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THE END OF THE FEAST Others of my fellow Americans are also We were more confident than ever, more getting rich, yet I remain pessimistic about economically 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.
39-059 0-91-42 (Pt. 3) 4382 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 14, 1990 system of state-guided communal capital seemed very concerned about the quantum WE NEED TO CLEAN OUR AIR ism. Japan had pulled ahead of us in the difference between free trade as defined by shipbuilding and steel industries by the late most Western nations and free trade as de '60s. During the '70s, American consumers fined by the Japanese. "If our guys can't HON. MICHAEL A. ANDREWS increasingly bought the high-quality cam hack it," Prestowitz quotes a high-level OF TEXAS eras, cars, and television sets that Japan was Reagan adviser as saying, meaning the in sending over. All those warning signals were ability of the American chip manufacturers IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES going off, but few paid attention to them. to compete, "we ought to let them go." Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Now in the '90s, we remain politically and and about being Americans. Mil elections have come and gone, and none of lions did; they felt better about him and this has really been an issue. It is as if the Such health problems are very expensive. A their country, and he left office more popu idea that the easy times are over is so alien recent study from the American Lung Associa lar than when he arrived in it, and the trade and threatening that to raise it in an elec tion says that auto pollution is responsible for deficit grew, and the national debt grew. tion is to seem anti-American and to guaran between $40 and $50 billion in annual health IGNORING THE WARNING SIGNS tee a loss of votes. Our last election, at a care costs. In the most basic way, our political system time when economic issues should have Beyond the health risks, such pollution also failed to keep up with the changed circum been at the forefront of our national debate, threatens Houston's ability to attract new in stances of our economic realities. That was a farce; that which should have been a dustry. Companies looking to relocate will which we should have been reevaluating un major issue-the crisis in our economy-was think twice about moving to an area which has derwent no scrutiny. We lived by televised barely mentioned. During the prolonged brown air 6 months out of the year. platitudes. There was no attempt to meas 1988 primary battles and general election, it Solving this problem means looking at the ure ourselves against our competitors to struck me that the election would have been define our strengths and vulnerabilities. It better focused if one of the endless debates source. Studies show that more than 50 per is true that a great many people who call had been held in Tokyo or Seoul. cent of our urban smog comes from vehicle themselves conservative in America ap Regrettably we are now part of a world emissions-from our cars, buses, and trucks. plauded Reagan's election, and in many economy where our competitors bring a Since we are not about to stop driving-in cases benefited significantly from changed long-range view of what success and failure fact, our driving miles are expected to double tax laws, and indeed would quite gratefully represent. The ascent of the new Confucian in the 1990's-we need to reduce the pollu have voted for him again. Reagan seemed to have little sense of the nations of Asia, Japan, and the little Japans tion our cars are producing. historic forces that were at work and that is the most obvious reflection of the new One way is to tighten Federal emission had catapulted him into the presidency. He international economy; but Western Europe standards for cars already on the road. To a cut sharply federal aid to our best science too is preparing for greater economic unity large extent, we've already done that. In addi graduate students. He had little interest in and anticipating genuine growth created by tion, our refining industry is working to develop pinpointing those forces that were under genuine energy. My instincts tell me that if cleaner burning gasoline called reformulated mining the strength of the American econo the changes in the Soviet Union continue, gasoline. and if there is the continuation of increased my or in recognizing new challenges. In But to really make a dent in our air pollution Clyde Prestowitz's book Trading Places, political freedom with attendant economic there is a particularly chilling story of the freedom, then the prime beneficiary will be problem, we must take an even bigger step. Reagan years. in fall 1985, some of the the West Germans, and West Germany That means using the technology we have senior people in the Commerce Department might become the Japan of the next decade. today to run our vehicles on significantly were trying to get the president to aid the If the Russians retreat politically and eco cleaner alternative fuels. American semiconductor industry, then nomically and the vacuum they leave We're not talking about bizarre-looking hearing the brunt of a fierce, and to some behind is filled, I suspect that it will be the autos from some low-budget science fiction unfair, Japanese trade assault. That is, the West Germans who will fill it. They have movie. Technology for alternative fuels has American manufacturers were competing been quietly, carefully, dutifully seeding the jumped far ahead in the past decade. Today, with Japanese manufacturers whose domes terrain for some 30 years, and they still tic market was protected from us, but they alternative fuel vehicles are indistinguishable have a primacy of making things in their from their gas-powered counterparts and may were treating the U.S. market as a free companies, not marketing through televi require even less maintenance. I believe our trade zone. This gave the Japanese a pro sion. tected base where they could lower costs. energy future will have a more complicated in To many in the Commerce Department, We by contrast will watch something happen that we always wanted to take frastructure. Vehicles powered by different the situation was symbolic of that aspect of fuels will share the same roadway. Natural Japanese trade policy that is so unfair, and place: the growing political and economic in it was taking place against one of the best, tegration of Europe and the concurrent de gas, electricity, ethanol and other sources will most modern, and least inflated of Ameri cline of Soviet political influence. And we play a role. can industries, one critical to American na may end up bit players instead of true par In fact, the only significant distinction be tional security. Neither anyone in the presi ticipants. tween the alternative and conventional fueled dent's inner circle nor the president himself vehicles is that alternative fuel cars don't pol- March 14, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4383 lute as much as their gas-powered predeces system in the country. Converting much of this which are already under consideration in the sors. fleet to clean-burning fuels would greatly House of Representatives, that will offer a For example, the Department of Energy reduce our air pollution problems. comprehensive solution to the many problems says natural gas vehicles produce 50 percent To be honest, I'm tired of driving along my rural health care providers are facing. I want less carbon monoxide and similar nitrous city's freeways and seeing the thick brown to impress upon my colleagues that this legis oxides emission than gasoline. haze that is damaging our health and the lation is not an idealistic, or whimsical attempt And last June, the Library of Congress re health of our economy. It is especially frustrat to solve this serious problem. It is a carefully leased a study showing that natural gas re ing to know that we have the technology to thought out and realistic piece of legislation duced carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent make ourselves energy independent, create that is targeted to resolve specific problems over gasoline. The EPA even estimates that thousands of new jobs, and give us the clean that have contributed to the rural health care running a vehicle on natural gas reduces air we desperately need. crisis. ozone-causing emissions by 50 to 80 percent. After all, the air we are breathing is the only Mr. Speaker, and my colleagues, rural hos Think what those reductions would mean to air we've got. pitals and health care providers are more than the air quality in Harris County and other just health centers-they are an important metro areas around the country. INTRODUCTION OF HOUSE thread in the fabric of rural society. America's But the benefits don't stop there. We would rural hospitals and the dedicated workers in greatly enhance U.S. energy security through RURAL HEALTH CARE IM PROVEMENTS ACT the health care profession are facing an eco the use of domestic alternative fuels. My nomic crisis-one that threatens not only their home State of Texas is a major producer of existence, but also the existence of the com natural gas. Texas' reserves-along with HON. LARRY E. CRAIG munities they serve. I hope you will all join those in the rest of the country-comprise a OF IDAHO Congressman WYDEN and myself in support significant domestic supply of this abundant IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing the Rural Health Care Improvements Act. fuel. Tightening emission standards to the levels attainable by natural gas would give our Wednesday, March 14, 1990 State's economy a much-needed boost. In Mr. CRAIG. Mr. Speaker, rural health care is TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL HICKS fact, some estimates say increased demand facing a financial crisis. and production of natural gas could easily In Idaho, three hospitals have already been HON. TOM DeLA Y bring between 10,000 to 20,000 jobs within a forced out of business, and others are strug OF TEXAS few years. gling to survive due to inequitable reimburse Not only that, but nearly half of the oil ment rates from Medicare. That number may IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES burned in this country comes from overseas. not sound so terrible until you consider how Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Increased use of a domestic fuel like natural many lives are affected by those hospitals, Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to join gas will certainly break this dependence on and the great distances that must be traveled with Mr. Michael Hicks' colleagues in con foreign oil producers and go a long way to as to obtain health care without them. Many of gratulating him on his 20th anniversary at suring U.S. energy independence and security. these small hospitals are located in remote Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston. As these points illusrate, we definitely need areas, hundreds of miles from other health More than ever, Americans are turning to a plan that emphasizes alternative fuels while care facilities. our educational system to enhance our do taking steps to clean up our air. The best op Because of inequitable reimbursement rates mestic prosperity and our international com portunity to do so is the Clean Air bill now to rural areas, there are shortages in physi petitiveness. If we are to succeed in this task, before Congress. cians and other health care providers. The we will require many individuals with the same While the Clean Air proposal the President health care professionals working in rural selfless sense of dedication which Mr. Hicks presented is essentially good legislation, it areas now work long, hard hours in order to has demonstrated to his students for the past needs a stronger commitment to alternative make up for staff shortages. These people are 20 years. fuels like natural gas. More importantly, it dedicated to their work and the rural commu . Mr. Hicks' program has graduated many needs to resist the attempts of some who nities they serve, but relief is desperately students that have gone on to such fields as: want to drop auto emission standards so low needed. If rural hospitals are going to be able education, foreign services, law, medicine, that air quality in areas like Harris County to continue to compete in the same labor pool policy research, engineering, business, and would continue to grow worse. as their urban counterparts, for the limited others. Their success in such diverse fields is As we in Congress work on this bill, we number of health care providers, then we certainly related to the fundamental skills of should not lose sight of what we are trying to must even out the inequities in this system public speaking, logic, analysis, and organiza achieve-cleaner air for America, in both the that favors urban areas. tion which he has taught them. Through his short and long term. Mr. Speaker, Idaho is not alone; these prob coaching and the fire of competition, they With that in mind, there is another essential lems have had an impact on other States as have emerged as the leaders of tomorrow. piece of the Clean Air puzzle that needs to be well. Rural hospitals across the United States Once again, I would like to offer my con addressed. Economic incentives are impera are struggling to survive. Many of these hospi gratulations to Mr. Michael Hicks and best tive to getting a widespread alternative fuels tals and their communities are facing the pros wishes for his continued success in the years program off the ground. pect of closure, holding on to the hope that to come. As a member of the House Ways and Congress or the administration will hear their Means Committee, which is in charge of all voices and somehow correct the Health Care revenue proposals, I have introduced a bill Financing Administration's Medicare inequi INTRODUCTION OF THE RURAL providing tax incentives to those who convert ties. HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ACT to alternative fuels. Mr. Speaker, I want to make their voices OF 1990 My Alternative Fuels Incentive Act would heard. provide a 20-percent tax credit for equipment Last summer, President Bush sent Secre HON. RON WYDEN to convert a vehicle to run on a clean-burning tary of Health and Human Services Louis Sul OF OREGON fuel, a 20-percent credit for alternative fuel re livan to my Rural Health Care Conference in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fueling station equipment, and a 20-percent Idaho. The Secretary agreed there is a rural credit for the fuel system of a new alternative health care crisis, and I know he is willing to Wednesday, March 14, 1990 fuel vehicle. assist us. Mr. WYDEN. Mr. Speaker, today my col Not only would this provide a badly needed I am happy to join my colleague, Congress league Congressman LARRY CRAIG and I are alternative fuel infrastructure in this country, man WYDEN, in introducing the Rural Health introducing comprehensive legislation to sal but it would encourage fleet truck owners and Care Improvements Act, companion legislation vage the health care system in our rural com mass transit systems to convert to clean-burn to S. 2214, introduced in the Senate by Sena munities. This legislation is a companion ing fuels. This is a key area. Houston, for ex tor PACKWOOD of Oregon. This legislation measure to legislation introduced in the ample, has the largest private van-pooling contains a variety of provisions, some of Senate by Senator BOB PACKWOOD. 4384 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 14, 1990 As many of my colleagues know, rural com health care professionals who practice in or the juvenile justice center which opened in munities are losing desperately needed hospi near underserved areas; 1979 and which now bears his name. He has tals and providers every day. In my own State Seventh, target public health service funds played an instrumental role in the antidrug of Oregon, over half of the hospitals are in to county health departments to offer preven campaign in our community. Judge Joyce and rural areas. Two Oregon hospitals were forced tive health services; his wife Elizabeth will be making their fourth to close last year. One Oregon hospital is tee Eighth, provide tax incentives to physicians, trip to Ireland this year. tering on the edge of closure right now. nurse practitioners, and physician assistants Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this oppor Countless physicians, nurses, and physician for the first 5 years of rural practice. This will tunity to pay tribue to Mrs. Dorothy Mclaugh assistants have filed the countryside, leaving provide young graduates with a strong incen lin, who is being honored as "Irishwoman of many rural areas severely drained of qualified tive to locate in underserved rural areas; the Year" and Judge Martin Joyce, who is health professionals. The problem has Ninth, permit primary care physicians to ex being honored as "Irishman of the Year." reached crisis proportions. pense up to $25,000 per year for the pur Both have a long and distinguished history of Nationally, over 60 percent of rural hospitals chase of basic equipment used for primary service to our community. They are both dedi lose money every time a Medicare beneficiary services; cated individuals who have greatly enhanced walks through the door, compared to only 46 Tenth, permit groups of rural hospitals to our community. I am honored to represent percent of urban hospitals. One of the biggest engage in joint purchasing and contracting for these two outstanding individuals. reasons for this difference in hospital closures personnel or services; and is that rural hospitals today receive an aver Eleventh, require the Secretary of Health age of 8 percent less than urban hospitals and Human Services to review and make rec A VERMONTER'S REFLECTIONS from Medicare. That's just unfair. ommendations regarding elimination of bur ON THE VIETNAM WAR MEMO This "urban/rural differential" was con densome and unnecessary Medicare regula RIAL ceived in 1983, when it was widely believed tions affecting rural hospitals. that rural hospitals had lower costs to meet I urge my colleagues to express their sup HON. PETER SMITH than urban hospitals. Today, we know that port for the importance of retaining quality OF VERMONT this theory is not valid. health care in our rural communities by co IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Labor shortages for medical professionals sponsoring this important legislation. has hit urban as well as rural facilities. And Wednesday, March 14, 1990 often the rural facility must offer higher wages Mr. SMITH of Vermont. Mr. Speaker, a Ver TRIBUTE TO DOROTHY M. to lure quality health care professionals away mont constituent of mine, Ronald G. Latour, McLAUGHLIN AND JUDGE from the prestige and glamour of a big city. Sr., served as a medic in Vietnam between MARTIN P . JOYCE The costs of goods and supplies in rural 1967 and 1970. He recently visited the Viet areas are the same as those in urban areas. nam War Memorial in Washington and sent Medical supply companies charge rural hospi HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. me the following reflection. The piece is tre tals the same amount of money for their OF OHIO mendously moving, and I offer it here so that goods and services as urban hospitals. In fact, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES all my colleagues may read it: because of their small size, most rural hospi THE WALL tals are unable to achieve economies of scale Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Names, names, names! Why are there so or get bulk discounts which suppliers some many names here? times offer to high volume urban or suburban to pay tribute to Mrs. Dorothy M. Mclaughlin Some are short and some are long. Some facilities. and Judge Martin P. Joyce, who are from my easy to pronounce and some harder. There In reality, the cost of providing health care 17th Congressional District, of Ohio. Mrs. are so many panels that one does not know in Burns, OR, is not much different from the Mclaughlin is being honored as "Irishwoman where to start. I suppose you could ask one cost in Portland. The unchecked migration of of the Year" and Judge Joyce is being hon of the guides that are around the area. qualified providers away from rural communi ored as "Irishman of the Year" by the Joseph The panels are numbered by year, the ties and the startling number of hospital clo T. Nalley, Sr., Division 6 of the Ancient Order first in 1962 and the last in 1976. There are sures in rural areas demands congressional of Hiberians at its annual St. Patrick's Day all kinds of names-Spanish, Irish, French, German, English. I know there are all kinds action. That is why I am introducing the Rural Luncheon. of races and religions represented here. Health Improvement Act. Mrs. Mclaughlin is retired from both the Some were highly educated, however, most Our bill will do the following: Mahoning County Sheriff's Office as well as were not. Some had families and others did First, speed-up elimination of urban-rural the Ohio Police Reserves of Struthers. She at not. Most were young, not even in their Differential. The legislation would eliminate the tended Youngstown State University, Kent prime of life yet. Some were middle aged urban-rural Medicare hospital payment differ State University, and Lake Community Col and a few older. So you see that in their ential by January 1, 1991 rather than 1995- lege. Mrs. Mclaughlin has been involved with predicament death knew no age, nationality, various organizations in her community, in color, or religion. There were one, two, as called for in the 1989 budget reconciliation maybe three or four panels marking the bill; cluding the Democratic Woman's Club which years I spent there. Second, speed-up implementation of honored her in 1978 as "Woman of the Year" Flowers were planted in front of every RBRVS. The legislation would fully implement of the South Democratic Club of Mahoning panel. An occasional sporadic line of photo the resource-based relative value scale con County. She has also been involved with the graphs. In a few cases, decorations. I could tained in the 1989 budget reconciliation bill by Veterans of Foreign Wars and in 1988 was not help but wonder who they belonged to. January 1, 1992 instead of 1995; Veteran of Foreign Wars "Miss Loyalty Day." Did some parents or wives bring them along Third, extend Medicare reimbursement to Dorothy Mclaughlin and her husband Robert so their loved ones could have the decora Mclaughlin have 4 sons and 11 grandchil tions with them, or, was it some of the guys nurse practitioners who work in rural areas who made it home ok but were angry, disap when their services would otherwise be pro dren. pointed, and confused about this whole vided by a physician; Judge Joyce has been on the bench since thing of ours. I like to think of it as a quiet Fourth, establish a national payment rate for 1959 when he became municipal court judge. protest against all the wasted lives here. certified registered nurse anesthetists, which In 1969 he was elected to the Juvenile Divi I saw many, many people walking around. are often the only anesthesia providers in sion of the Mahoning County Common Pleas I had the impression that they were just cu rural communities; Court, a position he held until his retirement rious as they didn't stop at any particular Fifth, increase funding for the National last year. Judge Joyce attended Sacred Heart panel. I saw others with pencils or pens with and East High Schools. A veteran, he served paper covering a name and they were trying Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Pro to get the name transcribe onto the paper gram; in the South Pacific during World War II . After from the panel. I gather they were either Sixth, increase funding for area health edu his honorable discharge he attended Ohio friends or relatives visiting their son, hus cation centers [AHEC's]. AHEC's provide con University then earned a juris doctorate from band, daughter or brother, a loved one. tinuing education and clinical instruction for Ohio State University Law School. Judge There were many other guys there, some in physicians, nurse practitioners, and other Joyce played a key role in the construction of wheelchairs or on crutches that would be a March 14, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4385 part of them for the rest of their lives. High School administration has designed a set forum to exchange views with other women Some that had a arm or leg missing. I really of surveys to assess the current school situa members of many parliaments on various sub envied them because they had found a way tion. The surveys were distributed to faculty jects of mutual interest. to cope with their losses. They had adjusted themselves and most were living full lives. and staff members, students, and their par These efforts have resulted in significant The ones I felt sorry for were the ones who ents in order to gather the comprehensive progress over the past several years in in were there for the same reason I was, all data needed to honestly evaluate the school. creasing international consciousness of whole, as I was, finally, after eighteen years, During this time in our education system's women and of issues of particular importance mourning for the buddy's they did not have history when many see only the negative pub to women. With the scope and speed of time to mourn for back there. I guess I had licity and problems with our schools, it is truly recent economic and social changes in our it easier that most because being a medic I refreshing to hear about a school that cares society, changes in the workplace, in family had learned to harden my feelings. For some reason I had a unique ability to be about the ideas of its community and is truly structures, these are essential steps for ap able to put all the dead and wounded in the making an effort to improve itself. preciating the existing and potential contribu back of my head. I think most medics had I stand before you today to praise the ef tions of women within their own societies and this ability. forts of North High School and to express my around the world. As a medic the first thing I learned was hope that th~ir program is a sign of a positive Most appropriately on International not to get too friendly with the other sol future for American education. Women's Day, I was privileged with a visit diers. You didn't know if they were going to from members of the Soviet Women's Com be here tomorrow or not. The only other mittee and of the American Women for Inter real friends a medic had were other medics. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY Only I found out they were not invincible national Understanding. The Soviet delegates, either. That was what had brought me to Galina Galkins, vice president, SWC, Tatjana Washington, to see if I could find my HON. LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS Bermant, a renowned sculptor, and Galina Ne buddy's name on a panel. OF LOUISIANA grustuyeva, an SWC staff member enjoy the As I walked around I found names I recog IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES legacy of their organization founded 50 years nized. These were guys that were in the Wednesday, March 14, 1990 ago to foster understanding and peace among same unit I was. Some I tried to take care of nations. The exchanges of suggestions for and others I just knew of them. I made a Mrs. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, last Thursday successful promotion of women's interests game of it at first. I'd walk around and we celebrated International Women's Day. when I found a name I recognized, would among societies will serve all of us well as we International Women's Day was first pro explore new avenues of relationships in a rap try to think of something good about them. posed by Clara Zetkin, a representative of the But all I accomplished was to see their faces idly changing world. before they were hit and then after they Socialist Women's Conference in Copenha were hit, which didn't set too well with me. gen, Denmark in 1910. The proposal came at I finally found the panels with the year the beginning of a period of great political and AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 1968. As I sat there in front of the panels social transition in the world. In North America COLLEGE HONORS WALLY reading the many names, I finally found my the movement for women's suffrage ques BARLOW buddy's name. I just kept looking at it as if I tioned some of our basic assumptions of didn't believe that it was there. I went so far human relations. as to blink my eyes and hope it was gone. I Clara Zetkin and our own U.S. Congress HON. RICHARD E. NEAL sat there for hours thinking about all the good times we had in the short eight women Jeanette Rankin called to women OF MASSACHUSETTS months that we knew each other. There around the world to join forces on behalf of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES were a lot of good memories, but then the peace, equal rights and social progress. ugly memories started to flow through my I have been very pleased, during the past Wednesday, March 14, 1990 brain. I finally got up and started to walk few years, to have been involved in several of Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, away when a guy in a wheelchair looked at our key international efforts focusing on as on April 7, 1990, the Alumni Varsity Club at me and I guess, recognized my thousand sessing and promoting the role of women. As my alma mater, American International Col meter stare. What he said to me was better a United States delegate to the 1985 Confer lege, will pay tribute to Wally Barlow, one of than any ticker tape parade, or any medal that a general could ever pin on me. He said ence on the U.N. Decade for Women in Nair the college's most precious resources. I want "Welcome Home." I mean, here's this guy in obi, Kenya, I participated in the adoption by to join in this salute to a true sportsman. a wheelchair, one leg missing, his face look consensus of a major document entitled, As a trainer; coach, and friend, Wally ing like it went through a meat grinder and "Forward Looking Strategies for the Advance Barlow has touched the lives of hundreds of he's telling me welcome home. I really ment of Women to the Year 2000. " This doc student-athletes who have attended American didn't know what to say, so I didn't say any ument was intended to serve as a set of International College. In the process, he has thing. I grabbed the guy and hugged him. It guidelines for governments, international orga earned the trust and admiration of athletes, was the first time in eighteen years that I nizations and nongovernment organizations coaches, and sports writers across the wide allowed any emotions about anything that happened over there. for action to reduce if not eliminate obstacles spectrum of amateur and professional sports. I know that deep down all of us who were to women's participation in all sectors of soci Wally Barlow has led a rich, varied, and ex there know it was all for nothing, we just ety. citing life. Born in Great Britain, he developed don't want to admit that. But I know it was. Similarly, the Inter-parliamentary Union has an early interest in soccer, gymnastics, and The only consolation that .anybody has is emerged as an important vehicle for followup physical therapy. An accomplished athlete, he that these brave men did their duty to the assessment and energy generation on matters represented his country as a welterweight end. of concern to women internationally. I became wrestler in the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin. involved initially with the organization in 1948 In the war years and after, Wally answered RECOGNITION OF EASTLAKE when I accompanied my husband, Hale to an Great Britain's call to arms, serving as a com NORTH HIGH SCHOOL IPU meeting in Rome and was pleased when it mando in Germany, France, Belgium, and Hol established a women's committee. land. After his discharge, he journeyed to To HON. DENNISE. ECKART Since becoming a Member of Congress, I ronto, Canada, where his enthusiasm for have also served as a delegate from the Con sports found an outlet in hockey. OF OHIO gress to the IPU. U.S. participation has of Hockey was the motivation for Wally's move IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fered Members an opportunity to meet and to Springfield, MA. The city boasted an Ameri Wednesday, March 14, 1990 exchange views with their counterparts in can Hockey League franchise owned and op Mr. ECKART. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to other countries on a broad range of common erated by "Mr. Hockey," the legendary Eddie recognize the excellent initiative being taken issues. As we recognize that women consti Shore, and Wally enjoyed a 13-year associa in a high school from my district. Upon my tute one-half of the population of our individ tion with the league. After he left the AHL, visit to North High School in Eastlake, OH, ual societies and the implications of this for Wally found a new home at American Interna earlier this year, I learned of a survey program public policy, the meetings of the women par tional College, where he has given truly out that has been started in the school. The North liamentarians that began in 1985, are a useful standing service for more than two decades. 4386 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 14, 1990 Wally Barlow has become one of American mortality task force to develop a strategy to TRIBUTE TO ALBERT LOUIS International College's most valuable players. combat this plague. This task force is making PATTERSON, JR. This diminutive, gentleman from Great Britain the health and well-being of mothers and chil is recognized as the college's ambassador of dren a priority. Last month the task force met fair play, good will, and true sportsmanship. with Health and Human Services Secretary HON. TOM DeLAY Mr. Speaker, I join with the entire American Louis Sullivan to seek his help in solving this OF TEXAS International College community in saluting crisis. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wally Barlow for the many contributions he Secretary Sullivan, a native of Georgia, un Wednesday, March 14, 1990 has made in furtherance of the college's role derstands well the cost of this tragedy. During as a source of learning. They have enriched this meeting, task force members asked Sec Mr. DELAY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to the life of not only the college, but the entire retary Sullivan that projects and programs be take this opportunity to honor the service .of Springfield area as well. targeted to the Sunbelt region where they are Albert Louis Patterson, Jr., who on Sunday, needed most. March 18, 1990, will celebrate his 20th anni CARING FOR OUR NEWBORNS As Secretary Sullivan pointed out, we know versary as pastor of Mount Corinth Missionary that this problem is solvable. Pregnant women Baptist Church in Houston, TX. This is a HON. MICHAEL A. ANDREWS must have access to health care. The Sunbelt joyous occasion not only for the Pastor Patter Caucus and its Task Force on Infant Mortality son, but it is equally blessed for the 1,500- OF TEXAS strong members who have benefited from his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are committed to reducing our regional and national infant mortality rate. guidance and leadership. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Pastor Patterson has labored in the Word of Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, the true hall God with dedication and perseverance and his mark of a nation's wealth is how it cares for MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT presentation of the Word has always been those who are unable to care for themselves. FOR REHABILITATION HOSPI with joy, enthusiasm, and conviction tendered Unfortunately, our country lags in providing TALS with love for the Lord and his congregation. that care. That's why America's children-our His accomplishments are many and varied. most fragile and vulnerable resource-are During his administration, the Soul Winners dying every day. HON. LARRY E. CRAIG Action Tearn was organized and has now According to the National Center for Health OF IDAHO helped revolutionize Corinth and much of the Statistics, the United States ranks 20th-prac IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Houston community. Among his many accom tically the worst-of other industrialized na plishments, its members have visited 60,015 Wednesday, March 14, 1990 tions of the world. In fact, for every 1,000 chil homes, honored 83,694 prayer requests, and dren born in our country, 1O are dying. Mr. CRAIG. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I joined visited 1,333 sick and shut-ins. Also, for the The United States is facing several disturb my colleagues, Representative NANCY JOHN last several years under Pastor Patterson's ing facts surrounding this issue: SON and Representative JIM MoooY, as an leadership, the Vacation Bible School has According to the President's national drug original cosponsor of legislation to assist reha averaged over 1,000 registrants each year. control strategy, an estimated 100,000 co bilitation facilities and long-term hospitals in Pastor Patterson was also the daily lecturer caine babies are born each year. meeting the cost of caring for Medicare pa of the National Baptist Sunday School and The National Association of Perinatal Addic tients. BTU Conference. He was chosen out of tion Research and Education reports that In my own district, the First District of Idaho, each year, 375,000 infants are born drug af 50,000 preachers in the National Baptists the Idaho Elks Rehabilitation Hospital has Convention, U.S.A., Inc., to preach in the Dr. fected. been struggling over the past few years in Black infants are twice as likely to die T.J. Jamison's inaugural sermon at the first order to keep its doors open for the growing before their first birthday than white infants. national board meeting in 1983. From 1986 to While the national picture is grim, the Sun number of patients that need rehabilitative or 1988, he preached an unprecedented 3 con belt story is even worse. Of the 17 Sunbelt long-term care. The Idaho Elks Rehabilitation secutive years for the National Congress Fac States, 11 States have infant mortality rates Hospital is a freestanding rehabilitation hospi ulty Banquet and preached an unprecedented surpassing the already critical national aver tal, the only one in Idaho. The Elks have 4 consecutive years at Hampton Minister's age. A child born in the South is less likely to raised considerable private funds to support Conference in Hampton, VA. He also see his or her first birthday than a child born the work of this institution in helping disabled preached in 21 consecutive sessions of the in other regions of the United States. people. Over the past 4 years, all contributed national board, national congress, and nation Low birthweight infants, those who are born money and a substantial portion of their en al convention. weighing about 5 pounds, are at the greatest dowment has gone to underwrite the hospi I am proud to have this honorable gentle risk. My home State of Texas has an infant tal's losses due to the inadequate reimburse man as a pastor for so many years in my con mortality rate of 9.1 percent for 1987 which ment rates from Medicare. gressional district. He has provided inspiration translates into 2, 744 infant deaths. The Elks Hospital is reimbursed on a base and hope for the many who have joined his Many of those infants that do survive are year of 1983. As we are all aware, the rise in flock and has encouraged them and many likely to suffer from chronic tung problems, the cost of health care has been astronomical more to experience a "new level of living" sensory illnesses and cerebral patsy. We must over the past few years. Not only are many of with a great sense of inner satisfaction and continue to make earnest efforts to save these rehabilitation hospitals working on insuf joy. His fivefold emphasis on energetic evan these infants. But we should extend our ef ficient funds, but they are also serving more gelism, worth of the Word, persistence in forts further to ensure that they are born patients as acute-care hospital stays are prayer, Lordship in Christ, and sharing of sub healthy. shortened, due to Medicare cost-saving meas stance has led many into the fold of security The real tragedy of infant mortality is that as ures. and a sense of self-worth and well-being. many as half of these deaths are preventable. Mr. Speaker, this bill offers rehabilitation fa Prenatal care is the key to a healthy birth. Ac I am honored to send my congratulations to cilities the opportunity to update their TEFRA cording to the National Commission to Pre this great man of God, Pastor Albert Louis cost base year to 1988. This will provide them vent Infant Mortality, it can cost up to Patterson, Jr. with a reimbursement rate that better reflects $400,000 in health care over the life of a low birthweight infant. Prenatal care, costing as today's health care costs. This legislation is little as $500, can significantly reduce the very important if rehabilitation facilities like the risks involved for newborn children. Elks Hospital in Idaho are to continue provid This crisis has not gone unnoticed. Twenty ing essential services to communities across members of the Congressional Sunbelt the United States. Caucus, which I chair, have formed an infant March 14, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4387 ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SUP private, non-industrial forest lands. There is IN MEMORY OF DAWN AND PORT A TAX INCENTIVE FOR a significant risk that owners are forgoing KRISTEN WINFIELD PRIVATE FORESTRY-MORE reforestation and other conservation meas ures. The favorable tax provisions for TREES WILL BE PLANTED timber that began in 1944 and lasted until WITH RESTORATION OF A HON. LA WREN CE J. SMITH 1986 have been widely credited for substan OF FLORIDA CAPITAL GAINS DIFFERENTIAL tial increases in private timber production and reforestation. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. RON WYDEN And this from Brock Evans, vice president Wednesday, March 14, 1990 OF OREGON of the National Audubon Society: Mr. SMITH of Florida. Mr. Speaker, death IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It is unfortunate that the 1986 Tax under any circumstance causes great sorrow. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Reform package removed this differential. But when someone dies while in the spring of We believe that a strong case can be made life, it is even more tragic. Two young women Mr. WYDEN. Mr. Speaker, the debate in this that forestry in general and reforestation in House concerning proposals to change the particular is such a risky business, requiring in my district have recently been taken from Federal Tax Code has focused on two primary such long-term care and attention, that our midst by a disease called globoid leuko issues: Is our code fair, and does the code some kind of differential tax treatment is dystrophy, which occurs when an enzyme de encourage economic growth and new jobs? required. Unfortunately, since 1986, we have ficiency attacks the central nervous system. Today, I want to add one more question. witnessed a resurgence of "cut and run" Dawn and Kristen Winfield were 18-year-old, Does the Tax Code encourage sound and practices in the Pacific Northwest States. identical twins and best friends. They should sustained management of an increasingly im Mr. Speaker, I think this is part of the untold have been normal high school seniors grow portant national treasure-our 350 million story of the tax debate. Beyond the effects on ing into mature adults, having a good time, acres of privately owned, commercial forest businesses, individuals and Federal revenues, going to the beach and to the movies. Instead lands? · adjustments to our code can have critical im they were losing a battle against a painful and Global warming, tropical deforestation, and pacts-positive or negative-on our environ debilitating blood disease. the desire to preserve our own dwindling ment. I think the impact on private forestry The twins needed bone morrow transplants supply of old-growth timber-these have all should be an important consideration for all of in order to survive. They themselves opted for lead us to reevaluate this planet's crucial my colleagues, and I would be happy to share this risk surgery because they had watched need for trees. Even the President made a with them these letters from leading environ the disease cripple, blind and eventually kill crash Federal program for planting 1 billion mental organizations. their older brother. The fate of the twins trees part of his last State of the Union Ad became of paramount concern for many of dress. the residents in south Florida. Fundraising ef But I am convinced that with equitable tax TRIBUTE TO DANIEL E. PECCHIO forts raised close to $400,000 for the twins' incentives, this Nation's hundreds of thou transplants. Meanwhile the search for a com sands of tree farmers can do that job very HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. patible donor was tedious, expensive, and well, on their own. Tree-planting on private gruelling. Finally, beating a 15,000 to 1 odds, forest land skyrocketed with the provision of a OF OHIO a donor was found. The feeling of hope that · capital gains differential for that purpose in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES enveloped the entire south Florida community 1944. And eliminating that differential in 1986 was astounding and heartwarming. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 not only endangered this Nation's future On September 25, Kristen, the older twin, supply of timber from those lands, it also jeop Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today went to the University of Minnesota Hospital ardized the future of wildlife habitat, water to pay tribute to Daniel E. Pecchio of my 17th in Minneapolis, MN, and had her transplant shed, and recreation qualities inherent in Congressional District of Ohio. A roast will be operation. Sixteen days later, Dawn underwent those private forests, placing a further strain held for Danny on March 24, 1990, in honor of her operation. However, on November 18, on our public forests. his 40 years of dedicated service to Mahoning Kristen died quietly in her sleep when her Mr. Speaker, concern about this trend has County. body rejected the healthy marrow. Dawn, spread beyond the timber communify. Many Mr. Pecchio has a long history of service close to 2 months later, on January 16, died environmentalists and conservationists also both to his community and his country. In Jan from similar complications. believe that 1986 Tax Code changes will uary of 1941 he volunteered for the armed Although we cannot bring the Winfield twins erode private forest management and, eventu services and served with the 37th Division in back, an important lesson should be learned ally, lead to conversion of those lands to other the Solomon campaign and helped liberate from their tragic deaths. Every day in the uses. the Philippines. For his gallantry he was United States, 25 people will die because they I'd like to cite for the record several letters I awarded two Bronze Stars as well as the Phil cannot obtain a marrow transplant. What few received last month from leading environmen ippine Liberation Medal. He was honorably people realize, however, is that registering in a tal organizations: The Wilderness Society, the discharged in 1945. marrow donor bank is as simple as donating a National Audubon Society, the Natural Re Daniel Pecchio has been employed by Ma pint of blood. sources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club. honing County since 194 7 when he was made Public awareness regarding marrow trans As a cochairman and cofounder of the "Con deputy dog warden. Besides his work as Ma plantation and donor motivation must be in gressional Forestry 200 Task Force," a group honing County dog warden, Danny has been creased. First, we need to recruit and test representing 129 Members of Congress, I involved with numerous church, civic, and po donors. Second, we need to raise the funds asked these organizations to tell me what litical organizations. He is a member of St. necessary to pay testing costs. My colleague, they thought of two results of the 1986 Tax Christine's Church, he served on the youth Representative Vic FAZIO, will be introducing Act: One, the loss of the capital gains differ committee for the United Veterans Council, legislation of which I will be an original co ential for long-term investments such as tree and he is a past president of the 37th Divi sponsor, which will seek to authorize $15 mil farming, and two, the loss of deductibility of sion, Youngstown Chapter. He has also lion for the National Donor Marrow Program normal business expenses suffered by many served as past president of both the North for the purpose of testing potential bone individual woodlot owners through changes in Eastern Ohio County Dog Wardens Associa marrow donors. passive loss rules. tion as well as the Ohio County Dog Wardens I commend the efforts of the caring and Their response was unanimous. They said Association. hard working people in my district who made it that these changes will reduce productive pri Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this oppor possible to raise the money needed for the vate forest acreage in this country. tunity to commend Daniel Pecchio on his twins' operations. Led by Yolanda Keating of Let me quote Michael A. Francis, counsel many years of outstanding service. Danny is a Hollywood, a family friend and the Winfield for the Wilderness Society: brave and caring individual who has made sig fund-raising organizer, the community united We believe that this higher tax burden is nificant contributions to our country and com to help. Friends such as Jeff Nelson of Pem reducing the level of environmentally munity. I am proud and honored to represent broke Pines organized a boat row to Bimini; sound, sustainable timber production from this extraordinary man. Ron Rothstein, coach of "Miami Heat" partici- 4388 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 14, 1990 pated in many fund-raising efforts as did past the funeral of Pavlos Bacoyannis, the chief TUFTONIA'S WEEK and present members of the "Miami Dol spokesman in Parliament of the conserva phins"; Principal Larry lnsel and the students tive New Democracy Party who was killed HON. BILL RICHARDSON at the Winfield Twins' school, Hollywood Hills by terrorists in September. For the first time in years, the American High School, raised money; and Rose Lizana OF NEW MEXICO flag flew from the ambassador's armored IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of Dania, where the twins grew up, also spear limousine. Mourners broke ranks and burst headed fund-raising efforts. There were so into applause at the sight. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 many helpful hands in our community and I Similarly, it was front-page news when the Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, it is with wish to applaud the efforts of all of the people ambassador scored another first by visiting great pleasure that I share with you the news who worked so hard for the twins. These Communist Party headquarters to talk with that April 19, 1990, marks the beginning of the caring people and the twins themselves made the party leader. He next turned up at a sixth annual observance of "Tuftonia's all Floridians proud. hastily summoned town hall reception for Week." I urge my colleagues to join me in paying Boris Yeltsin, the maverik Soviet legislator, tribute to the memory of the courageous Win while the Soviet ambassador failed to It is a special time for the more than 60,000 appear. field Twins by supporting the proposed legisla alumni of Tufts University, myself included, to Not only has the ambassador been shak turn our thoughts to Tufts and to get together tion. I extend my deepest sympathy to the ing up the political status quo with his ma Winfield family and to their friends. South Flor with fellow Tuftonians, reminiscing with old neuvering, but he also has managed to cap friends. ida fought alongside them and south Florida ture the public's attention with his style. mourns them. Recently, Sotirhos broke with protocol by In addition to a formal ceremony on strolling into the court to greet the stars of campus, hosted by President Jean Mayer, Greece's best basketball team. On another local observances range from small gather SHOWING THE FLAG: BOLD occasion, he mingled with fans at a heated ings in restaurants .to champagne receptions UNITED STATES ENVOY CAPTI soccer game. In both cases he was applaud in museums, art galleries, and private homes; VATES GREEKS ed and even embraced by fans. from a block party to a group trolley ride to a As evidence of his adherence to the Greek singular ride on a jumbo elephant in India. HON. CHARLES 8. RANGEL Orthodox faith, Sotirhos attends Mass Alumni from Medford to Melbourne, f~om Hart every Sunday at churches in Athens and ford to Hong Kong, and from San Diego to OF NEW YORK sometimes sings along with the choir. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Always, he wears an American flag pin in Sao Paolo come together to think Tufts, thank Tufts, and toast Tufts. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 his lapel. "We're going to take every necessary secu As a proud graduate of Tufts University, I Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to call to rity precaution, but we're not going to ask my colleagues to join me in congratulating your attention the following article which ap hide," a diplomat recalls the ambassador Tufts on its sixth annual "Tuftonia's Week" peared in the international edition of the telling staff members. "Having armored cars celebration and to honor the thousands of Miami Herald on January 4, 1990, about our and bodyguards, that's security. Not flying Tufts alumni who are living and working in our Ambassador to Greece, Mr. Michael Sotirhos. the flag is hiding." districts contributing to the betterment of soci Since assuming his post in September, he has The ambassador's new approach differs ety. caught the eyes of many and has won the ap considerably from diplomatic practices proval, respect and wonder of the Greek adopted since 1974, when simmering anti Americanism and terrorist attacks com INDIANA EARTHQUAKES public. Ambassador Sotirhos has done much pelled most Americans to maintain a low to improve what have been tense relations profile. between Greece and the United States. Often Now, Sothirhos has ordered that the HON. LEE H. HAMILTON mingling with a crowd, his open, enthusiastic American flag fly on all occassions. He has OF INDIANA and down to Earth style and charisma have encouraged diplomatic personnel to widen IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES helped create a better image and acceptance the circle of leaders whom they meet to in of Americans and the United States. He also clude Communists and seek contact with Wednesday, March 14, 1990 practices and encourages better communica the general public. Mr. HAMIL TON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to tion and openness among diplomatic leaders. At meeting with American servicemen, he urges them to emphasize rather than hide insert my Washington Report for Wednesday, Proudly showing the American flag nearly ev their official American status. "Go out, go March 14, 1990, into the CONGRESSIONAL erywhere he does, he is the first Greek-Ameri to the countryside, find the mayor and in RECORD: can to serve as Ambassador to Greece. troduce yourself as an American," he told INDIANA EARTHQUAKES SHOWING THE FLAG: BOLD U.S. ENVOY personnel, according to the diplomat. Many Hoosiers were startled by a series of CAPTIVATES GREEKS "Anti-Americanism has been declining for three minor earthquakes that struck Indi the past few years," another foreign diplo ana's Harrison and Crawford counties earli ATHENS, GREECE.-Reversing America's mat said. er this year. No damage or injuries were re low-profile diplomacy in Greece, he insists "But the new ambassador is accelerating ported, but the quakes were strong enough upon braving the threat of terrorism by dis the gradual decline of anti-American senti to rattle dishes, windows, and doors. These playing the American flag wherever he goes. ment and taking it one step further to events are a reminder that the Midwest is He does not hesitate to step into the revive traditional pro-Americanism among vulnerable to periodic earthquakes. crowd to cheer at basketball games, and he Greeks." According to the U.S. Geological Survey, jokingly reassures Greeks that he, like most While developments in Eastern Europe the eastern half of the U.S. has a low proba of them, is an islander-from the island of and the decline of Communist domination bility of having major earthquakes, but a Manhattan. might be one coincidence explaining Sotir high probability of suffering extensive After 15 years of strained relations be hos' warm reception, the ambassador also damage and loss when they do occur. Some tween the United States and Greece, both enjoys the advantage of being the first of the most powerful earthquakes in U.S. members of NATO, easing tensions between Greek-American in the post. history have occurred in the Midwest and the two nations well may have a lot to do His wife, Estelle Manos, also is Greek along the East Coast. with the unorthodox tactics of a Greek American, and both speak Greek fluently. Causes: Earthquakes are triggered by nat American New Yorker: Michael Sotirhos, The advantage of language and the ethnic ural disturbances deep beneath the earth's the American ambassador to Greece. connection is evident. surface. The earth's crust is made up of Sotirhos, 61, arrived in Greece in Septem One witness recounted an incident when twelve separate plates, which represent the ber and, much to the dismay of the tradi Sotirhos, questioned by an elderly couple in continents and the ocean floors. These tionally hostile Greek press, has plunged the streets of a small town, informed them plates normally float unhinderd on top of into a public relations campaign that his that his father was from the island of Kyth the molten rock surrounding the earth's predecessors never would have attempted. ria and his mother from the island of Milos. core. Earthquakes result when a plate's nat In several cases, he has left his Greek audi "So you are a nisiotis, an islander, like ural movement is altered. If two plates lock ence crying for more. us?" together, a fault line is created and pressure Greece first got a hint of the ambassa "Yes," the ambassador replied, "I'm from will then build until the plates uncouple dor's new approach when he turned up at Manhattan." and produce an earthquake. Last fall's March 14, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4389 major California quake, for instance, oc moving through the Congress would expand The text of the resolution follows: curred because of slippage along the San this program, particularly for the New Andreas Fault, which marks where the Pa Madrid Zone, and mandate a review of H.REs.- cific Plate and the North American Plate building codes and construction guidelines. Resolution expressing the sense of the meet. At the state level, Indiana and other Mid House of Representatives that the owners While West Coast quakes tend to occur western states sponsor several research cen and players of the major league baseball because of friction between colliding plates, ters to improve measurement of potential teams should settle their differences expe Midwestern earthquakes occur at fault lines earthquake activity. Starting this year, Indi ditiously, begin spring training, and start located within a single plate. These . fault ana's building code requires that new struc the regular baseball season as soon as pos lines may represent weak points in the tures be earthquake-resistant. major league baseball has continued for sev Plate. ings.> Certain essential facilities, including eral weeks; Midwestern earthquakes differ from West hospitals, fire and police departments, and Whereas cities with major league baseball Coast quakes in other respects as well. Mid schools, are subject to more stringent stand franchises and spring training facilities face western earthquakes are more difficult to ards. Some experts have also suggested serious economic losses as a result of the in predict. Measurement of pressure buildups mandatory retrofitting of older structures, ability of owners and players of major along West Coast fault lines helps scientists especially unreenforced masonry. league baseball teams to resolve differences to predict the location and severity (but not Hoosiers can take a number of steps to and begin the season in a timely manner; the timing) of a potential earthquake. In protect their homes against earthquake Whereas major league baseball enjoys a the Midwest, the fault lines are much tremors. Experts recommend strapping unique and privileged treatment under Fed deeper, and measuring and predicting their down water heaters, keeping buildings in eral law; activity is more difficult. Midwestern quakes good repair, storing heavy objects on the Whereas people in the United States have also occur less often. Earthquake pressures floor or lower shelves, and fastening book a strong and abiding interest in seeing build up 100-1000 times faster in California shelves and cabinets to the wall. Earth spring training and the regular season of than in the Midwest. In addition, soil and quakes occur without warning, and the the national pastime; bedrock conditions in the Midwest strength shaking lasts no more than 20-60 seconds. Whereas, while representing the interests en earthquake tremors, causing them to Because most injuries are caused by falling of owners and players of the major league travel farther and take longer to subside. debris, the recommendation is, if indoors, to baseball teams, the negotiators in the base Experts believe a Midwest earthquake could stay there temporarily and turn away from ball dispute also have an obligation to base affect an area up to 80 times larger than a glass, cabinets, and fireplaces; and if out fall fans; and similar quake in California. doors, to get into an open area away from Whereas fans, through enthusiasm, at Indiana Quakes: Several dozen earth buildings, power lines, and trees. Buildings tendance, and willingness to pay to view quakes have originated in Indiana. In gener should not be reoccupied soon after a quake, baseball games, provide significant benefits al, these quakes have been concentrated because of possible strong aftershocks. For to owners, players, and host communities; along river valleys. The southwestern additional information about Indiana earth Now, therefore, be it corner of Indiana is at the greatest risk of quake threats and preparation efforts, Hoo Resolved, That it is the sense of the House earthquake activity. The most powerful of siers can contact the State Emergency Man of Representatives the owners and players the recent Indiana quakes hit 3.8 on the agement Agency, Department of Civil De of the major league baseball teams should Richter scale. By contrast, last October's fense, 100 N. Senate Avenue, Indianapolis, settle their differences expeditiously, begin northern California earthquake hit magni IN 46204. The phone number is <317> 232- spring training, and start the regular base tude 6.9. Most of the Indiana-centered earthquakes have caused NATIONAL PASTIME HAYWARD, CA, CELEBRATES little damage. PRESERVATION ACT EARTH DAY, 1990 Historically, Indiana has suffered more damage from earthquakes originating out HON.THOMASJ.DOWNEY side of the state. An earthquake centered in HON. FORTNEY PETE STARK New Madrid, Missouri 180 years ago pro OF NEW YORK duced the greatest intensity felt in Indiana. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA It exceeded 8 on the Richter scale, and dev Wednesday, March 14, 1990 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES astated the Evansville area. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Three areas of concentrated seismic activi Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. Speaker, today I am in ty are located in the Midwest. The New troducing a resolution to express the sense of Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Madrid Seismic Zone, stretching from Ev the House of Representatives that the owners commend the city of Hayward on its Earth ansville to northern Arkansas, poses the and players of the major league baseball Day and Recycling Week celebrations. The greatest risk of earthquake activity in the teams should settle their differences expedi city has set April 22 as Earth Day and April eastern United States. It has produced tiously, begin spring training, and start the reg 16-21 for Recycling Week. major quakes felt as far away as Canada. ular baseball season as soon as possible. The Geological Survey projects a 40-63% Cooperative efforts are being organized to chance of a magnitude 6 earthquake strik At present, there appears no end in sight to promote environmental awareness. Programs ing the New Madrid Zone by the year 2000. the major league baseball lockout. As our na are already organized for the Hayward area The Wabash Valley Zone contains active tional pastime, baseball enjoys preferential recreation district at Sulphur Creek and Hay faults in both eastern Illinois and western Federal antitrust treatment. Thus, major ward Shoreline. Discussions have begun with Indiana. Experts believe the Wabash Valley league owners and players have an obligation the Chamber of Commerce, Hayward Unified may be susceptible to a moderate earth to their fans and communities to reach an School District, Chabot College, California quake every twenty years. A 1987 earth agreement and get the season underway. State University Hayward, and Scout groups. quake of magnitude 5.2 did not cause exten How many times, and for long, must fans sit sive damage. The Anna, Ohio Zone is less The city of Hayward hopes all these coopera volatile than the others. Since 1876, 23 idlely by while the owners and players violate tive efforts will promote environmental aware tremors have occurred near Anna, located in a sanctity of summer. ness. the west central part of the state; three of The outlook isn't brilliant for the Mudville The Chamber of Commerce and city of Hay the quakes have been around magnitude 6. nine today; despite the best Intentions, there'll ward will sponsor awards to recognize envi Earthquake Preparation: The federal gov be no ball to play; a pallor's wreathed the fea ronmentally sensitive local projects in such ernment sponsors the National Earthquake tures of the patrons of the game, for Casey categories as energy conservation, recycling Hazards Reduction Program, a nationwide and his owner are too busy pointing blame. and solid waste management, water conserva effort to measure and predict earthquake Oh, somehwere in this favored land the Sun is tion, traffic mitigation, air quality, toxic waste, activity, promote awareness of earthquake risks, inform the public of how to minimize shining bright, baseball's playing somewhere and land use. damage, and develop emergency response and somewhere hearts are light. And some The city of Hayward's promotion of Earth plans before earthquakes strike. Funding where folks are laughing, and somewhere chil Day includes displays in conjunction with other for the federal research and preparation dren shout, but there is no joy in Mudville activities, media coverage of the daily theme programs in 1990 will be $20 million. A bill mighty Casey is locked out! topics of Recycling Week, handouts, recom- 4390 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 14, 1990 mendations for sister city efforts, tours of the citizen awareness about the importance of million price tag, an astronomical sum for a treatment plant, and green ribbons for publici protecting and improving our environment. city its size. ty. Daily theme topics will tie into city pro In a federal budget that increases funding grams and will be as follows: for the environment I had hoped there LOCAL GOVERNMENTS NEED would be something showing a strong com Monday, April 16: Energy efficiency; mitment to addressing CSOs. At this stage Tuesday, April 17: Recycling and solid FUNDS FOR CLEAN WATER of the budget process that is not the case. waste management; CSOs are on the federal "back burner"; Wednesday, April 18: Water-ground water, HON. BARNEY FRANK unfortunately, that means our nation's wa waste water, conservation programs; OF MASSACHUSETTS terways are on· the back burner as well. Thursday, April 19: Transportation manage I respectfully request you make CSOs a ment; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES priority and join in partnership with states Friday, April 20-Toxic waste manage and municipalities in addressing this prob Wednesday, March 14, 1990 lem. ment-industrial and household; Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, one of the de I congratulate you on the $2 billion in new Saturday, April 21: Land use. fects in our Federal policy is our tendency to environmental monies-but please don't The city of Hayward plans to introduce the impose requirements on local governments forget the CSOs. following environmental bill of rights resolu and then fail to provide adequate financial as Sincerely, tion: sistance to them as they seek to discharge CARLTON M. VIVEIROS, Mayor. ENVIRONMENTAL BILL OF RIGHTS these obligations. One of the most glaring ex Whereas in the past 19 years since Earth amples of this is the area of clean water. CITY OF FALL RIVER-RESOLUTION Day 1970 found only 453 blue whales, the largest of into hotels, international real estate finance The majestic blue whale, the biggest which are 100 feet long and weigh more and multifamily housing. animal ever to live on earth, appears far than 30 elephants, in the area surveyed. Sci- 4394 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 14, 1990 entists believe the area south of 60 degrees ing techniques, which underscore the need Mr. Speaker, I am proud to salute Pvt. contains all or nearly all the blues in the for special safeguards for whale survival; Robert John Reynolds. It is fitting that he is a Southern Hemisphere during the summer. Whereas the International Whaling Com The Antarctic cruises also found 2,096 fin mission has not yet demonstrated its capa member of the Old Guard. He is a committed whales in the survey area, but not all of the bility for strict and truly international mon soldier, he is a devoted American, he takes species migrate to the Antarctic in the itoring and enforcement, and for insistence pride in his service to America and her Army. summer. Earlier estimates placed their on humane killing methods; His contributions to the Old Guard are a credit global population at about 100,000. The Whereas powerful moral and ethical ques to all who know him. survey turned up 4,047 humpback whales, tions have been raised regarding the killing whose total population has been estimated of whales, for profit; and at 10,000; 1,498 sei whales, whose numbers Whereas a full decade free of whale kill A TRIBUTE TO THE OLD WEST globally have been estimated at 54,000; and ing for commercial purposes is the bare min 3,059 sperm whales. The population of imum necessary to seek satisfactory answers sperm whales has been estimated at nearly to the questions, concerns, and uncertain HON. ELTON GALLEGLY 2 million, but some scientists believe it is not ties cited above: Now, therefore, be it OF CALIFORNIA that high. Resolved by the House of Representatives IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Specialists on the whaling commission (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense said the Antarctic count of sperm whales of the Congress that- Wednesday, March 14, 1990 meant little, since only large adult males of <1) United States policy should promote Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Speaker, the American the species, a small fraction of the total the maximum conservation and protection West and the cowboy are among our most population, migrate into Antarctic waters. of the world's whale populations; cherished and enduring traditions. In a legend More of the humpback and sei whales mi (2) toward that goal, the United States enhanced and polished by the motion pic grate there, but large number of them stay should work to postpone further review of in warmer waters, too. Further study will be the International Whaling Commission tures, the cowboy and the code of the "Old needed to assess the meaning of the figures moratorium on the commercial killing of West" in a way stands for America. The on these species, the specialists say. whales and maintain zero catch limits for all cowboy worked hard and was a good guy. He But for the blues, the results appear un whale stocks for at least another decade, rode tall in the saddle. He was indomitable, equivocally discouraging to some scientists. that is, to the year 2000 or beyond; courageous, upright, loyal and-to the chagrin The figure of 453 blues must be adjusted, (3) in addition, the United States should of young boys-romantic. they say, to account for the fact that only work to strengthen the International Whal This year, the Walk of Western Stars in two-thirds of the ocean waters south of 60 ing Commission as the indispensable organi Newhall, CA, part of the new city of Santa degrees south latitude were surveyed. Fur zation for safeguarding for future genera ther, they say, some whales were undoubt tions the great natural resources represent Clarita, CA, will enshrine four outstanding rep edly missed because some dive for long peri ed by the whale stocks, and should encour resentatives of the Old West. The 1990 hon ods. age the Commission to establish and carry orees are Cliffie Stone, Bruce Boxleitner, Lee Even so, said one specialist on the commis out long-term programs of nonlethal re Horsley and Morgan Woodward. On March 24, sion, the true number is unlikely to be more search and comprehensive assessment for these four stars will join other great Western than about 1,200 to 1,500, and could well be all whale stocks on a global basis, including stars who have been honored with bronzed less. small cetaceans; and saddles and stars on San Fernando Road. The list of cospoonsors and a copy of the (4) in so promoting the conservation and The inductees have earned their honors. reoslution follows: protection of the world's whale populations, the United States should make the fullest Stone was a TV and radio star, a talented mu H. CON. RES. 287 use of diplomatic channels, appropriate do sician, singer, songwriter, band leader, disk Mr. Gejdenson, Mr. Porter Goss, Mr. mestic and international law, and all other jockey and emcee. He starred in "Hometown Clarke, Mr. Wayne Owens, Mr. McCloskey, available means. Jamboree," Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, pro Mr. Toby Roth, Mr. Faleomavaega, Mr. duced for Capitol Records and now directs DeWine, Mr. Kostmayer, Mr. Lawrence the Gene Autry Music Group. Boxleitner is a Smith, Mr. Dante Fascell, Mr. Lee Hamil TRIBUTE TO PVT. ROBERT JOHN top Hollywood leading man, having starred in ton, Mr. Studds, Mr. Mel Levine, Mr. Fuster. REYNOLDS a variety of productions including "Scarecrow and Mrs. King," "How the West Was Won, H. CON. RES. 287 HON. CLYDE C. HOLLOWAY "East of Eden" and "The Gambler." Horsley Concurrent resolution calling for a United OF LOUISIANA starred in such series as "Paradise" and States policy of promoting the continu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ·"Matt Houston," and the firm "The Sword and ation, for a minimum of an additional 10 Wednesday, March 14, 1990 the Sorcerer." Woodward starred in "The years, of the International Whaling Com Great Locomotive Chase," "The Wyatt Earp mission's moratorium on the commerical Mr. HOLLOWAY. Mr. Speaker, I pay tribute Show," "Cool Hand Luke," "Buffalo Sol killing of whales, and otherwise express today to a distinguished young American and ing the sense of the Congress with respect diers" -for which he earned a Cowboy Hall of to conserving and protecting the world's resident of the Eighth Congressional District Fame Award-and "Gunsmoke." More recent whale populations of Louisiana serving his country, his State, his ly, he has appeared on "Dallas" and "Days of Whereas whales are a unique marine re parish, and his hometown as a member of the Our Lives." source of great esthetic and scientific inter Old Guard of the U.S. Army. The individual to These heroes of the not-so-wild West are est and are a vital part of the marine ecosys whom I pay tribute today is Pvt. Robert John · loved by millions for the joy and laughter they tem; Reynolds of Plaquemine, LA. have given us, and for the values they repre Whereas the indefinite moratorium on Mr. Speaker, Private Reynolds' service in sent-honor, virtue and strength. commerical whale killing adopted by the the Old Guard has certainly brought distinction Mr. Speaker, I am sure my colleagues join International Whaling Commission in 1982 upon himself. By continuing the great and glo to take effect in 1986 is subject to -review me in saluting the Walk of Western Stars in rified tradition of service in the Old Guard, Pri Newhall, and its 1990 inductees. and reconsideration in 1990; vate Reynolds has also made his family, his Whereas this moratorium has not yet re sulted in a full cessation of whale killing for friends and his Congressman exceptionally commerce, proud. THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA Whereas there remain great uncertainties Each year, the Old Guard, a unit of the U.S. as to the true status of whale populations, Army Military District of Washington, partici HON. WILLIAM 0. LIPINSKI due to the difficulty of studying them, their pates in more than 3,500 ceremonies. The OF ILLINOIS slow reproductive rate, and the unpredict Old Guard is responsible for the execution of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ability of their recovery even when fully joint military ceremonies at the White House. protected; Moreover, soldiers of the Old Guard maintain Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Whereas whales are subject to grave envi ronmental treats from nonhunting causes a 24-hour vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, these past such as pollution, loss of habitat, increased Soldier, participate in military funeral rights at couple of days have demonstrated once again shipping, oil and gas exploration, and the Arlington National Ceremony and take part in that you can never say never. Even as recent use of driftnets and other nonselective fish- numerous parades and other functions. ly as the beginning of the 101 st Congress I March 14, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4395 was a member of the chorus saying that the be better off if they cooperate and support change from demanding freedom to support- Germanys would not reunite any time soon, each other. ing freedom. the Berlin Wall was not about to fall, Mr. Man I must add however that I am concerned dela would never again live outside a prison our administration is not moving quickly or OAK CREEK CELEBRATES CON cell, and there would not be free and fair elec forcefully enough to support the independ- STITUTION'S oOTH ANNIVER tions in Nicaragua. As the months passed ence movement of Lithuania. The world 2 events that we thought would never happen in watches the United States to see how we, the SARY our lifetimes occurred quickly and relatively champions of freedom, react to events around peacefully. With no end in sight to the tri the world. And what they are seeing now is a HON. GERALD D. KLECZKA umphs of freedom there appears to be no President hesitant to stand with the Republic OF WISCONSIN more chorus of nay sayers, just a world com of Lithuania and demand economic fairness in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES munity anticipating the next triumphs. negotiations. President Bush says that no real Wednesday, March 14, 1990 The most recent lesson learned by the action is needed on our part since we have chorus was taught, appropriately, by a profes never recognized the Soviet Union claim to Mr. KLECZKA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to sor of music, now the new leader of the Re Lithuania. But I, many of my colleagues, and salute the city of Oak Creek, WI, for its out public of Lithuania. The brave individuals of most of the world recognized the unanimous standing achievement in celebrating the 200th Lithuania voted Sunday to formally secede vote this past Sunday as a remarkable and anniversary of the U.S. Constitution. from the Soviet Uni.on. Their Parliament unani historic event, one that demands special at- Oak Creek was one of only a few munici mously approved a proclamation which stated, tention. This administration has developed a palities in the State of Wisconsin to be recog- "Expressing the will of the people, the Su nized as a bicentennial community, and it cer preme Soviet of the Lithuanian Republic de knee-jerk reaction to world events that favors tainly is deserving of this title. The entire com- clares and solemnly proclaims the restoration caution, especially if Gorbachev's power base munity, including elected officials, business of the exercises of sovereign powers of the could be hurt. I, too, hope that Gorbachev re- people, service organizations, . schools, Lithuanian State, which were annulled by an mains in power to continue his policy of glas- churches, and townspeople, joined together to alien power in 1940." It took courage to make nost, but what I have learned from recent celebrate the anniversary of the document de this decisive break from the huge military and events is that the Soviet President is not pri- scribed as the greatest leap forward for free economic power that has controlled Lithuania marily responsible for the remarkable move- dom in human history. for 50 years. But it will take even greater cour ments toward freedom. The oppressed people The city of Oak Creek kicked off its celebra age and sacrifice to successfully join the of the world are tired of their current state and tion with an observance of Constitution Day world community of free nations. For inde are finally beginning to change it. Hope, free- on September 19, 1987. One of the highlights pendence as a matter of political reality is dom, and individual liberties are the driving of the opening ceremony was the presentation much different than independence as a matter forces behind the democratization of Eastern of two bicentennial flags to the city by the of economic and social viability. If Lithuania is Europe and the Soviet Union. And if the Oak Creek Lions Club and its president, Mr. to be truly independent and free, then it will United States is going to have a knee-jerk re- Erwin Semski. Also, on that day, any resident need the cooperation of other nations, espe action to world events, we should do so on who visited the Oak Creek Library had the cially the Soviet Union, Western Europe, and the side of independence and freedom. chance to sign a copy of the Constitution the United States. We must urge the Soviet Union to deal fairly which remained on display for the rest of the The most common fear faced by the lead with Lithuania. Their promise not to use force year. ers of the newly freed Republic of Lithuania is is to be expected not congratulated. Lithuania In May 1988, members of the Bicentennial a wave of economic reprisals from the Soviet has already indicated their desire to establish, Committee, with help from local senior citizens Union that could produce fuel shortages and "permanent, good, political, and economic re- and Oak Creek High School students, pre unemployment, threatening the State with lations with the U.S.S.R." I hope Mr. Gerba- sented the community production of "The chaos. But the leaders stand resolute that a chev is willing to do the same. The promise Constitution: Little Short of a Miracle," direct shortage of these material necessities is more not to use force is not nearly enough. Yegor ed by Ms. Kathy Kaianowicz. tolerable than a shortage of freedom, basic Ligachev, a Soviet official, said that "tanks will On July 14, 1988, a Bicentennial Recogni rights, and human dignity. President Gorba not help this matter," but that is not quite true, tion Dinner was held to thank the many chev should be commended on his willingness the economy of Lithuania will need tanks- people and organizations that contributed their to negotiate the terms of secession. He has tanks of oil, and tanks of food. If Lithuania is time, talents, and enthusiasm during the first never threatened directly or indirectly that the to be permitted to build its own fortress of year of the celebration. Among those recog Soviet Union would use force to halt the move freedom then issuing a building permit is not nized were Oak Creek Mayor Christine Bas toward independence. He has however de enough, the Soviet Union must give back the tian, Bicentennial Committee Chairman Ed manded that Lithuania pay a heavy price in tools they illegally took a half a century ago. Garbe, Program Chairman Gerald Mayhew, hard currency if it wishes to secede. This posi As I said earlier Mr. Speaker I have wit- and Tammy Schmidt, a junior at Oak Creek tion is both inappropriate and unfortunate. The nessed some things I never thought I would High School who received several awards for Lithuanian economy of today could never see. Mr. Ceausescu and Mr. Noreiga are no her school and community involvement and afford to pay the price Mr. Gorbachev is longer in power and Mr. Tyson is no longer for her essay on the Constitution. Ms. Schmidt asking, any attempt to do so would surely ruin the heavyweight champ. Buster Douglas put was one of 35 winners nationwide in the their attempts at independence. Mr. Gorba Iron Mike down for the count because of his essay contest, and she was selected as the chev may only be demanding such a high persistence left jab. The people of Lithuania Oak Creek Bicentennial Queen. price to alleviate some of the pressures he is have also been persistent, and now, at the In October 1988, there was a Constitutional feeling within his own Government. But what count of 50, 50 years they are back on their Bicentennial Booth at the Oak Creek Ninth ever the r1ason, the current economy of Lith feet. In their rise, freedom has found a victor. Annual Business and Industry Fair. The booth uania is n~t yet strong enough to support in The true achievement of independence for was staffed by "signers of the Constitution," dependence. This, of course, is not the fault Lithuania will be a gradual process. But the local townspeople dressed in costumes from of the Lithuanian people but the result of inef restoration of independence must not be die- the 1770's. ficient policies forced upon them by their in tated by Soviet interests but by the ability of One of the crowning events of the celebra vaders of a half century ago. Cooperation and Lituania to stand economically on its own feet. . tion was the September 17, 1989, presenta support of both Western Europe and the The administration must work to ensure that tion to the city of five plaques commemorating United States can certainly help strengthen they are helped up. Quitely cheerleading from the bicentennial, including replicas of the Arti Lithuania's economic base, however, their the sidelines of world events is not enough. cles of Confederation, the Constitution, and comparative advantage lies in trade with the To resign ourselves to such a position would the Bill of Rights. The person most responsi East, not the West. I therefore hope that Mr. belittle our past efforts and ignore the past ble for getting the plaques for the city was Mr. Gorbachev, who certainly has demonstrated sacrifices of millions of freedom-yearning indi- Gerald Mayhew, program chairman of the Bi himself as a visionary up to this point, realizes viduals east of the Iron Curtain. What is re- centennial Committee. Mr. Mayhew first heard that the Soviet Union and Lithuania will both quired of this body and this administration is a about the plaques 2 years earlier at a bic.en- 4396 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 14, 1990 tennial workshop. With his hard work and the Indeed, with the help of our determined local needs known. Why is this so? I do not think generous help of the Veterans of Foreign residents, businesses, and groups like this is because the majority of deaf and hear Wars Meyer Dziedzic Post 8482, ·and the EDCNP, our region is enjoying an economic ing-impaired Americans are less tenacious in ladies auxiliary, especially their senior vice renaissance. their endeavors or untiring in their efforts. Per president, Ms. Trudy Theoharris, Oak Creek As we proceed further with this economic haps it has been because they were willing to became the first city in the Nation to purchase revitalization, this same partnership of citizens, accept the limits we in the hearing world · had and display the plaques. industries, EDCNP and others will be working assigned them. The city of Oak Creek, its elected officials, to preserve the high quality of life we present It was only in the 1OOth Congress, for ex and its citizens are to be commended for their ly enjoy in northeastern Pennsylvania. ample, that both bodies passed the Telecom patriotism and pride in their city, State, and In fact, if assisting in the economic resur munications Accessibility Enhancement Act to Nation. The Constitution of the United States gence of our region is the hallmark of provide telecommunications access to the is the framework for the freedoms we in this EDCNP's first 25 years, we hope controlled Federal Government. Unfortunately, however, country sometimes take for granted. It is grati further growth with an emphasis on environ much remains to be done within our own fying to see a community celebrate those mental protection will characterize the group's House. Since H.R. 4992 was passed, 70 per freedoms and the document our Founding Fa next 25. cent of the Senator's offices have installed a thers gave us to assure the preservation and Again, congratulations to EDCNP on its an TDD at no cost to their office. In the House, continuation of those liberties. I am extremely niversary and I look forward to continuing to however, only 1.3 percent of Member's offices proud to have this outstanding community in work with this determined group on behalf of have purchased and installed a TDD. my congressional district. northeastern Pennsylvania. Therefore, because I believe the House needs to do its part to encourage direct com munication between Members and their con DEAF AWARENESS WEEK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT stituents, I am introducing a resolution to in COUNCIL OF NORTHEASTERN struct the Clerk of the House to purchase a PENNSYLVANIA CELEBRATES HON. STEVE GUNDERSON TDD for each Member's office. Moreover, the 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF WISCONSIN Joint Special Services Offices has volunteered IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES its services to educate our staff on how to use HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI Wednesday, March 14, 1990 the TDD. Although there are limited ways in OF PENNSYLVANIA which your deaf, hearing and speech impaired IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. GUNDERSON. Mr. Speaker, as a con constituents can contact you, I believe direct gressional trustee of Gallaudet University, I Wednesday, March 14, 1990 access to us and our staffs is in the best in want to take a moment during Deaf Aware terest of us all; for a representative democra Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today ness Week to pause and draw attention to cy is predicated upon communication. deaf Amerca. As a matter of fact this week is to pay tribute to the Economic Development We must continue to build on the in Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania a very significant and historic day for Ameri creased awareness of, and interest in deaf [EDCNP] for its 25 years of dedicated and val can deaf culture and Gallaudet University. For people. We must insist that the enhanced uable service in our region. 2 years ago yesterday Gallaudet University se attitudes toward deafness and deaf people On this occasion of EDCNP's anniversary lected Dr. I. King Jordan as their eighth presi become even more positive. We know this, celebration, I am pleased to inform my col dent in the 124-year history of the University and we can do this only by demonstrating leagues of the integral role this nonprofit and more importantly, as the first deaf presi that, given the opportunity, deaf people can group has played in our region's economic re dent of this liberal arts institution for the deaf. do anything but hear.-DR. I. KING JORDAN surgence. On a wide range of issues-from As many may remember, in early March I know my colleagues realize deaf people transportation and infrastructure enhancement 1988, Gallaudet served as the back drop for a can do anything and I would urge them, espe to solid waste management and recycling major social protest by the deaf community, cially as we pause to commemorate the ac EDCNP has helped galvanize local participa their families, and friends. Demanding a deaf complishments of deaf and hearing impaired tion and input in the critical issues facing our president, the silent protests on Florida Americans, to join me in supporting this legis region and our State. Avenue and later the Capitol steps dominated lation and provide an opportunity. Through workshops, seminars, and public the nightly newscasts. At their simplest, the meetings, EDCNP continues to reach out to deaf president now rallies, stilled a busy city SALUTE TO SHERIFF LLOYD B. local industries, serving both as a source for and gave millions of Americans, perhaps, JOHNSON information and an advisor on new business many for the first time, a glimpse of the aspi endeavors. Serving several counties in this rations of some 27 million of our hearing im corner of the Commonwealth, EDCNP has paired brothers and sisters. At their most pro HON. CLYDE C. HOLLOWAY helped hundreds of companies grow and found, the events of the ideas of March trans OF LOUISIANA expand. formed a people and witnessed their coming IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EDCNP's team of employees and extensive of age. board of directors operate with one basic and The appointment of Dr. King Jordan as Wednesday, March 14, 1990 important mission: to help our region and its president of Gallaudet was much more than Mr. HOLLOWAY. Mr. Speaker, it is with corporations and communities meet the chal just the naming of an executive officer, al great pride that I salute today Lloyd B. John lenges and opportunities of today and tomor though I am happy to report to my colleagues son, sheriff of St. John the Baptist Parish, LA, row. To support this effort, the group assidu that he has proven to be a resourceful and in for developing an innovative drug free incen ously researches available Federal, State, and novative manager. Dr. Jordan has become an tive program which involves middle school local assistance. international symbol of achievement. Perhaps and high school students, parents, and busi Not long ago in 1972, Mr. Speaker, in the you saw him chronicled on 60 Minutes this ness establishments. The program, known as wake of the damage and destruction caused past Sunday. As he did in that segment, King PASSED-Parish Area Students Systematical by Hurricane Agnes, many skeptics predicted Jordan continually trumpets the limitless po ly Eliminating Drugs-is an example of what that northeastern Pennsylvania would never tential of deaf Americans and indeed, Dr. Jor every parish and every county can do to fully recover. These skeptics assessed the dan's ascendency to the Gallaudet presidency create a positive peer pressure program to over $1 billion in damages that resulted from has proven that. fight the war on drugs. the third largest natural disaster in the history But the deaf movement and deaf culture is Any student may join the program. The only of our Nation. They viewed the loss as unsur larger than I. King Jordan and Gallaudet Uni requirement is that a student be drug free, mountable. versity; it extends far beyond the Beltway and have parental consent and voluntarily pass a I am pleased to affirm, however, that not encompasses 1O percent of our constituents. drug test. Once a student has successfully only have we proved the skeptics wrong, but However, unlike the leaders in any new wave completed the test, he or she receives a spe we continue to surpass even the most ambi of representation, they are less versed in ac cial card indicating the student is drug free. tious predictions offered by the optimists. cessing the hearing world and making their Area businesses participate in the program by March 14, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4397 offering special discounts to those students HONORING THE UTILITY WORK- Mr. Speaker, in a time when conventional who possess a drug free card. ERS UNION OF AMERICA wisdom declares that union fortunes are in de Mr. Speaker, I commend Sheriff Johnson, LOCAL 1-2 AFL-CIO cline, it gives me great pleasure to acknowl participating young people, families, and the edge a union local whose vitality and strength business community of St. John Parish for HON. GARY L. ACKERMAN are sufficient evidence that conventional making this program work. Everyone knows wisdom can occasionally be proven wrong. In OF NEW YORK that victory in the war on drugs will not be its day to day negotiations with management, achieved quickly, easily or cheaply. However, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UWUA Local 1-2 AFL-CIO has not shrunk programs like PASSED ensure that the war on Wednesday, March 14, 1990 from its responsibility to win for working men and women a decent day's pay for a decent drugs will eventually be won. Many people talk Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today about drugs and the threat they pose to our day's work. And so I ask my colleagues to join to pay tribute to one of the finest and most me in congratulating the Utility Workers of society, our kids and our future. Mr. Speaker, I successful union locals in the New York City America, Local 1-2 AFL-CIO on its golden ju am proud to report that the people of St. John area, the Utility Workers Union of America, bilee, and to wish it as much success in its the Baptist Parish, because of the initiative Local 1-2 AFL-CIO. On March 23 this organi second 50 years as in its first. demonstrated by Sheriff Lloyd Johnson, aren't zation will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a just talking about the need to be drug free. dinner dance at the Sheraton Center in Mid Together, they are taking action. town Manhattan. A VETERAN'S SEARCH FOR UWUA Local 1-2 has long been recognized WORLD WAR II ARMY COL- as a force in the Utility Workers Union and in LEAGUES TRIBUTE TO TWO HEROES the labor movement as a whole. It has the largest local in the Utility Workers Union, with HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI a membership totaling 13,000 to 14,000, en HON. ELTON GALLEGLY OF KENTUCKY compassing the whole of New York City and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA Westchester County. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The UWUA Local 1-2 has a distinguished history within the labor movement. It was origi Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I was contacted Wednesday, March 14, 1990 nally affiliated with the Brotherhood of Con by one of my constituents Mr. Manuel Baker Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to solidated Edison Employees, which on April 5, of Louisville, KY. Mr. Baker has been search honor two heroes, Theodore Hansen and 1940 won National Labor Relations Board rep ing, unsuccessfully, for several men who Daine Vannett, who risked their lives to save a resentation. The Utility Workers Organizing served with him in the Army in World War II. 4-year-old boy. Tragically, Mr. Hansen gave Committee was established within the Com He has listed these veterans and their Army his life so that the boy could live, but his sacri mittee for Industrial Organization in February serial numbers-and last known location, fice and Mr. Vannett's valor will be remem 1938, taking over organizing utilities workers when possible-which I would like to submit in bered on March 22 by the U.S. Coast Guard from the United Electrical, Radio and Machine the event that one of my colleagues recog and the Thousand Oaks, CA, Rotary Club. Workers of America. At the same time the six nizes any of the names and could help to re Emerson once wrote that "heroism feels original SCEE locals representing SCEE mem unite my constituent with some of his friends. I and never reasons." That describes how Mr. bers employed by Consolidated Edison hope my colleagues will feel free to call my merged to form local 1-2. On August 1, 1945, Washington office if they turn up any informa Hansen and Mr. Vannett reacted on June 17, the Utility Workers Organizing Committee tion on these veterans. 1987. Mr. Hansen, his wife, Barbara, and a became the Utility Workers Union of America These names submitted to me by Mr. Baker group of children were fishing from the rocks and SCEE Local 1-2 was chartered the same are listed below: at Mugu State Park when one of the children, day as UWUA Local 1-2. Ten years later, the Abbate, Generosa G., 32183623-NJ. Justin Black, was caught in a riptide and American Federation of Labor merged with Billings, Manford C., 39259408-0K. quickly taken out some 100 yards from shore. the new Congress of Industrial Organizations Davila, Maximillian, 32177297-NY. As Mrs. Hansen ran to seek help, Mr. to form the AFL-CIO, placing craft and indus Evans, George W., 33311512. Hansen plunged into the chill waters of the trial unions on equal footing. Soon after this Goodpasture, Wilber, 39132006. Pacific and swam out to the boy. Mr. Vannett date, on August 1, 1955, the UWUA Local 1-2 Kokoszka, Edward L., 31052315. heard Mrs. Hansen's calls for help and also Mahoney, Edward R., 36078201. received its AFL-CIO charter to become the Ollinger, Benjamin, 32182969-NY. entered the water. He found the boy clinging UWUA Local 1-2 AFL-CIO. Randall, John W., 36743424. to Mr. Hansen's shirt, rescued him and In recent times, local 1-2 has had to over Rosen, Sidney, 31035973-MA. headed back for shore. A lifeguard from a come great tragedy. Last December, one of Struble, Charles E., 37247190. nearby beach helped them to safety, while its members was killed and a number of Thomas, Wm. H., 32214861-NY. other lifeguards searched for Mr. Hansen and others injured in a gas explosion at a power Wallach, Ruel, 6259924-0K. Alderman, Hiram B., 34240273-FL. soon found him, face down in the water. De plant in Hellgate, the Bronx. As a result of this tragedy, the local 1-2 has engaged in negotia Futterman, Alvin M., 32183821-NY. spite performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation Pisano, Vincent J., 12056172. in the water, and administering CPR, his life tions for better safety and work conditions, Syracuse, Angelo, 32672098. could not be saved. better life insurance and debt benefits for its Mr. Speaker, the word "hero" is used too members. It is also currently involved in nego TRIBUTE TO THE LOS ANGELES frequently. Sometimes, a vote for common tiations with Consolidated Edison and the New York Power Authority to ensure that its mem BENCH AND BAR AFFILIATES, sense here in the House of Representatives is bers will not be shortchanged when the Power · INC. labeled heroic by Members and the press. But Authority renews the company's contract. One it's people like Theodore Hansen and Daine person who has been especially active in HON. JULIAN C. DIXON Vannett who truly deserve those accolades. these negotiations is Mr. Eugene Briody, the And as their brave and selfless action is hon OF CALIFORNIA local's business manager, who has served in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ored next week, I know our thoughts will be this position for 1 % years and as president for there as well. 2 years prior to that. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Members of local 1-2 have been very active Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, it is with great in their community. At various times they have pleasure that I rise today to recognize the Los supported the Boy Scouts, local charities and Angeles Bench and Bar Affiliates, Inc., for its summer camps. Members have also worked many years of dedicated service to the pre with local little leagues, often volunteering to dominantly African-American communities of help with lighting of games; the electricity sup the Greater Los Angeles area. Known former plied by Consolidated Edison, of course. ly as the Wives of the Bench and Bar, the Los 4398 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 14, 1990 Angeles Bench and Bar Affiliates, Inc., was longevity and much continued growth and our democratic system of Government. I am founded in 1955 by Justice Vaino Spencer success. certain, that by allowing international students and several civic-minded judges' and lawyers' sponsored by LASPAU, such as Mr. Gimenez, wives. TOM REED: PIONEER AND the opportunity to see Congress, first hand, The organization, whose current member COMMUNITY SERVANT we ensure that the experience they gain of ship is comprised of 70 spouses of judges our democratic institutions will prepare them and lawyers in the Los Angeles area, is com once they become leaders in their own coun mitted to working in the community through HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS tries. worthwhile programs, and presently partici OF CALIFORNIA Mr. Gimenez, I hope this has been a valua pates in and lends financial support to more IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ble experience for you and one that will assist than 18 community service projects. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 you in your future endeavors. On that note, The group has implemented numerous pro Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, seldom do I the staff and I wish you all the best and suc grams to acquaint community residents-es have the opportunity to talk about a person cess. pecially young people-with the various as who, because of his success and his contribu pects and activities of the legal profession. tion to the community, I admire most highly. I Since 1977, the group has sponsored tours of SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH OF speak in praise of Mr. Tom Reed, the founder, the Compton Courthouse for elementary and MATAWAN, NJ, CELEBRATES producer, and host of the Los Angeles-based secondary school students from public and ITS lOOTH ANNIVERSARY " For Members Only" talk show. Mr. Reed, private schools in the Compton, Carson, once known as the " Master Blaster" when he Inglewood, Lynwood, and Los Angeles areas, was a prominent figure on FM radio, has HON. BERNARD J. DWYER with Bench and Bar Affiliates serving as do forged a place in history because of his efforts OF NEW JERSEY cents. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Each year, the Los Angeles Bench and Bar to inform the public on issues that are impor Affiliates, Inc., observes National Law Day by tant to African-Americans and the Nation. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Tom's work in the study of black music, his hosting several schools at various Los Ange Mr. DWYER of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, it les area courthouses where students meet in ability to be an enduring figure on top-rated radio shows as diskjockey, and the above is with a great deal of pride that I rise to dividuals representing every phase of the inform you and my colleagues that the court system. Students are afforded a unique mentioned "For Members Only" as, among other things, host, are testaments to his dedi Second Baptist Church, which is located in opportunity to discuss the duties, salary, train Matawan, NJ, is celebrating its 1OOth anniver ing and necessary experience associated with cation to educating the public to the contribu tions other African-Americans have made to sary. various law-related jobs. Under the able leadership of its pastor, Rev. Moreover, since 1962, the Los Angeles the music industry, and the community, of which we are all a part. Joseph E. Butts, and the celebration chairper Bench and Bar Affiliates, Inc., has presented son, Alice E. Elmore, the church will be having approximately 200 scholarships to deserving His work on radio and television has not been a singular act of self-promotion, but special programs on the second Sunday of local law students. Recipients receive scholar each month throughout 1990 to commemo ship money through their final year of law served as a means to open doors for other African-Americans. As a role model for suc rate its long and outstanding history. school and are then awarded funds to cover Mr. Speaker, I know that every Member of bar review course fees. cess, truth, and respect for all people, it is fit ting that the Nation should know about Tom this House recognizes the important contribu In addition to its focused activities in the tion which our religious institutions make to legal area, the Los Angeles and Bar Affiliates, Reed, friend and committed community serv ant. the fabric of American life. We often com Inc., has contributed generously to a number mend one group or another on their accom of other worthy causes, including the United plishments, on the service which they provide Negro College Fund, the National Association OMAR V. GIMENEZ: ALL THE to our communities and on the many contribu for Sickle Cell Disease, the NAACP Legal De BEST AND SUCCESS tions they make. fense Fund, Inc., the Southern Area Foster Clearly, the Second Baptist Church is de Care Effort, the Young Black Scholars Pro HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY serving of such praise. I know that you will gram, local ·chapters of the YMCA and the OF CALIFORNIA join with me in wishing the congregation many Museum of African-American Art. And, in De IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more years of faith and service, as they begin cember, Affiliates assist the Los Angeles their second century of worship in Matawan. County Foster Parents Association by hosting Wednesday, March 14, 1990 the Dream Tree project located in the Fox Mr. DYMALL Y. Mr. Speaker, by mid-March, Hills Mall. In addition, members give gifts to Mr. Omar V. Gimenez will have completed his LAJOS KOSSUTH: HUNGARY'S foster children to help make their Christmas congressional fellowship in my office under FIRST FREEDOM FIGHTER dreams come true. the auspices of the Latin American Scholar By exposing elementary and secondary stu" ship Program of American Universities HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN dents to the judicial system and to role [LASPAU]. OF FLORIDA models in the legal profession, and by provid Mr. Gimenez is a mechanical engineering IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing assistance to aspiring lawyers and gifts to student at the Universidad Tecnologica Na disadvantaged children, Los Angeles Bench cional of General Pacheco, Buenos Aires, Ar Wednesday, March 14, 1990 and Bar Affiliates have enriched minds, broad gentina. His fellowship stemmed out of my Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, in this ened horizons and translated worthwhile concern for infrastructural development in day of falling iron curtains and rising democra dreams into promising realities. Through its 35 Latin America and the Caribbean. cies, I take the opportunity to recognize one years of service, the organization has estab It has been indeed a pleasure having Mr. of Hungary's original freedom fighters, Mr. lished a fruitful liaison between the Los Ange Gimenez as a fellow for these 2 months. His Lajos Kossuth. On March 15, 1848, Mr. Kos les area legal profession and the local Afri dedication and diligence in search of addition suth became the first Hungarian nationalist to can-American community from which hun al knowledge related to science and technolo lead that country's Diet in a break from the dreds in my district have benefited substantial gy were especially rewarding to him. He will Austrian Empire. His powerful pen and oratory ly. be returning to his studies at the university in galvanized the discontent of the Magyar Please join me in congratulating the Los An April. I only wish that more time was available people into the Hungarian nationalist move geles Bench and Bar Affiliates, Inc., on its ex for this aspiring future engineer to participate ment. tensive community service involvement and in this program, but I know that the knowledge Hungary had long suffered under the generous contributions toward the education he had already acquired will supplement and respressive absolutism of the Hapsburg mon and enrichment of Los Angeles area African broaden his understanding of his chosen field. archy in Vienna. In a speech to the Diet on American students, and in offering the organi Mr. Speaker, this student has had the March 3, 1848, Kossuth demanded the re zation and its membership best wishes for chance to observe the legislative process of moval of the dead hand of Austrian absolut- March 14, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4399 ism as the only way of securing the liberties of PRESIDENT NIXON RETURNS TO he sits on no boards, maintains a tiny staff Hungarians and all other peoples under the CAPITOL HILL and devotes himself to writing serious books monarchy. about world affairs-books that sell well be On this day, March 15, Hungarians around cause they are good. HON. CHUCK DOUGLAS He doesn't trumpet the fact that incum the world remember the ascent to freedom OF NEW HAMPSHIRE bent · presidents have grown accustomed to that Mr. Kossuth embodied. The Kossuth Civic IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES relying on his counsel; he makes no great Center in Miami, founded in 1954, will cele Wednesday, March 14, 1990 show of the fact that he is received like a brate this holiday of the Hungarian people visiting head of state virtually wherever he while remembering their brothers and sisters Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. Speaker, today I am travels. remaining in the homeland. Back in Hungary, placing in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a His judgment-based on first-hand knowl the influence of Lajos Kossuth is most as piece published by the New York Post de edge of the forces at play and the charac suredly alive. scribing former President Nixon's value to our ters involved-remains shrewd. Consider his Kossuth's countrymen are today demon Nation as a statesman and keen observer of argument, grounded in both geopolitics and strating that the human spirit will not long international affairs. As the Members know, concern for human rights on behalf of President Nixon recently returned to Capitol President Bush's China policy: endure a repressive regime before rising up to Hill, where 43 years ago he began his career "If the United States does not play a role challenge it. It is important for us to recognize, in politics, to discuss the current state of in China, who does that leave among the Mr. Speaker, how the efforts of Mr. Kossuth world affairs. He gave an excellent overview major powers?," Nixon asked during his laid the cornerstones of democracy in Hunga of the startling changes that have occurred Capitol Hill press conference. "It leaves the ry. This foundation was not to be easily up over the last year and provided powerful in Soviet Union and Japan. Does anyone think the Soviet Union is going to export human rooted, not even communism has shaken it. sights into how the United States should re The story of Lajos Kassuth and his modern rights to China? And anyone that thinks spond to these changes. Our Nation is fortu Japan is going to export democracy to day counterparts should remind us that free nate to have the benefit of the views of Rich dom and democracy must never be taken for China must be smoking pot." ard Nixon, counsel to Presidents and lawmak His triumphant return to Capitol Hill granted. ers, as we work to formulate an effective and where he started his political career some 43 responsive foreign policy. years ago, reminds us that historians writ [From the New York Post, Mar. 13, 1990] ing the history of the 1980s and 1990s will A STORY OF HEROISM IN note that Richard Nixon arrived at a new NORTHERN NEW JERSEY RICHARD NIXON, STATESMAN There may well be people who begrudge plateau of public esteem during this period. former President Richard M. Nixon the They'll also note that he achieved this HON. FRANK PALLONE, JR. warm welcome accorded him on his recent result the old-fashioned way: He earned it. visit to Capitol Hill. But there will always be OF NEW JERSEY a few professional Nixon-detractors IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES around-folks who've never forgiven him for TIME TO TAKE ACTION ON AID coming to national prominence by recogniz FOR PANAMA AND NICARAGUA Wednesday, March 14, 1990 ing that Alger Hiss was lying and that Whit Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, from time to taker Chambers was telling the truth; folks who've never forgiven him for returning HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD time we hear stories about heroism, about or from the political graveyard to capture the OF MICHIGAN dinary people, just like our friends and neigh White House in 1968 and 1972 (the latter bors, who do extraordinary things in times of victory, of course, took the form of an un IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES crisis. Recently, two of my constituents rose precedented national landslide). Wednesday, March 14, 1990 to the occasion to help a total stranger in a The anti-Nixon element probably thought time of great need. They turned out to be life it had finally won its great battle by driving Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, in the past him from office in 1974. But those who savers. few weeks, a lot has been said about emerg came to this conclusion were mistaken: ing democracies. The only thing that's Joseph L. Decosta and his younger brother they'd failed to consider Nixon's strength of Thomas E. Decosta, both from South Belmar, character and personal resolve. And they'd emerged in Congress so far is words. It's time NJ, were driving on a northern New Jersey failed to consider the fact that his enor for action. It's time to deliver. highway last month when they came upon an mous intellectual gifts meant he still had a Day after day one astonishing event accident scene. A car had been struck from great deal to contribute. eclipses another. The rapid transformation behind by a pickup truck, and the car immedi In recent years, however, the American and emergence of democracies around the people, in great number, have come to rec globe is without precedent. These remarkable ately burst into flames. The women driving the ognize President Nixon for what he is: a na car was trapped inside, and a crowd of on tional treasure-one of the world's most dis changes provide America with tremendous op lookers-including the driver of the pickup tinguished and respected elder statesmen. portunities and challenges. truck-stood by helplessly. The Decosta The manner in which he has conducted President Bush has given us a challenge. brothers immediately took action, helping the himself during the years since he left office Yesterday he outlined his aid package for woman from the car, dousing the flames with is undoubtedly a factor in his return to wide Nicaragua and Panama. He challenged us to a fire extinguisher, making sure no one else public esteem. The former chief executive get the aid packages for both countries on his could have accumulated great wealth, bar desk by April 5. was inside, and administering first aid to the tering the prestige of the presidency to injured woman. The woman survived the acci garner seats on corporate boards. He could Supporting the President's proposal is im dent, with some serious burns, and later easily have earned huge sums on the lecture portant for two reasons. First, both Nicaragua thanked the DeCostas. The Wayne Township, circuit. and Panama are destitute. Their budding de NJ, Deputy Police Chief was quoted as credit Or he could have written kiss-and-tell mocracies are as fragile as cherry blossoms in ing the two men with saving the women's life. books, exposing the foibles and follies of a cold March wind. friend and foe alike. He might even have Building a functioning democracy is chal Mr. Speaker, I am, of course, particularly pampered himself in well-guarded seclu proud of what my two constituents did to save sion-at the taxpayer's expense-never lenge enough. To rebuild a functioning econo the life of another. But I think all Americans again to surface. my, they will need some help from their can take pride when we see how an emergen Had Nixon chosen any of these paths, he friends. cy really does bring out the best in many of would have been in distinguished company. Second, the people of both countries are our fellow citizens. While most of us will never Many public figures, former presidents in taking a real gamble on democratic institu be involved in such a situation, it is reassuring cluded, have enjoyed plush post-retirement tions. lives by selecting one or more of the options to know that there are people like Joseph and noted above. This is a good time to show the Nicaraguan Thomas Decosta who are willing to put their Not Richard Nixon. He takes no speaking and Panamanian people that legislative bodies own safety on the line to help another, and fees, and voluntarily surrendered the Secret can do more than deliberate. We've got to even to save a life. Service protection to which he is entitled; show them that legislators can deliver. 4400 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 14, 1990 HONORING THE HINSDALE TRIBUTE TO HENRY DILLON God bless you, Dillon, for all that you did for LIONS CLUB WINSHIP, JR. so many. HON. NEWT GINGRICH HON. SILVIO O. CONTE NATIONAL SCLERODERMA OF GEORGIA AWARENESS WEEK OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 14, 1990 HON. WILLIAM J. HUGHES Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, Dillon Win OF NEW JERSEY Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay trib ship-native Georgian, great leader in his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES community and business, ardent patriot, and ute to one of the finest chapters in the world Wednesday, March 14, 1990 of Lions International. I am proud to announce good friend-died on December 13, 1989, of that on March 24, 1990, the Hinsdale Lions heart failure. Mr. HUGHES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Born in Macon, on July 28, 1929, Dillon at Club, of Hinsdale, MA, will celebrate the 35th introduce a resolution which designates the tended Woodberry Forest School in Virginia week of June 1 to 16; 1990, as "National anniversary of its charter. o through his graduation in 194 7. He spent 1948 Scleroderma Awareness Week." Their motto is "if it can be done-Hinsdale to 1951 at Georgia Institute of Technology, As many of you know, scleroderma literally Lions will do it." And lhey have. During the and graduated from the University of Tennes means "hard skin." Those who suffer from past 35 years, the Hinsdale Lions have made see in 1952, with a S.S. degree in transporta this rare disease experience a thickening and and spent in the town of Hinsdale over tion. hardening, or scarring, of the skin due to an $200,000, plus many thousands of man hours Dillon was employed with Transus, Inc. of overproduction of collagen, a protein manu doing volunteer services. This is in addition to Atlanta for 37 years, and he served as presi factured by the connective tissues of the making their annual donations to the Massa dent and chief executive officer, and also as body. In the severest forms of scleroderma chusetts Lions Eye Research Fund, the Orth chairman of the board. Dillon resumed presi the hardening process may spread to the optic Clinic, the 33Y Emergency Sight and dency of Transus Motor Carrier Division of joints greatly reducing an individual's mobility Hearing Treatment Foundation, Clark School Transus, Inc. in September 1987. and to the body organs causing functioning for the Deaf, Perkins School for the Deaf and Dillon was an energetic and emphatic advo impairment. Blind, and WMRRS Radio Station for the cate of the transportation industry to which he This chronic, and often fatal disease affects blind. devoted much of his life. approximately 300,000 people in the United Mr. Speaker, there are many examples that Musing over the importance of transporta States alone. This number is more than twice I could expound upon to you and my col tion to the successful functioning of our econ the number of active AIDS cases currently re leagues here on the House floor but let me omy as he assumed the reins of power at the ported to the Center for Disease Control. American Trucking Association in 1973, Dillon give you just a few. Their first major project Scleroderma, a noncontagious disease, is reflected, "The service utilities-power, com was to create a beach area for the residents not reported to the Center for Disease Control munications and transportation-are the of Hinsdale. They have been maintaining a and therefore does not receive the public at spokes in the wheel of industry that make the tention or Federal funding given other serious cottage and a beach since 1958, and they wheel turn. Any man who is employed in this provide a caretaker to keep the area clean. diseases. Consequently, physicians involved in great transportation industry is important. He the research and treatment of scleroderma They have also used the cottage to store hos moves that lifeblood through the arteries that have experienced only limited success due to pital beds, wheelchairs, crutches, and such feed the society." limited funding. Although recent research has goods that are available to anyone who needs He was also fond of saying, "Nothing trans greatly increased the medical community's un them, free of charge. They took on such ports itself." derstanding of how scleroderma affects the projects as rebuilding the condemned town Dillon, noted for his outspokenness, mana body and has produced helpful treatments for hall in 1963, to transform it into a youth center gerial strength, and sense of personal respon scleroderma patients, much more needs to be which sponsors the many sports and recre sibility, was active in many organizations, in done. ational activities for Hinsdale's youth. They cluding the American Trucking Associations, Since we cannot appropriate unlimited also rebuilt the Old Grange Hall which is in Inc., Georgia Motor Trucking Association, public funds to put scleroderma research on continuous use by the Seniors Home Care, World Business Council, Inc., Business Coun the fast track, let's do what we can to ensure Lions, Lioness', Grange, Boy Scouts, Masons, cil of Georgia, Chief Executives Forum, Young that the research continues. Over 220 of our and bingo players. Presidents Organization, and the Northwest colleagues joined me last year in declaring The Hinsdale Lions, comprised of 20 mem Presbyterian Church. "National Scleroderma Awareness Week" bers, 14 of which are over 60 years old, have Dillon is survived by his wife, Patricia Cor which helped to facilitate successful outreach also built a kiddie park and basketball courts, telyou Winship, one daughter, Adrian Pressley, activities and fundraising events around the catered picnics, clambakes, ball games, wed and two sons, H. Dillon Ill and Blanton C. He country. dings, and chicken barbecues. They have also is also survived by his mother, Anne Chiches I ask my colleagues to please join the effort ter Winship, his sister, Anne Kelleher, and two held raffles, carnivals, circuses, donkey base again this year by cosponsoring this resolu brothers, Emory V and Wadleigh C. He has six ball, and basketball, a basketball tournament, tion. grandchildren. and public suppers, to name a new. I have thought of Dillon especially often The Hinsdale Lions can potentially walk over the last few weeks. THE NEED FOR OUR hand in hand with someone through life. They Recent events in Nicaragua would have BATTLESHIPS have guided youngsters through their forma pleased him. I know that he is smiling as he tive years and then helped them in their watches Violeta Chamorro's progress toward HON.GLENNM.ANDERSON golden years. democracy in Nicaragua. OF CALIFORNIA Mr. Speaker, the Hinsdale Lions Club has Without the conservative's conviction to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gone far beyond the call of duty. They've cause of the freedom fighters, that country played a vital role in building the community would not have enjoyed this promise of hope. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 that now exists in Hinsdale. I want to salute The worldwide movements throwing off the Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, the Navy re- the past and present members for their 35 chains of oppressive regimes clearly demon- cently announced its intention to mothball two years of service and dedication. I wish them strate that when given a choice and a chance, battleships, the USS Missouri and the USS many more years of continued success. people will opt for freedom. New Jersey. I have made my position known Dillon knew this. His conviction helped lead . on the need for reasonable cuts in our armed the Nicaraguan people to what we hope will services. As much as anyone, I would like to ultimately mean dramatic improvements in see this Nation prudently trim our military ex their lives. penditures, as long as that trimming process March 14, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4401 is done with our strategic needs in mind and TORPEDOING OUR MERCHANT head fisheries. The watershed's spectacular adequately accounts for present and future MARINE scenery includes huge coastal redwoods military threats. I question whether mothballing along the lower river, deep whitewater can battleships adheres to that necessary logic. HON. RONALD V. DELLUMS . yons, harsh rocky plateaus, rich conifer for I was heartened to see that the Navy was OF CALIFORNIA ests and high mountain peaks and meadows. least impacted in Secretary Cheney's pro IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wildlife is abundant, and the area supports an posed 1991 defense budget. As our Nation's exceptional diversity of plant and animal spe historical defender, the Navy has consistently Wednesday, March 14, 1990 cies. sailed in harm's way, resisting unjust aggres Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, I was dis Despite historic mining and extensive log sion and promoting democracy around the mayed to learn last week that the Maritime ging over the past 40 years, substantial por world. We are a maritime power, do not Administration was considering an application tions of the basin remain wild and undevel forget. Our future lies in freedom of the seas, to sell and transfer to foreign operation the oped. More than 46,000 acres along the and control of those same seas if the need U.S.-flag passenger vessel SS Monterey. I upper South Fork are included in the Siskiyou should arise. As world trade becomes a great joined with 17 of our colleagues in a bipartisan Wilderness, and views from the river and er and greater share of our gross national effort against the approval of this request. Un major travel routes largely retain their natural product, our reliance on the Navy to protect fortunately, for our Nation and our merchant appearance. this country's economic integrity will grow. We marine, the Maritime Administration has decid Local residents and visitors alike have long also primarily rely upon the Navy to project ed to conditionally approve the sale of this used the Smith River basin for fishing, hunt power onshore. Between the years 1945 and vessel to foreign interests. ing, whitewater boating, swimming, camping, 1990 we used our naval power 187 times. The As we stated in our letter to the Maritime hiking and sightseeing, but overall recreation question for the future is then one of how do Administration, there is no justification from a use remains relatively light. The proposed we maintain those forces that are most capa national maritime policy standpoint for allow NRA, in combination with the adjacent State ble and most likely to successfully fulfill our ing this vital sealift asset to leave the control and national parks, has the potential to worldwide commitments, responsibilities, and of the United States. In fact, I am absolutely become one of the premier recreation attrac needs. I point to our battleships as uniquely convinced that the national interest is best tions on the west coast. qualified for that mission. protected by keeping this vessel under the The legislation would divide the NRA into As evidence I would like to quote from Sen U.S. flag. eight separate management areas and estab ator McCAIN'S insightful article entitled, "The It is especially dangerous and foolish to ex lish general management policies for each Need for Strategy in the New Postwar Era," plain away any such transfer by asserting that area. More specific management direction is as appeared in the January 1990 Armed our foreign-owned, foreign-flag and foreign contained in the draft Smith River National Forces International Journal. He writes: manned vessels can be counted on to re Recreation Area Management Plan prepared We must be cautious, however, about cut spond to our Nation's needs in time of war or by Six Rivers National Forest. ting our four battleships. They cannot national emergency. The draft management plan includes 10- simply be dismissed as outdated weapons. Mr. Speaker, it is not too late for Maritime year action plans for recreation development, They can deliver far more firepower with Administrator Capt. Warren Leback to prevent fisheries, wildlife, watershed rehabilitation, cul far more security along most of the world's any further diminution of our Nation's sealift tural resources, interpretation, and research. coast than an air wing. In fact, one battle capability. He has it within his power to pro Recreation development plans include propos ship can deliver 40,500 pounds of ordnance tect and promote the American merchant at ranges up to 23 miles in one minute. Each als for a visitor center, new campgrounds and marine by keeping the Monterey under the picnic areas, boating access, construction of battleship also has eight quadruple launch American flag and I strongly urge him to do ers for Tomahawk cruise missiles. This gives hiking and horse trails, designation of ORV it the ability to hit fixed targets with in so. routes, and improved access for the handi credible precision at ranges of up to 700 capped. miles. The battleship has an almost ideal INTRODUCTION OF THE SMITH Under the legislation, more than two-thirds surgical strike capability· for low-intensity RIVER NATIONAL RECREATION of the NRA's old growth timber, including all war and is the natural partner of fixed-wing air power because it can use its cruise mis AREA LEGISLATION stands of old growth redwood, would be per siles and guns to suppress air defense sites. manently protected, and timber harvests It is also important to note that a battleship HON. DOUGLAS H. BOSCO would be reduced by more than half. The costs only $45-million a year in operating OF CALIFORNIA Forest Service estimates that the allowable cut would be limited to about 10-million-board and maintenance funds. This is less than IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the $48-million per year for a nuclear cruis feet per year over the first decade. er and about one-third of the $124-million Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Logging would be prohibited or sharply re cost of a conventional carrier. Mr. BOSCO. Mr. Speaker, I am today intro stricted in most areas, with timber production I would further add that our battleships rep ducing legislation to establish a Smith River focused in the isolated central portion of the resent a very large percentage of the Navy's National Recreation Area in Del Norte County, watershed where extensive logging has al gunnery support and also carry Harpoon anti CA. I hope my colleagues will join me in sup ready occurred. Timber management in these ship missiles. porting this effort to provide stronger protec areas will be based on emerging theories of I found this article, written by a highly deco tion for the "crown jewel" of California's wild landscape ecology, and could serve as a na rated Navy veteran and a distinguished and scenic rivers. tional model for maintenance of biological di member of the Senate Armed Services Com The Smith River National Recreation Area versity on timber producing lands. mittee, to be greatly informative. I think it puts (NRA] would encompass 300,000 acres o~ the Subject to valid existing rights, the entire to rest many questions concerning the cost, watershed of the last undammed major river NRA would be withdrawn from new mining capability, and strategic mission of our battle system in California. claims and patents. Holders of valid ·existing ships. I would just like to add that there is no The NRA would include all national forest claims would not be affected, but no new other type of ship in our fleet so ideally suited land in the California portion of the Smith claims would be permitted. to playing the crucial deterrent role of showing River watershed, from the State and national Four areas within the exterior boundaries of the flag. Speaking softly and carrying a big redwood parks along the lower reaches to the the NRA that already have a substantial level stick is easily demonstrated with a fleet of bat Oregon border and the river's headwaters in of private development-Gasquet, Big Flat, tleships on your side. Finally, when many have the Siskiyou Mountains. Washington Flat and the Rock Creek subdivi called into question the survivability of our car More than 310 miles of the Smith River and sion along the South Fork-:-would be explicitly riers, I would like to remind all that there is no its major tributaries have been designated as excluded from the NRA. No additional regula ship harder to sink than a battleship. components of the State and National Wild tion is proposed for other private inholdings With these facts in mind, I hope that we will and Scenic Rivers Systems. within the NRA. all think long and hard before we decide to The Smith River is renowned for its excep Former Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus' mothball these two fine and proud ships. tional water quality, trophy salmon and steel- 1981 administrative designation of Wild and 4402 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 14, 1990 Scenic Rivers within the NRA's exterior river's wild character with no commercial TRIBUTE TO THE NANTAHALA boundaries would be rescinded and redesig timber harvest permitted. 1990 RALLY nated by statute under section 3(a) of the Wild The Lower South Fork Management Area- and Scenic Rivers Act. Two streams that were 17,900 acres-includes the entire river canyon HON. RONALD K. MACHTLEY excluded from the original designation-Hard from Big Flat downstream to the confluence OF RHODE ISLAND scrabble Creek and Stony Creek-would be with the Middle Fork. The river is paralleled by added to the system, and classifications of the South Fork Road, which provides ready IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES several other streams would be upgraded. Ex access for fishing and swimming. Protection of Wednesday, March 14, 1990 isting designations of streams outside the scenic values would be a primary manage Mr. MACHTLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today NRA boundaries would not be affected. ment emphasis in this area, along with white to recognize an organization and an event The bill also includes provisions intended to water boating, fishing, swimming, and camp that has helped promote world peace through ensure that establishment of the NRA does ing. Limited timber harvest would be permit the sport of rafting. not result in loss of revenues to local govern ted. The Nantahala 1990 Rally is an internation ment and authorizes funding for developments The Lower Hurdygurdy Creek Management al rafting event that is being held for the first of a unified land information system integrat Area-3,700 acres-provides the only signifi time in the United States. The event began in ing data from Federal, State, local and private cant area of float terrain in public ownership the Soviet Union in 1979. There, it was limited sources. along the South Fork. The management em to Soviet participants until 1988 when one In addition, the bill allows for the county to phasis in this area would be on providing international team entered the competition. In also receive title to two small parcels of land 1989, the competition was opened to over currently occupied by the Bar-0 Boys Ranch, rustic family and group camping facilities on the flats along the creek and protection of 300 participants from 17 countries. The Nan a county facility serving juvenile offenders. tahala 1990 Rally will promote international These two parcels were historically believed scenic values. Limited timber harvest would be permitted. peace and friendship by bringing together out to be owned by the county, but a recent resur door enthusiasts from around the world. vey revealed that the facilities actually en The Prescribed Timber Management Area- 121 ,900 acres-includes four separate blocks I would like to offer my best wishes to the croach on national forest land. The boundary Nantahala 1990 Rally and all its participants of land that, because of their topography and adjustment proposed under the legislation is from around the world. I hope that the compe intended to rectify this situation. location, have historically experienced low tition will be a great success. The North Fork Management Area-44,300 levels of recreation use. The area is substan acres-includes all of the California portion of tially roaded and shows extensive evidence of the North Fork drainage. A portion of the past timber harvesting. About 20,000 acres, COMMEMORATING THE 50TH North Fork's watershed extends into Oregon. most of it cut over, is in private ownership. ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAIR A series of harsh, rugged plateaus cut by About half of the remaining area is classified FAX COUNTY FEDERATION OF deep canyons, the North Fork's sparsely as commercial timber land. The management CITIZENS ASSOCIATIONS vegetated mineral soils support a number of emphasis for this will be on production of sus rare plant species and unique botanical com tained yields of wood products while maintain HON. FRANK R. WOLF munities. Largely untouched since the mining ing biological diversity. A significant portion of OF VIRGINIA days of the 1800's, this area would be man the area would be designated for manage IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES aged for whitewater boating and backcountry ment as wildlife habitat, with timber harvests recreation while protecting unique botanical either prohibited or limited to extended cutting Wednesday, March 14, 1990 communities and historic values. Commercial rotations. Timber management will be based Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to timber harvest would be prohibited. on landscape level ecological strategies using commend the Fairfax County Federation of The steep slopes of the Upper Middle Fork silvicultural techniques designed to maintain Citizens Associations on the occasion of its Management Area-27,400 acres-support biological diversity, including stand-level modi 50th anniversary this month. For half a centu rich conifer forests. Although more than one fications in species composition, rotation ry, this vital and active group has represented third of the area has been cut over and is now length and stand structure-such as leaving citizens, homeowners, and neighborhoods and in young plantations, much of the remainder is standing green trees, snags, and other course made an irreplaceable contribution to the covered with old growth timber, including two woody debris. quality of life for all northern Virginians. proposed botanical areas that ·feature excep The Siskiyou Wilderness Management In my office hangs a picture of the intersec tional diversity of conifer species. Manage Area-46,300 acres-borders the upper South tion of Virginia Routes 7 and 123 taken ment of this area would emphasize protection Fork and includes the headwaters of a around 1940, the year the federation was of biological diversity and maintenance of old number of tributaries to both the South and founded. The photograph captures a lone growth ecological values. Commercial timber Middle Forks. Marked by steep slopes, thick truck making its way down a dusty road. On harvest would be allowed in existing second forests, open mountain valleys and steep rock one corner a gas station. On the other a small growth stands. faces, the Smith River portion of the wilder wooden building called Tyson's Corner Store. The Middle Fork/Highway 199 Management ness remains one of the wildest areas in Cali It goes without saying that Fairfax County Area-30,800 acres-includes the entire fornia. Management of the area would not has grown since then. Forty-one thousand viewshed from the highway, which has been change under the NRA designation. people lived here in 1940. Today over three designated a national scenic byway. Readily quarters of a million people call it home. We The Gasquet Ranger District has historically accessible along most of its length, the heavi are now a worldwide center of commerce with been accorded the status of a separate ly forested Middle Fork's narrow canyon and a standard of living that the men and women market area under the Small Business Timber broad flats offer abundant opportunities for checking oil at that gas station or waiting on Sale Set-Aside Program on Six Rivers Nation recreation. Management of this area will em customers behind the counter at that general phasize protection of scenic values and en al Forest. I believe that the establishment of a store could never have imagined. hancement of a broad range of recreation Smith River National Recreation Area, in com But even with all the change, our sense of uses, including development of new camp bination with the changes in purchase history, community has been steady. The Fairfax grounds. Commercial timber harvest wpuld be sales level and market patterns that have oc County Federation of Citizens Associations prohibited. cured in recent years, justify a special recom has played a major role in preserving the most The Upper South Fork Management Area- putation of the small business allocation and important aspects of our lives. As Fairfax has 13,000 acres-is adjacent to the Siskiyou Wil review of the need for two separate market grown, the federation has made sure that derness and includes the entire west bank of areas on this national forest. Under Forest neighborhood concerns were not neglected. the river up to the ridge line. This portion of Service policy, it is the responsibility of the The group twice worked to change the form the river is designated wild, and most of the forest supervisor to conduct such an analysis, of Fairfax County government. They led the area remains undeveloped. Management of and it is my understanding that Six Rivers Na fight to establish a county executive in 1950 the area would emphasize protection of the tional Forest is willing to initiate this process. and an urban county executive in 1968. In March 14, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4403 1969 the federation conducted the first study programs for their coastal areas in accord to finish his high school education there. He of the· costs and benefits of residential growth ance with minimum Federal standards. States spent the rest of his life in Frostproof, building in Fairfax County. have two major incentives to participate in this a substantial citrus business from the few They published the iirst countywide street process. First, Federal matching grants are trees his father gave him as a wedding map and directory in 1957 as a service to available to help develop and implement pro present. their members. The map was done so well grams approved by the Federal Government. I met Ben Hill when I was just getting start that Fairfax County purchased it both for use Second, States with approved programs have ed in the banking business and he was be by the Government as well as for sale to the a right to require that activities by the Federal coming a pioneer in the frozen concentrate public. Government in their coastal zones are con market. Bankers were struggling to provide fi The federation reinforces positive communi sistent with these plans. nancing for this new commodity, since valuing ty values not only by its actions every day, but I am proud that almost 20 years ago, I the product was basically uncharted ground. also by making a special effort to annually helped develop Washington State's Coastal As one of Ben Hill's bankers, I had the oppor recognize an outstanding individual as citizen Zone Management Program. Back then, I also tunity to participate in establishing the credit of the year. helped draft a citizens' initiative to protect our standards for financing frozen concentrate. Members of the federation have been in shorelines from overdevelopment. Today, Thanks to his vision and initiative, I guess that volved in nearly every major study group, au Washington and 28 other States have ap I, too, became something of a pioneer in the thority, commission and board appointed by proved coastal zone management plans. banking world. the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for But, Mr. Speaker, in 1984, the Supreme Ben Hill was more than just a good busi more than two decades. Their studies and Court ruled that the Department of Interior's nessman, however. He was tough, quick, and comments on local, county, State, and Feder sale of oil and gas leases on the Outer Conti he made you understand why you have to al legislation are well respected and are an nental Shelf does not directly affect the coast stand up for what you believe in-and fight important part of the lawmaking process. al zone as defined in this landmark bill. H.R. hard for it. He was a big influence in my deci The federation also publishes a monthly 4030 will clarify this issue. It will reinstate the sion to run for the House of Representatives newsletter, operates eight standing commit intent of Congress and restore the ability of in 1976. Ben Hill didn't tell me what to do ex tees, and sponsors leadership training work States to determine if an offshore oil or gas actly; he just outlined what was important for shops and public policy seminars. lease sale is consistent with the State's America and what opportunity the House seat Mr. Speaker, the Fairfax County Federation Coastal Zone Management Act. would provide in helping to promote those of Citizens Associations is a shining example In addition to overturning Califor.nia versus ideals. "If you feel strongly," he told me, "you of what people can accomplish by working to Watt, H.R. 4030 also requires State programs have an obligation to act on that conviction." gether for a common goal. The federation's to develop a coastal water protection program When he was through, there wasn't much outstanding service is in the finest tradition of to address the problem of nonpoint pollution. question left in my mind as to what I was American voluntarism and on behalf of all the Mr. Speaker, I am proud that Washington going to do. citizens of Fairfax County, I thank the federa State's Puget sound water quality authority is Ben Hill's friends were many. He gave of tion for its 50 years of service and wish con a recognized national leader in addressing this himself, of his time and energy to his family tinued success in the years. and decades problem. and his neighbors. He was kind and encourag ahead. Mr. Speaker, the bill also creates a new na ing, strong and respected. He was a true tional interest improvement program which re American success story and we are all a little H.R. 4208 quires States to identify coastal wetlands, so better for having known him. that they can be protected. We need to act to preserve our remaining wetlands and this bill HON. GEO. W. CROCKETT, JR. helps us do that. SAVE OUR SHORELINES OF MICHIGAN H.R. 4030 also recognizes our international IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES obligations to help developing countries pro HON. PORTER J. GOSS Wednesday, March 14, 1990 tect their coastal zones. To this end, Mr. OF FLORIDA Speaker, the bill states that Congress wants Mr. CROCKETI. Mr. Speaker, on March 7, I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES introduced H.R. 4208, legislation to correct a the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin glaring inequity in the retirement rules for Fed istration and the Department of State to assist Wednesday, March 14, 1990 developing countries with their coastal man eral judges. I was very pleased to welcome 29 Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, for the record I agement initiatives. original cosponsors of that measure. submit the text of a petition being circulated in I know that the leadership of the Merchant Unfortunately, due to an administrative south Florida urging the Federal Government Marine and Fisheries Committee supports error, one very important name was inadvert to ban oil drilling in the environmentally sensi H.R. 4030. I look forward to prompt consider ently left off that list of original cosponsors tive waters off Florida's coast. The petition ation of this important bill. And I urge my col that of the chairman of the Courts Subcommit has already generated almost 10,000 signa leagues to join in supporting protection of our tee,· my friend and colleague ROBERT KASTEN tures-and the number continue to grow. I am coastal zone. MEIER. I value his support for this initiative, also forwarding the signed petitions to Presi and deeply regret that he was not included in dent Bush for his consideration. the original list of sponsors. BEN HILL GRIFFIN, JR.-AN In addition to the thousands of citizens who I am today adding his name to the list of co AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY have taken the time to sign these petitions, I sponsors for H.R. 4208, and hope he will for commend Marge and David Ward, whose or give the oversight. HON.ANDY IRELAND ganization-Citizens Association of Bonita Beach [CABB]-has worked tirelessly to pro OF FLORIDA H.R. 4030 mote public awareness of this issue. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The petition reads as follows: Wednesday, March 14, 1990 HON. JOHN MILLER SAVE OUR SHORELINE Mr. IRELAND. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to OF WASHINGTON We oppose the future sale of oil and gas honor a man who has meant a great deal to leases anywhere off the shores of the State IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the little town of Frostproof, to the State of of Florida within 60 miles of shore. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 Florida, and to me and my family. Mr. Ben Hill We recommend the permanent postpone Mr. MILLER of Washington. Mr. Speaker, I Griffin, Jr. was my friend, and when he died ment of exploration and drilling on any off shore leases already held by oil companies joined in cosponsoring H.R. 4030, a bill to re March 1, it was a sad day for all of us who seeking to explore for gas or oil near south authorize the Coastal Zone Management Act. loved and respected him. west Florida. In 1972, Mr. Speaker, Congress passed the Ben Hill Griffin, Jr. was a self-made man. The offshore area is much too economical Coastal Zone Management Act to encourage He was born in the mining town of Tiger Bay ly important to the State of Florida to be States to voluntarily develop management in 1910, and moved to Frostproof, FL in time opened to drilling. These fragile coastal 4404 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 14, 1990 areas are of unsurpassed beauty that must study segments for graduation as opposed to OPPOSITION TO GRANTING AP be conserved for future generations. the present K - 12 with only 24. PROVAL TO SELL A U.S.-FLAG Although we recognize the need for do This would appear to increase the burden VESSEL mestic energy, the environmental and eco on teachers, except that I would propose re nomic risks posed by oil drilling near the quiring teachers to teach only two out of Florida shoreline is too great to justify any every three periods. The third period teach HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. leasing plan. ers would be free to improve their skills and OF KENTUCKY subject knowledge; to take alternate duties IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES within the school such as administration, WALDRON'S IDEAS counseling, coaching or working with par Wednesday, March 14, 1990 ents and community; or to take time off. Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, as a member HON. CARL D. PURSELL If we established a pool of talent within of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries each school or district that rotated between OF MICHIGAN different assignments, teachers handling ad Committee, I would like to emphasize my IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ministrative duties and administrators re strong opposition to the Maritime Administra tion's recent decision to grant approval to an Wednesday, March 14, 1990 turning to the classroom on a regular basis, we could go far in revitalizing the role of ed application under section 9 of the Shipping Mr. PURSELL. Mr. Speaker, at this time ucator and building a cohesive teaching unit Act of 1916 to sell the U.S.-flag vessel SS would Ike to share with my colleagues an arti free of the prevailing division between Monterey for operation under a foreign flag. cle which appeared on August 31, 1989, in teaching and administrator. What is most perplexing to me is the fact the Lansing, Ml, State Journal. The author, The extension of the school year increases that the Maritime Administration has a man Robert Waldron, former speaker of the Michi the demands on the student-but that is date to protect and promote the U.S.-flag mer gan House of Representatives, offers some precisely where our current system is fail chant marine. This being so, granting approval enlightening ideas on the U.S. education ing. We need to demand more from our stu for the foreign sale of a vessel considered to system. dents and give them the time and environ be a sealift asset of the United States ap ment in which to meet and understand the CFrom the Lansing State Journal, Aug. 31, pears to be an abdication of their responsibil 1989] demands of a complex and competitive world. ity. LET'S RESTRUCTURE, EXTEND SCHOOL YEAR Rather than end public education at age The only interests being protected and pro The United States has one of the shortest 16, we should add two more years into the moted by this sale are foreign interests. The school years in the industrial nations and it basic educational program. The two years, administration has no money to recoup for the produces achievements-particularly in however, should not be required to follow American taxpayer. It's a bailout, pure and math and sciences-that rank with the immediately after high school but could be simple, for foreign interests. What the taxpay Third World. Despite is short calendar and taken at any point between the ages of 16 er and the U.S. maritime industry are losing in poor results, the American education system and 21, allowing a student to enter the work clude a sealift asset as well as jobs for U.S. is one of the most expensive in the world, force and better define for him or herself merchant mariners and for all the suppliers consuming a larger portion of our public ex what his or her personal educational needs penditures than any other social undertak and support industries who profit from the op are. These additional years of education eration of a U.S.-flag vessel. ing, including health and national defense. would have a two-track approach, either to Across our nation concern is deepening, a college/community college program or to I strongly urge my colleagues to join me in yet what answers are being proposed? Most intensive training in a specific trade or pro calling for the Maritime Administration to re discussion of our educational system re verse this bad decision. volves around values and wages, with few fession. concrete proposals being made. Some ex Obviously such a program may cost more money but I believe that Americans are will perts think the solution is paying teachers BAKER'S TRICK more money, as though higher salaries will ing to spend more on education if they see a improve the skills and strategies teachers concrete program for serious educational re bring to the classroom. Other experts call structuring. If they are offered only more of HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN for a core curriculum of subjects, as if the same with a higher price tag, I suspect OF CALIFORNiA teaching different subjects by the same they will reject the offer. means will meet our nation's educational IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES needs. Wednesday, March 14, 1990 No commentator that I have read has DEDICATE DEFENSE SPENDING even addressed one of the most profound Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. Speaker, REDUCTION TO DEFICIT RE what is happening in the Soviet Union and its differences between American education DUCTION AND TAX RELIEF and that of Japan, Germany or other soci Eastern bloc satellites is obviously having an eties: our fundamental purpose. Most educa impact around the entire globe. Diplomacy in tional systems and James Baker are frozen in the diplo that make up the American spirit. These "Peace with Justice and Honor," these matic Ice Age. They focus on Israel's West events occur at the beginning of what should words were spoken by John Cardinal O'Con Bank; they exploit divisions within Israel's be a lifetime of physical activity. nor in his first Saint Patrick's Day homily polity and refuse humanitarian aid to refu For those of us who have completed our as Archbishop of New York on March 17, gees unless the Israeli Government accepts school years and now face the daily pressures 1985. All of Ireland's exiled children in their view of what's best for our ally's secu of the working world or of raising a family, America join in this prayer for Peace with rity. physical activity helps us endure the stresses Justice and Honor for all Ireland. That's why we see Mr. Bush deliberately and enables us to release some of the ten In each generation of the Irish, whether calling into question the integrity of Jerusa born in Ireland or descended from Irish lem as Israel's capital, ordering the Israelis sions. Afterwork softball leagues at the city exiles, faithful sons and daughters of Eir not to let new refugees live there. That's ballpark, pickup basketball games on the local eann have shared this prayer, each in his or why Mr. Baker-more underhanded than high school's outdoor court, aerobics classes her own way, seeking to contribute to the evenhanded-wants an Arab representative at the community center or church-all are achievement of this bright dream. Believing from Jerusalem, not from the West Bank, in but a few examples of adult Americans stay the occupation or domination of any part of the negotiations. ing fit and successfully slowing the hands of Ireland by a foreign power to be ab initio il Some Israelis understand this trap. Far time. legitimate, the faithful Irish can never from nit-picking, the Jerusalem address is Older Americans, too, know the benefits of accept as ligitimate any condition other central: the Bush-Baker notion is to revisit than the sovereign, indefeasible independ the issue of an undivided Jerusalem, settled physical activity. Many have been active all ence of the Irish nation in control over the a generation ago, and put it on the negotiat their lives and continue throughout their entire island of Ireland, her islands and ter ing table. golden years. Countless more, however, dis ritorial seas. It is the lesson of history that Then Secretary Baker, having created a cover the pleasures-and benefits-of walk the violation of this principle has led to in new difference, will split that difference and ing, cycling, and swimming only after their re stability, continued suffering, human rights grandly propose a "compromise": Israelis tirement. I think of my own personal inspira violations and more "Troubles." keep Jerusalem so long as Arabs can live tion, Hulda Crooks, who 4 years ago at the Our prayer is for Peace with Justice and there, the P.L.O. gets the West Bank and age of 90 led me to climb Mount Whitney, Honor, embracing all of the children of the the power to deny Jews the right to live nation equally, and shared by Ireland's there. which at over 14,000 feet is the highest moun exiled children in America and throughout The State Department will not admit it; tain in the continental United States. Subse the world. the Labor Party in Israel refuses to see it quently, Hulda went to Japan, where she con While America may yet justify its tradi but that's the deal in the cards. quered Mount Fuji. tional role as Ireland's which sustained losses during the Even so, America was a free country, that war which were cumulatively greater by far is to say that, under the Constitution of the than the full strength of the Brigade. Of HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE United States, Irish immigrants were able to over 1,200 of the Irish Brigade who made OF NEW YORK improve their lot through their own efforts, the famous assault upon Marye's Heights at in spite of non-acceptance by a "nativist" as the Battle of Fredericksburg on December IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cendancy class. 13, 1862, only some 280 were present and fit Wednesday, March 14, 1990 In 1851, the 69th Regiment, New York for duty at muster on the 15th! State Militia, was formed from eight exist The end of the American Civil War saw Mr. LAPALCE. Mr. Speaker, the deficit, like ing "Irish" companies of volunteer militia. the disbanding of the Irish volunteer regi the weather, has been something everyone One of these companies, "A" Company ments, many of their members continuing has talked about but few have been willing or