Russian United States happened in Afghanistan, Soviet party leader, showed his hand the Embassy in Tehran and the Soviet consu weekend before Thanksgiving by issuing a not Iran, in 1979. Ambassador Adolph lates in Mashad, Ispahan and Tabriz. In ad public warning to the West-published as dition, about 4,000 Soviet "technicians" are Dubs was kidnapped-and then killed by an interview on the front page of Pravda terrorists. At that time, there were al employed in the country, including about not to intervene on the side of the shah. 1,000--some of them identified KGB and ready growing signs of Soviet support for That was the closest the Russians had come the Marxist dictatorship that had taken in many years to openly declaring their in GRU officers-at the Arya.mehr steel mill in terest in the destab111zation of Iran. Ispahan alone. There are also about 600 tech control of the nation. Throughout the nicians from other East European countries. year, the United States refused to aid the Moscow's strategic interest ts obvious. Iran is the only state around the Persian Gulf The KGB also can make use of many growing rebellion against the government equipped to serve as a policeman of the "cover" organizations in Iran, including the or against the Soviet presence. The State region. Seventy percent of West Europe's oil Irano-Soviet Cultural Society; the Russian Department, so quick to applaud the passes through the Gulf, along with 90 per hospital in Tehran (providing cheap medi downfall of Somoza, was silent on any cent of Japan's, almost all of South Africa's cal treatment for Iranian patients); the questions dealing with the future of free and most of Israel's. I! Iran !ell under the Soviet news agency, Novosti; the bureau of dom in Afghanistan. Today, with Iran control of a pro-Soviet or fundamentalist. the state-controlled Soviet publications; the and Pakistan, both neighbors of Afghan Quddatl-style Muslim regime, the conse state-owned Soviet transport company, reg istan, seeing anti-American violence, the quences for the West would be terrifying. istered locally under the name of Iran Su 'Lt is not just that Iranian oil production trans; the state-owned Soviet insurance new events inside this pivotal country no longer would be automatically available company; and the official Soviet trade mis take an important meaning to the future to the West. The fragile regimes of the sion in Tehran. of the United States in the region. Arabian peninsula. would be up for grabs. The KGB and the GRU can draw on a The Soviets have recently established South Yemen continues to be used as a large supply of Farsi speakers in the south military bases at Farah and at Shindand Soviet base for destab111zlng the entire Gulf ern states of the U.S.S.R. There are many towns very close to the border with Iran. region, as well as the Horn of Africa. The thousands of peasant famllies along the In addition to this military presence, the KGB rezidentura for the area. ls located at Iranian-Soviet border with relatives on both a Russian m111tary complex in South Ye sides, and it ls simple to infiltrate "illegal" Soviets have spent $6. 7 million on sup men. In the South Yemeni-owned island of a.gents. The Soviet border guards along this plying the new internal security police Socotra., the Russians are believed to have frontier, as along all the borders of the force for the Amin's government. An positioned the ballistic missiles removed U.S.S.R., are responsible to the KGB. other $500 million is being used by the from Somalia. after President Barre turned But the biggest manpower reserve for KGB Soviets to stimulate the Afghanistan toward the West. "illegals" in Iran has been provided by the economy. In other words, this strategi Imagine how the geopolitical scene would Soviet success in establishing total control cally important country is taking on all be altered if Iran were to swing toward the over Afghanistan, Iran's eastern neighbor, the looks of a fledgling Soviet satellite Soviet bloc. Squeezed as they are between following the Soviet-supported coup against Iran and South Yemen, the feudally gov the regime of Mohammed Daoud on April 27 complete with over 2,000 Soviet person erned, thinly populated states of the Arab of this year. There a.re now about 500,000 nel advising, and, in some cases, actually ian peninsula. would fall like a. row of nine Afghans living illegally in Iran, most of them holding office in Afghanistan's economic pins. employed as menial laborers, content to work ministries. The Soviets don't deserve all the credit for half the wages of Iranians employed on for turmoil in Iran, or even to share it with similar jobs. Their dialects and appearance Not content with only a northern pres the local Communist (Tudeh) party. The ence near the Persian Gulf, the Soviets are 1n most cases indistinguishable from shah's own experiment in liberalization has those of Iranians from the eastern provinces have been quietly airlifting two complete helped to release many pent-up forces. The of the country. Afghans were arrested in brigades, about 10,000 men, along with wave of riots and demonstrations since some of the major demonstrations in Tehran armored vehicles and artillery, to South "Black Friday" and the declaration of mar and Tabriz la.st September and October. This Yemen. These forces bolster an already tial law in Tehran last September have em could be interpreted as circumstantial evi commanding presence in both South braced forces as diverse as conservative shop dence of the involvement of the KGB-con Yemen and Ethiopia. keepers, recreationary mullahs who want to trolle.d Afghan secret service, the Estha.ba.ra.t. compel women to wear the veil and marry The KGB also works through members of If one were to look at a map of the before puberty and trendy university stu the Armenian minor! ty in Iran, applying Middle East one would see the Soviet dents revolting against middle-class pa.rents. blackmail pressures in the case of those who presence in Afghanistan, in Ethiopia, The shah confronted the classic dilemma. have relations inside the Soviet Union. November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33761 One of the questions often raised about phase before the imposition of a pro-Soviet Muslim regime that would give way after this year's upheaval in Iran is the possible regime on el ther the Qaddafi or the South civil war to Marxist elements. This is not connection between the tradi tionaJist Islamic Yemeni model. a prospect that liberals in the West should revolt and the Marxist elements active in the Raidical change in Iran probably would be welcome. Whatever the failings of the shah •s country. An interesting clue is provided by followed before long by similar upheavals regime. which has undoubtedly been oppres an underground Tudeh party publication along the Arab side of the Gulf. In the ab sive and corrupt, the · alternatives that Iran called Navid, which has been appearing sence of the shah's regime, what power could offers at present e.re horrendous to contem weekly in the streets of Tehran. Unlike the be relied on to intervene in the event of plate.e bulletins of other left-wing groups-which attempts at Marxist revolution in the smaller are crudely printed and usually only semi emirates or in Kuwait? How long would it legi ble-this Communist organ is beautifully be before the Saudis themselves would be typed and printed by offset. Western analysts threatened by a Marxist-inspired subversive FAMILY FARM TASK FORCE are convinced that it is printed on an offset campaign that could conceivably be sup ORGANIZED press inside the Soviet Embassy in Tehran. ported-if the RussiJ.ans were willing to ac The theory that Navid is the covert voice of cept the risk of confronting the United t.he KGB rezidentura is made more plausible States in a direct way-by the intervention l>y the fact that it faithfully echoes every of Soviet proxy forces that are now based in HON·. RICHARD NOLAN twist and turn of Moscow's policy line. South Yemen? These questions have urgency OF MINNESOTA The phrase "Islamic MarxiJ.sm" was not, because of the rapid build-up of Soviet-bloc IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as is commonly 'believ~. an invention of forces in South Yemen, where the control of the shah or some conservative publicist the unconditionally pro-Moscow faction Tuesday, November 27, 1979 a.broad. It was first used· by a leftist ter headed by Ab Fatah Ismail has been con • Mr. NOLAN. Mr. Speaker, today I am rorist organization, the .People's Mujahe solidated, despite continuing armed resist deen, which has links with Colonel Qad pleased to announce the formation of ance inside this country since the overthrow the Family Farm Task Force, num dafi's regime in Libya. The Russians make and murder of President Robaya Ali last use of Libya and South Yemen as middle June. According to sources both Oman and bering over 75 of my colleagues in the men between themselves and extremist House and Senate. The Family Farm religious or terrorist groups inside Iran. Both North Yemen, there a.re now 6,000 to 7,000 Cuban troops in South Yemen a result cf Task Force was created because of the the People's Mujahedeen and the more ef alarming trends in American agricul fective People's Fedayeen (founded in 1967 recent transfers from Ethiopia. Will the and responsible for the murder of the police Cubans train and supervise the people's ture. Farm numbers have decreased from chief in Ma.shad in October) have been the militia in South Yemen, the 2,000 East Ger 5.9 million in 1945 to 2.7 million in 1978. beneficiaries of Libyan finance, weapons mans stationed there, including officers of During the same period, the number aind trading faC!ilities. They maintain close the East German state security police, train of farm laborers has decreased from 11 links with the extremist Palestinian organ and command the local pollce and intelli gence services. Several hundred Soviet Red million to 4 million. Average farm size izations. Other countries where Iranian ter has risen from 197 acres in 1940 to 440 rorists, receive training include Algeria, Army officers supervise and train the armed South Yemen, Lebanon (in the Palestinian forces. Behaving in classical fashion of an acres in 1974. Farm households now re camps before the civil war), Afghanistan imperial power in stationing soldiers from ceive '60 percent of their income from and CUlba. Until the purge of Communists one province in another far away, where they off-farm sources because farm income in Baghdad last summer, Iraq was the a.re less likely to be inhibited by local loyal alone is inadequate. Concurrent with this primacy base for subversion and terrorism ties, the Russians have even arranged the trend toward fewer and larger farms ts direoted at Iran. The new line adopted by transfer of an Ethiopian battalion to the concentration of farm sales in the Iraq's President Bakr this year, however, strengthen the defenses of Beihan province large-farm sector: The top 2 percent of has led to cooperation between the Iraqi in S.outh Yemen, where the coup last June secret service and the shah's secret police, resulted in the defection of the local army the farms received almost 37 percent of SAVAK. The [raqis banished Ayatollah commander and other key military personnel total farm sales receipts in 1974, and the Khomeini, the Shiite Muslim leader, for by the border into North Yemen. Ironically, top 20 percent of U.S. farms accounted refusing to give up his campaign a,gainst the with Ethiopian troops with Arabia-speaking for almost 80 percent of farm sales in the shah's regime and handed over captured Ira officers have taken up their new posts along same year. nian terrorists--including one of the men South Yemen's border, South Yemeni forces These trends need to be reversed. responsible for the arson in the Abadan a.re so committed to supporting the Ethi cinema last August-to SAVAK. opian regime against the Eritrean rebels- American democracy must not become Afghanistan, under Soviet tutelage, has in contra.diction to the polices of most of beholden to a few producers of food. now become the primary center for anti the rest of the Arab world. A democracy in which there is a hand Iranian activities. The Afghan foreign It seems to me that the survival of a strong ful of dominant producers Philadelphia," he said. burden currently being placed upon these moneys as his own private kitty to be Green met for about 30 minutes with re vessel owners and employers of "self dispensed at his whim, the Secretary has porters in the City Hall press room yester day. He was accompanied by several aides employed" crewmen. This matter has exhibited an enormous contempt for the who were members of his campaign staff and demanded serious consideration by this taxpayers and an exaggerated opinion who are now working on his transition team. Congress and my bill will need its sup of his power. "I want to be open about the transition· port. The situation of the employers of I submit that this is an issue that far process and meet with you frequently," he these crews should be one serious enough transcends Mr. Goldschmidt's heavY said. to warrant specific attention to my bill handed venture into Presidential poli Though he had no appointments to an introduced on this day.• tics. It is a cause for grave concern to nounce, Green said one of his top priorities Democratic and Republican Congress is to find a suitable finance director. It has been forecast he wm face a $72- men alike. Getting the most out of every mill1on gap between revenues and expenses GOLDSCHMIDT THREATS REQUIRE taxpayers' dollar should be our first con when it comes time to prepare a budget for NONPARTISAN INVESTIGATION cern in any circumstances. It seems to the fl.seal year that begins July 1. OF THEIR LEGALITY me it is even more important in award Green said he wm attempt to eliminate ing moneys for mass transit. waste and study the possib11ity of furlough Therefore, I insert in the CONGRES ing city workers before considering a tax in HON'. LAWRENCE COUGHLIN SIONAL RECORD two articles and an edi crease. But he did not rule out the possi toriial b11ity taxes wm be increased. OF PENNSYLVANIA from the Bulletin, Philadelphia, He said his transition staff will be .con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and an editorial from the Philadelphia tacting "a host of people" who wm be con Inquirer. Tuesday, November 27, 1979 sidered for jobs or asked for advice. The articles follow: Green met briefly with Managing Director e Mr. COUGIIl.,IN. Mrr. Speaker, I c:a.11 (From the Phlla.delphla. Bulletin, Nov. 22, Hillel S. Levinson yesterday and said he also to the attention of my colleagues news 1979) hoped to meet with Mayor Rizzo. paper .articles in which the U.S. Trans U.S. MOVE ON GREEN Is DENIED (From the Philadelphia. Bulletin, Nov. 21, portation Secretary, Neil E. Gold (By Ashley Halsey 3d) schmidt, is quoted as conditioning Phila 1979J Vice President Walter F. Mondale has HEAT PuT ON MAYOR-ELECT delphia's chances of obtaining needed denied that the flow of federal transit funds mruss transit funds on the support of the to Philadelphia w111 be jeopardized if Ma.yor CABINET AIDE PRESSES GREEN TO BACK CARTER city's mayor-elect for President Carter elect William J. Green endorses Sen. Edward (By Lawrence M. O'Rourke) over Senator KFNNEDY for the Demo M. Kennedy In next year's presidential race. WASHINGTON .-Mayor-elect Will1am J. craJtic Presidential nomination. U.S. Transportation Secretary Neil E. Gold Green was alerted yesterday that the Garter The threat of awarding or withhold schmidt reportedly has warned that the Administration is watching carefully to see Carter Administration ls watching Green to if he supports the President for renomina ing taxpayers' moneys for necessary see which candidate he supports. tion or endorses Sen. Edward M. Kennedy transportation projects based on politi Green said both Mondale and Goldschmidt (D-Mass.). cal considerations within the Demo called him yesterday to deny the report. Philadelphia. is in line for considerable cratic Party is a reprehensible and "I told them that, frankly, I did not feel help from Washington for the moderniza questionable tactic. Moreover, I believe this was the way to conduct business and tion of its "light rail" system, U.S. Transpor there are serious questions, not just of they agreed," Green said in a. meeting with tation ~reta.ry Neil E. Goldschmidt said. the propnety of a oabinet Secretary reporters late yesterday. The city's $120-mill1on application for new "It is my understanding that this does not trolleys could get preferred treatment over stooping to such political blackmail, but represent the President's policy vis-a-vis bids by other cities to start heavy-rail sys of the legality of the threruts themselves. Philadelphia," he said. tems, he said. The mayor-elect of Philadelphia is Green said he has been invited to meet Goldschmidt, meeting with a group of re William J. Green, a former Congress with Carter and Monda.le in Washington porters, made clear that the Green Admin man, who con:finns the substance of the next Thursday. istration must meet two tests. ·Goldschmidt threats in a followup Goldschmidt ma.de the remarks in Wash It "must show it has the ab111ty to program article. That the threats were issued ington with a group of reporters on Monday. the money," Goldschmidt said. appears not to be in doubt. Vice Presi Before mentioning Philadelphia., he said And special consideration depends upon Chicago could not expect friendly treatment whether Green supports Carter or Kennedy, dent Mondale rode to Goldschmidt's from the Transportation Department be Goldschmidt ma.de clear. Green was not im rescue and the Transportation secretary cause Mayor Jane Byrne had endorsed Ken mediately available for comment. denies the threats. nedy. In town on Oct. 22 to boost Green's may This type of conduct comes from an Asked how politics might influence funds oral chances, Kennedy told 1,400 persons at administration that ha.s continually for other cities, Goldschmidt noted Phila a reception and dinner, "I'm here because I chided the Congress.-Democrats .and delphia had submitted an application for love my friend Billy Green." Republicans alike-for their provincial money to improve its "light rail" system. Green in turn called the Massachusetts He said the request for $120 million to buy senator "the man who has picked up the ism, for not putting the interests of the new trolleys could get preferred treatment (presidential) banner and rekindles it with Nation first over the interests of their over applications from cities seeking funds hope," but Green has refused to say whom own constituents. for heavy rail systems. he will support for president in 1980. I find this monumental hypocrisy But Goldschmidt ma.de it clear that the Philadelphia. has asked the Urban Mass even more appalling coming from an Green Administration, which begins with Transit Administration for mill1ons of dol achrJnistration that ha.s ntnted and Green's ina.ugration on Jan. 7, must pass lars to improve the SEPTA system, includ prattled about the necessity of conserv two tests. ing about $120 million for new trolleys. ing oil and emphasizing mass transit. It must show "it has the ab11ity to pro Eighty-percent of the $700 mill1on needed gram the money." for all the improvements will come from the Never mind that the administration's And, he made it clear, special considera Federal Government. Office of Management and Budget bras tion depends upon whether Green supports In Washington yesterday, Goldschmidt objected to needed moneys for mass Carter or Kennedy. cited the example of Mayor Jane Byrne of transit. Never mind that the adminis Green yesterday said he is not ready to Chicago as a big-city executive who cannot tration has refused to set an example disclose his choice for president. He laughed expect very many good things from Wash for the Nation by its own conduct in re when a reporter suggested the day he would ington during his tenure at the Transporta ducing unnecessaey travel and depend have to make that endorsement is nearing. tion Department. ing on Irul&S transit facilities. Now, the "All I can tell you is, today is riot the day Goldschmidt said he is a. member of "the administration, through the new Trans and, when the day comes, I will be open, political arm" of Carter's cabinet and he candid and frank," Green said. "Right now elaborated on how that will affect his offi portation Secretary, wants to award I'm not focusing on it. That's tor another cial decisions. mass transit funding on the basis of day." He said he lea.med from the late Chica.go Democratic Party political considera Asked if he expected the President to press Mayor Richard J. Daley that "your word is tions. for his support at their meeting next week, your bond." These funds, I hasten to remind Mr. Green said no agenda had been discussed. "A lot of people in Chicago are willing to Goldschmidt, are paid by the people of "My goal is to establish a working rela- say that style is gone now," Goldschmidt CXXV--2123-Pa.rt 26 33766 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 said. Ms. Byrne declared for Kennedy after from Chicago because Mayor Jane Byrne, area-in case Mr. Goldschmidt has been so she made public statements indicating sup af~r implying she would back President busy with politics that he hasn't heard port for Carter. The Carter campaign people Carter, days later switched her support to a.bout it-is in bad shape. have been attacking her ever since. Sen. Kennedy. The unmistakable implication Some of SEPTA's buses are so weak that "Daley would say, 'If you do ·this, I'll do is that other mayors had better boa.rd the passengers have to get off and walk up steep that,' " Goldschmidt said. Carter renomination bandwagon if they hills. Express service has been knocked off "But I wouldn't operate on that lady's want their cities to enjoy full benefit of the the Broad Street. Subway because so few word," Goldschmidt said of Ms. Byrne. "I federal largesse. cars are in running condition. Fires break don't know anybody in Federal Government This side of the political game is not new. out in ancient equipment, shutting down who would. The people in Chicago wm have Federal "discretionary" funds---those not service, sometimes for days. to get used to that." a.warded automatically on the basis of pop And now comes Mr. Goldschmidt, from the Goldschmidt said that Ms. Byrne has "used ulation and need formulas-have always self-styled "political arm" of the cabinet, to up a. lot of capital for the community" by her been subject to political uses. It is known tell us that if Mayor-elect Bill Green doesn't political decision. Asked if he was referring that local officials on good terms with an throw his support to Mr. Carter we'll end up directly to Ms. Byrne's support for Kennedy administration get more friendly treatment whistling for money to fix our region's de over Carter, Goldschmidt said, "Yes." than those who are at odds. But seldom caying transit system. Goldschmidt, former mayor of Portland, has a high government official threatened so We have two suggestions: first, Congress Ore., who took office in September, was asked openly that he might punish a. president's should immediately tighten controls on for an example of how he might deal with political opponents by withholding federal transportation funds so that the likes of Mr. the Chicago mayor over a. government deci money. Goldschmidt will have an absolute minimum sion. The practice itself--doling out funds on of discretion on how they a.re spent. This is "If a. lot of pink slips were stacked up on the basis of raw politics-is objectionable. taxpayers' money, not Mr. Goldschmidt's. my desk for phone calls," he said, "her's Individual citizens of communities end up Second, Mr. Goldschmidt observed that, "I would not be the first I'd answer." being cheated because their leaders' politics have been given an opportunity to get a Goldschmidt said that his statements don't suit Washington. In a. curious display great education." He and Mr. Carter should a.bout Chicago and other cities that might of convoluted thinking, Mr. Goldschmidt said be educated to the notion that voters, too, look for friendly treatment from Washing he did not intend to hurt the people of Chi can play ha.rdba.ll.e ton were "not an effort to manipulate the cago, only Mayor Byrne's administration. (A resources of government to further Presi spokesman for Mr. Goldschmidt said later dent Carter's campaign." that there are other officials in a. city through "But my personal view is that as secretary, whom transit funds can be channeled.) HOW THE RICH FAMILY BROUGHT I must make judgments on the quality of the However, if money actually is withheld from JOBS AND RICHES TO OUR COM people I deal with," he said. a community, the people inevitably a.re hurt. MUNITY AND COUNTRY Goldschmidt said that he had discussed This practice becomes even more objection his viewpoint with White House staff mem able when an official like Secretary Gold bers and other cabinet officers and found schmidt presents it publicly in a manner HON. JACK F. KEMP them receptive. He insisted that he had not that would suggest it is merely business as OF NEW YORK usual, a.nd ought to be. Saying he was from been instructed by the White House to re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ward poll tica.l friends a.nd punish enemies. the '"political arm" of the cabinet, Mr. Gold He said he doesn't intend to "see the peo schmidt justified his heavy-handed pro Tuesday, November 27, 1979 ple of Chicago hurt" by his decisions. Asked nouncement on grounds that he "wouldn't if he could a.bide by that desire, yet st111 give operate on that lady's word." What that in • Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, the familiar Ms. Byrne less than expedient treatment, dicates about the Carter Administration and words of Victor Hugo that "greater than Goldschmidt said, "We'll see." its priorities will dismay and anger many the tread of mighty armies is an idea His mention of Philadelphia. as a. benefi citizens-and could work to the President's whose time has come" has many mani ciary of federal funds ca.me as he ticked off political disadvantage. festations in the realms of political ideas, several cities that could get substantial Secretary Goldschmidt's (or President Car ter's) personal pique with Mayor Byrne is science, the arts and other fields. grants from the Carter Administration for And the power of ideas has been the their mass transit systems. He also named understandable, even acceptable in the world New York, Buffalo, Atlanta. a.nd San Fran of real politics. His intention, if that's what genesis in making America's free enter- cisco. it is, to translate his anger into a. policy . prise system the greatest productive en He said that only last week he pledged punishing Chicago and other cities, includ gine for social and economic change in federal support to Los Angeles, where Mayor ing Philadelphia, that need federal mass the world. Epitomizing this phenomenon Tom Bradley has announced support for transit funds urgently, is not. which has marked jobs-intensified indus Carter. tries, spurred by the likes of a Henry Goldschmidt said, "Chicago politicians [From the Philadelphia Bulletin, Nov. 23, 1979) Ford, a Thomas Edison and the Wright play by a unique set of rules and I'm capable Brothers, is the amazing growth of the of playing by them." IT'S NOT GOLDSCHMIDT'S MONEY! He said Chicagoans must recognize that What was behind President Carter's cab frozen food business. Ms. Byrne is neither "a creature of national inet shuffie last summer is beginning to come The largest, privately owned frozen stature or great credib111ty." into focus: some of the new secretaries have food corporation in the world is head Goldschmidt said his statements about been brought into the game to pitch political quartered in Buffalo. Its name is Rich politics and grants covered funds for high hardball. Products, guided by the genius and way construction, mass transit, aviation and A case in point is Secretary of Transporta founder and now chairman of the board, railroads. He said that most of the money tion Neil Goldschmidt. His pitch to mayors Robert E. Rich, Sr., and his son, Robert must be distributed by formulas set by in no uncertain terms the other day was: if Congress and that key members of Congress you're not for Jimmy Carter's reelection, E. Rich, Jr., president, both of whom I have a lot to say about where grants go. He you're going to have trouble getting highway am proud to call friends. said his control was greatest over "discre and public transit money out of his depart When the corporation was launched in tionary funds." ment. 1944, it had a total work force of four Goldschmidt said that Kennedy "has a. This kind of maneuver seems to recur in people. The firm's first year's sales to long road a.head of him before he ca.n take the Carter Administration. Last month we taled $28,000. At this time, as Rich Prod the nomination from the President. I'm as commented on reports of federal largess ucts observes its 35th anniversary, it has tounded by how poorly prepared he is on being spread around to "friendly" mayors a work force of over 3,500 employees in the issues considering his long time in the and governors. We asked whose money they Senate." thought this was. We repeat the question. 15 plants. In 1979, the corporation and its We know there has always been some of various subsidiaries in the United States [From the Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 22, this greasing of the political machine in an and overseas will sell a record $250 mil 1979] election campaign. But it appears to us that lion in products. GOLDSCHMIDT OFF BASE the Carter people are especially open and Chronicling this extraordinary ex brazen a.bout it. And as a practice it's de perience of an idea put into motion with Crude, brazen politics. That's what the plorable anyway. new Secretary of Transportation, Neil Gold hard work, talent and daring is a story schmidt, is practicing when he suggests that Mr. Goldschmidt's bald remark that the entitled "The Riches of Rich Products" he will withhold funds from a. city because incoming administration of William J. Green in Philadelphia must meet the test of sup which appeared in the Buffalo Courier its mayor is supporting Sen. Edward Ken Express' Sunday magazine. nedy for the Democratic nomination rather porting Mr. Carter to get preferential treat than President Carter. Mr. Goldschmidt, the ment for federal transit money hits us on a Mr. Speaker, I would like to share this former mayor of Portland, Ore., indicated raw nerve. inspiring story of "Enterprise" with my he would look for ways to withhold money Mass transportation in the Philadelphia. colleagues: November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33767
THE RICHES OF RICH PRODUCTS The company's executive offices in Buffalo get into the ice cream business with his elder (By Mike Billoni) attest to that. They a.re next to the plant, son, Paul Jr. in the former John H. Wells home, which "Since my brother was in the ice cream Robert Edward Rich, Sr. takes a long, slow was the western terminus of the famed old draw on his cigar and lets the smoke ease business I wanted to start a business of my Wells Fargo freight line. When the old llome own, so I looked into purchasing the Wilbur out of his mouth in no particular direction. was acquired by Rich PrOducts, it housed Farms Dairy," Bob Sr. explains. "We have what I believe is the greatest seven families. It is now restored, with a innovation in the frozen foods industry," With $5,000 from his father to get started, plaque in the entrance foyer recalling its Bob Sr. assumed a $6,500 mortgage and paid announces the founder, chief executive offi historical significance. cer and chairman of the board of Buffalo's the remaining $20,000 off on notes for the On the third floor is what is called "The dairy. His original business in 1935 included Rich Products Corp. and all its divisions Greenhouse." There, at 12:15 each working worldwide. "It is freezing without freezing, four routes (three run by horses), a city day, Trudy the hostess rings the lunch bell, distribution center and a country bottling and I think it ls absolutely terrific." and like clockwork, the heads of the various plant. "Freeze Flo"-Rlch Products' newest and departments walk upstairs for a leisurely, Rich ran the dairy himself until World most stunning effort to date-is no small home-cooked meal. !eat. Its development comes at a pivotal War II, when he was called to Washington When business ls discussed-between gol! to serve as a consultant to the dairy section time in the company's history. scores and other table talk-it resembles Rich Products is celebrating its 35th an of the War Food Administration. what Da.vld Fernow, director of public rela From there he was sent to Detroit to be niversary this week, and in a fitting gesture, tions, calls the company's trademark-"a roll the dynamic founder of the nation's largest come Michigan's milk-order administrator. up your sleeves and let's get it done" atti It was a fateful move. privately owned frozen-food-packaging firm tude. ls bringing more than 200 of its executives, During his stay in the Motor City, Rich To say that Bob Rich Sr. and his son are chanced upon some research into dairy sub production managers and sales personnel "bullish on Buffalo" would not be using from Europe, Australia and all over the U.S. stitutes being done at the George Washing strong enough words. They have had numer ton Carver Laboratories, and he began and Canada to its Niagara St. headquarters ous opportunities to sell or move their main !or a week-long series of meetings beginning thinking about a whipping-cream replace headquarters elsewhere, but their response ment made from soybean oil. today. ls always, "Absolutely not." "All o! our people will shuffie off to Returning to Buffalo and his dairy busi "Buffalo ls my home," Rich Sr. emphasizes. ness, he pursued his idea for a substitute Buffalo" for what will probably be the most "How could you walk down Main Street in, important series of meetings in the history whipping cream, working with Buffalo's say, Dallas and know anyone if you had Spencer Kellogg & Sons' research and de o! the entire company, says Rich. moved there with National Gypsum? Or 1! And what a company Rich Products is. velopment team for a suitable soybean you were in Ft. Lauderdale, where Houdaille product. It ls noted throughout the entire food went? We'd be nothing in any of those cities. industry as the originator o! frozen non Everyone agrees Buffalo ls on a comeback. "After many weeks o! trial and error we dairy coffee creamer--Coffee Rich. It also has There is a. whole different feeling in the com came up with a concoction called Rich's a work force o! more than 3,500 in 15 pro munity now." Whip Topping and began selling this prod duction plants, with 400 employed in its It was for those reasons that Rich Prod uct, from our Wilbur Farms Dairy milk non-dairy-product plant at 1145 Niagara St. ucts broke ground a. year ago for a $3-million, routes," Rich recalls. "We soon found out at W. Ferry, on Buffalo's West Side. four-story office building and research and this method of distribution was very limited, This year, Rich Products and its various development laboratory adjacent to the com so we made a stab at the New York City subsidiaries will sell a record $250 million in pany's present office building and across the market. I got an appointment to demon goods. The figure ranks Rich's frozen-food street from its plant and executive offices. strate whip topping to the salesmen of New sales as the fifth largest in the nation, fifth And it was Bob Rich Jr. who seven years York's largest butter and cheese distributor, out o! 1,530 frozen-food packers, surpassed a.go paid $1 million for the right to name the the Fred Pape Co.'' only by Campbell Soup Co., which owns new football stadium in Orchard Park, al He took a train to New York the day be Swanson and Pepperldge Farms; Banquet though legal hassles with the Buffalo Bills fore the meeting. Frozen Foods, owned by RCA; Morton Fro have prevented the "Rich Stadium" name "I packed my bowl and whipper and in zen Foods, owned by IT&T; and the Ore-Ida from achieving total acceptance. sulated my samples with dry ice, surrounded Co., owned by H.J. Heinz. Over the years, Bob Rich Sr. has mastered by newspaper. If done properly, the samples Rich Products was founded in 1944 with a the art of mixing business with pleasure, and would not freeze. But when the meeting total work force o! !our-Rich, Herbert R. has become a pretty good story teller. started, I found they were frozen solid. Kusche, Joseph C. Robida and Jerrold W. "I was educated on Main Street," he says "There I was with a frozen sample facing Hannon. They became a corporation the with a. sly grin and a puff on his cigar. "I was a. hard-nosed sales manager and 50 impa following November when Rich's Whip Top graduated from School 17 at Main and Dela tient salesmen. I had never tried to freeze ping, the first of five major breakthroughs van; Bennett High at Main and Mercer, and whip topping because I knew dairy cream !or the company, was invented. U.B. at Main and Bailey." would never whip if it had been frozen. I Remembering those early days vividly, Sports has always been a big part of the stalled a little, but in the end, I had no Rich smiles and lowers his voice: "During Riches' lives. During his days at U.B., in the other choice but to try and whip the de that first year, the company recorded sales early 1930s, Bob Sr. played center on the frosting product-and it whipped to perfec o! $28,000. And the !our o! us used to do all football team and founded the Bulls' wres tion. Three months later, we were freezing o! the work. But we loved it." t~lng program-something he ls very fond of all of our product." "It was a dream when we started," adds mentioning. Later, he became one o! the That was in 1945, and through the years Kusche, who has remained an integral pa.rt city's top squash and racquets players. To that followed, Rich's dairy business grew tre o! the corporation and ls now executive vice day, his game ls gol!. mendously. It acquired several other small president. "We all had a lot of big ideas and "My dad brought us up in a world of Buffalo dairies and ultimately became Jones we were always talking about reaching a mil athletics," says Bob Jr. "From the time we Rich Dairy, one of the largest wholly-owned lion dollars in sales. woke up in the morning, we would start dairies in the nation. "I lea.med a lot from Bob. I never sa.w a pushup contests to see who could do the When the company's major breakthrough guy who !aught so hard and wanted to suc most. On of the legacies he passed along was --Coffee Rich-arrived in the 1960's, Rich ceed so much. He got guys like Joe (Robida) a very competitive attitude, and that is very Sr. sold the dairy business to the Dairylea and I to join the team and we all became important in business." cooperative. fighters. We fought pretty damn hard !or Bob Jr. quarterbacked the football team "With Coffee Rich coming along and Rich's what we got," adds the 58-yea.r-old Syracuse and was a goalie on the hockey team at the Whip Topping going so good, we were really University alumnus. Nicholas School. He went on to play hockey competing against ourselves in the milk busi "I've sa.ld it before that I would give my at W1111ams College, serve as back-up goalie ness," he explains. "So, in 1969, we decided right a.rm !or Bob Rich," declares Robida., the !or the Buffalo Bisons o! the American to get out of the milk business and just con vice president of non-dairy operations, who Hockey League, and just missed making the centrate on non-dairy, where we believe the 1964 U.S. Olympl.c hockey team. remembers the 16-hour days in those early future ls. years when everyone would help fill and Today, he is a director of the Buffalo package the Whip Topping. Sabres, an active squash and tennis player "The future wasn't with a cbw, but with Although he stepped down as president of and player-coach o! Western New York's an all-vegetable product.'' the company last year, Bob Rich Sr., 66, still Region VI medal-winning team handball Today, one-half million units of Coffee has an active role in its growth, which has team in this year's Empire State Games. Rich are produced daily in one-half ounce been slow a.nd well-planned over the yea.rs. "I always think of a. line Seymour Knox cuplets and pint and quart containers in the He will join his son, Robert Edward Rich Jr., Sr. once said: 'A day without working up a company's Buffalo plant. the energetic, 38-year-old president of the sweat is a day wasted'," relates the younger The company's first development outside firm, to head this week's conclave. Rich. of non-dairy products came in baked goods. Rich Sr. has made it a point to keep the Robert Rich Sr.'s story is hardly a rags-to Realizing that frozen dough and baked goods company run as tightly and efficiently as a riches tale. His father, the late Paul J. Rich were rising stars on the horizon, Rich pur !a.mily. His son appears to be following in his Sr., ran the largest milk business in Butialo chased Palmer Frozen Foods of Easton, Pa.. footsteps. between 1901 and 1913 before selling out to in 1971. Its president, John E. Schaible m, 33768 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 ls now Rich's vice president of bakery opera Senator Potter's service to the country gained him a reputation as an industry tions. spanned more than a decade and a half expert. For 11 years, he has served on Schaible introduced a new marketing con as a war hero, a Government otncial, a the board of directors of Cotter & Co., cept to supermarkets, mass-feeding institu Member of the House of Representa tions and retail bakeries in which Rich sup America's largest hardware distribut plies the frozen dough, and its clients bake tives, and a Member of the Senate. ing business. A former president of the the products and package and sell them on During his service in the Congress, it Pacific Hardware Association, Ed served their own. This "bake-off" idea has led to was my privilege to meet and become for 9 years as a "member of the board of Rich Products' becoming the nation's lead good friends with this great man as we governors" of the National Retail Hard ing supplier of frozen in-store dough prod represented the people of Michigan to ware Association, representing hardware ucts. More than 4,000 U.S. supermarkets now gether. dealers in California, Arizona, and Ne "bake off" Rich's dough. By the time Senator Potter came to the Two additional bakery-products plants vada. His responsibilities to that organi were purchased in 1974 in Winchester, Va., Congress, he was already recognized as zation will grow heavier when he as and Fresno, Calif. The three centers now pro a World War II hero. He enlisted as a sumes the presidency of the NRHA, in duce a variety of pre-formed cookies, breads, private, later receiving a commission, July 1980. rolls, doughnuts and specialty pastry doughs, and fought with the 28th Infantry Di One might believe that running a in addition to "thaw 'n' serve" items. vision in Europe. During his service in chain of six hardware stores and serving In 1971, Rich had also purchased the L. K. the army, Senator Potter was wounded 3 in three trade association groups would Baker Co. of Columbus, 0., which produces times and lost both legs from stepping non-dairy powdered coffee creamers and des be enough to occupy any active person's sert toppings, soup bases and gravy mixes. on a German land mine. He received the time. But not Ed. Despite all these re Then; in 1976, Rich entered the frozen sea Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the French sponsibilities, he has found time to par food business with the acquisition of the Croix de Guerre, and three Purple ticipate actively in his community's civic Sea.Pak Corp., headquartered in St. Simons Hearts. and educational affairs. His achieve Island, Ga. After the war, Senator Potter briefly ments include serving as president of the "One of our ma.in strategies in the frozen worked within the Federal Government, El Segundo Kiwanis Club, president of food business has been to attack the dinner the Hermosa Beach Chamber of Com plate," explains Bob Jr. "We have the non and then was elected to the House of dairy business, portions of the dessert busi Representatives to fill an unexpired term merce, and of the Palos Verdes Penin ness, are now into the entrees with our sea. as a Representative from Michigan. In sula Chamber of Commerce. He was a food, and we've gotten into vegetables spe 1952, he was elected to fill the unexpired chairman of the South Bay Intercity cialties. Where else can we attack to control term of the late Senator Arthur H. Van Highway Committee, and the first presi more of the plate?" denberg of Michigan. He continued in dent of the Peninsula Center Associa Bob Jr. joined the company upon his grad the Senate until 1958. tion. He was voted last year the Palos uation from Williams College in 1963. Verdes Peninsula Chamber of Commerce "My father said he would give me a $1- During his service in the Senate, he mlllion budget to build a business in Ft. Erie, demonstrated the courage that distin and Rotary Club "Citizen of the Year." Ont. He told me I could run it, make all the guished him on the battlefield by often Ed has also done his part to insure decisions and he wouldn't bother me," he arguing with the late Senator Joseph that his community's schools served the recalls. McCarthy over the latter's tactics and taxpayers by providing our children the "So, we built a Canadian plant in Ft. Erie over McCarthy's staff aides during the best possible education. In his 10 years on and I started building a sales force. I ran Army-McCarthy hearings. the Palos Verdes School Board, he served into many problems, but realized I had the Mr. Speaker, Senator Potter leaves be as its president three times, and was a leading authority in the field right here. I recipient of the PTA Council Honorary was able to call on my father for help and as hind a distinguished record of public a result, we drew very close and have become service, and I am proud to have known Service Award in May 1971. very close friends." him. I wish to extend my deepest sym In addition to these notable accom With a little help from his dad, Bob Jr. pathies to his wife, Betty, and their plishments, and even more important, made the Canadian business into a success. daughter, Mrs. Wendy Cundy, in this Ed and his beloved Helen have raised "Along about 1967, I felt that if I was go time of sorrow.• two outstanding children, Ed, Jr. and ing· to move back into this operation and Nancy. They have both joined in the play in what I considered the 'big ball game', hardware business-a formidable family I had to increase a lot of my skllls. So I went team effort. to business school and earned a master's from the University of Rochester while I was IN HONOR OF ED REA However, Ed has decided to slow down continuing to work. his ferocious pace just a bit with his "From that point, I set up a marketing de school board retirement. I proudly join partment and started putting together the HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN with the Palos Verdes PTA, in honoring best of our people and raiding the major OF CALIFORNIA Ed. Yes; an invaluable asset to his com comoa.nies for good, young people." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES munity and State-and bee.a.use of con "When I became president last year, I said tributions to America's youth, Ed Rea is we would do one b1111on dollars in sales in Tuesday, November 27, 1979 1986. The company is looking at a compound certainly an asset to our Nation. growth rate of 17 percent, and I feel we have e Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I would Thank you, Mr. Speaker.• the destiny to become one of the major fac like to bring to the attention of my col tors in the food industry in the United States leagues a retirement dinner that was and in the world. put on last night by the Palos Verdes. "There a.re no pressing reasons now to go Calif., PTA. in honor of one of my con STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN AN public or sell out. We are profitable, well fi stituents, Mr. Ed Rea of Palos Verdes DREW MAGUffiE ON PROPOSED nanced, but most of all we all enjoy it," Rich Estates. ADMINISTRATIVE PRICE IN Jr. says. CREASES "I've been talking a b1llion-dolla.r goal for Ed epitomizes a wonderful American the la.st fl ve yea.rs and every one used to success story. Born in Spokane. Wash., la.ugh a.bout it. But nobody ls laughing any he was fortunate enough to move to Cali HON. ANDREW MAGUIRE more."e fornia at the tender age of 3. After OF NEW JERSEY graduation from Glendale High School, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ed attended Stanford University, where HON. CHARLES E. POTl'ER he earned a degree in economics "With Tuesday, November 27, 1979 Great Distinction." His superior aca e Mr. MAGUIRE. Mr. Speaker, On No HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD demic performance earned him a mem vember 14, I was pleased to join with 30 bership in the academic fraternity, Phi of our colleagues, the Consumers for OF MICHIGAN Beta Kappa. World Trade, the United Cane Sugar IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ed's first job, with Firestone Tire and Refiners' Association, Common Cause, Tuesday, November 27, 1979 Rubber, lasted a year and a half. Long and EF Hutton sugar analyst Thomas e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, this ing to be his own boss, Ed moved to El Oxnard, Jr., in protesting the Presi past Friday, the people of Michigan and Segundo, Calif., and opened his first dent's determination to administratively the Nation lost one of our distinguished hardware store in 1941. The business increase the level of price supports for citizens and heroes with the death of thrived, and he expanded to six stores. sugar to 15.8 cents. This was a pricing former Senator Charles E. Potter. Ed's hard work in the hardware business scheme that was clearly rejected on Oc- November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33769 tober 23 when the House voted down the parties joined in the massive 249-158 vote to The testimony follows: International Sugar Stabilization Act of reject that bill, which provided for a. 15.8 cent minimum price and built-in future TESTIMONY OF THE HONORABLE FLOYD J. 1979. FITHIAN price increases which would ~~ American I would like to insert into the RECORD consumers blllions of do1lars in ili-gper sugar Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you the letters we sent to President Carter, prices. - and the Members of .the Subcommittee !or together with a letter to the President As you know, your own Council on Wage the opportunity to testify before you here from Consumers for World Trade: and Price Stability estimates that every addi today on H.R. 5428, th~ Biomass Research CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, tional penny in the market price of sugar and Development Authorization Act. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, takes some $250 to $300 million directly out As the authors of the Harvard Business Washington, D.C., November 14, 1979. of consumers' pockets, plus ian equivalent School's report, Energy Future, observed, an President JIMMY CARTER, amount in added indirect costs. As usual, this ideal solar collector has already been de The White House, extra burden hits hardest at those who can signed. Requiring virtually no maintenance Washington, D.C. least afford it: low-income families, the el it is economical and nonpolluting: it uses DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: On October 23, 1979, derly and others living on fixed incomes. an established technology and it stores en the House voted 249-158 to reject the Inter Consumers for World Trade was rounded in ergy. It ls called a. plant. national Sugar Stabmzation Act of 1979. 1978 by concerned consumers, economists, When we talk of biomass con version tech This overwhelming vote by a bipartisan ma trade experts and others who were alarmed nology, we a.re really talking a.bout ways of jority of the House clearly indicated that at increasing demands for protection from tapping the stored energy of plants. We can Congress was unwilling to see the current import competition. CWT speaks for the burn them directly for energy, we can let 17.7 percent food inflation rate pushed any broad general interest of American consumers them decompose under controlled conditions higher. Congress was unwilling to add $380 in lowering trade barriers to counter infla to produce methane. We can heat them un mlllion to the $2.6 billion already paid to tionary pressures. der pressure to produce oil and natural gas substitutes. Or we can ferment their sugars our nation's 14,000 growers. Congress was CWT supports the proposed International unwilling to increase government's involve Sugar Agreement as a means to assure ade to produce a. premium liquid fuel, alcohol. ment in an industry which demonstrated quate sugiar supplies at stable prices. As !or While they have never been fully inven classical free market model characteristics. domestic price supports: we learned from the toried, biomass resources a.round the world These reasons, perhaps more than any 1974-1975 experience that our domestic sugar a.re huge. One expert recently estimated that others, motivated this decisive vote. support system does not protect the Amer ten times a.s much energy as the world con And there was agreement with this posi ican consumer against world shortages and sumes every year ls collected and stored by tion from your own Administration. Accord high prices. We found then that when world plants. But the real question is not of ing to Alfred Kahn, "every one cent differ prices rise, the consumer pays the higher course, how much plant matter there is, but ence in the market price of sugar means world price and domestic producers reap a rather how much of it ls economically avail windfall profit. When the world price drops, able for energy without threatening its other $250-300 mlllion out of consumers' pockets important end uses, such as food, clothing directly, and approximately 0.30 percent• • • the American consumer is called upon to sup in the Consumer Price Index, and as much port domestic producers in the style to which and building material production, or dam a.gtng the long-term productivity of the soil. as $150-250 million more indirectly." Mr. they have become accustomed. Kahn was painfully aware that implemen We see no reason why 220 million Am.eri Three important major categories of re tation of these subsidies would make his job ca.n consumers should be asked to subsidize sources which meet these criteria. a.re wood wastes, crop wastes, and municipal solid as Chief Inflation Fighter that much harder. indeflnlltely a. rela.tively small number of un wastes. • Given his advice and the substantial vote competitive sugar growers among our 17,000 by the House against implementation, we domestic producers. In virtually all cases, The Department of Agriculture estimates were astonished to learn that you had a.greed marginal sugar growers could switch to more that approximately 485 million dry tons of to use your administrative powers to estab competitive products. The Department of unused wood ls left to rot in U.S. Forests every year. Based upon the assumption ·that llsh the support price of 15.8 cents which Agriculture has the n~essa.ry lending au Congress clearly rejected in voting down thority to provide financial assistance to !a. half of this could be recovered and econom H.R. 2172. Administration moves to llft the ciUita.te this adjustment. ically converted to energy in an environ price supports at this time a.re not only At a. time when 1nfl.a.tion ls a. prime con mentally sound wa.y it could produce up economically unsound but they are con cern to every American, and when rising to 4.1 quads of energy per year, about 5.2 temptuous of the American consumer and food prices have been leading the splra.l, we percent of our annual energy consumption. their Congressmen or Congresswomen who find it hard to believe that your AcLministra. I am providing the subcommittee with a. copy have reflected their will on a. roll call vote tion would impose by administrative meas of the USDA estimate for the record. in the House. ures an inflationary step specifically rejected Purdue University, which has done a great We Urge you to reconsider your decision by the Congress. deal of work in this area under the auspices to raise the support price of sugar in keep We hope the press reports will prove to be of its Renewable Resources Laboratory ing with the decision that we made in re mistaken, and that you will a.ct to limit estimates the total annual U.S. crop resldu~ jecting H.R. 2172. price increases in sugar and other essential production at about 400 million tons. These Sincerely, foods. are residues, mind you, not food. Usea.ble Herbert E. Harris, Glenn M. Anderson, Sincerely yours, residues, 1.e., those not required for soil en Ph111p M. Crane, David Stockman, DOREEN L. BROWN, richment and which can be economically James Scheuer, Don Edwards, Thomas President.e collected, are estimated to range between 70 J. Downey, Pete Stark, Riche.rd L. and 86 million tons per year. If three fourths Ottinger, Les Aspin, Marc L. Marks, of these useable residues were burned di Ben A. Gilman, Frank Guarini, Robert BIOMASS RESEARCH AND DEVEL rectly as a boiler fuel, they could produce Roe, James J. Howard, Lester L. Wolff. OPMENT AUTHORIZATION ACT between .6 and .9 quads per year. If the same Andrew Maguire, William H. Gray, Jim residues were converted to alcohol, the con Lloyd, Daniel Crane, Robert Edgar, tribution would be less, on the order of .19 Charles F. Dougherty, Edward Der HON. FLOYD J. FITHIAN quads per year. I am including with my writ ten testimony a copy of the Purdue crop winski, Gladys Spellman, s. William OF INDIANA Green, Raymond Lederer, Jim San residue resource assessment I have cited. tini, Ted Weiss, Larry McDonald, Stan IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Finally, municipal solid waste (MSW) Lundine, Jack Kemp. Tuesday, November 27, 1979 could provide a.bout 1.5 quads of energy per year, according to the Otnce of Technology CONSUMERS FOR WORLD TRADE, • Mr. FITHIAN. Mr. Speaker, I would Assessment's report, Materials and Energy Washington D.C., November 13, 1979. like to insert, for the benefit of my col from Municipal Waste. The report, which Re increasing the minimum price for sugar. leagues, testimony I presented earlier focused on a broad range of issues asso- Hon. JIMMY CARTER, this month before the House Science and . elated with resource recovery and recycling of MSW, estimated that another .3 quads of The White House, T~chnology Committee on H.R. 5428, the Washington, D.C. Biomass Research and Development Au energy could be saved in the process as a DEAR Mr. PRESIDENT: We have read with result of recycling metals and glass con dismay recent press reports stating that your thorization Act. tained in MSW. Administration is preparing to take actions The testimony points to tJhe need for OTA's report, like the others I have cited, which would, in etrect, raise the floor price an accelerated research and develop makes realistic assumptions about the eco !or sugiar to 15.8 cents per pound-despite ment effort, coupled with administrative nomic and environmental constraints on the overwhelming vote by the Congress Oc changes within the Department of En energy applications of biomass resources. I tober 23 to reject such an inflationary price ergy if the vast potential of biomass en am a.ware that other more optimistic assess increase in this essential food product. ergy is to be realized. ments are available. but I would like to keep Consumers for World Trade actively op our discussion of the topic as realistic as posed H.R. 2172 when it was before the House I hope that my colleagues will find my possible. (as indeed we opposed similar legislation to statement helpful in their own delibera Even using these conservative figures, the mandate sugar price increases in 1978). we tions on the Federal Government's bio total energy contribution biomass resources were pleased to note that Members from both mass programs. could make is staggering. The combined con- 33770 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 tribution of the three resources I ha/Ve within DOE. Although Congress recom consolidation-or at lea.st better coordina mentioned here today is between 6.2 and 6.8 mended a total of 25 full-time professional tion mechanisms-between these programs. quads of energy every year. To put this into program staff for FY 1979, only three posi Second, the Subcommittee may wish to perspective for those among us who are not tions were actually filled last year. explore with appropriate DOE officials the used to thinking in terms of quadrlllion (4) Excessive administrative demands on reasons why the Fuels From Biomass Pro british thermal units, this amounts to FFB staff. gram has been unable to obtain the level of roughly: (5) Abdication of monitoring responsib111- staffing recommended by the Congress in Eight percent of our total energy con ties. The Fuels From Biomass Program has past fl.seal yea.rs and why excessive adminis sumption last year; played almost no role in coordinating or trative demands continue to be placed on One-third of our imported oil; monitoring 10 related programs within the staff assigned to the program. Half again as much energy as the Presi Department (such as the Urban Waste Tech Third, the subcommittee may wish to look dent's original synfuels program; nology Program, and the Alcohol Fuels utm into several state and regional initiatives on More than twice as much energy as all the zation Program) nor the biomass activities biomass which seem to be progressing nuclear plants in the U.S. produced last of at least 10 other federal agencies. smoothly. Some of them actually appear to year; or, While H.R. 5428 offers no solution to be achieving more on their meager resources Nearly three tlm.es as much energy as was these administrative problems, this subcom than the DOE/ USDA program. The TVA ef produced on Alaska's North Slope in 1978. mittee can influence DOE's administrative fort on wood pyrolysis, the work of the Pur So, as you can see, biomass is not a minor procedures through congressional oversight due Renewable Resources La.bora.tory, a.nd source of energy, but rather a major energy procedures. the eff0rts of the Iowa Development Com resource which we can no longer afford to Because biomass energy development is mission a.re efforts you may wish to explore. ignore. intricately tied to agriculture and forestry I suspect that you wlll find a close link be OUR GOALS pollcies, and because the food and fiber tween the success of these groups and their In July, 1978, Agricult_ure Secretary Berg sectors of the economy affect the economics a.b1Uty to cut through institutional barriers land outlined the first of the Administra and o.vallabllity of bioenergy, the Depart to integrate all aspects of biomass energy tion's bioenergy goals in testimony before ment of Energy and the Department of Agri systems.e the Senate Agriculture Committee. Those culture have common areas of interest and goals included net energy self-suffi.ciency by responsib111ty. But despite overlapping juris NICARAGUA-PART I 1990 in forestry production and processing dictions and similar programs, virtually no under conditions that sustain productivity. substantive coordination or program plan A more ambitious goal-that of achieving ning has ta.ken place between the Depart HON. LEE H. HAMILTON ment of Energy and the Department of 20% of the country's energy needs from solar OF INDIANA and renewable resources (including biomass) Agriculture. by 2000--was declared by President Carter There are indications that DOE/USDA co IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in his June 20, 1979 message on Solar energy. ordination a.nd cooperation may improve 1n Tuesday, November 27, 1979 These are ambitious, but achievable, goals, the future, however, and recent intera.gency goals which have broad support among our agreements set forth a more expllcit biomass e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, be people. The question we must ask ourselves development role for both. USDA, for exam tween the 16th and 18th of this month as legislators is whether present policies and ple, 1s expected to receive a portion of the I and four other colleagues, ROBERT institutional arrangements in the agencies DOE biomass budget (Fuels from Biomass LAGOMARSINO, MATTHEW MCHUGH, DAVID over which we have Jurisdiction will allow us Program via pass-through fundin~), for the purpose of administering some biomass de OBEY, and Gus YATRON, under the able to achieve these goals. chairmanship of DANTE FASCELL, visited My own evaluation is that we will miss the velopment projects. H.R. 54428, my Biomass mark by a wide margin unless we organize Research and Development Act, makes more the capital city of Managua in Nicara and energise these agencies to meet the extensive use of this action-forcing mechan gua, our deeply troubled Central Amer challenge. ism for USDA/DOE cooperation and coordi ican neighbor whose recent history of Despite the President's decision to estab nation. Nevertheless the dissimilarities be natural disaster and civil strife is well lish ambitious goals for renewable energy re tween the functions of these agencies can known to you. make effective coordination exceedingly dif sources, including biomass, the federal bio The purposes of our mission were es~ mass program receives relatively low priority ficult, a factor we must constantly bear in mind when we legislate in this area. sentially two. To begin, we were to assess in both the Department of Energy and the firsthand the trying economic, social, Department of Agriculture. Only $57.8 m.11- The need for cooperation between USDA lion-7.6 percent----of the $4.4 billion the fed in developing the potential of biomass en and political conditions in which the eral government wm spend this fiscal year ergy is, in pa.rt, a reflection of the need for Nicaraguan people find themselves. Sec on energy supply is devoted to biomass pro a systemic approach to biomass research ond, we were to reach an informed judg grams Jointly administered by USDA and and development. Most biomass conversion ment as to what posture and action DOE. Of that relatively small amount, far technologies are highly source-specific, in would best serve the interests of the too much is being spent on exotic 21st Cen other words, the local conditions such a.a United States in Nicaragua. I know that long-term a.va.lla.billty of biomass and raw tury concepts-such as kelp farming and I speak for all members of the mission energy plantations-rather than on short material transportation and storage costs, a.re term technologies with more immediate ap just as important a.s the hardware involved. when I congratulate Chairman FASCELL plications. And neither agency has used At some point in the development of biomass for an exercise of leadership that helped existing legal authority fully to develop the technologies, the emphasis must shift from us to accomplish our purpose. great potential of biomass energy. There is, solving strictly hardware problems to solving Our schedule of discussions in Nicara fortunately, a legislative solution to these the practical problems facing people-ma.inly gua can only be described as comprehen problems. H.R. 5428 is a step in the right people in rural area.s--who will run the ha.rd sive. We were able to meet and talk direction. wa.re. Integrating proposed bioenergy systems is not an easy task when the two federal frankly with many Nicaraguan political Within DOE, the Fuels from Biomass Pro leaders and a broad spectrum of Nicara gram has been plagued by managerial and agencies with responsib111ty for biomass split staffing problems since its inception, prob precisely a.long these Unes. Integrating bio guan citizens. In the course of 2 days we lems which are still adversely affecting the energy systems-putting a.11 the pieces to .saw members of the collegial executive ability of program managers to perform their gether-is so crucial to the success of biomass of the Government of National Recon duties. The problems include: that Congress should specifically require it struction, the Minister of Education, the ( 1) Rapid personnel turnover in key man in authorizing legislation. Minister of the Interior, the Minister of agerial positions. During one nine month H.R. 5428 does just that. the Exterior, the new Government's team period (May 1978, through January, 1979) In closing, I'd like to raise several ques of economic planners, representatives of the program had four permanent or acting tions I did not specifically touch on in my several political parties, members of the branch administrators. testimony for the consideration of the sub Sandinista National Liberation Front, committee. (2) La.ck of a. comprehensive plan. As a. the Archbishop of Managua, the owners First, the Department of Energy's solar result, few meaningful evaluations of the ~nd editorial staff of the independent program have been performed. The first Mis programs including biomass are currently sion Analysis of the program wa.s completed undergoing reorganization. As you know, the newspaper La Pre.sna, the editorial staff in FY 1979, a. full four yea.rs after the pro goal of the reorganization ls to consolidate of the Government-owned media, and gram's inception. and hopefully speed the development of numerous businessmen from the private (3) Serious a.nd systematic staffing prob sola.r and other renewable technologies. It sector. lems. While the Fuels From Biomass budget seems to me that the subcommittee ha.s an In addition to making these contacts, has more than doubled ea.ch year for the pa.st opportunity to exercise effective oversight colleagues visited AID projects, attended five yea.rs-actually increasing nine-fold in during the reorganization. When last I checked, there were eleven separate programs a mass celebrated by the Archbishop, four fiscal yea.rs-actual program sta.tf levels and benefited from a reception hosted by oscillated between two and three full-tline having some jurisdiction over bioenergy professional staff positions until the recent programs in the Department. It might be our Ambassador, Lawrence Pezzullo. The internal reorganization of solar programs appropriate for the subcommittee to request latter was attended by an impressive November 27, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33771 cross section of the public and private I rise to commend to the attention of case in the recent death of Jesus M. leadership of the country. There was, of the Members of this body a recent posi "Jess" Carlos of Riverside, Calif. course, ample opportunity for continu tion adopted by the Maryland Christmas Mr. Speaker, in tribute to the life of ous exchange with both the Ambassador Tree Association regarding the repeal of this selfless man, I wish to insert in the himself and members of the Embassy carryover basis. That association now RECORD, at this time, an article from the staff. A final press conference was held urges the repeal of carryover basis. I Riverside paper which briefly describes just prior to our departure. A schedule urge my colleagues, particularly those the life of "Jess" Carlos. of such range and depth r..annot but con from the State of Maryland, to bear in The article follows: tribute to the success of a congressional mind this new aspect of the issue. "JESS" CARLOS, EASTSIDE COMMUNrrY LEADER, mission. As you know, the Senate has voted DIES My personal impression is that we 81-4 to repeal the carryover basis pro Jesus M. "Jess" Carlos, longtime E.a.stside Members of Congress were treated with visions of the Tax Reform Act of 1976. community leader and merchant, died yester respect and candor by all the Nicara This has been done in the context of the day morning of an apparent heart attack. He guans whom we met. Questions asked by Senate's consideration of the proposed was 68. us were answered fully with few excep Windfall Profit Tax Act. This was done A Riverside resident since 1948, Carlo& wa.s tions, and information not solicited by in spite of the risk of being chided for known both for his work in civic organiza us was volunteered freely. Areas of dis making that bill a Christmas tree, and tions and for his role a.s a spokesman and agreement or difference in emphasis I commend the Senate for its fine efforts. leader of the Ea.stside chicano community. were not glossed over, and areas of In ill health in recent yea.rs, he had at I urge all my colleagues to look to tempted to pass on the unomcia.l leadership agreement, or similarity in emphasis, those days not far down the road when role to younger men, but was still regarded were placed in proper perspective. the holiday season will be upon us, and by city omcials and others as a spokesman The Nicaraguans in government, to bear in mind the position of the Mary and elder statesman of the Eastside. church, and private sector made their land Christmas Tree Association. Grow Riverside Mayor Ab Brown so.id, "I have hopes and misgivings very clear to us, ers will face new burdens if carryover known Jess for about 30 yea.rs, from when as we did ours to them. There was a basis is not repealed. Do we really want we were on the Community Settlement Asso notable and pleasing absence of rancor ciation board. He was a good man to work to make it more difficult for persons in with. He was a leader of the Eastside com and verbal sparring. I think it no exag our society to celebrate these holidays geration to say that each group came munity, but he was really known and re as they see fit, or will we act responsi spected a.11 over town." away with a better understanding of the bly to repeat carryover basis? other's point of view. A city-proclaimed "Jess Carlos Day" in 1973 The MCTA position follows: brought him tributes and awards at a b111n As you know, President Carter has re gua.l Mass and a. dinner attended by 350 CARRYOVER BASIS RULE cently submitted to Congress a supple persons. · mental request for assistance to Central Recently a number of laws have been George Willia.ms, then president of the America and the Caribbean. New author passed by Congress which will benefit people Riverside NAACP, said of him, "We have a izations totaling $80 million in econom in the tree growing and sell1ng business. But, good community because he came to town." ic support funding, $75 million of which according to Forest Industries Committee Jesse Ybarra., director of the Community offer Valuation a.nd Taxation, the American Settlement Association, said, "We needed a are intended for Nicaragua, form a Forest Institute and the National Christmas major part of the President's overall better park for our children and it was Tree Growers Association there ls a blll now through Mr. Carlos that we were able to get $75 $70 plan. Of the million, million pending which looms a.s a major disincentive a park, Bordwell Park." would comprise a loan on concessional to growing trees. This law ls scheduled to go "He had the political power behind him," terms to provide foreign exchange re into effect January 1, 1980 and will, in most Ybarra. said in a later interview. "The Anglos sources needed by Nicaragua for the cases, greatly increase the capital gains tax looked toward him because he had the abil maintenance of supplies of imports vital by an heir who sells inherited property. For ity to rally the community." to reconstruction and development. Sixty a tree farmer this concerns either land or During the Jess Carlos Day observance, percent of the imports, agricultural, in trees. According to the "Tree Fa.rm News", Carlos said he became involved in community dustrial, medical, and transportation published by the American Forest Institute, affairs because "there were so many needs in payment of a capital gains tax on inherited the community and in the. church, recrea items, would be for the private sector. property ls based on its increased value over tion, housing and education. I was part of The remaining $5 million would comprise the cost to the original owner, rather than the Park a.nd Recreation Commission, and, grants to finance technical assistance to on the increase in its market value from naturally, since I was from the Ea.stside a.rea agriculture, activities of private and the time it passes to the heir. Given the long I knew the needs and I expressed them." voluntary agencies, technical assistance periods of time needed to plant, grow and In education, he said he was able to con in municipal development, a technical harvest trees, this rule has major implica vince school administrators to explain dis assistance fund for American experts, tions for the Christmas Tree Farmer who ciplinary procedures to parents. assistance for business education, and hopes to see his activities continued by suc "Whenever the kids got into trouble, the ceeding generations in the family. Other school would suspend them for two or three scholarships for poor children. implications and reasons for concern are: days, and the kids might be wandering My experience in Nicaragua has con it will be extremely dimcult to use this a.round," he said. "I talked to the school vinced me that additional assistance of law--especially if you have timber-as con omcia.ls and got them to let the pa.rents the kind requested by the President, ceivably you would have to reconstruct the know a.bout the kids." assistance designed to help the Nicara cost of trees planted by one's great-grand Although he was a leader in working for guan people and to stimulate the Nicara father I Obviously the rule will markedly re social change for minorities, he was not a guan private sector, would well serve the duce the return on a. timber or tree invest mllltant. interests of the United States. Con ment.e "I think there's a right way and a. wrong wa.y," he said. "I don't say I wouldn't do it, sequently, it is in the context of the sup marching in front of a building, but I think plemental request, especially the portion there's always a way to accomplish things intended for Nicaragua, that I wish to "JESS" CARLOS-COMMUNITY without that." address a series of statements to you. His activities included membership on and I hope to lay out a detailed case to LEADER presidency of the Community Settlement demonstrate that, all things considered, Association board of directors, a seven-year support for the President's plan would be HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. term on the Riverside Park and Recreation preferable to opposition to it.• Commission, the board of directors of Op OF CALIFORNIA portunities Industrialization Center, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mexican-American Political Association, the GI Forum, the University Area Kiwanis Club OH CHRISTMAS TREE Tuesday, November 27, 1979 and Knights of Columbus. • Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speak He was named a. Knight of St. Gregory by HON'. BARBER B. CONABLE, JR. er, we all know, or have known, genuine the pope in recognition of his service to the community and to Our Lady of Guada OF NEW YORK community leaders who have spent dec lupe Shrine Church. He was one of only two IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ades in service to their neighbors men in the Riverside area so honored. through good times and bad. Every time Tuesday, November 27, 1979 Born in 1911 in the Mexican state of Za one of these rare individuals passes away, catecas, Carlos was brought by his parents e Mr. CONABLE. Mr. Speaker, it is with a very real sense of loss is felt by all to the United States just after World War I. an early sens.e of the holiday spirit which whose lives were touched. SUch is the He worked in an Azusa grocery store from 33772 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 27, 1979 1928 until the Depression forced the store "take a. dim view" but they won't do Even though we all will feel the loss to close in 1933, and then worked as a laborer anything. of this outstanding man, we are for for the Colton Cement Co. Maybe the leadeirship won't do anything, tunate that he will be just as active as In 1948 he bought the old Farias Market maybe Washington views with alarm and won't send any more spare parts for air ever in his legislative pursuits for the at 14th and Howard streets and in 1961 remainder of his term. I salute RAY opened the present Carlos Market a.cross planes for a while, but the people of this Howard Street from the former one. For a. nation showed they are ready to stand up ROBERTS, a great Texan, a great man, time he also operated a. liquor store at 14th for their country. and a great friend.• and Howard. Thanks, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, He ls survived by his wife, the former we needed that!e Eladia. Pimentel; sons Jess Jr. of Santa. Clara. and Louis of Riverside; daughters Mary Jo WHY INVEST ABROAD-ONE MULTI Carlos of Santa. Clara. and Lucia. Sanchez, NATIONAL'S RESPONSE Anna. Marla. Orega. and Martha. Medura. of RAY ROBERTS Riverside; a. sister, Alta. G. Carlos of River side; brother, Leopoldo Carlos of Riverside HON. BILL FRENZEL and 14 grandchildren. HON. SAM B. HALL, JR. OF MINNESOTA Rosary wm be recited today a.t 7 p.m. at OF TEXAS Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine Church and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES requiem Mass wlll be tomorrow at 10 a..m. Tuesday, November 27, 1979 at the Church. Burial wlll be in Crestla.wn Tuesday, November 27. 1979 Cemetery. Preston-Simons Mortuary is in charge of a.rra.ngements.e • Mr. HALL, of Texas. Mr. Speaker, e Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, a promi after more than 40 years of devoted pub nent Minnesota-based company, the 3M lic service to the Nation and the State Co., has just published a special report of Texas, our great friend and colleague. on global economic development. THANKS, KHOMEINI RAY ROBERTS, recently announced his More than half of 3M's current sales intention to retire from the House of now come from outside of the United Representatives a.t the close of the 96th States. The company has been an aggres HON. GERALD B. H. SOLOMON Congress. sive exporter and a strong supporter of OF NEW YORK We are going to miss RAY ROBERTS. I our country's free-trade policy. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES am especially saddened because his con A portion of the 3M report follows. It Tuesday, November 27, 1979 gressional distri~the fourth-is ad explains in relatively simple· terms why jacent to the first, which I have the investment abroad is necessary to do e Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, it is honor of representing, and as such, RAY business in world markets and how in hard to find a "silver lining" in the cur ha.s given me good advice, cooperation, vestment abroad builds American jobs rent, tragic and frustrating, events in and help on problems of significant in and American prosperity. Iran and in other countries of the terest to the citizens of east Texas. I commepd this portion of the 3M re Middle East. Nevertheless, one byprod In addition. I serve under his chair port to my colleagues and respectfully uct of this anti-American violence is manship of the House Committee on suggest that those who have not seen the a resurgence of patriotism throughout Veterans Affairs, and no one has done report may wish to order it from 3M's our Nation. For the first time in about 20 more to promote the legitimate interests Washington office. years, Americans of all walks of life are of our veterans than RAY RoBERTS. joining together in support of their WHY INVEST AllROAD? 'RAY ROBERTS is of the old school. His In 1950, 3M management ma.de a decision country. political mentor was none other than that would affect greatly its future role as a Mr. Speaker, this new spirit is best Sam Rayburn, and Mr. Sam taught RAY provider of goods and services, and a gener expressed in an editorial in the Glens well. RAY fights for what is right and a.tor of profits and employer of people. Falls P,tency of the prospective utility to man conditional. In the words of the GPU be "adequate assurance of no undue risk" age the plant. Third, the NRC or its suc treasurer John Graham, "it would be from nuclear power. I believe that with c~sor agency should approve State and difficult to know all the ramifications of my amendment Congress has the oppor local emergency evacuation plans. Com where Met Ed Princeton University, the buck will pass to the NRC, observed priority in our Nation's program for the testified before a congressional hearing Senator HART. NRC Chairman Joseph regulation of nuclear power.• on November 5: Hendrie admitted, "if there's an urgent I view this as a very strong moratorium need, why, we do what we have to." In which receive a unanimous and ellJthusiastic this light, the National Taxpayers Un MAIN CATHOLIC PARTY IN ULSTER vote in the Commission. ion has endorsed my amendment. In a CRITICIZES BRITISH Second, I believe it is important for letter to me yesterday, the National Tax every Member of this House to under payers Union declared: HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM stand that the majority of the American We. believe it 1s a step in the right direc OF NEW YORK people favor a moratorium on additional tion toward Congressional reasse~sment of construction, according to a recent AP the econom:tc and safety aspect.s of the nu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NBC poll. This poll, conducted on Octo clear power option. Tuesday, November 27, 1979 ber 15 and 16, was based on a sample of I would like to note that in so doing, • Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, the 1,600 adults nationwide. They were the National Taxpayers Union joins the Social Democratic Labor Party the New York Times of November 23: excellent article and mat> on the status of points in the northeast and the northwest CATHOLIC PARTY IN ULSTER REBUFFS LONDON the international relief effort to alleviate parts of the country. The recently announced ON TALKS the suffering of the Cambodian people. opening of the Mekong river for additional (By Wllliam Borders) Since some Members may not have an shipments of emergency supplies directly to LONDON, November 22 .-The British Gov opportunity t-0 see this report, I ask that the capital city will soon provide a much· ernment's latest political initiative for needed alternative to the overcrowded and it be reprinted here. I would also like congested docks at Kompong Som. Northern Ireland suffered a severe setback to pay tribute to MCPL, and its excellent today as the principal Roman Catholic party 10,000 metric tons of food aid have been chairman, Representative PAUL SIMON-, in the province rejected it. delivered to Kampuchea as of mid-November The Social Democratic and Labor Party, of Illinois, for his outstanding efforts to and an additional 12,600 metric tons are now which has the backing of most of the Cath make this organization a most useful and enroute to Kampuchea. The World Food olic minority in the province, said there was effective means of keeping its members Program (WFP) of the United Nations ls no point in its attending an all-party con abreast of international issues. presently coordinating all the food a.id efforts ference that tJhe Government wants to hold Mr. Speaker, I ask that this update from international agencies and voluntary next month, since the matter of reunifica on Cambodian relief efforts be reprinted agencies, including Oxfa.m, Church World tion, or any other -0hange in the constitu Services, Catholic Relief Service and many tional status of the province, has been here: others. WFP observers expect that the com specifically ruled off the agenda.. UPDATE ON RELIEF EFFORTS FOR KAMPUCHEA bined air and sea shipments of UNICEF/ICRC The head of the main Protestant party U.S. Government efforts to alleviate Kam wm exceed 20,000 tons per month by the end in the province, the Ulster Unionists, has puchea's (Cambodia's) monumental food of this month and that by January this level also declined the invitation. Thus there are crisis are slowly cranking into gear. will rise to 34,500 tons per month, which will now serious doubts about the whole idea. of The food crisis, resulting from years of be just enough food to stab111ze the starving tJhe conference, which had been in tended to war, from the brutal policies of the Pol Pot population. Experts in nutrition and famine find a. way of granting the province a. greater government. from the devastation imposed relief point out, however, that diet adequate measure of home rule. by the invasion of the country by Viet to strengthen and rehab1lita.te the people of "If it transpires that nobody comes to the namese troops, and from the ongoing strug Kampuchea will eventually require a.s much conference, then clearly we shall have to seek gle for control of the countryside by the Pol as 60,000 to 75,000 tons of food per month. other ways forward," Humphrey Atkins, the Pot and the Heng Samrin forces, rem.a.ins Many Members of Congress, concerned that Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, said massive. Under Pol Pot more than one third food aid has not been arriving fa.st enough ln in Parliament. of the 7 to 8 million population died or Kampuchea, have called for alternative But he reiterated the Government's de disappeared. With most of the crops de methods of providing food a.id to that coun termination to bring some kind of changes stroyed and less than 10 percent of the fields try. On a recent trip to Kampuchea, Sena. to Northern Ireland, even if its political lead under cultivation, 75 percent of those who tors John C. Danforth (D-Mo), Max Baucus ers continue to resist. survived now face starvation. Observers in (D-SENATE-Wednesday, November 28, 1979
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