February 18, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2221 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS AIPAC LOOKS AT ATBM the record of the Committee's proceedings replaced. These new weapons, the Soviet DEFENSES FOR ISRAEL on this subject. SS-21, SS-22, and SS-23 family of missiles, are extremely accurate and can be armed THE THREAT TO ISRAEL FROM TACTICAL with cluster munitions. Thus, unlike the HON. JIM COURTER BALLISTIC MISSILES SCUD-Band FROG-7 systems, they pose a OF (By W. Seth Carus)l considerable threat to all but the most IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Circumstances have made Israel particu­ mobile or best protected military targets. Normally, the SS-21 is considered a tacti­ Tuesday, February 18, 1986 larly sensitive to the dangers posed by tacti­ cal ballistic missiles. For more than two dec­ cal weapon, because of its relatively short Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, we are so ac­ ades, Israel's leaders have recognized that range, but because of Israel's small size, customed in this country to thinking of the their country could be attacked by hostile strategically important targets are within Soviet ballistic missile threat to ourselves and states using short range surface-to-surface close proximity to enemy ground forces. to NATO that we often ignore the threats to missiles. In the early 1960s, Egypt launched This lack of strategic depth transforms our non-European allies. Soviet SLBM's have a massive effort to design and build its own short-range surface-to-surface missiles, like force of short and medium range ballistic the SS-21, into strategic weapons able to complete worldwide coverage, while their missiles. Although this program failed, the strike targets throughout Israel, including ICBM's threaten 50 percent of the globe. In Soviet Union stepped into the breach and air bases, command posts, equipment stor­ addition, the SS-20 IRBM, with its 5,000-kilo­ supplied Arab armies with FROG and age depots, surface-to-air missile batteries, meter range, threatens our Pacific Ocean SCUD missiles. At least thirty of these mis­ radars, and other vital facilities. allies from its eastern deployment areas, and siles were fired at Israeli targets during the Syria now has as many as 24 SS-21 mis­ our Middle Eastern ally, Israel, from its current 1973 Arab-Israeli War. The Syrians fired siles, and additional numbers are reported deployment areas in European Russia. Israel, about twenty-five FROG-7 missiles at sites to have gone to Iraq. The 120 kilometer in Israel, mainly against Ramat David and in particular, also lives with the threat of range of the SS-21 allows it to be used other Israeli air bases. The Egyptians re­ against targets that the FROG-7 cannot Soviet nuclear-capable tactical-range ballistic portedly fired a small number of FROGs reach. When fired from Syria, the SS-21 missiles deployed in Syria. and at least three SCUD-B missiles at Israe­ can reach targets throughout northern Thus, it is not surprising that many Israelis li targets. Israel, including one of Israel's main air and their friends in this country have been Arab armies currently possess more than bases, Ramat David. If deployed in Jordan, thinking about the value of Israeli participation 200 Soviet-supplied SCUD-B. FROG-7, and however, all of Israel would be brought in the SOl program and/or Israeli deployment SS-21 launchers, probably supported by an within range. inventory of at least 1,000 surface-to-surface Currently, there are only a few SS-21 mis­ of an antitactical ballistic missile [ATBM] missiles. These missiles are now treated as system. The American Israel Public Affairs siles in the Middle East, but even this small conventional weapons and are routinely quantity is of concern to Israeli military Committee [AIPAC] recently submitted an ex­ used in conflicts with other countries. Iraq planners. Past experience indicates that the cellent paper on this subject, entitled "The has fired a substantial number of FROG Soviet Union will provide more of these Threat to Israel From Tactical Ballistic Mis­ and SCUD missiles against Iran, and Iran weapons as time passes and Arab armies siles," to the Senate Armed Services Subcom­ has recently reciprocated using missiles pro­ want to replace their existing FROG-7s. mittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear vided by Libya. Similarly, it is highly probable that SS-23 Forces. I urge my colleagues to give careful THE THREAT OF SURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSILES missiles will begin to appear in the region consideration to the points made in this paper. Based on their experience in 1973, Israeli before the end of the decade. Thus, by 1990 military planners came to believe that the Israel will be faced by Arab arsenals con­ TESTIMONY OF THOMAS DINE, EXECUTIVE DI- taining large numbers of highly accurate RECTOR, AND DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD, LEGISLA· FROG and SCUD missiles did not endanger the security of their country. Although it surface-to-surface missiles armed with so­ TIVE DIRECTOR, AMERICAN ISRAEL PuBLIC phisticated warheads. AFFAIRS COMMITTEE [AIPACl was recognized that cities were vulnerable to attacks by such weapons, it was believed It is likely that in the 1990s Arab armies Mr. Chairman, the American Israel Public that the threat of retaliatory strikes would will acquire tactical ballistic missiles from Affairs Committee appreciates the opportu­ deter attacks on civilian targets and that other sources. Brazil is looking into building nity to submit testimony to the Armed Serv­ the missile launchers could be destroyed a medium range ballistic missile, with the ices Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater before serious damage was inflicted. Also, development funded by foreign countries. Nuclear Forces. The subject of this hearing, with the warheads then available to the Past experience indicates that Arab coun­ the threat of tactical ballistic missiles and Arabs, damage to civilian targets would be tries, Iraq or Libya, would be the likely the need to examine possible defenses limited. At the same time, it was recognized sponsors and beneficiaries of such a project. against them, is of particular interest to that the FROG and SCUD missiles could Similarly, European countries are develop­ those concerned about the supply of tactical not destroy hardened military targets. ing sophisticated weapons payloads that missiles by the Soviet Union to its ~lient­ Thus, the missiles could temporarily pre­ could be added to a tactical ballistic missile, states in the Middle East. These missiles vent Israeli aircraft from landing at an air providing further improvements in accuracy threaten American security interests and strip, but could not destroy an air base. and lethality. the security of our only reliable, consistent The threat from tactical ballistic missiles The increasing emphasis given to chemi­ and democratic ally in that part of the is far greater today. The decision of the cal weapons by Arab countries makes even world, Israel. Soviet Union in 1983 to supply Syria with older missiles more of a problem for Israel. . Israel's enemies are now being armed by the new SS-21 surface-to-surface missile is Iraq has used chemical weapons in battle, the Soviet Union with a new generation of largely responsible for the heightened and Syria is known to have an extensive and highly lethal surface-to-surface missiles, awareness in Israel of the potential threat sophisticated chemical warfare capability. more accurate and more deadly than any posed by such weapons. Unlike the FROG Ballistic missiles armed with chemical war­ previously available weapons. Unfortunate­ and the SCUD, the SS-21 has the range, ac­ heads pose an obvious threat to Israeli pop­ ly, there are no comparable defensive sys­ curacy, and lethality to destroy hardened ulation centers, but they also could effec­ tems available today that Israel could targets deep inside Israel. tively suppress Israeli air bases and other obtain to protect its vulnerable cities from The SS-21 is part of a new generation of military installations and significantly bombardment. reduce Israel's retaliatory capabilities. To further examine the increasing prob­ Soviet-built surface-to-surface missiles that have appeared in the past few years that THE LACK OF AN EFFECTIVE RESPONSE TO THE lems that these missiles pose for the securi­ correct the weakness of the weapons they ty of Israel, we have prepared a detailed SS-21 paper for submission to the committee on Israel can defend against surface-to-sur­ "The Threat to Israel and Tactical Ballistic 1 The author is the senior military analyst for the face missiles only by destroying their Missiles." I request that it be included in American Israel Public Affairs Committee. launchers before surface-to-surface missiles

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 2222 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 18, 1986 are fired. This was not a serious weakness challenge to be handled by one small coun­ CONDEMNING AID TO BANDIT when the missiles were inaccurate. If inac­ try. Clearly, any progress made in the SAVIMBI curate missiles were used against civilian to develop answers to the targets, Israel's air force could launch dangers posed by tactical ballistic missiles counter strikes in retaliation, and the mis­ could have a fundamental affect on Israel's HON. MAJOR R. OWENS siles would probably inflict only minimal future security. And, it should be stressed, OF damage if targeted against Israeli military the benefits resulting from the development installations. of such a system would be shared by other IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The arrival of the SS-21 has made it im­ possible to ignore the threat of surface-to­ American allies who also find that they Tuesday, February 18, 1986 must deal with the growing threat of tacti­ surface missiles. As the Arab inventory of Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, SS-21 missiles grows, Israel may find that it cal ballistic Inissiles. can no longer tolerate the damage that February 13, the Washington Post published a could be inflicted by a strike from tactical story on Reagan administration's decision to ballistic missiles. Missile strikes at the TRIBUTE TO THE CALIFORNIA "* * * give covert assistance to Angolan outset of a war could inflict sufficient COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAN guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi." The article damage to vital Israeli installations to seri­ INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS went on to discuss the administration effort to ously weaken Israel's military capabilities get political support for this aid. during the critical first hours of a war, even if Israel knew in advance that an attack was HON. DUNCAN HUNTER The Reagan decision to aid Savimbi in this about to take place. way may shock and outrage, but it should For example, a successful missile attack OF CALIFORNIA come as no surprise. It is but one more step against airfields would significantly reduce IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the process which the administration calls the number of aircraft that the Israeli air constructive engagement with the apartheid force could put into the air. After such a Tuesday, February 18, 1986 regime in South Africa. That process of con­ strike, Israel's ability to defend its borders structive engagement, viewed as support for, during the critical opening hours of a con­ Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, on June 30, flict would be significantly weakened, since 1985 a devastating fire swept through the and approval of, apartheid by many in both ground units deployed on the borders in Normal Heights area of San Diego. The fire Africa and the United States, was clearly seen peacetime may well depend on support from destroyed 64 homes and heavily damaged 20 in the March 1981 visits of Adm. Willem du the air force until reserves are mobilized. others. Plessis and Lt. Gen. P.W. van der Westhuizen, Under such conditions, Israel also would I wish to take a moment to express praise the head of South African military intelligence. have fewer airGrl)ft available to send on for San Diego's chapter of the California Two months later, Foreign Minister Roelof strike missions against surface-to-surface Botha was to pay an official visit to Washing­ missile launchers, and could not count on Council of the American Institute of Architects preventing follow-on missile attacks. Ac­ [AlA] for giving of themselves the community ton also. cordingly, it appears that Israel can do little spirit that has made America great. In August 1981, South Africa invaded south­ to stop Arab missiles from hitting and dam­ After the devastating fire the San Diego ern Angola, the area which Savimbi terrorizes, aging air bases and other vital installations. bullies and exploits. The United States vetoed Chapter of AlA formed a community design As a result, the Israeli military will be in­ an August 1981 Security Council resolution assistance team. This group provided planning creasingly forced to identify and attack condemning the invasion. Simultaneously, the and design services to residents of the Moun­ launchers before missiles are fired. If there Reagan administration has argued that con­ is a danger of an Arab attack, Israel will be tain View District of Normal Heights. forced to strike first, because it will not be structive engagement has brought change The community design assistance team while failing to condemn the use of Namibia to able to take the risks of waiting and absorb­ helped in providing assistance in four vital ing an Arab attack. Although such a strate­ launch South African raids into Angola. The gy will make the Middle East a more dan­ areas of redevelopment. The team was divid­ words are terrific: constructive engagement gerous place, the absence of a viable defense ed into four areas concerning architectural and a resolution for the Namibian issue. The against tactical ballistic missiles will leave guidelines, landscape guidelines, land use actions, however, have given support to apart­ Israel with no alternative. planning, and technical areas such as financ­ heid and have aided South Africa's aggressive There appears to be a growing awareness ing, construction, and alternatives to the re­ in Israel that the enormous inventory of military actions in all of Southern Africa-mili­ short range ballistic available to Arab building process. tary actions calculated to deny South African's armies will make it difficult or impossible The community design assistance team was foes of apartheid of any nearby refuge. The for Israel to locate and destroy all the headed by Joseph P. Martinez, and included recent blockage of land locked Lesotho was launchers. Hence, even under ideal circum­ 24 other architects, planners, and designers, but another example of South African aggres­ stances, a large number of missiles will who contributed over 1,500 hours of their time sion and the administration's not so construc­ strike military and civilian targets through­ to aid the fire's victims. These architects, tive engagement. out Israel. As the Arabs acquire larger quan­ tities of accurate missiles like the SS-21, planners, and designers include Joe Martinez, In light of this history, what can we, as and as Israel's ability to deter missile at­ Michael Stepner, Andrew Spurlock, Sue Skala, Members of Congress do? To begin with. We tacks diminishes, Arab armies will be able to Bill Karrasch, Andrew Rodrigues, Aurora Rob­ can refuse to give silent assent to this latest employ their older and less accurate FROGs inson-Walker, Gary Weber, Michael Wilkes, outrage. Savimbi is nothing but an equal op­ and SCUDs against urban centers. As a John Wilhoit, Joseph Andre Patata, Patrick portunity con artist. He will take money from result, tactical ballistic missiles directed O'Connor, Robert Thiele, Ruth Fajarit, Jim anywhere, as he has in the past. Although he against cities potentially could easily result has received backing from China and North in 5,000 dead and wounded Israeli civilians Busse, Alejandra Garcia, Martin Yip, Art Sa­ in a future Arab-Israeli War. lourdes, Jose Alberdi, John Linton, Debbi Korea, he has most recently fed at the South Heath, Jonathan Segal, Bob Sechneider, Don­ African trough. The covert aid being sent by DEFENDING AGAINST THE TACTICAL BALLISTIC the Reagan administration is but one more op­ MISSILE alee Hallenback. portunity to belly-up at the expense of the The lack of an effective defense against The team worked fast and efficiently to tactical ballistic missiles poses serious prob­ meet the victim's needs. Only 1 month after American taxpayer and American decency. lems for Israel. For the moment, Israel the fire ravaged the Normal Heights communi­ The vast majority of Americans oppose apartheid. They would be appalled if they might be able to tolerate such a weakness ty this dedicated and hard working team pre­ without jeopardizing its security. As addi­ knew that their Government was supporting sented a full report for redevelopment to the tional new generation tactical ballistic mis­ that evil system and spreading its control over city council. siles are deployed in the region the inability larger areas of Southern Africa. The Pretoria Mr. Speaker, I take great pride in acknowl­ to defend against surface-to-surface missiles regime rules and exploits Namibia and im­ will become a serious one. edging the endeavors of the San Diego Chap­ A defense against tactical ballistic missiles poses apartheid there. It seeks to extend this ter AlA for the spirited cooperation that guided pattern of control over all of southern Africa would significantly enhance Israel's securi­ this project. The San Diego of AlA is a shining ty. Although the Israeli military could take with its vast mineral and fuel resources. Sa­ steps to develop defenses on its own, the de­ example of what we can do when we work to­ vimbi is but a cog in the South African war velopment of such systems is too great a gether. machine. Support for Savimbi is support for February 18, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2223 South Africa and its racist policy. Support for About 5 years ago, A.N. said he was giving its benefits for the advancement of American Savimbi shames all Americans. up an active role in the family's business inter­ ideals and global democracy will continue to ests. Among his friends there was always a remain strong. A TRIBUTE TO A.N. PRITZKER little amusement over whether the ebullient The excellent article by Ann Crawford fol­ patriarch could really put any distance be­ lows: tween himself and the hurly burly life which PEACE CORPS EXPORTS IDEALISTS HON. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI gave him so much satisfaction. Last Novem­ OF ILLINOIS ber, in fact, at the age of 89, he was heard to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES complain, "I'm sick and tired of doing nothing The pictures have a harsh old-fashioned look. The kids seem gangling and raw, the Tuesday, February 18, 1986 * * *. I like to work. That's all I like to do." What Mr. Pritzker did since his retirement men with haircuts that bare their ears, in Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise plaid-flannel shirts and jeans. The women was devote himself almost exclusively to the look a bit wide-eyed, until you remember today in tribute to an American businessman family's philanthropic work. of uncommon skill and generosity, an empire that 25 years ago only fashion models put He had a lifelong concern for the education on three kinds of eye makeup before they builder, a philanthropist, and a prime example of the young, and a special love for the of a man who loved his family, his friends, and left the house. people of his old neighborhood of Wicker There's JFK, with his stiff-jointed stride his work. I speak of Mr. A.N. Pritzker, who Park, in the heart of the northwest par1 of Chi­ and that million-dollar smile, escorting the passed away on February 8, 1986, at the age cago which I am privileged to represent. Five kids onto a rattletrap plane of some van­ of 90. years ago, these concerns coincided happily ished airline, bound for mud huts and good Named Abram Nicholas Pritzker, but known in his adoption of the Wicker Park Elementary works in Ghana, Tanganyika . Colombia, St. Lucia, East Pakistan Chicago-a town with which he was thereafter Last December, in recognization of Mr. . the Philippines. forever linked. He graduated from the Univer­ In 25 years the Peace Corps has sent Pritzker's generosity to the school and his nearly 200,000 volunteers around the sity of Chicago in 1916, and earned his law care for its students, the Chicago Board of degree at Harvard 4 years later, having served shrinking globe. It's still sending them (in Education renamed the school for Mr. Pritzker, far smaller numbers than in the Sixties), as a Navy chief petty officer in World War I in breaking with longstanding policy against but today it's a very different organization the meantime. naming a building for a living person. from the idealistic missionary model of He was first married to Fanny Doppelt, who His generosity, and his name, are equally Kennedy's time. Its real-dollar budget has died in 1970. They reared a family of three re­ well known throughout Chicago. Major gifts in­ shrunk. markable sons, Jay, Robert, and Don. In clude funding of the Pritzker School of Medi­ The early Peace Corps flew its own stand­ 1972, Mr. Pritzker married Lorraine Colan­ cine at the University of Chicago, the Nicholas ard, striving for high visibility and elan. it tonio, who survives him. He had 12 grandchil­ promised to make the world love Americans. J. Pritzker Children's Psychiatric Unit of Mi­ Today's corps, according to its director, dren, and 8 great-grandchildren. chael Reese Medical Center, and the Pritzker In 1920, fresh out of law school and with Loret Miller Ruppe, aspires to take its place Youth Foundation. in the Reagan administration's foreign-aid, his war service behind him, A.N. Pritzker A.N. Pritzker entered the Michael Reese foreign-policy apparatus. began law practice with the firm of Pritzker & Hospital and Medical Center on January 3, Sixties recruiters sought young generalists Pritzker, in Chicago, which has been founded and died of a stroke while there. Thus ended with bachelor's degrees who were willing to by his father at the turn of the century. a remarkable life of the most interesting mix pitch in on any kind job, working in drain­ In the 1930's, he began buying real estate of business acumen, family loyalty, social re­ age ditches and rain forests side by side and, by 1940, he was too busy with invest­ sponsibility, and joy of living. with the poorest villagers. Sometimes their ments to take on new clients in his law prac­ work assignments were improvised on the A.N. Pritzker's place in the history of Ameri­ spot. Enthusiasm was their most important tice. In those days, the family team consisted can business and in the hearts of his fellow 0f brother Jack, who specialized in setting up tool. Critics called this Peace Corps a para­ Chicagoans, is secure. His was a life to be chute operation. Dwight Eisenhower the real estate deals, and A.N., who modestly noted and admired. I feel privileged that I scorned it as a "juvenile experiment." described himself as "utility player-general knew him as a friend and adviser. May he rest Today's volunteer is older, more likely to affairs of the family," but who was generally in peace. have technical or agricultural training and acknowledged to be the financial wizard to work with regional officials than with vil­ behind the operations. lagers. Ruppe beats the bushes for farmers, As the decades progressed, the Pritzker PEACE CORPS EXPORTS nurses, physical therapists, engineers, and family, with A.N. at the helm, bought and sold IDEALISTS accountants. She likes to say that the Peace its way to one of the great privately held busi­ Corps and its volunteers have grown up, ness domains in the history of America. They thanks to disciplines imposed by the Nixon HON. JIM COURTER and Reagan administrations. started the Hyatt Hotel chain in the late OF NEW JERSEY Indeed, there have been intelligent organi­ 1950's, bought and sold Cory, a manufacturer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES zational changes born of experience. Host of coffeemakers and other kitchen appliances countries are more directly involved in plan­ in the 1960's, and purchased McCall's maga­ Tuesday, February 18, 1986 ning the work to be done and training the zine in the 1970's. The McCall's story is typi­ Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, I commend to volunteers. If the corps is more finely honed cal-the Pritzkers paid $8 million for it in my colleagues the following article by Ann now, as Ruppe contends, it isn't leaner. In 1973; its estimated worth· today is $200 mil­ Crawford of the Bergen Record on the Peace 1974 it cost taxpayers $9,572 to send one vol­ lion. Corps. unteer abroad for one year. Today that Today, the Pritzker family controls about As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Ven­ figure is $22,964-about the same in con­ stant dollars. 140 Hyatt Hotels, Braniff Airlines, McCall's, ezuela, I am a strong advocate of the pro­ In the restless Seventies, the corps lost Hammond Organs, insurance companies, gram. The Peace Corps bestows benefits not significant global support for a number of travel agencies, real estate, cable TV sys­ only upon the developing countries in which it reasons: growing nationalism and prosperity tems, and companies that make railway box­ has programs, but also upon the individuals in the host countries, changing political alli­ cars, aluminum forgings for missiles, shoes, who participate. The knowledge and experi­ ances, and distaste for American foreign coffee, furs, parking meters, and wood prod­ ence that these volunteers, many of whom ul­ policy in southeast Asia and Central Amer­ ucts. timately go into public service, acquire, is ica. The Peace Corps is no longer welcome Along the way, Mr. Pritzker trained his three often of enormous value to our country. in dozens of countries. sons in the fine art of the family business. The following article points out that regard­ At home Richard Nixon went to extraordi­ nary lengths to subvert this quintessential Donald, who died in 1972, ran the hotel chain. less of the current political attitudes toward symbol of Kennedy's Camelot. He took Jay serves as the family financier, and Robert American foreign policy, the Peace Corps will away Peace Corps autonomy and visibility operates the Marmon Group, an umbrella for continue to have a positive and influencial by submerging it in ACTION with other vol­ 65 manufacturing companies with $3 billion in presence. The program has incurred change unteer programs. He interfered repeatedly annual sales. over the last 20 years. Despite this evolution, in specific assignments. 2224 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 18, 1986 Whether it was changing international cook] was taking no chances of losing the toral research, Mary Ann and Joseph conditions or sabotage from the White goat during fiesta." O'Donoghue, a husband-and-wife team at House, the Peace Corps' influence rapidly Then the news came of Kennedy's death. Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, found that declined. In 1974 it served countries in The villagers were incredulous and worried. one in five volunteers returns to foreign Africa, Asia, and Latin America whose total They called off the fiesta, abandoning a service-another stint in the Peace Corps, populations exceeded 1 billion. Between whole year's preparations. AID . child-rescue agencies, or the liable global population figures are avail­ about Napa, Brazil, setting up a creche for like. Many were more at home abroad than able>. host-country populations fell 60 per­ babies and wheedling milk, beans, cheese, in their home towns. Again and again the cent, to 400 million. butter, cornmeal, and bulgar from Food for returnees try to plumb the powerful attrac­ This year the corps expects to send 6,000 Peace. When Kennedy died, "the padres tion of an utterly different way of life. volunteers to more than 60 countries. and the neighbors all came to visit. Great Philip Wilson of Ridgewood, executive di­ Ruppe says that thanks to a Republican re­ sympathy. Are we going to have a revolu­ rector of the West Bergen Mental Health orientation, the contemporary volunteers tion?" Center, says, "The Peace Corps was the are a new breed-older, better-trained, more Events had graver blows in store for the single greatest experience of my life." experienced, and doing a better job. PCV's: the upheavals that were bitter fruit Wilson taught English and history in I set out to test Ruppe's claims, reading of the Vietnam war. Sargent Shriver, broth­ Kenya in 1966 and 1967. A victim of polio in diaries and letters in the Smithsonian Insti­ er-in-law of John Kennedy and the first di­ the years just before the discovery of a safe tution's Peace Corps Archives and inter­ rector of the Peace Corps, said recently that vaccine, Wilson cannot use his arms. He viewing returnees from the Sixties through Vietnam almost killed the Peace Corps. learned growing up that many Americans the Eighties. The former volunteers-PCV's Telling the truth is difficult, wrote Allen look with dread on handicaps. But Kenyans as they call themselves-don't accept Spurga in 1971. In his essay, he tried to re­ are all too familiar with the scars of disease Ruppe's view, and neither do I. construct and understand what really hap­ and malnutrition, and without thinking Like so many of the volunteers, I found pened in that year, when the Panamanian twice they stepped forward to help him. much more than I was looking for. I found, government threw out his large Peace Corps "Kenyans are much more personal than among other things, that the Peace Corps contingent. The volunteers passionately Americans," he said. "We don't realize what idea and the pull it exerts on the best in wanted the Panamanian people to know we've traded in by being industrialized for Americans is strong enough to survive any that they hated the war and the arrogant so long. They are more open, direct, humor­ amount of political folly or revisionism. conduct of their own government. Unable to ous. There are no unwanted children in Their great adventure took them to Kiri­ persuade the Peace Corps leadership in Kenya." bati and Tuvalu and other places the rest of Washington to denounce the war, some of Wilson said that handicap and all, he us have barely heard of, through danger the volunteers finally wrote a letter of pro­ came back from Kenya feeling for the first and boredom and hardship to unchartered test to the local newspaper. They were sent t!me equal to anyone. personal growth. A certain kind of person home. Howard Springsteen of Old Tappan was seeks that kind of risk. What kind of person An older Latvian-American PCV couple, serving in Liberia in 1980 when its presi­ that is they tell in their own looking back. John and Susan Frievalds of Minnesota, dent, William Tolbert, was assassinated. They went out to sell America, but they were in Panama during the protests. They Volunteers learned to define progress as came back citizens of the world. described themselves as products of "con­ three steps forward, two steps back, he said. servative refugee upbringing." They were They learned to fight for funding for clin­ The first tremor to shake the Peace Corps shocked by the dissent, the "Berkeley radi­ was the assassination of John Kennedy. It cals and antiheroes, the bedsharing pseudo­ ics, schools, wells, and roads, pressuring the sparked a current of empathy that circled missionaries trying to avoid the draft." host country to provide these things. Politi­ the globe. Far-flung volunteers reported Where Spurga saw teeming tenements and cal action, second nature to Americans, is with awe and gratitude the sympathetic re­ injustice, the Frievalds found a "breathtak­ unknown to villagers around the world. sponses of their foreign hosts. ing access of pink and chartreuse houses." • • Jennice Singer, a specialist in nutrition Pro- or antiwar, the volunteers had a The O'Donoghues of Mercy College found who served in Bangladesh from 1963 to 1965 measurable impact in Panama; it was large­ that large numbers of volunteers turned to . talks of ly at their instigation that Panamanian the helping professions-teaching, social her painful adjustment to deprivation. At President Omar Torrijos built roads and service, therapy, economic development. first, she wrote, she longed for such things housing for the betterment of the peasants Comparing volunteers from the Sixties and as steak and pizza. Then she learned that of El Maran6n. But though Spurga's group the "leading cause of blindness in Bangla­ the Eighties, I found that trend undimin­ knew all this, to them it counted for noth­ ished. desh was Vitamin A deficiency so severe ing. that every year 50,000 boys under 5 would The Peace Corps, he wrote sadly in 1971, • • • • • suffer serious enough xerophthalmia to lead "was intangible stuff, dreams, plans, and Carolyn Jacoby of Englewood was not a to permanent blindness." So much for steak hopes. It represented a sharing of ideas, a Peace Corps volunteer, but five years ago, and pizza. fusion of two people. It was something with their two young daughters, she accom­ It was in this chastened mood, confused in which touched on all the bright hopes of panied John Jacoby on a journey back to a strange and often terrible place and feel­ our youth, lean, athletic, and promising. Nepal, where he had been a PCV from 1970 ing desperately alone that she learned of Like all good things, it had to come to an to 1972. On leave from the international­ Kennedy's death. She looked up to see a end." trade development unit of the Port Author­ Bangladeshi neighbor, a man who couldn't The mission to Panama, he concluded, was ity of New York and New Jersey, he re­ speak a word of English, standing in her a casualty of the Vietnam war and the vol­ turned as a U.N. consultant. doorway, tears coursing down his brown unteers' own intensity about it. "The real impact of help given is on a one­ face to see her grief. In a sense, all PCV's are pawns of larger to-one basis," said Carolyn Jacoby. "There's On a Peruvian mountaintop, Nancy Salas events. Especially in the last two decades, vi­ bureaucracy at both ends. The bureaucrats was given smallpox vaccinations and regis­ olence has seemed epidemic, and volunteers in the international agencies are very tering TB cases in children. "Our silly Indi­ often found themselves touched by it. vested. Then you have to work through the ans cried harder than we did," she wrote But more important in the long run was corruption ... it takes six weeks to figure home. the volunteer experience. Allen Spurga, now that out, then it takes you the next two John Halloran was in the Philippines: an administrator in workers' compensation years to decide what's best to do. "There was a rooster in the kitchen as we in Manhattan, says that the Peace Corps "It's difficult to cross cultural boundaries, played chess, and children's heads at every changed his life. He discovered that the but the world is so small and the gaps so windowsill." Mothers peered through the Panamanians he saw struggling to make a large, you have to keep trying. We are so in­ windows of the classroom where he had 58 subsistence living had the same emotional tolerant of Asian ways of doing things, and children. One pupil's first full sentence in needs as the people at home, that human they excuse us so graciously. Technology English: "Tomorrow I helped my father beings around the world are very alike-in has outstripped us, isolating us from our feed the chickens." Then there was his own spite of vast cultural differences. selves, let alone from touching strangers. In chicken-or at least one that his cook Spurga's words are echoed over and over Nepal you learn that that's not how we were claimed. So did a neighbor. The village chief by volunteers who say things like, "I know meant to live." settled the dispute, in a province where I've gotten far more than I've given .... I've She spoke of Nepal's crystalline beauty priests carry guns to settle down rowdy learned what it means to be part of the and said the family looks at its slides and drunks at mass. human race." wants to weep with longing to return. That "I lit a kerosene lamp to discover our goat Spurga would like to be back overseas. So addiction is epidemic among PCV's. It has tied up inside the house. Dunying [the would many of his colleagues. In post-doc- surprisingly practical benefits, including the February 18, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2225 gravitation of former volunteers into the Mr. Speaker, I commend to you the follow­ continued his religious studies at the Inter­ international agencies and the foreign serv­ ing article about Reverend Watley, which was denominational Theological Center in ice, where they can have important influ­ published in the Newark Star-Ledger on Feb­ King's hometown, Atlanta. ence on how aid is given. The Jacobys "I had a special interest in writing about a agreed that foreign-aid solutions imposed ruary 3, 1986: black subject because there are many whites from Washington are often out of context. LIBRARY HOSTS, AUTHOR OF KING BOOK who tend to believe only white subjects People who've been in the field can supply have integrity. King's contribution as well that context. The nonviolent ethics of Martin Luther as his message isn't just for blacks, but for John Jacoby worked as a management King Jr. will never die. To Newark's Rev. all Americans," he said. consultant in Nepal for the World Health William D. Watley, his moral and social "I often regret that I never met Dr. King Organization for two years starting in 1981. ideas continue to live on in the black church personally, although I was in his company Management is the crucial need in the from which they are deeply rooted. on several occasions," he lamented. "It Third World, he said. We know that they As part of the Newark Public Library's wasn't until I went to college that I partici­ need better sanitation, pure water, inocula­ Black History Month, celebration, Watley, pated in the famous march from Selma to tions, improved nutrition. The question is the author of "Roots of Resistance-The Montgomery. There was a person in my del­ how to get it done. What do you do about Nonviolent Ethic of Martin Luther King egation who got too close to the outer vaccines that must be kept cold in a place Jr.," last week shared illustrations from his flanks and was clubbed by the police," he that has no electricity? Development agen­ book about King's legacy. That heroic recalled. "Sometimes, I also regret that I lis­ cies miss the boat, hiring technocrats when legacy was one which millions of Americans tened to my parents who pleaded with me they need managers. paid tribute to for the first time nationally not to continue to march. I could relate to John Jacoby has had the unusual experi­ last month when the slain civil rights lead­ Dr. King's sentiment and opposition about ence of returning to his old village after a er's birthday became a federal holiday. oppression while growing up in a western gap of a decade. ica who have credited Dr. King's intellectual said, "When I was eight years old, my par­ "The kinds of volunteers I saw coming in thought to Crozar Seminary and Boston ents told me about a man in our town who now were just like those of 15 years ago," he University," said Watley, who has served as was tarred and feathered because he was said. "They have a level of idealism, they pastor of St. James AME Church since 1984. black. I couldn't go to the movies or the want to contribute, they want responsibility "It was the black church and the black re­ amusement park because I was black. Those that they wouldn't get at home for 10 ligion which were formative and intellectual are things I'll never forget." years." influences in the development of King's No one of the volunteers I interviewed­ thought," he noted. from the early years or recent ones-bought Watley's lecture is a celebration of JAMES DuBREUIL GIBSON Ruppe's view of the Brave New PCV. The "King's transformation from a black corps has been clothed in Republican rheto­ preacher to one of the greatest social lead­ ric, but the volunteers are the same kinds of ers of the century," describing him essen­ HON. GUY VANDER JAGT people, driven by the same generous im­ tially as "a moral theorist." The talk OF MICHIGAN pulses. launched a host of cultural programs-in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Conscience and curiosity leads volunteers cluding concerts, films, workshops and lec­ to Peace Corps service. A taste for new ex­ tures-being offered at the library, 5 Wash­ Tuesday, February 18, 1986 periences draws them back. The need to ington St., during Black History Month. Mr. VANDER JAGT. Mr. Speaker, I seek contribute keeps them there through hard­ "The nonviolent themes that Dr. King this opportunity to pay tribute to James Du­ ships and privation. Regimes come and go, latched onto were nurtured while he was but the idealism has endured. growing up in his fathP-r's church, Ebenezer Breuil Gibson: chairman, Wexford County Baptist and during his academic days at Board of Commissioners; commissioner, city Morehouse," Watley said. of Cadillac, Ml; U.S. Department of Conserva­ REV. WILLIAM D. WATLEY, Watley, who holds a doctorate degree in tion; Civilian Conservation Corps; flight instruc­ AUTHOR OF "ROOTS OF RE­ social ethics, said he considers the 60-year­ tor, U.S. Civil Aeronautics Authority-now the SISTANCE-THE NONVIOLENT old Black Heritage Month celebration an Federal Aviation Agency; recreation director, opportunity for Americans to extend the na­ city of Cadillac; Emergency Employment Act ETHIC OF MARTIN LUTHER tionwide tribute to King and recognize KING, JR." coordinator. scores of cultural and historical accomplish­ These work and job descriptions are but a ments made by black Americans from pre­ slavery days to the present. slight glimmer, a fleeting moment and look at HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. Watley said he purposely planned to have the life and career of the late James D. OF NEW JERSEY his book published and circulating in time Gibson. But they do serve to present the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for King's birthday. breadth and depth of a wonderful, remarkable The book essentially examines the role of man and a very good and close personal Tuesday, February 18, 1986 the black church as the social and political friend. Yet, there is far, far more. Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, in the past few foundation for the civil rights movement Mr. Gibson was a near life-long resident of which King led. Watley also compares weeks, the Nation has remembered the work King's plight as a prophet of social justice Cadillac, Ml, my hometown. I knew Mr. Gibson and life of a great American, Dr. Martin Luther to Ghandi's. practically all my entire life. He was one of my King, Jr. Last month, we honored Dr. King in While attending a joint doctorate program early heroes and will remain that forever. Early countless ways-elementary school children at the Union Theological Seminary and Co­ on, I learned that he was one of the all time set aside special days to study his legacy, lumbia University in New York, Watley football greats at Cadillac High School back in blacks and whites joined hands in parades began his research for the book. the early 1920's, being selected to the All­ and marches commemorating a turbulent "Roots of Resistance," he said is the cul­ State team. But, he was also a hero to a good period of growth, civil rights leaders rededicat­ mination of a long study process about King number of other people, especially the young which grew out of his doctoral dissertation. ed themselves to resisting Reagan administra­ "I began my preliminary reading and re­ ones. Just consider that he was the first pilot tion efforts to turn back the clock on affirma­ search about King in 1972 during my doc­ to fly into the new Saunders Airport in Cadil­ tive action. toral work," he explained. "I selected King lac, that he was the moving force in the plan­ Rev. William D. Watley, pastor of St. James as my subject because his leadership in­ ning and construction of the Wexford County AME Church, has honored Dr. King's memory spired my passion for social justice as well Arena and that he had a hand in providing with a book, "Roots of Resistance-the Non­ as for several other reasons. First, it oc­ outstanding recreational activities for the city's violent Ethic of Martin Luther King, Jr." curred to me that a number of white schol­ youth for years. The book is the result of Reverend Watley's ars would be writing about him. I though it Mr. Gibson was on the ground floor of a was important that those of us who were research for a doctoral dissertation about Dr. budding black scholars give our perspec­ good number of organizations and activities. King. Reverend Watley eloquently summarized tive-a legitimate perspective." Add to that "first" list that he was the first the feelings of many Americans that "King's A native of St. Louis, the 38-year-old cler­ president of St. Ann's Catholic School's contribution as well as his message isn't just gyman completed his undergraduate studies Parent Teacher Association or that in retire­ for blacks, but for all Americans." in theology at St. Louis University. He also ment he simply didn't stay retired, as he was 2226 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 18, 1986 selected as chairman of the Northern Michi­ Whereas, a native of Charlevoix County, . the Legal Services Cor­ his family and many friends; and tor for U.S. Civil Aeronautics Authority poration, mass transit grants, rural water February 18, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2227 and sewer grants, the Amtrak subsidy, the emment and the expansion of the military for mu­ increasingly altered the President's budgets, jumped $80 billion over 1982. That extra nicipal improvement by 14 percent. Farm would do the same this year. income fueled the recovery we are still expe­ subsidies would drop by 20 percent, and ag­ For the moment, action in Congress is riencing. Interestingly, incomes from divi­ riculture and food spending by 17 percent, stalled by a complicated political deadlock, dends and interest each dropped by more with major cuts in rural housing, crop insur­ which is aggravated by mandatory deficit than $3 billion. A good gain <$9.8 billion> ap­ ance, conservation, extension services and reductions. The President insists on protect­ peared in income from businesses and pro­ nutrition programs, including school ing military spending and holding the line fessions. lunches. He would also slash funding for on taxes, and Congress has resolved not to Bashing millionaires is always good fun. Exactly 10,800 refuge land, and non-military energy re­ comprehensive tax revision. My hope is that returns showed an adjusted gross income of search, and phase out Environmental Pro­ in the weeks ahead we will break this dead­ at least $1 million in 1983. Average take­ tection Agency grants for construction of lock through a bipartisan compromise in home pay in this set was a very cool $2.25 wastewater treatment plants. Programs for which the budget, taxes and tax reform million. Altogether, this valiant 10,800 the poor would be cut by about $9 billion. would be resolved. earned $24.5 billion of adjusted gross Supplemental Security Income would rise income. Of this, they paid 40 percent, $9.7 by 3. 7 percent, but Aid to Families with De­ billion, in taxes. This came to an average of pendent Children would fall by 6.9 percent. TAX REDUCTIONS BOOST WEALTHY TAX PAYMENTS $896,655 in taxes paid per return. That stiff The Jobs Corps would be sharply reduced, payment still should have left a little pocket and funding for employment programs change. One hopes the valiant 10,800 invest­ would drop by more than 12 percent. HON. JIM COURTER ed it productively. The President proposes many minor tax OF NEW JERSEY Alas, only 1,364 of these millionaires are increases, but no major ones. He keeps the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES still single. cigarette tax at 16 cents a pack. He urges All but about 2,000 millionaires received the repeal of tax breaks for gasohol, and Tuesday, February 18, 1986 salaries or wages pervised Occupational Experience Programs liberty we all cherish as Americans. The hazardous waste disposal industry and leadership activities, was awarded to Born in Poland on February 12, 1746, Kos­ disclosed plans yesterday to establish a mu­ James Chapman of Bowling Green, Douglas ciuszko was educated at a prestigious military tually owned insurance company to provide Coyle of Mackville, John Kuegel, Jr. of academy in Warsaw. Because of his outstand­ liability coverage that its members are Owensboro, Mark McGee of Franklin, Dwayne ing ability, he received a scholarship from unable to obtain in the commercial market. Montgomery of Taylorsville, Jeffrey Nalley of King Stanislaw II and continued his studies in An industry trade group and 12 waste­ military engineering. service firms drew up the plans for the in­ Owensboro, and Timmy Quiggins of Custer. surance company over the past several The Spencer County FFA Chapter was the In 1776, he sailed to America to pursue his months and are now seeking other compa­ State winner in the FF A Safety Program and passion for freedom in the War of Independ­ nies to participate, officials said. The pro­ received a Gold Award at the National Con­ ence. In October, Kosciuszko became colonel gram is expected to begin operations by the vention. Other superior chapters in the of engineers and in that position built fortifica­ spring, contingent upon 30 companies agree­ Second Congressional District were Daviess, tions that made West Point virtually impregna- ing to join and to contribute at least $17 February 18, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2229 million in initial premiums and capital, the sional wives seeking to improve the treatment, Mrs. Vander Jagt said her prisoner, 27- officials said. to secure the freedom and to promote the year-old Yuli Edelshtein, is a prominent If formed, the company would become the emigration of Soviet Jewry. Carol and Nancy Moscow Hebrew teacher serving three years latest in a series of mutual insurance firms in prison on false drug trafficking charges. established as a result of the current liabil­ Siljander, wife of Congressman MARK SIWAN­ Edelshtein and his wife, Tatiana, have been ity insurance crisis, which has seen premi­ DER, who are both mentioned in the article, seeking permission to emigrate to Israel. ums rise dramatically and coverage dry up are "chartered" members of the committee. The wives' committee held a news confer­ in many lines. Accounting firms, banks, This story is particularly timely in light of the ence this summer and sent a telegram to drug and chemical companies, and many recent developments surrounding the release help fuel reports that Edelshtein had been other businesses have set up such compa­ of Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky. It is badly beaten, deprived of sleep, his personal nies recently. because of the work of the "Committee of belongings and prayerbook taken, and con­ The insurance crisis has proved particu­ 21" and groups like this that greater world at­ stantly moved from one job to another. His larly acute for the growing range of compa­ tention has been focused on the issue of condition subsequently was reported to have nies that transport, treat and dispose of improved somewhat. chemical wastes, Although an estimated 95 human rights in the Soviet Union and the "My heart wept for you both when I percent of the hazardous waste generated plight of Refuseniks and "prisoners of con­ heard that you, Yuli, were being beaten be­ nationwide is actually handled on-site by science." Much of the credit for the fine work cause of your strong and beautiful religious waste generators themselves, the clean-up done by the "Committee of 21" belongs to beliefs," Mrs. Vander Jagt said in one letter companies are being squeezed by the refusal Annette Lantos, wife of Congressman ToM to the Edelshteins. " ... While this new of insurance companies to issue policies cov­ LANTOS. She was the organizer of the group friendship is a privilege and honor for me, it ering any pollution liability whatsoever. and is the continuing sparkplug in the commit­ is also painful because the blows delivered "There is absolutely no insurance out tee's ongoing activities to keep the pressure by the Soviet Union no longer fall on name­ there. Nobody can get it," Bruce J. Parker, on in order to improve emigration prospects less, faceless individuals; they fall on a general counsel of the National Solid human being I have come to know as Yuli, Wastes Management Association, told re­ and diminish the barriers to freedom in the and the pain of your beating, Yuli, has porters at a briefing yesterday. Soviet Union. become my pain, too." Under the plan developed by the associa­ At this time, I would like to share with my A photograph of Mrs. Edelshtein sits on tion, members would be able to buy up to colleagues the news story which appeared in Mrs. Vander Jagt's desk, serving as a re­ $10 million worth of protection per environ­ the Record Eagle newspaper of Traverse City minder of a friendship between two families mental accident, subject to a $1 million de­ in our ninth Congressional District in Michigan. who have never met. ductible. For the coverage, each company I am certain that my colleagues will agree with would pay a premium based on how many me that the members of the "Committee of claims it has filed in the past four years, 21" richly deserve our recognition. The story TIME TO LOWER INTEREST with a minimum premium of $100,000 for RATES $10 million of coverage. was entitled, "Congressmen's Wives Take on This coverage would be far more expen­ Soviets." sive and less comprehensive than what com­ [From the Traverse City

71-059 o-87-26 (Pt. 2) 2244 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 18, 1986 Opponents of House Joint Resolution 3 The Gorbachev offer appeared to be a Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosi­ have argued that a comprehensive test ban partial acceptance of President Reagan's tions Treaty; second, to improve verification treaty remains in the long-term national securi­ "zero-zero" proposal, which would have measures to monitor testing; and third, to ty interests of the United States but that such banned all U.S. and Soviet intermediate­ phase in lower and lower thresholds on range nuclear forces . wherever based. future tests. negotiations should not occur until such time It was initially part of a large, three phase The 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty that we have achieved mutual, verifiable, and package ostensibly aimed at eliminating nu­ limits U.S. and Soviet underground test ex­ military significant nuclear arms reductions. clear weapons altogether. At the time, the plosions to a yield of less than 150 kilotons. This business as usual approach to compre­ central problem with Gorbachev's INF offer The 1976 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions hensive test ban negotiations misses the mark was that Sovet acceptance of the U.S. posi­ Treaty provides comparable limits on nucle­ and misrepresents the objectives of House tion appeared to be linked to a Soviet ar tests for peaceful purposes. These two Joint Resolution 3. demand that the U.S. must abandon Presi­ treaties were signed but never ratified by The sponsors of House Joint Resolution 3 dent Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative the Senate. Both sides continue to observe , the so-called "Star Wars" proposal. them, but the Reagan administration has recognize that it in no way detracts from the During my conversation this month with refused to endorse them until the Soviets President's efforts to seek deep reductions in Gorbachev, he told me explicitly and un­ accept more extensive measures for verifica­ nuclear arms. Rather, we believe it strength­ equivocally that there are no "precondi­ tion; by a vote of 77-22 in 1984, the Senate ens the President's position by allowing the tions" to negotiating the immediate removal urged the administration to support the addition of comprehensive test ban negotia­ of Soviet and American medium-range mis­ treaties. tions to the Geneva talks. House Joint Reso­ siles from Europe. These negotiations can The Soviet leaders tole me that they lution 3 does not dictate the structure of such be successful even if there is no progress in would agree to additional verification meas­ negotiations; it merely points out that the Con­ the SDI talks. Gorbachev knows he is ures only in the context of a total ban on making a concession on this point, and he testing. They stressed that the two existing gress believes that such negotiations should expressed the hope that it would make treaties contain verification provisions that occur in conjunction with the other ongoing quick progress possible. have not been put into effect because the talks in Geneva. There are, of course, other important United States has not ratified the treaties. I believe it is vitally important for the House issues to be resolved before an INF agree­ To bridge this difference, the two sides of Representatives to get into harness with ment can be signed. Will modernization of should permit technical teams to visit each the Senate and its endorsement-a vote of 77 British and French nuclear forces be per­ other's test sites to observe tests and to cali­ to 22 in 1984-of the content of House Joint mitted? How many SS-20s can be deployed brate monitoring equipment needed for ac­ Resolution 3. For this reason, I commend my in Central and Eastern Asia? Will the Sovi­ curate measurement of yields. With the as­ ets accept the verification measures that we surance gained from this step and other ver­ colleagues' attention to Senator KENNEDY's will require? These are difficult questions, ification measures, the 150-kiloton thresh­ editorial and urge them to support passage of but solutions exist. old could be reduced over time, allowing for House Joint Resolution 3 unamended as rec­ For example, the 1983 "Walk in the high-confidence verification and moving ommended by the House Foreign Affairs Woods" formula suggested by Ambassador toward a final, total ban on all nuclear tests. Committee. Paul Nitze would have required the Soviet A comprehensive test ban would be an ex­ [From the Washington Post, Feb. 16, 1986] Union to freeze its SS-20 missile launchers tremely effective step toward halting the in Europe at 90. As part of a new INF agree­ nuclear arms race. There are other ways­ WIND FRoM THE SoviET UNION-THE Rus­ ment, the U.S.S.R. could reduce its launch­ short of underground testing-to guarantee SIANS ARE READY To BARGAIN ON ARMS ers to that level. the reliability of our nuclear arsenal. By CONTROL The issue of British and French forces ratifying the two pending treaties, by im­ let him meet the governor because he didn't tures is likely to be painfully slow. In the ceremonial flag room of Dallas City have an appointment, Townsend waited In sum, there are many areas where our Hall Thursday, the announcement that until Clements had been defeated and sent two countries will continue to be at odds, North Central Expressway will be rebuilt her a note saying he hoped her first unem­ and major tensions will remain. But I be­ without double decks was momentarily up­ ployment check was at least three or four lieve Gorbachev shares Reagan's view that a staged when Gov. Mark White introduced a months late. nuclear war cannot be won and must never mild-looking man named C.N. Townsend. While White and Evans grew to like be fought. On that fundamental question, The audience first applauded and then Townsend, Dedman never did, particularly the interests of the Soviet Union and the laughed loudly when the governor said, "I after Townsend made some highly insulting United States coincide, and important steps don't know if you all know him." personal comments to Dedman. Townsend are possible in the coming months toward a During the Central Expressway debate has yet to relent. over the past four years, everyone has come real and lasting nuclear peace. to know the 75-year-old Townsend, whether "I don't envy the man one bit. I know he's Reagan and Gorbachev have an historic he wanted to or not. a brilliant man, but there was only one opportunity to pursue their common goal of The secretary for then-Gov. William P. thing he knew, and that was double-deck­ a world without nuclear weapons. With that Clements had Townsend thrown out of the ing." shared vision, and with our shared security governor's office back in 1982. Jack Evans, "I guess I'm too plain spoken," Townsend interests, I believe the next steps on arms the mayor of Dallas at the time, angrily re­ added. "I say what I think, and sometimes it control are there for the taking. buked Townsend for calling him "Mr. gets me in trouble, but I guess I'm just that Milquetoast," and then highway commis­ way." sion Chairman Robert Dedman grew to thoroughly dislike C.N., as he is known. 2246 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 18, 1986 SANDY AND ARNOLD RIFKIN and energy to improving their community. Mr. ated with our Government in addressing ter­ HONORED Speaker, community-minded citizens like the rorism issues that were raised by the brutal hi­ Rifkins are America's greatest asset, and I am jackings of this past summer and this can be HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI proud that the Wyoming Valley is their home. I seen as prefacing better relations between OF PENNSYLVANIA am sure that my colleagues in the House of the two countries. However, despite the lifting IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Representatives join me in recognizing the of a United States travel advisory earlier this value and importance of their spirit of public Tuesday, February 18, 1986 summer, and despite the lack of a threat at service. Athens Airport, tourism from the United States Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, it is a great to Greece has dropped a record 70 percent. pleasure for me to join the S.J. Strauss Lodge GREECE,CYPRUS,ANDISRAEL Through my meeting with the director of the No. 139 B'nai B'rith in honoring this year's re­ Prime Minister's Economic Cabinet, Yiannis cipients of the prestigious Community Service Papanicolaou, I was able to explore the tre­ Award. Sandy and Arnold Rifkin of Kingston, HON. JAMES J. FLORIO mendous repercussions of this drop which PA, have been chosen in recognition of their OF NEW JERSEY meant a loss of $300 million to the Greek achievements and contributions of outstanding IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES economy, one which is already troubled by a local leadership. Voluntary service to one's Tuesday, February 18, 1986 $700 million trade deficit and other economic community is one of the greatest strengths of problems. It is important that our Government Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, as a Member of America, and I am proud to share in the com­ be helpful in ensuring that Greece, a close mendation of Mr. and Mrs. Rifkin, who have Congress, I am often called upon to make key and important ally, have a stable economy if dedicated more than 30 years of service to decisions relating to the conduct of our Na­ we are to assure the continuation of a free the Wyoming Valley. tion's foreign policy in the Middle East. I re­ and democratic government in Greece. Arnold Rifkin is the third generation of Rif­ cently undertook a factfinding visit to Greece, One of the more heartening themes that kins who have lived in the Wyoming Valley. A Cyprus, and Israel and met with high-level offi­ graduate of Coughlin High School, Arnold in­ cials in each country to garner information came across in all of the meetings in Greece terrupted his education at the University of about the nature of the conflicts and the pros­ was the desire and willingness of the Greek Pennsylvania at age 19 to serve as first lieu­ pects for solution. I wanted to share with you Government to improve relations with the tenant navigator in the Army Air Corps in Eng­ my observations during this very productive United States and to cooperate on resolving land. He returned to the University of Pennsyl­ visit. conflicts in the area. One of the obstacles to vania and received a degree in business from The eastern Mediterranean forms an impor­ bettering relations is the perceived tilt of the the Wharton School. He also met his future tant strategic post to the North Atlantic Treaty U.S. Government toward Turkey and the feel­ wife, Sandy August, while studying at Penn. Organization [NATO] as well as to our nation­ ing that the Republic of Turkey has been Married in 1949, the Rifkins traveled the coun­ al security interests in the Middle East. As a treated more favorably by our Government in try selling products for the family business, the result, any instability in the area adversely af­ areas of military and economic assistance and A. Rifkin Co .• until 1950. The Rifkins returned fects the national interests of the United in conflicts between Greece and Turkey. to the area to raise their three children, Kathy, States and our allies. For the past 11 years, It is in our Nation's best interests to rein­ Michael, and Jody. conflict has raged over the once independent force the traditional cooperation the United Sandy currently serves as secretary of the island of Cyprus as residents have lived with States has shared with Greece throughout the board of trustees of the Jewish Community problems associated with the presence of an decades. In 1988, the 5 year agreement on Center and is cochairman of the Capital Cam­ occupying army. Tremendous questions have United States bases in Greece is scheduled to paign of the Domestic Violence Service also arisen over the dependability of our alli­ expire. Though, in the past, the Greek Gov­ Center. She also sits on the boards of the ance with Greece and Turkey while differ­ ernment has expressed reluctance ro renew SPCA, Temple B'nai B'rith, Hadassah, the ences between those two nations continue to this vital base agreement, my meetings indi­ JCC, and Friends Hospital in Philadelphia. In provide an unstable environment. In addition, cated that a better climate could be fostered if the past she has served as a vice president of the continuation of the Arab-Israeli conflict the United States were to play a positive role the JCC board, president of the Temple B'nai has fostered an increase in the rise of terror­ in resolving tension in the eastern Mediterra­ B'rith Sisterhood, president of the Jewish Wel­ ism in the area, causing fear and apprehen­ nean and on the Island of Cyprus. A case in fare Agency and chair of the women's division sion among travelers and threatening the point is a dispute over the Greek Island of of the UJA. international tourism industry. Lemnos, located close to the Turkish shore, Arnold is currently treasurer of the board of During the visit, I was able to explore a vari­ which has created a problem for Greek partici­ directors of Wilkes College, incentive chair­ ety of areas including terrorism and airport se­ pation in NATO. The Turkish Government de­ man of the United Way, and a trustee of curity, bilateral relations between the United mands that Lemnos be demilitarized but Temple B'nai B'rith. He serves on the boards States, Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, tourism Greece maintains that its national security in­ of the Sordoni Art Gallery, the Jewish Federa­ and trade, prospects for conflict resolution terests preclude this. As long as Lemnos is tion and Friends Hospital. In the past, he and the impact of arms sales, as well as the not inlcuded in the NATO exercises, Greece served three terms as president of Temple future of the Olympic games. does not participate. This dispute has fueled B'nai B'rith, vice president of the federation, The recent hijackings and airport bombings conflict over the airspace and water rights of general chairman of the Cancer Society Drive, and the killing and injuring of innocent travel­ the Aegean Sea and is a detriment to a work­ and member of the executive board of the ers is of tremendous concern to all those who ing relationship between our two NATO allies. Flood Emergency Committee of the Wyoming have worked toward peaceful solutions to the I was also able to meet with the General Valley Jewish Community. many conflicts in the Middle East. As chair­ Secretariat of Athletics and Sports, Mr. Sifis Throughout the community, numerous chari­ man of the House Subcommittee on Com­ Valyrakis, to discuss the future of the Olympic table organizations have benefited from the merce, Transportation, and Tourism, I was Games in connection with my subcommittee's Rifkins' generosity. Sandy and Arnold have able to explore questions of airport security jurisdiction over the Summer Olympics. We donated the lobby of the Evans Residence and tourism in Greece through meetings with were able to explore the possibility of estab­ Hall at Wilkes College, a room at the women's Greek Foreign Minister Carolos Papoulias, lishing a permanent site for the Olympics in shelter, a children's corner at the Osterhout Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Greece, the country that gave birth to this ath­ Public Library, a new wing of the SPCA pet Yiannis Capsis, General Secretary of the letic competition that should be deviod of po­ cemetary, and a new torah for Temple B'nai Greek National Tourism Organization Prof. litical strife. We also discussed the prospects B'rith. At the Jewish Community Center, they Pantelis Lazarides, and Under Secretary of for holding the 1996 Olympics in Greece, on have endowed the Ben August Annual Swim Culture George Papandreou. the centennial of the modern Olympic games. Meet, the JCC kitchen and are responsible for During the meetings, I was impressed by A key issue of dissension between Greece the newly created Rifkin Resource Center, a the tremendous effort made by the Greek and the United States has been the failure of Jewish reference library and museum. Government to ensure that Athens Interna­ a resolution of conflict on the Island of Sandy and Arnold Rifkin are outstanding tional Airport met international safety stand­ Cyprus. Since 197 4, the island has been oc­ citizens who have devoted considerable time ards. The Greek Government has fully cooper- cupied by Turkish troops, which now number February 18, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2247 18,000, and has been literally divided between impressed by the urgent need for a solution. I ther delay will hamper the peace process and two communities-the Greek Cypriots to the was able to visit the Golan Heights and wit­ reduce the prospects for vital stability. south and the Turkish Cypriots to the north. ness the increased buildup of Syrian forces on The Turkish invasion of 197 4 which caused this border. There continues to be hope for a hundreds of thousands of Greek Cypriots to meeting between Israeli Prime Minister IN HONOR OF GINNY MILLER abandon their homes and businesses in the Shimon Peres with Jordan's King Hussein, but north and flee for their Jives to the south, and further delay will only increase the prospect HON. FRANK HORTON the lack of an active U.S. role in the matter for further violence. The fundamental recogni­ continues to overshadow Greek and Cypriot tion of Israel's right to existence is a given OF NEW YORK policy toward the United States. The invasion fact that must be accepted by the Arab world. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES expanded a division that pitted neighbors Through accepting this fact, the prospects for Tuesday, February 18, 1986 against each other and the prospects for a negotiating settlements to conflicts, including Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to settlement become dimmer as the years go the Palestinian question, will be increased. take this opportunity to pay tribute to a close by. I was able to meet with officials concerning friend, and one of the most well loved resi­ In Cyprus, I had useful discussions with the Israel's economic and military situation and Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs George Ja­ was impressed by the great strides Israel had dents of my congressional district-Ginny covou, the President of the Cypriot House of made in reducing the trade deficit and reduc­ Miller. After 20 years of dedicated service to Representatives Dr. Vassos Lyssarides, the ing inflation to more manageable figures. The the patients and families of Highland Hospital, Minister of Finance Christos Mavrellis, and the United States-Israeli Free Trade Agreement Ginny has announced her retirement. Director General of the Cyprus Tourism Orga­ currently being implemented holds promise for Ginny is a very special person. She devoted nization Antonios Andronikou. One of the improving Israel's economy further while her entire career to caring. Not only for her more moving aspects of the visit was the opening new markets to United States mer­ close friends and family, but for people from meeting with the Greek Cypriot Mayor of Nico­ chants. Though the effects of our various defi­ all walks of life, and particularly those associ­ sia, Lellos Demetriades. Mr. Demetriades vis­ cit reduction plans will be felt in aid to Israel ated with Highland Hospital. In recognition of ited with me the wall that has divided the and Egypt, the Israeli Government was under­ her service, a special fund has been estab­ island into two separate entities barring the standing of our internal economic situation. lished in her honor. This fund, the "Ginny passage into the north. The devastation of the Any reduction in economic and military aid, Miller Caring Fund," will be used to perpet­ 197 4 invasion still exists around this area, de­ however, will have repercussions on Israel's uate the concern and caring that Ginny has spite the efforts of the Greek Cypriot Govern­ security program that will be further exacer­ brought to her job every day. ment to build their economy in the south. In bated should our Nation supply Jordan and Mr. Speaker, when most people retire it meetings with the Cypriot officials and people, Saudi Arabia v:ith increased arms. Currently, passes largely unnoticed. When Ginny an­ great courage and perseverance was tem­ our Nation has undertaken a joint project with nounced her retirement, it caught the attention pered with a bitter acceptance of the status the Israeli Government to build the Lavi fight­ of all Rochester. I want to congratulate Ginny quo and a loss of hope in changing the situa­ er. I visited the Israeli aircraft industries and on a job well done and wish her all the best tion. I also became aware of a deep fear of inspected the program and I understood, how­ as she embarks on a new and exciting phase further invasion from the remaining Turkish ever, that further defense pressures may in her life. troops in the north. Though I have always cause abandonment of the program should held that the Turkish troops should be re­ Israel need to divert Lavi funds for other, more HONORING MR. LOUIS MOSES moved from the island, the importance of this immediate defense needs. A visit to the Golan development was brought home to me as I Heights and discussions on Israel's defense witnessed the tangible fear of invasion held by further reinforced my opposition to supplying HON. JOHN P. MURTHA Greek Cypriots. arms to Jordan and Saudi Arabia while those OF PENNSYLVANIA The attention given this conflict by United nations refuse to recognize Israel and agree IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nations Secretary Perez De Cuellar is hopeful. to direct negotiations. The recent withdrawal Last year, negotiations arranged by De Cuellar of the Jordan arms sale proposal by the ad­ Tuesday, February 18, 1986 foundered but talks are scheduled to resume ministration will hopefully presage a better Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, on Monday this month and hopefully a solution will be awareness of the need for finding a political night February 24, it will be my pleasure to found. It is vital, however, that we insist on the solution to the conflict rather than simply sup­ join at our annual Manpower for Boypower removal of Turkish troops as a prerequisite to plying the region with weapons. scout dinner in honoring Mr. Louis Moses for a settlement. The major point on Cyprus that A highlight of the trip was a visit with Yuri a lifetime of dedication to scouting ideals. was brought across in both Greece and Kalman of Beer Sheva, Israel, the son of my This year Mr. Moses marks both his 1OOth Cyprus was the fact that the United States­ adopted refusenik couple in the Soviet Union, birthday in September and 65 years of in­ Greek relations can improve if the United Yosef and Lilia Kalman. We were able to ex­ volvement in scouting activities. Starting in States takes a constructive and active role in plore the difficulties encountered by Yuri's el­ Johnstown in the 1920's as a new scoutmas­ resolving the Cyprus conflict. In the past, I derly and infirm parents in seeking to leave ter, he has later been involved in scouting ac­ have sponsored legislation calling for the ap­ the Soviet Union and join their son in Israel tivities in Baltimore and Bethlehem. In recent pointment of a U.S. envoy to negotiate a set­ where they can be cared for. As a product of years he's been active with the Penn's Woods tlement. that meeting, I wrote to Soviet Presidium Council and the Admiral Perry Council. Throughout the trip to Greece, Cyprus, and Chairman Andrei Gromyko and the head of During these years, Mr. Moses also rose Israel, I observed the marked improvement in the Moscow OVIR to request that the Kal­ from office boy with the then Cambria Iron security at all airports which ranged from in­ mans be permitted to leave the Soviet Union. and Steel Co. of Johnstown to reach a point creased machines and personnel to individual The Kalmans have since been asked to reap­ where he became involved in the engineering identification of baggage before boarding, to a ply for a visa and we will be eagerly awaiting field and became known as one of the found­ cordon of tanks surrounding the Larnaca Air­ further word from Soviet authorities. ers of the engineering roll design in steelmak­ port in Cyprus. It is vital that we continue to I returned to the United States with the im­ ing. guard ourselves against terrorism while seek­ pression that all three countries were very in­ When the history of our great Nation is writ­ ing political solutions to the conflicts that have terested in improving or continuing good rela­ ten, it is done less by the headline makers fueled the increase in terrorist activities over tions with our Nation and hopeful that our than by the unselfish dedication of men like the past year. The root of the proliferation of Government could improve the climate for Louis Moses. The principles of our Nation are terrorism lies in the continuation of political lasting and just solutions by playing a more secure as long as we have men and women conflicts that should be resolved through ne­ active role. The problems experienced in this who give so much of their time to help youth, gotiations and diplomacy. area are complex; however, the political will and who are committed so unselfishly to help­ While in Israel, I met with Government offi­ exists for diplomatic solutions. It is our respon­ ing to pass on the traditions of freedom, inde­ cials to discuss the prospects for a peaceful sibility to ensure that these solutions are pendence, liberty, and loyalty that are the hall­ solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict and was brought about in a timely fashion because fur- marks of our Nation. 2248 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 18, 1986 It is an honor and a pleasure to recognize Appropriations Veterans' Affairs Mr. Louis Moses for these outstanding years Transportation anC: Related Agencies Sub­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ of service to his community, to the Cub committee timates for fiscal year 1987 for the Veterans' Administration. Scouts and Boy Scouts, and to the United To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ SR-418 States. partment of Transportation. 10:00 a.m. SD-138 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Environment and Public Works To continue hearings on proposed legis­ SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS To hold hearings on proposed legislation lation authorizing funds for the Com­ Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 modity Futures Trading Commission. agreed to by the Senate on February for the Environmental Protection SR-328A Agency. Appropriations 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a SD-406 Defense Subcommittee system for a computerized schedule of Foreign Relations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ all meetings and hearings of Senate To hold hearings on the nomination of timates for fiscal year 1987 for the Air committees, subcommittees, joint com­ James L. Malone, of Virginia, to be Force. mittees, and committees of conference. Ambassador to Belize, and the pro­ SD-192 This title requires all such committees spective nomination of Arthur H. Appropriations to notify the Office of the Senate Davis, to be Ambassador to the Repub­ MUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Daily Digest-designated by the Rules lic of Panama. tee Committee-of the time, place, and SD-419 To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Judiciary timates for fiscal year 1987 for the purpose of the meetings, when sched­ Security and Terrorism Subcommittee Council on Environmental Quality, Se­ uled, and any cancellations or changes To hold hearings on the dilemma for lective Service System, Federal Home in the meetings as they occur. U.S. policymakers confronting Libyan Loan Bank Board, Neighborhood Re­ As an additional procedure along sponsored terrorism. investment Corporation, and the Na­ with the computerization of this infor­ SD-562 tional Institute of Building Sciences. mation, the Office of the Senate Daily Labor and Human Resources SD-124 Digest will prepare this information Employment and Productivity Subcom­ Environment and Public Works for printing in the Extensions of Re­ mittee To hold hearings on proposed legislation marks section of the CONGRESSIONAL To hold hearings on S. 1990, to establish authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 an Education and Training Partner­ for the Environmental Protection RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of ship to administer the Job Training Agency. each week. Partnership Act, the Wagner-Peyser SD-406 Any changes in committee schedul­ Act, and the Carl D. Perkins Vocation­ Judiciary ing will be indicated by placement of al Education Act. Business meeting, to consider pending an asterisk to the left of the name of SD-430 calendar business. the unit conducting such meetings. 10:30 a.m. SD-226 Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, Appropriations Labor and Human Resources February 18, 1986, may be found in Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism the Daily Digest of today's RECORD. tee Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed legislation MEETINGS SCHEDULED timates for fiscal year 1987 for the Ad­ authorizing funds for the National In­ visory Council on Historic Preserva­ stitute on Drug Abuse and the Nation­ FEBRUARY 19 tion, Woodrow Wilson International al Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Al­ 9:30a.m. Center for Scholars, and National coholism. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Capital Planning Commission. SD-430 To hold hearings on proposed legislation SD-124 1:30 p.m. authorizing funds for export adminis· Judiciary Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs tration and export promotion activi­ Courts Subcommittee To hold hearings to review the Federal ties of the Department of Commerce, To hold hearings on H.R. 3570, to revise Reserve Board's first monetary policy and to hold oversight hearings on the annuity programs for survivors of Fed­ report for 1986. first annual report on foreign policy eral justices and judges. SD-538 controls of the Department of Com- SD-226 2:00p.m. merce. 1:30 p.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation SD-538 Appropriations Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ To hold hearings to review the Presi­ mittee Commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold hearings on proposed legislation To hold hearings on liability insurance, dent's proposed budget for fiscal year 1987. authorizing funds for the Fire Preven­ focusing on the availability and af­ tion and Control Act. fordability of insurance in various SD-192 2:00p.m. SR-253 property and casualty lines. 4:00p.m. SR-253 Judiciary To hold hearings on pending nomina­ Select on Intelligence Energy and Natural Resources To continue closed hearings on proposed To continue oversight hearings to tions. SD-226 legislation authorizing funds for fiscal review those programs which fall year 1987 for the intelligence commu­ within the jursidiction of the commit· 2:30p.m. Energy and Natural Resources nity. tee as contained in the President's pro­ SH-219 posed budget for fiscal year 1987, fo­ To continue oversight hearings to cusing on the Federal Energy Regula­ review those programs which fall FEBRUARY 21 tory Commission. within the jurisdiction of the commit­ 9:00a.m. SD-366 tee as continued in the President's Small Business Select on Intelligence proposed budget for fiscal year 1987, To continue hearings on the cost and To hold closed hearings on proposed leg­ focusing on Forest Service programs availability of liability insurance for islation authorizing funds for fiscal of the Department of Agriculture. small business. year 1987 for the intelligence commu­ SD-366 SR-428A nity. 9:30a.m. SH-219 FEBRUARY 20 Commerce, Science, and Transportation 10:00 a.m. 9:30a.m. Surface Transportation Subcommittee Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Small Business To hold hearings on S. 477, to revise the To hold hearings on proposed legislation To hold hearings on the cost and avail­ standards of railroad revenue-adequa­ authorizing funds for the Commodity ability of liability insurance for small cy, railroad market dominance, rail­ Futures Trading Commission. business. road rate reasonableness, and the SR-328A SR-428A Interstate Commerce Commission February 18, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2249 review of State ruling on intrastate nership to administer the Job Train­ ed Veterans of America, and the Mili­ rail rates. ing Partnership Act, the Wagner­ tary Order of the Purple Heart. SR-253 Peyser Act, and the Carl D. Perkins SD-106 Finance Vocational Education Act. 9:30a.m. Health Subcommittee SD-430 Appropriations To hold hearings to review hospital 9:30a.m. Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ income under the Medicare prospec­ Veterans' Affairs cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ tive payment system. To hold joint hearings with the House mittee SD-215 Committee on Veterans' Affairs to To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Labor and Human Resources review the legislative priorities of the timates for fiscal year 1987 for the Handicapped Subcommittee Disabled American Veterans. Mine Safety and Health Administra­ To resume hearings on proposed legisla­ SD-106 tion, Employment Standards Adminis­ tion authorizing funds for education 10:00 a.m. tration, and Bureau of Labor Statis­ of the handicapped, focusing on dis­ Appropriations tics, all of the Department of Labor, cretionary programs. BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ and the Pension Benefit Guaranty SD-430 tee Corporation. Special on Aging To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ SD-116 To hold hearings on the impact of timates for fiscal year 1987 for the Na­ Gramm-Rudman on the elderly. tional Credit Union Administration, Commerce, Science, and Transportation SD-628 Office of Revenue Sharing . SD-116 SD-124 and Policy Research, all of the De­ Select on Intelligence 2:00p.m. partment of Health and Human Serv- To resume closed hearings on proposed Appropriations ices. legislation authorizing funds for fiscal Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ SD-116 year 1987 for the intelligence commu­ tee Select on Intelligence nity. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To resume closed hearings on proposed SH-219 timates for fiscal year 1987 for the 10:00 a.m. Office of Indian Education, Depart­ legislation authorizing funds for fiscal Appropriations ment of Education, and the Institute year 1987 for the intelligence commu­ Defense Subcommittee of Museum Services. nity. To hold closed hearings on proposed SD-138 SH-219 budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 4:00p.m. 10:00 a.m. for certain intelligence programs. Select on Intelligence Appropriations S-407, Capitol To continue closed hearings on proposed Defense Subcommittee Appropriations legislation authorizing funds for fiscal To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ year 1987 for the intelligence commu­ timates for fiscal year 1987 for De­ tee nity. fense programs, focusing on force To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ SH-219 management and personnel. timates for fiscal year 1987 for the En­ SD-192 vironmental Protection Agency. MARCH 14 Appropriations SD-124 10:00 a.m. BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Appropriations Appropriations tee Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ Defense Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ committee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1987 for the To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1987 for Navy Veterans' Administration. timates for fiscal year 1987 for the St. shipbuilding programs. SD-124 Lawrence Seaway Development Corpo­ SD-192 ration, Department of Transportation, Appropriations Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ and the Panama Canal Commission. MARCH 18 committee SD-138 9:30a.m. 2:00p.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1987 for the Na­ Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Foreign Operations Subcommittee cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ tional Transportation Safety Board, To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ mittee Department of Transportation, and timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ the Architectural and Transportation partment of the Treasury, focusing on timates for fiscal year 1987 for the Barriers Compliance Board. multilateral development banks. Heaah Care Financing Administra­ SD-138 SD-124 tion, Social Security Administration, 2:00p.m. Office of Child Support Enforcement, Appropriations MARCH 13 and refugee programs, all of the De­ Foreign Operations Subcommittee 9:00a.m. partment of Health and Human Serv­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Labor and Human Resources ices. timates for fiscal year 1987 for the Employment and Productivity Subcom­ SD-116 Export-Import Ban1t. mittee Labor and Human Resources S-126, Capitol To resume hearings on proposed legisla­ Labor Subcommittee tion authorizing funds for job training To hold oversight hearings on the re­ MARCH20 tirement policy for public safety offi­ programs. 9:30a.m. SD-430 cials under the Age Discrimination in 9:30a.m. Employment Act. Labor and Human Resources Appropriations SD-430 Handicapped Subcommittee Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed legislation cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ Appropriations authorizing funds for rehabilitation mittee Defense Subcommittee programs. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ SD-430 timates for fiscal year 1987 for the timates for fiscal year 1987 for Army 2:00p.m. Centers for Disease Control, Alcohol, modernization programs. Appropriations Drug Abuse and Mental Health Ad­ SD-192 Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ ministration, Office of Inspector Gen­ 2:00p.m. tee eral, and Office of Civil Rights, all of Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ the Department of Health and Human Foreign Operations Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1987 for the Services. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ U.S. Geological Survey, Department of SD-116 timates for fiscal year 1987 for inter­ the Interior. 10:00 a.m. national security assistance programs SD-138 Appropriations of the Department of State. S-126, Capitol 4:00p.m. Defense Subcommittee Select on Intelligence To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ To continue closed hearings on proposed timates for fiscal year 1987 for certain legislation authorizing funds for fiscal Defense programs, focusing on guard tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ year 1987 for the intelligence commu­ and reserve affairs. nity. SD-192 timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ Labor and Human Resources partment of the Interior. SH-219 Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism SD-138 Subcommittee MARCH25 To hold hearings on proposed legislation MARCH 19 9:30a.m. authorizing funds for child care pro­ 9:30a.m. Labor and Human Resources grams. Appropriations Handicapped Subcommittee SR-385 Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ To resume hearings on proposed legisla­ 10:30 a.m. cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ tion authorizing funds for rehabilita­ Appropriations mittee tion programs. Foreign Operations Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ SD-430 To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1987 for the timates for fiscal year 1987 for foreign Human Development Services, Office 2252 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 18, 1986 2:00p.m. National Railroad Passenger Corpora­ review the legislative priorities of Appropriations tion . AMVETS, Vietnam Veterans of Amer­ Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ SD-138 ica, World War I Veterans, Jewish tee War Veterans of the U.S.A., and To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ APRIL 10 Atomic Veterans. timates for f~cal year 1987 for the 9:30a.m. SD-106 U.S. Holocaust Memorial, and the Appropriations 9:30a.m. Bureau of Mines, Department of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Appropriations Interior. cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ SD-138 mittee cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ To hold hearings on propose:i budget es­ mittee MARCH26 timates for f~cal year 1987 for the De­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 10:00 a.m. partment of Education, including ele­ timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ Appropriations mentary and secondary education, partment of Education, including stu­ Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ education block grants, and impact dent fin9.ncial assistance, guaranteed committee aid. student loans, higher and continuing To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ SD-116 education, higher education facilities timates for f~cal year 1987 for Inter­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation loans and insurance, college housing state Commerce Commission and the Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ loans, and educational research and Office of the Secretary of Transporta­ mittee training. tion. To hold hearings on proposed le~lation SD-116 SD-138 authorizing funds for National Ocean­ 10:00 ic and Atmospheric Administration, Appropriations MARCH27 focusing on funds for satellite and at­ BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ mospheric programs. tee 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Labor and Human Resources SR-253 timates for f~scal year 1987 for the Na­ Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcohol~m 2:00p.m. tional Aeronautics and Space Admin~­ Subcommittee Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee tration. To hold hearings on proposed leg~lation SD-124 authorizing funds for low-income To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for f~cal year 1987 for the Appropriations energy ass~tance programs. Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ SD-430 Office of Inspector General, Agency for International Development. Peace committee 2:00p.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations Corps, Inter-American Foundation, and the African Development Founda­ timates for f~cal year 1987 for the Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ U.S. Coast Guard, Department of tee tion. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ S-126, Capitol Transportation. timates for fiscal year 1987 for the SD-138 APRIL 15 Forest Service, Department of Agricul­ APRIL 17 ture. 9:30a.m. SD-138 Appropriations 9:30a.m. Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Appropriations APRILS cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ 2:00p.m. mittee Appropriations To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ mittee timates for f~cal year 1987 for the De­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ partment of Education, including edu­ timates for f~cal year 1987 for the De­ tee cation for the handicapped, rehabilita­ partment of Education, including bi­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ tion services and handicapped re­ lingual education, vocational and adult timates for fiscal year 1987 for energy search, and special institutions . Corpo­ agencies. Appropriations ration for Public Broadcasting, Na­ SD-124 Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ tional Council on the Handicapped, 2:00p.m. Appropriations cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ Mine Safety and Health Review Com­ mittee mission, National Commission on Li­ Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ braries and Information Science, and timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ National Center for the Study of Afro­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1987 for the partments of Labor, Health and American History and Culture. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department Human Services, and Education, and SD-116 of the Interior. certain related agencies. 10:00 a.m. SD-192 SD-116 Appropriations 2:00p.m. Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ APRIL30 Appropriations committee Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ 10:00 a.m. timates for fiscal year 1987 for the Appropriations tee United States Railway Association and HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Conrail. tee timates for fiscal year 1987 for the SD-138 To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Smithsonian Institution. timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ SD-192 APRIL 24 partment of Housing and Urban De­ velopment and certain independent MAY13 9:30a.m. agencies. Appropriations SD-124 9:30a.m. Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Appropriations Appropriations cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ mittee committee cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ mittee timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ timates for fiscal year 1987 for the To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ partments of Labor, Health and Federal Aviation Administration, De­ timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ Human Services, and Education, and partment of Transportation. partments of Labor, Health and certain related agencies. SD-138 Human Services, and Education, and SD-116 certain related agencies. Labor and Human Resources MAY1 SD-116 Labor Subcommittee 9:30a.m. To hold hearings on S. 1018, to clarify Appropriations MAY14 the meaning of the term "guard" for Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ 10:00 a.m. the purpose of permitting certain cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ Appropriations labor organizations to be certified by mittee Transportation and Related Agencies Sub­ the National Labor Relations Board as To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ committee representatives of employees other timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ than plant guards. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ partments of Labor, Health and timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ SD-430 Human Services, and Education, and partment of Transportation and cer­ 10:00 a.m. certain related agencies. Appropriations SD-116 tain related agencies. Foreign Operations Subcommittee 2:00p.m. SD-138 To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ partment of State, focusing on volun­ tee tary contributions to international or­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ ganizations programs, and for the timates for fiscal year 1987 for territo- 2254 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 18, 1986 MAY15 MAY20 the Solicitor, Department of the Inte- 9:30a.m. 2:00p.m. rior. Appropriations Appropriations SD-192 Labor, Health and Human Services, Edu­ Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ cation, and Related Agencies Subcom­ tee mittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ CANCELLATIONS To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1987 for the timates for fiscal year 1987 for the De­ Indian Health Service, Department of FEBRUARY 18 partments of Labor, Health and Health and Human Services. 10:00 a.m. Human Services, and Education, and SD-192 Energy and Natural Resources certain related agencies. To hold hearings on the nomination of SD-116 MAY29 Jed Dean Christensen, of Virginia, to 2:00p.m. 2:00p.m. be Director of the Office of Surface Appropriations Appropriations Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit­ SD-366 tee tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ timates for fiscal year 1987 for fossil timates for fiscal year 1987 for the energy and clean coal technology. Ofiice of the Secretary and Office of SD-192