8060 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS JOE HARP He is, he says with a lopsided grin, "finally "There are a lot of great stories when you retiring after retiring." are the reporter," he says. "Of course, when Harp is probably Hagerstown's longest­ something doesn't get reported, it's your HON. CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR. running news show. He began his career fault." OF MARYLAND with The Morning Herald as a "very cub" Harp started working for $15 a week. It IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES cub reporter. He ends it after stints as re­ took him two years to get a $2.50 raise. He porter, city editor, managing editor, execu­ Tuesday, April16, 1985 worked six nights-Sunday through tive editor, and consultant. Friday-and remembers he got plenty ticked e Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. President, Joe Now 77, he says it's time to hang it up and off when he was told to work the seventh Harp, one of Maryland's finest news­ "let the young regime take over." day covering the long-standing Tilghmanton papermen, has stepped down from the It won't be easy. (jousting) tournament. He soon discovered Hagerstown Herald-Mail after 59 Even though he "retired" in 1980 at the seven days was to be the norm rather than mandatory retirement age of 72, he has re­ the exception. years, and all of us who have read the mained at his desk as a consultant, daily newspaper over the years will miss his supplying from his prodigious memory all When he joined the fourth estate in the deft touch. former Herald-Mail building in the first that Hagerstown history that occurred block of Summit Avenue, the newsroom was Joe Harp began his long and distin­ before most of today's crop of reporters was located on the third floor. It was a scene guished career back in the "old days" born. right out of "Front Page." when editors wore green eye shades, When he moves out tomorrow with his scarred Underwood typewriter, he'll take "We all wore green eyeshades ... and when newsroom decor duplicated the with him enough memories to write a book. hats indoors and out." sets in "The Front Page" and when re­ His family hopes he will. Reporters relied on shoe leather and the porters kept their hats on inside as "My kids have been after me to write a telephone to get all the news fit to print. well as out of doors. But Joe presided first-person account of my years as a jour­ Mostly shoe leather, Harp says. A telephone over the transition from those days nalist," he says. "Maybe I will. Maybe I'll call to any other exchange in the county when news was sent by Morse code to fix up a little office at home and put it all was a long-distance call at 10 cents a hello. the high speed computer technology down for them." "Management discouraged excessive use of of today. There'll be one heck of a lot to put down. the phone." Joe started his career as a cub re­ For 59 years, Harp has been at the center of Harp moved up the ladder to full reporter every major event in Washington County. status when Usilton, who was making $35 a porter and ends it after stints as re­ He has recorded the county's passing parade week, asked for a raise and was turned porter, city editor, managing editor, from Prohibition to Moral Majority. Like down. Usilton quit and Harp took over his executive editor, and consultant. And the Biblical preacher in Ecclesiastes, he's beat; covering city and county government, he carried out each of his duties with found there's not much new under the sun. the courts, the jail, the county hospital, the care and professionalism. As the Today's events have a precedent somewhere weather. Herald-Mail wrote in a goodby editori­ in his memory. "You personally covered everything," he As he contemplates the final "30" to his says. al: threescore years of reporting, he recalls It's well-nigh impossible to sum up Joe's that he wasn't overly impressed by newspa­ Newsmen didn't carry compact, spiral­ career or Joe the man. He is and was simply pering when he started. bound reporters' notebooks like they do one helluva newspaperman. As he remembers it, he had been graduat­ today. "You kept most of it in your head," He has seen it all, and he has written ed less than a year when his older brother Harp says. "The rest you jotted down on the about it all honestly, clearly, and fairly. Jerry, returning from his job in Hagers­ back of an envelope.'' He started out bright and ended up wise. town, told him he'd heard there was an He recounts the times he sat through Slow to burn, quick to laugh, he has given opening at The Morning Herald. long, late-night City Council sessions with balance and ballast to the turmoil that is a "I had to go to town for a dental appoint­ an envelope in his pocket and a paperback newsroom. ment," Harp says, "so I figured what the whodunit propped up in front of him. Once, In truth, The Herald-Mail is losing an ir­ heck, I'll go see about it." he says, he went through a book from cover replaceable talent and resource. He talked to Sam Phillips, who was then to cover in one meeting, but had an accurate I am happy to report that although general manager of The Herald-Mail Co. story in the next morning's paper. Joe is gone from his editorial duties, "Sam asked me if I'd mind working at "You learned how to glean the wheat he will not be forgotten. I, for one, night. I told him I'd work any hours. He from the chaff," he grins. intend to spend many more years shar­ said, 'Okay, get on upstairs.' It's a le on he's never forgotten. He still "I went to the dentist, then I came back writes briefly and to the point, from ing in the wisdom of Joe Harp. and started to work.'' memory and a few scribbled notes on the Some of Joe Harp's many accom­ Harp says he doesn't remember much back of an envelope. plishments were described recently in about his first day on the job. He surmises In all his 59 years as a newsman he has the Herald-Mail. I ask that the article he didn't do much. followed one philosophy: "If something be printed in the RECORD. "When I first came, I was lost. I didn't like happens today, write about it today and get The article follows: it. I started right out looking for another it in the next edition of the newspaper." job. I even applied at a bank.'' "MR. HERALD-MAIL"-FOR YEARS, JOE Hitting the next edition sometimes was a 59 He never heard from the bank, and some­ HARP KEPT PuLSE WITH THE NEWS hassle. where along the line he started liking the

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8061 He wrote the final chapter from the He and other reporters spent hours talk­ "lifted" because he panned an act he didn't Maryland Penitentiary where he watched ing to school personnel and parents, piecing consider up to snuff. Once he appeared in a their execution. the facts together. "But we had the story by Potomac Playmakers production of "The "I didn't want to go," he confesses, "but presstime." Barker.'' Often he junketed to Baltimore or Sheriff Joe Baker accused me of being a Reporters were often the bearers of bad Washington or New York to catch the sissy, so I went with Baker and Deputy Bob news in the early years of the century, he Broadway shows. Miller. says, remembering the time he reported on Back in the 1950s, when The Herald and "I witnessed the first execution thorough­ the death of a man who was struck by a car The Mail produced four daily newscasts for ly. The second got only a glance. Miller while fixing a flat on his own automobile. W JEJ Radio, Harp regularly did the mid­ fainted. When they trap door dropped, you The man lived on West Antietam Street, night broadcast from his office. Once he knew it." just around the corner from The Herald­ lost his manuscript and ad libbed the entire Harp says news was easier to gather in the Mail, and Harp was delegated to tell the news show. pre-World War II days. Hagerstown was man's wife she had just been widowed. The son of a salesman, Harp was born in smaller, news-makers were more approach­ "The police didn't do that sort of thing in Cavetown, "in a house right beside the Re­ able, and folks weren't so quick to sue. those days," he says. "It was either the formed Church where I was baptized.'' The "People trusted the press," he says. "We newspaper or the undertaker." family moved to Smithsburg when he was 5 earned that trust and often it was implicit." The 1940s are marked in Harp's memory and he attended the Smithsburg school, He chuckles over the era when magis­ by America's involvement in World War II. where all 12 grades were housed in the same trates were also acting coroners. "When He and Editor Baylor were in Baltimore on building. He graduated in 1925 with a smat­ Dick Sweeney was magistrate, I often went Dec. 7, 1941, when the first news of the Jap­ tering of Latin and French, but no typing. along with him in his capacity as coroner. anese attack on Pearl Harbor was broadcast. He learned the "three-finger system" which Dick didn't like to look at dead people. I'd "We drive back to Hagerstown as fast as has been his trademark for 59 years from look to make sure they were dead, and he'd we could to get an extra on the streets," he Frank Colley. · sign the death certificate." recalls. He was married in 1941 to Alice Himel­ In his long career, Harp was only sued There was another extra at war's end right. twice. Neither case went to trial. when church bells tolled in jubilation across "We'd been dating for two years and talk­ Each decade of the veteran journalist's the city, and joyous crowds surged into ing about getting married," he muses. "We career has its own brand of reminiscences. Public Square to dance in celebration. went on a fishing trip over in Frederick In the Prohibition era of the 1920's, it was Harp recalls Gen. Dwight · Eisenhower's County with Harry Fridinger and his wife the revenuers who tipped him to his best visit to Hagerstown on the presidential cam­ and Harry said there'd never be a better stories. "They'd call me when they were paign trail in the 1950s, the assassination of time for us to get our marriage license, so going to raid an illegal still, and I'd go President John F. Kennedy in the '60s, the we did-at the Frederick County Court­ along," he says. He remembers one raid in Vietnam War, Nixon and the Watergate era house. particular, when he was mistakenly identi­ of the '70s. "Harry paid for the license," he chuckles. fied as the snitch and almost shot. For much of his working years, he put in Alice Harp died in 1979. In the 1930s it was the weather that made 14-hour days, working from shortly after Harp has two sons: Joseph Jr., who lives memorable headlines: the blizzard of '32 and noon when The Daily Mail went to press to with his wife and two sons in Columbus, the flood of '36. Harp says they were prob­ 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning when The Ohio, where he's a salesman for Honda, and ably the two biggest stories of his career. Herald hit the streets. It was life in the fast David, a photographer for the Baltimore When the blizzard hit in 1932, Hagerstown lane before wage-and-hour laws, before Sunday Sun Magazine who lives with his was completely cut off from the rest of the health insurance and pension plans and wife and two daughters in Baltimore. world. Nothing moved-neither cars nor Social Security. He has a brother, Admiral Edward Harp trolleys nor trains nor news. Roads were In 1945, he was made managing editor of NEW YORK CITY "The son-of-a-gun charged them to get on morning's headlines. CONTINUES· AN IMPORTANT the bridge and then charged them again to As a young man, he played trombone with TRADITION OF COMMITMENT get off." a touring dance band called The Dagmar AND ADVOCACY FOR VICTIMS The most tragic story he ever had to write Castilians. Later on, he joined the Sunday occurred in the 1930s, when a busload of school orchestra at Zion Reformed Church. OF THIS DREADED DISEASE Williamsport High School students was It was not unusual to hear the strains of AND THEIR FAMILIES struck by a train in Rockville. Many of the "Rock of Ages" wafting from the Herald­ students were killed. Mail newsroom at 3 a.m. as he practiced for HON. MARIO BIAGGI "I was sitting in Mark Beck's restaurant Sunday services. He still is a music lover, on North Potomac Street, having a snack with tastes that run "from the sublime to OF NEW YORK when I heard the news," he says. "I rushed the ridiculous." He favors the classics and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES back to the office and called a teacher who Dixieland jazz. · Tuesday, April16, 1985 lived in the Hamilton Hotel. She fainted, He used to cover vaudeville shows at The and I had to get somebody to go over there Maryland Theatre and the old Academy, e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, as an and revive her." and more than once had his free pass original member of the House Select ..

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Committee on Aging, it is a great and on uniting our efforts on all fronts to job of helping to eas~ the burden that all honor for me to place into the CoN­ help Alzheimer's patients and their families. those whose lives are affected by Alzhei- GRESSIONAL RECORD important seg­ I want to extend a special welcome to the mer's disease face. · many experts and dedicated people who are I would like to extend my thanks from all ments of the Second Annual Mayoral with us today. Time doesn't permit going Conference on Alzheimer's Disease of us, and our deepest appreciation, and also down the entire list, but I want you to know to the Greater New York Chapter of conducted on November 3, 1984, in that I see you out there, and I'm personally ADRDA, co-sponsors of this conference. To New York City. grateful for your participation, as is Janet Randi Goldstein-and for her tireless ef­ I am proud to note that the New Sainer, commissioner of the New York City forts in responding to the needs of Alzhei­ York City Department for the Aging Department for the Aging. mer's patients and their families. Randi and in cooperation with the mayor and We are indebted to Lonnie Wollin, presi­ her staff work devotedly to produce, for ex­ other city agencies as well as private dent of the Greater New York Chapter of ample, the updated resource directory-to and voluntary organizations have es­ the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disor­ convene workshops and seminars-to coordi­ ders Association whose vital association nate this conference-all to help to give tablished an important partnership works closely with the New York City Alz­ committed to providing genuine assist­ greater access to available programs and heimer's Resource Center to effect better services in the city-and to further more ance not only to victims of Alzheimer's linkages between Alzheimer's patients and thorough knowledge about Alzheimer's dis­ but also support help to their families families and appropriate services and pro­ ease to the public-in cooperation with the or those providing care. grams in the city. Greater New York Chapter of the Alzhei­ Perhaps the best example of this I'm proud that our city has worked in partnership with the Brookdale Foundation mer's Disease and Related Disorders Asso­ working partnership was the establish­ to initiate the only municipally funded ciation, we mutually strive to reach out in as ment of the New York City Alzhei­ center in the Nation. It is our hope that many ways as is humanly possible to those mer's Resource Center operated by other cities will emulate our effort. whose lives are affected by Alzheimer's dis­ the New York City Department for · I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Peter V. ease. the Aging with a tremendous assist Rabins, assistant professor of psychiatry at I'm happy to be able to report to you that from the Brookdale Foundation. To­ Johns Hopkins University School of Medi­ in this upcoming year we will be expanding cine and co-author of "the 36-Hour Day". our services by providing individual counsel­ gether they have initiated the first ing to family caregivers-and that we will be and only municipally funded center of Yasmin Kahn, vice president of Board of Directors of the National Alzheimer's Dis­ intensifying our outreach with a highly visi­ its type in the Nation. ease and Related Disorders Association, ble publicity campaign-our goal is not to Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, member of the Advisory Board of the New let this disease continue to be what it is so degenerative brain disease. It afflicts York City Alzheimer's Resource Center, commonly called "the hidden disease". between 1.2 and 4 million Americans a consultant to the Alzheimer's Disease Pro­ year and is now the fourth leading gram at Boston University School of Medi­ EXCERPTED REMARKS BY PETER V. RABINS, cause of death. The cost for caring for cine, president of the International Federa­ M.D., AsSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIA­ a victim of Alzheimer's is estimated at tion of the Alzheimer's Disease and Related TRY, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL Societies, Inc., national council member of OF MEDICINE, JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL between $17,000 and $50,000 a year. the Salk Institute. Most of this cost is borne by family And Marion Roach, author of "Another CARE OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE VICTIMS-WHAT members. Name for ·Madness", and also dedicated CAN BE DONE NOW? As we work on a governmental re­ caregiver. While Alzheimer's disease is sometimes sponse, we must combine our efforts The topic of caregiving occupies an impor­ spoken of as an untreatable disorder, this is both at funding research to work at tant place on today's agenda. not true. It is true that we cannot change uncovering the causes on this disease As we know, it is estimated that there are the ultimate course of the disease but there but we must also provide adequate more than 70,000 victims of this devastating are many elements of it which can be treat­ disease just in our city alone-and 2,000,000 ed. I will highlight five of these. funds to provide critically needed sup­ across the Nation. port services for victims and their fam­ Thus, it is imperative that we win this 1. Evaluation and in/ormation ilies. New York City has demonstrated war. I commend Randi Goldstein for her The evaluation serves several purposes. It great leadership in this regard and I ceaseless efforts as director of the New York determines whether there is a treatable would like to now insert excerpts of City Alzheimer's Resource Center, on cause of the thinking impairment and iden­ the Alzheimer's conference for the behalf of those who need counsel and refe-r­ tifies the specific symptoms of dementia review of my colleagues. These include ral and I pledge the city's continued invo ~ ve­ from which the patient is suffering. Such a excerpts from the speeches of Mayor ment in this endeavor and my personal, en­ determination is crucial since it is a focus on during concern. I look forward with great these symptoms which can make a differ­ Edward I. Koch, Cortunissioner Janet interest to the findings that will be forth­ ence. S. Sainer, of the New York City De­ coming from today's conference. The initial assessment should also include partment for the Aging, Peter V. time for the clinician to discuss the disease Rabins, M.D. assistant professor of EXCERPTED REMARKS BY JANET S. SAINER, with the famiy. Many questions about psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Universi­ COMMISSIONER OF THE NEW YoRK CITY DE­ future course or genetics often arise. ty School of Medicine, Yasmin Kahn, PARTMENT FOR THE AGING This evaluation should also focus on the vice president, Board of Directors of This year, the New York City Department patient's remaining abilities. One goal of I·· the National Alzheimer's Disease and for the Aging and our cosponsor-the treatment is to ensure that the ill person re­ Related Disorders Association, Marian Greater New York Chapter of the Alzhei­ mains as active as possible and identifying Roach, author "Another Name for mer's Disease and Related Disorders Asso­ remaining strengths is one way to ensure ciation, have dedicated this mayoral confer­ this. Madness," and Lonnie E. Wollins, Esq., ence to the family care givers and care pro­ president of the Greater New York viders of New York City, for you are the 2. Symptom management Chapter of the Alzheimer's Disease ones that the city and ADRDA would like A focus on specific problems leads to solv­ and Related Disorders Association. Fi­ most to help. Together we are dedicated to ing them. Helping families identify the nally I would also like to acknowledge finding the most effective ways to assist the problems and then search for potential solu­ the significant contribution of Randi Alzheimer patient, and particularly their tions can be an important contribution of Goldstein, director of the New York families who daily serve in such selfless and the professional. significant ways. City Alzheimer's Resource Center. I wish, on this occasion, to thank the 3. Family emotionaal support EXCERPTED REMARKS BY MAYOR EDWARD I. Brookdale Foundation and the City of New The majority of people with Alzheimer's KOCH AT SECOND ANNUAL MAYORAL CON­ York, under the mayor's leadership, for disease are cared for by their families. They FERENCE ON ALzHEIMER'S DISEASE IN NEW helping to fund the New York City Alzhei­ must face the physical burden of care of an YoRK CITY mer's Resource Center, making it the first ill person as well as the emotional effects of This conference bids to be of great signifi­ and only such municipally sponsored center seeing a loved one deteriorate. Emotional cance and is indicative of the importance in the Nation. The Department for the support of them can help them emotionally that each and every one of us here today Aging is proud that we have been given the adapt to caregiving and can lessen problems places on finding the answer to Alzheimer's responsibility and honor of undertaking the in the home. April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8063 4. Good general medical care most effective way of accomplishing any not blissful to be ignorant when you can Patients with dementia frequently suffer real results. help .someone you love. How old are we other medical disorders for which treat­ With the help of organizations like the when we hear "the truth hurts?" What I ig­ ments are available. When these other con­ Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders norantly and painfully called "madness" ditions are treated the demented person's Association, I am able to say Alzheimer's is has a proper name and we, the caregivers of thinking may well improve and some of the no longer unknown. It is nationally and the victims of this dreadful killer, know behavior problems diminish or disappear. internationally acknowledged as a tragic, what it is-Alzheimer's disease. And the Therefore, good medical care is essential. consuming affliction, and great steps to­ truth hurts. It hurts more each time we feel Minor infections such as bronchitis or uri­ wards finding a cause and cure have been it. The truth I refer to is the truth of sepa­ nary tract infections can lead to a signifi­ made. ration. cant deterioration of thinking and behavior We know that medical research is gradual­ As caretakers of victims of this frightful which can improve dramatically when these ly beginning to unravel the puzzle-and that disease we know that this is a disease of sep­ seemingly minor insults are treated. our educational efforts have alerted YOWlg aration. professionals to the danger Alzheimer's dis­ A very smart man, my friend, my mother's 5. Longitudinal care ease poses to our Nation. doctor, Barry Reisberg said, "when the com­ Most dementing illnesses are progressive. These are now more support groups munication stops, the grief for the family Therefore symptoms change over time. around the country which are providing begins." · Both the patients and their families need much needed comfort, guidance, informa­ I wrote in my article that "grief is a mute professionals who can periodically reassess tion, and daily help to families who are suf­ sense of panic." I wrote that almost a year the person and the situation. This can iden­ fering from this devastating illness. City, to the day before Dr. Reisberg said that tify newly developed problems and some­ State, Federal agencies and legislatures, are about grief and communication to me, and times problems which have been resolved. A working to channel more resources into the at the time, it was a desperate, but misun­ professional who intermittently sees an in­ fight. These funding sources are now begin­ derstood, feeling for me. dividual can often see new issues that are ning to take a hard look at the long-term This is a disease during which those who not obvious to a person who has been living needs of today's patients and their families. care most get less and less advice from those with the patient day by day. The United States Congress is recognizing who know better than anyone else about This care over time can also provide dif­ how desperately relief is needed for the how awful the disease is. The Alzheimer's ferent emotional supports when they are daily care of these patients. Legislation was victim becomes less and less able to reveal needed. just passed directing the Medicare Program the panic as he or she gets more sick and Finally, care over time can help a family to review its current policies and come up the care takers are left so very alone and ig­ decide if and when a nursing home place­ with recommendations for addressing these norant unless they find help. ment is appropriate. The factors which go needs. The preliminary report will include In the early stages of my mother's illness, into the decision of placing a loved one in a the possibility of finding sources of finan­ I called it "Madness." I was ignorant, yes, nursing home are not well understood. cial aid for families from other Federal pro­ but I was also hiding. While many people believe that problems grams. We are hopeful that Congre~ will My mother's name is Allene. She is a de­ such as incontinence are the main predic­ take quick action and that private insurers cendant of Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary tors, my experience and a minimum amount will broaden their coverage to include res­ War hero, and everyone of her paternal side of research suggest that it is actually a more pite care, because most medical insurance had Allen in his or her name. Allene was general feeling of being overwhelmed and policies do not pay for long-term care. It is very smart, independent, willful and witty. exhausted. A better understanding of the essential that medicare and insurance com­ Just as she could toss out phrases and be problems that lead to nursing homes might panies take some of the burden of the "36 clever, she could toss on clothes and be help us construct better health care systems hour day" from those of us whose lives have beautiful. to support people at home. But even more been so tragically altered by this disease. She became a newspaper reporter, a wife, importantly, this might help us understand When such important events as this a mother, a girl Scout leader, visting nurse and accept the fact that nursing homes are annual mayoral conference take place and volunteer and after my sister and I were a necessary part of the care of people with the Senate "Labor and Human Resources grown, she went back to school and got her dementia and that professional support in Subcommittee on Aging" holds special hear­ masters degree in education, and became a making this decision can have positive ings on funding Alzheimer's research and teacher at a bilingual school on the Lower impact on their emotional health and can respite care-I know I can sincerely use the East Side of Manhattan. sometimes lead to better physical care of word "progress" with a positive meaning. In the progression of her disease she the dementia victim. became frightened, angry, paranoid, hostile EXCERPTED REMARKS BY MARION ROACH, and incompetent. She became completely EXCERPTED REMARKS BY YASMIN AGA KAHN, AUTHOR OF "ANOTHER NAME FOR MADNESS" dependent on the aid of others, repetitive, PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERA­ A year and a half ago I published an arti­ confused, agitated. She stopped reading. TION OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED cle in the New York Times Sunday Maga­ She speaks rapid gibberish. She has no DISORDERS SOCIETIES, INC. zine. The headline read "Another Name for memory. She has to be bathed, fed and Many of you in the audience are family Madness." It was about my mother. Six dressed. She now lives in a nursing home, members of Alzheimer's victims, so I don't years ago my mother's doctor told me that where this total care is provided. My mother have to describe to you what it is like to live he thought my mother was senile. I thought is fifty five years old. I put her in a nursing with an Alzheimer's patient. The fact that she was going mad. We were both wrong. home two months ago. you are here demonstrates you are aware of My mother is one .. of the more than 2 mil­ In the course of this disease we have all the devastation brought about by the lion victims of Alzheimer's disease in this learned to push courage into the unknown progress of this illness. country and according to recent statistics, and we have despite the panic, the loneli­ Progress-what a strange word to use. If she is one of the fifty thousand victims ness, the total despair, pushed our courage years of slow degeneration, progressive de­ living in New York City. What I called mad­ that one step further again and again. bilitation, and increasing dependency are ness began as forgetfulness-her keys, the Right from the start the victim and the what is called progress-then I've used the phone number at the house we lived in to­ family must accept the truth of this disease right word. gether, and developed into severe depres­ and accept the care available. Learn to label Before my mother Rita Hayworth was di­ sion, vast memory lapses, confusion and a drawers, to be patient, to aid as long as you agnosed as an Alzeheimer's victim there lack of her previous articulate nature. She can until you have to do the tasks your­ were sad indications that her memory was groped for words, for familiar phrases. selves, to distinguish between teaching help­ slipping and that she was becoming disori­ But I called it madness. A lot of people lessness and prolonging ability. ented. criticized me for the title of that piece. There is something to cleave us together I remember one day I found her facing a When I decided to write a book about her beyond this bond of sadness. I have made mirror. I was standing behind her watching. illness, the publisher insisted that the title more than several true friends in my family She looked in the mirror, looked at me, be "Another Name for Madness." I fought support group at N.Y.U., in ADRDA, at the looked back at herself and then again at me the title both times, but here I am before an mayor's office. We come together because and asked "Who are you?" assembled group which knows about this we have someone we love who is a victim. Those were days when she could still ver­ disease, and the title couldn't be better. Sometimes we walk away from our meetings balize. When my mother's condition was fi­ How old was I when I first heard the sen­ hurt and depressed. nally diagnosed, I become determined "to do tence "ignorance is bliss?" We apply it so This is our second mayoral' conference. something about this nightmare that has al­ much. But it is not blissful to be ignorant This is national .Alzheimer's month. Our ready stricken 2 million Americans. I felt when someone you love is dying of some­ New York City chapter of our national orga­ that joining a national effort would be the thing you do not understand. Worse, it is nization has grown. Our mayor truly cares.

51-059 0-86-34 (pt, 6) 8064 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 We have books available to us. We have and you. You've protected your mother. Santa Ana, El Salvador, and returned family support groups. We have research, She's safe. But when the nurse gets finished to organize a program to adopt the funded, but not by enough money. cleaning, dressing and feeding your mother, hospital there. We think our connection is unique. To­ do you really think the nurse has a lot of gether we are a powerful political force, time to talk to her? Come, Marion, try a I commend their work as a fine ex­ meeting in the greatest city in the world, nursing home. See what we in the field of ample of American generosity and and believe me there is no war to be won. caring can do." concern for the needy worldwide and I We have a nationwide ADRDA network Four months later I put her in a home. I would like to bring this program to that flourishes. Last year. in this city we set brought a form from NYU which releases the attention of my colleagues with up an Alzheimer's resource center from her brain to autopsy when she dies. It was the hope that the medical societies which everyone who has called it, has bene­ the hardest thing I've ever had to accept. fitted. Yet in two days' living in the nursing across the Nation would also initiate Another cliche: "Necessity is the mother home, my mother, for the first time in six similar adopt a hospital programs. of invention." Take strength in that. But let months initiated a conversation. She recog­ San Juan de Dios Hospital in Santa us not rest on our laurels. There are some­ nized me for the first time in three months. Ana, El Salvador, is a government-run times overpowering, horrible aspects of this She is happy, cared for, stimulated, safe and hospital serving the indigent civilian disease. clean. Someone said to me last year, with a population and treating primarily She speaks to me, and you know, she's women and children. With 900 beds, it shake of her head, "God, I never know better off, because there are people who are what's going to happen next." working so very hard for us and them. draws from a community of approxi­ My mother always said to me that women Get help. Ask. The idea of the next step mately 200,000. It is the largest hospi­ shouldn't quote themselves, but here I go: I may be frightening, but you have come this tal of its kind in the country. Tragical­ replied, "Thank God." far, and so some part of you must know that ly, this hospital is faced with severe Good or bad, I don't want to know. Our obligation as caregivers is to meet there is more care, more hope, more help shortages of basic medical supplies each seemingly unconquerable next stage of available. such as surgical gloves, sutures, and in­ this disease and grab the help available. My mother is supposed to be in the prime struments, as well as blood pressure A year ago, no one could have told me of her life. She is suffering from a disease cuffs, wheelchairs, stretchers, and that my mother would be in a nursing that we used to think of as a natural part of aging. There is nothing natural about it. It cribs. home. My mother was living in an apart­ Project Santa Ana is a humanitarian ment my sister and I bought for her, with is a horror, and it is here until we attack it twenty-four-hour a day, seven-days-a-week in earnest. Let's not accept it and be igno­ effort sponsored and supervised by the care at the sum of four thousand dollars a rant. Let's provide the best care for those Arlington County Medical Society to month. My father is dead. We exhausted his we cannot • • •. gather supplies and funds for San life savings, then my mother's, and then our The awareness of Alzheimer's disease is Juan de Dios Hospital in order to up­ salaries. Save today, and fight and seek the almost universal-both locally and national­ grade the quality of medical care it way to save those we can tomorrow. ly. We are reaching and helping more and more people. When ADRDA started in provides. In addtion to collecting medi­ cal supplies and funds, Project Santa EXCERPTED REMARKS BY LoNNIE E. WOLLINS, 1978-1979 we may have seen 5 articles per ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE GREATER NEW year on Alzheimer's disease and most of Ana will provide a biomedical engineer YORK CHAPTER OF THE ALzHEIMER'S DIS­ those were in medical journals. In 1984 to evaluate necessary equipment re­ EASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION hardly a week goes by without 1 or 2 such pairs and train local people to main­ At the official opening of the Alzheimer's articles-and of course, there's the hope tain the hospital's equipment. resource center, I quoted an international that in my lifetime there will be an an­ The activities in El Salvador are co­ author and I think it deserves repeating nouncement of a treatment or a cure. ordinated by the Santa Ana Rotary here-that author has a sign of his desk Of course I read with great interest of the Club. The Rotary Club and other serv­ which reads-"if you say it cannot be done, Darthmouth announcement of the implant, you are probably right, you cannot do it." but I am very cautious. It is not the answer. ice organizations are now attempting And thank God that the author is also the It is experimental. It is a small sample and to remodel the hospital's emergency mayor of New York City. It is that attitude it will need extensive further testing-but it room and have provided rudimentary and leadership that encourages the commis­ is an important step in basic research, and equipment to the rehabilitation de­ sioners of the city; a city which came from hopefully someday there w111 be a treatment partment. As various hospital depart­ bankruptcy, to perform and excel. Specifi­ that will postpone the onset of this terrible ments are upgraded, the need for nec­ cally Commissioner Janet Sainer, whose disease. essary medical supplies becomes even finger is on the pulse of the elderly of New What this tells me is that the media and more obvious. York City, whose hard work, dedication and voluntary health organizations such as guidance helped to create the resource ADRDA must expand and cooperate with The following article from the center. our government, with the people of New American Medical News discusses the Through the combination of Brookdale York City, New York State and the Federal development of the project in detail. Foundation and City of New York tax levy Government to fund and encourage re­ Since this article was printed, the funds, with the mayor's commitment and search-to help families to care for victims­ medical society has shipped an addi­ generosity, under the able direction of to improve the victim's quality of life until tional 30,000 pounds of medical equip­ Randi Goldstein, and with the assistance of Alzheimer's is no more.e ment to Santa Ana, including incuba­ the Greater New York Chapter of the Alz­ heimer's Disease and Related Disorders As­ tors, wheelchairs, surgical instru­ sociation, the center was opened in March ARLINGTON COUNTY MEDICAL ments, lamps, x-ray equipment, and of 1984 and I am happy to report the suc­ SOCIETY'S ADOPT A HOSPITAL room lights. Most of these supplies cess of its operations. In less than a year, PROGRAM-SANTA ANA, EL were donated by the Arlington Hospi­ the center is serving over 100 clients per SALVADOR tal, Northern Virginia Doctors Hospi­ week. Many of the calls are family members tal, the National Hospital, and several referred by the ADRDA who need specific doctors who are members of the help from city agencies. This is humanity. HON. FRANK R. WOLF In addition to the provision of informa­ OF VIRGINIA Northern Virginia Medical Society. tion and referral, the center is co-sponsoring IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Rotary Club

April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8065 have constituents in my district work­ The physicians learned, as Dr. Casey's uterus and surgery for complications from ing to meet this need. The efforts, slides illustrate, that the problems affecting septic abortions. Because abortion is illegal made by the Arlington County Medi­ health care in El Salvador are great and in El Salvador, women are forced to go to complex, and while San Juan de Dios is lo­ back-alley abortionists, who simply insert an cal Society, are ongoing. Those inter­ cated in the southeast-as far removed froi:n object and leave it there, knowing it will ested in knowing more about the the war in the northwest as is possible-the eventually cause an infection that will then project should contact Patricia war continues to affect the hospital and the require proper medical care for the botched Murray with the Arlington County medical services it can provide. attempt. Luckily for these women, Dr. Medical Society, at 4615 Lee Highway, Occasionally the physicians saw war-relat­ Casey said, antibiotics seemed to be readily Arlington, VA 22207, 703-528-0888. ed casualties at San Juan de Dios, including available. VIRGINIA PHYSICIANS ORGANIZING To HELP a wounded child shown in one of Dr. Casey's Speculums in these wards were almost EL SALVADOR HOSPITAL slides, but said they saw no fighting in the non-existent, Dr. Casey said, as were com­ area while they were there. The effect of fortable facilities for childbirth. One deliv­

.. 8066 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 Santa Ana-to help tbe poverty-stricken "it was a great experience,'' Dr. Casey said, He served with the division in the North­ hospital. So far that has translated into "I think we're both glad we had the oppor­ em Solomons and the Philippines. In about $7,000 in medical supplies already do­ tunity to go." combat, bandsmen act as stretcher bearers nated and an additional $150,000 to be Would they go back? "Yes, to visit," Dr. for the wounded and perform other duties, shipped in medical equipment donated by Borges said. "Not to practice." but they still keep up their musical skills area hospitals. For more information about Project Santa and tum out for parades and other ceremo­ "We have just been amazed at the re­ Ana, call the Arlington County Medical So­ nies in quiet times. Col. Whiting wrote sev­ sponse, not only from our own doctors, but ciety, <703) 528-0888. The address is 4615 eral marches during this period. from hospitals in th.e area as well," Dr. Lee Highway, Arlington, Va. 22207.e In 1944, he was ordered to Washington to Weyl said. "We still face some obstacles, like form the Combat Infantry Band, which the high costs of shipping the supplies traveled throughout the country selling there, and we are hoping to find some ship­ COL. CHESTER E. WHITING War Bonds. ping businessmen who might be able to help After the war, Col. Whiting decided to us out with that. We are excited about this stay in the Army. In 1946, he organized and very committed. And we see this as just HON~ CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR. what became the U.S. Army Field Band. the beginning." OF MARYLAND The unit is based at Fort Meade, Md., and This month and next, Dr. Casey will show IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES the colonel led it on tours in this country her slides throughout Virginia-to the medi­ and Europe. Sometimes it played music he cal society auxiliary, which has already Tuesday, April16, 1985 wrote himself. pledged $500 to the effort; to the Medical e Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. President, re­ Col. Whiting retired from the Army in Society of Virginia; to the local Rotary; and cently the former director of the U.S. 1960 and went to work as a music teacher in she hopes, to other medical societies, in Army Field Band and a distinguished the Prince George's County school system. hopes of soliciting more support for Project In 1967, he was appointed to the county Santa Ana. Marylander died. Col. Chester E. Whiting organized the Army Field school board by Gov: Spiro T. Agnew. In Already, she said, the response from area 1973, the board became an elected body. Virginia hospitals has been warm. Arlington Band in 1946 and during his 40-year Col. Whiting continued to serve until 1980, Hospital, National Orthopedic Hospital, military career distinguished himself when he was defeated. Washington Hospital Center, and Holy and received many commendations His service spanned the years in which the Cross together donated nearly $150,000 in and awards. county's black population was increasing beds, furniture, toys, catheters, linens, soap, After retiring from the Army in rapidly. School desegregation was a difficult surgical instruments, and other equipment. 1960, Colonel Whiting taught school and emotional issue. Col. Whiting favored "So much of this equipment the hospitals in the Prince Georges County school neighborhood schools and in 1971 and 1972 couldn't use or had a surplus of," Dr. Casey he joined a majority of the board in voting said. "They were very eager to help." system and was appointed to the school board there and served until against full desegregation. Given their short but already encouraging But in 1973, when a federal court ordered progress, the physicians involved in Project 1980. During that time he oversaw the extensive busing to carry out a previously Santa Ana are determined to see it through, desegregation of the county's schools mandated desegregation plan, he moved and say they hope to encourage other hospi­ and provided cool-headed leadership ahead with it. He became chairman of the tals and physicians to join their drive, or at a time of great change and uncer­ board in that year and he said the court's "adopt" their own struggling hospitals. tainty. edict was the law of the land. He character­ "There are so many other hospitals in de­ ized the adverse reaction' of some officials veloping countries, in Africa, in southeast­ Mr. President, I insert the obituary of Col. Chester E. Whiting from the and parents as "hysteria." em Asia, in other Central American coun­ Col. Whiting's military honors include the tries that need our help," Dr. Weyl said. Washington Post into the RECORD: Bronze Star and two Legion of Merit "We are not trying to sound self-serving. [From the Washington Post, Mar. 2, 1985] medals. He was a past president of the But we think there is a lot of interest, par­ CHESTER WHITING, Ex-P.G. SCHOOL BOARD American Band Masters Association. ticularly from younger doctors who are very HEAD, DIES His marches include "The Doughboy and eager to get involved in these kinds of Marine March," "The Caduceus March," projects." and "The Schoolboards of America March." Despite nearly overwhelming support, Chester E. Whiting, 84, a retired Army He also wrote an autobiography called "The some fellow physicians are skeptical. "There lieutenant colonel who was founder of the Baton and the Pendulum." were some who said, 'Why do we need to go U.S. Army Field Band and the chairman of Survivors include his wife, Helen B., of down there? We should take care of our own the Prince George's County school board Takoma Park; a daughter, Susan E. Whit­ right here,'" Dr. Weyl said. "You really when a massive and controversial busing ting, and a stepdaughter, Phyllis H. Boyd, can't compare the situation in this country plan went into effect in 1973, died of cardio­ both of San Francisco; a brother, Frank, of with what it's like down there. We're talk­ pulmonary arrest March 21 at Walter Reed Elkin, N.C.; three sisters, Margaret G. ing about a complete lack of resources." Army Medical Center. He lived in Takoma Foster of Merrimack, N.H., Florence E. Others suggested that the medical society Park. Gilman of Tecumseh, Mich., and Dorothy E. might appear to be politically motivated in For 40 years he was military musician. Blamire of Ogunquit, Maine; two grandchil­ their choice of an El Salvador hospital, a During his career he also was a teacher and question the physicians vehemently deny. school administrator in Maryland and his dren, and four great-grandchildren.• "There is nothing political about it,'' Dr. native Massachusetts. A mild-mannered Weyl said. "We are working with the local man who was nonetheless capable of point­ PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE Rotary to help provide equipment for the ed remarks, his work in Prince George's was hospital. We are not working at all th.rough done when the county was still in transition SEAFOOD INDUSTRY the government. We made it clear when we from a rural farm area to a heavily populat­ talked to the former ambassador that we do ed group of suburban communities. What­ HON. HERBERT H. BATEMAN not want to get politically involved. :rhat's ever his personal views may have been, Col. OF VIRGINIA why we chose San Jua.I\ de Dios-because it Whiting provided cool-headed leadership is so remote." when it was needed to comply with· federal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Because of the concern that the new re­ court desegregation orders. Tuesday, April16, 1985 sources being sent to San Juan de Dios must Col. Whiting, a Boston native, graduated be used efficiently, the medical society also from the New England Conservatory of e Mr. BATEMAN. Mr. Speaker, re­ plans to send a biomedical engineer to the Music. Prior to World War II, he was direc­ cently I had the privilege to address hospital periodically to assess the equip­ tor of instrumental music in the public the annual meeting of the Virginia ment and to train other workers to repair it schools of Malden, Mass. Seafood Council in Williamsburg, VA. properly. The medical society will monitor He also was in the Massachusetts National The seafood industry is an integral the progress of the hospital through the Guard, and from 1924 to 1940 he led the element of the Virginia economy and a local Rotary Club, whose members spon­ band of tbe llOth Cavalry. When the war sored the physicians during their stay and began, he went on active duty in the Army significant part of the livelihood of invited them to stay as guests in their and was sent to the Soqthwest Pacific. thousands of people in the First Con­ homes during th~ir week visit. There, he organized the band of the Ameri­ gressional District on and around one For Dr. Casey and Dr. Borges, who saw can Division, which was activated of America's great natural resources, Santa Ana and San Juan de Dios firsthand, in 1942 in New Caledonia. the Chesapeake Bay. As such, it was a April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8067 pleasure to participate in this program oyster harvests. These trends are even more ments. Through careful study, we have and to share the views and ideas of disturbing when compared with the stable begun to gain the knowledge necessary to representatives of this industry on or even increased harvests of marine-spawn­ understand the bay's complex cycles and ways to protect and preserve the sea­ ing fish such as menhaden and bluefish. processes-knowledge that is absolutely nec­ The EPA Chesapeake Bay Program found essary if we are to remedy present problems food industry and to speculate on the a strong relationship between these trends and avoid future ones. future of seafood activities in Virginia. and trends in water quality and the deterio­ On a more intangible but equally impor­ The keynote speaker for the pro­ ration of other resources in the bay and its tant level, protection of the bay has become gram, the Honorable W. Tayloe tributaries. Since the 1960's submerged a goal that transcends philosophical and po­ Murphy, a member of the Virginia aquatic vegetation such as eelgrass and wid­ litical boundaries. You may find some dif­ House of Delegates, made an excellent geongrass has declined in abundance and di­ ferences in the details, but there is no "con­ presentation on the state of the sea­ versity throughout the bay. This trend has servative" or "liberal", "republican" or food industry in Virginia, the clean up moved progressively down the estuary in se­ "democratic" position on the bay's place as of the Chesapeake Bay, and discussed verity. The amount of water in the main a national treasure, or in the importance of stem of the bay that has low, or no dis­ restoring and maintaining it for ourselves what government should be doing to solved, oxygen has increased about fifteen­ and our posterity. The bay is so important, assist this industry. His remarks in­ fold between 1950 and 1980. Now, from May and its plight is so obvious, that it has cluded some ideas on what role the through September in an area reaching become one of those rare subjects that gen­ Federal Government should play in from the Bay Bridge at Annapolis to the erates almost automatic consensus. the seafood industry and I would like Rappahannock River, much of the water This awareness and commitment have al­ to share them with my colleagues. deeper than forty feet has no oxygen, and ready begun to pay dividends. Support for It might seem totally unnecessary for me is, thus essentially devoid of life. High con­ an ambitious set of programs, called the Vir­ to begin this talk by telling you how impor­ centrations of toxic chemicals, particularly ginia Bay initiatives was indeed bipartisan. tant I believe the seafood industry of Vir­ organics and heavy metals, are found near The Governor's original proposal to spend ginia to be. But the fact of the matter is centers of population and industrial facili­ $6 million in the 1984-86 biennium was in­ that I do believe it, and I believe the people ties. In one instance the commercial fishery creased by the 1984 general assembly to of the Commonwealth need to be reminded of an entire river, the James, was destroyed $13.3 million. This year's general assembly as often as we can that it is important both by the careless and willful discharge of the has just added an additional $3.3 million. in its size and in its relationship to the fish­ pesticide Kepone. Clearly there is concensus on the need to eries of other States and the United States The causes of this deteriorating water clean up the bay. as a whole. Standing alone it is important in quality are many but they ultimately boil But before we indulge too heartily in self­ terms of its monetary contribution to the down to increased inputs of nutrients and congratulation, we should remind ourselves Virginia economy and in the number of jobs toxics into the waters of the bay and its that in most campaigns the easy victories it provides. In 1983, according to the Marine tributaries through the various activities of come early, and may fade as quickly as they Resources Commission, Virginia ranked man. Inefficient agricultural practices result came. It is the details, not this big issues, third among the States in the total pound­ in increases in non-point source runoff of ni­ that bring most glorious causes to a sputter­ age of its commercial fisheries harvests. trogen and phosphorous. Uncontrolled ing, ignominious halt. And only those who Only Louisiana and Alaska were larger. Be­ runoff from urban and suburban areas re­ have the patience. resolve and ability to cause menhaden accounts for about 80% of sults in excessive amounts of nutrients and stick around after the opening fanfare and the commercial catch, the Commonwealth toxics being flushed through storm sewers. tackle the details will see the fruits of victo­ ranks only eighth in dockside catch value. Insufficient treatment of municipal and in­ ry. Nevertheless, that figure is approximately dustrial wastes result in point-source dis­ Unfortunately, the details tend to be un­ $85 million. Moreover, some 14,000 people charges of these same nutrients and toxics. pleasant, lacking in drama, and impossible are employed full and part-time in the har­ Antequated and poorly designed waste to resolve without hurting someone's per­ vesting and processing of commercial fisher­ treatment systems also overflow and during cieved interest. ies in the Old Dominion. heavy rainfalls the systems themselves are Past campaigns to "save the bay" have The impact of the Virginia Seafood Indus­ bypassed, flushing raw sewage into the run aground on the details. The effort try on the State's economy is quite signifi­ streams. All of these human activities result stopped being fun, and as individual groups cant. Leonard Shabman and Thomas John­ in degraded water quality from the stand­ which, in the abstract, supported the effort, son of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and point of the iiving resources that are har­ scrambled to protect their interests, the State University have estimated that, on the vested by the Virginia Seafood Industry. consensus crumbled like a sand castle at basis of its interaction with other segments In order to correct these problems of inef­ high tide. of the Virginia economy, the total State ficiency and inadequacy in waste manage­ In regard to the current "initiatives" we output associated with the Virginia Seafood ment, governments-both State and Feder­ have now reached the "details" stage, and if Industry for 1979 was $216,000,000 and the al-have attempted to implement regulatory the effort is to succeed, we must keep a few value added to the State economy from the programs to curb pollution and to effective­ fundamental principles in mind. These prin­ sales of these products was $109,000,000. ly manage the living resources themselves, ciples apply in any situation where human The seafood industry's contribution to do­ but often with less than adequate success. activity affects the natural environment. mestic products in the coastal area of the Because of the close connection between the And whether you like them or not, and no State was estimated to be about 1.25% of living resources and water quality, the sea­ matter what your personal views or inter­ the total. Shabman and Johnson considered food industry has a higher stake than most ests might be, they cannot be avoided. that percentage very important in the in the regulatory programs of the State and The first, and most important of these highly urban Tidewater economy. Federal governments. principles can be summed up in the phrase, Having established the importance of the And so it is important that you ask: "How "There is no free lunch." Surprisingly, it Virginia Seafood Industry both to the are we doing in restoring and protecting the was not until the beginning of the last Nation and the State, let us examine some bay's environment, on which our industry decade that the proposition became suffi­ trends within the industry, the relationship depends?" ciently self-evident to affect national envi­ of those trends to other industries and the It seems, in my experience, that most as­ ronmental policy. All of our major environ­ State of the environment, as well as the ac­ sessments concerning the environment are mental laws rest on that principle, although tivities of various governments. In making mixtures of good news and bad-of opti­ their implementation may not honor it in this examination my major emphasis will be mism and pessimism. The Chesapeake Bay every case. on the Chesapeake Bay because the bay has is no exception. Perhaps this phenomenon What it means is simply this: Everything proven more sensitive, and hence, has been is for the best. If the assessments were too you do that affects the environment im­ more heavily impacted by man's activities rosy, we would all go home and neglect the poses a cost, and that cost must be paid by than the offshore fishery. work that remains to be done. If they were somebody-if not by you, then by someone As anyone associated with the seafood in­ too bleak, we would throw up our hands and else. dustry knows, natural fluctuations in fisher­ abandon the effort. For years, however, we cheerfully operat­ ies stocks can have a profound effect on all It is true that there is a gratifying amount ed under the assumption that where the en­ segments of the industry, as can competi­ of good news about the bay. If nothing else, vironment and natural resources were con­ tion from foreign producers and even from the past several years have seen the protec­ cerned, we could operate outside the laws of recreational fishermen. Of particular impor­ tion and restoration of the Chesapeake Bay nature and economics. tance have been the trends in decreased move closer to their rightful places in the Thus, in the "good old days" cities dis­ harvests of freshwater-spawning fish such national consciousness and on the priority posed of their sewage for "free." Factories as shad and striped bass and decreases in lists of both the Federal and State govern- poured industrial wastes into the bay and its .

8068 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 tributaries at little or no cost-to them. Un­ cerned, we can never do "just one thing." ities to treat their sewage adequately. The fortunately, even though the cost of such Every action will have consequences that ra­ State government should not hide behind activities did not show up on any ledger diate from it like ripples on a still pond. politically safe but outmoded concepts of - book, they were being paid for, with heavy Some of these are easily foreseeable: some local autonomy to avoid dealing with interest. not. Who would have guessed, when DDT areawide problems such as nonpoint source The downstream municipality forced to was introduced in the 1940's, that in spite of pollution and nutrient removal. And the find another water supply, the dairy farmer its benefits it would lead to the near extinc­ Federal Government must acknowledge the forced to go out of business, the waterman tion of the osprey-that magnificent crea­ fact that "federalism" consists of neither facing condemned oyster grounds, the sea­ ture that comes so close to capturing the dictation, at one extreme, nor indifference, food packer forced to look further and fur­ spirit of the bay itself? at the other. ther afield for products to market, the tour­ Most activities that affect the bay are of Of course, the problem is that officials at ist campground and charter business whose little apparent consequence in themselves­ each level of government prefer not to be customers were driven away by polluted a subdivision here, a road there, a new field the ones responsible for the painful, and I._,, water and depleted fishing-all of them cleared from woodland-but as they are thus unpopular, decisions. It is easier to call picked up the tab for this "free" activity. added together they have the effect of an upon someone else to take the responsibil­ But, expensive as the bill was, they picked avalanche that starts with a few pebbles ity, and then to blame him when the prob­ up only part of it. As a society, we have rolling down a hillside. We can not make de­ lem continues. That is human nature. But been getting a pretty good glimpse in the cisions by simply trying to determine the ef­ our system of government was not designed past few years of just how big a bill we will fects of individual acts. We have to look at to amplify those characteristics of human have to pay to bring back what has been an activity in the context of everything else, nature: It is supposed to provide a vehicle lost. The vast sums necessary to restore the including not only our own activities, but for overcoming them so that the public in­ bay are nothing more than the accumulated the cyclical "wild cards" that mother nature terest is served in spite of our perverse sum of many supposedly "free" lunches, throws in from time-to-time. There are human traits. with compound interest. simply too many of us doing too many As long as each level of government looks Our environmental laws and regulations, things in the bay's vicinity to continue with on the others as a convenient place to lay as burdensome as they sometimes may the notion that our individual actions make blame, the bay's decline will continue de­ seem, are intended at their most basic level no difference. to make sure that persons that benefit from spite annual infusions of money from Wash­ All of these principles that I have men­ ington, Annapolis, Harrisburg and Rich­ a particular activity pay the full cost of that ' activity. For example, if a manufacturer is tioned work whether we like them or not. mond. Until each unit of government ac­ required to install pollution control equip­ That they have been working all along is cepts its responsibility as a necessary part of demonstrated by the all-too-obvious evi­ a combined function, all the studies and rec­ ment to protect water quality, that becomes dence of the bay's decline. part of his cost of doing business. The cost ommendations in the world won't help. is borne by the users of his product- rather The most insidious thing about these prin­ What can each level do? To start with, the than by those who happen to live and work ciples is that they are not always obvious to Federal Government can acknowledge, downstream. Likewise, if a municipality the individual making day-to-day decisions. openly and without ideological embarrass­ raises its sewer rate to pay for the upgrade Furthermore, their voluntary observance ment, that as part of the Federal system, it of its treatment plant, that increase simply is not usually in the individual's immediate has a rightful role in the protection of our reflects the cost that would otherwise be self-interest. Thus, we must accept the fact environment. Only the Federal Government shown in the degradation and ultimate loss that well-designed and evenly-enforced laws has the resources to undertake the plan­ of other uses of the receiving stream. and regulations are necessary if the bay is ning, research, standards-setting and techni­ It is necessary to keep this in mind, as pro­ to survive. In some cases, financial incen­ cal assistance that make possible the deter­ grams to protect the bay begin to pinch. As tives may be preferable to regulatory re­ mination and attainment of long-range, na­ complaints about cost come in from this strictions, but in any case, we cannot rely on tional goals. Without the continued active group or that group, and as legislators begin platitudes or on appeals to good will to ac­ presence of the Federal Government, pro­ to backpedal, fearing the reaction from vari­ complish the job. After all, if protection of tection of the bay is impossible. After all, it ous constituencies, remember that each ex­ the bay were that simple, it is not likely wasn't until the enactment of national legis­ emption, each exception, simply transfers a that we would be taking the time to worry lation and the assumption of an active Fed­ cost from someone whose responsibility it about it. That is not to say that along with eral role in the early 1970's that we saw a should be, to someone else. Each time this concrete, effective programs we do not need reversal in the serious and accelerating de­ happens, we grant a subsidy to the favored to expand our concepts of personal responsi­ cline of our environment. group just as surely as if we took money bility for the bay and for the protection of On the other hand, the Federal Govern­ from the public coffers and handed it over. the environment on which our lives and ment needs to resist the temptation to think Only this type of subsidy is even more dan­ livelihoods depend. Without an understand­ that it knows best when it comes to the de­ gerous than the monetary kind, because it is ing and acceptance of that responsibility, tails of administration and enforcement. It paid in a currency that is not replaceable­ there will never be the kind of mutual sup­ also needs to keep in mind the value of con­ the very life and health of the bay. Thus, port and the willingess to forego some per­ sistency. It can not change the groundrules for those whose livelihood depends on the sonal gain for the sake of a larger goal, that every few years and expect anything worth­ bay, this type of subsidy is fatal. It can be is necessary to such an undertaking. Too while to result. paid only at their direct expense and ulti­ often, unfortunately, we tend to think of The States, for their part, must not forget mately, at the price of their ruin. conservation as something that someone that if they want to be treated as equal Another principle that we must keep in else will take care of, or that we can accom­ partners in a Federal system, they must mind as we grapple with the details, or hard plish by recycling our newspapers and beer accept the political and fiscal responsibiltty issues, is that of the commons. Simply cans and by contributing a few dollars to that goes along with the territory. The stated, the law of the commons decrees the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Not that States are best situated to administer and that, if each user of a finite resource follows those things don't help, but they do not dis­ enforce most environmental programs. his natural tendency to maximize his bene­ charge our responsibility, either. As one They understand, often far better than fit from the resource, the combined effect noted conservationist has said, "In our at­ Washington does, the particular needs and I· of these individual and seemingly rational tempts to make conservation easy, we have problems of administering those programs. actions will destroy the resource. This is made it trivial." We need to realize that lt is But "flexibility" doesn't mean license. The true whether we take resources from the not easy, that it will cost us, but that the in­ States must accept their full responsibility commons or put destructive wastes into it. vestment will be generously-though per­ to ensure that the laws they administer are Thus, we agree to restraints on our freedom haps slowly-repaid. vigorously and evenly enforced. Because to use the bay, in the form of conservation A few moments ago I spoke of the princi­ there is no free lunch, you don't help indus­ laws and environmental regulations, so that ple embodied in the phrase, "There is no try or your State's economy in the long run we can continue to enjoy its benefits. But, free lunch." By now Federal, State and local by lax enforcement of environmental laws. to the extent that anyone is allowed to take governments ought to be aware that the Looking in the other direction, the States from the commons more than it can sup­ lunch isn't free. But, unfortunately, they all must also acknowledge their responsibility port, he will diminish the fair share of ev­ want someone else to pick up the check. It is for managing regionwide problems where eryone else, including, eventually, himself. necessary that all levels of government con­ traditional mechanisms are demonstrably This principle is inexorable, and failure to tribute their energies and resources to the inadequate. While land use control is tradi­ heed it will lead sooner or later to the bay's effort, and not expect a bailout from the tionally-and properly-a local matter, it destruction. next level up or down. Local governments will not do to hide behind tradition if that A third and related principle is that, should not use cutbacks in Federal funding prevents a solution to an obvious problem where the natural environment is con- as an excuse to avoid their clear responsibil- that transcends local boundary lines.

'• April16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8069 Local governments, for their part, must 5. The date of the vote; 262. H.R. 5899. District of Columbia Ap­ accept more of the responsibility for paying 6. My vote, in the form Y=yes, N=no, and propriation.,, Fiscal 1985. Walker, R-Pa., the cost of their activities and decisions that NV =not voting; · amendment to cut the funding levels in the affect the bay. The writing is clearly on the 7. The Vote of the entire Arizona delega­ bill by 2 percent. Rejected 151-273: N<3-2- wall that Federal support to local govern­ tion in the form , July 26, 1984. the project's construction, require non-fed­ serve the 500th anniversary of Columbus' 294. H.R. 4784. Trade Remedies Reform eral interests to pay 30 percent of costs of first voyage to the New World. Adopted 279- Act. Passage of the bill to expand the range general cargo ports, and set an annually de­ 130: Y<2-2-1), July 25, 1984. of unfair trade practices eligible for retalia­ clining ceiling on obligation of general reve­ 285. H.R. 5973. Interior Appropriations, tion by the United States. Passed 259-95: nues for inland waterway projects. Rejected Fiscal 1985. Adoption of the rule providing for House floor consideration 295. H. Res. 558. George Hansen Repri­ 276. H.R. 3678. Water Resources Develop­ of the bill to make fiscal 1985 appropria­ mand. Adoption of the resolution to repri­ ment Authorization. Passage of the bill to tions for the Interior Department and relat­ mand Rep. George Hansen, R-Idaho, for authorize various water resources develop­ ed agencies. H. Res. 551 would not have failing to disclose his financial dealings as ment and conservation projects to be con­ waived points of order against amendments required under the 1978 Ethics in Govern­ structed by the Army Corps of Engineers. to rescind appropriated funds from the U.S. ment Act. Adopted 354-52: Y<3-2-0), July 31, Passed 259-33: NV<2-0-3), June 29, 1984. Synthetic Fuels Corporation. Rejected 148- 1984. 277. H.R. 5541. Public Broadcasting Au­ 261: N0-3-1), July 25, 1984. 296. H. Res. 555. Anne M. Burford Ap­ thorization. Dannemeyer, R-Calif., substi­ 287. H.R : 11. Education Amendments/ pointment. D'Amours, D-N.H., motion to tute to the Oxley, R-Ohio, amendment to School Prayer. Walker, R-Pa., amendment suspend the rules and adopt the resolution limit the authorized funding for the Corpo­ to the Coats, R-Ind., amendment, to cut off urging President Reagan to withdraw the ration for Public Broadcasting to $130 mil­ federal education assitance to states and appointment of former Environmental Pro­ lion in each of fiscal years 1987-1989. Re­ school districts with policies that prohibit tection Agency Administrator Anne M. Bur­ jected 95-298: N0-3-1), July 24, 1984. silent or vocal prayer in public schools. Re­ ford to be chairman of the National Adviso­ 278. H.R. 5541. Public Broadcasting Au­ jected 194-215: N<2-2-1), July 26, 1984. ry Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. thorization. Oxley, R-Ohio, amendment to 288. H.R. 11. Education Amendments/ Motion agreed to 363-51: Y<2-3-0), July 31, reduce the authorized funding for the Cor­ School Prayer. Gunderson, R-Wis., amend­ 1984. poration for Public Broadcasting to $186 ment to the Hunter, R-Calif.• substitute for 297. H.R. 6028. Labor, Health and Human million in fiscal 1987, $214 million in 1988 the Coats, R-Ind., amendment to prohibit Services, Education Appropriations, Fiscal and $246 million in 1989; and to reduce the states and school districts from denying in­ 1985. Dannemeyer, R-Calif., amendment to authorized funding for the Public Telecom­ dividuals the opportunity to participate in cut spending in the bill by $147.5 million munications Facilities Program to $14 mil­ moments of silent prayer in public schools. through a variety of cost/saving measures. lion in fiscal 1985, $16. million in 1986 and The Gunderson amendment struck lan­ Rejected 182-226: N<4-1-0), Aug. 1, 1984. $18 million in 1987. Rejected 176-217: N<2- guage in the Hunter amendment that would 298. H.R. 6028. Labor, Health and Human 2-1), July 24, 1984. have cut off federal funds to states and Services, Education Appropriations, Fiscal 279. H.R. 5541. Public Broadcasting Au­ schools that prohibit voluntary spoken and 1985. Frenzel, R-Minn., amendment to thorization. Passage of the bill to authorize silent prayer in the schools. Adopted 378-29: reduce discretionary spending in the bill by funding for the Corporation for Public Y(4-0-1), July 26, 1984. 5.9 percent across-the-board, or $1.5 billion. Broadcasting at $238 million in fiscal 1987, 289. H.R. 11. Education Amendments/ Rejected 144-276: N<3-2-0), Aug. 1, 1984. $253 million in 1988 and $270 million in School Prayer. Coats, R-Ind., amendment as 299. H.R. 6028. Labor, Health and Human 1989; and for the Public Telecommunica­ amended by the Hunter, R-Calif., substitute Services, Education Appropriations, Fiscal tions Facilities Program, $50 million in as amended by Gunderson, R-Wis., to pro­ 1985. Passage of the bill to provide fiscal 1985, $53 million in 1986 and $56 mil­ hibit states and school districts from deny­ $85,579,931,000 in fiscal 1985 appropriations lion in 1987. Passed 302-91: Y<3-1-1), July ing individuals the opportunity to partici­ and $10,568,609,000 in advance fiscal 1986 24, 1984. t pate in moments of silent prayer in public appropriations for the Departments of 280. H.R. 1580. Aviation Drug-Trafficking schools: to provide that no person could be Labor, Health and Human Services, Educa­ Control Act. Mineta, D-Calif., motion to sus­ required to participate in prayer and to stip­ tion and other related agencies. Passed 329- pend the rules and pass the bill to increase ulate that federal, state and local officials 91: Y(3-2-0), Aug. 1, 1984. penalties for aircraft pilots and owners who could not influence the form or content of 300. H.R. 6040. Supplemental Appropria­ knowingly parciptate in illegal drug traf­ any prayer. Adopted 356-50: Y<4-0-1), July tions, Fiscal 1984. Walker, R-Pa., amend­ ficking Motion agreed to 393-1: Y<4-0-1>, 26, 1984. ment to reduce the overall spending amount July 24, 1984. 290. H.R. 11. Education Amendments/ in the bill by 1 percent. Rejected 184-238: 281. H.R. 5616. Counterfeit Access Device School Prayer. Goodling, R-Pa., perfecting N<2-3-0), Aug. 1, 1984.e and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. amendment to the Ford, D-Mich., substitute Hughes, D-N.J., motion to suspend the rules for the Goodling amendment to reduce and. pass the bill to make it a federal crime fiscal 1985 authorizations for education pro­ THE NICARAGUANS AND TER- to obtain unauthorized access to computers grams in the bill from $1.7 billion to $947 RORISM INTERNATIONAL: and to set new penalties for trafficking in million. The perfecting amendment was BIRDS OF A FEATHER fraudulent credit cards or bank cards, or identical to the original Goodling proposal cards that are stolen, lost or revoked. that that Ford substitute would have Motion .agreed to 395-0: Y<4-0-1), July 24, blocked from coming to a vote. Rejected HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD 1984. 169-233: N0-2-2), July 26, 1984. OF MICHIGAN 282. H.R. Emergency Mathematics and 291. H.R. 11. Education Amendments/ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Science Education Act. Perkins, D-Ky., School Prayer. Goodling, R-Pa., amendment motion to suspend the rules and discharge as amended by the Ford, D-Mich., substi­ Tuesday, April16, 1985 the Education and Labor and Judiciary tute, to reduce fiscal 1985 authorizations for Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, Committees from further consideration of education programs in the bill from $1.7 bil­ e the bill and to concur in the Senate amend­ lion to $1.32 billion. Adopted 397-0: Y<3-0- as our unsuspecting country is treated ment to make it unlawful for high schools 2>. July 26, 1984. to a professional public relations on­ receiving federal aid to deny use of their 292. H.R. 11. Education Amendments/ slaught by the Sandinistas, I want to building to religious, political and other stu- School Prayer. Passage of the bill to reau- pause and consider the seamier side of April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8071 that Marxist-Leninist government. I committed to terrorism in Europe and the The fugitive is also described in the inter­ am deeply concerned about their atti­ Middle East. national records as a member of a group tudes toward terrorism and their affili­ Veteran Sandinistas say that it was at the that helped Guglielmi and three other Ital­ PFLP camps that the Nicaraguans first met ian fugitives move from Paris to Nicaragua ation with well-known terrorists from European leftists-Germans from the after the Italian government accused various groups around the world. Baader-Meinhof Gang and its spin-offs; Ital­ France in 1983 of harboring more than 200 Few of us know that some Sandinis­ ians from the Red Brigades and other radi­ wanted Italian militants. tas were trained in the past by PLO cal groups-and began establishing the close The woman journalist in Managua de­ terrorists; some were actually involved personal relationships that persist today. clined comment when two Italian journal­ in PLO terrorist operations. At the "The European leftists believe that the ists tried to interview her last month. "I am present time, a number of well-known Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Quebrada del not who you think I am," she said. Her international terrorists are still resid­ Yuro run through their countries, too," said name is known but omitted here because of ing in Nicaragua while others pay one Sandinista official, referring to a key the absence of proof that the journalist and guerrilla supply line in the Vietnam War the fugitive are the same. courtesy calls to that country. It is re­ and the Bolivian gully where famed guerril­ Roberto Sandalo, 27, a Red Brigades de­ ported that a number of international la chief Emesto "Che" Guevara was killed fector living in Kenya, told Italy's Oggi terrorists, wanted on terrorist charges in 1967. news magazine last month that five Briga­ in their home countries, are living in One PLO-trained Sandinista, Patricio Ar­ disti are now serving as officers in the San­ Nicaragua. They include a few former guello, joined the PFLP's most notorious dinista army. "That's a lie," Defense Minis­ Red Brigade members who may be terrorist, Laila Khaled, in a botched at­ ter Humberto Ortega said last week. "We do serving in the Sandinista Army. Other tempt to hijack an Israeli jetliner from Am­ not require that type of support to defend leftists in Managua are fugitive mili­ sterdam to New York on Sept. 6, 1970. Israe­ our principles and our flags." li security agents killed Arguello and cap­ Sandinista government sources said two tants, and are granted jobs, identifica­ tured Khaled, who was later exchanged for West Germans who have bragged of having tion papers and a safe haven in that hostages seized by another group of PFLP been part of the Baader-Meinhof Gang are country. hijackers. The Sandinistas have named a now serving in the army-one as a captain As we in the Congress and the free geothermal power plant after Arguello. in an artillery unit stationed at the Monteli­ world do as much as we can to con­ Another PLO-trained Nicaraguan was mar base southwest of Managua and the front the brutal hand of terrorism, we Communications Minister Enrique Schmidt, other attached to a military counterintelli­ should carefully look at the Sandinis­ killed in combat with anti-Sandinista guer­ gence unit. tas and the kinds of people they refer rillas last November. Schmidt's widow, a A West German known only as "Fitz" has West German citizen born in the Basque told friends there is a warrant for his arrest to as comrades. Let us all judge the region of Spain, now works for the Sandi­ in Germany. "Fitz," described as an anar­ Sandinistas by their actions and not nista Front's Department of Political Edu­ chist, fought in the Sandinista revolution by their words. cation. Health Ministry workers say she lec­ and later worked as an administrator at the With these sobering thoughts in tured them last year on the ideology of the government-owned Julio Buitrago sugar mind, I commend his informative arti­ Basque Homeland and Liberty guerrilla mill. cle to my colleagues in the Congress. group, known as ETA, fighting for inde­ Also living in Nicaragua is Peter Paul [From the Miami Herald Mar. 8, 19851 pendence from Spain. Zahl, a well-known West German writer Yet another Sandinista trained in Leba­ with former links to Baader-Meinhof who SANDINISTAS ATTRACT A WHO'S WHO OF non is Deputy Interior Minister Rene Vivas. spent four years in prison for the attempted TERRORISTS He is now dating an Argentine Montonero murder of a policeman in Cologne, Germa­ crimes, is in Bluefields setting up gray-eyed surgeon, treating children in a sassinated Somoza in Paraguay in Septem­ a theater group for the port's West Indian Managua slum. She is a petite journalist, ber 1980, in what the killers called a show of blacks. writing for a Paris magazine. Both are fugi- "revolutionary solidarity" with Nicaragua. Nicaraguan government officials said a . tives, wanted in their native Italy for lead­ The PLO now has a fully accredited em­ handful of Basque ETA guerrillas also lived ing left-wing guerrilla gangs. bassy in Managua. And the Sandinista in Managua until 1983, when Spanish Prime Two West Germans linked to the Baader­ Front has "Fraternal" relations with leftist Minister Felipe Gonzalez, a strong Sandi­ Meinhof Gang are now officers in the Peo­ groups from Italy, West Germany, Spain's nista sympathizer, protested to the Mana­ ple's Sandinista Army. One is in charge of a Basque region, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, gua government. Several ETA members counterintelligence unit. The other com­ Paraguay, Peru, Colombia, Libya, El Salva­ moved to neighboring Costa Rica and some mands an artillery battalion. dor, Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica. went to Venezuela, the officials said. And an Argentine Montonero guerrilla. The Italian government on Feb. 8 gave Gregorio Jimenez, 32, an ETA militant widow of the Argentine rebel who led the the Sandinistas a list of 22 Italian leftists wanted by the Spanish government on ter­ commando team that assassinated former believed to be living in Nicaragua-about rorism charges, was arrested in Costa Rica Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza in half of them wanted fugitives, the rest de­ in September 1983 and charged with plot­ Paraguay, is dating a ranking Nicaraguan scribed only as "extremists." The Foreign ting to assassinate Eden Pastora, leader of official trained as a guerrilla by the PLO in Ministry said· it knew nothing about the an anti-Sandinista grerrilla group based in Lebanon in the early 1970s. Italians but would investigate. Costa Rica. These are but a few of the left-wing ex­ Topping the list, obtained by The Herald, Costa Rican Justice Ministry officials say tremists from Europe and Latin America is Guglielmo Guglielmi, 39, a one-time Jimenez, still awaiting trial, has confessed who came to Managua after the 1979 Sandi­ Rome surgeon facing five arrest warrants 'that a Managua-based group of ETA rebels nista revolution, seeking safe haven and a for crimes between 1979 and 1983 ranging planned Pastora's assassination, without au­ chance to prove their solidarity with the from kidnapping to illegal weapons posses­ thorization from the Sandinistas, but as a Nicaraguan government. sions to "participation in armed gangs." sign of "revolutionary solidarity." It is the same kind of revolutionary International terrorism records show that Since the revolution triumphed, Nicara­ "networking"-leftist militants call it "inter­ Guglielmi, now working at a government­ gua has also been visited for varying periods nationalism"-that benefitted the Sandinis­ run children's clinic in the Managua slum of by a string of leftist militants from Europe tas during their long guerrilla struggle to Ciudad Sandino, was a top leader of the and Latin America, many of them simple topple Somoza. Unita Combattente Comunisti, a guerrilla political exiles, some of them well-known In the late 1960s, the Sandinistas signed a band that spun off from the Red Brigades guerrilla leaders. pact with the Palestine Liberation Organi­ in the late 1970s. He was convicted in absen­ Mario Firmenich, head of Argentina's zation to train Nicaraguan guerrillas in Leb­ tia last June of kidnapping and sentenced to Montoneros, traveled legally through Nica­ anon. Somoza was a steadfast supporter of 22 years in prison. ragua-once staying several days in the Israel, and Nicaragua was one of the first Also on the list is a 33-year-old Milan soci­ home of Interior Minister Tomas Borge-as nations to recognize the Israeli state in ologist wanted on a warrant charging her well as Mexico and Costa Rica before the 1948. with "organizing and leading armed gangs Buenos Aires government put out a warrant A former Israeli intelligence agent once in Italy and abroad." An Italian woman for his arrest. He was detained in Brazil last based in Nicaragua said at least 150 Sandi­ with the same name as the fugitive is a jour­ · year and extradited to Argentina. nistas were trained in the 1970s in Lebanon nalist accredited in Managua as correspond­ Two Baader-Meinhof gang members vis­ camps run by the Popular Front for the Lib­ ent for a Paris-based magazine that special­ ited Nicaragua in 1980 to express their sup­ eration of Palestine, the PLO faction most izes in Third World issues. port for the Sandinistas and explain the 8072 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 reasons for their own struggle. They sought America. The figures for the other coun­ SUPPORT OF VETO OF TAX out three foreign journalists living in Mana­ tries: Sweden 35, France 43, Britian 45 and INCREASE gua and granted them interviews, one of the Canada 44 per 1,000. reporters said. Chances are, every assumption you might And Lauro Azzolini, 41, a Red Brigades make is wrong: HON. CONNIE MACK founder sentenced in absentia to 30 years in OF FLORIDA prison for the 1978 kidnap-assassination of America has higher rates because its high Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, visited minority population is more inclined to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nicaragua in early 1980 and tried to hold a have sex at an earlier age. While black teens Tuesday, April16, 1985 news conference to explain Moro's slaying. are twice as likely to get pregnant as whites Journalists invited to the conference said 0,631,000 for black vs. 831,000 for whites), • Mr. MACK. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Sandinistas blocked it. our white pregnancy rate is at least double my distinguished colleague from Azzolini, alleged to have been the man that of other Western countries. Texas, BEAU BOULTER, and I went to who killed Moro with a close range blast Ready access to abortion here prompts the White House to express our sup­ from a Czechoslovak-made Skorpion ma­ greater sexual activity than it does else­ port to the President for his opposi­ chine pistol, was later captured in Italy and where. Actually, abortion is more available tion to new taxes. Representative is in prison. and cheaper in the other nations. It is free BouLTER and I delivered a letter to the in France and Sweden, for example, but President signed by 147 Members of THE INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION­ their abortion rates are half that of the NICARAGUA'S NETWORK OF THE LEFT United States. this House which guarantees that we PLO-A PLO faction trained as many as A thesis that this columnist advanced last will sustain his veto of any legislation 150 Sandinista guerrilla fighters in the fall is also a myth-that the availability of raising taxes. 1970s, including the late head of the Nicara­ welfare induces poor teens to have babies so With successive $200 billion plus guan telecommunications office. A Sandi­ they can move out. deficits on the horizon for years to nista, Patricio Arguello, was killed during a come, we believe Congress must act Palestinian hijacking attempt. The PLO In most cases, support appears to be more now has an embassy in Managua. generous in other countries than that pro­ now to enact substantial deficit reduc­ Red Brigades-Sandinistas reportedly first vided under the Aid to Families with De­ tion measures. Decisions to cut popu­ met members of Italy's Red Brigades in Pal­ pendent Children. lar problems are not easy, but we have estinian training camps. The Italian govern­ Americans are more sexually active than no choice; the continued health of our ment has claimed that 22 terrorists and po­ Canadians or Europeans, some say. Not so. economy is at stake. litical extremists now are living in Nicara­ The median age at which half of teen fe­ The American public has unambig­ gua, a claim the Sandinistas say they will in­ males have had sex is the same in the uously expressed its view that deficit vestigate. United States, France, Britain and the reduction must come entirely from the Baader-Meinhof-Sandinista contacts Netherlands, slightly under 18. Sweden's with Baader-Meinhof terrorists also began median age is a year younger, and Canada's spending side. Our constituents will in Palestinian training camps. Two West a year older. not tolerate a citizen bailout of the Germans now in the Sandinista army re­ The most important myth is that Ameri­ Government through increased taxes. portedly have said they were Baader-Mein­ ca's high pregnancy rate is due to greater Accordingly, as the House moves for­ hof members. Other Baader-Meinhof mem­ availability of birth control is more avail­ ward in the budget process, none of us bers are reported to have visited Nicaragua able in other countries and is free or nearly should be deceived into thinking that since the revolution. so, but more costly and less accessible in the we can avoid these difficult program Montoneros-Former Sandinista fighter United States. And fewer American teens reforms and eliminations by simply Eden Pastora says 20 to 30 of the Argentine use contraceptives, and of those who do use guerrillas joined Sandinistas fighting looking at revenue proposals. them, they are less likely to use the Pill, the The President will not hesitate to Somoza. A Montonero commando team as­ most effective method. sassinated Somoza in Paraguay. Several veto legislation raising taxes and the Montoneros now live in Nicaragua.e Thus, the heart of America's teen preg­ signers of this letter have pledged to nancy problem is that they are having sex sustain his veto. Plans for a revenue without birth control. escape through a hike in taxes there­ SEX EDUCATION IS THE ONLY European countries believe that govern­ ANSWER ment has a responsibility to take every step fore have been taken off the table and possible to prevent pregnancies of unwed thrown into the trash can. teenagers-including giving free birth con­ Mr. Speaker, attached for the HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER trol to sexually promiscuous ones. RECORD is a copy of the letter present­ OF ILLINOIS ed to President Reagan. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES That is the heart of the programs in St. Paul, Jackson and Houston. In each city, CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Tuesday, April16, 1985 birth control assistance is given in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, • Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, recent­ schools. Washington, DC, March 18, 1985. ly the Chicago Sun-Times ran an arti­ In Jackson, Dr. Aaron Shirley, director of Hon. RoNALD W. REAGAN, the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health President of the United States, The White cle entitled "Sex Education is the Center, got a report in 1979 that there were House, Washington, DC. Only Answer" which reports on a 120 student mothers in high school out of a DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: We wholeheartedly study released by the Alan Gutt­ population of 3,000. Only a few students support your commitment to veto any in­ macher Institute on the subject of had come to the center for birth control as­ crease in taxes. teenage pregnancy. The article raises sistance. The American people expressed them­ some very important issues regarding So Shirley went to the principal and selves clearly in the November election: the use of contraceptives by teenagers worked out a unique solution. His center they oppose any attempt by Congress to tax in this country. I recommend the arti­ now runs the school's entire health pro­ its way out of the deficit problem. gram-ranging from examinations of ath­ When you challenged the legislative cle to my colleagues. branch to "make my day," you again dem­ SEX EDUCATION IS THE ONLY ANSWER letes to testing for hypertension and routine care. onstrated the political courage necessary to tackle the deficit problem head on. Mr. Two questions were added to the form President, we stand with you all the way. At a recent conference sponsored by the every student must fill out: Are you sexual­ Children's Defense Fund, I heard about We, the undersigned members of Con­ ly active? If so, are you using contracep­ gress, join with the American people in sup­ three programs that have cut teenage preg­ tives? nancy rates in half in cities as diverse as port of your veto of any legislation raising Jackson, Miss., St. Paul, Minn., and Hous­ Students generally answered the form taxes. ton. honestly, giving the staff the opening to Sincerely, The need for such prograins became clear urge sexually active students to use birth CONNIE MACK. 10 days ago in a report released by the Alan control. BEAU BOULTER. Guttmacher Institute. The result? Now there are only 40 student Dick Armey, Bob Badham, Steve Bart­ Only 14 teens out of 1,000 get pregnant in mothers-not 120. Why shouldn't every lett, Joe Barton, Helen Delich Bent­ the Netherlands, but 96 per 1,000 do so in high school adopt a similar strategy?e ley, Doug Bereuter, Mike Bilirakis, AprillG, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8073 Ben Blaz, Bill Broomfield, Hank arcane language translates into a.vital fective is based on the Treasury's gross over­ Brown, Jim Broyhill, Dan Burton, bread-and-butter matter whose elimi­ estimate of the tax revenue it forgoes be­ Sonny Callahan, Carroll Campbell, nation would spell disaster to the cause of the credit and an equally gross un­ William Carney, Gene Chappie, Dick derestimate of the number of jobs that Cheney, Bill Clinger, Dan Coats, Bill economy of our island, which is al­ result from the operations of possession cor­ Cobey, Howard Coble, Larry Combest, ready suffering from a staggering 23- porations in response to the Section 936 Larry Coughlin, Jim Courter, Larry percent unemployment rate. credit. Craig, Philip Crane, Bill Dannemeyer, The repeal of section 936 will cause The Treasury Department, not willing to Hal Daub, Bob Davis, Tom DeLay, severe economic and social hardships give the Puerto Ricans cold turkey, ac­ Mike DeWine, Joe DioGuardi, Robert in Puerto Rico while producing no ap­ knowledges that repeal of the credit will Doman, David Dreier, John Duncan, preciable revenue gains and a signifi­ cause disruptions in the possessions, par­ Fred Eckert, Mickey Edwards, Bill Em­ ticularly in Puerto Rico. It proposes, there­ erson, Harris Fawell, Bobbi Fiedler, cant net revenue loss for the U.S. Treasury. It would also undermine the fore, to replace the present Section 936 Jack Fields, Webb Franklin, Dean credit with a "wage credit" that, it asserts, Gallo, George Gekas, Ben Gilman, U.S. security interests in the political will be more cost-effective. Newt Gingrich, Bill Goodling, John stability of the Caribbean region and The Treasury Department is wrong. Grotberg, John Paul Hammerschmidt. place an onerous strain on United The so-called wage credit would be a fixed James Hansen, Tommy Hartnett, Bill States-Puerto Rico relations . . dollar amount per hour worked by all Hendon, John Hiler, Bud Hillis, Mar­ Norman Ture has contributed an en­ people employed in the possession by an es­ jorie Holt, Larry Hopkins, Duncan lightening article to the debate on sec­ tablishment engaged in manufacturing. Hunter, Henry Hyde, Andy Ireland, This amount would be 60% of the minimum John Kasich, Tom Kindness, Jack tion 936 entitled "Treasury Prepares a Caribbean Austerity Initiative" pub­ wage applicable to such employees in the Kemp, Jim Kolbe, Ken Kramer, Bob first year-1987, decreasing by 10% a year Lagomarsino, Del Latta, Norman Lent, lished in the Wall Street Journal of beginning in 1993 until it is completely Jerry Lewis, Tom Lewis, Jim Light­ Aprilll, 1985. I commended his article phased out in 1998. The credit would apply foot, Bob Livingston, Tom Loeffler, to my colleagues' attention in the against the federal income-tax liability on Bill Lowery, Trent Lott, Manuel hope that they will agree with us that the possession source profits of the compa­ Lujan, Dan Lungren, John McCain, AI the elimination of section 936 from ny. For this reason, It is obviously wrong to McCandless, Bill McCollum, Joseph the Tax Code would be untimely, very treat the wage credit as a subsidy for em­ McDade, Bob McEwen, Jack McKer­ ployment. The credit would reduce the tax nan, J. Alex McMillan, Ed Madigan, detrimental to the United States, and, as Ture says: repealing a useful on profits, not on wages. It would, there­ Ron Marlenee, Lynn Martin, Jan "* • • fore, reduce the cost of using capital, al­ Meyers, Bob Michel, Clarence Miller, tax provision is hardly the best way to though not to anyWhere near the same Guy Molinari, David Monson, W. simplify it • • *". extent as the present credit. It would not Henson Moore, Carlos Moorhead, Sid I insert the entire article into the reduce the cost of labor. Morrison, John Myers, Howard Niel­ RECORD: The proposed wage credit is nothing more son, George O'Brien. [From the Wall Street Journal, Apr. 11, than a severe cutback in the existing Sec­ Mike Oxley, Ron Packard, Stan Parris, 1985] tion 936 credit. As such, it would do little to Charles Pashayan, Tom Petri, John reduce complexity, and it certainly would Porter, Carl Pursell, James Quillen, TREASURY PREPARES A CARIBBEAN AUSTERITY not be more effective in promoting employ­ Matthew Rinaldo, Don Ritter, Pat INITIATIVE ment. And unless one relies on the Treas­ Roberts, John Rowland, Eldon Rudd, (By Norman B. Ture) ury's implicit assumption of inert, non-re­ James Saxton, Bill Schuette, Jim Sen­ A Treasury Department official once cal­ sponsive taxpayers, it won't produce any of senbrenner, Dan Schaefer, Claudine culated on the back of an envelope what the the revenue gains so extravagantly estimat­ Schneider, E. Clay Shaw, Norman "cost" was of not applying the corporate ed by the Treasury Department. Shumway, Bud Shuster, Mark Siljan­ income tax to Puerto Rican subsidiaries of Far more is at stake than merely the tax der, Joe Skeen, Chris Smith, Denny mainland corporations. It went like this: purity, tidiness or revenue gains that the Smith, Robert C. Smith, Robert F. You figure out what the corporations would Treasury presumably is seeking by repeal of Smith, Virginia Smith, Olympia pay if they had to pay the tax and, of Section 936. The combination of Puerto Snowe, Gene Snyder, Jerry Solomon, course, nothing else changed. You assume, Rican tax holidays and the Section 936 tax Floyd Spence, Arlan Stangeland, Mike that is, that the plant would still be in exemptions induced a flood of new business Strang, Bob Stump, Don Sundquist, Puerto Rico, or at least in territory subject investment and business ventures into Mac Sweeney, Pat Swindall, Gene to U.S. taxes. Then you divide this number Puerto Rico from 1948 until the mid-1970's. Taylor, Guy Vander Jagt, Barbara by the number of Puerto Ricans on the pay­ The resulting expansion of production, em­ Vucanovich, Bob Walker, Vin Weber, rolls of these plants. You find that it's ployment and income transformed the Bob Whittaker, Chalmers Wylie, Bill "cheaper" to give the Puerto Ricans more Puerto Rican economy from a dismally un­ Young, Don Young, Ed Zschau.e food stamps. productive agricultural society into a highly Ever since this idiot calculation was first advanced industrial economy. It has made REPEALING A USEFUL TAX PRO­ made, the Internal Revenue Service has the Puerto Rican economy the model for been gunning for Section 936 of the IRS economic development and growth originat­ VISION

Goldman, whose credits also include years minus 2 percentage points, with a Ralph Goldman recalls his career with the of work with cultural and civic organiza­ guarantee that benefits would go up at American Jewish Joint Distribution Com- tions here and abroad, also used this direct least 2 percent annuaJly. 8076 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 The result of the compromise is that tax rate. raising the retirement age, Social Security reductions in 1981 and America's 36.5 million senior citizens and reducing benefits. 1983. could be on diet COLA for the next 3 Democrat and Republican Members After numerous promises of no more years. This includes Michigan's 1.4 of Congress worked together in 1983, reductions, many feel they, in plain million Social Security recipients, and in bipartisan spirit, to pass this legisla­ old simple English. have been "double Wa.yne County's 379,000 in my home tion which provided new life to the crossed." State. Social Security system. The current I ask my colleagues to join with me In classic fashion of Tom Sawyer, budget proposal by the White House/ in expressing their feelings about the President Reagan, when asked if he Senate leadership to limit COLA in­ White House/Senate leadership was reneging on his promises to senior creases does not provide a congression­ budget proposal to reduce the Social citizens, said, "How is adding a 2-per­ al mandate since it was developed by Security COLA's of America's 36.5 mil­ cent raise reducing it?" the White House and the leaders of lion senior citizens. In trying to make the COLA reduc­ the Republican-majority Senate. The sepcific language of House Res­ tion look like an increase, the While Because of actions taken in 1983, the olution 130 reads as follows: House disregarded its own inflation Social Security system has a surplus of projections of 4 percent in each of the funds now. Under the unified budget H. REs.130 next 3 years. Senior citizens would concept which consolidated the Social Resolution expressing the sense of the have received an automatic 4 percent Security trust fund with the Federal House of Representatives that the amount and timing of the annual cost-of­ COLA increase rather than the "gen­ budget. the surplus does lower the living adjustment currently provided erous" 2 percent proposed in the overall deficit. Consequently, by re­ under the Social Security Act should be White House/Senate leadership com­ ducing COLA benefits, a larger trust preserved promise budget. fund surplus is created which gives the Resolved, That no legislation should be It seems strange that the White appearance of reducing the Federal considered by the House of Representatives House, which only a few weeks ago deficit. with respect to the fiscal years beginning on pulled out all stops in conquering a re­ Reducing COLA benefits from a October 1, 1985, October 1, 1986, and Octo­ luctant Congress in obtaining an addi­ system which is more than paying its ber 1, 1987, which- tional $1.5 billion increase for more own way overshadows the real reasons <1 > would result in a determination of the MX missiles now will have us believe for our huge deficits. The Social Secu­ cost-of-living increase under section 215(1) that it was forced into accepting a rity system is not a rogue elephant of the Social Security Act on any basis compromise with Senate leaders on thrashing through the budget jungle other than the Consumer Price Index to the extent provided in such section as in effect the COLA limit. and gobbling up every available dollar on the date of the adoption of this resolu­ What's even more suspicious is that in sight. The system does not contrib­ tion, the Senate original 1-year COLA ute to our enormous budget deficits. It <2> would result in an effective date for freeze proposal would have saved $22.4 not only is self-supporting but pro­ such increase at a date later than the date billion over a 3-year period while the vides a surplus. Our huge increase in provided in such section, or compromise proposal saves $22.4 bil­ military spending combined with the <3> would eliminate such increase, would lion. That's about as close as 99.9 is to large tax reduction in 1981 and mount­ result in a limitation on the amount of such 100. ing interest payments have created increase to an amount less than the amount We all realize that our enormous our current $213 billion deficit. provided in such section, or would result in deficits must be trimmed, and that It should be noted that in the White a limitation on benefits to an amount less than the amount as increased pursuant to sacrifices must be made. However, House/Senate compromise budget. the increase provided under such section.e senior citizens are again being asked to while senior citizens' COLA's are being contribute a portion of their retire­ determined by an inflation minus 2- ment benefits toward reducing the percent formula, the sta.I:ldard which is WASTE IN THE DEFENSE deficit and increasing military spend­ being proposed for fiscal year 1986 de­ DEPARTMENT ing. fense spending is inflation plus 3 per­ Senior citizens and the Congress cent. have always been suspicious of the Many of this year's budget reduc­ HON. JACK FIELDS White House's obsession with tamper­ tions are targeted toward cutting or OF TEXAS ing with the Social Security system eliminating some of the so-called IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which seems to occur every other year middle class programs. Too often, Tuesday, April16, 1985 under the present administration. In Social Security is viewed as a program 1981, after ramming through ·major which primarily benefits our middle • Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker. today, changes in the Social Security Pro­ class. Yet studies show that two-thirds when we must bring our budget deficit gram in the Ominbus Reconciliation of those on Social Security receive under control, when we also face nu­ Act, the White House presented Con­ more than half of their income from merous and threatening challenges to gress with another Social Security the program. and more than one­ our security around the globe, nothing package consisting almost entirely of fourth derive 90 percent of their is more important than making cer­ benefit reductions which were sup­ income from Social Security. tain that we get the maximum amount posed to solve the system's financial Additionally, a Congressional of military power and capability out of problems. Budget Office [CBOl analysis of the the defense dollars we spend. Because of adverse reaction from White House/Senate leadership With this in mind, I am pleased to Congress and the public, the White budget proposal predicts 650,000 addi­ submit for the REcoRD the executive House withdrew the proposal, and tional people to fall below the poverty summary of a study released last week then called for a bipartisan commis­ level in 3 years if that budget proposal by Mr. Jesse M. Calhoon. president of sion to come up with solutions. This were enacted-two-thirds of them the National Marine Engineers' Bene­ commission made recommendations to would be elderly. ficial Association, a union whose mem­ the President, and subsequently. the On the average, elderly couples will bers have served our Nation well in Congress passed a reform package lose approximately $1,200 over the peace and war. which will pump $-165 billion into the next 5 years and another $400 in in­ This study documents 104 examples Social Security system by 1989, and creased Medicare premiums. This does of waste in the Pentagon, waste that is make it solvent for decades to come. not ·include loss of income from previ­ simply due to bad management. These This was achieved through a combina­ ous actions taken in regard to Social examples. totaled together, cost our tion of adding new people into the pro­ Security. Older Americans have pro­ Nation between $30 billion and $100 gram, increasing the Social Security vided more than their fair share of billion each year. April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8077 This kind of waste, on this scale, ously existed. For decision-makers in the the compensation system would likely be cannot be tolerated. It helps drive up Congress and Executive Branch of the Gov­ grandfathered, at least in part, most re­ our deficit, and it denies us the in­ ernment, as well as for concerned individ­ forms would take ten to twenty years to creased military capability that this uals from a wide spectum of groups and in­ produce substantial savings. Such long­ terests, such a compendium would seem es­ range reforms and their potential savings Nation needs. This kind of waste sential. Allegations of waste, especially re­ are not included in this paper, but are the means less tanks, less ships, less fight­ ported in scandals in defense spending, are subject of a forthcoming paper on reform of er aircraft and less pay for our mili­ common headlines. But it is not possible the military compensation system-a paper tary. from these reports to know just how wide­ whose primary focus is military retirement. I commend this study to the atten­ spread the waste is. The attention of the The items discussed in this paper are sub­ tion of my colleagues for several rea­ media and Congressional committees tends stantially smaller problems, but nonetheless sons. It is not ideological, and it is not to be concentrated on the more spectacular account for hundreds of millions of dollars partisan. It is a compendium of exam­ scandals and examples of mismanagement. wasted each year. These items are mostly Less attention is given to the persistent and concerned with compensation apart from ples drawn from sources such as the seemingly institutional inefficiencies that direct salary payments. Heritage Foundation, the GAO, past together may account for 20 percent or The fifth and final major area of waste defense officials of both parties and more of the entire defense budget. Defense discussed is basic management. The four the Grace Commission. It does not ad­ Department officials often argue that waste subareas of focus are poor consolidation and dress military compensation or retire­ is coming to light because of their own vig­ coordination among the service branches, ment. It does not attack specific weap­ orous efforts to root it out. Advocates of a problems in personnel management, prob­ ons systems or recommend divisive strengthened military fear that attacks on lems with the management of the Military strategy changes. Yet, this study is waste are really nothing more than an Health Care System, and other problems of attack on a necessary military buildup. But basic management. Fifty-seven separate still able to identify enormous poten­ other proponents of a stronger national de­ items are included in this chapter. tial savings. It ought to be taken seri­ fense effort are equally worried that con­ While it is tempting to focus on the very ously. tinuing with "business as usual" at DOD "large ticket items" of hundreds of millions There are few Americans, I believe, will produce only a marginal increase in or billions of dollars per year, many items who do not now think that it is time to U.S. military strength at the cost of hun­ 1/10 to 1/100 that scale have been included. get tough on waste and mismanage­ dreds of billions of dollars. This paper is A $100 million item of waste, for example, ment everywhere in our government. dedicated to the task for developing a more may be very easy to overlook in a Defense This study is fair; it is balanced; and it comprehensive view of waste in the U.S. budget of $273 billion-less than 4/100 of 1 military, so that future expenditures might percent-yet it is nearly equivalent to the can assist all of us in identifying in better be directed toward achieving military total FY84 budget authority of the Peace one basic document changes that can goals. Corps. An important lesson of this paper on give us a stronger defense for the This paper cites 104 separate DOD prob­ Defense waste is that what may easily slip money we spend. lems in the different categories-'-waste in through the cracks at Defense, can be very Thank you, Mr. Speaker. the procurement process, the R&D process, substantial dollars relative to other aspects The text of the executive summary operations and maintenance, the compensa­ of the federal budget. Just the waste from follows: tion system, and basic management. The excessive use of aircraft afterburners, and 1 104 items of alleged annual waste range in other inefficiences in aircraft thrust man­ WASTE IN THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT - size from $1 million to over $16 billion. to fund the School EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Summary.) The largest area of waste, ac­ Lunch Program for nearly one year, the Oc­ "There is something about preparing for counting for 40 to 60 percent of the total, cupational Safety and Health Administra­ destruction that causes men to be more was found in the procurement process-not tion for nearly two years, the Bureau of the careless in spending money than they would which or how many weapons are purchased, Census for more than five years, or the fed­ be if they were building for constructive but rather how the purchases are made. Al­ eral Fair Housing Program for 86 years­ purposes." lowing excessively high overhead charges by entire agency budgets covered ~Y an issue -The late Senator Richard Russell, contractors is alone alleged to cost U.S. tJ~,x­ that is certainly less than extreme or criti­ former chair, Senate Armed Services Com­ payers between $3 billion and $16 billion cal to military managers of aircraft fuel, mittee each year. Other multi-billion dollar prob­ maintenance and training. Scores of opportunities exist for cutting lems in the procurement process include the Waste in this report has only been quanti­ billions of dollars from the Defense budget instability in the budgeting and procure­ fied where a published responsible source without even beginning to confront the ment process which leads to uneconomic existed, and no extrapolations were made problems of weapon procurement and U.S. production rates, the lack of cost-conscious from waste in one service branch to poten­ foreign and military policy. weapons design, early cash outlays due to tial waste in another. Every attempt has The public debate on future cuts in the accelerated payments to contractors, the been made to eliminate potential overlap Defense budget currently focuses on the lack of competitive bidding, and theft by among items. All dollar figures are .ex­ need for the MX missile, the "Star Wars" military and contractor personnel. pressed as FY84 dollars. When original Strategic Defense Initiative, and a long list A second major area of DOD waste is in source material was expressed in other than of other weapon systems. The focus remains the R&D process. While over $6 billion a FY84 dollars, estimates in this paper were on hardware, with military policy and strat­ year of alleged waste was documented from made either as an extrapolation from a pre­ egy at the heart of every debate. Those ana­ expert sources, details about the R&D proc­ vious budget year or by using the inflators lysts seeking to cut billions of dollars from ess are largely cloaked in secrecy for nation­ developed and used by the Department of Defense often overlook waste in scores of al security reasons, so that careful and de­ Defense. mented cases of waste through faulty proc­ tional security certainly requires some se­ One should not read this paper with an ess and procedure are presented in this crecy, many have argued that far more de­ expectation of undisputed accuracy. One paper. This is not a paper about military tails of the R&D budget should be open to cannot avoid the fact that few details, if policy or military strategy. Elimination of the public. any, that are presented in this paper are the waste discussed here is not seen as di­ Operations and maintenance is devoid of controversy. Not only do each of minishing the mission of the military or re­ the third large area of Defense spending. for the 104 items contain potential controver­ ducing its readiness to perform that mis­ which data on waste were calculated-for sial sources or assumptions, but the very sion. In fact, greater efficiency and effec­ items ranging from pro9lems with automat­ process of combining the 104 items into a tiveness should actually enhance the struc­ ic data processing to inefficient utilization single added range of total dollars wasted is ture and capability of our fighting forces. of depot personnel and resources to subsi­ even more controversial. Every attempt has A wide-ranging compendium of expert dies for Pentagon executive dining rooms. been made to include the broadest range of views on the broad range of alleged defense Problems in inventory control, maintenance experts and political perspectives possible waste and potential savings has not previ- inefficiencies, and energy management and to make assumptions, where necessary, made up the largest numbers of O&M cate­ in as conservative a manner as is reasonable. gories. No one number in this paper should be 1 Prepared on behalf of the National Marine En­ gineers' Beneficial Association, Jesse M. Calhoon, Waste in the Defense Department's com­ considered critical in and of itself. In many President; by Ruttenberg, Kilgallon & Associates, pensation system was the fourth major area instances several sources for an individual Dr. Ruth Ruttenberg, principal investigator. of calculation. Because any alterations in item are cited, providing valuable compari- 8078 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 son and contrast insights for the range of temally, others may need longer periods for TABLE ES-1.-104 AREAS OF ALLEGED WASTE IN THE analyses. All numbers have been document­ planning and implementation. All 104 items DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ed, but because of the complexity of the of alleged waste carry with them implied re­ issues each number can also be considered forms and necessary changes. The Depart­ [In millions of fiscal year 1984 dollars] controversial. In addition, the Defense De­ ment of Defense could institute many re­ partment has publicly contested many of Estimated amount of forms on its own, through most analysts be­ Problem waste the items and specific numbers of published lieve that Exective and Legislative branch critics. In soine cases DOD might argue that action will also be necessary. The White an item of management actually affects I. WASTE IN THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS House and Congress may have to take the 1. High overhead charged by defense contractors ... $2,822.6 to 16,230.2. military strategy, and that military not eco­ lead with DOD on other reforms. 2. Instability in the budgeting and procurement 3,991.8 to 9,408.8. nomic considerations are the prime concern. process which leads to uneconomic production Some studies have been criticized by non­ Management incentives within DOD rates. should change to emphasize cooperation 3. lack of rost-conscious weapons design ...... 2,485.9 to 9,408.8. DOD analysts as well. The 1983 and 1984 4. Lack of competitive bidding ...... 4,437.5 to 5,645.3. publications of the President's Private rather than competition among the service 5. Early cash outlays due to accelerated progress 2,000.0 to 5,100.0. Sector Survey on Cost Control for exam­ 7. Failure to breakout spare parts procurement...... 217.5 to 4.044.0. ple, have been subjected to harsh criticism Defense was to establish one coordinated 8. Redundant P.!:ime contractor facilities...... 2,350.0 to 2,820.0. by many, including the Congressional and unified administrative center for Inili­ 9. Theft by military and contractor personnel ...... 940.9 to 2,822.6. tary activity. A variety of efforts to apply 10. Not using commercial components and specifi- 1,320.9 to 2.016.2. Budget Office and the U.S. General Ac­ cations when feasible. counting Office. The focus of the reader the concept of coordination should be pur­ 11. lack of standardization of weapons and equil>' 611.0 to 2.100.0. should be on the massive size and pervasive sued aggressively. Among them are pro­ ment. 12. Lack of specialization in DOD procurement and 330.0 to 1,880.0. nature of the alleged waste, not on any one grams to consolidate activities among the production functions in the Army. expert's quantification or analysis of any service branches-activities from base con­ 13. Prepaying for vacations of contractors' em- 207.1 to 258.9. one problem. solidation to the creation of one military 14.~neeessary DOD and contractor reporting 216.2. CONCLUSIONS hospital system. Overlapping duties and re­ rewirements. Many conclusions can be drawn from the sponsiblities need to be eliminated where 15 .1iona~~mm~~~~t in procurement of conven- 85.7. 104 separate items of DOD waste which are possible. Attempts should be made to reduce 16. Overly expensive packaging of training ammu- 5.2 to 8.8. reported on in this paper: interservice rivalry and should include nition. Waste is massive and pervasive, and the weapon . standardization where possible; 17. Unnecessary materials included with ammuni- 2.0. lion. rapid growth planned by the current Ad­ joint management in base support, logistics, II. WASTE IN THE R&D PROCESS ministration may make the problems even transport, etc.; and an increase in interserv­ 18. Lack of coordination among the branches and 2,962.2. worse. ice assignments. DOD employees should poor strategic planning. Most problems cited here have been iden­ 19. Large deSign teams and excessive data re- 2,484.5. maintain oversight relationships with DOD quirements. tified and studied for years by a number of contractors, and avoid the tempting role of 20. lack of effective disciPline on decisions to 525.7. experts, but little if any progress has been prospective (post-retirement> employee. start new weapons systems. made. 21. Poor control over contract management SUI>- 233.5. Managers who effect savings should be able port services for R&D. The controversies over which weapon sys­ to reclaim from the U.S. Treasury a portion 22. IneffiCient administration of independent re- 103.6. tems are unnecessary should be utUized rials provided to contractors. whenever possible. Competition in procure­ 38. Overlap in Marine Corps logistics ...... 9.9. systems are virtually unchanged from a gen­ 39. lack of "reliability-centered maintenance" for 8.3. eration, sometimes a century, before. ment is necessary to hone down overhead Amry combat vehicles. Reform is needed in the military compen­ and excess facilities capacity among con­ 40. Subsidizing Pentagon ex~tive dining rooms ...... 2.2. sation system but it must be based on com­ tractors as well as to ensure lower prices IV. WASTE IN THE DOD COMPENSATION SYSTEM prehensive review and must consider the and improved quality of weapons. Competi­ 41. Poor management of enlistment and reenlist· 400.2 to 452.0. long-run implications of such reform on tive bidding, dual sourcing, product warran­ men! incentive bonuses system. 42. Poor management of Variable Housing Allow· 349.5. force composition and the armed forces in ties, value 'engineering and a variety of ance Program. general. Other issues needing comprehen­ other procedures are necessary to enhance 43. Unauthorized use of meal services ...... 103.6. sive review include the impact on the U.S. the competitive process. 44. Unr.ecessary payments in Aviation Career In· 93.0. economy of Defense activities affecting centive Pay Program. The primary and critical function of the 45. Duplicate compensation payments for new 41.1. technology transfer, contracts from over­ Department of Defense is to protect and retirees. seas equipment and parts, ailing defense in­ 46. Poor exchange of pay data between the 7.8 to 19.8. dustrial base, inefficiencies from production defend the national security of the United military services and VA. bottlenecks, etc. States. Review and refon.n of weapon sys­ 47. Granting accrued leave pay to recruits who do 5.4. tems, tactical and strategic programs, de­ not complete 6 months of service. NEEDED REFORMS ployment of troopsi etc. are the first priori­ V. WASTE IN BASIC MANAGEMENT Many reforms are needed at DOD. Some ty of DOD management. But an organiza­ A. Failure to consolidate: are quite incremental in nature; others rep­ 48. lack of one common computer program 1,500.0. tion spending, in the public trust, hundreds language. resent radical changes from past practice. of billions of dollars a year, and allegedly 49. Lack of consolidation of military base 383.1 to 1,541.9. Some can be accomplished quickly and in- wasting a large percent of that through support. 50. Lack of .• consolidation in depot-level 294.2 to 1,459.3. management inefficiences must make man­ maintenance and management functions. agement efficiency a higher and more press­ 51. Lack of control over contract manage­ 429.1. a Non:.-While the Congressional Budget Office ment support services. annually does a comprehensive review of the De­ ing priority. 52. Lack or consolidation of foreign military 334.2. fense Department budget, it is a descriptive review sales activities. and, according to CBO staff, not intended to be an­ 53. Lack of consolidation in military recruit­ 95.3. alytical. ing support operations and advertising. April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8079 TABLE ES-1.-104 AREAS OF ALLEGED WASTE IN THE TABLE ES-1.-104 AREAS OF ALLEGED WASTE IN THE building first-rate systems. The Air Force DEFENSE DEPARTMENT -Continued DEFENSE DEPARTMENT -Continued paid one company $1¥2 billion for new air­ craft wings after they found the old wings [In millions of fiscal year 1984 dollars] could crack. Military spending does produce jobs, ad­ Estimated amount of Estimated amount of vance science and technology, and provide waste Problem waste goods and services vital to our defense. It 54. Lack of consolidation of contract admin- 93.2. 101. less than full utilization of cargo space 2.4. stirs a sense of patriotism in many Ameri­ istration. on military aircraft returning to United cans. But defense industries also make big 55. -tack of consolidation of wholesale 51.8. States. profits. Profit surveys show defense contrac­ depots. 102. Poor packaging of household goods 2.2. tors enjoy substantially higher returns than 56. Lack of consolidated activities of Air 51.8. bound for Alaska. Force Reserve and Air National Guard. 103. Lack of coordination in determining 1.1 to 2.7. other manufacturers. Their top executives 57. lack of consolidation of traffic manage- 20.7. and employees earn far better than average men!. 1ofn~~~::W~f :~ u~=~~ ~!j~o, 0.9 pay. Cost formulas sometimes allow these B. Inadequate personnel management: promotion of Rifle Practice. 58. Inadequate use of apprenticeship and on- 2.134.9. salaries to boost a contractor's profits still job-training. Sources: See individual items in main text for specifiC citations.e further. Moreover, most of the largest de­ 59. Inefficient processing of personnel securi- 1,086.3. fense companies, taking advantage of ac­ ty clearances. 60. Poor personnel policy which inhibits 590.3. cepted accounting practices, have paid little length of Army careers, and ~ added or nothing in federal income taxes. burden on recruitment and traming. DEFENSE PROCUREMENT Controlling the cost and quality of 61. Unnecessary permanent change of sta- 103.6 to 776.6. lion moves. REFORM weapon is hardly a new problem. Defense 62. Ineffective training programs ...... •...... 415.1. secretaries have sought ways to control 63. High cost of first-term attrition ...... 302.7. costs, with unimpressive results. In looking 64. Needless~ high Air Force requirements 97.8 to 155.6. HON. LEE H. HAMILTON over the record of procurement problems I for strategiC airlift crews. OF INDIANA 65. Poor management of the Troop Feeding 57.8. sometimes think weapon acquisition is man­ Program. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES agement-proof. 66. Excessive raw food costs for troop feed- 52.3. A number of steps should be taken. Until in g. Tuesday, April16, 1985 67. Not collecting on servicemen's bad debts .. 36.2. recently, Congressional oversight has been 68. Counterproductive nature of civilian end- 30.0. e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I cursory and sporadic. More must be done to strength ceilings. understand what works and what doesn't in 69. Not civilianizing certain Air Force posi- 17.7. would like to insert my Washington lions. Report for Wednesday, April 10, 1985 weapons acquisition. Congress often com­ 70. Not imposing penalties on "no-show" 16.2. into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: pounds procurement difficulties by cancel­ passengers for military airlift command ing and restricting programs, stretching out flights. DEFENSE PROCUREMENT REFORM 71. Unnecessary paperwork requirements for 15.1. funding, and protecting industries in mem­ temporary duty travel in the Air Force. What President Eisenhower called the bers districts. We clearly need the best man­ 72. Ineffective Almy learning resource ceo- 10.6. "military industrial complex," President agement advice we can get on a continuing ters. Reagan calls the "arsenal of democracy." To basis. Beleaguered as they may be with 73. Use of enlisted personnel as personal 4:7. servants to top military officials. keep it going, the Pentagon spends an aver­ other matters defense secretaries can't dele­ 74. Unnecessary operating costs of the DOD 3.5. age of $28 million every hour of every day gate this responsibility to deputies. Top overseas dependent scliool system. of every week. At its best, it produces mar­ Pentagon managers, who now average only C. Management and problems in the military health care system: vels of technology that arm American serv­ two or three years on the job, have to be 75. Not recovering the cost of medical care 432.3. icemen with the world's finest weapons. At kept longer. Defense auditors must be thor­ from eligible, inactive benefiCiaries covered worst it prices coffee makers at $7,600 and ough and energetic and carry the authority by private health insurance. 76. New construction for hospitals with less 295.3. toilet seats at $600. It is a livelihood for to command attention for their findings. than 60 percent occupancy. 20,000 prime contractors, and 150,000 sub­ Simply fixing the procedures and regula­ 77. Lack of coordination among the service 243.2 to 308.0. contractors, who work with 154 separate ac­ tions of defense acquisition is insufficient. branches for health care delivery. 78. Inaccurate administration of CHAMPIJS 253.8. counting systems, 7,500 pages of purchasing Top political leaders, including the Presi­ benefits. rules, and 1% million new contracts each dent, must motivate the enforcement of the 79. lack of emphasis on national supply 20.6 to 119.8. year. system. contracts. As The Pentagon must award contracts com­ 80. New construction for hospitals with less 52.9. more and more Hoosiers demand an than 50 operating beds. end to defense waste, I wonder if the sys­ petitively, and discourage the awarding of 81. Health care services provided to ineligi- 44.5. tem's shortcomings have undermined the contracts on a sole-source basis. Competi­ ble beneficiaries. national consensus to rearm America. Criti­ tion saves money and produces reliable 82. Poor energy management in military 29.1 to 53.1 . hospitals. cisms of the way the Defense Department goods. For too long the defense acquisitions 83. Using physicians to staff executive man- 32.4. buys weapons are easy to ffild: . process has not attracted the best and the agement positions. A defense inspector general's audit last brightest defense personnel. More emphasis 84. Poor procedures for recovering the cost 20.7 of med"ICal care from third-party payers. year found evidence of fraud in 10% of 216 must be placed on finding, training, and 85. Poor management and operatiOnS of 9.6. contracts. keeping the most qualified persons for man­ medical supply depot inventories. If a contractor overcharges the Pentagon, agement careers in defense procurement. 86. Not limiting or charging user fees for 8.7. civil consultations at the Armed Forces the case may take years. Meanwhile, the Particular attention must be given to assur­ Institute of Pathology. contractor suffers no penalties unless fraud ing that quality and cost contract monitors • D. Other management problems: is proved. are skilled and competent. 87. Unnecessary military bases ...... •...... 144.9 to 5,177.6. Since the costs of weapons systems often 88. Need to create a procurement audit 517.8. Thousands of companies receive defense system. contracts, but just a few contractors are escalate because of unnecessary changes 89. Inefficient maintenance and repair pr~ 414.1. dominant. Last year the top 15 contractors during development and production, special gram for military housing. efforts must be made to reduce the cost of 90. Air Force inefficient in financial reporting 378.3. received over 40% of all contracts. and control. Some contractors are given rent-free use these changes. Management procedures 91. Not effiCiently identifying disposable land I 00.0. of over $10 billion in factories and equip­ must also be found to improve cost esti­ and expediting its sale-Army. ment paid for by the government. mates for weapons systems. The Congress, 92. Inefficient cash managment in the mili- 65.0. tary. The Pentagon insures some contractors the Defense Department, and the defense 93. Lack of economic analysis lor construe- 45.4. against their own negligence and pays for contractors must develop a healthier, less lion projects. inflation. adversarial relationship. Uniformed officers 94. Problems with housing for unaccompa- 37.1. nied enlisted personnel. Since profits rise as costs increase, there is will always want the best and the most re­ 95. Absence of competitive bidding lor 20.5. little incentive to reduce costs. The Penta­ gardless of cost, but Congress must insist on movement of household goods to Alaska gon cushions contractors from their own cost effectiveness. The Congress and the and Hawaii. 96. Failure to use shipper associations lor 14.3 to 38.1. errors. One company underbid other compa­ Pentagon must review the pro.fits of defense less-than-truckload tran~rtation . nies to win a contract, then found it had bid contractors. Certainly. the rules which allow 97. Existence of the military's stunt pilot 8.3. too low. The company argued that the profit from his costs must be changed. show. 98. Poor management of property leased to 7.2. Army should have caught the mistake. The Changing the way the Pentagon buys foreign governments. Pentagon agreed and awarded the company weapons will be tough. The problem and the 99. Anachronistic administrative structure for 5.4. $62,000. This happens all too frequently. solution can be identified; but it will be dif­ the Army Corps of Engineers. The Pentagon regularly discovers improp­ ficult to make effective reforms. I am con­ 100. lack of coordinat100 of programming 2.6. with the budget review process within the erly made weapons. Yet, companies that do vinced that the weapons acquisition must be Air Force. poorly can earn as much or more than those substantially improved and costs drastically

. . 8080 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 reduced. Otherwise, the public and the Con­ "We're not trying to restore a Somoza­ tinues unabated. As the Soviet Union gress will no longer support the defense pro­ type government. tries to annex that once-peaceful gram, and our security will suffer. "We want a democratic government like e members of Congress-who thinks the FDN men, women, and children are being army is composed of Somoza thugs, should murdered in cold blood as Soviet units spend a few days in Bermudez' camp, as I sweep through wide areas of the coun­ FREDRIC DICKER REPORTS did. try, and eliminate all living things in FROM THE :t-liCARAGUAN They'd see thousands of high-spirited vol­ those areas. Unbelievable atrocities BORDER unteer Lighting men, 99.9 percent of whom are tough campesino peasants-with no past are being committed on a daily basis. connections to Nicaraguan politics, much When the Soviets invaded Afghani­ HON. JIM COURTER less to the dictator Somoza. stan in December 1979, the Kremlin OF NEW JERSEY But few Americans-much less congress­ claimed its troops had been invited in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES men-have gone in search of the truth by the Afghan Government in order to Tuesday, April16, 1985 about the problems which are destroying protect that country from so-called Nicaragua and threatening all of Central "Western designs" on that nation. It is e Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, there America. is a myth, endlessly repeated, which And sadly, it isn't only the myth of the bizarre that the army which marched holds that the Nicaraguan resistance Somoza fighters that is being perpetuated in is now decimating the population of is the pawn of Somoza's loyal soldiers. as a result. that country. The puppet Afghan This myth cannot explain why so The highly-explosive Nicaraguan situation Government and its Soviet backers are many former Sandinistas are now with is engulfed in myths. reportedly willing to kill millions of the Contras, not fighting against How else can one explain the widespread Afghans, and drive others into refugee publicity given allegations of civilian atroc­ camps in Pakistan, in order to preserve them. It cannot explain the defection ities committed by the anti-Sandinista fight­ of Sandinista-trained militiamen to ers? their fledgling Communist state. the opposition. It cannot explain how An estimated 50,000 refugees have fled The free world watches in horror as the Contra force, so small in 1979, has Sandinista-controlled Nicaragua-popula- the Soviets turn Afghanistan into a grown steadily ever since <2> of the Communica­ In order to avoid frustration of the been disenfranchised from television tions Act was recently enacted by the Congress' desire to encourage wide­ programming service. 98th Congress to relieve possible in­ spread public access to satellite televi­ A testament to the reality of rural equities in the provision of program­ sion programming, further legislation television delivery is that in 4 years ming services to satellite Earth station is immediately needed. A review of the more than 1 million home satellite users. These provisions provide incen­ developments in the delivery of video Earth station receiving systems have tives and encourage the development services to American homes crystalizes been installed throughout the United of program viewing agreements, for un­ the need for this immediate action. States. The industry estimates that scrambled signals. Scrambling by pro­ When television was first introduced more than 60,000 of these systems are gram distributors, coming right on the in the late 1940's, it was centered in currently being shipped each month heels of the adoption of this national the Nation's urban capitals. As televi­ by manufacturers. Moreover, this is policy, thwarts the congressional in­ sion became more popular, it reached largely an American manufacturing tention that fairly negotiated market­ out for smaller population centers and and distribution enterprise; the only place agreements can ensure the was thought to have potential to serve one of the consumer electronics indus­ public interest in widespread satellite rural America. But the economics of tries which remains predominantly television programming service at rea­ television operation prevented it from American. sonable rates. adequately serving rural America. Tel­ As the final decades of the 20th cen­ One distributor has announced its evision revenues depend on advertising tury draw to a close, there are still mil­ intention to scramble in the near revenues and advertising revenues lions of Americans who are unable to future and has indicated that it plans depend on service to the largest audi­ receive adequate over-the-air televi­ to give cable operators exclusive rights ence possible. Over-the-air broadcast sion service; millions more that do not to market scrambled signals to Earth television has not been profitable in receive basic broadcast transmissions station users in franchised cable areas. areas with sparse population. via cable, let alone satellite services; Such a plan would discriminate With the 1950's came the advent of and still millions more receive pro­ against Earth station dealers nation­ cable television. Although born in gramming that is technically inferior. wide and against Earth station users smaller communities, cable television By and large, these Americans residing who would be forced to deal through could not fulfill its potential for rural in the more rural areas of the country the local cable operator which already America and it quickly gravitated to have too long been the subject of irra­ has a local franchised monopoly. This densely populated areas. The econom­ tional discrimination in the receipt of would foreclose competition between ics of cable television operation, which television programming. Earth station dealers and cable opera­ center on the laying of coaxial cable to Satellite transmissions which result tors. Recently, the same satellite tele­ carry television signals, dictate that from the use of scarce orbital satellite vision programmer announced plans to systems serving communities where positions and scarce public spectrum force most satellite master antenna EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 systems [SMATV], which serve multi­ evision. Purchasing an Earth station is Amtrak's multiple opponents want to end unit dwellings within cable franchised still a major investment for most rural it by eliminating the entire $684 million areas, to purchase the program service families. A denial of access to pro­ annual subsidy. They justify this by saying from the cable operator instead of di­ gramming, or the imposition of unrea­ that Amtrak is merely a luxury for the middle class and wealthy. They also act as if rectly from the programmer. Such dis­ sonable payment requirements on removing the Amtrak subsidy will actually tribution systems discourage competi­ such families, may likely make te1evi­ cut the deficit by $684 million and not cause tion to the local cable operatiol} and sion programming once again unavail­ hardship for most people. These excuses for c;an keep prices artificially high for able to these families if scrambling is axing the passenger rail system are just fac­ consumers. The method the. program­ permitted at this time. Pay television tually incorrect. mer will use to enforce the distribu­ programmers are receiving millions of The most important fallacy to correct is tion system is the withholding of de­ dollars each year in revenues and prof­ the assumption that discontinuing Amtrak's coders from customers it does not its from the use of the airwaves. They $684 million subsidy will cut the deficit by desire to serve. that amount. This, in fact, is the basis of do this without regulation and with­ the whole Amtrak-killing proposal. Scrambling of signals is not justified out the requirement of public respon­ The truth is that Amtrak, according to at this time to deter unauthorized sibility that pertains to broadcasters the 1971 statute that created the passenger commercial use of satellite cable pro­ and others that rule the airwaves. The carrier, is locked into labor protection pay­ gramming. The sanctions in section national public interest mandates that ments for employees laid off when rail serv­ 705(d) of the Communications Act rural Americans finally get their fair ice is discontinued. Thus Amtrak, or the which were also newly enacted by share of television programming. government, must continue to pay these em­ Congress in the Cable Act, provide Our 1984 legislation was supposed to ployees a portion of prior salaries for up to substantial penalties for unauthorized six years. ensure viewing rights and Congress Because Amtrak operations employ over commercial use of satellite television now needs to protect these rights. The 25,000 people, 4,200 indirectly through programming-up to $50,000 in dam­ moratorium will enable the Congress other railroads, these labor protection pay­ ages plus criminal sanctions. In fact a to pursue substantive legislation en­ ments in the first year alone are estimated, coalition of cable companies, program­ suring that the right of all citizens to by Amtrak president Graham Claytor, to be mers and distributors [COST] was re­ Earth station technology is not between $600 million and $800 million-pos­ cently formed to ferret out unauthor­ eroded. It will also give the market­ sibly more than the full $684 million subsi­ ized commercial users and it has filed place a chance to work. If signals are dy. Over six years, the cost would be about many legal actions nationwide, several to be scrambled, we want to know that $2.1 billion. of which have already been successful. Thus the taxpayers could either pay $684 there will be access to these signals on million next year for a nationwide passage The judicial remedies now provided in a fair and reasonable basis. We do not rail system, or they could cut out that subsi­ the Communications Act appear to have any such assurances thus far. dy, and instead pay at least that amount for provide a more than adequate system Therefore, I call upon the Congress to 25,000 people to do nothing. Even the most of remedies to aggrieved parties. take immediate action to prevent ardent Amtrak opponent would rather have Therefore, particularly at this junc­ scr.ambling for a 2-year period· of time his tax money pay people to run trains than tion, when home Earth station users to allow a proper marketplace to de­ have it pay people to do nothing. are not assured a right of access to sat­ velop or for congressional oversight to President Reagan, Budget Director David ellite programming, scrambling is un­ A. Stockman, et al., say that trains do not take its proper course. Unless we are provide an essential service, but are luxuries necessary for protection in the com­ vigilant, a cartel-like operation con­ for the rich and middle class. Nobody who mercial arena. trolling access and prices could emerge ever walked, at night, through the passen­ Scrambling at this time would give to the detriment of competition and ger coaches of the Crescent to New Orleans, programmers the ~apability to impose the rights of the viewing public.e the Silver Star to Florida, or Broadway Lim­ discriminatory distribution systems ited to Chicago could convince me that and frustrate the development of mar­ those were the rich and middle class ketplace negotiated distributor­ AMTRAK SHUTDOWN MAKES NO sprawled across seats, trying to keep the viewer /private viewing agreements SENSE kids quiet, and shifting around while at­ tempting to sleep until their luxurious ar­ which may more effectively ensure rivals at 2:20a.m. in Charlotte, N.C., or 2:51 compensation to the distributor for HON. JAMES J. FLORIO a.m. in Canton, Ohio. the viewer's use of its programming. OF NEW JERSEY What about providing an essential service? The 1984 Cable Act, for the first time, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It is true that living in a major city we can put into place a framework whereby Tuesday, April16, 1985 fly easily to Washington or Chicago, or fair marketplace agreements can be from Chicago to San Francisco. But anyone negotiated. A moratorium on scram­ • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, the ad­ who ever looked at Amtrak's national time­ bling will give these processes an op­ ministration has proposed the elimina­ table will be amazed at the plethora of portunity to develop. tion of all funding for Amtrak. This small communities strung out along the All indications are that immediate would result in the shutdown of Am­ Amtrak route lines. trak's passenger service throughout For these relatively isolated places all over scrambling may lead to the withhold­ the country with little or no air and bus ing of satellite cable programming the Nation connections, Amtrak is the vital link to the from rural home Earth station users. This proposal makes no sense. major metropolitan areas along the routes. There is no plan in place that will Amtrak is an important part of our na­ For example, the California Zephyr is not ensure continued access to services tional transportation infrastructure. just carrying people between its endpoints, that intend to scramble their signals. Indeed, the proposal could cost more Chicago and San Francisco. It is simulta­ An executive of one satellite program than it would save, as the following ar­ neously transporting plain folks-not just distributor recently stated that ticle from the March 25, Philadelphia the rich-between Ottumwa, Iowa, and Chi­ Inquirer points out. cago, or between McCook and Omaha, Neb., "slowly but surely the sky will go or between Helper, Utah, and Salt Lake dark." Thus, the bill I am introducing AMTRAK WouLD CosT MoRE To SHUT DowN City. today ensures continued access of The same comparison can be made on any rural families to a wide variety of pro­ As federal budget-slashers swoop through of Amtrak's long distance routes. But then gramming by prohibiting scrambling the country with their indiscriminate Stockman has probably never found himself for a period of time. swords drawn, anything not nailed down is a alone in Hinton, W.Va., trying to get back to candidate for the junk pile-especially Washington. If he did, he would gratefully Earth station users now receive sat­ Amtrak. There have been several editorials accept a ride on the Cardinal and watch the ellite programming without charge. pleading for clemency to Amtrak because of beautiful West Virginia countryside glide Immediate encryption would radically the valid need for a balanced transportation by. change the situation for rural viewers system. But this is only a small part of the Those who want Amtrak out believe that who are finally receiving access to tel- story. they can delude the country into thinking April 16,. 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8083 they are saving money and not causing shipments of heavy Soviet-made arms In interviews with more than two dozen many people hardship. Indeed, it may not to Nicaragua began after the Contra officials in the White House, the Defense pose a hardship for Reagan or Stockman, ~ttacks started. Also, the Sandinistas and State Departments, Congress and pri­ but the 20 million Americans who rode vate organizations involved with Central Amtrak last year cannot be written off so announced the creation of a large mili­ American affairs, these were some of the easily. Many of them had no car or couldn't tia only after 67 Nicaraguan soldiers main findings: afford to fly, and some just didn't want to had been killed by the rebels. The Salvadoran and Guatemalan regular fly. Despite frequent administration armies, with 48,000 and 40,000 troops, are Reagan's quoted subsidy of $34 per pas­ claims that Nicaragua's fears of an each nearly as large as the Nicaraguan senger was obtained by dividing the 20 mil­ American invasion are entirely self-in­ Army, which has 40,000 regular troops and lion riders into the $684 million subsidy. duced, in fact Defense Department another 20,000 militia members on active The figure, however, is misleading. Actual­ documents and statements by U.S. of­ duty, according to Defense Department fig­ ly, passengers traveling longer distances are ficials demonstrate that it is U.S. ures. When all the other Central American more highly subsidized than those going policy to create Nicaraguan fear of an armies are combined, they are far larger smaller distances. The lower-income passen­ than Nicaragua's. On the other hand, when gers, who generally travel further, are thus invasion. army troops and militia are lumped togeth­ receiving more subsidy than the higher The administration claims that the er, Nicaragua's military forces are larger income short-haul riders. This is only fair, Sandinistas are pursuing a "revolution than those of any other Central American but Reagan merely quoted the average of without frontiers." But the State De­ country, although Guatemala claims to $34 without realizing that the poorer travel­ partment has conceded that it does have a 900,000-member Rural Civil Guard. ers benefit more than others. not know of any Sandinista official Senior Administration officials, in speech­ Air and highway congestion will increase who ever made such a statement. es and in public reports, have frequently if Amtrak shuts down. The administrative said Nicaragua intends to attack its neigh­ costs of shutting down stations and dispos­ Administration officials concede that Nicaragua does not in fact have bors. But State and Defense Department of­ ing of a vast "estate" would be horrendous, ficials say unofficially that they do not be­ especially after investing over $2 billion in the capability to attack Honduras, improving the Northeast Corridor alone. since Nicaraguan tanks would be de­ lieve Nicaragua has any such intention. Once abanboned, the cost of reactivating a fenseless against modem antitank President Reagan has said that "the San­ rail system would be prohibitive. Most sig­ weaponry and the Honduran air force. dinista military buildup began two and a nificantly, according to Tom Wicker in the In his speeches, Vice President Bush half years before" the United States-backed New York Times, the United States, "once Nicaraguan rebels took up arms and was not boasting the most extensive transportation likes to display a Nicaraguan stamp a result of rebel attacks. But Defense De­ network anywhere, will become the only with a picture of Karl Marx on it. partment records show that the first ship­ nation in the developed world without a na­ What he does not say is that this ment of heavy Soviet-made arms to Nicara­ tional rail passenger system." I might also stamp is part of a series depicting im­ gua came many nonths after the first re­ add that we would also be the only nation portant figures in history, including ports of rebel attacks. willing to pay $2.1 billion for the privilege of George Washington and Pope John Nicaraguan officials have said one reason achieving that status. Paul II. for their buildup is that they fear an Ameri­ (George Bradford is a physician and Mr. Speaker, we all share serious can invasion. Administration officials con­ travel writer specializing in rail travel.Je firmed that since at least 1983, the United and legitimate concerns about Nicara­ States had used a "perception management" gua. But we also ought' to share some program, as a classified Defense Depart­ ADMINISTRATION STATEMENTS decent respect for the truth in our po­ ment document called it, to keep the Nicara­ ON NICARAGUA litical discourse. The House will short­ guans concerned that the United States ly vote on the President's request for might attack. HON. MICHAEL D. BARNES renewed funding for the Contras. To White House and State Department offi­ cials were unable to verify the accuracy of OF MARYLAND help my colleagues determine their po­ several quotations that the Presid~nt and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sition on that request on the basis of facts and not disinformation, I include others have attributed to Nicaraguan lead­ Tuesday, April 16, 1985 ers in support of their assertions about Ni­ the entire New York Times article at caragua's intentions. In one case, the State e Mr. BARNES. Mr. Speaker, Presi­ this point. Department acknowledged that it knew of dent Reagan has accused his critics in [From the New York Times, March 30, no Sandinista official who ever used an the Congress and elsewhere of being 1985] often-quoted phl'ase that Nicaragua seeks a victims of a disinformation campaign. NICARAGUAN ARMY: "WAR MACHINE" OR "revolution without frontiers." But, judging from a recent article in DEFENDER OF A BESIEGED NATION? Even the Administration's critics agree the New York Times, the disinforma­ hostage to a tiny mi­ The linchpin of the compromise is agree­ ments to improve relations, as well as nority whose . murderous ways they have ment by the president to cut the buying to bring Turkey's case for more mili­ condemned without reservation. power of Social Security and other pension tary aid to Congress. The majority sees the congressional reso­ benefits over the next three years. That's lution as a simple recognition of historical not a good idea on any terms-the Congres­ However, in his efforts to provide a truth in the face of the frustrating refusal sional Budget Office estimates that the plan warm welcome to Prime Minister Ozal, by Turkish governments to acknowleage would put about 600,000 old and disabled President Reagan ignored addressing what their predecessors did. This does not people into poverty. But, with the trust any sens'itive issues such as the geno­ pander to vengefulness; just the opposite. funds in reasonably secure shape, even a cide that was committed against an Appropriate remembrance of horror allows more modest curb on Social Security would entire people 70 years ago; namely, the all sides to put it in its historical setting, be hard to justify unless it could be truly which makes it easier to deal with emotion­ argued that the compromise called for Armenians, in discussions with the ally. broad sacrifices. In fact, the losses are con­ Prime Minister or with the press. He It is unjust to deprive the Armenian com­ centrated on the same vulnerable groups did address the issue of the genocide munity of this symbolic support because of that have already sacrificed most even as in a prepared response to a question things that are out of their control: the the deficit has soared. submitted by Hurriyet, the national terror, which they have taken pains to Neither of the two big beneficiaries of the Turkish paper, in which it asked decry; and the Turkish government's deci­ Reagan administration's fiscal policies are whether the President approved of sion to cling to historical revisionism and called upon for real sacrifices. All that is congressional action on the so-called make the issue a touchstone of its relation­ asked of the Pentagon is that it slow down genocide of 1915. President Reagan di­ ship with the United States. the rate of increase in its budget. But the That relationship is important strategical­ military is actually planning step-ups in its rectly responded to the issue of com­ ly. But it shouldn't have to be propped up buying: The other day it revealed that the memorative resolutions which would by an evasion of truth. cost of 84 major weapons systems had recognize April 24 as National Day of That's why the repeated failure to move jumped by another $25 billion, mostly be­ Remembrance of Man's Inhumanity to the "day of remembrance" resolution cause it now plans to buy more of each. Man and commemorate the anniversa­ through both houses of Congress sticks in Nor will taxpayers who pocketed the bene­ ry of the genocide of 1.5 million Arme­ so many throats.e fits from the enormous three-year tax cuts nians by Turkey from 1915 to 1923 by be asked for a contribution. Using its still­ aborning tax reform proposals as an excuse linking the passage of any resolution of this type to encouraging terrorism A TRIBUTE TO LYNN SINGER, for inaction, the administration opposes CHAMPION OF HUMAN RIGHTS even efforts to stem the growth in tax shel­ against Turks and Turkish-Americans. ters and other loopholes. I thought that this was a sad state­ The plan, however, would accomplish ment for the many Armenians who HON. NORMAN F. LENT many administration objectives that are not survived the genocide and immigrated OF NEW YORK measured in dollars alone. Targeted for ob­ to the United States as well as the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES livion are the last vestiges of the War on whole Armenian community. Clearly a Poverty-the Job Corps, community action Tuesday, April16, 1985 and legal service agencies, job programs for tragedy, which is well documented and welfare mothers and displaced workers and should be commemorated for the sake • Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, throughout economic development aid. The savings are of those who endured the suffering as my 15 years in Congress, I have been relatively trival. But they serve the conserv­ well as for future generations of Am­ an active supporter in the movement ative cause of dismantling federal programs renians, need not be obscured or ne­ to free Soviet Jews. There is one indi­ that might arguably provide rallying points gated by our government in an effort vidual who, to my mind, is the heart or a network of support for the economical­ to improve relations with the present and soul of this movement and that is ly disadvantaged and their liberal advocates. Gone, too, or severely reduced, would be day Turkish government. I think that Lynn Singer of East Meadow, Nassau many of the programs through which the the editorial below which appeared in County, NY. federal government has tried to help meet the Fresno Bee recently also empha­ Since 1970, Lynn Singer has dedicat­ local needs. Revenue-sharing, support for sizes this concern and puts into per­ ed her time and endless energies to passenger trainS and operating subsidies for spective the efforts by the Armenian aiding Soviet Jews suffering persecu- 8088 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 tion and oppression under the Krem­ tial force in marshalling increased sup­ have chosen to include his essay in the lin's rule. She is past president and port from Congress for Soviet Jews. RECORD because I believe it represents currently executive director of the One of her most effective programs a new approach to the problem of Vi­ Long Island Committee for Soviet is the adopt-a-prisoner of conscience etnamese aggression in Southeast Jewry, Hempstead, NY. Lynn is also program. Members send letters to the Asia. the national past president and cur­ prisoners and appropriate American AID FOR THE NON-COMMUNIST RESISTANCE rently serves as chairperson of the ad­ and Soviet officials to help obtain visory board of the Union of Councils visas for those denied the right to emi­ for Soviet Jews. The Union of Coun­ WASHINGTON.-Nearly a decade after its grate. One of the most fulfiling mo­ fall to the murderous followers of Pol Pot, cils, headquartered in Washington, ments during my congressional career Cambodia is still a source of regional ten­ DC, is a national grassroots organiza­ was in 1979, when my prisoner of con­ sion and international concern. Occupied by tion with over 50,000 individual mem­ cience, Hillel Butman, was released 170,000 Vietnamese troops who ousted the bers and 34 councils in major cities from Soviet imprisonment after 9 Khmer Rouge regime six years ago, Cambo­ across the United States and Canada years, was reunited with his family, dia remains a battlefield where an indige­ dedicated to the free emigration of and visited with me in my Rayburn nous resistance movement is fighting to lib­ Soviet Jews. She is an honorary chair­ Building office here in Washington, erate the country from foreign occupation. person of the New York Conference The resistance consists of the remnants of DC. the Khmer Rouge, 35,000 troops under the on Soviet Jewry, and was appointed by Lynn Singer is relentless in her pas­ leadership of Pol Pot; and two smaller, but the White House to the Federal Advi­ sion to aid these courageous men and growing, non-Communist groups: the sory Committee on Immigration and women in their struggle for cultural Khmer People's National Liberation Front Naturalization. and religious freedom. It can be said . led by Son Sann, which has On April 25, Lynn Singer will be without exaggeration that this woman 15,000 troops, and the Nationalist Army honored by the Long Island Center for has done more than any one individual CANS> of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Business and Professional Women and to increase public awareness and vigor­ former head of state, which has 5,000 men will be presented with the Achiever's ous support for Soviet Jews. underarms. Award for Human Rights. This well­ The United States has two main objec­ Lynn Singer's indomitable spirit and tives in Cambodia: securing the departure of deserved honor is fitting recognition determination are an inspiration to Vietnamese troops and preventing the for this remarkable woman. those of us who have joined in the val­ return of the Khmer Rouge. At this time, I'd like to take the op­ iant fight for freedom and human The withdrawal of Vietnamese forces portunity to pay a personal tribute to rights. It is a great honor and privilege would enable the Cambodian people, at long Lynn Singer and to express my heart­ to work alongside this outstanding last, to determine their own destiny. It also felt appreciation for her outstanding American who has earned the respect would reduce the Vietnamese threat to accomplishments and contributions to and admiration of so many. Thailand, an American ally, to whose de­ the cause of freedom and human On behalf of my fellow Members of fense the United States is committed. rights. Congress, her many friends and col­ At the same time, the United States has a Lynn Singer is recognized through­ compelling interest, as do the Cambodian leagues, I extend my warmest con­ people, in preventing the return of Pol Pot out this country-as well as in the gratulations to Lynn on this memora­ to power in Phnom Penh. It was, after all, Soviet Union-as a champion of ble occasion. And I offer my most sin­ the Khmer Rouge who carried out a reign human rights. Through her efforts, cere gratitude and appreciatiun for of unspeakable terror that took the lives of countless Russian Jews are now citi­ her many years of hard work and dedi­ between 1 and 3 million Cambodians. zens of the free world. cation as a leader to secure human The United States has voted for U.N. reso­ Born into an Orthodox Jewish rights and freedom for all mankind.e lutions calling for the withdrawal of Viet­ family, Lynn had long been active in namese forces from Cambodia and self-de­ her local community on Long Island. termination for the Cambodian people. The Then came the Leningrad trials of AID FOR THE NON-COMMUNIST United States has no diplomatic relations RESISTANCE with either Hanoi or Phnom Penh and has 1970. During these famous trials, a maintained an economic embargo against group of Jews and two non-Jews were Vietnam and Cambodia. Yet the United tried for having plotted to hijack a HON. ROBERT G. TORRICELLI States has never developed a realistic strate­ Soviet airplane to escape to Israel. OF NEW JERSEY gy for achieving the withdrawal of Vietnam The trials were a turning point for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and preventing the return of the Khmer Lynn who then decided to dedicate her Rouge. work to the plight of Soviet Jews. Tuesday, April16, 1985 The Vietnamese are not likely to leave Lynn is untiring in her commitment e Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. Speaker, in Phnom Penh on the basis of appeals to con­ science or compassion alone. Nor are eco­ to restore human rights and freedoms the years since Vietnam, our proper nomic and ' diplomatic pressures by them­ to the victims of the Kremlin's vicious role in world affairs has been a con­ selves likely to be effective. Vietnam will anti-Semitic policies. She makes fre­ stant source of debate among -Mem­ withdraw from Cambodia only when the quent telephone calls to refuseniks in bers of Congress. There has been no price of its continued occupation there in­ the Soviet Union, writes letters, sends Member of this body, however, who creases to the point where it opts for a polit­ packages, promotes fundraising ef­ has been a more consistent participant ical settlement rather than a military solu­ forts. She coordinates speaking en­ in this debate than Congressman STE­ tion. gagements for and about Soviet Jews PHEN SOLARZ. Through his leadership Raising that price clearly requires a more and publishes a monthly newsletter. on the House Foreign Affairs Subcom­ effective resistance movement. While the primary responsiblity for sustaining the re­ She briefs tourists and officials visit­ mittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, sistance rests with the Cambodian people ing the U.S.S.R. on how to contact Congressman SOLARZ has been active themselves, and with the ASEAN nations Russian Jews to bring them news of in renewing American commitment to and China, which have supported it, the life outside the Iron Curtain. Her inti­ democratic change within Southeast United States also has a meaningful role to mate involvement with each family, Asia. Mindful of the lessons' of Viet­ play. ASEAN, the Association of South East their p~oblems and needs have earned nam, he has. sought to develop a con­ Asian Nations, is comprised of Indonesia, Lynn the affectionate name "the structive role for the United States in the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thai­ Jewish Mother" among the refusenik the region. Congressman SoLARZ' rea­ land and Brunei. soning, which is summarized in an edi­ American assistance to the KPNLF and community. Her compassion for her ANS would show the Vietnamese that the fellow man is limitless. torial which he recently wrote on the resistance may be more difficult to over­ One of the most critical aspects of matter of providing aid to democratic come than they had anticipated. Coming the movement's work is its political ac­ rebels in Cambodia, speaks for many not long after the recent Vietnamese offen­ tivity. Lynn has proved to be an essen- of us that serve on his subcommittee. I sive, U.S. aid would also boost the morale of April16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8089 the resistance movement by indicating that resumption of American aid to the Contras In his office the next day, Rep. Bennett's the United States was prepared to support in Nicaragua. In Cambodia, as in Afghani­ voice broke as he struggled to hold back the resistance in its fight for freedom. Fi­ stan, we would be supporting an indigenous tears. "I said, 'Thank you for taking me nally, it would also encourage ASEAN, resistance movement which is opposing for­ back,'" he recalled. "I didn't feel like which last month appealed to the interna­ eign occupation. In Nicaragua, by resuming 'Where were you?' I said, "Thank you for tional community to support the Cambodi­ aid to the Contras we would be involving taking me back.' " an people "in their political and military the United States in a civil war as part of an In this city where winning is so much a struggle to liberate their homeland from effort to overthrow an internationally rec­ part of survival, Mr. Bennett's story is one foreign occupation." ognized government. Furthermore, in Cam­ of living with defeat, and a reminder of the But American aid to the non-Communist bodia, our friends in the region have public­ casualties of change as a new generation of resistance would serve another critically im­ ly asked us to aid the resistance movement. Democrats muscles its way to power in the portant purpose. It would help the KPNLF In the case of Nicaragua, most of our party leadership. and ANS, if Vietnam ever agrees to with­ friends in Latin America believe that U.S. Although humiliated and bitter after his draw, to prevent the return of the Khmer support for the Contras is inappropriate loss, Mr. Bennett is nevertheless freer as a Rouge to power. and counterproductive. result. "Now I can be the worrisome nettle Who, after all, would be able and willing The people of Cambodia have been victim­ that at times I wanted to be,'' he says. to prevent Pol Pot from reestablishing his ized first by the unbelievable and unrelent­ Whether advising his president or his party, reign of repression, should Vietnam actually ing brutality of the Khmer Rouge and then there is a new power and poignancy to his leave, if not the non-Communist resistance by the invasion and occupation carried out remarks. forces? by the Vietnamese. Yet they have never "Although I am a bit older than you," he The United States clearly has no desire or abandoned their struggle for freedom and recently wrote President Reagan, "unlike intention to reintroduce combat troops into independence. Their determination in the you I have been recently rejected, by the Indochina. The ASEAN countries failed to face of extraordinary adversity is a tribute Democratic caucus, for a position which se­ lift a finger against Pol Pot when he was in to the human spirit. Surely their cause is niority should normally have given me. This power. And China has been the chief spon­ deserving of tangible American support. rejection . . . has freed me to speak my sor of the Khmer Rouge. Stephen J. Solarz, a Democrat from New mind without any impediment of leadership The best hope of preventing the Khmer York, is chairman of the House Subcommit­ responsibility of my party. So I do not speak Rouge's return to power in the wake of a Vi­ tee on Asian and Pacific Affairs.e as a Democratic leader but as a concerned etnamese withdrawal is the Cambodian citizen and a combat infantry veteran who people themselves, as represented by the TRIBUTE TO HON. CHARLIE wants to prevent war and best serve his non-communist resistance. Yet the KPNLF country at the same time.'' and ANS must be substantially strength­ BENNETT ened if they are to serve as an effective MR. SEA POWER counterweight to the more numerous and HON. DANTE B. FASCELL There is a touch of the archangel to the ruthless Khmer Rouge. OF FLORIDA white-haired Mr. Bennett, as if he embodies Some opponents of American aid to the a fierce religiosity and the swift sword of KPNLF and the ANS have contended that, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Pentagon. He is "Mr. Sea Power" on the however noble its cause, the non-Commu­ Tuesday, April 16, 1985 Armed Services Committee and the man nist resistance will never be able to force Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, I know who successfully sponsored legislation in the more powerful Vietnamese out of Cam­ e the 1950s making "In God We Trust" the bodia. The non-Communist forces, to be that I am joined by many of our col­ nation's motto. sure, will never be in a position to drive the leagues in paying tribute today to the Yet he also exhibits a renegade independ­ Vietnamese out, but with increased material dean of the Florida congressional dele­ ence and a vulnerability that mark more his assistance they may be able to substantially gation, Congressman CHARLES BEN­ politics. raise the pressure on Vietnam, thereby in­ NETT. For all of my years in Congress, Long before he opposed the MX missile, creasing the possibility of a political settle­ CHARLIE BENNETT has been one of the Mr. Bennett was an early critic of the Viet­ ment. Over the past few years, the non­ most highly respected and admired nam War, and this adds to the irony that he Communist forces have grown from a few Members of Congress. Since he was was rejected by a generation of Democrats hundred troops to over 20,000. As long as whose own politics sprang from the same the Cambodian people remain opposed to first elected to Congress in 1948, his protest movement. Vietnamese domination, the non-Commu­ courage and wisdom has been a source First elected to the House in 1948, Mr. nist resistance will have a powerful stimulus of admiration and strength for many Bennett has spent nearly half his life in the for the further recruitment. of us. CHARLIE is the distinguished chamber. The Armed Services Committee Other critics have expressed the fear that author of five books and a celebrated defined his legislative career, and in an the Khmer Rouge might obtain some of our veteran of World War II. He has long office only a few yards from the committee aid. This is a legitimate concern. Any Ameri­ been a source of sound and thoughtful room, he bided his time in hopes of someday can assistance to Pol Pot would be unthink­ judgment, particularly in matters becoming chairman. He is obsessed with his able and unacceptable. Yet there is no record number of floor votes, and listening reason we should not be able to prevent the having to do with the armed services for the bells signaling a roll call, he can diversion of U.S. assistance to the Khmer and our national defense, and many seem a caricature of the congressman con­ Rouge. The resistance forces are comprised are grateful for his knowledge and his sumed by the process-not the substance­ of three separate armies in three separate expertise, as well as his friendship. It of government. locations, and the Thais have given us ex­ is with great honor that I call to the A frail, complex figure, he is a man of con­ plicit assurances that any American support attention of our colleagues a recent ar­ tradictions. He is capable of great personal would be channeled exclusively to the ticle, published by the Wall Street courage, but is criticized for being too preoc­ KPNLF and ANS forces. Thailand has every Journal on CHARLIE BENNETT: cupied with image. In debate, he is given to reason to keep American aid away from the long, rambling harangues, yet in his writ­ Khmer Rouge, knowing that a diversion of REP. BENNETT FINDS DEFEAT IN CONGRESS BRINGS NEW FREEDOM TO SPEAK ON ISSUE ings and comments, he can be blunt with a our assistance to Pol Pot would result in the sudden clarity. immediate and irreversible termination of "It is like sticking pins in a rattlesnake," American aid. WASHINGTON.-Before Florida Rep. he wrote President Reagan of the adminis­ We also need not fear that American aid Charles Bennett sat down in the House last tration's covert military aid to anti-Sandi­ will lead to direct U.S. military involvement week, his fellow Democrats stood up. nista guerrillas in Nicaragua. "If we can't do in the region. After our searing experience An emotional ovation signaled the end of more than that, we should do less." in Vietnam, it is inconceivable that limited debate on the MX missile, but even more it amounts of American assistance would lead marked a turning point in a personal jour­ FOUGHT IN PHILLIPPINES to the reintroduction of American combat ney for the 74-year-old Jacksonville conserv­ Mr. Bennett fought with Philippine guer­ forces into Indochina. The Cambodians ative. rillas against the Japanese in northern have not requested U.S. troops, ASEAN does Less than three months before; Mr. Ben­ Luzon as an Army officer in World War II. not want them, and Congress would never nett had been brushed aside by younger The independent, small-unit combat suited permit them. Democrats in the race for House Armed his personality, and the war marked him for Finally, a decision to provide assistance to Services Committee chairman, and now the life when he was crippled by polio contract­ the non-Communist resistance in Cambodia applause was a bridge for both sides to ed in the jungle. He wears a steel brace on would not, as some have feared, legitimize a reach out again to one another. his right leg, and with his two black canes, 8090 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 he is a fixture in the House as he rushes to lyn Community Organization, an in­ As the Representative from Borough make yet another vote. terethnic neighborhood preservation Park, I worked with Shmuel first to "He wears his clothes out from the inside," says Rep. Sam Gibbons and development group which is also a convince the Congress to raise the with admiration, yet in his own remarks, division of the Agudath Israel of mortgage ceiling, and then to convince Mr. Bennett betrays some misgivings about America. This small agency, staffed by HUD that there was no reason that his obsession with legislative matters. local housing, economic development, section 235 housing couldn't be condo­ He blames himself now for not finding and social work professionals has liter­ miniums in apartment buildings, in­ more time to help a drug-addicted son who ally rewritten the books on how to go stead of suburban single-family homes died from an overdose of narcotics in an ap­ about preventing pockets of blight and on a sixth of an acre. Shmuel's perse­ parent suicide, "I do blame myself," he said. building abandonment from destroy­ "That has been real hard to live with." verance and persuasive powers paid Like other Southerners, he struggled with ing entire neighborhoods and ethnic off, and now some 16 communities in civil rights in the 1960s. He opposed the communities. New York and some 2,200 families are 1964 Civil Rights Act, he says, but uncom­ I have been privileged to work with enjoying new housing built under this fortable with his position, he supported Rabbi Lefkowitz and his able board of modified section 235 program. voting-rights legislation a year later. "I directors at numerous planning and Rabbi Lefkowitz knew that Brooklyn came to see how wrong I was about black negotiating sessions over the last 8 people," he says. families wanted to own their own years. Shmuel Lefkowitz is always pre­ homes. Affordable home ownership In June 1971, Mr. Bennett was the most pared. With maps, charts, graphs, con­ senior member of the Armed Services Com­ gives people a permanent stake in mittee to support an anti-war amendment in ferences, briefing papers, filmstrips, their communities and makes it possi­ the House, and among those who joined him and walking tours, he has convinced ble for families to stay near their syn­ was a young freshman on the committee, elected representatives, Federal and agogues, churches, schools, ethnic Rep. Les Aspin Thomas Downey . remembering the mix of anger and sesses an amazing array of abilities attempt to recreate them after they admiration on the floor. "He has stayed by and extraordinary energies that make have been destroyed. Neighborhood his position and didn't run and hide."e it possible for him to bring together preservation through community people of various political, economic, action was Shmuel's motto and guid­ SBCO'S RABBI LEFKOWITZ: A ethnic, racial, and religious back­ ing principle, and the plan worked. ¥1\STER BUILDER OF THE grounds and convince them to work· to­ But now it has come time for Rabbi BOROUGH PARK COMMUNITY gether to improve their heighbor­ Lefkowitz to leave the Southern hoods. After talking "tachlis" with Brooklyn Community Organization HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ · them, explaining his vision of neigh­ and the busy offices which he borhood preservation as a key to planned, renovated, and established on OF NEW YORK urban survival, he is able to disarm the 18th Avenue. But Rabbi Lefkowitz, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES most cynical New Yorker or hardened the SBCO Board of Directors, Rabbi Tuesday, April16, 1985 bureaucrat and inspire them to work Sherer and the Agudath Israel can • Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise with him and SBCO to preserve and take great pride in the substantial ac­ today to pay tribute to an extraordi­ revitalize the local community and to complishments that have occurred nary young man, Rabbi Shmuel strengthen neighborhood institutions. under Shmuel's able stewardship at Lefkowitz, whom I have come to know His creativity, vision, and determina­ SBCO. Over $50 million in private in­ and greatly respect over the last 8 tion helped him to develop new initia­ vestment has been leveraged into Bor­ years. His wisdom, integrity, and per­ tives and to reshape old programs to ough Park and Kensington. One thou­ severance have helped him to build fit the needs of the people of Brook­ sand units of new or renovated hous­ one of the most remarkable neighbor­ lyn. ing have been constructed to provide hood development organizations in the In searching for a way to build af­ decent, safe, affordable shelter for United States, the Southern Brooklyn fordable housing for moderate-income large families, low- and moderate­ Community Organization. SBCO is families, particularly those with many income residents, and for our elderly children, he set out to convince the and handicapped citizens. largely responsible for the resurgence Federal Government that a Federal of a neighborhood and the preserva­ program subsidizing mortgage costs More important than the new apart­ tion of a way of life for the people of for moderate-income families that had ments and the revitalized shopping Borough Park and Kensington in never been tried in New York could area on 13th Avenue, however, is the Brooklyn. work, provided the program was modi­ new positive spirit that Rabbi Since 1977 he has served as the exec­ fied by the Congress for areas with Lefkowitz has helped bring to the utive director of the Southern Brook- higher cost housing. forefront in one of the Nation's largest April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8091 Jewish communities. Shmuel record high. The trade deficit for 1985 is ex­ COLOMBIAN OPPOSES U.S. AID Lefkowitz proved that individuals can pected to be at least $140 billion. Mean­ TO NICARAGUAN REBELS overcome the indifference of city hall while, Japan showed a $44.4 billion trade and the White House and that diverse surplus in 1984, up sharply from 1983. groups can put aside differences of You would think these deficits would spur HON. MICHAEL D. BARNES philosophy or politics and work to­ significant action on the part of our govern­ OF MARYLAND gether to aid families, and improve the ment, but last week's trade negotiations not­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES withstanding, Washington has not risen to physical and social communities in Tuesday, April16, 1985 which we raise our children. the challenge. Shmuel leaves at SBCO a tradition The most significant action on trade in • Mr. BARNES. Mr. Speaker, the ad­ of quiet, effective advocacy, coupled the last several months remains the decision ministration has been telling us that with firsthand knowledge of the intri­ to repeal voluntary import restrictions on Latin American statesmen support its cacies of development programs. Japanese automobiles. Contra aid proposal. Now it turns out SBCO worked to accommodate the In the interest of free trade, the restric­ that the administration misled Colom­ needs of the various actors in neigh­ tions indeed should have been removed, but bian President Belisario Betancur borhood preservation: Federal agen­ we p1ust take action if we are to prevent fur­ when it described the proposal to him cies, private investors, local business­ ther loss of manufacturing jobs in the when he was in Washington. Betancur men, community leaders, home United States. Here is a seven-point action told the New York Times yesterday program tQ help tum around our trade defi­ that Secretary of State Schultz never buyers, and residents in order to cits over the next decade. produce the positive results that spell told him that Pre~ident Reagan's plan First, trade equity with Japan must be provided for military aid to the Con­ ·healthy, happy, prosperous neighbor­ achieved. Our government must become hoods. more articulate and aggressive in insisting tras. That, Betancur said, makes it "no I am proud to have this opportunity, that Japan change some of its restrictions longer a peace plan, but a preparation here in the halls of the Congress, to on the importation of services, agricultural for war." He voiced "outright rejec­ pay public tribute to and to thank goods and finished consumer products. tion" of the idea, and said, "I haven't Rabbi Lefkowitz and the Agudath Second, U.S. companies should take great­ spoken with any Latin American Israel for all that has been accom­ er advantage of a 1982 federal law removing leader who feels differently." plished to make Brooklyn a better obstacles to the formation of export trading Betancur told the Times that it place to live. May Shmuel's new ef­ companies by businesses and banks. Since "would be a contradiction" for anyone forts to rebuild and revitalize neigh­ the enactment of that law, only 50 such to try to use his statements in Wash­ borhoods in the private sector be companies have been formed. There are ington to imply approval of President equally successful, give him much sat­ over 6,000 exnort trading companies in Reagan's plan. He said he disapproves isfaction, and more time for his grow­ Japan whose sales total $350 billion a year. of Reagan's 60-day time limit on nego­ ing family. Third, we must move towards the creation tiations because it is "almost like an I would not be surprised if Rabbi of a North American Common Market so ultimatum." The Times further re­ Lefkowitz were one day entrusted with that goods and services may move freely ports that the views of the other Con­ major national responsibilities here in among Canada, Mexico and the United tadora countries on Reagan's plan are Washington for, to quote the poet Em­ States. Creation of such a market would similar to Betancur's. mean even less dependence on Mideast erson: "He builded better than he crude oil for the United States and would I urge my colleagues to read the New knew; the conscious stone to beauty open the markets of Mexico and Canada to York Times report, which follows: grew," and we are all the beneficiaries more of our manufactured goods and invest­ [From the New York Times, Apr. 16, 19851 of his efforts.e ment dollars. COLOMBIAN OPPOSES U.S. AID TO NICARAGUAN Fourth, changes should be made in the REBELS A BLUEPRINT FOR ACTION ON antitrust laws so that our businesses may THE UNITED STATES-JAPAN properly combine and become more com­ BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, April 15.-The Presi­ TRADE GAP petitive with foreign firms. Mature and dent of Colombia said today that he and tired industries in the United States, such as other Latin American leaders were opposed steel, need to be able to put their resources to renewed United States military aid for HON.RAYMONDJ.McGRATH together so that their corporate structures rebels fighting the Nicaraguan Government. OF NEW YORK can be streamlined and made more produc­ Earlier this month the President, Beli­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tive. sario Betancur1 told reporters in Washing­ Tuesday, April16, 1985 Fifth, business must work with govern­ ton that his reaction to President Reagan's ment and educators to make some basic plan on Nicaragua had been ·~very positive." • Mr. McGRATH. Mr. Speaker, a con­ changes in our educational system. Foreign But today Mr. Betancur said his response stituent of mine, Mr. Robert McMillan languages must be taught to our children at had been based on the plan's call for a of Garden City, NY, recently penned a an early age. Whether "everyone" overseas cease-fire and negotiations. thought provoking commentary out­ speaks English or not, our competitiveness He said President Reagan and Secretary lining the basic steps we must take to is weakened when our sales forces are of State George P. Shultz had not men­ reduce our trade gap with Japan. Mr. unable to communicate effectively in the tioned to him that the proposal also provid­ language of those they are selling to. ed for renewed aid to the rebels, and he said McMillan is a member of the trade he had not realized this was part of the plan policy advisory committee and is Sixth, labor and management must con­ until his return to Bogota. widely respected in the New York tinue to pursue excellence in product qual­ Mr. Betancur, speaking in an interview business community. ity. Anyone who thinks Japan's products here, said Mr. Reagan's recent call for Con­ His article is a useful reference for lack quality need only look at their penetra­ gress to approve $14 million in aid to the our colleagues as debate over the equi­ tion into the U.S. automobile and electron­ rebels made that part of the President's ties of the United States-Japanese ics markets. plan "no longer a peace proposal, but a trade relationship continues. I hope Seventh, the United States should con­ preparation for war." vene a world monetary conference to ex­ In the last few days, several senior Reagan that Members of this body as well as plore the means to stabilize world currency Aprninistrtation officials have said that Mr. corporate leaders throughout our markets. Unless all nations work together to Betancur and other Latin American leaders Nation take note of Mr. McMillan's solve the continuous devaluations of curren­ supported Mr. Reagan's initiative, including work which follows: cies, the balance of trade will continue to a call for renewed aid to the rebels if a dead­ WE MusT TAKE ACTION To CLosE TRADE GAP ebb and flow with the strength of the U.S. line for talks in Nicaragua is not met. WITH THE JAPANESE dollar. The current high value of the dollar FOREIGN INTERVENTION OPPOSED for Westway, $14 million" in renewed aid to the rebels. P. Puccio, on the proposed westway approximately 90 acres of the landfill would Mr. Shultz gave him a printed copy of the highway project in New York. The be used for parkland, 100 acres would be full plan as he left, Mr. Betancur said, but report was commissioned by Gov. available for development, and the remain­ he did not have time to read it until much Mario Cuomo in 1983 to compare ing area would support the highway and its later. westway's projected benefits with interchanges. That afternoon, Mr. Reagan appeared on The history of how Westway was devel­ national television and described his plan in those which would accrue from the oped as a concept and manipulated through detail. Mr. Betancur held a news conference use of interstate highway trade-in the review process is lengthy and need not in Washington at about the same time-he funds to aid New York's mass transit be repeated here. It is sufficient to note did not see Mr. Reagan's address, he said­ system. In the first part of the report, that funding approval was given by the Fed­ and when he was asked what he thought of Puccio provides a clear description of eral Highway Administration in Mr. Reagan's plan, he said, "My reaction is the project's magnitude, its evolution January 1977; an air quality permit was very positive." and present status, and the major issued for the project in 1980; and a Corps A few days later, Robert C. McFarlane, issues involved. He analyzes New of Engineers' dredge-and-fill permit has Mr. Reagan's national security adviser, told since been set aside by the U.S. District reporters that the leaders of the four Con­ York's trade-in option and reveals that Court to abandon Westway and use the bad faith and conspired to conceal critical Specifically, under the Clean Water Act, the funds instead for substitute transit and new information on potential fisheries im­ foiling of "special aquatic habitat" can only roadway projects. Most Westway opponents pacts. As a consequence of these findings remand. appear to show, the interpier area is an im­ face. Westway proponents, in contrast, have Central among these was the obligation portant winter nursery for young striped asserted that the trade-in is illusory and that the Corps act independently of, and bass and other fish, it will qualify as a "spe­ that in any event, Westway represents a not defer to, NYSDOT in shaping its deci­ cial aquatic habitat;" and since there are "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" which sion. In addition, the Corps was explicitly clearly alternatives to Westway that a deal could be negotiated with the Although I do not want to prejudge could be reduced in number to alleviate con­ Federal government that would be more ad­ gestion; and, in general, a first-rate surface vantageous than the scenario described the results of the working group's ef­ arterial could be developed to carry both above. For example, a regularized flow of forts, I firmly believe that we are still auto and truck traffic along the West Side Federal funds might be effectively guaran­ the large scientific data gaps that sur­ not have the capacity of Westway, the speed teed, allowing the State to issue its own round the issue of ocean mining on differential would be small, involving, at bonds, backed entirely by the flow of Feder­ the Gorda Ridge. Ocean scientists who most, five to ten minutes of additional driv­ al funds. This would allow major repair reviewed last year's draft EIS found it ing time in a rush hour setting. work to proceed immediately and in an ex­ pansive way-all the time when it is needed totally inadequate and said it would FUNDS FOR OTHER BOROUGHS most. Such a program could also generate probably require another 4 to 7 years To reconstruct such a replacement road, large numbers of current jobs, equal to or to get a better idea of what is out including associated rehabilitation of the even greater than could Westway. there and what the potential impacts waterfront, the allocation of $100 million of Based on experience in Boston, Chicago, of development might be. Moreover, the trade-in funds would undoubtedly be and Washington itself, it is apparent that most experts agree that the technolo­ more than sufficient. The remaining trade­ the State of New York can make a deal with in funds, totalling approximately $1.4 mil­ the federal government to assure that trade­ gy necessary for actual mining will not lion (plus the State share of approximately in works. Up to now, neither the State nor be available for at least 20 years. In $200 million), would then be available for the City has been prepared to negotiate, short, leasing of mineral rights on the transit rehabilitation and bridge, road and and so long as they remain unwilling to do Gorda Ridge next year would clearly related infrastructure repairs and improve­ so, they will be inclined to assert that trade­ be premature. As a result, I am today ments. These funds could be used, more­ in does not work. However, it does, as the reintroducing the Ocean Mineral Re­ over, not only in Manhattan, but also to the elections by other cities and states have sources Development Act, which benefit of the outlaying boroughs and, the shown; and, in my view1 there is little doubt general metropolitan area. For example, that it will work in the case of Westway, if would provide for a moratorium on subway improvements could be financed in the City and State make that election and Gorda Ridge lease sales until more de­ the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, as well as follow it through.e finitive scientific information is gath­ in Manhattan; funds might be used to pur­ ered and analyzed on both the mining chase new buses for Staten island; interbor­ potential of the area and the environ­ ough bridges could be rehabilitated; and OCEAN MINERAL RESOURCES mental impacts of development. roadways could be repaired in diverse sec­ DEVELOPMENT ACT tions of the metropolitan area. In short, There are a number of issues that while the bulk of the funds would presum­ need to be further explored. First, to ably be spent in Manhattan, trade-in offers HON. DOUGLAS H. BOSCO the best of my knowledge, there is still options that could provide much broader OF CALIFORNIA no definitive evidence that polymetal­ benefits.2 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lic sulfide minerals-including such The trade-in funds would be a major and Tuesday, April16, 1985 strategic metals as copper, zinc, chro­ critical source of the money needed to buoy • Mr. BOSCO. Mr. Speaker, last year mium, silver, platinum, nickel, and up failing capital infrastructure. Even with As the MTA's expanded 10-year program, for I introduced legislation aimed at slow­ cobalt-exist on the Gorda Ridge. example, there are substantial shortfalls of ing the Department of Interior's pro­ Interior's draft EIS showed, very little transit capital funds; and the problem is posal to offer lease sales for undersea is really known about the overall phys­ equally serious in connection with bridges mining on the Gorda Ridge off north­ ical, chemical, and biological environ­ and roads. Furthermore, the allocation of em California and Oregon until the ment of the Gorda Ridge. In the ab­ trade-in funds to transit rehabilitation sence of this information, the mining would avoid the need for up to $1 billion of Federal Government resolved the un­ answered questions and concerns industry has been understandably borrowed capital and the resultant interest hesitant to invest capital in the type charges. This could save 10 cents to 20 cents raised by both the mining industry and area residents. The draft environ­ of exploration technology necessary to in terms of the fare. undertake a successful mining ven­ SURER FUNDING FOR TRADE-IN mental impact statement released by the Minerals Management Service in ture-particularly now in light of the Recent changes in the Federal Highway worldwide glut of polymetallic sulfides laws have increased the attractiveness of January 1984, which covered potential trade-in, in certain respects. In particular seafloor mining on 40 million acres and the fact that the technology for trade-ins for substitute roadway projects from 20 to 40 miles offshore, drew in­ actual mining may be 20 years away. (including bridges> will now be funded out tense criticism from environmental It is also clear that no adequate as­ of the Highway Trust Fund, rather than and fishing groups and State and local sessment of environmental impacts being dependent on annual appropriations governments. Even the mining indus­ will be possible until more is known from the General Fund. This should provide about the ore source and mining meth­ somewhat greater assurance of receiving try viewed the plan with considerable such funds in a timely way

51-059 0-86-35 (Pt. 6) 8096 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 urbs, Johnella Martin conveys to chil­ Moreover, the World A'Fair helps in the loss of revenue to the United dren that she cares. She displays maintain the cultural identity of its States. It merely would authorize the warmth and abiding concern for every participants, which can be strength­ Secretary of the Treasury to grant the child, the child with ideal qualities ened and passed on from generation to Commonwealth of Puerto Rico the and the child with a multiplidty of generation. That is the priceless herit­ same treatment under section 5517 of problems. age of all Americans who have partici­ title 5 of the United States Code, as One of Johnella's most memorable pated in the melting pot which makes any State having withholding statutes. challenges was leading 4,000 teachers up our great Nation. Similarly, the administrative burden in 1975-76 as their local president. Many of the groups which partici­ to the United States would be roughly During her tenure, there was an ever­ pate in the World A'Fair have been equivalent to the burden currently as­ increasing likelihood of Nashville's active in international relations and sumed by private employers and first teachers' strike. Although the promoting increased U.S. attention to should not be an onerous chore to the strike was avoided, many will never human rights. This, too, serves to Federal Government in view of the forget the courage she displayed, the draw together the nations of the world benefit to its employees located in the fairness with which she presided, the and promote good will among all men Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.e determination of her leadership style, and women. the confidence which she displayed in I wish success and enjoyment for all dealing with the public, and the emo­ who contribute to making the Dayton A TRIBUTE TO MS. E. MARIE tional strain she shouldered for her World A'Fair the meaningful experi­ FLENOURY colleagues. ence it has come to represent.e Teachers, both black and white, ral­ HON. JULIAN C. DIXON lied to her as their leader. Nearly a GRANTING PUERTO RICO THE OF CALIFORNIA decade later her name still generates SAME TREATMENT UNDER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES awe. SECTION 5517 OF TITLE 5 OF Tuesday, April16, 1985 Her style is direct but her warm sen­ THE UNITED STATES CODE sitivity is always crystal clear. She • Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, it is with consistently has been a leader who re­ great pleasure that I rise today to pay HON. JAIME B. FUSTER tribute to a dedicated and inspiration­ membered her roots. She has never OF PUERTO RICO compromised her identity as a minori­ al woman whose tireless efforts and ty by going along with majority lead­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES compassion enabled hundreds of chil­ ers who were less committed to social Tuesday, April 16, 1985 dren in the Los Angeles community to justice than she is. e Mr. FUSTER. Mr. Speaker, on April experience the joy of learning to play She served with distinction for 10 3, I introduced H.R. 1943 to include musical instruments and to participate years as a member of the Tennessee Puerto Rico within the definition of in choirs and marching bands. Ms. E. State Board of Regents during stormy State for the purposes of the require­ Marie Flenoury is a sensitive and battles to desegregate our State uni­ ment imposed on the Secretary of the warm person, who for the last 34 years versities. Treasury to withhold State income has been a music teacher with the Los Her goal in life has been to render taxes from the income of Federal em­ Angeles Unified School District. service to others and to make this ployees. Marie possesses innate musical tal­ world a better place in which to live. The proposed change would have a ents which she selflessly and frequent­ It gives me great pleasure to make twofold effect. It would ease a signifi­ ly shared with her students and her achievements known to the House cant burden presently faced by Feder­ friends. Upon graduating from the of Representatives.• al employees located in Puerto Rico, University· of Southern California she and also benefit the Commonwealth had already been a violinist and sopra­ by providing for faster receipt of tax no at several of Los Angeles' major THE 12TH ANNUAL DAYTON "A revenues. churches and had arranged choral WORLD A'FAIR" There are currently approximately music for the Lillian Randolph Sing­ 8,000 civilian employees in Puerto Rico ers. While pursuing a theatrical HON. TONY P. HALL who have Federal income tax withheld career. Marie decided to take the ele­ OF OHIO from their salaries. Their tax liability mentary teaching exam and passed. In IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on these earnings accrues to the Com­ September of 1950 Marie accepted her monwealth of Puerto Rico. Conse­ first teaching assignment at Main Ele­ Tuesday, April16, 1985 quently, they file a Federal return to mentary School. Although at times • Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, obtain a full refund of the withheld difficult, something special happened May 31, 1985, marks the beginning of tax, which is then used to partially during her 10 years at Main Elementa­ the 12th Annual Dayton "A World satisfy their Commonwealth tax liabil­ ry. Becoming involved with children A'Fair," sponsored by the Dayton ity. The tax due the Commonwealth is changed Marie's life. Children became International Festival, Inc. The pur­ higher than the Federal tax currently her life. pose is to make area citizens aware of withheld. Thus, many Federal employ­ Having a strong desire to bring the the diverse culture and heritage of the ees need to make lump sum payments joy of music to as many children as Miami Valley and to promote friend­ equaling 10 to 20 percent of their total possible, Marie accepted the position ship and understanding among all cul­ tax liability. of traveling music teacher and taught tures. The procedure presently in place has at 32d Street School, Castelar, Flor­ Every year, community organiza­ proved to be unsatisfactory in terms of ence Avenue, Clifford Avenue, Elysian tions representing the area's ethnic revenue collections since there is usu­ Heights, Commonwealth and Wilton groups and nationalities gather in a ally a significant delay in the payment Place elementary schools. Yet, it was large fair. These groups set up educa­ of Commonwealth taxes arising from at Manchester Avenue School, where tional displays, conduct demonstra­ the necessity to wait for the refund of she taught for the past 20 years, that tions of. folk art and dance, and serve withheld Federal taxes. Moreover, her outstanding work with children samples of their native food. many Federal employees simply forget earned her much praise and many The result is a successful, communi­ their Commonwealth tax liability once commendations from the community. ty-wide extravaganza which helps they have received their Federal tax It was not uncommon during her bridge the geographical gap between refund. career for Marie to purchase opera the citizens of the Miami Valley and I would like to emphasize that the and symphony tickets for children the peoples of the world. proposed amendment would not result who otherwise could not attend, but April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8097 who longed for exposure to the fine TRIBUTE TO FRANK X. very existence of this legislation sig­ arts. On more than one occasion Marie BATTERSBY nals both the seriousness of the na­ bought shoes for needy students, gave tion's crime problem and a significant items of clothing and provided hot HON. NORMAN F. LENT shift in the way we are addressing this lunches for those who were participat­ OF NEW YORK problem. In 1983, 27 percent of the ing in weekend activities. Marie, with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nation's households were touched by a crime of violence or theft. Almost 37 the help of Addreona Trammell and Tuesday, April 16, 1985 the late Mary Coleman Jackson, million individuals were victims of se­ formed a scholarship committee to e Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, I take great rious crime. Twenty-three thousand assist children interested in music. pleasure in paying tribute today to an citizens die as the result of crime each Many of them, inspired by Marie's outstanding citizen, Frank Battersby, year, and many times that number are skillful teaching and encouragement, who is retiring from a distinguished injured. Increasingly, public attention went on to music careers of their own. career with the PDR division of the is shifting its focus from the perpetra­ Harris Corp. tors to the victims of crime. Marie is not only gifted with a talent On May 3, 1985, Frank's many The 98th Congress enacted major to play many orchestral instruments; friends, family, and colleagues will legislation designed to crack down on she is also adept at writing choral ar­ gather at a testimonial dinner to crime, including stiffer sentencing re­ rangements and directing children's honor his significant achievements quirements and closer parole monitor­ plays. In fact, in the 1930's when Duke throughout his lengthy career. ing. For the first time, this legislation Ellington was rehearsing for his musi­ Frank enjoyed a career with the U.S. also authorized programs to aid crime cal, "Jump For Joy," and having prob­ Government having worked from 1952 victims. In particular, the continuing lems with the choral arrangement of to 1963 with the U.S. Army, New York resolution contains the Victims of the theme song, a member of the cast Ordnance District, working as Branch Crime Act of 1984, which takes a suggested Marie redraft the arrange­ Chief of the Tank and Automotive major step toward reversing the preoc­ ment. In a week's time Marie had re­ Branch. Frank's commitment and cupation of our criminal justice worked the theme song, and it was dedication in this area earned him system with the criminal at the ex­ this version which opened the show. both the Outstanding Performance pense of the victim. Last month, the Later Duke asked Marie to come to Award and the Superior Performance Justice Department began implement­ New York to do the choral score to Award. ing the act's central program, a trust "Beggars Opera," but her heart be­ In 1963 Frank transferred to the Na­ fund, financed completely by fines im­ longed to the children, and there she tional Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ posed on criminals, from which match­ tration as Business Manager and Con­ ing grants will be made to State victim stayed. · tracting ·officer for the Lunar Module Among the many activities that compensation and assistance pro­ Program of the Apollo project. Frank grams. Marie initiated while at Manchester was instrumental in promoting the Avenue, was a massive orchestra com­ growth of a contract which grew from The legislation of the last Congress posed by young people who had stud­ is a notable start, but much more an initial award of $330,000,000 to an needs to be done. This week, I will in­ ied with her, which ranged from her incredible $3 1/4 billion, a clear tribute current students to older ones who troduce legislation to add an addition­ to his talent and skill as business man­ al grant program to those contained in were by then teaching. She also co­ ager and contractor. For his outstand­ the Victims of Crime Act. My pro­ ordinated several special holiday pa­ ing work in this capacity Frank was gram, the Good Samaritan Assistance rades and programs, and many of her once again presented the Superior Act of 1985, will provide matching students participated in the annual Performance Award. He was also duly grants to States for programs that district orchestra and chorus. commended by both the Manned reward citizens who intervene in an at­ Mr. Speaker, Marie Flenoury, after Spacecraft Center and the National tempt to prevent a crime or apprehend 34 years of bringing the delectation of Aeronautics and Space Administration a criminal. We have all heard the tales music to the children to whom she Headquarters after the successful of victims who suffered at the hands had dedicated her life, decided that landing on the moon. of criminals while onlookers did noth­ the time for retirement had finally ar­ On the completion of the Apollo ing. But the brave acts of those who Program in 1970, Frank was employed have done something, many of whom rived. Marie Flenoury is a special by the Government Support Systems woman with special talents. And while who have been severely injured or Division as Director of Purchasing. I even lost their lives trying to help I am certain that she is missed at know I speak for Frank's colleagues in Manchester Avenue School, I share their fellow citizens, have received the Harris Corp., as well as for all of little attention and little compensa­ with her many friends the happiness us who have benefited from Frank's of knowing that she is vibrant and tion. The Good Samaritan Act would exceptional skills, in expressing our encourage States to reward these de­ young in spirit and that she will enjoy gratitude for his many years of dedi­ greatly this opportunity to relax, serving individuals and, at the same cated service. Frank will certainly be time, would educate the public that become fluent in Spanish, obtain a sorely missed but we all extend our one can do something to help another degree in church music and appreciate heartfelt appreciation and best wishes who is being victimized. those things for which she has worked for continued success.e Earlier this session, I introduced two so hard. other bills designed to help crime vic­ I join her many friends, colleagues NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMS tims and to help communities band to­ and students in not only wishing WEEK gether to combat crime. H.R. 841 Marie the very best, but also in ex­ would allow crime victims to deduct tending to her our heartfelt thanks medical expenses incurred as a result for sharing her wonderful gift of HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER OF NEW YORK of crime without regard to the usual 5 music with us through the years.e percent floor on this deduction. Allow­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing victims to deduct crime-related Tuesday, April16, 1985 medical expenses from their taxes is e Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, today an important step toward a crime Members of Congress are seeking to policy that also helps crime victims. designate this week, April 14-20, 1985, Allowing nonitemizers to deduct their National Crime Victims Week. The crime-related medical expenses assists 8098 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 all victims of crime, regardless of issue. For even if the investigative OSI . it has counter­ income level. Moreover, the tax deduc­ process is truly tamperproof, the Met­ intelligence responsibilities in addition tion provides a means for Congress to calf case demonstrates that it fails to to its criminal investigative mission. alleviate the hardship suffered by look tamperproof. Service personnel as Like OSI, NIS is structured chiefly to crime victims whether or not the well as the general public have com­ respond to command requirements. crimes fall under Federal jurisdiction. plained of the smell of favoritism. NIS may act on its own initiative only The second bill, H.R. 840 would What can be done to ensure not only to investigate espionage, to give recip­ allow all taxpayers, including nonitem­ that the process is honest, but also rocal support to other law enforce­ izers, to deduct contributions to anti­ that it is perceived to be honest? ment or intelligence agencies, or, crime groups, including community Without judging the Metcalf case where urgent circumstances warrant, crime watches and victim assistance itself, I believe the investigation of the to gear up preliminary investigative programs. My legislation will help alle­ House Armed Services Committee into action. viate the financial burden faced by the this second set of issues has pro­ In the Metcalf case, the customs less affluent in their efforts to respon­ gressed to the point where we can service uncovered the two dozen AK- sibly protect their homes and their make some recommendations. 47's when Admiral Metcalf's aircraft persons. In addition, it would encour­ I am proposing legislation specifical­ arrived in Norfolk, VA. Customs inves­ age a spirit of self-help and communi­ ly designed to prevent tampering with tigators deferred jurisdiction to NIS. ty cooperation, which would make our investigations of high-ranking officers About 1 week later, NIS approached neighborhoods both more secure and and also calculated to send a signal to Adm. Wesley McDonald, Commander more pleasant. the military community and the public in Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, and This week, I urge the support of my at large that we do not intend to Metcalf's immediate superior, to ask if colleagues for these and other efforts permit high-ranking officers to side­ McDonald wanted any further investi­ to put action behind our words of con­ step allegations against them. gation of the AK-47 issue. It is this ap­ cern for victims of crime. This Na­ A major part of the problem we face proach by NIS-one mandated by the tion's crime victims have begun to is a result of the different ways that nature of its charter-that gives a bad stand up for themselves, and it is our the Army, Navy, and Air Force have odor to the Metcalf case, regardless of duty as their representatives to help organized their investigative agencies. whether there was any actual wrong­ them make this stand in a responsible I am proposing to strengthen the rela­ doing by Admiral Metcalf. and meaningful way .e tively weak investigative arms of the McDonald summoned Metcalf, who Navy and Air Force so that a high­ proclaimed himself "totally responsi­ ranking officer will not be able to in­ THE ADMIRAL METCALF CASE ble" and asked for an opportunity to tervene to protect himself or a buddy. speak to NIS to "clear things up." NIS To understand the solution, it is first agents interviewed Metcalf and then HON. LES ASPIN necessary to describe the structure in asked McDonald's office once again OF WISCONSIN each of the services today. whether any further investigation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Criminal Investigation Com­ mand-historically known by the acro­ were desired. McDonald's deputy, Vice Tuesday, April16, 1985 nym [CIDl-is a major command Adm. Kenneth Carr, determined that • Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker, Joseph within the Department of the Army. "since responsibility had been fixed, Metcalf gained considerable fame as CID elements are normally tenant no further investigation was neces­ the leader of U.S. troops in Grenada a units at Army installations and pro­ sary." As a result, NIS filed a report of year and a half ago. He later gained vide investigative support to com­ what it had done to that point, and considerable notoriety when it was re­ manders within their geographic Metcalf ended up with a reprimand vealed that he returned from Grenada areas. CID elements determine what from Admiral McDonald. with 24 Soviet-made AK-47 rifles on investigative actions are appropriate The investigation was thus shortcir­ his airplane. Metcalf received only a for all criminal allegations, whether cuited. While Metcalf had indeed ac­ reprimand for taking home the illegal reported to them or developed on cepted responsibility, NIS never had souvenirs, while several lower-ranking their own. CID elements keep the the opportunity to establish just what soldiers and marines faced courts-mar­ command posted unless doing so would Metcalf was responsible for. was he tial. compromise an investigation. · bringing the weapons into the country There are two issues involved here. The Office of Special Investigations for "resale"? Was he bringing them in First, there is the Metcalf case itself. [QSil is the Air Force counterpart to for personal souvenirs? Was he bring­ Was Metcalf shown favoritism because CID. It, too, is a separate organization ing them in to present to others? How he was an admiral? Was his offense with detachments dispersed as tenant much did he know about the rifles fully investigated? The Committee on units at various installations. OSI de­ themselves, since the names of Met­ Armed Services has been looking into tachments, however, undertake inves­ calf's battle staff members were taped just these questions. But the commit­ tigations as requested by local com­ to many of them? It is to answer ques­ tee is withholding further action or manders. If an OSI detachment thinks tions such as these that the Defense comments on this set of issues while a matter merits investigation, it usual­ Department's inSpector general is now the Defense Department's inspector ly must secure a request from the com­ trying to marshal the fact.s. general performs his own investiga­ mander concerned before it can go My immediate concern is that, re­ tion, which is expected to be conclud­ ahead. Even though the head of an gardless of the outcome of that IG in­ ed shortly. OSI regional office has some authority vestigation, the initial NIS investiga­ The second issue is far broader than to start an investigation-if seeking a tion was shortcircuited by an admiral's this particular case. Is there a system­ command request might handicap the direction to NIS. NIS was not free to ic problem with the way allegations in­ effort-still, OSI must immediately make its own decision whether or not volving high-ranking officers are in­ secure command ratification of that to pursue the case further. vestigated? Do military investigators decision. What's more, an OSI region­ As outlined earlier, the Army has have the independence needed to al office must shut down an investiga­ the strongest internal protections pursue their work impartially, or are tion at the request of the command. against command interference in the they subject to pressure-or even di­ All the OSI regional office can do investigative process. The Army CID is rections-from the very persons they when this happens is notify OSI head­ an autonomous command. It is not are supposed to be investigating? quarters in Washington. subject to the directions of local com­ As we peel back the layers of the The Naval Investigative Service manders or other officials below the onion, w~ come to yet another broad [NISl is the Navy counterpart. Like level of the Army staff. April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8099 This is not to say that giving auton­ nomic progress with full recognition of ras and Costa Rica, which border on omy to the investigators solves every­ human rights and freedoms. The key Nicaragua, have direct vital interests thing. Generals and admirals, being leaders of the region have endorsed at stake in the democratization and the senior executives in their military the President's plan and so should the demilitarization of Nicaragua. The organizations, get a lot of attention­ U.S. Congress. consolidation of Sandinista control of both positive and negative. High rank I. THE REAGAN PEACE PLAN FOR NICARAGUA all aspects of Nicaraguan life, the San­ shouldn't spare an officer from scruti­ The President has asked both the dinista military buildup, and Sandi­ ny; neither should it subject him to Sandinista government and the Nica­ nista support for terroristic subver­ the third degree. Because the idea is raguan resistance to lay down their sion, threaten the security of Hondu­ to keep rank from skewing the investi­ arms and to accept church-mediated ras and Costa Rica. gative process, care must be taken to talks on internationally supervised In addition to Honduras and Costa avoid either extreme. elections and on ending repression of Rica, El Salvador has expressed its Complementing the autonomy that the church, the press and individual support for the President's plan. Presi­ it gives its investigators, the Army has rights. To facilitate this process, the dent Duarte recently wrote the follow­ a system for making sure that any President specifically asked the Nica­ ing letter to President Reagan: scrutiny given the conduct of its gen­ raguan resistance to extend the cease­ erals is flagged for deliberate atten­ fire offer it made in March to June 1, DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I want to thank you tion. most sincerely and warmly for your letter 1985. The President also has asked the delivered to me today which explains your Any allegation of impropriety on the Congress to release the $14 million it new peace initiative in Nicaragua and Cen­ part of a general must be reported to conditionally appropriated for aid to tral America. Your initiative and approach the Army Inspector General [IGl. The the Nicaraguan resistance under sec­ have my complete support and I strongly IG then refers any criminal aspect of tion 8066 of the Department of De­ urge all of the friends of Central America in the case to CID. If CID brought the fense Appropriations Act, 1985, incor­ your Congress to give it their full backing. case to the attention of the IG in the porated in the fiscal year 1985 con­ It is the right step at the right time in our first place, then CID retains any crimi­ tinuing resolution. quest for peace and democracy in this nal investigative jurisdiction it exer­ The President has pledged that, region. We appreciate as well your continu­ cises in the matter. The CID report to during the period that the ceasefire ing strong support for democracy in El Sal­ the IG in such a case would be chiefly offer is on the table, the released vador. informational, to let the system know funds will be used solely for humani­ As you know, the Salvadoran people have that a general has come under a cloud. just been to the polls for the fourth time in tarian support to the Nicaraguan re­ three years. While we do not yet have the Additionally, whenever a CID inves­ sistance groups, which specifically ex­ official results, the apparent significant vic­ tigation develops any need to confront cludes arms and munitions. tory of my government and my party is, in a general, a report is made to CID The President's plan combines the my opinion, first and foremost an endorse­ headquarters. This report serves two key elements of a successful policy. ment of the efforts we have made, with the purposes. First, it gives investigators The ceasefire stops the bloodshed in help of the people and government of the pause to deliberate on their approach Nicaragua. Mediation by the church United States, to bring peace, reconciliation to an unusual subject of investiga­ ensures that the mediators will have and democracy to our own country through tion-the "ducks-in-a-row" purpose. the trust and confidence of the people an internal dialogue. We believe our ap­ Second, it gives CID headquarters the of Nicaragua. The agenda of the talks, proach of opening such a dialogue and of­ chance to avert any perception of a fering a full opportunity to all of our Salva­ that is, elections and an end to repres­ doran brothers to participate in a free and breach in protocol-the "my investiga­ sion, begins the process of achieving constitutional democratic process in our tors are not the unes on trial here" legitimate democratic government in country should also be offered to all of purpose. Nicaragua with respect for the rights those who are struggling for democracy in This simply goes to say that, al­ of all. The release of the $14 million Nicaragua. I speak for all Salvadorans iri though giving military investigators demonstrates the commitment of the warmly applauding your efforts. an independent charter probably United States to democracy in the We remain concerned, as we have been for doesn't suffice as the whole solution, it Americas and also ensures that the re­ some time, by the continuing flow of sup­ is absolutely necessary to any solution. sistance can subsist during the talks. plies and munitions from Nicaragua to guer­ The legislation I am proposing Moreover, the release of the funds rilla forces here in El Salvador which are would give the investigative services of provides a clear and unmistakeable fighting against my government and our the Air Force and the Navy the kind pragmatic incentive to the Sandinista programs of reform, democracy, reconcilia­ of independence the Army CID al­ tion, and peace. This continuing interven­ government to participate in good tion in our internal affairs is of great con­ ready has. That is a relatively simple faith in the process. The President cern to us and we deeply appreciate any ef­ corrective measure which, had it been stated: forts which your government can take to taken earlier, would have precluded If the Sandinistas accept this peace offer, build a broad barrier to such activities-ef­ the shortcircuiting of the NIS investi­ I will keep my funding restrictions in effect, forts which a small country like El Salvador gation and averted the odor of tamper­ but peace negotiations must not become a cannot take in its own behalf. ing that permeates the Metcalf case.e cover for deception and delay. If there is no Please accept my personal thanks for this agreement after 60 days of negotiations, I courageous step and my best wishes to your will lift these restrictions unless both sides family. THE PRESIDENT'S PEACE PLAN ask me not to. Sincerely, HAS THE SUPPORT OF OUR II. THE VIEWS OF OUR ALLIES IN THE REGION JOSE NAPOLEON DUARTE, CENTRAL AMERICAN ALLIES The Governments of Honduras, President of the Republic of Costa Rica, and El Salvador have en­ El Salvador, San Salvador. HON. BOB STUMP dorsed the President's plan. On April Mr. Speaker, our friends and allies who OF ARIZONA 12, President Suazo of Honduras in­ are most directly affected support the formed a House Intelligence Commit­ Reagan plan for peace. The plan is a care­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tee delegation that his country sup­ fully balanced approach to a difficult situa­ Tuesday, April16, 1985 ports the President's plan, especially tion and every element in the plan is critical to its success, including the release of $14 e Mr. STUMP. Mr. Speaker, on April since it goes hand in hand with the million for the Nicaraguan resistance. Con­ 4, President Reagan set forth a bold Contadora process. On April13, Acting gress must do its part to give peace a chance new initiative for peaceful resolution President Arauz and Foreign Minister by supporting the President's plan and re­ of the Nicaraguan civil war. The Gutierrez of Costa Rica told the com­ leasing the funds. The House of Representa­ Reagan plan will assist the Nicara­ mittee delegation that Costa Rica sup­ tives should approve House Joint Resolu­ guans in achieving political and eco- ports the President's initiative. Hondu- tion 239 to release the funds.e 8100 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 PERSONAL EXPLANATION lower incomes and larger family sizes, to dish out the Federal goodies on a Pennsylvania's students and families ward-heeling basis. As a matter of fact, HON. JOHN E. GROTBERG can afford to pay only three-fourths of they could say of Joe, as some folks OF ILLINOIS what all other States' students and used to say about me when I was con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES families can afford to pay for college nected with the State Democratic costs-$2,340 as compared to $3,050 Party. "I don't know Joe. B. Swanner, Tuesday, April16, 1985 per year. This year, the parents of but I suspect him." I say this in jest, e Mr. GROTBERG. Mr. Speaker, I over half of Pennsylvania's freshmen partly, but Joe really is all of these was not present and voting when the college students reasonably can afford things, and I mean that to be a compli­ House considered two suspensions to pay no more than $1,200 per year ment to him. Tuesday: House Concurrent Resolu­ for college from their current income. tion 110 and Senate Joint Resolution The average cost of a year of attend­ Joe B. Swanner began his career in 15. Had I been present, I would have ance at Pennsylvania's 4-year public the Federal Government with the U.S. voted "yea" on both of them.e colleges is $6,070 while a year of at­ House of Representatives in 1950, on tendance at the State's 4-year private the floor of the House helping to pre­ colleges averages $10,200. In addition, pare the Journal. From 1953 to 1959, A RESOLUTION ON STUDENT since 1979, Pennsylvania students' and he served as legislative assistant to AID families' average ability to pay for col­ Congressman O.C. Fisher. From 1960- lege costs has risen by 30 percent 63 he was chief file clerk for the U.S. HON. WILLIAM F. CLINGER, JR. while the national average has risen House of Representatives. Between OF PENNSYLVANIA by 38 percent. 1964 and 1966 he served as Director of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES These facts clearly illustrate the des­ the Office of Congressional Relations, Tuesday, April16, 1985 perate need in Pennsylvania for this Small Business Administration. program to continue in full force. I am In 1966, he became the Special As­ e Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, with sure that Pennsylvania is not unique Congress poised to begin debate on the sistant to the Administrator, Economic in this situation and that my col­ Development Administration. Later as 1986 budget, I feel that now is the leagues from other States share in the most appropriate time for the House Special Assistant to the Assistant Sec­ urgency of defeating these budget retary, he was responsible for all EDA of Representatives to reaffirm its com­ cuts. Yes; this program is expensive, mitment to higher education and to but it represents an investment in congressional relations and public in­ the student financial aid program. Al­ human potential and in the future formation. though the administration-Senate greatness of this country. In 1968 he became Deputy Regional budget plan for this program is not as H.RES. 131 Director for the southwestern region draconian as the administration's ini­ Expressing the sense of the Congress that of the Economic Development Admin­ tial one, it still cuts to the heart of legislation which would further restrict istration in Austin, TX. He was ap­ this country's traditional commitment eligibility for, or access to, Federal student pointed regional director in August to equal access to higher education. I financial aid should not be enacted 1973. am, therefore, introducing a resolution Whereas rising tuition at public and pri- For many years, Joe represented our which declares that no further cuts vate colleges and universities has increased Government by helping our country should be made in the student finan­ the financial burden of students and their cial aid program which limits access families; build and develop. Joe and his agency, to, or eligibility for, Federal student fi­ Whereas any further restriction on eligi­ the EDA, have helped thousands of nancial aid. The text of the resolution bility for, or access to, Federal student fi­ cities and communities build up their follows my statement. nancial aid would seriously interfere with own resources and offered jobs to the the ability of low-income or middle-income unemployed. The compromise budget would limit students to attend their institution of eligibility for guaranteed student choice, thereby undermining the American I have the feeling that the value.Joe loans to families with adjusted gross principle of equal access to higher educa­ and the EDA have given to most of incomes of $60,000; the administration tion; and these communities probably has been had originally proposed a $32,500 Whereas the idea that a student's talent, more lasting than most of the other income limit. In addition, an $8,000 and not finances, should be the sole factor Government programs. Joe had the annual cap would be placed on the in determining how far the student may tough job of deciding what community pursue goals in education has been a reality amount of college costs that would be in the United States since the passage of should get the help, but I always allowed for purposes of determining the Higher Education Act of 1965: Now, found him to be openminded and fair. Federal support. therefore, be it I am particularly grateful for Joe's These cuts, especially the $8,000 Resolved. That it is the sense of the House and the EDA's assistance in the cre­ annual cap, will seriously undermine of Representatives that legislation should ation of the Buescher Science Center needy students' accessibility to their not be enacted which would further re­ near Smithville, TX. That project institution of choice. Pennsylvanians strict- will be particularly hard hit. The (1) eligibility for Federal student financial alone lays the beginning of a new Pennsylvania Higher Education Assist­ aid; or world health research program. We ance Agency provides some startling <2> access to higher education.e could not have built it without Joe's data which persuaded me to oppose and the EDA's cooperation. Housing cuts in student aid. First of all, Penn­ JOE B. SWANNER RETIRES projects, water and sewer programs, sylvania ranks 44th among the 50 the Paramount Theater, and countless States in the proportion of its citizens HON. J.J. PICKLE other projects are monuments of Joe Swanner's achievements. who participate in postsecondary edu­ OF TEXAS cation. Two factors which contribute IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I am pleased to claim Joe B. Swan­ to this low participation rate are fi­ ner my bureaucratic friend and thank nancially related. One, the average Tuesday, April16, 1985 him for his years of service to our costs of a year of attending college in • Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, if there Government.e Pennsylvania are from 17 to 19 per­ ever was a prototype of the big cigar­ cent greater than the costs in the rest smoking bureaucrat, it would be Joe B. of the Nation, 'depending on the Swanner. No question about it-Joe types of schools the students attend. has all the attributes. He looks mas­ Two, on the average, due to their sive, important, challenging, and ready April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8101 CONGRESSMAN GEORGE behalf of Israel, their community, gious special interest tax breaks to be MILLER SALUTES MIKE GRIMES Jewish freedom, and Jewish life. found in the Internal Revenue Code­ In the latter part of July 1944, Cor­ those benefiting oil producers and roy­ HON. GEORGE MILLER poral Liebenstein landed in Normandy alty owners. OF CALIFORNIA and was assigned to a part of Gen. There are a number of provisions in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES George Patton's 3d Army. The Ger­ the current code, some of which mans were going to invade and the passed as a part of the 1981 Economic Tuesday, April16, 1985 French expected the American libera­ Recovery Tax Act, which have little, if e Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. tors to help them. With virtually no any, justification from either an eco­ Speaker, I am privileged to honor arsenal, however, only moral support nomic or an energy policy perspective. today Michael K. Grimes who, this could be given in the event of an And I am pleased to note that at least week, will become the president of the attack. some in the administration have come Council for Exceptional Children. Mr. Corporal Liebenstein and his unit to agree with this view. To quote from Grimes is currently the coordinator of drove through French territory to the Treasury Department's tax pro­ special education for the Contra Costa locate German prisoners, realizing posal, "Because investment in oil and County · Office of Education, in my that they could be confronted at any gas is tax-favored, capital is diverted community in California. He has moment. When indeed they faced a from other, more productive, economic served the Contra Costa schools for 17 group of German soldiers who pointed activities." With deficit reduction at years, and has been a member of the at them with rifles in hand, they dis­ the top of our agenda in this session of Council for Exceptional Children for played exceptional courage, and final­ Congress, it is incumbent upon us to more than 20 years. ly obtained the group's surrender. The look not only to budget expenditures, It is especially gratifying to me that Americans proceeded to disable but to tax expenditures, as well. These Mr. Grimes has been recognized by German rifles, detonate their hand breaks for the oil companies are this organization for dedication to grenades, and deliver the 32 Nazis to among the biggest tax expenditures in handicapped children and their fami­ the appropriate division. the Tax Code. lies, and for his continuing work with Mr. Speaker, for his heroism, Corpo­ This bill would change five provi­ the professionals who serve them. ral Liebenstein was awarded the Silver sions of the Internal Revenue Code, Mike has given his time and energy to Star. He is also· the recipient of two three of which were the result of educating me about the needs of these Purple Heart Medals for having been amendments made by ERTA in 1981. children and has taught me to be an twice wounded. Interestingly, during It would repeal those sections of advocate for them. He has helped me the Battle of the Bulge, a piece of ERTA which exempted three barrels understand how special education pro­ shrapnel which would otherwise have of oil per day for royalty owners, re­ grams operate in the school systems killed him struck his mezuzah, and duced the tax on newly discovered oil throughout my county, and has com­ saved his life. This mezuzah-a symbol from 30 to 15 percent over 5 years, and municated the concerns of school pro­ of his commitment of Judaism-was exempted stripper oil for independent fessionals seeking to strengthen their given to him by Ruth Strauss, who producers from the Windfall Profits programs. later became Mrs. Ruth Liebenstein. Tax. In addition to his distinguished Erick and Ruth are an extraordinary career with the Contra Costa County couple with a longstanding commit­ In addition to the repeal of the schools, Mr. Grimes has been a princi­ ment to Jewish matters and the State ERTA provisions, I am also proposing pal leader and organizer of the Special of Israel. They have devoted their en­ significant changes in two other provi­ Olympics in my county. I have been ergies to mobilizing resources for Isra­ sion of the code-the percentage de­ fortunate to participate with him at el's economic strength, security, and pletion allowance and the expensing many Special Olympics events and to growth. Mr. Liebenstein contributes to of intangible drilling costs. Under per­ witness his delight in .the opportunity various Jewish philanthropic and com­ centage depletion, independent pro­ brought to the children involved. munal endeavors, serving the Israel ducers and royalty owners are given Mike's commitment to disabled chil­ Bond Organization, the Board of the an option accorded no other taxpayer dren and their families, his longstand­ Young Israel of Forest Hills, the Ye­ in America. They may choose cost de­ ing involvement with the laws and pro­ shiva Dov Revel, and the Congrega­ pletion, which is essentially like grams assuring education for disabled tion Machane Chodosh. He also serves straight depreciation available to all children, and his continuing efforts to as a member of the Advisory Council taxpayers holding capital assets, or improve the lives of thousands of on the Holocaust to the U.S. Congress. percentage depletion, which allows · a Contra Costa children make him a For all of their efforts, Mr. and Mrs. deduction of 15 percent of gross oil re­ perfect choice to lead the Council for Liebenstein will be honored by the lated income IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the needs of the hearing impaired individ­ part of the American dream and that uals and investigation of the adequacy of the tax deduction for residential mort­ Tuesday, April16, 1985 Federal support for these handicapped indi­ gages has been a prime incentive and e Mr. PURSELL. Mr. Speaker, last viduals. financial tool in helping families to re­ November, one of our colleagues re­ In 1975, the DSA was awarded to first alize that dream. ceived a very distinguished award. I member of the House of Representatives Our economy also benefits from the would like for all of us to be aware of John Brademas, a Democrat of Indiana, tremendous growth of the housing in­ the recognition SILVIO CONTE has re­ who was devoted to assuring that the Feder­ dustry. In 1983 alone, the value of new al Government meet the rehabilitative ceived for his strenuous efforts on needs of its people. In 1982, Congressman construction on all housing units was behalf of Federal support of research $86 billion. Claude Pepper, a Democrat of Florida, re­ for neurological and communicative ceived the award for his attention to the Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to disorders at the Annual Convention of problems of the speech and hearing im­ join with me in recognizing the tre­ the American Speech-Language-Hear­ paired elderly and for his advocacy for serv­ mendous contributions of the tax de­ ing Association [ASHAl. ices to the elderly population. ductions for interest paid on residen­ An estimated 22 million Americans And so we come to the awards today. No tial mortgages.e have communicative disorders, includ­ one here is unaware of the struggle in ing 3 million school-age children with Washington between those seeking to con­ trol the Federal deficit by cutting Federal IN RECOGNITION OF THE HERO­ speech and language impairments and spending and those seeking to increase Fed­ ISM OF CHARLES M. PETER­ over 7 million elderly citizens with eral support for various interests. The last SON hearing losses. four years has seen bitter fights within the For nearly 60 years, the American House of Representatives over Federal HON. RICHARD H. LEHMAN Speech-Language-Hearing Association spending. Many of these fights have been [ASHAl has been the organization re­ focused on appropriations for education, OF CALIFORNIA health and human services. The subcommit­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sponsible for training, research, and service in the area of communicative tee which deals with these budgets has Tuesday, April16, 1985 disorders. Over 41,000 members of enormous responsibilities. During this period, ASHA has advocated e Mr. LEHMAN of California. Mr. ASHA work in a wide range of settings for adequate appropriations for such pro­ Speaker, it is a great honor to ac­ including public schools, colleges and grams as P.L. 94-142, for funds to train knowledge an act of unselfish heroism universities, hospital clinics, rehabili­ qualified personnel to serve the handi­ performed by my constituent, Charles tation and home health agencies, Vet­ capped population, and for adequate fund­ M. Peterson. On June 17, 1983, Mr. Pe­ erans' Administration and Department ing to continue research affecting our terson risked his own life to rescue a of Defense facilities, and in private knowledge of speech, language and hearing fellow park employee of Yosemite Na­ practice. disorders. In pursuing the latter focus, ASHA has played an important role ASHA helped create and has held leader­ tional Park. ship roles in a broad coalition called the Na­ Mr. Peterson and another park em­ as an advocate for improving opportu­ tional Committee for Research in Neurolog­ ployee were assisting with a plugged nities, access, and services for handi­ ical and Communicative Disorders [NCRJ. culvert problem on Tioga Road in Yo­ capped individuals. Members of the This Committee is composed of some 60 pro­ semite National Park when Mr. Peter­ Appropriations Committee recognize fessional organizations including neurology, son's companion scuba diver became the association and its staff for their otolaryngology, and speech-language pa- 8104 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 thology and audiology and many voluntary First, the research breakthroughs in this to continuing to work with ASHA in the agencies such as the National Multiple Scle­ area are now upon us. Dr. Murray Gold­ months ahead. rosis Society, Alzheimer's Disease and Re­ stein, Director of NINCDS, stated to me Thank you very much. lated Disorders Association and Muscular that more has been learned about the brain Dystrophy Association. in the last five years than in the previous Mr. Speaker, I am sure we all are Throughout this most difficult period of 500. It is for that reason that I have been proud of the accomplishments of our time, NCR was able to find a member of the calling this "The Decade of the Brain.'' And colleague for which he has been hon­ Appropriations Committee who wanted to it is born out by public recognition, such as ored.e devote the time and attention in order to the current Public Broadcasting Series enti­ understand the enormous potential that tled "The Brain." These are times of great exists at this moment for research in almost excitement, and I believe we ought to do ev­ SS. PETER AND PAUL ORTHO­ all areas having to do with the brain and erything we can to take advantage of the DOX CHURCH CELEBRATES with disorders that affect 20 million Ameri­ tremendous opportunities now upon us. 75TH ANNIVERSARY cans with speech, language and hearing Second, the aging of the population of the handicaps. The man who picked up that United States presents us with a future challenge was the ranking Republican where communicative disorders will be ever HON. GUS YATRON member of this subcommittee, a leader in more apparent and ever more important. It OF PENNSYLVANIA his party, a fighter against pork-barrel poli­ is estimated now that between 1980 and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tics and a humanitarian. 2050, the number of persons with speech His efforts and his intelligence have and hearing impairments will increase at Tuesday, April t6, 1985 shown themselves in the tangible, dramatic faster rates than the U.S. population as a e Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, on Sep­ growth in funding for the National Institute direct result of the aging factor. By the year tember 7 and 8, 1985, tl1e members of for Neurological and Communicative Disor­ 2000, it is estimated that 25% of the popula­ ders and Stroke [NINCDSJ-25% growth in tion over 65 will have impaired speech, and SS. Peter and Paul Or~hodox Church, the last two years-almost $100 million. His 46% will have impaired hearing. As much as in Minersville, PA, will celebrate the work will be remembered for many, many some would like to avoid the implications of 75th anniversary of the founding of years in the future when we here assembled these figures, we know that we can do so their churr.h. There will be a divine lit­ implement the fruits of that research. only at our own peril. urgy by His Grace, Bishop Herman, Accepting the award, Representative And the third reason is a practical one­ your people, in Washington, doing your edu­ followed by a jubilee banquet and Conte stated: cational and lobbying work, won't let us dance. I am honored to be chosen by this organi­ Since its f 'Unding in 1910, SS. Peter zation for this coveted award. This only forget how important this area is. In this re­ strengthens my resolve to carry on the spect, NINCDS has been fortunate in and Paul Orthodox Church, has stood battle for adequate funding for research to having an effective lobbying effort-the Na­ as a focal point for steadf&..st spiritual understand, treat, and hopefully cure, many tional Committee for Research in Neurolog­ commitment to helping meet and min­ ical and Communicative Disorders, more istering to the needs and hopes of of the communicative disorders affecting sensibly known as NCR. And I know that the 22 million Americans served by the NCR has benefited from ASHA's leadership. others. After 75 years of activity, the members of this organization. This has included your Executive Director, devotion and strength exhibited by Over the last several years, amidst prob­ Frederick T. Spahr, Ph.D., serving as NCR's Pastor Hatrak and the entire congre­ ably the most adverse climate for increasing Acting Treasurer and a member of their Ex­ gation stands as a model for all of us funding for any domestic program in the ecutive Board, as well as your Director of to emulate. last several decades, we have succeed in con­ Government Relations, Morgan Downey, tinuing Congress' strong support for bio­ I am proud to take this moment to ably presenting the opportunities in this pay special tribute to the congregation medical research. When I first came to Con­ field to Congress. gress in 1959, funding for the National Insti­ Putting aside the accomplishments of the of SS. Peter and Paul Orthodox tutes of Health amounted to $324 million. past several years, which I try never to let Church for their selfless devotion to In this fiscal year, 1985, funding will you do, I know that many of you are con­ God, their church, and their communi­ amount to more than $5.145 billion. And cerned about the future of Federal funding: ty and for bestowing on the world im­ over that period of time, two of the biggest not just those of you who are researchers; measurable goodness. increases have come in the last two years, but those of you who are not researchers I know my colleagues will join me in with a 12% increase in 1984 and a 14% in­ but who provide clinical services under Med­ congratulating the congregation and crease in 1985. In 1983, funding NIH sur­ icare, Medicaid, or under the Education for passed $4 million for the first time, and it All Handicapped Children Act, P.L. 94-142; in wishing them many more years to­ only took two years for funding to surpass and also those of you in university training gether.e $5 billion. programs which depend upon Federal funds I think those figures make it clear that to improve your programs. I don't know if those of us who support biomedical research anyone is in a position yet to predict what SOCIAL SECURITY OFF LIMITS in the Congress know of the fine work that the next four years will bring in terms of FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION is being done through NIH support, and are federal funding, but I think it is not too willing to fight, even in difficult times, to hard to predict that we will have another HON. JIM COURTER make sure that this work continues. "battle royale" on our hands. Research in the area of communicative Many of the programs that you have been OF NEW JERSEY disorders is, of course, conducted at many c.oncerned about have survived some severe IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Institutes, such as the National Institute on proposals to cut back funding. Those pro­ Tuesday, April16, 1985 Child Health and Human Development, the posals are going to be back, in full force, National Institute of Mental Health, Na­ across the board. All of us are going to have e Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, like tional Science Foundation, and others. But to redouble our efforts, to educate all Mem­ many of my colleagues, I am con­ the National Institute on Neurological and bers of Congress, not just those who have cerned that attempts will be made to Communicative Disorders and Stroke been supportive, and to educate the Admin­ achieve budget savings on the backs of [NINCDSJ remains the Institute with the istration, to assure that the handicapped in senior citizens in this Nation. Social largest commitment to furthering research this society are not the ones that get left in speech, language and hearing. Over the behind when the going gets tough. Security COLA's are in danger of past couple of years, as a result of a $15 mil­ If building an opportunity society is the being substantially cut. I respectfully lion amendment, I sponsored on the FY goal of the next four years, then we must ask that my statement in opposition to 1984 appropriation bill, and efforts by a continue to build opportunities for those these cuts be inserted in the RECORD, number of Members on the FY 1985 bill, with communicative disorders to participate and I encourage other Members of the funding for NINCDS has been growing sig­ in the fullness of opportunity that America House to take action against any pro­ nificantly faster than the overall average should afford all of its citizens. And that posed Social Security benefit reduc­ for NIH. That is something I've worked means supporting the work that ASHA tions. hard for and am proud of. Let me also say I members do. It is something I will strive for, remain convinced of the merits of increasing and it must be something that you strive Some Republicans in the House and the funding for basic research in communi­ for, more so than ever. Senate are considering a Social Securi­ cative disorders and the neurological proc­ With that, let me thank you once again ty cost-of-living-adjustment [COLA] ess, and let me briefly tell you why. for this award and say that I look forward freeze in their efforts to draft a April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8105 budget. I believe the American people Barrett, chairman of the Cobb County massive heart attack took the life of G.W. oppose Social Security benefit reduc­ Commission; and G. W. munity. To say they have been among the ue to enjoy our country's high stand­ Georgia lost a distinguished son a few most useful, helpful, effective and outstand­ ard of living, which their labors helped weeks ago when Honorable Ernest Barrett, ing leaders in Georgia is at best an under­ to provide." 62, died of cancer. statement.• I believe Republicans should adhere He had retired in December as chairman of the Cobb County Commission after 20 to their commitments. Social Security years and as chairman of the Atlanta Re­ FESTIVAL WILLIAMSBURG benefits, including COLA adjustments, gional Commission since its inception. should be declared off limits for deficit Ernest was a rare man and a unique politi­ reduction. cian. He did not profit himself from political HON. HERBERT H. BATEMAN I am opposed to any Social Security office. He went out of office less well-off OF VIRGINIA benefit cuts, including the postpone­ than when he made his first political cam­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES paign. ment or elimination of COLA adjust­ Tuesday, April16, 1985 ments.• All in spite of his presiding over one of the most rapidly growing areas in America, e Mr. BATEMAN. Mr. Speaker, it is where he had advance knowledge of all the with great pride that I rise today to FOUR OUTSTANDING CIVIC developments and interstate highway inter­ share with my colleagues in the House LEADERS sections, in all of greater Atlanta's counties. He refused to profit from this knowledge. news of an exciting and important cul­ Had he done so, he could have become a tural event taking place only a short HON.GEORGE(BUDDY)DARDEN multi-millionaire. It is to smile to think of drive from Washington in America's OF GEORGIA what some politicians we know would do First Congressional District. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with those opportunities. Yet Ernest retired On the weekend of April 19-21, 1985, with almost no pension because he wouldn't historic Williamsburg and the nearby Tuesday, April16, 1985 ask for one. Legislators control commission- · Berkeley Plantation in Virginia will be ers' salaries and insist upon being asked, be­ e Mr. DARDEN. Mr. Speaker, in 1967, cause it gives them leverage and trading the site of the first annual Festival when I was a senior at the University strength. Barrett's old-fashioned . virtue Williamsburg. Over the course of this of Georgia School of Law, a number of wouldn't let him beg them. weekend, music lovers and visitors prominent businessmen from Cobb Bill Bullard, an old friend and counselor, from all over the United States will be County, GA, contacted me about the chaired a November retirement party which treated to a wide variety of perform­ enormous potential for career develop­ raised enough 'money from business firms ances ranging from early classical and ment there. Those individuals were W. and friends to give his family a $100,000 an­ Renaissance music to familiar Gersh­ Wyman Pilcher, Sr., president of nuity and a new car. Almost 1,000 people at­ win classics. The music will be per­ tended the dinner to thank Ernest for 20 United Federal Savings & Loan Asso­ years of unequaled growth with absolute in­ formed by local artists as well as dis­ ciation; William E. Bullard, president tegrity. And low taxes. tinguished international musicians, in­ of Mayes Ward Funeral Home, Inc., Barrett was the third of four unusual, dis­ cluding the National Orchestra of New and a director of United Federal Sav­ tinguished and closely associated leaders in York, the Brandenburg Collegium di­ ings & Loan Association; Ernest W. Cobb County to die in just a few years. A rected by Anthony Newman, Musica 8106 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 Sacra, Israeli violinist . Yuval Wald­ It is very fitting that we should John Silan retired from coaching 7 man, and pianist Rudolph Firkusny. honor that legacy by naming the wil­ years ago. In his coaching career, he The weekend will begin with a pri­ derness area of the Point Reyes Na­ spent 19 years at Kutztown High vate fundraiser featuring an all-Bach tional Seashore after him. Phil Burton School as their .basketball coach. His concert with Newman. This event has may have been the very essence of the teams posted an outstanding record of special significance in light of the at­ urban man, the committeed indoors­ 414-75 and won 15 Berks County East­ tention being focused due to the man-in fact, it was said that the only em Divison titles, 12 county champi­ recent 300th anniversary of the birth time Phil Burton went outside was to onships, 8 District 3 crowns and 3 of the composer, Johann Sebastian smoke a cigarette-but he· understood PIAA Class B State titles. When he Bach. This fundraiser is an integral and appreciated what the life of the left Kutztown High he coached 9 part of Festival Williamsburg because outdoors means to us and to our years at Delaware Valley College and 2 the proceeds from this event will planet. So he spent much of his life at Wilson High School, where he won enable festival sponsors to hold ticket fighting to preserve the natural won­ another Berks County title in 1977. prices for all of the other festival pro­ ders of our continent and no one could The Cougar Tale Club is a group of grams to a minimum, thus making the argue with his enormous success. over 90 men who played under Coach festival accessible to a wider audience. Point Reyes National Seashore was Silan when he was at Kutztown High Saturday's activities will include a one of Phil Burton's most beloved en­ School. They will honor their former series of four concerts lasting all day deavors, It was a very complicated and coach on "John Silan Day." and into the evening. These concerts arduous task to see it established, ex­ Coach Silan is an outstanding exam­ will feature the National Orchestra of panded and refined, and its wilderness ple of dedication and excellence. He New York, conducted by Mitch Miller designated, and his role in that task has left a lasting imprint on those he and Alvaro Cassuto; the New York was indispensable. coached and on the sport of basket­ Trumpet Ensemble; and the Branden­ The preservation of wilderness takes ball. I urge my colleagues to join me in burg Collegium. The highlight of the many people to accomplish. It takes saluting this fine man, who has concerts is expected to be "An Ameri­ scientists and biologists and geologists become a legend in his community. I can Concert for Everyone," featuring and academicians and park planners wish him the very best in all his an all-Gershwin program including and foresters and writers and many, future endeavors. He has enriched the "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An Ameri­ many everyday citizens. But it also lives of all who have been privileged to can In Paris." takes people like Phil Burton to guide know him and to work with him.e The concerts on Saturday, hosted by their dreams and ideas through the noted entertainer Steve Allen, will be political system we have constructed held at the Berkeley Plantation on the to make these often difficult decisions. SHIKELLAMY BRAVES WRES­ James River, site of America's first Some people have expressed qualms TLING TEAM WINS CLASS AAA Thanksgiving celebration. about naming public things after TITLE The final series of concerts, on people, especially after politicians, and Sunday, will include performances in I have often shared those misgivings. HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS But it is true that the Forest Service Williamsburg by the Williamsburg OF PENNSYLVANIA Consort, Yuval Waldman, and Musica has frequently named wilderness areas after people-one of the very first wil­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sacra. Tuesday, April16, 1985 Williamsburg, VA has long been rec­ derness areas, in fact, is Montana's ognized as a community rich in cultur­ Bob Marshall Wilderness. And the • Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, some say al heritage as well as steeped in histor­ Park Service itself, while prohibiting it's harder staying at the top than get­ ic significance for our Nation. I am the naming of the parks themselves ting there, but the Shikellamy Braves confident that Festival Williamsburg after people, does name unique fea­ wrestling team proved conventional will become a major national cultural tures within the parks after people. wisdom wrong when the team won the event in the years ahead. Well, Phil Burton was a unique fea­ coveted Pennsylvania Interscholastic I invite all of my colleagues and ture of this institution. And if the Athletic Association Class AAA wres­ naming of this wilderness area after tling title for an unprecedented second their families and friends, their staffs, him serves to honor his memory and and any of their constituents from consecutive year. No one will ever to remind those future generations forget the accomplishments that led their home districts visiting Washing­ that the preservation of its beauty and ton to travel to Williamsburg on the this team from Sunbury, PA, down the integrity did not and could not have road to the State wrestling champion­ weekend of April 19 for this exciting just happened-that it took people event.e ship. Behind all the recordbreaking like Phil Burton with courage, tenaci­ statistics stands a skillful group of ty, and vision to make it happen-then athletes and their coaches with an un­ PHIL BURTON WILDERNESS that is a very good thing. canny ability to ignite an excitement AREA IN THE POINT REYES So I am very pleased to support this that has left not only the city of Sun­ NATIONAL SEASHORE legislation today.e bury in a frenzy but the surrounding communities as well. HON. MORRIS K. UDALL A TRIBUTE TO JOHN SILAN The Shikellamy Area High School OF ARIZONA Braves wrestling team, led by Head IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. GUS YATRON Coach Phil Lockcuff and assistants OF PENNSYLVANIA Rob Johnson and John Supsic, became Tuesday, April 16, 1985 the first team to repeat as State cham­ e Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, it is im­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pions and boasted a 49-match winning possible to compare Phil Burton to Tuesday, April16, 1985 streak, losing only once in 88 matches. anyone or anything because he was a e Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, I would The highlight of the Braves' wrestling one of a kind. This unique and fasci­ like to bring to the attention of my season came on March 16, 1985, when nating man left his impression on all colleagues in the U.S. Congress the a record eight wrestlers went to the of us, and on countless American citi­ outstanding achievements of Mr. John State tournament in Hershey, and six zens. In all likelihood we shall not see Silan, who is being honored on April of them placed. Two of them won one like him again. He left a personal 20 at a banquet hosted by the Cougar State championships while the team and a · professional legacy, however, Tale Club for his contributions to scored 97 points, more than any other that will outlive us all and our person­ sports and their appreciation of his ac­ team in Pennsylvania's high school al memories of him. complishments. wrestling history. April 16, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8107 Head Coach Phil Lockcuff also re­ Admit a mistake, apologize for it, and sional Delegation who present an intern­ ceived special recognition when he was recommit itself to the principles of ment plan; internment jurisdiction assigned named the Pennsylvania Wrestling due process and equal justice. to War Dept. Coaches Association's 1985 Class AAA When my family and I were interned Feb. 13, 1942-President Roosevelt reviews State Coach of the Year after amass­ with other loyal Americans at Heart letter on behalf of all California, Washing­ ing a career record 180-16-3. Mountain Relocation Camp in 1942, ton and Oregon members of Congress who The coaches and players should be the Nation interned its Constitution, recommend immediate evacuation of all per­ congratulated for their outstanding because when the rights of some citi­ sons of Japanese ancestry. performances on and off the mat both zens are lost, then the rights of all citi­ Feb. 19, 1942-President Roosevelt signs as performers and outstanding citizens zens are threatened. Executive Order 9066 that authorizes in­ of their community. The sportsman­ The text of the delegation resolution ternment. ship which was displayed throughout and a chronology of the internment Mar. 9, 1942-Secretary ot War Stimson their long and grueling season is a follow: asks Congress to act swiftly on bill to make credit to themselves and the fans who CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL violation of internment orders a federal of­ DELEGATION RESOLUTION ON H.R. 442 fense punishable by a $5,000 fine or one enjoyed watching them wrestle. year in jail. Those players contributing to the Whereas, the internment of Americans of team's winning effort this year in­ Japanese ancestry during World War II was -S. 2352 introduced in the Senate. clude: Ron Furr, Greg Garman, John unnecessary and unwarranted; and -H.R. 6758 introduced by Rep. John Herman, Jeff Reed, Chris Rose, Chris Whereas, the internment was the result of Tolan of California. racial prejudice, wartime hysteria and a fail­ Mar. 19, 1942-Congressional penalty bill Derr, Bob Supsic, Pete Solomon, ure of political leadership at the time; and passes both houses with no opposition. Kevin Kreider, Drew Wetzel, Rob Whereas, on February 13, 1942, the Cali­ Whary, John Supsic, Dan Bottiger, fornia Congressional delegation in a letter Mar. 21, 1942-President Roosevelt signs Tony Reed, Earl Malick, Todd Tilford, to President Roosevelt requested the evacu­ legislation into law as Public Law 503.e Ed Krankoskie, Paul Gemberling, ation of Americans of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast; and Jason Bottiger, Mark Bogovich, Joe Whereas, on March 19, 1942, the Congress STEEL IMPORT QUESTION Burke, Bill Lytle, Keith Schell, Craig adopted Public Law 503 implementing the Welfer, Mike Bogovich, Rich Shipe, evacuation and the internment; and John Gemberling, Todd Lawrence, Joe Whereas, the internment deprived 120,000 HON. JOE KOLTER Kremer, Jerry Zimmerman, Tim loyal Americans of their liberty, their Con­ OF PENNSYLVANIA Dressler, Andy Shipe, Troy Under­ stitutional rights, and their standing in their communities; and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES koffler, Ben Amerman, Mike Sites, Whereas, the Congressionally created and Steve Evitts. Commission on Wartime Relocation and In­ Tuesday, April16, 1985 Congratulations and praise go to the ternment of Civilians has proposed a pack­ e Mr. KOLTER. Mr. Speaker, it has coaches and players for giving the fans age of recommendations to remedy the dam­ of Sunbury a season of unending ages of the internment; and to come to my attention that the Sec­ thrills and showing us the joy of high Whereas, those recommendations are the retary of Commerce has been asked to school wrestling at its finest.e basis of H.R. 442, the Civil Liberties Act of reconsider his decision on a steel 1985;and import question. Whereas, as H.R. 442 attempts to insure Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is plan­ CALIFORNIA DELEGATION that no other Americans ever face such a ning construction of a 1, 780-mile oil ENDORSES H.R. 442 wholesale loss of basic liberties: Now there­ fore be it pipeline. About two-thirds of the steel Resolved, That this delegation regrets the to be used would be supplied by HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA actions of its predecessors in 1942 and repu­ French and Belgian steelmakers. Only OF CALIFORNIA diates the letter sent to President Roosevelt one-third would come from domestic IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by the California, Oregon and Washington delegations; and be it further steel producers. Normally, this action Tuesday, April16, 1985 Resolved, That this delegation endorses would be inconsistent with the steel e Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, the Cal­ H.R. 422, the Civil Liberties Act of 1984 and accord reached between the United ifornia Democratic delegation to this urges prompt action upon that legislation. States and the European Economic Community in 1982. Goodyear had re­ House has unanimously endorsed H.R. CHRONOLOGY OF INTERNMENT OF AMERICANS 442, the Civil Liberties Act of 1985. OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY quested a waiver from the Commerce This important legislation provides Dec. 7, 1941-War begins with Japan. Department, arguing that 30-inch, long overdue redress for the loss of Jan. 16, 1942-U.S. Rep. Leland M. Ford of thin-wall line pipe was in short supply. basic constitutional rights which California sends letters to the Secretary of A clause in the European Steel Accord 120,000 loyal Americans of Japanese War and the Attorney General proposing would allow these imports if Com­ ancestry suffered during World War that "all Japanese, whether citizens or not, merce did indeed establish that this be placed in inland concentration camps." particular type of pipe was in short II. Jan. 24, 1942-Attorney General Biddle re­ Forty-three years ago, the California sponds saying, ". . . unless writ of habeas supply domestically. delegation played a regrettable role in corpus is suspended, I do not know of any Fortunately, for domestic steelwork­ developing the political and public way in which Japanese born in this country ers, who have already suffered enough demand for the internment. With our and therefore American citizens, could be at the hands of steel imports, the action endorsing redress and repudiat­ interned." Commerce Department found that do­ ing our predecessors actions, we have Jan. 26, 1942-The Office of Naval Intelli­ gence issues two year study of West Coast mestic steelmakers could produce suf­ made a bold break with the past. Japanese Americans by Lt. Commdr. Ken­ ficient quantities of pipe for this par­ Forty-three years from today, others neth Ringle. The Ringle Report concludes ticular project. It found no reason for will point with pride to the California that the vast majority of Americans of Jap­ granting a waiver and permitting Democratic delegation for our coura­ anese Ancestry are loyal to the U.S. The 471,000 tons of foreign pipe to enter geous stand in support of H.R. 442. Report recommends any detention be han­ I wish to congratulate the delega­ dled on Pn individual rather than racial this country. tion, and especially our dean, DoN En­ basis. Mr. Speaker, I urge Secretary Bal­ Jan. 27, 1942-U.S. Reps. Alfred Elliot and WARDS, for this action. drige to remain firm in his determina­ Jack Anderson both of Calliornia meet with tion that domestic pipemakers can The Civil Liberties Act of 1985 is a Edward Ennis of the Justice Dept. to argue historic bill. With the passage of this the case for internment. supply this project and I urge him not bill, the Congress will do something Jan. 30, 1942-Justice and War Depart­ to reconsider his decision.e that only a great democracy can do: ments meet with the California Congres- 8108 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 16, 1985 PRESERVING THE MORTGAGE home in which they hope to raise a administration may significantly INTEREST DEDUCTION family, the middle-aged couple pur­ modify the home ownership deduc­ chasing a vacation or second home to tions. As a result, individuals are post­ HON. TOM LEWIS which they hoped to retire. These are poning decisions to purchase a home OF FLORIDA examples of striving to realize the because they are worried that their in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES American dream, a dream whose real­ vestment in owning a home might be ization contributes to family security, eaten up by tax reform. Tuesday, April16, 1985 community responsibility and civic sta­ • Mr. LEWIS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, bility. We need to reassure not only those today I am introducing legislation In recognition of the importance of people who currently own homes, but with my colleague from Florida, Mr. home ownership, and in an effort to also those people who are hoping to MicA, to express the sense of Congress encourage it, the Internal Revenue buy one in the future, that Congress is that no limitation should be placed on Code has long provided major incen­ committed to home ownership and will the Federal income tax deduction for tives to individuals to purchase a home preserve the Federal income tax inter­ interest paid on a residential :mort­ through the mortgage interest deduc­ est deduction for residential mortgage. gage. tion. I urge my colleagues to join us in Home ownership is an important Several of the tax reform and simpli­ support of home ownership by cospon­ part of the American dream-the fication proposals pending before the soring this resolution.• newly married couple purchasing their Congress and being considered by the