17996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE July 8, 1985 SENATE-Monday, July 8, 1985 The Senate met at 12 noon and was felt concern for seven countrymen FATHER BILL McDONNELL called to order by the President pro who still suffer the loss of these in Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, this body tempore [Mr. THURMOND]. alienable rights in unjust captivity. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Our They are Rev. Benjamin Weir, Wil is indeed honored to welcome our spe guest chaplain today is Father Bill cial guest chaplain. He is Father Bill liam Buckley, Peter Kilburn, David Ja McDonnell of St. Margaret Mary McDonnell, from St. Margaret Mary's cobsen, Terrence Anderson, Thomas Parish, Algonquin, IL. He was one of Parish in Algonquin, IL. However, he Sutherland, and Rev. Lawrence is now known to all America as one of the passengers involved in the TWA Martin Jenco. If it be Your will, please hijacking. the brave captives of TWA flight 847. bring each of them home safe and We take special note of his words soon. Help us not to rest until that today because we are reminded that PRAYER deed is done as best we can. The Reverend Bill McDonnell, St. the free world's prayers for our hos Lord, I wish also to lift up to You tages surely played a role in their safe Margaret Mary's Parish, Algonquin, the soul of Robert Dean Stethem, IL, offered the following prayer: return to their families. member of the U.S. Navy and passen During a pilgrimage to the holy Let us pray. Gentle and Loving ger on flight 847 who was asked to lay Father having just celebrated our Na lands, Father McDonnell was taken down his life for the sake of others hostage by the Lebanese terrorists. Al tion's Independence Day and our St. and in the name of his country. Your Margaret Mary Parish "Welcome though one of the first passengers re Son, Jesus, has assured us "greater leased from the TWA jet, he became a Home Reception" for the 34 members love than this no one has that one lay of our "Holy Land Pilgrimage" group spiritual connection between his down his life for his friends." There fellow captives still on board the air and having just experienced the sheer fore I rest assured that You will lead joy and relief of seeing the last of our craft and the millions and millions of him' to his lasting home to be with concerned citizens around the world. 39 hostages from flight 847 in the You forever. Please bring peace and arms of their loved ones, I stand Mr. President, this Fourth of July consolation to the grieving members of took on an extra meaning for all of us before you truly overwhelmed with his family. Let them know Your gentle gratitude and praise. because our hostages were home once love and strength and that their again. We celebrate their return and First of all, I thank You with the sorrow is shared deeply by others also. deepest sincerity of heart for deliver join Father McDonnell in his prayers ing us from captivity and the fear of Lastly Lord, I place before You my that the hate and violence in the earnest prayers for another group of ~~~ . Middle East that spawned this latest I also thank You for all those whom hostages; namely, my former captors. wave of terrorism can somehow be as any way helped us in that journey These young men, and so many other suaged. toward liberation, members of govern people like them in other lands, are Mr. President, we are pleased that ments and private citizens alike. I held captive by their own burning Father McDonnell is here today. I thank You for bringing us home again hatred, lasting grudges and sometimes know that many Members will want to and making us more mindful than ever centuries-old vandettas. In some ways, visit with him in the next few mo of the great freedom we enjoy as an they are the real hostages, inner hos ments. American people. Among these are tages who are held in chains by their e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or 1nseruons· · w h.1c h are no t spoken by the Member on the floor. July 8, 1985 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 17997 in any event, we will complete that bill tinguished majority leader will give amendment. So it occurred to me that tomorrow. that consideration. maybe it is something I need to discuss There may be, as I understand it, Mr. DOLE. I am advised-in fact, I with the chairman of the committee, some problem with moving to the con think the question was raised by the and others who have interest. It might sideration of S. 995. There will be a distinguished Senator from Ohio be better to wait until that State has meeting at 1 o'clock with some of the before the recess-that it is an item taken action to bring more pressure to principals involved. Hopefully, we can that we should bring up. But I was ad bear on Congress to act. resolve that or at least agree on what vised that it is still in committee. So I I will be happy to discuss that with procedure will be followed following know it is a matter of some interest to the distinguished chairman later. that meeting. a number of Senators. But I think if I also indicate to my colleagues that we do all of this in July, we will be in Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I pretty good shape for the recess. I will be very pleased to cooperate with we have had some good recess time. the majority leader if he feels that is Another recess starts for the period of know it is the hope of the distin the best procedure. August, which means that July will be guished chairman of the Agriculture a very busy month. I caution my col Committee who happens to be leagues and alert my colleagues that present, and I see other members of RELEASE OF REMAINS OF POWI we can expect rollcall votes through the Agriculture Committee-it is MIA'S out the weeks, including Fridays and almost a necessity that we pass the Mondays, with today's exception-! farm legislation, at least for most of us Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, on July 4 would guess from now until the recess from the Midwest where it will be in Wichita, I was privileged to present begins. planting time for wheat in September. congressional medals to the families of There are a number of important And having been in Kansas for a 17 Kansans who are among the many matters we hope to deal with this number of days, I can indicate that hundreds of POW-MIA's still unac month. Let me indicate what I hope without exception there is a great deal counted for from the Vietnam war. we can dispose of. As I have indicated, of interest in what we are doing with The men we honored in Wichita are: the South Africa bill, the McClure gun the farm legislation. There is some Lt. Denis Anderson, 1st Lt. Michael legislation, and there may be five ap feeling of urgency because of that Breeding, Col. Robert E. Bush, Maj. propriations bills: Legislative appro planting time. It is sort of nice to Richard A. Claslin, Capt. Michael priations; Commerce Department; know what the program is before you Donovan, Maj. Jack Farr, Capt. Pat Treasury Department; Interior De start spending money, particularly rick K. Harrold, Sgt. Jerry W. Hen partment; and HUD; hopefully, a sup where farmers, in most cases, do not drix, Capt. Charles Hoskins, Jr., Lt. plemental appropriations conference have it to spend. Col. David Hrdlicka, Col. Carl F. report; line item veto; sports franchise If I have left out any items that Karst, Maj. Dean A. Klenda, Lt. John bill; and the farm bill which we hope Members would like to bring up-1 Carl Lindahl, Pfc. William D. McGone can be dealt with the week of the 21st know I will hear from those who do gle, Maj. Dennis Pugh, Sfc. Ronald of July. not want to bring up what I have men Schultz, and S. Sgt. Thomas W. Un We will double track, if necessary, to tioned. But if there are items that we derwood. complete the farm bill that week. We can dispose of in addition to these It was a moving ceremony, made will consider the immigration bill, if it items, or maybe in lieu of some other even more meaningful because it fell is ready for floor consideration, and if of these items if they should fall by on the day which, above all others, is we can work out some agreement, that the wayside, we will be pleased to hear set aside to celebrate and give thanks will not take the entire week. In fact, I from Members on the other side for our freedom. The men we honored hope none of these will take the entire within the next few days. gave up their own freedom, and per week. In addition to that, hopefully Mr. President, I reserve the balance haps their own lives, so that all of us the budget resolution will have been of my time. can enjoy the freedom we marked on resolved. We have a number of nomi Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, July 4. will the Senator yield? nations that we hope to dispose of by Mr. DOLE. I am happy to yield. And it was a ceremony made even agreement. If not, we hope to move on Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I more poignant because the very some of those nominations because want to commend the able majority people to whom we presented the there are a number of very important leader for his interest in this farm bill. medals-the families of the POW's nominations. It is my understanding I just want to say there is no segment and MIA's-are themselves not yet that the administration is quite con of our population that is more hard truly free. Though they live in a free cerned, and hopes that we can approve pressed, and having a more difficult America, they remain captive to op all of the nominations quickly. But as time now than the farmers. I also pressive forces over which they have you can see, July is not too heavy of a want to commend the able chairman little control and to feelings of uncer schedule. [Laughter.] I hope we can of the Agriculture Committee, Senator tainty and frustration which only they work out some other things in the in HELMS, from North Carolina, for his can understand. terim. That ought to be a piece of deep interest in this matter, and in For a few of them, the past several cake. trying to push this farm bill. days may offer grounds for new hope Mr. PROXMIRE. Will the leader I want to say further that we hope that the nightmare they are enduring yield on that point? to get out of the committee this week will be brought to an end. The Com Mr. DOLE. I am happy to yield. the constitutional amendment to bal munist authorities of Vietnam have Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, ance the budget. If the majority leader announced their intention to release may I say to my good friend that he can arrange to get that scheduled the remains of 26 Americans believed has listed a very heavy schedule for maybe for next week, it would be to be among the POW's and MIA's. July. But I hope that the leader will ready by then. For the families of some few, the long consider, and as I understand it there Mr. DOLE. If I can indicate to the waiting and the corrosive uncertainty was some consideration of taking up distinguished Senator from South may soon be over. the Genocide Convention. As you Carolina., we plan to put that on the The Vietnamese have also called for know, we have a resolution in which schedule in July. It is my understand new "high level" talks to speed the the Senate overwhelmingly agreed to ing that there may be positive action resolution of this issue and suggested take it up early in the 99th Congress. in Michigan in early September. That that the U.S. technical experts who I know that there are difficulties in would be the 33d State to petition the now travel periodically to Hanoi be volved in that. But I hope that the dis- Congress for a balanced budget based permanently there. We ought to 17998 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE July 8, 1985 look at these proposals seriously but brate with us. There are those seven Ameri of the minority leader be reserved for without illusion. cans kidnapped off the streets of Beirut and his use later in the day. In fact, we have already had high held captive for so many months. Until they The PRESIDING OFFICER. With come home, the crisis we have faced these level talks with the Vietnamese on this past few days will not be over. There is a out objection, it is so ordered. issue, during which both sides had the family in suburban Maryland mourning the opportunity to clarify their positions. loss of their son, who was brutally murdered RECOGNITION OF SENATOR Our position, certainly, is clear, and it by the deranged hijackers of TWA 847. is correct: The resolution of the POWI Until Robert Stethem's murderers are PROXMIRE MIA issue is of the highest national brought to justice, our national responsibil The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under priority. It needs to be resolved now. It ity to deal with the crisis shall not be ful the previous order, the Senator from needs to be resolved without precondi filled. Wisconsin [Mr. PRoxMIRE] is recog tion-it is not, and should not be, And, of course, there is one other group nized for not to exceed 15 minutes. for whom this day is one not of joy but of linked to any other geopolitical issue. sadness and frustration-the families and If the Vietnamese proposal means friends of the 2,400 American servicemen FATHER BILL McDONNELL they accept those principles, then we still unaccounted for from the Vietnam war. should be prepared to talk. We are here today, above all, to honor them Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, Similarly, the stationing of technical and to let them know that we are one with first I want to pay my respects to the experts in Hanoi makes sense only if them, in their cause and in their goals. distinguished Rev. Bill McDonnell. there is productive work to do there. None of us can truly understand their per Reverend McDonnell gave what I That will depend on the attitude of sonal anguish because, truthfully, none of thought was one of the finest, most el the Vietnamese authorities. If they us has ever endured anything like it. But we oquent, moving prayers that I have cannot fail to see and be touched by their are really willing to cooperate, the ex loyalty, their tenacity and their courage. heard in a long, long time. It was most perts will have plenty to do and could Their example shows us the way to our own appropriate that Father McDonnell probably usefully be stationed in responsibilities, as a nation and as a people. should lead our first session in prayer Hanoi. If the Vietnamese will not co Most of all, we must never forget. We since we have returned. He and the operate better than in the past, it is must never forget that these are not num other hostages deserve our gratitude hard to see what value there would be bers or memories we are talking about, they for the courageous way they handled in having our personnel permanently are real people, real Americans. Their fate is an extraordinarily difficult situation. there. important to us. That must never change. Of course, we are all delighted to see Many, many Americans-in Kansas Most missing Americans fought in the them back. and around the country-are waiting, deep conviction that they were helping to as they have for more than a decade, preserve liberty for their families and for their countrymen. They fought with a deep THE TIME FOR AN END TO THE to see if Hanoi is serious, to see if the determinP.tion to do their duty to their Vietnamese Communists will live up to country. And they fought with a valor that ARMS RACE: NOW minimum standards of humane behav reflects the highest ideals of our history. Mr. PROXMIRE.·Mr. President, the ior, to see if they will do what is right. They sacrificed everything they held dear time for a comprehensive agreement Ten years after the Vietnam war for those ideals and for us. We owe them to stop the nuclear arms race has ended, some 2,400 Americans in Viet something in return. Whatever our other come, and the time is now. Why now? nam, Laos, and Cambodia remain un national problems and priorities, we owe them a special concern for and commitment For years, military hawks have argued accounted for. The Communist au to their families. that the United States lags behind the thorities in those countries, alone, We owe them a firm determination to per U.S.S.R. They say we must catch up. have the means to end the anguish of sist in our efforts to get a full accounting Then we can argue from strength. the families of these Americans. The for them from the Communist authorities Now, how about it? Have we caught up Communist authorities in those coun of Southeast Asia. There can be no higher to the U.S.S.R. in strategic military tries, alone, bear the responsibility, priority in our dealings with those coun strength? Are we ahead? Mr. Presi and the shame, for allowing this inhu tries. We can talk all we want about nation dent, the evidence tells a compelling mane punishment to go on. al interests, but none is more important than caring for and about our own citizens. and convincing story. Consider which We want all of our men accounted Finally, we owe them a place of honor, in of the two superpowers increased over for. We want that accounting without our hearts and in our history. They are all military spending the most over precondition, as a matter of right and American heroes, as surely and clearly as the past 8 years. The CIA tells us that humanity. And we want it now. any we celebrate in our history. the Soviets slowed down their rate of Mr. President, I ask unanimous con So, on this the 209th anniversary of our increase in military spending in real sent that the text of my remarks at Nation's independence, it is fitting that we terms between 1976 and 1981 to a bare the POW/MIA ceremony in Wichita honor these heroes in a special way. Con 2 percent with virtually no increase in on July 4 be made a part of the gress has approved the minting of a special procurement. Let me repeat that: no RECORD. commemorative medal to honor them, a medal which, in their absence, will be pre increase in procurement. Meanwhile, There being no objection, the re sented to their families, the other real we are increasing at a much more marks were ordered bo be printed in heroes of this tragedy. rapid rate even during the period the REcoRD, as follows: This evening, I am deeply privileged to when many were criticizing the Carter REMARKS BY SENATOR BOB DoLE HONORING present some of these medals, to honor our administration for not putting enough OUR POW-MIA'S ON THE FOURTH OF JULY own 17 Kansans still listed as missing and into military spending. Since. 1981 the For many Americans, this is a very special unaccounted for. best evidence shows little change in Fourth of July. For me and for all of us, this ceremony this slow increase rate for Soviet mili None among us, probably, will be celebrat signals not an end but a renewal-a renewal ing freedom with more joy and enthusiasm of our commitment to this vital cause, and a tary spending. This is especially sur than the just released TWA hostages and renewal of our search for the answers that prising for one big reason. Since 1979 their families. For them, I venture to say, we demand and that these families deserve. the Soviets have been engaged in what this day of liberty has a new and very con the Supreme Commander of NATO crete meaning. Gen. Bernard Rogers calls their Viet Kansans have a special reason to celebrate RECOGNITION OF THE ACTING nam, a major military expedition into this happy event. Four of our own-the Peel MINORITY LEADER Afghanistan. That Afghanistan exer family from Hutchinson-are reunited again and back in our midst. It's nice to have The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under cise has cost the Soviets a significant them home. the previous order, the acting Demo part of their military expenditure. But, on this occasion, I know their joy, cratic leader is recognized. Taking that into consideration, it and ours, is tempered by the knowledge that Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, I seeiDS likely that the Soviets have there are others who are not able to cele- ask unanimous consent that the time been putting less-not more-into the July 8, 1985 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 17999 rest of their military operations. military. That may be so. If it is, why uted to their own plight, the survivors Indeed, when we stopped our activities is not 1985 the ideal time to stop the often refuse to speak about their suf in Vietnam, military- spending went nuclear arms race? Stop it now. If fering. down, and went down sharply because there is any advantage for either su Yael Danieli, director of the Group so much of what we were spending was perpower, the advantage lies clearly Project for Holocaust Survivors and going into the Vietnam expedition. with the United States. We have more Their Children in New York City, tries The same thing is true on the basis of nuclear weapons. We can deliver more to break the survivors' silence. Danieli the testimony by Bernard Rogers of those weapons on the Soviet Union and a team of volunteer psychothera about the Soviets with respect to Af than they can deliver on us. Far more pists work with survivors and their ghanistan. of our weapons are based on subma children to get the survivors to discuss How about U.S. military spending? rines that move quietly and invisibly their painful experiences. Vietnam is now more than 10 years under the oceans and in bombers that Scarred by the memory that the behind us. Although we have been move near the speed of sound in the Nazis often gassed the mentally ill, fighting no significant war anywhere, air while most of theirs lie in land many Holocaust victims fear any kind we have been increasing our military based stationary, therefore vulnerable, of psychoanalysis. Danieli's organiza spending probably at a rate three to missiles. Our nuclear arsenal is far less tion understands this fear and treats four times higher than the U.S.S.R. at vulnerable. A freeze now would save the survivors in groups to create a least since 1979. Spending for nuclear literally hundreds of billions of dollars sense of community that the survivors weapons has grown fastest, nearly tri of totally wasted military spending often lack. pling since 1980. We have revived the over the next few years. It would also Danieli encourages the survivors to B-1 bomber and spent heavily on com greatly enhance our security by sharp reminisce about family members who mand and control systems. ly reducing the prospect of a Soviet were killed by the Nazis. This belated According to the Secretary of De breakout. and emotional mourning of the dead fense we are ahead of the Soviet Union in deployed military technology relieves the survivors' suffering and MYTH OF THE DAY: THAT THE helps their children better understand in 17 areas. We are even with the their parents' ordeal. Soviet Union in eight, and we are NICARAGUAN CONTRAS ARE behind in only five. Furthermore, in FREEDOM FIGHTERS Danieli also states that suppressed technological research, which, of Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, this rage lies beneath the survivors' si course, indicates the kind of forces we is the ninth in my series of a myth a lence. During the Holocaust, Danieli are likely to have in the future-we day. Today's myth is that the Contras says, "an angry Jew was a dead Jew" are ahead in 15 of the 20 areas of the fighting to overthrow the Nicaraguan and "(Jews> were too famished to let Soviet Union, three-quarters, and Government are freedom fighters. The themselves experience rage or even ex behind in none. The Soviet Union does President has frequently made this as citement." Unleashing this pent-up have 6,000 nuclear weapons deployed sertion. He has compared them to the rage is the most difficult problem the on ICBM's to our 2,000. But the American revolutionaries who revolted sm'Vivors face. United States has 5, 700 nuclear war against George III, the King of Eng Mr. President, it is time to break the. heads in submarines, compared to less land to establish our great constitu silence of this Nation concerning the than 2,000 for the Soviet Union. We tion and a system of freedom. This is atrocity of genocide. It is time to let have a smashing advantage of 10 to nonsense. The Nicaraguan Govern the world know how we as a nation 1-10 to 1, Mr. President, 3,554 nuclear ment under the dictatorship of Daniel feel about the despicable act of geno warheads on strategic bombers to Ortega is certainly a leftwing Commu cide. It is time to reveal the rage we their 340. Overall we have 13,000 nu nist dictatorship. But how about the feel about the Holocaust and to act to clear weapons we can deliver on the prevent genocide. It is time, Mr. Presi Contras? dent, to ratify the Genocide Conven Soviet homeland to 9,000 they can de As Congressman ANDY JACOBS has so liver on the United States. A week ago cleverly pointed out in a classic letter tion. the U.S. Senate decided to stop the in to the New York Times, 43 of the 45 Mr. President, I might add that I crease in military spending in the 1986 Contra military commanders are was shocked to hear this morning that budget with the prospect of a 3-per former national guardsmen under Nic the Genocide Convention is not on the cent real increase in both 1987 and araguan rightwing dictator Somoza. calendar. It was widely reported in the 1988. Who says these Contras are freedom press to have been sent to the Senate Actually, we have forward funded fighters? President Reagan that is by the Foreign Relations Committee the Defense Department so extrava who. He sent over to central casting in a form which many of us who fa gantly that even if they receive no in for some sheep's clothing. He wrapped vored the Genocide Convention crease in the future they could contin that sheep's clothing around these thought was faulty. But it was sent to ue to expand for years to come. For in rightwing wolves. The Sandinistas are the Senate, according to the informa stance, a $30 billion increase in de leftwing wolves in wolve's clothing. tion we have. Apparently we were fense spending would mean a more The Contras are rightwing wolves in wrong. than 10-percent increase. Congress al sheep's clothing. Neither of them I earnestly hope we can have that ready poured so much money into the holds hands with Thomas Jefferson. resolution before us. As I told the ma Defense Department in recent years The best thing we can do is stay out jority leader, the fact is this Senate that they have not $30 billion but over of Nicaragua, and recognize the free voted by 87 to 2 to support the princi $240 billion in unexpended balances. dom fighters moniker hung on the ples of the Genocide Convention and That is money they have not spent. Contras by the President for what it it called on the 99th Congress to act It is just sitting there for them to is: a myth. early in the session of the 99th Con spend. Let me repeat that. The De gress. fense Department now has more than Of course, we have already had half $240 billion in unexpended balances. THE SILENT SUFFERING OF of this year go by. But I do hope we They can expend this money in the HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS can take it up. It is very discouraging pipeline without a nickel more of con Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, an that this is not on the calendar, even gressional approval. article in the April 5 American Psychi though the Foreign Relations Com Nevertheless, many observers view atric News describes the silent suffer mittee has acted on it. the Senate budget resolution and the ing of Holocaust survivors. Of course, it is also discouraging even tougher House budget resolution Confronted with society's indiffer that it apparently will not be taken up as the end of easy money for the U.S. ence and the myth that they contrib- in the July session. It was my under- 18000 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE July 8, 1985 standing that the leadership had in ring, but my face was in such sorry condi Chuck?" she asked. I said to her, "What on tended to do that. tion that they didn't dare. At the hospital, earth are you talking about?" She said, Mr. President, I yield the floor. they bro,ught in local firemen with bolt cut "He's been hurt. General LeMay was noti ters to try to cut that ring off my neck. It fied at the Pentagon and his office just just wouldn't do the job. Finally, I said, called me." I yelled, "I'll call you back," and ROUTINE MORNING BUSINESS "Look in the right pocket of my pressure hung up on her just as she was shouting for suit and get that survival saw out of there." me not to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under It was a little ring saw that I always carried At the hospital Doctor Bear met me and the previous order, there will now be a with me, even on backpacks, and they said, "Basically he's pretty good considering period for the transaction of routine zapped through that ring in less than a he has first-, second-, and third-degree business, not to extend beyond the minute. burns." I asked to see Chuck and he hesitat hour of 1 p.m., with statements there I began dozing off from the morphine, ed. "He looks pretty bad." Heck I had seen in limited to 5 minutes each. only half-aware that Glennis was there, but plenty, but when I walked inside and saw Doc Stan Bear, the flight surgeon, kept them trying to saw through his neck ring, I shaking me awake. He was probing into the had to steel myself. It was horrifying. And I DEATH OF BRIG. GEN. STANLEY blood caked over my left eye, where there saw that he saw me. I said, "How do you BEAR was a deep gash. The blood was glazed like expect to be asked to dance, looking like glass from the heat of the fire, and Doc that?" I got a smile, but I didn't know what Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, the kept poking through it asking me if I could to say. Every human being has some vanity. Senate will be greatly saddened to see anything. I said, no. I heard him mutter, I remember Chuck getting upset as he start learn of the death of Brig. Gen. Stan "Christ, I guess he lost it." But suddenly I ed losing hair up front. I was worried about ley Bear, who led a long and distin saw a ray of light through a small hole. I getting gray so young. But I though there guished career as a flight surgeon in told Doc and he smiled. "That dried blood was no way to keep him from being horribly the U.S. Air Force. saved your sight, buddy," he said. Then he disfigured, and I though, how unfair, how This is an especially sorrowful time let me pass out. much he didn't deserve it. I was just sick. They had me on an IV, and I was so Jackie wanted to send her personal physi for me and my immediate associates. groggy the next day that when General Mrs. Vicki Bear-Dodson, my personal cian, Dr. Randy Lovelace, who was also a Branch came by and I tried to tell him what friend of ours. To her, Randy was Jesus assistant, is General Bear's daughter. happened, I fell asleep in the middle of a Christ. I asked Chuck what he wanted to do General Bear had a great love for life, sentence. Glennis, Andy, Bob Hoover, and and he said, "I'll stick with Doc Bear. He for his family, and for the Nation he test pilot Tony LeVier came to visit, but I knows what he's doing." How true, although served so loyally. His uncommon was hardly aware. They were keeping me on there were moments when I wanted to caring and great skill were known to pain killers. punch him for how he was forced to hurt many in the Armed Forces, and to So, it was several days before I realized Chuck while peeling the scabs off his face. none better than Gen. Chuck Yeager, how bad things really were. My face was But he worked a wonder, and we owe him swollen to the size of a pumpkin, badly deep gratitude. whom he treated for injuries suffered charred from being blowtorched. 01' Stan in a terrible plane crash on the Mojave Bear came in and sat down. He said, "Well, Desert. General Yeager recently pub Chuck, I've got good and bad news. The JOINT UNITED STATES/PEOPLE'S lished an autobiography in which he good news is that your lungs have not been REPUBLIC OF CHINA SCIENTIF and his wife pay tribute to General permanently damaged from inhaling flame and smoke, and your eye looks normal. The IC TEST IN MAGNETOHYDRO Bear's ability. I ask unanimous con DYNAMICS . July 8, 1985 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 18005 directly affect America's national secu continued to the present day. So has called Congress back on November 17, rity. Congressional leaders replied that the "Truman Doctrine," as the policy another case of the Democratic Presi they would support the administration came to be known. In recent years, dent taking the initiative with a Re if President Truman would make the largely in reaction to the Vietnam war, publican Congress-a theme which same dire predictions in public. As many scholars have shifted from sup would serve Harry Truman very well Senator Vandenberg is supposed to port of Vandenberg's position and in the 1948 election. have told the president: "If that's have seen new validity in Taft's con The key to success for the Marshall what you want, there's only one way cerns. These scholars have questioned Plan was Senator Vandenberg, chair to get it. That is to make a personal whether Truman went too far in creat man of the Foreign Relations Commit appearance before Congress and scare ing a "crisis atmosphere" and in defin tee and President pro tempore of the hell out of the country." 7 ing Europe's problems solely in terms Senate. Truman needed all of the On March 12, President Truman ap of Communist subversion. The Presi Michigan Senator's skill and prestige peared before a joint session of Con dent, as Senator Walter George ob to build a bipartisan coalition behind gress, and delivered the speech con served, "put this Nation squarely on the massive aid package. By now, Van gressional leaders wanted over a na the line against certain ideologies." denberg had convinced himself, after tionwide radio broadcast. His appeal But as Robert Donovan has noted in his history of the Truman administra wrestling with his conscience, that the was for funds to save Greece and Marshall Plan needed to be enacted. Turkey, but his message was broader: tion, "By dramatically drawing a dis tinction between ideologies, as Senator "If self-help and self-sufficiency can "I believe that it must be the policy of be made to work," he said, the Mar the United States to support free George said, the Truman Doctrine lent a rigidity to foreign policy that shall Plan "may well be a bargain." people who are resisting attempted From January 8 through February 5, subjugation by armed minorities or by for a generation inhibited a turn from the cold war." 11 the Foreign Relations Committee held outside pressures," said Truman. "I be hearings in the Senate Caucus Room, lieve that our help should be primarily Having taken on the responsibility of preserving the Governments of with Vandenberg presiding and calling through economic and financial aid more than 90 witnesses. Everyone which is essential to economic stability Greece and Turkey, the United States 8 then moved to shore up all of Western from Cabinet members to church and orderly political processes." groups and women's clubs testified in Truman then asked for a relatively Europe. The European situation in 1947 was grave indeed. In the after favor or against the plan. Vandenberg modest aid package of $400 million in received them all so courteously that military support. Within 2 months, math of the war, Europeans suffered shortages of food, fuel, and raw mate it was said he "killed the opposition to Congress had enacted the bill and the the Marshall Plan with kindness." United States had entered a dramatic rials, and lacked the funds to rebuild new phase of foreign policy. their industries and transportation Meanwhile, some 20 Republican iso Many had doubts about the direc systems. Economic unrest seemed to lationist Senators were meeting regu tion in which we were headed. In re foster the growth of Communist par larly at a Washington hotel to plot sponse to a worried letter from one of ties in France, Italy, and other West strategy in opposition to the plan. his constituents, Senator Vandenberg ern European nations. A European de Vandenberg worked to split this group responded: pression also threatened the economic by incorporating some of their more reasonable objections into his commit You ask me whether there is any "prece prosperity of the United States. So, on dent" for the action we are taking in Greece June 5, 1947, Secretary of State Mar tee's version of the bill. The Truman and Turkey . . . . I am afraid we cannot shall delivered his famous commence administration had proposed a 4-year, rely upon "precedents" in facing the utterly ment address at Harvard, launching $17 billion aid program, which boggled unprecedented condition in the world today. what came to be known as the "Mar many senatorial minds. Vandenberg Certainly there is no "precedent" for shall Plan." Marshall proposed a mas weakened much of the opposition by today's world-wide clevage between Democ sive aid program to Europe in general, proposing a 1-year, renewable plan of racy and Communism .... I do not know not any specific nation. Indeed, a key between $5 and $6 billion. Vandenberg whether our new American policy can suc also proposed the strengthening of ceed in arresting these subversive trends provision of his plan was for European 51-059 0 -86-24 (Pt. 13) 18010 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE July 8, 1985 Council on Foreign Relations and the ecutive council of Daytop Village, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec Center for Strategic and International trusteeship of the National Gallery of tion is heard. Studies and was the president of the Art and the Carnegie Foundation for Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I move International Rescue Committee, a the Advancement of Teaching, and di that the Senate now turn to the con humanitarian group concerned with rectorship of the American Women's sideration of Calendar No. 216, S. 995. refugee affairs. He developed an inter Economic Development Corp. His wide The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is national advisory committee for Gold and varied philanthropic, cultural and there objection? man Sachs, of which he is chairman. civic experience demonstrates clearly Mr. HELMS addressed the Chair. Mr. Whitehead takes on his respon his leadership qualities, and will The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sibilities at the State Department at a enable him to add a unique perspec Senator from North Carolina. particularly sobering and troubling tive to the formulation of our foreign Mr. HELMS. I suggest the absence time. He will face squarely the chal policy. of a quorum. lenge posed by the current Islamic Mr. Whitehead's experience in inter fundamentalist affront to world order. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The national economics and business will clerk will call the roll. A central dilemma in the conduct of be invaluable as this country contin our foreign relations is the balance be ues to confront the foreign policy and The bill clerk proceeded to call the tween our desire to move toward a economic issues raised by our burgeon roll. more civilized world and a recognition ing trade deficit and the international Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I ask that the world is not yet civil. In the debt crisis. In addition, his presidency unanimous consent that the order for face of brutality and seemingly sense of the International Rescue Commit the quorum call be rescinded. less violence, how do we as a nation tee, and his membership on the Coun The PRESIDING OFFICER Cipriano, Anthony J., xxx-xx-xxxx Peterson, Orlan xxx-xx-xxxx L., Jr., Durant, Joe I., xxx-xx-xxxx Collorafi, Joseph, xxx-xx-xxxx Porter, James F. , xxx-xx-xxxx Egger, Rose L., xxx-xx-xxxx Couch, Gary O., xxx-xx-xxxx Potthoff, Donald J., xxx-xx-xxxx Garner, Royal S., xxx-xx-xxxx Croarkin. Eugene J., Jr„ xxx-xx-xxxx Prillaman, Richard W., xxx-xx-xxxx Hodgman, Richard E., xxx-xx-xxxx Croy, Michael S., xxx-xx-xxxx Pudlowski, Walter F., Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx Kellett, Boyd A., xxx-xx-xxxx Dance, Ronald L., xxx-xx-xxxx Rataczak, David P., xxx-xx-xxxx Kilpatrick, Troy E., Datema, Sally S., xxx-xx-xxxx Reid, Charles H., xxx-xx-x... xxx-x... Leo Dawson, Eric E., xxx-xx-xx... Ryan, James F., xxx-xx-xxxx nard, Garnett J., xxx-x... 2 Denniston, Perry F., xxx-xx-xxxx Sanders, Jerry D., xxx-xx-xxxx Montz, Sidney J., Jr., xxx-x... 0 Devoe, Richard W., xxx-xx-xxxx Schmittendorf, James R., xxx-xx-xxxx Moseley, Robert F. , xxx-x... Dickerson, Gerald A., xxx-xx-xxxx Siders, Walter R., xxx-xx-xx... Ralph, James W ., xxx-xx-xxxx Doll, Charles A., xxx-xx-xxxx Sikes, John R., xxx-xx-xxxx Schlosstein, Lee H., xxx-xx-xxxx 7 Doll, William J., xxx-xx-xxxx Silva, Manuel F., xxx-xx-xxxx MEDICAL SERVICE CORPS Dunn, James T., xxx-xx-xxxx Simmerman, Ralph W., xxx-xx-xxxx 8 To Óe Eagar, Edward R., Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx Sisneros, Gene, xxx-xx-xxxx lieutenant cotonet Eggleston, Jerry J., xxx-xx-xxxx Skentzos, Peter J., xxx-xx-xxxx Gidley, Jeffrey L., xxx-xx-xxxx Estrada, Francisco J., xxx-xx-xxxx Skillicorn, Ronald H., xxx-xx-xxxx Lewis, Thomas D., xxx-x... Flagg, Paluel J., IL xxx-xx-xxxx Small, Jonathan P., xxx-xx-xxxx Runyan, Daniel M ., xxx-xx-xxxx Fong, John C. xxx-xx-xxxx Smith, Michael A., xxx-xx-xxxx The following-named Army National Hageman, John W., xxx-xx-xxxx Smith, Stewart E., xxx-xx-xxxx Guard of the United States officers for ap- Hannan, John R., xxx-xx-xxxx Spence, Philip W., xxx-xx-xxxx pointment in the Reserve of the Army of Squier, Hao, John K., xxx-xx-xxxx Michael J., xxx-xx-xxxx the United States, under the provisions of Ta lu Harker, William L., xxx-xx-xxxx to, Joseph J., xxx-xx-xx... title 10, United States Code, sections 593 Harrell, Gorden A., xxx-xx-xxxx Taylor, Vernon T., xxx-xx-xxxx and 3353: Hinshaw, David C., xxx-xx-xxxx Terwilliger, Dirck G., xxx-xx-xxxx MEDICAL CORPS Hollenbeck, Douglas B., xxx-xx-xxxx Thompson, Stanley R., xxx-xx-xxxx Holmes, Forrest L., xxx-xx-xxxx Trinkl, Steven J., xxx-xx-xxxx To be colonel Hurwit, Ron Tripp, Robert E., xxx-xx-xxxx ald L., xxx-xx-xxxx Coddington, Robert C., xxx-xx-xxxx Irvin, William R., xxx-xx-xxxx Vaiculevich, Robert A., xxx-xx-xxxx MEDICAL CORPS James, Dwain A., xxx-xx-xxxx Vieira, John M., Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx Johnson. Dennis F., xxx-xx-xxxx Volmert, Richard L., xxx-xx-xxxx To be lieutenant coZonel Voyle Kelly, James J., xxx-xx-xxxx s, Robert S., xxx-xx-xx... Buttram, Thomas L., xxx-xx-xxxx Keute Watt, William J., r, Jerald L., xxx-xx-xxxx xxx-xx-xxxx Holston, Francis M., xxx-xx-xxxx Kirkpatrick, Thom Webb, Cleburne L., Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx as K., xxx-xx-xxxx Hoye, Robert C., xxx-xx-xxxx Kline, Jerry L., xxx-xx-xxxx Weiss, Lawrence L., xxx-xx-xxxx Hutchins, Robert G., xxx-xx-xxxx Kuncz, Gerald, xxx-xx-xx... Williams, John L., xxx-xx-xxxx Johnston, James P., xxx-xx-xxxx Kurtz, Warren, Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx Wojtasik, Joseph T., xxx-xx-xxxx Riggenbach, Roger D., xxx-xx-xxxx Kyburz, Gene T., xxx-xx-xxxx Wood, Morris W., xxx-xx-xxxx Lapidow, Stanley L. xxx-xx-xxxx Wyro, Peter L., xxx-xx-xxxx Youn Leo, Louis V., xxx-xx-xxxx g, Te rry H., xxx-xx-xxxx CONF'IRMATIONS Lewis, Chester, xxx-xx-xxxx CHAPLAIN Libby, John W., xxx-xx-xxxx Executive nominations confirm To be lieutenant colonel ed by Ligon, Robert S., Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx the Senate July 8, 1985: Cumbe Liska, Michael R., Jr., rland, Thomas L., xxx-xx-xxxx xxx-xx-xxxx Doyle, Vincent J., DEPARTMENT OF STATE Logreco, John J., Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx xxx-xx-xxxx Malmstrom, Willard John C. Whitehead, Luce, William H., xxx-xx-xxxx R., xxx-xx-xxxx of New Jersey, to be Deputy Secretary of State. Luthy, Garold W., xxx-xx-xxxx ARMY NURSE CORPS Lyons, Anthony D., xxx-xx-xxxx To be lieutenant colonel NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Lyons, Sheldon R., xxx-xx-xxxx Harris, Sheila L., xxx-x... Thomas Morgan Roberts, of Te nnessee, to Maloz, Wilson L., Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx McManus, John G., xxx-xx-xxxx be a member of the Nuclear Regzllatory Martinez-Rodriquez, Wilfredo, xxx-xx-xxxx Worrell, Susan A., xxx-x... Commission for the term of 5 years expiring Marvin, Charles T., xxx-xx-xxxx June 30, 1990. Miller, Jimmy MEDICAL CORPS A., xxx-xx-xxxx The above nomin Moor ations were approved e, Neil J., xxx-xx-xxxx - To be lieutenant cdonel subject to the nominees' commitment to re- Nelson, Ronald A., xxx-xx-xxxx Axenrod, Howard, xxx-xx-xxxx spond to requests to appear and testify Olsommer, Ronald F. , xxx-xx-xxxx Deal, Virgil T. , xxx-x... before any duly constituted committee of Otto, David A., xxx-xx-xxxx Douglas, Dale E., xxx-x... the Senate.
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